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A few months ago, working on a system, I noticed that the URLs seemed to be based directly on a fixed, sequential user ID. It was a system that, in this case, w

A few months ago, working on a system, I noticed that the URLs seemed to be based directly on a fixed, sequential user ID. It was a system that, in this case, was being used by An Important Company You Have Probably Heard Of. I was about to see what happened if I changed the number, when I realised that I am a foreign citizen in a country with notoriously unpleasantly drafted laws about computer security. And then I stopped. It's almost certain that nothing would go awry, but the mere act of gently poking might be interpreted in an unfavourable light. Losing a work visa is very easy and I very much don't want to.

ikeboy 12y ago
Ever heard of tor?
- resonantcore 12y ago
  Tor doesn't necessarily help you. If you're accessing a system a certain way (i.e. accessing certain parts of an application), then your traffic abruptly stops and a Tor exit node IP picks back up, you're hosed.
  - ikeboy 12y ago
    So you wait an hour. This is a huge company, apparently, so there's got to be other people using the same part of it.
    - resonantcore 12y ago
      Sure, that works. The point we were trying to make was merely, "Tor is not a magic bullet. It must be used wisely."
      - ikeboy 12y ago
        Fair point. But the post I responded to was saying to just give up. Tor may not be enough. To really be safe, use the precautions in http://pastebin.com/cRYvK4jb http://pastebin.com/cRYvK4jb (this guy hacked finfisher and got away with it, so they know what they're doing.) Mostly whonix, truecrypt, and tor. (Come to think of it, why hasn't that post been taken down? Is there nothing against pastebin's tos in there? They took down all the sony leaks.) I would never go back and forth on the same page between tor and clearnet. I assumed that level of caution was obvious, especially to a fellow hacker (we're talking about vulnerability-noticers here, after all.)
- jacques_chester 12y ago
  It's just easier not to do something that might, vaguely, break a broadly-drafted law.

ikeboy 12y ago

Ever heard of tor?

resonantcore 12y ago
Tor doesn't necessarily help you. If you're accessing a system a certain way (i.e. accessing certain parts of an application), then your traffic abruptly stops and a Tor exit node IP picks back up, you're hosed.
- ikeboy 12y ago
  So you wait an hour. This is a huge company, apparently, so there's got to be other people using the same part of it.
  - resonantcore 12y ago
    Sure, that works. The point we were trying to make was merely, "Tor is not a magic bullet. It must be used wisely."
    - ikeboy 12y ago
      Fair point. But the post I responded to was saying to just give up. Tor may not be enough. To really be safe, use the precautions in http://pastebin.com/cRYvK4jb http://pastebin.com/cRYvK4jb (this guy hacked finfisher and got away with it, so they know what they're doing.) Mostly whonix, truecrypt, and tor. (Come to think of it, why hasn't that post been taken down? Is there nothing against pastebin's tos in there? They took down all the sony leaks.) I would never go back and forth on the same page between tor and clearnet. I assumed that level of caution was obvious, especially to a fellow hacker (we're talking about vulnerability-noticers here, after all.)
jacques_chester 12y ago
It's just easier not to do something that might, vaguely, break a broadly-drafted law.