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Users ID'ed through typing, mouse movements
by Eugen Leitl 22 Nov '13

22 Nov '13

http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/365221,users-ided-through-typing-mouse-mo… Users ID'ed through typing, mouse movements By Darren Pauli on Nov 22, 2013 2:16 PM Continuous authentication app created from DARPA research. Researchers have built a continuous authentication platform that can accurately identify users based on their typing patterns. A series of 90 minute typing tests carried out on 2000 people at Iowa State University found users could be identified with a half percent margin of error based on the way they hit keys. The work has been spun into an application that could continuously authenticate users and lock accounts if another person jumped on the computer resulting in irregularities being detected. (pdf) Uniquely syncopated mouse and keyboard patterns made it possible to identify users, Iowa State University associate professor Morris Chang said. “These pauses between words, searches for unusual characters and spellings of unfamiliar words, all have to do with our past experiences, our learning experiences,” Chang said. “And so we call them cognitive fingerprints which manifest themselves in typing rhythms.” “The system can see if the same person or an imposter is coming in to hijack the computer." The year-long research run together with electrical engineering students Terry Fang, Kuan-Hsing Ho and Danny Shih received a half a million dollar grant from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency which sought to discover if continuous authentication was possible. It was now being extended to capture mouse movements and touch inputs from mobile devices with an additional $1.76 million dollars from the agency over two years. Copyright © SC Magazine, Australia

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Exclusive: Inside America's Plan to Kill Online Privacy Rights Everywhere
by Eugen Leitl 21 Nov '13

21 Nov '13

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/11/20/exclusive_inside_america… Exclusive: Inside America's Plan to Kill Online Privacy Rights Everywhere Posted By Colum Lynch Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 6:10 PM Share The United States and its key intelligence allies are quietly working behind the scenes to kneecap a mounting movement in the United Nations to promote a universal human right to online privacy, according to diplomatic sources and an internal American government document obtained by The Cable. The diplomatic battle is playing out in an obscure U.N. General Assembly committee that is considering a proposal by Brazil and Germany to place constraints on unchecked internet surveillance by the National Security Agency and other foreign intelligence services. American representatives have made it clear that they won't tolerate such checks on their global surveillance network. The stakes are high, particularly in Washington -- which is seeking to contain an international backlash against NSA spying -- and in Brasilia, where Brazilian President Dilma Roussef is personally involved in monitoring the U.N. negotiations. The Brazilian and German initiative seeks to apply the right to privacy, which is enshrined in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), to online communications. Their proposal, first revealed by The Cable, affirms a "right to privacy that is not to be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with their privacy, family, home, or correspondence." It notes that while public safety may "justify the gathering and protection of certain sensitive information," nations "must ensure full compliance" with international human rights laws. A final version the text is scheduled to be presented to U.N. members on Wednesday evening and the resolution is expected to be adopted next week. A draft of the resolution, which was obtained by The Cable, calls on states to "to respect and protect the right to privacy," asserting that the "same rights that people have offline must also be protected online, including the right to privacy." It also requests the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, Navi Pillay, present the U.N. General Assembly next year with a report on the protection and promotion of the right to privacy, a provision that will ensure the issue remains on the front burner. Publicly, U.S. representatives say they're open to an affirmation of privacy rights. "The United States takes very seriously our international legal obligations, including those under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights," Kurtis Cooper, a spokesman for the U.S. mission to the United Nations, said in an email. "We have been actively and constructively negotiating to ensure that the resolution promotes human rights and is consistent with those obligations." But privately, American diplomats are pushing hard to kill a provision of the Brazilian and German draft which states that "extraterritorial surveillance" and mass interception of communications, personal information, and metadata may constitute a violation of human rights. The United States and its allies, according to diplomats, outside observers, and documents, contend that the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights does not apply to foreign espionage. In recent days, the United States circulated to its allies a confidential paper highlighting American objectives in the negotiations, "Right to Privacy in the Digital Age -- U.S. Redlines." It calls for changing the Brazilian and German text so "that references to privacy rights are referring explicitly to States' obligations under ICCPR and remove suggestion that such obligations apply extraterritorially." In other words: America wants to make sure it preserves the right to spy overseas. The U.S. paper also calls on governments to promote amendments that would weaken Brazil's and Germany's contention that some "highly intrusive" acts of online espionage may constitute a violation of freedom of expression. Instead, the United States wants to limit the focus to illegal surveillance -- which the American government claims it never, ever does. Collecting information on tens of millions of people around the world is perfectly acceptable, the Obama administration has repeatedly said. It's authorized by U.S. statute, overseen by Congress, and approved by American courts. "Recall that the USG's [U.S. government's] collection activities that have been disclosed are lawful collections done in a manner protective of privacy rights," the paper states. "So a paragraph expressing concern about illegal surveillance is one with which we would agree." The privacy resolution, like most General Assembly decisions, is neither legally binding nor enforceable by any international court. But international lawyers say it is important because it creates the basis for an international consensus -- referred to as "soft law" -- that over time will make it harder and harder for the United States to argue that its mass collection of foreigners' data is lawful and in conformity with human rights norms. "They want to be able to say ‘we haven't broken the law, we're not breaking the law, and we won't break the law,'" said Dinah PoKempner, the general counsel for Human Rights Watch, who has been tracking the negotiations. The United States, she added, wants to be able to maintain that "we have the freedom to scoop up anything we want through the massive surveillance of foreigners because we have no legal obligations." The United States negotiators have been pressing their case behind the scenes, raising concerns that the assertion of extraterritorial human rights could constrain America's effort to go after international terrorists. But Washington has remained relatively muted about their concerns in the U.N. negotiating sessions. According to one diplomat, "the United States has been very much in the backseat," leaving it to its allies, Australia, Britain, and Canada, to take the lead. There is no extraterritorial obligation on states "to comply with human rights," explained one diplomat who supports the U.S. position. "The obligation is on states to uphold the human rights of citizens within their territory and areas of their jurisdictions." The position, according to Jamil Dakwar, the director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Human Rights Program, has little international backing. The International Court of Justice, the U.N. Human Rights Committee, and the European Court have all asserted that states do have an obligation to comply with human rights laws beyond their own borders, he noted. "Governments do have obligation beyond their territories," said Dakwar, particularly in situations, like the Guantanamo Bay detention center, where the United States exercises "effective control" over the lives of the detainees. Both PoKempner and Dakwar suggested that courts may also judge that the U.S. dominance of the Internet places special legal obligations on it to ensure the protection of users' human rights. "It's clear that when the United States is conducting surveillance, these decisions and operations start in the United States, the servers are at NSA headquarters, and the capabilities are mainly in the United States," he said. "To argue that they have no human rights obligations overseas is dangerous because it sends a message that there is void in terms of human rights protection outside countries territory. It's going back to the idea that you can create a legal black hole where there is no applicable law." There were signs emerging on Wednesday that America may have been making ground in pressing the Brazilians and Germans to back on one of its toughest provisions. In an effort to address the concerns of the U.S. and its allies, Brazil and Germany agreed to soften the language suggesting that mass surveillance may constitute a violation of human rights. Instead, it simply deep "concern at the negative impact" that extraterritorial surveillance "may have on the exercise of and enjoyment of human rights." The U.S., however, has not yet indicated it would support the revised proposal. The concession "is regrettable. But it’s not the end of the battle by any means," said Human Rights Watch’s PoKempner. She added that there will soon be another opportunity to corral America's spies: a U.N. discussion on possible human rights violations as a result of extraterritorial surveillance will soon be taken up by the U.N. High commissioner. Follow me on Twitter: @columlynch.

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light-signals (urls)
by brian carroll 21 Nov '13

