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Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity (.pdf)
by Big Fatty 22 Sep '17

22 Sep '17

Containment Control for a Social Network with State-Dependent Connectivity Zhen Kan, Justin Klotz, Eduardo L. Pasiliao Jr, Warren E. Dixon 1. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA 2. Air Force Research Laboratory, Munitions Directorate, Eglin AFB, FL 32542, USA. Abstract: Social interactions influence our thoughts, opinions and actions. In this paper, social interactions are studied within a group of individuals composed of influential social leaders and followers. Each person is assumed to maintain a social state, which can be an emotional state or an opinion. Followers update their social states based on the states of local neighbors, while social leaders maintain a constant desired state. Social interactions are modeled as a general directed graph where each directed edge represents an influence from one person to another. Motivated by the non-local property of fractional-order systems, the social response of individuals in the network are modeled by fractional-order dynamics whose states depend on influences from local neighbors and past experiences. A decentralized influence method is then developed to maintain existing social influence between individuals (e.g., without isolating peers in the group) and to influence the social group to a common desired state (e.g., within a convex hull spanned by social leaders). Mittag-Leffler stability methods are used to prove asymptotic stability of the networked fractional-order system. arxiv.org/pdf/1402.5644.pdf

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Blockchain: The Nexus Platform
by grarpamp 22 Sep '17

22 Sep '17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltJfuVWa1ZQ https://twitter.com/NxsEarth http://www.nexusearth.com/

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German BND 2010: Tor Unsuitable
by grarpamp 22 Sep '17

22 Sep '17

https://netzpolitik.org/2017/secret-documents-reveal-german-foreign-spy-age… https://netzpolitik.org/2017/geheime-dokumente-der-bnd-hat-das-anonymisieru… https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/71cxy2/secret_documents_reveal_german… https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/cache/SS03.ps https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/cache/timing-fc2004.pdf https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/cache/murdoch-pet2007.pdf http://www.spiegel.de/media/media-35540.pdf http://www.spiegel.de/media/media-35541.pdf http://www.spiegel.de/media/media-35543.pdf http://www.spiegel.de/media/media-35538.pdf http://www.spiegel.de/media/media-35540.pdf https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/801433/doc1-1.pdf https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/1342115/timeline-correlation-jer… https://edwardsnowden.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/2009-sigdev-conference… A global passive adversary Like all low-latency anonymity systems used in practice, Tor cannot protect against „a global passive adversary“. This is defined in the design document. The software documentation warns: „If your attacker can watch the traffic coming out of your computer, and also the traffic arriving at your chosen destination, he can use statistical analysis to discover that they are part of the same circuit.“ The goal of NSA’s and GCHQ’s internet surveillance is to achieve exactly that. A number of researchers have demonstrated this attack in practice, either by simply counting transmitted packets, by analyzing time windows, or correlation attacks with only a fraction of traffic. All this research is public. The spy agencies followed this research, used it for their own purpose and turned theoretical vulnerabilities into real-world surveillance systems. Very high level of surveillance One and a half years later, the BND warned German federal agencies not to use Tor. The hacker unit „IT operations“ entitled its report: „The anonymity service Tor does not guarantee anonymity on the internet“. The six-page paper was sent to the chancellery, ministries, secret services, the military and police agencies on 2 September 2010. According to the executive summary, Tor is „unsuitable“ for three scenarios: „obfuscating activities on the internet“, „circumventing censorship measures“ and „computer network operations for intelligence services“ – spy agency hacking. The BND assumes „a very high level of surveillance within the network“

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Freesociety.com to Form the World's First Libertarian Country... By Purchasing Its Own Sovereignty
by grarpamp 22 Sep '17

