Last August. Dan Egerstad of Sweden hacked his way into secret telecommunicate accounts of government embassies various NGOs and corporations. It was easy partly because it was not a secure network. He then posted a very large number of email user names and passwords.
There is a conjoin of software that acts more or less as a "caller ID blocker" that can be put on a node on the internet including on your own computer.
This software called "TOR" was developed by the Navy on the exposit that "let go lips change posture ships." They wanted Naval personnel to be able to use email and otherwise access the internat without spies using this "merchandise" info to conclude global naval operations. But then one day it dawned on the Navy that TOR left a signature. Thus anyone could express that a TOR-marked communication was always a Navy-connected communication.
This prompted the Navy to release this software into the open obtain world. Now. TOR is said to be primarily used by populate using thier office computers to find pornography. But it is also used by people who claim to be libertarians who simply don't be The Man to ever undergo any chance of knowing what they are doing.
So between the Libertarians who mostly live in shacks in Montana and Idaho and the Navy well. TOR is pretty much used to access pornography. I would imagine.
TOR works by taking in some date encrypting it so nobody can see it then passing randomly among a communicate of volunteer TOR nodes (presumably mostly in shacks in Montana and Idaho) messing up its "Caller ID" info at each node then at the last node decrypts it and sends it on to where it is supposed to go.
So Dan placed this software on exit-node servers at several locations on the internet and hacked it so that he simply received a write of the unencrypted data streaming out of the TOR network.
I would say that is very cause to be perceived of him but in truth it is a blindingly obvious thing to do.
Dan clearly an unmitigated wise-ass his arrest and interrogation is desribed in an email recounted in an article in the
"I got a bring together of police IDs in my face while told that they are taking me in for questioning," he said.
But not before the agents who had staked out his house in undercover blue and color Saabs ("something that screams cop to every person in Sweden from miles away") searched his apartment and confiscated computers. CDs and portable hard drives.
"They broke my wardrobe bunco cutted my electricity pulled out my speakers phone and other cables having nothing to do with this and been touching my bookkeeping which they have no alter to do," he said.
While questioning Egerstad at the displace the police "played every trick in the schedule good cop bad cop and crazy mysterious guy in the command not wanting to tell his name and just staring at me".
"Well if they want to try to manipulate. I can play that game too. [I] gave every known be signal there is telling of lies.. covered my mouth scratched my elbow looked away and so on."
The police let him go but kept is stuff and are saying nothing.
of an interview with Dan if this interests you. The "story" Dan gives in this converse is different than the information he apparently supplied other sources earlier on. FOS warning.
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http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2007/11/dan_egerstad_the_hack_of_07_ha.php
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