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Pay attention here.. Harken yourself back to the heady days of the 80's and Charlie Wilson... And then ponder the scenario ...

I hate to use this phrase... but...

"The Truth Is Out There"

Yeah....

Well, back online here and thought I would share...

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A short wmv file found on the jihadist boards. I chased this little fucker for a while and in the end, it was good INTEL and on the ground work, that caught him. Now things are more a mess, especially after the whole WH SITE debacle...

Anyway, I shall be around...
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Anyone ever put TSCM into Ebay? Here's my Christmas list!

Recent events concerning the Litvinenko affair have had people speculating all over the place. I have located a potential key player here on LJ. Leonid Nevzlin has an journal and I thought... "Could be fun!" So I just left him a comment asking if Alexander had recently left him something.

This is looking more and more interesting every day...

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Yukos, Bratva, the Russian government... Holy Boris and Natasha!

Newspaper editor: Paul Salopek 'is not a spy'

Saturday, August 26, 2006; Posted: 5:16 p.m. EDT (21:16 GMT

CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- A Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune was charged in a Sudanese court Saturday with espionage and other crimes.

Paul Salopek, 44, was charged in a 40-minute hearing with espionage, passing information illegally and writing "false news," the Tribune reported on its Web site. His driver and interpreter, both Chadian nationals, faced the same charges.

The three men were arrested August 6 by pro-government forces in the war-torn province of Darfur, the paper said. Salopek was working on a freelance assignment for National Geographic magazine during his arrest.

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Often the "Community" will use the NOC cover of "Journalist" but today, I think it is less likely to be the case. I hope they can get his ass out of the sling.
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PS.. Good to be back...I was "away" for a while.

Excerpt from the Wired article

Secret Bloggers Bare All

In 2002, Jonathan Adler started blogging on the legal-minded group blog The Volokh Conspiracy under the handle "Juan Non-Volokh." A pre-tenured law professor, Adler was concerned that peers would find his blogging counterproductive and somehow unrespectable.

"It seemed like the safer thing to do was blog under a pseudonym," said Adler.

But as his posts generated controversy and discussion, speculation about his identity was inevitable. He initially struggled with potential giveaways like the e-mail headers Hotmail transmitted along with correspondences to readers. At one point, an online intellectual foil publicly announced his intention to unmask his adversary, and Adler occasionally got messages from people saying, "I think I've figured out who you are." Eventually, he unmasked himself on the blog.

Adler's and Lat's experiences were smooth sailing compared to the dangers secret bloggers face when they piss off their employers, or any company or individual of a litigious bent, said Electronic Frontier Foundation attorney Kurt Opsahl. A few subpoenas can easily unmask all but the most paranoid pamphleteer, though the better-behaved internet service providers will give a customer the opportunity to challenge a subpoena in court before complying. "It is well-settled that there's a First Amendment right to speak anonymously," said Opsahl.

"Even if you do the absolute most to technically protect your privacy ... you can still be unmasked if you post things in your blog that identify you," Opsahl said. "It is a very challenging thing to successfully blog anonymously and pseudonymous(ly)."


1) Use TOR or other anonymous proxies with each entry

2) Create a dead drop email address that you only access with said proxies

3) Vary your writing style, your mannerisms, etc so as to not have an overall like for like group of writings that can be attributed to you

4) Mind your legend.

By Mark Ward
Technology Correspondent, BBC News website

The research prompted the FBI to make its site more secure
Simple attacks could let malicious hackers take over more than one-third of the net's sites, reveals research.

The finding was uncovered by researchers who analysed how the net's addressing system works.

They also found that if the simple attacks were combined with so-called denial-of-service attacks, 85% of the net becomes vulnerable to take-over.

The researchers recommended big changes to the net's addressing system to tackle the vulnerability at its heart.

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Isn't this old news? C'mon....

LONDON, April 26 — Justice Peter Smith's 71-page ruling in the recent "Da Vinci Code" copyright case here is notable for many things: the judge's occasional forays into literary criticism, his snippy remarks about witnesses on both sides, and his fluent knowledge not only of copyright law but also of more esoteric topics like the history of the Knights Templar.

But there is more to it than that. Embedded in the first 13½ pages of the ruling is Justice Smith's very own secret code, one that when partly solved reveals its name: the Smithy Code.

"The key to solving the conundrum posed by this judgment is in reading HBHG and DVC," the judge writes in the 52nd paragraph of the ruling, alluding to his code and referring to the two works at issue in the case —"The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" and "The Da Vinci Code" — by their initials. (In the United States, the book is called "Holy Blood, Holy Grail.")

The NYT Article

Link to pdf of ruling for cryptanalysis

Just a little shameless advertising. July 21-23 2006



See you there!

I recently picked up Elonka's book of crytpograms and doing some crytpanalysis. I also had the pleasure of speaking with her before. The kryptos sculpture has been an enduring fascination for her and now me.





For more than a decade, amateur and professional cryptographers have been trying to decipher an encrypted sculpture that sits on the grounds of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Three-fourths of the sculpture has already been solved.

But now Jim Sanborn, the artist who created the Kryptos sculpture, says he made a mistake. A previously solved part of the puzzle that sleuths assumed was correct for years isn't. The new information, including what the mistaken text really says, is creating a buzz among enthusiasts who've been obsessed over the sculpture for years.