22 Sep '17

https://www.freesociety.com/ http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/freesocietycom-to-form-the-worlds-f… https://twitter.com/freesocietycom The Free Society Foundation, spearheaded by its founder Olivier Janssens and other prominent libertarian and cryptocurrency figures, announced its plans today to form the world's first libertarian country. They are in preliminary talks with governments to purchase sovereignty and autonomy over a piece of land. "When we started contacting governments, interest was much higher than initially anticipated", says Mr. Janssens, who has been working on the project for the past several years. "We have backing of over 100 million USD in private capital and are committed to the mission of realizing the world's first Free Society." Genius in its simplicity by just purchasing sovereignty, it seems this is the first idea that really has a chance of succeeding. In the past, many libertarians have attempted the feat by trying to claim disputed land or by building floating ocean structures. Unfortunately, none of them were successful - either due to push-back from existing governments or being unrealistically complicated. "There are many nations that have a significant national debt or are in crisis. Our aim is to help them resolve that and create an economic powerhouse next to their doorstep as a bonus. It's a win-win for everyone." Mr. Janssens continues. Indeed, if successful, a new Monaco or Dubai will bring a tremendous amount of opportunities to the area, one being massive employment. Roger Ver, one of the co-founders, adds: "I'm incredibly excited to be part of this project that will finally create a society based on voluntary interactions instead of government force." The Free Society Foundation is exploring ways for the public and interested parties to participate. Many prominent names in the libertarian world are joining their team. More will be revealed soon on the website. Free Society Rue du simplon 4 1920 Martigny 1920 Switzerland One of zensystem's DAO's is thinking similarly. Price down, pick up.

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John McAfee Nails Crypto on CNBC and RT
by grarpamp 21 Sep '17

21 Sep '17

The full CNBC interview with MGT Capital Investments CEO John McAfee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxScg1t0eZI John McAfee RT: Bitcoin is Not a Bubble, It Will Continue To Grow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzGmLDDE2Ss John McAfee on the Future of Bitcoin, Government https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKAVyy1A7pU https://twitter.com/officialmcafee http://www.mgtci.com/ http://www.whoismcafee.com/ Other recent... John McAfee To Google: Stop Endangering Our Humanity Or I'm Coming For You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9b1OBSr1SI John McAfee Video interview - at 2017 d10e Conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQsQviHLZsE Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee infohash:AAC9872047C42103CB862A474375721902832C92 McAfee TV: The Reality Translator re: Gringo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziJcC7Fm-3s Why John McAfee Didn't Appear At Freedomfest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSnuWRbvJbo

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[MINISTRY] Truth is the foundation stone of Israeli politics
by Zenaan Harkness 21 Sep '17

