lawful intercept/IOS at BlackHat DC, bypassing and recommendations

Christopher Morrow morrowc.lists at gmail.com
Thu Feb 4 22:42:14 UTC 2010


On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Crist Clark <Crist.Clark at globalstar.com> wrote:

>> this seems like much more work that matt blaze's work that said:
> "Just
>> send more than 10mbps toward what you want to sneak around... the
>> LEA's pipe is saturated so nothing of use gets to them"
>
> The Cross/XForce/IBM talk appears more to be about unauthorized
> access to communications via LI rather than evading them,
>
>  "...there is a risk that [LI tools] could be hijacked by third
>   parties and used to perform surveillance without authorization."
>
> Of course, this has already happened,

right... plus the management (for cisco) is via snmp(v3), from
(mostly) windows servers as the mediation devices (sad)...  and the
traffic is simply tunneled from device -> mediation -> lea .... not
necessarily IPSEC'd from mediation -> LEA, and udp-encapped from
device -> mediation server.

>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_telephone_tapping_case_2004-2005

yea, good times... that's really just re-use of the normal LEA hooks
in all telco phone switch gear though... not 'calea features' in
particular.

-chris




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