Yeah, I figured pretty quickly that the gnaa site was not to be taken seriously. I just wonder why the goatse graphic does not originate from their site, but instead is from this other guy’s site. Did they hack his page too, or is he affilated with them?
Oh never mind—too much to take in! It’s obviously a big prank!
Interesting prank, very elaborate. I’m bored so I did some looking into it.
All according to geektools.com and tracert and other public sources:
gnaa.us is regeistered to a man named Gary Niger who lists a residence on Ventura Blvd. in Tarzana, Ca. Yahoo maps cannot find this address. I note “Gary Niger” is just a couple mispellings from the “gay nigger” name of the site.
A traceroute shows that this webserver is actually located in Japan, in an address range assigned to “Kamikumamoto Sanyo Driving School” and is on the freebit.net network, whose website I cannot read.
zoy.org is registered to someone called ZoY, who lists an address in Chatenay-Malabry, FR, and is on the network of nerim.net, who is registered in Paris. I note there is some strange info in the registration info, i/e the registrant email address is listed as :
faa1abb8ec890c275e77e19d661218f3-102112@owner.gandi.net
Gandi.net is also registered to a Paris address, I can’t navigate the yahoo.fr site to get address info. They also have some odd looking info in thier registration.
Looks to me like ZoY was keeping the goatse image on a server to share with freinds, someone else linked it into the dremel site, then hacked his site later to alter the image and add the gnaa.us reference. Then they set up said site on a hacked server in Japan.
Wow, Etherman, that’s some impressive research!
As far as I can see, the Goatse picture is still up. Wonder how long it’ll take for Dremel to catch on?
I gave 'em a call about it (what a kill-joy huh?) They know about it. The rep I spoke to thought it had been fixed.
I do think its funny, but then again, I don’t.
Yeah, wtf? Why would you do that?
Good on you, indecisive1. As a business owner, I would greatly appreciate anyone who would call me to tell me my site had been hacked.
The image has been taken off the Dremel site now.
Etherman, that’s impressive!