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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

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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. 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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Source for your second statement?

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I 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....

Meanwhile the way Bruce Schneier is now using GPG is really only one conceptual leap away from full-blown Tinfoil Hat Linux usage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinfoil_Hat_Linux The difference between "tinfoil hatters" and reasonable people like Bruce Schneier now seems to be how concerned they are with their ability to destroy a harddrive, and TEMPEST.

the way Bruce Schneier is now using GPG

Which way is that?

Also, from your Tinfoil Hat Linux link, this idea is hilariously awesome:

Keystroke monitoring — THL has gpggrid, a wrapper for GPG that lets you use a video game style character entry system instead of typing in your passphrase. Keystroke loggers get a set of grid points, not your passphrase.

I wonder if it might be possible to implement that idea into other operating systems?

Re: FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The hilarity here is that Anonymous and the FBI had the same target this go-round.

In case you hadn't heard, much of "Anonymous" has been FBI-sponsored activity.

In case you hadn't heard, much of "Anonymous" has been related in name only.

Re: FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack

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post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The hilarity here is that Anonymous and the FBI had the same target this go-round.

In case you hadn't heard, much of "Anonymous" has been FBI-sponsored activity.

Source and details would be welcome.

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> "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?

IIRC the original attack was a JS heap spray (using JavaScript Typed Arrays, no less), so not only would the browser have to be written in rust, but also the JavaScript engine which, AFAIK, isn't on Mozilla's roadmap (but I don't speak for them).

Re: FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack

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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. 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.

Not just "once". Many conspiracy theorists still believe that it is some form of government plot or another. The theories range from it being a toxic waste disposal scheme that is poisoning people (and as far as I know, there is some basis for the claim that fluoridation came about as a way to cheaply get rid of a relatively toxic byproduct; that doesn't validate any other part of it though), to fluoride being used as a mind control chemical (usually pointing to drugs like Prozac that include fluoride as "evidence").

Of course, none of these "theories" manage to address the fact that there is fairly strong evidence that water fluoridation does in fact reduce tooth decay.

Re: FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack

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"Freedom Hosting has long been notorious for allowing child porn to live on its servers. In 2011, the hactivist collective Anonymous singled out the service for denial-of-service attacks after allegedly finding the firm hosted 95 percent of the child porn hidden services on the Tor network. In the hearing yesterday, Donahue said the service hosted at least 100 child porn sites with thousands of users, and claimed Marques had visited some of the sites himself."

So this paragraph of the news report suggests that sometimes Anonymous and the FBI can be united in the goal of stopping child pornography, although not united in how they try to deal with it.

Re: FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack

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"Freedom Hosting has long been notorious for allowing child porn to live on its servers. In 2011, the hactivist collective Anonymous singled out the service for denial-of-service attacks after allegedly finding the firm hosted 95 percent of the child porn hidden services on the Tor network. In the hearing yesterday, Donahue said the service hosted at least 100 child porn sites with thousands of users, and claimed Mar…

The reason the FBI and Anonymous seemed to join forces is because the FBI turned Anonymous's leader, Sabu. http://gawker.com/5890847/revered-anonymous-leader-rats-out-...
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