June 2015 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

U. S. A.! A-me-ri-cah, f--- yeah! - How to rule the world, U.S. style
by Zenaan Harkness 28 Jun '15

28 Jun '15

http://russia-insider.com/en/hey-obama-what-about-serbias-territoral-integr… Summary at bottom, summarizing shifting position of "west" over some time: "So let us recount the western position: - It claimed to uphold the sovereignty and territorial integrity of other countries and the inviolability of borders in Europe - However, this did not extend to the sovereignty and the territorial integrity of Federal Yugoslavia which could be trampled at will - Nonetheless, albeit the territorial integrity of Federal Yugoslavia itself wasn’t worth anything, the territorial integrity of its constituent republics seeking independence was holy - Albeit the territorial integrity of the Yugoslav constituent republics of Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina was holy, the territorial integrity of Serbia was not - Albeit Slovenes, Croats and Bosnian Muslims could leave Yugoslavia, Serbs could not leave Croatia and Bosnia - Albeit Serbs could not leave Croatia and Bosnia, Kosovo Albanians could secede from Serbia - Albeit Kosovo Albanians could secede from Serbia, Kosovo Serbs could not secede from Albanian-run Kosovo - Albeit Kosovo could unilaterally secede from Serbia under NATO military control, Crimea could not unilaterally secede from Ukraine under Russian military control May world be spared hunger, plague and western principles. "

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Pre-emptive content index
by Zenaan Harkness 28 Jun '15

28 Jun '15

For quite some years, I never watched any youtubes - then there was a Java-based website which could download them, but it was cumbersome. Then there was youtube-dl, and now youtube is starting to head towards reasonable by my standards, or rather, a reasonable protocol for "consuming" content - pre-emptive local storage of everything. This is a principle upon which I view/read anything - nothing in-browser, no in-browser media players, certainly no flash plugins, no in-browser PDF viewing etc. I apply the same to code - if I can't download the source and compile it myself (which sometimes/ often enough I don't do, but at least I can), then I won't touch it. So if I've read something I personally considered worthy of the price of my human attention, it exists somewhere on my local storage. I call this pre-emptive since I always consistently download the content before ever reading, listening or viewing (/"consuming" - sounds like a base description, belittling we humans). In a "perfect" world, all articles, all content is indexed with git, or in a git-compatible way, providing enhanced possibilities for caching, verifying, indexing, retrieval, duplication/ backup, and sharing and synchronizing with fellow private net sharers. As this concept and its implementation become pervasive, some publishers would take advantage of it as a form of compression to reduce publishing bandwidth requirements (somewhat analogous to torrents, but with greater integrity of the data being distributed). "As Tim O'Reilly says, my problem is not piracy, it's obscurity" creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7774 Our true coin is our human attention - the ticket to relevance -> visibility -> popularity -> ubiquity , is the 'free will' choices that fellow humans make in 'spending' their human attention, their 'life energy', upon that which you create/ publish/ wish to see manifest into the world. Choose wisely fellow humans, both in your attempts to shift the attention-spending of others and in your own attention-spending. --- I imagine the following: - A browser plugin, let's call it "Pre-emptive Content Plugin" for now, which is configured with a data store/directory location for the browser cache. It's a --bare git repo. - Each item of content is added, and caching rules are applied on top of that. - The plugin causes the browser ui/chrome to display (or provide a shortcut for) "this is important to me" buttons/links/keyboard shortcuts, which function tells the browser git cache that this content is to be kept 'permanently' for offline viewing/ synchronization/ backup/ etc. - A similar ui/chrome element "Hot" informs the plugin that this data/ frame/ page/ website is especially contentious, needing duplication into the "Pre-emptive Private Net Data Cache for Hot Content", to be thereafter Striesanded to the world. etc Basically, industrializing/ commoditizing content care, custodianship and distribution. Zenaan

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Re: Elsevier tries to Swartz Sci-Hub
by Shelley 28 Jun '15

