Fill in the blank: the name of this blog is Schneier on ___________ (required): Allowed HTML The claim of sovereignty over our own states of consciousness made by the government. Hacker News threads. On taking it inside it was clear that what ever it was, it was in a very bad way, so an emergancy apointment with a vet to put the poor creature out of it’s missery was made. Jose said that Abhishek and Nithina . Customers could easily wipe their phones and only a complex series of passwords allowed entry to the actual encrypted phone where sensitive messages were stored. Clive Robinson • For this price . triggers us to suggest displaying the qr code not on a screen but on a (peripheral) checkered board with the exact number of squares (electronically/mechanically set to black or white) needed to display the (one-time pad) ciphertext. If you are really valuable, you never use these devices yourself. "We took immediate action on our network by disabling connectivity to combat the attack. It’s these associates the authorities want to get because they are the ones effectively building the shields behind which the familes progress. KOTTAYAM: Jose, the security guard of Pala St Thomas College, is still in shock after seeing Abhishek brutally murdering his classmate Nithina. Now however it’s a major news item with all the “Think of the Children” strings to pull. 1, Time / jitter. So, yes, a module is the way to go these days. He then went on to an even more questionable future at CEOP. ” As I said back at the time, whilst they could get it to work across a traditional POTS audio channel, I thought that they would not have any success with mobile phones due to the use CELP codecs pioneered / invented by the NSA[2][3]. Their PCB was riddled with stray couplings and ground loops. That is we just can not make individual CPU cores run any faster. In addition to being the basis for non-phone # based addressing, the other big benefit for most users is that rather than Signal contacts syncing to Google and Apple from the address book, they’ll remain encrypted within Signal. When it comes to the ones that can think beyond five minutes in the future I would agree with you. As others have noted the EncroChat phone more or less advertised it’s self at the criminal community. I thought that Encrochat’s service was only messaging only, not voice. Did they attract the attention of the Belastingdienst (~Dutch IRS)? Telco intercepts. Clive Robinson • Clive Robinson • Encrypted phone system used by thousands of criminals taken down, The message was sent out to EncroChat customers on June 12, Police during a raid in Birmingham following the hack, The encrypted phone app was hacked by police forces. Unfortunately it turns out that few programmers are actually any good at thinking in a way to get good parallel processing…. July 4, 2020 9:09 AM. Clive Robinson • In essence they both mean the same you have to think in the right kind of way and no the ways of your quarry to catch them. But you communicate not just with the equivalant security of One Time Pad ciphers but also with language that is totaly innocuous even if monitored in real time continuously as well as being analysed. In this particular case, this fact would also be enough for the police to track down the whole network (might take some more time though) via using metadata only. It has been known for weeks that police have unearthed a criminal plot to assassinate a number of men in the city as a result of the infiltration of the EncroChat system. Makes it so much easier . “To do what these criminals wanted would require to strongly segregated units, the first that has the communications end point on it, the second with the crypto and security end point on it as well as the Human Computer Interface (HCI). The timing of these unplesent stories is distinctly suspicious in this respect. • the dregs of Watney’s Red Barrel French police hacked EncroChat secure phones, which are widely used by criminals: Encrochat’s phones are essentially modified Android devices, with some models using the “BQ Aquaris X2,” an Android handset released in 2018 by a Spanish electronics company, according to the leaked documents. I’m sure they will find these new strategies in time but not on a very short term. • stiff upper lips
Could she have been hacked by a TLA? Its actually a good example of supply chain security and trust in proprietary security… I do however have an advantage over most consumers, in that if I can identify and get at the signal path I can instrument it to look for anomalous behaviour, assuming of course I’ve an idea about what it is I’m looking for…. ” July 5, 2020 10:28 AM. Look up “Operation Ore” in the UK as Wikipedia puts it. Clive Robinson • I would also like to add that, regardless of being able to separate the plain text to another disconnected device, one still needs to use the main device, which is connected to the internet, to send and receive (now encrypted) messages. An unidentified source associated with EncroChat announced on the night of 12-13 June 2020 that the company would cease operations because of the . In any case, either corps dislikes being mistaken or associated with the other one. But if you want an idea of who might know these much more secure OpSec techniques keep