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Re: ndr.py and sarah palin
From: "Dan Moniz" <dnm () pobox com>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:48:35 -0400
On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Dave Korn <dave.korn () artimi com> wrote:
Dave Aitel wrote on 17 September 2008 18:44:http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin_Yahoo_inbox_2008From that page:"Nb. The 'ctunnel.com' reference in the browser screen shots is to a proxy service used to prevent the activists from being traced."
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So let me see if I've guessed this right: it's a proxy that rewrites all your URLs in rot-13? And this is supposed to "protect your anonymity"? Those activists are screwed. They better get out of the country PDQ. Pardon me, but I'll be sticking with proper mix chains for now.
Well this was predictable[1]: "A Tennessee state legislator has confirmed that his son, a 20-year-old student at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, is the person being named on blogs and message boards in connection with the hacking of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's e-mail account, a Nashville paper reported late yesterday." "State Rep. Mike Kernell told the Tennessean that his son, David Kernell, is at the center of speculation about the identity of the hacker who gained access to Palin's account." "On Wednesday, someone identified only as "rubico" posted a message to 4chan.org's popular /b/ board claiming to have gained access to Palin's e-mail by using Yahoo's password reset feature. Although the post was deleted from 4chan.org, a copy was sent to conservative syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin, who published it on her blog Wednesday." But it gets better: why worry about the suitability of ROT-13 when you have logs? I believe the term is "LULZ!": "Gabriel Ramuglia, the webmaster of an Athens, Ga.-based proxy service, may be able to shed light on the identity of the hacker as early as today. On Thursday, Ramuglia said that the FBI had contacted both him and Yahoo the day before, asking for server logs to determine who had accessed Palin's account. "Ramuglia operates Ctunnel, an ad-supported proxy service targeted primarily at users in schools or businesses who want to access sites that are normally blocked by network administrators. Screenshots of several messages from Palin's account showed that the hacker had used Ramuglia's proxy service in an attempt to hide his or her tracks." "He was also confident he would be able to pinpoint the person who used his proxy service to access Palin's account. "I should be able to track it down to their original ISP, and then the IP address of the person who did it," Ramuglia said. "Who did this abused my service and broke the law."" Footnotes: [1] http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9115158 -- Dan Moniz <dnm () pobox com> [http://pobox.com/~dnm/] _______________________________________________ Dailydave mailing list Dailydave () lists immunitysec com http://lists.immunitysec.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave
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- ndr.py and sarah palin Dave Aitel (Sep 17)
- Re: ndr.py and sarah palin Dave Korn (Sep 17)
- Re: ndr.py and sarah palin Dan Moniz (Sep 19)
- Re: ndr.py and sarah palin Dave Korn (Sep 17)