Hipcrime (Usenet)

HipCrime[1] refers both to the screenname of a Usenet user and 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
HipCrime's Newsagent
Written inJava
TypeUsenet control client

HipCrime's Newsagent[2] 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.[3] 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.[4]

HipCrime's ActiveAgent
HipCrime's ActiveAgent
Written inJava
TypeE-mail spam

HipCrime is referred to as "a leading Usenet Terrorist" by James Farmer, maintainer of 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.[5] This bot, known as HipCrime's ActiveAgent,[6] 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[7]) and is relied upon heavily by the largest e-mail spam stock pump and dump gangs.

gollark: e.g. some people at Microsoft could probably push an update which erases all Windows computers at a set time and bee everything.
gollark: I suppose certain people could negatively affect people a lot rapidly if they started trying to maximize evil, but that's more because they have direct control over high-speed processes than richness.
gollark: Ugh, BEE my wireless network connection right now to a significant degree.
gollark: *Do* they actually affect your life very directly compared to, say, your owner as a slave though?
gollark: Also the experimental osmarks.net™ oconomy™, which works by having our millions of palaiologistic neural networks™ bid for server time.

See also

References
  1. HipCrime
  2. HipCrime's NewsAgent (v1.07)
  3. http://newsagent.p7.org.uk/#whatis
  4. HipCrime's NewsAgent - CA Archived 2005-03-17 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Leonard, Andrew: "Bots: The Origin of New Species", Chapter 8. Hardwired, 1997
  6. "HipCrime's ActiveAgent". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2006-08-03.
  7. MarketCom's MktAgent v1.28


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