28 Jun '15

Ah, that explains why it wouldn't load for me. I checked & it wasn't down, just wouldn't load for me (screw cloudflare, I block it.) This is recent. Need to check to see when their hosting changed because until very recently torrentfreak was a site I visited frequently. Damn it. -S ---------- On June 27, 2015 3:56:02 PM oshwm <oshwm(a)openmailbox.org> wrote: > torrentfreak sits behind cloudflare :( > > On 27 June 2015 22:43:43 BST, grarpamp <grarpamp(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >http://torrentfreak.com/sci-hub-tears-down-academias-illegal-copyright-payw… > >http://www.sci-hub.club/ > > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

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Geo-unblocking and VPN services... not strong enough to stand?
by grarpamp 27 Jun '15

27 Jun '15

http://torrentfreak.com/isps-dump-vpn-after-legal-threats-from-big-media-15… http://torrentfreak.com/surprise-vpn-provider-expects-victory-in-site-block…

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Library Genesis under threat on the clearnet
by grarpamp 27 Jun '15

27 Jun '15

http://torrentfreak.com/libgen-goes-down-as-legal-pressure-mounts-150622/ # forum https://genofond.org/

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SETI, Codex, Runes, Riddles and Paradox...
by grarpamp 27 Jun '15

27 Jun '15

http://rjzdqt4z3z3xo73h.onion/

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FBI DITU fighting "Malicious Foreign Actor"s with military gear on US soil against US citizens
by coderman 26 Jun '15

26 Jun '15

"BREAKING: According to Michael Ratner attorney for WikiLeaks Anonymous has been officially designated a "Malicious Foreign Actor" by the NSA" - https://twitter.com/CommanderXanon/status/614153130268299264 i'd like to know if this was before or after summer of 2011, as designation of "Malicious Foreign Actor" would explain the use of indiscriminate military technology against an entire venue because of the presence of some Anons and LulzSec: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Aug/76 [ note that i'm still permanently moderated on Fyodor's FD, and thus won't reply there. ] sunlight - it may travel slowly, but eventually the darkest corners come into view :P best regards, P.P.S. the "kit falling over" was because they tied the automated exploitation to DHCP assignment once device connected to 3G/4G data network. by using DHCP-Relay to inject thousands of lease requests over a single link, their fork-bomb'ed gear fell over, with haste. i hope it fucked your intercepts, jerks! [ this kind of un-targeted mass surveillance is just as abhorrent as warrantless wiretaps on the backbone, even if the scope is limited.]

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Pirate Party Sails for Iceland by 2017
by grarpamp 26 Jun '15

26 Jun '15

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/22/1392812/-No-joke-Iceland-s-Pirate-…

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Re: [HunchLab] Predicting Crime in Miami
by Patrick Connolly 25 Jun '15

