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1984 Comes To Boston
by brian-slashdotnews＠hyperreal.org 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/18/1821223 Posted by: timothy, on 2004-07-18 18:47:00 Topic: 158, 83 comments from the panopticonjob dept. walmass writes "In preparation for the DNC in Boston, [1]75 cameras monitored by the Federal government will be operating around the downtown Boston location. There are also an unspecified number of state police cameras, and 100 cameras owned by the Metro Boston Transit Authority. Quote: 'And it's here to stay: Boston police say the 30 or so cameras installed for the convention will be used throughout the city once the event is over. "We own them now," said police Superintendent Robert Dunford. "We're certainly not going to put them in a closet."'" [2]Click Here References 1. http://www.boston.com/news/politics/conventions/articles/2004/07/18/surveil… nce_targeted_to_convention?mode=PF 2. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4121&alloc_id=9746&site_id=1&request_id=7686742&… =click&page=%2farticle%2epl ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]

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Re: [p2p-hackers] p2p in some place or other
by Alen Peacock 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

On 12/13/05, Michael Rogers <m.rogers(a)cs.ucl.ac.uk> wrote: > > Then how about internal motivation: the faster you upload, the faster > you can download, and the more files you share, the more likely you are > to be able to upload. I've come up with a half-baked incentive mechanism > for Gnutella based on these principles: > > http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/M.Rogers/gnutella-incentives.html > > No identity mechanism required I'm afraid ;-) Neat ideas. Like you, I'm a big believer in incentive-based decisions. I just peaked at your "Cooperation in Decentralized Networks" paper, and I notice that you do require exchange of public keys, authentication with those keys, and some sort of history of reciprocation, no? This is what I'm talking about when I say 'identity' and 'trust'. Each node has to be able to positively certify the identities of other nodes, and what you seem to be building is essentially a trust system built on top of those strong identities. Without the ability to certify node identities, you'd have a system that was very susceptible to imposter nodes leeching resources (in the form of reciprocation) that they hadn't earned, right? Perhaps I confused the issue by using the word 'identity,' which in some circles is used only to talk about the concept of linking a virtual presence to a meatspace entity. That isn't what I intended. What I meant was exactly what you describe: use of assymetric keys to establish and prove peer IDs, use of those IDs to learn something about the behavior of other agents in the network, and use of that knowledge to make appropriate incentive-based decisions. > > But, isn't it more interesting to think about building systems that > > have some fairness guarantees than building ones that don't? > > Define fairness :-) I'm more interested in mutual benefit. Well, I don't know if my semantics are standard, but the concept of 'fairness' I was thinking of was one that was purposely broad -- an umbrella under which 'mutual benefit' is certainly an essential piece. Alen _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers(a)zgp.org http://zgp.org/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers _______________________________________________ Here is a web page listing P2P Conferences: http://www.neurogrid.net/twiki/bin/view/Main/PeerToPeerConferences ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

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[gsc] Loom folder interface now supports arbitrary asset types
by Patrick Chkoreff 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

The Loom folder interface now supports arbitrary asset types. Just click the "Types" link in your folder to add, edit, and delete asset types at will. Issue digital doughnuts if you like. I did this as a fun exercise. This is by far the most important milestone in Loom to date. It makes Loom a powerful and completely generic accounting utility. -- Patrick P.S. This is version 43 of the Loom code. --- 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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[liberationtech] The Indian government circumvents telcos to tap phones
by Samujjal (Shayan) Purkayastha 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

>From http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2920844.ece?homepage=true Centre can directly access your phone chat soonSandeep Joshi Secure tapping mechanism ready; sequel to Radia tape leak Soon the Centre would have direct access to all your telephone conversations as the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has developed capabilities to intercept phones without keeping your operator in the loop. Currently, trials are on in Delhi and Haryana through a main server established in the national capital. It would take another 12 months before the system is officially operational.Alarmed by the leak in the corporate lobbyist Niira Radia phone-tapping case, the Centre at the highest level decided to set up a Central Monitoring System (CMS) to tap calls without the interference of telecom service providers. Subsequently, the DoT's Telecom Enforcement, Resource and Monitoring (TREM) Cell along with the Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DoT) was asked to develop the project for which Rs.170 crore was earmarked. After almost one year, the CMS is ready and being tested. *Exclusive facility* b This is the DoT's exclusive facility that would assist intelligence and security agencies, besides strategic government departments in phone-tapping,b a senior DoT official said. The DoT would be required to set up separate servers in each State, depending upon the requirements and the number of subscribers. While the facility in Delhi and adjoining States are likely to be ready by year-end, it might take at least another couple of years before servers are established across India. *Complex system* The present system of phone-tapping is a complex one as eight intelligence and investigating agencies wanting to snoop on anybody's phone are required to approach the Union Home Ministry for clearance with specific reasons. Armed with necessary clearances, the department officials would then approach the telecom operators for tapping phones. It is feared that the loopholes in the current process led to the leakage of the Radia tapes. *Total control* However, in the new mechanism, the DoT will have total control of a tapped line, giving telecom firms no access to the intercepted line. Another important aspect of the new centralised system is that irrespective of operators, lines would be tapped at one location, which will be manned round-the-clock by officials of the government agencies. _______________________________________________ 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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Re: <nettime> "idle no more", Re: Gone (to) Viral: Facebook Doomsday
by mp 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

