Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove and other tales

2006-01-02 Thread Vincent Archer
According to Steve Kudlak: > It is kind of think it is a "UFO story" to say that PGP and the likes > don't work and have been quietlty changed to make them easy to break. > The inventors being compromised is pretty much an MIB story. It is open > code so you can read it and see if it is possible

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove and other tales

2005-12-29 Thread Leif Ericksen
Yup got to go after the politicians and those folks that worked for the three letter agencies or unnamed agencies or otherwise can be decent folks. They just have a job to do. Education of the masses is key. We can not whine about something that is in progress. It was not done at before year X

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove and other tales

2005-12-28 Thread Steve Kudlak
It is kind of think it is a "UFO story" to say that PGP and the likes don't work and have been quietlty changed to make them easy to break. The inventors being compromised is pretty much an MIB story. It is open code so you can read it and see if it is possible to break and how easily given

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-28 Thread Steve Kudlak
Uh let's see I don't know if this is thje place to discuss this. There has been enouigh evidence of governmental misbehavior in the past with various programs that I wouldn't trust the powers that be to always be benevolent to go away if nothing bad is happening. There is Steve Kurtz the art

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-28 Thread Stan Bubrouski
r you do ? i dont know, but i > > wouldnt feel free if > > i knew any nation on the world (so hundreds of people) profile me and watch > > what i do even > > though i'm not a criminal. they dont have to see the pictures my friends > > send me or read > > all my ema

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-28 Thread GroundZero Security
d get sue'd if information leaks. - Original Message - From: "Leif Ericksen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rodrigo Barbosa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 3:32 PM Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-28 Thread Leif Ericksen
rs where i signed a NDA and could get sue'd > if information > leaks. > > - Original Message ----- > From: "Leif Ericksen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Rodrigo Barbosa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 3:3

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-28 Thread senator . crabgrass
I think the real betrayal happened when the New York Times sat on the story for Fourteen months, and manipulated the election, then released it the day the Patriot Act was to be renewed, which just so happened to coincide with the book release of the clown who wrote the story. Us Americans are of

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-28 Thread Stan Bubrouski
It's amazing nobody has brought up the fact that Bush was illegally monitoring domestic and international calls during a presidential election. He could have been listening to the Kerry camp's calls. Worse we'll never know because without a judge's approval there is no official paper trail. It's

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-28 Thread Rodrigo Barbosa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was going to reply to all that stuff you wrote, but since you are so intent of showing that you know nothing about how things work on other countries, I'll just reply to one statement, that seems to be the heart of the issue. On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-28 Thread Leif Ericksen
If you do not want to live in a prison state run for office or contact the elected officials and them them know that you are upset. With the glide path we are on now it is inevitable. I knew about monitoring of conversations on the phone and electronic dating back to 1988. We may be to late to s

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-28 Thread Joshua Levitsky
On Dec 28, 2005, at 8:59 AM, Leif Ericksen wrote: Actually after reading some of the the comments I have to say you all missed the point... *IF* you are not doing *nothing illegal* and have nothing to hide no big deal. Laws change. Prior to Prohibition it would have been legal to drink alc

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-28 Thread Leif Ericksen
If the traffic goes through a US based HOP anticipate that it will be monitored. They do not care where you are from. IT passes through the US it will be monitored since it has a foreign start and end point. Now is your traffic legit? Are you moving legal money around? Are you a drug dealer l

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-28 Thread Leif Ericksen
As was stated in previous post Echelon is old news, even Carnivore was supposedly dumped for newer technology. As I stated in a previous example the government can come in and request the keys if they need it. If that story that my prof told the class in 1988 was true. Now that story supposedly t

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-28 Thread Rodrigo Barbosa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 09:19:26AM -0500, Geo. wrote: > > Actually after reading some of the the comments I have to say you all > > missed the point... *IF* you are not doing *nothing illegal* and have > > nothing to hide no big deal. > > If you are

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-28 Thread Geo.
> Actually after reading some of the the comments I have to say you all > missed the point... *IF* you are not doing *nothing illegal* and have > nothing to hide no big deal. If you are not doing anything illegal then there is no need for law enforcement to see your papers. The point sir is that

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-28 Thread Rodrigo Barbosa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 07:59:10AM -0600, Leif Ericksen wrote: > Actually after reading some of the the comments I have to say you all > missed the point... *IF* you are not doing *nothing illegal* and have > nothing to hide no big deal. Talk about m

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-28 Thread Leif Ericksen
Actually after reading some of the the comments I have to say you all missed the point... *IF* you are not doing *nothing illegal* and have nothing to hide no big deal. "I do not want the Government to see my banking info" HUM, did you ever hear of the SSN? Are you putting massive amounts of cas

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-27 Thread Rodrigo Barbosa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 06:32:34PM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote: > >But if the rest of us are very unlucky, this huge step towards > >totalitarianism by the Bush administration will be let stand as a very > >bad precedent. > > > You don't have a clue what

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-27 Thread coderman
On 12/27/05, Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > Well, no, they are not "clearly illegal". That is a matter of opinion and > not law. you are both correct to some degree. as an unsatisfying but appropriate conclusion consider that the interpretation of the law by a judge / jury must

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-27 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On December 27, 2005 2:49:18 PM -0800 Benjamin Franz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Paul Schmehl wrote: Well, no, they are not "clearly illegal". That is a matter of opinion and not law. In fact, all legal precedents indicate that the program is legal, within the purvie

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-27 Thread Gary E. Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yo Dean! On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Dean Pierce wrote: > The problem is that privacy and freedom (I believe) are mutually > exclusive. Stalin would be proud of you! You would have loved Franco's Spain. RGDS GARY - ---

