Re:Georgia Tech Student Indicted in UGA Hack
by lloyddobbler on Monday January 05, 2015 @05:24PM
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Interestingly enough, it may not even have been as complicated as that.
According to one Reddit commenter, the UGA calendar is left wide open for submissions - and in some cases, posts may be under minimal (if any) review. So it may be that he simply found the wide open URL, filled out a form, and hit 'submit'.
http://www.reddit.com/r/gatech/comments/2quflw/georgia_tech_...
Seems like that would be fair game without using Tor or some other proxy - since there are no terms or conditions of use mentioned on the form, seems like it's open to anyone to post. But who's to say?
Re:Georgia Tech Student Indicted in UGA Hack
by CodeWriter23 on Monday January 05, 2015 @06:21PM
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So UGA's theory is he was trespassing because that wide open system is only intended for use by UGA Students, Faculty, etc? Seems flimsy to me.
Re:Georgia Tech Student Indicted in UGA Hack
by sasas on Monday January 05, 2015 @08:15PM
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A recent Defcon presentation [1] has highlighted the risk of using "anonymous" proxies. As such, it is advised never to use any public domain proxy.
Re:Georgia Tech Student Indicted in UGA Hack
by chubot on Monday January 05, 2015 @05:58PM
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I'll just leave this here: http://www.dailydot.com/crime/tor-harvard-bomb-suspect/
Re:Georgia Tech Student Indicted in UGA Hack
by dollaaron on Monday January 05, 2015 @06:14PM
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So use Tor from someplace that won't be able to tell that you were one of a few people accessing Tor at that moment. Just go to a coffee shop or something.
Re:Georgia Tech Student Indicted in UGA Hack
by sgrove on Monday January 05, 2015 @10:18PM
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Or presumably use a VPN to a server in another country, then hop on Tor. Any obvious problem with that?
Re:Georgia Tech Student Indicted in UGA Hack
by dollaaron on Tuesday January 06, 2015 @01:42AM
(#8843196)
Technically it'd be fine, there wouldn't be any direct evidence... but using a VPN on campus at the same time a bomb threat comes in through Tor could be enough to draw some suspicion. For something like this though I don't think they'd dig that deep.
I'm surprised a GT student was so careless TBH. Tor + an anonymous proxy if you're gonna be futzing around in someone else's network, even if you don't intend to cause any tangible damage!