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| French 3 Strikes Suspended Due To Anti-Piracy Security Alert Posted: 17 May 2011 12:14 AM PDT
As became evident, the term ‘hacked’ was probably overly generous to TMG, since according to Bluetouff the company had left the equivalent of its front door open. "A virtual machine leaked a lot of information like scripts, p2p clients to generate fake peers, local physical addresses in the datacenter and even a password that could lead to a major global TMG security breach,” he explained. TorrentFreak obtained and listed some of the files in question in our earlier report, but as the contents of the leak were examined in more detail, it became evident that TMG had not only leaked out its own data, but that belonging to the subjects of their monitoring. The day after our report, Guillaume Champeau of Numerama, a publication which follows French file-sharing issues in-depth, contacted TorrentFreak to say he had been able to show that IP addresses linked to the 3-strikes process may also have been leaked. He informed the HADOPI agency of his find which led to them to report that they were taking the matter “very seriously”. Indeed, that concern has been followed by an announcement from Eric Walter, the secretary-general of HADOPI. Walter, a friend of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who now confirms that “as a precaution Hadopi has decided to temporarily suspend its interconnection with TMG.” What this effectively means is that since TMG is the only company licensed to do this work for the government, from now on and pending a review, the French 3 strikes regime for dealing with illicit file-sharing is suspended. Data gathered before Saturday evening, however, can still be used. This suspension will be seen by some as a major embarrassment for President Sarkozy. France has taken a particularly hard-line approach to unlawful file-sharing and the government has continually brushed aside calls from the public and various watchdogs to consider more carefully the privacy and related rights issues connected with such a regime. Source: French 3 Strikes Suspended Due To Anti-Piracy Security Alert |
| The Pirate Bay Ships New Servers to Mountain Complex Posted: 16 May 2011 02:01 PM PDT
In the months that followed it became apparent that more power was needed to keep the site running. In 2004 the tracker was separated from the rest, running on the Pentium laptop pictured above, and the database was also moved to a separate machine. The above was the start of a continuous process of necessary hardware upgrades in order to keep serving the ever growing number of users. The Pirate Bay team is currently working on the largest hardware upgrade in the site’s history. Ten 2x 5620 Xeon machines have been ordered, eight with 12GB RAM and two with 24GB RAM. In total, The Pirate Bay will be using 17 machines. The servers just arrived in a mountain cave near Malmö in southern Sweden where the new datacenter is located. The exact location will not be revealed, a lesson The Pirate Bay team learned from the raid back in 2006. The existing servers have been relocated from Stockholm where they were hosted for the past years. Previously, The Pirate Bay was hosted in Goteborg as well, which means that the site now completes its tour of Sweden’s three largest cities. The new Pirate Bay servers arrive at the caveIn the coming days the Pirate Bay team will put new hardware online, presumably without any significant downtime. In fact, the hardware upgrade will ensure more redundancy for the site, meaning that future downtime will be reduced to a minimum. As can be seen below, since 2003 the 1.3GHz 32-bit Celeron processor has been upped to 279GHz worth of 64-bit Xeons, and the 256MB RAM turned into an impressive 204GB RAM. And this is after The Pirate Bay stopped operating a tracker. Makes you wonder where it will be 5 years from now. Searchsearch1: 2x E5620 CPU, 19200 MHZ, 12GB RAM, 2x500GB Raid1, Debian 6 Webwww1: 2x E5620 CPU, 19200 MHZ, 12GB RAM, 2x500GB Raid1, Debian 6 Torrentsvarnish-torrents1:P4-3.3GHz CPU, 3300 MHZ, 4GB RAM, 1x 80 SSD X25-M, Debian 6 Databasedb1: 2x E5620 CPU, 19200 MHZ, 24GB RAM, 2x500GB Raid1, 2×32 GB SSD X25-E Raid0, Debian 6 Misc.VM1: 2x E5620 CPU, 19200 MHZ, 12GB RAM, 1x500GB, vmware ESXi 4.1 vmware-storage: 2x E5620 CPU, 19200 MHZ, 12GB RAM, 4x500GB Raid6, Debian 6 Source: The Pirate Bay Ships New Servers to Mountain Complex |
On Saturday evening, with the invaluable assistance of blogger and security researcher Olivier Laurelli, aka Bluetouff, TorrentFreak first reported that Trident Media Guard (TMG), the private company entrusted to carry out file-sharing network monitoring for the French government, had been hacked.
In the fall of 2003, when The Pirate Bay first appeared online, it was hosted on a Celeron 1.3GHz machine with 256MB RAM. This one machine did all the work, and that included a fully operational tracker.
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