April 2017 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Govt's Secretly Dead Set On Keeping Secret Power Fucking
by grarpamp 25 Apr '17

25 Apr '17

https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/queenstown/cia-jet-has-touched-down-queenstown The Gulfstream has joined a second private jet at the airport, acting as added confirmation that the "Government conference" set to play out at luxury Millbrook Resort in Arrowtown in the coming week, is a meeting of spying network Five Eyes - the global alliance of the US, the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. As some say of Bilderberg, this is not about "terrorism", or any other crimes, other than their own... ref: leaks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilderberg_Group#Criticism https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bilderberg

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Re: [tor-talk] Shodan & Hidden Services
by grarpamp 25 Apr '17

25 Apr '17

> So it turns out that Shodan - a kind of multi-protocol Google-alike search > engine for metadata and protocol headers - has indexed a bunch of Onion > sites which were configured to leak their (onion) hostnames into protocol > headers. > > https://www.shodan.io/search?query=.onion%2F > > This is... tragic, perhaps, and avoidable to varying extents (eg: my > proposed setup process*) but the situation also possibly presents an > opportunity for anyone who has identified addresses of sibyl/other naughty > tor-infra-impacting activity, to maybe check some logs and see if any > badly-configured onions were also hosted on the same addresses/subnets, get > some concept of what hidden services were hosted there, and what they may > have been up to? > > https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/855542397165502464 If people think onionland is some errorproof perfect configuration zone, free from scam, free from agents, free from discovery, free from all manner of trickery, buggery, debuggery, bauchery, exploit, or the bore of ever September, and so on.... nope, it's been quite the opposite since day one. That people are only recently studying finding and publishing these things, claiming as news twatter to a hat, is rather amusing. And of course such work is fine endeavour and report as well. Have fun.

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Re: [hackerspaces] Mastodon?
by \0xDynamite 23 Apr '17

23 Apr '17

On 4/23/17, Don Ankney <dankney(a)hackerco.de> wrote: > What is the entire purpose of the Internet? What is it’s value? Well, glad you asked. After waiting for a response from my interlocuter, I will answer. But I have answered it on the wiki if you look for it. It is actually quantifed now (to some asymptotic function). > Just curious. Of course you are, because apart from a few JS writers, the rest of us are bored with the internet. marxos

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Re: [hackerspaces] Mastodon?
by \0xDynamite 23 Apr '17

23 Apr '17

> Most of us were out working jobs and creating cool shit. No you weren't. I'm not trolling. First of all, you totally avoided my point about server-client separation. Let's see, what do you suppose is happening? Are you sending prerendered gifs back to the client that the node "server" has computed for your "cool shit"? And then what, Chrome is integrating it somehow on the fly in your window without a page reload? Utter horseshit. Commercial Javascript sites are nearly entirely about locking in clicks and eliminating out-bound links? Is that the "cool shit" you do? It's called: DEFEATING THE ENTIRE PURPOSE OF THE INTERNET, DUDE. All you're doing is turning the web into an extension of the magazine media empire! I'll bet you $100 that you don't even know what the value of the internet is..., eh? (Hint: It's not cool UX, which btw you had with OSs in the 1980s). Please do inform, I am curious as hell. Javascript is so bogus as an actual computer language, that the only thing javascript is creating is shitty programmers. "But it's creating so much cool shit!" is the rallying cry of those who like the financiers (who -- just like the JS counterparts -- didn't know any monetary policy) who said about the banks: "But they're too big to fail!". Most of the cool Javascript stuff are experiments that would have been better off AS AN APP. Hardly any of them use the depth of the internet, so get them off of it. Get it? AN APP. An app. an app. Perhaps, you along with some others, would be better informd by reading the [[jabbascript]] page on the wiki. > Certainly that's what I've been up to. I mean shit dude. What have YOU > been up to. Well, I told you what I've been up to -- adding massive content to the wiki, so that people in every day towns can start making things happen with their community. But in the end it will all be useless if people don't get their shit together and stop co-opting the potential of the internet with bullshit media glam. Oh and, btw, is that Lewis Scolnick in your photo on the wiki homepage? Cool. Send him to the radio enthusiasts page. I've even got a formula for calculating max radio power needed for any desired range. I mean, creating cool SHIT, you say. Does that mean that you're refrigerating feces? I'm sure you didn't mean it that way, but it comes out a little... soft. Yeah, that's it, soft. Marxos

