http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/see-bob-dylan-cover-tom-pettys-learning-to-fly-in-concert-w509872

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Bob Dylan paid tribute to his late friend and Traveling Wilburys bandmate Tom Petty with a cover of "Learning to Fly" during the encore of Dylan's Saturday night concert in Broomfield, Colorado

1 hour ago, Booche said:

 

Having said that everytime I see the drummer I get freaked out and think of Ed Kemper - speaking of which, I have enjoyed learning about serial killers throughout my life and there is an EXCELLENT series on Netflix right now entitled Mindhunter, David Fincher is all you need to know, that I cant recommend enough. Yeah, I am weird. Fuck you Velvet.

Just finished watching the last episode this afternoon. Not too bad a show. Better have a second season though, otherwise not too sure.

On 10/12/2017 at 10:11 AM, Esau. said:

 I suspect games will be the first software this stuff shows up in - its the best cover for it as systems will already being running at elevated levels making it less likely it will be detected by most users.

Didn't take long at all!

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Russian Hacker Exploits GTA 5 PC Mod to Install Cryptocurrency Miner

As per their findings, the Arbuz GTA 5 mod was utilized as the source of distribution of malware whereas Anton was found to be using malware WaterMiner for mining cryptocurrency. WaterMiner is a modified version of the authentic open-source XMRig miner. Through the malware, Anton successfully harvests Monero coins. All this is done without alarming the mod user.

Full article: https://www.hackread.com/russian-hacker-exploits-gta5-pc-mod-to-install-cryptocurrecy-miner/

Flag atop Parliament building at half mast for Gord Downie.

Right on. Texted my friend, he thought the same. Damn, that would've been awesome.

1 hour ago, bouche said:

I made it to one local impromptu gig at a pub in kingston but only caught the tail-end.   

 

I remember being in Kingston to visit a friend going to St. Lawrence, and we missed a Hip show in a bar, mid nineties (thinking 94/95). My first thought was the Toucan, but that place was pretty tight - saw Fat Cats there. Memory is cloudy regarding bar names, Wellington perhaps?

Didn't realize it at the time it would be such a great memory, but seeing them on Canada day 89 in a park in London, ON. There was about 50 people hanging around, though the videos circulating appear to show even less. That was the first time I saw the Hip I believe.

Another Roadside Atrraction Markham, 93. My girlfriend and I got mistaken for other people (I think it was her moreso than me) by someone on MIdnight OIls crew and were invited back stage, by the time it was realized we weren't the right folks, we were told, "well, your here now, enjoy the show" The Hip came on about 15 minutes or so later. Watched the entire show side stage, and Gord was in prime form that day.  Unfortunatley didn't get to meet anyone, from any band that played that day but still an awesome time.

http://www.thehip.com/news/statement/

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Last night Gord quietly passed away with his beloved children and family close by.

Gord knew this day was coming – his response was to spend this precious time as he always had – making music, making memories and expressing deep gratitude to his family and friends for a life well lived, often sealing it with a kiss… on the lips.

Gord said he had lived many lives. As a musician, he lived “the life” for over 30 years, lucky to do most of it with his high school buddies. At home, he worked just as tirelessly at being a good father, son, brother, husband and friend. No one worked harder on every part of their life than Gord. No one.

We would like to thank all the kind folks at KGH and Sunnybrook, Gord’s bandmates, management team, friends and fans. Thank you for all the help and support over the past two years.

Thank you everyone for all the respect, admiration and love you have given Gord throughout the years – those tender offerings touched his heart and he takes them with him now as he walks among the stars.

Love you forever Gord.

The Downie Family

https://globalnews.ca/news/3806747/actor-john-dunsworth-has-died-at-the-age-of-71/

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Actor John F. Dunsworth, best known for his portrayal of Jim Lahey in the comedy series Trailer Park Boys, has died at the age of 71.

The news was confirmed by Dunsworth’s daughter Sarah in an email.

“John left this world peacefully after a short and unexpected illness,” she wrote in an email.

Dunsworth was born in Bridgewater, N.S. on April 12, 1946 and attended the University of Guelph where he majored in theatre before dropping out in his fourth year.

