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When attacking an IDS, especially a signature-based one like Snort, my first move is always to overload the network engineers with so many bogus attacks that th
by s_q_b 10y ago
When attacking an IDS, especially a signature-based one like Snort, my first move is always to overload the network engineers with so many bogus attacks that they can't locate the true vector in the giant haystack.
One can use the same strategy against this type of snooping. Maintain multiple Facebook accounts in one name, some conservative, some liberal, some radical, some tame. Have a bunch of accounts in legal but embarrassing places. Report your location at several places at once. One could even so far as to start rumors about oneself.
Put that much chaffe up in the air and sorting the true from the false would be almost impossible.
All hacking is war, and all warfare is deception.
- aembleton 10y agoA Facebook account with few friends or few interactions with friends would stand out. How do you maintain having multiple Facebook identities? It would be easier to do this with Twitter when it is not expected that you would know the people you follow IRL.
- BEEdwards 10y agoThe amount of daily work this strategy requires to be useful makes it untenable. I don't want to update my one blog weekly and here you're saying that to be secure you need to maintain 12.
- s_q_b 10y agoWell, yes. If you're saying anything important at all, make sure to say it multiple times from opposing viewpoints. Your best argument will carry the day anyway. Of course this is a "break glass in case of emergency" type countermeasure, probably most useful in a nominally liberal state that starts to drift away from civil rights.