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back doors
by dan＠geer.org 22 Dec '15

22 Dec '15

With software auto-update in a fully personalized digital world, there is no need for back doors. Were active defense to go in the direction of diversity compilers, comparing updates would be uninformative. --dan

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The USA Fake Of The Moon Landings
by Александр 21 Dec '15

21 Dec '15

Part 1: *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABxAN8cfiOI <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABxAN8cfiOI>* Part 2: *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9imVp8tlecY <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9imVp8tlecY>* ___ *Stanley Kubrick Confesses To Faking The Moon Landings* A stunning new video has emerged 15 years after Stanley Kubrick’s death in which Kubrick allegedly admits that the NASA moon landings were faked. Filmmaker T. Patrick Murray says he interviewed Kubrick three days before his death in March 1999. He was forced to sign an 88-page NDA to keep the contents of the interview a secret for 15 years. Below is a transcript from the interview with Stanley Kubrick, in which the 2001 Space Odyssey Director admits on camera that, “the moon landings ALL were faked , and that I was the person who filmed it.” We have included a leaked rough cut of the film below the transcript as well as two unedited raw videos of the interview with Kubrick below that: *K: I’m so preoccupied. With my work, innovation, risk-taking, regrets…T: Why are you giving this interview?K: Because, it started to get to me after awhile. Well, this is difficult, because it is the first time I’ve talked about it. (sighs)T: Sure, take all the time you need.K: I’ve always been conflicted by it, but not consciously until years later. I was just blown away by the chance, the opportunity, the challenge of making this, this production, and I went into this like it was a regular film, like another regular film of mine, not thinking too much about uh the long term effects of what it would mean to society if it was ever discovered.T: What are you talking about? I’m dying to know what you’re talking about.K: Well, a confession of sorts. A movie I made, that nobody is aware of – even though they’ve seen it.T: A movie you made, no one knows you made? Is that what you said?K: That’s right. Is that intriguing? Do I have you intrigued?K: I perpetrated a huge fraud on the American public, which I am now about to detail, involving the United States government and NASA, that the moon landings were faked, that the moon landings ALL were faked , and that I was the person who filmed it.T: Ok. (laughs) What are you talking…You’re serious. Ok.K: I’m serious. Dead serious.K: Yes, it was fake.T: Ok. Wait. Wait…T: I don’t want this to be an R-rated film, but seriously, what the blank, but seriously…T: I, I, I worked almost eight months to secure this once in a lifetime interview that almost no else could ever get, and instead of talking about his sixteen films that I’ve endured since I was a child…That we didn’t land on the moon, you’re saying?K: No, we didn’t.K: It was not real.T: The moon landings were fake?K: A, a, a.. fictional moon landing. A fantasy. It was not real.K: Don’t you think it’s important for people to know the truth?T: The moon landing in ’69, which was two years before my birth…K: Is total fiction.T: Total fiction.T: Is that?…So, that’s the 15 year thing. So that’s makes sense now. That’s why I can’t release it for 15 years now, that makes total sense now.T: Did we…we didn’t land on the moon you’re saying?K: No, we didn’t.T: Why are you telling me?K: A, a, a, a massive fraud. An unparalleled fraud perpetrated against them. They SHOULD know.K: Nixon want to uh, they were planning, yeah, he want to fake this, this moon landing…T: Are you contending that people DON’T want to know the truth about the world, reality, the moon landings…?K: The government, knowing this, takes advantage of it by perpetrating fraud after fraud after fraud.T: How did you end up giving in? Being complicit with this fraud?K: I didn’t want to do it.T: This is NOT where I thought this interview was going!K: With my help, with my, with my aid, and it is, it is bothering me.T: I only have this certain amount of time with you. And I’ll talk about whatever you want, but…T: You’re not…This isn’t some type of joke, or…K: No. No, it’s not.T: Or a film within a film thing…K: Not joking. NOPE.T: Okay.K: The conspiracy theorists were right, on this occasion.T: I don’t know what to ask you first.K: I thought it was wrong, I just…I didn’t believe in perpetrating a fraud like that.T: But you did.K: It also undermined my artistic integrity to do that.T: Ok, but you ended up saying yes. Why?K: Well, yes, but because basically I was bribed. To put it bluntly, that’s what it was. It was just a plain fucking bribe.T: Why are you telling me?K:A, a, a, massive fraud. An unparalleled fraud perpetrated against them. They SHOULD know! Don’t you think it’s important for people to know the truth?T: Why did they have to fake it? Why? Why would they ever need to do something like that? Why would the government ever want or need to do…K: It’s no secret that NASA always wanted to fulfill this Kennedy prophecy.T: Take it from the beginning…T: I gotta be honest, this is where he (Kubrick) got me. I mean, when I actually put myself in his position, when I actually imagine that he was telling the truth, and that he was presented with this opportunity and if in the one in a billion chance that I lived his life and I was presented with the same opportunity, what would I do?T: Yeah, he wanted his approval points up and he thought nothing could do it better than this.T: What a conflict. I mean, gosh, I can’t imagine being presented with that opportunity. On one hand, I’d really would want to do it, but then I’d probably say I’m committing a crime, and lying…T: It depends, but my guess would be…no, if you’re good, but you would do it.K: Spielberg, (inaudible) Scorsese, even Woody Allen. There isn’t one of them who wouldn’t do this.T: I gotta admit: I’d do it. I’d do it too.T: But they dangled all this power and all this flattery on you, essentially?K: Yeah, it got to me after awhile. You can listen to so much of that stuff before you start to believe it.T: They just said you were the greatest and stuff?K: Yeah, yeah – and I agreed with them.K: Why are you telling the world? Why does the world need to know that the moon landings aren’t real and you faked them?K: Which I consider to be my masterpiece.T: And you can’t take credit, or even talk about…K: Well, I am now..T: Right, so you’ll be dead. In ten years, or 15…K: Right, ten or 15 something like that.T: So, you can’t talk to Roger Ebert about it. Does that frustrate you?T: Why did they have to fake it? Why would they have to do that?K: Because it is impossible to get there.T: Ok, back up, back up, back up….*

