September 2017 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

TigerSwan, the S*umbag mercenaries who stalked #StandingRock Doxed
by Big Fatty 07 Sep '17

07 Sep '17

> grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com > Sat Sep 2 17:49:50 PDT 2017 > > fakeass shitnews > Of course Top Secret infiltrators happen. > Beware. > What realnewsanon is saying. Rayzer's calls to violent action outs xyr as fbinigger, or sad equivalent. Top Secret Infiltrator. Beware.

1 0

Disroot + OpenNIC Project + GoldBug
by Cecilia Tanaka 07 Sep '17

07 Sep '17

This is cute too! <3 https://www.privacytools.io ------- "Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live." - Mae Jemison

1 0

How Bitcoin Rescued Victims of Hurricane Harvey
by Cecilia Tanaka 07 Sep '17

07 Sep '17

"How Bitcoin Rescued Victims of Hurricane Harvey" # https://cointelegraph.com/news/how-bitcoin-rescued-victims-of-hurricane-har… "The International Cherch of Blerk, a registered crypto-based 501(c)(3), and recognized religion, is revolutionizing peer to peer charitable works. They are using crypto currency to target aid where it’s needed most." ========== PS for grarpamp: - "Despacito" played on two calculators, hihi! Pretty cute and will make you smile a bit! <3 # https://youtu.be/gBT5lmikXrs Don't complain about it, dear. I've sent "Veganito", the Brazilian Vegan version to my ex-boyfriend, who is vegan and understands Portuguese enough to laugh of this politically correct adaptation, haha!! He gave me the "Veganomicon" book years ago. He and Mitch Altman are my favorite vegans in the whole world... I will love them forever. :)) <3 # https://www.buzzfeed.com/raphaelevangelista/aprecie-a-letra-de-veganito-a-v… ------- "Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live." - Mae Jemison

1 0

Cypherpunk Inadequacies / Why the 60's failed
by grarpamp 07 Sep '17

07 Sep '17

> \0xd: > Yeah, humans are both the cause and the cure. The major source of > inadequacy in THIS population (crypto-anarchists) is the failure to > examine why the 60's failed to produce the revolution it desired. It > had love, peace, and an awesome soundtrack -- yet it failed. 60s quite possibly... Too much drugs, violence, disorganization... And unencrypted tappable mail, phone, bank lines...

9 32

The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey
by grarpamp 05 Sep '17

05 Sep '17

The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey by Michael Huemer The state is often ascribed a special sort of authority, one that obliges citizens to obey its commands and entitles the state to enforce those commands through threats of violence. This book argues that this notion is a moral illusion: no one has ever possessed that sort of authority. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1137281650 infohash:6A92A77AF1DF21BD46FE7F5BF1EE324065A1FC58

