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Database of Private SSL Keys Published
Trailrunner7 writes "A new project has produced a large and growing list of the private SSL keys that are hard-coded into many embedded devices, such as consumer home routers. The LittleBlackBox Project comprises a list of more than 2,000 private keys right now, each of which can be associated with the public key of a given router, making it a simple matter for an attacker to decrypt the traffic passing through the device. Published by a group called /dev/ttyS0, the LittleBlackBox database of private keys gives users the ability to find the key for a specific router in several different ways, including by searching for a known public key, looking up a device's model name, manufacturer or firmware version or even giving it a network capture, from which the program will extract the device's public certificate and then find the associated private SSL key."
Recently watched a documentary about Wikileaks and Julian Assange. My favorite Julian Assange quote is now, "Why do it? Killing people is fun." While he said it talking about the only possible motive for military people (soldiers on the ground), the fact is, he honestly believes, "killing people is fun." That's a seriously sick person. The fact is, those in the mental health community will tell you Julian's assessment has absolutely no basis is fact or reality; which further stresses he is projecting his own mentality that, "kill is fun." I also enjoyed the part where he hypocritically states that governments are wrong for doing exactly what he's doing, but its okay because he's not them (paraphrasing) and that furthermore, the means justify the end - so long as its him and not soldiers or the military. Again, a seriously hypocritical, deranged person.
Not hard to see why Wikileaks has discarded him and why some are so willing to get distance between themselves and the fucked up person known as Julian Assange. Some are even starting whole new leak organizations so as to completely cut ties between themselves and the deranged and mentally imbalanced Julian Assange.
Julian Assange is likely the best propagandist machine known to the world since the rise of the third reich. No joke. One of the videos which really catapulted him/them into fame is completely out of context and provided by absolutely no back story to properly stage it. In doing so, they provided propaganda (less than half of the actual story) and no meaningful information or facts. Basically this is what is called lies by omission. You can argue it was the media's job to properly collect facts and back story, but it doesn't help that he purposely paints and factually false picture to the world. This is what is called propaganda. So where are the leaks about wikileaks lying at worst and misleading at best?
Meanwhile, some of the lessor known videos (also viewable in the documentary above) should have taken center stage. Contrary to the propaganda and massive ignorance associated with one of the well known videos (reporter/helicopter gunships), some of the others actually do depict war crimes and violations of the Geneva Convention. And yet what got people upset was war ignorantly framed for purely propaganda's sake.
Wikileaks has no credibility at this point for anyone who believes otherwise is ignorantly working as a tool for propaganda and Assange's agenda. Basically, anyone who still believes Assange has credibility is a tool.
I very much hope replacements for Wikileaks become visible very soon and that they are capable of doing what Assange managed to completely destroy and discredit in a matter of months.