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NSA Crypto Breakthrough Bamford [was: WhatsApp keying...]
by grarpamp 18 May '16

18 May '16

On 4/29/16, Ray Dillinger <bear(a)sonic.net> wrote: > > On 04/28/2016 05:41 PM, grarpamp wrote: >> On 4/28/16, david wong <davidwong.crypto(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> so as long as we don't discover a crazy breakthrough. >> >> This "breakthrough" hasn't yet been further identified / described... >> https://www.wired.com/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter > > > I keep hearing rumors about this "breakthrough." I don't > know how seriously to take them, but I suspect that if it > exists it's more likely to be deliberate sabotage at the > hardware/software/firmware level than it is to be the > often-implicated Quantum Supercomputer or major mathematical > insight. > But I keep hearing noises about a fundamental breakthrough > in cryptology, with the strong implication that it's some > kind of new cryptanalytic technique, mathematical insight, > or design principle for special-purpose custom hardware. If you actually read and reassemble all the references in the article (which I won't do herein), they all refer to a 'cryptanalytic' breakthrough over modern crypto, further assisted with compute power, and deployed. That is obviously not just academic powers of two yielding moot partial solutions over limited rounds. And not sabotage, exploits, etc. Of course those are widespread, but they are not part of the 'cryptanalytic breakthrough' subthread of the article. > Assuming they can get four orders of magnitude of hardware > efficiency for purpose-built AES cracking silicon, and back > it up with scores of billions of dollars per year investment > in constantly updating overwhelming volumes of this custom > hardware -- I still don't see anybody cracking AES-128 any > time soon without either a mathematical insight so profound > as to be completely unexpected Maths and crackpots love a nice quiet life with everything taken care of so they can spend decades working their hard problems and crazy angles. The NSA provides that, and protects it and its results as their crown jewels. Do not underestimate it. > or a fundamentally new > computing technology like large scale Quantum Computers. This begins to matter when basic research yields a point where a secret investment of say $100B or less pays off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_megaprojects http://www.visualcapitalist.com/death-taxes-2015-visual-guide-tax-dollars-g… > If the fundamental mathematical breakthrough is real, it's > very surprising that it hasn't leaked See crown jewels... > or been duplicated yet See Maths... > but in that case it's only a matter of time before one or the > other or both occur. Leaks can occur until time forgotten. Math occurs randomly. Snowden did not have access to the crypto compartments. No leaker seems to have had relavent access to post-WWII modern crypto. > Speculating about the effect of a > fundamental mathematical breakthrough is at best hard to do > meaningfully Those subject to the dark must speculate, those with knowledge of it can execute. > Physicists: > "A large-scale quantum supercomputer is very doubtful." > > Mathematicians: > "A mathematical insight of such magnitude is very doubtful." Wagering against physics is one thing, against the human mind... that may not be a wise investment. "...the ability to crack current public encryption." Some investigative journalist should be all over following up the crypto part of Bamford's piece as the scoop of a lifetime. For that matter, where is Bamford's own followup? Details of such a breakthrough are likely to serve and advance public knowledge and application by providing solution to some long desirable hard problem or going off somewhere new that we've never gone before. Keeping those kind of secrets for yourself is an affront to Humankind. Till then, everyone, including the keepers, rots in the Dark Ages.

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Re: What Omidyar's been up to...
by Cari Machet 18 May '16

18 May '16

Thank you rayzor for your ignorant ego ways otherwise we wouldnt get to read juans brilliance as often On May 17, 2016 11:20 PM, "juan" <juan.g71(a)gmail.com> wrote: On Tue, 17 May 2016 08:13:44 -0700 Rayzer <rayzer(a)riseup.net> wrote: > > > On 05/16/2016 10:36 PM, juan wrote: > > On Mon, 16 May 2016 08:35:28 -0700 > > Rayzer <rayzer(a)riseup.net> wrote: > > > >> > >> Fomenting media about indigenous land rights... > >> > >> > > > > omidyar and the reuters mafia babbling about 'land rights' make as > > much sense as jack the ripper lecturing on morality. > > > > > > I sense you, like many fanatics, don't see the value of the 'small > cracks' these sorts of things make in 'systems'. Oh, I do see the value of what your master omidyar does. I know qute well how propaganda works. The 'cracks' in the system are useful to keep the fake opposition happy. "Controlled opposition" Look it up. In wikipedia. > Let's talk conspiracy Juan, cause I KNOW you're bound to be one of > those 'conspiracy nutjobs'. Ok. So I'm a 'fanatic nutjob'. I'd rather be that instead of an omidyar lapdog. > > "Power Elite Conspiracies" exist but they are NOT overarching, cast > in stone things with some 'plan' that made them happen. Conspiracies > muddle through by hedging all bets. Any way the cards fall you win > SOMETHING, and over time that something is at least additive if not > geometrically or logarithmically enhanced. Handwaving and bullshit. > > It's up to the proles to take advantage of the hedges that work for > them. Because no one else is going to do it. Even the most perverse > skewed reporting on an issue is better than none at all for too many > reasons to enumerate here. Sure, sure, sure. How could I have missed the invaluable value of establishment propaganda? Silly me. > > If the proles can't figure out the media trap their ensnared in > educate them. You'd just scoff. Hella solution. > > "I think people have the capacities to see through the deceit in which > they're ensnared, but you've got to make the effort" ~Noam Chomsky > > He says so right here > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIsZwGbi9g8 > (snigger, that's Tom Morello's mama announcing.) > > Ah but you think Chomsky's a CIA 'operator' don't you Juan? I know chomsky is a sick piece of shit. I aldready provided the data. Here it goes again. http://www.hoover.org/research/noam-chomsky-closet-capitalist http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/authors/noam-chomsky-n… > And Tom Morello, and Zack De La Rocha, and Abbie Hoffman Karl Marx, > Groucho Marx, and Trotsky too. lol rayzer - you are a cheap marxist - you can't get more totalitarian than that. go kill people who don't obey The State's Traffic Laws. > > I guess everyone should just give up and not do anything at all. > > BTW, USAID is on the list of foundation donors. The skew is EASY to > see, and EASY to work around just by those agency's visibility in the > organization. > > Rr > > >

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Anonymous Teaching Hacktivism and Hacking via OnionIRC
by grarpamp 16 May '16

16 May '16

https://twitter.com/onionirc irc://onionirchubx5363.onion:6667 ircs://onionirchubx5363.onion:6697

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Cypherpunks: Renegades, Risk Takers - Smart, Provocative Entertainment
by John Young 15 May '16

15 May '16

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160419006752/en/Laura-Poitras%C2%A0… Risk is a fresh take on the renegades, the cypherpunks, the risk takers. First Look Media announced today that Laura Poitras' new feature film Risk will have its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival's 48th Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs). This dramatic documentary with a cypherpunk spirit reveals the stakes and opportunities of truth-telling and finds Poitras embedded with Julian Assange over the past five years. Risk is her highly anticipated follow-up to Citizenfour, Academy Award® winner for Best Documentary. Risk is produced by Praxis Films in association with First Look Media and Field of Vision. World sales will be handled by Josh Braun of Submarine. First Look Media is a new-model media company devoted to supporting independent voices across all platforms, from investigative journalism and documentary filmmaking to smart, provocative entertainment. eBay founder and philanthropist Pierre Omidyar launched First Look in 2013 with the belief that independent perspectives are vital to a vibrant culture and thriving democracy. First Look operates as both a studio and digital media company.

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XnSpy
by Yush Bhardwaj 15 May '16

15 May '16

anyone have any idea about XnSpy android spy software? *Yush Bhardwaj*

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The Hullabaloo over Encryption
by Ryan Carboni 15 May '16

15 May '16

Why is the FBI against encryption? Why did the former NSA and CIA chiefs come in favor of encryption? Their statements are hard to decipher on the subject, but not hard to figure out. It is usually easier to make everything but the cipher weak. Protocols and programs commonly used are either not done properly or non standardized, and best practices have been slow in coming. Furthermore, the FBI has not been clear on this, but apparently they want data in motion to be decrypted and encrypted by a central point, and for data at rest to not be encrypted. (I seriously doubt Marcy Wheeler's claims of Comey's charisma if he has not even been able to say in one sentence about what the FBI wants, unless she's flirting with him) For groups to organize they need to communicate. Criminals use off the shelf encryption tools, and their devices are not continuously connected, and even less likely to be able to run root code on each other's devices (although social engineering does work). What the NSA and the CIA does is harder to guess, but it becomes somewhat obvious that no nation-state has publicly explained how to design a proper protocol (AFAIK). Furthermore, you do hear in the news about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_cyberattack_on_United_States . Essentially, common criminals have a small attack surface. Nationstates have a larger attack surface, so encryption is less significant.