On 20/12/12 13:57, Gita Hashemi wrote: > > i am not an advocate of facebook or other social media per se, but i do > have a facebook account, just as i have a phone line, and several email > addresses. frequently, i take a break from one or all. presently, i > login to fb 2-3 times a day as i follow the development of "idle no > more" indigenous rights movement in canada. IDLE NO MORE. > > i humbly suggest that it is possible to use fb for purposes other than > checking the latest narcissistic instagram pictures of our friends and > their lunch, cat or baby, or other time and energy draining purposeless > pursuits. and while there are many people who are not directly tied to > political, intellectual or other exalted circles but who are on fb, it > is possible to use fb as an effective communication tool to mobilize > beyond our immediate circles and usual participants. Indeed, and that is precisely what CIA/In-Q-Tel wants you to do. Generate intel and cash for them. To paraphrase indigenous activists: One minute spend on FB is one minute not spend in your flesh-and-blood community/neighbours (that is, there where political action traditionally begins). mp ------------------ http://www.corbettreport.com/meet-in-q-tel-the-cias-venture-capital-firm-pr… The publicly available record on the Facebook/In-Q-Tel connection is tenuous. Facebook received $12.7 million in venture capital from Accel, whose manager, James Breyer, now sits on their board. He was formerly the chairman of the National Venture Capital Association, whose board included Gilman Louie, then the CEO of In-Q-Tel. The connection is indirect, but the suggestion of CIA involvement with Facebook, however tangential, is disturbing in the light of Facebookbs history of violating the privacy of its users. Googlebs connection to In-Q-Tel is more straightforward, if officially denied. In 2006, ex-CIA officer Robert David Steele told Homeland Security Today that Google b has been taking money and direction for elements of the US Intelligence Community, including the Office of Research and Development at the Central Intelligence Agency, In-Q-Tel, and in all probability, both the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Armybs Intelligence and Security Command.b Later that year, a blogger claimed that an official Google spokesman had denied the claims, but no official press statement was released. Steelebs accusation is not the only suggestion of American intelligence involvement with Google, however. In 2005, In-Q-Tel sold over 5,000 shares of Google stock. The shares are widely presumed to have come from In-Q-Telbs investment in Keyhole Inc., which was subsequently bought out by Google, but this is uncertain. In 2010, it was announced that Google was working directly with the National Security Agency to secure its electronic assets. Also in 2010, Wired reported that In-Q-Tel and Google had jointly provided venture capital funding to Recorded Future Inc., a temporal analytics search engine company that analyzes tens of thousands of web sources to predict trends and events. But as potentially alarming as In-Q-Telbs connections to internet giants like Facebook and Google are, and as disturbing as its interest in data mining technologies may be, the CIAbs venture capital arm is interested in more than just web traffic monitoring. The In-Q-Tel website currently lists two b practice areas,b b Information and Communication Technologiesb and b Physical and Biological Technologies.b The latter field consists of b capabilities of interestb such as b The on-site determination of individual human traits for IC purposesb and b Tracking and/or authentication of both individuals and objects.b In-Q-Tel also lists two areas that are b on its radarb when it comes to biotech: Nano-bio Convergence and Physiological Intelligence. Detailed breakdowns of each area explain that the intelligence community is interested in, amongst other things, self-assembling batteries, single molecule detectors, targeted drug delivery platforms, and sensors that can tell where a person has been and what substances he has been handling from b biomarkersb like trace compounds in the breath or samples of skin. In the years since its formation, many have been led to speculate about In-Q-Tel and its investments, but what requires no speculation is an understanding that a privately owned venture capital firm, created by and for the CIA, in which well-connected board members drawn from the private sector can then profit from the investments made with CIA funds that itself come from the taxpayer represent an erosion of the barrier between the public and private spheres that should give even the most credulous pause for thought. What does it mean that emerging technology companies are becoming wedded to the CIA as soon as their technology shows promise? What can be the public benefit in fostering and encouraging technologies which can be deployed for spying on all internet users, including American citizens, in direct contravention of the CIAbs own prohibitions against operating domestically? If new software and technology is being brought to market by companies with In-Q-Tel advisors on their boards, what faith can anyone purchasing American technologies have that their software and hardware is not designed with CIA backdoors to help the American intelligence community achieve its vision of b Total Information Awarenessb? Rather than scrutinizing each individual investment that In-Q-Tel makes, perhaps an institutional approach is required. At this point, the American people have to ask themselves whether they want the CIA, an agency that has participated in the overthrow of foreign, democratically-elected governments, an agency that has implanted fake stories in the news media to justify American war interests, an agency that at this very moment is engaged in offensive drone strikes, killing suspected b insurgentsb and civilians alike in numerous theaters around the world, should be entrusted with developing such close relationships with the IT sector, or whether In-Q-Tel should be scrapped for good. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime(a)kein.org ----- 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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[IP] Leaked UK government doc on ID card coercion plans
by David Farber 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

