Senate Closes Accidental Anonymizer

Senate Closes Accidental Anonymizer
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2002-12-10

Never let it be said that the United States Senate has done nothing for Internet privacy.

Senate Closes Accidental Anonymizer 2002-12-12
Anonymous (1 replies)

thats why we need hackers

find the problems before they become PROBLEMS...

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Senate Closes Accidental Anonymizer 2002-12-16
Anonymous (1 replies)

How do you know he found it before it became a problem? He should go to jail -- if he came around your neighborhood rattling doorknobs to make sure doors were locked, he'd be thrown in jail. As it should be....

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Senate Closes Accidental Anonymizer 2002-12-18
Anonymous

......here we go again!

Is port scanning illegal?...

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Senate Closes Accidental Anonymizer 2002-12-16
Anonymous (1 replies)

Coooool!

So how long will it be before a deliberate Federal Anonymizer is set up as an email honeypot for monitoring?

J.D. Abolins...

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Senate Closes Accidental Anonymizer 2002-12-20
Anonymous

How do you know that one wasn't?...

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Senate Closes Accidental Anonymizer 2002-12-16
Anonymous (1 replies)

] if he came around your neighborhood rattling doorknobs to make sure doors were locked, he'd be thrown in jail

No he wouldn't....

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Senate Closes Accidental Anonymizer 2002-12-19
Anonymous (1 replies)

] if he came around your neighborhood rattling doorknobs to make sure doors were locked, he'd be thrown in jail

No he wouldn't. <- uh, yeah he would. That would be after I beat the crap out of him. So, I guess what you are saying is that it's OK for someone to come checking your doorknob every n...

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Senate Closes Accidental Anonymizer 2002-12-20
no 6

> OK for someone to come checking your doorknob every night?

When you wire a web server on internet, it's public, isn't it? If not, keep it internal /.

An other exemple : If you share your folders via Netbios without restriction, you want them to be public, right?Who's guilty if someone browse ...

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And what about internal trafic ? 2002-12-16
Reddog33

If the proxy server had connections to the realy bad internet, didn't anyone use it to read internal trafic ?

I mean if this wasn't blocked then from the outside. Reading internal builitance from the proxy is protected ?...

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Senate Closes Accidental Anonymizer 2002-12-17
Anonymous (1 replies)

If you send to jail all peoples who tell you when you have open door, you don't make them don't check door. You make them not tell you when they found it's open.

Is this really what you want ? Why ?...

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Senate Closes Accidental Anonymizer 2002-12-18
Proletariat

I just wished someone would have used it to teach those bastards in Senate a lesson. Why do people give a free service to a government that would never give them a free service?

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Senate Closes Accidental Anonymizer 2002-12-18
Anonymous (1 replies)

Look... Nothing bad happened right to the server right? So obviously he isn't a criminal....

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Senate Closes Accidental Anonymizer 2002-12-19
Anonymous

"Look... Nothing bad happened right to the server right? So obviously he isn't a criminal."

How do you know that? I'm sure the Senate doesn't.

If they are anything like the rest of the US Govt., they wouldn't even notice someone leaving "Hi_come_get_me" files in their roots. Lamo could have ea...

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lamo is a script kiddie... 2002-12-19
Anonymous

...who is out for publicity. Anyone could have found that. Sounds like he's trying to justify 'cracking' by saying "I didn't read any confidential stuff". Sure you didn't. Bye bye to jail for you....

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