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Privacy: US Vehicle and License Agencies Pimp You Out for $Millions
by grarpamp 30 Nov '19

30 Nov '19

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evjekz/the-california-dmv-is-making-doll… Not to mention simply giving you away to all other agencies. And just where is your cut and brokering root of authority in this? Nope, it's ass up for you, and been going on for decades, you must enjoy it, you even told them where to come get more anytime they want. The California DMV Is Making $50M a Year Selling Drivers’ Personal Information A document obtained by Motherboard shows how DMVs sell people’s names, addresses, and other personal information to generate revenue. by Joseph Cox Nov 25 2019, 4:05pm The California Department of Motor Vehicles is generating revenue of $50,000,000 a year through selling drivers’ personal information, according to a DMV document obtained by Motherboard. DMVs across the country are selling data that drivers are required to provide to the organization in order to obtain a license. This information includes names, physical addresses, and car registration information. California’s sales come from a state which generally scrutinizes privacy to a higher degree than the rest of the country. In a public record acts request, Motherboard asked the California DMV for the total dollar amounts paid by commercial requesters of data for the past six years. The responsive document shows the total revenue in financial year 2013/14 as $41,562,735, before steadily climbing to $52,048,236 in the financial year 2017/18. The document doesn't name the commercial requesters, but some specific companies appeared frequently in Motherboard's earlier investigation that looked at DMVs across the country. They included data broker LexisNexis and consumer credit reporting agency Experian. Motherboard also found DMVs sold information to private investigators, including those who are hired to find out if a spouse is cheating. It is unclear if the California DMV has recently sold data to these sorts of entities. california-dmv-document A screenshot of the DMV document obtained by Motherboard. Image: Motherboard. In an email to Motherboard, the California DMV said that requesters may also include insurance companies, vehicle manufacturers, and prospective employers. Asked if the sale of this data was essential to the DMV, Marty Greenstein, public information officer at the California DMV, wrote that its sale furthers objectives related to highway and public safety, "including availability of insurance, risk assessment, vehicle safety recalls, traffic studies, emissions research, background checks, and for pre- and existing employment purposes." "The DMV takes its obligation to protect personal information very seriously. Information is only released pursuant to legislative direction, and the DMV continues to review its release practices to ensure information is only released to authorized persons/entities and only for authorized purposes. The DMV also audits requesters to ensure proper audit logs are maintained and that employees are trained in the protection of DMV information and anyone having access to this information sign a security document," Greenstein wrote. Do you know anything else about data selling? We'd love to hear from you. Using a non-work phone or computer, you can contact Joseph Cox securely on Signal on +44 20 8133 5190, Wickr on josephcox, OTR chat on jfcox(a)jabber.ccc.de, or email joseph.cox(a)vice.com. Multiple other DMVs around the U.S. previously confirmed to Motherboard that they have cut-off data access for some commercial requesters after they abused the data. One of the main pieces of legislation that governs the sale of DMV data stemmed from a case in California. Lawmakers introduced the Driver's Privacy Protection Act (DPPA) in 1994 after a private investigator hired by a stalker obtained the address of actress Rebecca Schaeffer from the DMV. The stalker went on to kill Schaeffer. The DPPA was designed to restrict access to DMV data, but included a wide array of exemptions, including for private investigators. After Motherboard's earlier investigation, senators and digital privacy experts criticized the sale of DMV data, and some said the law should be changed. Senator and Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said DMVs should not profit from such information.

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DIY retroreflectors
by coderman 29 Nov '19

29 Nov '19

https://github.com/mossmann/retroreflectors CONGAFLOCK A general purpose FET based RF retroreflector FLAMENCOFLOCK A retroreflector for PS/2 keyboard monitoring (unfinished) RUMBAFLOCK A general purpose PIN diode based RF retroreflector SALSAFLOCK A retroreflector for VGA monitoring (unfinished) TANGOFLOCK A retroreflector for USB keyboard monitoring

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appelbaum's CV and tor's résumé
by Punk-Stasi 2.0 29 Nov '19

