Re: Popular Net anonymity service back-doored (fwd)

2003-08-22 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Thomas Shaddack wrote: > Yet more info. Let's not overreact before we get complete dataset. It is worth noting that the notice mentioned below was placed on the JAP website only after the news of the back channel was made public on Usenet and the various security mailing list

Re: Popular Net anonymity service back-doored (fwd)

2003-08-22 Thread Thomas Shaddack
Yet more info. Let's not overreact before we get complete dataset. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 09:34:27 +0200 Subject: Re: Popular Net anonymity service back-doored From: nordi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday, 21. August

Re: Popular Net anonymity service back-doored (fwd)

2003-08-22 Thread Steve Schear
At 10:39 PM 8/21/2003 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote: However, perhaps the JAP team at TU Dresden hadn't much choice. I haven't seen the court order, but I could imagine that they weren't allowed to inform the users because it would have harmed the criminal investigation. Following the order while

Re: Popular Net anonymity service back-doored (fwd)

2003-08-21 Thread Thomas Shaddack
More informations. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 20:38:46 +0200 Subject: Re: Popular Net anonymity service back-doored From: Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Thomas C. Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: Popular Net anonymity service back-doored (fwd)

2003-08-21 Thread Major Variola (ret)
At 06:44 PM 8/21/03 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote: >Popular Net anonymity service back-doored >Fed-up Feds get court order >http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/32450.html > >The popular Java Anonymous Proxy (JAP), used to anonymise one's comings and >goings across the Internet, has been back-doored

Popular Net anonymity service back-doored (fwd)

2003-08-21 Thread Thomas Shaddack
The good thing on the bad thing is that Java is relatively easy to decompile and audit. The bad thing on this good thing is that next to nobody will bother. The good thing on this bad thing is that at least someone will do, as it turned out in this case. Wondering how difficult it would be to make