Be Afraid Be Very Afraid: The FBI are now l33t and will PWN your machine.
Written by Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com on July 19, 2007 – 3:00 pm -
This is from wired news and it scares the hell out of me. Okay, I remember hearing about carnivore and its magic terrorist catching ability many years ago. Now we know what it is doing now! Its filtering all the data the feds are grabbing from infecting machines via Myspace. Rooting em and spying on em. Anyone else feel like big brother is watching? The scariest part of all is why didn’t this kids anti-virus software pick it up? There is speculation that the feds have on going deals with the security companies not to detect them.
FBI agents trying to track the source of e-mailed bomb threats against a Washington high school last month sent the suspect a secret surveillance program designed to surreptitiously monitor him and report back to a government server, according to an FBI affidavit obtained by Wired News.
The court filing offers the first public glimpse into the bureau’s long-suspected spyware capability, in which the FBI adopts techniques more common to online criminals.
The software was sent to the owner of an anonymous MySpace profile linked to bomb threats against Timberline High School near Seattle. The code led the FBI to 15-year-old Josh Glazebrook, a student at the school, who on Monday pleaded guilty to making bomb threats, identity theft and felony harassment.
In an affidavit seeking a search warrant to use the software, filed last month in U.S. District Court in the Western District of Washington, FBI agent Norman Sanders describes the software as a “computer and internet protocol address verifier,” or CIPAV.
Sanders wrote that the spyware program gathers a wide range of information, including the computer’s IP address; MAC address; open ports; a list of running programs; the operating system type, version and serial number; preferred internet browser and version; the computer’s registered owner and registered company name; the current logged-in user name and the last-visited URL.
The CIPAV then settles into a silent “pen register” mode, in which it lurks on the target computer and monitors its internet use, logging the IP address of every computer to which the machine connects for up to 60 days.
Under a ruling this month by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, such surveillance — which does not capture the content of the communications — can be conducted without a wiretap warrant, because internet users have no “reasonable expectation of privacy” in the data when using the internet.
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By Unknown on Jul 19, 2007 | Reply
i am very scared. lol i got a firewall i should be ok
By Anonymous on Jul 19, 2007 | Reply
I read the article on cnet yesterday and didn’t think anything of it. but in all actuality this is huge. and yes i am scared man.
name withheld for fear of the man
By JJwalker on Jul 19, 2007 | Reply
i am very scared. lol i got a firewall i should be ok
By Karl L. Gechlik on Jul 20, 2007 | Reply
JJ the firewall wont stop em if your OS isn’t fully patched. Be careful. Check out our post on full system encryption.
By Unknown on Aug 10, 2007 | Reply
thanx 4 the nfo! name also withheld for fear of da man. hehe
By Anonymous on Aug 10, 2007 | Reply
thanx 4 the nfo! name also withheld for fear of da man. hehe
By Anonymous on Aug 13, 2007 | Reply
You shouldn’t be scared unless you have something to hide from them.
By Karl L. Gechlik on Aug 13, 2007 | Reply
Doesn’t everyone have something to hide?
And why post with out leaving your name? LMFAO!
By Anonymous on Aug 16, 2007 | Reply
It’s not a matter of being scared, it’s a matter of privacy. There is no reason that some “ruling” government should have right to see everything you do.
The fact is that this information could very easily get into the wrong hands. What if you have information that if put into the competitions hands give them a competitive edge (i.e. trade secrets) and for some amount of money this information could be passed on. This is not a foolproof system.
What is to stop malicious hackers from using this program that the FBI is using? Reverse-engineering could very possibly and easily do it.
Second, we as Americans have a right to question those that are running our country. This have been proven since the days of our independence of the ruling body of England. Without the right to question then we just become sheep that let politicians who have business and financial interests run our country however they please.
Without the safety of anonymity and security some of the biggest whistleblowing events in our history would have never happened.
What happened to our constitution. It is now being treated as a worthless piece of paper and we are letting them take that away from us.
Go ahead, continue to flock with the rest of the sheeple, but I for one won’t let that happen to me or my family and with that change and a revolution will come.
. . .
(Prepares to be monitored)
By Unknown on Aug 30, 2007 | Reply
if you are the kind of guy that says: “if you dont have anything to hide you have nothing to fear” you are thus dumbass.
You would offer up infomation about EVERYTHING, potentially, to anyone who is in charge of WHATEVER agency? your wife, kids, YOUR DESGINS, YOUR BUSINESS IDEAS?
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
Everyone has something to hide. Some people have lots to hide.
Real big criminals will leave some trace somewhere other than on the internet (bodies?) and in my mind that small background level of crime that most people actually experience (not read in the media) is a fare trade for not living in some fucking police state - fuck you everybody
By ? on Aug 30, 2007 | Reply
if you are the kind of guy that says: “if you dont have anything to hide you have nothing to fear” you are thus dumbass.
You would offer up infomation about EVERYTHING, potentially, to anyone who is in charge of WHATEVER agency? your wife, kids, YOUR DESGINS, YOUR BUSINESS IDEAS?
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
Everyone has something to hide. Some people have lots to hide.
Real big criminals will leave some trace somewhere other than on the internet (bodies?) and in my mind that small background level of crime that most people actually experience (not read in the media) is a fare trade for not living in some fucking police state - fuck you everybody
By Commodore on Sep 4, 2007 | Reply
I’m not scared. I believe if it was a police state, there would be more crime by rioters and protesters during that time .
By Unknown on Oct 26, 2007 | Reply
Infecting computers with Microsoft Windows only? Guess those of us using Ubuntu or OS-X are safe.
By macewan on Oct 26, 2007 | Reply
Infecting computers with Microsoft Windows only? Guess those of us using Ubuntu or OS-X are safe.
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By Unknown on Dec 23, 2007 | Reply
You mean another reason to use linux with a custom kernel with no NSA SELinux support!
By Matt Parnell on Dec 24, 2007 | Reply
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