On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Eugen Leitl <[email protected]> wrote: > ----- Forwarded message from Ted Smith <[email protected]> ----- > > From: Ted Smith <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:11:12 -0400 > To: Eugen Leitl <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: good troll, intelligence psyops, or the genuine article? you > decide > X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.0 (2.8.0-61.el4) > > On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 16:36 +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: >> Look at everything Grobbage says at below URL. I honestly don't >> know into which cathegory to place him. If he's genuine, the state >> of the art is quite a bit more advance than I've thought (active >> MITM for system compromise instead of just passive taps). >> >> Somebody should just save everything he says, just in case it >> gets deleted, somehow. >> >> http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9kwph/i_am_a_guy_who_writes_covert_software_that_runs/ >> > > My bet is on psyops. To restate and summarize my or-talk post, there's > been a lot of anonymity network buzz on Reddit recently, and this is a > good way of combating that. The real message here isn't primarily "we > can see what you're doing even if you try to hide", it's "only > pedophiles use anonymity networks, you don't want to help that, do > you?". I also call sockpuppet on the poster (about midway through the > page) who lists all of the various things the OP can supposedly do, and > then says "Whatever, I have nothing to hide". > > Definitely not the genuine article, IMHO. Though it's certainly > believable that the tech exists in some form and is used on those with > misconfigured / backdoored setups. > > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > -- > Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org > ______________________________________________________________ > ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org > 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE >
Could you explain what psyops refers to? Psychological operations? If I understand correctly, you're suggesting that perhaps he/his organization doesn't really have all the capabilities he implies, but that they're trying to scare people away from using technologies they can't beat? Thanks, -Brian -- Feel free to contact me using PGP Encryption: Key Id: 0x3AA70848 Available from: http://keys.gnupg.net