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Peter Lalor on "democracy"
by Zenaan Harkness 23 Apr '17

23 Apr '17

Part of Australia's proud history which (when it comes to the public discourse and relevant action) is largely buried. >From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_Rebellion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_Rebellion#Peter_Lalor Following the battle [of the Eureka Stockade], rebel leader, Irish Australian Peter Lalor, wrote in a statement to the colonists of Victoria, "There are two things connected with the late outbreak (Eureka) which I deeply regret. The first is, that we shouldn't have been forced to take up arms at all; and the second is, that when we were compelled to take the field in our own defence, we were unable (through want of arms, ammunition and a little organisation) to inflict on the real authors of the outbreak the punishment they so richly deserved." Lalor stood for Ballaarat in the 1855 elections and was elected unopposed. During a speech in the Legislative Council in 1856 he said, "I would ask these gentlemen what they mean by the term 'democracy'. Do they mean Chartism or Republicanism? If so, I never was, I am not now, nor do I ever intend to be a democrat. But if a democrat means opposition to a tyrannical press, a tyrannical people, or a tyrannical government, then I have been, I am still, and will ever remain a democrat." The Eureka stockade and the proud stand that Peter Lalor and others sacrificed their lives for, is a classic and effective example of the result when the tyranny of so-called "democracy" That is, an armed civil uprising. As Lalor wrote above, in our Eureka Stockade, the men who rose in defiance of a tyranny failed to properly arm themselves in the first instance. I say we have a duty to speak, and to act in "peaceful political protest", in the first instance - this is a duty of care to the other members of our community. Where "the system" repeatedly fails to hear our voice and our protests, instead continuing to inflict its tyranny upon us and abrogating one or more of our fundamental human rights over an extended period of time, and when enough members of our community experience this tyranny first hand and agree on the importance of change, then an armed civil uprising becomes almost inevitable.

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Study: Teenage Hackers Motivated By Morality Not Money
by Razer 22 Apr '17

22 Apr '17

> "Teenage hackers are motivated by idealism and impressing their mates > rather than money, according to a study by the National Crime Agency. > > The law enforcement organisation interviewed teenagers and children as > young as 12 who had been arrested or cautioned for computer-based crimes. > > It found that those interviewed, who had an average age of 17, were > unlikely to be involved in theft, fraud or harassment. Instead they > saw hacking as a “moral crusade”, said Paul Hoare, senior manager at > the NCA’s cybercrime unit, who led the research. > > Others were motivated by a desire to tackle technical problems and > prove themselves to friends, the report found." More @Guardian UK: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/apr/21/teenage-hackers-motivated-m…

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Stupid Comms Apps that Stupid Thugs Refuse to Quit Using
by grarpamp 22 Apr '17

22 Apr '17

http://storage.pardot.com/272312/11633/Flashpoint_Cybercrime_Economy.pdf https://www.flashpoint-intel.com/blog/ https://www.flashpoint-intel.com/library/

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WBAI 99.5FM NYC Pacifica Radio Weekly On The Fly: Wikileaks Assange and the Big Lie
by grarpamp 22 Apr '17

22 Apr '17

Julian Assange: Countdown to Freedom https://www.wbai.org/program.php?program=234 https://nuarchive.wbai.org/mp3/wbai_170418_170001randyCrelof.mp3 http://www.wbai.org/archive.php https://www.wbai.org/upcomingprogram.php?upcomingid=2800

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Reports: US prosecutors weighing charges against WikiLeaks
by jim bell 22 Apr '17

