June 2015 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Reporter-USG Exchanges on Snowden Docs
by John Young 13 Jun '15

13 Jun '15

Italian reporter Stefania Maurizi has published her exchanges with NSA, DoJ and State about publishing Snowden documents (an exemplary model for others to follow): http://www.stefaniamaurizi.it/images/email_exchange_NSA.pdf http://www.stefaniamaurizi.it/images/email_exchange_DoJ.pdf http://www.stefaniamaurizi.it/images/email_exchange_State_Dept.pdf She also said she has published all the Snowden documents she had access to (another exemplar for those still withholding 93% of the Snowden full dump for the public, or 99.98% of the 1.7M USG claims was taken).

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Re: More murder by LEA
by John Young 13 Jun '15

13 Jun '15

This story is not accurate either. Officers did not simply approach Rahim to question, they approached to say hello, one was a friend of Rahim. He did not pull a machete, he pulled out his wallet to show baby photos. Rahim was not shot, he was congratulated on the baby boy. As the cop friend hugged him officers in a passing patrol car thought a struggle was underway, braked, lept out with guns drawn, yelled "freeze." Everybody froze, except for passerby video artist who began taping the scene. Seeing the video taping the cops and Rahim elected to play along, escalated the drama, faking punches, pulling imaginary knives and AK-47s, screaming threats. Then everybody broke up laughing, the video artist hollering thanks for that. Then the tape was uploaded to Fox News to become ISIS orgy pron. Rahim was undercover the Boston gay Muslim scene and still is. Don't ask don't tell. tripped on a broken sidewalk. The other cop (there were only two coming from the free donuts. thought he had been shot. At 02:27 PM 6/13/2015, you wrote: >https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/10/major-questions-remain-unansw… > >Last week in the Boston area, a 26-year-old black Muslim man was shot >and killed by agents of the FBI and Boston Police Department (BPD). As >we documented the following day, major media outlets immediately, >breathlessly and uncritically repeated law enforcement claims (often >anonymous ones) about what happened: that the dead man, Usaamah Rahim, >was on the verge of executing an âISIS-inspiredâ or âISIS-linkedâ plot >to behead random police officers, in a conspiracy with at least two >others. When Rahim was walking to work near a CVS drugstore at roughly >7:00 a.m., the officers approached Rahim simply to question him about >this plot; in response, he pulled out a âmacheteâ or âmilitary-style >knifeâ that he refused to drop, forcing the officers to shoot him >dead.

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Re: DataMines beget DataPirates and Future Orwellian Abuse
by John Young 13 Jun '15

13 Jun '15

No way yet to tell what really happened in these "massive breaches." Accounts vary from initial reports, to later reports, to investigations, to hearings, interlaced with remediations of various alleged iterations, leading in most cases to claim the full story cannot be revealed due to possible harm by disclosure. And best, the favorite runaround: the usual suspects are named without evidence, indeed, assessments are shaded with the customary claims by the usual experts consulted, "it is hard to tell who did it" and not only that evasion but the best and brightest security wizards (there are six of them named, 2 for, 2 against 2 undecided) who disagree on not only who did but what to do about breaches, whether they are breaches or malfunctions or publicity stunts or fund-raisers, hair-raisers, fear-raisers, TED talks, rigged hearings testimony (hearing testifiers are 2 for, 2 against, 2 undecided). Reportedly, cybersec market to increase to $130B by 2020 if not sooner. This increasingly generates more breaches, more massive, more ritual for, against, undecided. This cascading chaos was invented by six cypherpunks, each of them for, against, undecided. Then as now, certain, uncertain, confused about everything and nothing and whatever. No wonder the media follows that leadership, copies its methodology, denies feeding the trolls. At 03:33 PM 6/13/2015, you wrote: >http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/chinese-hack-of-gover… > >https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/12/data-breach-threat-of-future-… > >When are people going to wake up and realize that all privacy >promises are bullshit, that data collection is unnecessary invasive >and orwellian, and that they need to start telling people who claim >to need their info to fuck off. Medical / psych records? Income? >Phone calls? Politik? Their kids sextapes copied from centralized >phone cloud / sharing systems? > >OPM SF86's. Next is SSA, IRS. This is all happening.

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DataMines beget DataPirates and Future Orwellian Abuse
by grarpamp 13 Jun '15

13 Jun '15

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/chinese-hack-of-gover… https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/12/data-breach-threat-of-future-… When are people going to wake up and realize that all privacy promises are bullshit, that data collection is unnecessary invasive and orwellian, and that they need to start telling people who claim to need their info to fuck off. Medical / psych records? Income? Phone calls? Politik? Their kids sextapes copied from centralized phone cloud / sharing systems? OPM SF86's. Next is SSA, IRS. This is all happening.

