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OT: Attorney General Eric Holder on 'Too Big to Jail' Jeffrey Walton (May 18)
http://www.americanbanker.com/issues/178_45/transcript-attorney-general-eric-holder-on-too-big-to-jail-1057295-1.html

The following is a transcript of Attorney General Eric Holder's
remarks before the Senate Judiciary Committee, in which he discusses
the idea that some banks are 'Too Big to Jail.'

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa: In the case of bank prosecution. I'm
concerned we have a mentality of 'too big to jail' in...

Re: [funsec] Skype with care – Microsof t is reading everything you write Jeffrey Walton (May 17)
That's not really practical in many cases. What do consumers have when
all carriers and handset manufacturers do it? Its certainly not
choice.

All are likely doing it to some degree or another. Again, no choice.

Monopolistic policy and practice in industry used to be kept in check.
Case studies include the steel, railroad, and oil barons. For the old
steel, railroad, and oil barons, the interesting thing (in my opinion)
was why it...

Re: Skype with care – Microsof t is reading everything you write Blanchard, Michael (InfoSec) (May 17)
There is always a clause in ALL of those ELUA's stating that they can change at anytime, without notice usually too.
Your only recourse is to stop using the product if you don’t like the EULA. Sucks yes, but until a better product
comes along that is as widely adopted, well, we're stuck.... Who's to say what Apple is doing with Facetime?

Those folks that complain about "evil empires" are the cause of their own...

Re: [funsec] Skype with care – Microsof t is reading everything you write Jeffrey Walton (May 17)
In the US, they call those "Material Adverse Change" (MACs).

Its a bitch we have to accept those adverse changes just to get bug
fixes and security patches for defective products. It seems like
illegal tying to me, and I wonder why the FTC has not stepped in. In
the US, politicians are bought and sold like trading cards, so I don't
expect it to change anytime soon.

Jeff

Re: [funsec] Skype with care – Microsoft is re ading everything you write Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (May 17)
As it happens, I'm currently reviewing an intriguing book ("Boilerplate") that
addresses all kinds of issues around "agreements" and consent. Particularly for
those of us who joined Skype before MS bought it, and therefore "agreed" to a
very different set of rules ...

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Re: Skype with care Joel Esler (May 17)
Skype is a free tool.

You get, what you pay for. Same with Google and their products, etc.

Re: Skype with care Jeffrey Walton (May 16)
Nice, but I don't agree with some of Bott's conclusions. Especially
the one made about visiting a site/fetching a header. If its just host
reputation, all the reputation service needs is the URL, without the
need to visit the host.

Do you think a M$ engineer tossed us a bread crumb to let us know the
degree of invasion? Why else take the risk of leaking interception
results like this originating from encrypted traffic that users expect...

Re: Skype with care Juha-Matti Laurio (May 16)
A different point of view also:

http://www.zdnet.com/is-microsoft-reading-your-skype-instant-messages-7000015388/

Juha-Matti

Jeffrey Walton [noloader () gmail com] kirjoitti:

Re: [funsec] Skype with care – Microsoft is reading everything you write Jeffrey Walton (May 16)
A couple of follow ups on this....

"Skype backdoor confirmation,"
http://lists.randombit.net/pipermail/cryptography/2013-May/004224.html

and

"All Your Skype Are Belong To Us,"
http://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/001430.html

They're not even trying any more Rich Kulawiec (May 16)
Domains registered by the Discovery Channel yesterday:

19kidsandcounting.net
40yearchildanewcase.com
40yearchildanewcase.net
7littlejohnstons.com
7littlejohnstons.net
900poundmantheraceagainsttime.com
900poundmantheraceagainsttime.net
alaskathelastfrontier.net
americasworsttattoos.net
amishmafia.net
backyardoil.net
beringseagoldundertheice.net...

Skype with care – Microsoft is reading everything you write Jeffrey Walton (May 16)
(Thanks to KW in a private email).

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Skype-with-care-Microsoft-is-reading-everything-you-write-1862870.html

Anyone who uses Skype has consented to the company reading everything
they write. The H's associates in Germany at heise Security have now
discovered that the Microsoft subsidiary does in fact make use of this
privilege in practice. Shortly after sending HTTPS URLs over the
instant messaging...

Private drone spying ... Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (May 14)
OK, get out your legal arguments: privately-owned "peeping tom" drones are now
in use ...

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/so-this-is-how-it-begins-
guy-refuses-to-stop-drone-spying-on-seattle-woman/275769/

or

http://is.gd/CWnpGJ

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Hardware has grown following...

[HITB-Announce] HITB Magazine Issue 010 Hafez Kamal (May 14)
Hi everyone,

A small reminder that article submissions for HITB Magazine Issue 010
are due tomorrow (15th May 2013). If you're interested in submitting
please send your > 3000 word article to editorial () hackinthebox org

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

Next generation attacks and exploits
Apple / OS X security vulnerabilities
SS7/Backbone telephony networks
VoIP security
Data...

Re: Risk analysis Rich Kulawiec (May 14)
"Red Dawn" is a movie (well, alright, two movies) (two BAD movies),
not a blueprint for successful insurrection. In the real world, the
annoyances known as the "Wolverines" would be promptly and
easily exterminated.

(Two REALLY bad movies, jebus, didn't anybody in the room have the nerve
to point out that remaking worthless drivel three decades later was highly
likely to result in far more expensive worthless drivel?)...

For tech dinosaurs ... Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (May 14)
A bunch of old tech going up for auction:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22510800

(Including an Enigma :-)

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You can observe a lot by just watching. - Yogi Berra
victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://www.infosecbc.org/links...

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