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Fwd: [Cryptography] The Dawn of the Crypto Age
by grarpamp 21 Dec '15

21 Dec '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: CANNON NATHANIEL CIOTA <cannon(a)cannon-ciota.info> Date: Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 12:41 PM Subject: [Cryptography] The Dawn of the Crypto Age To: cryptography(a)metzdowd.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 The Dawn of the Crypto Age by CANNON C. , in the year 2015 - -An essay on how crypto technologies will shape our world, and why these technologies are often met with government opposition- Throughout all of the chapters of history, civilization struggles in a constant battle between liberty and tyranny, progression and corruption. For the world is plentiful in numerous points of its history of a populace oppressed by governments. Like a beast untamed or loosened, or a fire fueled and spread, it is the natural tendencies of governments to become corrupt and to perpetually expand and maintain power. This is not because government in itself is corrupt, but rather because mankind is corrupt through greed, in the pursuit of wealth and power at the expense of a nation while utilizing the powerful body of government as their tool. Government makes a handsome target of exploitation to the corrupt and enemies of liberty due to the centralization of power that governments wield and the position of the tool of government being in the high layer of power, known as the political realm. Until now, the balance of power sat in the hands of governments who have gone rogue at the conduction of usurpers and tyrants and have been used to empower themselves while oppressing the populace and liberty, whether openly or covertly. However, in the modern age, in this dawn of the crypto revolution which follows the still advancing and parallel technological revolution, the balance of power in the world is shifting from that of governments and usurpers to the people. Throughout history, humankind has been through various golden ages of enlightenment, and of technological advancements and progressions. It is this evolution in the advancement of humankind which has altered the foundation for which future technology and the direction of civilization is based. We have had the Age of Enlightenment, the scientific revolution, the Renaissance, the Industrial Revolution, and the technological/informational revolution, to name a few. And now, even when the latter is still young, we enter another age that parallels it: the dawn of the crypto revolution, which is based upon the infrastructure of the current technological/informational revolution. The context of the word "revolution" in the case of this writing refers to that of sudden change in the world brought about by advancements in technologies and discoveries, while "crypto" or "cryptographic" is referring to the use of encryption (codes) paired with technology to create systems immune to espionage, control, and takedown by an enemy. The newly emerging technology brought about by the crypto revolution is built on our current technological infrastructure. The advent of our current computerized cyber-infrastructure makes an easy way to build, host, and deploy decentralized protocols. It is also cyberspace that connects us all and breeds innovation through uncensored and decentralized communications such as the Internet, hence why the crypto revolution began shortly after the birth of the technological revolution. This new technology will secure itself and also secure society from the current flaws in our informational technology infrastructure which that same society has come to rely upon. The crypto revolution will alter the shape of the workings of civilization in positive ways to advance us towards a more perfect civilization, just as the technological revolution altered the way we communicate, do business, interact, etc. And just as how the industrial revolution altered the way we travel, manufacture, and live, to too shall the crypto revolution shape our world. This time, this era in human progression will impact the workings of the economy, politics, banking, governments... all in a way that will make the workings of the pre-crypto age antiquated and perhaps even scoffed at by future generations. Just as the crypto revolution is based on the technological revolution which was based on the industrial revolution, so too shall some other future progressions be based on the crypto revolution. These future progressions as a result of the crypto revolution I foresee being comprised of political, economic, and social advancements. Although progressions in the advancement of civilization are often beneficial to the human race, advancement is sometimes met with opposition by the existing power structure. This opposition by the minority who wield power over the rest is due to the threat this new technology/discovery presents to their power. Opposition can also often be due to lack of understanding of the new technology. The future of technology I am describing can be referred to as decentralized cryptographic protocols - secure, open source, self regulating, decentralized, cryptographic protocols, to be more descriptive. For the new way will be a better way, a way void of the major flaws and imperfection of the former which have empowered the corrupt and created insecure systems causing results which have haunted our society. These newly emerging technologies will repair the security flaws which came about by having a society that became reliant upon informational technology. The root of many of the current security flaws in our world come from the exploitation of vulnerabilities that are a result of the lack of the following three items, which I refer to together as the triangle of security. Integrity, Availability, and Confidentiality - -------------------------------------------- * Integrity. Through cryptographic proof. Protecting from unauthorized manipulation or forgery. * Availability. Through decentralization, keeping safe from attack by denial of service. or takeover by corruption and those security risks that are posed by centralization. * Confidentiality. Again, through cryptology. Keeping communications and information safe from unauthorized access. The flaws caused by a lack of any part of this triangle of security can be mitigated with decentralized cryptographic protocols which address a solution for all three of these security needs. A few examples of how the birth of cryptographic technologies will affect us in these three ways (not in any particular order but of equal