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USG v. Apple, Apple Motion to Vacate Decrypt Order
by John Young 26 Feb '16

26 Feb '16

USG v. Apple, Apple Motion to Vacate Decrypt Order <https://t.co/ZOvJXNs0Bx>https://cryptome.org/2016/02/usg-apple-016.pdf (415 pp, 19.5MB)

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Re: A sane platform for president - what is your fundamentals for Eben Moglen?
by coderman 26 Feb '16

26 Feb '16

On 2/26/16, Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> wrote: > <brown paper bag> > > OK, got the address stuffed up twice - the first time, last night, I > started entering the cpunks address, then got distracted, then cut and > pasted the actual address. > > Then I read the "rejected" email, carefully I thought. > > Then, this morning, I replied to it, to try to send it again, > obviously with the wrong address again. > > Then, still in flux land computer wise (no mutt, just gmail), I cut > and pasted the wrong addy into my cross-post email from tor-talk. > > Talk about a cluster fsck of embarrassment! > > Thanks for understanding this flawed human, > Zen > > no worries; i'm always glad when bad events are instead my own sad mistakes, despite the egg on face... :)

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A sane platform for president - what is your fundamentals for Eben Moglen?
by Zenaan Harkness 25 Feb '16

25 Feb '16

So Eben is going to run for president. Let's make his job easy - write a first draft of his platform. I'm considering that "as president, I will end the United States Government" would probably not fly? There is the detailed version, for the geeks 'round these parts, and the simple version can be culled, for the footy tribe. 0. Constitutional basis - executive orders affirming each and every (??) clause of the Constitution of the United States of America. ? 1. Eliminate all non-court ordered (by a human judge, and with no order covering more than two target individuals at a time) monitoring (monitoring of all forms). ? 2. Eliminate the CIA. Eliminate Machiavellian military "exploration" and all state-sponsored and any other coups and regime changes. ? 3. Require all 'large' internet services to provide hidden service access to their services ? 4. ???

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Question about the FBI vs Apple case
by Anthony Papillion 25 Feb '16

25 Feb '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 I've got a question about the FBI vs Apple case that I don't think has been discussed before here (or at least I haven't seen it). It pertains to reverse engineering and the FBI's seeming helplessness. Software is software and we reverse engineer software all the time. I'd assume that the government has some fairly competent programmers on staff so why don't they just figure out what they need to change in iOS that would allow them to disable the passcode entry count and just /do it/. Similar to what malware writers do all the time. I'd imagine that, somewhere in iOS code, there is a block of code similar to if(passwordEntryCount == 10){ destroyPhoneAndKey(); } Wouldn't this be trivial to spot in assembly code and get around it? Isn't this really just a game the FBI is playing to make us think they just can't get around Apple's 'oh so clever' schemes? Or am I missing something here? Thanks, Anthony - -- Anthony Papillion Phone: (918) 533-9699 PGP: 0x53B04B15 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJWzgOUAAoJEAKK33RTsEsVxAMP/0wdsJF9+2e84Hy1uE8uu8dr y9iz1YG30VKU9b6CMDwWdoz2bX/kC3fn8lrbhdSqd9P37/mvYOcAmsE1DXV40JdF MlEzBGtk0HSCTYe1r/YtN6Ox13uuYhXyYUoaZVltBiuP4vs2rX/ywLetcg5MRwe6 ehQjXhq4wQ5JmQDNEmHY+xbhcaF1UCIx30R1mr7n+V/SciR3ssLNxzYUpNnoaWG/ gQ5+Yv8GGqp9IXrN5tYLyNlrjmPRGtQdwoBPv+bkHQgHMsZt9GXL7voZ6t61NPlg K4RSf5ZCJO1589t6k9vkvSI4jgiKtrtRs+AGhnk4A8unGNEfLkbWxyBjEAmR1fNl dKYCZIi264QvPf8jT0QE2Nz7UfZa3UaJ3FjfwpSu1BKShd7L7Mw2Qgs6VGgJpKrV vGhcIwCwQVlgJqIykL1+BKT2olrokmAjjuN1UXEUa0F3kTGUVGMWYqBVYdoJv3OO Vl9ynQyMjZis7JpoRC+U3jcfr88NtXvRTh23sHhjWg8s0xRpBdELIagjF2mtipGg StO3iW6QNHTQdJ2V1fVQHhdcp6DrJMlaB1RbaoBBvvcwSQLa/ec4CgzBsJ5R5ex4 Ws/6H8k6BQN2TZ1xmSkVeM3B+clLD1E6cQR7Cw30Q12yH7clNnVqtkd8DQE4mB4l ZUMLwO13Fplpe9yMYIba =iohF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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US global genocidal policy - Julian Assange interview by RT - Eben Moglen states a position on standing for US President
by Zenaan Harkness 25 Feb '16

