tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16750015.post116206783952626700..comments2024-01-24T20:01:37.600-05:00Comments on slight paranoia: FBI Visit #2Christopher Soghoianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08950937382104783909noreply@blogger.comBlogger161125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16750015.post-25235942073429841902007-07-30T19:53:00.000-04:002007-07-30T19:53:00.000-04:00As long as you're innocent you have my every sympa...As long as you're innocent you have my every sympathy. Let me tell you about my experience I had with the police recently. I’m 29 years old and a single parent to my 8 year old daughter. I work part time for a charitable organisation, study British Sign Language part time and go to church most Sundays. This is of no interest to the police as I found out on 20th July 2007 at 7am when they broke my front door down! A search warrant was issued on 29th June 2007 and signed by Justice of the Peace! I’d love to know who has informed the police that I allegedly have counterfeit money on my property. And yes, I have made a complaint to the senior management at West Midlands Police because firstly they were given information/evidence from unreliable sources and secondly the whole thing scared the hell out of me and my child! I'm glad we'd had the chance to get out of bed 10 minutes earlier and wake up a little bit before the whole scene unravelled before our eyes. Luckily my dad retired from the police force a few years ago after 30 years service, so he’s helping me with police jargon. I had to take 1 + 1/2 days compassionate leave from work just to get my front door repaired (it’s still completely knackered!). Shall I tell you what I was doing on 29th June 2007? I was preparing for a tap dance exam for the following afternoon. Which part of my life story makes me sound like I’ve been breaking the law? Hmmm. Welcome to Birmingham, UK! Let’s hope the police force can get their facts right the other 364 days - whichever country they are in!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16750015.post-57203938761184003172007-06-20T20:59:00.000-04:002007-06-20T20:59:00.000-04:00To bad they can't just shoot you and save some tax...To bad they can't just shoot you and save some tax dollars.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16750015.post-19064191074343284392007-06-15T01:34:00.000-04:002007-06-15T01:34:00.000-04:00It is more likely that your computers would just m...It is more likely that your computers would just mysteriously "Stop working" one day because your hard drives were replaced with fake ones while you were gone. So the FBI could investigate you covertly and have the evidence already in hand when they decided to indict you. Then, you find the arrest warrent when you answer the door.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16750015.post-60011986681600563142007-02-28T21:47:00.000-05:002007-02-28T21:47:00.000-05:00I live in the same house as someone who was arrest...I live in the same house as someone who was arrested. the police attained a search warrant for probable cause for this person, and went through her room and my room. are they allowed to charge me with the things they found in my room?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16750015.post-53921990316529420932007-01-04T13:19:00.000-05:002007-01-04T13:19:00.000-05:00THIS IS FAKE, here is the link to the thing to do ...THIS IS FAKE, here is the link to the thing to do it... check it out. http://www.dehp.net/fakewarrant/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16750015.post-29471515470618016992006-12-12T15:16:00.000-05:002006-12-12T15:16:00.000-05:00In a way I'm glad you did this to show the system ...In a way I'm glad you did this to show the system is not working as it should. <br /><br />However, you should have realized (and should have from the beginning) that you could face criminal charges, since it is common sense that doing what you did is a criminal offense. <br /><br />Someone states basically that anyone smart enough would realize you did this with good intentions. He's an idiot. We don't know you; the truth, you could be a terrorist--a not-too-smart one, if that were the case.<br /><br />Let's see what happens.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16750015.post-71250438600089143012006-12-10T10:28:00.000-05:002006-12-10T10:28:00.000-05:00Why do these assholes from the FBI and all other p...Why do these assholes from the FBI and all other police-like outfits have to destroy a person's home when they are acting on a search warrant. I mean they secure the location, they have the guns, they have the power, so WHY the fuck can't they simply respect their fellow citizens and search a place with destroying it? What is it with these psychopaths we pay to "protect" us? The entity known as the "government" is truly the worst kind of terrorist there is. Why? Because it can and does destroy lives at whim in so many ways that a religious fanatic could only dream about.