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Seattle-area: TA3M Seattle is Monday
by Blibbet 14 May '16

14 May '16

If you are in the Seattle-area, this Monday at University of Washington at TA3M (Techno-Activism, 3rd Mondays). The targets of the recent Tor exit node -- who are also the leaders of the Seattle Privacy Coalition -- who were raided by Seattle Police Dept by Seattle Police Dept. will be speaking about the raid. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [TA3M-Seattle] TA3M May on Monday May 16: Hear from Seattle Privacy Activists & Lightning Talks Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 20:53:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul English <tallpaul(a)engmooski.net> To: ta3m-seattle(a)ta3m.org CC: ta3m-seattle(a)lists.openitp.org, Seattle Privacy <seattleprivacy(a)lists.riseup.net> Hello again! TA3M Seattle is meeting on Monday May 16 at 6:30pm. Talks start at 7pm This month we'll be hearing from Seattle Privacy Coalition activists David & Jan about the police raid on their house for running a Tor exit node. Lightning Talks - bring your 5-minute Lightning talks on Technology Activism, Privacy infosec, cryptography etc. We should have time for 10 of these. When: Monday May 16, 2016, 6:30-9:30pm Where: University of Washington (main campus) Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), Room 403, 185 W Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA 98195 <http://uw.edu/maps/?cse> <http://www.washington.edu/maps/> __Schedule__ 6:30-7:00 pizza & socialize in CSE building lobby table area 7:00-? Dave & Jan talk about Tor exit node police raid. ?-9:00 Lightning talks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Techno-Activism Third Mondays (TA3M) is an informal meetup designed to connect software creators and activists who are interested in censorship, surveillance, and open technology. Currently, TA3M are held in various cities throughout the world, with many more launching in the near future. In Seattle, thanks to a special donor, there will be free pizza! _______________________________________________ TA3M-Seattle mailing list TA3M-Seattle(a)lists.openitp.org https://lists.openitp.org/mailman/listinfo/ta3m-seattle

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(no subject)
by Greg Moss 14 May '16

14 May '16

http://219.234.6.206:8080/

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Do you notice significant persistent change in climate?
by Georgi Guninski 14 May '16

14 May '16

Do you notice significant persistent change in climate during your lifetime? Also increase in major natural disasters (not counting m$ products/ services)? I do in Bulgaria, SE Europe.

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FYI: 'Private Smartphone' ... UnaPhone Zenith
by Rayzer 13 May '16

13 May '16

Via tuta.io, links are shortlinks to indiegogo: Tutanota Introduces Private Smartphone: UnaPhone Zenith Dear privacy-friend, we are excited to let you know that we have partnered with Una to bring to you the most private and secure smartphone: the UnaPhone Zenith. We at Tutanota and Una believe that a phone should not be your personal surveillance device, but simply your personal phone, where all the data remains with you and cannot be exploited. Una has just launched a crowdfunding campaign to bring the Zenith to life <https://igg.me/at/unaphone>. As their partner we are proud to let you know about this perfect chance to get the Zenith as an early bird! We call it: the Anti-Google Phone! The UnaPhone Zenith is the first truly secure and private Android smartphone without any compromises. It doesn’t use any Google services, shady apps or strange permissions. With the Zenith you can stay calm knowing that you are never tracked and that your data is never being sold. The phone comes with the most secure open source third party apps. Of course, the Tutanota App is already pre-installed. We hope you share our passion for privacy and support this project <https://igg.me/at/unaphone>. Personally, we are thrilled that there will be a phone available making sure that our data cannot be abused - not even by the carrier. We can't wait to get a Zenith ourselves! Cheers, your TutanotaTeam

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