25 Feb '16

Assange on ‘US Empire’, Assad Govt Overthrow Plans & New Book ‘The WikiLeaks Files’ http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/25/assange-on-us-empire-assad-govt-over… youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3HWiydFlJc (~450MiB at highest quality) Sorry folks, USGovMil are the greatest evil on the planet today. There's no other way to cut it. And yes, that's terribly sad. But tell that to the over 250,000 Syrians who are now dead as a result of USA Government foreign policy and CIA and military actions, training, etc. And others all around the world. There seems no way to pull the pin on this evil entity called the United States government - but perhaps every little bit we do can speed the process, educate those who don't understand what is happening, and for citizens of the US of A, what is happening by their implicit authority by acquiescence. Eben Moglen (refer previous thread) has said he will not run for US president. That's not only a great shame, it's a disgrace! If someone is within distance to meet him face to face (I will not be travelling to America, but if you know he is to travel to Australia, I will meet him here face to face, but that will be too late for the current presidential 'race'), -please- meet him face to face and remind him that it is because good men and women with good hearts and intentions such as himself, that do NOT stand for positions of authority in the system within which they find themselves existing, that is, by their acquiescence, that the tyranny of the despots and sociopaths who DO stand prevails, prevails over them, and as regards America, prevails over much of the world. If Eben will not stand personally, then he has a duty of care to everyone and a duty of care to his own principles, to nominate someone whom he knows is of "good spirit" who is willing to stand! If Eben can find no such individual, then he has a DUTY to stand for president, and in this case if he does not stand, he is complicit to the evil of the United States of America - implicitly, but complicit none the less! Feel free to forward him this email, but I find it is always much better to speak with someone face to face. If you plan to do so, perhaps print this email out. Good men and women must stand. Perhaps you know the soccer mom living next door who has demonstrated consistent "ethics" and good intention, and ought be presented with this same position - stand, or be complicit in your acquiescence to the evil. It does not require a million dollar "slush fund", it requires a firm grasp of reality, and of our individual complicity with that reality, and a willingness to communicate the simplicity to others - we are in an age of unprecedented rapidity of communication, of "flash mobs" which are normally co-opted marketing crap, but this does not take away from the reality of what's possible today. We tech people talk far too much. Every part of our "Western" lives is pervaded by politics! We cannot escape this simple fact that while "good" men and women refuse to stand, since 'we' have lives to live, creativity to explore and express, parties and sports events to attend and families to raise, because of all these reasons and many besides, that despots and sociopaths are the only individuals to stand and therefore hold the positions of power! Over us! Over the world!

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Hope for Rojava
by Zenaan Harkness 25 Feb '16

