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Hacking Team has been hacked (hard)
by Christian Gagneraud 09 Jul '15

09 Jul '15

As nobody has reported it yet, here we go: https://twitter.com/hackingteam

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WABC radio Seeks NYSE Outage Leads
by John Young 09 Jul '15

09 Jul '15

Aaron Klein, WABC radio, NYC, seeks tips, leads on NYSE and other outages <AaronKlein21[at]<http://t.co/XM21l7QbTe>http://aol.com >

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Caspar Bowden has died
by John Young 09 Jul '15

09 Jul '15

Privacy activist Caspar Bowden has died https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=…

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Crypto Wars 2.0
by coderman 08 Jul '15

08 Jul '15

"Security Researchers are “the antibodies of the digital immune system” @Infosecjen in Senate Judiciary hearing encouraging more modern CFAA" - https://twitter.com/joshcorman/status/618914661128380416 "we may give you a rash, make you irritated. but it is for your own good, earth humans." longer transcript: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/cyber-crime-modernizing-our-legal… best regards,

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Re: Hacking Team has been hacked (hard)
by coderman 08 Jul '15

08 Jul '15

On 7/8/15, Razer <Rayzer(a)riseup.net> wrote: > ... that may be from the day when > people paid by the byte for internet service. Should I post the > entirety? It's kinda long. JYA and me and history prefer verbatim, and long since gone the days when bandwidth bytes begged brevity now, just /s TL;DR or ignore... [ and yes the whole thing :P ] best regards,

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Inquiry re. how to handle Glomar reply to FOIA request
by odinn 08 Jul '15

