Re: Re: [fw-wiz] Highlighting Security Issues

From: Marcus J. Ranum (mjr_at_ranum.com)
Date: 08/06/04

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    To: <firewalladmin@bellsouth.net>, Victor Williams <vbwilliams@neb.rr.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 13:41:19 -0400

    firewalladmin@bellsouth.net wrote:
    >And would you fake screenshots of stock quotes or would fake screenshots of porn if you were trying to get a guy in trouble?

    Incompetence is not an offense in the government. If you're trying to get
    someone in trouble, you need to make it look like they're committing a
    bona-fide offense, not just something that's going to bring them a mild
    wrist-slapping. In today's climate, making them appear to be involved in
    child porn, or terrorism would be better.

    Hmmm.... This makes me wonder about the shifts to the balance of
    power that might happen if someone introduced a tool intended to
    introduce spurious "evidence" for such a purpose. Stuff the victim's
    cache with kiddie-porn, load their history, create an encrypted virtual
    disk of snuff movies (with a crackable password) and perhaps a few
    recipes for radiologic bombs... Then the tool could automatically
    dime them out to HR and the FBI.. Such a tool could make a great offensive
    weapon _or_ defensive weapon, once its existence was known.
    "Someone must have gotten my hard disk with Cthulhu4.0! I swear!"
    now becomes a an effort in plausible deniability.

    mjr.

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