your eye open for “glass top desks and single sheets of paper” especially what is known as “flimsy paper” that is like cigarette paper very thin and often coated with an oxidizing agent such as one of a number of nitrates. But this knowledge is actually many many thousands of years older, we see it in cave paintings where the “spirit” or “essence” of prey and the hunt comes through without words. Police have arrested hundreds of suspected top-tier criminals involved in murder, gun smuggling and drug trafficking after infiltrating their encrypted phone system. French police first hacked the network, deploying a "technical device" to penetrate EncroChat communications after discovering that some of its servers were hosted in the country. Just “Google”[1] for “Stalking the wily hacker” and Cliff’s name to find similar pages and links to Utube webanars by him. In my experience interesting cats adopt the people that think they own them[1], especially “social cats” that adopt several people at the same time. 4891 • Some stories give the impression the French found the servers and did something to them… But what is unstated. Only the largest volumes with the tightest specs would justify the expense of a component level design. The Dutch phone messaging company charges around £1,500-a-month for a service that was thought to be impenetrable to investigators, reports the Liverpool Echo. In the Netherlands, around 100 people were arrested so far, in the UK alone police arrested 750 people. You might have noticed I gripe occasionaly that Security practitioners especialy but also the ICT industry in general as well. — so $97 million was actually in the civillians hand…in the business life, now it is out of it… EncroChat learned about the hack, but didn’t know who was behind it. So you can have four possabilities “unknown unknowns”, “unknown knowns”, “known unknowns” and “unknown unknowns”. However, the apparent 'hack' of one encro phone . If you want the sort of security the criminals thought they were getting from Encrochat they were never going to get it. Shortly after Encrochat restored SIM service, KPN removed the firewall, allowing the hackers’ servers to communicate with the phones once again. Clive Robinson • As stated by Europol, the company provided an encrypted phone network widely used by the criminal fraternity via servers in France. Which in turn will liberate other details of the technical methods used. Thus they would alow VoIP etc across their mobile network as part of their connectivity contract but probably only to their own server IP addresses…. Because if the process is not in place then product will fail due to it’s inbuilt assumptions that can not be “patched” etc. An Atmel or PIC microcontroller might perhaps be enough to drive a small touchscreen, the Bluetooth interface, crypto, and codec. The UK National Crime Agency called it Operation Venetic: “46 arrests, and £54m criminal cash, 77 firearms and over two tonnes of drugs seized so far.”. Because like Osama Bin Laden they learnt the pit fall leasons of electronic communications quite some time ago. Also many connected corrupt goverment and police officials are seen now. Should be able to correlate endpoints. EncroChat phones wipe everything unless a 15-character password is entered correctly, meaning the Police cannot access anything incriminating on them if in their physical . Was there anything more than a name plate at this address? By the way… the solution is a linux tablet made by an American geek with linux.NOT android. Very interesting story and it shows again that the E2E encryption is as good as its weakest link – the end point security. And don’t forget that the top guys or the whole network don’t have to use these phones themselves to be exposed, the lower level guys or network are stupid enough to mention them especially when they think they can talk freely. Exhibit A: Schedule I drug classification in the US which is based on pure fantasy. Later suspected of being via a UK ePos terminals used in a supermarket petrol station[2]. [4] One person who despite what happened to him decided to fight back, Simon Bunce went public to clear his name. Found insideChristmas is the most famous holiday of the year, and the word itself evokes images of Santa Claus, reindeer, snow, Christmas trees, egg nog and more. The practical problem in what are effectively “analog signals” is “covert side channels” that also carry across undesirable information[2]. I think we agree that it’s technically possible to built a decent peripheral appliance from scratch that has less risk of compromise, either as a bluetooth accessory to a smartphone, or an autonomous cellular device, as long as stick to the bare minimum features. Not the WIFI, but the phone is now a suspect via it’s id, and can be tracked via towers. The point is if you think about it no base component has any inherent security properties it’s the way you design them into sub assemblies and systems that gives then security properties. But one sentence if true might be the key. That is they recognized that there were other aquatic birds such as ducks and geese that came in different colours but swans were different in that only white ones were then known. July 9, 2020 5:33 PM. This led to a private investigation