jim_dnaley

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   by jim_dnaley 12y ago

   Damage is worse than was previously announced: "Publicly, Belgacom has played down the extent of the compromise, insisting that only its internal systems were breached and that customers’ data was never found to have been at risk. But
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   Operation Socialist: The Inside Story of How British Spies Hacked Belgacom(firstlook.org)

   14 points by jim_dnaley 12y ago|1 comments
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   by jim_dnaley 12y ago

   Good article - the control of the infrastructure of the internet is a large problem today. For historical context, I suggest looking into Paul Garrin's project Name.Space - it highlights the often-invisible control of TLDs and DNSs by
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   by jim_dnaley 12y ago

   IIRC, Silk Road 1.0 (is this what we're calling it now?) had mirroring servers. As we know, somehow the IP of the main server was leaked, whether through the CAPTCHA or by other means. Security by obscurity always fails - especially a
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   by jim_dnaley 12y ago

   They located Silk Road 2.0's server in an unspecified way, not directly related to their undercover agent on the support staff. Given that two other darknet markets (Black Market and Cloud9) have been shut down today, and they didn&#x2