furbo.org · Grass Mud Horse

2015.01.29

The Chinese government is not only being deceitful with IP addresses, they’ve also begun cracking down on a mechanism that lets its citizens avoid the bullshit: VPN. Grass Mud Horse!

This action, combined with the DDoS floods, is beneficial to a government that’s intent on isolating its citizens from the free and open Internet. They make it hard to get a packet out of China, but even if you succeed, it’s likely to be blocked by a server that’s been victim of their DDoS.

On the surface, this seems like a good strategy for creating your own private Internet: a network where no packets can enter the west or leave the east.

via furbo.org · Grass Mud Horse.

I’ve been seeing a lot of probes in my logs — mostly search engines, but a fair bit that wasn’t — from China. And here you go.

Holder urges tech companies to leave device backdoors open for police – The Washington Post

2014.10.01

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said on Tuesday that new forms of encryption capable of locking law enforcement officials out of popular electronic devices imperil investigations of kidnappers and sexual predators, putting children at increased risk.

via Holder urges tech companies to leave device backdoors open for police – The Washington Post.

 

TL;DR: “we need to snoop on everything, for the kids”. Shameless, spineless, embarassing.

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Lorem Ipsum: Of Good & Evil, Google & China — Krebs on Security

2014.08.23

Steganography by gaming google translate with Lorem Ipsum

Lorem Ipsum: Of Good & Evil, Google & China — Krebs on Security.

 

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The App I Used to Break Into My Neighbor’s Home | Threat Level | WIRED

2014.07.25

What I didn’t tell my neighbor was that I spent about 30 seconds in the stairwell scanning his keys with software that would let me reproduce them with no specialized skills whatsoever. The iPhone app I used wasn’t intended for anything so nefarious: KeyMe was designed to let anyone photograph their keys and upload them to the company’s servers. From there, they can be 3-D printed and mail-ordered in a variety of novelty shapes, from a bottle opener to Kanye West’s head.

via The App I Used to Break Into My Neighbor’s Home | Threat Level | WIRED.

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