Re: I Write Mass Surveillance Software

2009-09-17 Thread Brian Mearns
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Rich Jones r...@anomos.info wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9kwph/i_am_a_guy_who_writes_covert_software_that_runs/ Thoughts? also, I realized that two of the posts I've made this this list have now been reddit-related. Sorry about that. But I'd

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Re: I Write Mass Surveillance Software

2009-09-17 Thread Michael Holstein
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9kwph/i_am_a_guy_who_writes_covert_software_that_runs/ Thoughts? The mention of C like code and the DPI makes me think the hardware uses Intel's IPX series network processors. For those, the ruleset is basically written in C and uploaded to the device.

Re: good troll, intelligence psyops, or the genuine article? you decide

2009-09-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
- Forwarded message from Ted Smith te...@cs.umd.edu - From: Ted Smith te...@cs.umd.edu Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:11:12 -0400 To: Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org Cc: cypherpu...@al-qaeda.net Subject: Re: good troll, intelligence psyops, or the genuine article? you decide X-Mailer:

Re: I Write Mass Surveillance Software

2009-09-17 Thread Michael Holstein
The IXP2800 can do line-rate 10gbps http://download.intel.com/design/network/ProdBrf/27905403.pdf Here's one more link that explains the IXP series architecture http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/homes/luddy/PROCESSORS/IXP2850.pdf (basically, all the OP on Rededit was saying, was he's the guy that

Re: good troll, intelligence psyops, or the genuine article? you decide

2009-09-17 Thread Brian Mearns
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: - Forwarded message from Ted Smith te...@cs.umd.edu - From: Ted Smith te...@cs.umd.edu Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:11:12 -0400 To: Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org Cc: cypherpu...@al-qaeda.net Subject: Re: good troll,

Re: good troll, intelligence psyops, or the genuine article? you decide

2009-09-17 Thread Ted Smith
On Thu, 2009-09-17 at 15:59 -0400, Brian Mearns wrote: Could you explain what psyops refers to? Psychological operations? If I understand correctly, you're suggesting that perhaps he/his organization doesn't really have all the capabilities he implies, but that they're trying to scare people

Re: good troll, intelligence psyops, or the genuine article? you decide

2009-09-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 03:59:17PM -0400, Brian Mearns wrote: Could you explain what psyops refers to? Psychological operations? If I understand correctly, you're suggesting that perhaps he/his organization doesn't really have all the capabilities he implies, but that they're trying to scare

Re: good troll, intelligence psyops, or the genuine article? you decide

2009-09-17 Thread Paul Syverson
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:24:35PM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote: It's better to think that your adversary is more capable than assuming the opposite. This isn't necessarily about Tor, since Tor explicitly wasn't designed to deal with that kind of threat model. However, it's a good idea to think

Re: I Write Mass Surveillance Software

2009-09-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 03:58:50PM -0400, Michael Holstein wrote: (basically, all the OP on Rededit was saying, was he's the guy that writes the microengine code) .. the processors themselves aren't Not quite -- he explicitly claimed they used custom hardware. Perhaps using network