Q: You're a smart black-hat. How do you quickly and easily break into a HTTPS secure connection?
A: You don't. You attack the underlying HTTP instead. It's a softer target.
"People only encounter HTTPS via HTTP, so maybe we can think about starting by attacking HTTP," he said. "Normally, if we're doing man-in-the-middle attacks against SSL, we go straight for SSL, straight after that connection. But if SSL depends on this other protocol, why don't we look at that first?"
Capsule summary: Oklahoma City man gets a police stop and a Secret Service inspection of his home for having an anti-Obama bumper sticker on his car.
The police officers who stopped Oklahoma City motorist Chip Harrison and confiscated a sign from his car told him he has a right to his beliefs, but the Secret Service "could construe this as a threat against President Obama," according to the incident report released this morning.
The sign, which read "Abort Obama Not the Unborn," was returned to Harrison later that day, the report said.
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''When I was on my way there, the Secret Service called me and said they weren't going to ransack my house or anything ... they just wanted to (walk through the house) and make sure I wasn't a part of any hate groups."
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He said they interviewed him for about 30 minutes and then left, not finding any evidence Harrison was a threat to the president.
Without further comment at this time.