Elo,
taka sytuacja.
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Temat: Death lists.
Data: sobota, 8 sierpnia 2015, 19:25:26
Od: jim bell <jdb10987(a)yahoo.com>
Do: Cpunks List <cypherpunks(a)cpunks.org>
http://news.yahoo.com/rush-put-death-records-online-lets-anyone-killed-0744…
Las Vegas (AFP) - Hackers at an infamous annual Def Con gathering in Las Vegas
got schooled in how to be online killers.A rush to go digital with the process
of registering deaths has made it simple for maliciously minded folks to have
someone who is alive declared dead by the authorities.
"This is a global problem," Australian computer security specialist Chris Rock
said as he launched a presentation titled "I Will Kill You."The process of
having someone officially stamped dead by getting a death certificate issued
typically involves a doctor filling out one form and a funeral home filling
out another, according to Rock's research.Once forms are submitted online,
certificates declaring the listed person legally dead are generated.
A fatal flaw in the system is that people can easily pose as real doctors and
funeral directors, Rock demonstrated to a rapt audience. Doctors practising
general medicine often don't bother setting up accounts at online portals for
filling out information for death certificates.An aspiring online assassin can
step into that void, and borrow the identity of a doctor. Setting up accounts
requires a doctor's name, address, and medical license number.
A basic Internet search will turn up that information, which is publicly
available for the well-intended purpose of letting people check that
physicians are legitimate before seeking care.
Drop down boxes containing illness categories and online guides are available
for filling in "doctor speak" on forms and avoiding medical causes or
circumstances that might trigger needs for autopsies or investigations, Rock's
demonstration showed.
- No one off limits -Borrowing a funeral director's identity to establish an
online account for death certificate purposes was shown to be simple as well.
Required information about legitimate funeral directors is posted on the
Internet, and one could even claim to work at a funeral home.
In Rock's case, he made a website for a bogus funeral home and used that to
back his application for an account as director. He got an automated call days
later saying he was approved.With both online accounts in place, deaths can be
registered in the real world.
"You could kill anyone you want," Rock told AFP after the presentation. "No
one is off limits."A humor-infused list of scenarios included killing oneself
off to get life insurance cash or going after others for vengeance.Someone
targeted might not even know they were declared dead until doing something
official like trying to renew a passport or driving license.
Rock began digging into the death industry a year ago after an Australian
hospital accidentally declared 200 patients dead.- Virtual babies -Getting
birth certificates for virtual babies was demonstrated to be even easier than
killing off people in the digital world, because registering births online
only involves doctors and parents.
"Once you log on as a doctor, not only can you kill someone, you can actually
birth someone," Rock said.Given the time it takes for even a make-believe baby
to grow into adulthood, he saw that as more tempting to crime gangs who could
invest in the future by creating legions of virtual people for shady doings
involving loans, stock trading, imports or other activities.
"You could even make fake identities for your children, so when they grow up
they have burner identities," Rock said.He dove into virtual birth and death
in his book titled "The Baby Harvest: How virtual babies become the future of
terrorist financing and money laundering."
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Pozdrawiam,
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak
Zmieniam klucz GPG :: http://rys.io/pl/147
GPG Key Transition :: http://rys.io/en/147
Ho-humm...
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Temat: Death lists.
Data: sobota, 8 sierpnia 2015, 19:25:26
Do: Cpunks List <cypherpunks(a)cpunks.org>
http://news.yahoo.com/rush-put-death-records-online-lets-anyone-killed-0744…
Las Vegas (AFP) - Hackers at an infamous annual Def Con gathering in Las Vegas
got schooled in how to be online killers.A rush to go digital with the process
of registering deaths has made it simple for maliciously minded folks to have
someone who is alive declared dead by the authorities."This is a global
problem," Australian computer security specialist Chris Rock said as he
launched a presentation titled "I Will Kill You."The process of having someone
officially stamped dead by getting a death certificate issued typically
involves a doctor filling out one form and a funeral home filling out another,
according to Rock's research.Once forms are submitted online, certificates
declaring the listed person legally dead are generated.A fatal flaw in the
system is that people can easily pose as real doctors and funeral directors,
Rock demonstrated to a rapt audience.Doctors practising general medicine often
don't bother setting up accounts at online portals for filling out information
for death certificates.An aspiring online assassin can step into that void,
and borrow the identity of a doctor.Setting up accounts requires a doctor's
name, address, and medical license number. A basic Internet search will turn
up that information, which is publicly available for the well-intended purpose
of letting people check that physicians are legitimate before seeking
care.Drop down boxes containing illness categories and online guides are
available for filling in "doctor speak" on forms and avoiding medical causes
or circumstances that might trigger needs for autopsies or investigations,
Rock's demonstration showed.- No one off limits -Borrowing a funeral
director's identity to establish an online account for death certificate
purposes was shown to be simple as well. Required information about legitimate
funeral directors is posted on the Internet, and one could even claim to work
at a funeral home.In Rock's case, he made a website for a bogus funeral home
and used that to back his application for an account as director. He got an
automated call days later saying he was approved.With both online accounts in
place, deaths can be registered in the real world."You could kill anyone you
want," Rock told AFP after the presentation. "No one is off limits."A humor-
infused list of scenarios included killing oneself off to get life insurance
cash or going after others for vengeance.Someone targeted might not even know
they were declared dead until doing something official like trying to renew a
passport or driving license.Rock began digging into the death industry a year
ago after an Australian hospital accidentally declared 200 patients dead.-
Virtual babies -Getting birth certificates for virtual babies was demonstrated
to be even easier than killing off people in the digital world, because
registering births online only involves doctors and parents."Once you log on
as a doctor, not only can you kill someone, you can actually birth someone,"
Rock said.Given the time it takes for even a make-believe baby to grow into
adulthood, he saw that as more tempting to crime gangs who could invest in the
future by creating legions of virtual people for shady doings involving loans,
stock trading, imports or other activities."You could even make fake
identities for your children, so when they grow up they have burner
identities," Rock said.He dove into virtual birth and death in his book titled
"The Baby Harvest: How virtual babies become the future of terrorist financing
and money laundering."
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Pozdrawiam,
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak
Zmieniam klucz GPG :: http://rys.io/pl/147
GPG Key Transition :: http://rys.io/en/147
Elo,
takie coś naszedłem:
https://github.com/ahf/teneo
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Teneo allows you to deterministically generate an ed25519 key pair for OpenSSH
from a set of parameters. This allows you to (re)generate your key pair on a
computer which, for example, lacks persistent storage.
You must be able to remember three things to (re)generate your key pair;
A user defined "username", which can be any string.
A Teneo defined "profile" name. There's currently only one profile
available: 2015v1, which uses scrypt() + salsa20/8 + sha256 as KDF.
Your personally selected passphrase.
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Pozdrawiam,
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak
Zmieniam klucz GPG :: http://rys.io/pl/147
GPG Key Transition :: http://rys.io/en/147