Veni, Vidi, VISA

A police IT forensics specialist has had some of his personal details leak via The Pirate Bay. Jim Keyzer, who led the investigation into the popular tracker, has just discovered that his girlfriend’s email account was compromised by hackers, who obtained several passwords and other personal documents.

The torrent, titled “Where did the money come from?” exposes some of the policeman’s passwords and account details, including some documents relating to a house he recently bought. The title hints at Keyzer’s short employment at Warner Bros. while he was working on the police investigation, but this implied link seems a little tenuous.

According to the release info the documents were released by the ‘Keyzer Defender’ and were obtained from Keyzer’s girlfriend’s Hotmail account. “These attachments are taken from mails in the Hotmail account belonging to Jim Keyzer’s girlfriend. Also included are login credentials and some of Jim’s passwords,” it reads.

Keyzer has contacted the Pirate Bay team and said that he found it unfortunate that his girlfriend was hacked because of his involvement with The Pirate Bay case. He did not ask for the torrent to be removed, which shows that he learned at least one thing during the investigation.



Keyzer became the subject of some controversy when he started working for Warner Bros. before the Pirate Bay investigation was closed. After a short stay at the movie company Keyzer terminated his leave of absence, and returned to the IT Crime Unit in Stockholm.

The Pirate Bay crew were not amused by Keyzer’s dual role, and filed a complaint with the police. The police looked into the case briefly but decided not to investigate it because there was “no reason to believe that a crime has been committed by anyone employed by the police.”

During the Pirate Bay trial Keyzer inexplicably disappeared but now weeks later, his girlfriend appears to have been dragged into the dispute. The Pirate Bay certainly provokes a certain passion in their fanbase, and some are clearly prepared to go to extreme lengths to show that their beloved site is not to be messed with.

(via TorrentFreak)

Also ich bin ja wirklich nicht schadenfroh, aber *bruahaaaaahaaaa*

irgendwie zumindest..

bis vor kurzem hab ich fuer jedes Torrent eine neue GNU Screen-Session gestartet und dann btdownloadcurses.py foobar.torrent gestartet, bis ich letzte Woche rtorrent gefunden hab. Mit dem kann man ultiple Downloads starten, was auch wunderbar funtioniert hat. Komischerweise bekomme ich seit gestern so lustige Meldungen wie

  Tracker: [Failure reason "access denied, user limited to seeding only"]

zu sehen; wenn die Meldung ausbleibt, dann haengt der Download (i. e. Up-/Download steht bei 0).

Das eigentlich lustige daran ist, dass der Client so gut dokumentiert ist, dass ich mir die Sourcen erstmal angucken muss um dahinterzukommen was das Ding von mir will (Nein. Ein Reboot des Modems/Routers bringt auch nichts) *narf*


np: Metallica - Dirty Window