0105121212 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. :) <><><><><\><|><><><><> <> <> <> AA TTTTTT IIIIII <> <> A A TT II <> <> AAAA TT II <> <> A A TT II <> <> A A TT IIIIII <> <> <> <><><><><2><><><><> 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 |^&*-| 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] |^&*-| 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? ] |^&*-| Geez Who the hell wrote the dribble on liberals. I'm one and don't recoginize me at all. |^&*-| to ati@etext.org Please remove my address from your list. anonymous. [um...] |^&*-| [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 |^&*-| & 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] |^&*-| 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 THAT'S IT!!! You can get a free copy of this zine every week simply by sending: SUBSCRIBE ATI as the message body to: listserv@franklins.net Back issues can be gotten from the Gutenberg Project at: http://www.etext.org/Zines Address all corresponding correlation ships to: ati@sacco.indymedia.org and remember, if you got angst: http://www.angelfire.com/ny/fasters/vent.html The official ATI webpage is also located on one of the nifty free fun cgi script oriented sites at: http://www.thepentagon.com/primeanarchist th-th-th-tha's all f-f-f-folks. prime outa hear