April 2018 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Criminal Justice Reform
by Ryan Carboni 03 May '18

03 May '18

Upon looking into the Stephen Avery case, I came to a conclusion. A large fraction of the people in prison are guilty for each others crimes. This is what no one would admit to. Which brings new meaning to guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. I also question how it took so long for so many federal forensic tests to be declared bunk when there are so many nonprofit groups, the most prominent receiving tens of millions a year. I don't think you will ever hear a non-profit group in one stroke, from indirect involvement, exonerating thousands of prisoners. There's an innocence project, but no one is examining why everything is so incredibly flawed and incompetent. Clearly the most likely source for change would be someone actually intelligent opening their mouth and pointing this out...

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Quantum Entanglement
by jim bell 01 May '18

01 May '18

http://en.brinkwire.com/292792/einsteins-spooky-action-bizarre-quantum-phen…

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dutch police state
by juan 30 Apr '18

30 Apr '18

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=54928 "An anonymous questionnaire with the Dutch police force showed that 85% of police personnel used police databases for activities that weren't allowed." "It's a study by one of the Dutch universities. It was broad and scientifically responsible. I don't know if it's available online. It was shelved very quickly." ------------ has anybody heard anything about that study? Sadly the guy who posted that info didn't give many clues.

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EU Com Has BAD Idea — Mandatory Biometric ID Cards, Census, Privacy, Travel
by grarpamp 30 Apr '18

30 Apr '18

https://medium.com/@bozhobg/the-european-commission-has-a-bad-idea-mandator… https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/8fq1rw/the_european_commission_ha… Funny how people always afraid to say the real underlying fundamentals... - that beastmarking dataming etc foster arbitrary control theft slavery abuse unfree travel futuer adverse affects actions etc - that guns back up freedom through overthrowing all the bullshit so they keep throwing all these pussified sideways analysis arguments like 'chips / db's not secure enough', 'voting, background checks, regulation, registration good / work great, trust us', etc, etc. https://papersplease.org/ https://www.cato.org/checkpoint-america https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Jewish_legislation_in_prewar_Nazi_Germany https://www.politicususa.com/2015/11/20/donald-trump-register-muslims-nazis… http://stephenhalbrook.com/registration_article/registration.html https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/5ebhrt/did_the_nazis_mainta… https://www.aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/ice-and-border-patrol-abuses/gr… https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/transportation/2018/03/01/metrolinx-gave-p… http://www.toad.com/gnu/census.html "he surprised me by saying that his parents and siblings were taken to the internment camps (he is Japanese- American). But he still doesn't see anything wrong with the census [same datamining preprocessing happening today]." Now who were Facebook's parents... Jews who should know better than to datamine.

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Goodbye BlueDrive and fuel injection. Hello carborators and Kettering ignition.
by Steven Schear 29 Apr '18

29 Apr '18

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-28/pentagons-ray-gun-can-stall-cars-…

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The Army of the 12 Monkeys
by Steven Schear 28 Apr '18

28 Apr '18

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-27/bill-gates-warns-millions-could-d…

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Assange may soon be leaving the embassy
by Steven Schear 28 Apr '18

28 Apr '18

https://disobedientmedia.com/2018/04/future-uncertain-for-assange-in-wake-o…

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Exploit Lecture: Writing FreeBSD Malware
by grarpamp 28 Apr '18

28 Apr '18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT_k06Xg-BE Without exploit mitigations and with an insecure-by-default design, writing malware for FreeBSD is a fun task, taking us back to 1999-era Linux exploit authorship. Several members of FreeBSD's development team have claimed that Capsicum, a capabilities/sandboxing framework, prevents exploitation of applications. Our in-depth analysis of the topics below will show that in order to be effective, applying Capsicum to existing complex codebases lends itself to wrapper-style sandboxing. Wrapper-style sandbox is a technique whereby privileged operations get wrapped and passed to a segregated process, which performs the operation on behalf of the capsicumized process. With a new libhijack payload, we will demonstrate that wrapper-style sandboxing requires ASLR and CFI for effectiveness. FreeBSD supports neither ASLR nor CFI. Tying into the wrapper-style Capsicum defeat, we'll talk about advances being made with libhijack, a tool announced at Thotcon 0x4. The payload developed in the Capsicum discussion will be used with libhijack, thus making it easy to extend. We will also learn the Mandatory Access Control (MAC) framework in FreeBSD. The MAC framework places hooks into several key places in the kernel. We'll learn how to abuse the MAC framework for writing efficient rootkits. Attendees of this presentation should walk away with the knowledge to skillfully and artfully write offensive code targeting both the FreeBSD userland and the kernel. https://twitter.com/lattera/status/989602709950029824 Shawn Webb is a cofounder of HardenedBSD, a hardened downstream distribution of FreeBSD. With over a decade in infosec, he dabbles in both the offensive and defensive aspects of the industry. On the advisory board for Emerald Onion, Shawn believes in a more free and open Internet. His whole house is wired for Tor. Getting on the Tor network is only a network jack away! https://www.youtube.com/user/CarolinaConVideos/videos CarolinaCon was started in 2005 and has been held every year since. With each passing year the conference continues to grow and attract more attendees and speakers. As has always been the case, CarolinaCon is put together and run by an all-volunteer staff. CarolinaCon is proudly brought to you by "The CarolinaCon Group". The CarolinaCon Group is a non-profit organization registered in the state of NC, dedicated to educating the local and global communities about technology, information/network/computer security, and information rights. The CarolinaCon Group is also closely associated with various 2600 chapters across NC, SC, TN, VA, LA, DC, GA, PA and NY. Many of the volunteers who help develop and deliver CarolinaCon come from those chapters.

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ICE Wrongly Holds Americans In Prison For Years
by grarpamp 28 Apr '18

28 Apr '18

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-citizens-ice-20180427-htmlstory.ht… Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents repeatedly target U.S. citizens for deportation by mistake, making wrongful arrests based on incomplete government records, bad data and lax investigations, according to a Times review of federal lawsuits, internal ICE documents and interviews. Since 2012, ICE has released from its custody more than 1,480 people after investigating their citizenship claims, according to agency figures. And a Times review of Department of Justice records and interviews with immigration attorneys uncovered hundreds of additional cases in the country’s immigration courts in which people were forced to prove they are Americans and sometimes spent months or even years in detention. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ice+am+i+being+detained

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Guerrilla Networks: AM Radio Towers Going Firesale
by grarpamp 27 Apr '18

27 Apr '18

https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/18/04/26/2150231/old-am-broadcast-towers-… Build your own nets and end up owning the soon to be defunct cable tv plants too... https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/18/04/26/2311200/cord-cutting-caus…

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