Re: [funsec] Kafka would have been proud ...

2014-09-11 Thread Mark Seiden
On Sep 11, 2014, at 2:41 PM, Bill Terwilliger wrote: > Based on this paragraph, it seems that she is not worthy of passing her > background check: > > “”” > Barr maintains that she had been truthful throughout both interviews, and > that “there was no material fact about these organizations f

Re: [funsec] Petraeus

2012-11-21 Thread mark seiden
two comments: 1. i don't know if you noticed that petraeus and paula were sharing a password for a gmail account and leaving drafts for each other. so no actual mail transmitted the network. so far the only factoid that has not leaked out is the content of the harassing mail that made paula a

Re: [funsec] Fired IT guy puts porn in ex-boss' PowerPoint, gets sweet revenge

2011-06-24 Thread mark seiden
my understanding (i'm not a lawyer) is if the search was legal, the particularity rule means they could look anywhere the specific evidence could be found, and anything they happen to find in those places (or is visible in plain view) is admissible. On Jun 24, 2011, at 7:48 AM, wrote: > Hmmm

Re: [funsec] "Spain arrests Anonymous suspects" (BBC)

2011-06-11 Thread mark seiden
On Jun 11, 2011, at 10:08 AM, Larry Seltzer wrote: > I understand that the Spanish have some experience in getting suspects to > confess. Their chief weapon is surprise, surprise and fear, their two > chief weapons and, perhaps, a fanatical devotion to the pope? > > LJS > ___

Re: [funsec] User data stolen in Sony PlayStation hack

2011-04-26 Thread mark seiden
On Apr 26, 2011, at 5:30 PM, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah wrote: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/26/sony_playstation_network_security_brea > ch/ > > This couldn't have happened to a nicer company. Really. It just couldn't. > the interesting blurb from http://blog.us.p

Re: [funsec] I'm stranded in London! Send money!

2009-06-22 Thread mark seiden-via mac
it's interesting that they're going through the trouble of reading people's email enough so they can add verisimilitude to an otherwise lackluster narrative. i don't think these are bots. the key questions they have to get over are why they can't be reached by phone and why they can't recei

Re: [funsec] British Television

2009-06-02 Thread Mark
I can't believe Young Ones isn't in your list. One of the best ever. -Mark Coleman Jon Kibler wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Gadi Evron wrote: > >> Mentioning Monty Python's Flying Circus seems too out of date even for &g

Re: [funsec] OT: wonder what color his coffin would be?

2008-08-29 Thread mark seiden-via mac
black, but with a white power adaptor. On Aug 29, 2008, at 11:15 AM, Big R wrote: > http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2224938/steve-jobs-obituary-mistakenly > > -- > RandallMan > -- > "Never tell anyone how smart you are. If you do, they will believe > only so much of what you have to s

Re: [funsec] **SPAM*** Re: [Spam-R] Pure 419

2008-07-30 Thread mark seiden-via mac
see that little thing in there starting with 41.*? it's called an ip address and it is your friend. whois says it's from starcomms dialup in lagos, despite someone's excellent english. sify is a freemail provider. the reply-to address isn't even at sify it's at myway, despite what he says

Re: [funsec] E-Gold Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering

2008-07-30 Thread mark seiden-via mac
i hope western union and moneygram are next. as far as i can tell, they're just facilitators for crime. On Jul 21, 2008, at 5:25 PM, Paul Ferguson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Via PC World. > > [snip] > > E-Gold, an Internet-based payment service, and three owners

Re: [funsec] Police push ID links to prepaid phones

2008-05-12 Thread mark seiden-via mac
a few data points on this. as a frequent traveler: i recently had to show id in spain and france (but not in the uk) to buy a prepaid sim. in japan you need a govt issue id card (so you need a local citizen to buy you a prepaid phone). and as an infosec guy: the bad guys are also buying v

Re: [funsec] Police push ID links to prepaid phones

2008-05-12 Thread mark seiden-via mac
a few data points on this. as a frequent traveler: i recently had to show id in spain and france (but not in the uk) to buy a prepaid sim. in japan you need a govt issue id card (so you need a local citizen to buy you a prepaid phone). and as an infosec guy: the bad guys are also buying v

Re: [funsec] epilepsy PAWNED

2008-03-29 Thread mark seiden-via mac
not that farfetched even now: i have a friend whose hearing aid had a cold solder joint that was doing diode detection on a christian AM radio station (in berkeley, even)... On Mar 29, 2008, at 7:47 PM, Imri Goldberg wrote: > This reminds me of that pace-maker exploit. > If we take it a bit

Re: [funsec] FBI CP sting

2008-03-20 Thread mark seiden-via mac
i think i can answer this question. they submit clicking on the link as an attempt to download porn and say this in a probable cause affidavit for search warrant. they consider this as similar to an attempt (even one which fails) to purchase CP using a credit card. i worked on a case where so

Re: [funsec] RIP: Full disk encryption?

2008-03-13 Thread mark seiden-via mac
i think everyone has to agree this is among the coolest possible attacks... On Feb 22, 2008, at 5:29 AM, Richard M. Smith wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/technology/index.html A Method for Critical Data Theft ___ Fun and Misc security discussion