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Poitras op-ed about Assange sending cease-and-desist letters regarding "Risk"
by Laura 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

> John Newman jnn at synfin.org > Wed Jun 21 07:31:31 PDT 2017 > > We have no obligation to seek WikiLeaks’ > or Assange’s authorization to release the film. Laura Poitras is a pedophile, like all photographers. She argues that children need not consent, but simply not object.

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Scanning through walls using WiFi drones.
by Don't Do It 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

> jim bell jdb10987 at yahoo.com > Wed Jun 21 11:00:19 PDT 2017 > > unmanned aerial vehicles to image details through walls > in 3D with only RF > > Not breaking links > Fear mongering wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_rights The "navigable airspace" in which the public has a right of transit without effecting a landowner's property rights has been set at the height of 500 ft in urban or suburban areas, and 360 feet above the surface or tallest structure in rural areas."" wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_shielding The practice of reducing the electromagnetic field in a space by blocking the field with barriers made of conductive or magnetic materials."" justice.gov/usam/criminal-resource-manual-2-aircraft-sabotage-18-usc-32 Amendments to 18 U.S.C. § 32 enacted in 1984 expand United States' jurisdiction over aircraft sabotage to include destruction of any aircraft in the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States or any civil aircraft used, operated or employed in interstate, overseas, or foreign air commerce."" wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_interference Electromagnetic interference is a disturbance generated by an external source that affects an electrical circuit by electromagnetic induction, electrostatic coupling, or conduction. The disturbance may degrade the performance of the circuit or even stop it from functioning. In the case of a data path, these effects can range from an increase in error rate to a total loss of the data.""

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Poitras op-ed about Assange sending cease-and-desist letters regarding "Risk"
by Laura 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

> John Newman jnn at synfin.org > Wed Jun 21 07:31:31 PDT 2017 > > not breaking links > giving (((newsweek))) sheckles Wikileaks Documentary Makers Accuse Assange of Censorship By Brenda Coughlin, Yoni Golijov, and Laura Poitras 6/16/17 at 10:22 AM We are the producers of Risk , a documentary film about Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. We unequivocally defend WikiLeaks’ journalistic right to publish true and newsworthy information. The Trump administration’s threats against WikiLeaks and attacks on press freedom are chilling. As Margaret Sullivan recently argued in the Washington Post, prosecuting WikiLeaks under the Espionage Act would set a dangerous precedent for all journalists. Daily Emails and Alerts- Get the best of Newsweek delivered to your inbox We were disturbed, however, to learn that Julian Assange and WikiLeaks sent cease and desist letters to our distributors demanding they stop the release of Risk: “We therefore demand that you immediately cease the use and distribution of all images of the Named Participants and that you desist from this or any other infringement of the rights of the Named Participants in the future.” In WikiLeaks’ efforts to prevent the distribution of Risk , they are using the very tactics often used against them – legal threats, false security claims, underhanded personal attacks, misdirection – and with the same intentions: to suppress information and silence speech. GettyImages-460452988 Filmmaker Laura Poitras speaks as former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden is seen on a video conference screen during an award ceremony for the Carl von Ossietzky journalism prize on December 14, 2014 in Berlin, Germany. Adam Berry/Getty Since 2016, Assange and his lawyers have repeatedly demanded that we remove scenes from the film in which Assange speaks about the two women who made sexual assault allegations against him in 2010 and Sweden’s investigation which has since been discontinued. In response to our refusal to remove these scenes, Assange and his lawyers are now claiming that Risk threatens the safety of the staff who consented to being filmed, and furthermore, that we are being sexist by including Assange’s own comments about women in the film. These arguments are not only false, they are a deliberate effort at misdirection. Risk was filmed over the course of many years, beginning in 2011. Assange and WikiLeaks freely consented to participating in the film, knowing we were making an independent documentary. Neither WikiLeaks nor Assange have any editorial control of Risk. There were individuals who requested from the beginning not to appear in the film, and those requests were respected. Wikileaks and their lawyers were shown the film before each public screening, most recently inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London on April 1, 2017. Each time, we invited their responses. WikiLeaks’ comments have consistently been about image management, including: demands to remove scenes from the film where Assange discusses sexual assault allegations against him; requests to remove images of alcohol bottles in the embassy because Ecuador is a Catholic country and it looks bad; requests to include mentions of WikiLeaks in the 2016 U.S. presidential debates; and, requests to add more scenes with attorney Amal Clooney because she makes WikiLeaks look good. It is only after we declined to make the changes they tried to impose that WikiLeaks raised objections to Risk . Their attempts to censor the content of the film are an effort to prevent reporting on Assange’s own words. They also constitute a saddening break with WikiLeaks’ own ideals. Last month, WikiLeaks’ lawyers published an op-ed saying they object to our editing in the United States. However, Assange has known since 2015 that we were editing in the U.S. In 2016, he signed an agreement to license WikiLeaks’ own footage to us and raised no objection to mailing a hard drive with footage directly to our editing room in New York City. WikiLeaks has also repeatedly publicized their participation in Risk , most recently re-tweeting a link to the film’s trailer on April 10, 2017 (a tweet that has since been deleted), without raising any concerns. In their cease and desist letter, lawyers for WikiLeaks and Assange state: “The unauthorized release of the Film has caused our clients to suffer ongoing irreparable harm, and exponentially increasing damages every time a new viewer sees the Film.” All the participants in Risk agreed for years to be in the film. We have no obligation to seek WikiLeaks’ or Assange’s authorization to release the film. In fact, our rights under the First Amendment are protected precisely because we are engaging in independent journalism. Assange himself has criticized the media for seeking permission from public figures before releasing stories. Like WikiLeaks, our journalism has been the target of U.S. government investigation, secret grand jury, and threats by elected officials. We fully understand and empathize with the dangers WikiLeaks is facing, and we stand in solidarity with all journalists and publishers around the world currently under attack.

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Poitras op-ed about Assange sending cease-and-desist letters regarding "Risk"
by John Newman 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

http://www.newsweek.com/wikileaks-documentary-makers-accuse-assange-censors… ... snippet from op-ed ..... We were disturbed, however, to learn that Julian Assange and WikiLeaks sent cease and desist letters to our distributors demanding they stop the release of Risk: "We therefore demand that you immediately cease the use and distribution of all images of the Named Participants and that you desist from this or any other infringement of the rights of the Named Participants in the future." RELATED: Wikileaks Attorneys Blast Citizenfour Maker Poitras In WikiLeaks efforts to prevent the distribution of Risk , they are using the very tactics often used against them - legal threats, false security claims, underhanded personal attacks, misdirection - and with the same intentions: to suppress information and silence speech. ..... There is more in the full piece.

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Putin: "You get a land! And you get a land! And you get a land! Everybody gets a land!"
by Georgio Soros 21 Jun '17

21 Jun '17

> stef s at ctrlc.hu > Sun Jun 18 07:53:13 PDT 2017 > > pro-russian propaganda What is wrong with Russia ? Putin Becomes First President To Give Free Land To All Citizens Willing To Farm: rt.com/business/392450-russia-free-land-putin/ archive.fo/VcK34 - - - - Russian President Vladimir Putin has become the first world leader to offer every single citizen a free hectare of land in any part of Russia. Putin has agreed to expand a program that offers citizens land in Russia’s Far East to all of the country’s regions. The President discussed his plans during a Q&A session on Thursday, saying that he believes there is so much land in Russia that everybody should be entitled to a piece of it. “There is enough land in Russia. Forty-three million hectares of farmland alone are not used for their intended purpose. These are huge, just huge land reserves,” Putin said. Under the Russian version of the Homestead Act, every citizen can get a free hectare of land in the Far East, if they are willing to put it to good use. Within the first year, the recipients must declare how they want to use the land, and, in three years, must report on how it is being developed. After five years, the land can be sold or leased. Some 93,000 applications have been received since the program was launched in June of last year and nearly 20,000 of those have been approved. The regions with free land on offer include Yakutia, Kamchatka, Chukotka, Primorye, Khabarovsk, Amur, Magadan, and Sakhalin, as well as the Jewish Autonomous Region. The land can be used for any lawful purpose, but the new owners cannot rent, sell, or give the land away for five years. Foreigners are also eligible to use the land, but the registration of full property rights is only possible after the recipient becomes a naturalized citizen.

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The role of antivirus in security
by Georgi Guninski 20 Jun '17

20 Jun '17

https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/information/legal/website-security# | (1) Ensure you have anti-virus protection installed, and that it is up to date. | (2) Keep your operating system and software up to date as these protect against the latest security threats. | (3) Protect your computer with a password and keep the password secret. Does (1) makes much sense? Does the order (1), (2) make any sense?

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Network security guide from vpnmentor.com
by Steve Kinney 20 Jun '17

20 Jun '17

A couple of days ago I got solicited to promote an online security how-to for journalists, published at vpnmentor.com. On the whole I like it. The article presents one fairly obvious error: The reader is advised that using well known and frequently quoted lines of poetry as pass phrases is a secure option, with a strictly imaginary "hundreds of trillions of years" estimate of the time needed to brute force the world's least random pass phrases. Steve Gibson's online "search space calculator" is used to illustrate this claim. There is no mention of Diceware or anything similar. http://diceware.com I think the article over-estimates the security of the Black Phone product, and couple of my personal favorite tools and toys are not mentioned at all. But I also see a couple of interesting toys that are new to me, i.e. the Mailvelope browser extension which isolates plantext from web mail interface pages while composing or reading encrypted content. On the whole I think the author made a serious effort and got most of the things right. Operational security content and references to case histories make it stand out from many similar guides. https://www.vpnmentor.com/blog/online-privacy-journalists/ :o)

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Putin: "You get a land! And you get a land! And you get a land! Everybody gets a land!"
by NGR Coin 20 Jun '17

20 Jun '17

> g2s g2s at riseup.net > Tue Jun 20 06:07:18 PDT 2017 > > "black" folk in the US gave up on waiting for their 40 acres and mule > there's a movement to begin expropriating land by force. I wonder who is behind that (((movement))). Or what 1% owes them for their ancestral, and contemporary, enslavement ? Be careful anarchocommieanon, if they find out it was you.

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The role of antivirus in security
by Terry A. Davis 20 Jun '17

20 Jun '17

> g4z3 g4z3g4z3 at gmail.com > Tue Jun 20 05:18:28 PDT 2017 > > Just curious, but what's your choice of OS? Real cryptographers use Temple OS: templeos.org/TempleOS.html

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Re: Putin: "You get a land! And you get a land! And you get a land! Everybody gets a land!"
by g2s 20 Jun '17

20 Jun '17

-------- Original message --------From: John Newman <jnn(a)synfin.org> Date: 6/20/17 4:25 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Georgio Soros <soros(a)loves.dicksinhisan.us> Cc: nettime-l(a)mail.kein.org, cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org Subject: Re: Putin: "You get a land! And you get a land! And you get a land! Everybody gets a land!" On Jun 19, 2017, at 1:06 PM, Georgio Soros <soros(a)loves.dicksinhisan.us> wrote: >> stef s at ctrlc.hu >> Sun Jun 18 07:53:13 PDT 2017 >> >> pro-russian propaganda > > What is wrong with Russia ? > > So fuck off to siberia and farm some strawberries. Read it. He intends to do it in all regions. Ps. I just read black folk in the US gave up on waiting for their 40 acres and mule and there's a movement to begin expropriating land by force. Rr > Putin Becomes First President To Give Free Land > To All Citizens Willing To Farm: > rt.com/business/392450-russia-free-land-putin/ > archive.fo/VcK34 > > - - - - > > Russian President Vladimir Putin has become the first world leader to > offer every single citizen a free hectare of land in any part of Russia. > > Putin has agreed to expand a program that offers citizens land in > Russia’s Far East to all of the country’s regions. > > The President discussed his plans during a Q&A session on Thursday, > saying that he believes there is so much land in Russia that everybody > should be entitled to a piece of it. > > “There is enough land in Russia. Forty-three million hectares of > farmland alone are not used for their intended purpose. These are huge, > just huge land reserves,” Putin said. > > Under the Russian version of the Homestead Act, every citizen can get a > free hectare of land in the Far East, if they are willing to put it to > good use. Within the first year, the recipients must declare how they > want to use the land, and, in three years, must report on how it is > being developed. After five years, the land can be sold or leased. > > Some 93,000 applications have been received since the program was > launched in June of last year and nearly 20,000 of those have been approved. > > The regions with free land on offer include Yakutia, Kamchatka, > Chukotka, Primorye, Khabarovsk, Amur, Magadan, and Sakhalin, as well as > the Jewish Autonomous Region. The land can be used for any lawful > purpose, but the new owners cannot rent, sell, or give the land away for > five years. > > Foreigners are also eligible to use the land, but the registration of > full property rights is only possible after the recipient becomes a > naturalized citizen.

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