Krypt3ia

At the moment that I'm writing, not one of the ten highest-ranked comments here addresses any of the technical detail or substance in the counterarguments which white hat experts have raised. Bruce Schneier is one of these skeptical experts. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-best-thing-we-can-do-about-the-so… The IP address blog post by Dr Krypt3ia makes the FBI look silly beyond words. http://krypt3ia.wordpress.com/2014/12/20/fauxtribution/ The Marc Rogers post makes a lot of sense to me. http://marcrogers.org/2014/12/21/why-i-still-dont-think-its-likely-tha… I remember a time when a discussion like this on Hacker News would have concerned itself with the technical details of the analysis, in an honest attempt to discern the truth of the matter, rather than a bunch of opinionated political rambling, and although that was a very long time ago, I still consider that type of discussion more worth our time here.

Haha admin/admin according to https://krypt3ia.wordpress.com/2017/09/14/equihax/

This link (https://krypt3ia.wordpress.com/2016/10/08/gdd53-a-russian-hosted-i2p-s… actually has links to the data.

> The servers were registered to Alfa Bank Someone else posts evidence it could be Cendyn, a hotel marketing company located in Russia: https://krypt3ia.wordpress.com/2016/10/08/gdd53-a-russian-hosted-i2p-s…

Here is one of the quoted experts being unhappy with how their words are used to support the article: https://krypt3ia.wordpress.com/2016/11/01/shits-gone-plaid-gdd53-and-s…

There's certainly some missing evidence in the FBI report. Regarding the IP's used, please have a read here: http://krypt3ia.wordpress.com/2014/12/20/fauxtribution/

> And we do need to fight that at each and every turn because until governments get it I read an interesting article somewhat related to this: http://krypt3ia.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/digital-natives-digital-immig… It uses Anonymous and Wikileaks as examples (which you may or may not disagree with), but I'm linking it for the general discussion about a sort of digital generation gap, how the "governing class" of people hasn't caught up with this digital era quite yet.

This isn't meant as an attack on the OP, but I have a hard time taking anybody seriously who's using the word "cyber" in such an inflated way. Always reminds me of this: https://twitter.com/sehnaoui/status/643972826802688000 I also think it's quite troublesome how this very real issue, IT security, is being misused to stage yet another "War on something" even if there isn't anything concrete to wage a war on. If there's such a thing as the MIC, it seems to have found a new business field with "cyber". IT security works on cooperation, even more so on international cooperation. It does not work when international players are constantly trying to shaft each other over by collecting 0-days, like this is some kind of war which has to be won by pummeling the opposition into submission with "cyber weapons". In that regard agencies like the NSA, and their foreign equivalents, are doing everybody a giant disservice by making the problem worse, not better. We are already at a point where these government agencies tools are being sold to the highest private bidders: https://krypt3ia.wordpress.com/2017/06/22/shadow-brokers-scylla-hackin… As a fan of dystopian cyberpunk fiction, I'm not sure if I should geek out over this or just be depressed.