Re: skype not so anonymous...
One thing is possible with Skype: any user can easily obtain any other user's IP address (actually both internal and external IPs). Those users don't even need to be on his contact list. Of course one would need cracking tools or a decrypted patched Skype executable with all the 288 integrity checks removed to make Skype spit out its debugging logs, unless one knows the right values for the HKCU\Software\Skype\Phone\UI\General\Logging and Logging2 registry keys that Skype checks comparing their MD5 hashes. There is not much else that can be done, but that is one possibility. Of course, if a direct connection is established, any TCP/IP monitoring tool would show all the contacted IPs. Although in this case it's obviously the man's stupidity using an instant messenger with his old virtual identity that got him tracked down. No one stopped him from registering a different Skype account to contact whoever he trusted if he didn't want to be found. But I have to agree that Skype could be made anonymous and is not anonymous at all. It's much harder to obtain someone's IP address in other instant messengers where users can disallow direct connections and thus remain anonymous at least to other users. Ruptor - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: skype not so anonymous...
Although in this case it's obviously the man's stupidity using an instant messenger with his old virtual identity that got him tracked down. No one For that matter, he could just have gotten a phonecard and used a payphone. Wearing sunglasses, a wig and a false beard while limping to and from the payphone would have even rendered surveillance cameras useless. Sometimes the way to defeat high-tech policing is with low-tech measures. Unfortunately, the terrorists have already figured this out. /ji - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: skype not so anonymous...
| Fugitive executive is tracked down by tracing his Skype calls... | | http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060824-7582.html ...maybe. This article gets many fundamental details wrong. For one thing, Alexander wasn't nabbed - the very article they linked that word to simply says he was found. But even ignoring that, more recent newspaper articles leave all kinds of things unclear. What we have is a publicity-seeking (not just in this instance, he has a history of this kind of thing) private detective who made some unverified (as of news reports 2 days ago, anyway) claims about having found and seen Alexander in Sri Lanka. If I remember the stories correctly, the PI said *something* about Skype, the reporters asked him if he'd tracked Alexander down through his use of Skype, and the PI never quite answered. Whether Skype is anonymous or not, I have no clue. But this article gives no useful evidence one way or another. -- Jerry | Perry | | - | The Cryptography Mailing List | Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
skype not so anonymous...
Fugitive executive is tracked down by tracing his Skype calls... http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060824-7582.html Perry - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
