Security nerds have launched a Gofundme to buy back securityfocus.com, a domain that hosted the Bugtraq site and more than 120,000 links from the National Vulnerability Database that are now dead.

[john_philip_bell@defcon.social]

@briankrebs
What am I missing here? Getting the domain back does not restore the information the links point to. Is someone saying there is a backup somewhere to restore?

Restore it (old target website) anywhere (to a new host), I've downloaded the (NVD) database for local processing many times in my life... In your own copy, search and replace the domain reference to a new host...

If this is important enough to the community at large, work on getting the NVD data itself to be updated. It is all text (once upon a time, XML, now I think JSON)

Edit: clarified 'it' as "(old target website)...(to a new host)"; and 'database' as "(NVD)"

[rusty_shackleford@colorlessgreenvoid.com]

@briankrebs
Why in the hell would you pay a squatter for a domain? Fuck that guy

[johnlogic@sfba.social]

@poing @fancysandwiches @briankrebs

Why not just fix the links and automatically point them to pages at archive org ?

[quinn@social.circl.lu]

@briankrebs Accenture. Of fucking course.

[franga2000@chaos.social]

@briankrebs fuck that, sed -i all the links in the NVD to point at archive.org and donate the 175k to them. Getting the domain won't restore the content anyways.

[rusty_shackleford@colorlessgreenvoid.com]

@franga2000 @briankrebs

This. Buying the domain from a squatter is a retard move.

[rusty_shackleford@colorlessgreenvoid.com]

@franga2000 @briankrebs
Also this is the kinda thing a scammy group of crypto bro indians in a telegram channel would do. Buy a domain, then pretend to be concerned group of internet denizens and start a gofundme to buy the domain that they now own, trick of bunch of well meaning idiots into raising the money, and profit.

I see stupid ops like this purpetrated by indians go down all time around crypto spaces.

[odr_k4tana@infosec.exchange]

@briankrebs sounds like something a big consulting firm or whatever they are would typically do for the planet.

[poing@chaos.social]

@johnlogic
Also a good idea, but likely a logistical nightmare as it involves many many different site owners/webmasters.

(hmm, do we still use that term? Feels like I haven't used it in a long time.)

[johnlogic@sfba.social]

@poing

Sounds like an opportunity for someone to create a browser plug-in that just automatically offers to redirect links referencing the bad domain to the desired pages at the #InternetArchive .

[freediverx@mastodon.social]

@rusty_shackleford @franga2000 @briankrebs
Can you criticize a slimy company without hurling slurs at people with disabilities and of different ethnic/national backgrounds?