On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 04:17:29PM -0500, Jay Oliveri wrote: > An article was posted to BugTraq by makers of software funded by the RIAA to > enable an eventual distributed denial of service attack on "infected" p2p > network nodes (their words). Freenet isn't specifically mentioned, but I > thought perhaps it's at least worth forwarding the link: > > http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/306476/2003-01-12/2003-01-18/0 > > I don't know what to really think, since conveniently most of their evidence > is under NDA.
It's a spoof. Read these quotes, carefully: * Until we became RIAA contracters, the best they could do was to passively monitor traffic. Our contributions to the RIAA have given them the power to actively control the majority of hosts using these networks. * Next, all media on the machine is cataloged, and the full list is sent back to the RIAA headquarters (through specially crafted requests over the p2p networks), where it is added to their records and stored until a later time, when it can be used as evidence in criminal proceedings against those criminals who think it's OK to break the law. * Our software worked better than even we hoped, and current reports indicate that nearly 95% of all p2p-participating hosts are now infected with the software that we developed for the RIAA. * 5) We have our own private version of this hydra actively infecting p2p users, and building one giant ddosnet. All of the above would be illegal under current law (IANAL, but I'd bet a large sum of money on it), at least until that bill passes (you know which). > > -- > Jay Oliveri "In the land of the blind, > GnuPG ID: 0x5AA5DD54 the one-eyed man is king." > FCPTools Maintainer > www.sf.net/users/joliveri -- Matthew Toseland toad at amphibian.dyndns.org/amphibian at users.sourceforge.net Full time freenet hacker. http://freenetproject.org/ Freenet Distribution Node (temporary) at http://80-192-4-23.cable.ubr09.na.blueyonder.co.uk:8889/OT56MkJYr88/ ICTHUS. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20030306/6d7a59a0/attachment.pgp>
