Category Archives: Cyber Tools – anti-censorship

03/24/13

Tor is NOT the ONLY Anonymous Network

gAtO fOuNd – this very interesting and wanted to share -

Tor does some things good, but other anonymous networks do other things better. Only when used together do they work best. And of course you want to already know how to use them should something happen to Tor and you are forced to move to another network.fin_07

Try them! You may even find something interesting you cannot find on Tor!

Anonymous networks

These are well known and widely deployed anonymous networks that offer strong anonymity and high security. They are all open source, in active development, have been online for many years and resisted attack attempts. They run on multiple operating systems and are safe to use with default settings. All are well regarded.

  • Tor – Fast anonymous internet access, hidden websites, most well known.
  • I2P – Hidden websites, anonymous bittorrent, mail, out-proxy to internet, other services.
  • Freenet – Static website hosting, distributed file storage for large files, decentralized forums.

Less well known

Also anonymous networks, but less used and possibly more limited in functionality.

  • GnuNet – Anonymous distributed file storage.
  • OneSwarm – Bittorrent, has a non-anonymous mode, requires friends for anonymity.
  • RetroShare – File-sharing, chat, forums, mail. Requires friends, and not anonymous to those friends, only the rest of the network.
  • Omemo – Distributed social storage platform. Uncertain to what extent it is anonymous.

Non-free networks

These are anonymous networks, but are not open source. Therefore their security and anonymity properties is hard to impossible to verify, and though the applications are legit, they may have serious weaknesses. Do not rely on them for strong anonymity.

  • Osiris – Serverless portal system, does not claim to provide any real anonymity.

In development

  • Phantom – Hidden Services, native IPv6 transport.
  • GlobaLeaks – Open Source Whistleblowing Framework.
  • FreedomBox – Project to create personal servers for distributed social networking, email and audio/video communications.
  • Telex – A new way to circumvent Internet censorship.
  • Project Byzantium – Bootable live distribution of Linux to set up wireless mesh nodes with commonly available hardware.
  • Hyperboria A distributed meshnet built on cjdns.

Routing Platforms

These are internets overlaid on the internet. They provide security via encryption, but only provides weak to none anonymity on their own. Only standard tools such as OpenVPN and Quagga are required to connect. Responsibility for a sufficiently anonymous setup is placed on the user and their advertised routes. More suited for private groups as things out in the open can be firewalled by other participants. Can be layered above or below other anonymity nets for more security and fun.

  • Anonet – AnoNet2, a more open replacement for AnoNet1.
  • dn42 – Another highly technical routing community.
  • CJDNS, an IPV6 overlay network that provides end to end encryption. It is not anonymous by itself.

Alternative Internet

  • Netsukuku – A project that aims to build a global P2P online network completely independent from the Internet by using Wi-Fi. The software is still in active development, although the site is no longer updated. A new site is in progress of being built.
  • Many other wireless communities building mesh networks as an alternative to the Internet, e.g. Freifunk, http://guifi.net and many more around the globe. see also

Alternative domain name systems

  • Namecoin – Cryptocurrency with the added ability to support a decentralised domain name system currently as a .bit.
  • OpenNIC – A user controlled Network Information Center offering a democratic, non-national, alternative to the traditional Top-Level Domain registries.
  • Dot-P2P – Another decentralized DNS service without centralized registry operators (at July 18, 2012 page is not accessible and has not known anything about the status of project from February 2011).

See Also

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01/25/13

Is the TorProject protecting Pedos?

Update: 01-26-2013 – It seems that the TorProject.org is now threatening poor little gAtO because I voiced my opinions and disagree and question their practice of protecting pedophiles. So the TorProject that say’s they support “Freedom of Speech” now is trying to used it POWER to abuse people who disagree with them. This shows to me that I am very closed to the truth. Why would they be offended and why would they threaten a disable veteran that is only trying to help children by questioning it’s practice of supporting pedophiles in TOR.

This ABUSE of power upon the weak is what the TOR-Project claims it is trying to protect. This is the same tactics that corporations, governments that feel entitled think they can silence “Freedom of Speech” – Well Mr. Andrew Lewman of TorProject anytime, anyplace little boy. You are a coward to hide behind the Tor-Project and think you can get away with your abuse, your threats, your intimidation. gAtO is Ready- Fire at will.- hit me with your best shot.

