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How The Telcos And The Government Are About To Boost The Encryption Market
by coderman 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

what say ye? a stirring amidst the complacent masses? http://techdirt.com/articles/20060621/1251235.shtml """ here's lots of news today about the (not particularly surprising) revelations that AT&T may have helped monitor internet traffic for the NSA. It's interesting to note, with this news, the side story that AT&T also just revamped their privacy policy, allowing them to more freely share whatever data they collect with government officials. However, rather than discuss those two issues (which are being discussed widely), a more interesting question is whether or not this, along with the ongoing debates around net neutrality, will actually lead more people to simply encrypt their internet traffic. It certainly could open up quite the business opportunity for firms providing encrypted VPN systems that basically scramble all your data so your ISP can't snoop and can't prioritize (or downgrade) the traffic. """ poor chumps who buy the proprietary snake oil; true security requires visibility, and alas there's not a big market for decentralized open source security/privacy infrastructure (a paying market that is). [sometimes virtue is its own reward. and sometimes it at least gets you beers and whiskey.]

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23 Jun '06

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23 Jun '06

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Bank Data Sifted in Secret by U.S. to Block Terror
by coderman 23 Jun '06

23 Jun '06

ho hum, who didn't see this coming? :P "How long can this go on?" indeed... http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/23/washington/23intel.html ---selective-cuts--- Bank Data Sifted in Secret by U.S. to Block Terror By ERIC LICHTBLAU and JAMES RISEN WASHINGTON, June 22 Under a secret Bush administration program initiated weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, counterterrorism officials have gained access to financial records from a vast international database and examined banking transactions involving thousands of Americans and others in the United States, according to government and industry officials. The program is limited, government officials say, to tracing transactions of people suspected of having ties to Al Qaeda by reviewing records from the nerve center of the global banking industry, a Belgian cooperative that routes about $6 trillion daily between banks, brokerages, stock exchanges and other institutions. The records mostly involve wire transfers and other methods of moving money overseas and into and out of the United States. Most routine financial transactions confined to this country are not in the database. ... "The capability here is awesome or, depending on where you're sitting, troubling," said one former senior counterterrorism official who considers the program valuable. While tight controls are in place, the official added, "the potential for abuse is enormous." ... Officials described the Swift program as the biggest and most far-reaching of several secret efforts to trace terrorist financing. Much more limited agreements with other companies have provided access to A.T.M. transactions, credit card purchases and Western Union wire payments, the officials said. ... Treasury officials said Swift was exempt from American laws restricting government access to private financial records because the cooperative was considered a messaging service, not a bank or financial institution. [ED: heheh] ... Several people familiar with the Swift program said they believed that they were exploiting a "gray area" in the law and that a case could be made for restricting the government's access to the records on Fourth Amendment and statutory grounds. ... In terrorism prosecutions, intelligence officials have been careful to "sanitize," or hide the origins of evidence collected through the program to keep it secret, officials said. ... Quietly, counterterrorism officials sought to expand the information they were getting from financial institutions. Treasury officials, for instance, spoke with credit card companies about devising an alert if someone tried to buy fertilizer and timing devices that could be used for a bomb, but they were told the idea was not logistically possible, a lawyer in the discussions said. ... Intelligence officials were so eager to use the Swift data that they discussed having the C.I.A. covertly gain access to the system, several officials involved in the talks said. But Treasury officials resisted, the officials said, and favored going to Swift directly. [ED: wow, that would have been fun. crash an international banking network by accident? oops!] ... Within weeks of 9/11, Swift began turning over records that allowed American analysts to look for evidence of terrorist financing. Initially, there appear to have been few formal limits on the searches. "At first, they got everything the entire Swift database," one person close to the operation said. ... Officials realized the potential for abuse, and narrowed the program's targets and put in more safeguards. Among them were the auditing firm, an electronic record of every search and a requirement that analysts involved in the operation document the intelligence that justified each data search. Mr. Levey said the program was used only to examine records of individuals or entities, not for broader data searches. Despite the controls, Swift executives became increasingly worried about their secret involvement with the American government, the officials said. By 2003, the cooperative's officials were discussing pulling out because of their concerns about legal and financial risks if the program were revealed, one government official said. "How long can this go on?" a Swift executive asked, according to the official. Even some American officials began to question the open-ended arrangement. "I thought there was a limited shelf life and that this was going to go away," the former senior official said. ---end-cuts---

