Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 16:24:46 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: national security backdoor in FreeBSD. Message-ID: <20020516132445.GA94084@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <1021525918.3132.0.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> References: <3CE295EC.6030603@cogeco.ca> <009c01c1fc95$74fd0470$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <3CE33C1F.A547AE4D@mindspring.com> <1021525918.3132.0.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>
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On 2002-05-16 14:41, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> wrote: > > > [[[ someone unknown, since i deleted the original post, wrote ]]] > > > source. So where do these binaries-with-no-source come from? Oh, I know! > > > Carnivore detects FreeBSD ISO downloads, and tells the Magic Lantern > > > software on my ISP's servers to change the binaries inside the ISO images > > > that I FTP. Makes perfect sense! Bwahaha. Yeah right. I mean, we all know that they (I have deliberately left `they' as vague as possible) have these huge machines that intercept all the file transfers between the west and east side of the Atlantic. Their supercomputers are powered by a secret source of power, that has been discovered at the ruins of Atlantis. Every single file download is checked, and if it is found to be the download of a FreeBSD ISO image, it's extracted on a temporary area, patched, then mkisofs is run again to repackage it in a valid ISO image, and the receiver gets his tampered copy of FreeBSD without knowing its been tampered with. There have been attempts to distribute checksums of the files WITHIN the cdrom images at other places, to make checking if the files are valid easy. But THEY can't allow that. A blacklist of files that contain checksums of existing files has been made, and ALL such files are patched on the fly with the checksums of the TAMPERED files. Oh, and of course Elvis is alive. He's the one who runs the management part of this project. Photographs have been found that show him come out of the Atlantic, as another Captain Nemo, to report to US NAVY officers after an incident with script kiddies attacking the supercomputers of the city at the bottom of Atlantic. Run everyone !!! Run !!! - Giorgos [PS: I just love weaving totally unrelated things to yet another paranoia story :)] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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