July 2012 - cypherpunks-legacy

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by "Всеволод" 12 Jul '12

12 Jul '12

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the riders of the Infocalypse go cloppity-clop
by Eugen Leitl 12 Jul '12

12 Jul '12

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10819029 Officer's link to net drug market By Nicholas Jones 5:30 AM Thursday Jul 12, 2012 Silk Road has more than 2000 listings, including for drugs such as cocaine and cannabis. Photo / Supplied A Customs officer has been found to be a member of a secretive online marketplace which offers global delivery of illegal drugs, pornography, firearms and fake passports. The officer, who has name suppression, has already appeared in Waitakere District Court on several methamphetamine-related offences, including supply of the class-A drug. But the Herald understands that when police seized his personal computer, he told them they would find software and electronic history showing access to a hidden site called Silk Road. Authorities worldwide have struggled to combat the site's growing popularity because encrypting software makes it difficult to trace or identify its users. Silk Road claims to be an anonymous online marketplace where electronic currency is used to sell and buy illegal drugs and contraband - from cocaine or LSD to fake passports. A sister site called The Armory offers weapons and ammunition. They function just like legitimate online shopping sites and feature sellers' profiles detailing their trading history and customer feedback. Sellers offer to vacuum-seal and post orders internationally, with a false return-to-sender address. Yesterday, a NZ Customs spokeswoman - when asked if the site had affected attempts to import drugs - said there had generally been a significant increase in interceptions. But the volume of drugs found on each occasion was often less than normal, meaning the total seized had not grown significantly, she said. In a post on Silk Road's forum this week, an "official New Zealand thread" warned fellow Kiwis to keep a low profile. "The more we boast about it, the easier our mail becomes to profile and target and we would be stupid to think that law enforcement doesn't browse these forums." This year, a Dunedin university student and his associate used the site to arrange for 165 Ecstasy pills to be mailed from the Netherlands. The drugs were intercepted by Customs and the Herald understands they were found to be pure MDMA - a rarity for Ecstasy in New Zealand. The 18-year-old told police that he agreed to let the pills be sent to his address to help fund a 12-month exchange trip to Canada. The extent of the Customs officer's use of Silk Road is unclear. The Herald has been told that he claimed he used the site as research for his work. However, it is understood the Customs Service decided this explanation was unlikely. Yesterday, the officer told the Herald he "wasn't using" Silk Road. When asked why it was on his home computer, he said: "I knew about it, because I worked for Customs. But since I have name suppression, I'd like to make no comment". The Herald accessed Silk Road and found a sidebar showing categories of listings. There were more than 2000 listings for drugs such as cocaine and cannabis, with accompanying pictures, price-tags and product descriptions. Forged drivers' licences and passports were among other offerings. One US-based trader was selling custom-made John Key blotters - preprinted sheets of blotting paper that can be dipped in an LSD solution - "for all you Kiwi bastards". Increased media attention has led to the site's community growing and, with that, a rise in scammers. Last month, the Customs officer appeared in court on a total of 11 methamphetamine-related charges. It is understood the man's alleged offending was uncovered during police inquiries into another crime. The alleged offending was not directly related to the man's work. Although the amounts of methamphetamine involved were small, a decision was made to press charges because of the nature of the man's employment. HOW IT WORKS * Silk Road is accessed through browsing software called Tor - The Onion Router - which bounces users' connections off multiple servers worldwide. This is said to make identity untraceable. * Tor was developed by the United States Navy, and has been hailed by campaigners as a way to retain free speech and avoid censorship. * Two US senators have urged the United States Attorney-General to crack down on Silk Road and the digital currency that enables purchases on it, Bitcoins. * Goods on Silk Road can only be bought using Bitcoin, an independent online currency. * The peer-to-peer currency, which works via a piece of open-source software, aids anonymity on Silk Road because it is not linked to any institution. * Bitcoin developer Jeff Garzik has previously said that because the currency log is public, it's possible that buyers could be tracked. "Attempting major illicit transactions with Bitcoin, given existing statistical analysis techniques deployed in the field by law enforcement, is pretty damned dumb," he told Gawker.com.