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Re: coderman off his meds / physical security / sneak n peak [was: Some legal trouble with TOR in France]
by coderman 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

On 6/21/06, coderman <coderman(a)gmail.com> wrote: > ... > physical security is a necessary element of trust... > http://public.peertech.org/tmp/tapd-01.jpg [AnonymousHeckler] Silly punk, they don't send a van for a sneak and peak. it's hard to sneak when you've got remote surveillance of the perimeter. unfortunately hiding in plain sight didn't work too well either. (of course i'll never know the details, which is part of the point. FOIPA has been neutered; though another try can't hurt...) visible cams are cheap and easy (my recent favorite: "Cams from the TPB bust" http://youtube.com/watch?v=30HF-m_I6yY ) and i like the deterrent they provide. wireless makes a good backup path (in addition to primary broadband) for critical signalling and remote feed archival; recording locally doesn't make much sense, right? :) rcovert and wifitap style wireless transport is a great secondary path with an amplified injector (unidirectional). i'd love to try this at 1Mbps encoding on 700mW 900Mhz (SR9 radio) but the 2.4Ghz works well enough at 30dBm. don't forget those UPS's... [i dream of a day the 802.11 MAC is dead. flawed assumptions at the base of this stack leads to vulnerability up transport/session/application layers too. cognitive software radios++] regarding critical signalling: always fail safe to zeroisation upon DoS or detection. good key management means a false positive is easy to recovery from. concealed/covert cameras would be fun but difficult. anyone have suggestions / experience? regards, coderman - with a significantly lower B.A.C. today...

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Fwd:
by Dorothy Green 22 Jun '06

22 Jun '06

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Fwd: Some legal trouble with TOR in France
by coderman 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

ah, reputation and trust. my favorite crux ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: france-info(a)safe-mail.net <france-info(a)safe-mail.net> Date: May 14, 2006 8:10 AM Subject: Re: Some legal trouble with TOR in France To: or-talk(a)freehaven.net I am living in France and working for some French security agency. Please understand that I may not identify myself. Working for a security agency does not mean that I approve all their actions, even those that I MUST do. Since about 5 years, French services are trying to control the "anonymous" French based services. It includes TOR, and some remailers. About 4 years ago (I don't remember exactly, and I am at home now, I haven't my documents with me), we visited the operator of the remailers FROG and AZERTY. We suspected him to be also the webmaster of the website CAMELEON, but it is another story. We seized his computers, disks of course, etc, and arrested the man. Then we told him "You have a choice between 2 options: You accept to work for us, it means concretely to give us your remailers' keys and to forward the remailer emails to us, or you will go to prison for threat against the national security. Just a few months, the time we check all your computers, make an audit on your disks, etc". After 30 minutes, the guy gave us his remailers' keys, and accepted our offer. He then re-installed his remailers, and all the traffic was sent to us too. I remember that we asked him to NOT send us the garbage that the remailers automatically send! Then our computers processed the messages, using the remailers' keys. Of course we could not decypher all, if Frog/Azerty was :"in the middle" we couldn't do anything. But when these remailers where the first or the last one, it was very very interesting... I don't know now if these remailers are still operated, I am working in another service. About TOR now: I MAY not say all what I know, as the case is currently investigated by our services and I don't want to get into trouble! Just know that France's policy is to NOT allow ANY remailer or anonymous service run from France, UNLESS the French special services can control it. This is a NO exception rule. The only recommendations that I can do to the TOR users, is to NOT use any French-based TOR servers in entry ou exit. People here and there are generally against the US gov and say that he "violates their rights". I don't know a lot about the US gov. But what I know about the French gov, and the instructions our services receive a few times by week, make me sure that the French citizens' rights are perpetually violated, about phone tapping and internet.

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Re:
by Efrain Trent 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

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[edrigram@edri.org: EDRI-gram newsletter - Number 4.12, 21 June 2006]
by Eugen Leitl 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

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CTXE has been on fire latley (up %161 in last 63 Days!)
by Morgan Stanley 21 Jun '06

21 Jun '06

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