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The Panama Papers: The Secrets Of Dirty Money
by grarpamp 06 Apr '16

06 Apr '16

http://panamapapers.sueddeutsche.de/en/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers The Panama Papers is a news leak of confidential documents from an offshore tax haven originating from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca.

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Re: [tor-talk] Innocent Seattle Exit Operators And Privacy Advocates Raided - Tor was run out of home @Phil Mocek and @e347c518
by grarpamp 05 Apr '16

05 Apr '16

On 4/5/16, tor_talk(a)arcor.de <tor_talk(a)arcor.de> wrote: > Hi Phil Mocek and Tor Talkers, > > @Phil Mocek > thx for the links. normally there is a cache of a website for some time. but > this time i got none. so thanks for the links. >>- <https://twitter.com/SeattlePrivacy/status/716460499106340864> >>- <https://twitter.com/jdormansteele/status/716807343988715521> >>- <https://web.archive.org/web/20160304025122/www.seattleprivacy.org/> > > @e347c518 >> They found no evidence of as a molester so that is good too. Unless it was >> really but hidden. > > nevertheless, the two activists are now known and never search engine > forgotten at last as some who were raided for a childporn picture by police > and fbi. if you need a job or want to fund money for a campaign or project > even for another Tor Exit Node it will be a lot harder or impossible. and > that is the more crucial thing what has happened here; fearful activists in > spe will think twice doing a Tor Exit (at home). in these times it isn't > "not guilty until proven otherwise". if you want a relationship with another > employer, partner or travel around (with visa) it will be hard if someone > search your name now in the internet. the most people don't read to the end. > they aren't interested in "not guilty" but in "unless it was really but > hidden". that is cruel. you don't want that in your digital CV for a single > childporn picture which never existed, you never possessed you never saw. > > as previously said <1MB childporn pic suffocate all your equipments (can't > use it after policed touched it) > > https://twitter.com/SeattlePrivacy/status/716460499106340864 > #WeWillRebuild > > and change your life. i understand now, you really want to change something > desperately in the USA while installing a Tor ExitNode in your home. that is > hard core. but you can get wet once only when it is raining. i hope the > number of the community and the tor exit nodes operators will skyrocket now > and every time a raid like this happens. > perhaps we should make some search engine words suggestions trendy for the > raid winners > Bultmann Robinson nobel peace prize winner best employee of the month > guardians of the gate Tor is where your home is home is where Tor is I'd hire them, let them immigrate their boat on my beach, live quietly in my flat. One's history may be relavent to the opposition, yet nothing is impossible among peers.

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Rojava - direct democracy, Kurdistan, gender equality, polyethnic
by Zenaan Harkness 05 Apr '16

05 Apr '16

Further to last years documentaries of this punk beginning, Rojava is moving up in the world. There's hope yet. - A wikipedia page :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rojava - Russian military support for the Kurds http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/feb/8/l-todd-wood-russia-supportin… http://www.euractiv.com/section/europe-s-east/opinion/why-a-pro-kurdish-rus… - Syria Kurds' First Foreign Office to Be Opened in Moscow http://russia-insider.com/en/syria-kurds-first-foreign-office-be-opened-mos… - The YPJ (their women's army) is still going strong; though I would have liked to see the Moscow PYD/YPD office include the YPJ.

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You thought it was just your local ISP messing with your HTTP traffic
by Rayzer 05 Apr '16

05 Apr '16

From February this year: Website-Targeted False Content Injection by Network Operators Gabi Nakibly1,3, Jaime Schcolnik2, and Yossi Rubin3 1 Computer Science Department, Technion, Haifa, Israel 2Computer Science Department, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel 3Rafael – Advanced Defense Systems, Haifa, Israel Over the last few years there have been numerous reports of ISPs that alter or proxy their customers’ traffic, including, for example, CMA Communications in 2013 [6], Comcast in 2012 [16], Mediacom in 2011 [9], WOW! in 2008 [27], and Rogers in 2007 [32]. Moreover, several extensive studies have brought the details of this practice to light [17, 30, 25, 35]. The main motivations of ISPs to alter traffic are to facilitate caching, inject advertisements into DNS and HTTP error messages, and compress or transcode content. All of these reports and studies found that these traffic alterations were carried out exclusively by edge ISPs,namely, retail ISPs that sell Internet access directly to end customers, and are their “first hop” to the Internet. This finding stems from the server-centric approach the above studies have taken. In this approach, one or a handful of servers are deployed to deliver specific content to users, after which a large number of clients are solicited to fetch that content from the servers. Finally, an agent on the clients – usually a JavaScript delivered by the server itself – looks for deviations between the content delivered by the server and that displayed to the user. Figure 1(a)illustrates the traffic monitored in this server-centric approach. Such an approach can be used to inspect the traffic of many clients from diverse geographies who are served by different edge ISPs. The main disadvantage of this approach is that the content fetched by the clients is very specific. All clients fetch the same content from the same web servers. This allows only the detection of network entities that aim to modify all of the Internet traffic1 of a predetermined set of users and are generally oblivious to the actual content delivered to the user. Such entities indeed tend to be edge ISPs that target only the traffic of their customers. In this work we show that the above approach misses a substantial portion of the on-path entities that modify traffic on the Internet. Using extensive observations over a period of several weeks, we analyzed petabits of Internet traffic carrying varied content delivered by servers having over 1.5 million distinct IP addresses. We newly reveal several network operators that modify traffic not limited to a specific set of users. Such network operators alter Internet traffic on the basis of its content, primarily by the website a user visits. The traffic of every Internet user that traverses these network operators is susceptible to alteration." www.arxiv.org/pdf/1602.07128v1.pdf -- RR "Through counter-intelligence it should be possible to pinpoint potential trouble-makers ... And neutralize them, neutralize them, neutralize them"

