bear wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Ed Gerck wrote: > > >OTOH, it is possible that the dutch man was traced not by a one > >time download of the image but by many attempts to find it, > >since the upload time of the image to the site was not exactly > >known to him and time was of essence. In this case, the required > >tracing capability would NOT need a large capability for packet > >recording and correlation. It would just include finding 100's > >(or 1000's) of identical access occurrences in surfola's incoming > >server traffic, after surfola's server was tagged from the website's > >logs. > > The problem being here access to the website's logs. Getting the logs > via a warrant and due process, No, the website's logs mentioned above belongs to the victim -- who had no problems in fully cooperating with law enforcement. > which seems like a minimal exercise for > a privacy server, is hard to do inside 24 hours. It's much easier to > believe that the FBI is keeping its own logs at hubs, routers, and > switches connected to surfola, thereby eliminating the need for > warrant service. surfola connects upstream to someone, who is tapped before the victim posts the image. Ed Gerck --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
