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FBI wants worm's keycapture data
by Khoder bin Hakkin 17 Dec '01

17 Dec '01

http://www.dailyrotten.com/articles/archive/189387.html December 17, 2001 FBI wants access to worm's pilfered data A ROTTEN.COM EXCLUSIVE The FBI is asking for access to a massive database that contains the private communications and passwords of the victims of the Badtrans Internet worm. Badtrans spreads through security flaws in Microsoft mail software and transmits everything the victim types. Since November 24, Badtrans has violated the privacy of millions of Internet users, and now the FBI wants to take part in the spying. Victims of Badtrans are infected when they receive an email containing the worm in an attachment and either run the program by clicking on it, or use an email reader like Microsoft Outlook which may automatically run it without user intervention. Once executed, the worm replicates by sending copies of itself to all other email addresses found on the host's machine, and installs a keystroke-logger capable of stealing passwords including those used for telnet, email, ftp, and the web. Also captured is anything else the user may be typing, including personal documents or private emails. Coincidentally, just four days before the breakout of Badtrans it was revealed that the FBI was developing their own keystroke-logging virus, called Magic Lantern. Made to complement the Carnivore spy system, Magic Lantern would allow them to obtain target's passwords as they type them. This is a significant improvement over Carnivore, which can only see data after it has been transmitted over the Internet, at which point the passwords may have been encrypted. After Badtrans pilfers keystrokes the data is sent back to one of twenty-two email addresses (this is according to the FBI-- leading anti-virus vendors have only reported seventeen email addresses). Among these are free email addresses at Excite, Yahoo, and IJustGotFired.com. IJustGotFired is a free service of MonkeyBrains, a San Francisco based independent Internet Service Provider. In particular, suck_my_prick(a)ijustgotfired.com began receiving emails at 3:23 PM on November 24. Triggering software automatically disabled the account after it exceeded quotas, and began saving messages as they arrived. The following day, MonkeyBrains' mail server was sluggish. Upon examination of the mail server's logs, it quickly became apparent that 100 emails per minute to the "suck_my_prick" alias were the source of the problem. The mails delivered the logged keystrokes from over 100,000 compromised computers in the first day alone. Last week the FBI contacted the owner of MonkeyBrains, Rudy Rucker, Jr., and requested a cloned copy of the password database and keylogged data. The database includes only information stolen from the victims of the virus, not information about the perpetrator. The FBI wants indiscriminant access to the illegally extracted passwords and keystrokes of over two million people without so much as a warrant. Even with a warrant they would have to specify exactly what information they are after, on whom, and what they expect to find. Instead, they want it all and for no justifiable reason. One of the most basic tenets of an authoritarian state is one that claims rights for itself that it denies its citizens. Surveillance is perhaps one of the most glaring examples of this in our society. Accordingly, rather than hand over the entire database to the FBI, MonkeyBrains has decided to open the database to the public. Now everyone (including the FBI) will be able query which accounts have been compromised and search for their hostnames. Password and keylogged data will not be made available, for obvious legal reasons. The implications of complying with the FBI's request, absent any legal authority, are staggering. This is information that no one, not even the FBI, could legally gather themselves. The fact that they seek to take advantage of this worm and benefit from its illicit spoils, demonstrates the FBI's complete and utter contempt for constitutionally mandated due process and protection from unreasonable search and seizure. It defies reason that the FBI expects the American people to trust them to only look at certain permissible nuggets of data and ignore the rest of what they collect. One need only imagine what J. Edgar Hoover would do with today's expansive surveillance system, coupled with the new powers granted by the Patriot Act, to appreciate the Orwellian nightmare that the United States is becoming. The last thing the FBI should have is a spying Internet worm, and it looks like they've found one. Welcome to the Magic Lantern.

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A women for duty,a boy for pleasure,but a melon for ecstasy
by mattd 17 Dec '01

17 Dec '01

>>...He pled guilty, agreeing to a plea bargain There are numerous examples of the plea bargain cosh being bought down heavily on an innocent person. Its routinely abused as was seen at mike moores sisters home town story on"The awful truth" By betraying such ignorance of oppression/repression in practise you've earned my consignment to cornhole corner. Squeal like a pig! "Theoretically, because violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 have been included in the terrorism crackdown, hackers and spammers could be sentenced to life in prison."

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by mattd 17 Dec '01

17 Dec '01

>>The prime goal of any legal system is to maximize number of criminals. I'm sure that search of JYA's premises would yield enough stuff for a 100-year sentence, excluding any controlled substances. Each copy of a software program that cannot be substantiated with purchase receipt: 5 years. That incorrect 1998 IRS return where he forgot to include $100 that >>Gordon paid for cryptome CD: 10 years. Im sure too that were that to happen,cryptomes,cypherpunks and OSDs clickthroughs could take off.It would be a great sign we were on to something.I mean we all know AP is a cheap laugh,washed up,garden variety lunatics like JGordon take it seriously.BWAAHAHAHAH! The prime goal of OSD will be to minimize the number of criminals starting by putting jeff out of his misery.(my 0.02c) Say goodbye to joshua.KILLTHEPRESIDENTTHEVICEPRESIDENTANTHRAXALLGOVT! VISAVISAVISA! BURNWACKENHUTBURN!

