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State of the art in malware owning human?
by Georgi Guninski 22 Oct '15

22 Oct '15

What is the state of the art in malware owning the human, not just the box? ...or DoS the human, making them inoperable. Maybe it is something like 25th frame, possibly with auditory vector. Or better remote hypnosis. IIRC on some forum about epilepsy someone posted ``weird image'' which causes severe crisis in some epileptics of certain form. Some info about 25th frame: http://strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/parameters/articles/98spring… --- According to Solntsev, one computer virus capable of affecting a person's psyche is Russian Virus 666. It manifests itself in every 25th frame of a visual display, where it produces a combination of colors that allegedly put computer operators into a trance. The subconscious perception of the new pattern eventually results in arrhythmia of the heart. Other Russian computer specialists, not just Solntsev, talk openly about this "25th frame effect" and its ability to subtly manage a computer user's perceptions. The purpose of this technique is to inject a thought into the viewer's subconscious. It may remind some of the subliminal advertising controversy in the United States in the late 1950s. --- F-secure claims: Russian Virus 666 There is no virus by this name. IIRC spammers used it for spam in animated images http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/9712/17/video.seizures.update/ Japanese cartoon triggers seizures in hundreds of children

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USA government debt ceiling
by Zenaan Harkness 22 Oct '15

22 Oct '15

USA gov froze its government debt in March this year since they hit the 'statutory maximum' of $18,113,000,080,959.35 (yep, and the 35c). USGov is now in an extraordinary measures situation to be looked at again October 30, 2015. http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/150-days-treasury-say… This has happened a few times before, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_debt_ceiling but I wonder if there are some real limits being reached, where they'll be unable to practically raise the USGov debt ceiling? Anyone have further info on this?

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Re: State of the art in malware owning human?
by John Young 22 Oct '15

22 Oct '15

National security religion current world malware leader. Consecrated in 1947, fastest spreading global cult of carnage fed by stupendous growth of spying and armaments industries. Bloodthirsty, vicious, insane with maximum killing machines against infidels who refuse to tithe, obey, excuse, honor and applaud worst earth and human destructors ever. Nobody exempt from sacrifice at the altar of stand-off scripture of privileging laws and economics. And condoned by gutless humor, idiotic cynicism, flacid critique. This Halloween lick the spookily sacred Arlington gravestones, the spooky stars on the sacrificial hero wall. "Amen, inshallah, fuck you, me, the leering pumpkins and off." - Anon At 09:50 AM 10/22/2015, you wrote: >"From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." >and >"We are all God's children" >and >"Mohamed is his prophet" > >Worst malware ever. Makes people violent and unable to comprehend reality. > >Kurt > >On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 2:05 AM, Georgi Guninski ><guninski(a)guninski.com> wrote: > > What is the state of the art in malware owning the human, not just the > > box? > > > > ...or DoS the human, making them inoperable. > > > > Maybe it is something like 25th frame, possibly with auditory vector. > > > > Or better remote hypnosis. > > > > IIRC on some forum about epilepsy someone posted ``weird image'' which > > causes severe crisis in some epileptics of certain form. > > > > Some info about 25th frame: > > > http://strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/parameters/articles/98spring… > > --- > > According to Solntsev, one computer virus capable of affecting a > > person's psyche is Russian Virus 666. It manifests itself in every 25th > > frame of a visual display, where it produces a combination of colors > > that allegedly put computer operators into a trance. The subconscious > > perception of the new pattern eventually results in arrhythmia of the > > heart. Other Russian computer specialists, not just Solntsev, talk > > openly about this "25th frame effect" and its ability to subtly manage a > > computer user's perceptions. The purpose of this technique is to inject > > a thought into the viewer's subconscious. It may remind some of the > > subliminal advertising controversy in the United States in the late > > 1950s. > > --- > > > > F-secure claims: > > Russian Virus 666 > > There is no virus by this name. > > > > IIRC spammers used it for spam in animated images > > > > http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/9712/17/video.seizures.update/ > > Japanese cartoon triggers seizures in hundreds of children > >

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blockchain technology
by dan＠geer.org 22 Oct '15

22 Oct '15

FYI, peernova.com is worth a look if you are keeping up with the application(s) of blockchain technology and where it's entering the marketplace. --dan