2 1

fwd [TI Channel] .
by b0z0＠SDF.ORG 05 Sep '17

05 Sep '17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CUGZpV4kxI magnet:?xt=urn:btih:d243efb186b1ff4476f45f01a46a428491a4e45e&dn=Psychologist%20Paul%20Marko%20on%20Targeted%20Individuals%20with%20Ella%20Free%20-%20Standard%20Quality%20360p%20%5BFile2HD.com%5D.mp3 Psychologist Paul Marko on Targeted Individuals with Ella Free 1:10:38 / 1:57:51 Psychologist Paul Marko on Targeted Individuals with Ella Free Ella F Ella F 65 videos 1.4K 2,054 views Published on Jun 2, 2017 3 months ago Guest tips or need support? Email Ella at tiangel2016(a)gmail.com Recorded on May 30, 2017 Doctor Marko spent 30 plus years as an organizational development psychologist in large corporations and governments internationally. Which means that as a psychologist, he worked with organizations and people within those organizations to help achieve objectives and modify culture. He has a Ph.D. in psychology with a major in Consciousness Studies and has done research in that field. In 2011 he co-authored and edited an academic book on that subject entitled The Postconventional Personality. Subsequently, Paul wrote a short book for public consumption entitled, Belief Magic, designed as a tool to awaken people to the trap in which those that manipulate their beliefs have placed them. Academically, Paul has taught at various times on all levels of education from kindergarten to the postgraduate level. Currently, Paul and his wife Mindy do several podcasts per month called "the World Beyond Belief" which presents information and interviews relevant to the awakening of humankind. They also make videos that explain what is really happening in the world behind the MSM facade. Paul and Mindy host and produce a weekly panel discussion entitled the Techno-Crime Fighters Forum to raise awareness of the plight of those innocent individuals being targeted by the deep state which orchestrates gang stalking events and directs energy weapons to transform mankind. *********************************************************** All data and information provided on this recording is for informational purposes only. The host, Ella Free makes no representations as to accuracy, completeness, currentness, suitability, or validity of any information on this recording and will not be liable for any errors, omissions, or delays in this information or any losses, injuries, or damages arising from its display or use. All information is provided on an as-is basis. Comments 30 Default profile photo Add a public comment... Deborah Anne Weber Deborah Anne Weber3 months ago I came up with how to make the mind-reading technology in the mid to late 70s.... it's been here for decades and decades. 4 Butterfly Butterfly2 months ago I agree with them targeting individuals who are curious and unwilling to accept what the fake media puts out. Just realized I am a target after researching government corruption beginning in 2014. Also, they feel that I can impress others due to my profession, however I am not a political activist at this point in time. Not sure if I am getting a lot of directed energy weapons or not, but have severe tinnitus that never goes away. I highly recommend orgonite for everyone to thwart EMFs that all people are subject to. 1 Cynthia Lynn Valerino Cynthia Lynn Valerino3 months ago Hi Ella! My advice is to just try to ignore the fact that you're targeted. Be happy! I'm sure it drives em crazy! I don't hear any sounds or see any colors. Perhaps they got scared when they found out that Jessie Ventura had my back? Your guess is as good as mine Thanks Ella, for all you do. You make me feel safer, as does Facebook live Big fan of Mark Zuckerberg 1 Crystal Starheart Crystal Starheart2 months ago "Erasing History: Trump Administration Returning CIA Torture Report To Be Destroyed" -- https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170602/12424237507/erasing-history-trum… 1 I. Sokolov I. Sokolov3 months ago Thanks Ella F for a great program about an interesting topic. Mind Control is becoming the new normal. It is not easy to stop it since it is not only a US/NATO invention, but Russia, China, India, and Israel too is developing this technology. It is a disaster this technology has been leaked to private entities and some of them are cults that does not work four your best interest. Our privacy of mind was lost in the 1990s and now Facebook, Google, and Microsoft will commercialize the de-classified DARPA technology and improve it by engaging Universities and research laboratories world-wide. We should too develop a low frequency shield to protect those of us who do not want the mind control on 24/7 (I guess that is all of the TI's). It would be great if the Governments decided ALL research has to be done on consenting adults, not on randomly picked Targeted Individuals. Neuro science can be very good in the right hands. Helping stroke victims with communication handicaps. In the military, and in the war on terrorism, this technology can do a lot of good. The way it is today; used to harass