Re: Shell accounts

["Ian stuart Turnbull" <ian.t7 () hotmail co uk>]

And I thought I could do it all Telepathically!!

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> To: Ian stuart Turnbull <ian.t7 () hotmail co uk>
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> Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Shell accounts Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 
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> On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 23:48:41 BST, Ian stuart Turnbull said:
> > Ha Ha. Yes, not a proper fiend hey. But I take it that I would be 
> anonymous
> > technically.
>
> Nope.
>
> Hint - if you send a packet *out* from the shell account, it's probably as 
> a
> result of another packet going *in* to the shell account.
>
> Even the stupidest of cops can figure out that "wow - every time a packet
> heads out from here to the Pentagon, a split second before, a similar 
> packet
> came in from some bozo on a cablemodem in Idaho.  Maybe the Idaho guys need
> to pay this guy a visit"....
>
> Yes, you can obfuscate it with setting cron jobs and tunnelling data via 
> covert
> channels and other neat tricks, but the basic point remains - if you 
> connect
> *to* the shell, you're no longer anonymous, and if you don't connect to the
> shell, you can't use the shell....


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