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Activist Times Inc. Issue 275
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Shoutz and Gr33tz to Naushad Ali, Die Cast Cars,
Rune.com, South Carolina Public Railways, Hartford
Courant, the English National Opera, Aerospace
Innovations, The City of Kerrville, Toyota,
Lexus Vehicles, Banco do Estado de Santa Catarina,
North Central College, University of Southern
California, the Jacksonville City Council, Johnson
Newspaper Corporation, Multi Media Communications,
and the Law Offices of Bruce A. Flint.
Y'all seem to be Chinese CyberDefacement Teams'
collateral damage too, just like me. :)
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Hola, I'm prime anarchist, and this is my 'zine
for the weekend of May 11, 2001. Anyone think
to check what day the next "lunar event" is?
I didn't bother. Busy and distracted I guess.
Hope it's close. If not, oh well. Next time.
Rather than write a column this week, I've
decided to let a former political prisoner
take it over. One who AI didn't pay an awful
lot of mind, because they just kinda didn't
understand the whole thing very well.
MY 1ST RSA CON
By Kevin Mitnick,
REprinted from SecurityFocus.com
The annual RSA Conference is noted for being the
largest data security and cryptography conference
in the world. It's the place the most respected
cryptographers and security professionals in the
industry gather to share their knowledge and
experience. But I still found it incomplete.
The 2001 conference, held earlier this month
in San Francisco, was my first RSA -- I was there
as a guest of the fine security vendor Authentify,
Inc. My first impression of the conference was
made at the opening session, where rocker Pat
Benatar (hi Terry) belted out a live parody of
her hit song "Heartbreaker." The title of the
new song: "Codebreaker."
You're a Codebreaker
Crash Maker, File Taker
Don't you mess around with me...
Aside from the entertainment value, I was impressed
with the sheer size of the conference. It's clear
that the last six years have seen tremendous growth
in the information security space. Literally. There
were over 10,000 registered attendees, and Moscone
Center's cavernous exhibit halls became a dizzying
250-ring circus featuring seemingly every security
act in Creation, from Acotec to ZixIt.
Having once been banned from the 1991 DECUS CON
in Las Vegas solely based on my reputation as a
hacker (and my forays into DEC's Easynet), I know
the feeling of being unwelcome. So I was pleasantly
surprised to find most of the attendees friendly and
respectful. It was good to reintegrate myself back
into the computer security business without much
resistance. No one thought to ask me what I was
doing there while walking around with no badge.
A lot of attendees didn't even recognize me.
While waiting for a session on computer viruses
to begin, I was listening to a conversation between
two men seated next to me. When I glanced down at
one person's badge, it said "FBI, Special Agent"
right below the name. It was amusing for me to end
up eavesdropping on a couple of FBI agents who were
clueless to my identity. Or were they?
{--=____The Bold and the Badgeless____=--}
But when all is said and done, there was something
missing from the conference. No sessions were offered
covering physical attacks or social engineering. You
could spend a fortune purchasing technology and services
from every exhibitor, speaker and sponsor at the RSA
Conference, and your network infrastructure could still
remain vulnerable to old-fashioned manipulation.
The world's largest security conference should have
offered a session that discussed these types of attacks,
if nothing more than to raise awareness.
For the most prestigious security conference in the
world, I was also surprised by the lack of physical
security for the exhibit hall itself. While waiting
for my contact person to arrive, I decided to take a
stroll to locate Authentify's booth. The hall was
closed to everyone, with the exception of staff
setting up the exhibits. Although I was wearing
no form of identification (such as a exhibitor's
badge), I managed to gain access into the exhibit
hall on two occasions without being questioned. I
walked around for a good half hour before even
locating the booth.
No one thought to ask me what I was doing there
while walking around with no badge. Anyone else
could have walked off with an executive's laptop
or PDA without being noticed. You would think with
tens of thousands of dollars worth of computer
equipment and technology lying around, and the
nature of the conference itself, that the exhibit
hall wouldn't have been so vulnerable.
What new security technologies will be marketed
as the killer-app at next year's RSA Conference?
This year, deployment of public key infrastructures
(PKI) dominated the scene. But while PKI technology
may reduce the risk of hacker attacks, it's not a
silver bullet. If your goal is to protect your
network, you can not rely on technology alone.
/Kevin Mitnick was held four and a half years in \
/prison before getting a trial. If anyone at Amnesty\
\ thought that wasn't political, prime anarchist /
\ just says they really really suck. /
He now hosts a weekly radio talk show on LA's KFI.
