October 2015 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

How To Survive The "Deep State"
by wirelesswarrior＠Safe-mail.net 20 Oct '15

20 Oct '15

"Almost everyone looks for a political solution to problems. However, once a Deep State situation has taken over, only a revolution or a dictatorship can turn it around, and probably only in a small country. "Here’s what would happen in the totally impossible scenario that this person was elected and tried to act like a Lee Kuan Yew or an Augusto Pinochet against the Deep State:" http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-16/how-survive-deep-state

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

20 Oct '15

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.

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WikiLeaks is not hosting Cryptome, search service only
by John Young 20 Oct '15

20 Oct '15

Clarify: WikiLeaks is not hosting Cryptome, instead a search service which points to Cryptome site files. Mighty helpful.

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Cyber Guerrilla Warfare, OPSEC, etc... [re: kicks bucket]
by grarpamp 20 Oct '15

20 Oct '15

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 4:51 AM, Georgi Guninski <guninski(a)guninski.com> wrote: > The ... situation ... is quite grave. > Assume very severe ... crisis hits ... relatively soon causing ... "State Kicks the bucket" (and other use cases) bring about some discussion around cyber guerrilla warfare of sorts... Assume you're a terrist, warfighter, some flavor of activist / dissident, human rights worker, journalist, hacker, VIP, whatever... What is the time to a fix and physical intercept on your location? Possibly specified to within some radius such that you cannot escape without being captured, or at least being visually identified, etc. Modulo your own movement while on / off air. What are the capabilities of any particular chosen adversaries that are after your realtime fix? What is your loiter time before you must move to avoid capture? Consider some various theatres, densities, infrastructures, and situations in which you might operate... - War ravaged mideast "city" - Paris, New York, Tokyo - You're in soverign territory up against drones and monitoring / locating methods that ignore and cross political boundaries. - You're in soverign territory against local police forces. - On foot or on wheels. - Cameras everywhere, discretion kept how? - Whether you strictly follow "never use the same place twice", or not. - Locating tech deployed directly by adversary vs. adversary utilizing tech deployed by local utilities that serve the population. - How to operate on limited resources against the "haves". Land lines are out since you'd churn through safe lines, unless you're tapping into them. Also wifi, cellular, satcom, pamphleting. Some examples could be drawn from the "wars" in the mideast. ie: You're spotted and fixed by undercover CIA agent, then droned 15 min later. What are your goals as a cyber guerrilla or OPSEC oriented individual or group in various tactical and strategic situations that you have an affinity with? What are the greator goals? What are the likely interest areas of a cyber guerrilla beyond personal survival of water, food, shelter? Do wide and local comms channels have trade value? How to maintain them? Any any other things related to cyber war, OPSEC type things that keep you alive / valued when bucket is kicked, even if you're sheeple....

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@phphax vs CIA: In All Yer Base since 1983
by grarpamp 19 Oct '15

19 Oct '15

"We are aware of the reports on social media and we are referring to the appropriate authorities," the senior official said. https://twitter.com/phphax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames

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WikiLeaks Hosts Cryptome with Search
by John Young 19 Oct '15

19 Oct '15

WikiLeaks Hosts Cryptome with Search https://cryptome.wikileaks.org

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John McAfee Runs For US President In 2016 Under Cyber Party
by grarpamp 19 Oct '15

19 Oct '15

Recently you had a chance to ask John McAfee about his presidential run under the newly-formed Cyber Party. John covers a wide variety of topics from education and infrastructure, to gun control and drug legalization. Read below for his answers to your questions. http://politics.slashdot.org/story/15/10/19/1517221/interviews-john-mcafee-…

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Fwd: Ecartis command results: unsubscribe
by Michael Best 19 Oct '15

19 Oct '15

1. If JYA had been willing to quietly verify that information in the first place, I wouldn't've had to publish it. Instead, he lied and said I faked the data. 2. I only brought it up because it was relevant to the GCHQ slide, which John refused to comment on except to tell me in an email to keep going. 3. As John has said, '*What if we harm somebody' or all this kind of crap. Which is strictly cowardice.*" When he didn't cooperate and then told me to keep going, I took that as his blessing. 4. The majority of those extra posts about Cryptome or using the word Cryptome didn't come from me, they came from people throwing accusations at me and deflecting from the real point which was the fxcking GCHQ slide. Because heaven forbid we talk about actual cypherpunk issues instead of accusing someone who doesn't worship Snowden or JYA enough. 5. Do you extend this same "unintended consequences" for Snowden's leaks when it comes to legitimate security issues, creating rifts between governments, creating discord among the population, accusing encryption of being the reason aliens haven't made contact, making it easier for FIS or terrorist groups to evade surveillance that has the potential to stop attacks against the critical infrastructure that John likes to take pictures of and post? I'm getting fed up with what feels like endless hypocrisy and personal attacks over a situation that I didn't play the dominant role in creating - JYA did. But I guess it's more fun to rabblerouse about shit and make accusations > Your trolling the list with the basically useless information that JYA > sold logs THAT HIS SITE OPERATION MAY NOT HAVE GENERATED (they may be > netsol's right?) created a spike in the use of the word "Cryptome" etc > on the radar of hackers and spammers, so yeah, you're responsible Mike. I > can almost guarantee it wouldn't have happened without you. RR

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Re: USB killer v2.0
by wirelesswarrior＠Safe-mail.net 19 Oct '15

19 Oct '15

Jim, Although Kopp's paper lacks some critical design details there are other online papers that reveal the missing elements in sufficent detail. Key components not shown in the linked article are a Q-switch, a pulse compression device most often used in lasers, that decreases pulse width and increases pulse amplitude (the explosive's detoniation isn't brief enough) and the microwave generator's design. Heck, according to Kopp you really don't even need an explosive pump. A lightening discharge (triggered by laser or a small rocket) will do the trick. An advantage of the lightening method is the device is not destroyed (if you can safely retrieve it). Disadvantage, you must hide the device near a target (with high lightening activity) for extended periods. WW -------- Original Message -------- From: jim bell <jdb10987(a)yahoo.com> Apparently from: cypherpunks-bounces(a)cpunks.org To: coderman <coderman(a)gmail.com> Cc: Georgi Guninski <guninski(a)guninski.com>, "cypherpunks(a)cpunks.org" <cypherpunks(a)cpunks.org> Subject: Re: USB killer v2.0 Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 05:25:36 +0000 (UTC) > > From: coderman <coderman(a)gmail.com> > > > > >> However, for REAL damage, it would be useful to pulse the kilovolts into the > >> magnetron: Generally if you increase the voltage by 10, the power increases > >> by 100. Feed that microwave magnetron with brief (microseconds) pulses of > >> 40,000 volts, rather than 4000, and it will probably generate close to 100 > >> kilowatts. It would be necessary to establish that such a system will not > >> arc with over-voltage, either within the waveguide or the associated > >> high-voltage wiring. > > >high voltage solid state built into shielding around the > >waveguide/magnetron cavity presents smallest external hazard and > >compact too. > >of course, another order-of-mag level up in explosively pumped EW weapons :) > > http://science.howstuffworks.com/e-bomb3.htm > > > > > > > > >

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MUTE and Solving the key exchange problem
by wirelesswarrior＠Safe-mail.net 19 Oct '15

19 Oct '15

Frank Braun has just released an alpha of his MUTE - secure messaging system. This Prague 2015 Hacker Conference slide presentation included a very interesting section of how MUTE tries "Solving the key exchange problem". Here is a link to details and his slides. He welcomes positive criticism. https://github.com/mutecomm/mute/blob/master/doc/keyexchangeproblem.md WW

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