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by "Евгения" 12 Jul '12

12 Jul '12

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by "Евгений" 12 Jul '12

12 Jul '12

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безлимитный межгород!
by "Яков Борисович" 12 Jul '12

12 Jul '12

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дешевая междугородная связь
by "Валерия Журкина" 12 Jul '12

12 Jul '12

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[liberationtech] Invitation - Hacking Humanitarian Technology Before the Bad Guys Do
by Eugen Leitl 11 Jul '12

11 Jul '12

----- Forwarded message from George Chamales <george(a)roguegenius.com> -----

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[Fwd] Seattle Police Department raids apartment for "anarchist" reading materials (fwd)
by J.A. Terranson 11 Jul '12

11 Jul '12

-----Original Message----- From: carol isaac [mailto:carolannisaac@msn.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 8:05 AM Subject: Yesterday the Seattle Police Department's SWAT team, rammed open an apartment door in the CD at 5:45 a.m., threw in two flash grenades which woke up the neighborhood and the four residents of the apartment, and with assault rifles served a warrant for some articles of clothing and "anarchist" reading materials. The took a few articles of clothing like a sweater, blue cap, bandana, and some reading material and left. No charges, no arrests. They said it was related to May 1st. This was a raid that violates the ethical and moral standards of the community. See the Stranger's blog for more details. There was a demonstration against this behavior last night, and there is a larger one planned for this Friday at 7:00 p.m. The rally began at Westlake last night, and most likely will begin there this Friday also. I am passing this timely information along below. Please feel free to do the same... A Seattle activist is in Minneapolis and has advice from two of the RNC 8 who were arrested & charged with conspiracy around the anti-RNC plans in 2008. One of them has extensive experience with community-oriented support campaigns for people facing grand juries & criminal cases for political stuff and was heavily involved Cece MacDonald's case. The following you may already know or may be helpful. With regards to security it was advised that sometimes people can do more harm than good by not sharing essential info with their community when the police already have access to that anyway. In particular it was advised all this information can be sent over email. It is suggested getting lawyers, but stresses that it's important to keep folks involved so that lawyers can't control the situation. This is now an opportunity to lay groundwork for a defense campaign for the possibility someone is arrested or charged. In particular we can use this as an opportunity to start doing know-your-rights trainings, including some specific to grand juries. Also, we have time to plan in a way that allows us to have more control over the public narrative in that case. On that note, it's important to not isolate ourselves and seek/appreciate support wherever it's available, but to also do as much as possible to control the narrative of any support campaign, i.e., to counter narratives of innocent vs. guilty or "they were just exercising their first amendment rights" stuff. As an example, we should not present ourselves as "just peace activists" if we are in fact revolutionaries. Revolutionaries can lose support from liberals and progressives if we're not straighforward about our politics. Don't water down the type of organizing and political work that you're doing. Liberals should support radicals and revolutionaries because anyone involved in organizing deserves support when the cops/feds come after them. It shouldn't be based on claims that the work they're doing is compatible with capitalist democracy if that's not actually the case. Don't say anything to the media or community that can't stand up in court. Grand Juries: it's essential to have an across-the-board policy of non-cooperation with grand juries: Refuse to answer ANY of their questions. Some people think they can outsmart grand juries, but they are fishing expeditions and even minor-seeming information can help them. There have been cases where every single person refused to testify. As a result no one was found in contempt of court for not answering questions. Preferred website with lots of useful grand jury info. Kris Hermes, who runs it. <http://grandjuryresistance.org/> http://grandjuryresistance.org/ We should publicly announce this site whenever the feds talk to someone or approach us at all. If the feds aren't seeking media attention a la "perp walks" then that means they don't want it; it's better to draw community/media attention so that people don't feel isolated if/when it happens to them. Media work is really important, again to get as wide of support as possible. Links to more info: With degrees of variation, pretty much everyone who does various legal support training (know your rights etc.) across the country uses ordraws heavily from midnight special material: <http://www.midnightspecial.net/> http://www.midnightspecial.net/ This is the last version of a Minneapolis zine; some of it is outdated or specific to mpls, but a lot of it continues to be relevant: <http://zinelibrary.info/files/eartwarrior.pdf> http://zinelibrary.info/files/eartwarrior.pdf Commonly used zine: <http://conspiracytour.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/ccr_if_an_agent_knocks.pd f> http://conspiracytour.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/ccr_if_an_agent_knocks.pdf Good general security culture zine: <http://zinelibrary.info/files/zine-what_is_security_culture.pdf> http://zinelibrary.info/files/zine-what_is_security_culture.pdf You may not agree with the overall analysis, but it is useful nevertheless: <http://zinelibrary.info/files/ageofconspiracyPRINT.pdf> http://zinelibrary.info/files/ageofconspiracyPRINT.pdf Sign at last night's demo: "First they came for the hoodies, ..." (BTW, an irony: The four people in the Seattle apartment do not identify as anarchists.) Solidarity, Carol ------------------------------- //Alif -- Those who make peaceful change impossible, make violent revolution inevitable. An American Spring is coming: one way or another.

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[tor-talk] hidden services 2.0 brainstorming
by Eugen Leitl 11 Jul '12

11 Jul '12

----- Forwarded message from proper <torbox(a)riseup.net> -----

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[tahoe-dev] weekly Tahoe dev call report: 2012-07-10
by Eugen Leitl 11 Jul '12

11 Jul '12

----- Forwarded message from Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn <zooko(a)zooko.com> -----

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