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a Cypherpunk not in our midst - "The End of Communism in Russia Meant the End of Democracy in the West"
by Zenaan Harkness 27 Oct '15

27 Oct '15

http://russia-insider.com/en/history/russian-thinker-1999the-end-communism-… This interview is from 1999, seems too long to copy and paste, and there's no danger of it disappearing, so here's just a snippet: "Q: All totalitarian systems had their own ideology. What is the ideology of the new society you call post-democratic? A: The most influential Western thinkers and politicians believe that we have entered the post-ideological epoch. This is because by “ideology” they mean communism, fascism, nazism, etc. In reality, the ideology, the super-ideology of the Western world, developed over the last fifty years is much stronger than communism or national socialism. A western citizen is being brainwashed much more than a soviet citizen ever was during the era of communist propaganda. In ideology, the main thing is not the ideas, but rather the mechanisms of their distribution. The might of the Western media, for example, is incomparably greater than that of the propaganda mechanisms of the Vatican when it was at the zenith of its power. And it is not only the cinema, literature, philosophy - all the levers of influence and mechanisms used in the promulgation of culture, in its broadest sense, work in this direction. At the slightest impulse all who work in this area respond with such consistency that it is hard not to think that all orders come from a single source of power. It was enough to decide to stigmatize General Karadžić or President Milošević or someone else for the whole planetary propaganda machine to start working against them. As a result, instead of condemning politicians and NATO generals for violation of all existing laws, the vast majority of Western citizens is convinced that the war against Serbia was necessary and just. Western ideology combines and mixes ideas based on its needs. One of these ideas is that Western values and lifestyle are the best in the world! Although for most people on the planet these values have disastrous consequences. Try to convince Americans that these values will destroy Russia. You will not be able to. They will continue to assert the thesis of universalism of Western values, therefore following one of the fundamental principles of ideological dogmatism. Theorists, politicians and media of the West are absolutely sure that their system is the best. That is why they impose it around the world without a doubt and with a clear conscience. Western man as the carrier of these highest values is therefore a new superman. The term itself is a taboo, but It all comes down to this. This phenomenon should be studied scientifically. But I dare to say that it has become extremely difficult to conduct scientific research in some areas of sociology and history. The scientist who desires to research mechanisms of democratic totalitarianism will face extreme difficulties. He will be made into an outcast. On the other hand, those whose research serves the dominant ideology are flooded with grants while publishing houses and media are fighting for the right to work with such authors. I have personally experienced it when I have been teaching and working as a researcher at foreign universities."

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Russians running amok
by Zenaan Harkness 26 Oct '15

26 Oct '15

Barely can myself I contain, justify words simply cannot! Those naughty, naughty Russians: "The worst news about the continuing improvement and upgrades of the Kalibr [long range missiles] family is its new launcher. Russian missile designers apparently have imagination that is allowed to run amok. They have put a launcher with four Kalibr missiles into a standard shipping container that cross oceans by hundreds of thousands loaded onto standard commercial vessels." http://russia-insider.com/en/military/how-russias-cruise-missiles-change-st…

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The Okinawa missiles of October
by grarpamp 26 Oct '15

26 Oct '15

http://thebulletin.org/okinawa-missiles-october8826 John Bordne, a resident of Blakeslee, Penn., had to keep a personal history to himself for more than five decades. ... The story begins just after midnight, in the wee hours of October 28, 1962, at the very height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Then-Air Force airman John Bordne says he began his shift full of apprehension. At the time, in response to the developing crisis over secret Soviet missile deployments in Cuba, all US strategic forces had been raised to Defense Readiness Condition 2, or DEFCON2; that is, they were prepared to move to DEFCON1 status within a matter of minutes. Once at DEFCON1, a missile could be launched within a minute of a crew being instructed to do so. ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Arkhipov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov

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Fwd: Crimea: The Way Back Home - EN Subtitles - Full Documentary (VIDEO)
by Zenaan Harkness 25 Oct '15