08 Jul '15

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, A while back (specifically, on 6/01/2015) I sent in a FOIA request to the NSA, requesting, in part, records about myself that "would have been collected by the NSA under programs authorized by Sections 206 and 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act, and Section 6001(a) of the IRTPA, aforementioned programs and sections which are now expired as of the date of this request (June 1, 2015)." In essence, I figured, since the underlying legal authority for the program had lapsed (however briefly), there was no time like that present moment to file a FOIA request. And so, I did, not using USPS mail, but a digital service to ensure it would arrive timely. My request was actually rather lengthy; that was just a small part, and I requested any NSA records collected on my person as a result of use of Sections 206 or 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act, or Section 6001(a) of the IRTPA, from Oct. 26, 2001 to the date of expiration and sunset of those Sections on midnight May 31st 2015. (For those who are trying to remember the timeline of what ended up replacing all that, the USA Freedom Act was signed into law on June 2, 2015.) ~~ The NSA failed to respond within the 20 business days required by federal law and sent back a "Glomar response." Technically, as of today, I only have 49 days left to write and send an appeal (based on the date when they sent me their Glomar reply). So... if you have ever done a SUCCESSful appeal of a Glomar response, please reply back to me and let me know (give me some advice, etc). Thanks in advance. I've copied a portion of the letter they sent below: "As you may also be aware, there has been considerable coverage of two NSA intelligence programs in the press /media. Under Sec. 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act, as authorized by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court NSA may acquire telephone metadata, such as the telephone numbers dialed and length of calls, but not the content of calls or the names of the communicants. Under Sec. 702 of the FISA, with appropriate authorization, NSA may target non-US. persons reasonably believed to be located outside the United States for foreign intelligence purposes. Under the FISC-authorized Sec. 215 authority, NSA cannot review any metadata unless strict requirements are met, the data may be queried only when there is a reasonable suspicion, based on speci?c facts, that a phone number is associated with a foreign terrorist organization. Likewise, under Sec. 702, there are strict controls approved by the FISC to help ensure that no US. person is targeted and FISC-approved minimizations procedures to ensure the protection of any information concerning U.S. persons that may be incidentally acquire d. Although these two programs have been publicly acknowledged, details about them remain classified and /or protected from release by statutes to prevent harm to the national security of the United States. To the extent that your request seeks any information on you in relation to NSA intelligence programs, or in relation to any specific methods or means for conducting the programs, we cannot acknowledge the existence or non-existence of such information. Any positive or negative response on a request-by-request basis would allow our adversaries to accumulate information and draw conclusions about technical capabilities, sources, and methods. Our adversaries are likely to evaluate all public responses related to these programs. Were we to provide positive or negative responses to requests such as yours, our adversaries compilation of the information provided would reasonably be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security. Therefore, your request is denied because the fact of the existence or non-existence of responsive records is a currently and properly classified matter in accordance with Executive Order 13526, as set forth in Subparagraph of Section 1.4. Thus, your request is denied pursuant to the first exemption of the FOIA, which provides that the FOIA does not apply to matters that are specifically authorized under criteria established by an Executive Order to be kept secret in the interest of national defense or foreign relations and are properly classified pursuant to such Executive Order. Moreover, the third exemption of the FOIA provides for the withholding of information specifically protected from disclosure by statute. Thus, your request is also denied because the fact of the existence or non-existence of the information is exempted from disclosure pursuant to the third exemption. The specific statutes applicable in this case are: Title 18 US. Code 798; Title 50 US. Code 3024(i); and Section 6, Public Law 86?36 (50 US. Code 3605). (....) Paragraph 3.6(a) of Executive Order 13526 specifically authorizes this type of response, also known as a Glomar response, to a request made under the FOIA, PA, or the mandatory review provisions of this Order. The statutes cited above under the third exemption of the FOIA would also apply to the denial of the fact of the existence or non-existence of the information if sought under the PA. The Initial Denial Authority for NSA information is the Associate Director for Policy and Records, David J. Sherman. As your request is being denied, you are hereby advised of this Agency's appeal procedures. Any person denied access to information may file an appeal to the CSS Freedom of Information Act/ Privacy Act Appeal Authority. The appeal must be postmarked no later than 60 calendar days of the date of the initial denial letter. The appeal shall be in writing addressed to the (...) - -- http://abis.io ~ "a protocol concept to enable decentralization and expansion of a giving economy, and a new social good" https://keybase.io/odinn -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJVnIYlAAoJEGxwq/inSG8CQQQH/iLwr11gjbrHrAWaeiJ3Qllr zH+cNwUMLciht/2RhSaY/D5bNYczTUTyBUlKA4I4mhMYBjQPhBgHDI/E1QY0swJG CLLvDPkXunLg++lri5lnvlI+jSTakBIFyRdBsP8CcoHSpNOJhEtThqlsAoRog/Br 7CPIAF2t6XCESiSILAhmo791U5w1m2OmWCqO92JLjee6LP/2QK7QkYRvuJ9TzSnA B3aMY8pCDdjweJAueKq24ONL7lZuXZ38mZVjFPnUJsUCVQ7qlzjC5WAlB+So0lXu ifJTOP46CH4xV4YuObMb7Xi++O9fQSsM1ApM49uN9GIiHbXnjGm1NVzXfelZ0mc= =JyE1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [from offlist] "Google is to surveillance capitalism what GM was to managerial capitalism"
by Razer 08 Jul '15

08 Jul '15

The pdf doesn't let you mail it? Try the attached. It mailed for me. If it works for you note that all I did was save a renamed copy from inside Linux Viewer RR On 07/08/2015 03:03 AM, Cari Machet wrote: > > Thanks for posting it i cannot fucking cut and paste it to my friend > in prison ... the downloaded pdf doesnt let you and the online one > fucks up the formatting ... i will be able to at least send him this > > Pdf hatred > > On Jul 7, 2015 11:36 PM, "Razer" <Rayzer(a)riseup.net > <mailto:Rayzer@riseup.net>> wrote: > > > > Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an > Information > > Civilization > > > > Shoshana Zuboff, Berkman Center for Internet & Society; Harvard > > Business School > > > > April 4, 2015 >

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Re: [cryptome] Re: FOIPA adventures
by John Young 08 Jul '15

