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Re: Email from FBI Looks Odd

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What’s wrong with internet explorer? It’s still in active support.

It's actively supported by a company who themselves recommend against it and described its use as technical debt (in 2019) https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/t...

They didn’t say not to use IE, just to restrict IE’s use to specific applications where it’s needed. The FBI has technical debt too!

Re: Email from FBI Looks Odd

#42
We received and forwarded to various groups at FBI and DHS at the onset. The running theory here is IPv6 to iPv4 routing is the problem with this incident. Generic and trusted config as where any ipv6 arbitrarily “just works” to a trusted IPv4 block with existing rules. Most IPv6 implementations do not have the detail scrutiny in firewall rules to prevent or filter, and IDS this type of thing from happening.

Re: Email from FBI Looks Odd

#43
I find it fascinating that one can be intelligent enough to be able to do something like this but they just couldn’t put together a coherent enough email to actually fool you, especially because they seem to have a decent enough command of English. The tone is waaaaaay off though.

Re: Email from FBI Looks Odd

#44

I find it fascinating that one can be intelligent enough to be able to do something like this but they just couldn’t put together a coherent enough email to actually fool you, especially because they seem to have a decent enough command of English. The tone is waaaaaay off though.

Perhaps the human effort needed to see their goals through requires that they filter for only the targets that would fall for such a poorly constructed effort.

Re: Email from FBI Looks Odd

#46
Tangentially related, but the FBI needs to be disbanded. At least the DC offices, which are simply a political police force at this point. This is just another example of incompetence on their part.

Re: Email from FBI Looks Odd

#47

I find it fascinating that one can be intelligent enough to be able to do something like this but they just couldn’t put together a coherent enough email to actually fool you, especially because they seem to have a decent enough command of English. The tone is waaaaaay off though.

If you can send email from the FBI then you also have a get out of jail free card for any crime. Seems like a bad use of this access.

Re: Email from FBI Looks Odd

#48

There is this line from Michael Clayton movie that I basically assume every time I see something like this ‘client:(phone rings) That’s the police isn’t it? MC: No, they don’t call.’ Or in this case, they don’t email.

Not this holds up, in this case they would most likely call you and either tell you over the phone, or setup the meeting over the phone.

Re: Email from FBI Looks Odd

#49

Tangentially related, but the FBI needs to be disbanded. At least the DC offices, which are simply a political police force at this point. This is just another example of incompetence on their part.

Im just going to let you figure out this one for yourself.

Re: Email from FBI Looks Odd

#50
post #44

I find it fascinating that one can be intelligent enough to be able to do something like this but they just couldn’t put together a coherent enough email to actually fool you, especially because they seem to have a decent enough command of English. The tone is waaaaaay off though.

Perhaps the human effort needed to see their goals through requires that they filter for only the targets that would fall for such a poorly constructed effort.

This could work if recipients were CEOs/CISOs, not actually technical people (ARIN IP range contacts = NOC? as someone above me found out)
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