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-27 Thread Kurt Buff
Dean Pierce wrote: > Does the fourth amendment really guarantee us the right to pass any > information through any medium, and assume that it is still considered > private? Yes, subject to a) A proper search warrant and b) The commercial agreements between the provider of the medium and the user o

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-27 Thread Dean Pierce
Does the fourth amendment really guarantee us the right to pass any information through any medium, and assume that it is still considered private? The problem is that privacy and freedom (I believe) are mutually exclusive. If we are granted total privacy in our communications systems, then that

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-27 Thread Benjamin Franz
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Paul Schmehl wrote: Well, no, they are not "clearly illegal". That is a matter of opinion and not law. In fact, all legal precedents indicate that the program is legal, within the purview of the President's powers under Article II of the Constitution. Um. No. What he

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-27 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On December 27, 2005 12:11:32 PM -0800 Kurt Buff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Interesting line of argument, but really beside the point. You are correct that Leif has taken the wrong line of argument, but you yourself haven't quite got it right. Leif speaks as if the government has a right to

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-27 Thread Kurt Buff
Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: > On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 10:11:45PM -0600, Leif Ericksen wrote: > >>>Really if we have nothing to hide we should not fear them listening to >>>us. Now if they come in and start forcing a special mark or code word >>>or something special in order to live or buy or sell anyt

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-26 Thread coderman
On 12/26/05, Leif Ericksen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Echelon YAWN... That is old news that is like 10-15 years old and > was first announce like 8-10 years ago was it not... yes, an old program, but what version are we at now? 1.0 was telephone and radio; we're a long way from those days

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-26 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 22:11 -0600, Leif Ericksen wrote: > Echelon YAWN... That is old news that is like 10-15 years old and > was first announce like 8-10 years ago was it not... Since there seems to be a great deal of misinformation and paranoia regarding ECHELON and the NSA, I'd like to r

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-26 Thread Rodrigo Barbosa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 10:11:45PM -0600, Leif Ericksen wrote: > Really if we have nothing to hide we should not fear them listening to > us. Now if they come in and start forcing a special mark or code word > or something special in order to live or

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-26 Thread Leif Ericksen
Echelon YAWN... That is old news that is like 10-15 years old and was first announce like 8-10 years ago was it not... Encryption? when it comes time to NSA/CIA/Omega Sector or other unnamed government agencies if they want to decrypt it they can... That is my belief. Really if we have no

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-26 Thread Leif Ericksen
foreign country. > > > - Original Message - > From: "Bipin Gautam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 4:04 PM > Subject: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove > > > > hello list; > > > >

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-26 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005, coderman wrote: > recent events have shown just how willing corporations are to give the > government a blank check with only minimal assurances of propriety and > legality. i would bet good money the number of core providers who > balked at DCS1000 deployments could be coun

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-26 Thread Bipin Gautam
> > ipsec, ssl, ssh, openvpn, lots of methods for data privacy. (i am > looking forward to tun/tap device support in new openssh. openvpn is > a bit tedious) > > regarding anonymity, tor is no longer funded by the eff and is > accepting donations. if you found this project useful now is a good >

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-26 Thread coderman
On 12/26/05, GroundZero Security <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the usa still controls the internet and they dont give a fuck if we > feel that our privacy is invaded ... > they want total control and noone can do anything against their actions. strong encryption makes it difficult to invade your pr

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-26 Thread GroundZero Security
us. court and i doubt that will help you much complaining about some agency especially when you are from some foreign country. - Original Message - From: "Bipin Gautam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 4:04 PM Subject: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-26 Thread Gary E. Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yo J.A.! On Mon, 26 Dec 2005, J.A. Terranson wrote: > Your service will have a contract, and in that contract will be a clause > which determines which laws apply. Check it. Than take your best guess as to whether the entities enforcing the laws bo

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-26 Thread Raj Mathur
> "Michael" == Michael Tewner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> [snip] Michael> getting to the point: It's pretty obvious that the Michael> government here taps the 'net. It should be no surprise Michael> that the US listens in on traffic; they've been doing it Michael>

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-26 Thread Byron Sonne
just willing to hear your views on what are the rules to check/tackle such issues in other foreign countries??? Well, one of the tricks these bastards play with Echelon is how they get around the typical illegality of spying on people in their own country. For instance, I'm from Canada, and ou

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-26 Thread Michael Tewner
All of Israel's inter-provider traffic goes through a central switching center. This PoP also contains much of Israel's backbones and external links. getting to the point: It's pretty obvious that the government here taps the 'net. It should be no surprise that the US listens in on traffic; th

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-26 Thread J.A. Terranson
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005, Bipin Gautam wrote: > My concern is... (I'm from Nepal) not all ISP in my region go through > the Nepal's Internet exchange point. so even the local traffic might > have routed through USA if our ISP'z backbone providr is in USA. I > don't have very good idea about ledal stuf

Re: [Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-26 Thread obnoxious
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 07:04:15 -0800 Bipin Gautam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >hello list; > > >My concern is... (I'm from Nepal) not all ISP in my region go >through >the Nepal's Internet exchange point. so even the local traffic >might >have routed t

[Full-disclosure] Spy Agency Mined Vast Data Trove

2005-12-26 Thread Bipin Gautam
hello list; story: http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/85 [snip]- At issue are the broad, sweeping powers the NSA now have to eavesdrop on Americans without their knowledge. Commentary from Ars technical speculates on the technology behind the massive eavesdropping. Bruce Schneier has a lon