importance): Confidentiality: No longer can threats to the populace undermine the security of the world through informational-warfare/espionage with ease as civilization and informational infrastructure shall be secured with cryptology. No longer can governments, oppressors, and adversaries unjustly spy on a population with ease or target them for political gain, intimidation, persecution, or control. Cryptology will ensure confidentiality by preventing governments from spying on communications. Availability: No longer will society be prone to attack by an adversary due to the weakness of centralization. When a society is reliant upon informational technology, as is the current case, that same society is vulnerable to a compromising of protocols and information that are centralized. For centralization introduces a higher risk of security due to a single point of failure. This is the case with both technology and government structures (an example being why governments are prone to corruption due to their centralization; even when governments are designed to be decentralized, they often becomes more centralized in power over time). Cryptology, in the form of decentralized cryptographic protocols, will ensure availability by preventing governments from taking down services, protocols, or information they do not like. Integrity: No longer shall our civilization be vulnerable to spoofing, identity theft, fraud, or manipulation - whether that manipulation be of just a simple document, the voting results of public consensus. or other information (just to name a few examples). Through cryptographic proof, cryptography will ensure integrity and prevent tampering of data. This is why information and technological dominance is a very valuable and sought after asset. In the technological/information age, unauthorized access to informational technology can compromise all security since everything runs on technology. These are the same security flaws which this newly emerging technology will help to protect us from. Technology can be used against the people just as much as it can be used to empower the people. This is why governments wish to suppress technological and, ultimately, human progression. For the future eliminates imperfection and corruption. We are now at the crossroads, in which technology used against the people is now progressing to the point that it will be used against corrupt governments and bring about a global balance of power. Governments also hate anything they cannot control. If governments cannot control something. they will attempt to destroy it. Some of the changes, among many, which will be brought about by this new technology of decentralized cryptographic protocols will be decentralized markets immune to government control or takedown; distributed autonomous corporations and stock exchanges; self-enforcing smart contracts; secure and decentralized self-regulating financial systems known as crypto-currencies (such as Bitcoin); along with secure peer-to-peer escrow protocols resulting in anonymous and theft/confiscation-proof money, distributed crowd-funding platforms, and secure communications systems (such as Bitmessage or I2P-Bote); secure, anonymous, and fraud-proof identities; secure voting and consensus systems; distributed secure databases of information and records (such as Namecoin); legal document timestamping (known as "Proof of Existence"); secure property titles; secure wills and legal documents; secure distributed authentication systems; and distributed and anonymous reputation systems. Another result of crypto is meshnet networks immune to government control or surveillance that are known as darknets, which may eventually replace the current Internet infrastructure. The main structures of banks and governments may very well be replaced by secure, decentralized, self-regulating protocols which run on this technology. This is just to name a few things that will emerge or have started to emerge as a result of the crypto revolution. Crypto technologies offer the ability to secure a population from the security flaws which cause identity theft, fraud, financial theft, corruption, manipulation, surveillance, and cyber attacks. Though this new technology protects society from such things which we suffer from today, it is also these things that governments and criminals use to control society and the populace. As a result, the security brought about by the newly emerging technology of decentralized cryptographic protocols threatens the ability of governments and criminals to continue their grip on a monopoly of control and power. Governments are often opposed to cryptology for this very reason. The suppression of cryptology is often done through "regulations" that are actually intended to cripple that technology, as well as outright bans on it, along with the targeting of its users. Another technique often deployed is use of the media to demonize cryptology through lies and fallacies - telling us that such technology is dangerous to our safety, when the truth instead is that the lack of cryptology leaves our liberties and our society insecure. Another fallacy often used to pass crippling regulations is that such technology needs regulation, which is a fallacy, for decentralized cryptographic protocols are already regulated by the principles of math which such protocols are built upon. These very rules of math which power these decentralized cryptographic protocols are perfect and incorruptible, unlike regulations done through government. Governments will try to suppress technology and human progression at the expense of the security of a nation, leaving us vulnerable to the security threats which currently plague our world - that is, if we allow ourselves to submit to tyranny by willingly complying. There is a name for those who promote, develop, and support this crypto technology and who refuse to comply with the power structures' demands to abandon its progression. They are called the cypherpunks. They are the modern day architects, the visionaries of today, and the founders of tomorrow. You can make a difference and help the crypto-age win. Join me. Join league with the cypherpunks to improve the world. At the least, learn about, support, and promote crypto technologies. If you are up to it, learn how to code so you can also contribute to these technologies. For we are now in the beginnings of a new era of advancement in civilization and the human race: the dawn of the crypto age. 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Normalized Spying is a Exculpatory Cover-Up
by John Young 21 Dec '15