22 Apr '17

Article follows: "U.S. authorities have been engaged in discussions over whether to seek charges against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, according to a source familiar with the matter. The debate over charges was first reported by the Washington Post. Officials have been debating whether Wikileaks -- the organization which has shared troves of confidential materials, often received via persons sharing it illegally -- should be viewed as a journalistic enterprise, as Assange claims, or as a group that illegally aided and abetted the widespread disclosure of sensitive information. The matter was previously considered by the administration of President Barack Obama, but charges were never brought. CIA director: Wikileaks a 'hostile' intelligence service abetted by Russia Spicer says 'massive difference' between CIA WikiLeaks leak and Podesta email leak In March, Wikileaks released files it said originated from the CIA and detailed the agency's ability to secretly gain access to internet-connected consumer products. Last week, CIA Director Mike Pompeo took aim at the organization, describing it as a "hostile" intelligence-gathering service that at times is "abetted by state actors like Russia." He further identified Assange as a "fraud" and "coward." "I am quite confident that had Assange been around in the 1930s and 40s and 50s, he would have found himself on the wrong side of history," said Pompeo. Assange is currently living in the Embassy of Ecuador -- the country that granted him asylum in 2012 -- in London, where he has avoided extradition to Sweden over sexual assault charges. President Donald Trump's personal opinion of Wikileaks has varied over time. During the presidential campaign, he praised the organization as it released the purported emails of the Democratic National Committee, at one point calling it a "treasure trove." But Trump has also criticized the actions Wikileaks' sources such as Chelsea Manning, whom he has called a "traitor." During the first three months of his presidency, Trump has identified the leaking of sensitive information as one of the federal government's most serious problems. He has repeatedly implored the intelligence community to find "leakers" who have provided information on surveillance activities involving his associates that have ensnared his administration in controversy. [end of article quote] Jim Bell's comments follow: The article's heart is "Officials have been debating whether Wikileaks -- the organization which has shared troves of confidential materials, often received via persons sharing it illegally -- should be viewed as a journalistic enterprise, as Assange claims, or as a group that illegally aided and abetted the widespread disclosure of sensitive information." However, the modern Internet world has long since 1995 completely blurred the line between what might once have been called "Legitimate journalism" and "amateurs". Assange and Wikileaks were, together, far more influential in regards to the 2016 election's outcome than any one newspaper, or perhaps all the newspapers themselves combined. The Supreme Court case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._United_States clearly established that the high bar to prior restraint to publication of classified information covered the releases in the Pentagon Papers case. from Wikipedia: [quote begins] Justice Hugo Black wrote an opinion that elaborated on his view of the absolute superiority of the First Amendment (1971): - "[T]he injunction against the New York Times should have been vacated without oral argument when the cases were first presented ... . [E]very moment's continuance of the injunctions ... amounts to a flagrant, indefensible, and continuing violation of the First Amendment. ... When the Constitution was adopted, many people strongly opposed it because the document contained no Bill of Rights ... . In response to an overwhelming public clamor, James Madison offered a series of amendments to satisfy citizens that these great liberties would remain safe ... . In the First Amendment the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. The Government's power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the Government. The press was protected so that it could bare the secrets of government and inform the people. Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell. ... [W]e are asked to hold that ... the Executive Branch, the Congress, and the Judiciary can make laws ... abridging freedom of the press in the name of 'national security.' ... To find that the President has 'inherent power' to halt the publication of news ... would wipe out the First Amendment and destroy the fundamental liberty and security of the very people the Government hopes to make 'secure.' ... The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment. The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security ... . The Framers of the First Amendment, fully aware of both the need to defend a new nation and the abuses of the English and Colonial governments, sought to give this new society strength and security by providing that freedom of speech, press, religion, and assembly should not be abridged. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times_Co._v._United_States#cite_note… - - [end quote from Wikipedia] - - The U.S Constitution's First Amendment mentioned the only form of mass communication then in existence: The " [printing] press" Subsequent years added its protects to the telegraph, the telephone, radio, television, fax, email, and all others. - - Jim Bell ×

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Wikileaks Insurance: CIA Vault 7 part B Media Ops
by grarpamp 22 Apr '17

22 Apr '17

https://file.wikileaks.org/torrent/.ciav7pb/2017-04-14_WL_Vault7-PartB_Medi… https://archive.org/download/CIAVault7PartBMediaOps/2017-04-14_WL_Vault7-Pa… https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/855218701766868994 Wednesday "WikiLeaks will show illegal actions by the CIA"; Friday "US prepares charges to arrest Assange"

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