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[Infowarrior] - FYI ~ attrition.org uses an invalid security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Network IPdog)
Mon Apr 21 21:46:11 2014
From: "Network IPdog" <network.ipdog@gmail.com>
To: <surfer@mauigateway.com>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20140418154725.4473A077@m0048139.ppops.net>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 18:45:38 -0700
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
FYI...
Say it isn't so....
In today's Heartbleed state of affairs...
attrition.org uses an invalid security certificate.=20
The certificate is not trusted because it is self-signed.=20
The certificate is only valid for Lyger The certificate expired on.... =
12/21/2012 1:44 PM.=20
The current time is 4/21/2014 6:18 PM. (Error code: =
sec_error_expired_issuer_certificate)
Ruff, Ruff...!
Network IPdog
Ephesians 4:32 & Cheers!!!
A password is like a... toothbrush ;^)=20
Choose a good one, change it regularly and don't share it.
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Weeks [mailto:surfer@mauigateway.com]=20
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 3:47 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: OT: Re: [[Infowarrior] - NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug =
for Years]
:: There being no cable between the Hawaiian Islands
:: and the mainland at the time
Wait...what?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_communications_cable#Submarine_ca=
bles_across_the_Pacific
"The first trans-pacific cables were completed in 1902-03, linking the =
US mainland to Hawaii in 1902 and Guam to the Philippines in 1903.
Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Fiji were also linked in 1902.
scott
--- mikea@mikea.ath.cx wrote:
From: Mike A <mikea@mikea.ath.cx>
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:09:14PM +0000, Matthew Black wrote:
> IIRC, the message was sent via courier instead of cable or telephone=20
> to prevent interception. Did the military not even trust its own=20
> cryptographic methods? Or did they not think withdrawal of the=20
> Japanese ambassador was not very critical?
The message was sent by Western Union. There being no cable between the =
Hawaiian Islands and the mainland at the time, the message went by =
commercial radio, in plaintext, and thence by civilian bicycle messenger =
(of Japanese ancestry, as it happened) to Fort Shafter, where it was =
read while the attack was in progress.
David Kahn's fine book, _The Codebreakers_, discusses this in rather =
more detail. I recommend the original version; the paperback and later =
hardback editions contain rather less meat.
--
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea@mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin=20
