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FBI Issues Denial About Leaked UDID List

thewap said:
Obamacare is only the start, Ive read just recently some schools are trying to force students now to be implanted with the RFID chip, there is a court battle going on. Obamacare will mandate RFID chip implants to all. By 2015 the government (doesnt matter right or left) will mandate all citizens to rfid implant. People will be scanned wherever they go with all info available to big brother. Pleople who opt out will not have access to health, banks, gov buildings, airplanes etc..
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Not forcing students to have implanted RFID chips... but wear bracelets with RFID chips in them. Both of which I would be opposed.
 
kkamann said:
From the thread of the original story (now closed for cleanup)...



What they said. But it does make for a good story.

However, I'm certainly not saying the FBI is incapable of having such a list and that it was hacked. I'm just saying this social hack theory is also a real possibility, and I don't trust the hacker(s) either.

My first impulse was to go a website linked from the nbcnews.com article(kimosabe.net) site to see if I was on the list and plug in my UDID on a form. But then I caught myself and thought, "Well, SOMEBODY would be 100% guaranteed to have my UDID if I did this, now wouldn't they? I'm not that stupid." Maybe it's legit, maybe it isn't. I'm not taking the chance.
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Smart thinking. You are correct, if you "plug in" your UDID, someone would have it. If it was a list, just using the find function would not offer up your UDID.

Then I thought, why didn't the hackers simply post the entire list unencrypted if it's that easy to crack? Instead, you download the encrypted file, and then they lead you to go and download/install some open-source software for decrypting it. I don't have time right now it research further and I don't know enough about which open-source software is safe/legit. Seemed kinda suspicious to me. I don't know if this open-source software they want you to use isn't the real danger in disguise or not. Just saying. My personal motto on things like this: If I am not well-informed about something, I err on suspicion until I am.
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A few corrections. First, the software that runs the MD5 check, unarchiving, and decryption, are all built in to OS X AND Linux. If you're really paranoid, all three are open source. So you can see the code and what it's doing. There is of course unarchiving software that is well tested and vetted in the Windows world. Decryption software that has been vetted is also available. So no, there's no threat there.

The file that is unarchived and decrypted is a text file. I don't see how it would be a threat.

So there really isn't a reason for suspicion as much as I can appreciate caution.
 
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