people, by cults and criminal entities. We do not see the same problems in Russia, China, and none NATO countries. CIA, NSA, and the US military complex is notorious bad to keep secrets, we see this from the Wikileaks. Neoro Science is here to be, it can not be un-invented, but we can regulate it. 3 True Dat True Dat3 months ago If this is happening here imagine the targeting in the war zones 2 Deborah Anne Weber Deborah Anne Weber3 months ago Correction: Misanthropic MONSTERS... Good for you, Paul. I completely agree. Buttttt - I disagree with your assessment of why more mainstream programs won't air her, Karen Stewart, yet (I will work on changing that). Sometimes, she's being blocked without knowing it... they do hack emails, snail mail, faxes, social media, cell phones, etc... and they have gone after so many, many people in mainstream media. CNN aired some of the core group of Murder Inc/The Finders: female arsonist & mass murderer, Nancy Varian (the ugly red-headed cretin with the light blue fleece jacket, blue jeans, yellow pom-poms), #1 finder & murderer, Carol Holle Chapman Raab, Col Douglas Beason's niece, Jeanne Roberts or whatever surname she is using and then Craft Int'l the mercenary group... And what was CNN's punishment? Some anchors/reporters/execs were gone after... they've done it to others, NYTs too... and look at how many have been outright murdered.... Not to mention "Copper Green" a BS military propaganda operation. 2 Deborah Anne Weber Deborah Anne Weber3 months ago Of interest to note: I knew the widow of Lockheed Martin's Corporate Attorney/Executive - she was living in South Seattle SHAG. I met her late 2013, knew her through part of 2014. She was former Greek Intelligence and she and her husband lived in both Greece and then Saudi Arabia for some years before returning home retiring to their permanent residence was in Seattle, WA. She said they returned to the States in 2012, I believe, and within a month of their return, her husband (15yrs plus her senior) whose health she watched like a hawk, suddenly came down with a respiratory infection, went to the hospital in Seattle and died. She was still very, very traumatized. She'd perseverate: "They killed my man! They killed my man!" She absolutely adored her husband, her ground floor apt (gorgeous vaulted ceilings, etc) was essentially a shrine to her husband. She was certainly a TI, a concept that was new to her. The core group of Murder Inc & the Finders from my encounters with them in upstate NY, Albany, NY Capital District, were the ones torturing her and other innocent people (good veterans, good social workers, good witnesses, good people..) in South Seattle SHAG. This infamous crew is flown all over & others locally (fake witness protection, super soldiers gone awry, etc) would abet them in their war-crimes. There was also a former Marine from Poughkeepsie, NY using the name of "Dave Bell" who is part of the criminal crew who seemed to be forced to dole out cancer which these Special BlackOps called "American Cancer Society" also meaning "Active Cancer System." And as for that core crew, everyone seemed to be answering to former FBI Director, Robert Mueller and former Army Military Intelligence KKK Mark Simmons. Some of Dick Cheney's family seemed held hostage by this crew... unless he himself was forcing their involvement. I don't know. My older half-brother was certainly involved, but at a lesser level. Their obsession with him was his mother's parents: infamous Nazis. She actually was a decent woman, not perfect, but certainly decent. The Monarch Program was started as a BS cover to "hide me" after my older half-brother offered me up to these war-criminals in a fit of certainly provoked jealous rage, but what it really was about was stealing & keeping stolen Nazi & Rotten Royal looted fortunes from my family (Weber & Rosato/Rosetta). My birth and not coming from a Nazi war-criminal, made me the only rightful heir to the Weber fortune - which was enormous. I'm also the only real signatory on the Rosato/Rosetta Mona Lisa monies. Strange, but tragically true. It was these war-criminals - especially those in Academia - who continued these depraved MK-ULTRA agendas. This IS about MIND CONTROL and using bad "eugenics" and technology as part of a sociopathic Empire Agenda. I know some of the sociopaths who were behind this crap agenda to prop up the offspring of war-criminal crap and destroy the best & brightest of the West.... What ensued was an entire bevy of psychopaths using science & technology (cybernetics for one) on innocent citizens as guinea pigs as part of their "social engineering" & "human engineering" agenda. So, to be sure, this is being run DOMESTICALLY by Operation & Project Paperclips and those who created those Operations & Projects. Like I stated above, the core group was an infamous group of homicidal mass-murderers released from the Prison for the Criminally Insane & federal penitentiaries. There are even some from Leavenworth. This is the FAKE CIA & rogue DIA and their creepy cronies who were scattered all