________________________________________ From: Adam Fields [ip20398470293845(a)aquick.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 9:43 AM To: David Farber Cc: ip Subject: Leaked UK government doc on ID card coercion plans For IP, if you wish: This claims to be an annotated leaked document outlining the marketing methods to be used (which are used?) by the British government to "coerce" the public into accepting national ID cards. I have no idea if it's real, but it's interesting reading regardless. http://www.boingboing.net/2008/01/29/leaked-uk-govt-doc-r.html -- - Adam ** Expert Technical Project and Business Management **** System Performance Analysis and Architecture ****** [ http://www.adamfields.com ] [ http://www.confabb.com ] ................ Latest Venture [ http://www.aquick.org/blog ] ............ Blog [ http://www.adamfields.com/resume.html ].. Experience [ http://www.flickr.com/photos/fields ] ... Photos [ http://www.aquicki.com/wiki ].............Wiki ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ----- 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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Re: [dgc.chat] Micropayments and the incentive program at
by Jay W. 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

e-gold Reply-To: <dgcchat(a)lists.goldmoney.com> > I realize you have explained this at least 10 times, every time it > comes up every few months, but I alwasy forget and like hearing it > over and over :-) then hopefully this post is a paroxysm of joy for you JP! ;) : the deduction of the e-gold spend fee is not included in velocity numbers. the distribution of any incentive payments per http://www.e-gold.com/unsecure/incentive.htm is not included in velocity numbers. the *only* thing counting as a "spend" in "e-metal spends" is an e-metal spend (aka payment) from one account to another initiated by a user doing one of: a) manually signing into his account and performing a "Spend" b) checking out at a merchant using e-gold SCI c) using phone access to make a spend d) using a program and the e-gold Automation Interface to make a spend those velocity numbers are totals for the amounts users are spending to other users. they do not include any other thing like fees, storage charges, or incentive payments. http://stats.e-gold.com possibly the most informative, accurate and timely economic statistics on earth - possibly the universe!! ;) subscribe: send blank email to dgcchat-join(a)lists.goldmoney.com unsubscribe: send blank email to dgcchat-leave(a)lists.goldmoney.com digest: send an email to dgcchat-request(a)lists.goldmoney.com with "set yourname(a)yourdomain.com digest=on" in the message body --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)metzdowd.com

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"Double Secret" Wiretaps vs. the President's 2004 Statement
by Lauren Weinstein 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Dave, In April 2004, President Bush made a seemingly direct and unequivocal statement regarding U.S. wiretapping policies in the fight against terrorism. We now know that he spoke these words after authorizing the NSA warrantless wiretapping program. You can hear his comments for yourself in this very short video: http://www.vortex.com/bv/wiretaps.wmv (Windows Media) The White House explanation for this seemingly gaping discrepancy is that the President was supposedly (we're now told) only talking about "ordinary" secret wiretaps under the PATRIOT Act, not about what we might call "Double Secret" NSA wiretaps (legal or not). Newspeak is alive and well. Dean Wormer of "Animal House" fame would be proud. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein lauren(a)pfir.org or lauren(a)vortex.com or lauren(a)eepi.org Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 http://www.pfir.org/lauren Co-Founder, PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org Co-Founder, EEPI - Electronic Entertainment Policy Initiative - http://www.eepi.org Moderator, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com DayThink: http://daythink.vortex.com ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as eugen(a)leitl.org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

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[IP] "Double Secret" Wiretaps vs. the President's 2004 Statement
by David Farber 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

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[IP] Leaked UK government doc on ID card coercion plans
by David Farber 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

________________________________________ From: Adam Fields [ip20398470293845(a)aquick.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 9:43 AM To: David Farber Cc: ip Subject: Leaked UK government doc on ID card coercion plans For IP, if you wish: This claims to be an annotated leaked document outlining the marketing methods to be used (which are used?) by the British government to "coerce" the public into accepting national ID cards. I have no idea if it's real, but it's interesting reading regardless. http://www.boingboing.net/2008/01/29/leaked-uk-govt-doc-r.html -- - Adam ** Expert Technical Project and Business Management **** System Performance Analysis and Architecture ****** [ http://www.adamfields.com ] [ http://www.confabb.com ] ................ Latest Venture [ http://www.aquick.org/blog ] ............ Blog [ http://www.adamfields.com/resume.html ].. Experience [ http://www.flickr.com/photos/fields ] ... Photos [ http://www.aquicki.com/wiki ].............Wiki ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ----- 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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