[cryptome] Re: Is This a Hoax: Backdoor to Wireless Router
- From: Shaun O'Connor <capricorn8159@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: cryptome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 23:55:19 +0100
Dougie !
Do I take that as a challenge to partake in some verbal jousting?
hmm,,,, I will give that some thought.
ATB
Shaun
On 04/07/2014 23:12, doug wrote:
> Hi Shaun,
> Normal is normal...and you shouldn't forget it...and if you do, it
> will be at your own cost...Prime ministers and Presidents are normal,
> bureaucrats and civil servants are normal, those who hold political
> office and offices of state, are normal, they always tell the truth,
> the way it is, and there is no dissenting from that.. Like George
> Washington, one of their norms is that they don't tell lies. Is that
> not something which is taught to each American child at school? Now,
> I don't know whether George Washington told a lie or not, and I am
> prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt, and I am prepared to be
> proved wrong...but, to be honest, I have never come across one single
> lie that George Washington ever told, so, on the basis of assumption,
> and till I am proved wrong. George Washington never told a lie. The
> whole of the US constitution is based on that fact...Are you...or
> anyone else for that matter, really going to challenge it...Give me
> proof...if you dare.
>
> Like, saluting the flag. I remember, in my younger days, studying the
> American Constitution and the law surrounding it. And, an important
> and most famous case which went all the way to the Supreme Court, was
> on the question of whether Jehovas Witnesses at their school should be
> forced to salute the US Flag every morning. The Jehovas Witnesses
> point of view, was that there was a higher authority than the United
> States Constitution which defined how their religion carried out its
> practices and theories, it was a person called God. The US Supreme
> Court said, "No". And their reasoning was. " By saluting the flag
> every morning, this was the symbol which re-inforced and protected the
> freedoms for the likes of Jehovas Witnesses in conducting their
> religion...
> Discuss...?
> ATB
> Dougie.
> P.S. Why don't I, as a citizen of the world, have the same rights as a
> US citizen when it comes to having my bank account and my private
> affairs and data compromised? Am I one of those lessers, who isn't
> entitled to human rights from the US.
>
> On 04/07/14 22:32, Shaun O'Connor wrote:
>> Normal?wtf is that when its about??lol
>>
>> Each person, each organization, each government, each country has
>> their own idea of"normal" and what is considered "normal" today might
>> be considered abnormal tomorrow.
>> so , yeah normal is just a ward.a collection of symbols if you
>> like(when written down) which means different things to different
>> people and changes rather quickly ( a bit like the British weather)
>> On 04/07/2014 22:24, doug wrote:
>>> HI Andrew,
>>> Tx for taking the time to reply. I have a lot to learn on these
>>> things being a newbie to security and computers and such like. I
>>> have heard of Wireshark, but did wonder what it was all about, and I
>>> did visit the website and I did think about downloading it...but
>>> then I couldn't think of anyone with whom I could exchange
>>> information which had to be so secure and secret...or even
>>> confidential;;but after reading n Cryptome at url;
>>> http://cryptome.org/2014/07/nsa-tor-de.htm
>>>
>>> I thought the better of it. Apparently, according to the
>>> report...and I don't know how "true" it is or how much credibility
>>> it has, amongst those whom I respect in the security industry. I
>>> have looked at "Tails" and at "TOR" and am most annoyed to find out
>>> that the NSA considers me as an "extremist" because i am one of
>>> those people who would like to protect their privacy. Now, I have
>>> never downloaded TOR or Tails, because i have yet to find a need for
>>> it, but I don't see why my curiosity should be rewarded by being
>>> considered to be extreme. it makes me wonder about the NSA and its
>>> philosophy is all about, in the sense that does it, as an
>>> organisation, and as a group of individuals working in concert,
>>> consider itself as the "norm"... And if it does, hopefully someone
>>> can explain to me what this norm actually is. Norms and extremities
>>> are sociological and statistical terms which refer to what kind of
>>> behaviour lies inside and outside that of which is considered
>>> acceptable as the normal. Now, the problem for me, is that I have
>>> never met a "normal" person in my life, and would certainly accept
>>> that I do have extremes of behaviour, my little obsessions, urges,
>>> drives, instincts and learned behaviour, dominate my life, of that I
>>> have no doubt. And though I consider myself as perfectly normal, i
>>> do understand that others can see me as perverse and extreme...c'est
>>> la vie.
>>> ATB
>>> Dougie
>>>
>>> On 04/07/14 17:02, Andrew Hornback wrote:
>>>> Doug,
>>>>
>>>> Changing/adding a password and changing the name of the network is
>>>> more than 90+% of the population can be bothered to do these days
>>>> -which is what makes them so susceptible...
>>>>
>>>> NAT and firewall are a good start - I'm somewhat on the paranoid
>>>> side (being a life-long IT type guy) and I'm aspiring to implement
>>>> a system similar to the DISA's HBSS (Host Based Security Solution)
>>>> that gets deployed to all ADP assets in the DoD...
>>>>
>>>> The way that my setup works is that the hub (a relatively dumb
>>>> device, by networking standards) is inserted between the ISP and
>>>> the router - since the ISP delivers my broadband connection as a
>>>> pure Ethernet drop, I can use the hub to connect another machine
>>>> in, before the router level, and "sniff" all of the traffic going
>>>> back and forth. Using a product like Wireshark (free software,
>>>> highly recommended, been using it for years), I can look at all of
>>>> the traffic that's leaving my network as well as what's coming in
>>>> from the ISP. See where data is coming from, where it's going...
>>>> full transparency of all of the data going back and forth as well
>>>> as the content. By dumping all of this over to a second machine
>>>> that acts as a simple recording and analysis system, I can track
>>>> hacking attempts, attacks, etc. and report them as needed.
>>>>
>>>> --- A
>>>> "InfoSec - it pays to be paranoid..."
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 7:38 AM, doug
>>>> <douglasrankine2001@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> <mailto:douglasrankine2001@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Andrew,
>>>> Tx for the information...I had a look at the url you provided>
>>>> I didn't really understand all this techy stuff and it is nice
>>>> to have it explained in a language I can understand. I have,
>>>> on a number of occasions looked at my router, but I must say,
>>>> apart from securing it with a password and changing the name of
>>>> the network, I am frightened to touch any of the settings in
>>>> the router in case I screw things up, so I leave it at the
>>>> default position.
>>>>
>>>> I have a wireless router and a home network, and a number of
>>>> devices such as computers, tablets, mobile phones and a printer
>>>> and a back up disk which are connected to it on occasion. I
>>>> understand that the home network and the one connected to the
>>>> ISP are separated by a NAT or firewall which is supposed to
>>>> protect my home network from outside intrusion.
>>>>
>>>> What would be the benefit of putting in traffic analysis
>>>> software and what kind of software would you recommend, and
>>>> where would I put it...in my computer or on the phone line...In
>>>> this area we have poor broadband width anyway so downloads and
>>>> uploads are very slow.
>>>> ATB
>>>> Dougie.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 03/07/14 19:34, Andrew Hornback wrote:
>>>>> Ryan,
>>>>>
>>>>> Good points, but I think this might explain part of my tactic -
>>>>> http://www.asante.com/support/routerguide/faqs/hardwared.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Understanding the differences between hubs, switches and
>>>>> routers is paramount to starting to understand TCP/IP...
>>>>>
>>>>> --- A
>>>>
>>>
>>
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