21 Sep '17

Welp ... may be or something sorta like that? <wry grin> I'll leave it to you to decide. ** Fact checking Benjamin Netanyahu’s General Assembly speech http://theduran.com/fact-checking-benjamin-netanyahus-general-assembly-spee… ------------------------------------------------------------ The speech was full of downright lies and "alternative facts". Here is the reality. Subtlety and world peace the name of the game ... "or something" has been bound to a unique and easy to type two-key key stroke on this keyboard: ** Trump blasts “ROCKET MAN” Kim, and the “dictatorships” of Iran, Syria and Venezuela in first UN speech http://theduran.com/trump-blasts-rocket-man-kim-and-the-dictatorships-of-ir… ------------------------------------------------------------ Donald Trump's speech was little more than a list of threats against North Korea, Iran, Syria, Venezuela and Cuba with subtle references to Russia and China. Paul Joseph Watson in classic style - if you're bored with the stoning's, enjoy this crucifixion instead :) ** Morgan Freeman’s “We Are At War With Russia’ video, DESTROYED by Paul Joseph Watson http://theduran.com/morgan-freemans-we-are-at-war-with-russia-video-is-dest… ------------------------------------------------------------ Morgan Freeman was paid by neocons, warmongers and Hillary supporters to make the trash video Tick .. tock ** Vladimir Putin instructs government to stop using US dollar at Russian seaports http://theduran.com/vladimir-putin-instructs-government-to-stop-using-us-do… ------------------------------------------------------------ Putin orders to end trade in US dollars at Russian seaports. Possibly interesting - states will be states of cours∑: ** Wikileaks drops “Spy Files Russia”: 34 base documents on Russia’s surveillance apparatus http://theduran.com/wikileaks-drops-spy-files-russia-34-base-documents-on-r… ------------------------------------------------------------ Wikileaks details Russia's mass surveillance system. Ah yes, our beloved "West", saving the world as usual: ** The West Has a Quest: To 'Save the World Through Degeneracy' http://russia-insider.us9.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413… ------------------------------------------------------------ by James George Jatras on Wed, Sep 20, 2017 America wants Israeli (as well as Russian) 'foreign agents' to register (I'm kidding, I'm kidding - Israeli 'foreign agents' are of course not required to register in the USA): ** Israel’s Foreign Agents Don’t Register, Why Should Russia’s? http://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413c… ------------------------------------------------------------ by Grant Smith on Wed, Sep 20, 2017 The Department of Justice has ordered Russia’s U.S.-based RT news network to begin registering as Russian foreign agents under the 1938 Foreign Agents Registration Act. The law requires US-based agents of foreign principals to disclose financial information and activities in regular public filings overseen by a designated DOJ office. Over the years FARA has been amended to exclude bona fide news organizations. The Department of Justice order breaks a long period of unfettered access to the U.S. by foreign press agencies, many directly and indirectly financed by foreign governments. Russian military helicopter accidentally fires off a few rockets at CNN journos reporting on Russian war games: Russian Helicopter Just Accidentally Fired ROCKETS at Journos During War Games http://russia-insider.com/en/military/watch-russian-helicopter-just-acciden… ------------------------------------------------------------ War games are dangerous. The journalists were injured. Some people are saying they are CNN journalists. Now THAT would be interesting. Watch this shocking video to see it actually happen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcuxgqP01Ow

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Matt Furie using DMCAs to retake Pepe
by Pepe 21 Sep '17

21 Sep '17

Since you fags are discussing copyright. Attached is Matt Furies reaction to the situation. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Matt Furie created the cartoon character Pepe the Frog in 2005 as a kind of peaceful stoner animal for his comic "Boys Club." By 2008, the frog had become a meme. In the 2016 election cycle, though, Pepe became something completely different—an ever-meme of the alt-right. The Anti-Defamation League characterizes Pepe as a hate symbol and has catalogued some of the most viciously racist and anti-semitic examples. Now Furie wants his comic frog back. After years of letting it slide, Furie has lawyered up and sent demand letters to several alt-right personalities, including white supremacist Richard Spencer, Mike Cernovich, and the subreddit "The_Donald." Last month, Furie took legal action against a man in Texas who created an Religion of Cuck™ophobic version of Pepe for a children's book. That matter reached a settlement. Now, Furie's lawyers have spoken to Vice about his determination to reclaim ownership of the image and the demand letters they have sent out. "[Furie] was very serious when he said that we wanted to make clear that Pepe was not the property of the alt-right and couldn't be used by the alt-right," Furie lawyer Louis Tompros told Vice. "We've asked them to take [the images] down. That hasn't happened yet, but they're very much on notice. We plan to take action if they don't." The letters demand that the alt-right commentators remove images and videos including Pepe, including one recently created by Cernovich in which he added Pepe into a video of Hillary Clinton reading a passage from her new book. "Mr. Furie is entitled to damages for your infringement," the letter states. "After we have received confirmation that you have ceased infringement, we will contact you to discuss what additional information we need from you to calculate the appropriate amount of damages." Cernovich has taken down the images, but he has also published a blistering response by his lawyer, Marc Randazza, which boasts that Furie "won't see a dime from Mr. Cernovich." The letter says that Furie's letter "wasn't a serious legal threat" and that the image of Pepe qualifies as fair use, because it's "political commentary and satire." "Should you choose to file suit against Mr. Cernovich, we will be delighted to embarrass the fuck out of you—and set up a malpractice claim by your client against you," writes Randazza. archive.is/d2JvB

