[109002] in Cypherpunks
Deception Toolkit to offer logging web anonymizer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Mon Mar 8 14:50:37 1999
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 11:30:23 -0800
From: Bill Stewart <billstewart@att.com>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
CC: fc@all.net
Reply-To: Bill Stewart <billstewart@att.com>
Dr.Fred Cohen's Deception Toolkit is a cracker trap that looks like
an attractive soft chewy target while not actually letting the
bad guy near anything valuable. He's apparently planning to add
an anonymizer to the package that logs usage and is looking for comments.
I haven't yet tried the anonysurf at all.net (since either my
office firewall doesn't like his firewall or else it's just a bad net day),
but it's there.
Bill Stewart
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Subject: DTK Support
From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net>
I have been asked by several organizations about support for DTK, so I
figured I would step up to the question on the mailing list.
To date, support has been limited to email and Web-based information
and, in rare cases, I have remotely logged into system to get things
operating (then brought back the changes for integration into the
central archive. This has all been done for free and that's just fine
with me...
But it seems that some companies feel better about having a real support
organziation behind anything they use. I had one company contact me and
tell me that they couldn't use it unless they paid something for the
license. I explained that a commercial license was available for $10
per seat. They haven't paid for it, but I assume that the fact that
they can pay for it if they want to is enough for them to use it.
I can sort of understand this (but then I understand the concept of
miltary intelligence), and I am willing to take their money in exchange
for services. Therefore...
Anybody out there who wants to pay a licensing fee for DTK and purchase
corporate support, can now do so. If you send me email (fc@all.net) and
tell me what you would like in the way of support, I will quote you a
fee, and you can thus help support all of the free (non-commercial)
users of DTK and my Web site.
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OTHER NEWS
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I am about to release (when I get the chance to finish testing it) a web
anonymizer service as part of DTK. This service will allow you to do
set up an anonymous Web service as part of DTK and thus proxy Web
services for others who don't want to be associated back to the source.
As the rest of DTK, the anonymiser keeps good logs, so the police can
subpoena the logs and trace back criminal activities. In fact, I am
thinking about making a special law enforcement interface for those of
us that actually want authorized law enforcement officials to be able to
trace criminals without having to call us up every time. (Lets hear it
from the privacy advocates). This is in keeping with my longstanding
view on anonymity with responsibility - see:
<center> <a href=all.net/journal/ntb/responsible.html>Providing for
Responsibility in a Global Information Infrastructure </a> </center>
HAve a great week...
FC