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16750015.post-1165595275505204862006-12-08T11:27:00.000-05:002006-12-08T11:27:00.000-05:00The amazing thing is, is that everyone wants to bl...The amazing thing is, is that everyone wants to blame the FBI, TSA, the Federal Government, etc etc etc.<BR/><BR/>Please keep this in mind when you're bashing federal agencies; every action and/or tool that an agency takes or has at its disposal is either approved or forced by congressional law makers. <BR/><BR/>I've read comments about how they see a police state in the future, and the federal government is one the one helping terrorist by not focusing on the real problems and just wasting tax payers money. Well guess what, if federal agencies had the tools and authority it wanted, things may actually be less evasive.<BR/><BR/>Take for instance, security screening at airports. Several posters here have said it is a joke and is a waste of time and money. That their procedures are ridiculous. Well the reason is because the tools that the government could use are not allowed because of your wonderful ACLU. Items such as backscatter technology that could take full body imagery with needing to take off your shoes, jacket, etc. But oh no its too revealing, so instead guess what now you have to walk through a metal detector and take off your outer garments. This is just one example, I could go on and on with examples. So if you want to bitch about things bitch to your congress and protest the ACLU for forcing the federal government to use obtrusive and ridiculous tactics.<BR/><BR/>As for this issue, I agree exposing security flaws is the responsibility of all americans citizens who actually care about our survival. But there is a difference between exposing a security flaw and providing the means and tools for a would-be terrorists or other criminal to actually exploit that vulnerability. <BR/><BR/>Here is an example: Imagine you are at a major art museum and you discover that one of the windows is not equipped with security sensors, therefore impossible for tampering to be detected when the museum is closed. What do you do? Do you tell museum security or do place create a web site that points out this vulnerability and then also post the alarm code. Kind of a big difference. It is the difference between being a good samaritan with great intentions and a enabler for criminals.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16750015.post-1164898412757842922006-11-30T09:53:00.000-05:002006-11-30T09:53:00.000-05:00So. Wait. If you WERE a terrorist, wouldn't it sur...So. Wait. If you WERE a terrorist, wouldn't it surprise them that you left all your terrorist equipment lying around, like the exploding iPod, and other munitions, like your PGP key?<BR/><BR/>No. This is why it's an over reach, and this is why it's scary. No sense of proportion can be seen or heard anywhere in this event.<BR/><BR/>What did they expect to accomplish by breaking in in the middle of the night aside from...<BR/><BR/>Oh yeah. Terror. <BR/><BR/>Nice.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16750015.post-1162569002165448112006-11-03T10:50:00.000-05:002006-11-03T10:50:00.000-05:00You don't call attention to something by exploitin...You don't call attention to something by exploiting it independently like this. You should have known this was going to happen, and had a legal response at the ready, and the financial capital for your legal bills. I'm no fan of Bush, but I do not think allowing people (and no, not terrorists. they're not going to use your passes) including those with bad intentions, not just kids playing a game, the ability to print out fake boarding passes was a smart idea in the first place. You should have brought this to a newspaper or something, saying you were able to board a plane with a pass you made. Don't mass produce them. That's just inviting a S&S.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16750015.post-1162508548978441632006-11-02T18:02:00.000-05:002006-11-02T18:02:00.000-05:00Concerned Citizen said... "Stand by what you ha...Concerned Citizen said...<BR/><BR/><I> "Stand by what you have done and why you did it.<BR/><BR/> You will be dragged through the muck for it. You will (and already have been) slandered, cursed, accused of crimes. You will be documented, files will be opened, your name will be added to lists. People you have never met will publicly question your love of country, family and God. You posessions have been taken, your freedom from fear destroyed, your persuit of happiness compromised. They have money, power, media access, the abilitly to turn your life into a nightmare..."