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A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
by Александр 07 Mar '15

07 Mar '15

by John Perry Barlow Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather. We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear. Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. You have neither solicited nor received ours. We did not invite you. You do not know us, nor do you know our world. Cyberspace does not lie within your borders. Do not think that you can build it, as though it were a public construction project. You cannot. It is an act of nature and it grows itself through our collective actions. You have not engaged in our great and gathering conversation, nor did you create the wealth of our marketplaces. You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions. You claim there are problems among us that you need to solve. You use this claim as an excuse to invade our precincts. Many of these problems don't exist. Where there are real conflicts, where there are wrongs, we will identify them and address them by our means. We are forming our own Social Contract . This governance will arise according to the conditions of our world, not yours. Our world is different. Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live. We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth. We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity. Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no matter here. Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge . Our identities may be distributed across many of your jurisdictions. The only law that all our constituent cultures would generally recognize is the Golden Rule. We hope we will be able to build our particular solutions on that basis. But we cannot accept the solutions you are attempting to impose. In the United States, you have today created a law, the Telecommunications Reform Act, which repudiates your own Constitution and insults the dreams of Jefferson, Washington, Mill, Madison, DeToqueville, and Brandeis. These dreams must now be born anew in us. You are terrified of your own children, since they are natives in a world where you will always be immigrants. Because you fear them, you entrust your bureaucracies with the parental responsibilities you are too cowardly to confront yourselves. In our world, all the sentiments and expressions of humanity, from the debasing to the angelic, are parts of a seamless whole, the global conversation of bits. We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat. In China, Germany, France, Russia, Singapore, Italy and the United States, you are trying to ward off the virus of liberty by erecting guard posts at the frontiers of Cyberspace. These may keep out the contagion for a small time, but they will not work in a world that will soon be blanketed in bit-bearing media. Your increasingly obsolete information industries would perpetuate themselves by proposing laws, in America and elsewhere, that claim to own speech itself throughout the world. These laws would declare ideas to be another industrial product, no more noble than pig iron. In our world, whatever the human mind may create can be reproduced and distributed infinitely at no cost. The global conveyance of thought no longer requires your factories to accomplish. These increasingly hostile and colonial measures place us in the same position as those previous lovers of freedom and self-determination who had to reject the authorities of distant, uninformed powers. We must declare our virtual selves immune to your sovereignty, even as we continue to consent to your rule over our bodies. We will spread ourselves across the Planet so that no one can arrest our thoughts. We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before. Davos, Switzerland February 8, 1996

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Snowden Document Archive
by grarpamp 06 Mar '15

06 Mar '15

https://snowdenarchive.cjfe.org/greenstone/cgi-bin/library.cgi

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Cryptome Deborah Natsios Exhibit in LA
by John Young 06 Mar '15

06 Mar '15

Deborah Natsios, Cryptome, upcoming exhibit Dem Passwords Gallery, LA <http://t.co/5n5VVr1k3G>http://www.dempasswords.com/upcoming.php http://cryptome.org/2013/05/newmuseum-censor/newmuseum-censor.htm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzSB1__vHoM We'll be there. Chopper in, drop by. Dare to key sign.

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Cypherpunk Politics
by grarpamp 06 Mar '15

06 Mar '15

What of political license / subscription to theory, and actual politiking like Pirate Party? Are the various cypherpunk manifesto's serve as actual platform and/or docs for same? Who is forming such entities in today? Where are they now? What are the platform/action?

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Curiouser and Curioser...
by Robert Hettinga 05 Mar '15

05 Mar '15

http://andstillipersist.com/2015/03/curiouser-and-curiouser/

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Re: Backward compatibility bites again (like RC4 in WPA2)
by coderman 04 Mar '15

04 Mar '15

On 12/9/14, grarpamp <grarpamp(a)gmail.com> wrote: > https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/12/08/poodleagain.html > > Similar how continued insistence on centralized > SMTP continues to bite. at least they're trying. RC4 in WPA2, and no signs anyone cares...

