September 2016 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

US FED Rule 41: We're Gonna Hack Everyone, No Warrants Required
by grarpamp 17 Sep '16

17 Sep '16

https://www.wired.com/2016/09/government-will-soon-able-legally-hack-anyone/ The Feds Will Soon Be Able to Legally Hack Almost Anyone Senator Ron Wyden, Matt Blaze and Susan Landau That’s why it’s so concerning that the Justice Department is planning a vast expansion of government hacking. Under a new set of rules, the FBI would have the authority to secretly use malware to hack into thousands or hundreds of thousands of computers that belong to innocent third parties and even crime victims. The unintended consequences could be staggering. The new plan to drastically expand the government’s hacking and surveillance authorities is known formally as amendments to Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, and the proposal would allow the government to hack a million computers or more with a single warrant. If Congress doesn’t pass legislation blocking this proposal, the new rules go into effect on December 1. With just six work weeks remaining on the Senate schedule and a long Congressional to-do list, time is running out. One possible slippery slope analysis not seen elsewhere... https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2016-April/012955.html

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flexlibris
by NewTroll 17 Sep '16

17 Sep '16

u doxn juan or what! Hurry it up.

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Fucking comedy of old white guy parasites >>>>
by Cari Machet 16 Sep '16

16 Sep '16

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/09/someone_is_lear.html

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Re: [Rotor-general] Status
by grarpamp 16 Sep '16

16 Sep '16

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 7:02 PM, Joshua <joshua2014(a)protonmail.ch> wrote: > These > types of vulnerabilities show why diversity is needed in the anonymous > networking ecosystem. Exactly. So long as on balance your network/app does not present a weaker position overall... different sets and classes of bugs, threat / usage models, and attack surfaces can be appreciated as not a bad thing in that regard. Popularity, marketing / share, bandwagon, and even high quality shouldn't cause people to forget the basics of not all in one basket. Now and then I post on diversity (see pp3)... https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2016-August/010082.html And occaisionally mention, inexhaustively as time permits, some examples (in this thread, some tor compatibles)... https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2016-August/010112.html https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/ListOfTorImplementations Anonymous overlay networks are still a new science and greenfield with much research to be done and many oppurtunities to both start new projects and see deprecated ones pass to history. Ten years out, I doubt the prevailing network[s] and tech[s] will directly inherit the torspec of today, but rather be an import of any useful ideas from many network projects into a new one.

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The Common Law - Framing - Moral foundations
by Zenaan Harkness 16 Sep '16

16 Sep '16

An extract from the Annotated Constitution of the Commonwealth of Australia, at §326.8(2).8 (Annotation 326, paragraph 8): "Chancellor Kent does not regard the total denial of a common law jurisdiction in criminal cases as based upon satisfactory principles; and he cites with approval Du Ponceau’s opinion in favour of the distinction drawn by the Court below in United States v. Coolidge (§326.8(2).5). Du Ponceau maintains “that we have not, under our Federal Government, any common law considered as a source of jurisdiction; while on the other hand, the common law, considered merely as the means or instrument of exercising the jurisdiction, conferred by the Constitution and laws of the Union, does exist, and forms a safe and beneficial system of national jurisprudence. The courts cannot derive their right to act from the common law. They must look for that right to the Constitution and law of the United States. But when the general jurisdiction and authority is given, as in cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, the rules of action under that jurisdiction, if not prescribed by statute, may and must be taken from the common law, when they are applicable, because they are necessary to give effect to the jurisdiction.” (Kent, Comm. i. 339.) " --- Now it is true that mainstream jurisprudence has fallen heavily in rulings over the last century or more upon the principle that the common law is no more than those precedents established in "democratic system" courts of "law", i.e. that common law is nothing more than the sum of judge-made law (precedents). This is classic conservative framing (a troll tool no less). When one reads and thinks a little deeper, there is another, more fundamental, principle which we must remind ourselves of: Notwithstanding the usurpation of the term "common law" as that of the law which can be understood by the common man and also abides by the common man's sense of right and wrong and what is commonly understood in a community to be actions within the boundaries of its mores, customs and morality, these "common man" standards, this definition of the common law as "those practices and customs of the community since time immemorial", is fundamental to fixing some of the problems with our "democratic" legal system. "Itellectuals" typically love to frame every debate in terms which accord with their naturally conservative positions. That is only ok to the extent that such conservative positions lead to conversations, foundations and principles which are supportive of "common man" morality and the "time immemorial" customs of "the community". --- Key principle for every human who appears in a "court of law": There is nothing before the court (not even laws) except that which is brought before the court. "The court" is synonmous with "the judge" or "the magistrate". The human who presides over a court proceeding, carries with them presumptions, such as: - s/he who appears, consents to the jurisdiction - the jurisdiction of the court is presumed - any challenge to the jurisdiction of the court must be avoided at all costs (this is big in Australia, particularly the lower courts - it's hard to get up on a jurisdictional challenge if you don't have your wits about you) (so these assumptions, presumption of jurisdiction, etc, -are- with the court, or part of the court if not challenged - unfortunately the courts are neither unbiased, nor free from being beholden to unlawful (and most challengingly, unspoken) authorities) So, unlawful/immoral jurisdictions, to be successfully challenged by an individual human, require a fair dose of rebutting all presumptions of jurisdiction, besides bringing before the court one's challenge to the jurisdiction. The only jurisdictions which one is morally obliged to submit to, are those jurisdictions which are not repugnant, i.e. those jurisdictions which accord full satisfaction to common morality and what might be termed the common law. Is it any wonder that "the common law" is a term which has been under attack for a very long time? --- Framing the conversation. It is the duty of those with conscience, knowledge of good and evil, to bring forth communication which upholds good and denounces evil. This requires challenging and "shooting down" those framings which directly undermine intended discussion on morality, as well as endeavouring to support and encourage communication which has moral foundations. All unspoken presumptions framing default support for the status quo (e.g. "the western regime"), particularly when used to set aside questions of what is right and what is wrong, are antithetical or opposed to the stability of our society, since with no foundation of right and wrong, with no support in the system for those who act from conscience, the system has become corrupted, most likely beyond repair. --- Good luck fellow humans.

