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Re: Death lists.
by wirelesswarrior＠Safe-mail.net 11 Aug '15

11 Aug '15

Damn, I wanted to attend but they scheduled my Wireless Village talk at 4:00, almost the same time as Chris. If anyone here attended I'd love to hear some comments. WW > > http://news.yahoo.com/rush-put-death-records-online-lets-anyone-killed-0744… > Las Vegas (AFP) - Hackers at an infamous annual Def Con gathering in Las Vegas got schooled in how to be online killers. > > > > A rush to go digital with the process of registering deaths has made it simple for maliciously minded folks to have someone who is alive declared dead by the authorities. > "This is a global problem," Australian computer security specialist Chris Rock said as he launched a presentation titled "I Will Kill You." > The process of having someone officially stamped dead by getting a death certificate issued typically involves a doctor filling out one form and a funeral home filling out another, according to Rock's research. > Once forms are submitted online, certificates declaring the listed person legally dead are generated. > A fatal flaw in the system is that people can easily pose as real doctors and funeral directors, Rock demonstrated to a rapt audience. > Doctors practising general medicine often don't bother setting up accounts at online portals for filling out information for death certificates. > An aspiring online assassin can step into that void, and borrow the identity of a doctor. > Setting up accounts requires a doctor's name, address, and medical license number. A basic Internet search will turn up that information, which is publicly available for the well-intended purpose of letting people check that physicians are legitimate before seeking care. > Drop down boxes containing illness categories and online guides are available for filling in "doctor speak" on forms and avoiding medical causes or circumstances that might trigger needs for autopsies or investigations, Rock's demonstration showed. > > - No one off limits - > > Borrowing a funeral director's identity to establish an online account for death certificate purposes was shown to be simple as well. Required information about legitimate funeral directors is posted on the Internet, and one could even claim to work at a funeral home. > In Rock's case, he made a website for a bogus funeral home and used that to back his application for an account as director. He got an automated call days later saying he was approved. > With both online accounts in place, deaths can be registered in the real world. > "You could kill anyone you want," Rock told AFP after the presentation. "No one is off limits." > A humor-infused list of scenarios included killing oneself off to get life insurance cash or going after others for vengeance. > Someone targeted might not even know they were declared dead until doing something official like trying to renew a passport or driving license. > Rock began digging into the death industry a year ago after an Australian hospital accidentally declared 200 patients dead. > > - Virtual babies - > > Getting birth certificates for virtual babies was demonstrated to be even easier than killing off people in the digital world, because registering births online only involves doctors and parents. > "Once you log on as a doctor, not only can you kill someone, you can actually birth someone," Rock said. > Given the time it takes for even a make-believe baby to grow into adulthood, he saw that as more tempting to crime gangs who could invest in the future by creating legions of virtual people for shady doings involving loans, stock trading, imports or other activities. > "You could even make fake identities for your children, so when they grow up they have burner identities," Rock said. > He dove into virtual birth and death in his book titled "The Baby Harvest: How virtual babies become the future of terrorist financing and money laundering." > >

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Stealth aircraft
by wirelesswarrior＠Safe-mail.net 11 Aug '15

11 Aug '15

Fellow Droogs, Long ago I wondered but never spent time to find out how this military magic worked. While doings some RF research recently I fell upon a key tech: http://scholar.google.com.secure.sci-hub.org/scholar?q=stealth+plasma+aircr… Enjoy! WW

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P25
by wirelesswarrior＠Safe-mail.net 09 Aug '15

09 Aug '15

Speaking of these devices... http://wiki.spench.net/wiki/Gr-baz#op25 WW

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Death lists.
by jim bell 08 Aug '15

