July 2018 - cypherpunks-legacy

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by James A. Donald 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> You commies always find socialists everywhere. Supposedly Lincoln and Adam > Smith were socialists. They were. Lincoln was the worst US president - Clinton is a small child compared to him - and Adam Smith was all for state education, for example. Mark

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by James A. Donald 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> You commies always find socialists everywhere. Supposedly Lincoln and Adam > Smith were socialists. They were. Lincoln was the worst US president - Clinton is a small child compared to him - and Adam Smith was all for state education, for example. Mark

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Secrecy News -- 09/19/12
by Steven Aftergood 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Format Note: If you cannot easily read the text below, or you prefer to receive Secrecy News in another format, please reply to this email to let us know. SECRECY NEWS from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Volume 2012, Issue No. 95 September 19, 2012 Secrecy News Blog: http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/ ** PRODUCTION OF [DELETED] WEAPONS, 1981 ** SURVEILLANCE OF JOURNALISTS: A LOOK BACK ** POVERTY IN THE UNITED STATES, AND MORE FROM CRS PRODUCTION OF [DELETED] WEAPONS, 1981 For decades, President Reagan's 1981 National Security Decision Directive (NSDD) 7 remained entirely classified. According to a 1999 listing of Reagan NSDDs issued by the National Security Council, even the title of NSDD 7 was classified. In 2008, the document was partially declassified, bearing the title "[deleted] Weapons." It stated: "The production and stockpiling of [deleted] weapons is authorized with stockpiling being restricted to the United States [deleted]." http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nsdd/nsdd-7.pdf What is this all about? What mysterious weapons were to be produced and stockpiled that could not be acknowledged three decades later? In all likelihood, said Hans Kristensen of FAS, the deleted term describing the weapons is "enhanced radiation." Two enhanced radiation weapons started production in August/September 1981, he noted: the W70 (Lance warhead) and the W79 (artillery shell). That likelihood is actually a certainty, said our colleague Allen Thomson, who pointed to the 1991 Bush directive NSD 59. The Bush directive, declassified in 1996, listed the title of NSDD 7 with no redactions: Enhanced Radiation Weapons. http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nsd/nsd59.pdf SURVEILLANCE OF JOURNALISTS: A LOOK BACK "The Department of Defense does not conduct electronic or physical surveillance of journalists," Pentagon press spokesman George E. Little wrote in a September 6 response to reporters who had questioned the scope of official monitoring of their work. http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2012/09/press_surveillance.html The DoD disavowal of active surveillance is almost certainly true, as far as it goes. Even if there were surveillance to be done, it would probably not be performed by DoD. But the reporters' question was not a frivolous one. There is an historical basis for their concern. The celebrated CIA "family jewels" report on illegal Agency activities prior to the mid-1970s that was finally released in full in 2007 included descriptions of CIA operations to surveil reporters in order to identify their confidential sources. http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB222/ The operation known as CELOTEX I was summarized as follows: "At the direction of the DCI, a surveillance was conducted of Michael Getler of the Washington Post during the periods 6-9 October, 27 October - 10 December 1971 and on 3 January 1972. In addition to physical surveillance, an observation post was maintained in the Statler Hilton Hotel where observation could be maintained of the building housing his office. The surveillance was designed to determine Getler's sources of classified information of interest to the Agency which had appeared in a number of his columns." CELOTEX II was described this way: "At the direction of the DCI, surveillance was conducted of Jack Anderson and at various times his 'leg men,' Britt Hume, Leslie Whitten, and Joseph Spear, from 15 February to 12 April 1972. In addition to the physical surveillance, an observation post was maintained in the Statler Hilton Hotel directly opposite Anderson's office. The purpose of this surveillance was to attempt to determine Anderson's sources for highly classified Agency information appearing in his syndicated columns." The results of these surveillance activities were not reported in the CIA document. Government attorneys this week reiterated their argument that New York Times reporter James Risen "does not have a 'reporter's privilege' to refuse to identify his source" in the prosecution of former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling, who is accused of disclosing classified information to Risen. The attorneys cited a new ruling in another Circuit that rejected a similar claim of privilege, and they urged the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to affirm their position. http://www.fas.org/sgp/jud/sterling/091712-supp.pdf POVERTY IN THE UNITED STATES, AND MORE FROM CRS "In 2011, 46.2 million people were counted as poor in the United States, the same number as in 2010 and the largest number of persons counted as poor in the measure's 53-year recorded history," according to a timely new report from the Congressional Research Service. See Poverty in the United States: 2011, September 13, 2012: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33069.pdf Other new and newly updated CRS reports that have not been made publicly available include the following. Intelligence Authorization Legislation: Status and Challenges, updated September 18, 2012: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/intel/R40240.pdf Latin America and the Caribbean: Fact Sheet on Leaders and Elections, updated September 17, 2012: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/98-684.pdf Carbon Tax: Deficit Reduction and Other Considerations, September 17, 2012: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42731.pdf Energy Tax Incentives: Measuring Value Across Different Types of Energy Resources, updated September 18, 2012: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41953.pdf Congressional Responses to Selected Work Stoppages in Professional Sports, updated September 17, 2012: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41060.pdf Length of Time from Nomination to Confirmation for "Uncontroversial" U.S. Circuit and District Court Nominees: Detailed Analysis, September 18, 2012: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42732.pdf _______________________________________________ Secrecy News is written by Steven Aftergood and published by the Federation of American Scientists. 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Secrecy News -- 04/22/13
