July 2018 - cypherpunks-legacy

Honeytrap reveals mass monitoring of downloaders (Paul Marks)
by Dewayne Hendricks 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Paul Marks, *New Scientist*, 4 Sep 2012, via Dave Farber's IP http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/09/honeytrap-catches-copy… Anyone who has downloaded pirated music, video or ebooks using a BitTorrent client has probably had their IP address logged by copyright-enforcement authorities within 3 hours of doing so. So say computer scientists who placed a fake pirate server online - and very quickly found monitoring systems checking out who was taking what from the servers. The news comes from this week's SecureComm conference in Padua, Italy, where computer security researcher Tom Chothia and his colleagues at the University of Birmingham, UK, revealed they have discovered "massive monitoring" of BitTorrent download sites, such as the PirateBay, has been taking place for at least three years. BitTorrent is a data distribution protocol that splits an uploaded digital media file into many parts and shares it around a swarm of co-operating servers. Birmingham's fake server acted like a part of a file-sharing swarm and the connections made to it quickly revealed the presence of file-sharing monitors run by "copyright enforcement organisations, security companies and even government research labs". ... ------------------------------

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Honeytrap reveals mass monitoring of downloaders (Paul Marks)
by Dewayne Hendricks 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Paul Marks, *New Scientist*, 4 Sep 2012, via Dave Farber's IP http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/09/honeytrap-catches-copy… Anyone who has downloaded pirated music, video or ebooks using a BitTorrent client has probably had their IP address logged by copyright-enforcement authorities within 3 hours of doing so. So say computer scientists who placed a fake pirate server online - and very quickly found monitoring systems checking out who was taking what from the servers. The news comes from this week's SecureComm conference in Padua, Italy, where computer security researcher Tom Chothia and his colleagues at the University of Birmingham, UK, revealed they have discovered "massive monitoring" of BitTorrent download sites, such as the PirateBay, has been taking place for at least three years. BitTorrent is a data distribution protocol that splits an uploaded digital media file into many parts and shares it around a swarm of co-operating servers. Birmingham's fake server acted like a part of a file-sharing swarm and the connections made to it quickly revealed the presence of file-sharing monitors run by "copyright enforcement organisations, security companies and even government research labs". ... ------------------------------

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Honeytrap reveals mass monitoring of downloaders (Paul Marks)
by Dewayne Hendricks 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Paul Marks, *New Scientist*, 4 Sep 2012, via Dave Farber's IP http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/09/honeytrap-catches-copy… Anyone who has downloaded pirated music, video or ebooks using a BitTorrent client has probably had their IP address logged by copyright-enforcement authorities within 3 hours of doing so. So say computer scientists who placed a fake pirate server online - and very quickly found monitoring systems checking out who was taking what from the servers. The news comes from this week's SecureComm conference in Padua, Italy, where computer security researcher Tom Chothia and his colleagues at the University of Birmingham, UK, revealed they have discovered "massive monitoring" of BitTorrent download sites, such as the PirateBay, has been taking place for at least three years. BitTorrent is a data distribution protocol that splits an uploaded digital media file into many parts and shares it around a swarm of co-operating servers. Birmingham's fake server acted like a part of a file-sharing swarm and the connections made to it quickly revealed the presence of file-sharing monitors run by "copyright enforcement organisations, security companies and even government research labs". ... ------------------------------

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Honeytrap reveals mass monitoring of downloaders (Paul Marks)
by Dewayne Hendricks 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Paul Marks, *New Scientist*, 4 Sep 2012, via Dave Farber's IP http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/09/honeytrap-catches-copy… Anyone who has downloaded pirated music, video or ebooks using a BitTorrent client has probably had their IP address logged by copyright-enforcement authorities within 3 hours of doing so. So say computer scientists who placed a fake pirate server online - and very quickly found monitoring systems checking out who was taking what from the servers. The news comes from this week's SecureComm conference in Padua, Italy, where computer security researcher Tom Chothia and his colleagues at the University of Birmingham, UK, revealed they have discovered "massive monitoring" of BitTorrent download sites, such as the PirateBay, has been taking place for at least three years. BitTorrent is a data distribution protocol that splits an uploaded digital media file into many parts and shares it around a swarm of co-operating servers. Birmingham's fake server acted like a part of a file-sharing swarm and the connections made to it quickly revealed the presence of file-sharing monitors run by "copyright enforcement organisations, security companies and even government research labs". ... ------------------------------

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Re: [serval-project-dev] Why wireless mesh networks wonbt save us from censorship
by Romana Challans 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