21 Dec '15

Assange's claim spying is normalized merely parrots spies' long-advanced propaganda which in turn parrots normalized siphoning, stealing and monetizing information legitimated by nations, corporations, entrepreneurs, inventors, criminal orgs, leak sites, media, archives, scholars, religions, "info freedom fighters." Cpunk Dan Geer has elaborated on this, but hardly alone, like many, like Assange, it's his job and future. Assange knows that leaking is theft, as Geer knows spying is, just like hacking, encryption, privacy, anonymization, aggregation, among other lucrative normalizings. Spy agencies (and universities, especially law and business schools) have long taught the skills and practices of thievery, glorified in doctrinaire justifications and immensely malleable laws. NSA is funding dozens of universities to train digital thieves and crooks, just like The Farm and military academies train villains to do dirty, murderous work with impunity (unless kidnapped and beheaded, tortured and disappeared, shot down and AK'd at home). Corporations and NGOs hire these civilian and ex-spy-mil professional villains to do evil and propagate legitimizing propaganda, advocate weak crypto, false anonymity, and ludicrous privacy, run leak sites and secure drops to encourage ambitious, gullible, avaricious participants like Manning and Snowden to siphon and ravage, following the ignoble example of nations cum global cartels cum freedom of the press and religion which establish mutually beneficial exclusive treaties to ravage the less defendable. Assange is right to cite normalized spying and leaking as a cloak to excuse much worse. In that he is as normalized as we indignant villains blaming competitors for what we pretend to regret having to do with such pleasure.

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FBI and Gov Shill Pomerantz Calls For New PATRIOT Act To Ban Encryption
by grarpamp 20 Dec '15

20 Dec '15

https://vimeo.com/149514001

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All 5 Turkish NICs taken down in 40 Gigabit/second DDoS attack
by Rayzer 20 Dec '15