08 Jul '15

Quite nice compilation of sources configured to evade FOIA. Ever finer feigning requires ever finer seining. Paraphrasing Charles Murray, "US's ever more manipulable legal system and ever increasing government regulations are essentally lawless. When governments transgress citizens' rights, revolution is not treason but the people's duty." At 07:32 AM 7/8/2015, coderman wrote: >for all of you driving vehicles with hundreds of global variables >around weird machines radio linked to strange networks, > >the following new FOIAs: > >https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/badaccel-19510/ >@FBI >Use of Sudden unintended acceleration (SUA) or Unintended acceleration >in the commission of a crime, including premeditated offenses of any >kind. Please include suspicion of Sudden unintended acceleration (SUA) >or suspicion of Unintended acceleration within the scope of this >request, even if alternate cause determined. This search is to include >any and all records, including cross-references and indirect mentions, >including records outside the investigation main file. This is to >include a search of each of the following record stores and >interfaces: the Central Records System (CRS), the Automated Case >Support system ("ACS") Investigative Case Management system ("ICM"), >the Automated Case Support system ("ACS") Electronic Case File >("ECF"), and the Automated Case Support system ("ACS") Universal Index >("UNI"). Please include processing notes, even if request is denied in >part. Please identify individuals responsible for any aspect of FOIA >processing in the processing notes, along with explanation of their >involvement if not typically assigned FOIA responsibilities for the >record systems above. > > >@DoT >https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/badaccel-19509/ > > >best regards,

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Re: Bitcoin philosophical musings and pressures 7 years in [drifted from: txrate, forking, etc]
by Softy 08 Jul '15

08 Jul '15

> From: Lodewijk andré de la porte <l(a)odewijk.nl> > To: Sean Lynch <seanl(a)literati.org> > Cc: "cypherpunks(a)cpunks.org" <cypherpunks(a)cpunks.org> > > > his documents are genuine. I see no reason for the NSA to be > substantially > > more competent than, say, the OPM. > > > There's absolutely no reason to think the NSA doesn't have a > layered/multi-cell operation wherein a mere contractor is not given access > to nation-essential secrets. If there's a foreign spy you want him to > They do have such a layer system. The problem is the fluidity of the people. Soldiers become Contractors become Government Employees become Contractors ad-infinitum. Once cleared, the system has not managed to remain opaque from within. In times past it was -- and that successful model was condemned as having "not prevented" the Sept 2001 bombing. Thus the stovepipe security model was banished; "war effort" requires exorbitant high staffing increases which led to inevitable, and predictable lowering of tactics, techniques and procedures. That trend has since reversed (I would argue pre-Snowden) and the beast is once again slowly shrouding itself within and increasingly outward. As with any good Corporate makeover, with a kinder gentler face. [[ my removal of your excellent government employee summary is not because of any disagreement - whether military or civilian employee, the vast majority are of a mind you described. But, as has been eloquently stated Power Corrupts Absolutely. ]] > shows a certain amount of rot in NSA_Public. The recent Trident leak shows > > 'NSA_Public' is an excellent characterization. That which we know of the Agency will forever be shadowed by it's hidden complexities. Having exposed a portion of one small stovepipe, the tubing now changes and reworks itself hiding the un-discerned exposed parts, and more closely guarding the vast un-exposed bulk. I use my description of "small" completely intentional. The scale of the "Snowden Topics" is minor compared to the remaining unknowns. Carefully protected within the 'NSA_Closed'. Not only by the regrowing stovepipes, but as well by the people you aptly described as genuinely, legitimately, and correctly striving to maintain the integrity of the beast. Just as they don't understand the oppositions claims aptly describing the illegitimacy of the beast, neither will the opposition. Sadly the two are closer in philosophical agreement than either realize. And probably won't without the benefit of hindsight, whatever sort of post-empirical change allows for the creation of a commonly agreed on framework of reference.

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Jim Bell vindicated
by Seth 08 Jul '15

