Re: Network Sniffing

[Florian Streck <streck () papafloh de>]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 08:26:41PM -0800, xtrecate wrote:
> The article states that the FBI served subpoenas for specific information
> from insecure.org, likely after finding evidence that some specific attacker
> (who, no doubt, did something which deserves to be investigated) retrieved
> data from insecure.org.  It would appear they are simply trying to
> cross-reference logs to discover an attacker's real IP address.  This is
> pretty legitimate, and Fyodor was apparently very diligent in ensuring all
> information was retrieved via legal methods.
>
> People intending to commit felonies over the internet, obviously, have
> something to worry about... though I'm not sure why anyone would be
> sympathetic to their plight.

This depends heavily on who decides what a felony is.
Just consider free speech in China. Brings you right into jail.
And I wouldn't go as far as to put the FBI (or any other such agency)
beyond doubt.
Same applies to our (german) authorities as well.
> > Take a look at:
> > http://www.insecure.org/tools.html
> [...]
> Note: The FBI is monitoring HTTP logs from insecure.org. 
>
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/25/1835238&from=rss

Florian

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