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Perhaps good news [The Slovak Constitutional Court cancelled mass surveillance of citizens]
by Ben Mezger 30 Apr '15

30 Apr '15

http://www.eisionline.org/index.php/sk/projekty-m-2/ochrana-sukromia/109-th… ASCII: An act, which ordered large-scale mass surveillance of citizens (so called data retention) is now history. Today the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic proclaimed the mass surveillance of citizens as unconstitutional. The decision was rendered within proceedings initiated by 30 members of the Parliament on behalf of the European Information Society Institute (EISi), a Slovakia based think-tank. In a non-public session, the Grand Chamber of the Constitutional Court (PL. ÚS 10/2014) proclaimed provisions § 58(5) to (7) and § 63(6) of the Electronic Communications Act (Act No. 351/2011 Coll.), which until now required mobile network providers to track the communication of their users, as well as provisions of § 116 of the Penal Code (Act No. 301/2005 Coll.) and § 76(3) of the Police Force Act (Act No. 171/1993 Coll.), which allowed access to this data, to be in contradiction to the constitutionally guaranteed rights of citizens to privacy and personal data. As a consequence, these provisions lost their binding effect. According to now invalid provisions of the Electronic Communications Act, the providers of electronic communications were obliged to store traffic data, localization data and data about the communicating parties for a period of 6 months (in the case Internet, email or VoIP communication) or for a period of 12 months (in case of other communication). Hence, data about who, for how long, when, how and from where the communication was made, has been stored. Data about unsuccessful calls was also stored to the same extent. Moreover, the legal framework regulating the access to data retention data was completely arbitrary and much more benevolent than comparable provisions on wire-tapping. The obligation to store data, presented, for a long time, perceivable interference with the private life of all Slovak citizens, who were subject to extensive surveillance irrespective of their honesty or innocence. Although the detailed reasoning of the Court is not available yet, it is clear, that this kind of interference with a citizen's right to privacy will not be possible in the future. Today's decision of the Slovak Constitutional Court confirmed that the initiative started by EISi more than five years ago was substantiated. “The mass surveillance of electronic communications of Slovak citizens led to years of continual unconstitutional violations of their privacy”, stated Ľubomír Lukič, EISi's lawyerand one of the original initiators of the action. The decision of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic was issued almost a year after the Court of Justice of the European Union proclaimed the Data Retention Directive invalid in the Spring of 2014. At that time, the Constitutional Court of Slovakia promptly reacted by suspending the collection of data through a preliminary measure. Today, data collection was completely cancelled. -- Kind regards, *Ben Mezger* www.benmezger.com GPG Public Key <http://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x7C19F16D575B7C1C>

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wth
by stef 28 Apr '15

28 Apr '15

a messenger admits its hard to do and makes a responsible decision, kudos: https://hemlismessenger.wordpress.com/2015/04/22/sometimes-you-understand/ also one of my rules might be crumbling a bit: https://grepular.com/An_NFC_PGP_SmartCard_For_Android luckily the others hold also in this case ;) -- otr fp: https://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/otr.txt

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An intro to coding for Cypherpunk kidz
by Razer 28 Apr '15

28 Apr '15

In case the 'adults' here can't find it, the control 'console' is U-Left, with whirlygig on top. http://barclayscodeplayground.co.uk/

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Re: cypherpunks Digest, Vol 22, Issue 38
by tigrutigru＠gmail.com 26 Apr '15