08 Aug '15

http://news.yahoo.com/rush-put-death-records-online-lets-anyone-killed-0744… Las Vegas (AFP) - Hackers at an infamous annual Def Con gathering in Las Vegas got schooled in how to be online killers.A rush to go digital with the process of registering deaths has made it simple for maliciously minded folks to have someone who is alive declared dead by the authorities."This is a global problem," Australian computer security specialist Chris Rock said as he launched a presentation titled "I Will Kill You."The process of having someone officially stamped dead by getting a death certificate issued typically involves a doctor filling out one form and a funeral home filling out another, according to Rock's research.Once forms are submitted online, certificates declaring the listed person legally dead are generated.A fatal flaw in the system is that people can easily pose as real doctors and funeral directors, Rock demonstrated to a rapt audience.Doctors practising general medicine often don't bother setting up accounts at online portals for filling out information for death certificates.An aspiring online assassin can step into that void, and borrow the identity of a doctor.Setting up accounts requires a doctor's name, address, and medical license number. A basic Internet search will turn up that information, which is publicly available for the well-intended purpose of letting people check that physicians are legitimate before seeking care.Drop down boxes containing illness categories and online guides are available for filling in "doctor speak" on forms and avoiding medical causes or circumstances that might trigger needs for autopsies or investigations, Rock's demonstration showed.- No one off limits -Borrowing a funeral director's identity to establish an online account for death certificate purposes was shown to be simple as well. Required information about legitimate funeral directors is posted on the Internet, and one could even claim to work at a funeral home.In Rock's case, he made a website for a bogus funeral home and used that to back his application for an account as director. He got an automated call days later saying he was approved.With both online accounts in place, deaths can be registered in the real world."You could kill anyone you want," Rock told AFP after the presentation. "No one is off limits."A humor-infused list of scenarios included killing oneself off to get life insurance cash or going after others for vengeance.Someone targeted might not even know they were declared dead until doing something official like trying to renew a passport or driving license.Rock began digging into the death industry a year ago after an Australian hospital accidentally declared 200 patients dead.- Virtual babies -Getting birth certificates for virtual babies was demonstrated to be even easier than killing off people in the digital world, because registering births online only involves doctors and parents."Once you log on as a doctor, not only can you kill someone, you can actually birth someone," Rock said.Given the time it takes for even a make-believe baby to grow into adulthood, he saw that as more tempting to crime gangs who could invest in the future by creating legions of virtual people for shady doings involving loans, stock trading, imports or other activities."You could even make fake identities for your children, so when they grow up they have burner identities," Rock said.He dove into virtual birth and death in his book titled "The Baby Harvest: How virtual babies become the future of terrorist financing and money laundering."

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WikiLeaks bounties for TPP, bountied for ICWATCH
by grarpamp 06 Aug '15

06 Aug '15

https://wikileaks.org/WikiLeaks-issues-call-for-100-000.html https://wikileaks.org/Murderous-spooks-drive-journalism.html

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World’s First ‘Truly Anonymous’ Crypto Exchange Launches on I2P
by Seth 06 Aug '15

06 Aug '15

http://cryptonewsday.com/worlds-first-truly-anonymous-crypto-exchange-launc… World’s First ‘Truly Anonymous’ Crypto Exchange Launches on I2P The Grand Opening of a new cryptocurrency exchange, offering anonymous peer-to-peer trading over the I2P privacy network, was announced yesterday. Exchanged.I2P will offer its users a way to trade between Bitcoin and a range of altcoins, without compromising their financial privacy. Currently, the following altcoins can be traded: Anoncoin ANC Bitcoin BTC Dogecoin DOGE Dogecoindark DOGED Litecoin LTC Peercoin PPC Primecoin XMP Vertcoin VTC Additional coins will be added in the near future. Other exchanges services such as ShapeShift allow their users to exchange between different cryptocurrencies instantly, without creating an account or sharing personal information, but they are centralized services with no direct peer-to-peer trading, and they do not include the extra privacy protecting measures used by Exchanged.I2P. Not only will the exchange refrain from asking its traders for the usual ‘KYC’ information – your name, address and other personal information – it also includes a range of other privacy-protecting features. Users can create accounts and log-in using just a password or PGP key (or both for 2-factor authentication), without even needing to identify themselves with a username. Of course, the use of the I2P network also means that users cannot be identified and tracked using their IP address. I2P is a privacy network, also known as a ‘deep web’ or ‘darknet’, which allows users to create and browse internet services anonymously. It is used in a very similar way to the more popular TOR network. Some users claim that it offers improved security compared to TOR, which has been compromised in the past. TOR has also been the subject of controversy because a large proportion of its funding which comes from the U.S. government, and the technology it is built on was original developed by U.S. naval intelligence. I2P has failed to gain the levels of popularity achieved by TOR, however, largely because it is more difficult to install and use. The Exchanged.I2P project has been backed by the developers of Anoncoin, a privacy-centric cryptocurrency which is designed for use over I2P and Tor deep web services, and which has become one of the leading cryptocurrencies used on I2P dark markets.