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Fwd: [tor-talk] "recently-used.xbel" file in TBB directory, stores data on accessed, downloaded files
by Razer 21 Sep '17

21 Sep '17

Big security flaw. Dingleberry downplayed it. Said there was a ticket for it, and requested assistance. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [tor-talk] "recently-used.xbel" file in TBB directory, stores data on accessed, downloaded files Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 13:34:49 -0500 From: Joe Btfsplk <joebtfsplk@[redacted]> Reply-To: tor-talk(a)lists.torproject.org To: tor-talk(a)lists.torproject.org This involves *at least* Linux (Mint 18.1) Tor Browser 7.04 and 7.05, over at least a couple months. This seems like a huge privacy / anonymity issue. Why is there a *"recently-used.xbel"*, file in my Tor Browser installation directory - in path shown and labeled as file TYPE: "XBEL bookmarks" recording ACTUAL local file names, dates, times - they were accessed AND some DOWNLOADED files (like *.pdf) with dates and times? ~/.torbrowser/torbrowser-7.0/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/.local/share/recently-used.xbel. *TBB is installed in home directory: ~/.torbrowser.* For instance, Listed is a downloaded *pdf file, about health issues* and many others. All dates shown in THIS instance of recently-used.xbel seem to be in July and Aug, 2017, but I used the same TBB installation before and after the dates shown in recently-used.xbel . In Linux, there's also a ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel file - by default, but it is set asimmutable, so nothing written to it. The TBB recently-used.xbel file even shows date and time I downloaded TBB 7.0.4, and a random 6 digit string added after the "visited" time, with 'Z" at the end, such as (I removed actual times & 6 digit string: <bookmark href="~/Downloads/security/tor/tbb7.0.4/tor-browser-linux64-7.0.4_en-US.tar.xz" added="2017-08-ddThh:mm:ssZ" modified="2017-08-ddThh:mm:ssZ" visited="2017-08-ddThh:mm:ss.123456Z"> Each file record shown in "recently-used.xbel" show this: <bookmark href="file:<path and name> added="2017-mm-ddThh-mm-ssZ" modified="<time stamp>Z" visited="<time stamp>Z"> <info> <metadata owner="http://freedesktop.org"> <mime:mime-type type="application/<file type>"/> <bookmark:applications> <bookmark:application name="Firefox" exec="'firefox %u'" modified="<time stamp>Z" count="1"/> </bookmark:applications> </metadata> </info> </bookmark> Also, are files in the path below, with .bin or .toc extensions: ~/.torbrowser/torbrowser-7.0/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/.nv/GLCache/********************************/*******************************1af.bin (very long, random strings, I removed) ~/.torbrowser/torbrowser-7.0/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/.nv/GLCache//********************************/*******************************1af.toc These .bin and .toc files seem ? related to my Nvidia GPU or drivers? Not sure what's in them. The same type files are written to the ~/.nv folder, but I don't see why they're written to a Tor Browser folder. I don't know the meaning of "bookmark" in this context - in the TBB recently-used.xbel file. Tor Browser is supposed to delete / not store any data to disk after it's closed (or not write to disk at all). -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk(a)lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

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[GUNS] [MINISTRY] [AUSTRALIAN JUSTICE] - Democracy Gone Mad Now Protects The Criminals Not The People
by Zenaan Harkness 20 Sep '17

