Microsoft working to eliminate Internet anonymity

[The Johnny]

http://gcn.com/articles/2009/08/19/microsoft-internet-anonymity.aspx?s=gcndaily_200809?cid=nl_DR_DAILY_T

Microsoft researchers have unveiled an anti-hacking concept that can help track hackers or malicious content to origin servers.

The Host Tracker program's goal is to "de-anonymize the Internet" through the ability to host servers with 99 percent accuracy.

Host Tracker is designed to unmask would-be hackers who take advantage of anonymizing techniques by cross-referencing Internet protocol traffic data to identify the true origin. Microsoft's representatives said the Host Tracker system relies on application-level events -- in this case, Internet Explorer browser sessions -- to automatically infer host-IP bindings

[Kai]

Use Linux?


I know that often taken as a cop-out, but seriously, there's nothing requiring you to use Microsoft software to browse the web.

[The Johnny]

i would use Linux, but learning computer language is a hassle i havent been able to deal with for years... also ive heard theres a lot of tweaking involved to make it run smoothly...

at least i do use firefox as my browser

and this doesnt necesarrily affect me directly, but it seems horrible anyhow, ive been reading anonymity news sites for a while now regarding different countries legislations that have passed and others that have failed and i dont like how things are going... U.S. of A. along with England and China seem the biggest nazis in their own special way towards the internet.

i vaguely remember USA trying to pass thru Congress a proposal to fuse an all encompassing ID card that would include SS stuff and DMV, im not sure if it had GPS or if it had a microchip only... England some deal with forcing ISPs to save backlogs of ALL traffik for like a decade?... China is evident im sure...

and Obama so ive heard is investing a lot of budget into "cyber-attack security"

[The Johnny]

U.K. cybersecurity office to have attack role

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10272925-83.html

New Military Command for Cyberspace

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/technology/24cyber.html?_r=1


its the overall direction that suxx, the creep towards complete surveillance is there - i cant find the other articles on the failed legislations nor the approved ones...


Pirate Bay operators facing jail as trial closes

http://www.v3.co.uk/vnunet/news/2240560/pirate-bay-operators-found


i never used the pirate bay cz i know other places, but it still leaves me with a sort of sinking feeling 

[Kai]

i would use Linux, but learning computer language is a hassle i havent been able to deal with for years... also ive heard theres a lot of tweaking involved to make it run smoothly...

at least i do use firefox as my browser

and this doesnt necesarrily affect me directly, but it seems horrible anyhow, ive been reading anonymity news sites for a while now regarding different countries legislations that have passed and others that have failed and i dont like how things are going... U.S. of A. along with England and China seem the biggest nazis in their own special way towards the internet.

i vaguely remember USA trying to pass thru Congress a proposal to fuse an all encompassing ID card that would include SS stuff and DMV, im not sure if it had GPS or if it had a microchip only... England some deal with forcing ISPs to save backlogs of ALL traffik for like a decade?... China is evident im sure...

and Obama so ive heard is investing a lot of budget into "cyber-attack security"

Dude, Ubuntu. Srsly.

Linux has come a long way in the last 5 years.

[Bruno]

I have Ubuntu on a bootable 8G USB thumb drive. I was amazed how easy it was to get working, and so far it has automatically recognized all my hardware. If all I used a computer for was internet, I would have no use for windows.

[Soylent Green]

http://gcn.com/articles/2009/08/19/microsoft-internet-anonymity.aspx?s=gcndaily_200809?cid=nl_DR_DAILY_T

Microsoft researchers have unveiled an anti-hacking concept that can help track hackers or malicious content to origin servers.

The Host Tracker program's goal is to "de-anonymize the Internet" through the ability to host servers with 99 percent accuracy.

Host Tracker is designed to unmask would-be hackers who take advantage of anonymizing techniques by cross-referencing Internet protocol traffic data to identify the true origin. Microsoft's representatives said the Host Tracker system relies on application-level events -- in this case, Internet Explorer browser sessions -- to automatically infer host-IP bindings

Wouldn't this only work for Internet Explorer?

Only fuckwits and people who don't use the internet at all use internet explorer.

[Triple Zero]

I'm not entirely sure about what this is supposed to be doing? The article doesn't really talk about any technical details, but I guess just not using IE would be a good start (or Chrome, for that matter: http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20090824/google-safe-browsing-and-chrome-privacy-leak/)

And yeah, the whole Cyber Defense Peace Troops thing is kind of scary. I hadn't really thought of it that way, all I was thinking "well they're never gonna stop those DDoS attacks that way, and besides, they're not that big of a problem compared to other security issues", but of course that means all the new Cyber Liberation Military is going to be used for worse things instead of the War on Bugs.