On May 22, 2013, at 5:59 AM, Jacob Appelbaum <[email protected]> wrote:
> James A. Donald: >>>> Cops just don't put that much work in. >> >> On 2013-05-22 5:41 PM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: >>> Yes, yes they do: >>> >>> >> http://www.scmagazine.com/finfisher-command-and-control-hubs-turn-up-in-11-new-countries/article/291252/ >> >> >> That governments attempt to spy on people is not evidence that they any >> good at it. >> > > Of course. They are quite good at it. Their successes are well documented: > > > https://citizenlab.org/2012/10/backdoors-are-forever-hacking-team-and-the-targeting-of-dissent/ > > https://citizenlab.org/2013/03/you-only-click-twice-finfishers-global-proliferation-2/ > also the very colorful http://epic.org/crypto/scarfo.html (this is all from memory, but… a keylogger was installed in a black bag job with a magistrate warrant (on nicky scarfo jr, the son of an imprisoned mobster nicky scarfo sr) accused of loan sharking and racketeering (as i recall). in a previous search they had found a pgp encrypted spreadsheet and wanted the passphrase. the keylogger supposedly satisfied the minimization requirements (suppressing logging when he used aol on a dialup…) (i really want to know how that worked…) they didn't get the passphrase during the first term of the first warrant (couple months, as i recall.) not much of a loanshark, doesn't update his books in a couple months, hm… then they renewed the warrant… and finally got him typing the passphrase…. which was his father's federal prison number. duh. _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
