{"id":67100,"date":"2024-11-11T23:47:35","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T04:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=5b4913050088def4d59b6e87c64328e4"},"modified":"2024-11-11T23:47:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T04:47:35","slug":"criminals-exploiting-fbi-emergency-data-requests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=67100","title":{"rendered":"Criminals Exploiting FBI Emergency Data Requests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2024\/11\/criminals-exploiting-fbi-emergency-data-requests.html\">Schneier on Security<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: As ever, a backdoor for anyone is a backdoor for everyone.<\/div><p>I&rsquo;ve been writing about the problem with lawful-access backdoors in encryption for decades now: that as soon as you create a mechanism for law enforcement to bypass encryption, the bad guys will use it too.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out the same thing <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/11\/08\/fbi-says-hackers-are-sending-fraudulent-police-data-requests-to-tech-giants-to-steal-peoples-private-information\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is true<\/a> for non-technical backdoors:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The advisory said that the cybercriminals were successful in masquerading as law enforcement by using compromised police accounts to send emails to companies requesting user data. In some cases, the requests cited false threats, like claims of human trafficking and, in one case, that an individual would &ldquo;suffer greatly or die&rdquo; unless the company in question returns the requested information.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI said the compromised access to law enforcement accounts allowed the hackers to generate legitimate-looking subpoenas that resulted in companies turning over usernames, emails, phone numbers, and other private information about their users.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been writing about the problem with lawful-access backdoors in encryption for decades&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=67100\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}