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[WAR] RABBI SHMULEY: Comparing Trump to Hitler Desecrates Holocaust
by Zenaan Harkness 02 Mar '17

02 Mar '17

Not sure what sort of [WAR] this is - a disinformation war? propaganda war? Democrat under used adjectives and juxtapositions war? Funny either which way when Rabbi Shmuley tells the democrats to cut it :D Now, although Shmuley and Breitbart proclaim such naming of "Trump is Hitler" as "obscenity", what they don't seem to realise is that some folk would consider such "loose" languaging to be a feather in Trump's cap .. of course. RABBI SHMULEY: Comparing Trump to Hitler Desecrates Holocaust http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/03/01/rabbi-shmuley-comparing-…

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ODNI posts previously withheld Snowden emails to Tumblr
by Razer 02 Mar '17

02 Mar '17

Muckrock: > From redacted to reblogged: ODNI posts previously withheld Snowden > emails to Tumblr > > Security exemptions apparently don’t apply to social media presence > > Written by Michael Morisy > Edited by JPat Brown > > In 2013 the National Security Agency rejected a request for Edward > Snowden’s emails to superiors, as well as his employee reviews. > > But a year later, after Snowden claimed he emailed his superiors with > concerns, the Office of the Director of Intelligence posted one of > those emails to its Tumblr... > In full with dox: https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2014/may/30/2013-nsa-snowden-emails-…

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Software Engineer Detained At JFK, Given Test To Prove He's An Engineer
by Razer 02 Mar '17

02 Mar '17

> Celestine Omin, a software engineer at Andela -- a tech startup that > connects developers in Africa with U.S employers -- had a particularly > unwelcoming reception when he deplaned at John F. Kennedy Airport and > was given a test to prove he was actually a software engineer. > > A LinkedIn post detailing Omin's challenging experience explained that > upon landing in New York after spending 24 miserable hours on a Qatar > Airways flight, he was given some trouble about the short-term visa he > obtained for his trip. According to the post, an unprepared and > exhausted Omin waited in the airport for approximately 20 minutes > before being questioned by a Customs and Border Protection officer > about his occupation. > > After several questions were asked, he was reportedly brought to a > small room and told to sit down, where he was left for another hour > before another customs officer entered and resumed grilling him. Omin > was instructed to answer the following questions: "Write a function to > check if a Binary Search Tree is balanced," and "What is an abstract > class, and why do you need it." > More links: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/03/01/2114213/software-engineer-detained-…

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[WAR] Americans - crucified by a delicate Russian lass
by Zenaan Harkness 02 Mar '17

02 Mar '17

Nope, nothing to see here folks ... move on please, to Russia where the grizzlies are pets and fur hats are allowed in public :) http://russia-insider.com/en/free-speech-free-healthcare-and-mayonnaise-eve…

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[WAR] Russian military natural ability - Washington's Proposed 'Defense' Spending Increase Is More Than 80% of Russia's ENTIRE Military Budget
by Zenaan Harkness 02 Mar '17

02 Mar '17

Putin, slaying the beast, single handedly establishing a new, multi polar world order, infiltrating and deciding every election around the planet, lifting the world's satellites into space, meddling in the West's wars all over the planet and slaying every diplomatic affront with applomb. One could just possibly be lead to think, that just may be, there are one, may be two, additional competent individuals inhabiting the nation known as Russia. ** Washington's Proposed 'Defense' Spending Increase Is More Than 80% of Russia's ENTIRE Military Budget http://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413c… ------------------------------------------------------------ by Paul Kaiser on Tue, Feb 28, 2017 At a meeting of U.S. governors on Monday, Donald "the F-35 is too expensive" Trump described his proposed $54 billion boost in "defense" spending as an integral part of “a public safety and national security budget.” As our friends at the Intercept astutely observed: Handling such power evidently requires a team effort: ‘Fake News’: BBC, AFP, Google, Facebook Collude to Tell Voters ‘Who to Trust’ in French Election http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/03/01/fake-news-bbc-afp-google-faceboo… And the lame stream media is definitely onto it: The mainstream media’s desperate effort to smear online alternative media as “fake news” http://theduran.com/cnn-terrified-growth-alternative-media/ And a reminder boys and girls, do NOT gloat! 4 amazing events where instant karma crushed those who mocked President Donald Trump http://theduran.com/4-amazing-instances-where-instant-karma-crushed-those-w…

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Saker (one for the history books): Interesting week for Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump
by Zenaan Harkness 02 Mar '17