25 Oct '15

As I watch this, seems useful for understanding the nature of fascists. Zenaan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2015 01:26:28 +0000 Subject: Crimea: The Way Back Home - EN Subtitles - Full Documentary (VIDEO) "Crimea: The Way Back Home - EN Subtitles", documentary. This version is about 1.7GB, and contains the section missing from at least one other version (see below) - it's the highest quality version I've been able to find; youtube-dl works a treat: http://thesaker.is/crimea-way-back-home-full-video-with-english-subtitles/ This version is about 330MB, but one of the comments tells us that a 4 minute section has been cut, one of the best bits (again, youtube-dl can download this): http://www.sott.net/article/294197-Crimea-The-Way-Back-Home-EN-Subtitles-Fu… This version is about 863MB, and not currently being seeded by anybody, so cannot comment on how complete it is: https://pirateproxy.yt/torrent/11773855/Crimea_-_The_Way_Back_Home_%28Docum… Regards, Zenaan

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Fwd: [tor-talk] Fwd: [guardian-dev] first beta release Orfox!
by grarpamp 24 Oct '15

24 Oct '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nathan Freitas <nathan(a)freitas.net> Date: Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 6:33 PM Subject: [tor-talk] Fwd: [guardian-dev] first beta release Orfox! To: tor-talk(a)lists.torproject.org Orfox Beta is out on our F-Droid repos and Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=info.guardianproject.orfox https://guardianproject.info/fdroid/repo If you haven't heard about Orfox, you can read more about it here: https://guardianproject.info/2015/06/30/orfox-aspiring-to-bring-tor-browser… ----- Original message ----- From: "Hans-Christoph Steiner" <hans(a)guardianproject.info> To: Guardian Dev <guardian-dev(a)lists.mayfirst.org> Subject: [guardian-dev] first beta release Orfox! Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 09:35:44 +0200 At long last, we finally have the first beta release of Orfox! Orfox is our replacement for Orweb as the private browser for Android. It is based on a port of Tor Browser to mobile Firefox (aka Fennec). You can get it now from our F-Droid repository. In F-Droid, go to the Repositories, then flick on the "Guardian Project Official Releases" repository, and let it update the index. Then you can search for and install Orfox. If you don't already have F-Droid, get it here: https://f-droid.org Coming soon to Google Play also. .hc -- PGP fingerprint: 5E61 C878 0F86 295C E17D 8677 9F0F E587 374B BE81 https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x9F0FE587374BBE81

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Re: list sans smtp spillage
by Shelley 24 Oct '15

24 Oct '15

On October 23, 2015 7:49:17 PM Mirimir <mirimir(a)riseup.net> wrote: > On 10/23/2015 10:21 AM, Shelley wrote: > > (I thought it was a joke/troll post & initially ignored it.) > > What makes you think that it's not? > What makes you think that it's coderman's list? I reflected upon that after I had already run my mouth about it. It didn't seem to be presented as a quote, or a "look at this BS I found!" post. As I said, I'd basically ignored it until others began commenting about who was/was not on the list. > > > I noticed eugen, too! Wtf, codermange? > > > Jim Fucking Bell is on there, but not Cari Machet. Riiight. > > Maybe that tells you something, maybe not. > > What set includes Jim Bell and Paul Syverson, but not Cari Machet? > > Nothing coherent comes to mind. Looking at it the other way: which set might include people like coderman, Jim Bell, Brian Carroll... mk @ desu = liberté. Nadim K? If this is someone else's list, it makes no sense to me that coderman would be on it (if it were indeed a list of "crackpots and cranks.") He files a lot of FOIA requests, and that probably irks a fair number of people with an interest in keeping the info hidden. Jim: he needs no further explanation. A glorious thorn in the side of a bunch of people would couldn't deserve it more. And, so on... It could be some kind of tactic to attempt to squelch voices of dissent/advocates of crypto, sure. They've been doing such things long before Snowden found out about it. Perhaps if I ask nicely, coderman will enlighten us as to whether this filter is a list of his own or a random pastebin he happened upon? -S > > > > >> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Seth <list(a)sysfu.com> wrote: > >> > >> > On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 01:59:51 -0700, coderman <coderman(a)gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >> > > >> > http://pastebin.com/Wy98Q3TJ > >> >> > >> >> --- > >> >> > >> >> Email filter update. > >> >> This is a list with trolls, troublemakers and other nuts mostly on the > >> >> security mailing lists. Since I filter those the discussion is much > >> >> more civil. And with far less conspiracies. > >> >> > >> > > >> > Pondering the meaning seeing as how OP's own email address is > >> included in > >> > the list. > >> > > >> > Now that's meta-trolling if I ever dun seen it. > >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Twitter <https://twitter.com/tbiehn> | LinkedIn > >> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/travisbiehn> | GitHub > >> <http://github.com/tbiehn> > >> | TravisBiehn.com <http://www.travisbiehn.com> | Google Plus > >> <https://plus.google.com/+TravisBiehn> > > > > > >