It all comes down to a letter that Sanborn left out of the sculpture. He only recently realized the omission was leading sleuths down a misguided path. His followers, however, aren't feeling any grief about the misdirection.

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Finally they are beginning to understand... However I still see no encryption for data on 95% of boxes I see...


SAN FRANCISCO, April 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Some 7,000 pharmacists crowded
into San Francisco's Moscone Center on a rainy week in March to attend the
American Pharmacists Association's annual meeting. Joining them were
representatives from nearly every major pharmaceutical manufacturer and
distributor who looked at this and similar gatherings as a peerless sales
and marketing opportunity. Armed with laptops, they ply their trade on the
swarming convention hall floor. These laptops offer them instant access to
customer lists, product information and contracts -- in short, all the
tools to close a deal.
Hidden among the legitimate attendees at any big event may be thieves,
solo practitioners as well as members of organized gangs. To them, a
pilfered laptop is as good as gold. The laptop, including software, may
fetch less than $1,000 on the black market. But that's chump change for
these ambitious crooks. The data on these machines is another story. The
information entered onto a company representative's computer holds the
greatest value.
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Jewish "sex commandos" hit porn sites

Hack this already

By Nick Farrell: Wednesday 12 April 2006, 07:41
A CELL of ultra-Orthodox Jewish hackers has declared war on porn sites and is breaking into them and replacing pictures with those of a famous rabbi.

According to the Yedioth Aharonot newspaper, the 'sex commandos' see images of sex as an abomination.

Generally any pictures of naked women will be replaced by the bearded Rabbi Menahem Mendel Schneerson, the late leader of the popular Jewish Lubavitch movement.

Below each image is the works "we, the Da-Net group, have hacked into this site and erased all its abomination."

Then there is a tirade against porn which it say is a violation which has caused many deaths, troubles and calamities."

Yep, it's called FUD Fear Uncertainty and Doubt! Who would want AT&T's services if they knew they were already back door'd eh?

Last week, the Justice Department got a bit upset when the EFF tried to file evidence concerning the claims that AT&T gave a direct line to the NSA, so they could sort through all the internet traffic running across AT&T lines. This was even though the EFF had filed the documents under seal. Of course, late last week some of the information was released publicly as the whistleblower involved made a public statement about what he knew was going on at AT&T. With that info coming out, it appears that it's not just the government who would like all of this evidence to completely disappear, but also AT&T... who has now asked the judge to return a bunch of the evidence filed against it and ban the EFF from referencing any of the "highly confidential" documents. Of course, if anything, this would seem to support that AT&T is hiding something. In the meantime, Narus, the company whose software was supposedly being used to monitor all of the internet traffic, is desperately trying to distance itself from the situation, claiming they just sell the software, and have no clue whatsoever what their customers use it for.

It was only a matter of time. Hybrids for the non monoculture.

Robert McMillan, IDG News Service

10/04/2006 08:00:50

Hackers have released a sample code for a virus that could infect both Linux and Windows PCs.

The virus, which was given the double name Virus.Linux.Bi.a/ Virus.Win32.Bi.a, was reported Friday by security firm Kaspersky Lab Security researchers worry that the malicious code may be part of a disturbing new trend of viruses that can run on Windows, as well as other operating systems that have been largely ignored by hackers.

"The virus is written in assembler and is relatively simple," Kaspersky wrote in a posting to the company's Viruslist.com Web site. "However, it is interesting in that it is capable of infecting the different file formats used by Linux and Windows - ELF and PE format files respectively."

The ELF (Executable and Linking Format) and PE (Portable Executable) file formats are used to format certain types of binary files in Linux and Windows, including the .exe and .dll files used in Windows.

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Finally, Arlen is smelling the cofee....

Former diplomat says administration engaging in disinformation

Sunday, April 9, 2006; Posted: 10:27 p.m. EDT (02:27 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A top Senate Republican called on President Bush on Sunday to tell Americans why the White House leaked intelligence to bolster the case for the Iraq war in 2003.

The remarks by Sen. Arlen Specter, chairman of the judiciary committee, came as former U.S. ambassador Joe Wilson, whose complaints about the war sparked the dispute, said it is time for the administration "to come clean."

A new wave of controversy over leaking began last week when prosecutors released court documents in which a former aide to Dick Cheney testified that the vice president told him in 2003 that President Bush approved the release of information in a classified intelligence report.

On Friday, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said the president declassified information for release, which he has the authority to do.

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You know they are serious about something (they being the NSA/GOV) when you google the "Narus STA 6400" and you only get one viable hit. Then in turn, that hit has been sanitized (all record has been removed other than the hit itself) off the net.

That just makes it a challenge..

More to come as I find it.



By Ryan Singel| Also by this reporter
11:15 AM Apr, 07, 2006

AT&T provided National Security Agency eavesdroppers with full access to its customers' phone calls, and shunted its customers' internet traffic to data-mining equipment installed in a secret room in its San Francisco switching center, according to a former AT&T worker cooperating in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's lawsuit against the company.

Mark Klein, a retired AT&T communications technician, submitted an affidavit in support of the EFF's lawsuit this week. That class action lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Francisco last January, alleges that AT&T violated federal and state laws by surreptitiously allowing the government to monitor phone and internet communications of AT&T customers without warrants.

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PCs Crack U-Boat's Enigma Code

Sixty years after the end of World War II, a network of several thousand PCs has cracked a message enciphered with the famous Enigma machine.


C L I C K

Semantic Data Mining of Short Utterances