21 Nov '13

[viewed the last 20 minutes of this program, very interesting. about the Schumann resonance and lighting, and 'the global electrical circuit'...] NOVA: At the Edge of Space (PBS science program) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/edge-of-space.html // transient luminous events (TLEs) - sprites, blue jets, elves [video] Earth's Global Electric Circuit - Atmospheric Electricity http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7-0YRiln7E Global electric circuit and lightning http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/lis/lis_4/ Earle R. Williams -- Research Overview (see Fig. 1a) http://web.mit.edu/earlerw/www/Research.html Global electric circuit model to help scientists understand electricity in the air http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/10/global-electric-circuit-model-help-scient… [quote] “The next step is to incorporate the distribution of thunderstorms,” Lucas said. “Currents generally travel upwards above thunderstorms distributed around the equator and return down over the poles, away from the thunderstorms. Part of the future work is going to be determining what influence those thunderstorms have on the global system.” [unquote] --- crypto platforms --- unknown if others relate to it this way, though i think DMX lighting systems (somewhat like MIDI for lights, fog machines, electronic billboards) has potential as a communications system beyond strobes and laser projections, LED light patterns and various colors and special effects (disco-ball to various atmospherics: water-like filters, shapes, etc. DMX512 standard for lighting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMX512 what is quite interesting about the existing technology besides the potential for lasers, is fully automatic controlled lighting systems, robotic or remotely servo-driven, that can be coordinated and synced with other events. so, for instance, you could have 8 different LED lights around a perimeter that on cue could together reorient themselves and shine different colors on a central object, though that involves a lot of cable, infrastructure, and enough know-how to figure it out. and still, that could just involve entertainment versus using the same functionality to, say, change the way something appears via these potential influences. instead of examining lighting as just a utility or as decoration, it also could open up or unlock other meaning or hidden structures or qualities or characteristics latent yet unexpressed or unhighlighted. the lighting of the 2oth century World's Fairs were notable for the art of light via electrical infrastructure which brought about a different awareness. and then this related to the Great White Way of electrification, electrical lights and electrical signage that changed the landscape and the way people relate to the city, home, nighttime, movement, etc. three books offer insight into these dynamics in differing ways: Electrifying America Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880-1940 http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/electrifying-america American Genesis A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, 1870-1970 http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo3627102.html and at the infrastructural level... Networks of Power Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930 Thomas Parker Hughes http://books.google.com/books?id=g07Q9M4agp4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=networ… [reviews] http://www.amazon.com/Networks-Power-Electrification-1880-1930-Softshell/pr… context: History of electric power transmission http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_electric_power_transmission now what does this have to do with lighting gear usually related to DJ rigs and night clubs and entertainment venues... beyond that lighting technology, perhaps techniques have advanced over decades and now are a major form of expression - including of information - via active 'light signs' and even computerized, animated lighting technologies tied with LED diodes, in terms including: longevity, size, energy-efficiency, color-spectrum, economy, and inexpensive -in many scenarios-, mass manufacturing. so the illuminated sign outside the store and the billboard have been transformed via LED lighting arrays that exist somewhere on the edge of beings screens, where the pixels are usually mapped to a visible array of lights, versus the microscopic pixels of higher resolution computer display screens. and yet these electronic signs and billboards as "communication" appear as a mundane functionality, versus a potential realm of exploration (i.e. Jenny Holzer) and thus this same boundary condition of use, the ordinary or standard approach versus other possibilities also could be extended into lighting innovations beyond the realm fo signage, that also could function as a communications medium, for signal conveyance, yet not used this way in default configurations of cycling colors or lighting synchronized to music and thus providing sound-&-light atmosphere, as if lighting flashes within thunderstorm clouds, versus other kinds of signals beaming out of the fog, outside of the nightclub scene. in other words, lighting systems as signage, communications platform, potentially signal systems for cryptographic content in the realm of the semaphore, symbolic comms, etc. here are a few introductions to the technology available... // notice array ~35 sec. (sectional control allows pixel mapping) [video] COLORbar™ SMD by CHAUVET® DJ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lLkFZGalCE info: COLORbar™ SMD http://www.chauvetlighting.com/colorbar-smd.html (basically, in a combined array using DMX and software, patterns could potentially be programmed onto the device as a display or communications medium, including abstract signs or other language variations, within an aesthetic context or as signage/semaphore) [video] CHAUVET COLORbar SMD Overview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7i-TAa4mUU (note: light patterns could be video captured by mobile phone, decrypted) this is perhaps the most promising, most applicable to 7- and 16-segment display issues though in the dot-matrix approach, scaled to signage versus circuitboard component... again a massive array would be needed though definitely, if programmable, an 3|E animation and other calculations could occur, the larger the grid, more space for symbols and words, though that would be room and wall-sized and a huge investment to start, versus smaller scale... Core™ 3x3 // units interconnect into grid array. pixel-mapping. http://www.chauvetlighting.com/core-3x3.html [video] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh28pV5uRls {reference : pro-series Nexus™ 4x4 & LED video wall panels http://www.chauvetlighting.com/nexus-4x4.html http://www.chauvetlighting.com/mvp-ta8-curve.html http://www.chauvetlighting.com/mvp-12.html then there are 'lines' known as colortubes, by different manufacturers which could be used to create segmented alphanumeric characters or blocks, or vertical or horizontal arrays. in addition, this technology is potentially particularly well-suited to /\|\/ type dynamics... [video] American DJ LED Color Tube // non-DMX, with remote http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUqkH4AGabA [info] http://www.americandj.com/ProductDetails.aspx?ItemNumber=1837&MainId=2&Cate… . [videos] CHAUVET COLORTUBE 3.0 EQ LED // DMX controllable http://www.chauvetlighting.com/colortube-30-eq.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq8IHSzkPE4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJUNMX_7Ahc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDzRwOH3_SM [info] http://www.chauvetlighting.com/colortube-30-eq.html // this appears the easiest approach if building a large pixel screen... (really quite amazing, if it can be programmed at the pixel level) [video] American DJ Flash Panel 16 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g33dMySW6Jc note: many DMX-LED lights have controllable brightness levels -- other possibilities -- [video] American DJ Matrix Beam LED // all metaphysics here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5UhRlCCRvg [info] Matrix Beam LED http://www.americandj.com/ProductDetails.aspx?ItemNumber=2144&MainId=2&Cate… . // if it could be hacked, programmed for custom patterns... MotionDrape™ LED by CHAUVET® http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0w2q8dIJHg Chauvet Motion Drape LED Review/Demo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3238kKNPOhY= // this is much more basic though of a symbolic dimension... // like a stationary LED juggling ball, less functions and purpose. // decorative. ambiance, yet what if designed as programmable, // or raspberry-pi placed in similar scenario, open dev platform... LED Color Ball http://www.americandj.com/ProductDetails.aspx?ItemNumber=1836&MainId=2&Cate… . [note: in Minneapolis there used to be a giant ball on a building downtown known as the 'weatherball' that changed color to indicate the weather forecast and could be seen for miles. thus when snow was imminent it would change color and people would know it would soon be snowing, etc. in this way a simple mundane orb could function as a signaling device via what color it is on, and what this may relate with. perhaps more could be done with this, such as adding an info-dimension or that it is a sensor system or a marker for geolocation or geocaching even, data point, whatever. what if it synced with a ring or keychain, etc. or went into mood ring territory based on proximity electrostatic charge, else like gunshot sensors, if sharp noise or yelling detected turns red. what is the potential... is it inert or does it tend towards interaction, is it a mirage as a crystal ball or may it involve key exchange, etc.] Mr. Weatherball http://forgottenminnesota.com/2012/03/170/ Weather beacon // see history: empire state bldg & coca-cola decoder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_beacon "A weather beacon is a beacon that indicates the local weather forecast in a code of colored or flashing lights. Often, a short poem or jingle accompanies the code to make it easier to remember." -- further outward -- [video] ADJ Laser Preview // projection vs. aerial lasers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnLsG0Oa7yw [video] American DJ Comscan LED // what if open patterns... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix8W-voBqPE http://www.americandj.com/ProductDetails.aspx?ItemNumber=1929&MainId=2&Cate…<http://www.americandj.com/ProductDetails.aspx?ItemNumber=1929&MainId=2&Cate…> [video] full motion LED spot, remote controlled http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtHDres38r0 [video] American DJ - X Move LED 25R http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0i7Hwkj7lg (example of potential use: modify for site-specific use, perhaps with UV or IR lighting, invisible to normal sight. someone goes into a space, instructed to take photo, and light illuminates dust pattern on wall that later shows up on photograph. else, takes photo in area of others, pattern lights up on clothing via matched wavelength thread, etc. perhaps unique sensor in camera and light to bound other observations. thus: secret communications, reading/writing. thus, what equipment can do this... leading to consideration of existing DJ technology as an innovative medium that could be explored for its potential as signage and for signaling in various abstraction, beyond only color, into patterns, icons, movement, animation, etc. quite a large canvas of possibilities to explore, beyond networked PCs) --- high abstraction pattern-match --- e.g. what if this sketched a pattern in fog that was recognizable via pattern-analysis of video // likely would require lasers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IZ1va8azFM e.g. say binary pattern or sequence via on/off, hi-lo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IZ1va8azFM sweeper beam // lighting system language... #X/V| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E_bomUKOW8 American DJ Tri Gem LED // gears, rotational syncing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMWqNcIiQKE the value would be in programmability, shaping output to particular pattern-based if transformative parameters, in terms of randomness or calculation or AI-behaviors... Eclipse™ RGB // merges lasers & leds http://www.chauvetlighting.com/eclipse-rgb.html (haunted-house crypto, moving towards MIDI-animatronics. defensive tactic... if they cannot locate the computer, then) [videos] DMX fog machines http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CXKpC8Rl8Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIeLwT3ppCM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tSQHHQvxyk Fog Bandit Presentation By Legal Entry Locksmiths 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2qApXHN4y8 (might as well go all the way.... Geyser™ RGB - color LED & fog http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQXFyo28Ndc stage effect for symbolic encrypt/decrypt of binary crypto in revue of security theater. soundtrack perfect.) // and last but not least... DMX bubble machine as the ultimate short-term RNG!!! [video] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAxhXivVaTY (what, you don't like soap? think of it, floating bubbles, light, movement, captured on video, using pattern match engine to search reflections and colors on bubbles surface, as if hundreds of crystal balls a second, changing each moment to the next via lighting and wind and inter-bubble relations) --- artifact --- CRYPTO bobblehead, "Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon" http://www.amazon.com/Destroy-Humans-Furon-Wobbler-Bobble-head/dp/B0038T0VJK related: PS3/X-box 360 console game, c.2008-9 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destroy_All_Humans!_Path_of_the_Furon {educational fair-use of copyright, 2013} arugula, shallot, leek

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MEDIA RELEASE: Family of alleged Silk Road operator Ross Ulbricht launches legal defense fund
by Mike Gogulski 21 Nov '13

21 Nov '13

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Defense Fund Launched for Ross Ulbricht, Accused Silk Road Marketplace Operator New York, NY, November 20, 2013 – The family of the man accused by the US government of operating the Silk Road online marketplace has launched a fund for donations to their son's legal defense. Ross Ulbricht, 29, was arrested on October 1st and charged with creating and operating the web marketplace Silk Road, under the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts”. The allegations include a variety of conspiracies, including narcotics trafficking, computer hacking and money laundering, as well as planned acts of violence. Ulbricht denied all charges in federal court in San Francisco in October. He will appear at a bail hearing at the United States District Court, Southern District of New York at 11:00 am EST on Thursday, November 21. On their website, the Ulbricht family states: “Our goal is to provide Ross with what every American citizen is promised: a fair trial. In the USA we are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. We firmly believe in Ross’s innocence and are working hard with the best legal team to prove it.” The family has retained New York-based attorney Joshua L. Dratel to defend their son in court. Mr. Dratel stated: “It is crucial that we have a level playing field for defending Ross, and that requires resources from the communities that support him.” The Ross Ulbricht Legal Defense Fund LLC is a Wyoming-based corporation established by the Ulbricht family. All donations are used solely to pay attorney fees, fund accounting fees and ancillary legal expenses. ### SOURCE: Ross Ulbricht Legal Defense Fund LLC, www.freeross.org CONTACTS: Joshua L. Dratel Joshua L. Dratel, P.C. 29 Broadway, Suite 1412 New York, New York 10006 United States of America jdratel(a)joshuadratel.com Office: +1 212 732 0707 Fax: +1 212 571 3792 www.nycriminallawfirm.com Ross Ulbricht Legal Defense Fund LLC www.freeross.org freerossulbricht(a)gmail.com

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Fw: Your errors about me in your book.
by Jim Bell 20 Nov '13

