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Carnivore In Living Color
joel jaeggli writes: "The Carnivore talk done by Marcus Thomas from the FBI at NANOG 20 is now online... you can retrieve it from: University of Oregon Videolab. This talk was meant for a technical audience, and the discussion and questions from the audience are very enlightening. Major thanks should go to the folks from Merit/NANOG for managing to schedule this talk, to Marcus Thomas and the FBI for their candor, and the NANOG crowd for asking the important questions."
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You are a fucking moron.
Though the definition isn't something I can explain, it's an mpeg format.
I sorta thought the context of the article made that pretty clear?
<em>and multicast live in h.261, mpeg-1 and mpeg-2</em>
Though I guess it isn't obvious.
The nick is a joke! Really!
GPL Deconstructed
Why can't slashdot spend a little bit of VA's
cash and get themselvs a good mirroring system/box?
I think it would be a little more polite than
foisting crowds of data-hungry slashdotters on
an unsuspecting site.
Carnivore is one part of the start of a very dangerous trend in the United States of America. It began with the War on Drugs, the middle and early eighties saw the start of routine unlawful search and seizure by government officials and the bribing of witnesses to imprison (often with life sentences) other individuals. Lately, government officials have decided that no communications by its citizens can go unobserved or unencumbered. Complete censorship of entire categories of speech is becoming routine through mandatory "filters" at school, in libraries, and soon at your computer. Now Carnivore. The end of private communications as we know it. Now the government will know that I am the one who wants you to know about what the government is doing & that I think it is wrong.
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He lives in a world where those who do not run the client software of the omnipresent meme are unacceptable.
Use snail mail. Simple and tamper proof. Is that a christmas card to grandma or stealth bomber blueprints, you would never know.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
So the Government wants to have access to whatever "bad elements" send over the network. But will they ever be able to do it? This isn't voice we're talking about, this is data. Any "bad element" can encrypt it and make it unreadable by Govt officials in any useful timeframe.
And the Govt knows this, so clearly this isn't their objective. So what is? Mass scanning of John Doe's traffic? Must be.
Now let's look at their own site. An MPEG. How do you mass-scan MPEG files for BadThings(tm)? How do you mass-scan JPEGs? I'd like to know other people's view on this.
free the mallocs!
that'll slow those terrorist bombers down
beep beep beep -- this HTTP link is being monitored by the FBI -- beep beep beep
i wuzn't gonna say anything about my neighbor makin' hootch in his basement, anyway..
beep beep beep -- don't even THINK about using encryption -- beep beep beep
I'm startin' to get used to it already, fnord.
Yes, and there is such thing as a search warrant. Many of them are even justified, based on probable cause. In such cases, the FBI needs the tools to get the right information.
We should certainly worry that they are abusing their power, or that some black hat will subvert the technology. But you cannot expect them to do their jobs without access to modern tools.
My mom is not a Karma whore!
Well, I don't mean to be redundant or to flame VA for not mirroring things, but would some folks post a few mirrors? =)
I tried to set one up but after 30 tries I still couldn't get onto the FTP. Hope someone else is having better luck!
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o re-update.mpg
;)
but please be nice, will ya:
http://mirror.swma.net/carnivor/nanog-20-carniv
If you blow the box I blow the file
Michael
If you want to e-mail me, use my PGP Key.
Most people are thinking of this as a first ammendment right, and it is in one sense, but the REAL right at issue here isn't the first ammendment, it's the fifth:
You have the RIGHT not to give evidence against yourself.
Prior to actual charges being filed you have the RIGHT to protect yourself in any way possible from intrusion into your affairs. You may encrypt, code, obfuscate, and outright destroy anything you want to, for any reason. It is your RIGHT to have it assumed that all such actions are innocent of any wrong doing. You have a RIGHT to be secure * against government intrusion * into your papers.
Once charges have been actually filed you have the RIGHT to * shut the hell up. * This right to shut the hell up includes the right not to tell them your password, not to give them any key codes, the right not to tell them where you hid stuff, the right not to give a statement, the right not to utter one single blessed word. Speak ONLY to your lawyer.
Use your rights. Encrypt everything. Your laundry list. Your cat's birthday. Your phone conversations. Everything. Use as much personal jargon that will be meaningless to anyone but the intended recipient, ( which could be noone but yourself), as possible. Learn to use steganography and encrypt and code things before you embed them. Use assorted DIFFERENT encryption and encoding techniques.
Destroy everything that is of no more use to you. Don't just delete, destroy. Everytime you reinstall an operating system write 0's to the entire HD first. Eat memos. Just because you now have the power and the space to document your life in exquisite detail dosn't mean it's a good idea. Keep your house, real and virtual, squeaky clean. Throw away old phone bills. Throw away all financial records that current law, ( unconstitutionally), does not require you to retain. Throw away all reciepts except for those things that you WISH to be able to prove ownership of. When I say throw away I don't mean throw away or shred, I mean BURN.
Use cash. They hate that. They're making it illegal by bits.
If called before a grand jury or civil court where it is currently held that the fifth ammendment dosn't apply get a really, REALLY bad memory. Repeat after Reagan. " I don't recall, I don't recall, I don't recall."
These are your rights, use them or lose them
From what I've heard, the number of actual wiretaps is going up, while the number of times those wiretaps actually contribute to a prosecution is going down.
In fairness to law enforcement, the mere fact that the number of wiretaps is going up is not in and of itself a bad sign, since the amount of communications is going up. However, one would hope that the ratio of (wiretaps that generate evidence used in a prosecution)/(wiretaps) would be holding constant or increasing. From what I've heard, the actual ratio is plummetting - the government is fishing more and more, and getting less and less for it.
I believe that the government should be required to place a specified time limit on any wiretap warrant (time <= 6 months), and at the end of that time either
This would force the government to be more careful in selecting targets to tap. As it is now, if "Murry the Snitch" says I'm selling drugs (because he's on the hot spot and needs to give a name, any name, to the police), and they tap me for a few years and find nothing, then they quietly bury the data without so much as a by your leave. If they had to present to me the data so gathered, and the source of the information leading to the search warrant (does "the right to confront your accusor" ring a bell?), then I could (hell, would) bring suit against the the law enforcement agency involved as well as "Murry".
Of course, this has about as much chance of being passed into law and enforced as freezing a pot of water by placing it on a hot stove.
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MPEGs are cool, but does anyone know where I can find a transcript?