Ace of Baes posted:

He agreed to take the money and speak just so he could call out the guy running it as a con man running a ponzi scheme and ruined the guys event.

smarxist posted:

here's some red meat for this thread, what even in the world?

https://www.kentik.com/blog/the-mystery-of-as8003/

smarxist posted:

reminds me of when sam hyde showed up at TED to poo poo on them for a half hour

Inspector Hound posted:

I would see this

smarxist posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cflCyyEA2I

go for a stroll posted:

it seems likely that tor and some popular vpn services are compromised by various three letter agencies, but what does snowden dunking on the con artist?

e: nevermind, I can't read. I thought the quote about snowden being fishy was part of the post.

go for a stroll posted:

it seems likely that tor and some popular vpn services are compromised by various three letter agencies, but what does snowden dunking on the con artist?

e: nevermind, I can't read. I thought the quote about snowden being fishy was part of the post.

Marzzle posted:

does epstein thread have a VPN that anyone would recommend?

inferis posted:

no, and i would specifically avoid any that anyone recommends

inferis posted:

nothing you do on the internet is private and even if it is you should assume future technology will make it no longer private

gh0stpinballa posted:

I'm very freaked out by this

https://www.un.org/africarenewal/magazine/february-2021/african-countries-embracing-biometrics-digital-ids

nut posted:

cold case hammarskjold just killed me

raspurtin posted:

I remember back in the late 1990s or 2000s hearing about the terrible AIDS crisis in Africa, like Time cover articles, 60 minutes stories, etc. Most of the problem was attributed to lack of education and services, but they always would liberally sprinkle in references to "local traditions" and superstitions. To think now that it might actually have been caused (or exacerbated) by white Africans deliberately infecting people is just mind boggling.

gh0stpinballa posted:

I'm very freaked out by this

https://www.un.org/africarenewal/magazine/february-2021/african-countries-embracing-biometrics-digital-ids

gh0stpinballa posted:

https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/4290/heres-how-well-connected-security-company-quietly-building-mass-biometric

Marzzle posted:

does epstein thread have a VPN that anyone would recommend?

Happy Thread posted:

smarxist posted:

here's some red meat for this thread, what even in the world?

https://www.kentik.com/blog/the-mystery-of-as8003/

Mola Yam posted:

I'm not a nerd, what does this mean? napkin math says the DOD is collecting half a petabyte (and growing) of random internet poo poo every second, up from ~1 gigabyte per second at the start of the year? a 500,000x increase??? Whyyyyy, like, why now?

quote:

Defense Digital Service (DDS) authorized a pilot effort advertising DoD Internet Protocol (IP) space using Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). This pilot will assess, evaluate and prevent unauthorized use of DoD IP address space. Additionally, this pilot may identify potential vulnerabilities. This is one of DoD’s many efforts focused on continually improving our cyber posture and defense in response to advanced persistent threats. We are partnering throughout DoD to ensure potential vulnerabilities are mitigated.

quote:

On the second, there is a lot of background noise that can be scooped up when announcing large ranges of IPv4 address space. A recent example is Cloudflare’s announcement of 1.1.1.0/24 and 1.0.0.0/24 in 2018.

For decades, internet routing operated with a widespread assumption that ASes didn’t route these prefixes on the internet (perhaps because they were canonical examples from networking textbooks). According to their blog post soon after the launch, Cloudflare received “~10Gbps of unsolicited background traffic” on their interfaces.

And that was just for 512 IPv4 addresses! Of course, those addresses were very special, but it stands to reason that 175 million IPv4 addresses will attract orders of magnitude more traffic. More misconfigured devices and networks that mistakenly assumed that all of this DoD address space would never see the light of day.

Mola Yam posted:

Whyyyyy, like, why now?

smarxist posted:

so basically, billions of devices may be set to either ping or in some fashion interact with these dormant ip ranges and when they lit up the DoD received billions of interesting little bits of information to sift through which may not be what anyone intended to happen, and could lead to something. what? i'onno!

