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Snowden, just remember that Kevin Poulsen and Adrian Lamo helped the US Government in catching Bradley Manning. EDIT: Also, a pretty safe way to carry an interview would be VPN + Tor + Bitmessage. EDIT2: Users sneak and tlb claim Tor isn't safe because of timing attacks. Read below.
Snowden, just remember that Kevin Poulsen and Adrian Lamo helped the US Government in catching Bradley Manning. EDIT: Also, a pretty safe way to carry an interview would be VPN + Tor + Bitmessage. EDIT2: Users sneak and tlb claim Tor isn't safe because of timing attacks. Read below.
Snowden, just remember that Kevin Poulsen and Adrian Lamo helped the US Government in catching Bradley Manning. EDIT: Also, a pretty safe way to carry an interview would be VPN + Tor + Bitmessage. EDIT2: Users sneak and tlb claim Tor isn't safe because of timing attacks. Read below.
I am not sure about Bitmessage. It is a very new project and has not been subject to any deep security test. Also, VPNs are as safe as long as the VPN provider is on your side. Tor is your best option.
Snowden, just remember that Kevin Poulsen and Adrian Lamo helped the US Government in catching Bradley Manning. EDIT: Also, a pretty safe way to carry an interview would be VPN + Tor + Bitmessage. EDIT2: Users sneak and tlb claim Tor isn't safe because of timing attacks. Read below.
I hope Snowden realizes that none of this matters if an FBI agent is sitting beside the reporter as they communicate.
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Those leads are gonna generate magnetic distortions. You should only do this with your feet next to a giant 18" subwoofer while blasting dubstep in order to mask any electromagnetic fluctuations. Bonus: Anyone surveilling you via audio bugs will need new ears.
I know this is all in good fun, but you all are uncomfortably close to describing things that will soon get added to the practical threat landscape. As long as you have a flexible hardware platform that lets you crank up some of the voltage regulator outputs, gpios that can be attached to a long trace/external wire as a makeshift antenna and have a decently fast cpu clock you have all the ingredients for a crude but…
Examples of genuine vulnerabilities that would make you look paranoid just by defending against:
* Make educated guesses about passwords from a microphone recording of the keypresses. Both the intervals between keypresses indicate the region of the keyboard being touched, and the sound of each key differs slightly. Given a statistically significant sample of typing, you could deduce which keys are which based on the frequency of their use. http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11318
* Read a screen through a reflection, even from far away http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/spying_on_comp...
Snowden, just remember that Kevin Poulsen and Adrian Lamo helped the US Government in catching Bradley Manning. EDIT: Also, a pretty safe way to carry an interview would be VPN + Tor + Bitmessage. EDIT2: Users sneak and tlb claim Tor isn't safe because of timing attacks. Read below.
It's reasonable to not trust Lamo, and maybe even Kevin Poulsen (although IMO he's just reported the news in the PFC Manning case; it's Adrian who turned PFC Manning in. OTOH, if I'd been in Lamo's position (convicted felon!), I probably would have turned him in, too, thinking the whole thing was a sting or otherwise a setup since it was so fucking brazen. The only other safe option is "I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE SA…
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It's reasonable to not trust Lamo, and maybe even Kevin Poulsen (although IMO he's just reported the news in the PFC Manning case; it's Adrian who turned PFC Manning in. OTOH, if I'd been in Lamo's position (convicted felon!), I probably would have turned him in, too, thinking the whole thing was a sting or otherwise a setup since it was so fucking brazen. The only other safe option is "I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE SA…
I miss politechbot. I will never understand why so many discussion venues transitioned to forums from mailing lists.
liberationtech seems good; p2p-hackers was ok for a while. the old cryptography list was ok in a couple of the incarnations. cypherpunks before the great decline is still my gold standard, though. (remops has been ok at times; some of the digital gold lists were also interesting).
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I miss politechbot. I will never understand why so many discussion venues transitioned to forums from mailing lists.
Ad revenue. :( liberationtech seems good; p2p-hackers was ok for a while. the old cryptography list was ok in a couple of the incarnations. cypherpunks before the great decline is still my gold standard, though. (remops has been ok at times; some of the digital gold lists were also interesting).
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I miss politechbot. I will never understand why so many discussion venues transitioned to forums from mailing lists.
Ad revenue. :( liberationtech seems good; p2p-hackers was ok for a while. the old cryptography list was ok in a couple of the incarnations. cypherpunks before the great decline is still my gold standard, though. (remops has been ok at times; some of the digital gold lists were also interesting).