Topic: TalkImg.com - Image hosting for BitcoinTalk - page 5. (Read 18515 times)

"They" are trying to stop the BTC price from pumping, but their efforts, so far, are not working.

 

These IPs were obtained through Cloudflare data. I had never used Cloudflare for talkimg.com before, this is the first time and so I had access to this data.

Now, it is true that many host servers do this logging, even temporarily. But, to access them, you will need to do a deeper investigation. I don't even have time to scratch my itch, let alone scrape IPs... I have more to do in life.





First of all, I thank you for your trust, but as I say in the OP, I do not record any information. The only thing that is recorded in the database is the IP of the person who uploaded the image for spam control or upload cascade purposes..

Therefore, I am available to work to improve and follow the standards requested by Bitcointalk.

for those who don't know, you can find the hosts files (on windows) at this path: C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts
be sure to open notepad as an administrator and open the path from in notepad, otherwise you would not be able to save your edit.

if you do this, you will not be able to see any images hosted on talkimg.com, just so you know!

The bitcointalk proxy is in attack and it is already in discussions :-D

This also applies to other image hosting sites like postimg.cc and imgbb.com

Never a boring time in bitcointalk
I am reporting that talkimg images are not working in forum again and they look like constantly loading but never opening.
Maybe this attackers are not only trying to hurt talkimg website but also to damage bitcointalk forum.

Joker_joshue just posted IP-addresses (used in the DDOS). His webhost may not even allow him to not keep logs.

I decided that this plan is unnecessarily complicated, at least for now. So:
 - I already donated ~0.1 BTC to TalkImg, unconditionally and without discussing any of this with joker_josue.
 - If joker_josue merely promises that no logs are kept, then I think that that is sufficient for now, and I will exempt TalkImg from the proxy, once TalkImg is working again.

So if anyone is ultra-paranoid, be aware that your browser may start making connections to talkimg.com sometime soon. If you're really opposed to that, block it via a hosts file or something.

If linking with Talkimg works, you may not have to. If possible, a link to the website can be available on the page to compose a message and anyone who clicks on the image link is redirected there in a new tab. This will reduce the time to go search for the topic thread like I normally do.

The current image system only allows Jr. Member+ rank to post images, a forum system that works in similar way will work fine. There can also be some board restrictions for certain ranks, this will be for boards that gets lots of images regularly.

- Jay -

I guess it wouldn't be so bad if you only allowed ranked Members to upload images + add some limits similar to what we have with DMs. It would be more convenient, for sure.

The storage/data-transfer wouldn't be especially expensive, but it's a large feature to add, and then it's a whole new thing that has to be moderated. I wouldn't make something as open as TalkImg, since otherwise after a few years I'd be getting like 10 DMCA takedowns per day which I'd have to figure out some way of processing. It'd have to be somehow a lot more restricted so that the long-term moderation burden wouldn't be too high. I'd rather avoid having to do it at all.

I had always wondered why this was not available, especially after some of the issues we have run into with image hosting websites in the past. Is there any reason why it is the last option on the list (chronogically)? I assumed it was a difficult feature to implement and an expensive one too, but I do not have enough technical skills to confirm that.

Talkimg is a service that has become a big part of the forum. If the above cannot be readily done and a quicker fix is needed, I am all for exempting it from th proxy and making it an (official) unofficial hosting website for the forum.

- Jay -

Yeah, now the imageproxy is under a DDoS. (You may still see some images due to caching in your browser.)

I'm not going to try to fix this. It's really difficult to put a proxy behind DDoS protection, because the attacker can always find and take down the outbound IP. Even if the outbound IP is different from the inbound IP, and even if the outbound IP drops all incoming connections from the general Internet, the outbound IP's networking can be entirely taken down through a sufficiently-large IP flood, which makes the proxy stop working. Maybe it could theoretically be fixed by having dozens of outbound IPs, or downloading images via Tor, but the former would be difficult to set up and maintain, and the latter would degrade performance. So my intention has always been that the imageproxy would just be expendable in the event of a DDoS. My plan is as follows:

First, I'm just going to wait a few days. Often DDoS attacks are temporary. I'm not really sure what motivates them, but it costs money to keep them up, so they rarely last all that long. (I have a bit of a conspiracy theory that these random DDoS attacks are done by DDoS protection companies to make the Internet impossible to use without being behind DDoS protection...)

If the attack is still going on in a few days, I'll consider measures like these:
 - If there are any image hosts run by trustworthy companies where the privacy policy says that they don't keep logs, these could be exempted from the proxy. If you know of any, let me know.
 - Maybe bitcointalk.org could pay TalkImg a monthly fee for a contractual guarantee that they won't keep logs. TalkImg could then be exempted from the proxy, and furthermore they would have more resources to function well.
 - Bitcointalk.org could add support for uploading images directly.

With BTC the bad guys are pumping too :-D

It worked when I posted the image, but now I see "loading". So indeed, the forum's image proxy is affected.

According to iplocation.net: the first and last IP are from an ISP in Canada, the other in Switzerland. Looks like a regular botnet.

From the latest information I received from my host, this wave of attacks may be affecting more servers around the world.

Not fine. I have images on my own server and they are not loading too. Like I said now it's not something from talkimg but something related to forum server.

I am facing another attack, which is being contained by Cloudflare.  

So the response time may be longer than normal.


EDIT:
These guys don't give up. What's the goal?
Last 30min.:

Now let this phase calm down, so you can think about it calmly.  

the forum's image proxy is not fine, someone needs to check on him

If you can see this image, the forum's image proxy is working fine: