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The best way to beat an Ashkenazi (White Nationalist edition)
by Yt 28 Aug '17

28 Aug '17

> Steve Kinney admin at pilobilus.net > Sun Aug 20 12:30:24 PDT 2017 > > The most Aryan looking person I ever met > You've never met an Iranian/Persian, then, you uneducated racist. > the losing team > Globalism/Communism ? Or do you mean Privacy/Freedom ? Pic related. > You > Nazi/KKK > Funny, how I never mentioned these groups, and am an Ashkenazi Jew. You must be projecting. > the Juggalos > Are anti-commie and in support of a future for their children. Only LE assets like edgynameanon and brainwashed leftists like you will be acting against the interest of nationalism, which seeks to preserve your freedoms, and stomping on whatever dribble of liberty remains. You have fallen right into our trap. We have intentionally muddied nationalist sentiments by false flagging the Third Reich at every chance we get using lesser Jews such as Richard Spencer and Milo Yiannopoulos to stir the pot. This is the end for your precious freedoms. You bought all of our revisions and repossessions. The surveillance state is growing with every protest and we even have leftists demanding censorship under the guise of ending "hate", an actual human emotion, just look at this Tor Project ticket: trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23270 We have turned you against your own self-interests by convincing you that your Aryan brothers and sisters are actual "Nazis" and that they seek to remove your freedoms and, taking the bait, you have yourselves removed those exact freedoms we warned the "Nazis" were after. Once we convince enough people that the USA was founded on slavery, and that "whites", not Jews, were the slave owners and traders, the golem will finally remove the Aryan from power and the country can outwardly begin the shift to a New Greater Israel.

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ACLU defended FBI similarly to how current government gets defended
by Ryan Carboni 28 Aug '17

28 Aug '17

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/rbml/lehman/pdfs/0279/l… "Why was Mr. Hoover opposing a law which would make his own work much easier?" wow I guess those folks in charge aren't so bad, they they uh, they make their own jobs more difficult, so they really good guys huh

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Use of Stringray requires warrant...sometimes.
by jim bell 27 Aug '17

27 Aug '17

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/08/court-locating-suspect-via-stin… [extended quote follows] A federal judge in Oakland, California has ruled against the suppression of evidence derived from warrantless use of a cell-site simulator. The simulator, a device often referred to as a stingray, was used to locate the lead defendant in an ongoing attempted murder case. In the 39-page ruling, US District Judge Phyllis Hamilton notably found that the use of stingray to find a man named Purvis Ellis was a "search" under the Fourth Amendment—and therefore required a warrant. However, in this case, the judge also agreed with the government’s assertion that there were exigent circumstances, along with the "good faith exception" to the warrant requirement. In other words, use of the stingray was wholly justified. "Cell phone users have an expectation of privacy in their cell phone location in real time and that society is prepared to recognize that expectation as reasonable," Judge Hamilton wrote, citing an important Supreme Court decision from 1967 known as United States v. Katz. But because Ellis was believed to be involved in another shooting that happened one day earlier on January 20, 2013, the judge felt there were exigent circumstances. "Though Ellis was not known to be the shooter, he was believed to be a suspect in possession of firearms," Judge Hamilton continued. "The need to prevent escape by a suspect presented exigent circumstances here." "Exigent circumstances" is the idea in American criminal procedure that law enforcement can search or seize persons or things if there are imminent circumstances where bodily harm or injury is in process, evidence is being destroyed, or a suspect is in flight. In such situations, a warrant is not required. Warrants required since 2015 anyway Thursday’s court order could provide a new incentive for a guilty plea for Ellis, who was located in an East Oakland apartment building by the FBI and the Oakland Police Department several hours after the January 21, 2013 shooting of a non-uniformed OPD officer. Three other men were charged in the case, although one of them pleaded guilty earlier this year. No trial date has been set.FURTHER READINGLawyer: Cops “deliberately misled” judge who seemingly signed off on stingrayEllis’ attorney, Martha Boersch, did not immediately respond to Ars’ request for comment. As Ars has been reporting for years, Ellis has provided rare insight into stingrays are used in practice to find suspects and the seeming lengths the government is willing to go to keep usage quiet. The surveillance tool has come under increasing scrutiny by lawmakers and activists in recent years. Since this case began, both the Department of Justice, which oversees the FBI, and the State of California now require a warrantwhen a stingray is used in most circumstances. Riana Pfefferkorn, a lawyer affiliated with the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, said that the judge’s ruling was "careful," but she noted that it may not specifically matter, given that both state and federal policy has changed since Ellis and his co-defendants were arrested in 2013. "This is resolving something that happened over four years ago where on a going forward basis it may be a moot point," she told Ars.FURTHER READING“PING SUSP PHONE”—An Oakland shooting reveals how cops snoop on cell phonesWhen this case first began unfolding in federal court four years ago, prosecutors insisted that only one stingray was used. It turned out that there had been two—one first by the OPD, followed by another belonging to the FBI. The entire issue as to what level of privacy a person can expect over their location information, and what hurdles law enforcement must jump through to obtain it (through a stingray or other means), are still up for discussion. A related case, United States v. Carpenter, is pending before the Supreme Court. In Carpenter, the court is being asked whether law enforcement needed a warrant to obtain over 120 days of cell-site location information (CSLI), or whether a lesser standard was sufficient. "The court's search analysis is based heavily on that one district's CSLI cases, which conflict with other circuits' rulings on CLSI and are going to be decided soon by the Supreme Court anyway," Orin Kerr, a law professor at George Washington University, told Ars. "Given that the constitutional analysis is largely based on issues the Supreme Court is about to revisit, it's not obvious that Ellis will have much influence on its own." [end of extended quote]