showing that credit card details had been stolen. I think the real difference in an approach like this one is “it involves elbow grease from the user” and thus fails to maximize convenience. Consider “Rowhammer” it was known for years by some design engineers that such attacks were possible, but nobody had come up with an example of how to do it mainly because elegant attacks were assumed and there were apparently adequate margins in designs. And WIFI still there. Thus to get more functionality we have to stop thinking serially and start thinking parallely. July 8, 2020 4:51 PM. Lets assume the figures given are approximately accurate. And they weren’t even started on the EMC or the (comparatively) simple call protocol. Arresting the top guys most of the times does nothing because they are replaced instantly, but now they have to find complete new operation and communication strategies. The encryption makes it harder for the authorities to listen in on conversations or read text messages from a distance. [1] Although Donald Rumsfeld was credited with an expression along these lines he was not the first. July 6, 2020 4:42 AM, More details are given in this Dutch newspaper story: Remember that they could and should have learned from the mistakes of South American drug barons who actually had marginaly better OpSec, but still made what with hindsight I suspect even they now know were stupid mistakes. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracking_(hunting). If the EncroChat data is found to have been illegally . However you need to take the idea backwards a bit because, Yes, you’ll have to trust at some point your display and bluetooth module suppliers…. We’ve known for at least the last five months with the Crypto AG and related revelations that governments aren’t above setting up fake secure communications suppliers. Prepare for many more arrests to come from this hack, that percentage will definitely rise. what a success!!! Encrochat aka Encro phone was hacked by the police. UK law, specifically the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (IPA), prescribes strict rules on the validity of intercepted communication. CAN UNLAWFULLY OBTAINED MATERIAL BE USED BY THE POLICE IN COURT Recently, Encrochat users across the world have been warned by the encrypted service provider that their domains have been "illegally" seized by the authorities and that the data of those users may therefore be in the hands of the hackers. There are no straightforward answers to these questions. Michael Mead of the United States Postal Service contradicted his US testimony under oath in UK courts regarding several details relating to the investigation. Many incorrectly think that the transition states do not realy exist, but with a little thought you can see they do. We saw this not so long ago with an Australian minister of state basicaly claiming that the laws of man thought up for his and others convenience somehow had power over the laws of mathmatics and the laws of nature they describe. Period of compromise was about 30 minutes.". The easiest way to do this is use “differential signalling” across the “diode gap” thus you take the two signals at the output side and drive the equivalent of an XOR gate as an instrumentation detector. The Crown Prosecution Service is now leading all the Operation Venetic prosecutions. Anyway, I read that the pubs have opened. Sleepless nights for a lot of lads out there.". The point is that Signal and Tor are heavily used, and scrutinized, services. How does one go from reading messages to finding the addresses of hundreds of users? It would take a book to describe even some of the ways I’ve thought up on how to poison the supply chain in order to work out how to do Security GIT with any degree of success. En passant • The police is a civilian institution under the authority of the Minister of the Interior, and is present in most larger cities. The EncroChat hack resulted in a significant increase in the number of drug labs detected by police in the Northern Netherlands, according to a recent report.. Whilst the war on criminals continues unabated because of the EncroChat hack, the war of words is also heating up.. As I’ve said before I do not use secure messaging apps or any encryption technology that would not be fully expeted for simple electronic transactions on-line. Peder Thorsø Lauridsen • As for ownership of the company it’s been indicated it was set up and run by a couple of Scotish Criminals. Well it turns out it’s not a madam but a bit of a pit bull scrapper with other cats, and the lady of the house next door is inordinately fond of it and brushes it’s coat out every morning and evening. Back a decade ago when Silent Circle hit the news, it was making what appeared were the right moves and about $650 got you one off of Amazon… But since the CEO changed, it’s gone in a different direction, which appears to be firmly under the thumb of the US Government and all that implies in the current political climate[3]. In any case, either corps dislikes being mistaken or associated with the other one. Found insideIncluding explorations of imperial spaces, migrations and diasporas; the role of commercialisation processes, and institutional practices within political and cultural