02 Mar '17

Prediction: 2017 gonna be one hellava year.. France, Germany, Poland, Greece, Spain, Hungary, Ukraine and more. IMF and the Brussels EUrocrats are running out of leverage, and rarely do power mongers give up "to the will of the people" without a fight. Interesting week for Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump http://theduran.com/interesting-week-for-vladimir-putin-and-donald-trump/

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Scientists Just Confirmed The Hottest Day In Antarctica
by Cecilia Tanaka 02 Mar '17

02 Mar '17

# Scientists Just Confirmed The Hottest Day In Antarctica https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/scientists-just-confirmed-the-ho… # Maps Show Where Americans Care about Climate Change. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/maps-show-where-americans-care-a…

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[GUNS] Teach the children well
by Zenaan Harkness 02 Mar '17

02 Mar '17

A false report doing the email rounds lead to the following snopes page which highlights some alternative, and true, reports which may inspire a few round these parts :) Teach your children well: http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/homeinvasion.asp

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Fwd: [Cryptography] Schneier's Internet Security Agency - bad idea because we don't know what it will do
by grarpamp 01 Mar '17

01 Mar '17

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Henry Baker <hbaker1(a)pipeline.com> Date: Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 4:16 PM Subject: Re: [Cryptography] Schneier's Internet Security Agency - bad idea because we don't know what it will do To: Ian G <iang(a)iang.org> Cc: cryptography(a)metzdowd.com At 07:26 AM 2/25/2017, Ian G wrote: >Bruce Schneier has recently published an impassioned plea for a United States Federal Internet Security Agency, which would likely gain control of civilian cryptography, among many other munitions. The essay is impassioned, it is much longer than his normal 2 pagers, which signals something - belief, preparedness, foundation? > >http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/01/the-internet-of-things-dangerous-future-… When I was growing up, there was a daily newspaper cartoon entitled "There oughta be a law!" http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/there_oughta_be_a_l… However, after I grew up, studied computer science, and finally understood *undecidability*, I realized that a "legal"/"lawful" solution to every problem was logically and mathematically impossible. Here we are 80+ years after undecidability raised its ugly head and destroyed the "Age of Enlightenment"/"Age of Reason", and yet no legal scholars, lawyers, economists, or public policy people living today have even heard of this concept of undecidability, much less understand that it renders most of their efforts more futile than Sisyphus's. The Clockwork Economy/Clockwork Legal System -- in which bright lines separate good from evil -- has been replaced by a mishmash of hills & valleys separated by fractal "boundaries" which I defy you to characterize in a finite lawbook. I'm embarrassed for Bruce Schneier who certainly should know better; perhaps this is a forgivable error which he will correct soon enough. If not, I should begin to wonder if he's been taken over to the dark side (aka the intel community), where fake news, disinformation and extra-Constitutional excursions are considered honorable pursuits. The bottom line: if you're attempting to oversee/regulate a Turing-complete system (i.e., essentially *every* societal system), adding additional "oversight" turtles to your toppling stack of existing turtles won't help a bit. I.e., if a Halting Problem oracle doesn't exist, you can write all the laws you wish about creating a Halting Problem Agency ("oracle"), but that won't make such an oracle magically exist. Even Abraham Lincoln understood that giving some impossible concept a name doesn't make it exist: When asked "How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg?", Lincoln answered, "Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg." Schneier should contemplate Gerald Ford's famous remark: "A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have." Benjamin Franklin understood that the pursuit of safety/security was a bottomless pit/hopeless exercise: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety". _______________________________________________ The cryptography mailing list cryptography(a)metzdowd.com http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography

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Re: [Cryptography] jammers, nor not
by grarpamp 01 Mar '17

01 Mar '17

On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Jonathan Thornburg <jthorn4242(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 05:21:12PM -0800, Ron Garret wrote: >> Wrapping your gadgets in aluminum foil should be pretty effective >> at (ahem) foiling their attempts to contact a wifi hub. > > Unless your entire home is wrapped in aluminum foil (including > rf-blocking coatings on all windows (permanently closed!)), it's hard > to *use* a {printer, refrigerator, washing mashine, coffee maker, ...} > while said object is wrapped in aluminum foil. :) A single layer of do it yourself aluminum foil is inexpensive, perhaps about 1% at time of construction. Even if windows are skipped, perhaps it would mitigate some driveby attacks such as...? http://www.bing.com/search?q=wall+penetrating+radar Add in some cheap rolldown foil over cloth window shades or plywood shutters and maybe the residents would enjoy quite pre-industrial RF free sleeping hours? This seems easily pilot testable and marketable to both health and spy type of customers.

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