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RE: CNN.com on Remailers
by Trei, Peter 17 Dec '01

17 Dec '01

> ---------- > From: Nomen Nescio[SMTP:nobody@dizum.com] > Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 1:10 PM > To: cypherpunks(a)lne.com > Subject: RE: CNN.com on Remailers > > Peter Trei writes: > > Modulo the recent discussion of how some remailers > > treat traffic from other known remailers differently than > > mail from unknown addresses, remailers don't need to > > know about each other. > > > > If they don't know know about each other, and there is > > nothing on the machines which suggest they no about > > each other, it's difficult for a law abiding remailer operator > > to become inadvertantly linked to a non-lawabiding one. > > Did you even read the message which explained WHY remailers need to > know about each other, and why they need to treat traffic from remailers > different from that from unknown addresses? Your message shows no sign > of it. > > Rather than issuing your blanket statement that remailers don't need to > know about each other, you need to explain how to deal with the issues > which presently require the contrary. > Yes, I have read the letter - they need to treat input from known remailers differently due to worries over spam and flooding attacks, so they treat other known remailers as priviliged sources of high volume traffic. This does not invalidate my point - that such special treatment could lead a remop into legal problems. We have two different problems, with mutually undesirable solutions. Peter Trei ============================================================================ ================ This e-mail, its content and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the addressee(s) and are PRIVILEGED and CONFIDENTIAL. Access by any other party is unauthorized without the express prior written permission of the sender. If you have received this e-mail in error you may not copy, disclose to any third party or use the contents, attachments or information in any way, Please delete all copies of the e-mail and the attachment(s), if any and notify the sender. Thank You. ============================================================================ ================

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Re: Cypherpunk Ban
by Anonymous User 17 Dec '01

17 Dec '01

>Of course, this is the way the US government loves to operate. Convict >people on bullshit, get them "in the system," and then impose conditions >of probation which prohibit them from exposing what was done to them. The prime goal of any legal system is to maximize number of criminals. I'm sure that search of JYA's premises would yield enough stuff for a 100-year sentence, excluding any controlled substances. Each copy of a software program that cannot be substantiated with purchase receipt: 5 years. That incorrect 1998 IRS return where he forgot to include $100 that Gordon paid for cryptome CD: 10 years.

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CIA poised for unprecedented involvement in domestic investigations,
by mattd 17 Dec '01

17 Dec '01

AT FIRST FAUSTINE WASN'T SURE ABOUT THIS HUGE DILDO BUT SHE ONLY NEEDED A LITTLE BIT OF CONVINCING. WE LUBED IT UP WITH HER WET PUSSY AND SHE WAS BEGGING FOR IT IN HER TIGHT LITTLE ASSHOLE... WE COULDN'T BELIEVE HOW DEEP SHE TOOK IT! BUT SHE LOVED EVERY INCH AND THEN WANTED MORE! DO YOU KNOW ANY MORE GIRLS LIKE FAUSTINE? I have friends who listen to the cia like police scanners,this is a little old butt I believe she's still a member of good standing .We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.

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CIA poised for unprecedented involvement in domestic investigations
by Faustine 17 Dec '01

17 Dec '01

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 CIA poised for unprecedented involvement in domestic investigations By ABRAHAM McLAUGHLIN, Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON (December 17, 2001 12:09 p.m. EST) - The Central Intelligence Agency has been given new freedom to get involved in domestic surveillance and investigations in ways that are unprecedented in its history. The CIA's intelligence gathering has long been kept as separate as possible from domestic law enforcement, which is bound by strict evidence-gathering rules and legal safeguards protecting the rights of those investigated. But as the nation girds itself against global terrorism carried out on American soil, the barriers between covert, stealthy intelligence and by-the-book domestic law enforcement investigations are beginning to melt. Suddenly, for instance, the CIA will now have access to testimony collected by federal grand juries. And the CIA, FBI, and other federal agencies are, for the first time, being allowed to share vast amounts of information ranging from phone records and credit cards statements to profiles of suspected terrorists. more... http://www.nandotimes.com/nation/story/196509p-1908209c.html *** He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. - --Thomas Paine -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 (C) 1997-1999 Network Associates, Inc. and its affiliated companies. (Diffie-Helman/DSS-only version) iQA/AwUBPB5kDvg5Tuca7bfvEQKlWwCfcxhgmvY535mHT6mopNj+KVjOy8oAoPJn 6x8w3DmFwaVxMowkYpMZ0EW2 =QyQN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Remailers knowing about other remailers
by A. Melon 17 Dec '01

17 Dec '01

On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Trei, Peter wrote: > Modulo the recent discussion of how some remailers > treat traffic from other known remailers differently than > mail from unknown addresses, remailers don't need to > know about each other. What about remixing? There are other reasons for remailers to know about each other.

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17 Dec '01

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Army doubts genetic evidence; calls in OJ lawyers for assistance,
by mattd 17 Dec '01

17 Dec '01

CATO Kaelin? The cato institute is said to be assisting the army in the hunt for the real killer."we suspect radical environmentalists" As there is at least one person here who has no qualms about killing 'savages',the operation soft drill on OJ Simpson may appeal.Im prepared to put in 10$ US toward this cypherpunk special project.The cypherpunk justice posse is coming. Johnnie Cochrane is sueing riverside PDs, officer mark davis, for the cold blooded murder of dante meniefield.Mark was the first killer kop nominated by OSD international.Steven Roach being the next.When Johnnie C has bankrupted them Ill be back for my pound of flesh.Run,marky run. Anarchy, USA 1966 This documentary presents the civil rights movement as a part of the communist plan for world domination. Direct action_ is what it's all about. Undermining the state through the spread of espionage networks, through undermining faith in the tax system, through even more direct applications of the right tools at the right times. When Cypherpunks are called "terrorists," we will have done our jobs. Font: Daschle-Anthrax-Bold

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