</I><BR/>(snip)<BR/><BR/>I can think of a few other people throughout history who have undergone the same.. some that come to mind include:<BR/>*Galileo<BR/>*Darwin (to an extent)<BR/>*GhandiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16750015.post-1162507899782192972006-11-02T17:51:00.000-05:002006-11-02T17:51:00.000-05:00@meronkun"cute anonymouses.well this is certainly ...@meronkun<BR/><I>"cute anonymouses.<BR/><BR/>well this is certainly the most interesting and frightening thing that could happen to me.<BR/><BR/>i think though that anonymizing tools in general are getting to be significantly useful and incredible, so that people will continue to speak their mind without these repercussions.<BR/><BR/>so no worries yet, except for this MAN himself and his new personal problems. but this just goes to show how important it is that we keep working on anonymizing networks and bring the tools to the mainstream."</I><BR/><BR/>I like the idea of anonymizing networks.. but just because they tic k the "anonymous" button, doesn't mean they really are, from a network point of view - they may be directly connecting.<BR/><BR/>On the other hand, someone can use a psuedonym - thus allowing their comments to be aggregated, and putting some sense of identity behind the person - while still connecting through an anonymizing service, thus having some degree of anonymity from a network point of view.<BR/><BR/>(This pseudonym is a <A HREF="http://tor.eff.org" REL="nofollow">case-in-point</A>.)<BR/><BR/> Anonymous said...<BR/><BR/><I>" So you post a fake boarding pass generator on the Internet... to point out security holes, supposedly... and get are surprised that you are visited by the FBI.<BR/><BR/> Guess what, one security hole closed, moron!<BR/><BR/> 5:49 PM "</I><BR/><BR/>Umm, no. One security hole which remains wide open, anonymous moron.<BR/><BR/>I bet that all of these "anonymous detractor" posts are actually all from the same person. I still say he could be called "Ostrich..." =:oDAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16750015.post-1162507125304117542006-11-02T17:38:00.000-05:002006-11-02T17:38:00.000-05:00Has anyone noticed that - as maltrich so eloquentl...Has anyone noticed that - as maltrich so eloquently put it - all the trolls in the last few posts are "anonymous detractors?"<BR/><BR/>At the very least, he could throw up some kind of pseudonym.<BR/><BR/>Let me suggest, "Ostrich" - since he's sticking his head in the sand, relying on blind faith.<BR/><BR/>/I'm generally <I>for</I> Bush.<BR/>//But I'm more for common sense, logic, and <I>real</I> truth and justice.<BR/>///This kind of crap is taking us toward a police state.<BR/>////Slashies!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16750015.post-1162504511453171102006-11-02T16:55:00.000-05:002006-11-02T16:55:00.000-05:00Man, they don't care to fix the problem, they just...Man, they don't care to fix the problem, they just care to silence the ones who know the problem... <BR/>I hope, for the sake of americans and world, that you guys put some good president next...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16750015.post-1162488760263652572006-11-02T12:32:00.000-05:002006-11-02T12:32:00.000-05:00Residing in Sweden; safe and secure... for now.Don...Residing in Sweden; safe and secure... for now.<BR/><BR/>Don't let them screw you! The net be with you. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16750015.post-1162485415315942702006-11-02T11:36:00.000-05:002006-11-02T11:36:00.000-05:00Stand by what you have done and why you did it. Yo...Stand by what you have done and why you did it. <BR/><BR/>You will be dragged through the muck for it. You will (and already have been) slandered, cursed, accused of crimes. You will be documented, files will be opened, your name will be added to lists. People you have never met will publicly question your love of country, family and God. You posessions have been taken, your freedom from fear destroyed, your persuit of happiness compromised. They have money, power, media access, the abilitly to turn your life into a nightmare. <BR/><BR/>But you have something they don't have. You have TRUTH. You didn't do anything wrong. They did. And they will bluster and posture and do anything they can to hide their incompetence and pin their mistakes on you. <BR/><BR/>You hold firm to your beliefs and stand by what you did and why you did it and there is nothing they can do except back down - and pay you lots of money in compensation for you mental pain and anguish.