The argument comes from a single viewpoint. There will be occasions where it is not a sufficient solution in and off itself, but will form a component, at least when discussing censorship and politics. There are more ways to communicate than just voice - data such as location information, photos, videos, etc. They greatly increase the possibilities of a mesh network. Also, as I indicated, there are hybrid cases - as in the Serval model, where one may end up on infrastructure at some point in the mesh - which would be, by desire, safe infrastructure. Also, what we are looking at with Trusted Users and other forms of security will greatly enhance its usefulness in this area. Maintenance is a non issue as we are mobile phone based - simply enter and exit the mesh as needed. Antennas - umm, what antennas? Ok, if you WANT some, they could be hooked in to a hybrid system - but the Serval mesh is not reliant on them, (well, if nit picky, only inasmuch as using the ones built in to the handset;) ) The rest of the hardware arguments are, again, defeated by mobile phone usage. As for breaking routing, we are taking multiple attacks on this, from developing increasingly better protocols, to working with the IEEE on improved standards. Sorry, I just don't see his point - but then, I am lucky enough to be working on a project which is leading the way in mesh networking:))) He is wrong, but he has good points about education and things to protest. However, one of us should contact him to explain there are better options than what he has encountered. And maybe these are good rebuttal points for the FAQ I am building for website? r:) Romana Challans http://servalproject.org Phone : (+61) 0403865721 Skype : timelady On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Alasdair Mclellan <alasdair(a)servalproject.org> wrote: > Hmm, > There are a bunch of good points in this article, but none of them take into > account the simple facts that; > 1) An unplanned mesh is better than nothing (and 'nothing' is our primary > use case), and > 2) Everyone has a handset. > Replacing the Internet with an unplanned mesh is, indeed, hard - especially > when you need a dedicated node type to do so. Using people's existing > handsets changes the game a bit (although exactly how much remains to be > seen). > Just my quick $0.02. > Cheers, > -- > Alasdair. > > On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Ben Hughes <ben(a)benrhughes.com> wrote: >> >> >> http://sha.ddih.org/2011/11/26/why-wireless-mesh-networks-wont-save-us-from… >> >> Via hackernews. Would be interested in hearing what tguys think, seeing as >> you have lots of real-world experience. >> >> Ben >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Serval Project Developers" group. >> To post to this group, send email to >> serval-project-developers(a)googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> serval-project-developers+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/serval-project-developers?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Serval Project Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to > serval-project-developers(a)googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > serval-project-developers+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/serval-project-developers?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Serval Project Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to serval-project-developers(a)googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to serval-project-developers+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/serval-project-developers?hl=en. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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Honeytrap reveals mass monitoring of downloaders (Paul Marks)
by Dewayne Hendricks 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Paul Marks, *New Scientist*, 4 Sep 2012, via Dave Farber's IP http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/09/honeytrap-catches-copy… Anyone who has downloaded pirated music, video or ebooks using a BitTorrent client has probably had their IP address logged by copyright-enforcement authorities within 3 hours of doing so. So say computer scientists who placed a fake pirate server online - and very quickly found monitoring systems checking out who was taking what from the servers. The news comes from this week's SecureComm conference in Padua, Italy, where computer security researcher Tom Chothia and his colleagues at the University of Birmingham, UK, revealed they have discovered "massive monitoring" of BitTorrent download sites, such as the PirateBay, has been taking place for at least three years. BitTorrent is a data distribution protocol that splits an uploaded digital media file into many parts and shares it around a swarm of co-operating servers. Birmingham's fake server acted like a part of a file-sharing swarm and the connections made to it quickly revealed the presence of file-sharing monitors run by "copyright enforcement organisations, security companies and even government research labs". ... ------------------------------

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Re: [serval-project-dev] Why wireless mesh networks wonbt save us from censorship
by Romana Challans 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