08 Jul '15

Reposted from http://morelibertynow.com/nypd-strike/ NYPD STRIKE SUGGESTS IT’S TIME FOR ASSASSINATION MARKETS IF WE WON'T ORGANIZE FOR NONVIOLENCE, WE'LL HAVE TO ORGANIZE FOR VIOLENCE We should use political violence (preemptive and generalized violence against a class of likely aggressors) against police. That’s what some libertarians have been saying for years. I continue to reject this idea but I have to give these folks their due – it worked in New York City. A gunman’s assassination of two NYC police officers while they sat in their cruiser on December 20 has led to chaos in the NYC government. Almost immediately: citations for traffic violations fell by 94 percent; summonses for low-level offenses dropped by 94 percent; parking violations were down by 92 percent; drug arrests by the NY Police Department (NYPD) Organized Crime Control Bureau plummeted 84 percent; cops received orders to only work in pairs and not even take breaks alone; police union officials told fellow officers to not make arrests “unless absolutely necessary” – thus calling into question the legitimacy of their normal arresting habits – and claimed they were on wartime footing; cops from across the country traveled to NYC to attend the funeral, evidence of the wide psychological impact of the assassinations; infighting between the NYPD and the NYC mayor escalated, damaging the effectiveness of the NYC government. THE DROP IN ARRESTS The overall drop in arrests, at 66 percent, in the week following the assassinations is nothing short of jaw-dropping. How is it that the NYPD could effectively go on strike and yet the city is not tearing itself apart? One reason may be that the general public is also horrified by the violence and people are behaving themselves better out of deference to the cops. Another is that people are on better behavior because they are afraid of overreaction on the part of paranoid police. Every cop out there may be ready to issue beatings and bullets for even the lowliest of infractions (as if they weren’t already). But I think the reality is actually that most of these arrests are for penny-ante, mostly-victimless crimes. They’re about making NYC a more pleasant place to live and visit for tourists and those who are well-off. The crimes people were being cited and caged for represent no real threat to the peace. Those minor infractions are also about filling the coffers of the NYC government revenue machine through fines and fees. INTRA-GOVERNMENTAL STRIFE John Robb’s first rule of open source warfare is to break networks. This lone gunman inadvertently did that by leading the NYPD and the mayor into greater confrontation, so much so that the cops turned their backs en masse on their boss, the mayor, in a public gathering that made headlines. What’s more, the gunman did this without any conscious attempt to maximize such damage and with the meager investment of a pistol, ammunition and transportation to NYC. Who knows how much the executions and their aftermath have cost the city of New York and police across the nation, but the return on investment (ROI) for this execution must be high. If the gunman spent $2,000 to carry this attack out, and the cost in financial outlays, loss of government revenue (due to reduced ticketing), police peace of mind and other intangibles is $20 million, that’s a 10,000 percent ROI. A LIBERTARIAN ANALYSIS In the short term, libertarians may feel the urge to cheer the gunman. But you shouldn’t. Executing members of a group for the perceived crimes of the whole, or of certain members of the group, is rank collectivism. It stinks. Libertarianism is individualism. Collectivism is the opposite of our philosophy. This kind of collectivist anti-cop vigilantism could easily get out of hand. Careless, suicidal vigilantes could shoot innocent bystanders. Paranoid cops could overreact even more than they already do and kill even more people than they already do. Then what? Civil war on the streets? Nobody wants that. DANGEROUS PRECEDENT FOR PUBLIC ORDER Even in a libertarian society, stateless or not, you need law and order. People need to know that those who break the rules will be stopped and made to pay for their destructive actions. Without that, society doesn’t work. The lawless cause more disturbances and the lawful look for other solutions or other places to go. Random murders and police going on strike or engaging in work slowdowns is a recipe for societal breakdown. Libertarians are wise to condemn both equally, while demanding the continued reduction in harassment of people accused of committing victimless crimes. WHAT ABOUT IN A STATELESS SOCIETY? In a stateless libertarian society, there are multiple police, or private defense, agencies in operation in a city the size of New York. If an employee of one agency is assassinated, it’s likely that employees of all of the agencies would engage in acts of solidarity with the fallen employee. But it’s unlikely that all of the agencies would go on strike, at least not all at the same time. Unlike the NYPD, which is centrally controlled by its commissioner and the mayor above him, private defense agencies are each independent and free from coercive outside control. Different agencies would likely make different decisions on the question of whether to strike or not. It’s possible that all of the individual employees of all of these agencies would be members of the same union, or a tight group of unions. That union could go on strike and force a work stoppage or slowdown similar to what is taking place in NYC. But, in a stateless society, the private defense agencies could just as easily fire or furlough their current employees and hire new ones who recognized the need to keep working, or just needed the work. These new ones could be experienced security agents from out of town or recently-retired former employees. The NYPD doesn’t enjoy that kind of flexibility. It is owned and controlled