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Re: [tor-talk] Tor
by Juan 21 Oct '15

21 Oct '15

> https://edwardsnowden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/tor-stinks-presentatio… BY THE WAY, what kind of retard can take the above 'presentation' seriously ?! "use cookies to identify tor users when they are not using tor" what !? the cookie monster? "How does tor handle dns requests? Are dns requests goin through tor? --- current : still investigating". So, that's allegedly a 'top secret' nsa document dated june 2012 showing that the top master hackers don't even know the basics of the protocol? Please. "what do we know about hidden services? current : no effort by nsa" Sure. None. Nada. Nothing. "can we exploit nodes. probably not. legal and technical challenges". ... Well, boys nothing to see here. The government is completly inept AND, of course, they 'respect the law'. Whatever that is. Somebody was talking about moles?

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Facebook admits obvious, Claims miraculous knowledge of States G-Men
by grarpamp 20 Oct '15

20 Oct '15

Starting today, we will notify you if we believe your account has been targeted or compromised by an attacker suspected of working on behalf of a nation-state. ... To protect the integrity of our methods and processes, we often won't be able to explain how we attribute certain attacks to suspected attackers. https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-security/notifications-for-targeted…

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Re: Snowden on the Twitters
by Ryan Carboni 20 Oct '15

20 Oct '15

> > It is behind Cloudflare's MiTM service which adds web services names to > their existing certs as alternative Names. > > So your SSL/TLS connection is terminated on Cloudflare's web application > firewalls and NOT the web servers that you think is terminating it. > > Given CF handle over 4% of web traffic it is a great place to collect and > collate what was encrypted traffic for monitoring and anti-privacy purposes. > > Cheers, > Oshwm. Given that it was revealed that ISPs were subsidized in exchange for giving the NSA full take, it makes cloudflare mildly suspicious. Although I personally don't care. It's a free CDN and I suppose one expects some freedom to be lost somewhere.

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Wikileaks Cryptome search/files
by Michael Best 20 Oct '15

20 Oct '15

While examining the cryptome.wikileaks.org, I took a look at their version of the donations page <https://cryptome.wikileaks.org/donations.htm> and noticed that it seems to come from the June 2, 2014 release* which was released via TOR and torrents over a year ago. *Cryptome Archive USB.* The USB will contain the Cryptome archive of over > 71,500 files for the period from June 1996 to 2 June 2014. Donation of $100 > is requested. The USB will be shipped worldwide. Email a shipping address > to cryptome[at]earthlink.net. It also references Cryptome's old kickstarter. Does this mean that Wikileaks is hosting some of the files (older than June 2, 2014?) and using a redirect for newer files? *The awstats which were included in that release don't show up in the search through Wikileaks, but interestingly a few now deleted tweets from Cryptome do. They may be storing some of the tweets.

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WikiLeaks of "spying related" to its Cryptome search is click bait
by John Young 20 Oct '15

20 Oct '15

Caution: WikiLeaks of "spying related" to its Cryptome search is click bait to garner user data. No salute for misleading hype.

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Re: [tor-talk] Tor
by Juan 20 Oct '15

20 Oct '15

On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 04:42:32 +0000 Virgil Griffith <i(a)virgil.gr> wrote: > I accuse Juan of being the actual mole here. He so masterfully keeps > us muttering to each other/him instead of working productively. How so? How do I keep you and your friends from collecting your pentagon checks? Go ahead. Enlighten me. Also, you can check who I am. Ask any of the tor high-rankinkg cunts to look me up in their .mil 'intelligence' databases. > > http://fortune.com/2015/09/30/workplace-bureaucracy-simple-sabotage/ > > > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 12:35 PM grarpamp <grarpamp(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 10:03 PM, Justin <davisjustin002(a)gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > According to a top secret NSA document, which you can view online: > > > Tor is the king of high secure, low latency anonymity. No > > > contender > > awaits the throne. > > > > The document does not say that. > > Depending on your threat model and needed feature set > > Tor may be good, not good enough, or a failure. > > Plenty of room for competition and evaluation. > > And many contenders in the fields of anonymous transport, > > messaging, storage and so on both exist and are in development. > > > > > > https://edwardsnowden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/tor-stinks-presentatio… > > > > Also, trim to relavance and quit top posting. > > -- > > 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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