| Subversive | The Newbie's Guide to Detecting the NSA

JaNell · Post by **JaNell** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 10:36 am

(I labeled it for Homefatherland SSecurity)

The Newbie's Guide to Detecting the NSA

One way to tell if you're being watched on the web by Big Bubba.

necrosynthesis · Post by **necrosynthesis** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 7:34 pm

ha. It seems knology has circumvented the described procedure. It killed my connection altogether and I had to have it reset on knology's end. They were very curious about what I was doing. weird.

iblis · Post by **iblis** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 8:09 pm

necrosynthesis wrote:ha. It seems knology has circumvented the described procedure. It killed my connection altogether and I had to have it reset on knology's end. They were very curious about what I was doing. weird.

what, doing a traceroute?

necrosynthesis · Post by **necrosynthesis** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 8:52 pm

yes. I'm not sure what happened, as it's not my area of expertise, but they said they had to 'reset it on their end' whatever that means. Maybe I did something wrong. :shrug:

iblis · Post by **iblis** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 11:04 pm

necrosynthesis wrote:yes. I'm not sure what happened, as it's not my area of expertise, but they said they had to 'reset it on their end' whatever that means. Maybe I did something wrong.

i've never heard of a trace route messing up a router - unless the thing was like 20 years old... or deliberately programmed to go ape from a traceroute - which i'm doubting, since people do traceroutes all the time.

i think it's more likely that they fucked up something - or something went belly up without their intervention - and they wanted a scapegoat.

Dark Elf · Post by **Dark Elf** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 11:31 pm

Dont quite follow it all, but it creeps me out! Nice, new Avitar Ibliss!

Dark Elf · Post by **Dark Elf** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 11:32 pm

.... and im too parinoid to try the described task above on the work computer...

elasticwings · Post by **elasticwings** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 1:07 pm

I'm sure everybody crosses an ATT router at some point. See, I do.

Code: Select all

wayne@sailorvenus:~$ traceroute google.com
traceroute: Warning: google.com has multiple addresses; using 64.233.167.99
traceroute to google.com (64.233.167.99), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1)  2.851 ms  1.334 ms  1.293 ms
 2  73.31.72.1 (73.31.72.1)  12.013 ms  7.863 ms  8.961 ms
 3  s01b1.oakridge.tn.knox.comcast.net (68.86.194.225)  10.632 ms  8.114 ms  10. 895 ms
 4  s01j1.knoxville.tn.knox.comcast.net (68.86.194.246)  10.182 ms  10.388 ms  1 6.311 ms
 5  68.47.160.62 (68.47.160.62)  9.428 ms  10.492 ms  9.194 ms
 6  12.124.64.61 (12.124.64.61)  34.006 ms  16.573 ms  19.388 ms
 7  tbr1-p013701.attga.ip.att.net (12.123.20.170)  19.916 ms  16.178 ms  17.855 ms
 8  ggr2-ge00.attga.ip.att.net (12.123.20.201)  17.425 ms  16.304 ms  16.343 ms
 9  192.205.33.90 (192.205.33.90)  19.958 ms  18.222 ms  16.109 ms
10  atl-core-01.inet.qwest.net (205.171.21.105)  16.747 ms  16.563 ms  20.306 ms
11  cer-core-01.inet.qwest.net (67.14.8.14)  61.625 ms  49.354 ms  50.948 ms
12  chx-edge-01.inet.qwest.net (205.171.139.162)  50.252 ms  50.390 ms  49.618 m s
13  65.112.69.202 (65.112.69.202)  48.622 ms  47.908 ms  49.444 ms
14  216.239.46.1 (216.239.46.1)  52.755 ms  59.714 ms  48.377 ms
15  66.249.95.121 (66.249.95.121)  48.908 ms  48.916 ms  55.031 ms
16  64.233.175.34 (64.233.175.34)  54.767 ms  51.999 ms  50.417 ms
17  72.14.232.74 (72.14.232.74)  58.302 ms  61.912 ms 64.233.175.42 (64.233.175. 42)  50.562 ms
18  64.233.167.99 (64.233.167.99)  53.124 ms  53.923 ms  52.546 ms
wayne@sailorvenus:~$

And yes, my computer is named SailorVenus.

karmakaze · Post by **karmakaze** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 1:33 pm

necrosynthesis wrote:yes. I'm not sure what happened, as it's not my area of expertise, but they said they had to 'reset it on their end' whatever that means. Maybe I did something wrong.

try it again and see what happens. your not doing anything wrong.

necrosynthesis · Post by **necrosynthesis** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 6:06 pm

now i'm getting tracert not recognized as a command. I'll get somebody over here that knows what's up.

iblis · Post by **iblis** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 10:07 pm

necrosynthesis wrote:now i'm getting tracert not recognized as a command. I'll get somebody over here that knows what's up.

that is odd.

you should get something like this:

C:\Documents and Settings\youbitchesareallgoingtodie>tracert

Usage: tracert [-d] [-h maximum_hops] [-j host-list] [-w timeout] target_name

Options:
-d Do not resolve addresses to hostnames.
-h maximum_hops Maximum number of hops to search for target.
-j host-list Loose source route along host-list.
-w timeout Wait timeout milliseconds for each reply.

ah well.