29 Nov '19

http://web.archive.org/web/20150416180343/https://pando.com/2015/03/01/inte… In 2012, just a few months after Radio Free Asia’s 24/7 propaganda blitz into North Korea failed to trigger regime change, RFA sent folks from the Tor Project — including core developer Jacob Appelbaum (pictured above) — into Burma, just as the military dictatorship was finally agreeing to hand political power over to US-backed pro-democracy politicians. The stated purpose of Appelbaum’s RFA-funded expedition was to probe Burma’s Internet system from within and collect information on its telecommunications infrastructure — which was then used to compile a report for Western politicians and “international investors” interested in penetrating Burma’s recently opened markets. Here you can see Appelbaum’s visa — published in the report as evidence of what you needed to do to buy a SIM card in Burma. Burma is a curious place for American anti-surveillance activists funded by Radio Free Asia to travel to, considering that it has long been a target of US regime-change campaigns. In fact, the guru of pro-Western “color revolutions,” Gene Sharp, wrote his famous guide to non-violent revolutions, “From Dictatorship to Democracy”, initially as a guide for Burma’s opposition movement, in order to help it overthrow the military junta in the late 1980s. Sharp had crossed into Burma illegally to train opposition activists there — all under the protection and sponsorship of the US government and one Col. Robert Helvey, a military intelligence officer. Jacob Appelbaum’s willingness to work directly for an old CIA cutout like Radio Free Asia in a nation long targeted for regime-change is certainly odd, to say the least. Particularly since Appelbaum made a big public show recently claiming that, though it pains him that Tor takes so much money from the US military, he would never take money from something as evil as the CIA.

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING RYAN CARBONI
by rooty 29 Nov '19

29 Nov '19

Empty Message

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Bashar al Assad proposes to send Syrian troops to France - boots on the ground - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 28 Nov '19

28 Nov '19

Due to severe ongoing unrest in France, Syria's austere president Bashar al Assad has proposed sending a peace keeping contingent to the "haughty nation of cheese eaters" which is "unable to maintain peace on its streets, has murdered civilian protesters, and witnesses an ongoing 'democratic civilian' insurgency". Macron ribbitted out his opposition to the proposed Arab plan, calling for "his" citizens to display peace not protests on French streets, and ordered continual loudspeaker playings of "Rainbow Connection", which Marine le Pen immediately denounced as globalist homosexual propaganda and invited Bashar al Assad to "fk the fkn fkrs cause the fkn fkr's fkd". In all seriousness, Bashar al Assad has asked the media (presumably rhetorically) "Can you imagine our troops coming to France without invitation?" Amazing times... ‘Can you imagine our troops coming to France without invitation?’ Bashar Assad blasts French ‘occupation’ of Syria https://www.rt.com/news/474559-assad-france-occupation-syria/ ... France has joined the US-led anti-Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) coalition, providing air support and deploying special forces to Syria. But for Assad, the French intervention amounted to an “occupation,” as Paris – like its major NATO ally Washington – failed to secure Damascus’ authorization of the mission. ...

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Nation's Progressives Give Thanks That They Have So Much To
by Zenaan Harkness 28 Nov '19

28 Nov '19

Be Angry About This Year Reply-To: Nation's Progressives Give Thanks That They Have So Much To Be Angry About This Year https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nations-progressives-give-thanks-they-h… https://babylonbee.com/news/progressives-give-thanks-that-they-have-so-much… In honor of Thanksgiving week, the nation's progressives have begun to give thanks that they have so much to be angry and offended about this year. "Thank you, unspecified deity who may or may not exist, for giving us so much stuff to be outraged about," said Staci Walder, 42, of Portland, as she prepared her vegan, kale-wrapped turkey. "I'm truly humbled that you've blessed me with the Trump presidency, the patriarchy, the laws of economics, and biological facts to rage against." "Every year, it's important to pause and recognize how much we have to be angry about." "A lot of people struggle with gratitude, but I'm deeply thankful that the universe has given us a veritable cornucopia of things to be mad about," agreed Mary Wallace, 27, of New York. "I know that I come from a place of privilege, and when I think about those poor people who have absolutely nothing to be mad about, I utter a prayer of thanks to goddess." Many progressives partake in an annual tradition of writing down all the things they're thankful to be mad about: - White people - Pronouns - Personal responsibility - Satire that does not affirm their viewpoint - Billionaires - Old tweets - 32-ounce sodas - Plastic straws - People who hold a steady job - Appropriating other cultures - Excluding other cultures - Bush - Obama - Trump - Babies - Kanye West - America "If we'd all just remember to count our outrages, we'd have a much worse attitude all the time," Wallace said as she looked over her own list of offensive things that dare to exist. "We should live our lives as though it's Outrage Thanksgiving every day."