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Suggest High-Signal Crew Ditch This for Reddit
by Cathal Garvey 24 Oct '15

24 Oct '15

Not gonna screed about this, anyone who feels about this shit like I do is probably going to get this already. CPunks is more noise than signal, even if the signal part is pretty good. Reddit is the only open source SocNet, and has topic-based enclosure (so no more firehose of stupidity on one's inbox) and downvoting to remove the idiocy if users set their clients to remove low-rated posts. I'm ditching this list, but see the higher-signal folks on Reddit at: reddit.com/r/crypto reddit.com/r/cypherpunks reddit.com/r/privacy Y'all can find me at /u/cathalgarvey if so inclined. It's been fun seeing people piss at one another about who's more native American, and who's a secret RU/GCHQ/NSA plant (hint: probably 80% of the active posters here). Peace out, Cathal

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list sans smtp spillage
by Michael Best 23 Oct '15

23 Oct '15

This was the final piece I needed to finally dox coderman. I give you... [image: Inline image 1] <http://41.media.tumblr.com/4d9ff52281bd4384afa0f30d12d1d323/tumblr_nrtw37BX…> Abed Nadir. #SixSeasonsAndAMovie *Seth* list(a)sysfu.com <list%40sysfu.com?Subject=Re%3A%20list%20sans%20smtp%20spillage&In-Reply-To=%3Cop.x6yt821ebgbjo9%40laptop%3E> > > *Fri Oct 23 11:50:32 EDT 2015*On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 01:59:51 -0700, coderman <coderman(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >* http://pastebin.com/Wy98Q3TJ <http://pastebin.com/Wy98Q3TJ> > *> > >* --- > *> > >* Email filter update. > *>* This is a list with trolls, troublemakers and other nuts mostly on the > *>* security mailing lists. Since I filter those the discussion is much > *>* more civil. And with far less conspiracies. > * > Pondering the meaning seeing as how OP's own email address is included in > the list. > Now that's meta-trolling if I ever dun seen it.

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Cryptography's Role in Securing the Information Society, May 2, 1996
by John Young 23 Oct '15

23 Oct '15

Some will remember this Clinton administration handling of cryptography, and now its recycling of threats and assurances by Obama. Cryptography's Role in Securing the Information Society, May 2, 1996 https://cryptome.org/jya/nrcindex.htm Cryptome's first publication, scanned hardcopy, NRC displeased.

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Re: [tor-dev] Effect of padding on end to end correlation false positive rate
by grarpamp 23 Oct '15

23 Oct '15

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 3:22 PM, s7r <s7r(a)sky-ip.org> wrote: > I am describing something like a Sybil attack where the adversary runs > relays, gets lucky and is selected in a certain position of a certain > Does this change with padding? If yes, how? > [1]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/traffic-correlation-using-netflows My thought was solely restricted to analysis of network traffic by *passive* adversary... not involving any collusion by actives over circuits they can see inside or pump within any given onion layer, though clocked and checked network fill by all proper nodes would inhibit pumping by actives. I talked on list with someone at briarproject and wherever else on idea of filling the network with traffic vs the passives. Apologize for not making time to review Mike's proposal or develop further talk yet. Someone will review / integrate fill padding of network with regard anonbib, Mike's, etc I'm sure, as it is clearly (to me at least) a weakness of non-filled non-store-and-forward networks vs the passives which we all know and love.

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