Posts by vjirasek

BBC detector vans are back to spy on your home Wi-Fi – if you can believe it

Easy defence - fuzzying

If they only listen to ones wifi, and assuming the wifi is strongly encrypted, the defence a home would have against the BBC is to add random traffic to the wifi - so called fuzzing. I guess this could become an opensource project - imagine Raspberry PI in Wifi simply generating traffic to a website on the Internet. Very hard to distinguish on the Wifi.

That is why I am puzzled why the BBC bothers with Wifi when they could (using RIPA) tap to the ISPs directly. And by extension of that, why not just correlate IP addresses of iPlayer users with paying households.

Worldpay outs self as provider of easy-to-crack payment services

Misleading article

The first sentence say it all about the level of the research effort the author has made! Currently, there are only theoretical attacks know against sha1. These weaken the security from 2^80 to 2^61. While this is quite a dramatic decrease in effort needed, it is still beyond capabilities of your average crime lord. Perhaps a NSA could do it though. So please stop spreading FUD and do your research!