NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking

Re:NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking by dictum on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @05:24AM (#6886879)

Why is the Disconnect trackers list (https://services.disconnect.me/disconnect.json, referenced in https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect/blob/master/firef...) an encrypted blob?

That seems to go against the OS nature of the project.

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Re:NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking by byoogle on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @05:33AM (#6886904)

See the commit message at https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect/commit/691897e21d....

The unencrypted list is at https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect/blob/b27abbf033c6....

And formatted as JSON at https://disconnect.me/services-plaintext.json.

The encrypted list is also trivial to decrypt with the SJCL code in https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect/blob/master/firef....

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Re:NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking by dictum on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @06:48AM (#6887133)

Thanks! I was setting up a proxy for devices that can't use Disconnect or Adblock. I thought of adapting the Disconnect list to the proxy's block list, but a cursory reading of the source only showed the URL of the encrypted list.

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Re:NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking by byoogle on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @12:58PM (#6889272)

Cool, ping me if you need help (byoogle everywhere).

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Re:NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking by fixanoid on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @11:55AM (#6888718)

Hehe, this makes me chuckle every time.

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