Kaskus History
Kaskus is the site of Indonesia's largest virtual community forum.Kaskus was born on November 6, 2000 by three young men from Indonesia whocurrently studying in Seattle, the United States. This site is managed by PT.Darta Media Indonesia., which numbered more than 900,000, not only fromIndonesia but domiciled also spread to other countries. Kaskus Users generallycome from teenagers to adults.
Kaskus, which stands for enormous buzz, started from a hobby of a small communitythat later evolved to the present. Kaskus visited by at least 500,000 people,with a total exceeding 3.5 million page views daily.
According to Alexa.com, in August 2008 Kaskus is ranked 290 and wasranked the world's seventh most visited site in Indonesia.
Kaskus Radio is an Internet Radio kaskus Indonesia under the auspices ofthe community. Radio Kaskus is commonly abbreviated as KR has more than 20broadcasters. Radio is playing the song for 24 hours is also playing the songsof various languages, English, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, and many more.
History
In August 2005, PC Magazine Indonesia awarded Kaskus site as the best site andthe largest community, then Kaskus website was re-elected as the best choice PCMagazine readers in 2006.
On May 23, 2006 Kaskus management was forced to change the domain from.Com becomes. Us, because the spread of the virus Brontok created with the aimof attacking the sites of Indonesia where Kaskus entry in the target of attack.
Beginning April 2007, the management Kaskus add 2 new servers to improvesite performance Kaskus (Dell server).
In July 2008, the manager finally decided to operate Kaskus Kaskusserver in Indonesia. For this purpose Kaskus buy eight servers Dell PowerEdge2950 and operated through a network of open IXP. As a result of this accessKaskus multiply and eventually the manager plans to add eight more servers sothat the total of which will be operating in September is 16 servers.
DDOS attack
On 16-17 May 2008, Kaskus DDoS attack using a technique (Distributed Denial ofService) by the individual that allegedly came from YogyaFree community. Thisattack causes Kaskus corrupted database so that administrators are forced tolock the existing threads.
The attacks were allegedly associated with the destruction events(deface) YogyaFree site a few days earlier. An attacker who claimed himself asone member Kaskus also declaim a mocking tone in one part of the forumYogyaFree. This has led some members YogyaFree furious, and then back Kaskuswith DDoS attacks. As a result, was forced to shut down the serveradministrator Kaskus Kaskus.
Cyber war between the two communities wasfinally completed when the two signed a memorandum online site manager to finishdisputes between them. Such messages to wirtte for several weeks on theirrespective pages.
Despite the damage inflicted by this attack is quite heavy, promising thatKaskus Kaskus administrator will return to normal in July 2008, along with thelaunch of a new server in the building Cyber Kaskus, Jakarta. However, he also saidthat the data that will be raised back is data that was published prior to2008, while the data created during the year 2008 not be recalled.
UU ITE
Before UU ITE enacted, Kaskus has two controversial forum, bb17 and Fight Club.Bb17 (short
Kaskus is the site of Indonesia's largest virtual community forum.Kaskus was born on November 6, 2000 by three young men from Indonesia whocurrently studying in Seattle, the United States. This site is managed by PT.Darta Media Indonesia., which numbered more than 900,000, not only fromIndonesia but domiciled also spread to other countries. Kaskus Users generallycome from teenagers to adults.
Kaskus, which stands for enormous buzz, started from a hobby of a small communitythat later evolved to the present. Kaskus visited by at least 500,000 people,with a total exceeding 3.5 million page views daily.
According to Alexa.com, in August 2008 Kaskus is ranked 290 and wasranked the world's seventh most visited site in Indonesia.
Kaskus Radio is an Internet Radio kaskus Indonesia under the auspices ofthe community. Radio Kaskus is commonly abbreviated as KR has more than 20broadcasters. Radio is playing the song for 24 hours is also playing the songsof various languages, English, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, and many more.
History
In August 2005, PC Magazine Indonesia awarded Kaskus site as the best site andthe largest community, then Kaskus website was re-elected as the best choice PCMagazine readers in 2006.
On May 23, 2006 Kaskus management was forced to change the domain from.Com becomes. Us, because the spread of the virus Brontok created with the aimof attacking the sites of Indonesia where Kaskus entry in the target of attack.
Beginning April 2007, the management Kaskus add 2 new servers to improvesite performance Kaskus (Dell server).
In July 2008, the manager finally decided to operate Kaskus Kaskusserver in Indonesia. For this purpose Kaskus buy eight servers Dell PowerEdge2950 and operated through a network of open IXP. As a result of this accessKaskus multiply and eventually the manager plans to add eight more servers sothat the total of which will be operating in September is 16 servers.
DDOS attack
On 16-17 May 2008, Kaskus DDoS attack using a technique (Distributed Denial ofService) by the individual that allegedly came from YogyaFree community. Thisattack causes Kaskus corrupted database so that administrators are forced tolock the existing threads.
The attacks were allegedly associated with the destruction events(deface) YogyaFree site a few days earlier. An attacker who claimed himself asone member Kaskus also declaim a mocking tone in one part of the forumYogyaFree. This has led some members YogyaFree furious, and then back Kaskuswith DDoS attacks. As a result, was forced to shut down the serveradministrator Kaskus Kaskus.
Cyber war between the two communities wasfinally completed when the two signed a memorandum online site manager to finishdisputes between them. Such messages to wirtte for several weeks on theirrespective pages.
Despite the damage inflicted by this attack is quite heavy, promising thatKaskus Kaskus administrator will return to normal in July 2008, along with thelaunch of a new server in the building Cyber Kaskus, Jakarta. However, he also saidthat the data that will be raised back is data that was published prior to2008, while the data created during the year 2008 not be recalled.
UU ITE
Before UU ITE enacted, Kaskus has two controversial forum, bb17 and Fight Club.Bb17 (short
for open-aperture 17 years) is an adult forumwhere users can share both pictures and adult stories. Meanwhile, the FightClub is a forum dedicated as a place to argue that truly free withoutcontrolled. Often debated issues related to SARA. Affront to common ethnic andreligious.
After the enactment of UU ITE, bb17 Kaskus immediately shut because contrary tothe Act ITE about the spread of pornographic material. Fight Club changed its nameto the Debate Club. Fight Club and Debate Club basically has the same functionas a place for debate, it's just tightened controls on the Debate Club. Any newthread that created the user first censored by the moderator. If deemedfeasible and discuss racial intolerance, then the thread will be deleted.
To erase the negative image as a media Kaskus underground [8] and pornsites, Kaskus change the appearance on August 17, 2008. Kaskus created a newlook full of color. In addition, Kaskus also added new features like blogs andWAP Kaskus.
After the enactment of UU ITE, bb17 Kaskus immediately shut because contrary tothe Act ITE about the spread of pornographic material. Fight Club changed its nameto the Debate Club. Fight Club and Debate Club basically has the same functionas a place for debate, it's just tightened controls on the Debate Club. Any newthread that created the user first censored by the moderator. If deemedfeasible and discuss racial intolerance, then the thread will be deleted.
To erase the negative image as a media Kaskus underground [8] and pornsites, Kaskus change the appearance on August 17, 2008. Kaskus created a newlook full of color. In addition, Kaskus also added new features like blogs andWAP Kaskus.
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