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"TO WATCH THE WATCHERS."

Filesharing Site Revealed to be Anti-Piracy ‘Honeypot’

A high-profile file-sharing site has been revealed to be a year-long pirate “honeypot”, collecting data on users, file hosters and websites.

The revelation, which had users of the forum up in arms, accompanied the purchase of the UploaderTalk (UT) site by US-based anti-piracy company Nuke Piracy.

A honeypot is a facility, in this case a site, run under false pretences that encourages criminal behaviour in an effort to collect incriminating data.

“That’s right – the biggest swerve ever,” the operator of UT, known only as WDF, said in a statement about the purchase of the site. “I, WDF, work for the anti-piracy people!”

[link to www.theguardian.com]

Cool clip.

I worked at telecom Level 3 earlier this year. Though I am not a tech worker, I observed many strange things going on there. They own a lot of Internet infrastructure and must certainly have a "listening room" someplace. There were ex mil employees I knew of there doing very suspicious things, and obvious networks of local civilian spies, and obvious industrial espionage type slick sales types who go running around between these companies, learning more and jacking up their salaries as they go. I hadeople obviously trying to trigger me regarding my life in the past, which is why I think I was allowed to briefly work there. They had people inside there fucking with me. Then I got laid off with a bunch of other people. They have regular rounds of layoffs. They just churn people through there on temp contracts in bunches and then get rid of them all and replace with younger and cheaper. Meanwhile, there were power struggles in the management and it was rumored they were all getting outrageously high salaries. The executives I saw were highly, highly strange.

The company appeared to have been infiltrated by all sorts of rent seekers is what I am saying, and regular layoffs is how they keep anyone from really seeing what is going on in there.