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Iran Bans Pokemon Go Over 'Security Concerns' (usatoday.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Iran has become the first country to ban Pokemon Go, the mobile game where users (aka Pokemon trainers) roam the physical world in search for digital creatures known as Pokemon. The country cites security concerns for the reason behind the ban. "Any game that wants to operate nationwide in Iran needs to obtain permission from the ministry of culture and Islamic guidance, and the Pokemon Go app has not yet requested such a permission," Abolhasan Firouzabadi, the head of Iran's supreme council of virtual space, told the Isna news agency. The Guardian reports that Iranian officials feel that the game can create problems for the country and its people. Iranian authorities use smart filtering software, a system that affects connectivity speeds and in many cases has replaced more traditional mechanisms for blocking internet services, the Guardian reported.
Stupid are the rest of the world's peeps!
I'm going to GPS spoof all throughout that country. I wonder if highly populated areas with little to no activity increase rewards somehow.
detecting explosives than their previous model did.
pokimon go gathers environmental data, camera shots, video, gps, etc etc to map out its environment. one of the main monetization verticals for pokimon go is similar to google maps vehicles that basically is a huge surveillance system.
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The only security concern is that the country isn't making money off of a popular game. This is similar to a protection racket.
Pokemon is a rape simulator!
When you outlaw capturing pokemon, only outlaws can become pokemon masters.
meanwhile
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/isr...
How long will it be before someone sets up a PokeStop or Pokemon gym or whatever it is that causes people to congregate at a location and plants a bomb there? Or just messes with people by planting a rare Pokemon inside some sacred temple like the Kaaba?
Have gnu, will travel.
65535 â December 21, 2013 4:38 AM
https://www.schneier.com/blog/...
@ Jackson
Your concern about the Cryptome report does raise serious questions. When carefully read the Cryptome report touches on the subject of finger printing TOR users via a BT backdoor.
The Crytome report also speculates that major CA's instantly transmits copies of clients SSL/TLS Certificates to the NSA and possibly GCHQ when purchased. This is quite troubling.
I will note that CSO acknowledges that:
'On the issue of the USDOD IP address referenced by the paper's authors, that block of addresses has been used by many firms over the years. It's a valuable piece of IPv4 real-estate that is often enabled internally by an ISP after they've gotten permission from the Defense Information Systems Agency (the part of the USDOD that manages networks and infrastructure).
Just last year, Sprint was using IPs internally from that block for their mobile network. So the fact that BT would be using it too isn't a shock to network engineers who have seen the paper.
'In short, one security expert told CSO, the usage of 30.x.x.x /8 doesn't really imply NSA monitoring at all. In fact, he added, "If you want a non-routable IP that won't break when using it, [the] DOD is your best choice."'
http://www.csoonline.com/artic...
But the Cryptome report goes much farther. It indicates that a simple ping test can detect the backdoor. Next you can telnet into the modem and see the actual configuration and un-hack the device (assuming altering the firmware doesn't violate BT TOS agreement - causing your service to terminated).
http://cryptome.org/2013/12/Fu...
[Cryptome pdf page 39]
"Easy Confirmation
"Step 1.
"Remove Power from the modem and disconnect the telephone line.
"Step 2.
"On your PC (assumed Linux) add an IP address 192.168.1.100 i.e:
#
ifconfig eth0:1 192.168.1.100 up
"Step 3.
"Start to ping 192.168.1.1 from your PC i.e:
#
"ping 192.168.1.1
"Step 4.
"Connect a network cable to LAN1
"Step 5.
"Plug-in the power cable to the modem and wait for about 30 seconds
"for the device to boot, you will then notice:
"64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=115 ttl=64 time=0.923 ms
"64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=116 ttl=64 time=0.492 ms
"64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=117 ttl=64 time=0.514 ms
"You may notice up to ten responses, then it will stop.
"What is happening is the internal Linux kernel boots [inside of the modem], the start up scripts then configure the internal and virtual interfaces and then turn on the hidden firewall at which point the pings stop responding.
"In other words, there is a short window (3-10 seconds) between when the kernel boots and the hidden firewall kicks in.
"You will not be able to detect any other signs of the hidden network without actually logging into the modem, which is explained in the next section."
The second step is telneting into the BT modem/router is show on page 40 to 44. The "un-hack" is on page 45 forward.
Other notable Cryptome pages include:
"All SSL Certificates Compromised in Real-Time" page 22
"Theft of private keys" page 24
"Tor User/Content Discovery" page 26
@ ron41, see TOR discovery from the Cryptome link. There is a fingerprinting method to determine TOR users.
"Covert International Traffic Routing" page 27
"Secure your end-points" page 30
"I'm an American, does this apply to me" page 35
@ *others who care, the paper indicates that NSA is using the very same technique and can discover TOR users (if this is true it is troubling).
Put all the Pokemon in that highly secure Atomic Bomb I mean er uhm Peaceful Uranium enrichment plant. Free Spying for everyone.
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A theocracy banning a pasttime that sees you out seeking for beings that aren't really there.
Iran clamps down on twitter and other instruments of free thought and socialization.
Someone forgot Saudi Arabia. Iran is only the first to do it over security concerns.
that is a legitimate concern. you don't want third parties being able to track your soldiers and have access what is essentially roaming video feeds of secure facilities and their equipment and personnel.
fuck that. i'm not military and sure as hell don't want any of that either.
You can walk down the Strip in Las Vegas and see all the people running into each other as they try to catch those pokemon. It used to be that you went to see the sites, drink a really tall cocktail, and lose your spare change on slots. Now all I see are people staring at phones.
..these are the folks we should have involved in internet governance
via UN
other venues
"army warned the game activates cell phone cameras and location services, and could leak sensitive information like army base locations and photographs of the bases."
That doesn't matter. Israel's secret nuclear weapons program isn't a secret anymore. And neither are their numerous human rights violations.
Human Rights in Muslim majority countries are as real as Islam calling itself "The Religion of Peace"
Considering that Fascist Iran holds rallies calling for death to America, that Americans respond by calling for:
Marg Bar Iran!
Death to Iran!
Marg Bar all Ayatollahs!
Marg Bar their revolutionary gestapo!
More likely it will be the Sunnis, through their Daesh militant arm.
Have gnu, will travel.
Ah Iranian Authorities, don't ever change! You ban harmless things and get excited about the unexciting. Your irrelevance to modern culture is matched only by Saudi Clerics, a comparison you'll no doubt find exciting as well.
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you have now Slashdot.
Is anything going on in actual tech besides Pokemon GO or is this just the biggest click-bait honeypot story site of all time now?
And I scroll down and see this Pokemon GO story.
Umm am I just a little bit psychic?