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Re: Gentlemen do not read each other's mail...
by Bill Stewart 30 Oct '13

30 Oct '13

At 07:57 PM 10/24/2013, Jim Bell wrote: >According to White House spokesman Jay Carney, the United States "is >not monitoring and will not monitor the communications of the chancellor." Which is NSA-speak for "has monitored the chancellor and will again but for now is only monitoring other officials of the German government, not her." And of course gentlemen don't read each others' mail, but she's a lady, so she's fair game.

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crypto & security (urls)
by brian carroll 30 Oct '13

30 Oct '13

// this could also apply to crypto and shoddy security products... Why Apple Wants to Bust Your iPhone http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/magazine/why-apple-wants-to-bust-your-iph… "Economists have theories about market conditions that encourage planned obsolescence. A company has strong incentives to degrade product durability when it has a lot of market power and when consumers don’t have good substitute products to choose from." The Prison Guard With a Gift for Cracking Gang Codes http://nautil.us/blog/the-prison-guard-with-a-gift-for-cracking-gang-codes ABCDEFGHIJKLM ZYXWVUTSRQPON // what are the security implications of discarded or lost electronics // including the deep context of 'archaeology of electronics' equipment // where stored data could be recovered decades, perhaps centuries later. // such that landfills or other sites may also have a data security dimension Nokia phone lost underwater for 3 months, still works http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/hardware/Nokia-phone-lost… (preceding urls via Digg.com) // circuit anomalies, potential RNG or entropy relevance Researchers find a way to predict 'dragon kings' in small circuits http://phys.org/news/2013-10-dragon-kings-small-circuits.html // book cover, note typography... Cryptography: The Science of Secret Writing http://www.reanimationlibrary.org/catalog/items/101675 book search https://www.google.com/search?q= Cryptography%3A The Science of Secret Writing ▧ ▣ ▥

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[tor-dev] Tech report: Evaluation of a libutp-based Tor Datagram Implementation
by Karsten Loesing 30 Oct '13

30 Oct '13

Hi tor devs, Steven, Rob, and I wrote a tech report on evaluating Steven's libutp Tor implementation in the public Tor network and using Chutney and Shadow: https://research.torproject.org/techreports/libutp-2013-10-30.pdf >From the introduction: """ Datagram designs are a promising approach to overcome Tor's performance-related problems. Advantages of datagram designs over stream designs are that they allow better end-to-end congestion management, reduce queue lengths on nodes, and prevent cell loss on one circuit delaying cells on other circuits. In earlier reports we compared possible Tor datagram designs and outlined a testing plan. In this report we evaluate our implementation of a libutp-based Tor datagram design. However, this evaluation does not focus on performance improvements over the current stream-based Tor implementation, because we found that our datagram-based Tor implementation is not mature enough for such a comparison. The focus is rather on our approach to integrate a datagram design into the Tor source code and on setting up test environments to evaluate the new design. We hope that our findings will be useful when further tweaking our libutp-based design or implementing other datagram designs. In the next section we describe our libutp-based Tor implementation in sufficient detail for others to understand our source code and to act as blueprint for implementing other datagram designs. Sections 3 to 5 outline the experimental setup that we used to evaluate our implementation and point out roadblocks that kept us busy longer than necessary. Section 6 concludes the report by sketching out possible next steps. """ As the introduction says, this report doesn't contain shiny performance comparisons, because we kept hitting bugs and then ran out of time. But the report contains detailed instructions for experimenting with libutp and Tor, and it has plenty of footnotes containing starting points and a conclusion with suggested next steps. In short, we had to stop when things started to be fun. Unfortunately, neither of us can work on this topic in the next two months at the very least. If anybody here wants to pick up this work and comes up with bug fixes or even a performance comparison to current Tor, please post your findings here! All the best, Karsten _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev(a)lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

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[tor-talk] Tor Weekly News — October 30th, 2013
by Lunar 30 Oct '13

