ORDER: denied as moot [7] Motion to Quash. All defendants except Doe 1 are hereby SEVERED from this action. Civil Action No. 3:10-CV-93 SHALL BE assigned to John Doe No. 1 as an individual defendant. Signed by Chief Judge John Preston Bailey on 12/16/2010.

Single action, multiple defendants cases continue their own via crucis. You can find some background here, here and here.

Latest news come from a last wave of cases filled by copyright holders against some thousands of «Does». Chief Judge John Preston Bailey decided to severe all «Does» but one in the cases he is involved with.

Via arstechnica.

Evidence of continued disruption comes from security firms providing solutions to industrial companies to deal with Stuxnet infections. Eric Byres, an expert from SCADA security firm Tofino Security, told the Post that his company’s website was receiving an increasing number of visits from Iranians in recent weeks, suggesting that dealing with Stuxnet and properly securing industrial automation and control systems was still a problem for the Iranians.

Iranians may consider an anonymous proxy. If they happen to find an anonymous proxy they can rely on (oxymoron?).

This one’s for the SCADA experts around here. Yes, I mean you Pau ;-)

Via arstechnica.

See SCADA, Stuxnet.

BSD project leader Theo de Raadt received an email from former NETSEC CTO Gregory Perry in which Perry claims he helped FBI to plant backdoors in OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework:

My NDA with the FBI has recently expired, and I wanted to make you
aware of the fact that the FBI implemented a number of backdoors and
side channel key leaking mechanisms into the OCF, for the express
purpose of monitoring the site to site VPN encryption system
implemented by EOUSA, the parent organization to the FBI.»

Some say the leaking mechanisms could be placed on the IPSEC stack.

If this didn’t look bad enough, Perry also suggests that DARPA withdrew his funding on OpenBSD because of this.

From openbsd-tech, via arstechnica.

If you haven’t read this, it’s never too late…

P.S: see SNAFU principle.

UPDATE:

Jason Wright’s response and clear denial.

I’ll put my money where my mouth is.

IPsec gossip.

OpenBSD is a great product, but y’all are too easily trolled.

His NDA with the FBI *expired* so he 1) discloses information that’s
privileged at the very least and a political stick of dynamite at
worst, 2) discloses it in a private forum to an individual known for
his transparency and total lack of tact, 3) doesn’t bother contacting
anyone in the press about it, 4) claims to know various other pundits
are «on the FBI payroll,» and 5) claims that the FBI deliberately
compromised an open source project in order to spy on its parent
organization and other government agencies.

Here’s a tip: when a government organization works with private
contractors to help them spy on other government organizations, those
NDAs don’t fucking expire.

Jesus.»

See original message.

LATERAL:

_NSAKEY.

New UPDATE:

OpenBSD code audit uncovers bugs, but no evidence of backdoor (arstechnica). It does not mean that the audit of the thousands of lines of code involved is over. We’ll have to wait for some months to get a reliable result.

More:

how i stopped worrying and loved the backdoor.

My NDA with the FBI has recently expired, and I wanted to make you
aware of the fact that the FBI implemented a number of backdoors and
side channel key leaking mechanisms into the OCF, for the express
purpose of monitoring the site to site VPN encryption system
implemented by EOUSA, the parent organization to the FBI.

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that police must obtain a valid search warrant before accessing a suspect’s e-mail in a criminal investigation.

EFF via arstechnica.

BONUS: Search Warrant Affidavit example via Forensic Focus :-)

https://www.youtube.com/user/csedweek
https://www.csedweek.org/

And at cashout if the hacked ATM is in Europe, that’s approximately 20-25k Euros. So we potentially have already about 20k dollars. Also imagine that if was not GSM sending SMS and to receive tracks it would be necessary to take the equipment from ATM, and during this moment, at 15:00 there comes police and takes off the equipment.
And what now? All operation and your money f#@!&$ up? It would be shame!! Yes? And with GSM the equipment we have the following: Even if there comes police and takes off the equipment, tracks are already on your computer.»

Form krebsonsecurity via BoingBoing.

“Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism)” , University of Michigan Press, 1995, p106

There is no more hope for meaning. And without a doubt this is a good thing: meaning is mortal. But that on which it has imposed its ephemeral reign, what it hoped to liquidate in order to impose the reign of the Enlightenment, that is, appearances, they, are immortal, invulnerable to the nihilism of meaning or of non-meaning itself.

This is where seduction begins.”

Handle these links with care, you’ve been warned:

<added>

• NHD,  hacker folklore

</added>

• Entrevista a Assange en «El País».
• Toward a Taxonomy of Secrets.
• Eco.
• Anonymous.
• 4chan.
• LOIC.
• Tor.
• Liberté.
• P2P DNS then.
• P2P DNS now.
• Ben Laurie.
• History Insurance.
• Wikileaks Leak.
• CIA, Soros, etc.
• OpenLeaks (available december 13th? UPDATE 12/15/2010, still «Coming soon!»).

Go to an esoteric book shop and you’ll find that every book on the shelf (on the Holy Grail, the “mystery” of Rennes-le-Château [a hoax theory concocted to draw tourists to a French town], on the Templars or the Rosicrucians) is a point-by-point rehash of what is already written in older books. And it’s not just because occult authors are averse to doing original research (or don’t know where to look for news about the non-existent), but because those given to the occult only believe what they already know and what corroborates what they’ve already heard.

Umberto Eco

It is not very common to find examples of expert witness’ intervention exposed in such a concise, clear, comprehensive way as the one found here.

I want to make very clear that the opinions and/or positions found in the previous link are not to be bound to my opinions and/or positions and are exclusively linked here for the only purpose to illustrate the procedure, development and disquisitions of expert witnesses in the USA jurisdiction.

The case described in the linked text is not chosen by its substance, but only for adjective factors.

NYT

WIRED

Remembering Mandelbrot via

Wikipedia

Coastline paradox