over the USA. War mongerers. Hegelian Dialectical .... Like my grandfather, Max Weber, Jr wrote, "The Cult of Personality" and General Smedley Butler wrote, "War is a Racket".... but it's also part of EMPIRE. I tell people to look at a map and look who's made a comeback: Rotten Royals & Organized Religious Liars and the scurrilous sociopaths who profit (think rotten transnational corporations) - especially the PsyOps Defense Contractor monoliths like SRI/SAIC & L-3... look at Monsanto with their GMO bio-weapons (gene promoters & organophosphates) and an entire weaponized grid of Directed Energy Weapons.. whose use in global mind control is destroying the entire planet, the environment, the GAIA system of all systems at play... And they've been operating un-tethered in America (USA) for nearly 100 years... It's been an EMPIRE war of attrition ... It's STAR WARS and we're not winning... Keep up the good work - if you have children, their lives depend on all of us stopping this malevolent Empire Agenda... Otherwise, there's no Age of Enlightenment, this time around it's the Dark Ages cycle... and we can't survive that. 2 Ellard Yow Ellard Yow2 months ago anybody who's not convinced, give me a call. 2 Deborah Anne Weber Deborah Anne Weber3 months ago That's a great way to put it, "a threat to human consciousness" you bet it is... it is a violation of the physical functioning of the human brain and body. There's no other way to put it, but to say that these "controllers" are MONSTERS. 1 Deborah Anne Weber Deborah Anne Weber3 months ago Actually, Paul has it a little backwards... but it's how the West has been social engineered - technically so in the U.S. Torturing criminal psychopaths, war criminals, other persons crime criminals or abetters DOES WORK. You know, the old "eye for an eye"... ACCOUNTABILITY, retributive justice, punishment. Paul is just regurgitating psychobabble BS steeped in war-criminal semantics... In other words, the guilty don't want to be held accountable so they spew PROPAGANDA knowing "If you repeat a lie often enough, it'll eventually be perceived as truth.." Anything to get away with what they've done. Now, torturing completely INNOCENT PEOPLE - which was & is what GITMO, Abu GHRAIB and other CIA off-site "prisons" are ALL ABOUT - ALSO works. It's what war-mongering psychopaths & Empires of OLD do to control the masses. Think of the phrase "Royal Screwing" : part of the idiomatic vernacular & you get the idea. Having the most aggressive & "ethically-challenged" of a populace INTENTIONALLY carry out relentless, sadistic, malevolent cruelty & torture to completely innocent people - and, of course, the innocent victim realizes they're dealing with feral, madmen psychopaths, which is why some victims confess to what they think the madmen want to hear - anything to get that oft-times lethal torture to stop. It doesn't matter if the torturer believes or doesn't believe that the person they're torturing is innocent or guilty - what matters is the overall effect. So, yes, INTENTIONALLY torturing innocent people relentlessly "WORKS," it has a function. It has a function through a war-mongering, war-criminal sociopath agenda; through an Establishment (elite) agenda and it has a higher function through savvier sociopaths of Empires of OLD. Those savvier sociopaths have made the United States of America and some of the West, the most loathed Empire on Earth - the absolute loathing & hatred for America (USA) is not only unparalleled, but will be its eventual demise. It's called "AUTO-GENOCIDE" in para-politics parlance. And that is a function of those savvier who have been putting a choke-hold of all of Humanity... It's the GAME of EMPIRE or what Paul calls "TRIANGULAR" as in a structured socio-political culture based on pyramid scheming (couldn't resist). 1 Soulutionaries Media Network Soulutionaries Media Network3 months ago Awesome interview Ella with an excellent insightful guest. Paul is a truly wonderful man as is his wife Mindy.. they are both doing great work on the platform 'Pine Cone Utopia', they have excellent investigative presentations on their shows called 'World Beyond Belief' with Dr Horton, Ramola D, Millicent and tons of other great freedom fighters. Thank you also for mentioning the horrific #Sevengate case I won..It was very much appreciated. After 14 years of being targeted, I still don't understand how people can be soo evil and do such wicked things to innocent people they don't even know. Its time to shut the crime syndicate responsible down. If anyone would like to join our 'emergency urgent public call to action' to help us sound the alarm far and wide, please get in touch. You can watch the interview I did with Dr Paul Marco about it on here.