Sailing Anarchy Site Sized By Feds - April Fools Joke??

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Sailing Anarchy Site Sized By Feds - April Fools Joke??

Postby kimbottles » Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:10 am

So is it an April Fools Joke?

Or is it real?

Great bit of hacking if it is a joke.

http://sailinganarchy.com/seized.php
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Re: Sailing Anarchy Site Sized By Feds - April Fools Joke??

Postby Ken Heaton (Salazar) » Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:19 am

Hi Kim. I'm voting April Fools joke as a right click reveals the source code to be an April 1st theme set by the site itself. And their little joke makes it impossible to use any part of the site as the theme overlays everything else. Oh well... Right now it looks like this:

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S/V Salazar - Can 54955 - C&C 37/40 XL - Hull # 67
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https://c-c-37-40.blogspot.ca/p/salazar.html - http://www.cruising-cape-breton.info/
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Re: Sailing Anarchy Site Sized By Feds - April Fools Joke??

Postby kimbottles » Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:21 am

I am voting for joke, and it is a good one.

I was wondering what we would find today in the April First vein.........
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Re: Sailing Anarchy Site Sized By Feds - April Fools Joke??

Postby Slick470 » Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:52 am

I guess the real question is, without Dawg, are they smart enough to realize that they have completely shut themselves down?

I wonder how much ad revenue they could be forfeiting by restricting access to the site.
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Re: Sailing Anarchy Site Sized By Feds - April Fools Joke??

Postby Soñadora » Tue Apr 01, 2014 10:53 am

I'm in San Diego and it's snowing...

haha...April Fool's

wait...no it's not. Really. It's snowing back home. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAA!
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Re: Sailing Anarchy Site Sized By Feds - April Fools Joke??

Postby IrieMon » Tue Apr 01, 2014 1:46 pm

I wonder how much ad revenue they could be forfeiting by restricting access to the site.


even direct-linking to the forums doesn't work.... great joke guys !

bunch o' mah-roons....
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Re: Sailing Anarchy Site Sized By Feds - April Fools Joke??

Postby kimbottles » Tue Apr 01, 2014 2:41 pm

Maybe they had some heavy servicing to do to the site so decided to do it today with the "joke" as a cover.
Hence entire site shut down.
Maybe?
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Re: Sailing Anarchy Site Sized By Feds - April Fools Joke??

Postby Olaf Hart » Tue Apr 01, 2014 6:38 pm

I tried to log into SA about 12 hours ago, there was just a blank page. the header said "seized php".
I think php is an website service provider.
Probably down for a cleanup.

ON the other hand, there were a few paranoid conspiracies on the MH370 thread on PA ......
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Re: Sailing Anarchy Site Sized By Feds - April Fools Joke??

Postby LarryHoward » Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:54 pm

The title 18 chapter of US Code doesn't exist and, as Ken points out, the graphic is hosted at SA. April Fools joke or something but only Scooter would shut down his revenue for a day in order to have a laugh.

Either that or Dawg got really pissed about getting stuffed (his story) by Scooter and used a back door to shut it down.
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Re: Sailing Anarchy Site Sized By Feds - April Fools Joke??

Postby Orestes Munn » Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:58 pm

Olaf Hart wrote:I tried to log into SA about 12 hours ago, there was just a blank page. the header said "seized php".
I think php is an website service provider.
Probably down for a cleanup.

ON the other hand, there were a few paranoid conspiracies on the MH370 thread on PA ......

PHP is a web server programming language, I think.

18 USC 983 is the code for civil forfeitures.
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Re: Sailing Anarchy Site Sized By Feds - April Fools Joke??

Postby LarryHoward » Tue Apr 01, 2014 8:18 pm

My bad. Screwed up the search on USC code.
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