Some thoughts.. Whether they did or not is probably way past irrelevant now. I'd probably wager the site owners were just pissed off with the massive bandwidth-consumption from all the scandal. Its not beyond the stretch of the imagination that private companies were hired to "make these go away" - if we've learned anything from the disclosed information its that conspiracy is very real.
As they were distributed via torrent, everyone and their mother (not to mention every company with HBGary as a client) has a copy, if not for the chuckles, then to assess their own exposure given the data that was leaked - which should have been main priority for everyone involved in the breach. Client confidentiality explosion. PINs, passwords, bags of personnel data which could be leveraged in a social engineering attack. Given the timescale and hopefully the proper education of all parties identified and involved in the disclosures, you would think the data enclosed is almost useless now to an attacker - but unlikely. On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 4:24 PM, ck <c.kernst...@googlemail.com> wrote: > So, the FEDs shut down all mirrors of the HBGary files - or didn't they? > > ck > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html > Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/ > -- I’m a hot-wired, heat seeking, warm-hearted cool customer, voice activated and bio-degradable. I interface with my database, my database is in cyberspace, so I’m interactive, I’m hyperactive and from time to time I’m radioactive.
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