  • I DO NOT FORGIVE
  • I DO NOT FORGET
  • YOU SHOULD OF EXPECTED gAtO

gAtO hAs his ClAw’s oUt psssss- I have been working on a project to fight pedo website in the Tor-onion network – (The Dark Web- the underweb) what ever you want to call it. We all know that Pedophiles as well as other criminals are hiding their websites inside -Tor-hidden service. So I contacted one of the torproject people – we will call him Andrew.

When I told them that I was working on getting rid of Pedo websites in Tor and I asked “why they just don’t delete these URL from the directory”, he told me:cyber_speech

“It’s so toxic, most law enforcement cannot touch it either. You should report these links to

http://missingkids.com/“>http://missingkids.com at a minimum. See

https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq-abuse.html.en#RemoveContent for the longer explanation.”

\—The Missing Kids network cannot do anything about websites in the Tor-network –hidden service.—/

This made me sick from the TorProject site -We refuse to weaken Tor because it would harm efforts to combat child abuse and human trafficking in the physical world, while removing safe spaces for victims online. – SAY WHAT!!! – Here we are we know the URL of PedoBear and hundreds of Pedo site in the Dark Web and they keep the real directory of all sites in the 10 Authority servers – they could just go and delete these known Pedo websites and then they would have to generate another URL and re-advertise and get back the customer base.

“Hay Anonymous we need your help”

You ever wonder why everyone vilifies the dark web (Tor) this is the reason why, get a clue TorProject.

That is a lot of work for these monsters – We in the cyber security field know all this and if we can get together and help we could help these children and protect them from these cowards. No, No the Torproject is so arrogant and delusional that they make these statements on their website and – well that’s all I have to do. - gAtO don’t get it.

I respect the efforts of the TorProject and what they do to help “freedom of Speech in cyberspace” this is my core belief, but to claim to help child abuse by leaving these sick website online. – That is madness – I cannot believe that Roger and Jacob worked as hard as they did to build such a great tools that is saving lives but when it comes to children they turn a blind eye.

I hope they see this post and think of the millions of children that suffer because they choose to do nothing. I hope they sleep well at nights knowing that pedophiles are loving their Tor-hidden service where they can do whatever they want with children and get away with it.

Shame on you TorProject – all I can say is that gAtO will work hard to find and destroy these websites.

 - we have rules and pedophiles have no rules -not on my watch

I know behind the Tor-hidden service is just a basic website with the normal vulnerabilities and from my research some of these use old web apps that are vulnerable. So be warned gAtO  is a gray hat and I’m hunting you. I will find you and exposed you, I will expose your family,  I will shame you, I will send you to jail in what ever country your in, were I hope they treat you like you treated these helpless children.

TorProject I expected more from you, I expected you to have a heart and help these helpless children- gAtO oUT

 

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01/19/13

Government Spying on everyone -Thanks Microsoft

gAtO lEaRn – On 01-01-213 we hear that Microsoft buys Skype and makes changes to allow Police surveillance. Then on 01-07-2013 we hear that a professor at the Warsaw University of Technology, Wojciech Mazurczyk, found a way to insert secret 70 bits of data and add secret information similar to steganography.spy-spy

Lawful Intercept is what it’s called and we just heard punch – counter-punch from the government. I just posted about corporations and governments using offensive cyber weapons to fight crime, but this looks like just plain old spying on citizens like China, Iraq and Syria does. Skype is owned by Microsoft and we know that Word and other products have back doors for them to snoop and governments to use in criminal cases. I guess they do it the proper way and get a real FISA document to monitor us it’s citizens.

mEoW 12-30-2012 our re-elected President Obama signs FISA Warrantless Wiretapping Program. STOP – SAY WHAT. mEoW – Forget about gun control how about the privacy of citizens, are we becoming like China, Iraq and Syria the more I find out about this the crazier it becomes. I hate Skypes but now finding this out NO WAY DUDE-

I did a little digging and I found a document from the Straford hack from the LutzBoat crew and this has been on the play board for a long time. More and more governments that play nice with the America and Microsoft will have to live with the fact that they are spying on us, the people. I voted for Obama but I’m pretty sure any president would want to be able to justify this abuse of power to monitor it’s citizens, what get’s me is we scream and yell when other countries do it but here we are doing to ourselves and nobody is talking about this- Hay press wake up. I have nothing to hide but if you do you have been warned – enjoy your government spying on you behind your back - gAtO oUt

Lab Notes:

IT security continues to be the greatest challenge facing government CIOs worldwide. Most experts agree that governments require stronger partnerships between the public and private sectors for both better protection of government IT systems from intruders and for greater visibility into operators’ network traffic to fight crime. However, government systems and intelligence activities constitute a very sensitive information environment. Governments must proceed with caution when forming technology partnerships for hardening their IT network security. Melissa E. Hathaway, who in February 2009 was named to be the Obama Administration’s top cyber security official, points out how

Lawful Intercept

Challenge

Criminals, predators and hackers now use chats, blogs, webmail and Internet applications such as online gaming and file-sharing sites to hide their communications.