domains, this volume considers all aspects of this complex issue. And the idea was that it would be possible to run 100% FOSS software only on the main SOC (apparently some flavor of TI OMAP chip) and in doing so avoid potential backdoors. Found insideThis is a provocative collection exploring the different types of violence and how they relate to one another, examined through the integration of several disciplines, including forensic psychotherapy, psychiatry, sociology, psychosocial ... As an excercise I went through a design and it turns out with careful design the only part where security is an issue is the “smart card” you use for doing the crypto. Operation Subzero - Conspiracy to Murder - Lead case on the Admissibility of Encrochat Evidence. But also the US has a few issues going on at the moment with the FBI and DoJ trying to get encryption off of consumer devices like mobile phones or at least get “golden key” entry. ), Weather • He said he immediately reported the incident to the college principal. But as the book I believe is still in print some third of a century after it was first published, I’d get hold of that and read it, as it’s actually quite fun. It is alleged messages have been read and the service compromised. July 10, 2020 2:49 AM. A mere coincidence? I’m just a guy who is a bit intrigued by the lives of the underworld around the world (without aspiring any of it), since dutch king pin Klaas Bruinsma and reading the book about the Heineken kidnapping. "Frontier of Faith" examines the history of Islam-especially that of local "mullahs," or Muslim clerics-in the North-West Frontier. The company also informed its SIM provider, Dutch telecommunications firm KPN, which then blocked connections to the malicious servers, the associate claimed. In principle there is nothing wrong with the idea of QR codes or for that matter printing out blocks of text and OCRing them in with a scanner[1]. In tealiry they are low life street criminal thugs, who have managed by violence, murder and worse to move them selves up the street crime tree one or two levels beyond the normal low life thugs so they are not the lowrst of the low hanging fruit. CELP is a linear predictive speech coding algorithm originated by Manfred Schroeder in the mid 1980’s from work into secure speach systems going back into WWII which gave us the “Hot Lines” we heard about in the press during the cold war. Top guys of the Sinoloa cartel even got breached by previous similar hacks. Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis. This personal website expresses the opinions of none of those organizations. An unwillingness to apply scientific rigor to the classification of drugs. Clive Robinson • The first is the near total lack of details about what actually happened. July 4, 2020 4:32 PM. More than 100 people were charged in the London area. The vacuum caused by the arrests will be filled virtually instantly. Lawyers are heading to the French Supreme Court to challenge the legality of a Police operation which intercepted millions of messages from the EncroChat encrypted phone network. SpaceLifeForm • SpaceLifeForm • Sounds similar to the system FB proposed for E2E encryption on all FB and Whatsapp traffic, BUT, also phone home with on a parallel connection (presumably to police, governments, intelligence agencies, whoever) to make sure nothing bad was going on. However there are some that do know where some of the devils hang out and these they co-opt into what we call malware. Encrochatsure.com actually lists a street address: This address apparently corresponds to a nondescript office building in an outer suburb of Amsterdam. It is and it is not depending on which view point you take. Yes, you’ll have to trust at some point your display and bluetooth module suppliers…. July 3, 2020 3:15 PM. No one responded to the message, even though, according to court records, Ennetcom had some 20,000 users. Curious • System On a Chip (SoC) semiconductors when encapsulated can be smaller than a grain of wheat. ", Get email updates with the day's biggest stories. And I became as frustrated with veterinarians as with regular physicians. From his home in the north of England he texts a friend: “I’m at this game the last 20 odd years pal, I’m not an overnighter so I know the way of plays.”. In addition to the arrests, police say the EncroChat hack has led to the seizure of 115 firearms, more than 5,000kg of Class A drugs and £56 million of criminal cash. One phone displays the code(s), while the other phone uses it’s camera to gather that data. “This specific hack was possible because they physically infiltrated the server which provided OTA updates to these encrochat phones.”. Well in some cases there might be bigger fishes yes, but definitly not always. You might think the real big fishes don’t use these kind of phones because they are to smart but you are wrong as is shown multiple times with previous hacks of cryptocommunication (at least in the netherlands). I guess we will have to wait and see if Bellingcat have got this bit right or not. Police have arrested more than 700 suspects, seized £54m in cash and tonnes of drugs in the UK's "biggest and most significant" operation ever against organised crime.. Officials said . Clive Robinson • However, questions have been raised as to whether the hack was carried out lawfully. =>and even physically removed the GPS, camera, and microphone functionality from the phone.”