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Re: Entry: Nazi/Illuminati Theory, Source: "Everything Is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults, and Cover-Ups"
by Ryan Carboni 28 Nov '19

28 Nov '19

>The simple response, and antidote, is "basic human rights" >From Kafka's The Trial: "You fool yourself in the court," said the priest, "it talks about this self-deceit in the opening paragraphs to the law. In front of the law there is a doorkeeper. A man from the countryside comes up to the door and asks for entry. But the doorkeeper says he can't let him in to the law right now. The man thinks about this, and then he asks if he'll be able to go in later on. 'That's possible,' says the doorkeeper, 'but not now'. The gateway to the law is open as it always is, and the doorkeeper has stepped to one side, so the man bends over to try and see in. When the doorkeeper notices this he laughs and says, 'If you're tempted give it a try, try and go in even though I say you can't. Careful though: I'm powerful. And I'm only the lowliest of all the doormen. But there's a doorkeeper for each of the rooms and each of them is more powerful than the last. It's more than I can stand just to look at the third one.' The man from the country had not expected difficulties like this, the law was supposed to be accessible for anyone at any time, he thinks, but now he looks more closely at the doorkeeper in his fur coat, sees his big hooked nose, his long thin tartar-beard, and he decides it's better to wait until he has permission to enter. The doorkeeper gives him a stool and lets him sit down to one side of the gate. He sits there for days and years. He tries to be allowed in time and again and tires the doorkeeper with his requests. The doorkeeper often questions him, asking about where he's from and many other things, but these are disinterested questions such as great men ask, and he always ends up by telling him he still can't let him in. The man had come well equipped for his journey, and uses everything, however valuable, to bribe the doorkeeper. He accepts everything, but as he does so he says, 'I'll only accept this so that you don't think there's anything you've failed to do'. Over many years, the man watches the doorkeeper almost without a break. He forgets about the other doormen, and begins to think this one is the only thing stopping him from gaining access to the law. Over the first few years he curses his unhappy condition out loud, but later, as he becomes old, he just grumbles to himself. He becomes senile, and as he has come to know even the fleas in the doorkeeper's fur collar over the years that he has been studying him he even asks them to help him and change the doorkeeper's mind. Finally his eyes grow dim, and he no longer knows whether it's really getting darker or just his eyes that are deceiving him. But he seems now to see an inextinguishable light begin to shine from the darkness behind the door. He doesn't have long to live now. Just before he dies, he brings together all his experience from all this time into one question which he has still never put to the doorkeeper. He beckons to him, as he's no longer able to raise his stiff body. The doorkeeper has to bend over deeply as the difference in their sizes has changed very much to the disadvantage of the man. 'What is it you want to know now?' asks the doorkeeper, 'You're insatiable.' 'Everyone wants access to the law,' says the man, 'how come, over all these years, no- one but me has asked to be let in?' The doorkeeper can see the man's come to his end, his hearing has faded, and so, so that he can be heard, he shouts to him: 'Nobody else could have got in this way, as this entrance was meant only for you. Now I'll go and close it'." >From another part of The Trial: They're only allowed to deal with that part of the trial which the law allocates them, and they usually know less about the results of their work after it's left them than the defence does, even though the defence will usually stay in contact with the accused until the trial is nearly at its end, so that the court officials can learn many useful things from the defence.

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CyberBunker: Joe Baptista (ref Sealand Seasteading)
by grarpamp 28 Nov '19