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echelon/who was i fighting with on here about the intercepts stupidity?
by Cari Machet 06 Aug '15

06 Aug '15

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/03/gchq_duncan_campbell/ *Update: Since this piece was published the Intercept have been in touch to > say that it is "deceptive" of the Register to suggest that this is a "joint > publication". We're very happy to confirm that there has never been any > editorial collaboration between the Register and the Intercept.* -- Cari Machet NYC 646-436-7795 carimachet(a)gmail.com AIM carismachet Syria +963-099 277 3243 Amman +962 077 636 9407 Berlin +49 152 11779219 Reykjavik +354 894 8650 Twitter: @carimachet <https://twitter.com/carimachet> 7035 690E 5E47 41D4 B0E5 B3D1 AF90 49D6 BE09 2187 Ruh-roh, this is now necessary: This email is intended only for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use of this information, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this email without permission is strictly prohibited.

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Re: FOIA/PA
by John Young 06 Aug '15

06 Aug '15

I believe FBI was a minor player, if any, it was IRS TAIGA's Jeff Gordon and AUS Attorney Robb London who bird-dogged, planted a vehicle tracker, surveilled, harassed parents and friends, lurked on, sent messages and cherry-picked this mail list to subpoena cpunks and gather evidence for grand juries. https://cryptome.org/jdb-subpoena.htm https://cryptome.org/jya/jdbfiles.htm Indeed, it would be helpful to see the investigative files never introduced in court: some claim only 5% or less of "law enforcement senstive" are publicly released to avoid disclosing means and methods to assure conviction and chill others into lawful obedience, even if the judge remains awake during trial -- which in Mr. Bell's case, did not. Instead Judge Tanner (80+ years old), snoozed and periodically barked "Period." OTOH, some folks say once you see what is in such files, it may be prudent to let sleeping dogs lie. Shit your father, mother, friends, enemies, informants and shop-your-ass-to-save-their-own supporters say about you, reveal about you, lie about you, cover-up their own evildoing, well, now. No doubt, once the partially disclosed and redacted and doctored files are in hand, nothing stops you from culling them, doctoring them, fucking your tormentors by publishing your own version of FOIA/PA as the law and courts encourage official and unofficial liars to do. Admirable that Muckrock provides tutorials on how to do this, with gobs of documentary evidence far exceeding Snowden team's snow job. At 11:18 PM 7/31/2015, you wrote: >hey Jim, > >you know what'd be fun? a FOIA/PA request to FBI for your documents. :) > >if you're so inclined, > see > https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/privacyactdirect-1… > for example wording of interest. > > >best regards, > codermange

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so called onion routing
by Juan 06 Aug '15

06 Aug '15

http://www.onion-router.net/History.html 1995: Initial work on Onion Routing begins, funded by ONR. http://cypherpunks.venona.com/ grep onion cyp-1993.txt # For example, Eric Messick calls his things "onions," suggesting multiple "(For example, Eric Messick calls his things "onions," suggesting multiple layers of "return postage guaranteed" envelopes. This may be a great idea, and even a great name (which we may all be using in 5 years)," Also, the idea of multiple, nested, encrpyted 'envelopes' that contain routing information is routinely mentioned at that time, if I'm not mistaken.

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Delete and migrate your junk off GoogleCode by August 25 !!!
by grarpamp 05 Aug '15

05 Aug '15

It's going away, so if you've got stuff there you want to delete and manage without interacting with their humans and policy/archive wonks, do it now!!! http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html https://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/ReadOnlyTransition Sourceforge has been acting weird too, but you knew that.

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