Happy Thread posted:

An undocumented chip on computers sold to run it (any computer at all, too) was allegedly capable of turning the power lines to it into an antenna. The chip slowly drew ambient power from the board to remain undetected, then released/leaked its data in a burst upon an external signal. The data could be i.e. key logs from the bus the keyboard is on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROMIS_(software)

quote:

A book written in 1997 by Fabrizio Calvi and Thierry Pfister claimed that the National Security Agency (NSA) had been "seeding computers abroad with PROMIS-embedded SMART (Systems Management Automated Reasoning Tools) chips, code-named Petrie, capable of covertly downloading data and transmitting it, using electrical wiring as an antenna, to U.S. intelligence satellites" as part of an espionage operation.[1]

https://web.archive.org/web/2020092...-danny-casolaro

quote:

An NSA integrated circuit manufacturing facility in the Silicon Valley allegedly produced the “Petrie Chip” which the CIA contractor covertly inserted into the computers equipped with the PROMIS software.

These turnkey systems were allegedly sold to foreign intelligence and law enforcement agencies and banks through cutout companies.

The Petrie Chip allegedly replaced an identical-looking integrated circuit and consumed an identical amount of power, making it virtually impossible to discover its presence in the computer.

The Petrie Chip allegedly automatically copied data tracked in the PROMIS system and periodically transmitted the data to a local NSA listening device, defeating any Tempest Shield-type protections.

Our friend cuppy seems to have read about this at some point, because I first heard about the concept from them, of computers designed to leak data even when unpowered.

Happy Thread posted:

https://web.archive.org/web/2020092...-danny-casolaro


Our friend cuppy seems to have read about this at some point, because I first heard about the concept from them, of computers designed to leak data even when unpowered.

Ghislaine of YOSPOS posted:

drat, it's almost as though cuppy was right

The Atomic Man-Boy posted:

Probably any Chinese-owned VPN company. Every time you see the US congress or senators or any US-owned media crying about Chinese apps spying on you they mean "Please don't use these apps because we have a hard time spying on you if you do." Unless you are a Chinese national or travel to China frequently or something you have zero reason to care about the CCP lookin' over your shoulder, at least compared to any US-based service, who could potentially leverage your data against you.

mdemone posted:

heck, if we wanna do JFK then I will absolutely do this. I'm fresh off McVeigh and my mind is destroyed.

gh0stpinballa posted:

And so once again we return to the Gangster Octopus. We should talk about how PROMIS was adapted and successor programs inspired by its abilities.

quote:

Consequently, long before the Intifada, Jordan had become a proving ground for Mossad to develop its electronic skills. In the 1970s, Mossad technicians had tapped into the computer IBM had sold to the country's military intelligence service. The information gained had supplemented that provided by the deep-cover katsa Rafi Eitan had placed inside King Hussein's palace. Promis would offer much more.

To sell it directly to Jordan was impossible because normal business links between both countries were still some years away. Instead, Earl Brian's company, Hadron, made the deal. When the company's computer experts installed the program in Amman's military headquarters, they discovered the Jordanians had a French-designed system to track the movements of PLO leaders. Promis was secretly wired into the French system. In Tel Aviv, Rafi Eitan soon saw results as the trapdoor showed which PLO leaders the Jordanians were tracking.

The next stage was to prepare the sales pitch for Promis. Yasser Arafat was selected as the ideal example. The PLO chairman was renowned for being security-conscious; he constantly changed his plans, never slept in the same bed two nights in succession, altered his mealtimes at the last moment.

Whenever Arafat moved, the details were entered on a secure PLO computer. But Promis could hack into its defenses to discover what aliases and false passports he was using. Promis could obtain his phone bills and check the numbers called. It would then cross-check those with other calls made from those numbers. In that way, Promis would have a "picture" of Arafat's communications.

On a trip he would inform the local security authorities of his presence, and steps would be taken to provide protection. Promis could obtain the details by interdicting police computers. Wherever he went, Yasser Arafat would be unable to hide from Promis.

Rafi Eitan realized that neither Earl Brian nor his company had the resources to market Promis globally. That would require someone with superb international contacts, boundless energy, and proven negotiating skills. There was only one man Rafi Eitan knew who had those requirements: Robert Maxwell.

gh0stpinballa posted:

And so once again we return to the Gangster Octopus. We should talk about how PROMIS was adapted and successor programs inspired by its abilities.