30 Oct '13

======================================================================== Tor Weekly News October 30th, 2013 ======================================================================== Welcome to the eighteenth issue of Tor Weekly News, the weekly newsletter that covers what is happening in the Tor community. A few highlights from this year’s Google Summer of Code ------------------------------------------------------- The Google Summer of Code 2013 program is over since the end of September. While Nick, Moritz and Damian attended the GSoC Mentor Summit [1] at Google’s main campus last week, here are a few highlights from three of the five projects that were carried through the summer. [1] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2013-October/000367.html Robert worked on enhancing Tor’s Path Selection algorithm. The enhancement [2] uses active measurements of the Round-Trip-Time of Tor circuits. Rejecting the slowest circuits will improve the average latency of Tor circuits. The results of this work will hopefully be integrated into Tor 0.2.5.x and should then be usable by users. Robert wrote: “Working with the Tor community is very encouraging since there are highly skilled and enthusiastic people around. I am really happy to have made that decision and can definitely recommend doing so to others.” [2] https://bitbucket.org/ra_/tor-rtt Johannes Fürmann created a censorship simulation tool that facilitates testing of applications in a simulated network which can be configured and extended to behave like censorship infrastructure in various countries. EvilGenius [3] can be used to do automated “smoke testing”, i.e. find out if code still works properly if a node in the network manipulates traffic in different ways. Other than that, it can be used to automatically test decentralized network applications. “Overall, working with Tor was a great experience and I hope to be able to work with the Tor community again” said Johannes. [3] https://github.com/TheTorProject/EvilGenius Kostas Jakeliūnas worked on creating a searchable and scalable Tor Metrics data archive [4]. This required implementing a Tor relay consensus and descriptor search backend that can encompass most of the archival data available (as of now, the currently running backend covers relays from 2008 up until now). Those curious to browse Tor relay archives — searching for a needle in the very large haystack or just looking around — might enjoy playing with the current test platform [5]. It can run powerful queries on the large dataset without query parameter/span restrictions. Many use cases are supported [6] — for example, since the newest consensus data is always available, the backend can be used in an ExoneraTor-like fashion. Together with Karsten Loesing, Kostas hopes to integrate this system with the current Onionoo [7], hopefully further empowering (and eventually simplifying) the overall Tor Metrics ecosystem. Kostas described the project as “an interesting and challenging one — a lot of work […] to make it robust and truly scalable.” He also added: “Working with Tor was a great experience: I found the developer community to be welcoming indeed, comprised of many people who are professionals in their field. It should be noted that where there are interesting problems and a clear cause, great people assemble.” [4] http://github.com/wfn/torsearch [5] http://ts.mkj.lt:5555/ [6] https://github.com/wfn/torsearch/blob/master/docs/use_cases_examples.md [7] https://www.torproject.org/projects/onionoo.html Collecting data against network level adversaries ------------------------------------------------- “The anonymity of a connection over Tor is vulnerable to an adversary who can observe it in enough places along its route. For example, traffic that crosses the same country as it enters and leaves the Tor network can potentially be deanonymized by an authority in that country who can monitor all network communication.” Karsten Loesing, Anupam Das, and Nikita Borisov began their call for help to Tor relay operators [8] by stating a problem that has recently attracted some interest by the research community. The question “which part of the Internet does a Tor relay lie in” is easy enough to answer, but “determining routes with high confidence has been difficult“ so far. The best source of information could come from the relay operators, as Karsten et al. wrote: “To figure out where traffic travels from your relay, we’d like you to run a bunch of ‘traceroutes’ — network measurements that show the paths traffic takes.” This one-time experiment — for now — is meant to be used by “several researchers, but the leads are Anupam Das, a Ph.D. student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his advisor Nikita Borisov.” In order to participate, shell scripts are available which automate most of the process. They have been reviewed with care from several members of the Tor community and are available from a Git repository [9]. Since their initial email, Anupam Das has assembled a FAQ regarding scope, resource consumption, and other topics [10]. Be sure to run the scripts if you can. As Karsten, Anupam, and Nikita concluded, “with your help, we will keep improving to face the new challenges to privacy and freedom online.” [8] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2013-October/003113.html [9] https://bitbucket.org/anupam_das/traceroute-from-tor-relays [10] http://web.engr.illinois.edu/~das17/tor-traceroute_v1.html#faq Tor Help Desk Roundup --------------------- Using the Tor Browser Bundle is still proving to be tricky for many Ubuntu users who upgraded from Ubuntu 13.04 to 13.10. The commonly reported error is that users cannot enter text in any of the browser’s text fields, including the URL and search bars. So far this problem appears to be resolved by removing ibus with apt-get before running the Tor Browser. Users who need ibus can try running `export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim`, as documented in Trac ticket #9353 [11]. [11] https://bugs.torproject.org/9353 Miscellaneous news ------------------ David Goulet is asking for a final round of reviews of his rewrite of torsocks [12] so it can replace the old implementation. Lunar has updated the package in Debian experimental to encourage testing [13]. A few portability bugs and a deadlock [14] has already been ironed out in the process. [12] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/10007 [13] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2013-October/030730.html [14] https://github.com/dgoulet/torsocks/commit/e55eae3d3 The next Tails contributor meeting will be held on November 6th [15]. The present agenda has “firewall exceptions for user-run local services”, “decide what kind of questions go into the FAQ”, among other topics. [15] https://mailman.boum.org/pipermail/tails-dev/2013-October/003956.html Matthew Finkel has sent a draft proposal [16] with possible solutions for Hidden Services backed by multiple servers. Several comments have been made already, with Nick Mathewson giving a heads-up on the work he has started on merging thoughts and discussions in a new specification [17]. [16] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-October/005674.html [17] https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/torspec.git/blob/refs/heads/rendsp… James B. reported [18] a tutorial on bsdnow.tv [19] describing how to setup Tor relays, bridges, exit nodes and hidden services on FreeBSD. Their last week’s podcast called “A Brief Intorduction” [20] features a live demonstration (beginning at 43:52). [18] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2013-October/030800.html [19] http://www.bsdnow.tv/tutorials/tor [20] http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2013_10_23-a_brief_intorduction The Guardian Project has made a new release of its chat application for Android systems. ChatSecure v12 (previously known has Gibberbot) contains several new features [21] and is fully integrated with Orbot. [21] https://guardianproject.info/2013/10/24/chatsecure-v12-provides-comprehensi… Upcoming events --------------- Nov 04 | Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society | Berlin, Germany | http://wpes2013.di.unimi.it/ | Nov 05-07 | 20th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security | Berlin, Germany | http://www.sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2013/ This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by Lunar, dope457, Matt Pagan, Kostas Jakeliūnas, ra, Johannes Fürmann, Karsten Loesing, and Roger Dingledine. Want to continue reading TWN? Please help us create this newsletter. We still need more volunteers to watch the Tor community and report important news. Please see the project page [22], write down your name and subscribe to the team mailing list [23] if you want to get involved! 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Re: [tor-dev] bananaphone obfsproxy module
by David Stainton 30 Oct '13

