October 2015 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

The Black List
by jim bell 03 Nov '15

03 Nov '15

A friend called last night, alerting me to a show called "The Black List". Apparently that episode involved an AP-type plot. Unfortunately, I only saw the last third or so of the show. http://www.nbc.com/the-blacklist/episodes?__source=360i_NBC_TVE_2015&WT.src… is probably episide 305, air date 10/29/2015; within a day or so it will be watchable on the website above, I think. I should probably demand a story royalty. Jim Bell

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Stealing The Network (novel) free ebook
by Michael Best 02 Nov '15

02 Nov '15

If you haven't read it before, someone kindly posted Stealing The Network series of novels online as a PDF. http://www.lyraphase.com/doc/security/Stealing%20the%20Network/Stealing%20t…'s%20Edition.pdf "Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box is a unique book in the fiction department. It combines stories that are false, with technology that is real. While none of the stories have happened, there is no reason why they could not. You could argue it provides a road map for criminal hackers, but I say it does something else; it provides a glimpse into the creative minds of some of today's best hackers, and even the best hackers will tell you that the game is a mental one." - from the foreword by Jeff Moss, President & CEO, BlackHat, Inc. *Stealing the Network* is a book of science fiction. It's a series of short stories about characters who gain unauthorized access to equipment and information, or deny use of those resources to the people who are meant to have access to them. The characters, though sometimes well described, are not the stars of these stories. That honor belongs to the tools that the black-hat hackers use in their attacks, and also to the defensive measures arrayed against them by the hapless sysadmins who, in this volume, always lose. Consider this book, with its plentiful detail, the answer to every pretty but functionally half-baked user interface ever shown in a feature film. One can read this book for entertainment, though its writing falls well short of cyberpunk classics like *Burning Chrome <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060539828/$%7B0%7D>* and *Snow Crash <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0553380958/$%7B0%7D>*. Its value is in its explicit references to current technologies--Cisco routers, OpenSSH, Windows 2000--and specific techniques for hacking them (the heroes and heroines of this book are always generous with command-history dumps). The specific detail may open your eyes to weaknesses in your own systems (or give you some ideas for, ahem, looking around on the network). Alternately, you can just enjoy the extra realism that the detail adds to these stories of packetized adventure. *--David Wall* The stories of the Stealing the Network series entertain in the same way that "war stories" from fellow hackers and security professionals often keeps a more intimate audience's interest: by mixing intriguing situations with juicy technical detail that can serve as a useful take-away. No one will accuse these books of containing fine literature, but that's not really the point. The stories are well written enough to keep you wanting to know what will happen next, while the technical information is as accurate as you're likely to see in fiction. Segments involving hacking are written and illustrated with enough attention to detail and length to serve as introductory educational tutorials for the topics (including web application hacking, reverse engineering, and wireless security). Most of these scenarios are believable as parts of larger-scale operations. --McGrew on Amazon <http://www.amazon.com/review/R1Z4P33XFA3MWL/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN…>

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Bitcoin Halloween... A Dangerous Idea... They're Terrified We'll Use It
by grarpamp 02 Nov '15

02 Nov '15

Bitcoin (Andreas M. Antonopoulos) code.talks 2015 (ehem. Developer Conference) https://www.codetalks.de/Published on Oct 29, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB-CXu5ECIg&t=43m17s It's Halloween, so terrify them, start using it tonight and upport your favorite fiendish authors and friends... ;-) bitcoin: 14Chgo1sK3N3ng8sZMkbxVkH4EZ4E8dHXu

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VICE Magazine Beheads It's Canary
by Razer 01 Nov '15

01 Nov '15

Americas: VICE News Battles Canadian Police Over Right to Protect Journalist's Material By Patrick McGuire October 30, 2015 | 7:00 am VICE News is fighting an attempt by the RCMP — Canada's federal police force — to obtain "any notes and all records of communications" between VICE News reporter, Ben Makuch, and former Calgary resident-turned-Islamic State (IS) militant, Farah Mohamed Shirdon. In February of this year, the RCMP entered VICE Media's offices in both Toronto and Montreal and served Vice Media and Makuch with a production order. In Canada, a production order is similar to a search warrant. Up until this week, VICE News was prohibited from reporting on the RCMP's production order due to a court-ordered sealing order. VICE is contesting the production and sealing orders in court, on the principles of protecting any and all sources, protecting freedom of the press, and to avoid the situation wherein the Canadian news media becomes a veritable investigative arm of the law. Makuch has been a full-time journalist at VICE since 2014 and was a contributor dating back to 2012. He has exclusively reported on the Canadian military's collaboration with Academi (formerly known as Blackwater), the rise of the Canadian arms trade, and has closely followed the activities of known IS militants online. Prior to VICE, he worked at The Canadian Press. Makuch's ongoing reporting around IS militants led him to notice a suspected Canadian member of the IS who was particularly active online: Farah Mohamed Shirdon. Makuch was able to contact Shirdon, under one of his online aliases, through Twitter and KIK Messenger — an instant messaging platform for smartphones with over 14 million users. Through Makuch's exchanges with Shirdon, VICE was one of the first organizations in the world to communicate directly with IS via social media. This provided an unprecedented view into the intentions and motivations of IS members. Makuch wrote two articles for VICE based on his communications with Shirdon, which led to the production order. In October of last year, just before the tragic Parliament Hill shooting in Ottawa, Shirdon told Makuch: "Canadians at home shall face the brunt of the retaliation. If you are in this crusader alliance against Islam and Muslims you shall see your streets filled with blood Inshaa Allah." Makuch's reporting on Shirdon also led VICE CEO and founder Shane Smith to conduct an exclusive Skype interview with Shirdon himself. That interview was incendiary enough to cause the RCMP to charge Shirdon with the "commission of an indictable offence for a terrorist group" after Shirdon warned of an Islamic State attack in New York City. In conversation with Smith in September 2014, Shirdon claimed "a lot of brothers" are in New York City "mobilizing right now." The RCMP has charged Shirdon with five other terrorism-related offenses in absentia. He is believed to still be living among IS. "VICE's treatment by the RCMP is completely reprehensible," said Tom Henheffer, executive director of Canadian Journalists for Free Expression. "Journalists are not lackies for the police and to use us that way is a totally unjustifiable violation of free expression and privacy rights. Going further and slapping a journalism outlet with a months-long gag order is even more absurd. This is not an effective way to fight terrorism, this is not how institutions in a free and democratic society are supposed to behave, and this sets a dangerous precedent for the free press in Canada that must not be repeated." VICE News will be in court on Jan. 11 to argue its case against the Crown, which is representing the RCMP in this matter. Patrick McGuire is the Head of Content for VICE Canada and a member of Canadian Journalists for Free Expression. Some links on page: https://news.vice.com/article/vice-news-battles-canadian-police-over-right-…

