Problems with Tor usage as panacea This post deals with problems related to Tor usage that are not technical. I try to look at the human side of things, and I’m quite concerned by the meme of Tor as “panacea solution to arbitrary infosec problems.” I don’t particularly want to fight the privacy activist cult that […]
Archives for December 2016
The Great Cyber Game: Commentary (3)
The third instalment of a two part series on cyber In the first part of this commentary I looked at what and why the cyber full court press is happening. The second part was a textual analysis of the Shadow Brokers drop (matryoshka messaging.) This third part will explore how we know that this was such […]
The Great Cyber Game: Commentary (2)
Analysis of a message of messages containing messages In the first part of this commentary I explained how this operation (Shadow Brokers dropping info), and the parallel operations (Fancy Bears hack team chasing media; the Cleetus account chasing media) are probably coordinated information operations to attempt to shift attention away from Russia’s election meddling. This […]