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[liberationtech] Mechanical Turk is not anonymous
by Eugen Leitl 08 Mar '13

08 Mar '13

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[liberationtech] Cryptography Alt-Folk Band Release a New MixTape!
by Eugen Leitl 08 Mar '13

08 Mar '13

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Summary of where we are right now
by Tyler Durden 08 Mar '13

08 Mar '13

Since I haven't seen anything come off of the list for a while and since I've imbibed some nice single-malt, I will for the fuck of it summarize where things are. Any Cypherpunk with some kinda balls will tell me I'm completely and absolutely full of shit, but at least I tried, so do better. 1. We won. With Bitcoin and Silk Road along with encrypted peer-to-peer sharing networks (oh yeah and TOR), it's pretty clear we won. There's a lotta popular literature out there now discovering Cypherpunks anew. Some form of Crypto is out there, for those that want to use it, that can can make it real pain in the ass for TLAs to discover that your "Afghan" is really just a form of 80s retro-pot. 2. No, we didn't win yet: TOR is a honeypot. That's right, motherfucker: You do know who really gave TOR its initial impetus, right? And you know why they did that? They did it precisely because it was too obvious and too expensive to pull EVERYTHING back to Virginia or wherever. So they figured it was easier to just get suckers to use some form of encryption (including and specifically TOR) to send the red flag that someone wanted to hide something, so "look over here!". Anything TOR'd is certainly backhauled to the greater DC area and, if there are any additional meta-meta-data risk flags, they'll red light it to begin cracking. If they can't crack within reasonable time/cost budgets (given the risk), and if they for some reason feel a little nervous about you, well they'll just find out where you are and attack your shitty machine. Oh, you use Linux? Well that's totally different. It's not like they hired any brilliant math or crypto geek coming out of college or grad school. 3. But we are going to win. Yeah, we're gonna win. Why? Because we want to. It's not enough to encrypt: The type and context of encryption had to be hidden as well. Kind of the network version of Rubberhose. But these young kids who grew up not watching TV because it didn't interact with them, it's they who will create a stego virus to propagate fake stego everywhere on Facebook or whatever. It's them who are going to create TOR services that operate ubiquitously behind the scenes, so that most users dob't even know they are using it. Hiding the form of encryption will itself be the final frontier as crypto becomes ubiquitous. 4. Bitcoin, motherfucker. Crazy old cackling May was right. Or at least, he was right enough. Right enough for me to buy pot or 'cid or shrooms over the internet and have them sent to my Unabomber shack. Even less...tasteful...forms of porn will be tolerated precisely because THEY can't reveal what they can do, at least not unless their own salaries are in jeopardy. Adrian Lamo? No doubt THEY looked for someone who had contact Manning so that they could hide what they had intercepted and what they could do. But they will keep hiding what they can do while a real economy takes over and sorts out its own. Yeah, that's it. It's downhill from here. Cypherpunks are dead because they are no longer needed, so long live the King of the Anarchy. -TD

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[liberationtech] Can HAM radio be used for communication between health workers in rural areas with no cell connectivity?
by Eugen Leitl 08 Mar '13

08 Mar '13

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IRS notification of your tax appeal status.
by Dreama Ervin 08 Mar '13

08 Mar '13

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[drone-list] Al Qaeda Document on Avoiding Drone Strikes
by Eugen Leitl 07 Mar '13

07 Mar '13

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Re: [liberationtech] Can HAM radio be used for communication between health workers in rural areas with no cell connectivity?
by Eugen Leitl 07 Mar '13

07 Mar '13

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Fwd: Re: Summary of where we are right now
by bbrewer 07 Mar '13

07 Mar '13

-------- Original Message -------- From: bbrewer <bbrewer(a)littledystopia.net> Sent: Thu Mar 07 23:01:56 EST 2013 To: Ted Smith <tedks(a)riseup.net> Subject: Re: Summary of where we are right now Ted Smith <tedks(a)riseup.net> wrote: > >Saying "look, this thing was funded by the military" is just not >useful. >By that metric, virtually all computer science is a hidden backdoor. >You >have to be more specific. How isn't it? 'We' now willingly place almost all of our communications, contacts, and finances, into one basket delivered by your local telco, cable co, satellite, or neighbors 'netgear'. -- Sent from my Android tablet with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- Sent from my Android tablet with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

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[liberationtech] CfP: 4S, "Surveillance & Big Data Mediation" (March 15)
by Eugen Leitl 07 Mar '13

07 Mar '13

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Re: [liberationtech] Can HAM radio be used for communication between health workers in rural areas with no cell connectivity?
by Eugen Leitl 07 Mar '13

07 Mar '13

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