About cyber rights

Originally Posted by Gavin Kane
Do not sign in from your IP, use a college or net cafe. Stay safe bro.
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Cyber is owned by Hush. **** them all. They rolled on me so I will **** them over worldwide and ruin their business. Spread the word all over the net that cyber and hush are rolling on the own people and dont' give a ****. They need to pay for this.
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The DEA flat out told me they have encryption keys to hush. They asked for my cooperation which I denied but not before they told me all the access they have. I milked it out of them and now I can spread the word. **** the LE they have access to everything.
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ouch,

what? this sounds ridiculous and I seriously doubt that it can be true, why would the FBI and the DEA be going after hush or cyber? It wreaks of an internet myth to me but I don't have an account at either of them and I'm being safe anyway.

what other email encryption sites are there? I might as well switch.

i think one of the best ways to stay safe is get a wireless connection. Im looking into the new palms that have blue tooth.

Im not sure if i can access MC yet- some sites dont work i guess

Thats so lame, im glad I dont mess around with any of that.

Libraries are good to go to, but sometimes I get funny looks when loggin on to MC and people see that huge BEYOND STEROIDS banner LMAO!

ya, everyone here at work thinks im a roid monster... that banner doenst help much.

normalsucks said:

ya, everyone here at work thinks im a roid monster... that banner doenst help much.

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ditto
I'd be able to be online much more if it wasn't for that.

Normal, not sure what you mean about wireless being safe. Anything you do on the web can be tracked, wired or not. (unless you have a laptop that has never had any of your personal info on it, is not traceable to you in ANY other way, and you drive around and use open wireless connections of others). Having a wireless net connection in your home opens up its own issues if you dont know how to secure it(and your pc) properly.

As far as hush and cyber rights. Not surprised at all. First of all you have to understand where these big companies stand with uncle sam and where you stand with them. Uncle sam is their friend, they are not yours. All uncle sam has to do is contact hush, paypal, cyber-rights and say "um gee we believe someone using this account is committing a crime, help us please". And BOOM. The company in question hands the govt anything they want. They are in bed together, they have a department that handles law enforcement requests. I dont use hush but i would bet their user agreement says they dont allow you to use the service to facilitate crime. If the govt suspects you of that, then they are happy to fully cooperate no warrant needed and you cant argue with it. Some of the dumbasses recently busted were using myspace. I have personally had a US marshall explain to me that the govt has free unobstructed access to anything on myspace. And when they log in, there are no "private profiles".

A little explanation. Myspace is not too different of a situation than private mail companies such as UPS and DHL or FEDEX. Any of these companies can open any package they want with no legal requirements, no probable cause necessary. After they find your illegal substance, they call the police. The police then obtain a warrant to search the package fedex already searched and BOOM, your in jail. Perfectly legal.

If you must send encrypted email messages there is the only way to do it thats easy. No encryption is unbreakable. Some are theoretically very very very hard to break and you can do things to make it take longer.(maxing out the # of characters in your keyphrase/password, or encrypting your encryption and then perhaps encrypting it again) But if someone really wants your shit and they have the massive computer power to run math till they get it right, anything can eventually be broken. You need to use an open source encryption program AKA not one produced by hush that may as well have been available at HushI'mTheDEA.gov

check out truecrypt. spend an hour learning about it. spend 20 mins reading the tutorial while you create a TC partition on your harddrive. then learn to encrypt MSword files and email them to all your friends for fun. Get the hang of it and its easy.

For those truly interested in insecurity, check http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm there are a ton of computer security related podcasts and if you scroll down one is titled "Truecrypt" Download it and listen to it while you lift. TrueCrypt is true open source encryption and as it should be, its free.

Also, there is a kick ass harddrive cleaner called eraser, you can find it yourself. You can set it up to erase certain folders, like oh i dunno, history, cookies, temp internet files etc by not just deleting it which leaves the files on the drive, but writing over it up to 35 times w/ patterns of zeros and ones that by the time its done its as clean as technology allows. If you are interested in that you should consider reading "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory" by Peter Gutmann, it can be found here http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html

Just keep in mind, big companies exist to make a buck, not to harbor crime, dont commit crimes and expect large companies to be complicit.

Normal, not sure what you mean about wireless being safe. Anything you do on the web can be tracked, wired or not. (unless you have a laptop that has never had any of your personal info on it, is not traceable to you in ANY other way, and you drive around and use open wireless connections of others). Having a wireless net connection in your home opens up its own issues if you dont know how to secure it(and your pc) properly.