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmYVIyPMet0 Stay strong and safe . Much Love Seven:-)) 1 James Valentine James Valentine1 month ago Campaign! @tispaces https://twitter.com/tispaces Acceptance is a huge problem! Most people will not believe you, and in worse cases they will never take the time to believe. #SatelliteHarassment https://twitter.com/tispaces/status/892878163964944384 JB Smith JB Smith1 month ago I am so happy. POTUS sent me a letter. He is investigating the decade of torture i've endured at the hands of the Newport News Police Department and Virginia state police. All targeted individuals should write the POTUS! Boyd Johnston Boyd Johnston1 month ago (edited) Explanation of relationship between Opoid Industry and Torture Racketeering = https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=803981639776375&id=100004… Jenna Lee Jenna Lee2 months ago look up ' google play body sensors ' and ...The development of WBAN (wireless body area network) technology started around 1995 around the idea of using wireless personal area network (WPAN) technologies to implement communications on, near, and around the human body. About six years later, the term "BAN" came to refer systems where communication is entirely within, on, and in the immediate proximity of a human body.[8][9]A WBAN system can use WPAN wireless technologies as gateways to reach longer ranges...these are sensors which are already built into your cellphone. this might be one of the ways they are spying on us/watching us!! bizo237 bizo2372 months ago (edited) Here is a measurement: http://imgur.com/gallery/eRDW3 I can also measure with a bug detector a signal, when being microwaved. https://www.wired.com/2008/05/army-removes-pa/ This is not solely a psychological phenomena. I am of the opinion pulsed non-ionizing radiation behavior modification and Remote Neural Monitoring should be consented for and the public should be informed of Directed Energy Weapons. None of them are non lethal. Especially if they can be mounted on a drone and flown over your house waking you up at intervals while you sleep. Killing you and endangering other drivers on the road. It is an ancient form of torture on a new weapons system. War never changes. http://www.biggerthansnowden.com/ http://www.soc.mil/Assorted%20Pages/ARSOF%20Operating%20Concept%202014.pdf Cynthia Lynn Valerino Cynthia Lynn Valerino3 months ago I don't have anything to hide! I've never even visited adult website so... Deborah Anne Weber Deborah Anne Weber3 months ago Rand, Heritage (KKK Simmons et al of Murder Inc/The Finders), and those listed *The shillbag* Dr Judy Wood's Qui Tam case... like SAIC Soulutionaries Media Network Soulutionaries Media Network3 months ago Charles Seven issues emergency call to action against SevenGate international Satanic False Flag crime ring By Alfred Lambremont Webre https://newsinsideout.com/2017/06/charles-seven-issues-emergency-call-actio… Here is links to reports about the Key #Sevengate ringleaders http://www.soulutionariestvnetwork.com/downloads/ NewsInsideOut.com Turning Your News Inside Out www.newsinsideout.com Autoplay Up next Former CIA Robert David Steele talks Targeted Individuals with Ella Free Ella F 11,581 views 1:58:45 Targeted Individual Deserie Foley Interview with Ella Free Ella F 978 views 1:41:59 Actor Stephen Shellen talks Targeted Individuals with Ella Free Ella F 1,727 views 2:22:57 Private Investigator Roger Tolces on Targeted Individuals with Ella Free Ella F 6,354 views 3:01:34 Former NASA Employee & Author Richard Lighthouse Interview with Ella Free Ella F 1,659 views 3:11:36 Targeted Individual Health discussion with Tony Pantalleresco and Ella Free Ella F 1,303 views 1:21:53 TI activism, COINTELPRO-like tactics within the TI community & how to overcome them Ella F 1,005 views 1:57:41 Refuge from the Storm: Dr. Millicent Black Discusses the Targeted Individual Crisis with Ella Free Ella F 257 views New 2:48:18 Most Important Targeted Individual Podcast to Date with Ella Free! Ella F 5,103 views 3:27:53 Podcast Hosts Linda Costanzo and Ella Free Talk Targeted Individuals Ella F 746 views New 1:52:36 Targeted Individual Thomas Dickey, Retired U.S. Army Civilian Ella F 222 views New 2:13:52 Electronic Harassment with Microwave Emitting Drywall: Matthew Aaron Interview with Derrick Robinson Ella F 2,832 views 1:55:31 Targeted Individual & Activist Jeffrey Madore Interview with Ella Free Ella F 1,381 views 2:56:41 Targeted Individual Midge (YaYa) Mathis interview with Ella Free Ella F 2,097 views 3:16:42 Author Paul Brodeur interview with Targeted Individual Community and Ella Free Ella F 473 views 4:36:13 David Voigts talks Targeted Individuals with Ella Free Ella F 966 views 3:46:36 Tavistock and the New Age - An Interview with Dr Eric Karlstrom pineconeutopia 9,880 views 1:56:07 Targeted Individual Spencer Carter interview with Ella Free Ella F 711 views 3:37:18 NSA Whistleblowers William Binney & Kirk Wiebe speak on Targeted Individuals Ella F 7,324 views 3:40:07 Ed Gillham, Targeted Individual explains how to gather evidence Ella F 4,222 views 3:54:46 History About Press Copyright Creators Advertise Developers +YouTube Terms Privacy Policy & Safety Send feedback Test new features https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9-Mn8xGQpTpuY-6kGQByLg/videos b0z0(a)sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org

