Project: ClearCraig tl;dr Download this to help get rid of Scientology spam on Craigslist. We need more people running this app! If you're reading this and not running it, run it now! Run per every unique IP address you can get. I'm not sure if flagging is IP sensitive or not. If it isn't... run this app as many times as you can while still staying sane. Posts that still need flagging: 486 (updated Sept 13th, 2009) (^ Not getting 486 posts? Try updating the Dat file) Current Version: 1.01 (updated August 30th, 2009) MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service Current Dat for version 1.01+: (updated Sept 2nd, 2009) Code: B1DEE78B2C8E612D2AA89C1D83D11C32 519-5287,916-294-0434,294-0434,916-879-4119,879-4119 sacramento.craigslist.org 937-5240,323-906-1806 losangeles.craigslist.org 792 1889,792-1889 toronto.en.craigslist.ca 305-445-7812,445-7812 miami.craigslist.org 220-3772 victoria.en.craigslist.ca 366-6084,424-1990,415-661-9494,661-9494,540-4789,707-939-6774,408-835-4100 sfbay.craigslist.org 921-1210 newyork.craigslist.org 62/63 Middle Abbey St dublin.craigslist.org 407-895-9917 orlando.craigslist.org 615-687-4600,687-4600 nashville.craigslist.org 847-289-8111,847.289.8111 chicago.craigslist.org 01202 257788 oxford.craigslist.co.uk 558 7644,558-7644 seattle.craigslist.org 314-727-3747 stlouis.craigslist.org 824-7787 lasvegas.craigslist.org 956-365-4020,365-4020 brownsville.en.craigslist.org 524-5300 dallas.craigslist.org 877-413-3073 northmiss.craigslist.org 877-413-3073 wv.craigslist.org 877-413-3073 nashville.craigslist.org 877-413-3073 lexington.craigslist.org 1-877-413-3073 charleston.craigslist.org 1-877-413-3073 maine.craigslist.org 01202 257788 london.craigslist.co.uk We've had some trouble with Craigslist: http://forums.whyweprotest.net/12-active-projects/operation-defend-craig-51952/ http://forums.whyweprotest.net/15-media/scilons-preying-divorcees-51750/ http://forums.whyweprotest.net/15-media/web-activity-scientology-now-using-craigslist-18235/ It's not easy flagging 100+ ads in your local area when the Scilons are spamming their garbage on CL... so I made a tool that should make this a little easier. It's fairly idiot proof. If there are posts that this tool isn't picking up, please post them here and I'll do my best to update the app/config file. You'll notice there is a hash code at the top of the Dat file. I don't want to be responsible for yet another script kiddie tool, thus I'll be updating the Dat file and posting the most up to date Dat in this OP. The app essentially runs a search on a string (or multiple strings) given a specific CL link, and flags all results as prohibited. When running the app, you can select a specific CL to scan, or you can select 'All' which will scan all CLs in the list. It also takes arguments so you don't have to go through the entry selection list. So if you wanted, you could create a shortcut that would call 'ClearCraig.exe a' (running a search through all entries) and run it at windows startup. Please download it and tell me what you guys think. Suggestions are welcome, but that doesn't mean I'll implement them. Version 1.01: * Fixed 2 very minor bugs Things I need to know: * Do flags from the same IP address still count? Or do the IPs have to be unique? * How many flags does it take to remove something? * What's the threshold for CL banning your IP for sending too many requests?
Re: Project: ClearCraig This program can be improved to cover quite a few more posts. The results from this page in New York don't get flagged, but can probably be added. We could flag the dublin ones from this results page. There are some in Orlando as well. There are also LOTS in Ventura, look at the results page here.
Re: Project: ClearCraig IMO the focus shouldn't be on flagging ads which say "Scientology" in them. After all you might mis-flag somebody selling used Scientology books or whatever. You should rather flag the phone numbers and addresses of Scientology, so you get the stealth Scientology ads.