30 Oct '13

Howdy, Thanks. Your obfsproxy is a nice piece of work. Bananaphone + Obfs2 sounds cool! Modular transport chains make a lot of sense... I like modular transports... recently for fun I wrote a VPN in Python Twisted [https://github.com/david415/hushVPN] using twisted consumers and producers. My idea was to have a modular system where transports could easily be swapped. Over UDP it's very fast and I was thinking that maybe I could reuse some of that code to write packet transports for obfsproxy. For instance Tor over ICMP, DNS etc... Obfs2 over Bananaphone over UDP? Right now the david-bananaphone branch is functional code. I've tested it with ssh. SSH over Markov chains! It's laggy but it works. Leif's design plans are interesting... He will be better at explaining it. Perhaps it does something similar to your idea of RHE + Obfs2. Briefly: RHE(CRYPTO(HAMMERTIME(TOR))) - RHE is Banaphone's markov or random weighted Reverse Hash Encoding - CRYPTO is NaCl crypto_stream - Hammertime: "adds chaff to a bytestream to impede passive timing analysis" The goal is to not have any distinguishable patterns in the byte stream. Is that what Obfs2 accomplishes? We will do the crypto_stream secret key exchange using NaCl crypto_box and Elligator; spewing noise after keys are sent Elligator etc... We were thinking to first implement the key exchange without Elligator... and do that part later. I'm working on the basic key exchange to work in branch david-bananaphone-keyexchange https://github.com/david415/obfsproxy/tree/david-bananaphone-keyexchange I'm currently troubleshooting a problem with the message passing... Maybe I do not understand your api well enough... I'm getting strange behavior. It would help if another pair of eyes would look at this. Perhaps later I will formulate a question regarding the obfsproxy api... And I was hoping Leif would help me fix this branch: david-bananaphone-nacl-hammertime https://github.com/david415/obfsproxy/tree/david-bananaphone-nacl-hammertime I wrote a naclStreamEncoder coroutine and made hammertime_rh_server return coroutine chains with the NaCl stream encoders. It doesn't work at all... really a rough draft scribbling of code that makes the BananaPhoneBuffer unit tests through an exception... OK. I will add ALL commandline options to obfsproxy-bananaphone! OK... bandwidth overhead calculations... I'll take a look and run some tests. Onward! David On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 7:19 PM, George Kadianakis <desnacked(a)riseup.net> wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm the guy who develops obfsproxy. I recently noticed that you are > writing a bananaphone module for it. The code looks good and you even > understood the pretty-much undocumented obfsproxy API! Nice! > > BTW, I thought I should let you know that we are currently writing > software that combines transports together in chains. This means that > you don't have to worry about data redundancy in bananaphone, since > you can combine it with an obfuscating transport like obfs2 to create > the following chain: > tor data -> |obfs2 encoding| ->|bananaphone encoding| -> tor bridge -> |bananaphone decoding| ->|obfs2 decoding| -> tor data > This would create a bananaphone-encoded channel which transfers > obfs2'ed Tor data (so the bananaphone traffic will look uniform, since > obfs2 data is uniform (whether uniform bananaphone traffic is useful for > censorship circumvention is a different story))). > > FWIW, we are still in the process of writing this transport > combiner. You can read more about it in: > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/7167 > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/9744 > https://gitweb.torproject.org/pluggable-transports/obfs-flash.git > We should also create a Wiki page about it soon, I guess. > > Anyway, this transport combiner business means that you only have to > worry about making the bananaphone transport work. It would also be > nice if the transport was configurable, so that we can tweak its > parameters easily. I would also be interested in some bandwidth > overhead calculations :) > > BTW, feel free to send me any questions you have about obfsproxy or > pluggable transports. > > Cheers! > > PS: Feel free to CC the public tor-dev mailing list in your reply if > you want. _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev(a)lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

