November 2015 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Re: [tor-talk] Bear Bonds - a new cryptocurrency that uses Tor
by grarpamp 13 Nov '15

13 Nov '15

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 8:52 PM, <allen(a)bearbonds.org> wrote: > I'm involved in a project to create a new cryptocurrency called Bear > Bonds(TM). > > One of the notable features for the Tor community is that all communication > is via Tor using Tor hidden services. This includes communication between > users and the network, and all communication between network nodes. Tor is > used for both privacy and security. In particular, since the users are > anonymized, it prevents a node on the network from attempting to send > targeting information to a certain user or group of users. > > If Bear Bonds is successful, we of course plan to give extensive support > back to the Tor community. > > We have a whitepaper, technical documentation and a technology preview > software release on our website at https://www.bearbonds.org. The code is > over 80% complete and we are working to finish it as quickly as possible. > > Please feel free read the documentation and try out the wallet simulation > script. We welcome any comments and questions. > > Thank you, > > Allen > http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2015-November/027092.html An admittedly very brief reading, site verbage, including trademark, patent and copyright claims leaves question as to commitment to fully decentralized p2p model and opensource. If true, you might find quite limited interest here and more interest by banks, govts, and commercial. If untrue and misread, please address. And details on "directory servers", "witnesses", "trusted party transaction servers". What is your .onion? What networks besides Tor do you have as pluggable (or even multihome) options for when Tor is or becomes incapacitated or unreachable or users simply prefer other?

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UK To Ban Crypto In Devices, Email And More
by grarpamp 13 Nov '15

13 Nov '15

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/11970391/Interne… Internet firms to be banned from offering unbreakable encryption under new laws 3:16PM GMT 02 Nov 2015 Internet and social media companies will be banned from putting customer communications beyond their own reach under new laws to be unveiled on Wednesday. Companies such as Apple, Google and others will no longer be able to offer encryption so advanced that even they cannot decipher it when asked to, the Daily Telegraph can disclose. Measures in the Investigatory Powers Bill will place in law a requirement on tech firms and service providers to be able to provide unencrypted communications to the police or spy agencies if requested through a warrant.

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Cpunk Propaganda To Reach The Sheeple [New functionality of Facebook]
by grarpamp 13 Nov '15

13 Nov '15

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 9:23 AM, Steve Kinney <admin(a)pilobilus.net> wrote: > There's a lot to dislike about The Facebook, but I do my best to > assure that my participation causes more harm to the opposition > team than to my own interests. They do get a constantly updated > map of a big chunk of my real-world social network, and that kind > of collection used to cost money and deplete finite resources > dammit. But then, so did reaching a receptive audience with > anarchist propaganda and commentary, so, I figure it for a > break-even proposition. Everyone bitches about having a hard time reaching the sheeple, from their tech lab in the basement that is. So similar above, to reach them you have to go to them, to their boring online "forums" and facebooks, the ones about football, beer, trucks, sewing, baby raising, cooking, etc... just start posting links to news stories you want them to see... all automated from the comfort of your basement.

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Call William Binney's Friend...
by grarpamp 13 Nov '15

13 Nov '15

http://hop3.de/text_en.html Telephone: +49 174 276 6483 This mobile phone was used to call the personal number of William Binney, a former technical director of the U.S. National Security Agency who quit in protest in 2001 and later became one of the first whistleblowers on illegal NSA programmes. He must be considered to be what the intelligence agencies call “cast iron” – an internal term to identify targets that are so important that every bit of data personally connected to them has to be recorded and saved forever. ... By calling this phone from your own device... Do you really want to live a life where you shy away from completely normal, legal things, like calling a mobile phone? https://cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2015-September/009104.html Telephone: +9647705648252

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Fwd: 2 WikiLeaks questions
by Ryan Carboni 12 Nov '15

12 Nov '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ryan Carboni <ryacko(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 10:15 AM Subject: Re: 2 WikiLeaks questions To: dal(a)riseup.net Woah, woah, woah. Back up. The Palestinians started this whole mess by trying to kick the Jews out in the 1947 civil war, while there were Jewish attacks on British institutions, the Arabs committed the bulk of the violence. The only feasible peace process is for the Palestinians to integrate into the Israeli community, which is impossible because any moves towards a peace process will get you assassinated in the Middle East (Sadat, Rabin). Furthermore, wikileaks made it too obvious that they were pawns of Russian intelligence, they post a form letter from McCain to the Russian Ambassador asking for donations? They cavort with a Russian lawyer? If you behave as an enemy to US interests, US interests will treat you the same (and if you read the Rancid Honeytrap, you'll be surprised at the extent of US penetration into US society). Wikileaks should have towed a strict moralistic line making it clear they should not receive an appropriate response. It's too bad the US intelligence community insults their own employees intelligence. The only reason why they don't want leaks is because once something is leaked, it becomes OSINT, not HUMINT. And HUMINT gets expensive, and the last thing you want is explain to an intelligence committee why Botswana is equally effective at intelligence as you. But if they advertise to their employees that being loyal is a pointless endeavor, that'll just drive down the price of espionage. It's really a silly thing. Ultimately, if wikileaks wanted to enact positive change, as opposed to behaving like narcissistic morons, well, it's too late for that. But obviously don't stick your penis into a white woman who's anti-Castro. Young white people don't give a damn about Castro. Only the CIA cares about Castro. Wikileaks got what it deserved.

