Full Disclosure mailing list archives
Re: Not even the NSA can get it right
From: James Tucker <jftucker () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 17:50:41 +0100
Actually if one wanted to perform covert inter-government attacks, to do so from any government infrastructure would be stupid as under many modern laws this constitutes a state of war. To perform these attacks as a portion of a script kiddie attack would make far more sense, and would no implicate the government. Futhermore, communications to and form such authorities may span many mediums an operate in many directions. Real authentication in this world occurs through KNOWLEDGE and knowledge alone, as no keys or other authentication methods are viably secure. I say again, no-one here really knows anything that they are talking about when it comes to agencies who specialise in deception, as even your inference may have been corrupted by previous operations. This thread is entirely pointless. On 5/27/05, Barrie Dempster <barrie () reboot-robot net> wrote:
Absolutely spot-on Dan, My original posting was merely a link to an area of a page where someone made a mistake, it's not a threat to US National Security in any big way, the NSA don't give a damn about it. It's just a mistake made by a developer on their public website, there are worse mistakes on that site too, for anyone bored enough to go look. The only people that care enough are defacers looking for a bit of fame. No one with a life spends time trawling the NSA's website for trivial errors, if you want to hack the NSA and you think their webserver is a good place to start, you just might be out of your depth a little. It wasn't supposed to spark a debate about what the NSA know, don't know, would like to know, invented, stole or dreamed about. Although that was probably my error, bringing it up in the first place, I should have known there would be a tinfoil responses I was in Nelson from the Simpsons mode and felt like I had to say "HA-HA!" in public. Anyone that thinks it's a honeypot is a nutter, if it was a honeypot as Dan says its a very badly thought out one. Just relax and feel safe in the knowledge that governments employ people that make mistakes (there's a startling revelation!! :-P), point it out to your next client so that it helps you get a contract or something. Just don't come on FD and scream conspiracy though, because I've heard them all and I'm the ringleader of most of them :-P. BTW, I sell enhanced tinfoil very cheap, we all know that with simple XSS regular tin foil is rendered useless! Buy your enhanced tin foil now, it has built-in XSS protection! On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 16:31 -0400, Dan Margolis wrote:{Lot's of snipped out but extremely well said and utterly correct opinion}-- With Regards.. Barrie Dempster (zeedo) - Fortiter et Strenue blog: http://zeedo.blogspot.com site: http://www.bsrf.org.uk [ gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.keyserver.net 0x96025FD0 ] "He who hingeth aboot, geteth hee-haw" Victor - Still Game _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
_______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
Current thread:
- Re: Not even the NSA can get it right, (continued)
- Re: Not even the NSA can get it right J.A. Terranson (May 25)
- Re: Not even the NSA can get it right James Tucker (May 25)
- Re: Not even the NSA can get it right milw0rm Inc. (May 25)
- Re: Not even the NSA can get it right Valdis . Kletnieks (May 25)
- Re: Not even the NSA can get it right Dan Margolis (May 25)
- Re: Not even the NSA can get it right Valdis . Kletnieks (May 25)
- Re: Not even the NSA can get it right Steve Kudlak (May 26)
- Re: Not even the NSA can get it right Paul Kurczaba (May 25)
- Re: Not even the NSA can get it right Dan Margolis (May 27)
- Re: Not even the NSA can get it right Barrie Dempster (May 27)
- Re: Not even the NSA can get it right James Tucker (May 27)
- Re: Not even the NSA can get it right Eric Paynter (May 30)
- Re: Not even the NSA can get it right Mister Coffee (May 25)
- RE: Not even the NSA can get it right James Longstreet (May 25)
- Re: Not even the NSA can get it right Valdis . Kletnieks (May 25)
- Re: Not even the NSA can get it right Aaron Horst (May 26)