25 Feb '16

USA and the world's coalition of the dodgy opportunists, capitulate in 20 weeks in Syria. If it happens, a Kurdish "Rojava" mini state would be the best thing to happen for a real exploration or experiment in political 'anarchy'. My fingers and toes are all crossed in hope. --- http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/week-20-russias-syria-campaign-ceasef… Week 20 of Russia's Syria Campaign: The Ceasefire Deal Is a Huge Victory for Russia With it Russia has forced every single rebel faction to make a stark decision on whether it wants Al Nusra ties or not The Saker (The Unz Review) Diplomatic victory brought on by military victories Originally appeared at The Unz Review The recent agreement between the USA and Russia really solves nothing, it does not even end the war, and both sides are expressing a great deal of caution about its future implementation. And yet, this is a huge victory for Russia. While it is too early to say that “the Russians won in Syria”, I think that it is now fair to say that the Russian position on Syria has won. Here is why: First: nobody is suggesting anymore that Assad will be ousted or Damascus taken. That, in turn, means that everybody has now recognized that Syrian Arab Republic, backed by Russia, has successfully repelled the aggression of the huge coalition the AngloZionists built to overthrow Assad. Second: Russia has forced the UNSC and the USA to admit that the vast majority of those who fight Assad today are terrorists. Of course, this is not how this was declared, but if you look at the organizations which the UNSC has already declared as ‘terrorists’ then you already have an absolute majority of the anti-Assad forces. This means that the moral and legal legitimacy of the anti-Assad forces lies in tatters. Third: regardless of what Erdogan does actually try to do next, there are now clear signs that neither NATO, nor the EU nor even the Turkish high military command want a war with Russia. And that means that Erdogan’s gamble has not paid off and that his entire Syria policy is now comprehensively dead. Keep in mind that following the treacherous attack on the Russian Su-24 the Kremlin made it a policy goal to “Saakashvilize” Erdogan. This goal is now almost reached and Erdogan’s future looks very, very bleak: everybody ( except maybe the Saudis) is sick and tired of this maniac. The best thing which could happen to Turkey now would for the military to get rid of Erdogan and to replace him with somebody willing to repair all the damage he did. Fourth: all the threats to impose a no-fly zone or to occupy Syria have now been invalidated by an agreement which basically declares that anybody not respecting the cease-fire is a legitimate target for engagement and destruction. Fifth: the USA had to accept the humiliation of having to agree to all of the Russian terms for the current ceasefire. Yes, of course, the USA can, and probably will, try renege on part, or all, of this agreement, but the precedent has been set and it will be very hard, if not impossible, for the USA to openly return to the pre-2016 policies. Sixth: does anybody still remember the rhetoric of Hillary Clinton about Syria and Russia? Her position was crystal clear: Assad must go and those who support him “punished”. Even after the Russian military offensive began, the US refused to tell the Russians where the “good terrorists” were and where the “bad terrorists” were. No exchange of information with Russians was acceptable. Now the Americans had to agree to work with the Russians on a map of Syria designating where the participants of the ceasefire and where those who were not included in the ceasefire were deployed. In other words,the US will now have to share with Russia all the info it previously refused to share and work with the Russians on a daily basis. Seventh: Russia has basically co-opted the so-called “Free Syrian Army”. How? By basically forcing every single faction in Syria to chose between one of two possible statuses: being a ‘terrorist’ (and a fair target for destruction) or being a participant in a political process entirely designed by Russia. The Russians are now even opening a “Truce Center” at the Khmeimin airbase ( https://www.rt.com/news/333381-syria-reconciliation-russia-hotline/ ) near Latakia which will now “render assistance” to all the parties to the ceasefire. This, for the time being, is mainly a diplomatic victory, of course, but a Russian diplomatic victory made possible by a Russian military victory. A tiny Russian military contingent has basically completely neutralized the plans of an entire worldwide Empire. That, in itself, is an amazing achievement. The other big winner here are, in my opinion, the Kurds who, according to British officials ( http://www.rbc.ru/politics/23/02/2016/56cc4b5f9a7947b06c6fff7b ), appear to be coordinating their military operations with the Syrian army and the Russian Aerospace Forces and who now might well even achieve their dreams of joining the Iraqi and Syria regions of Kurdistan. Which is just about the worst nightmare for the Turks come true, hence the still remaining risk of a Turkish military operation ostensibly to create a ‘buffer zone’ but really to save face. That kind of intervention will remain a possibility for as long as the Turks can continue to hope to commit aggression against their neighbors under the protection of NATO and the USA. And that ain’t gonna change anytime in the future. And then there are the Saudis. They are very, very angry. They are angry to the point of making not so subtle threats about using nuclear weapons to deal with their adversaries. See for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXuJkVPRjNI Actually, since Pakistan got The Bomb, I would not dismiss any Saudi claims of having a number of nuclear devices. But what does that really mean? Absolutely nothing. It is quite possible that the Saudis have the know how for a nuclear device. And it is quite possible that they even got their hands on enough nuclear materials for a few bombs. They might even have succeeded in purchasing a few nuclear devices from the Pakistanis or Israelis. But even if that is true, the reality is that the Saudis don’t even have the military capability to deal with the poorest Arab country on the planet (Yemen) and that they most definitely don’t have the military capability to engage their nuclear devices in a way which would allow them to achieve any kind of military advantage. After all, what are we talking about here? Using nuclear weapons against the Syrian military? Against Iran? Against Russia? This is absolutely ridiculous. The reality is that whatever nuclear capabilities the Saudis might or might not have, the fact that they would make nuclear threats is just a sign of weakness and fear, not a sign of strength. This is why nobody is impressed by these statements, least of all the intended targets of such threats. While it is quite true that the latest agreement between the USA and Russia does not mark the end of the war in Syria, it is a turning point, a kind of a Minsk-2 Agreement which nobody really wants to comply with, but which seals the defeat of the AngloZionist plans in Syria as much as Minsk-2 meant the defeat of the Ukronazi dream. Time is now on the Russian/Syrian side. With each passing day the Russian task force in Syria will become more powerful, as will the Syrian Armed Forces. That, by itself, will not be enough to defeat Daesh, and we can expect a stiff resistance from the Takfiri crazies, but the writing is on the wall for all to see: the more the Russians and the Americans become directly and jointly involved, the less Turkey and Saudi Arabia will be able to determine the outcome of the war. In other words, while this is far from being the end of Daesh, it is the beginning of the end for Daesh in Syria. Yet again the nay-sayers and Putin-haters have been proven wrong. To be honest, so have I: I would never have guessed that the Russians could have achieved so much with so little and yet they did pull off this extremely dangerous gamble and they won. Only an extremely skillful combination of military, economic, diplomatic and political means could have yielded such a remarkable result but Putin, apparently, found this perfect mix. The path ahead remains extremely dangerous, for sure, but the outcome of the 20 week long Russian military intervention in Syria is nothing short of remarkable.