Re: Project: ClearCraig Just a matter of updating the Dat file in the OP. Check for updates often ^_^. As people find more adds, I'll add more to the Dat file. * Added newyork.craigslist.org * Added dublin.craigslist.org * Added orlando.craigslist.org * Added new string to losangeles.craigslist.org (Your last link was actually giving LA results, but they were being missed by my app). I was rather surprised to see that the Dublin posts don't have full phone numbers up (save 1). There were 268 posts in the check I just made (change of -2), with a total of 312 after I added those new entries. We clearly need more people running this app. If you're curious as to wether the app is flagging a specific add or not, you can run the tool for a specific CL. It will list the IDs as well as the names of the posts it flags. Exactly. Last thing I want this program to do is start flagging posts that simply say Scientology. If there are anons advertising a protest, I don't think they'd be too happy. I'm keeping it strictly to very unique strings. Although searching for Scientology or Dianetics is a good way to see which adds aren't being picked up etc. It also allows for adds like this to get by: L. Ron Hubbard - Scientology Books which I think is entertaining, because of how useless this crap actually is.
Re: Project: ClearCraig Nice! /r/ adding UK craigslist sites? I'm assuming we can't edit the .dat file because it checks the hashcode.
Re: Project: ClearCraig There are so many sites (most are empty) that I've given up trying to hunt them down. Post searches or specific posts and I'll do what I can to add them to the app/dat. This also gets people involved so they're more likely to keep using this app ^_^. That's why it's there ^_^
Re: Project: ClearCraig search: nashville.craigslist for 687-4600 (this is the celeb centre nash #, area code would be 615) returns dianetics bullshit. search: chicago.craigslist for dianetics returns another dianetics event. The number used in the ad is: 847.289.8111 search: chicago.craigslist for 847.289.8111 returns an assload of events/classes.
Re: Project: ClearCraig * Added nashville.craigslist.org * Added chicago.craigslist.org Although that's still a bunch in Chicago, it's not nearly as bad as Toronto, Sacramento, and LA. They average about 80 ish posts. BTW, to all who are reading this: Go download the app and run it. Change your IP, and run it again. Rinse and repeat. Keep doing this as much as possible. The number of posts the app is finding just keeps increasing with people's contributions. >_<!! Only way to lower this number is for more people to run the app.
Re: Project: ClearCraig This app is very sweet. Here are some more ads I think it's missing in sfbay since they have different phone numbers than one in the data file (which is redwood city). Scientology: A New Slant on Life by L. Ron Hubbard (palo alto mission (650) 424-1990 ) Improving Conditions in Life (sf mission in sunset/parkside (415) 661-9494 ) "How to Improve Relationships" - A free lecture (berkeley mission (510) 540-4789 ) "How to Improve Relationships" - A free lecture (sonoma mission 707-939-6774 ) Dianetics Seminar (san jose north 408-835-4100 ) I didn't find ads for these recently, but here are the phone numbers anyway: (650) 605-9000 ; (650) 965-2539 Life Improvement Center, Mountain View (650) 969-5262 Mountain View Org (408) 249-7400 Los Gatos Org (San Jose) (408) 249-5398 Mission of San Jose
Re: Project: ClearCraig * Added 6 new strings to sfbay.craigslist.org Good finds ^_^ You'll notice that there are duplicate numbers added: 415-661-9494, 661-9494. I found different posts for both these strings. Just the way CL's search engine works. Although brackets () don't cause problems, all string searches seem to be very character specific. I really want to limit the number of strings to search for as this increases URL length. I'll add multiple queries if this becomes a problem in the future, but I want to avoid that for now. But if any adds come up with these numbers, I will add them. For now, I'll keep them off the list. I'm really worried about finding CLs breaking point where it starts banning IPs :S No idea where that is. I always run a full search with the new config file first though, to try and ensure I'm not going to cause mass banning. To all reading this: Download and run my app!!! Daily, hourly, whatever you can do. We need more people >_<!
Re: Project: ClearCraig All of these return ad's: Sacramento: 916-294-0434 , (916) 879-4119 Oxford: 01202 257788 Seattle: (425) 558 7644, 558-7644 (some seem to escape w/out -) st louis: 314-727-3747 las vegas: 824-7787 (also selling a car, so I guess this would get flagged too. ) But daily dianetics ad's. brownsville: (956) 365-4020 dallas: 214 524-5300, 214 492-0063 (some of returned ads that look like someone selling L. Ronny books off. Looks innocent. S'not. Same #'s on dianetics seminar etc. ads.) Also noted a couple of other things of interest while combing through: There are a hulluvalot of ad's getting flagged. There are a crapton of people liquidating their L. Ron Collection. I found tons of ad's for ppl just selling off all of their books/dvds/lectures (used). More new exes? Some ad's are using a slant I haven't seen before. Reduce your personal Stress - I'm not the one selling this stuff, but it's great. Call here!
