Comments | weev: The Silk Road statement: Where are the packetlogs?

weev

The Silk Road statement: Where are the packetlogs?

Sep 06, 2014 19:07

There are a number of utilities that log packets for forensic analysis. Every person that deals with the Internet in a serious fashion has used them at one point or another. I've used packetlogs generated by tcpdump to do things as trivial as respond to fraudulent abuse reports against a virtual machine that I use a chat client from. Needless to ( Read more... )

Comments 10

maradydd September 6 2014, 23:33:02 UTC

"Agent Tarball" = best (un?)accidental typo ever, given the circumstances.

weev September 6 2014, 23:36:19 UTC

lolll tru, marking that one WONTFIX

wirelessfantasy September 7 2014, 00:24:37 UTC

Good points, we need a look at those pcap files to figure this out because it's totally unclear. Defense also needs to hire a top-notch computer expert.

Added a link to this post from mine.

anonymous September 7 2014, 12:23:31 UTC

Agent "Tarball" (don't correct this typo plz) is obviously lying to get their case through. What he states is technically out of bounds with how Tor, HTTP and TCP works, and they know they can get away with it because the chances of the court knowing how these things work are slim-to-none.

ext_2762889 September 7 2014, 16:36:39 UTC

Additionally, if it is a bug in Tor it should be pointed out how it could have happened. Iow, if it cannot be proven to have happened, it hasn't. (Open) Source code makes it possible to say something could not have happened provided the source runs properly. And that places the demand for proving that it could happen with the prosecutor.

If it is a bug elsewhere It should also be made propable.

weev September 10 2014, 11:03:26 UTC

There is absolutely no way that this happened the way law enforcement describes.

ext_2762889 September 18 2014, 05:43:01 UTC

Your reply will be screened. - good, d don't publish this
Ypur IP address will be recorded - smh>

weev February 6 2015, 20:28:23 UTC

every service ever records IP addresses. livejournal is the only one that tells you they are doing so.

anonymous February 6 2015, 01:22:08 UTC

In the early 2000's, my old party-favors dealer had a real live representative of the "Neilsen Company" knock on his door about becoming a Neilsen family. It involved wiring a box to his TV. He agreed. Why not? He wanted to save Family Guy.

A month later, he was raided by the DEA. After making bail and going home, he noticed that the agents had ripped the "Neilsen box" off his TV. It was a covert surveillance device. Later on in court documents, they referred to the information it provided as an "anonymous informant". The "Neilsen Box" issue required a separate hearing, the DEA denied any knowledge of its existence. The judge ruled it could not be mentioned in front of a jury.