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richardowright

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richardowright··on Apple Introduces AirTag
When the ID changes on the tag, a nearby device can link the two id's together since they're in the same 'position' (i.e. id x was at y position and now id z is there, so id x = id y). However, someone who is not there wouldn't be able to link those ID's together. This gets you the privacy feature and the anti-stalking feature. (The anti-stalking feature likely wouldn't need a perfect series of matches; if you have a good chain of them, you'd have good confidence.)
richardowright··on SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code
Does this include access to thinks like the Azure Control Plane components? In my mind, that code has a different exposure.
richardowright··on AT&T Fiber in the SF Bay Area is flipping bits
I've also been having this issue with ATT Fiber, but I'm out of Atlanta.
richardowright··on AWS releases Glue Databrew, a visual ETL tool
Try CDAP - https://cdap.io/ . Open source with Google backing it.
richardowright··on AWS releases Glue Databrew, a visual ETL tool
Or use the opensource take of it - https://cdap.io/
richardowright··on Linux Malware “Drovorub” developed by Russian exposed by NSA and FBI
Seeing a translation of "(security) driver slayer".

https://twitter.com/DAlperovitch/status/1293948157618003969

richardowright··on An F-22 test pilot on the Raptor's flight control system
They do have a very comprehensive simulation system with a large part of the work being done at Dobbins Air Force Base just outside of Atlanta. From what I understand, the team is quite small (<10).
richardowright··on When in doubt: hang up, look up, and call back
Why not use reverse verbal passwords (i.e. have the bank give you a secret phrase)? That should eliminate a large amount of issues without the need for a call back.
richardowright··on T-Mobile officially completes merger with Sprint, CEO John Legere steps down
Sprint's towers were built for it's CDMA network running in the 1900 MHz spectrum. However, their LTE network primarily run at the 2.5GHz spectrum which has far less range/requires a different cell tower spacing. As a result, they have coverage gaps on the LTE network. If they moved to VoLTE, they'd drop a lot of calls due to the gaps, so they've primarily kept voice on the CDMA network.
richardowright··on Hackers Can Slip Invisible Malware into 'Bare Metal' Cloud Computers
Full post from eclypsium https://eclypsium.com/2019/01/26/the-missing-security-primer....

Also I assume aws baremetal servers are not vulnerable due to the nitro security card (https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=e8DVmwj3OEs&t...).

richardowright··on Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users
I imagine you just "replay" the issued/signed JWT to Facebook, so you can act like that user.
richardowright··on Serverless Performance: Cloudflare Workers, Lambda and LambdaEdge
Any plans to publish the results from the pbkdf2 version?
richardowright··on The Home Depot confirms payment systems breach
It seems to me like the breach may still be ongoing/the vulnerability may still exist. In the announcement, they use "have been" as in its actively occurring. Additionally, in the press release (http://ir.homedepot.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=63646&p=irol-newsArt...), they don't indicate that the breach has stopped; they only say they have taken aggressive action.

It seems unlikely that the attack would continue since the attackers have lost their cover, but the wording is a bit strange.

richardowright··on The NSA's crypto "breakthrough"
I also think that since this would be exploited against non-state actors as well as states changes the payouts calculations significantly. Much, if not most, of the value is derived from exploiting non-state actors (i.e. Al Qaeda) who almost certainly would not have this capability or would not be able to keep it quite if they did. By signaling to the state actor on these capabilities, they would be giving up the value of exploiting the information from the non-state actors. So, even if you believed that state actors had these capabilities, it may be better to be kept a secret between the two countries and allow low priority secrets to be exploited than to have the info publicly known and the capability lost.
richardowright··on Tech companies, bristling, concede to government surveillance program
Something still doesn't add up for me on this.

1. How does this explanation relate to the slide that the US is the World's Telecommunication Backbone? The only explanation I can think of is that Google, etc... were only providing information for servers that were physically in the US.

2. How does this prism name relate to the program? To me, the prism name seems more linked to fiber optic cable than to this sort of data monitoring. Perhaps it's an allusion to splitting the data stream and reflecting it to the NSA.