Dunsworth acted in numerous CBC radio dramas had many starring roles in stage productions at the Neptune Theatre in Halifax.

Condolences for the revered actor were pouring in on social media Monday evening.

American comedian Tom Arnold wrote on Twitter: “So sad. RIP John Dunsworth. One of the finest men and most brilliant actors I’ve ever had the honour to work with.”

Mike Smith, who is best known for his portrayal of Bubbles in Trailer Park Boys, offered his condolences in a tweet Monday night.

“I am beyond devastated. John was a beautiful guy. Brilliant and fascinating. I am forever grateful for having known him. RIP my friend,” he wrote.

Along with his role as Jim Lahey, Dunsworth has an extensive career in television and film dating back to 1978.

One of his more prominent roles include Dave Teagues in the series Haven.

Dunsworth was well-known in the regional theatre community, including the creation of the Pier One Theatre; one of the Halifax’s first alternative theatre and production houses.

His family has asked for privacy at this time.

I edited the thread title as it's well beyond TPB and a few sites it appears.

Hundreds Of websites mining cryptocurrency without user consent

https://www.hackread.com/hundreds-of-websites-mining-cryptocurrency-without-user-consent/

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Previously it was reported that torrent search platform The Pirate Bay and other popular sites have been using visitor PCs to mine cryptocurrency and new reports have revealed that these are not the only websites that are exploiting our PCs but hundreds of websites are mining cryptocurrency without notifying the users.

Bitcoin or Monero are some types of cryptocurrencies that can be mined and received through computation. When a site that is mining cryptocurrency is visited, there is a surprising surge in the CPU usage, which can prove to be beneficial for website owners because when a large number of PCs donates their powers, the mining is successful in earning revenues.

The report published by Adguard states that within merely weeks since the revelation about The Pirate Bay, there is an astounding increment in sites that mine cryptocurrencies through PCs of their site’s visitors.

Reportedly, 0.22% of the top 100,000 sites on Alexa List are discovered to be mining cryptocurrency, which means about 220 sites are involved in mining while the average of visitors on these sites is nearly 500 million and this audience arrive from various parts of the world from the USA and Europe to Asia and South America. While JSEcoin and CoinHive are the two most common and popular scripts that are employed to acquire cryptocurrency.

Adguard explains that around $43,000 have been raked in by these domains without any expenditure and within only three weeks. Reports also reveal that The Pirate Bay made $12,000 per month through cryptocurrency as the traffic flow is quite heavy on its domain.

It is worth noting that most of the websites that are using miners are not as reliable and come from the blurry background. These include torrent search sites, pornographic sites, domains that host pirated content and similar other sites.

As per the analysis of Adguard, websites having “shady reputation” are involved in browser mining; these sites otherwise find it difficult to make money through standard advertising practices, therefore, they use such tactics. Sites offering video-based content are most likely to generate income through mining more than any other.

However, if handled appropriately, mining of cryptocurrency has immense potential as many users would agree to lend their CPUs so that they could get rid of annoying ads; but consent of users must be given importance. Domain operators need to respect end users and seek permission. Without user consent, domain operators are putting their reputation at risk, which might prove to be detrimental to their image in the long run.

CoinHive released the following statement after learning about the mining scheme used by websites:

“We’re a bit saddened to see that some of our customers integrate CoinHive into their pages without disclosing to their users what’s going on, let alone asking for their permission. We believe there’s so much more potential for our solution, but we have to be respectful to our end users.”

Remember that adblockers will block these scripts and it is on developers of cryptocurrency mining scripts and domain operators to transform this scheme into a reliable alternative to advertising.

“Providing a real alternative to ads and users who block them turned out to be a much harder problem. CoinHive, too, is now blocked by many ad-block browser extensions, which — we have to admit — is reasonable at this point,” stated CoinHive rep.

On 10/6/2017 at 1:20 PM, bouche said:

even more interesting concepts in there. this could become a viable financing model, that is if there is a transparent opt-in and elevated membership (rewards/incentives) involved.

