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The FBI Has a Trojan To Watch You
G_of_the_J writes "A man who had cut 18 cables affecting Verizon and Comcast was blackmailing them. He had demanded bank accounts be set up and information be provided on web sites that he specified. Although he used anonymous access to get to the web sites, the FBI had planted a trojan which was downloaded to his computer. The trojan then sent his IP address and other information to the FBI."
Crap. Too bad that website was the top rank on a google search for comcast verizon cut cable blackmail.
I suppose posting anonymously won't help now.
I don't know... Seems to me like another reason not to cut 18 cables and not know how to hide your identity.
"This website requires additional ActiveX components to be installed."
Hmm...
*click*
...
Oops.
I am the lawn!
If this guy had had half a brain, he would have wiped the computer's hard drive clean by overwriting it with zeroes, and then done everything by using a Linux distribution on a bootable CD that could run entirely in RAM. Instead, he ran Windows and got nailed by a Trojan. Somewhere in the afterlife, J. Edgar Hoover is laughing his panty-clad ass off.
I write sci-fi for metalheads
Always use noscript when doing nefarious shit....
So we can assume that the right to keep and bear arms can include the use of trojans for personal reasons. Perhaps the Fed would like to tax and license the use of trojans. Only after an approved trojan safety course has been passed, of course. Other permits would be required to use a trojan outside of ones home and some public venues could ban the use of trojans in their facilities.
Requiring a permit to use trojans outside of the home wouldn't seem consistent with the Democrats position on sex education ;)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
What incredible insight.
Greta: He knocked over another ATM. This time at knife point. He needs your legal advice.
Fletcher: [picking up phone and shouting] Stop breaking the law, asshole!
Whale
If you get a call from someone who refuses to identify themselves asking you if you'd be willing to edit a couple hidden configuration files and restart your system, then you have the Linux version.
Someone once said "I never meta dupe I didn't like."
That someone was not me.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
Nice ideas. Here is all I had: Demand that the info be in ASCII text, and download it with wget.
Or am i just a European speaking to an American ; ).
No, just an asshole acting smugly superior.
That's MY IP address too! Is the FBI hacking my computer as well?
Remember kids, only criminals use proxies. And only criminals use "an alternate operating system, with a black screen and white characters".
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
Don't you watch the movies? They would've backtraced his IP address through their firewall with a Visual Basic program within seconds. You need to bounce around the world through at LEAST 15 anonymizing proxies for that to work and give you a minute or two of time to taunt them before you disconnect at the last minute just as the blue blipping blob on their VB.Net trace program is about to pinpoint your location in North America as the program starts zooming in on your location with Google Maps.
Click! All they know is you're in the northeast, but you told them that already right before you disconnected when you said you were calling them from a payphone across the street. When they rush out of their building all they find is an empty payphone with an acoustic coupler attached to the handset and interfaced to some kind of prepaid cell phone. You put down your binoculars that you've been using to watch the situation from the 5th floor of your hotel down the street and press a button on your computer which detonates the C4 conveniently hidden behind the payphone. Did they really think a silly god damn Windows spyware program was going to take you down so easily?
Mental note for future reference...
when requesting a private website to extort money, post the credentials here or /b/ on 4chan.
Let them deal with all that was posted AND handle the bandwidth consumption. /b/)
then report the site to another agency for kiddie pics ( or kittie pics, knowing
How amazed would you be to suddenly find that you just forgot what I wrote and you needed to reread my post.... again.
It's worth noting that in order to use CIPAV, the FBI has to get court approval after explaining how the software can help stop a crime.
+1 funny
> Reason for requested leave: Starting an evil empire
Trust me, it's not as great as it sounds. The overhead is a lot more than you expect. Everyone figures they'll just steal a couple nuclear warheads and they're in business, but they never think about the essentials. Do you know how much toilet paper your evil lair will go through in a week? Even though you have the contribution jar next to the coffee maker, no one ever pitches in unless you happen to be standing there. With the downturn in the economy, you don't have the same staffing issues as you normally do, but finding decent henchmen is always a chore. The ones you do find are all, "We want dental!", "We need flex time!", "Respect me as an equal!", and "Oh God, no, save me, IT BURNS!!!" I mean, come on, what am I your mommy?
You go through all that, then in the middle of one of your best speeches, some moron running around in a tuxedo blows it all up with a can of hairspray and a laser beam built into a wristwatch.
Seriously.
Hey, that's my IP address! drinkypoo hacked my computer! Where's the FBI when I need them?
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
I'm sorry but that house analogy dcoesn't work for me, can you explain it using cars?
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.