20 Nov '13

To: Andy Greenberg of Forbes Magazine, author of "This Machine Kills Secrets". Keep in mind that most of what I describe here will be in my 2003 lawsuit, 02-1052. <http:///> cryptome.org/jdb-v-usa-106.htm <http:///> I should point out that you don't seem to be commenting about my now-numerous emails to you about these attorneys. What's the problem? Are you AFRAID to comment? I think it's unfair for you to wait until I have disclosed all this material, before you comment. I really think I have a right to learn WHY you claimed that I had tried to fire 'every' attorney I'd had. Where did you hear this? You certainly never tried to verify this claim with me! I would have told you the truth; I would have directed you to lawsuit 02-1052, which already contained the truth. Robert Leen: (You might initially be pleased to hear that Leen was the first attorney I'd actually TRIED to 'fire'. But don't get your hopes up! I was entirely unsuccessful at that attempt.!) My next attorney was assigned about November 21, 2000. I knew 'the fix was in' because I had done NOTHING illegal. I didn't know about the forged, fake, fraudulent appeal case (99-30210), at least the portion of which was prior to May 2000 But I had very publicly announced that I had major, major suspicions about government government corruption, especially Ryan Thomas Lund's November 25, 1997 assault on me (ordered by government employees). And, I knew that the government had placed a tracking device on my parents' car (probably both of them) in April-June 1998. Also, I knew that the Feds had illegally searched my house on my arrest in June 1998. (I had been removed from my house; the house was empty of 'cops'. They had no authority to continue to search that house, yet they did so. Robert Leen refused to try to obtain any 'discovery' shortly after my arrest about November 20, 2000. Recognizing that Leen was trying to sabotage my legal case, I wrote a letter to the Judge (Tanner) in about December 8, 2000, complaining that Leen was trying to sabotage my case. I was astonished (at least in part) that the Judge refused to have Leen fired. I kept asking for Leen to be fired throughout January, February, March, and beyond in 2001. No (good) answer by the Judge. I began learning the law in mid-December 2000. Starting about late February 2001, I began to write various legal motions, in order to document my complete unwillingness to accept Leen's 'representation'. (If you just look at the docket entries for case 00-5731, you may not be able to easily identify which motions were written by me, and which w To show your lawyer how corrupt the Judge (Tanner) and Leen, and the prosecutor (Robb London) were (case 00-5731), during the last week of March 2001, I filed a 'notice of interlocutory appeal'. Your lawyer presumably understands that if a 'notice of appeal' arrives at court, of an appealable issue, that divests the jurisdiction of that court to proceed with any trial. Wanna know what happened? The judge PROCEEDED with a 'trial' as if nothing had happened. I filed a SECOND notice of interlocutory appeal a few weeks before the 'sentencing', and again that filing was completely ignored. Robert Leen was NEVER 'fired'. In fact, in May 2010 (after being arrested for an ostensible probation violation.) Leen actually continued to (pretend to) 'represent me'. Even until today, I presume, he is ostensibly still 'representing' me. At least, on the paperwork he will be listed as 'representing' me. I should point out, also, that it was about this time (early in Leen's malicious 'representation' of me) that I first heard the wacky comment (by the prosecutor Robb London) of his resistance to having Leen replaced. London said something LIKE "Bell fires all his attorneys". By now, Mr. Greenberg, you are well aware that this isn't true. You really need to find Robb London, and ask him if he ever said something like "Bell fires all his attorneys". Perhaps London would defend himself by claiming that he looked into the court record, noticed that at various times the name of my lawyer had changed, and he decided this 'must have' meant that I succeeded (and, therefore, certainly tried) in replacing these attorneys. Annemarie Levins I guess I'm getting tired of re-hashing what you could, and SHOULD, have read in my lawsuit, 02-1052, filed July 14, 2003. Levins was assigned shortly after my ostensible 'conviction' in September 2001. (The reason, as I vaguely recall, was that Robert Leen had stated, "I don't do appeals". I responded by saying to Leen, in what was only about 25% intended as a joke, "You don't do appeals. You merely make them necessary.") Over the next 4-5 months I wrote Levins numerous letters, containing easily 100 pages of single-spaced text, listing HUNDREDS of very arguable appeal issues. Levins, to my recollection, NEVER responded to even a single one of my letters! An increasing sense of dread resulted. I felt it was quite obvious that Levins was planning to further victimize me, in precisely the same way Avenia, Mandel, and Leen had done. (Remember, I did not then yet know how Solovy had victimized me, by concealing the pre-May-2000 existence of appeal 99-30210.) As I vaguely recall (not referring to any record) my appeal had to be filed on a Monday, perhaps it was in January or February 2002. At virtually the last minute, perhaps on a Thursday before, I finally received a copy of "the appeal". By that time, I had learned plenty of federal criminal and appeal law. I saw the appeal that Levins had written, the one that she had CONCEALED from me for 4 months, and it was obvious that it was intended to sabotage my case. Which, in fact, it did. There were at least 100 incredibly valid appeal issues which, if they had been argued properly, would have easily freed me, but Levins argued NONE of them. Perhaps the day later, maybe it was Friday, the weekday before the appeal had to be filed, I obtained a telephone call to Levins. In that call, I accused Levins of deliberately sabotaging my case, saying that her failure to even respond to my 100+ pages of letters proved that she was a crook. She didn't deny it! When it was clear that Levins wasn't going to apologize, I ORDERED her to NOT file that appeal. I told her, "You're fired! You must not file that appeal! And if you're already filed it, I order you to withdraw it!!!". Strong words, but quite appropriate under the circumstances. The result? She DIDN'T resign. She filed the appeal. She DIDN'T have it withdrawn. The appeal lost, as I knew it would. --- Mr. Greenberg, you should be utterly and completely ashamed for what you have done. You have thoroughly and completely misrepresented virtually every fact, implication, and nuance relating to me and my legal cases, and virtually everything I said/wrote to you. You LIED by claiming of your lawyer, "She read Bell's letter, then checked his legal file, which showed that he had fired practically every court-appointed lawyer ever assigned to him---little wonder that he had botched his appeals. It also showed he had filed fifty-one lawsuits against the government while in prison---nearly all dismissed immediately. She wanted nothing to do with it." Mr. Greenberg, your lawyer is totally incompetent to have said ANY of these things. I have made perfectly clear in my recent set of emails to you: 1. You never verified any of these supposed 'facts', when in fact you had access to my 02-1052 lawsuit which would have told you the truth. 2. I never was SUCCESSFUL at firing ANY attorney assigned to my case. 3. I never ATTEMPTED to fire Avenia, Mandel, Floit, Bukey, and Solovy. 4. When, finally, I did begin to ATTEMPT to fire an attorney, Leen, I was entirely unsuccessful, indeed for a period of 9 years. 5. When I did ATTEMPT to fire Annemarie Levins, and ordered her to NOT file that appeal, I was completely unsuccessful in that attempt. 6. I did not file "Fifty-one lawsuits against the government". As I have already explained to you, I DID file well over 100 "habeas corpus" actions, which your lawyer was apparently unable to distinguish from 'lawsuits'. But since your lawyer probably didn't even bother to do anymore than read the dockets for some of these cases, it is perfectly obvious that she had no genuine idea why these habeas corpus actions were "dismissed immediately". In other words, she (presumably) didn't know whether those dismissals were 'genuine', or whether the dismissals were entirely frivolous. I can assure you that these dismissals were entirely frivolous. But, you didn't check my side of the story, because YOU DIDN'T ASK ME! That's called "bias". 7. _I_ never "botched any appeals". The appeals, to the extent they were 'botched', were 'botched' by the attorneys who were assigned to me, and (I claim) were actually assigned for the PURPOSE of 'botching' those appeals. Mr. Greenberg, at this point you have an obligation, not merely to APOLOGIZE, but in fact to set the record straight. And I mean, not only in future editions of your book, but also to investigate the reality of the facts of the case. After all of the victimization I faced at the hands of the government and its thugs, you come along and make the situation worse! You try to make me look like a nut, when the reality is precisely as I have long claimed: I am the victim of the Federal government and its employees and agents. At no time did I lie or misrepresent the truth. At EVERY time the Federal government and its agents misrepresent the truth. Mr. Greenberg, I have decided to publish the contents of this email in the Cypherpunks mailing list, to show that I have put you on notice as to your complicity in this matter. You can fix part of the problem by changing your book, and by writing a long article for Forbes telling (at least) how you claim to have been hoodwinked by the Federal Government. Morally, that will help a bit, but it won't change the fact that you were utterly unwilling to pursue the truth when it mattered most. Jim Bell ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Jim Bell <jamesdbell8(a)yahoo.com> To: Andrew Greenberg <agreenberg(a)forbes.com> Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 1:26 PM Subject: Fw: Your errors about me in your book. Mr Greenberg, I will continue about the history of 'my' attorneys, who were 'my' attorneys in name only: They were actually the attorneys of "The United States of America", and of their colluding employees. While I would like to say that my 'next' attorney was Jonathan Solovy, given the paperwork I should first deal with a couple of 'asterisks', named Catherine Floit and David Bukey. At some point after I wrote that letter to the Ninth Circuit Court, I received a letter (about June 2000?) from an attorney named Catherine Floit. I called her by telephone, and I explained a bit about the history of prior attorneys Peter Avenia and Judith Mandel. I further explained that I had very, very serious suspicions about government corruption by these attorneys, and the government in general. I said that I would be suing those attorneys, and any other people who assisted the government corruption I then suspected. (Note: Remember, at that point, I did not know about the pre-April existence of phony, forged Ninth Circuit Court appeal 99-30210.) I was surprised when that phone call to Catherine Floit didn't last very long after that! (A minute?) 'What happened?', I thought! It turns out that Floit later contacted the people who had appointed her (the Public Defenders' Office in Seattle Washington, I think.) and asked to be de-assigned to my case. I later heard that she CLAIMED (quite falsely) that I had 'threatened' her! But I hadn't threatened her at all! I had no reason to do so, particularly at that early stage in her representation. But at this point I knew very little about the law. Eventually (a few years later, after I first saw the docket for the forged appeal case 99-30210, in late June 2003; see Jonathan Solovy's 'representation', which I will shortly write about) I realized that Floit must have been informed about the fact that the case she had been assigned to handle, 99-30210, was ALREADY a fraud, and in my phone call with her she learned that I was rather well-informed about the corruption of those two prior attorneys, Avenia and Mandel, AND that I intended to sue them, etc. In other words, she understood that if she took that case, and if she did what the government wanted her to do, she herself was almost certainly going to get sued, and for exactly the kinds of things that Avenia and Mandel were already 'in the crosshairs' for having done in the past. When an attorney is ASSIGNED a case (by a judge or a court) it's fairly hard to 'get out of it'. Such an attorney has to have a rather 'good' (but not necessarily, 'valid') reason to be relieved of that responsibility. Floit (I realized, years later) could not have simply said, "Jim Bell is on to them/us!!! He's going to sue us!". Floit could not have said, "The government is engaging in corruption against Bell, and I don't want to be part of it!". So, what was she going to do? It turns out that the easiest way for her to get out of the assignment was to (falsely) claim, "Jim Bell threatened me!!!". Which she, apparently, did. But I DIDN'T threaten her. But that didn't matter: Floit's mere allegation amounted to a "Get out of representation free" card, analogous to Monopoly's "Get out of jail free" card. She was not obligated to actually prove I'd done anything: No proof was required, or even requested. The allegation itself was quite enough. As she, no doubt, knew quite well. A few weeks later, another attorney (David Bukey) was assigned, but I didn't hear of that. I was not given any notification that Bukey had been assigned: Apparently Bukey heard of his assignment, refused it, and he never contacted me. Nor did anyone else contact me, either, on any subject, including that of Bukey or his (brief) assignment to my case. During this time, I wrote yet another letter to the Ninth Circuit Court basically asking, "Where's my representation?". Notice, now, that the count is up to FOUR: Avenia, Mandel, Floit, and Bukey: None of these attorneys did I ever attempt to 'fire'. (And I didn't even learn that Bukey was supposed to be representing me, until after he had been relieved of that.) The closest to even 'attempting to fire' I had done was when I tried to prevent Avenia from being relieved, because I didn't want his successor (who turned out to be Mandel: I didn't want anybody assigned, because I had already gotten promises from Avenia to do investigation, which eventually he never effectively did) to be assigned. But at that, I was unsuccessful at both, of course. Jonathan Solovy: Eventually, Solovy was assigned to case 99-30210, as I vaguely recall in about August 2000. Keep in mind that I STILL didn't know about the pre-May-2000 existence of case 99-30210 as of then: I would only learn of that pre-May-2000 existence when I wrote for, and received, the docket for 99-30210 in late June 2003. Solovy didn't do anything OBVIOUSLY wrong. At least, I didn't recognize that in 2000. He wrote the appeal, 99-30210, filed it, and it lost. I think he may also have written a Petition for Certiorari to the Supreme Court, which also obviously failed. (I don't recall what they contained; I didn't learn the law until beginning December 2000). But I can say this much: At no time during Solovy's representation did he EVER say to me anything that would have alerted me to the pre-May-2000 existence of case 99-30210. I may not have known much (or even 'anything') about Federal law in September, 2000, but if he had said something like "Jim, I see you've been assigned pro-se to this appeal since July 1999: What are your theories as to appealing this case?" I would have been alerted, with a distinct start, and I would have instantly asked him, "What do you mean? I thought I began this case in April 2000, when I wrote a letter to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals? What's this about July 1999?!?". By the time I first saw a copy of the docket for case 99-30210, on about June 20, 2003, I knew FAR more Federal law. I'd spent since about December 2000 in a jail/prison law library. In fact, two of the REASONS I wrote to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in early June 2003, asking for the docket for 99-30210, were: 1. Clearing up loose ends for my Portland Federal Court lawsuit, 02-1052, I remembered that I had (thought!) initiated that appeal (99-30210) by means of mailing a letter to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, asking for an appeal. (In case 97-5270, as I recall). As of June 2003, I understood that the rules required that to appeal, somebody needs to file a 'Notice of Appeal' within about two weeks of the date of the order-entry. My letter of April 2000 was, I then realized, nearly ten (10) months too late to initiate an appeal in that case. "So why," I thought, "wasn't that letter immediately rejected?!?" and "Why did they give me that appeal?" 