Just like ads, users will seek out ways of blocking the script. I know I'll be looking as it seems this practice is getting more and more popular, and by companies, that in my opinion shouldn't require it, nor be stressing users systems or bandwidth, like CBS. I get that site owners need ways to generate income to help cover costs since so many users block ads, but this method is more damaging (again, my opinion) then the risk of malicious scripts contained within ads - which for the most part isn't an epidemic by any means. I mean, how long before the folks who write the malicious scripts that get injected into ads simply inject them into mining scripts?  And how long before sites start figuring out how to inject mining scripts into downloads? Especially torrents, and on sites were share ratios are enforced, meaning users will either have to accept that their systems/utilities are being used or be kicked off a site for not maintaining an acceptable ratio. 

utorrent was already caught installing (stealthy 3rd party like) mining scripts on user systems that updated their software, and it's likely mining scripts will eventually be hard written into software making it practically impossible to block or opt out, short of just not using it at all. Considering that a lot won't be transparent about it being there, users simply won't know. Given the rising value of nation-less digital currency like bitcoin, I suspect games will be the first software this stuff shows up in - its the best cover for it as systems will already being running at elevated levels making it less likely it will be detected by most users.

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Almost forgot..

The Pirate Bay Caught Secretly Running Cryptocurrency Miner Again

https://www.hackread.com/the-pirate-bay-caught-secretly-running-cryptocurrency-miner-again/

Add the info provided on the video (minus the link to a removed video).

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A soulful "Dew" from the Grateful Dead's Europe 72 album is synched with scenes from "On the Beach," the film that inspired the writing of the song by Bonnie Dobson. In an interview she had this to say about the connection between the song and film:

"I think it must have been maybe 1960 or 1959, I can't remember, when I saw a film called "On The Beach" and it made a tremendous impression on me, that film. Particularly at that time because everybody was very worried about the bomb and whether we were going to get through the next 10 years. It was a very immediate problem and I remember I was singing in Los Angeles at the Ashe Grove and I sat up all night talking with some friends. I was staying with a girl named Joyce Nastelin(sp) whom I lost contact with, nice woman she was. And I don't know, she went to bed or something and I just sat and suddenly I just started writing this song. I had never written anything in my life. I'd written some poetry as a kid. I'd never written songs and this song just came out and really it was a kind of re-enactment of that film in a way where at the end there is nobody left and it was a conversation between these two people trying to explain what's happening. It was really apocalypse, that was what it was about."

The full interview with Bonnie is here: http://taco.com/roots/dobsoninterview.html

In these scenes Anthony Perkins plays an Australian naval officer who here is spending his last moments with his wife Mary who earlier in the movie freaked out when he tried to show her how to euthanize their baby and kill herself with lethal pills supplied by the government. The man in the garage is Fred Astaire, commiting suicide with the fumes from his beloved race car. Gregory Peck plays a US submarine captian who has just returned from San Francisco, where they found high radiation levels and no survivors. Here he is greeted by Ava Gardner, into who's arms he has fallen as he struggles with acceptance of the fact that his wife and children in the US have all died already.

You can read more about the movie here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(1959_film)

It's powerful emotionally challenging stuff, but this is what the song "Morning Dew" is all about, these scenes from the end of the movie, so i felt it was worth making a video like this. May we move into a future where the odds of such a tragedy diminish tremendously...

https://www.hackread.com/hackers-compromising-websites-to-mine-cryptocoins-via-user-cpu/

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For the last couple of weeks, the trend of inserting code in websites that generate cryptocurrency has been growing like never before. What might worry some is that it uses visitor’s computers to start and finish the process.

Recently, Trend Micro, a cybersecurity firm discovered that hackers are compromising charity, school, and file sharing websites with a particular code that allows the site to use visitor’s CPU in order to generate cryptocurrency.

By doing so, the code converts the visitor’s computer into a miner. This means the greater the number of computers the quicker will be the process of generating digital currency and in return, the greater the amount of money. In the end, the victim will suffer from expensive electricity bill.

According to Rik Ferguson, vice-president of security research at Trend Micro “This is absolutely a numbers game. There’s a huge attraction of being able to use other people’s devices in a massively distributed fashion because you then effectively take advantage of a huge amount of computing resources.”