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Sudden Justice: America’s Secret Drone Wars / UNMANNED
by grarpamp 13 Jun '15

13 Jun '15

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/11/six-facts-sudden-justice-new-… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpzk7OdbjBw

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More murder by LEA
by grarpamp 13 Jun '15

13 Jun '15

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/10/major-questions-remain-unansw… Last week in the Boston area, a 26-year-old black Muslim man was shot and killed by agents of the FBI and Boston Police Department (BPD). As we documented the following day, major media outlets immediately, breathlessly and uncritically repeated law enforcement claims (often anonymous ones) about what happened: that the dead man, Usaamah Rahim, was on the verge of executing an “ISIS-inspired” or “ISIS-linked” plot to behead random police officers, in a conspiracy with at least two others. When Rahim was walking to work near a CVS drugstore at roughly 7:00 a.m., the officers approached Rahim simply to question him about this plot; in response, he pulled out a “machete” or “military-style knife” that he refused to drop, forcing the officers to shoot him dead.

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FUCK jargon! [was Re: črypto is finished... and it's about time × (also: 'Balrog' malnet, firsthand view)]
by coderman 13 Jun '15

13 Jun '15

On 6/11/15, Seth <list(a)sysfu.com> wrote: >... a broader paper describing a global > surveillance technology we have dubbed Corruptor-Injector Networks why? FUCK jargon!

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on many links [was Re: črypto is finished... and it's about time × (also: 'Balrog' malnet, firsthand view)]
by coderman 12 Jun '15

12 Jun '15

On 6/12/15, Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> wrote: > ... > I am confident that local off-net PHY connections can go a long way to > increasing anonymity provided by anonymizing P2P networks - it's an > avenue unfortunately untapped, and even more so, not yet studied > academically. you need to remove some obstacles, like in-order delivery, and add some defenses, perhaps optimized dependent link padding and stochastic shaping. but the evidence is there, from the mesh network days - see multi-radio AODV optimizations highlighting the benefit of concurrent possible paths... then, as ever, the quintessential station wagon full of backup tape, "propinquitous discovery", "propinquitous delivery", best regards,

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Helmholtz Tubes, CRT Signals (Was: Sigint Dumps)
by Wilfred Guerin 12 Jun '15

12 Jun '15

Helmholtz Tube, Beam Steering, EM field interaction, simple field dynamics, (and your oscilliscope) are all you need to create complex EM signals processors. No different than your antique crypto cracker, which uses an abstract field to solve complex pre-defined systems. "56-bit" https cracker was mass implemented as a 300mhz backplane EM field solver about the size of your desktop computer. Using the same technology, resolution, and methods, BTC Bitcoins are around 8m^3 of field to solve. No doubt the access and decoding to these sigint signals requires similar proessing before being steered to the digitiser. (Maxwell Tube, Helmholtz Tube, typical of high school physics classrooms)

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[tor-talk] Additional hop before connecting to Tor
by Eugen Leitl 12 Jun '15

12 Jun '15

----- Forwarded message from dtm168(a)openmailbox.org ----- Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 13:52:40 +0200 From: dtm168(a)openmailbox.org To: tor-talk(a)lists.torproject.org Subject: [tor-talk] Additional hop before connecting to Tor Message-ID: <2a8f8c25121cbad6b4575ce5ddcd3d57(a)openmailbox.org> User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.0.5 Reply-To: tor-talk(a)lists.torproject.org Hi, You often read that the fact you are using Tor is being monitored by the various intelligence services. I guess this works by recording which IP addresses connect to known entry relays and/or directory authorities. Since you usually also connect to facebook or gmail your identity can be easily linked to Tor usage. This is especially true if you have a static IP address. Currently I use a virtual server in a foreign country which I pay with Bitcoin. I use an ssh tunnel which I use to make connections to Tor, i.e. intelligence service see the IP of my server which connects to known Tor IP addresses. 1. How likely is it that they look at connecting IP addresses to my server (and identify me)? Probably very likely. Would it help to have an additional anon server as an additional hop to Tor? 2. Tor traffic has these characteristic traffic signatures (packet size, timings of packets when idle). Would these also "shine through" the ssh tunnel? 3. I guess making that server a private bridge will be worse than using ssh because of these typical Tor traffic patterns. 4. I am also afraid of running a Tor relay on my home internet connections because all members of my family who share that IP will be flagged as Tor users... I am interested to hear your opinions. Cheers, dtm168 -- 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 ----- End forwarded message -----

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