. The alert warning has sent panic and alarm through the city's underworld. SpaceLifeForm • That supplier was Sky ECC, now the largest supplier of crypto communications worldwide, with 70,000 customers. I'm a fellow and lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School, a board member of EFF, and the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc. [3] At the time it was claimed he had failed to properly erase hard drives he owned that had been used to copy suspects hard drives and this was the cause of the failed search warrant. But even buying in base components can be problematical. Registered in England No. It also means I have the ability to change things if I find areas of concern. Any reader of this blog for even a short time should know I think very little or nothing of “secure apps” and for good reason. Thus a lot of this publicity is about FUD anyone who’s used one of these phones now knows they are on a list and that the authoritie are after them. Of course this triumph would have been impossible without the British, who deployed their famous arsenal: • pluck The man who sent the message to the Liverpool Echo said: "Now is not a good time to be a grafter. Untill we found out who “owned” the cat we called it “Madam le Fur Ball” because it’s fairly petite and sashays like a courtesan with the tail expressing idle disdain for all that is around it. So, all known radios still intact, whether being used or not. Surelee • July 5, 2020 11:25 AM. half a million people died all around the world… Ahh the ideal place as it has few if any extradition treaties alows barer share companies and the like, and a good place to end a canoeing holiday provided your partner does not flap their gums. Foolish and pettifogging behaviour that brings disrepute on not just their venal nature but on the Office of State and by extension on the State and it’s citizens as well. Tags: crime, cybersecurity, France, hacking, law enforcement, phones, security engineering, Posted on July 3, 2020 at 10:39 AM • While we’re at it, do you think the data diode used in tinfoil chat adds any value? I’ve already made the point about the alledged aproximately 60,000 user base but only about 750 arrests. Since you mention it… I buried my beloved Barclays Bank (among her many aliases) this week, she was barely 12. So, questioning the assumptions behind a post by our host is now off-limits, eh? Dutch police have arrested six men after discovering sea containers that had been converted into a "torture chamber". In particular, the utter lack of verifiable details (e.g., reviews) makes me rather suspicious. The only way the security sealed tampered units could be told appart from those that had not been modified in the supply chain was by a slight difference in weight. Police also seized 56 Encro phones from underworld figures in Scotland — more than anywhere else in the UK. Users need two passwords to get in, one is 15 characters, and the cameras, GPS, microphones and other features are usually disabled. The Dutch police made the coup a while ago. We have similar old saws such as “To walk a mile in another man’s shoes” they all come back to knowing the quarry or if you prefer your adversary. "Due to the level of sophistication of the attack, and the malware code, we can no longer guarantee the security of your device. For obvious reasons first world nations would like these sums not in someone elses pocket but their own. One problem I see is how they were able to establish probable in the various national legislations for the bulk interception of communications. There is a deliberate and wilful ignorance regarding the actual harm (or lack thereof) caused by specific drugs, despite voluminous research conducted over decades. Both have cameras, with physical shutters if you wish. Found insideIntelligence work was effectively impossible. The Soviet threat loomed larger than ever. The Moscow Rules tells the story of the intelligence breakthroughs that turned the odds in America's favor. I think not. But it’s slightly worse than that, because “People judge you by the company you keep” thus even though others may have had nothing what so ever to do with the drugs, violence, tourture and murder, those phones can be used to associate them with it in other peoples minds, a tactic we saw in the UK with Operation Ore that caused over thirty people some of whom were almost certainly innocent to commit suicide, families to shatter, loss of jobs and ability to work and major mental health problems (in fact Operation Ore did so much harm and has cost the UK so much that it is a prime example of an utter disaster). The Court of Appeal ruled on 3 March 2021 that there was no "point of law of general public importance" that would justify referring the Appeal Court's decision to… SpaceLifeForm • Thus you have to think of another way to do it. It’s a “simple diode” based on a photodiode and without error correcting feedback, it’s about as good as you are going to get with a soldering iron and an Internet or even over the counter component supplier.
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