The new rickroll?

2009-01-18 12:05:08

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JoshP: Banned; +176|6132|Notts, UK

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20 … s-fbi.html

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Everyone has had it happen to them: a "friend" sends you a link in IM or over IRC that purports to be something like a cat in an awkward position with a hilarious caption. Soon, however, you discover that the link wasn't to a lolcat at all; instead, you've been Rick Rolled—or even worse, sent to 2girls1cup (find it on your own, but be warned: it may scar you for life). These pranks are commonplace now, but be careful of what you click on and from whom. If that link points to anything even pretending to be child porn, that's enough evidence for the FBI of intent to download it. The authorities could then raid your home and possibly throw you in jail. No joke, it just takes one click and you're under intense suspicion.

Such is the case with Temple University doctoral student Roderick Vosburgh, who apparently clicked on an FBI-planted hyperlink somewhere on the Internet. The link pointed to a file on an FBI server that contained no porn, but logged the IP addresses of everyone attempting to access it. Vosburgh's IP was one of those, and the FBI came knockin' on his door early one morning, arrested him, and searched his home.

read the article for the rest of it

ED has an article: http://encyclopediadramatica.com/FBI_redirection

Pretty damn immoral on the FBI's part, I'm sure people who find the links find it rather funny though Kinda the ultimate in trolling

It would be funny to do to your friends if it wasn't for the consequences... but http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com … fapdog.jpg works just as well and is _probably safe (and will probably scare the shit out of them)

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inb4 i get rapet for suggesting you send this to friends, and inb4 max

Last edited by JoshP (2009-01-18 12:22:35)

2009-01-18 12:15:43

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ColCarnage: taw; +283|6038

Is that constitutional?

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Good luck I am hiding behind 7 proxies

2009-01-18 12:21:57

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ghettoperson: Member; +1,943|7092

I'm never clicking a tinyurl link again.

2009-01-18 12:23:43

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JoshP: Banned; +176|6132|Notts, UK

ghettoperson wrote:
I'm never clicking a tinyurl link again.

go to tinyurl, and search around, theres a setting which makes all tinyurls preview.tinyurl instead

result: never get lemonpartied again

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and you also don't accidentally click your own lemonparty link spam

2009-01-18 12:47:33

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Finray: Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro; +2,629|6231|Catherine Black

2g1c was actually fake.

2009-01-18 13:16:07

#6

robcr9: Member; +111|6424

Or just dont speak to Josh

2009-01-18 13:21:17

#7

elite.mafia: Banned; +122|6896|USA

Finray wrote:
2g1c was actually fake.

How do you figure? Those types of porno are 100% real, just look for scat porn on the internet. Granted, some just use chocolate instead of poop, but that video was definitely real

2009-01-18 14:36:04

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CommieChipmunk: Member; +488|7012|Portland, OR, USA

Entrapment?

2009-01-18 22:31:57

#9

Rod Foxx: Warblgarbl; +78|6426|Perth, Australia

CommieChipmunk wrote:
Entrapment?

Nope.

It's much like the system that police in New York (i think) used wherby they placed a bag on a bench in train stations and left it unattended. Should anyone pick up the bag then they pounce and charge them with theft. The most retarded idea ever given the constant threat of terrorism (suposedly) and that they ask you to be suspicious of any bags left unattended.

As if overcrowding in prisons wasn't bad enough already, they've got to come up with ideas of how to throw innocent people in jail.

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