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From: streck at papafloh.de (Florian Streck) Subject: Network Sniffing On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 08:26:41PM -0800, xtrecate wrote: > The article states that the FBI served subpoenas for specific information > from insecure.org, likely after finding evidence that some specific attacker > (who, no doubt, did something which deserves to be investigated) retrieved > data from insecure.org. It would appear they are simply trying to > cross-reference logs to discover an attacker's real IP address. This is > pretty legitimate, and Fyodor was apparently very diligent in ensuring all > information was retrieved via legal methods. > > People intending to commit felonies over the internet, obviously, have > something to worry about... though I'm not sure why anyone would be > sympathetic to their plight. This depends heavily on who decides what a felony is. Just consider free speech in China. Brings you right into jail. And I wouldn't go as far as to put the FBI (or any other such agency) beyond doubt. Same applies to our (german) authorities as well. > > > Take a look at: > > http://www.insecure.org/tools.html > [...] > Note: The FBI is monitoring HTTP logs from insecure.org. > > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/25/1835238&from=rss > Florian -- Memory fault -- core...uh...um...core... Oh dammit, I forget! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/attachments/20041202/8fd31b85/attachment.bin
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