26 Apr '15

RE: Cypherpunk Kidz @Travis Such a good point about "yellow submarine graphics". I didn't want to reply to the whole list, just wanted to say that it's a really spot on remark. Kids are not idiots. I'd rather come to a Minecraft server as a kid and as an adult. There are some good MC projects for learning code. Nothing with security twist though I came across. Barclays is cool, ok, but, I wasn't sure what it has to do with Cypherpunk Kidz - it's not so much about security and encryption? We're up for setting up a Minecraft server for this purpose - learn code & security. Let me know if anyone would be interested to join: I can chat about it in detail in separate thread. @Rysiek - any thoughts? Also - multiplayers so make good live streams. Sent from my iPhone > On 25 Apr 2015, at 6:00 pm, cypherpunks-request(a)cpunks.org wrote: > > Send cypherpunks mailing list submissions to > cypherpunks(a)cpunks.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://cpunks.org/mailman/listinfo/cypherpunks > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > cypherpunks-request(a)cpunks.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > cypherpunks-owner(a)cpunks.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of cypherpunks digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: An intro to coding for Cypherpunk kidz (Georgi Guninski) > 2. Re: An intro to coding for Cypherpunk kidz (Travis Biehn) > 3. Re: An intro to coding for Cypherpunk kidz (Razer) > 4. Re: An intro to coding for Cypherpunk kidz (Shelley) > 5. Re: An intro to coding for Cypherpunk kidz (Juan) > 6. Re: An intro to coding for Cypherpunk kidz (Razer) > 7. Re: An intro to coding for Cypherpunk kidz (Razer) > 8. Re: [cryptography] Shamir Reveals Sisyphus Algorithm (John Young) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 19:53:28 +0300 > From: Georgi Guninski <guninski(a)guninski.com> > To: cypherpunks(a)cpunks.org > Subject: Re: An intro to coding for Cypherpunk kidz > Message-ID: <20150424165328.GA2620(a)sivokote.iziade.m$> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 08:54:42AM -0700, Razer wrote: >> >> In case the 'adults' here can't find it, the control 'console' is >> U-Left, with whirlygig on top. >> >> http://barclayscodeplayground.co.uk/ > > this appears unusable without javascript and/or cookies. > > not to mention it uses google analytics for spam. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 13:48:49 -0400 > From: Travis Biehn <tbiehn(a)gmail.com> > To: Georgi Guninski <guninski(a)guninski.com> > Cc: "cypherpunks(a)cpunks.org" <cypherpunks(a)cpunks.org> > Subject: Re: An intro to coding for Cypherpunk kidz > Message-ID: > <CAKtE3zcX9e6d0ghYRJkZSnYDOd6C4s5Hj24suB=d7YCDmMUX5A(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > We're left to guess at what the point is but I doubt that Barclay's use of > javascript, cookies and analytics platforms are what Razer is pointing out. > I presume that Razer is miffed at the obvious indoctrination play that > comes off as a bit creepy. Perhaps Razer would like to see a Cpunks themed > playground where opsec is taught to toddlers? > > "If you*re aged 7- 17 > and enjoyed Barclays Code Playground, > we’d love you to > come along to a > coding session in branch. > > <There*llThere'll be tips, > ch@llengeschallenges > and many more things to code. > >> Our trained Digital Eagles > will be there > to help you take your > coding skills > <to the next level." > > Barclay's bank, you know they're cool because they use the wrong symbols > for punctuation and substitute letters for look-alike glyphs. > > -Travis > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Georgi Guninski <guninski(a)guninski.com> > wrote: > >>> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 08:54:42AM -0700, Razer wrote: >>> >>> In case the 'adults' here can't find it, the control 'console' is >>> U-Left, with whirlygig on top. >>> >>> http://barclayscodeplayground.co.uk/ >> >> this appears unusable without javascript and/or cookies. >> >> not to mention it uses google analytics for spam. > > > > -- > Twitter <https://twitter.com/tbiehn> | LinkedIn > <http://www.linkedin.com/in/travisbiehn> | GitHub <http://github.com/tbiehn> > | TravisBiehn.com <http://www.travisbiehn.com> | Google Plus > <https://plus.google.com/+TravisBiehn> >

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Re: [cryptography] Shamir Reveals Sisyphus Algorithm
by John Young 25 Apr '15

25 Apr '15

Indeed. Inherent leakiness of digital technology is a gift of Olympus, aka James Bidzos aka RSA. Never enough fault-rich crypto. Digitalization might be the quintessential foolhardiness, or comsec opportunism, which had led to endless apologies, apologias, apoplexies. And hurrahs among investors, urging hackers and insiders to spill secrets sufficient to assure comsec-panicky buyers. Bug bounties hilariously, assuredly, self-defeating as backdoor warnings. At 09:49 AM 4/25/2015, Ben Laurie wrote: >On 22 April 2015 at 17:24, John Young <jya(a)pipeline.com> wrote: > > Futility of trying to eliminate every single vulnerability in a given piece > > of software. > >The name of the game is to protect the secrets despite bugs. And I >don't mean with cryptography.

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detecting Quantum Insert
by Eugen Leitl 23 Apr '15

23 Apr '15

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9425778

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Shamir Reveals Sisyphus Algorithm
by John Young 23 Apr '15

23 Apr '15

Adi Shamir at RSA Conference: Fully secure systems don't exist now and won't exist in the future. Cryptography won't be broken, it will be bypassed. Futility of trying to eliminate every single vulnerability in a given piece of software. https://threatpost.com/fully-secure-systems-dont-exist/112380#sthash.sKPz03…

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Re: free enterprise within walled gardens
by coderman 23 Apr '15

23 Apr '15

On 4/21/15, Juan <juan.g71(a)gmail.com> wrote: > ... > http://www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownership-john-deere/ happened to my hay guy; error code and no start. only recourse is a certified John Deere (TM)(R) Service Agent (SM)(R)(C). at some point, you piss off the wrong slice of the populace - you're fucking with the livelihood of rugged routine loving folks. perhaps a DVB beam steering obfuscated dead drop in a sunk well to seed all tractor DMCA bypass for great justice results. who knows, (but i do get 93Mbps d/11Mbps up at the barn! :) DMCA infused in your Interweb of Things a special natured dystopia ...

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free enterprise
by Juan 23 Apr '15

23 Apr '15

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownership-john-deere/

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NSA releases 52,000 pages of William F. Friedman Collection
by John Young 23 Apr '15

23 Apr '15

NSA releases 52,000 pages of William F. Friedman Collection, searchable: <https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/declass/friedman_documents/index.shtml>https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/declass/friedman_documents/index.shtml Document index spreadsheet: <https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/friedmanDocuments/Friedman_Collectio…>https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/friedmanDocuments/Friedman_Collectio…

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