A Hacker's Guide to the Internet

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1. A Hacker’s Guide to The Internet
2. A Hacker’s Guide to The Internet {
3. !/samphippen
4. A Hacker’s Guide to The Internet {
8. The Internet is so much more than this
9. BitTorrent
11. Ser
14. Impossible to disrupt
15. Bitcoin
16. Open Source peer to peer money
18. Internet Currency
19. Previous Internet currencies
24. Decentralized
26. Can’t be frozen
27. “Since there is no registry of these (bitcoin) addresses, people can use them to protect their anonymity when making a transaction.” - BBC 14 February 2014 http://bbc.in/1eYQUNI (From the ‘How Bitcoin works‘ infobox)
28. Wrong
29. Impact
33. Bitcoin donations
34. At least 3500 bitcoins were donated
35. Bitcoin sustained wikileaks
36. Silk Road
38. Built as a hidden service
39. TOR
41. Government seized the bitcoins
42. Indicated they would sell them
43. $13,000,000
44. Silk Road 2.0
45. Bitcoin isn’t doing so good
46. MtGox the longest running exchange has (more or less) collapsed
47. Unable to widthdraw Bitcoins for ~ a month
49. Leaked documents indicate they’re missing 200 million dollars
50. This is unconfirmed
51. This has tanked the average Bitcoin price
52. NSA Leaks
53. Oh Boy…
55. “T he NSA, they want to be able to spy on you. And if they have ten different options for spying on you that you know about, they have 13 ways of doing it and they do all 13” ! Jacob Applebaum - 30c3 ‘To protect and infect’
57. “Search HTTP activity” means “Tell me about all of my target’s web browsing”
58. NSA has found security holes in nearly every computer
59. They have taken over core Internet infrastructure
60. They can disrupt arbitrary Internet connections
61. They can modify arbitrary Internet connections
62. Great firewall of earth
63. Tooling to persistently infect computers
64. Aside: what if a citizen did any of this?
65. Phones
66. Intercept base- stations
67. Install software in SIM cards
68. Patch phone firmware
69. Claim to have 100% iPhone exploit success
70. Who’s got a mobile phone?
71. Who’s got a NSA listening device?
72. “Warrantless wiretapping”
73. Warantless entire internet tapping.
74. Every Internet user
75. Every mobile phone user
76. Real world impact: JTRIG
77. Destroy reputation of target through Internet manipulation
79. Targetting individuals “who have never been charged with, let alone convicted of, any crimes” - http://bit.ly/1k6dHGh
80. This is all really terrible
81. Targeted disruption of social groups on the internet
82. Used on political groups and “hacktivists”
83. Takeaways
84. Your Internet usage is being recorded, analysed and mined
85. You are being spied upon
86. Anyone in the room work with confidential sources?
87. Anyone in the room work with secret data?
88. It would not be too paranoid to assume they’ve got it too
89. Fin.
90. Slides at: http://tinyurl.com/sam-bbc-talk
91. Let’s Have Some Questions ! sam@funandplausible.com !/samphippen