by Steven Aftergood 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Format Note: If you cannot easily read the text below, or you prefer to receive Secrecy News in another format, please reply to this email to let us know. SECRECY NEWS from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Volume 2013, Issue No. 40 April 22, 2013 Secrecy News Blog: http://blogs.fas.org/secrecy/ ** INTELLIGENCE SATELLITE IMAGERY DECLASSIFIED FOR RELEASE ** MILITARY PHOTOGRAPHERS READY TO DEPLOY AROUND THE GLOBE INTELLIGENCE SATELLITE IMAGERY DECLASSIFIED FOR RELEASE An enormous volume of photographic imagery from the KH-9 HEXAGON intelligence satellites was quietly declassified in January and will be transferred to the National Archives later this year for subsequent public release. The KH-9 satellites operated between 1971 and 1984. The imagery they generated should be of historical interest with respect to a wide range of late Cold War intelligence targets but is also expected to support current scientific research on climate change and related fields of inquiry. The film-based KH-9 satellites were officially declared "obsolete" by the Director of National Intelligence in 2011. The KH-9 imagery was nominally approved for declassification in February 2012, and then it was finally declassified in fact this year. ODNI spokesman Michael Birmingham said that approximately 97 percent of the satellite imagery that was collected from the 19 successful KH-9 missions was formally declassified by DNI James R. Clapper on January 11, 2013. "The small amount of imagery exempted from this declassification decision will be removed prior to its accession to the National Archives (NARA) and will remain classified pursuant to statute and national security interests, and reviewed periodically to determine if additional declassification is warranted," Mr. Birmingham said last week. The imagery is being transferred to NARA in stages, with final delivery scheduled for September 2013, he said. The transfer is being implemented pursuant to a November 2012 Memorandum of Agreement between the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the National Archives, under which the Archives is "responsible for providing public access to the declassified imagery." http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/intel/kh9-moa.pdf Reishia R. Kelsey of NGA public affairs confirmed that the imagery "will be made available to the public following its accession to NARA" later this year. The National Archives was not prepared last week to set a precise date for public release. But an Archives official said that "NARA intends to make these records available to the public at our research room in College Park, MD as soon as possible following transfer." If successfully executed, the release of the KH-9 imagery will constitute a breakthrough in the declassification and disclosure of national security information. It will be one of several discrete but momentous shifts in secrecy policy during the Obama Administration that have often gone unrecognized or unappreciated. Though these declassification actions took years or decades to accomplish, they have been downplayed by the White House itself, which has seemed curiously ambivalent about them. They include the public disclosure of the size of the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal, the routine publication of the annual intelligence budget request, the release of the Office of Legal Counsel "torture memos," the declassification of the KH-9 satellite itself, and others. The KH-9 imagery is being processed for public release pursuant to the 1995 Executive Order 12951 on "Release of Imagery Acquired by Space-based National Intelligence Reconnaissance Systems." That order had been effectively dormant since the Clinton Administration, when the last major release of intelligence satellite imagery (from the CORONA, ARGON and LANYARD missions) took place. The declassification of the KH-9 imagery is a massive undertaking, Mr. Birmingham of ODNI said last year. "For context, and to grasp the scope of the project, the KH-9/HEXAGON system provided coverage over hundreds of millions of square miles of territory during its 19 successful missions spanning 1971-1984," he said. "It is a daunting issue to address declassification of the program specifics associated with an obsolete system such as the KH-9, which involves the declassification of huge volumes of intelligence information gathered on thousands of targets worldwide during a 13 year time period." http://blogs.fas.org/secrecy/2012/10/hexagon_imagery/ MILITARY PHOTOGRAPHERS READY TO DEPLOY AROUND THE GLOBE Just as law enforcement relied upon surveillance cameras and personal photography to enable the prompt identification of the perpetrators of the Boston Marathon bombing, U.S. armed forces increasingly look to the collection of still and motion imagery to support military operations. Combat camera (COMCAM) capabilities support "operational planning, public affairs, information operations, mission assessment, forensic, legal, intelligence and other requirements during crises, contingencies, and exercises around the globe," according to newly updated military doctrine. COMCAM personnel are "highly trained visual information professionals prepared to deploy to the most austere operational environments at a moment's notice." COMCAM units "are adaptive and provide fully qualified and equipped personnel to support sustained day or night operations" in-flight, on the ground or undersea, as needed. "Effectively employed COMCAM assets at the tactical level can potentially achieve national, theater strategic, and operational level objectives in a manner that lessens the requirement for combat in many situations," the new doctrine says. "Their products can counter adversary misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda and help commanders gain situational awareness on operations in a way written or verbal reports cannot." "The products can also provide historical documentation, public information, or an evidentiary foundation... for forensic documentation of evidence and legal proceedings. They can provide intelligence documentation to include imagery for facial recognition and key leader engagements, and support special reconnaissance." The newly issued COMCAM doctrine supersedes previous guidance from 2007. See Combat Camera: Multi-Service Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Combat Camera (COMCAM) Operations, April 2013. http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/atp3-55-12.pdf _______________________________________________ Secrecy News is written by Steven Aftergood and published by the Federation of American Scientists. The Secrecy News Blog is at: http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/ To SUBSCRIBE to Secrecy News, go to: http://blogs.fas.org/secrecy/subscribe/ To UNSUBSCRIBE, go to http://blogs.fas.org/secrecy/unsubscribe/ OR email your request to saftergood(a)fas.org Secrecy News is archived at: http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/secrecy/index.html Support the FAS Project on Government Secrecy with a donation: https://members.fas.org/donate _______________________ Steven Aftergood Project on Government Secrecy Federation of American Scientists web: www.fas.org/sgp/index.html email: saftergood(a)fas.org voice: (202) 454-4691 twitter: @saftergood ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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crypto '04 rump webcast
by Perry E. Metzger 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

