[164752] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Revealed: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Boyd)
Wed Jul 31 11:50:46 2013
From: Chris Boyd <cboyd@gizmopartners.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACg3zYFJ96by_y=LyGxYTFZoQasf7Gz6nXENg+fNqMr-un27SQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 10:50:09 -0500
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Jul 31, 2013, at 10:26 AM, "<<\"tei''>>>" <oscar.vives@gmail.com> =
<oscar.vives@gmail.com> wrote:
> - Have I read it correctly. Can then break into a vpn connection,
> then leach documents that a german in pakistan is sending to his
> office in germany?
I would guess that it's becasuse many VPN services still support PPTP =
which can be attacked as outlined here:
http://www.schneier.com/paper-pptpv2.html
--Chris