Solution

Qosmos provides law enforcement agencies with a powerful solution to identify a target using multiple virtual IDs and intercept all related IP- based communications. Any trigger, such as a “user login = target” initiates intercept of all IP traffic related to the “target.”

Example of recognized applications and protocols

VoIP Email (POP, SMTP)

Webmail (Gmail, Hotmail, Live Mail, SquirrelMail, Yahoo mail, etc.)

Instant Messaging (Aim, SNM, Skype, Yahoo, Google Talk, QQ, Maktoob, Paltalk, etc.)

Online games (World of Warcraft)

Online classified ads

Audio/Video (H.323, SIP, MGCP, RTP, RTCP, MMSE, RTSP, SHOUTcast, Yahoo Video,

MSN Video, SCCP, etc.)

Web applications (Dailymotion, Google, eBay, Google Earth, HTTP, MySpace, Wikipedia,

YouTube, etc.)

Example of information extracted

Caller, phone number, called party, duration of call

Webmail login, email address, sender, receiver, subject matter, attached documents

Instant messaging sender, receiver, contact lists and status

Forum login, IP address, MAC address, mobile ID (IMSI, IMEI)

Protocols identified even for unidirectional traffic (e.g. email by satellite).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/30/obama-fisa-warrantless-wiretapping_n_2385690.html

http://enterprise-call-recording.tmcnet.com/topics/enterprise-call-recording/articles/321789-sounds-silence-skype-hold-more-than-expected-thanks.htm

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?399961-Microsoft-Buys-Skype-Makes-Changes-to-Allow-Police-Surveillance

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01/17/13

PEDO’s gAtO is Hunting YOU!

gAtO hAs - been meeting some very good people that have the ugly dirty job of going after pedophiles and gATO is sicken that this problem is becoming so big. I like most people hear of these sick wackos and my skin crawls but I am guilty of not doing anything to stop this. In my research into the Tor’s Dark Web I found so much ugly Pedo stuff but I always said to myself this is some else job but it’s not.

All cyber security professionals should work together to find and go after these sick bastards that haunt our children nightmare. When I first saw the “Pedo Bear Wiki” in Tor’s I was in shock at how they do business in plain site thinking that they are safe. This is also a big black eye for everyone because this does not just happen in Tor’s Dark Web but in the clear web were we all do work, and talk to friends. Facebook, Twitter is full of them, you may of added them as friends. In the normal Internet these people thrive and then they go into Tor and people start saying Oh well in Tor it’s all about these perverts. They give Tor a bad name because it works so well to mask you.

Be on Notice pedo’s that gATO has found ways to find you in the Tor-onion network. I can find the IP of your hidden-service website, I can also find your clients if your not careful. I am launching some Tor tools that I am developing that may allow me to find your IP and then your -geo location. I am working on some other offensive cyber tools to go after these Pedo Sites in the clear web and especially in Tor. So the hunt begins pedophiles you have been warned this coming year we will find you and destroy you then give the police a chance to lock you up for life. Yeah your safe in Tor, keep thinking that – gATO hunts for RaTz like yOu.

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01/10/12

Department of Homeland Security’s National Operations Center Monitors Journalists | TheBlaze.com

Under the National Operations Center (NOC)’s Media Monitoring Initiative that emerged from the Department of Homeland Security in November, Washington has written permission to collect and retain personal information from journalists, news anchors, reporters or anyone who uses “traditional and/or social media in real time to keep their audience situationally aware and informed.”

According to DHS, the definition of personal identifiable information can consist of any intellect “that permits the identity of an individual to be directly or indirectly inferred, including any information which is linked or linkable to that individual.”

via Department of Homeland Security’s National Operations Center Monitors Journalists | TheBlaze.com.

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08/13/11

How the West is arming the anti-censorship movement – The Globe and Mail

“With this technology, we are trying to give the anti-censorship movement some better tools,” he said.

Until a few days ago, when the joint University of Waterloo and University of Michigan team announced their Telex test running inside a computer lab in Ann Arbor, China’s cyber police may not have known there was a chink in their cyber wall.

via How the West is arming the anti-censorship movement – The Globe and Mail.

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