25 Jun '15

I was at the international open data conference a few weeks ago, and caught something similar coming out of Edmonton, AB, Canada. They basically feed a bunch of data sets into the system, and over the course of a few days, a "rule inducer" generates a bunch of interesting geographic rules that correllate with certain types of crime. Then the city tries to make sense of the complex rules and tease apart correlation and causation. http://www.edmontonjournal.com/City+harnesses+data+understand+crime/1071643… Message: 4 > Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 13:30:55 -0700 > From: Razer <Rayzer(a)riseup.net> > To: cypherpunks(a)cpunks.org > Subject: Re: [HunchLab] Predicting Crime in Miami > Message-ID: <558B137F.8060809(a)riseup.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > > > > On 06/24/2015 09:31 AM, Tim Beelen wrote: > > This is how it's pitched to the community: > >> > http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article19256145.… > >> > > > > FTA: The Miami police currently is using COMPSTAT, which does not > > predict where crime will happen insofar it tells you where it has been > > taking place. In addition they will start using HunchLab at some point. > > > > > Locally, the police department decided to partner with PredPol > /(snigger: 'Server And Protect')/. Early one morning at Starbucks I saw > a shift captain who also did PD PR work on the phone discussing an > article that was about to appear regarding the topic in a local > newspaper. He emphatically and repeatedly said: > > "DO NOT call it 'Predictive Policing'!" > > He obviously didn't believe it was a correct phrase to describe "Guessing". > > RR > > Ps. The use of computers to resolve cold-cases mentioned below isn't > really relevant to the topic of computers allegedly predicting future > crime. ALso, I suspect predictive software will simply create better > opportunities for more convincing false flag operations by people > affiliated with (but perhaps not directly connected to) police agencies. > > I'd extrapolate on those operations (at least ones noted locally) but > [off-topic], so I decline. > > > > An associate professor from Florida International University, Rob T. > > Guerette is expected to become their local expert on this piece of > > software. The person who wrote the grant for it is Lt. Sean MacDonald. > >> http://cj.fiu.edu/people/faculty/rob-guerette/ > > > > The article claims that similar software has "... helped prevent and > > stop property crimes, and is now being tested on gun crimes." > > > > Which makes me curious as about the kind of heuristics that they are > > using. > > > > HunchLab apparently produces maps showing small areas where specific > > crimes are likely to be committed. > > > > This is not a new turn of events, as Miami-Dade’s robbery division > > uses IBM's Blue PALMS to solve cold cases. The software connects to a > > database of every crime ever documented by Miami-Dade police. > > Detectives enter the details of an unsolved crime and the program > > produces a list of 20 suspects. > > > > Now the part of the Nuevo Herald's article that cough my attention is > > the moment that it starts speculating about it's effectiveness. > > The last few sentences juxtapose the potential volatility of it's > > predictions with who is responsible for it's "effectiveness". > > > > HunchLab uses a wider dataset than the rough equivalent PredPol. > > Annotated with the official final statement that the tool will only be > > "...as good as the officers using it." > > > > Putting the burden of proof of it's effectiveness squarely on the > > shoulders of the officers forced to use it. Which is, in my opinion, > > ridiculous. Since the software is supposed to predict the crime and > > not the other way around. > > > > I highly suspect that it grabs a bunch of data, normalizes it for the > > use with a map and starts looking for some correlation coefficient and > > then looks if it's statistically significant. I.e. it's a null > > hypothesis-- exactly what Larry Samuels, CEO of PredPol tries to warn > > them about expecting weird results. Since that is exactly what you get > > when you grow your dataset and statistically analyze the date using > > correlation coefficients + phi. > > > > Anyway. Who build this software? And what does it do? > > >

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[HunchLab] Predicting Crime in Miami
by Tim Beelen 25 Jun '15

25 Jun '15

This is how it's pitched to the community: > http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article19256145.… FTA: The Miami police currently is using COMPSTAT, which does not predict where crime will happen insofar it tells you where it has been taking place. In addition they will start using HunchLab at some point. An associate professor from Florida International University, Rob T. Guerette is expected to become their local expert on this piece of software. The person who wrote the grant for it is Lt. Sean MacDonald. > http://cj.fiu.edu/people/faculty/rob-guerette/ The article claims that similar software has "... helped prevent and stop property crimes, and is now being tested on gun crimes." Which makes me curious as about the kind of heuristics that they are using. HunchLab apparently produces maps showing small areas where specific crimes are likely to be committed. This is not a new turn of events, as Miami-Dade’s robbery division uses IBM's Blue PALMS to solve cold cases. The software connects to a database of every crime ever documented by Miami-Dade police. Detectives enter the details of an unsolved crime and the program produces a list of 20 suspects. Now the part of the Nuevo Herald's article that cough my attention is the moment that it starts speculating about it's effectiveness. The last few sentences juxtapose the potential volatility of it's predictions with who is responsible for it's "effectiveness". HunchLab uses a wider dataset than the rough equivalent PredPol. Annotated with the official final statement that the tool will only be "...as good as the officers using it." Putting the burden of proof of it's effectiveness squarely on the shoulders of the officers forced to use it. Which is, in my opinion, ridiculous. Since the software is supposed to predict the crime and not the other way around. I highly suspect that it grabs a bunch of data, normalizes it for the use with a map and starts looking for some correlation coefficient and then looks if it's statistically significant. I.e. it's a null hypothesis-- exactly what Larry Samuels, CEO of PredPol tries to warn them about expecting weird results. Since that is exactly what you get when you grow your dataset and statistically analyze the date using correlation coefficients + phi. Anyway. Who build this software? And what does it do?

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