Romney's tax returns - first Bitcoin extortion? - page 5.

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Quote from: JDBound on September 09, 2012, 03:59:35 PM

CLAG is now offering a 1.0 BTC bounty for the first person to crack this and generate a valid password.

To contribute please send donations to the address in my sig.

I will keep a running total of the bounty in this post if it ends up taking a while.

TOTAL BOUNTY: 1.0 BTC

Contributors:
CLAG: 1.0 BTC

Bet you can do it for under $1mil Cheesy

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CLAG is now offering a 1.0 BTC bounty for the first person to brute force this and generate a valid password.

To contribute please send donations to the address in my sig.

I will keep a running total of the bounty in this post if it ends up taking a while.

TOTAL BOUNTY: 2.06833783 BTC

Contributors:
CLAG: 1.0 BTC
FLHippi: 1.06833783 BTC (bd032661079e57c9661e6fa6926030091a671f3d04c31126d0c0ad9bac71ebf0 & 87fca448bef6e8506a91107c9606d8e9bb31f29a164c6c2e862a09855ea442ca)

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Hashcat is opensource linux. Runs on miner hardware also with underclocked ram. They have a good forum with a lot of tip's usable for optimising up your miner if you run linux also i.e. cmd line fan control, gpu temp etc.

A 6 gpu miner should crack an 8 character pw in 2.5 seconds if I remember right.

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Quote from: niko on September 09, 2012, 01:37:01 PM

Quote from: JDBound on September 09, 2012, 12:47:38 PM

More binary showed up this morning.

http://x.co/nbvq
http://www.sendspace.com/file/4ruxz4

The password protected .rar file looks clean and contains:

2007.pdf
2008.pdf
2009.pdf
2010.pdf

I tried a few passwords but nothing. Don't have time to keep trying right now.

My bet still is that we are being taken for a ride, but... What algorithm is used for rar encryption? In this case we can assume we know certain things about the plain text (pdf file structure).

here's a distributed gpu-supporting parallel rar pw cracker: http://www.parallelrecovery.com/rar-password.html

there's probably free/opensource tools, too.

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Quote from: JDBound on September 09, 2012, 12:47:38 PM

More binary showed up this morning.

http://x.co/nbvq
http://www.sendspace.com/file/4ruxz4

The password protected .rar file looks clean and contains:

2007.pdf
2008.pdf
2009.pdf
2010.pdf

I tried a few passwords but nothing. Don't have time to keep trying right now.

My bet still is that we are being taken for a ride, but... What algorithm is used for rar encryption? In this case we can assume we know certain things about the plain text (pdf file structure).

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Quote from: HostFat on September 09, 2012, 01:03:15 PM

It still doesn't prove anything

No, but if the romney camp know which years of tax returns got taken this will turn up the pressure on them Cheesy

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It still doesn't prove anything

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Quote from: JDBound on September 09, 2012, 12:47:38 PM

More binary showed up this morning.

http://x.co/nbvq
http://www.sendspace.com/file/4ruxz4

The password protected .rar file looks clean and contains:

2007.pdf
2008.pdf
2009.pdf
2010.pdf

I tried a few passwords but nothing. Don't have time to keep trying right now.

Are these the encrypted returns from 07-10 the hacker says he will release the password to?

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More binary showed up this morning.

http://x.co/nbvq
http://www.sendspace.com/file/4ruxz4

The password protected .rar file looks clean and contains:

2007.pdf
2008.pdf
2009.pdf
2010.pdf

I tried a few passwords but nothing. Don't have time to keep trying right now.

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Did anyone analyze the where.wav further? I don't have the tools, but it is possible that there also is a LSB encoded message in the sound file, i.e. each 16 bit value in each channel has the LSB substituted to form a binary message? The spectrograms posted shows some random dots which might only be artifacts.

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Quote from: labestiol on September 08, 2012, 02:56:31 PM

First time I see info in a sound file, that's a really nice idea

Aphex Twin (band) actually did this a while ago. I don't know if they pioneered it, but it is pretty cool:

http://www.bastwood.com/?page_id=10

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Quote from: labestiol on September 08, 2012, 02:56:31 PM

GPUMAX

http://www.corporationwiki.com/Unknown/Unknown/gpumax-technologies-llc/101278778.aspx

Though they are not the only ones :

http://www.corporationwiki.com/Texas/Austin/815-Brazos-St-Ste-500-Austin-TX-78701-a17332777.aspx

BTW who did that analysis JDBound ?
First time I see info in a sound file, that's a really nice idea

that was cool.

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Quote from: cypherdoc on September 08, 2012, 02:49:59 PM

Quote from: labestiol on September 08, 2012, 02:45:59 PM

Wow, the rabbit hole just got deeper

who's is that Austin, Tx address?

Its the company that registered Pirates business

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GPUMAX

http://www.corporationwiki.com/Unknown/Unknown/gpumax-technologies-llc/101278778.aspx

Though they are not the only ones :

http://www.corporationwiki.com/Texas/Austin/815-Brazos-St-Ste-500-Austin-TX-78701-a17332777.aspx

BTW who did that analysis JDBound ?
First time I see info in a sound file, that's a really nice idea

EDIT : whoops, was some pages late

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Quote from: labestiol on September 08, 2012, 02:45:59 PM

Wow, the rabbit hole just got deeper

who's is that Austin, Tx address?

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Wow, the rabbit hole just got deeper

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Breaking down yesterdays developments for the masses:

http://theclag.org/romney-return-release-update/

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Quote from: evoorhees on September 08, 2012, 12:29:31 AM

Quote from: Chang Hum on September 07, 2012, 07:41:58 PM

Quote from: Aseras on September 07, 2012, 07:34:46 PM

How about this?

http://www.adweek.com/news/press/larry-flynt-offers-1m-reward-mitt-romney-tax-returns-143474

Bloody hell that's an interesting twist, If it's not fake he'll still have to pay by bitcoin and we're probably in for a rally!!

Looks like the Larry Flynt angle is legit... http://www.mediaite.com/online/larry-flynt-is-offering-one-million-dollars-for-details-of-romneys-tax-returns/

This might get out of control fast lol

"unless the Romney campaign wire transfers $1 million in Bitcoins." LOL Suckers at mediafire have no idea what Bitcoin is.

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Quote from: ElectricMucus on September 08, 2012, 06:52:22 AM

It seems the good old NO YOU game.

The tax returns to have 1 mil dollar delivered first...
1 mil dollar to have the tax returns delivered first...

This way nobody gonna move, still plenty of publicity for everybody, and nobody has the inconvenience to be called up on their claim.

Yes, but there is a difference: most people would agree that demanding a million-dollar irreversible payment without any proof the goods exist is unreasonable. Larry demanding a small, free taster first, however, is quite reasonable.

The fact that hackers' demands are so unreasonable tells me that this whole story is a hoax.

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It seems the good old NO YOU game.

The tax returns to have 1 mil dollar delivered first...
1 mil dollar to have the tax returns delivered first...

This way nobody gonna move, still plenty of publicity for everybody, and nobody has the inconvenience to be called up on their claim.

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