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Impressive US shamelessness
by Zenaan Harkness 24 Feb '16

24 Feb '16

No it's -not- a bash America list, it's a name the fucking shovel list. Since Syria is no longer "just a little CIA regime change op", the 'big guns' find it difficult to hide their true intentions (which, as we see from the very end of this article, are often times precise embedded as their accusations of others :) What a world we live in... --- http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/kerry-says-if-ceasefire-fails-he-may-… Kerry Says If Ceasefire Fails He May Partition Syria Because, you know, God made him the owner of Syria Mark Nicholas That's Western 'nation-building' and international law for you John Kerry is an incredible motivator! He has just told ( http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/23/john-kerry-partition-syria-pea… ) Syrian jihadi-controlled ( https://consortiumnews.com/2016/02/16/obamas-moderate-syrian-deception/ ) rebellion that all it has to do is sabotage the upcoming ceasefire he has agreed to with Moscow and he will reward them with a mini-state carved out from Syria. What better incentive to abide by the deal and cease hostilities could he possibly give them? John Kerry, the US secretary of state, has said he will move towards a plan B that could involve a partition of Syria if a planned ceasefire due to start in the next few days does not materialize, or if a genuine shift to a transitional government does not take place in the coming months. Oh yes, you may have thought that "partition" is a bad word, but that's only true when the Russians do it ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Poland_(1939%E2%80%9345) ). When Americans partition a foreign country (Korea, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Serbia, Sudan) that is actually a good thing. Which presents us with a problem since Kerry is apparently willing to invite Putin to help with the partition: Kerry suggested partition could form part of an eventual solution, saying “this can get a lot uglier and Russia has to be sitting there evaluating that too. It may be too late to keep it as a whole Syria if it is much longer”. It is the first time Kerry has spoken of partition, although some believe Putin would be content to see this happen. This creates a moral problem for us because while a unilateral partition of Syria by the virtuous US would be a good thing, a joint US-Russian partition would be tainted by the virtue of having evil Russian paws over it. Hopefully the Russian nation-breaking dictator will decline the offer of the nation-building Obama Administration official and avert the possibility of American-Russian collusion in breaking up a sovereign third country. PS. Wasn't it just a short few weeks ago that the West was accusing Moscow of plotting partition of Syria ( http://russia-insider.com/en/military/london-goes-full-retard-russia-syria-… ) ? How times change. kerry.jpg with quote

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Questions for Matt DeHart case?
by Douglas Lucas 24 Feb '16

24 Feb '16

I will be covering Courage beneficiary Matt DeHart's sentencing Monday in Nashville for https://revolution-news.com/ (@NewsRevo on Twitter). Can anyone suggest questions for his defense team, for his parents (assuming they're not too distraught), for the prosecutors (who will say no comment)? I would be asking these immediately after the sentencing. Here's info on his case: http://news.nationalpost.com/matt-dehart-claims-hes-wanted-for-working-with… http://www.buzzfeed.com/davidkushner/matt-dehart#.econ0L3bE https://mattdehart.com/matts-story/