2. At some point, I recognized that the case-number of that appeal (99-30210) started with the number, "99", which stands for "1999", the date that appeal was initiated. In other words, I eventually realized (June 2003) that that appeal had been begun in 1999, NOT in 2000. Evidently, my letter of April 2000 DIDN'T 'start the ball rolling' on that appeal. Therefore, and being quite suspicious, I wrote a bland, routine note in early June 2003 to the Ninth Circuit, asking for the copy of the docket for case 99-30210, which I had never seen before. I received an envelope about June 20, 2003, containing a copy of that docket. The most obvious thing that struck me about that docket was that case 99-30210 DIDN'T start in April 2000, as I had previously assumed. It was quite clear, instead that it had begun in July 1999. (Although, the 'Notice of Appeal' had actually been filed about June 20, 1999). Something VERY VERY suspicious had been going on! Secondly, I looked through the various docket entries, and I could see that this case had appeared to have been active: Ostensibly, I had actually been 'pro se' (representing myself) which I knew that I hadn't been doing! (because, of course, I hadn't even known about the existence of that case, prior to May 2000, thinking I initiated it with a letter to the Ninth Circuit in late April 2000). In fact, I could see that there were two filings, about November 10, 1999, and March 2, 2000, which purported to have been filed by me! (And, obviously, I knew that I hadn't filed them!) Most importantly, I realized that I had not received ANY of these many mailings while I was at Seatac FDC (until Sept 3, 1999) nor any while I was at Phoenix FCI (From Sept 10, 1999 though April 13, 2000, when I was released; I was at the Oklahoma City Federal Transfer Center for a week from Sept 3 to Sept 10, 1999.) Note: I received NONE of the mailings from the Ninth Circuit Court during July 1999 through April 2000, because the Bureau of Prisons staff at both those locations hid them from me. (Did not deliver them to me). If I had received EVEN ONE of those mailings, I would have been alerted that an appeal existed. I didn't receive even a single one. Of course, I wasn't EXPECTING a single one, either, because I was not then aware that appeal 99-30210 existed. But there was more. I looked at the docket item numbers at the middle of the docket pages (between the dates on the left, and the descriptions of the entries on the right) and I noticed that they were not all there. Some were out of order (I later understood that merely being out of order is not abnormal) but 29 of the first 79 docket entry numbers simply were not present! Since I already knew there had to be a dramatic amount of corruption associated with this case, I considered that a very significant clue. Later, weeks and months later, I showed this docket to numerous 'jailhouse lawyers', and to a person, they said they had never seen even a single 'missing' docket entry number on any dockets they had ever seen. Over the subsequent years, I also looked at any docket I could get my hands on, and never once was I able to identify even a single 'missing' docket entry number on any docket. An explanation is in order. I believe that in about May 2000, some of the staff of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals engaged in a 'forgery party' of the docket for case 99-30210. I think that they realized that they could not deny me an appeal in that probation-revocation case, BECAUSE THEY HAD ALREADY GIVEN ME THAT APPEAL! But, they also realized that they couldn't simply continue on with that forgery, because they knew that I DIDN'T KNOW of the existence of appeal 99-30210 during the time of June 1999 through April 2000. They knew that they couldn't simply initiate a new appeal, because a record of appeal 99-30210 already existed. They also knew that they couldn't allow me to see a copy of the docket for 99-30210, because that would have alerted me (just as it eventually alerted me in June 2003) that the appeal had existed, yet had been concealed from me during the period June 1999 through April 2000. What they had to do, I think, was to RE-forge that docket, which they did in May 2000, and then assign a colluding attorney (First Floit, then Bukey, then Solovy) who would help conceal the history of this case from me, and then write a serviceable 'appeal', so that it could lose: Their hope, apparently, was that I would be satisfied with that. And until June 2003, I was indeed 'satisfied'. Perhaps a couple months after I first saw that copy of the docket for case 99-30210, I wrote a letter to Jonathan Solovy. (He had never been 'de-assigned' to my case). I don't recall, precisely, what I said (It's been 10 years!), but I asked him to look into into the problem. His response? Well, suddenly he had developed 'carpal tunnel syndrome' (I was well aware of that condition) and he couldn't handle my case anymore! I insisted; He wrote to the judge, asking that he be allowed to withdraw. Actually, I think he wrote to the WRONG judge! I think he wrote to Judge Burgess, of the District Court case, 97-5270, NOT the Ninth Circuit appeals court (99-30210). But it didn't matter: he was allowed to withdraw. Please note: Jonathan Solovy was my FIFTH attorney, if you are counting Avenia, Mandel, Floit, and Bukey before him. And note that I didn't try to get Solovy, either, 'fired'. Indeed, yet again I wanted to see Solovy to continue to handle that case (99-30210) in large part BECAUSE I knew that he had committed fraud against me and, kinda-sorta, against the court as well. But, Solovy's fraud was in league with the U.S. Attorneys (Seattle), the Federal Bureau of Prisons staff at FDC Seatac, and at FCI Phoenix, and the staff of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and possibly others. So, where did you come up with that claim that I fired "all" of my attorneys, HMMMMMMMM????????? Sorry if I display a little schadenfreude, but I think I've earned the right to complain. And I still haven't yet mentioned attorney Robert Leen, and Annemarie Levins, either!!! I'll talk about them next. Jim Bell ----- Forwarded Message ----- On 11/14/13 7:15 PM, "Jim Bell" <jamesdbell8(a)yahoo.com> wrote: Mr. Greenberg, This is further commentary about your claim that I fired 'every' attorney I was assigned. That, as I previously stated, was and is laughably incorrect. Please see Claims 130 through 145, in my July 2003 Lawsuit, "James Dalton Bell et al v. District Courts of Tacoma and Seattle, et al", case number 02-1052, as amended on about July 14, 2003, for what I mentioned in my previous message, copied below. It's available on the Web, at: <http:///> cryptome.org/jdb-v-usa-106.htm <http:///> See, further, Claims 146-161, describing how attorney Judith Mandel was forced onto me. Strictly speaking, I didn't try to 'fire' Mandel: More accurately, I tried to prevent Mandel from being inflicted onto me, although I was unsuccessful. Mandel actually REQUESTED to withdraw, on about June 2, 1999 (See my Claim 158 in Lawsuit 02-1052). You will notice very few references to forged, fraudulent 9th Circuit Court of Appeal case 99-30210 in my lawsuit. The reason is that I was having another person edit this lawsuit, in the Portland Oregon area, and I only discovered the pre-April-2000 existence of case 99-30210 in about June 20, 2003. That lawsuit had been originally filed in about July 2002, and there was a 1-year limitation period on my amending that lawsuit, in order to obtain the benefit of the earlier (2002) filing date. Thus, I had very little time in which to do those edits: I had to write a very few such edits, mail them to the person doing the edits in the Portland area, where he made those edits, and then have copies of the amendment printed up and filed at Portland Oregon Federal Court. It was, I believe, Judith Mandel who filed the one-page "Notice of Appeal" (About June 20, 1999) for my probation-revocation case in Tacoma Federal Court. (And she resigned about June 21, 1999). But she never sent me a copy of that notice. Of course, I didn't know that at the time. (And she never mailed to me a copy of her file on my case, which she should have done if she had been going to 'allow' me to defend myself in any subsequent appeal.) Even that wouldn't have been a problem, EXCEPT that all of the mailings subsequently done by the Ninth Circuit Court of appeals (or should have been done?) were never delivered to me: First, at my address at Seatac Federal Detention Center (FDC), until about Sept 3, 1999, and subsequently (beginning about Sept 10, 1999) at Phoenix FCI. The only plausible explanation for this combination is that there was careful collusion between Mandel, the Tacoma Federal Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the staff of Seatac FDC and (later) Phoexnix FCI. If even ONE of the mailings that I should have gotten from the Ninth Circuit Court had actually arrived and had been delivered to me, I would have been aware of the existence of that appeal, case 99-30210. My recollection is that in April 2000, I wrote a letter to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, still unaware of the existence of case 99-30210. I demanded an appeal on my probation-revocation case. (I had been told, by a jailhouse-lawyer, in early 2000 that I had a right to an appeal.) What I didn't know (because I didn't know the law at that point) that in order to obtain an appeal, I would have had to have filed a "Notice of Appeal" within two weeks after the entry of the order: About June 1999. So, if I had know the rules, I would not have written that letter, because I would have realized that I was about 10 months too late. But, the reality is that the appeal ALREADY EXISTED, though I didn't know that at the time. In fact, I only learned in June 2003 that case 99-30210 had existed as early as July 1999. So, you can see that I DIDN'T even attempt to fire attorney Judith Mandel. So, why did you say I fired her? Why did you say I fired her predecessor, Peter Avenia? I think by now you're getting a sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach, but it's going to get worse, much worse! I will continue to show that I did not SUCCEED in firing ANY attorney, and that in all cases those attorneys continued to victimize me until the damage they could do was done. Then, on their own initiative (and with the approval of a colluding judge), they left. Jim Bell ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Jim Bell <jamesdbell8(a)yahoo.com> To: Andrew Greenberg <agreenberg(a)forbes.com> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 12:21 AM Subject: Your errors about me in your book. From Page 132 of "This Machine Kills Secrets". You commented about my "truly phenomenal discovery". I have sent you a copy of the as-published PCT (Patent Cooperation Treaty), for my isotopically-modified optical fiber invention. Corning says that 300 billion meters of optical fiber are made each year; If I get 10% market penetration, that's 30 billion meters. At $0.25 per meter of fiber royalty, that's $7.5 billion per year, or $150 billion over the patent's 20-year lifetime. However, this is only one of a few dozen inventions I have thought of involving isotopically-modified materials, although it is the most readily doable and is like the most profitable. In principle, however, my fiber optic inventions number far more than this: The main problem is that isotope separation is rather expensive, and any such invention isn't worth doing unless the benefit from the material or device exceeds the cost of that separation. The main reason my optical fiber is practical is that the isotopically-modified core of the 125-micron fiber is only about 30 microns in diameter, so that it uses very little isotopically-modified material. My estimate of 5000 patents is still reasonable, based on what I know now, but it will require the development of ever-cheaper ways of separating isotopes. Next: The article says (page 133) that "he had fired practically every court-appointed lawyer ever assigned to him". Actually, that is absolutely NOT true, although the truth requires some explanation that you didn't bother to ask me. I could say, accurately, that I "Never" fired ANY attorney, but again that requires some explanation. (More precisely, I never SUCCEEDED in firing ANY lawyer: In every circumstance where I tried to fire an attorney, that attorney was continued to be forced upon me, for weeks, months, or in one case years, and if and when that attorney finally withdrew, it wasn't because _I_ wanted him to leave, it was because he (or she) had finally achieved the damage to me that he (or she) was trying to do, and he (or she) obtained the permission of the judge to withdraw. You have a major responsibility here! To my recollection, you NEVER asked me about me 'firing' any attorney, yet you put this material in your book as if it were true. You have based your commentary on these false 'facts', and you didn't check with me to see if I had a correction or other explanation. Peter Avenia was my first attorney (1997-1999). I never even tried to fire him. And, in fact, I tried to get the judge (Burgess) in about April 1999 to REFUSE Avenia's request to withdraw. Why? In 1998, I consented to an unnecessary 'mental evaluation' (in Springfield Missouri) based on Avenia's promise that he would investigate my allegations that the government had been spying on me. In fact, the only basis for the government's request for a 'mental evaluation' was my claim that the government was spying on me! Please note that the government didn't deny that it had been spying; the prosecutor didn't comment on that. Can you see why this is a problem? It turns out that the government was, indeed, spying on me, including during the period of April 1998 and June 1998, after which they arrested me for a 'supervised violation'. In fact, they had placed a tracking device in at least one of my parents' cars (A Lincoln). "What's wrong with that", you might ask? Well, in 2012 the US Supreme Court ruled (U.S. v. Jones) that such a placement was a "search" under the 4th Amendment. Indeed, in a 1999 9th Circuit Court of Appeals case (U.S. v. McIver) , that court ruled that it was legal (under certain circumstances inapplicable to me) for 'cops' (term used generically) to place a tracking device on a subject's car. Problem was, in the McIver there was actually a CRIME being investigated (Marijuana growing) and the subject was directly linked to that crime. In stark contrast, I was neither suspected or known to have been involved in any crime, then-past, then-present, or then-future. In other words, these Feds actually just placed the tracking on the car without any legitimate law-enforcement reason. They did not want, however, to have the fact of their arguably-illegal placement of the tracking devices(s) openly mentioned in any court hearing. I, quite the opposite, DEMANDED to my attorney, Avenia, that he verify the tracking device(s) placement, and argue the matter in court. He promised to do that, in mid 1998, but he later (April 1999) broke his promise by resigning, and his replacement also refused. In other words, I was denied an actual defense due to the collusion of two of 'my' attorneys as well as the government. One of the major things I wanted to do was to prove that the Feds were employing what should be illegal tactics (such as the GPS tracking device) not for any legitimate reason, but simply because they considered me to be their 'enemy', not because they thought I was going to commit any crime. I wanted to be able to show that they were "offending" against me, because of (among other things) my allegation that they had employed a jailhouse snitch ("Ryan Thomas Lund") to attack me, which he did on November 25, 1997. (See version 1.06 of my Portland Oregon Federal Court lawsuit, 02-1052, version filed in July of 2003. Avenia agreed to have an investigator do that. I went to that (useless) evaluation, but when I returned I continued to insist on the investigation that Avenia had promised. Indeed, he eventually did send an investigator ("Sharon Callas") to do an investigation, in Vancouver Washington. Mysteriously, she resigned very shortly after doing that investigation, and I was never given the results. Avenia was allowed (by the Judge, Burgess, now dead) to resign in about April 1999. I objected at a court hearing, because I had gotten Avenia to PROMISE to do an investigation, and I was afraid (correctly, as it turns out) that any replacement of him would fail or refuse to bring out the issues concerning the government's crimes and misdeeds against me. More tomorrow. Jim Bell

