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Leet originated within bulletin board systems (BBS) in the 1980s, [1] [2] where having "elite" status on a BBS allowed a user access to file folders, games, and special chat rooms. The Cult of the Dead Cow hacker collective has been credited with the original coining of the term, in their text-files of that era. [ 3 ]
Internet censorship circumvention is the use of various methods and tools to bypass internet censorship.. There are many different techniques to bypass such censorship, each with unique challenges regarding ease of use, speed, and security risks.
According to a leaked copy of the blacklist, it was blocked for a description of marijuana soup in a Russian translation of The Anarchist Cookbook. [20] The IP address was unblocked on 13 November after The Anarchist Cookbook was removed by Librusec administrators. [21] [22]
For days, hundreds of thousands of AOL users find their mailboxes flooded with multi-megabyte email bombs and their chat rooms disrupted with spam messages. December 27: After experiencing an IP spoofing attack by Kevin Mitnick , computer security expert Tsutomu Shimomura started to receive prank calls that popularized the phrase " My kung fu ...
This CAPTCHA (reCAPTCHA v1) of "smwm" obscures its message from computer interpretation by twisting the letters and adding a slight background color gradient.A CAPTCHA (/ ˈ k æ p. tʃ ə / KAP-chə) is a type of challenge–response test used in computing to determine whether the user is human in order to deter bot attacks and spam.
In Russia, internet censorship is enforced on the basis of several laws and through several mechanisms. Since 2008, Russia maintains a centralized internet blacklist (known as the "single register") maintained by the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor).
[102] [103] Google Translate was being used to bypass the filters on the blocked sites by translating them. [ 102 ] [ 103 ] Though Wikipedia is not blocked currently, specific pages on Wikipedia were reported to be censored by Saudi Arabia in 2011, such as one page discussing the theory of evolution.
Hudson and Bruckman entered IRC chatrooms as experimenters and either posted a message stating they were logging the chat, an opt-in message for logging, and opt-out message, or nothing at all. 63.3% of chat rooms kicked out the experimenters after they gave any sort of message, demonstrating a dislike of explicit chat logging. However, 29% of ...