20 Dec '15

I wonder who could be doing this... *Turkish Internet hit with massive DDoS attack* By Efe Kerem Sozeri /Last updated Dec 17, 2015, 10:07am / Turkey <http://dailydot.com/tags/turkey> is under massive cyberattack. Since Monday morning, the country's official domain name servers have been under a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack <http://turk-internet.com/portal/yazigoster.php?yaziid=51709>. The attack’s perpetrators are unknown, but it reveals the vulnerabilities of the country’s Internet infrastructure. All domain names that end with Turkey’s two-letter country code .tr <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.tr> must be registered by NIC.tr <https://www.nic.tr/index.php?USRACTN=STATICHTML&PAGE=about_corpident>, an administration office in Turkey’s capital of Ankara. Besides its registration duties, NIC.tr maintains the academic internet backbone for Turkish universities. It’s also the main service for .tr domain names, making it a valuable target. On Monday morning Turkish time, traces of an attack became noticeable. By noon, NIC.tr’s five nameservers, ns1.nic.tr through ns5.nic.tr, werecompletely down <http://daghan.net/tr-alan-adlari-problemi.dgn> under a 40 Gigabits per second DDoS <http://dailydot.com/tags/ddos> attack. .@adililhan <https://twitter.com/adililhan> Two of the routes hosting nic.tr experienced instability yesterday pic.twitter.com/OHk3dF0Bxo <https://t.co/OHk3dF0Bxo> — Dyn Research (@DynResearch) December 15, 2015 <https://twitter.com/DynResearch/status/676782506172162048> Europe’s regional Internet registry, the RIPE Network Coordination Centre, serves as a secondary Domain Name System to Nic.tr. RIPE was also severely affected <https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/dns-wg/2015-December/003184.html>. As noted <https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/dns-wg/2015-December/003184.html> by its manager of the Global Information Infrastructure, Romero Zwart, the attack was “modified to evade” RIPE's mitigation measures. As of this writing, the attack is still going on at around 40 Gbps, disrupting working hours <https://stat.ulakbim.gov.tr/ulaknet/omurga_details.php?name=internet-toplam…> in Turkey. DDoS attacks, which overload servers with requests for information, are a simple way of disrupting a website for a brief amount of time. The cost of hiring attacking <http://www.dailydot.com/business/botnet-rent-stress-test-paid-ddos-attacks/> botnets <http://dailydot.com/tags/botnets>, huge armies of compromised computers that can all visit a site at the same time, is getting cheaper, and the size of attacks is growing each year <http://www.scmagazine.com/report-shows-42-percent-of-attacks-leveraged-more…>. In 2013, an average DDoS attack was about 2 Gbps. In 2014, it’s nearly 8 Gbps. While a 40 Gbps attack still sounds huge, security experts <http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/02/the-new-normal-200-400-gbps-ddos-attacks/> say that even 400 Gbps attacks, like one recently reported <https://blog.cloudflare.com/technical-details-behind-a-400gbps-ntp-amplific…> by DDoS mitigation service Cloudflare, are “the new normal.” What makes the Turkish attack so damaging is the attackers’ sophisticated choice of target. By focusing on a relatively small group of IP addresses, the five nameservers of NIC.tr, the attackers managed to “take down the DNS system of a whole country with a 40 Gbps attack:” @ozgit <https://twitter.com/ozgit> 40GBitlik saldirida butun bir ulkenin alan adlari sisteminin cokmesi kabul edilemez #nictr <https://twitter.com/hashtag/nictr?src=hash> @METU_ODTU <https://twitter.com/METU_ODTU> #nictr <https://twitter.com/hashtag/nictr?src=hash> — Mehmet Akcin (@mhmtkcn) December 15, 2015 <https://twitter.com/mhmtkcn/status/676692198738366464> As the country’s official domain suffix, .tr domain names are very popular in Turkey, and many local companies want their businesses officially recognized for their local audience. There are about 400,000 websites <https://www.nic.tr/index.php?USRACTN=STATISTICS> with localized Turkish domain names, including 300,000 companies. It's also used by government institutions, schools, municipalities, Turkish e-mail servers <https://www.nic.tr/forms/eng/policies.pdf>, and the Turkish military. When the attack left NIC.tr’s DNS service non-responding, practically all .tr domain names became unreachable. Besides the private Turkish companies, official government businesses such as vital population registry queries, remained interrupted for more than a day. Internet access at university campuses are still down or extremely slow. On Monday evening, Turkey’sNational Response Center for Cyber Events <https://www.usom.gov.tr/> closed all incoming traffic to NIC.tr from outside of Turkey, which made 400,000 websites with .tr domain names unreachable from the rest of the world, all e-mails sent to companies and organisations with .tr domains bounced back with the “unknown host” error. Response Center changed its policy late Monday night, and NIC.tr has since been running a selective block policy for a number of suspected root IP addresses. DNS service for .tr domains were also re-configured <http://turk-internet.com/portal/yazigoster.php?yaziid=51709> to distribute the queries among public and private servers, including a Turkish Internet service providers Superonline and Vodafone. It’s notoriously difficult to attribute where a cyberattack comes from. Many Turkish commentators have pointed to Russia <http://dailydot.com/tags/russia> as the source of the attack. Russia’s cyber warfare capabilities <http://cyberwardesk.com/5-russian-weapons-of-war-turkey-should-fear/> are an established weapon, believed to be used against Estonia in 2007 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_cyberattacks_on_Estonia>, Georgia in 2008 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberattacks_during_the_Russo-Georgian_War>, and Ukraine in 2014 <http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Global-Viewpoint/2014/0312/Russia-s-cyb…>. With Turkey’s recent downing of a Russian jet <http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34912581> near Syrian border, and with the ongoingtroll wars <http://www.dailydot.com/politics/russia-turkey-missle-turkey-troll-war-twit…> between Erdoğan’s and Putin’s social media campaigners, DDoS botnets could be the next battleground. Some experts have speculated this is a response to Turkey’s nationalist cyber teams, who stand accused of organising aDDoS attack on Russia’s Sputnik news <http://in.sputniknews.com/russia/20151208/1016691128/sputnik-turkey-ddos-at…>. It's highly probable that ddos attacks on nic.tr and tr ISPs are retaliation to recent @sputnik_TR <https://twitter.com/sputnik_TR> ddos attacks — Umut Simsek (@umutsimse_k) December 15, 2015 <https://twitter.com/umutsimse_k/status/676711878136102912> DDoS attacks are by nature distributed, therefore the identity of the attackers could never be found out; but the consequences identified the vulnerabilities of the target very well. http://www.dailydot.com/politics/turkey-ddos-attack-tk-universities/ -- RR "You might want to ask an expert about that - I just fiddled around with mine until it worked..."