Re: Project: ClearCraig And one more. Narconon num has shown up everywhere. Narconon number and locations of current/unexpired ad placement, all of them with bullshit 76% success statistic: North mississipi: 877-413-3073 Charleston: 877-413-3073 Maine: 877-413-3073 West Virginia: 877-413-3073 Nashville: 877-413-3073 Lexington: 877-413-3073 Also: Honolulu: 808-550-0005 is the number listed, but ad doesn’t turn up in CL search Free Drug Rehabilitation Services and Drug and Alcohol Workshop
Re: Project: ClearCraig * Added 3 new strings to sacramento.craigslist.org * Added oxford.craigslist.co.uk * Added seattle.craigslist.org * Added stlouis.craigslist.org * Added lasvegas.craigslist.org * Added brownsville.en.craigslist.org * Added dallas.craigslist.org As far as I'm concerned, if they're using their phone # to spam Craigslist with Scientology spam, they've lost the right to post. This also brings the Sacramento post count to a whopping 161 o.0 * Added northmiss.craigslist.org * Added wv.craigslist.org * Added nashville.craigslist.org * Added lexington.craigslist.org (Couldn't find any Charleston, Maine ads... any links?) It's very strange about those Honolulu posts... I can't find *anything* that will bring them up in a search. I'm guessing something broke when the ads were entered. Solid finds guys. Keep running the app ^_^.
Re: Project: ClearCraig Most CLs are empty, thank god. If every one was spammed, there would be tens of thousands of posts to flag. There are still 543 posts that need flagging... and these are the one's we've found...
Re: Project: ClearCraig So are they actually clearing out flagged posts every now and then? With any luck, craigslist will ban ads with the scieno numbers in them. That's hoping for too much though, I feel.
Re: Project: ClearCraig * Added charleston.craigslist.org * Added maine.craigslist.org String was 1-877-413-3073 not 877-413-3073 >_<!! Getting Craigslist to directly ban the numbers is a bit of a long shot. They have a lot of spamming troubles... a few hundred posts from one group isn't exactly top priority. People have apparently tried, and I haven't heard of any positive results. In terms of removing flagged posts, that's done automatically. The problem however, is that we don't have enough people running the app to flag these things, otherwise the number of posts would be going down... which they aren't. This is one of those things where it would work absolutely great if we had enough people doing it. Otherwise, it will fail completely. In short... run the app. Did I mention you should run the app? Are you running it now? What about tomorrow? We've made a small dent it seems. Someone reported flagging 598 posts. It's currently at 511.
Re: Project: ClearCraig Lots of spam in Oxford, and one of theirs showed up in London as well. Edit: Ah, they're already in the DAT.
Re: Project: ClearCraig Very useful project! Am thinking of rewriting it in Python or similar, as I'd like to run it on a non-windows machine. Btw, anyone tried this under wine on mac os X?
Re: Project: ClearCraig Just remember to make it script kiddie proof :x Anything that can run .NET 3.5 should be able to run this app.
Re: Project: ClearCraig Hmm, kind of impossible to do if it's a script (source code) you're releasing... anyone can just remove a hash code check, if it was there. Maybe just releasing it only as a .pyc (compiled python) file would work. There's always Java as well, but that's quite trivial to decompile if you know how.
Re: Project: ClearCraig Please don't release the source code. What could be done was to make a tool which you would run like the Lad Vampire, which was created in order to close down fake banking sites used for "Nigerian" fraud. If you could go to a site which runs in javascript or flash, and trust the code writer, then we could just leave a browser window open and let it flag stealth Scientology ads at a speed and volume determined by the individual user. I would also suggest a temporary priority re-scheduling: We should, until we get more people joining, concentrate on the craigslist ads with Scientology phone numbers which also don't mention that it is Scientology. Then once we've reduced those stealth ads down to almost none, we could expand again to all ads with Scientology numbers in them. Y/N?
Re: Project: ClearCraig The file doesn't seem to be working for me, it says it can't find te file on my computer, even though I just downloaded it. Im computer retarded, help!