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16750015.post-1162420205511490732006-11-01T17:30:00.000-05:002006-11-01T17:30:00.000-05:00Alright I’ve heard enough. It seems like the only...Alright I’ve heard enough. It seems like the only people here are tree hugging liberals and neo cons. Let the voice of reason speak. First off there is a huge security hole, thank you for pointing that out, I had not heard about it yet. However you are an idiot for the way you did it. To all the tree huggers defending his actions: Where will you be when the hole gets patched by requiring biometrics to board planes? That’s right bitching about big brother, so you are digging your own grave.<BR/> As for the FBI what did you expect them to do? Lets say some nut job used to get past security and ended up hurting someone. That would have been on their conscious and yours but apparently you don’t have one. They don’t know you from Adam your just another nut job to them until they prove otherwise(Normal people don’t do this) They had to do their job plus if you tree huggers had read the search warrant it actually says to the agent “You are here by commanded to search” and its signed by a judge. You know that whole checks and balances thing, maybe you had a class on it in elementary school.<BR/> Well I haven’t picked on the neo cons enough yet. You all are as dumb and stubborn as the tree huggers. Bush’s war on terror has only produced more terrorists, we will be and are worse off because of it. Twenty years from now I have no doubt that he will be judged as the worst president even beating LBJ.<BR/> Chris you weren’t malicious in your intention just mind numbingly stupid. If I were you I try some remorse and stop poking the bear especially one with such long claws. Its sounds like they are being easy on you if you aren’t already in a jail cell.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16750015.post-1162362917594508612006-11-01T01:35:00.000-05:002006-11-01T01:35:00.000-05:00I don't think you need to go to jail. And I'm almo...I don't think you need to go to jail. And I'm almost sure that you will not go to jail or even serve any time. But you will feel the heat. It was dumb to post it on the net. But not dumb to expose it.<BR/>Good work.<BR/>Good luck at school.<BR/>You need to work for <BR/>Homeland Security.<BR/>Ok guys hire this one.<BR/>He seems smarter then a few that you have handing out Ideas at this time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16750015.post-1162271255361802382006-10-31T00:07:00.000-05:002006-10-31T00:07:00.000-05:00you got what you deservedyou got what you deservedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16750015.post-1162258314524248632006-10-30T20:31:00.000-05:002006-10-30T20:31:00.000-05:00For those that keep asking for the source code... ...For those that keep asking for the source code... remember, it's easy to render this if you have a sample boarding pass to work with.<BR/><BR/>It'd probably be just as easy to create it yourself & post the code for everyone. How many people do you think they'd arrest / raid before they realized that ANYONE can do this and it's NOT HARD?<BR/><BR/>Let's say someone posts some new source code they created to do the exact same thing. Now, let's say 50 others published the script on their site and let people generate the passes. Do you think the FBI would raid 50 houses? I seriously doubt it. They're just trying to make an example of this. They've been bit and they're angry at looking like fools - they want revenge and they want to hurt the person that made them look like idiots.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16750015.post-1162233308737147842006-10-30T13:35:00.000-05:002006-10-30T13:35:00.000-05:00Kennard P. Foster is a moron. Allowing the feds to...Kennard P. Foster is a moron. Allowing the feds to do a "bust in at 2am gestapo" search for a grad student who exploited a long known vuln is simply horrible. A SENATOR commented on this vuln a few years ago. What stops me from taking a VALID E-TICKET and not printing the SSSS. Patching the security hole by raiding the home of the person who made a php script to exploit it is a tactic deserving of Saddam Hussein or Kim Jong-ilAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16750015.post-1162231383197840142006-10-30T13:03:00.000-05:002006-10-30T13:03:00.000-05:00Tom makes a best case that can be made against the...<B>Tom</B> makes a best case that can be made against the posting of this script. However he makes some fundamentally wrong assumptions in his analogy to computer security disclosure practices.<BR/><BR/><I>1. TSA is not Microsoft, not a software vendor, TSA is a huge, a 45,000 employee bureaucracy subordinate to DHS and under the regulatory control of the U.S.<BR/>congress. TSA cannot be expected to respond quickly to public shaming in the form of proof of concept exploit.</I><BR/><BR/>This was apparently exposed first in Slate on <A HREF="http://www.slate.com/id/2113157/" REL="nofollow">February 2005!</A>. We can quibble over the meaning of "respond quickly", but to me 20 months on a matter that is apparently of such concern to national security (so much so that a citizen has had his apartment broken into and searched by his government) is not "quick" by any stretch of the imagination.