Hipcrime (Usenet)
{{other uses|Hipcrime (disambiguation)}}
HipCrime{{Cite web|url=http://hipcrime.com/|title=HipCrime|website=hipcrime.com|access-date=2007-03-20|archive-date=2007-02-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070219174958/http://www.hipcrime.com/|url-status=live}} was both to the screenname of a Usenet user and a software application distributed by, and presumably written by, this individual or group. The name derives from a neologism in the John Brunner science fiction novel Stand on Zanzibar.
HipCrime's Newsagent
{{Infobox software
| name = HipCrime's Newsagent
| programming language = Java
| genre = Usenet control client
}}
HipCrime's Newsagent{{Cite web|url=http://hipcrime.com/html-hipcrime/new_page/index.html|title=HipCrime's NewsAgent (v1.07)|website=hipcrime.com|access-date=2017-02-05|archive-date=2016-03-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303184915/http://www.hipcrime.com/html-hipcrime/new_page/index.html|url-status=live}} software is a free and open-source Usenet control client. The program is written in Java and allows the user to auto-cancel any messages on Usenet based on author, subject, organization, message-ID, or path. It also allows the user to replace the body of any message with text of their choosing. The software also monitors any posts you choose and reposts them if they are removed.http://newsagent.p7.org.uk/#whatis {{Dead link|date=March 2022}} Additionally, it allows regular users to act as Usenet Administrators and create (or remove) entire newsgroups.
CA Inc. has classified this as denial of service software, as well as flooder software, a specific type of denial of service attack.[http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/pest/pest.aspx?id=54636 HipCrime's NewsAgent - CA] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050317161047/http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/pest/pest.aspx?id=54636 |date=2005-03-17 }}
HipCrime's ActiveAgent
{{Infobox software
| name = HipCrime's ActiveAgent
| programming language = Java
| genre = E-mail spam
}}
HipCrime is referred to as "a leading Usenet Terrorist" by James Farmer, maintainer of [https://web.archive.org/web/20040212175535/http://www.spamfaq.net/terminology.shtml Spamfaq: Part 3: Understanding NANAE].
Andrew Leonard, in his book Bots: The Origin of New Species, also credits HipCrime with creating the earliest web-distributed spambot.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QIwfAQAAIAAJ&q=hipcrime|title=Bots: The Origin of New Species|first=Andrew|last=Leonard|date=October 23, 1997|publisher=Hardwired|isbn=9781888869057|via=Google Books}} This bot, known as HipCrime's ActiveAgent,{{Cite web |url=http://webpost.net/hi/hipcrime/ |title=HipCrime's ActiveAgent |access-date=2006-08-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927024030/http://webpost.net/hi/hipcrime/ |archive-date=2007-09-27 |url-status=dead }} was a Java applet which allowed anybody with a web browser to send mass volumes of unsolicited e-mail messages. The ActiveAgent has since been expanded into an open-source application (known as MarketCom's MktAgent{{Cite web|url=http://hipcrime.com/html-hipcrime/mkt_page/MktAgent.html|title=MarketCom's MktAgent v1.28|website=hipcrime.com|access-date=2007-03-20|archive-date=2007-10-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071008140216/http://hipcrime.com/html-hipcrime/mkt_page/MktAgent.html|url-status=live}}) and is relied upon heavily by the largest e-mail spam stock pump and dump gangs.
See also
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060113202025/http://jmeyer.multiservers.com/NewsAgent.html An early version of HipCrime's NewsAgent]
- [http://www.dansdata.com/sporge.htm Gibbering clones the future of Usenet?]
- {{cite web |url=http://www.killfile.org/dungeon/why/hipcrime.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927175516/http://www.killfile.org/dungeon/why/hipcrime.html |archive-date=27 September 2007 |title=Tim Skirvin's Killfile Dungeon entry on Hipcrime |date=8 June 2002 }}
- [https://groups.google.com/group/alt.test/browse_thread/thread/7fced518f9727e43 HipCrime: A History in URLs July 1996 - May 1998] and [https://groups.google.com/group/alt.test/msg/2c4053cb8defe137 May - June 1998]
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