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RE: The USA Fake Of The Moon Landings
by Александр 20 Dec '15

20 Dec '15

> > > It is not fake. We've got reflectors on the moon. We've got Lunar Laser > Ranging experiment > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiment > oh... this mainstream argument is so expected. wau. The Wikipedia & USFake Nasa are the most reliable resources on earth, aren't they? *Those retro-reflectors were planted on the Moon by HUMAN BEINGS and they couldn't be planted by a moon-walker robot (like the Russians did before Apollo program)?...* right. And in the meantime, think about the following logical question: Why is it that today (almost 50 years AFTER the moon fairy tale), the Americans buy Russian engines in order to deliver their rockets into cosmic orbit? Where are the pooower engines of the "grand" Apollo program? There are no such. *Then on which engines Americans flew to the moon 50 years ago?* This technology was "lost" or stolen by the "bloody soviet agents"... or maybe it has never been existed like their human landings?! Moreover, there is very basic question like: Where is the solid evidence that these retro-reflectors are indeed American and not... Russian? The Russians sent to the moon several moonwalkers "Lunokhod" who left there a similar technique before the Americans mission began in the mid-60s. Also, we can question the whole Apollo program and not only the human landings - not only on which engines Americans flew to the moon, but what happened to the "hundreds" of kg of lunar soil, allegedly brought to earth by the the Apollo expeditions? We want them to give, let's say, 10 kg to an INTERNATIONAL (not USfake) scientific organization with Russian and Chinese scientists who will investigate it (oh, sorry, it's too secret and maybe too altruistic for the "God's chosen nation" which cares about the welfare of the whole world). And most of all, as i already said: *Where is the solid evidence that these retro-reflectors were delivered personally by HUMAN astronauts to the moon, and not by moonwalker as was done by the Russians years before the fake Apollo program?* *Тhere are no material, univocal and NON-american evidences for already over half a century.And the rest - is policy and propaganda. Very dirty. Like the fake tube that Colin Powell shook** in the UN before the invasion to Iraq.* ______ As my friend said "this moon folklore is too dear to their hearts", is'nt it? Well, it is not "more dear" than the folklore of the communist threat/Vietnam/Bosnia/Iraq/ 9-11/the bloody Putin. And the best of all is the folklore that "we are the chosen (by whom?!) leaders of the earth, => thus only we are the good guys and everyone else, who is not our economic slave, is BAD => and should be destroyed "for the sake of the world". *Question everything that has ever been done by all USA officials (especially the last 80 years). At least 90% of all their words and actions are lies, provocations and deceitful propaganda. There has never been in the human history such a rotten and vile government & ruling elite as it is in the USA (as a consequence, weak and deceived nation).* Those moon fake landings are just the edge of the iceberg. "He who has ears, let him hear" .

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Fwd: [guardian-dev] PanicKit Demo with Ripple and Orweb
by grarpamp 20 Dec '15

20 Dec '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans(a)guardianproject.info> Date: Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 10:24 AM PanicKit is an Android framework for making "panic button" apps as well as making all sorts of apps respond to panic buttons. I just put together a video to give a quick overview of the PanicKit project, including Ripple, our new "panic button" app, working together with out good ol' Orweb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS1gstS6YS8 You can find more info on this project on its project page: https://dev.guardianproject.info/projects/panic/wiki PGP fingerprint: EE66 20C7 136B 0D2C 456C 0A4D E9E2 8DEA 00AA 5556 _______________________________________________

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Death Challenge Foundation and The Death Dive - Jump From Stratosphere With No Spacesuit
by Zenaan Harkness 20 Dec '15

