ByBill Toulas-February 15, 2019.133 South Korea is on the verge of blocking its website game by tracking Sni handshakes. People oppose the new measure and say it would be the beginning of internet censorship. It remains fairly simple and straightforward to circumvent Sni blocks with Vpns and encrypted Sni traffic being the main ways to do it. Sni sniffing and data capture would allow the Korea Communications Commission (Kcc) to identify the target server hostname that basically gets to know exactly which domains a user attempts to access. The official announcement makes it clear that the seven Internet Service Providers (Isp) in the country are to participate in this new blocking action and that modulation devices for Ip and Dns will be rendered ineffective against this. Nevertheless, this decision was met with opposition by many South Korean people supporting internet freedom and consumers who claim the new measure would bring nothing but disruption. South Korea’s online censorship system started hijacking Dns queries last year. Now it intercepts Sni to find out remote hostname if the website uses (@mooyoul) February 11, 2019 Sni censorship is based on the fact that the corresponding data is not encrypted, enabling regulatory agencies to identify the target website. Nonetheless, as part of the effort to improve user privacy on all levels of network service providers, encrypted Sni traffic features (Esni) have been rolled out to conceal handshakes between the user and the domain. Also, Firefox plans to add support to Esnivpns, which will remain a solid option to do just that. Those who oppose the new measure have started a petition that will remain open for another month and has gained support from 205 thousand people already. Simply put the petition claims that sni sniffing will be the beginning of the country’s internet censorship and that blocks will be imposed sooner or later on people and organizations that do not support the leader or government that happens to incarnate the country’s authority at a given moment (they also equate this development with China’s internet censorship). The people who signed the petition claim that the blocking requires subjective judgment and that since the circumvention strategies remain effective against the new measure it will be a waste of taxes.
BySydney Butler-July 24, 2019.142 If you had to use technology as a way of tracking millions of people what you would use? Which sorts of electronic monitoring devices would you get? It is not like selling them on “SpyKits R Us” or something. It turns out you can build or order some pretty impressive software tools when you are a country. Many of us are persuaded that programs that let you penetrate systems and devices can keep our information secure. We’ll take some time to look at a few examples of options from these programs. Most definitely there’s plenty more we’ve never heard of and will never hear about. Even so the specifics are upsetting enough for the very unusual software packages which are public knowledge.
.143.143 This device is now pretty old and of historical interest only. However, it is interesting to see how digital tools for mass surveillance have evolved amid technological advances. Magic Lantern is a software program for the recording of keystrokes. These days, the kind of thing a low-level hacker could use to steal your credit card details or passwords. In 2001 the world learned of this device for the first time. It was built by none but the Fbi! What’s fascinating about Magic Lantern is the circumstances under which triggers are. Whenever the aim uses Pgp encryption to secure an email message the password is intercepted by the logger. The Fbi can then intercept and decrypt the email with ease. The feds read their “safe” email almost instantly without the sender being any the wiser. Icreach
.144.144 Let’s continue with the disclaimer that Icreach could be just a rumor. One has to deal with lots of unverified information in the world of surveillance and that’s expected to happen at best. The people who claim that Icreach is also a real thing say it’s top-secret. And make what you want of that. That being said, outlets including Pbs reported on Icreach’s presence which in turn reported on information coming from Edward Snowden. The well-known whistleblower of intelligence.
Mystic
.145.145 Mystic no longer exists as far as we know but has been used to gather metadata and telephone call information from a number of countries since its introduction in 2009. It was exposed all due to the 2014 leaks of Edward Snowden. Apparently Mystic was such a powerful system that it reported in a rolling 30-day window, almost every phone call in a country. That means the state has been able to extract and listen to any phone call taken over the last month. Mystic is groundbreaking in the sense that it’s the first system we know about that could monitor an entire nation’s communications. StuxNet
.146.146 StuxNet is quite popular, so you may have heard the name at least. It is not a virus but a computer worm. Computer worms function differently from viruses. While a virus typically wants to destroy or change files on one computer, a worm tries to spread and reproduce itself to that end through computer networks. StuxNet may well have been the most destructive worm ever made. The public still has no idea who developed StuxNet but it is strongly believed that government power had to develop the program.Warrior Pride
.147.147 Warrior Pride has one of the better code names of the devices that we’ve been looking at here, but there isn’t much “smart” about what it is. In reality the Warrior Pride app is a pair of devices. They’re spyware kits which cover the mobile world’s iOs and Android sides respectively. If you still have a Windows Phone, you’re probably safe, but you’ve got a Windows Phone again. I’m sorry for that. Hilariously all Warrior Pride sub-components have names taken from the cartoon of Smurfs. For instance, Dreamy Smurf allows them to turn on a user turned off phone. Nosey Smurf let them hear in by turning on the microphone. Tracker Smurf monitors your position well. You get the picture. With those kits the state can pull from your phone just about any content. Should you think of using a mobile right twice? Tools for tracking applications will have this effect on you. The Intrusion Wizards and their Mysterious Surveillance Software Tools
Our mates are mostly computers and the internet is a great place to be. However, if you have enough money and power, you can transform these devices into deep information gathering instruments. Tipping the balance away from liberty frequently in the name of security. We are positive we’ve never heard of many such devices out there. We possibly will never. It’s still good to know about the ones that have slipped into public knowledge. This teaches us something about those capacities that are meant to look after our society. Whether those skills are soothing or terrifying is something we’re going to leave to you.Warrior Pride
.147.147 Warrior Pride has one of the better code names of the devices that we’ve been looking at here, but there isn’t much “smart” about what it is. In reality the Warrior Pride app is a pair of devices. They’re spyware kits which cover the mobile world’s iOs and Android sides respectively. If you still have a Windows Phone, you’re probably safe, but you’ve got a Windows Phone again. I’m sorry for that. Hilariously all Warrior Pride sub-components have names taken from the cartoon of Smurfs. For instance, Dreamy Smurf allows them to turn on a user turned off phone. Nosey Smurf let them hear in by turning on the microphone. Tracker Smurf monitors your position well. You get the picture. With those kits the state can pull from your phone just about any content. Should you think of using a mobile right twice? Tools for tracking applications will have this effect on you. The Intrusion Wizards and their Mysterious Surveillance Software Tools
Our mates are mostly computers and the internet is a great place to be. However, if you have enough money and power, you can transform these devices into deep information gathering instruments. Tipping the balance away from liberty frequently in the name of security. We are positive we’ve never heard of many such devices out there. We possibly will never. It’s still good to know about the ones that have slipped into public knowledge. This teaches us something about those capacities that are meant to look after our society. Whether those skills are soothing or terrifying is something we’re going to leave to you.