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"From the Russian translation of one of your service manuals"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Sun Jan 6 11:57:48 2008
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 22:46:13 +1300
There's a great exchange in "Never Say Never Again" that pokes fun at
unnecessary secrecy preventing access by legitimate users:
Bond: "Commander Peterson are you equipped with the new XT-7B's?"
Peterson: "That's top secret. How do you know about them?"
Bond: "From the Russian translation of one of your service manuals"
Reading through a recent malware paper I think I've found the computer
equivalent: "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Internet
Miscreants" contains a section (section 3.1.1) in which the researchers try to
determine compromised card information by country:
The official BIN number database is not available to the public. We use a
BIN list containing information for 52,492 banks [...] which we acquired as
part of the source code of a channel service bot.
("From the Russian source code of the people the security measure is designed
to protect against").
Peter.
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