The security firm discovered that hundreds of famous websites are using the code. Some are using “Coin Hive” code, some are using JSE Coin script while some have no idea how the code got onto their websites.

To get rid of it, some site owners have simply removed the code while some have updated their security policies and issued patches. There are those who are still investigating the issue emphasizing on how their site was compromised and how the code ended up on it without triggering any warning.

BBC reported that developers of Coin Hive are also taking action against those misusing their code for malicious purposes. “We had a few early users that implemented the script on sites they previously hacked, without the site owner’s knowledge. We have banned several of these accounts and will continue to do so when we learn about such cases,” Coin Hive told BBC.

In a tweet, FiveM, a modification framework for GTA V said that they had issued a security update just to stop users from adding miners to their code.

CloudFlare, a content delivery network and Internet security service also booted off a torrent website for secretly mining cryptocurrency miner. The company said “mining code without notifying users. … We consider this to be malware.”

Last month, The Pirate Bay website was caught “testing” cryptocurrency miner while two domains owned by CBS Corporation’s premium cable network Showtime’s sites were also found to be mining cryptocoins without informing their visitors.

In another report, Trend Mirco said that hackers are also using smart home devices to generate cryptocurrency. “Trend Micro data shows that more and more home devices are being compromised—we blocked over 90% more home network attacks in September compared to July, and most of the attacks are attempting to mine cryptocurrency,” said Trend Micro.

Although it is a rare practice; if adopted on a long-term basis, it might replace ads for good as advertisements can be malicious and annoying at times. However, the fact that it hijacks computers for crypto mining deeply concerns users, therefore, website owners should allow users to choose whether they want the site to use their CPU for mining or not.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-oilers-craft-beer-sponsor-molson-1.4342960

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An Edmonton bar owner was told by the Edmonton Oilers legal team that he had to take down posters mentioning the hockey team unless he sells Molson products.

Oilers hockey games and beer go together like Connor McDavid and sports highlight reels. But for some bar owners in the city, the relationship between the two is complicated by copyright laws and their loyalty to the Alberta craft beer industry.

Darren McGeown, owner of the craft beer bar Arcadia, put up posters promoting a special during Oilers games.

His mood soured when he got a call and an email in February from the Oilers' legal counsel informing him that his posters were an unauthorized use of the team's trademark and that they had to be removed immediately.

The email informed him that if he sold products from Molson, an Oilers sponsorship partner, he would have the right to use Oilers logos and would also have access to tickets and team products for promotions inside the bar.

More sites caught using this crap.

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CloudFlare says sites running mining code without notifying users are considered to be malware.

In the last couple of weeks, researchers discovered an increasing trend in which website owners were found using cryptocurrency miners that can hijack CPUs of its visitors to generate digital currency without informing users.

First, it was The Pirate Bay and later two domains owned by CBS Corporation’s premium cable network Showtime’s websites were found to be mining cryptocoins. However, now, CloudFlare has booted off torrent proxy site (ProxyBunker.online) for secretly using Coinhive miner.

According to TorrentFreak, ProxyBunker started using Coinhive miner just four days before its suspension. Justin Paine, head of trust and safety at Cloudflare told ProxyBunker’s administrators that since they were using the minor secretly, it is considered as malware as users have no option to opt out of it or disable the code.

“Multiple domains in your account were injecting Coinhive mining code without notifying users. … We consider this to be malware, and as such the account was suspended, and all domains removed from Cloudflare,” Paine said.

Currently, users have mixed reactions over the issue. While discussing The Pirate Bay’s cryptocurrency mining issue on Facebook, Cláudio Marcelo Silva a HackRead reader wrote that “Nothing wrong about doing it. But you need to be transparent about it.”

Another reader Pierre Ciholas wrote that “Am I the only one who prefers having my browser used as a crypto miner during the brief time I browse a website to support them instead of having a dozen of advertisement and popup for porn websites?”

Danny Marshall, an avid reader, wrote that “Do you people have any idea you have to pay the extra bill from your salary for extra CPU usage?”

It is although a rare practice, but if adopted on a long-term basis it might replace ads for good as advertisements can be malicious and annoying at times. However, the fact that it hijacks computers for crypto mining deeply concerns for users, therefore, website owners should allow users to choose whether they want the site to use their CPU for mining or not.

