Re: An interesting thread...Hacking Bluetooth
No way it's Dave Emory...they did an IP Traceroute and the guy appears to be in Germany. If you've listened to Emory's shows, you'd know from some of his technical statements that he most likely wouldn't be capable of this. I also simply can't imagine him bothering with something like this. On the other hand, the perpetrator of this hoax knows a decent amount about a variety of subjects (including technical ones). After sleeping on it, I'm starting to think he's actually some kind of German conspiracy 'theorist' who's actually been snooping the WiFi, etc...of some interesting locations. He probably saw a "pattern" and convinced himself he had to save the world. It's a very interesting thread to say the least. Forget whether Paul Wolfowitz has some "Hidden Hand" master plan...it'll probably make Dis-information History one day. -TD From: Eric Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: An interesting thread...Hacking Bluetooth Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:36:36 -0800 On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 09:48:01PM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: > Oh no, it gets really interesting. He claims to be an ex-German TLA-type > (how many Ls do German TLAs normally have?), and had advanced knowledge of > 9/11. That's not super-implausible. [..] > Me? I suspect he just pulled all this shit from David Emory's shows and then > added some nice google tech searches. [..] > I was hoping someone knew about this and had already hacked this hoax, If he sounds like Dave Emory, then there isn't much debunking that's required. Food for thought and grounds for further research, Eric
Re: An interesting thread...Hacking Bluetooth
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 09:48:01PM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: > Oh no, it gets really interesting. He claims to be an ex-German TLA-type > (how many Ls do German TLAs normally have?), and had advanced knowledge of > 9/11. That's not super-implausible. [..] > Me? I suspect he just pulled all this shit from David Emory's shows and then > added some nice google tech searches. [..] > I was hoping someone knew about this and had already hacked this hoax, If he sounds like Dave Emory, then there isn't much debunking that's required. Food for thought and grounds for further research, Eric
Re: An interesting thread...Hacking Bluetooth
Oh no, it gets really interesting. He claims to be an ex-German TLA-type (how many Ls do German TLAs normally have?), and had advanced knowledge of 9/11. That's not super-implausible. What's really interesting is that he claims the German TLAs have a new round of strong evidence showing that there's a nuke buried in Houston somewhere that's going to be set off on 12/27. He's tied in all sorts of shadowy agencies along with internal politcs causing the info not to be acted upon. Even that would be worthy of ignoring, but he's actually told this story extremely well, naming fairly obscure (but real) names in the intelligence community and so on. The guy's posts have actually made some serious waves on a bunch of boards. Me? I suspect he just pulled all this shit from David Emory's shows and then added some nice google tech searches. WiFi I know was cracked wide open a while back, and that wasn't exactly a secret (it's the reason for 802.11x). BUT, add knowledge of this to the conspiracy theories to the politics and you have a guy who has gone to great lengths to create an excellent hoax. Indeed, one can only imagine that the reason for something like this has to go way beyond mere hoaxing (eg, the guy's a neo-Nazi?) I was hoping someone knew about this and had already hacked this hoax, because so far I haven't seen anything that conclusively debunks this guy. -TD From: Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: An interesting thread...Hacking Bluetooth Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 23:36:58 +0100 On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 02:13:52PM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: > "Here4s another myth: you cannot hack bluetooth from a distance of more > than 40 metres. Not true. My technical partner Felix can crack it at over > half a kilometre. Which is why he enjoys driving around so much in areas The official record right now is 1.74 km: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/49907 http://trifinite.org/trifinite_stuff_bluebug.html#news No doubt you can do much better with a large dish, and good alignment, as well as a clear line of sight. > where we know British, American, Israeli or Russian ops are living or > working. The great thing about many German cities is that most affordable > residences are within metres of the street anyway." > > Any comments? Bluetooth attacks aren't exactly new. No idea what else that tinfoil-hatted person is spouting. -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl __ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
News on the Skype reverse-engineering front
I thought this might be of interest for the list, but haven't seen it mentioned/discussed here: Some progress has been made reverse-engineering the Skype protocol [1]. No details on the crypto implementation yet, but first attempts to understand the P2P model they use. Cheers, Ralf [1] S. A. Baset and H. Schulzrinne An Analysis of the Skype Peer-to-Peer Internel Telephony Protocol http://arxiv.org/pdf/cs.NI/0412017 [2] H.T. Kung: CS143: Computer Networks (P2P VoIP) http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/cs143/slides/2004-12-02-p2p-voip.pdf
All your wavelengths belong to us (or Powell, or the SS)
The FCC is trying to shut down a guerilla radio station in DC calling for protests during Bush's January re-anoint^H^H^H^H^H Google for it.