1 0

Re: [Cryptography] Code Breakers by Craig Collie
by grarpamp 04 Sep '17

04 Sep '17

On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 10:24 PM, Bill Frantz <frantz(a)pwpconsult.com> wrote: > I found an interesting book in a Sydney, Australia airport book stall: > > Code Breakers > Inside the shadow world of signals intelligence in Australia's two Bletchley > Parks > Craig Collie > First published in 2017 by: > Allen & Unwin > 83 Alexander Street > Crows Nest, NSW 2065 > Australia > <www.allenandunwin.com> > ISBN 978 1 74331 210 0 > > This book describes the signals intelligence efforts in Australia during > WWII. It goes into detail about the politics, personalities, code breaking, > and traffic analysis used in some of the epic battles in the south Pacific. > It describes the early use of IBM tabulating equipment in code breaking. It > gives enough detail about the structure of the Japanese codes so the reader > can appreciate the effort needed to break them and re-break them after they > were changed. > > A brief description of the typical code structure: First the messages was > converted to numbers using a code book which took words or phrases as input. > Then "additive tables" were used like a one time pad to scramble the output > of the code book for transmission. Since the additive tables were reused > many times, there were obvious security issues, although these issues don't > seem to have been the major way the codes were actually broken. > > Traffic analysis based on the strength and direction of radio signals > allowed prediction of air attacks without being able to read the messages, > although since the airplane codes were designed for easy use in the air, > they were relatively easy to break. > > The book is also a fun read. Recommended. > > Cheers - Bill The Secret Code-Breakers of Central Bureau: how Australia’s signals-intelligence network helped win the Pacific War - David Dufty infohash:C48528487723B42DB5C3A019179AC0CE90829B4C Code Warriors_ NSA's Code Breakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union by Stephen Budiansky infohash:B2E01DC6AE6607D7BF88D6B504802DB677C563EE Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias - Peter Ludlow infohash:DE1B89F605AFB3896D9153BD27F691B009F56092

