Theos-Talk Archives (January 2005 Message tt00734)

Hallo all,


The Theos-talk mailbox incident a few days ago made me wonder.
The part of cold or warm logic of the Internet might be an obstacle if left untouched at this forum.
Some of you are writing emails on a day to day basis.
Who is really "emailing" who - and why ?
Who are you, when you look at yourselves ?


So from all of us...to all of you...


Here are a few tasty links although they are rather old:
1. Lopht collective before the Senate
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19980524S0001

2. Lopht collective
http://www.open2.net/digitalplanet/war/Script1/scriptp2.htm


"MUDGE 
This is our sixteen node massively parallel processing super computer. We picked this up out of the garbage of various large agencies, bit by bit they were throwing pieces out and bit by bit we picked it up until we had a working system. This was largely used for cracking military cryptography and encryption systems and schemes. As we go over here you'll see that just about everything from the L0pht has been picked up out of the dumpster. Since we don't have any money, we're not really funded by anything, we find things wherever we can. Companies will always try and stay at the latest technologies so that means stuff that's two years old, even if it's working get thrown out. So we pick it up and usually its completely working. So what if we're three years behind the technology curve, for us its absolutely fine. What we actually refer to this over here is technology reclamation."

"MUDGE
The seven of us could very trivially, take down the entire internet for the United States for Great Britain basically stopping communications between all the major network access providers. And this is a relatively well known problem. That would create a lot of difficulties. That would cause, overloads on to the other transit routes for communication, regular phone lines. It would cause problems for people trying to move large sums of money that are doing it over networks. It might cause, I don't... anybody who's hooked up to the network would experience problems. 


INTERVIEWER
Easy to do hard to do? 

MUDGE
Easy to do. 

INTERVIEWER
How? 

MUDGE
Take about thirty minutes... if that. "


3. Short version
http://www.nua.ie/surveys/index.cgi?f=VS&art_id=896205911&rel=true

4. http://www.evadenet.com/faq/vpn.shtml

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M. Sufilight with peace and love...





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