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This guy should widely distribute the SFTP creds being used by the backdoor agent on his computer. Then we could all be helpful by uploading useful data to the
by gnu8 14y ago
This guy should widely distribute the SFTP creds being used by the backdoor agent on his computer. Then we could all be helpful by uploading useful data to the Canadian government's spy server.
- polymatter 14y agoWhile an amusing suggestion, I sincerely hope everyone realises that such a move would be ... incompatible with a long and healthy lifestyle. Both for Nadim and anyone foolish enough to do so.
- gnu8 14y agoOn the other hand, anyone who has reason to believe there might be information critical to their investigation embedded in the full version of Two Girls One Cup, it is their civic duty to submit that video to the authorities.
- polymatter 14y agoBut sneaking it in through a backdoor and smearing it on their server is probably not going to be well received. (any unintentional puns are entirely unintentional).
- jacquesm 14y agoWhy? Are you suggesting the CSIS kill people? Who are going to be missed because they have said they are under surveilance? Or even abroad?
- polymatter 14y agoI am suggesting pissing off CSIS, or any law enforcement body, is not a good idea. I doubt you will be outright killed on purpose, but arrested, detained and interrogated is a reasonable risk. Worst (reasonable) case is being jailed for "interfering in an investigation" or "unauthorised access to computers" or such like. Magikarp is doing everything right so far. He doesn't need to cross a line by exposing CSIS servers to attack. And nobody else needs to play with CSIS servers either. Protest and demonstration is one thing, but playing with law enforcement servers is like throwing bottles at police cars for the lulz and is just asking for the book to be thrown back at you.
- burke 14y agoCSIS is not nearly as eager to unjustly violate personal freedoms out of spite as its American counterparts seem to be.
- tluyben2 14y agoI have asked before, but why would you want to live in countries where this train of thought is a possible reality? Although chances are not great 'it will happen to you', anything over 0% is far too great for my taste.
- polymatter 14y agoI entirely agree, which is the main reason why I am not interested in working in China again. But we don't live in a perfect world, compromises need to be made and living in a Western democracy is about the best you can do for your rights. Beyond that I feel you get into diminishing returns. At some point your treatment is based on the whims of the law enforcement officers and their particular culture which is very hard to measure and changes and evolves over time and political environments anyway. Do you have evidence of any particularly good countries?
- dfc 14y agoIf he was backdoored by a 3/4-letter and he is not skilled[1] in malware analysis how likey do you think it is that he will recover the credentials? Do you think it is as easy as: $ ls -l ~/.ssh total 80 -rw-------+ 1 nadim staff 737 Aug 22 01:39 authorized_keys -rw-------+ 1 nadim staff 35 Jan 5 21:32 config -rw-------+ 1 nadim staff 3243 Aug 18 10:57 id_rsa -rw-------+ 1 nadim staff 735 Aug 18 10:57 id_rsa.pub -rw-------+ 1 nadim staff 3326 Feb 2 21:41 id_rsa_CSIS -rw-------+ 1 nadim staff 749 Feb 2 21:41 id_rsa_CSIS.pub -rw-------+ 1 nadim staff 3198 Feb 2 21:46 known_hosts [1] I have no reason to think he does or does not posses this skill. I only mention it in the negative because it was not in his wikipedia bio.