Comment FBI must have backdoor (Score 1) 619
This is from an article on ZDNet:
"I definitely think that a denial of service of an Internet service provider of the size of Yahoo! will definitely raise some eyebrows," said David Schindler, the Los Angeles prosecutor who tried convicted hacker Kevin Mitnick.
"There will be considerable concern amongst both federal law enforcement agencies and prosecutors... I would expect they would take a look at this instrusion and take a run at finding some targets."
Schindler added that whoever is behind the attack is facing 10 years in prison, with a stiff fine of $250,000-- if this is a first-time offense.
Ironically enough, the FBI has been warning about DoS attacks since the fall of 1999.
The agency said it found the tools needed to launch such an attack secretly installed on computer systems across the Internet.
As a final irony, the FBI itself suffered a denial-of-service attack on its website in April of 1999.
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The FBI found the tools secretly installed on computer systems across the Internet?
How could the FBI do this? Could it be possible that the FBI is in cahootz with some major software
company, perhaps Microsoft or AOL to allow them to receive data about whats installed on client computers? I know this is conspiracy theory stuff, but how else could they find out this information? I wouldn't doubt it, remember the FBI wouldn't allow any new encryption method/standard without them having the decryption key!
http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/cybercrime/news/story/ 0,3700,2434645,00.html
"I definitely think that a denial of service of an Internet service provider of the size of Yahoo! will definitely raise some eyebrows," said David Schindler, the Los Angeles prosecutor who tried convicted hacker Kevin Mitnick.
"There will be considerable concern amongst both federal law enforcement agencies and prosecutors... I would expect they would take a look at this instrusion and take a run at finding some targets."
Schindler added that whoever is behind the attack is facing 10 years in prison, with a stiff fine of $250,000-- if this is a first-time offense.
Ironically enough, the FBI has been warning about DoS attacks since the fall of 1999.
The agency said it found the tools needed to launch such an attack secretly installed on computer systems across the Internet.
As a final irony, the FBI itself suffered a denial-of-service attack on its website in April of 1999.
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The FBI found the tools secretly installed on computer systems across the Internet?
How could the FBI do this? Could it be possible that the FBI is in cahootz with some major software
company, perhaps Microsoft or AOL to allow them to receive data about whats installed on client computers? I know this is conspiracy theory stuff, but how else could they find out this information? I wouldn't doubt it, remember the FBI wouldn't allow any new encryption method/standard without them having the decryption key!
http://www.zdnet.com/zdtv/cybercrime/news/story
