User: makash

Re:US Spy Incident

On: China's Cyberwar Against India

Anyone know what the "US spy incident" is that is mentioned at the end of the article? A US diplomat Rosanne Minchew who was part of a joint Indo-US Cyber Security Initiative, was asked to leave the country and three Indian working with her were jailed for leaking documents from National Security Council. NSC is like a clearing house of all intelligence inputs and apparently they leaked India's nuclear plans, Naval plans for the Indian Ocean etc. You can read more here http://www.indianexpress.com/sunday/story/7712.html http://www.rediff.com/news/2006/jul/04spy.htm http://www.indosec.org/HighSecBreach

Old News and more

On: Orkut In Pact With Indian Law Enforcement

First of all this is old news. First discussed around mid march of 2007. The only thing that Google is doing different is that it has given Mumbai Police some priority helpline. Someone from http://www.contentsutra.com/ was able to the response of a Google rep. who said the following

Response from a Google spokesperson by email, quoted verbatim: Google Legal team met with the police from various states and offered a special priority reporting tool that will enable them to have a direct line of contact with Google. The feedback has been very positive. Google has very high standards for user privacy and a clear privacy policy. When dealing with requests from authorities, we are very careful to balance the interests of our users while still being as cooperative in the investigation and prosecution of crimes as possible. What is important to note is that this new reporting tool does not affect the way we treat users' data - it only enables a faster, direct communication. Authorities will still be required to follow an appropriate legal process in order to get user-identifying information.

You can read the full post here http://www.contentsutra.com/entry/419-updated-orku t-to-share-offender-data-with-mumbai-police-google s-clarifi/

Re:Note to Editors

On: Botnet on Botnet Action

Seriously, why couldn't some kind of "GOOD" botnet be created that does this?

There does exist a "GOOD" worm for this.

From http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-federal-06/bh-fed- 06-speakers.html

Nematodes - Dave Aitel, CTO/Founder, Immunity, Inc.

This presentation presents concepts for taking exploitation frameworks into the next evolution: solving complex security problems by generating robustly controllable beneficial worms. The Why, How, and What of Nematode creation are discussed, along with some concepts in Mesh routing.