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TV ad tracking-thru-secret-inaudible-noise program is named... wait for it... PRISM!
by Razer 12 Nov '15

12 Nov '15

...and you thought you were only being stalked in the intertubz... SilverPush Prism and "Unique Audio Beacon" http://www.silverpush.co/#!/prism http://www.silverpush.co/#!/uab

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Re: Fwd: 2 WikiLeaks questions
by John Young 12 Nov '15

12 Nov '15

>But obviously don't stick your penis into a white woman who's anti-Castro. Wicked sequitur.

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Re: Appeals Court Stayed: Re: Judge enjoins NSA to not collect metadata on attorney or his law firm.
by John Young 12 Nov '15

12 Nov '15

Judge Leon's opinion was published on November 9 and the Appeals stay the next day. https://cryptome.org/2015/11/klayman-158-159.pdf From the Appeals stay: "ORDERED that the district court's order issued November 9, 2015, be stayed pending further order of the court." At 01:47 PM 11/12/2015, you wrote: >The document url you cited, an order by the District Judge, was >dated the same day as "An appeals court stayed the judge's order on >10 November 2015." >That would be a quick stay! Are we talking about the same stay? > Jim Bell > > >From: John Young <jya(a)pipeline.com> >To: cypherpunks(a)cpunks.org >Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2015 8:35 AM >Subject: Appeals Court Stayed: Re: Judge enjoins NSA to not collect >metadata on attorney or his law firm. > >An appeals court stayed the judge's order on 10 November 2015. >DoJ filed 241 pages to win the stay: > ><https://cryptome.org/2015/11/klayman-stay-15-1110.pdf>https://cryptome.org/2015/11/klayman-stay-15-1110.pdf >(8.1MB) > > > > > >At 11:21 AM 11/12/2015, you wrote: > > >Does anyone here actually believe the NSA gives a fuck what some pissant > >federal judge says? > > >

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Re: Judge enjoins NSA to not collect metadata on attorney or his law firm.
by jim bell 12 Nov '15

12 Nov '15

http://news.yahoo.com/u-judge-rules-against-nsa-phone-spying-case-025251888… By Dustin VolzOpponents of mass surveillance cheered the ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon, who granted an injunction to bar the NSA from collecting the phone metadata of California attorney J.J. Little and his small legal practice.WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge on Monday for the first time ordered the National Security Agency to cease collecting the phone call records of a lawyer and his firm, providing an unprecedented but narrow and largely symbolic victory to privacy advocates.Unlike previous rulings against the NSA's program to vacuum up Americans' call data, which was exposed publicly by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden in 2013, Leon’s opinion does not grant a stay, meaning it will take effect immediately.The decision is of little practical consequence because it is so narrow in scope in covering only Little and his firm.It also comes just weeks before the NSA is scheduled to end its controversial bulk collection program in favor of a more targeted system. That new regime, as mandated by Congress earlier this year, will become active on Nov. 29.But the ruling's language is forceful and represents a win for civil liberties groups concerned that NSA surveillance is too intrusive.Leon wrote that the case may be the last court evaluation of the NSA's bulk metadata collection program."It will not, however, be the last chapter in the ongoing struggle to balance privacy rights and national security interests under our Constitution in an age of evolving technological wizardry," he wrote.On Twitter, Snowden cheered the "historic decision" as one that concluded the NSA “violated Americans’ privacy rights.”Leon, a conservative judge appointed by former President George W. Bush, has long been among the most vocal judges critical of the NSA’s spying practices.Leon said he did not stay his Monday decision “because it has been almost two years since I first found that the NSA’s bulk telephony metadata program likely violates the Constitution."Other plaintiffs in the case, including conservative activist Larry Klayman, who began the lawsuit, were not included in the ruling, due to issues concerning standing.A higher court previously rejected Klayman’s challenge, saying he could not prove his phone was targeted by the NSA as Snowden’s documents only revealed customers of Verizon Business Network Services, which is a subsidiary of Verizon Communications, such as Little, were implicated. Klayman added Little to his case to address the standing concern.

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Re: Ethical Tor
by Ryan Carboni 12 Nov '15

12 Nov '15

> On 11/11/2015 12:27 PM, Ryan Carboni wrote: > >* https://blog.torproject.org/blog/ethical-tor-research-guidelines <https://blog.torproject.org/blog/ethical-tor-research-guidelines> > *> >* Interesting problem: to use Tor is to say you trust your ISP less than > *>* some pseudorandom person over the internet. > * > Sadly enough, that's often prudent. Some ISPs are honorable, for sure. > But many are duplicitous scum. > > In any case, it's more accurate to say that about your VPN provider. > With Tor, you're trusting the system, but system integrity is resilient > to malicious nodes. So you're not trusting any one of them fully, even > your entry guard, as much as you would have been trusting your ISP. > > Correct, it would be prudent to avoid using port 80 over Tor for anything personally identifiable. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/court-docs-show-a-university-helped-fbi-bu…

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