20 Dec '15

I guess if this is real (and it looks like it), it will be interesting to see peoples' reactions. Z http://tass.ru/en/press-releases/844584 Man To Jump From Stratosphere With No Spacesuit Press Releases December 16, 16:05 UTC+3 Unless the World Votes To Save Him, He Faces Certain Death LONDON, Dec. 16, 2015 /PRNewswire/. Death Challenge, Inc., a new business venture that practices commercially sustainable philanthropy, announced today the official date of the most spectacular and perilous event ever to be broadcast live. Death Challenge 1, The Death Dive (http://DeathChallenge.com) will take place on Good Friday, March 25th, 2016, in the same week as World Water Day. At 3.33pm Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), "The Challenger", who will remain anonymous and masked, will risk his life by jumping out of a jet from the stratosphere, 9.53 miles (15.3 km) above the Earth, and diving 50,300 feet with NO spacesuit, NO pressure suit, NO oxygen and NO parachute into shark-filled waters – all in a bid to STOP Death by Dirty Water. (http://DeathbyDirtyWater.org) "This is a cause close to The Challenger's heart," (http://DeathChallenger.com) says company spokesperson, Aideen Doherty. "Having spent extensive time in the areas of the world most affected by waterborne diseases, he has witnessed firsthand the dramatic effects of this solvable problem. The Challenger also suffered from a near-fatal illness after drinking dirty water during his travels. Nearly 2 million children die annually from dirty water; therefore, in order to bring an end to this crisis, The Challenger is willing to risk his own life." An event without parallel or precedent, the Death Dive will be streamed live to a global pay-per-view audience, all of whom will be able to vote whether or not to "Save The Challenger" by offering lifelines. Both the online audience and those at the dive site itself can purchase votes before and during The Challenger's historic leap of faith, saying "YES" or "NO" to three possible lifelines. Crucially, no lifelines will be accepted by The Challenger unless one billion votes are purchased globally, symbolic of the approximate number of people not having access to the most basic ingredient of life – clean water. In Lifeline One (active at 25,000ft–20,000ft), a circling aircraft will toss out a parachute which The Challenger will try to chase down and put on under near-impossible conditions. In Lifeline Two (active at 20,000ft–15,000ft), a rescue skydiver will pursue the exhausted and oxygen-deprived Challenger in an attempt to complete the first-ever mid-air hook up without any safety equipment. In Lifeline Three (active at 15,000ft–7,000ft), an aircraft will release a tow rope, which The Challenger will try to grab and use to skysurf into the water. If The Challenger misjudges the skytow, he could collide with the aircraft or take out its wing or tail controls. If The Challenger blacks out upon exiting the jet, there is an additional option to release a rescue team to provide him with oxygen. However, this lifeline will only be activated if 7.125 billion votes are first secured – the equivalent of the entire human race voting to save one man and all the people of the world without access to clean water. Other ways to contribute to the global success of Death Challenge (http://savethechallenger.com) include pay-per-view tickets to watch online, VIP tickets to watch the event from an aircraft or boat at the dive site – or underwater with sharks at the point of impact – and a special option to purchase a ride to the Stratosphere with The Challenger. "The risks of the jump are more than monumental," says company spokesperson, Aideen Doherty. "As he jumps, The Challenger will face insanely low air pressure, freezing temperatures and oxygen starvation, all which can lead to imminent death." The Challenger is one of the world's most experienced extreme athletes, having completed just under 20,000 skydives, more than 5,000 high dives and thousands of hours of cage-free dives with Great White sharks over the past 30 years. He will use multiple extreme disciplines in an attempt to survive a dive more than 260 times higher than the current world record – approaching twice the height of Mount Everest. The Challenger is the first to risk his life in The Death Challenge. Death Challenge 1, The Death Dive, is a Category 10 event, deemed by experts to offer zero chance of survival. Death Challenge 1 will also feature and be supported by musical entertainment from new and well-known artists. Death Challenge will continue to showcase extreme athletes in high-risk events to raise the awareness of and bolster Death Challenge's philanthropic efforts to end many of the world's worst social, economic, and humanitarian problems. Death Challenge Inc., Death Challenge Foundation and The Death Dive will be audited and verified by an international accounting firm. For more information about Death Challenge and how the world can put an end to Death by Dirty Water, please visit: http://DeathChallengeDay.com Editor's Note: For media enquiries and press kit materials please contact: pressoffice(a)deathchallenge.com About the Death Challenge Brand Death Challenge, Inc., Death Challenge Foundation, and Many People, One Voice collectively engage in commercially sustainable philanthropy that aim to raise awareness of and provide support needed to end many of the world's worst social, economic and humanitarian problems. Death Challenge will showcase extreme athletes in high-risk events to help spotlight and support various causes. The first event, titled Death Challenge 1, aims to STOP Death by Dirty Water. CONTACT: pressoffice(a)deathchallenge.com

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Opponents launch 11th-hour campaign to veto CISA bill
by grarpamp 20 Dec '15