1 0

Re: [tor-talk] Is there any societal use in Bitcoin?
by grarpamp 04 Sep '17

04 Sep '17

> As it happens, I just recently transferred funds internationally. It > took 36 hours to clear, at a guaranteed rate. My local bank charged > about $8 in fees (mostly for the overhead of liaising with the local > receiver of revenue - there's a bunch of paperwork, so I can't really > object to the fee). My point is that if you're paying absurd taxes and > taking a week, you might be able to find a better option. > By contrast BTC, in the same timeframe, dropped more than 10%. If I'd > been using it to transfer the same funds, I'd have been massively out > of pocket. > There are strong arguments for disintermediating financial systems, > but we don't need to overhype the problem space, and let's not kid > ourselves that Bitcoin is a silver bullet either. Except that Bitcoin takes roughly 10 minutes to clear the first block, so that's invalid comparison. There is zero paperwork with cryptos, so that's better. Other users gain more than 10% at times, so that's invalid. And fees are almost universally both less and flat... better. Instead of whining about volatility, understand that cryptos are not centrally manipulated like fiat, and right now are quite thin compared to fiat... so volatility is expected there as perfectly normal price and market discovery mechanism. Want less volatility, hold and use more cryptos with more people. Long term they'll be better and won't go to shit when your country of choice flips upside down. As far as tor goes, many cryptocurrencies can run over tor... pick a few and run some of their nodes as onions or i2p's. zensystem.io has perhaps gone farthest with work therein. You can send all the clearing time and former fees saved to this address in the form of golden bullets... btc:141nbtnunoix7kKjbAspmZVCPamP9rgJST

1 0

Intel ME: NSA HAP Switch [re: hidden/undocumented instructions]
by grarpamp 04 Sep '17

04 Sep '17

http://fm.csl.sri.com/LAW/2009/dobry-law09-HAP-Challenges.pdf ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Henry Baker <hbaker1(a)pipeline.com> Date: Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 7:51 AM Subject: Re: [Cryptography] How to find hidden/undocumented instructions To: cryptography(a)metzdowd.com FYI -- http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2017/08/disabling-intel-me.html https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/29/intel_management_engine_can_be_dis… Intel ME controller chip has secret kill switch Researchers find undocumented accommodation for government customers By Thomas Claburn in San Francisco 29 Aug 2017 at 00:12 Security researchers at Moscow-based Positive Technologies have identified an undocumented configuration setting that disables Intel Management Engine 11, a CPU control mechanism that has been described as a security risk. Intel's ME consists of a microcontroller that works with the Platform Controller Hub chip, in conjunction with integrated peripherals. It handles much of the data travelling between the processor and external devices, and thus has access to most of the data on the host computer. If compromised, it becomes a backdoor, giving an attacker control over the affected device. That possibility set off alarms in May, with the disclosure of a vulnerabilityin Intel's Active Management Technology, a firmware application that runs on the Intel ME. The revelation prompted calls for a way to disable the poorly understood hardware. At the time, the Electronic Frontier Foundation called it a security hazard. The tech advocacy group demanded a way to disable "the undocumented master controller inside our Intel chips" and details about how the technology works. An unofficial workaround called ME Cleaner can partially hobble the technology, but cannot fully eliminate it. "Intel ME is an irremovable environment with an obscure signed proprietary firmware, with full network and memory access, which poses a serious security threat," the project explains. On Monday, Positive Technologies researchers Dmitry Sklyarov, Mark Ermolov, and Maxim Goryachy said they had found a way to turn off the Intel ME by setting the undocumented HAP bit to 1 in a configuration file. HAP stands for high assurance platform. It's an IT security framework developed by the US National Security Agency, an organization that might want a way to disable a feature on Intel chips that presents a security risk. The Register asked Intel about this and received the same emailed statement that was provided to Positive Technologies. "In response to requests from customers with specialized requirements we sometimes explore the modification or disabling of certain features," Intel's spokesperson said. "In this case, the modifications were made at the request of equipment manufacturers in support of their customer's evaluation of the US government's 'High Assurance Platform' program. These modifications underwent a limited validation cycle and are not an officially supported configuration." Positive Technologies in its blog post acknowledged that it would be typical for government agencies to want to reduce the possibility of unauthorized access. It noted that HAP's affect on Boot Guard, Intel's boot process verification system, remains unknown, though it hopes to answer that question soon. _______________________________________________ The cryptography mailing list cryptography(a)metzdowd.com http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography

1 0

Antifa's thoughtcrime is any thought itself.
by Umair Chachar 04 Sep '17

04 Sep '17

I literally re-read 1984 because of the parallels between Antifa's world view (a terrorist organization) and Orwellian dystopia. https://youtu.be/plyC2ipo2B4 VR, Umair

3 3