Tracking Computers

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http://www.dnsstuff.com
Show the email contacts for the IP address, call the NOC guy at 2:00AM, tell him "User at x.x.x.x is attempting to brute force my FTP server---are they dangerous? Where are they located?"

Tim

ROFL!!!!!!!!!

1.) Call the NOC guy at 2 AM = Sent to Voicemail

2.) "User at x.x.x.x is attempting to brute force my FTP server---are they dangerous? Where are they located?" = NOC guy laughs hysteically while call is recorded and traced. NOC guy hangs up and law enforcement arrests you for social engineering.

Any admin that falls for that is a retard.

[c1sc0m4n]

I need to work on my sarcasm...

Tim

[bballad]

lets kick in wifi nodes...i can use a shotgun style antena and hit wife from long range...then old school modem tricks....hit large company still useign PBX(there are a large number out there) get it to rerout the call, to say eastern europ...if you don't get greedy no one will ever trace you (the dopes caught by mister stole got greedy and stayed on the line way too long)

[crashburn181]

No one is safe anybody can be traced anywhere, you just need time.

Time is the key. The people who move around the internet like they are god can do what ever they want you know it to be true


Give me Time I know your in long Island Right? R U A doctor or somthing like that?

Your name is Steve Sachs

See who needs IP address only time
It can be scary how much can be found out about sombody

[brokencrow]

Tracking computers is a complex subject. It really goes hand-in-hand
with tracking individuals on the web. Technology is moving extraordinarily
fast. Wikipedia has a nice overview:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_surveillance

I'm particularly intrigued by some of the newer approaches to tracking
computers, users, and uses. Adi Shamir's technique of tracking high
frequency noise emitted by a CPU (including information about the
instructions being executed) is particularly intriguing, though I have
to wonder about its practicality. Also, IBM's research regarding keyboard
emissions (each key emits a slightly different noise when pressed) being
individually identifiable under some conditions, making it possible to
log key strokes without logging software run on the associated computer
holds a lot of paranoid promise.

I wouldn't count on computer anonymity unless you are freely able to
jump from computer to computer and network to network and have a
good grasp on networking. On larger networks, corporate and gov't, there's
often quite a bit of surveillance. More and more of that's coming to ISP's,
IMHO.

[c1sc0m4n]

There have been many posts I have seen on this subject, and one in particular I remember is about Microsoft knowing everything, if you are running a Microsoft OS or Microsoft software...

Tim

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brokencrow
your russian proverb is interesting.just ending is missing which i dont know if it was added latter:
a fish rots from head but is cleaned from tail.

[c1sc0m4n]

Here's a Russian proverb...my great-grandmother used to say it...
"Ni popri hovno, lebu budj smerdet"

Tim

[crashburn181]

High frequ. noise from the cpu that would be very interesting to me..
althought it might not help the war agaist computer intrusion but being able to find out what sombody is typing just by the sound of the keys on a keyboard now that is high tech. I recored the keystroks of this post with a mic conected to my machine. I looked at the freq on a graph. I found only some keys make diff sounds. The biggest problem is that some keys are hit harder or softer than others making it very diffacult to try to figure out what sounds the diffrent keys make. If you hit the keys with the same amount of force then you could seperate the keys into diff sounds. But the human factor makes noise freq. keylogging unreliable...

[brokencrow]

There's other ways, a bit more obtuse, to track keyboard usage, say,
on a website like this. I believe javascript can be used to do it,
and that is to track typing patterns and speed. If you think about
it, everyone probably has a unique style of typing. Of course, the
way around that is composing in, say, notepad, then cut-and-paste.

But then, how paranoid can one get?

As for fish rotting from the head, I always took it as a metaphor about leadership.