Over the past few weeks, a new SOPA-esque bill has come to fruition in the United States Congress called the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA). The goal of the bill is to amend the National Security Act of 1947 and add provisions making legal the "voluntary" sharing of data between private corporations and the government with little to no judicial oversight. Enormous ramifications of First, Fourth, and Sixth Amendment violations aside, one of the primary purposes of the bill allowed for the federal government to go on the attack against websites and individual citizens for "misappropriation of private ... intellectual property," among many other provisions. If that sounds highly ambiguous, that is because it very much is, and that is the problem with this bill: it is extremely broad and allows for nearly any kind of speech or action to be deemed a threat to homeland security so long as the actio...

Incomplete projects are a staple of HackThisSite, and the best solution to this problem is to create more projects to never get completed! First with v4, the project ran stagnate for over four years until it was finally scrapped. Then v5 happened, and went through a series of transitions and rewrites, and is still (not) going strong after 3+ years of work. So rather than waste more time on wasted time, what better idea is there than to start fresh, again?

With v6, we plan on writing everything in as many languages as we can muster, to keep people from getting bored and to keep future developers from being able to maintain it! The expected languages include Ruby, Perl, Python, PHP, Java, node.js, C, C++, C--, C+-, C#, Visual Basic 6, Lisp, Lua, Ada, x86 Assembly, Prolog, Fortran, Cobol, Herp-a-Derp, Brainfuck, and any other languages people can throw at us. We need developers who aren't afraid to never complete a project, not meet deadlines, and fail to deliver on promises.

Even our most acclaimed critics think this is a great idea:

<HG`> even though I've always thought HTS was a bucket of fail, a new new version can't possibly go wrong! sure to succeed!
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Admittedly, this is something we should have done a long time ago, but better late than never.

HackThisSite is now SSL-enabled!

We've done the best we can to ensure nothing will cause a half-secure connection (some non-SSL items loading), but some things still might. If you encounter any half-secure connections (excluding embedded images in forums posts), please be sure to submit a bug report.

Update: We've now employed a Wildcard Sub-Domain certificate across our SSL-enabled services (web, IRC, soon to be many more) that is Comodo-signed. This will enable us to provide trusted SSL communication encryption on many, if not all, of our services.

We at HackThisSite hope everyone enjoys the Superbowl today and can safely overcome their #FirstWorldProblems of determining which dip they should prepare for which chip.

However, in light of recent copyright law awareness, we wish to remind everyone that, pursuant to 17 USC 1 § 110 (5)(B)(i)(II), watching the Superbowl on a screen larger than 55 inches and/or using more than four speakers in one room for its audio constitutes a public performance and is thereby copyright infringement if not properly licensed -- not to mention merely having friends over to watch it also is a violation, regardless of screen size or speaker count.

So go enjoy the big game.. ..just, uhh, by yourself on a small screen with two speakers.

Over two weeks ago, both SOPA and PIPA were shelved. However, "shelved" does not imply "dead." Shelved simply implies that the Internet was so loud in their dissent of these atrocious bills, it would be political suicide to continue them any further .. for now.

What is truly sad is that it took this level of an Internet blackout to even reach Congress. SOPA's sponsor, Lamar Smith (R-TX) went so far as to call SOPA opponents "a vocal minority", and later casting them as piracy harbingers for merely protesting against this bill, nevermind poor legal language (which, in the same sentence, he claimed such language did not exist, demanding opponents "[s]how [him] the language. There’s nothing they can point to that does what they say it does do").

Even worse is that this was simply one of many unending steps by the media industry. If they can't have SOPA/PIPA, then they'll force treaties to bind Congress's hands, constituency be damned. With wave two of this bulls...