On October 4th, PassThePopcorn torrent announced that it would start generating Monero digital coins but at the same time, it will let users opt-in and control by the whole process which is the right way to go.

 

https://www.hackread.com/cloudflare-boots-off-torrent-site-for-using-cryptocurrency-miner/

Sometimes when I'm high, I wonder if I like Terrapin Station more than I like Morning Dew.
On one hand, Terrapin Station is an original and kicks ass, and on the other hand, it's Morning. Fucking. Dew.

I tried mining in 2010, I think they were worth less than 25 cents at the time. That was part of why I felt it wasn't worth it, the stress on my machine and the low value didn't seem worth it. Especially since I had fried a GTX 480 1.5G, and that was an expensive GPU at the time. I thought I was being smart by letting the software run when I went to bed. I had 4 coins by 2011/2012, they were worth about $15-25 each and the price was starting to drop, so I traded them off for two 100 GB HDDs. At the time I didn't think BC would last. Big mistake obviously.

I wouldn't even consider using my current rig for doing it, I built this one over xmas last year and really enjoy my ASUS Radeon RX 480 8GB. Not too mention the rest of the set up.

I tried mining software years ago when I first heard of bitcoin but at the time I didn't have a machine strong enough to do it and make it worthwhile. I even fried a graphic's cards trying. But, now-a-days most people tend to have the bandwidth and computers capable of doing it (eg: gaming style pcs with powerful graphics cards) and the fact that bitcoin is worth a fair amount (1 BC = 4834.09 CDN  //  3,946.15 USD) there is a rise in this type of crap and considering places like TPB or software like utorrent boast of millions+ users/visitors daily it's no surprise really that this shit is no longer done via viruses but more or less in the open. I suspect it'll only become more popular too.

No idea if folks still use TPB (I haven't since it's first take down a few years back) but in case folks still are, be aware.

Also, if you use utorrent, starting with 3.4.2 build 28913, they've done it as well, link below in article. No idea if they still are though. I still use version 2.2 Build 23235 and its clean.

https://www.hackread.com/the-pirate-bay-caught-running-cryptocurrency-mining-script/

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In 2015, it was reported that uTorrent was secretly installing Epic Scale Bitcoin mining software on users’ computer to get generate revenue. Now, something similar has happened with The Pirate Bay (TPB), one of the most visited platforms for downloading pirated content. As Alexa shows TPB is among 87 most visited sites in the world while it holds the rank of 55 in the United States.

Many wonder how the platform earns money? Well, it’s simple; it’s through third-party advertising and affiliate marketing mostly related to Virtual Private Network (VPN) software.

However, recently; the Pirate Bay’s domain thepiratebay.org has been found using a cryptocurrency mining code to hijack CPUs of its visitors to generate Monero digital coins.

This was discovered by none other than TPB’s visitors themselves who noticed that upon visiting the site, their CPU usage dramatically increased. On further analysis, it was discovered that the site carries a cryptocurrency miner who uses their CPU to generate digital currency.

 

One of the users “Intertubes_Unclogger” who discovered the script wrote in a Reddit post that while visiting TPB “I was looking at a torrent page and suddenly all my CPU threads went 100% 80-85%, something which usually only occurs when I’m encoding stuff. Happens on some pages, and it only stops when I navigate back to the home page or close the tab.”

“The code in question is tucked away in the site’s footer and uses a miner provided by Coinhive. This service offers site owners the option to convert the CPU power of users into Monero coins,” reports TorrentFreak.

It’s understandable that online businesses providing free stuff have to make money to keep themselves up and running but it’s quite upsetting that on TPB it was done in secret and without the knowledge of its visitors.

However, TorrentFreak has received an official explanation from TPB according to which “the miner is being tested for a short period (~24 hours) as a new way to generate revenue.” It further stated that if the experiment goes successfully the site may remove ads and use the miner on a permanent basis.

The Pirate Bay users have now two things to sort out; one is downloading torrents from the site without giving away their IP address and second making sure the site’s cryptocurrency mining script won’t use their PC’s processor cycles.