Harvard kid, 20, emailed uni bomb threat via Tor to avoid final exam, says FBI A Harvard student used internet privacy tools to send a bomb threat to his university in order to avoid taking a test, it was alleged today. Prosecutors in Massachusetts accuse sophomore Eldo Kim of firing off an anonymous email that claimed there were a pair of explosive shrapnel-packed devices on campus. It is alleged the …
you've never been before a judge have you?
guilty until proven innocent, I sure hope he has some kind of proof on his laptop showing that he was into some weird kinky stuff at 8:30am, instead of sending retarded guerrilla mail.
and how does that even come into your mind? seriously, do shit like that for sheer morbid pleasure, don't do it to get out of a test, jesus what a pussy.
I am not going to comment on the utter folly of sending in a bomb threat to delay an exam. Whoever does that should be found and prosecuted.
But, looking at the IT angle, if you are going to use TOR/Guerilla Mail/whatever to cover your tracks (for privacy, not criminal reasons, I hope) in any situation where someone serious i going to look for you and being found out is non-trivially bad, then
* pick a place you have no connection to, such as a coffee shop or a municipal network in a town that you do not visit often;
* check the place for security cameras and don't stay in the view of any;
* clone a new VM with a bridged, not NATted network and a random MAC address;
* do your dirty (the whole enchilada - a new installation of whatever you need for TOR,etc.), with a time delay;
* shred(1) or similar the whole VM;
* sanitize your history and logs on the host.
Preferably, that's after you burn a different MAC address into your network card but before you restore the factory one. Still preferably (maybe), use a throw-away phone (bought for cash in a different town) as an access point and then do throw it into a remote brook (NOT the Charles river - don't do anything near home/work/campus).
How difficult can it be, really? Really - very. Much more difficult than *any* single Harvard exam, I suppose. Having said that, just figuring out the relative difficulty of doing this compared to sitting an exam - and the risk/reward ratios - should be expected, along with that other thing called common sense, of anyone who managed to get into Harvard. Which brings me to the point in the Subject line...
Why even go into the coffee shop and sit in front of cameras? Surely it would be simpler to do from the street outside? Accessing the wifi from outside of the building and away from camera range. That way you also have the excuse to wear that thick coat and scarf.
The wife and I live south of Boston, this story was the news all day. The Keystone Kops probably couldn't put 2 and 2 together that a bomb threat got called in on a day of finals so shut down half the city. Great work, now go get your coffee and doughnuts and sit in your cars checking your phones. Sad day for the Boston PD.
the bell-end who was in my year at school and wanted to avoid taking an exam. He was on of the "hard" guys and had the bright idea of finding someone to break his writing hand for him. He didn't get any takers and so did it himself, apparently with a brick. I saw him later with bandaged fingers. He didn't do the exam and most probably didn't go to uni (no surprise there).
I personally would have done the following...
Get a Raspberry PI with a WiFi adapter and a cheep 2GB SD card and load a Linux OS of your choosing on it, load TOR and utilities and configure the WiFi and ethernet.
Take said PI to a public out of the way WiFi hotspot and from the car using a laptop access said PI headless using a crossover ethernet cable and do your "deed" over the WiFi hotspot.
When done, destroy SD card and WiFi adapter and wipe any logs showing any connections to the PI.
(if really concerned, destroy and dump the PI in a different location from the WiFi and SD card)
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