hobbesmaster posted:

my favorite random little detail in this story is that he didn't bring his laptop charger with him so the FBI agents had to scramble to find an ac adapter compatible with that type of laptop

Lutha Mahtin posted:

no, his mycrimes.txt were encrypted with FDE. that's why they nabbed him at the library. they wanted a place where both (a) he had the computer on, encryption password activated, screen unlocked, and (b) where they could sneak up behind him, cause a distraction, and snag the machine from him while it was in the unlocked state

anthonypants posted:

they caught silk road kingpin ross ulbricht at a public library while his disk was encrypted and he was caught with a bunch of unencrypted mycrimes.txt documents

for desktops there's this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G8sEYCOv-o

quote:

A vulnerability in the Cisco Cluster Management Protocol (CMP) processing code in Cisco IOS and Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a reload of an affected device or remotely execute code with elevated privileges.

The Cluster Management Protocol utilizes Telnet internally as a signaling and command protocol between cluster members. The vulnerability is due to the combination of two factors:

• The failure to restrict the use of CMP-specific Telnet options only to internal, local communications between cluster members and instead accept and process such options over any Telnet connection to an affected device, and
  
• The incorrect processing of malformed CMP-specific Telnet options.

An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending malformed CMP-specific Telnet options while establishing a Telnet session with an affected Cisco device configured to accept Telnet connections. An exploit could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code and obtain full control of the device or cause a reload of the affected device.

Cisco will release software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability.

quote:

Exploitation and Public Announcements
The Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) is not aware of any public announcements or malicious use of the vulnerability that is described in this advisory.

Source
This vulnerability was found during the analysis of documents related to the Vault 7 disclosure.

Carbon dioxide posted:

Unrelatedly,

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2017/03/17/fbi-arrests-man-accused-trolling-dallas-journalist-kurt-eichenwald-tweet-triggered-seizure

quote:

According to a criminal complaint, messages sent from Rivello's Twitter account mentioned Eichenwald, saying "I know he has epilepsy," "I hope this sends him into a seizure" and "let's see if he dies."

Authorities also found an screenshot of Eichenwald's Wikipedia page on Rivello's iCloud account, the criminal complaint said, altered to list his date of death as Dec. 16, 2016. Other files on the iCloud account include a list of things that trigger epileptic seizures and a screenshot of a Dallas Observer article about Eichenwald's attempts to find the person who tweeted at him.

Carbon dioxide posted:

Unrelatedly,

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2017/03/17/fbi-arrests-man-accused-trolling-dallas-journalist-kurt-eichenwald-tweet-triggered-seizure

quote:

Eichenwald's attorney, Steven Liberman, told Newsweek that "What Mr. Rivello did with his Twitter message was no different from someone sending a bomb in the mail or sending an envelope filled with anthrax spores."

Bhodi posted:

armchair lawyers (but with actual law degrees) are less optimistic about his chances. because it's the internet, of course people piled on

https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/842754912249434112

spit on my clit posted:

"It was a flashing gif with pepe the frog moving around" - Kurt Eichenwalde, discussing the tragic event on live tv

Carbon dioxide posted:

Unrelatedly,

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2017/03/17/fbi-arrests-man-accused-trolling-dallas-journalist-kurt-eichenwald-tweet-triggered-seizure

Midjack posted:

it seems like this stunt gets rediscovered every few years

hifi posted:

Bhodi posted:

armchair lawyers (but with actual law degrees) are less optimistic about his chances. because it's the internet, of course people piled on

https://twitter.com/kurteichenwald/status/842754912249434112

AggressivelyStupid posted:

Not wrong tho

anthonypants posted:

"his wife" immediately jumped on twitter after the gif was sent to tell the person who sent the gif that he was having a seizure

here's an article with more background on this guy

Bhodi posted:

not gonna read all that, but if you're implying his wife didn't do that, it'll definitely come out in court

rjmccall posted:

threat prosecutions are very rare. the problem with 4chan-style brigading from a crim law perspective is that it's not clear that anything about it is illegal, and certainly not prosecutable — the individual acts are usually one-off and too small. even when someone goes further, making repeated threats with personal info etc., it's still really hard to prosecute because it's hard to prove they had any ability or inclination to actually carry those threats out, which is usually a legal requirement. even if there was a law specifically against piling on, you're expecting some DA to file a thousand cross-jurisdictional misdemeanor harassment charges? many against minors? it's just a poo poo-ton of work

i think a more effective law would let them maintain a registry and then charge people with repeated threats against different people, so it's a clear pattern of harassing people online. maybe the problem would go away if there was some accountability for always being part of it. but i don't have much hope

Bhodi posted:

not gonna read all that, but if you're implying his wife didn't do that, it'll definitely come out in court

raminasi posted:

this isn't wrong, but it's really frustrating when juxtaposed with how apeshit cops go if you do it to one of them and not a journalist or whatever

rjmccall posted:

i think a more effective law would let them maintain a registry and then charge people with repeated threats against different people, so it's a clear pattern of harassing people online. maybe the problem would go away if there was some accountability for always being part of it. but i don't have much hope

Midjack posted:

password length adminfuck:

verizon has recently decided they want out of the email racket and is giving current customers the opportunity to either lose their current email accounts or transfer them to aol. having used a couple of those verizon.net accounts since the dsl days 14 years ago, i elected to move them to aol though i plan to pursue an alternate email solution since lol aol. when setting up the account, aol will let you enter a password of any length and log you in that first time. however, subsequent login attempts will fail with a "wrong username or password" message if your password is more than their limit of 16 characters.

BeOSPOS posted:

try typing in the first 16 characters of the password

Midjack posted:

didn't work. first thing I tried was lopping off one character at a time

Last Chance posted:

REMEMBER AOL DISCS LOL

Last Chance posted:

i used a 3.5" aoldisk to store an old copy of leisure suit larry hehe

Last Chance posted:

REMEMBER AOL DISCS LOL

ate poo poo on live tv posted:

My computer nerds and I in High School would collect those things. We got up to 2500 of them.

Midjack posted:

verizon has recently decided they want out of the email racket and is giving current customers the opportunity to either lose their current email accounts or transfer them to aol.

Last Chance posted:

REMEMBER AOL DISCS LOL

fishmech posted:

they want to get out of the email game, so they're transferring their email services to a different internal division of the company? that ain't really getting out of the email game.