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REAL-ID Phone Access Coming Soon
by grarpamp 04 Mar '15

04 Mar '15

http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/15/02/24/0537219/pakistanis-must-provide-f… http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/pakistanis-face-a-deadline… First it was your name, face, age, height, weight, address, SSN, phone and email, birth location, parents names, ages, etc... just for Internet Access, now it's your fingerprints for Phone Access. And by the way, also your DNA for Access to prove your innocence... http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/04/us/supreme-court-says-police-can-take-dna… More things coming soon. What are you going to do? In other news... http://motherboard.vice.com/read/looking-up-symptoms-online-these-companies… Pissed off yet? Or still a sheeple?

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Fwd: [tor-talk] Why corrupt government officials are strongly opposed to this Tor project (a Gestapo government run amok!)
by grarpamp 04 Mar '15

04 Mar '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Travis Bean <tlbean(a)tlbean.com> Date: Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 1:50 AM Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Why corrupt government officials are strongly opposed to this Tor project (a Gestapo government run amok!) To: tor-talk(a)lists.torproject.org On 03/03/2015 02:19 PM, Travis Biehn wrote: > Certain individuals attribute structures that a society naturally evolves > as being somehow directed by an omnipotent actor. This actor is often cast > in the role of tormentor / antagonist. > > For you your tormentor is the 'Gestapo government' and what you perceive as > its colluding branches, including *ahem* 'psyops' outfits in the private > media. > > You're close, but unfortunately the truth won't appeal to your ego nearly > as much as the classic paranoid scenario you're living. > > One tool you might find helpful is to consider the cost of persecuting you > in this way, when the government has cheaper and more effective forms of > silencing dissidents. I have worked with computer hardware and software systems for long enough to know what the difference is between equipment failure and sabotage. I can prove my Internet equipment was sabotaged immediately after I first submitted my analysis to this tor-talk mailing list yesterday. I had to reflash the corrupted firmware on my router to get it to work again. My Internet connection was under denial-of-service attack for a prolonged period of time afterwards where I could not make a connection. This honestly happens every time I speak the truth regarding the National Security Agency and corrupt government officials who are abusing their power. Someday in the not too distant future, those of you who live here in the United States, who have been brainwashed into thinking this is a free democracy, will find out the truth about what this corrupt government are all about and will look elsewhere in the world to relocate. If I was granted one wish, it would be that someone in another part of the world would help me relocate away from this horribly oppressive regime that are literally holding me hostage and turning anyone against me who I appeal to for help. Sincerely, Travis Bean -- Travis L. Bean T.L.Bean - Your source for FREE open source www.tlbean.com -- 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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Soghoian on Government Funding Crypto
by Polity News 03 Mar '15

03 Mar '15

To calm fears and help make people less paranoid of government financing, Soghoian wrote a beautiful tweet that I felt obliged to share. "Christopher Soghoian ‏@csoghoian Yes, the US government tortures, spies and assassinates, but sometimes it supports pretty awesome things, like usable crypto apps. 7:28 AM - 3 Mar 2015" https://twitter.com/csoghoian/status/572735276025569280 If you are thoroughly impressed by Soghoian's tweet, then you may want to read his interview on Democracy Now. http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2015/2/20/part_2_security_researcher_chris…

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Fwd: [tor-talk] Why corrupt government officials are strongly opposed to this Tor project (a Gestapo government run amok!)
by grarpamp 03 Mar '15

