[HN Gopher] Peter Sunde: dark.fail domain was hijacked through f...
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       Peter Sunde: dark.fail domain was hijacked through fake court order
        
       Author : ylere
       Score  : 7 points
       Date   : 2021-05-03 22:27 UTC (35 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (twitter.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (twitter.com)
        
       | ylere wrote:
       | dark.fail used to host up-to-date links to many major darknet
       | sites hosted on the tor network. The attacker kept the site
       | online with minor changes and now anyone who visits these links
       | will have the connection go through MITM proxies and their
       | credentials stolen. It's difficult to understand why namecheap
       | hasn't at least shut down the domain after days of this going on.
        
         | codsane wrote:
         | Very unfortunate that Namecheap isn't cooperating. Not really
         | sure what the hold up is, some say it's related to the
         | Namecheap vs. Tucows lawsuit [0], but realistically it wouldn't
         | make much sense to do something like this out of spite (also
         | considering it was ruled in Namecheap's favor) I wonder if
         | they're worried about potential legal obligations of turning
         | over such a "controversial" domain?
         | 
         | [0] https://domainnamewire.com/2018/11/08/namecheap-and-
         | tucows-s...
        
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