So the more you try to hide your ass, the more you get targeted
FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack
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Re: FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack
#22If this is the only manner that the FBI --or any law enforcement for that matter-- has for identifying TOR users, then wouldn't the best operational security just be to firewall yourself off completely except for Tor connections? Better yet, you could monitor what applications are trying to broadcast out even if they are designed or intended not to leak. Isn't this what the TAILS live-CD does? For this case, even if…
The attacker could just as easily made the connection out via Tor, but it might not have been as considered quite as strong for their evidence gathering process.
Another example, it sounds like one might have dodged this particular attack by using a browser other than the Firefox bundled in the TBB. But whether or not using a non-TBB browser gives you a net increase in security probably depends a lot on the user.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Margaret come on now, that would be 233 hours of work if she was paid on a 1099. She still needs to pay tax and self-employment tax on all of that money. That said, I don't think 233 hours really counts as "just a few hours".
Especially since 4 weeks (28 days) at 40hrs/week is 160 hours :-)
Essentially, she's making less than a very good programmer.
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#24WTF? Can we even trust the water we get from the government? Maybe they put some meds in there to make us dumb and complaint. Is that too far fetched now after what we've reading? >> Donahue also said Marque had been researching the possibility of moving his hosting, and his residence, to Russia. Nice try FBI, but I have a feeling that Puttin's Russia will have him a gulag after a 5 minute "trial," appeal included.
WTF? Can we even trust the water we get from the government? Maybe they put some meds in there to make us dumb and complaint.
Funny you should mention that -- I believe that water fluoridation was once suspected of being a communist plot to more or less the same effect.
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#25Re: FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack
#26WTF? Can we even trust the water we get from the government? Maybe they put some meds in there to make us dumb and complaint. Is that too far fetched now after what we've reading? >> Donahue also said Marque had been researching the possibility of moving his hosting, and his residence, to Russia. Nice try FBI, but I have a feeling that Puttin's Russia will have him a gulag after a 5 minute "trial," appeal included.
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#27I don't even know anymore. We're gonna have to raise the bar on what it means to be a "tinfoil hatter"; the original definition has become reality. "Trust no one! Suspect EVERYTHING!" , I can say today without sounding crazy. Also, remember this? http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/blogs/browse/2011/... ....hmm, I wonder if....
I remember reading about Richard Stallman's setup [0] and thought it sounded indeed crazy. I couldn't understand why he needed so much 'freedom'. I do now.
Re: FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack
#28If this is the only manner that the FBI --or any law enforcement for that matter-- has for identifying TOR users, then wouldn't the best operational security just be to firewall yourself off completely except for Tor connections? Better yet, you could monitor what applications are trying to broadcast out even if they are designed or intended not to leak. Isn't this what the TAILS live-CD does? For this case, even if…
I think you will want to use a router that automatically tunnels everything leaving the local network through TOR. And then put in a permanent "everything read-only mode" by burning a fuse or something...
Can't trust the local machine to tunnel things correctly.
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#29WTF? Can we even trust the water we get from the government? Maybe they put some meds in there to make us dumb and complaint. Is that too far fetched now after what we've reading? >> Donahue also said Marque had been researching the possibility of moving his hosting, and his residence, to Russia. Nice try FBI, but I have a feeling that Puttin's Russia will have him a gulag after a 5 minute "trial," appeal included.
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OK, let's be honest.
Do you think Russia would give him asylum or a visa? There you go.
Thank you.
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#30> "Mozilla confirmed the code exploited a critical memory management vulnerability in Firefox that was publicly reported on June 25, and is fixed in the latest version of the browser." Will Rust help eliminate the problem of buffer overflows and other memory related hacks?
This was actually a use after free vulnerability, not a buffer overflow.