03 Mar '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Travis Bean <tlbean(a)tlbean.com> Date: Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 10:31 PM Subject: [tor-talk] Why corrupt government officials are strongly opposed to this Tor project (a Gestapo government run amok!) To: tor-talk(a)lists.torproject.org Hello, I am giving everyone on this mailing list a heads-up regarding what I have uncovered about the Gestapo government here in the United States and why corrupt government officials are so strongly opposed to this Tor project. I can prove I have become a target after I published information on my tlbean.com website exposing the truth about the National Security Agency's control mechanism that is being used to unlawfully monitor all Internet and email activity. I have had my cellphones and Internet equipment sabotaged repeatedly after exposing the truth about the NSA and after I published Tor-powered PrivacyGuard shell scripts on my website. On 12/29/2014 I submitted a report to a detective about my findings regarding foxnews.com. In my report I allege that News Corp and 21st Century Fox are simply a guise for a government controlled propaganda machine. I allege this based on evidence that I am bombarded by threatening news articles and coercive pop-up ads through foxnews.com anytime I submit a report about the NSA's control mechanism and their psychological warfare program. These threats of coercion are directed towards me personally based on my telephone conversations and email. I uncovered very unique information published in news articles through foxnews.com based on my own personal email and telephone conversations without my permission! Foxnews.com were able to direct coercive, threatening news articles and pop-up ads towards me personally based on my IP address until I started using Tor! After I investigated this extensively and figured out what was happening, I spoke to a detective and stated that I want Rupert Murdoch, executive chairman of News Corp and chairman of 21st Century Fox, interrogated extensively regarding this scandal. I stated to the detective I spoke with that Tor is a huge threat to News Corp's and 21st Century Fox's control mechanism. Just within a few days of asking for Rupert Murdoch to be interrogated, foxnews.com started blocking Tor! Take a look at what my extensive detective work has uncovered: Open this URL in a Tor-powered web browser: http://www.foxnews.com. News Corp and 21st Century Fox now realize Tor prevents them from feeding citizens coercive news articles and pop-up ads based on their IP address and are now blocking Tor as a result of my report. The United States Senate started blocking Tor at the exact same time! Open this URL in a second tab of your Tor-powered web browser: http://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact. This shady character Senator Orrin Hatch standing next to former NSA deputy director Chris Inglis, with a shovel in his hand, broke ground for the NSA's new data center in the state of Utah. This super-high-capacity data center now gives the NSA the ability to store every citizen's email, Internet activity, telephone conversations, and encrypted files indefinitely until the NSA's supercomputers crack the encryption. The NSA have made a revolutionary breakthrough in decrypting high-grade encryption in a very short period of time. Open this URL in a third tab of your Tor-powered web browser: http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/leadership/pmg-exec-comm.htm. The United States Postal Service, another arm of this corrupt Gestapo government, started blocking Tor at the exact same time for the same reason! Please note that when testing the URL http://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact, or any other corrupt U.S. senator's contact page, you may have to use Vidalia to switch to a new identity multiple times until it lands on a blacklisted Tor server. For some reason, members of the United States Senate have their contact page unavailable for only certain Tor servers, and yet Foxnews and USPS appear to be using a much wider spectrum of blacklisted servers. What is interesting about my detective work I conducted is that you will notice from the "Access Denied" warning and reference # you receive when your Tor-powered web browser tries to render the above mentioned web pages, this indicates the exact same Tor-blocking software is being used to power foxnews.com, usps.com, and senate.gov. This proves my point that News Corp and 21st Century Fox are most definitely mysteriously controlled by the United States Gestapo government. This same thing happened after I started advertising my Tor-powered PrivacyGuard shell scripts on craigslist.org. My PrivacyGuard ads were immediately banned and then Craigslist started blocking Tor anonymity protection as well, even though this took place months prior to the above mentioned Tor blocking mechanism. Craigslist appear to be using different Tor blocking software than what foxnews.com, usps.com, and senate.gov are using. Immediately after I published my first draft of PrivacyGuard in September 2013, I can prove any of my Torified email I send to anyone who is using a Microsoft Exchange server is classified as SPAM when sent from Thunderbird with the TorBirdy add-on. I tested this out on multiple Exchange servers and I get the same result. Microsoft are desperately attempting to block email sent from anyone who uses TorBirdy. The only advice I have for Tor developers is keep up the good work! After I exposed the corrupt United States federal government for what they are all about, now Tor is a huge threat to the Gestapo government's control mechanism. Sincerely, Travis Bean -- Travis L. Bean T.L.Bean - Your source for FREE open source www.tlbean.com -- 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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