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?

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