The argument comes from a single viewpoint. There will be occasions where it is not a sufficient solution in and off itself, but will form a component, at least when discussing censorship and politics. There are more ways to communicate than just voice - data such as location information, photos, videos, etc. They greatly increase the possibilities of a mesh network. Also, as I indicated, there are hybrid cases - as in the Serval model, where one may end up on infrastructure at some point in the mesh - which would be, by desire, safe infrastructure. Also, what we are looking at with Trusted Users and other forms of security will greatly enhance its usefulness in this area. Maintenance is a non issue as we are mobile phone based - simply enter and exit the mesh as needed. Antennas - umm, what antennas? Ok, if you WANT some, they could be hooked in to a hybrid system - but the Serval mesh is not reliant on them, (well, if nit picky, only inasmuch as using the ones built in to the handset;) ) The rest of the hardware arguments are, again, defeated by mobile phone usage. As for breaking routing, we are taking multiple attacks on this, from developing increasingly better protocols, to working with the IEEE on improved standards. Sorry, I just don't see his point - but then, I am lucky enough to be working on a project which is leading the way in mesh networking:))) He is wrong, but he has good points about education and things to protest. However, one of us should contact him to explain there are better options than what he has encountered. And maybe these are good rebuttal points for the FAQ I am building for website? r:) Romana Challans http://servalproject.org Phone : (+61) 0403865721 Skype : timelady On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Alasdair Mclellan <alasdair(a)servalproject.org> wrote: > Hmm, > There are a bunch of good points in this article, but none of them take into > account the simple facts that; > 1) An unplanned mesh is better than nothing (and 'nothing' is our primary > use case), and > 2) Everyone has a handset. > Replacing the Internet with an unplanned mesh is, indeed, hard - especially > when you need a dedicated node type to do so. Using people's existing > handsets changes the game a bit (although exactly how much remains to be > seen). > Just my quick $0.02. > Cheers, > -- > Alasdair. > > On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Ben Hughes <ben(a)benrhughes.com> wrote: >> >> >> http://sha.ddih.org/2011/11/26/why-wireless-mesh-networks-wont-save-us-from… >> >> Via hackernews. Would be interested in hearing what tguys think, seeing as >> you have lots of real-world experience. >> >> Ben >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Serval Project Developers" group. >> To post to this group, send email to >> serval-project-developers(a)googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> serval-project-developers+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/serval-project-developers?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Serval Project Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to > serval-project-developers(a)googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > serval-project-developers+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/serval-project-developers?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Serval Project Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to serval-project-developers(a)googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to serval-project-developers+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/serval-project-developers?hl=en. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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[RISKS] Risks Digest 27.02
by RISKS List Owner 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

RISKS-LIST: Risks-Forum Digest Thursday 6 September 2012 Volume 27 : Issue 02 ACM FORUM ON RISKS TO THE PUBLIC IN COMPUTERS AND RELATED SYSTEMS (comp.risks) Peter G. Neumann, moderator, chmn ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy ***** See last item for further information, disclaimers, caveats, etc. ***** This issue is archived at <http://www.risks.org> as <http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/27.02.html> The current issue can be found at <http://www.csl.sri.com/users/risko/risks.txt> Contents: Hantavirus warning e-mails and letters (Monty Solomon) Lockheed Air-Traffic Upgrade Now on Track, FAA Chief Says (Dave Farber) United Airlines Investigates Network Failure Delaying 580 Flights (Gabe Goldberg) Hack on Saudi Aramco hit 30,000 workstations, oil firm admits (John Leyden via Monty Solomon) Thousands fall victim to utility payment scam (Scott Bauer via Monty Solomon) Can YOU crack the Gauss uber-virus encryption? (John Leyden via Monty Solomon) Harvard Students in Cheating Scandal Say Collaboration Was Accepted (PGN) "Automated DRM keeps spoiling the show, from the DNC to Mars" (Phipps-Samson via Gene Wirchenko) Ustream continues to attempt explaining Hugo Awards stream blackout (Lauren Weinstein) Did YouTube Really Block Michelle Obama's DNC Speech for Copyright Infringement? (Lauren Weinstein) 1 million iOS device IDs leaked after alleged FBI laptop hack (ars technica via Lauren Weinstein) FBI Says Laptop Wasn't Hacked; never possessed Apple device ID file (WiReD via Lauren Weinstein) "When virtualization becomes your worst enemy" (Gene Wirchenko) When GPS Confuses, You May Be to Blame (Randall Stross via Matthew Kruk) 'first ever' Linux, Mac OS X-only password sniffing Trojan spotted (John Leyden via Monty Solomon) <monty(a)roscom.com> Apple patent would disable phone based on location (NBC via Lauren Weinstein) Smartphone apps track users even when shut down (Richard M. Smith) Honeytrap reveals mass monitoring of downloaders (Paul Marks via Dewayne Hendricks) Firefox, Opera allow crooks to hide an entire phish site in a link (John Leyden via Monty Solomon) Test Mercenaries: Quality at Google, 2006-2011 (Mike Bland via jidanni) Re: The Cadillac Your Livery Driver Has Been Dreaming Of (Joel Garry) Re: ... civil timekeeping meeting (Steve Allen) Abridged info on RISKS (comp.risks) ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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