20 Dec '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Henry Baker <hbaker1(a)pipeline.com> Date: Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 1:10 PM Subject: Opponents launch 11th-hour campaign to veto CISA bill FYI -- "it's a surveillance bill by another name." -- Senator Ron Wyden Go to the following web site; they will connect you to a number of people at the White House who are getting irritated by so many calls! https://www.obamadecides.org/ ----- https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151215/06470133083/congress-drops-all-p… Congress Drops All Pretense: Quietly Turns CISA Into A Full On Surveillance Bill by Mike Masnick Tue, Dec 15th 2015 9:28am Remember CISA? The "Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act"? It's getting much much worse as Congress and the administration look to ram it through -- and in the process, removing any pretense that it's not a surveillance bill. https://www.techdirt.com/blog/?tag=cisa As you may recall, Congress and the White House have been pushing for a "cybersecurity" bill for a few years now, that has never actually been a cybersecurity bill. Senator Ron Wyden was one of the only people in Congress willing to stand up and directly say what it was: "it's a surveillance bill by another name." And, by now, you should know that when Senator Wyden says that there's a secret interpretation of a bill that will increase surveillance and is at odds with the public's understanding of a bill, you should know to listen. He's said so in the past and has been right... multiple times. https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-cybersecurity-bill-l… https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151207/17063433015/final-text-cisa-appa… Either way, a version of CISA passed the House a while back, with at least some elements of privacy protection included. Then, a few months ago it passed the Senate in a much weaker state. The two different versions need to be reconciled, and it's been worked on. However, as we noted recently, the intelligence community has basically taken over the process and more or less stripped out what few privacy protections there were. And, the latest is that it's getting worse. Not only is Congress looking to include it in the end of year omnibus bill -- basically a "must pass" bill -- to make sure it gets passed, but it's clearly dropping all pretense that CISA isn't about surveillance. Here's what we're hearing from people involved in the latest negotiations. The latest version of CISA that they're looking to put into the omnibus: 1. Removes the prohibition on information being shared with the NSA, allowing it to be shared directly with NSA (and DOD), rather than first having to go through DHS. While DHS isn't necessarily wonderful, it's a lot better than NSA. And, of course, if this were truly about cybersecurity, not surveillance, DHS makes a lot more sense than NSA. 2. Directly removes the restrictions on using this information for "surveillance" activities. You can't get much more direct than that, right? 3. Removes limitations that government can only use this information for cybersecurity purposes and allows it to be used to go after any other criminal activity as well. Obviously, this then creates tremendous incentives to push for greater and greater information collection, which clearly will be abused. We've just seen how the DEA has regularly abused its powers to collect info. You think agencies like the DEA and others won't make use of CISA too? https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151214/08492533071/dea-loses-big-drug-c… 4. Removes the requirement to "scrub" personal information unrelated to a cybersecurity threat before sharing that information. This was the key point that everyone kept making about why the information should go to DHS first -- where DHS would be in charge of this "scrub". The "scrub" process was a bit exaggerated in the first place, but it was at least something of a privacy protection. However, it appears that the final version being pushed removes the scrub requirement (along with the requirement to go to DHS) and instead leaves the question of scrubbing to the "discretion" of whichever agency gets the information. Guess how that's going to go? In short: while before Congress could at least pretend that CISA was about cybersecurity, rather than surveillance, in this mad dash to get it shoved through, they've dropped all pretense and have stripped every last privacy protection, expanded the scope of the bill, and made it quite clear that it's a very broad surveillance bill that can be widely used and abused by all parts of the government. There is still some hesitation by some as to whether or not this bill belongs in the omnibus bill, or if it should go through the regular process, with a debate and a full vote on this entirely new and different version of CISA. So, now would be a good time to speak out, letting your elected officials and the White House know that (1) CISA should not be in the omnibus and (2) that we don't need another surveillance bill. In the meantime, if Congress were actually serious about cybersecurity, they'd be ramping up the acceptance and use of encryption, rather than trying to undermine it. ----------------- http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/263174-opponents-launch-11th-hour-c… Opponents launch 11th-hour campaign to kill cyber bill By Cory Bennett - 12/14/15 03:54 PM EST Privacy advocates have launched a last-ditch campaign to block a major piece of cybersecurity legislation that could soon be added to an expected omnibus spending deal. The bill would encourage companies to share more data on hackers with the government. Fight for the Future, which has been leading a coalition of digital rights and civil liberties groups opposing the measure, on Monday launched an online petition urging the White House to veto the final legislation. The group also included a widget that allows people to call the White House to express their opposition. https://www.obamadecides.org/ Privacy advocates have long argued that the legislation would allow the intelligence community to collect more private data on Americans. Technologists and numerous technology companies have expressed similar concerns. But many industry groups, lawmakers and even the White House counter that the bill is the necessary first step in the fight against hackers. Privacy provisions in the measure will ensure personal data is not shared throughout the government, they say. "Now is when we'll find out whether President Obama really cares about the Internet and freedom of speech, or whether he's happy to roll over and allow technologically illiterate members of Congress break the Internet in the name of cybersecurity," said Evan Greer, campaign director at Fight for the Future. Lawmakers are on the cusp of having a final text ready and hope to have the bill on President Obama's desk before the year's end. http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/262985-week-ahead-congress-poised-t… Negotiators have been working since the Senate passed its Intelligence Committee-originated bill in October, six months after the House passed two complementary bills: one from the Intelligence panel, another from Homeland Security. On Monday, privacy advocates said that lawmakers had decided to attach the bill to an omnibus spending bill that is expected as soon as Monday. Most observers believe the tactic gives the cyber bill its best shot of getting through Congress in 2015, as only a handful of legislative days remain before the upcoming recess. But several people with direct knowledge of the talks cautioned that no final decision had been made. Multiple lawmakers have expressed opposition to the strategy, arguing that the final cyber text should get a standalone vote in both chambers. Their resistance threatens to kill the omnibus strategy. If the cyber bill does roll through Congress, Fight for the Future called on the White House to reject the measure. Throughout the final negotiation process, digital rights groups have warned that lawmakers were omitting the most stringent privacy clauses, a claim the bill's backers reject. http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/262713-cyber-bill-deal-looms-as-neg… http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/262864-house-leadership-reviewing-c… "This administration promised to veto any information sharing bill that did not adequately protect Internet users' privacy, and the final version of this bill doesn't even come close," Greer said. "It's time for President Obama to deliver on his word." _______________________________________________

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