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srf: reiteration (state, the obvious)
by brian carroll 30 Oct '13

30 Oct '13

self-reply to previous reply, referencing John Young quote: > PKC and anonymizers have become a celebrity drugs. > > if the above, then perhaps in a twisted drug-war context of setup, > an entire manufacturing and distribution network required, and > profit-motive of business model driving the maldevelopment that > can be exploited or used as a control for behavior or agendas > in other words: CRYPTO IS APPLIED POLITICS in the given domain yet is it accurately and-or actively accounted for in these dimensions, beyond intention and into its total evaluation of how it exists and can be subverted against use & in relation to principles, goals, agendas or does a lack of this security audit establish a false perspective, perhaps aiding and abetting hidden tyranny, political engineering

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Re: [cryptome] embassyification
by brian carroll 30 Oct '13

30 Oct '13

John Young <jya(a)pipeline.com> wrote: > Yes, there is finally coverage of the physical architecture of > spying not just the "digital-architecture" of slides, texts > and hyperbole. > > Duncan Campbell has reported on this physical architecture > of hardware and facilities for decades and has advised > several of the journalists covering the NSA releases who > lack his experience and technical knowledge. Jacob > Appelbaum confirms, others have not yet done so, and may > be incapable of admitting limited knowledge after building > careers of knowledgeability, yes, this is about cryptology > and anonymity. i remember encountering the idea of TEMPEST radiation from cryptome, in terms of the electromagnetic domain that remains unaccounted for in architectural history, and while the questions are wide-open at that point, in a changed paradigm, it did provide example of how differently a scenario could exist than otherwise documented or believed to. in terms of concepts in architecture alone, that a wall separates two areas, acting as a barrier, when with electromagnetic and radio waves this is no longer the situation (for 100 or more years, in physics terms). so too, technology, that a screen is somehow bounded by an observer's own vision, even while no others are present, as this relates to remote observation via compromised equipment yet also, emissions that can be sniffed via these extended physics in a domain that remains unaccounted for, except within those military or security contexts were security is audited this way my question is today, how much of the security model is fiction, based on outdated assumptions and terms of relation, such that the observers themselves are potentially viewed 'trustworthy' by default, or may be themselves androids with supercomputing powers, hidden group analysis, decentralized shared perspectives via cellular tower pseudo-psi networking, made individual, identical in form to a human though in function operating in another realm than is standardized, therefore any interaction could be insecure if not accounting for crypto territory lost for defense in depth what if they can read your mind, for instance, and see what you see, how well would crypto function in that domain and in what terms. the only way i can think of is to function in a realm that is out-of-bounds for oppositional perception, that is not going to be calculated correctly due to distortions and that will promote errors of perception of the shared perspective so what if TEMPEST extends into alien or hostile android territory where surveillance is ubiquitous at the level of the optic nerve already, such that any thought can be reinterpreted by another and thus information and views can be pilfered - ideas that would lead to inventions or careers, stolen or expropriated, and with an advantage of space-time manipulation, taken over and represented as if the works of oppositional others, as if the thinker is stealing their ideas than the covert swindle involved structurally, based on compromised, unaudited technology allowing for such siphoning or data extraction, various wellheads drilled and gushing data to be exploited, monetized in the future backwards into present day how well does reading/writing or thinking to self or communicating challenge or get beyond any of this, or is it forced to operate within such confines and the security, secrecy, privacy issue involves the way truth is mediated by the differing views, versus various many technical solutions that are by default insecure as methods, as the problem of the THIS IS THE SECRET then always preexists and is structuralized, handing away the labeled data into others' filing cabinets to be thusly exploited, likely automatically this way if you can see through walls these days, even through minds, and yet this is not accounted for in threat or relational modeling, how can crypto stand a chance as an idea if the very domain it exists within cannot be acknowledged in the terms it exists > PKC and anonymizers have become a celebrity drugs. if the above, then perhaps in a twisted drug-war context of setup, an entire manufacturing and distribution network required, and profit-motive of business model driving the maldevelopment that can be exploited or used as a control for behavior or agendas > Moreover, the valorization of comsec coding over the > physical architecture has misled both the coders and > their public about the weaknesses of comsec, a gaping > hole through which national spies have driven large > trucks to gather and transport mountains of data while > the cyber-guards gaze at online security programs, > engoring large fees for 24x7 protection, search and > destroy, Stuxnet, virii, hacks, 0-days, terrifying > kaboodle. this makes me think more than anything that perhaps security theater aligns with GAMIFICATION http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamification there could be several concurrent strategies or co-existing efforts though some could involve 'winning' the rigged game, whether or not this is involved in the subversion or involves conquering of territory and taking over the flag (sign/symbol) of another, as if x-marks-the-spot hidden treasure captured what does it mean to be in magazines and have work that is reviewed in terms not realistic to the existing environment, is it a form of disinformation or camouflage, battlefield smoke canisters and smoke grenades, to what extent is the imagery or projection of the World Movie readily already understood to be fiction or farce, stage scenery and what does it imply if the image itself (signs signs signs) are a false viewpoint, especially in a context of unshared ID with aliens, robots, hostile others