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US Senate Virtual Currency Hearing Summary
by grarpamp 20 Nov '13

20 Nov '13

Curiously, US law enforcement feels it already has the general laws it needs. Yet it needs the talent base to use them, aka: SS is hiring. The US is behind in its guidance to business... US companies large and small very much want to play and lead just as soon as a compliance/certification framework appears in which they can safely build a business. Unofficial regulatory 'guidelines' and failure to issue business accounts/licenses due to that are not helping. Predicted that virtual currencies will be regulated, tax reported, etc at the exchange level as usual. US financial/consumer markets will evolve normally as with any fiat currency. Was felt US needed to be on par with and peer internationally for global regulation. The Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse, Tor, etc were all in effect, yet business and finance seemed to be the leaning and balancing interest of the hearing. A couple statements regarding "anonymity can be catastrophic", anonymity regulation, etc were made that were left open without further comment. Al Gore created Bitcoin. Bitcoin markets continued their rise after the hearing. Add/Correct/Discuss.

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control (urls)
by brian carroll 20 Nov '13

20 Nov '13

An unconventional car: No engine, no transmission, no differential http://phys.org/news/2013-11-unconventional-car-transmission-differential.h… "Without {onboard computer motion control}, the car is quite difficult to drive because the wheels are not coordinated," says the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded researcher, who also directs the university's vehicle systems and control laboratory. "You feel like you are driving something uncontrollable. You could flip over, or travel along an undesired path, or cause a crash. But when the 'controller' is active, based on feedback loops, the vehicle motion can be controlled, just as the driver expects." Powerline: The First Battle of America's Energy War by Paul Wellstone // murdered in plane crash http://www.powells.com/biblio/9780816643844 "The inspiring story of a grassroots rebellion. Powerline describes the opposition of rural Minnesotans to the building of a high voltage powerline across 430 miles of farmland from central North Dakota to the Twin Cities suburbs. Convinced that the safety of their families and the health of their land was disregarded in favor of the gluttonous energy consumption of cities, the farmer-led prairie revolt began as questioning and escalated to rampant civil disobedience, peaking in 1978 when nearly half of Minnesota's state highway patrol was engaged in stopping sabotage of the project. After construction was completed, the powerline proved difficult to defend and unprecedented guerrilla warfare brought many towers to the ground (due to "bolt weevils"). Through pulse-quickening personal interviews and big-picture analysis, Powerline lays bare the latent and unexpected power of the people of rural America--and resonates strongly with today's energy debates." {educational fair-use of copyright, 2013} ༜ Я ץ

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dual-use (urls)
by brian carroll 20 Nov '13

20 Nov '13

(note: several of videos from preceding urls-list were deleted, thus links broken, due to reaching max upload limit at dropbox) Vancouver’s ban on the humble doorknob likely to be a trendsetter (via digg) http://www.vancouversun.com/story.html?id=9173543 [quote] Vancouver is the only city in Canada with its own building code, so the changes made here are often chased into the B.C. Building Code and Canada’s National Building Code, and then put into practice in cities and towns across Canada. Vancouver’s influence is wide. And as go the codes, so too goes the construction industry. [unquote] // dual-use therapy equipment, can also be used to torture people... // brute force behavioral engineering, physio & neuro programming, // note: resonance-based "treatments" occur at a distance, vibrations Shocking Medical Devices From Another Century (via digg) http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/11/bakken-museum/?viewall=true [&] The Bakken Museum of Electricity in Life http://www.thebakken.org/ US NAVY: Hackers 'Jumping The Air Gap' Would 'Disrupt The World Balance Of Power' http://www.businessinsider.com/navy-acoustic-hackers-could-halt-fleets-2013… ""The ships are floating SCADA systems," Hagerott said, making reference to the same highly vulnerable Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition networks that run utilities in America..." (via drudgereport) // ultrasonic neuromodulation and electromagnetic incarceration... // descriptions of effects are accurate in my experience. this is it, // except it can also be local, on-site, directed energy equipment // & structurally involves political psychiatry/psychology practices. U.S. SILENTLY TORTURES AMERICANS WITH CELL TOWER ELECTROMAGNETIC NEUROWEAPON (link from comments in url above) http://viclivingston.blogspot.com/2011/12/u.html [quote] Each day, a nationwide scalar electromagnetic radiation "multifunctional" radio frequency directed energy weapon attack system employing phased array cell tower antenna transmitter/receivers and GPS satellites, under the administration of U.S. Cyber Command and military contractor Lockheed Martin, is used to silently and invisibly torture, impair, subjugate, and degrade the physical and neurological health of untold thousands of American citizens who have been extrajudicially "targeted" by a hate- and ideology-driven domestic "disposition matrix" as "dissidents" or "undesirables." [unquote] . . . . : : : films & videos : : : . . . . Resonance Beings of Frequency documentary film | 2013, online 1:28min http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV9dhGv_tTs Full Signal - 52 minute documentary - trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdZSczgtK9o Genre: Documentary | Run Time: 61 minutes | Release: June 2010 http://fullsignalmovie.com/ Full Signal reviews at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Full-Signal-Hidden-Cost-Phones/product-reviews/B00427… Safe (1995 film) -- Julianne Moore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_%281995_film%29 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59cHP4jkr-Y {educational fair-use of copyright, 2013} ☢ ☤ ☣

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consciousness (urls)
by brian carroll 19 Nov '13

