Would a firewall have protected Josh Glazebrook from the FBI?

[Act of Patriots]

I curiuos as to why a firewall, properly configured, would not have
protected Josh Glazebrook from the FBI?

According to the news reports
(http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/21...-teen-spyware),
the FBI installed routine CIPAV spyware via myspace to this kid's computer
which tracked
The computer's IP address
The MAC address
The person's username
The last URL visited
A list of open ports
Computer programs that are running
The operating system
The internet browser and version
The computer's registered owner
The IP address of every computer which the PC connects for 60 days

I'm curious.
Would a properly configured firewall have prevented this?

What was the weak link here?

[CJ24]

"Act of Patriots" <patriotacter@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:8jDEi.2023$ZA5.897@nlpi068.nbdc.sbc.com...
>I curiuos as to why a firewall, properly configured, would not have
> protected Josh Glazebrook from the FBI?
>
> According to the news reports
> (http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/21...-teen-spyware),
> the FBI installed routine CIPAV spyware via myspace to this kid's computer

No, learn what a firewall is for.

[pcbutts1]

Do you really think that there is actually a COTS software or hardware that
is capable of blocking what the FBI wants to do to you? Have you heard of
the Patriot Act.



--

Newsgroup Trolls. Read about mine here http://www.pcbutts1.com/downloads
The list grows. Leythos the stalker http://www.leythosthestalker.com, David
H. Lipman, Max M Wachtell III aka What's in a Name?, Fitz,
Rhonda Lea Kirk, Meat Plow, F Kwatu F, George Orwell



"Act of Patriots" <patriotacter@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:8jDEi.2023$ZA5.897@nlpi068.nbdc.sbc.com...
>I curiuos as to why a firewall, properly configured, would not have
> protected Josh Glazebrook from the FBI?
>
> According to the news reports
> (http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/21...-teen-spyware),
> the FBI installed routine CIPAV spyware via myspace to this kid's computer
> which tracked
> The computer's IP address
> The MAC address
> The person's username
> The last URL visited
> A list of open ports
> Computer programs that are running
> The operating system
> The internet browser and version
> The computer's registered owner
> The IP address of every computer which the PC connects for 60 days
>
> I'm curious.
> Would a properly configured firewall have prevented this?
>
> What was the weak link here?

[Virus Guy]

Act of Patriots wrote:

> I curiuos as to why a firewall, properly configured, would not
> have protected Josh Glazebrook from the FBI?

How do you know that a firewall was running?

Glazebrook was probably running XP on his PC, and probably just the
in-bound default firewall was running. XP's native firewall does not
perform out-bound permission checking.

Note that the Sophos guy did not say if his software (or any other AV
package) would detect the FBI CIPAV. One could speculate that AV
makers have an agreement with Law Enforcement Agencies to NOT alert a
user to the presence of such software.

Also note that the NSA had input during the design of Vista.

[Kerry Brown]

Once malware is running on your computer there isn't any software firewall
that can be relied upon to stop it from communicating. If the malware has
system level access it can modify the TCP/IP stack. It can create it's own
TCP/IP stack and even get it's own IP address if a DHCP server is on the
network. It could install itself as a root kit and intercept and modify all
TCP/IP communications between Windows and the NIC. There are many ways to
bypass a software firewall. I'm pretty sure the FBI has access to
programmers that could use any of these tricks.

--
Kerry Brown


"Act of Patriots" <patriotacter@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:8jDEi.2023$ZA5.897@nlpi068.nbdc.sbc.com...
>I curiuos as to why a firewall, properly configured, would not have
> protected Josh Glazebrook from the FBI?
>
> According to the news reports
> (http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/21...-teen-spyware),
> the FBI installed routine CIPAV spyware via myspace to this kid's computer
> which tracked
> The computer's IP address
> The MAC address
> The person's username
> The last URL visited
> A list of open ports
> Computer programs that are running
> The operating system
> The internet browser and version
> The computer's registered owner
> The IP address of every computer which the PC connects for 60 days
>
> I'm curious.
> Would a properly configured firewall have prevented this?
>
> What was the weak link here?

[Mr_Huang]

There's trillion ways to passby all the security measurements.
Like:
1) breaking a network firewall/gateway is to have the traffic
encrypted using https (port 443, which is commonly allowed in most of
the firewall policy)
2) lure the user to install any unexpected software like malicious
active X or use crafted javascript
....

Most of the cases that have shown that the weakest link is the user

On Sep 9, 4:07 am, Act of Patriots <patriotac...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I curiuos as to why a firewall, properly configured, would not have
> protected Josh Glazebrook from the FBI?
>
> According to the news reports
> (http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/21...-teen-spyware),
> the FBI installed routine CIPAV spyware via myspace to this kid's computer
> which tracked
> The computer's IP address
> The MAC address
> The person's username
> The last URL visited
> A list of open ports
> Computer programs that are running
> The operating system
> The internet browser and version
> The computer's registered owner
> The IP address of every computer which the PC connects for 60 days
>
> I'm curious.
> Would a properly configured firewall have prevented this?
>
> What was the weak link here?