including deranged hominids & zookeepers how truthful is security discussion of ideas, how bounded in a limiting context that does not include necessary data or variables yet seeks to reason inclusively about goings- on, as if everything is an impermeable wall, ideologically, while knowing the porousness of its dematerialization what if the context is too limiting, too much software, too narrow a view of hardware in the context of discoveries as if this are not employed in black sites, ops, projects; meaning: mind-reading by machine, injection of thoughts, communication via implants and cellular technologies, existence of human-identity robots, androids, aliens, hostile and friendly. computer power far beyond anything existing in the commercial or public sector, operational, massive surveillance in local environment by competing groups as the normal situation, vietnam-war like division of culture along ideological lines, everything politicized at the level of decision-making, real war going on within bureaucracy and peoples lives, while a sitting President oversees the situation as if a detached Egyptian Pharaoh, pleased with the dual-use development, the deterioration and incapacitation of lives needed to do the work needed, making it harder and harder via each next policy this way including this correlated to attacks on citizens seeking to right the ship of state, active hostilities against this via the dug-in political establishment itself, hostile to constitutional interpretation beyond their private agenda what if the head of state is functioning against the state in its greater purpose, and is the short-circuit occurring, far worse than predecessors, an image-based consensus that allows mass marketing of one-way ideology and of mediocrity to be the swan song for a dying civilization, as if the death cry is now the only remaining freedom (self-satisfied egocentric ideologues hatred, loving this) > Keep in mind this which has received almost no > attention now or in the past: > > What is online and on the roof of embassies is not > the source of most spying, that is a ruse. [there is this, which follows below, though another view of it could be what is not accounted for in these same terms, yet remains hidden in the existing landscape, where embassyification of the built environment occurs, whether via surveillance cameras and sensors and mics, hidden or unhidden, as well as antenna, phone taps, etc. say as it relates to compromised routers and voip data, or powerline networking that can radio siphon out data, yet could remain undocumented or unaccounted for... though give surveillers god-like powers via this gap in how situations are accounted for, via 'magic' technology) the points and perspective below are going to be evaluated in the framework introduced, as it opens up questioning to the majority of what is not being accounted for, apparently. yet wanted to make a technical point prior to this, and then add to it in that subsequent context for further consideration: basically it involves 'antennas' on rooftops of buildings, mainly mid-size or tall buildings that also can have a telecommunications relay or antenna array at the top, not sure if this is called a utility nest or what, besides elevator or door access to roof and HVAC equipment. aesthetics here are important because the distinction made is that there could be crypto.surveillance or undocumented activity that is not being accounted for in evaluations of how things actually exist and function, that allows this political leeway and undocumented power to take hold & exploit it for political gain, an entire infrastructure and environment made this way, mismapped and mismatched in terms of signage and sayings, of what goes on as it differs from what really is going on, that a security failure of highest magnitude- peoples conceptions divorced from reality, thus the illiteracy allowing the covert programs their hidden domain to function within, mostly friction-free; except say when Duncan Campbell or others intervene, and thus issues of how this is managed, politically, yet also, the role of censorship, control of viewpoint and of perspective, what limits or thresholds are observed and when are the restrictions lifted to grounded the old and outdated model in a newer more realistic scenario that can help people understand and navigate the situation, giving a change at evaluating what is going on, directly, instead of relying on remote perspectives for their sight in this way, the mundane antenna array atop buildings, which could range from commercial or other applications (state data networks, WANs, radio, cellular broadcast, along with taxi, trucking, transport dispatch, guessing). and that this market for antennas on 'rooftop real estate' is booming, especially with wi-fi if not wimax or whatever is going on with those standards. note: this development is minus any accounting for the actual health effects of such antenna placements and the science studies have been skewed and disregard exposure scenarios, removing any kind of regulation as to this profit-filled roll-out of what can be harmful signaling that swamps entire environments, including people and surrounding wildlife, signilified this way consider this residential tower in Minneapolis... https://www.dropbox.com/s/yxxogxr190chkoc/array1.PNG https://www.dropbox.com/s/1rpi0p7l1ne8qzq/array1b.PNG now even while i only have the most limited knowledge of any of this, having read a small book on antennas and having thought quite a bit on the topics, it does seem quite evident that there are six mast antenna 'spires' atop the crown of this skeletal Rockefeller-Center-esque building and thus underneath the polycarbonate sheath, i presume there are six mast (dipole?) antenna, that could be involved in a wide range of communication functioning, including broadcast and reception of various signals that could span from outsourced to in-house systems. likely unknowns to the public unless there are open databases with leases yet it would seem unlikely if the networks were 'hidden' that any such data would say - this is a secret telecom network that is linking together various buildings and locations and also mobile communications. it is not simply about speculating, to some degree or other, of the multitude of such buildings with such antenna, somewhere within them these other 'hidden networks' must exist alongside the commercial or other normalized services with various delineating signage and what is referenced here is the blending of the antenna with the exoskeletal detailing of the building facade (unsure if it is partly structural, if outer wall carrying weight beyond itself or not, see- no practical architectural knowledge here in conventional