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rowhammer for flash storage
by Georgi Guninski 27 Aug '17

27 Aug '17

The hardware is buggy, the software is buggy, users are buggy. They convince you the combination is "secure". https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/17/rowhammer_for_nand_flash/ Rowhammer RAM attack adapted to hit flash storage

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WiFi-Aware / Neighbor Awareness Networking
by grarpamp 26 Aug '17

26 Aug '17

> I can see some privacy concerns with this stuff. > I was wondering what you all thought. https://www.wi-fi.org/discover-wi-fi/wi-fi-aware https://youtu.be/xwSYPqqhTsQ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Alliance#Wi-Fi_Direct https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximity_marketing http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/15/wifi_alliance_ushers_in_new_era_of_… https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/14/wi-fi-aware-aims-to-connect-all-your-devi… http://thehackernews.com/2017/08/android-8-oreo.html https://www.android.com/versions/oreo-8-0/ https://developer.android.com/about/versions/oreo/index.html https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/wifi-aware.html Traditionally, we'd build a decentralized anonymous p2p location enabled network app for this, potentially filtering or segmenting millions of nodes around the globe for scaleability by distance metrics. That's still a much needed app, but they typically design and operate globally before locally. WiFi Aware interfaces local before global, specifically within wifi range. People who... are open to chat, like this or that interest, are single and looking, have cryptocurrencies to trade, need help, etc. Further, opensource apps can utilize the WF-A API so you don't need to use all the closed ad/pay shitware that's about to explode onto scene. You can seed WF-A app data into the above decentral app tools. Overall, it's powerful and useful tech. Privacy is as usual... - Up to you (or the closedsource shit you foolishly continue to insist on supporting with your dollars, voice, usage and stupidity). - Depends on security, design model, options and features of the entire stack Also, so long as you have wifi hardware that can tx / rx raw frames, you could develop your own opensource "wifi-aware" network protocols in software. Closed WiFi Alliance crap not needed. A couple groups were working on opensource wifi firmwares. And RTL SDR groups are doing wifi completely opensource.

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Public List of IoT Device Credentials Published
by Razer 26 Aug '17

26 Aug '17

That "Control-it-from-anywhere" ioT buttplug you've been saving for a 'special occasion' is gonna sneak up on you in the middle of the night and... > Researchers are in a full-out sprint to notify the owners of a > substantial list of connected devices and associated telnet > credentials that has been available on Pastebin since June but gone > viral since Thursday when it was posted on Twitter. > > The list has more than 20,000 views as of Saturday morning, up > substantially from fewer than 1,000 on Thursday. > > The credentials, many of which are default and known (i.e., > admin:admin, root:root, or no authentication required) afford anyone > access to a multitude of routers and other devices... More: https://threatpost.com/race-is-on-to-notify-owners-after-public-list-of-iot…

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Re: Dr. Yana Weinstein‏ accidentally makes a spreadsheet to help people go on Twitter rants
by Ryan Carboni 26 Aug '17

26 Aug '17

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8714045/truncate-a-string-without-cut-i… regardless

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BBC: WE WUZ EBONICS 'N SHEEEIT
by bix nood 25 Aug '17

25 Aug '17

BBC is replacing the English language. Shit bes reel doh. Pics related. **n befo di muh hayte speeech** - - - - - US: Trump waka dey stretch Secret Service budget: bbc.com/pidgin/world-41009658 Di US Secret Service say dem don dey stretch their budget because of di large family of President Donald Trump and im plenty properties. Secret Service Director, Randolph Alles, say if dem continue like this, na 1,100 agents go hit their overtime allowance cap for dis year alone. Under Mr Trump, na 42 people dey receive protection from di secret service, di number increase from 31 people wey dey receive protection during President Barack Obama administration. Among the current people wey dem dey protect na 18 members of Trump family, wey don need security for international business trip to take promote Trump property dem join with family holidays. Some of the bills, according to USA Today report, include: · Around $3m per visit to Mr Trump Mar-a-Lago golf resort for Florida ·Some $60,000 for golf cart rentals for Mar-a-Lago and im Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club ·Nearly $100,000 for hotels to protect the president son, Eric Trump, for business trip wey him go for Uruguay Other waka wey involve security include visit for February wey Eric Trump and Donald Trump go for Vancouver, British Columbia, to open new Trump hotel there, and to Dubai to open Trump International Golf Club. Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, need Secret Service security for their ski holiday for Aspen, Colarado, for March. Tiffany Trump and her Boyfriend dey receive protection for their recent trips for Germany and Hungary. The statement dem release on Monday, say the agency don dey work with the department for Homeland Security, with the Trump administration and Congress to try find legislative solution to dis thing wey dem call, "serious problem."

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Dr. Yana Weinstein‏ accidentally makes a spreadsheet to help people go on Twitter rants
by Razer 25 Aug '17

25 Aug '17

Dox: https://twitter.com/doctorwhy/status/876174499913379841

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Graphic presentation on #Twitterbot account relationships
by Razer 25 Aug '17

25 Aug '17

Imgur gallery as tutorial showing how trumpbots and other accounts like it relate and (ugh!) procreate. First img (full size 1076x1244) Second Img: The rest of the presentation: http://imgur.com/gallery/6flYH

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