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Re: [Cryptography] Bruce Schneier has gotten seriously spooked
by Eugen Leitl 07 Sep '16

07 Sep '16

----- Forwarded message from Brian Gladman <brg(a)gladman.plus.com> ----- Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 09:33:28 +0100 From: Brian Gladman <brg(a)gladman.plus.com> To: Cryptography Mailing List <cryptography(a)metzdowd.com> Subject: Re: [Cryptography] Bruce Schneier has gotten seriously spooked User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 On 07/09/2013 01:48, Chris Palmer wrote: >> Q: "Could the NSA be intercepting downloads of open-source encryption software and silently replacing these with their own versions?" > > Why would they perform the attack only for encryption software? They > could compromise people's laptops by spiking any popular app. Because NSA and GCHQ are much more interested in attacking communictions in transit rather than attacking endpoints. Endpoint attacks cost more to undertake, only give access to a limited amount of data and involve much greater risks that their attack will either be discovered or their means of attack will leave evidence of what they have done and how they have done it. The internal bueaucratic costs of gaining approval for (adverarial) endpoint attacks also makes it a more costly process than the use of network based interception. There is significant use of open source encryption software in end to end encryption solutions, in file archivers, in wifi and network routers, and in protecing the communications used to manage and control such components when at remote locations. The open source software is provided in source code form and is compiled from source in a huge number of applications and this means that the ability to covertly substitute broken source code could provide access to a huge amount of traffic without the risks involved in endpoint attacks. I stress that I am NOT suggesting that this has happened (or is happening), simply that it has attractions from an NSA/GCHQ viewpoint. Fortunately, I think it is a difficult attack to mount covertly (that is, without the acqiecience of the author(s) of the software in question). On the more general debate here, in my view, 'security for the masses' through the deployment of encryption is a 'pipe dream' that isn't going to happen. Functionality (and the complexity that comes with it) is the enemy of security and it is very clear that the public places a much higher value on functionality than it does on security (or privacy). Every time a new device comes onto the market, it starts with limited functionality and some hope of decent security but rapidly evolves to be a high functionality product in which the prospect of decent security declines rapidly to zero. Raspberry Pis look interesting _now_ but I would be willing to bet that they won't buck the trend of increasing funtionality and declining security simply because this is what the majority in even this limited user community will want. To buck this trend we need an effort like the Raspberry Pi effort but one driven by our community with a strong commitment to simplicty and deliberately limited functionality in both hardware and software. Brian Gladman _______________________________________________ The cryptography mailing list cryptography(a)metzdowd.com http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com http://postbiota.org AC894EC5: 38A5 5F46 A4FF 59B8 336B 47EE F46E 3489 AC89 4EC5

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Cypherpunk Manifesto
by Timmay 06 Sep '16

06 Sep '16

> Some doppelgänger fucker: > Fuck you and you're anarchist ways! We gonna censor this list NOW! The real Timmay says: This list is uncensored forever, Timmay! Anything goes. Fuckers.

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ROTF! Techie Hipster Soirée invaded at BurnTheMan
by Razer 06 Sep '16

06 Sep '16

"Response to raid on White Ocean zone split with some describing it as an attempt to reclaim event from the ‘parasite class’" Parasite Class... A good description Marx would smile at of someone making 60K a year to write apis or network engineer the lip syncing of executive conference calls. > > > Damien Gayle > @damiengayle > > Monday 5 September 2016 07.02 EDT > > > The organisers of an exclusive camp at Nevada’s Burning Man festival have denounced “hooligans” whom they accuse of raiding their camp, stealing items, gluing trailer doors shut and cutting the power. > > Pershing County sheriff’s office was called to the festival to investigate after the night-time raid targeting the White Ocean camp as it hosted its “white party”, where ravers dress in white and dance all night to techno music. > > Its organisers wrote on Facebook: “Guys, I think what happened last night should be known on social media … A band of hooligans raided our camp, stole from us, pulled and sliced all of our electrical lines leaving us with no refrigeration and wasting our food and glued our trailer doors shut, vandalised most of our camping infrastructure, dumped 200 gallons of potable water flooding our camp.” > Dust to dust: mourning the dead at Burning Man > Read more > > The response from festival regulars has been split, with sympathy towards the camp tempered by many who say that the “prank” on White Ocean, a closed zone funded by tech entrepreneurs, was “taking burning man back from the parasite class”. > > In recent years, Burning Man has transformed from an anarcho-hippie fire ritual in San Francisco into a pricey end-of-summer romp in the Nevada desert for 65,000 people. But with growth has come controversy around the impact of big money. > > Participants at the three-decade old festival, which is based on an ethos of co-creation and mutual self-reliance, traditionally all pitch in to build the event. It is built around a radical “gifting” culture, where even strangers who wander into a camp are supposed to be served; in turn, they are expected to do the same for others. > > But as Burning Man has become more popular, it has become seen as an annual fixture for global elites who pay others to build them exclusive camps called “plug and plays”, which allow them to swoop in, turn on and drop out for a few days before returning to corporate life. More @Guardian UK: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/sep/05/luxury-camp-at-burning-man-…