terms) yet this "structure" of concrete is turned into the plastic and metal of hidden antenna at its peak, which then is dematerialized in this same paradigm, and operating at approximately 186,000 miles per second, and move through walls and extend into remote geographies even while appearing as part of the old building structure, its hidden functioning not apparent to those unknowing of its purpose or what dimensions it is operating within so consider someone who moves into the building is an android and lives beneath this radiating antenna array. they may be unaffected by it. as might an alien whose immune system has adapted to electromagnetic radiation thus it is non-toxic to their biological or genetic systems; in contrast, imagine a human moves into the apartments below this antenna array that involves regular long-term exposure of massive radiation that could be unshielded and sustain higher levels of atmospheric disruption via breakdown of ozone, or other dynamics that interfere with cells in the body or brainwaves, and that existing laws likely do not require any health requirement in the terms known to exist that it is a harmful situation that existing scientific studies have confirmed is conducive to leukemia and cancer, while dismissing other exposure so a developer could sell rooftop real estate for arrays of high powered antennas radiating electromagnetic signals, and the tenants below may be unaware of the detrimental health effects and there is apparently no obligation to do anything about this, to notify them or limit such exposure to citizens, given the existing "walls" approach to reality, as if the situation is about concrete only, no radiation here now scale this down to wi-fi antennas within apartments on larger antenna atop apartment buildings with people sleeping and staying beneath them, long-term exposure, while massive profit could be made at the expense of the health of people living in proximity to these antenna, due to negligence, non-accountability, and political cover that provides for this onesided development, ignoring costs that go beyond the parameters of evaluation. in this way, a question of antenna moves into the infrastructure at large, what of all the unshielded equipment radiating harmful radiation in every direction, filling up the entire atmosphere with a fog of electromagnetic signals and damaging toxic energy, breaking down the stratum of consciousness sustained in these realms and replacing it with cellular towers to transit such data via brute force. if able to overlay a screen upon the world as it is, that would suddenly show all these signals in a given space, as if a dig of a sector of the artificial electromagnetic environment, what would be excavated in terms of the signaling-- would it be a realm once placid and now incoherent with energy, a cosmic soup of data yet that is mostly noise for whatever signals arrived and are put to use, versus what is transmitted, broadcast. how to account for this if it remains invisible, including mainly in the mind's eye, not allowed to consider or have sight of such ideas because they harm those who are exploiting these dimensions, harmfully the larger point here is of crypto.development, secret projects in the mundane landscape. like when you walk by street furniture or car barriers and suddenly it dawns on you how this could be a torturer's place of work in some future dystopian day, that level of correspondence. and so setting the stage, creating the workshop & tools. yet what may be already existing in these dimensions and yet hidden, though likely 'secret bases' disclosures, like those ubiquitous underground fort bunkers or whatnot so, this is leading to an idea pondered for years now, of hidden antenna systems within buildings. it relates to both HAARP and high voltage powerlines, infrastructure in that you could send up massive torsional EMF waves into the atmosphere, not only for over the horizon radar or whatever protective bubble or warfare it may allow, it could also be for weather control of cloud systems and likely switching various patterns if not jet streams (not sure how it works) via electromagnetic influence. so it is a massive grid array of antennas that shoot signals or waves of energy that effects weather superstructure so too, the long-distance powerline network seems to have similar potential if a pulsed signal or other type of torsional energy could be emitted as EMFs atop the normal transmission of power. in that 'radio' naturally is connected as radiating energy, and perhaps these could function as enormous antenna to transmit energy that could effect weather formation over a geography at national and global scale, as networked, coordinated still, quite banal, though would not surprise in the least, given that this engineering is going on and also involves an active political agenda. so a question of how, not if. and then curiouser and curiouser, architectural detailing seemingly becomes more and more superficial, artificial, not serving a functional purpose, questionable aesthetics then calling into question the possibility that the "extras" could be covert signaling devices, if not energy antenna for precisely such weather control or other data signaling, such as reception of satellite signals beyond dish format metal armature on nearby apartment complex https://www.dropbox.com/s/mlo50moypbho399/array2.PNG https://www.dropbox.com/s/sxxww1bgaxn26pp/array2b.PNG https://www.dropbox.com/s/qt2zt1c902fplr8/array2c.PNG now obviously it is 'off-limits' or out-of-bounds to consider a covert antenna array as part of a building design, and yet if that was a ubiquitous practice in an era of surveillence and it were occurring in such dimensionality as haarp, say that it was connected with weather modification, such that either a torsional pulse wave could be sent upward and channel clouds and weather into certain patterns, and-or receive long-wave or other data transmitted and received this way, would it not be important to recognize a superfluous detail that has no 'ivy' hanging on it and functions as if purely a technical detail, no pretense of decoration even, to block the sun for daylighting, nothing. just balls out antenna. and yet illegal to evaluate in these domains, architectural- wise and ideologically, because if it were true it is its very secrecy that allows it to continue to function in this way. speculation, yet the reality of weather modification tied to Global Warming and shifting weather patterns, and this connected with 'green politics', carbon tax & credits, melting icecaps, and local & global political organization, movement, green jobs, green products, green economy, green buildings for fuckin' fucksake -- all this BULLSHIT as it exists within