20 Sep '17

The alarming disarming and population programming continues - only the mafia (state police, military, and the drug dealers they make money off) are allowed self defence. Z ----- Forwarded message from Gil May <gilmay97(a)gmail.com> ----- From: Gil May <gilmay97(a)gmail.com> To: reader(a)gmail.com Bcc: zenaan(a)gmail.com Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 17:30:29 +1000 Subject: Democracy Gone Mad Now Protects The Criminals Not The People SEPTEMBER 15 2017 - 6:30PM Border farmer has guns taken after confronting man armed with a knife at his home - Blair Thomson <http://www.bordermail.com.au/story/4927063/border-farmer-has-guns-taken-aft…> - F <https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=http://www.bordermail.com.au/s…> A FATHER who armed himself with an unloaded rifle during a home invasion has been left wondering what he could have done differently, after having his guns seized. Police took David Dunstan’s three firearms from his farming property at Bungowannah on Thursday afternoon. A man armed with a knife and piece of wood had knocked on his back door about 3.30am. <http://www.bordermail.com.au/story/4924925/border-resident-pulls-out-rifle-…> Mr Dunstan, who has a gun licence, went to his nearby gun safe and grabbed a .22 rifle after finding the man outside his home. He said he didn’t point the weapon at the offender, and essentially used the gun as a “prop”. The father of three forced the man into his vehicle and drove him towards the Albury police station, and was met by officers nearby. Police seized his guns, which he uses for pest control at his property, later that day. “I just don’t know what I should have done, what would have been the right way to do it,” Mr Dunstan said. “My gun licence is for vermin control. “I suppose, technically, trying to protect yourself is not classed as that. “I’ve always done the right thing, but I feel like I’ve done the wrong thing.” It followed an incident at a property in Splitters Creek three hours earlier where the man allegedly smashed his way into a home and tried to enter a child’s bedroom. That owner had armed himself with a hockey stick. Mr Dunstan's firearms licence will undergo a review following the incident. Police did not want to comment on the development, but had earlier urged people to call Triple-0 during emergencies. The alleged offender has been denied bail and will return to court November 6. ----- End forwarded message -----

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WikiLeaks Spy Files: Russia Docs - SORM, PETER-SERVICE, FSB
by grarpamp 20 Sep '17

20 Sep '17

https://wikileaks.org/spyfiles/russia/ Spy Files Russia This publication continues WikiLeaks' Spy Files series with releases about surveillance contractors in Russia. While the surveillance of communication traffic is a global phenomena, the legal and technological framework of its operation is different for each country. Russia's laws - especially the new Yarovaya Law - make literally no distinction between Lawful Interception and mass surveillance by state intelligence authorities (SIAs) without court orders. Russian communication providers are required by Russian law to install the so-called SORM ( Система Оперативно-Розыскных Мероприятий) components for surveillance provided by the FSB at their own expense. The SORM infrastructure is developed and deployed in Russia with close cooperation between the FSB, the Interior Ministry of Russia and Russian surveillance contractors. PETER-SERVICE 19 September, 2017 English | Русский Today, September 19th 2017, WikiLeaks starts publishing the series "Spy Files Russia" with documents from the Russian company Петер-Сервис (PETER-SERVICE). This release includes 209 documents (34 base documents in different versions) dated between 2007 and 2015. PETER-SERVICE was founded 1992 in St. Petersburg as a provider for billing solutions and soon became the major supplier of software for the mobile telecommunications industry in Russia. Today it has more than 1000 employees in different locations in Russia, and offices in major cities in Russia and Ukraine. The technologies developed and deployed by PETER-SERVICE today go far beyond the classical billing process and extend into the realms of surveillance and control. Although compliance to the strict surveillance laws is mandatory in Russia, rather than being forced to comply PETER-SERVICE appears to be quite actively pursuing partnership and commercial opportunities with the state intelligence apparatus. As a matter of fact PETER-SERVICE is uniquely placed as a surveillance partner due to the remarkable visibility their products provide into the data of Russian subscribers of mobile operators, which expose to PETER-SERVICE valuable metadata, including phone and message records, device identifiers (IMEI, MAC addresses), network identifiers (IP addresses), cell tower information and much more. This enriched and aggregated metadata is of course of interest to Russian authorities, whose access became a core component of the system architecture. [cont]

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