good troll, intelligence psyops, or the genuine article? you decide

[J.A. Terranson]

On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Eugen Leitl wrote:

> Look at everything Grobbage says at below URL. I honestly don't
> know into which cathegory to place him. If he's genuine, the state
> of the art is quite a bit more advance than I've thought (active
> MITM for system compromise instead of just passive taps).

I suspect he's doing what I've done on several dozen systems: he's 
attacking novice users who leave passwords cached, private and public keys 
together, weak passwords across all systems and encrufted (Gates' version 
of 'encrypted :-) or encrypted files.

As for the wirespeed intercept on the backbone, thats OLD news: we were 
doing in the core at Savvis back in 2000.

He's exploiting the stupid, not the real users. And lets face it - most 
users have less than a clue.

//Alif 

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