a context of crypto.politics and also crypto.development, a hidden agenda within development and the state, aligned with the same coordinated downfall and reemergence in these new, warped, confined terms that are only realistic inside the controlled private bubble, this becoming religion, mass media dogma, programming, indoctrination into a value system, funneled into commodity so, just consider what it would mean if building occupants were covertly aligned with such an hidden political agenda and the building itself was creating the political conditions via engineering weather, to enable the organization to exist and further develop - as such, if this weather engineering is occurring, how can it not be occurring in a highly biased ideological framework that is politicized and designed for profit-itself, as the deterioration and disruption and control of weather is tied to policies, jobs, products, industries, careers, political groups, rigged voter scenarios, agendas that are undocumented in these same terms, as is their connection to such weather engineering as if 'humans are at fault' explains everything, as the false perspective and setup required for the takedown, ongoing takeover if you exclude electromagnetism from the analysis, it cannot exist as a building function or in its programming yet more and more in this stealth surveillance landscape such systems are appearing as part of the infrastructure, who is really accounting for all this (beyond the military) further, i have long though of normal curtain wall buildings as hidden antenna arrays, having this capacity, perhaps those giant loops in SIGINT or radar facilities making it seem most likely such covert antennas exist everywhere and how would or could they be accounted for unless able to detect and measure the signaling, especially locally on site, monitoring in-building power systems, "extra-effects", as harmonics or other overlapping signals ride carrierwave then recently, upon viewing the video of Duncan Campbell investigating the secret intercept tower between England and Ireland for documenting all telecommunication traffic, the thinking about these hidden antenna went even further Channel Four: Capenhurst Tower // video http://www.duncancampbell.org/embassy-bugging what if buildings themselves were these secret intercept towers, and such functioning could be masked by ordinary and everyday aesthetics that route into hidden systems, say a building that is line-of-site between transmitters, or dual-use or prop-antenna for commercial services that captures and parses intercepted data otherwise -- could you even tell from just looking at a telecom installation in terms of these dynamics or would you need to map out and trace every last connection and its processing to figure out whatever hidden functionality _could exist, as part of a threat model of ordinary, everyday landscape in this way, what if a curtain wall on a building was able to covertly function as a static radar or beam energy for weather engineering or receive satellite or broadcast data in unknown frequencies yet appear as if a building material and nothing else, though having electromagnetic or other hidden properties that allow such functionality, and then secrets, security, crypto, privacy in this context, rule of law which may not rule over such hidden domains > Every building has a unique identification (UID) based > on its comprehensive materiality of building materials, > mechanical and electrical systems, shape, spaces, > usage, population, devices used by inhabitants (coming > and going and resting), rate of deterioration, repairs, > renovations. This in addition to official records in > a slew of regulating agencies, contracts for services, > networks, bugs, taps, implants, human spies, automation, > fautly security systems. > > In effect, every building is a transceiver of its metadata > and its contents without need for the ruse of local > penetration. Just an ocean-going vessel, aircraft or > satellite. Virtually nothing is being done to prevent > this self-disclosing transceiving. Tempest protection > is insignificant, and SCIFs are ridiculous. does the existing 'security paradigm' involve a failure of imagination that provides a gap for exploits to secure themselves within? is there a shared lack of reality that is a failure of relativist thinking, lacking open logical reasoning, modeling what is happening and how and instead it is heavily regulated, self-censored or limited so that conversations of existing truth cannot occur, due to rules against it. thus disallowing naming something what it is, and the exploit of this further, what of e-wiring in buildings as antenna. many studies demonstrate data can be sent through such systems, and that there are connections beyond walls of inside-outside electrical networks in their 60 cycle hums, as equipment is aligned, and peoples nervous systems, to this clock cycle, hidden rhythm why for crypto no mention of EMF blocking paint, curtains, carpet, Faraday-cage borders that limit emissions, what of shielding to prevent EMFs from allowing data exfiltration or other such known means of access, egress into the safe what of health itself in terms of security in a toxic wasteland of electromagnetic signaling, every dwelling a cemetery plot in those dimensions, killing cells by the nanosecond ongoing perhaps too many implants and too many cyborgs and robots and androids and aliens commonplace yet unmentionable, thus the reality in the silence and unsaid and unsayable, the big secrets still the global currency while those duped at the local level myself battle it out in a psychiatric sendoff to what extent is truth operative in security discussions, or is it actually disallowed, Top Secret, off-limits for this everyday, even when and while in a state of hostile and ongoing war, its non-documentation in these terms, its great covert power illegality given a freehand to exploit chessboard dimensionality truth and security go together. lies and falsehoods, security exploits, institutionalizing insecurity. > It is not clear if Snowden knows this or has been deluded > by the blinding conceit of cyber war and as a consequence > does not know what comsec delusion he is sincerely > promulgating to the great pleasure of those who know > exactly how to help him succeed by protesting vigorously. > > Back to why Merkel, Obama and other leaders are dancing > in a global delusion of what they do not know, pretending > outrage so superficial it suggests they really can't believe > they are stooges. As do we. (note: previous post uses term 'solid' as a juggling term, where a pattern is so well practiced it is error-free and can be juggled with mastery. dual-use, foundationally) F1 B5 F7 D5 C4 C6