19 Nov '13

[decades ago when a gradeschooler went on a museum tour of Glensheen Mansion, located in Duluth, Minnesota. what amazed me was at that age was the level of luxury achieved by the extremely wealthy, in comparison to ordinary people. this was captured in a magnificent shower that had twenty shower heads and body jets, in 1908 (potentially involving gold). this is context for a recent 'typological' discovery when on Amazon, where these kinds of shower arrays are now being sold as normal fixtures (example url follows)... shower panel http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Home-Improvement-Shower-Panels/zgbs/hi/6… Glensheen Historic Estate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glensheen_Historic_Estate what i think is interesting about this is how over time these values or luxuries even, migrate towards the larger population, once-middleclass, and that a level of opulence exists where ordinary people live like kings and queens via these vary many details of conventional life. in that, you do not need to be a baron to have 10 showerheads if that is a significant priority yet it may be one of many and eventually establish itself as a new standard for bathroom fixtures and so it can be tied to how it is valued, its use, is it really better than a simpler solution. and under this is an unrecognized issue of infrastructure, water ecosystems, regulatory policies, water quality, and water conservation that cannot be disconnected from the artifact as idea. so too computers with powerplants and pollution and energy wars, and so on. it just surprised me to see this on Amazon after several decades, and remembering how amazing that shower was of a wealthy person from yesteryear, and now an approximation of that technology exists as another choice for shoppers, more than a century later. and how it seemed to indicate various parallels, yet how underlying factors may also not be dealt with at the same time something appears as if progress when removed, isolated from its context. in other words, perhaps it is like an electric razor that had efficiency to replace a safety razor, yet today they are sold with chemicals that need to be repurchased again and again to keep it working (auto-cleaning cartridges) and thus a secondary 'blades' requirement, more and more to keep the thing working, and it involves additional effort to _manage the device. thus, what of televisions from CRT to digital and increased bureaucracy or other technical issues related to computers, making them less efficient or effective as tools, or more involving time and energy to manage or configure settings. and thus, what if there is hard water and not only one nozzle gets blocked, but eight, and all need to be cleaned or replaced, etc. perhaps that is the essence of friction-free purchasing without connectivity to other ecosystem issues. it can be excluded from the analysis, the innovation occurring in some ways, efficiency, while in others it may be a loss of function or additional routine that is more trouble than its worth. so too, technology in general, additional settings, versus artifacts and tools that actually work as they are designed to and are exceptionally well functioning, removed of errors, etc. who knows if the 'advanced options' of the shower panel are worth the investment, though the question may be- do you need to be rich to keep up with the eventual upkeep expenses, if not troubleshooting and maintenance.] // "deep neural network" machine learning algorithm. regarding // knowing what sound source to focus in on, wonder if gyroscope // or accelerometer may help determine or preference directionality Study reveals potential breakthrough in hearing technology http://phys.org/news/2013-11-reveals-potential-breakthrough-technology.html [quote] "That means that hearing-impaired people who had the benefit of this algorithm could hear better than students with no hearing loss," Healy said. [unquote] (note: once read a remarkable statistic now forgotten regarding the projected need for hearing aids in young adults due to mp3 players and personal audio electronics, perhaps to include cellphones even, that was resulting in hearing loss issues on a massive scale. in other words, hearing aids are the future for entire generations, due to noise & listening to loud music whether on headphones or at concerts with huge loud amps, etc. guess when the musicians playing are themselves dealing with hearing loss it might be considered a side-effect of the approach to musical production even. though perhaps everything, TV, phone, traffic, (now cannot even take a walk without having someone alone who is talking out loud to themselves, only to realize they are using a cellphone involved in a remote conversation. combine this with those who view screens while walking outside, and a form of willful blindness and deafness appears to exist as people move in private bubbles of reality). [&] Loss: Is Loud Music Making Teens Deaf? http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20014372-10391704.html (note: this is an example of the statistics though what i remember included examination of multiple generations, all having increased and severely premature hearing loss specifically due to electronics and the noisy environment, where nerve cells for hearing are being killed off via sound-based activities; the irony that music 'listening' leads to loss of hearing, etc.) South Africa cemeteries to microchip tombstones http://phys.org/news/2013-11-south-africa-cemeteries-microchip-tombstones.h… Broken windows theory // recontextualize with OS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory ~Greenwaldian Theorem // a^2 + b^2 > c^2 (via digg) http://wikibin.org/articles/greenwaldian-theorem.html First-Ever Hyperspectral Photo of Auroras http://petapixel.com/2012/12/01/first-ever-hyperspectral-photo-of-auroras/ ' The NORUSCA II can switch between 41 different optical bands in a matter of microseconds, allowing scientists to detect things in the atmosphere based on their “light fingerprint.” ' [in-article link] Researchers Turn an Ordinary Canon 5D Into a Hyperspectral Camera http://petapixel.com/2011/12/19/researchers-turn-an-ordinary-canon-5d-into-… note: this last issue has potential relevance to solar astronomy, because solar telescopes today using h-alpha filters (such as Coronado Solarscopes) need to be tuned to one area of the sun, its surface or its edges, which results in other regions becoming less focused. my question for this has been if a holographic chamber could be made that can focus in multiple 'tuned regions' simultaneously and then merge them optically in a single image that then is the basis for capturing images of the sun and its activity. should be possible though a double focusing mechanism or another approach with mirrors is likely required to allow for it. // backgrounder; multidimensional hyperspectral 'data cubes', use in // astronomy, mining & geology, ecology, food processing, surveillance, Hyperspectral imaging http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperspectral_imaging [quote] Hyperspectral sensors look at objects using a vast portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Certain objects leave unique 'fingerprints' across the electromagnetic spectrum. These 'fingerprints' are known as spectral signatures and enable identification of the materials that make up a scanned object. [endquote] // property, boundaries of individual custom manufacture... How A Geek Dad And His 3D Printer Aim To Liberate Legos (digg) http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/04/05/how-a-geek-dad-and-his… "A Lego spokesperson says the company has no problem with Levin and Sims’ work but is keeping an eye out for printed objects that infringe on its brand. Neither Hasbro nor any of the smaller companies that sell construction toys responded to requests for comment. So far the pair haven’t received a cease-and-desist letter." (also, see comment regarding printer specs, feasibility) interesting quote from article: Personal Kill (via digg) http://www.themorningnews.org/gallery/personal-kill [quote] "BG/OS: It seems that the military’s answer {to how should our military train if not for these simulations?} is to invest in technology that allows for more automated, remote-controlled units; surveillance; and weapons like robots and drones in any imaginable form in order to avoid human casualties on the side of the military and in order to control from the distance. Next to other things, this also indicates an increasing militarization of cities and public communities in general, because single individuals are the target. But drone pilots get PTSD too, and war zones or conflicts can’t be controlled by machines. Automation seems still to go only so far and the distance of the flying eye can trigger the application of violence much easier than the immediacy of human encounter." [endquote] // parameters, boundaries, identity, ecosystems, shared consciousness. // missing issues in neuro & computing: understanding of perspective A Neuroscientist’s Radical Theory of How Networks Become Conscious http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/11/christof-koch-panpsychism-conscio… [note: i had a computational model for achieving this through parallelism of matched patterns, local-global computing to function beyond the capacity of the human brain, all 'transistors' interconnected structurally, via looping N-value logical evaluation into shared scaffolding that exists as an ecological computation; concept of crystal ball computing.] [note also: permeability of surveillance within todays bounded, finite PCs could indicate a type of emergent consciousness that is surveillance, as collective awareness or tending toward super- or supra-organism, yet again bounded, constrained to few parameters vs. unleashing potential interconnections, allowing that to govern, thus keeping it contained and under control, to keep things in the existing paradigm, manageable by a given ideology etc] // consider the following headline.... iPad Mini displays fewer colors than does iPad Air, says report Though it boasts a Retina display, the new iPad Mini is still stuck with the same color palate found in the first edition, says Anandtech. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57612752-94/ipad-mini-displays-fewer-color… [to me there is something 'meta' about this that translates into a larger framework. perhaps at its most abstract, how tools themselves are bounded by the ideas held inside of them, and thus more and more speed of processing may still be rely upon a particular limiting approach, even while appearing as if an upgrade or greater functionality. so what if the fundamentals are off or something is constrained. and how much of planned obsolescence in manufacturing is based on similar techniques, if locked CPUs or software or non-innovating product categories that could likely include most everything electronic, if sustaining false or warped ideology] Invisible Fields. Geographies of radio waves http://issuu.com/actar/docs/invisiblefields Astrophysicists tackle the Sun and one of physics' biggest unsolved problems http://phys.org/news/2013-11-astrophysicists-tackle-sun-physics-biggest.html "Scientists have proposed two main theories to explain why the temperature of the gas in the corona, which lies above the solar surface, soars to over 1 million degrees Kelvin even though the surface of the sun is a relatively cool 6,000 degrees. (The center of the sun is 15 million degrees.)" --- colorshift examples --- test videos to document colorshift properties using LED color light and different colored objects for a project that was canceled. these are overly long and very boring though demonstrate certain principles that could be useful. (basic research) VIDEO: juggling balls (2:27) https://www.dropbox.com/s/t8z4gnvwjfdpsx7/P4270002.AVI VIDEO: juggling rings (4:51) https://www.dropbox.com/s/pq9qaszavqdgl2c/P4270003.AVI VIDEO: juggling clubs (3:28) https://www.dropbox.com/s/1v3on6t2g4p0346/P4270006.AVI the bigger idea involved venn logic and various balloon colors as a way to visualize a model of consciousness i was exploring via 'balloon octopii' to translate ideas of pseudo-truth and of various limits (and processing of concepts as molecules) and parameters. here are some of the octopus images. i wanted to make a 'brain' of multiple colored balloons for each octopus, having different venn color compositions, and then photograph them together under the same color light, as if ~resonance of /shared patterning/ to model this relation via thinking. pT/T modeling (note: REG noisefield for emergent pattern match) A=A/B https://www.dropbox.com/s/47icp2cxeu63fyn/ballooning%20ex15.jpg octopii communicating within noisefield via shared/unshared patterns https://www.dropbox.com/s/umakwtjv0pjm4y5/ballooning%20ex14.jpg Platonic forms, ideas as molecules, tuned into as consciousness https://www.dropbox.com/s/by6ix6rvgnfllj2/ballooning%20ex23.jpg so here was the larger idea... looking at balloons (translucent, opaque, and transparent) as set combinations that have various color-based permutations based on their configuration. that this could be explored, the videos here only tests, first steps never developed further. VIDEO: venn balloons and colorshift test (3:00) https://www.dropbox.com/s/vkm8fno5oki6u8x/P5020007.AVI VIDEO: venn balloons and colorshift tests (3:43) https://www.dropbox.com/s/cfwttfhq1g9bivu/P5020010.AVI VIDEO: venn balloons and colorshift tests (4:16) https://www.dropbox.com/s/j0bsu4kisrte4e5/P5020012.AVI VIDEO: venn balloons and colorshift tests (0:42) https://www.dropbox.com/s/81qdyvffejtuht3/P5020013.AVI two things to note: as mentioned, the venn issue and set theory, and ultimately experiments for balloon-in-balloon experiments (red balloon _nested inside blue balloon, then illuminate with various color sequences) as this relates to balloon-by-balloon dynamics (overlapping of colors, even picking up of colors by transparent balloons or tinge or color-casting). -and- also, the molecular aspect as if electron-tunnel microscopy or some other device looking at atomic formations at some level of abstraction. so the balloons were also going to be explored for these molecular forms (none of that in these images, though it is a natural attribute of latex balloons (tap the maple tree -> maple syrup, tap the rubber tree --> latex for balloons). VIDEO: crude molecule test, failed to capture effect (5:21) https://www.dropbox.com/s/eu51e87ucmqfcea/P5020017.AVI VIDEO: colorshift multicolor thread patterns (4:01) https://www.dropbox.com/s/dllf4vs5w8cmkjt/P5020003.AVI : : : text transformation : : : (errata-scramble) nopqrstuvwxyz/ uodbɹsʇnʌʍxʎz/ uobdɹsʇnʌʍxʎz nodbj5fn^mxh2 W vv M ʌʌ M ʌʌ W vv \/\/ /\/\ \/ /\ \//\/ /\/\ \/\/ /\ \/ /\\/\ {educational fair-use of copyright, 2013} AU <---> FeS₂