Want to link to this article? Use this URL:
[ http://www.securityfocus.com/news/199 ]
Conformity and obedience,
Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,
Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame,
A mechanised automaton.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Queen Mab"
1813
#'s
http://www.fark.com
http://www.vote.org
N http://defaced.alldas.de
U http://www.itjournal.com.br
M http://www.securityfocus.com
B http://www.electronicintifada.net
E http://www.tao.ca/~wrench/dist/news
R http://www.sfbg.com/reality/24.html
S http://www.freepressinternational.com
http://www.bluecorncomics.com/latuff.htm
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php
http://www.geocities.com/aton501/genx.html
http://www.wpkn.org/wpkn/news/btl051101.html
http://www.brunching.com/features/hotsites.html
http://216.39.161.171/Abbie/html/abbie_links.html
http://www.attrition.org/movies/review/women.html
http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/huron.html
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,486847,00.html
LETTUCE
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to marco:
Isn't this late?
And who's the girl in the window?
Yeah, I've noticed your ATI's contain
more "reportage".
[yes it was late, too much to report
really. More later. film at 11ish]
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zap:
you should set up a little e-zine that makes a
weekly list of links to what's good and interesting
on the www.indymedia.org newswire, and pub it as a
feature.
that way, people like me can read the newswire,
and not have to ignore it for lack of time allotted
to wading :>
dru
[dru, wading is the understatement of the millenium.]
[good idea though. I might dabble in that soon. ]
[anyone else wanna do one too? ]
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Geez
Who the hell wrote the dribble on liberals.
I'm one and don't recoginize me at all.
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to ati@etext.org
Please remove my address from your list.
anonymous.
[um...]
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[05/09/01] - uXu released #577-593.
[05/09/01] - TEOS weekly released #36-37.
[05/07/01] - Activist Times released #274.
[05/06/01] - The Neo-Comintern released #153.
http://scene.textfiles.com
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& lifted from the indymedia servers:
by hopeso 4:57pm Thu May 3 '01
marco, let's hope, that you're right about this
movement being indivisible. Because, it definitely
seems to have a decent chance of effecting some
positive change.
[ref]=
[www.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=38154]
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0P-3D: Our OP-ED Section. 1 ea.
A Black Male journalist on a commercial television
news show interviews a white woman from Harvard
Business School, I think it was discussing the
new ethic on salaries based on, her book titled
"Salaries Not Secrets." (I think that's the title,
I should have had a notepad with me while I watched
I guess. But this story quickly and suddenly blew my
mind and then it was over, just like that. I'll try
to look it all up for you later. Right now I'm too
distracted.)
With the ability of someone to get in and then
email a corporation's salaries to each other, what
could happen.
She discusses that some companies are building
an ethic where salaries are given based directly
on their performance, and they're so proud of the
salaries, they'll openly display them
everywhere, "radically honest."
This, she says undermines any possibility of
hackers wreaking havoc.
Other companies aren't so proud, though. She
says there are companies out there who are paying
quite, well; "less than equitably" is how she
describes the paying out of different salaries to
various employees who are perhaps fulfilling the
same exact tasks.
These companies, she says are beginning to see
the new info-age as a threat to their very essence.
I must say, I got a lot out of that story. Even
though I've lost track of even what network ran it
(I do that a lot these days, they kind of melt
together like a nitemare.) I enjoyed the interview.
Now I have to end by adding, though; that I would
have thought much more highly of the whole thing
(to be frank, his color and her gender had me
distracted in that I kept going back to "statistics
say she gets 3/4 what a white male gets; he gets n/8
what a white male gets; stats say she gets 3...")
Woops, run-on sentence. The TV channel would've had
more credibility with me if at some point during the
interview he'd asked her, "and what's your pay?" to
which she might retort with "n/year or x/hour, and
you?"
-{[== Spaulding. China. 7may01. ==]}-
a poem by Marco
George W Bush passing out balls
To the little black 8 year olds
Boys and Girls on the blue
Little League team.
Balls
To the little white 8 year olds
Boys and Girls on the red
Little League team;
After they played T-Ball
Balls
On the White House lawn.
Passing out white presidential balls.
The bleachers didn't look the least bit
Segregated.
No, blacks and whites all enjoying a game
Together.
Teams sure did.
I counted one black chile on the white team.
Double-take my head. Did I count one or
Zero? One or zero whites on the black team.
Two parts of town?
Two parts of the world?
A world apart.
Two parts of the Dis-Nited States of
America
may 13 -=- Supreme Court says a state has no right
to be on a reservation highway -=- 1991
may 14 -=- Lewis & Clark -=- 1804
may 25 -=- Fort Laramie Treaty -=- 1868
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th-th-th-tha's all f-f-f-folks.
prime outa hear