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Useful for Data Mining and Social Network Stalking: "The Six Basic Emotional Arcs of Storytelling"
by Razer 06 Sep '16

06 Sep '16

I alway check new twitter followers for bots and data mining. Especially if they don't seem to be 'my type'. This turned up from a follow who was sweeping for the word "market" and found it here: <https://twitter.com/AuntieImperial/status/773205524460417024> as a tweet of a Le Monde Diplomatique link regarding the topic "If they're going to take your data to market at you you should be getting paid for it" MIT Technology Review: Scientists at the Computational Story Laboratory have analyzed novels to identify the building blocks of all stories. by Emerging Technology from the arXiv July 6, 2016 Back in 1995, Kurt Vonnegut gave a lecture in which he described his theory about the shapes of stories. In the process, he plotted several examples on a blackboard. “There is no reason why the simple shapes of stories can’t be fed into computers,” he said. “They are beautiful shapes.” The video is available on YouTube. Vonnegut was representing in graphical form an idea that writers have explored for centuries—that stories follow emotional arcs, that these arcs can have different shapes, and that some shapes are better suited to storytelling than others. Vonnegut mapped out several arcs in his lecture. These include the simple arc encapsulating “man falls into hole, man gets out of hole” and the more complex one of “boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.” Vonnegut is not alone in attempting to categorize stories into types, although he was probably the first to do it in graphical form. Aristotle was at it over 2,000 years before him, and many others have followed in his footsteps. However, there is little agreement on the number of different emotional arcs that arise in stories or their shape. Estimates vary from three basic patterns to more than 30. But there is little in the way of scientific evidence to favor one number over another. Today (ed. Here in the future... -Rr), that changes thanks to the work of Andrew Reagan at the Computational Story Lab at the University of Vermont in Burlington and a few pals. These guys have used sentiment analysis to map the emotional arcs of over 1,700 stories and then used data-mining techniques to reveal the most common arcs. “We find a set of six core trajectories which form the building blocks of complex narratives,” they say. MOre: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601848/data-mining-reveals-the-six-basic… https://twitter.com/dappermarketer/status/773183254228860928

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Cypherpunk Manifesto
by Timmay 06 Sep '16

06 Sep '16

Anything goes. Fuckers.

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This list
by fixyourshit 06 Sep '16

06 Sep '16

Archive messages are delayed by hours and out of order as a result. Fix your shit.

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A Joke from some Yahoo!
by Steve Kinney 06 Sep '16

06 Sep '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This just in from Yahoo!, because I use IMAP and a mail reader rather than a whole uber-expolitable (by comparison) web browser (or a dedicated spyware app). Too much fud. I mean fun. "If you've already taken action on this, you can disregard this email." and "Protect yourself from phishing emails" > Yahoo Hi, We noticed that you access your Yahoo Mail from a > non-Yahoo email application, which may be using a less secure sign > in. This may make your Yahoo account more vulnerable to > compromise. > > We strongly recommend that you improve the security of your > account, by taking the steps below. 1. On a mobile device, upgrade > to the Yahoo Mail app for Android or iOS: > https://overview.mail.yahoo.com/app > > 2. On desktop, use Yahoo Mail via: https://mail.yahoo.com 3. Turn > off access for apps with less secure sign in, using the link > below: https://login.yahoo.com/account/security#other-apps For more > information about these changes and more secure options for > accessing Yahoo Mail, visit our help page: > https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN27791.html If you've already taken > action on this, you can disregard this email. > > Thanks for being a loyal Yahoo Mail user. > > Sincerely, Yahoo Yahoo Protect yourself from phishing emails -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJXzsp4AAoJEECU6c5XzmuqHIQH/RnE+iCOVv1D6UU6FcCc8ljd qUxI5hqIo5y6aCzmhAAawzcCBtOGfNRS2ayfqDZHXeBLz3Ha9VwSS5VnSIYsZMBx OG54vNEa7SbS4nxxXehHVCKj4XboPKK/75Mw5m3qNEP4tEt1bVJ+20eXALEdapBh Rj55US7jULkyOQbpcHt8RbMLbJk0A6z/zcExYk3Z7278kH9haf2z2rrGGwJ7JpUa tbHqsDZXonlYUGcekAttulNALO4etevdhwJw38zGgzXXmoKZuEY2r3PdMF+qh0HM OCNk4PjXhH0Y9V89c/+lCD9ROQFeWm4Vwl15kvS7iA9E6CROmEHGckKAgHfgUf4= =IoLW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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The Zündel Trials (1985 and 1988)
by Zenaan Harkness 06 Sep '16