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Coalition Seeks Obama to Pardon Snowden
by grarpamp 16 Sep '16

16 Sep '16

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/09/12/2150235/aclu-is-launching-a-campaig… https://pardonsnowden.org/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlSAiI3xMh4 https://www.amnesty.org/ https://www.hrw.org/ https://www.aclu.org/ The effort, which is organized by the ACLU, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch, will gather signatures from regular people and endorsements from celebrities. Snowden will speak by video link from Moscow at a press conference on Wednesday morning in New York, and an initial list of "prominent legal scholars, policy experts, human rights leaders, technologists and former government officials" in support of the cause will be released, according to a statement from the campaign. A presidential pardon would mean that Snowden could come home from Moscow, where he's lived for the past three years, without the fear of being prosecuted. He currently faces federal charges of violating the Espionage Act and stealing government property Older https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/pardon-edward-snowden

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Cultural Marxism – Social Chaos
by Zenaan Harkness 15 Sep '16

15 Sep '16

This is a link packed quick ref for those who might want to get up to speed with a few concepts. So although short, for those not up to speed, perhaps schedule a good hour or so. Cultural Marxism – Social Chaos 'I believe in nothing and am tolerant of everything!' Understanding the Social Chaos in Western Society "A summary of the social chaos of cultural Marxism - sold as a multicultural, diverse and equality based utopia" http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/understanding-social-chaos-western-so… (The author is a UK citizen and an English and social science teacher living in SE Asia. Не currently works in China)

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UK: Censors, Tracks and Balkanizes Its Internet; 10yrs for Pirates
by grarpamp 15 Sep '16

15 Sep '16

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/09/14/1420226/gchq-planning-uk-wide-dns-f… UK surveillance agency GCHQ is exploring the use of a national 'firewall' in its fight against cybercrime, according to the organisation's head of cybersecurity. Alongside BT, Talk Talk and Virgin Media, GCHQ will work to filter out websites and email campaigns which are known to contain malicious content. The intelligence organisation believes that the best to way to set up such a blockade would be to build a national domain name system (DNS). In a speech delivered at the Billington Cyber Security Summit in Washington DC, director general for cyber security at GCHQ, Ciaran Martin, said: 'We're exploring a flagship project on scaling up DNS filtering: what better way of providing automated defences at scale than by the major private providers effectively blocking their customers from coming into contact with known malware and bad addresses?' https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/09/14/1512257/10-years-in-prison-for-onli… The UK Government's Digital Economy Bill has moved a step closer to becoming law after its second reading in Parliament. With unanimous support, the current two-year maximum custodial sentence for online piracy is almost certain to increase to a decade, TorrentFreak reports. From the article: Due to UK copyright law allowing for custodial sentences of 'just' two years for online offenses, anti-piracy groups such as the Federation Against Copyright Theft have chosen to pursue their own private prosecutions. These have largely taken place under legislation designed for those who have committed fraud, rather than the more appropriate offense of copyright infringement. Physical pirates (CDs, DVDs) can be jailed for up to 10 years under current legislation. During the past few years, there have been lobbying efforts for this punishment to apply both on and offline. That resulted in a UK Government announcement last year indicating that it would move to increase the maximum prison sentence for online copyright infringement to ten years. They also urge Google to do something about growing incidents of piracy.

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Democracy Now: Dakota and Snowden
by grarpamp 15 Sep '16

15 Sep '16

http://www.democracynow.org/2016/9/12/north_dakota_v_amy_goodman_arrest In other Dakota Access pipeline news, last Thursday, Morton County, North Dakota, issued an arrest warrant for Amy Goodman. The charge: criminal trespass, http://www.democracynow.org/2016/9/14/journalist_hillary_clintons_criticism… Is Hillary Clinton's Criticism of Edward Snowden a Distraction from Real Issue of Surveillance? http://www.democracynow.org/2016/9/14/obamas_war_on_whistleblowers_forced_e… WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange sits down with Democracy Now! inside the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, where he has been living in political asylum for over two years.

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Chelsea Manning
by grarpamp 15 Sep '16

15 Sep '16

https://twitter.com/xychelsea http://chelseamanning.org/ https://medium.com/@xychelsea http://www.theguardian.com/profile/chelsea-e-manning freechelsea.com https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/save-chelsea https://actionnetwork.org/groups/fight-for-the-future

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