Crypto, Security, Privacy

"Stopped by Spanish language tech journalists at an airport, the Apple co-founder says that after the NSA revelations, he questions his own government and wonders whether it's behaving like a king." - imabonehead from Bookmarklet

"The National Security Agency and the FBI have been tapping into the servers of nine technology companies, including Microsoft, Apple, Google and Yahoo, to collect audio, video, photographs, e-mails and other documents under a program code-named PRISM, according to a report in the Washington Post. The tech companies have responded to questions about the story with statements that may leave out as much as they say. All the major technology companies named in the Post's report have adamantly denied that they gave the government full access to their servers in similar prepared statements. President Obama said today that members of Congress have repeatedly been informed of the programs." - imabonehead from Bookmarklet

"With every phone call they make and every Web excursion they take, people are leaving a digital trail of revealing data that can be tracked by profit-seeking companies and terrorist-hunting government officials. The revelations that the National Security Agency is perusing millions of U.S. customer phone records at Verizon Communications and snooping on the digital communications stored by nine major Internet services illustrate how aggressively personal data is being collected and analyzed." - imabonehead from Bookmarklet

"It took eight years after artist Jim Sanborn unveiled his cryptographic sculpture at the CIA’s headquarters for someone to succeed at cracking Kryptos’s enigmatic messages. In 1998, CIA analyst David Stein cracked three of the sculpture’s four coded messages after spending 400 hours diddling over the problem with paper and pencil during many lunch breaks. Though many people, on and off the CIA campus in Langley, Virginia, had tried to break the 865-character coded puzzle, Stein, a member of the agency’s Directorate of Intelligence, was the first to succeed." - imabonehead from Bookmarklet

Oh, I got excited there for a moment, that Kryptos 4 was cracked. - Jimminy

nice post http://ipsol.in/cisco... - Mukesh Kumar

"As published elsewhere, the complete description of tools and their uses are out of scope of this article, we’ll be just using them for our forensics, as you may get a fair idea about them during our process. We shall be using BackTrack(BT) for our analysis. You could pretty much use any distribution available as all have mostly common necessary tools. You could use any normal Linux flavors such as Fedora, RedHat, and Ubuntu as well, but the advantage of using distributions like BT is that they already have a fair collection of these tools. Otherwise you may need to install them." - imabonehead from Bookmarklet