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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. Additionally, it allows regular users to
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user and a software application distributed by, and presumably written by, this individual or group. The name derives from a neologism in the
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HipCrime is referred to as "a leading Usenet Terrorist" by James Farmer, maintainer of
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software, as well as flooder software, a specific type of denial of service attack.
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which allowed anybody with a web browser to send mass volumes of unsolicited
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act as Usenet Administrators and create (or remove) entire newsgroups.
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messages. The ActiveAgent has since been expanded into an
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Index

Hipcrime (disambiguation)
screenname
Usenet
John Brunner
science fiction
Stand on Zanzibar
Java
Type
Usenet
open-source
Java
cancel
CA Inc.
denial of service
Java
Type
E-mail spam
Spamfaq: Part 3: Understanding NANAE
Andrew Leonard
Java
applet
e-mail
open-source application
e-mail spam
pump and dump
List of spammers
"HipCrime"
Archived
"HipCrime's NewsAgent (v1.07)"
Archived

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