I've been watching the webcast. The team that did the md4/md5/haval-128/ripemd attacks just presented, and although it was interesting it included precious few details of the attack beyond the fact that it was a twist on differential cryptanalysis. Is there any more information available at this point from anyone? Perry --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)metzdowd.com --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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Re: [liberationtech] Details needed about monitoring and data retention in Syria
by Jacob Appelbaum 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

On 01/10/2012 01:11 PM, Jillian C. York wrote: > No, but it's certainly useful when putting the surveillance in > perspective. Just as many of the Egyptians who later accessed their files > from State Security offices had never been detained or questioned, it's > quite possible that much of Syria's surveillance is for surveillance's sake. > I imagine that the Narus systems likely running in Egypt will have in impact in a number of years. Just the same as the snort IDS at the edge of Syria. These are databases that over time become more and more valuable. When smart people learn about them, smart people will do much much scarier things than the original creators of these systems. I think it's really important to keep perspective about perspective. We're still around fifteen days away from a full year of revolution in Egypt. I'm sure we haven't seen everything yet and I'm certain that what we have seen, we probably don't understand very well. If the Egyptians were using Narus or Cisco interception, would we know? I've been told that the Cisco interception is used for arrests, so what do we make of that? > Which is not to say the recommendations are wrong - they're not. But the > full picture includes both the reality of the surveillance systems and the > reality of how authorities are using their capabilities. > Sure, I think we agree on the first point. Additionally, I'd add that different authorities use their capabilities in myriad of ways. We do not know the full reality, only the capabilities. By being cautious, we're trying to mitigate many of the possibilities even in the worst of actualities. The irony is that for internet chatting and web browsing, I think we've got an ironclad solution; where as for phones, we're basically all doomed - from billing to content. All the best, Jacob _______________________________________________ liberationtech mailing list liberationtech(a)lists.stanford.edu Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech If you would like to receive a daily digest, click "yes" (once you click above) next to "would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest?" You will need the user name and password you receive from the list moderator in monthly reminders. Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. Please don't forget to follow us on http://twitter.com/#!/Liberationtech ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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crypto '04 rump webcast
by Perry E. Metzger 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

