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==HipCrime's Newsagent== ==HipCrime's Newsagent==
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'''HipCrime's Newsagent'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hipcrime.com/html-hipcrime/new_page/index.html|title=HipCrime's NewsAgent (v1.07)|website=hipcrime.com|access-date=2017-02-05|archive-date=2016-03-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303184915/http://www.hipcrime.com/html-hipcrime/new_page/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref> software is a free and ] Usenet control client. The program is written in ] and allows the user to auto-] 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.<ref>http://newsagent.p7.org.uk/#whatis {{Bare URL inline|date=October 2021}}</ref> Additionally, it allows regular users to act as Usenet Administrators and create (or remove) entire newsgroups. '''HipCrime's Newsagent'''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hipcrime.com/html-hipcrime/new_page/index.html|title=HipCrime's NewsAgent (v1.07)|website=hipcrime.com|access-date=2017-02-05|archive-date=2016-03-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303184915/http://www.hipcrime.com/html-hipcrime/new_page/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref> software is a free and ] Usenet control client. The program is written in ] and allows the user to auto-] 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.<ref>http://newsagent.p7.org.uk/#whatis {{Dead link|date=March 2022}}</ref> Additionally, it allows regular users to act as Usenet Administrators and create (or remove) entire newsgroups.


] has classified this as ] software, as well as flooder software, a specific type of denial of service attack.<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050317161047/http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/pest/pest.aspx?id=54636 |date=2005-03-17 }}</ref> ] has classified this as ] software, as well as flooder software, a specific type of denial of service attack.<ref> {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050317161047/http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/pest/pest.aspx?id=54636 |date=2005-03-17 }}</ref>


==HipCrime's ActiveAgent == ==HipCrime's ActiveAgent ==
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Latest revision as of 00:19, 19 March 2022

For other uses, see Hipcrime (disambiguation).

HipCrime was both to the screenname of a Usenet user and a software application distributed by, and presumably written by, this individual or group. The name derives from a neologism in the John Brunner science fiction novel Stand on Zanzibar.

HipCrime's Newsagent

HipCrime's Newsagent
Written inJava
TypeUsenet control client

HipCrime's Newsagent software is a free and open-source Usenet control client. The program is written in Java and allows the user to auto-cancel 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 act as Usenet Administrators and create (or remove) entire newsgroups.

CA Inc. has classified this as denial of service software, as well as flooder software, a specific type of denial of service attack.

HipCrime's ActiveAgent

HipCrime's ActiveAgent
Written inJava
TypeE-mail spam

HipCrime is referred to as "a leading Usenet Terrorist" by James Farmer, maintainer of Spamfaq: Part 3: Understanding NANAE.

Andrew Leonard, in his book Bots: The Origin of New Species, also credits HipCrime with creating the earliest web-distributed spambot. This bot, known as HipCrime's ActiveAgent, was a Java applet which allowed anybody with a web browser to send mass volumes of unsolicited e-mail messages. The ActiveAgent has since been expanded into an open-source application (known as MarketCom's MktAgent) and is relied upon heavily by the largest e-mail spam stock pump and dump gangs.

See also

References

  1. "HipCrime". hipcrime.com. Archived from the original on 2007-02-19. Retrieved 2007-03-20.
  2. "HipCrime's NewsAgent (v1.07)". hipcrime.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2017-02-05.
  3. http://newsagent.p7.org.uk/#whatis
  4. HipCrime's NewsAgent - CA Archived 2005-03-17 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Leonard, Andrew (October 23, 1997). Bots: The Origin of New Species. Hardwired. ISBN 9781888869057 – via Google Books.
  6. "HipCrime's ActiveAgent". Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2006-08-03.
  7. "MarketCom's MktAgent v1.28". hipcrime.com. Archived from the original on 2007-10-08. Retrieved 2007-03-20.

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