On Sun, 2011-08-07 at 16:27 -0400, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Sat, 06 Aug 2011 19:59:23 EDT, "Mr. Hinky Dink" said: > > > > 23,000+ showed up in July. Over 16,000 new ones in the first week of > > August. Somebody doesn't get it. > > > > http://mrhinkydink.blogspot.com/2011/08/tcp-port-8909-proxies.html > > > > See also... > > > > http://mrhinkydink.blogspot.com/2011/04/insecure-defaults-in-ppliveav-client.html > > "Doesn't get it"? You're making the rash assumption it's not intentional. > > You yourself say "Government spooks and contractors take note: you can use > these to stage your false flag attacks!". Now take it one step further - > what if > they're intentionally open so the Chinese gov't can launch an attack through > them > and claim it was somebody else pulling a false flag attack? > > You think that's too devious? Go read up on who financed the research that > lead to TOR - and *why* they financed it. (tl;dr: US Gov. financed it, so the > US > spooks could more easily fly under the wire mixed in with all the other > nefarious > people using TOR. So yes, it's patriotic to use TOR so it's even harder to > use > traffic analysis to track down our spooks. :) >
There's always the possibility that *I* don't get it. Because I'm SOMEBODY dammit! So... are you a spook or a contractor? Or both? _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/