28 Nov '19

https://slashdot.org/~baptista https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEYf1LxM0Sw https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSMcZqbN4POMqpKPH5JJ-4w/videos Pirate Bay abandons Cyberbunker ISP Submitted by baptista on Monday May 17, 2010 @10:34AM baptista writes: Today it was reported on torrentfreak that the Pirate Bay team has dropped CB3ROB and the Cyberbunker as their ISP and transit provider http://bit.ly/bzEPqp after I exposed criminal activities at the bunker http://bit.ly/csiZhQ (link includes cyberbunker bunny video and details on the Republic of Cyberbunker royal family). After receiving criticism from fans that TPB not be associated with crooks or royal kooks a business decision was made and the Cyberbunker plug pulled. The Pirate Bay is currently offline but is expected to rise again out of the Cyberbunker asses. German Court rules against Pirate Bay ISP. Submitted by baptista on Saturday May 15, 2010 @08:41PM baptista writes: The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) won a victory in a German Court against the Pirate Bay. The court issued an order against the dutch owner of CB3ROB to stop service to the Pirate Bay, The article in the register assumed wrongly that CB3ROB is a German ISP. It's not. It's dutch. Sven Olaf Kamphuis, aka Count Olaf of Cyberbunker, is the outspoken owner of CB3ROB. http://bit.ly/92JG2E (The Register) I used to work at the Cyberbunker with Sven so here's some history on it. The Cyberbunker hosting facility referred to in the story is a former cold war military installation in the Netherlands. It is now owned by a Herman Johan Xennt (formerly Herman Johan Verwoert-Derksen aka Xennt). Xennt is a convicted felon in the Netherlands. He was arrested years ago on drug traffic charges for manufacturing ecstasy in the bunker and tax evasion. Sven Olaf Kamphuis was also arrested on the same drug charges. Kamphuis is known to the Dutch police for hacking several government computer systems. Shortly after Xennt purchased the bunker he declared the property independent of the Netherlands, named it the Republic of Cyberbunker and installed himself as a constitutional monarchy. Kamphuis aka Count Olaf is a minister in King Xennt's Government. More information on the Republic of Cyberbunker is available at http://bit.ly/c4Xs6m Incidentally the Cyberbunker is full of bunnies. This is a video I made of the Cyberbunker and the bunnies in 2005 http://bit.ly/PffbK That was the one nice thing Xennt had to his character. He cared for stray animals like bunnies. Beyond that he is a reprehensible con artist who has destroyed families and stolen their life savings. I've met a few of these victims. There is a related story I wrote on how a school in German was scammed by the Cyberbunker crew http://bit.ly/87Yjir I support the Pirate Bay but I am concerned it's hosted by criminals these days. I know what they can do. I trained the ring leader. The history and Fraud behind UnifiedRoot (Score 1) 370 by baptista on Sunday November 27, 2005 @11:39AM (#14124076) Attached to: Dotless Top Level Domains? The UnifiedRoot is an attempt to revive the Public-Root i.e. see www.public-root.com and www.inaic.com. I am the founder of the Public-Root and by default the business principles subscribed too by the UnifedRoot. I declare the people behind the UnifiedRoot as fraudulent and associated with criminals. A good history of the UnifiedRoot and it's association with the Public-Root is unfortunately only available in Turkish. urkey was a country which subscribed to the Public-Root system, until my investigation closed the show down. The UnifiedRoot is an attempt by the commercial end to go it alone - good details on this unfortunately are only available in Turkish. There has not been an english language publication which has exposed this. But for those of you who read Turkish the story can be found at: http://www.cihansalim.net/blog/index.htm Search for UNIDT, Public-Root, P-R, and UnifiedRoot for more details. Documents supporting my claims the companies and people behind this have committed fraud can be found at: http://www.cynikal.net/~baptista/P-R/ The Public-Root/UnifiedRoot was a great idea until a few people destryed it due to the usual human frailties - greed being the primary one. Also the UnifiedRoot claims to be open, transparent, representative and bottom up. Those are just marketing words without much substance. Joe Baptista Internet Governance THE ELECTRON RULES! The Law of Protocol - The failure of governments to take control of the Internet is based on a simple flaw in their logic. They have no idea what it is they are trying to take control of. They do not understand that the Internets operation depends on protocols that facilitate communication. These protocols have a basic set of rules built into their design. They give complete control of the communications process to the end users. So the answer to the question "who controls the Internet" is simple enough - YOU DO! Yes - YOU - the web surfer. Surprised? Of course it can also be argued successfully today that Paul Vixie is in charge of the Internet and no one has figured that out yet. Let hope he does not highjack it again! To take back control we must first recognize this basic fact - that control of the Internet is in the hands of 500 million end users. So don't piss them off is the first rule to governments who want to share control with their users.

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Gmail is pretty lousy
by Ryan Carboni 28 Nov '19

28 Nov '19

It mangled a few emails in transit. Definitely going to move to a paid service in the future.

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antidotes to evil: recognize injustice, take a stand, speak up - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 28 Nov '19

28 Nov '19

"What can I do?" asked the grasshopper: Don't Just Give Thanks. Pay Your Blessings Forward https://www.zerohedge.com/health/dont-just-give-thanks-pay-your-blessings-f… https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentar… ... Do your part to push back against the meanness of our culture with conscious compassion and humanity. Moods are contagious, the good and the bad. They can be passed from person to person. So can the actions associated with those moods, the good and the bad. ...

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