I've been watching the webcast. The team that did the md4/md5/haval-128/ripemd attacks just presented, and although it was interesting it included precious few details of the attack beyond the fact that it was a twist on differential cryptanalysis. Is there any more information available at this point from anyone? Perry --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)metzdowd.com --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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Re: [liberationtech] Details needed about monitoring and data retention in Syria
by Jacob Appelbaum 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

On 01/10/2012 01:11 PM, Jillian C. York wrote: > No, but it's certainly useful when putting the surveillance in > perspective. Just as many of the Egyptians who later accessed their files > from State Security offices had never been detained or questioned, it's > quite possible that much of Syria's surveillance is for surveillance's sake. > I imagine that the Narus systems likely running in Egypt will have in impact in a number of years. Just the same as the snort IDS at the edge of Syria. These are databases that over time become more and more valuable. When smart people learn about them, smart people will do much much scarier things than the original creators of these systems. I think it's really important to keep perspective about perspective. We're still around fifteen days away from a full year of revolution in Egypt. I'm sure we haven't seen everything yet and I'm certain that what we have seen, we probably don't understand very well. If the Egyptians were using Narus or Cisco interception, would we know? I've been told that the Cisco interception is used for arrests, so what do we make of that? > Which is not to say the recommendations are wrong - they're not. But the > full picture includes both the reality of the surveillance systems and the > reality of how authorities are using their capabilities. > Sure, I think we agree on the first point. Additionally, I'd add that different authorities use their capabilities in myriad of ways. We do not know the full reality, only the capabilities. By being cautious, we're trying to mitigate many of the possibilities even in the worst of actualities. The irony is that for internet chatting and web browsing, I think we've got an ironclad solution; where as for phones, we're basically all doomed - from billing to content. All the best, Jacob _______________________________________________ liberationtech mailing list liberationtech(a)lists.stanford.edu Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech If you would like to receive a daily digest, click "yes" (once you click above) next to "would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest?" You will need the user name and password you receive from the list moderator in monthly reminders. Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. Please don't forget to follow us on http://twitter.com/#!/Liberationtech ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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[drone-list] @HumanRightsNYU schools UN rapporteur on lethal autonomy
by Gregory Foster 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

NYU Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (Oct 19) - "Global Justice Clinic Hosts Expert Consultation on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (Oct 21)" [1]http://chrgj.org/global-justice-clinic-hosts-expert-consultation-on- lethal-autonomous-weapons-systems/ via [2]@SarahKnuckey, who organized the event, and whom I hope will give us an update on how it went. gf -- Gregory Foster || [3]gfoster(a)entersection.org @gregoryfoster <> [4]http://entersection.com/ References 1. http://chrgj.org/global-justice-clinic-hosts-expert-consultation-on-lethal-… 2. http://twitter.com/SarahKnuckey 3. mailto:gfoster@entersection.org 4. http://entersection.com/ _______________________________________________ drone-list mailing list drone-list(a)lists.stanford.edu Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/drone-list If you would like to receive a daily digest, click "yes" (once you click above) next to "would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest?" You will need the user name and password you receive from the list moderator in monthly reminders. Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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Martin Minow
by Robtminow＠aol.com 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

This is a generic email to a list of relatives, friends and people whose names I found at Martin's house or on his computer. I am Martin's brother, Bob. Martin died suddenly Thursday from arteriosclerotic heart disease. The family has decided to have Martin buried close to other family members in LA. Funeral services will be Thursday at 12:00 PM at Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary, 6001 Centinela Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90045, (310) 641-0707 (near the 405 Freeway and Sepulveda Blvd., 10 minutes from LA Airport). Immediately following services, there will be a a gathering in my home, in Martin's memory. My home is approximately an hour from the cemetery. Directions will be provided. Please feel free to contact me for any reason at (714) 281-0403 or by email at robtminow(a)aol.com. Also, many of Martin's San Francisco area friends have expressed a desire to have a memorial service in the Bay area. This is expected to be planned sometime in the future. In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society, any Hospice Foundation of your choice (I am involved with the Cancer Support Foundation of Los Alamitos, California), Toys for Tots or any other group of your choice. I look forward to meeting many of you. I'm sending this out email as this is how my brother would have liked it. Thanks to all who have communicated their thoughts via the phone or email. With kind thoughts, Bob Minow 1071 S. Taylor Court Anaheim, CA 9808 --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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