HoochTHX

Someone is obviously bored in Killeen,TX.

Trust is NOT a prerequisite for cooperation.

> It was generally thought that government would not keep security vulnerabilities hidden

It depends on which they find it on, according to this talk, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4Zx5rQFk4U , If vulnerabilities are found on secure systems they are immediately classified, For them to be able to report they have to refind and document the vulnerability on a non secured system.

Good point, I missed that on the first pass, I look forward to an update from him or a comment on this from Schneier.

Brian Smith seems to be ignoring everything Schneier has said in the past week regarding avoiding ECC, And preferring 128b AES over 256 or even 512 is so counter intuitive it is beyond reason. And this whole paper reeks to me of an exercise in finesse'.

This sounds like 20th Century Motors all over again.

Something along the lines of those who remain silent when powers that be discuss Freedom and Security deserve neither?

Was not this how Thin-thread was supposed to work?

I spoke to a friend that owns and operates a VPN service and he says it is only iPredator at the moment, and that is conveniently left out of the torrentfreak article. To me it looks like MasterCard is just targeting the pirate bay peeps.

Spot on.

And yet this still misses more important issues. While it is fantastic that Google does not give the USG a free pass to the whole enchilada, Google still collects and stores this data, and gives it when compelled, if they truly had the users best interests in mind they would reduce the data collected to only what they MUST have to do what they do, and not use Vacuum cleaner like methods to get and keep everything they can, if Google did not keep it, the USG would not want it. So the best way for Google to be a part of the solution would be to reduce what they intake and keep, burn the rest.

And potentially shutting down the HVAC for the web servers has no relation?

Sounds more like Alinskys methods in use by the Prosecutor, just throw shit till it sticks.

"Watt, by contrast, evidently earned no money from the scheme and didn’t participate directly in the breaches or possess stolen card data. His primary overt act was to code the sniffer tool for Gonzalez, for which he received no payment

But Watt refused to cooperate with authorities to help make their case against Gonzalez — aside from the fact that he was resolved not to snitch, he also maintained that he had no specific knowledge of his friend’s hacking scheme. His defiance may have been what did him in"

Sounds like a tool maker to me.

Moral answer or legal answer?

There is a reason why we do not charge Soldiers with murder when we tell them to go fight for us. It is the same reason we don't charge weapon makers for the deeds there weapons/tools are used for. In the first case, the responsibility lies with the people who elected that government that gave the order. Not the Soldiers following legal/moral orders. In the second the same applies, the tool maker can not be responsible for the actions of the tool user, that falls on the tool user no where else.

In the case of the person in the article, he just got screwed over by the government, by lawyers shifting the personal responsibility to the tool maker instead of the tool user.

Sounds similar to Aaron Swartz' project to analyze the research being done at universities. Might be worth forking that project to jump start yours.

That tells you right there who "actually" wrote the bill and what interest are being "served".

At $3 profit per book sold, $15 retail, I can see why he is mad at the value suck industry(publishers/distributors).

Seems all the major sites have this flaw.

Its actually the last one that has ALL the data. I am currently using a chained VPN setup using 3 routers that with DD-WRT OpenVPN installed,

PC->Router1(VPN3)->Router2(VPN2)->Router3(VPN1)->Modem

All three encrypted. I am also using Tor on top of this because as someone else said this is a static version of the onion system. I've pretty much accepted the fact that if someone chooses to find out what I am doing they will find a way, but I am going to make it as difficult as possible.

True, but the FBI does.

Its now a crime to not have committed a crime when you've been investigated. DOJ has to justify the overtime.

Its all pointless, unless they scrap the legacy crap build a new system piecemeal. It is the legacy crap that has the current system snafu. I'm a vet and I can tell you this is a waste of yours and my time without a total solution that asses the system as it exists now, throws away what sucks and is broken, and build anew.