Re: [liberationtech] Foxacid payload

2014-07-29 Thread coderman
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 1:48 AM, coderman coder...@gmail.com wrote: ... perhaps someone to help answer the question is Google, if they felt inclined. more context, although less sophisticated than TAO tech: When Governments Hack Opponents: A Look at Actors and Technology -

Re: [liberationtech] Foxacid payload

2014-07-22 Thread coderman
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli gnu...@no-log.org wrote: ... If the adversary looses one exploit each times he attacks someone, then... perhaps someone to help answer the question is Google, if they felt inclined. per re:publica 2014 - Morgan Marquis-Boire: Fear and

Re: [liberationtech] Foxacid payload

2014-07-18 Thread Wasa Bee
if Google start actively looking for bugs, aren't they going to have a ranking per vendor every year to incentive bad vendors to improve? What are the other means they can incentive vendors, without making too much of a fuss that users don't loose confidence in web security overall? On Thu, Jul

Re: [liberationtech] Foxacid payload

2014-07-18 Thread coderman
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 1:40 AM, Wasa Bee wasabe...@gmail.com wrote: if Google start actively looking for bugs, aren't they going to have a ranking per vendor every year to incentive bad vendors to improve? you'll be able to read the vendor responses yourself in the Project Zero blog. two

Re: [liberationtech] Foxacid payload

2014-07-18 Thread Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 12:19:31 -0700 Andy Isaacson a...@hexapodia.org wrote: But don't pretend that patching the specific attack your adversary is currently using will disable or even seriously inconvenience the adversary. Well, going public about

Re: [liberationtech] Foxacid payload

2014-07-18 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 07/18/2014 06:12 AM, coderman wrote: [...] i approve of this timeline, and am anxious to see if NSL's are used to trump some exploits. (how would you know? good question :) * U.S. National Security Letters * U.S. National Exploit Stockpile * Effective public bug-quashing program in U.S.

[liberationtech] Foxacid payload

2014-07-17 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Hello list, We know something about the selectors that could trigger Foxacid attacks, and we can record the data sent to a machine running Tor Browser Bundle. So has anyone set up a sitting duck to trigger and record the payload of the attack? Once the payload is known then Firefox

Re: [liberationtech] Foxacid payload

2014-07-17 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 03:14:32PM -0400, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: We know something about the selectors that could trigger Foxacid attacks, and we can record the data sent to a machine running Tor Browser Bundle. So has anyone set up a sitting duck to trigger and record the payload of the

Re: [liberationtech] Foxacid payload

2014-07-17 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 12:32:26PM -0700, coderman wrote: And once you've patched this bug, FOXACID will update to issue another 0day. It's worth doing, for sure! Patching bugs makes us all incrementally safer. this is exactly why some who have received these payloads are sitting on

Re: [liberationtech] Foxacid payload

2014-07-17 Thread coderman
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 1:11 PM, coderman coder...@gmail.com wrote: ... Forcing deployments to move to more interesting bugs will also give insight into IAs' exploit sourcing methodologies. this is absolutely true and useful, and does not require making specific exploits public. i have

Re: [liberationtech] Foxacid payload

2014-07-17 Thread coderman
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 1:11 PM, coderman coder...@gmail.com wrote: ... - if you want to thwart FOXACID type attacks there are ways to do it without knowing specific payloads. (architectural and broad techniques, not fingerprints on binaries or call graphs) some specific examples: A:

Re: [liberationtech] Foxacid payload

2014-07-17 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 07/17/2014 04:11 PM, coderman wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Andy Isaacson a...@hexapodia.org wrote: ... this is exactly why some who have received these payloads are sitting on them, rather than disclosing. Hmmm, that seems pretty antisocial and shortsighted. While the pool of

Re: [liberationtech] Foxacid payload

2014-07-17 Thread Griffin Boyce
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andy Isaacson wrote: this is exactly why some who have received these payloads are sitting on them, rather than disclosing. Hmmm, that seems pretty antisocial and shortsighted. While the pool of bugs is large, it is finite. Get bugs fixed and

Re: [liberationtech] Foxacid payload

2014-07-17 Thread Richard Brooks
On 07/17/2014 05:57 PM, Griffin Boyce wrote: Andy Isaacson wrote: this is exactly why some who have received these payloads are sitting on them, rather than disclosing. Hmmm, that seems pretty antisocial and shortsighted. While the pool of bugs is large, it is finite. Get bugs fixed and