DAdang·Jul 10, 2015
Not sure I follow, but we changed the URL to that from https://github.com/hackedteam/rcs-common/blob/master/lib/rcs....
In Leaked Hacking Team code to edit browser history?hackedteam
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Common components for RCS backend
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Observed mentions: 2015-07-06 13:01:00 UTC to 2015-07-10 03:50:42 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Jul 6, 12:00 | 2015-07-06 12:00:00 UTC | 2015-07-06 15:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jul 6, 15:00 | 2015-07-06 15:00:00 UTC | 2015-07-06 18:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jul 6, 18:00 | 2015-07-06 18:00:00 UTC | 2015-07-06 21:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jul 6, 21:00 | 2015-07-06 21:00:00 UTC | 2015-07-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 7, 00:00 | 2015-07-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-07-07 03:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jul 7, 03:00 | 2015-07-07 03:00:00 UTC | 2015-07-07 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 7, 06:00 | 2015-07-07 06:00:00 UTC | 2015-07-07 09:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 7, 09:00 | 2015-07-07 09:00:00 UTC | 2015-07-07 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 7, 12:00 | 2015-07-07 12:00:00 UTC | 2015-07-07 15:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 7, 15:00 | 2015-07-07 15:00:00 UTC | 2015-07-07 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 7, 18:00 | 2015-07-07 18:00:00 UTC | 2015-07-07 21:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 7, 21:00 | 2015-07-07 21:00:00 UTC | 2015-07-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 8, 00:00 | 2015-07-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-07-08 03:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 8, 03:00 | 2015-07-08 03:00:00 UTC | 2015-07-08 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 8, 06:00 | 2015-07-08 06:00:00 UTC | 2015-07-08 09:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 8, 09:00 | 2015-07-08 09:00:00 UTC | 2015-07-08 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 8, 12:00 | 2015-07-08 12:00:00 UTC | 2015-07-08 15:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 8, 15:00 | 2015-07-08 15:00:00 UTC | 2015-07-08 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 8, 18:00 | 2015-07-08 18:00:00 UTC | 2015-07-08 21:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 8, 21:00 | 2015-07-08 21:00:00 UTC | 2015-07-09 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 9, 00:00 | 2015-07-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-07-09 03:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 9, 03:00 | 2015-07-09 03:00:00 UTC | 2015-07-09 06:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 9, 06:00 | 2015-07-09 06:00:00 UTC | 2015-07-09 09:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 9, 09:00 | 2015-07-09 09:00:00 UTC | 2015-07-09 12:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 9, 12:00 | 2015-07-09 12:00:00 UTC | 2015-07-09 15:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 9, 15:00 | 2015-07-09 15:00:00 UTC | 2015-07-09 18:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 9, 18:00 | 2015-07-09 18:00:00 UTC | 2015-07-09 21:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 9, 21:00 | 2015-07-09 21:00:00 UTC | 2015-07-10 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 10, 00:00 | 2015-07-10 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-07-10 03:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Jul 10, 03:00 | 2015-07-10 03:00:00 UTC | 2015-07-10 06:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
What Hacker News says
8 sourcesLet's not jump to conclusions. What is more likely? That this is generating test data for a forensics tool, or that this is planting child porn on a dissident's computer (with fixed file names and directories)?
I think it is rather cheeky (and dangerous) to accuse companies of doing such horrible stuff, when all we have is a few leaks (without context) to go on.
See for instance: https://github.com/hackedteam/rcs-common/blob/master/lib/rcs... which generates test keystrokes, test users and test programs for chat. The file names of the "planted" evidence is far too obvious, and they generate a hash for it. In short there is nothing in this code that implies this is used to plant evidence.
In Leaked Hacking Team code to edit browser history?This link should really be to the following
https://github.com/hackedteam/rcs-common/blob/38290d4eab2b2c...
Note that you can press "y" after clicking a line to expand the link. This just includes the commit hash so that if this file is modified in the future the link will still point to the same place.
In Leaked Hacking Team code to edit browser history?Leaked Hacking Team code to edit browser history?
77 points · Open discussionIt's probably a dummy value. I doubt there's a sinister scheme to plant "John Doe <test@me.com>" in a victim's address book. [1]
[1] https://github.com/hackedteam/rcs-common/blob/master/lib/rcs...
In Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped datayes, I thought the same exact thing, but then I've read this:
> better evidence generation
https://github.com/hackedteam/rcs-common/commit/7059fb04a189...
probably those are just placeholders but the intent seems at least a bit shady
In Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped dataIt seems like that code just builds random-ish data that conforms to the wanted file format and then gives it incriminating names. For example:
[1] https://github.com/hackedteam/rcs-common/blob/38290d4eab2b2c...
[2] https://github.com/hackedteam/rcs-common/blob/38290d4eab2b2c...
In Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped dataSomeone is uploading things to github: https://github.com/hackedteam/
Take a look at the GeoTrust repo...
This is a very interesting file, too: https://github.com/hackedteam/rcs-common/blob/master/lib/rcs...
In Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data