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April 2, 2012 05:53 pm GMT

Pastebin To Hire Monitors To Keep The Creeps Off Of Its Servers

Screen Shot 2012-04-02 at 9.27.20 AMIt's hard being a hacker's darling. Pastebin is a dox dumping site - as well as a useful tool for programmers and writers who want to share a piece of text or store it for later - and it is facing what could be a termed a problem of popularity. Because groups like Anonymous have used the service to dump sensitive information, the company has been banned in Turkey and and Pakistan and, more important, has become the target of DDOS attacks by kiddies who want to test their exciting new scripts. The result? A company that is, by all metrics, growing, now needs to spend money and solicit volunteers to protect itself from its biggest fans.After a BBC story noted Pastebin's problems, the site's owner, Jeroen Vader, received a number of offers to help police the site for free. The monitors will pull down questionable content when users report seeing it using the site's interface.

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