Re: [Full-disclosure] You shady bastards.

["Joey Mengele" <joey.mengele@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is clearly a forged electronic mail trolling attempt and 
attempt at assassinating the character of HD. The real HD Moore 
(famous inventor of the Millerpreter and Skapesploit) would not be 
so naive/ignorant in a matter like this.

Grow up list, don't feed the trolls.

J

On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 09:47:12 -0400 H D Moore 
<fdlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Some friends and I were putting together a contact list for the 
>folks 
>attending the Defcon conference this year in Las Vegas. My friend 
>sent 
>out an email, with a large CC list, asking people to respond if 
>they 
>planned on attending. The email was addressed to quite a few 
>people, with 
>one of them being David Maynor. Unfortunately, his old SecureWorks 
>
>address was used, not his current address with ErrattaSec. 
>
>Since one of the messages sent to the group contained a URL to our 
>phone 
>numbers and names, I got paranoid and decided to determine whether 
>
>SecureWorks was still reading email addressed to David Maynor. I 
>sent an 
>email to David's old SecureWorks address, with a subject line 
>promising 
>0-day, and a link to a non-public URL on the metasploit.com web 
>server 
>(via SSL). Twelve hours later, someone from a Comcast cable modem 
>in 
>Atlanta tried to access the link, and this someone was (confirmed) 
>not 
>David. SecureWorks is based in Atlanta. All times are CDT.
>
>I sent the following message last night at 7:02pm.
>
>---
>From: H D Moore <hdm[at]metasploit.com>
>To: David Maynor <dmaynor[at]secureworks.com>
>Subject: Zero-day I promised
>Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 19:02:11 -0500
>User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>Content-Type: text/plain;
>  charset="us-ascii"
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>Content-Disposition: inline
>Message-Id: <200706051902.11544.hdm[at]metasploit.com>
>Status: RO
>X-Status: RSC
>
>https://metasploit.com/maynor.tar.gz
>---
>
>Approximately 12 hours later, the following request shows up in my 
>Apache 
>log file. It looks like someone at SecureWorks is reading email 
>addressed 
>to David and tried to access the link I sent:
>
>71.59.27.152 - - [05/Jun/2007:19:16:42 -0500] "GET /maynor.tar.gz 
>HTTP/1.1" 404 211 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; 
>en) 
>AppleWebKit/419 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3"
>
>This address resolves to:
>c-71-59-27-152.hsd1.ga.comcast.net
>
>The whois information is just the standard Comcast block 
>boilerplate.
>
>---
>
>Is this illegal? I could see reading email addressed to him being 
>within 
>the bounds of the law, but it seems like trying to download the 
>"0day" 
>link crosses the line.
>
>Illegal or not, this is still pretty damned shady.
>
>Bastards.
>
>-HD
>
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