by the local government, the same entity that promulgates the laws that make it difficult, if not impossible to fire government employees for striking. Even without these troublesome laws, politicians dare not act definitively against a striking police union because the cops, their friends, family and supporters will vote against them in an upcoming election. Private defense agencies don’t have that concern, though they would have to worry about losing customers who disapproved of their mass firing or furloughing of their employees. It’s also likely that there would not be just one, massive police union, or tightly-coordinated group of unions. With multiple private defense agencies, the need for a unified negotiating position would likely be reduced. The bottom line is that a legal police monopoly – the NYPD – makes the residents of NYC more vulnerable to crime. This one organization can go on strike, or a slowdown, and it threatens the security of the entire city because there is no competition to pick up the slack – that competition is legally banned. In a stateless society, however, if one private defense agency shuts down, there is a strong incentive for the others to ramp up their operations, in order to collect the customers of the agency that shut down. This analysis doesn’t even take into account the fact that competitive private defense agencies will not enjoy de facto immunity from accountability for their crimes. Without that special privilege, bad cops will be held accountable for their actions. Societal rage against bad cops will be assuaged by removing this special protection and the motivation for collectivist vigilantism against cops will be removed. LESSONS FOR LIBERTARIANS The aftermath of the assassinations is a clear sign that assassination is an effective tool, at least in the short term, in the fight to control police abuse. Police activity is down, cops are scared and the cops and mayor are at war. I take no pleasure in saying that because it appears to validate the strategy of fellow libertarian activist Christopher Cantwell – not one of my favorite people. Given that cops across the country have shown themselves, time and time again, to be unaccountable killers, it makes no sense to take this kind of abuse lying down. It’s only reasonable to take steps to protect oneself from police abuse and fraud. I choose the nonviolent route because I am certain that the violent one will backfire. Already, family and friends of cops are organizing in support of police officers across the country. Violence is a polarizing tactic that you don’t come back from. But I believe in organization. If folks are going to advocate for political violence against police, then at least get the damned thing organized so it has a chance of success. Assassination Politics is essential reading in this area. In fact, an assassination marketplace already exists behind Tor on the Darknet. So, if people like Cantwell are serious about killing cops, why don’t they actively promote assassination marketplaces? Why don’t they create more marketplaces, add more targets and run marketing campaigns for them? Why the gratuitous chatter and the lack of sustained efforts toward their stated goal? It’s likely that at least a small amount of targeted violence will be required to take down governments, so that a more liberty-centric order can supplant them. If we accept that, as distasteful as it is, then assassination marketplaces become attractive. Unlike a traditional war, assassination marketplaces don’t require that you kill tens of thousands of cops, politicians and soldiers. In order for assassination marketplaces to end the age of the state, only a few targeted individuals need be killed. For the rest, active and well-funded threats may be sufficient to intimidate aggressors into remaining peaceful while an organized resistance takes voluntary civil institutions to the next level. This idea of keeping cops in check by placing bounties on their heads is nothing new. Pablo Escobar used it in Medellín to great effect. The IRA used it in Ireland. States are masters at this tactic, both against accused criminals and against insurgencies, such as Alvaro Uribe’s bounties on FARC members in Colombia in the last decade. It works. If the libertarian communities can ever get our collective acts together, someday we may be negotiating with police unions. We will want them to stop enforcing victimless crimes and to cooperate with the liberalization of their sector by accepting competition – the end to their monopoly. When negotiating with armed and dangerous paramilitary forces, it’s wise to operate from a position of strength. Assassination markets are one vector for gaining that kind of negotiating position. We would be wise to explore our options in that area. Violence is distasteful. But death and ignominious caging are worse. Libertarians have to be realistic. We can never secure our desired libertarian future from a position of weakness and disorganization. If we’re unable or unwilling to organize for nonviolent action, then we will have to organize for violent action. The alternative to either of these options, a wait-and-see, hemming-hawing, pacifistic apathy, is even more repugnant than violence. A PERSONAL NOTE It’s tasteless to rejoice in the death of other people, no matter the evil of their actions while alive. Every human life is precious, even those spent in misguided pursuits like being a US Marshal, a congressperson, bureaucrat or a NYC cop because any of those lives can be redeemed at any moment and put to great use. See, for example, retired Philadelphia police captain Ray Lewis. I am sympathetic to the families of the assassinated officers. No one wants to lose a loved one like that. No one wants to die like that, without even a chance to defend themselves. But such feelings must never get in the way of speaking the truth.

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