As far as hush and cyber rights. Not surprised at all. First of all you have to understand where these big companies stand with uncle sam and where you stand with them. Uncle sam is their friend, they are not yours. All uncle sam has to do is contact hush, paypal, cyber-rights and say "um gee we believe someone using this account is committing a crime, help us please". And BOOM. The company in question hands the govt anything they want. They are in bed together, they have a department that handles law enforcement requests. I dont use hush but I would bet their user agreement says they dont allow you to use the service to facilitate crime. If the govt suspects you of that, then they are happy to fully cooperate no warrant needed and you cant argue with it. Some of the dumbasses recently busted were using myspace. The govt has free unobstructed access to anything on myspace. And when they log in, there are no "private profiles".

A little explanation. Myspace is not too different of a situation than private mail companies such as UPS and DHL or FEDEX. Any of these companies can open any package they want with no legal requirements, no probable cause necessary. After they find your illegal substance, they call the police. The police then obtain a warrant to search the package fedex already searched and BOOM, your in jail. Perfectly legal.

If you must send encrypted email messages there is the only way to do it. No encryption is unbreakable. Some are theoretically very very very hard to break and you can do things to make it take longer.(maxing out the # of characters in your keyphrase/password, or encrypting your encryption and then perhaps encrypting it again) But if someone really wants your shit and they have the massive computer power to run math till they get it right, anything can eventually be broken. You need to use an open source encryption program AKA not one produced by hush that may as well have been available at HushI'mTheDEA.gov

check out truecrypt. spend an hour learning about it. spend 20 mins reading the tutorial while you create a TC partition on your harddrive. then learn to encrypt MSword files and email them to all your friends for fun. Get the hang of it and its easy.

Also to consider as an extra step, before encrypting a file, change its extension, so even if its decrypted properly it wont run without being renamed properly, for instance, letsay I just wrote an email in WORD, saved it as yourgay.doc now I change the name to suckit.jpg, encrypt it, mail it, now whoever received it has to decrypt it, then chance the name back to anything.doc to be able to open it.

For those truly interested in insecurity, check http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm there are a ton of computer security related podcasts and if you scroll down one is titled "Truecrypt" Download it and listen to it while you lift. TrueCrypt is true open source encryption and as it should be, its free.

Also, there is a kick ass harddrive cleaner called eraser, you can find it yourself. You can set it up to erase certain folders, like oh i dunno, history, cookies, temp internet files etc by not just deleting it which leaves the files on the drive, but writing over it up to 35 times w/ patterns of zeros and ones that by the time its done its as clean as technology allows. If you are interested in that you should consider reading "Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory" by Peter Gutmann, it’s a ten year old paper, but still very applicable, it can be found here http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html

Just keep in mind, big companies exist to make a buck, not to harbor crime, dont commit crimes and expect large companies to be complicit.

Keeping your privacy private is your job. not hush's

if your wireless, your mobile. Meaning your not using the same ip every time. Makes it harder to find where you are. As long as your not an idiot, and you keep delicate info at random wireless zone, its a lot safer than just having a normal ip.

This is posted at cyber-rights - Privacy - Frequently Asked Questions

Does Hush/Cyber-Rights.Net have a "back door" that can be accessed by government agencies?

Email, which includes attachments, sent between Hush users is completely encrypted.

What if my message is subpoenaed?

Hush, like any company or individual, is legally bound to respond to court-issued subpoenas. However, because not even Hush can access the encryption keys of individual users, in the case of a subpoena Hush would only be able to provide the encrypted (coded) version of the transmitted email.

If they did turn over the emails and they are not encrypted couldn't someone bring up a hell of a law suit for false statements?

hmm what about some of these wireless cell phone cards that you can get with Sprint of any cell phone provider?
the phone number is still in the user's name
would that tend to have a perm. IP codes as well?
or could that in itself be used to track someone as well due to the cell phone towers?

start surfing from a proxy site. this is no joke guys. hush and cyber are not safe. pm's are safer but be very careful with sensitive info in them as well. do a google search on proxy sites.

Good idea DB. I totally forgot about proxies. I used to use them to get on this board from work until our IT's got smart.

wi-fi. Its the way to go. I bought a new palm. Its able to pick up wi-fi pretty much anywhere. No, there is no connection fee/ id, i could be anyone.

or, you could use blue tooth. Thats about as safe as dial up.

normalsucks said:

if your wireless, your mobile. Meaning your not using the same ip every time. Makes it harder to find where you are. As long as your not an idiot, and you keep delicate info at random wireless zone, its a lot safer than just having a normal ip.

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This is not always true. The DHCP server knows your computers MAC address (that's the hard coded ethernet address, not an Apple computer) once you connect. You will then often get the same IP address if it is available. Only if it is not available will you get a different IP. I saw this each time I logged on to my hotel's Wi-Fi network during my business trip. I had two laptops, and they consistently were assigned the same IP address each time.