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Re: Your errors about me in your book.
by alex wright 19 Nov '13

19 Nov '13

Previously sent right to Joshua Case because ... I'm special... I for one found it an interesting jump off point. I didn't know much about that episode before a few previous posts. If the lines are too narrow this is just a terribly formatted RSS feed. On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 3:40 PM, alex wright <wrightalexw(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I for one found it an interesting jump off point. I didn't know much > about that episode before a few previous posts. If the lines are too > narrow this is just a terribly formatted RSS feed. > > > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Joshua Case <jwcase(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hey Al, >> >> You’ve got to have a pretty thick skin to be on a mailing list - >> sometimes people post *several *messages in a row that may be over your >> head, in regards to people or events you have no knowledge of, or just >> plain boring. In these cases it is best to just buddha-up - find your >> delete key and go with the flow. If you really can’t see why the members of >> this particular list might be interested this *particular* “celebrity’s” >> correspondence in this matter — if you truly have “no idea what it is >> about” — then perhaps you should save your comments until you do have some >> inkling of what’s going around you. Then you won’t appear petulant or >> uninformed when you wish to participate rationally at a later time. >> >> Good luck! >> >> >> On Nov 19, 2013, at 2:23 PM, Al Billings <albill(a)openbuddha.com> wrote: >> >> Yes, he’s a precious celebrity. >> >> On Nov 19, 2013, at 11:13 AM, Ted Smith <tedks(a)riseup.net> wrote: >> >> It's a forwarded message. It's copied to the list because it's relevant >> to the list, just like the discussion of the book's launch was relevant >> to the list, way back when all of the people complaining about posts >> from Jim Fucking Bell on the CYPHERPUNKS list weren't on said list. >> >> >> Al Billings >> albill(a)openbuddha.com >> http://makehacklearn.org >> >> >> >> > > > -- > "On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into > the > machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able > rightly > to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a > question." > > -Charles Babbage, 19th century English mathematician, philosopher, inventor > and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable > computer. > > -- "On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -Charles Babbage, 19th century English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer.

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48 Minute Video of NSA DDIR John Inglis at NYU 19 November 2019
by John Young 19 Nov '13

19 Nov '13

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ydkw4xgZ-Y&feature=c4-overview&list=UURwhQQ…

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RetroShare
by rysiek 19 Nov '13

19 Nov '13

OHAI, So, this project has been noted here on several occasions, but I still lack some serious opinions. Here's a chance to voice them. What do you think of RetroShare? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroshare http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/ inb4 "Java suxxorz" -- yes, I tend to hold that view myself; hoever, if RetroShare is a workable solution, we can simply add C++/Python/Whatever implementations later, right? -- Pozdr rysiek

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Re: [guardian-dev] Lavabit's Dark Mail Initiative
by elijah 19 Nov '13

19 Nov '13

On 11/18/2013 09:37 AM, Josh Steiner wrote: > http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ladar/lavabits-dark-mail-initiative > > Basically, it is an initiative to open source the lavabit's internal > code and turn it into a new secure mail protocol they are calling > "Dark Mail" The really annoying thing is that lavabit's platform and Dark Mail are totally incompatible and have nothing to do with one another. So the kickstarter is meaningless. * lavabit's prior software allowed the service provider to encrypt a user's IMAP disk storage individually to the password of the user. * darkmail is a project driven mostly by silentcircle that is to create something entirely new that is email-like, but not email. In case you missed it, moxie did a pretty good job explaining why lavabit's old code should die and should most definitely NOT be open sourced or used by anyone: http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/lavabit-critique/ This critique was later posted to arstechnica, and then later there was an exchange on reddit under Ladar's AMA in which Ladar doubled down on his completely unjustified claims and Moxie doubled down on lavabit being total snakeoil: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1qetvk/i_am_ladar_levison_owner_and_o… It is not pretty. Moxie is correct, of course, but a valid defense of the lavabit model would have been to talk about how US law treats data at rest very differently than data in transit. This was not the approach Ladar pursued. It does not totally matter, because that potential justification doesn't hold true anymore based on what we now know. So, really, there is no justification for making the lavabit approach open source. The darkmail project is interesting in that they have promised all things to all people: * end-to-end client-side encryption * automatic management of keys * not email, but xmpp used in an email-like way * but maybe also gateways to email for backward compatibility * asynchronous forward secrecy and metadata protection via SCIMP 2.0 * thunderbird extension * local imap & smtp server so you can use existing mail user agent * open protocol and open source code so anyone can adopt * tools to make it easy for a service provider to use Because we don't have any details yet on darkmail it is impossible to critique. What we do know is that SCIMP 1.0 doesn't have the properties that are promised, and they can't be added without basically a whole new protocol. But I think darkmail is exciting and is making the right promises (total end-to-end security). I certainly hope they will answer my emails :) Of course, LEAP (https://leap.se/email) already does almost everything that darkmail wants to do, with the one caveat that currently we use SMTP exclusively and rely on the service provider for PFS and metadata protection (although we have a plan to fix this in the future). -elijah _______________________________________________ Guardian-dev mailing list Post: Guardian-dev(a)lists.mayfirst.org List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/guardian-dev To Unsubscribe Send email to: Guardian-dev-unsubscribe(a)lists.mayfirst.org Or visit: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/options/guardian-dev/eugen%40leitl.org You are subscribed as: eugen(a)leitl.org

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SOS
by Lilith Lela 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

Hi, We received a request from https://twitter.com/S0Sph for us using and recommending this site/service http://sos.ph/ Earlier, a few weeks ago, I had been briefly looking at this https://cryptostorm.is/ These darknet tokens. R it useful in activist contexts? What you think? Got perhaps (external to this service(s)) links and/or insights for us so we can figure out how it works exactly, and what its vulnerabilities r? Cheers, Lilith

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Re: [coreboot] BadBIOS Thoughts
by Patrick Georgi 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

Am 17.11.2013 21:46, schrieb Alex: > [Broken record warning] What if, somehow, the community gathered a few > brains, talked to a vendor, and convinced them to put coreboot on a > yet-to-be-released product? It would almost seem like the community > would do most of the work for free. What sort of responses have we > received in the past with this approach? System 76, ThinkPenguin, > Pudget, etc... have we tried any of them? They have sleek systems, and > at least the first two value openness more than the average. Those three list Intel based notebooks only (not even a token AMD device). From the point of view of free firmware, all of them are unsuitable, since free (and open, and trustable) Intel firmware implementations are only available for museum class^W^Wlong-term support hardware. I think the only x86 notebook with completely free firmware these days that can be bought easily is http://shop.gluglug.org.uk/product/ibm-lenovo-thinkpad-x60-coreboot/ (featuring those Intel museum chips) And I guess doing something like that group is the only working approach for now: Pick some notebook (something recent), free its firmware, sell the pre-modded boxes (and publish numbers!). If you manage to sell significant volumes (which shouldn't be all that large), that might turn some heads. There are some issues with this approach: You're limited in your choice of base hardware (likely AMD/Via chipsets only, the EC must be manageable with reasonable effort) and it must be available for some time (no fun doing a port for 2 months, then selling the notebook for another 4, after which it's taken off the market, and you have to start from scratch). And, of course, when doing this, you carry the usual entrepreneurial risk. Patrick -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot(a)coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot

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Re: [serval-project-dev] how to get best voice quality with low end phones?
by Jeremy Lakeman 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

3s of lag seems a bit on the high side. Using cheap huawei's here in the lab, we typically see about 250-500ms of lag. Note that the cheap huawei's seem to have a 2KB hardware audio buffer, leading to (2KB / 16bit 8KHz ~=) 120ms of jitter that we can't do anything about. We'd like to implement some kind of echo canceler, but we haven't found anything that would be trivial to drop in. Our jitter buffer could probably use some improvements, I'm not going to say that it is in any way ideal. We're not managing network buffer bloat right now. When the wifi channel is busy, the rate that the kernel will send packets drops and can easily start to back up in the network stack. This can add a significant amount of latency. If packets don't arrive in time, the link state routing engine may be dropping the link, which would limit the number of outgoing packets, which would drop the latency, and the link would come back up again... We should be using RTT estimates to throttle our transmit rate to keep latency low, and feed into our link state calculations to work out when a link is really dead, or everything on that interface is just slow. But we haven't built anything like that yet. If we were limiting our transmit rate better, instead of sending lots of small UDP packets, we would try to aggregate more voice packets per UDP frame. Hopefully allowing the voice call to continue, just with higher jitter. Rhizome, and hence messaging, doesn't care as much if the network path is unstable. And it will just keep on trying until it gets there, making messaging *much* more reliable. We have some rough plans to implement a combination of push-to-talk / voicemail, using rhizome. And built into the messaging UI. But we don't have any concrete plans to start this work right now. And one day we may implement a form of network coding to reduce the number of packets required for bi-directional traffic over multiple hops. On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Miles <myles(a)tenhand.com> wrote: > > I've been testing with a pair of huawei 8150s using the stock gingerbread > to connect to a 703n mesh extender. Wifi on the phones is pretty poor and > my area is RF-noisy, so wifi works to about 2 blocks line of sight. I'm > using about a 2 week old nightly build of the batphone app. > > When the signal is strong, the phone works with about 3 seconds of audio > delay and noticeable echo. When the wifi gets poor & drops to 2mb, voice > cuts out entirely. text continues to work until wifi drops. Amusingly, > voice calls drop at about the limits of my shouting voice. > > Some of the problem is probably background /wind noise. I'd love a mute > button on the batphone. > > What should I do to improve voice experience , short of souping up the > mesh extender? Do you usually use headsets? With PTT? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Serval Project Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to serval-project-developers+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to > serval-project-developers(a)googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/serval-project-developers. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Serval Project Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to serval-project-developers+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to serval-project-developers(a)googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/serval-project-developers. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

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Re: Request for transcript: "Writers Especially Concerned About NSA Actions"
by John Young 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

