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During the 'hunt' for Wikileaks the U.S. has subpoenaed Twitter for info about supposed supporters.[1] In the case of Lulzsec this will have very little use tho
by qF 15y ago
During the 'hunt' for Wikileaks the U.S. has subpoenaed Twitter for info about supposed supporters.[1] In the case of Lulzsec this will have very little use though, as they use VPN's to hide their IP [2].
[1] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/01/twitter/ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/01/twitter/
[2] http://lulzsecexposed.blogspot.com/2011/06/scared-puppies.html http://lulzsecexposed.blogspot.com/2011/06/scared-puppies.ht...
- trotsky 15y agothey use VPN's to hide their IP The FBI routinely uses software exploits to install something called CIPAV on the remote client computer to retrieve forensics data and negate the effect of proxies, vpns, tor, etc. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/07/fbi-spyware-how/ http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/07/fbi-spyware-how/ Twitter almost assuredly has the ability to push a custom iframe or similar based on who is logged on to support these kinds of government payloads. In the case the wired article references myspace directly assisted. Surely being more security paranoid than usual should make it harder for an attack like this to succeed, but if the feds get pissed enough it's not unthinkable that they could get access to a targeted zero day to use.
- kl4m 15y agoIt's pretty much useless if the tunnel is on another machine and/or it's firewalled properly.