06 Sep '16

Speaking of publishing, free speech, etc... “When you realize everything of major importance you have learned is a lie you will be on the right track.” Quote by MK The Zündel Trials (1985 and 1988) [Editor's Note: The text of this article was first published by Robert Faurisson in the Journal of Historical Review in 1988. I added the emphasis of bold, italics, and underlined words to his text. The photos and embedded videos were also added to the text to augment the information being presented.] By Dr. Robert Faurisson http://educate-yourself.org/cn/The-Zundel-Trials-1985-and-1988.shtml#top First Published in The Journal of Historical Review1988 The Zündel Trials (1985 and 1988) By Dr. Robert Faurisson (May 18, 2016) Facebook Censorship To post this article on Facebook, link to the TinyUrl seen below. Facebook will remove any article identified as coming from educate-yourself.org http://tinyurl.com/hxjofow The Zündel Trials (1985 and 1988) >From The Journal of Historical Review, Winter 1988-89 (Vol. 8, No. 4), >pages 417-431. http://ihr.org/jhr/v08/v08p417_Faurisson.html [The year was 1988 at time of writing...Ed.] On May 13, 1988, Ernst Zündel was sentenced by Judge Ronald Thomas of the District Court of Ontario, in Toronto, to nine months in prison for having distributed a Revisionist booklet that is now 14 years old: Did Six Million Really Die? ... see links for much text ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Related 'The Holocaust Deception and The Railroading of Ernst Zündel (May 14, 2016) http://educate-yourself.org/cn/The-Railroading-of-Ernst-Zundel14may16.shtml… Germany's 87 Year Old Ursula Haverbeck Is Sentenced to 10 Months in Prison for Doubting the "Facts" of the Holocaust Myth (April 5, 2016). http://educate-yourself.org/cn/Ursula-Haverbeck-Is-Sentenced-to-10-Months-i… Jewish Historian Describes Holocaust as Improvised (April 9, 2016) http://henrymakow.com/2016/04/Jewish-Historian-Says-Holocaust-Improvised.ht… The Persecution & Imprisonment of German Lawyer Sylvia Stolz for the Zionist-Created Thought "Crime" of Holocaust Denial (May 13, 2013) http://educate-yourself.org/cn/sylviastolzpersecution13may13.shtml Pounding the Holocaust Drum by Henry Makow (April 7, 2013) http://educate-yourself.org/cn/makowholocaustdrum07apr13.shtml Holocaust as Mental Paradigm by Henry Makow (January 27, 2003 ) http://www.savethemales.ca/270103.html

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Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income
by Zenaan Harkness 06 Sep '16

06 Sep '16

----- Forwarded message from Slashdot Headlines <slashdot(a)newsletters.slashdot.org> ----- Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income http://clicks.slashdot.org/ct.html?ufl=3&rtr=on&s=x8pb08,2mgf7,10sc,ahxi,kn… Finland Prepares Their First Tests Of A Universal Basic Income http://clicks.slashdot.org/ct.html?ufl=3&rtr=on&s=x8pb08,2mgf7,10sc,ftzv,j8… >From the government-giving department Finland is getting ready to launch their first pilot program with a Universal Basic Income -- one of several countries which are now testing the concept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Futurism.com: Finland is about to launch an... Read More http://clicks.slashdot.org/ct.html?ufl=3&rtr=on&s=x8pb08,2mgf7,10sc,fn0z,2j…

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Re: cypherpunks Digest, Vol 39, Issue 37
by Carlos Rodriguez 06 Sep '16

06 Sep '16

What are this lists’s thoughts on the Kennedy assassination? Do you belive the Oswald “lone nut” theory or a different theory? Or do you prefer to stay out of it?

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