[aprssig] China Has Hijacked WA8LMF.com !! 2

[wa7skg]

Sounds like time for a strike mission?


Lynn W Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote on 9/28/21 7:59 AM:
> Sometime yesterday, BG0GE-6 quit injecting the old packets.  But I 
> checked just now and they're back!  But this time, it's only going into 
> firenet and not the mainstream APRS-IS.
> 
> And I spoke too soon.  As I was typing this message, the packets 
> starting showing up in both the APRS-IS and firenet again.  And now 
> they're back to firenet only.  Maybe their configured APRS-IS server is 
> disconnecting them?  Who knows.
> 
> But according to my APRSIS32 packet counter, he's been steadily gating 
> 1800-2000 packets per hour for the past 8 hours (as far back as APRSIS32 
> summarizes).
> 
> BG0GE-6 via THIRD+
> 9600&1200 Baud Nucleo-TNC TEST
> 
> I+G: 70+1692 74+1825 74+1996 76+2047 72+2071 76+2013 74+1999 74+1831
> 
> Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 9/27/2021 6:46 PM, Stephen H Smith via aprssig wrote:
>> On 9/27/2021 6:20 PM, Kenneth Finnegan wrote:
>>> Looking at Internet Archive, it looks like wa8lmf.com 
>>> <http://wa8lmf.com> has been dead for months if not years with 
>>> various domain parking on it:
>>>
>>> http://web.archive.org/web/20210609210446/http://www.wa8lmf.com/
>>
>>
>> For some years, I used both WA8LMF.com and WA8LMF.net .   One time   
>> WA8LMF.com  expired and a slimy domain squatter grabbed it 
>> instantly.   Not willing to pay the scammer to get it back, I 
>> proceeded to use just WA8LMF.net and forget about the .COM version.
>>
>> [Actually, by the original scheme of things on the Internet, .NET is 
>> more appropriate anyway since I am doing communications operations on 
>> the Internet- not running a commercial business. Actually, I only used 
>> .COM in the early days of the Internet because so many people at that 
>> time thought EVERYTHING on the web had to end with .COM.]
>>
>> I assumed that the squatter would ultimately tire of paying for a 
>> domain as unique and un-saleable as a ham call.  It never occurred to 
>> me that someone would actually buy it.....
>>
>>
>>>
>>> So the lesson here is to make sure that you don't let the 
>>> registration for any domains you care about expire and sit 
>>> unregistered for a long time, because these sorts of sites will sweep 
>>> them up if there's any decent number of links to them... they 
>>> probably weren't banking on your APRS comment back in the day, but 
>>> here we are.
>>>
>>> *I strongly suspect that this domain registration has nothing to do 
>>> with BG0GE accidentally gatewaying their TNC test runs onto the 
>>> APRS-IS*. I've emailed them directly to stop I-gating the LMF CD.
>>>
>> I would have thought the same thing EXCEPT that the BG0GE-6 igate is 
>> now including the WA8LMF.COM domain in their comment..   Also, his 
>> email addy is BG0GE at 163.com .      163.com is one of the links on the 
>> home page of the porn site.
>>
>> Again, I am baffled.  Why would one want to flog a porn site with an 
>> obscure ham call sign?
>>