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US Says Phone Spy Data Came from EU Spies, May Anger EU Citizens at Their Spies Role
by John Young 30 Oct '13

30 Oct '13

US Says Phone Spy Data Came from EU Spies, May Anger EU Citizens at Their Spies Role: <http://t.co/DHCwqqqdav>http://cryptome.org/2013/10/nsa-us-france-spain.htm NY Times editorializes today that "everybody spies like us" is a circle jerk.

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Re: [Cryptography] /dev/random is not robust
by Alex Elsayed 30 Oct '13

30 Oct '13

Theodore Ts'o <tytso <at> mit.edu> writes: <snip> > I'll tell you right away that both Fortuna and > Yarrow, which use crypto hashing in the entropy mixing step, is > going to be a non-starter from a performance point of view. <snip> One thing I wonder is if entropy collection could be separated from pool mixing - if entropy collection went to a ringbuffer or some other fast data structure; on excess entropy we could potentially let it drop some or xor new samples over the old that would be 'dropped'. Due to the round-robin nature of Fortuna's pool mixing, it could be parallelized, possibly allowing high-throughput implementations of mixing and low-latency implementations of submission. That could also help prevent dropped entropy. _______________________________________________ The cryptography mailing list cryptography(a)metzdowd.com http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography

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[cryptome] Does Swiss Crypto AG belong to the NSA?
by High Crypto 29 Oct '13

29 Oct '13

This is an article in english from the leading Swiss Economic Magazine BILANZ about Swiss Crypto AG. Original link to the BILANZ article is embedded in the pdf... http://www.bilanz.ch/unternehmen/spionage-unheimlich-kooperativ Rgs, Peter Barns

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