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SHIT LIST
by coderman 24 Feb '16

24 Feb '16

Stewart Baker - Former 1st Assistant Secretary of DHS General Counsel of the NSA Tim Belcher - Former CTO, RSA Jim Bidzos - Chairman and CEO, Verisign Art Coviello - Former Executive Chairman, RSA Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Ph.D. - Executive Director of the Privacy and Big Data Institute at Ryerson University Larry Clinton - President and CEO, Internet Security Alliance Michael Chertoff - Executive Chairman of The Chertoff Group U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security (’05-’09) Richard Clarke - Former White House Advisor Chairman and CEO, Good Harbor Security Risk Management Edward Davis - Former Boston Police Commissioner Brian Fitzgerald - Chief Marketing Officer, Veracode Kasha Gauthier - Program Committee Co-Chair, NICE Special Advisor, Boston College Cybersecurity Masters Program J. Trevor Hughes - President and CEO, International Association of Privacy Professionals Michael McConnell - Former Director of the NSA and Director of National Intelligence Nuala O’Connor - President and CEO, Center for Democracy and Technology JR Williamson - Corporate Chief Information Officer, Northrop Grumman fuck all these clowns!

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EFF to Support Apple in Encryption Battle [ or, WTF EFF!? ]
by Steve Kinney 24 Feb '16

24 Feb '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The bizarre propaganda narrative about a locked iPhone that belonged to a dead criminal suspect just keeps growing. Now the Electronic Frontiers Foundation has boarded the disinformation train, via its latest EFFEctor newsletter and an amicus brief. EFF to Support Apple in Encryption Battle https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/02/eff-support-apple-encryption-b attle I can maybe forgive EFF's casual assertion that Syed Rizwan Farook was "one of the perpetrators of December’s San Bernardino shootings" - since they used three names he /must/ be an assassin; the FBI says he is, what more proof could one ask? But in the same press release, EFF endorses absurd non sequiturs that demonstrate painful ignorance of the subject matter at hand. The EFF endorses the assertations that the only way to obtain access to encrypted data stored on an iPhone is to manually key in a password on the device itself, that removing a software function that deletes a stored key hash after n. failed decryption attempts voids the security of the encrypted data stored on that device, and that doing this to one iPhone would affect the security of all iPhone users. Either people without the slightest understanding of how cryptography works /or/ how computer forensics works are calling the shots at EFF, or someone there has deliberately stood up strawmen for the FBI'a attorneys to knock down, or... damn if I know . -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJWzaUtAAoJEDZ0Gg87KR0L+50P/06rr0wSkPFDvtAwYscCO4Kr zRMg0f1mDoc8zB4TeOyKSsA47J5uJigd1i1EhQtk3HjQCCFQNAtWjMjcvQ7Kpw1f 27vTlbBkAi20civwsQ6KBvVtzgSsD3sgJeUddjV9O66Km3KEGnzx/ImwnALuTx9D oRG1QFg+i4/6eWiL9e4k+b7KGcZ+WyxHjyLbYP5sR6NQOb3si8iPS2ySwcvQbiFE qlR1dDGimaLf36MJKukhzrHSJuaIVbK3TgILGgDFw9QED9b/w4Ly0OMh69Tf23Fl MJPn2pCcuAqip4n1ABnIbJuhZvO84yUZnB32tPzhPvC0Qso3Nf11qDjgo6/mjmA5 uTHtRPD5pCD6phoepi1tsAnlW0gqh0gENCuFvzg/vStLxg6xmqFy6V1t2Tj2w9Tk 3oJW7TOYcpXutWFma/nQ34axpqqk1yzKIGVZ5mrVe+2LTiA/qEnWD/ZBOmbM57pT fRLfSpxefUFH5oog9UhEnkLpFmdGHyVZKjMV5UYcke361aWn2XcZsWSkU8cqfFY+ dKX5yukRXklJKW5W5XwQsg5erS4wkKAOMuDqiw+XGyDasOAiBVcXo3dxs9+e6qhu ATK2tz3t3u7kB95MFEQCpPj00NgmO8KzB0yppUFNZYprWuYA8wueANndR7YwVlWP OlWswTw7xNjgPkOaHOWh =Exoy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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