Friday, 15. November 2002
DNS spoofing in China
DynaWeb reports On Sept. 28th, reports came from China that visits to dissident websitess were being redirected to different IPs. Analysis shows that this is an unprecedented large-scale domain name hi-jacking in China achieved through DNS record spoofing. This effort is the result of an escalated level of Internet censorship in China.
Real Time Testing of Domain Name Resolution in China http://www.dit-inc.us/dns/dns_test.htm
Judge rules cops' hacker went too far
A federal judge has ruled that law enforcement officials went too far when they tried to use evidence gathered by a known hacker to convict someone of possessing child pornography. The decision, handed down earlier this month, is believed to be the first to say that hacking into an Internet-connected home PC without a warrant violates the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures.
"This makes it clear that law enforcement needs a search warrant to do this," said Orin Kerr, an associate professor at George Washington University Law School. Kerr said the ruling was the first of its kind.
The Virginia judge suppressed evidence of child porn possession after the defendant's lawyers argued the evidence had been illegally obtained by a hacker whose methods had received approval from law enforcement officials.
The decision came out of a case in which a hacker uploaded a file to a child porn newsgroup that made it possible to track who downloaded files from the service. The uploaded file contained the SubSeven virus, which the hacker used to remotely search people's computers for porn.
The hacker then played the role of a cybervigilante, sending anonymous tips to law enforcement officials alerting them to child porn files the hacker had found on people's PCs. [LinuxSecurity.com]
See also Orin Kerr's fine comentary on his Computer Crime Case Updates Mailinglist, news.com and lawmeme.
Redacting electronic Documents
Beware of MS Word documents! [law.com via Ernie the Attorney]
Unix auditor's practical handbook
Dot-Mil Hacker's Download Mistake
When Gary McKinnon -- the British hacker accused of infiltrating U.S. military computers -- downloaded a commercial remote-access program and used it to avoid detection, he may have led investigators right to his door. By Brian McWilliams. [Wired News]
Alien Autopsy: Reverse Engineering Win32 Trojans on Linux
Urheberrechtsnovelle entzweit den Bundestag
Die Bundestagsfraktionen sind sich in wesentlichen Punkten uneins über die auch bei Verbänden und Verbrauchern heftig umstrittene Urheberrechtsnovelle. [heise]
Translating Newsitems
German language content in disLEXia now has a "Translate" link which should take you to a machine translation of the item.
disLEXia, a research project by Maximillian Dornseif
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