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NPR story: When A Dark Web Volunteer Gets Raided By The Police
by grarpamp 05 Apr '16

05 Apr '16

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/04/04/472992023/when-a-d… He/they gave passwords and let govt search (and perhaps even index, hash, and copy, knowingly or not [1]) his (possibly then unencrypted) data. As opposed to having it confiscated pending potentially 2^128 time. Where is the principled stand there? [2][4] [1] This happened while he was detained outside / away from control of his systems. [2] He "may now have to get rid of his computers because he can't be sure what the police did to them [3]". For which giving passwords had no purpose but to nullify a potentially good test case, trample rights and replace "innocent till guilty" with "violated, chilled, innocent for now, while Cardinal Richelieu's database hums... ... If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, whether or not I find something in them which will hang him, I will database them and own his soul forever." [3] Already did: https://twitter.com/SeattlePrivacy/status/716460499106340864 [4] Due credit, thugs with guns at your door does tend to modify even the most well thought and prepared for principles. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger for next time.

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What's App End to End Encryption
by Yush Bhardwaj 05 Apr '16

05 Apr '16

http://www.wired.com/2014/11/whatsapp-encrypted-messaging/ What's is also using AES, HMAC AND Elliptic Curve ? *Yush Bhardwaj*

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NSL AmA with ACLU and CALYX
by grarpamp 04 Apr '16

04 Apr '16

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4dcm55/we_are_aclu_lawyers_and_nick_…

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Mossak Fonseca's statement
by Ben Mezger 04 Apr '16

04 Apr '16

http://www.scribd.com/doc/306839585/Declaration-de-Mossak-Fonseca-en-anglais "'Our firm, like many firms, provides worldwide regist ered agent services for our professional clients (e.g., lawyers, banks, and trusts) who are intermediaries. As a registered agent we merely help incorporate companies, and before we agree to work with a client in any way, we conduct a thorough due-diligence process, one that in every case meets and quite often exceeds all relevant local rules, regulations and standards to which we and others are bound."" -- Kind Regards, Ben Mezger https://benmezger.nl

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Is it possible to leak huge load of data over onions?
by grarpamp 04 Apr '16

04 Apr '16

On 4/3/16, Griffin Boyce <griffin(a)cryptolab.net> wrote: > How do you transmit an elephant? One byte at a time... > > But on a serious note, it's possible to transfer 2.6TB over Tor in small > pieces (such as file by file or via torrent). Given the size, however, I'd > suspect they mailed hard drives after establishing contact with > journalists. Even on a fairly fast connection, 2.6TB would take quite a > while... That amount of data would take 27 days at 10Mbps. Few would be willing to sit supervising in a hotseat that long when they can physically mail 3TB for $100 and 8TB for $230. Though they might spend 3 days pushing 100Mbps via shells, etc. Overlay networks move data reasonably well, and reliability could be handled by chunking protocols. Available link speeds (thus path speeds) are likely to be limiting factor, ie: 10Mbps limits you to 100GiB a day. Though at 1Mbps, DVD torrenting on say I2P seems to be a thing.

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Warrant canaries appear to be usable by large US companies - Reddit in this case
by Zenaan Harkness 04 Apr '16

04 Apr '16

Here and there someone pokes their illogical head up and says "Warrant canaries can't work" or "warrant canaries will get you introuble with the law" or some variation on the theme. It boggles me fookin marnd, it do. Perhaps this story can help massage some of those mental tensions... https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/04/01/0321257/reddit-deletes-surveillance… "Reddit Deletes Surveillance 'Warrant Canary' In Transparency Report >From the deductive-reasoning department Arthur Dent '99 writes: Today, Reddit deleted wording in its transparency report that would normally indicate that they had not received any "national security letters" or "other classified requests for user information." Such "national security... " fooking fook!

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