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Fwd: Amish man sues government to buy firearm without photo ID
by Zenaan Harkness 31 Oct '15

31 Oct '15

One for supporting. In fact, anyone know -how- he could be supported? Z ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 18:04:57 +1100 Subject: Amish man sues government to buy firearm without photo ID If Mr. Hertzler wins his lawsuit against the U.S. federal government it may set an interesting legal precedent for religious Australian's who want to obtain a gun licence without photo ID. I believe that any sane, reasonably minded human without a serious criminal record has a natural law, common law and a human rights to own and bear guns for recreation, self-defence and protection of their life, liberty and property. You certainly cannot trust government or the police to protect you and your loved ones 24/7 against armed criminals. Jim Amish man sues government to buy firearm without photo ID Amish man sues government to buy firearm without photo ID, claiming the requirement oppresses his religious freedom a.. Amish Andrew Hertzler was refused a gun without photo identification. b.. He claims Amish view photographs violation of Second Commandment. c.. Hertzler says requirement for photo ID oppresses his religious freedom. d.. He's filed lawsuit against government for right to buy gun without a photo. Article continues at: http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2015/10/amish-man-sues-government-to-b…

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"Jewish Spine Discriminates Against Muslim Knife."
by Zenaan Harkness 31 Oct '15

31 Oct '15

http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/260627/heroic-muslim-terrorist-attacked-f… I wonder - is it a good thing that Daniel presents such stories in a way which has me chuckling a couple rounds after reading of such an event? It's black humour, but real life.

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Re: Cypherpunks is broken - Welcome to Secret Admirers
by John Young 31 Oct '15

31 Oct '15

Cypherpunks has produced a slew of offsprings who are confident the parents have been surpassed, are feeble, ghosts of their once own offsprings of offsprings of offsprings. Some have become mules unable to offspring so bray at one another neuteredly, some tote-packing jackasses for secretkeepers, some little horses in a geek carnival DEFCON, one a jester performing for food, bed and hookup in a banana republic's UK squat, another raising wild pussies on a hilltop armed to the gizzard against PETA warriors, several offshore heroined and drunk in hot tubs of rotgut financial shenanigans, others on a mechanical island harassed by EU revenuers and algorithmic mermaids, quite a few incarcerating themselves in courtrooms pursuing phantasms of conquering an NSA long out of date by new improved GQNSAFSB, half a dozen are dead, dying, diseased or headphoned heads mounted on mathematics college entablatures. One is a high official in DoD cybercommand-panic to the max, a twin doing the same for PRC. A small number of geezers continue to write code, that is hire kids to do that, but mostly consult to crypto cretinous corporations, suckle on NGO-tit extortions, deliver commodious farts on the speaker circuit, the best and brightest take long naps, buy weekly, monthly, yearly lap dances, search Google for their names, spit and shit blood, shed hair and flesh, burst into episodes of cackling obscure hashes in elliptic circles. Eyes and minds dim and flicker, maws whimper, broken teeth and code pukes down shirt fronts, dapper David Kahn dances into darkening visions of splendid failure, crooning No Such Agency to the solo female cpunk whose name is legend. At 01:21 PM 10/29/2015, you wrote: >Good luck!

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On a more serious note - how it's going on the ground in Syria
by Zenaan Harkness 31 Oct '15

31 Oct '15

Ahem. I assure you, the Russian bombing is no satire... 12MB and 6MB respectively. http://fortruss.blogspot.ru/2015/10/isis-reacts-to-russian-bombing-satire.h…

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Syria - USAF finally figures out where the goddamn oil refineries are
by Zenaan Harkness 31 Oct '15

31 Oct '15

Those refineries must have blended in with all those deceptive desert pebbles and the odd desert goat masquerading as an oil refinery. :) http://russia-insider.com/en/putin-makes-obama-offer-he-cant-refuse/ri10834

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US billionaire John Pepper, retired CEO of Proctor & Gamble, re Russia
by Zenaan Harkness 31 Oct '15

31 Oct '15

We can assume John Pepper does not have his hand (at least significantly) in the military neocon money trough. http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/retired-top-us-ceo-make-peace-russia-… " Retired Top US CEO: Make Peace with Russia (John Pepper - Procter & Gamble) ” …we need to avoid a further breakdown in the relationships between Russia and the U.S. This means that we must work together to resolve what are the open wounds now in Ukraine and Syria” “We must avoid seeming to or actually working to impose our values on Russia.” “We must acknowledge Russia as a major global power, with a history and status that deserves and demands respect.” “We must dial down the rhetoric which vilifies the other party when what they are doing is essentially expressing their own national interest and pride as we do.” "

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