That herd behavior is disappointing but customary cowardice. Worse happened after 9/11. Many once valiant FOI fighters cleansed their websites and heralded the need to obey the war-mongerers, and urgently cautioned others as if the propaganda was believable. No doubt, this self-censorship is market-driven to please funders, advertizers and publishers who dare not displease their dinner companions at Aspen, Davos, Bohemian Grove, and for sure the DC centroid of privileged access to valuable information, much of it spy boosting leakage of the Snowden type. The heavy censorship of the Snowden documents by the hoarders and their extremely slow pace of release while rhetorizing and hyping the minimalist product fits this spy-favorite marketing schemata. NPR is not what it used to appear to be. It has booted and censored a slew of its reporters, editors and contributors. Not alone, the journalism industry is panicked at loss of customers and is rushing to cleanse its harem. Poor discards are deperately seeking Omidyar and Soros invitation to their opium dens as if from frying pan into the fire. At 12:08 PM 11/17/2013, you wrote: >I think what you're looking for is here. > >http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=245660885 > >On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 3:21 PM, coderman <coderman(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Anyone have a transcript for this piece? > > > > --- > > > > "Writers Especially Concerned About NSA Actions" > > http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=245660885 > > > > While polls show many Americans are uneasy with government actions > > revealed by NSA leaker Edward Snowden, one profession in particular > > seems to be alarmed. A new survey of professional writers finds them > > much more concerned than the general public. An organization of > > writers says that a large majority of its members have "never been as > > worried about privacy rights and freedom of the press as they are > > today." > > > >-- >Christopher Nielsen >"They who can give up essential liberty for temporary safety, deserve >neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin >"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the >blood of patriots & tyrants." --Thomas Jefferson

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Re: passwords! (p5) / ngrams and passphrases
by coderman 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 6:09 PM, brian carroll <electromagnetize(a)gmail.com> wrote: > ... if a password service used this principle,... 3-4 sets instead, > themselves having special rules... > > [set1|set2|set3|set4] > > in this way, a 'rolling password' could be developed ... this feels similar to various guided / ordered permutations strategies that use a corpus of ngrams or words for attacking longer sequences, like passphrases. [with or without decorating permutations like appended numerical sequences and other common substitutions and sequences] the effectiveness of these in practice appears strongly bound to your operational security. e.g. past examples of mining a user's interests to guide successful pass word and pass phrase cracking attempts. i keep waiting for someone to write it, alas: 'No results found for "the art of tactical password cracking"' ;)

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Fwd: That wonderful 1980-ies hippie vibe...
by coderman 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk(a)phk.freebsd.dk> Date: Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 2:53 PM Subject: That wonderful 1980-ies hippie vibe... To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg(a)w3.org> It's bedtime here in Denmark, but before I go to bed, I want to thank for the wonderful 1980'ies hippie-vibe of the last couple of days, it's been a wonderful nostalgic experience. I don't know how many of you remember "atomic weapon free zones" ? Maybe if you are younger, you might have seen a faded "Atomic Weapon free Zone" sign somewhere ? What happened was that well-meaning city councils made lofty proclamations and declared there city would never allow atomic weapons inside city limits etc. It was of course an empty gesture, it's not like the military cared what the Burgermeister of some dutch or german town signed, if they needed to drive their nukes through, they would damn well drive their nukes through the town-square. In some cases it was down-right laughably hypocritical. Does Berkeley still have their sign up ? Berkeley Uni made a fortune running LLNL, which designed atomic bombs, but they were appearantly not allowed to bring the work home with them, or something. Anyway... Ending the cold war, one nuclear-weapon free city after the other, was as effective as slightly more encryption in HTTP/2.0 will be at ending USAs "War Against Privacy". I do understand you are upset about it, so am I, and I do recognize that when you have only a watchmakers screwdriver as tool, you use the only tool you have. But rolling back the US police-state, a firmly nailed down military-industrial complex with a budget measured in billions, and what looks like almost unanimous political support of USgov, is not going to happen because we tighten a screw somewhere in a internet protocol. Sorry. If you want to do something about the polic-state, by all means get involved in politics: Expose the lies, support the whistleblowers, vote the bums out, run for office. But in this WG, please leave your politics at the door and concentrate on the objective in our charter: Making a better performing HTTP protocol. G'night... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk(a)FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.

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Denial of Disservice Attack [was: Jeremy Hammond Banned from using Cryptography]
by coderman 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Jim Bell <jamesdbell8(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > ... >>Jim Bell's exhortations to deny all pleas a hard sell considering that >>one in four rolls over completely under pressure. :/ > > For 70,000 Federal criminal defendants per year, there are only about 3,500 > Federal criminal trials per year. In other words, ultimately 95% 'rolls > over'. (Note: That doesn't mean that they necessarily 'rat': Many > defendants have no co-defendants, for example. And, a defendant might > accept a plea, without agreement to testify against someone else.) With my > idea of "Denial of Disservice Attack" (Offer of circa $5,000 to demand a > jury trial), I'm trying to avoid that situation. agreed; i should have said "turned rat fuck" instead of "rolled over completely". accepting a plea more apropos "rolling over"... on a related note, how deep can the court queue grow before it becomes untenable and denies prosecutions? the recent civil court delays appear to be trivial despite cries of dire circumstance...[0] 0. "For Federal Courts, Shutdown Caused Broad Disruptions" [ED: for generous interpretation of "broad disruption"] http://news.uscourts.gov/federal-courts-shutdown-caused-broad-disruptions [ED2: more comedy, e.g. 'after 17 days delay, “the general impression was that federal courts were on their last breath,”' - LULZ]

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Request for transcript: "Writers Especially Concerned About NSA Actions"
by coderman 17 Nov '13

17 Nov '13

Anyone have a transcript for this piece? --- "Writers Especially Concerned About NSA Actions" http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=245660885 While polls show many Americans are uneasy with government actions revealed by NSA leaker Edward Snowden, one profession in particular seems to be alarmed. A new survey of professional writers finds them much more concerned than the general public. An organization of writers says that a large majority of its members have "never been as worried about privacy rights and freedom of the press as they are today."

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Re: [tor-talk] [liberationtech] BitMail.sf.net v 0.6 - Secure Encrypting Email Client
by grarpamp 17 Nov '13

17 Nov '13

> I don't think that's possible at the moment. There are no > deterministically built operating systems yet. This is rather sad. I think FreeBSD has a project somewhere trying to move that way. Hopefully all of the unix-likes are at least aware of the concept, if not having an actual project for it. Also, none of the BSD's have any built-in integrity in their repositories, they just insist their infrastructure and committers are infallible among other escuses. (Excepting DragonFly which uses git, don't know if they sign it though. Monotone seems better at that sort of embedded pki thing.).

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Re: [Cryptography][Law] Jeremy Hammond Banned from using Cryptography
by John Young 16 Nov '13

16 Nov '13

That should have been Bernie-S, not -X. And Mitnick now runs a rather profitable security service and lecture series. About Jim Bell (he can speak for himself but I know best how to smell and tell a rat): The IRS secret agent leading Jim's chase, Agent Gordon, lurked on cypherpunks for a long time, gathering names and addresses to subpoena for Jim's grand jury probe and (first) trial. Several of us were subpoenad along with cpunks records from some (John Gilmore one of those). Some, like me, were summoned both for the grand jury and the trial held in Tacoma, WA. (Sidebar: youngster Declan McCullagh covered that and I urged him to report seditiously enough to be sent to jail to build his rep -- he politely refused to cellmate Jim.) Short story (full account in the archive) is that not many supported Jim all the way when the shit came down, indeed, brazenly ridiculed his adventure, presumably to cover their ass from Agent Gordon and co-lurkers always on duty hereabouts. Who secretly ratted Jim at the grand jury remains unknown but their behavior and sweat odor has been profiled by god and they will not be given authentic bitcoins, only fakes with their undercover UID embedded like Lamo. At 06:13 PM 11/16/2013, you wrote: >On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 8:36 AM, John Young <jya(a)pipeline.com> wrote: > > ... > > At a HOPE panel on informants, several hackers disclosed > > those pressures to rat, some succumbed and were let off, > > Emmanuel Goldstein admitted it, some refused and were > > jailed, Bernie-X, Kevin Mitnick. All agreed it is far worse to > > go through than you think. Goldstein estimated 25% of hackers > > are rats. > >Jim Bell's exhortations to deny all pleas a hard sell considering that >one in four rolls over completely under pressure. :/ > > > > > Barrett Brown is on the hot seat right now, being offering deals > > to rat, as customary, with three (!) trials postponed to maintain > > pressure. Shit, even his mom was used as a fed provocation to > > misbehave then as a persuasion club as were Sabu's nephew > > and niece. > >it would be interesting to see a survey of the carrots and sticks used >by federal prosecutors. > > > > > Anybody with a high profile is targeted, so beware publicity > > hounds crowing of derrying-do and urgings by high profilers > > who may or may not be in the grips of the feds, and if not, > > will soon be due to their publicity narcosis, and then used > > as clubs or head to jail for obstruction and recidivism or > > some other nut-squeezing -- even in jail they are offered > > deals to rat and sentence reduced. > >good thing JYA stays under the radar! Sorry to say Radar mag did a smear of us. > > In or out jail the pressure to rat continues, as with Adrian > > Lamo. Ex-cons never know if an overture is an LE sting or a > > an honest request for advice, so they rat to be safe -- recall > > they are obliged -- forever -- to report overtures, just like > > ex-spies remain under the gun to rat for life. If you haven't > > been there don't imagine you know what it's like. > >what do you mean by "obliged -- forever -- to report overtures"? i >would be very interested to know if there are clauses compelling >disclosure in these agreements for unrelated activities. is this >"soft" pressure, or legally binding? Notice upon release from prison that ex-cons are expected to be on call. Panoptic assured. Moreso for ex-spies. > > Don't imagine this list and others like it, chats, OTRs, TOR, > > are not being spied for easy targets. > >this opportunistic spying even has a code name: EPICFAIL Also Open Source.

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[Cryptography][Law] Jeremy Hammond Banned from using Cryptography
by Privarchy Mee 16 Nov '13

16 Nov '13

Can any of you, most of whom I do not doubt are far more knowledgeable about cryptography and how it's conceptualised within the legal sphere, offer some insight regarding this? https://twitter.com/CyMadD0x/status/401443518612512769 The claim is that Judge Loretta A. Preska, who sentenced Jeremy Hammond today, said that for the three years (post-release) that he was to spend under supervision, he will not be able to use encryption for communication or storage purposes(!) which is practically a legal edict to go and build a cabin by Walden Pond. How can this be considered anything but cruel and unusual?

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[tor-talk] Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is out
by Roger Dingledine 16 Nov '13

16 Nov '13

Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases. https://www.torproject.org/dist/ Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16 o Major features: - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later. Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled them to solve bug 6033.) o Major bugfixes: - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731. - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits, causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x): - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha. o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier): - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping. The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address, do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister". - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper. This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by Pedro Ribeiro. o Minor features (protecting client timestamps): - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222. - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus, the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222. - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222. - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors. Implements part of proposal 222. o Minor features (other): - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093. - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927. - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. o Documentation fixes: - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854. - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866. - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and log entries. Resolves ticket 10124. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk(a)lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

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