<BR/><BR/>Microsoft are <B>very</B> slow to respond to security reports and fix them. They're notorious. That's why the internet is full of botnets, DDoS, spam and other crap.<BR/><BR/>Microsoft <A HREF="http://www.microsoft.com/billgates/bio.aspx" REL="nofollow">employs</A> about 61,000 people in over 100 different regions and they're <B>still</B> faster than the TSA in fixing problems. Sometimes when they've got really bad press they can do it in a month or two.<BR/><EM>2. People's lives are at stake. If someone runs a proof of concept exploit and attack s some vulnerability in windows 2000 servers, maybe some customers are denied service, maybe someone's credit card info is stolen. If a terrorist uses Chris's generator and boards a plane, people die.</EM><BR/><BR/>People's lives are at stake in all sorts of situations due to computer security. As a trivial example patients could receive the wrong drugs or care regimens if databases were corrupted. It is for reasons like this that OSHA and other federal agencies have mandatory minimum security practices for software and data.<BR/>Responsible disclosure effects everybody in all sorts of ways in out interconnected world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16750015.post-1162179345947947362006-10-29T22:35:00.000-05:002006-10-29T22:35:00.000-05:00what's that scibldy shit at the bottom of the atta...what's that scibldy shit at the bottom of the attachment? is that supposed to be a signature?<BR/><BR/>i've never looked at a search warrant before, but it appears punitive. i would be pissed if someone took my digital camera. BAD. give me that. you'll get it back when i say you get it back.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16750015.post-1162179099014875412006-10-29T22:31:00.000-05:002006-10-29T22:31:00.000-05:00This whole "war on terror" campaign is the biggest...This whole "war on terror" campaign is the biggest hoax EVER perpetuated on the American people (a lot like the ‘war on drugs’, actually). When the facts some day come out about the ISI-CIA connection to 9/11, Cheney’s Energy Task Force documents, Peak Oil, etc, etc, and enough people have become familiar with THE FACTS instead of watching Fox News maybe, just maybe, people will open their eyes a bit. <BR/><BR/>The fact is AMERICA is THE BIGGEST terrorist state: WE are the ones who funded Bin Laden and the Mujahideen; WE funded Saddam AND gave him WMD (and tried to conceal this from international inspectors by bombing them in place in Gulf War I, which should be considered a war crime because of the downwind effects on our troops and the Iraqis); WE killed 1.5 million Iraqis with sanctions; WE killed thousands in Afghanistan (who did nothing to us); WE killed an estimated 655,000 Iraqis to steal their oil via debt based PSAs (see alternet.org); WE are the only country to have used the atomic bomb in an act of aggression; WE funded hundreds of covert operations around the world to destabilize regimes (often democratic) because they were not in our "national interest"; WE spend more on “defense” (read offense) currently than the rest of the world combined; WE used WMD on Afghanistan and Iraq in the form of Depleted Uranium and White Phosphorus (see http://www.brusselstribunal.org/DU-Azzawi.htm and watch “Falluja The Hidden Massacre”), and these are just to name a few of our genocidal exploits.<BR/><BR/>People, try to understand this, the TSA is not trying to protect anyone. It is a political agency created for damage control and spin in the “war on terror” we created, we fund, we are making ever worse. Of course they don’t care if you can get past the gate or even onto a plane, if someone did and blew himself up it would just give us an excuse to attack Iran, and believe me the Neo Cons really want to.<BR/><BR/>Fuck America, when the dollar hegemony ends this country will die in its own pile of debt, our children will be paying off only the interest on our foreign debt with their taxes.<BR/><BR/>Chris, the only crime you committed is letting other Americans know the truth about the TSA: they don’t give a shit about you or me (their job is spin and fear-mongering).<BR/><BR/>That’s just the big picture; the small picture is, get a lawyer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16750015.post-1162177333525553512006-10-29T22:02:00.000-05:002006-10-29T22:02:00.000-05:00There was no reason for them to break into his hom...There was no reason for them to break into his home at 2 in the morning. Would a visit during the day not have been sufficient? This guy is obviously well intentioned, though a bit naive in action, and there is no reason for this level of attack on him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com