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Fwd: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Morris Worm!
by John Newman 28 Nov '19

28 Nov '19

-------- Original Message -------- From: Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> Sent: November 1, 2019 8:36:39 PM UTC To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs(a)tuhs.org> Cc: Computer Old Farts Followers <coff(a)tuhs.org> Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Morris Worm! The infamous Morris Worm was released in 1988; making use of known vulnerabilities in Sendmail/finger/RSH (and weak passwords), it took out a metric shitload of SUN-3s and 4BSD Vaxen (the author claimed that it was accidental, but the idiot hadn't tested it on an isolated network first). A temporary "condom" was discovered by Rich Kulawiec with "mkdir /tmp/sh". Another fix was to move the C compiler elsewhere. -- Dave

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Surveillance Valley
by Punk-Stasi 2.0 28 Nov '19

28 Nov '19

grarpamp wrote > Surveillance Valley - Yasha Levine > infohash:6440FAC0D1D9D8EBE3FF24B084B58551CF5BC3B5 and better than torrent ed2k://|file|Levine,%202018,%20Surveillance%20Valley.epub|2242524|F5A293AE6F437418BDE2215481114462|/ quote : "Students saw Cambridge Project, and the bigger ARPANET that plugged into it, as a weapon. A pamphlet handed out at the MIT protest explained: “The whole computer set-up and the ARPA computer network will enable the government, for the first time, to consult relevant survey data rapidly enough to be used in policy decisions. The net result of this will be to make Washington’s international policeman more effective in suppressing popular movements around the world. The so-called basic research to be supported by Project CAM will deal with questions like why do peasant movements or student groups become revolutionary. The results of this research will similarly be used to suppress progressive movements.” Another booklet featured a mock advertisement that gave a visual representation to these fears. It featured “The Octoputer,” a computer shaped like an octopus that had tentacles reaching into every sector of society. “The Octoputer’s arms are long and strong,” read the mock ad copy. “It sits in the middle of your university, country and reaches helping hands out in all directions. Suddenly your empire works harder. More of your agents use the computer—solving more problems, finding more facts.”71 To activists, ARPA’s Cambridge Project was part of a networked system of surveillance, political control, and military conquest being quietly assembled by diligent researchers and engineers at college campuses around the country." ------ compare that to the idiotic views of people like hammill and other 'optimistic' technocratic 'libertarians'...

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Re: [liberationtech] Social media for social good in Taiwan
by grarpamp 27 Nov '19

27 Nov '19

> https://www.wired.co.uk/article/taiwan-democracy-social-media > > Their answer to the government’s request was to create a new kind of > political process. They wanted to allow citizens to not only vote on > questions posed by the government, but also control what questions were > asked in the first place. And they wanted these questions to be > based on attitudes held in common across Taiwanese society > rather than on its divisions. > They called the process vTaiwan "Votes on vTaiwan are aggregated to show clusters of consensus" "The outcomes of the vTaiwan have been put in front of Parliament, by government, to form the core of 11 pieces of laws and regulation" So if there is "consensus" "majority" "vote" etc to murder you, or for you to do something or some act, to perform in some manner that the "consensus" wishes, to "conform", to live think believe or be "social" in some way, whatever that thing or performance or else may be, and where your choice to not do such does not impart harm upon another person... then you will ultimately face their increasing immoral sanction, their own "process" their "laws" which they have "enacted" over you without your signed consent, up to and including death for resisting such sanction... all for doing no harm to anyone. > rather than on its divisions. And what is a form of "division" but perhaps an independant means and position from which people may then begin to identify things in the "common" that should change, or may then perhaps even secede from, lest the common stamp out division thus artfully leaving any of its problems in place. Liberation and its tech, should "consensus" around achieving actual liberty in common with a non aggression principle, modelling such efforts into itself, instead of providing yet another newspeak and mechanism for such "parliamentary" towers of unequal centralized power as below to continue in perpetuity the exertion of immoral force upon harmless peoples who have done no harm. > "Those digital democracy platforms don’t have any kind > of real authority,” says Taiwanese parliamentarian Karen Yu. > "“Legislators still have more power" > Social media has opened up vast social divisions and brought democracy to its knees. > Taiwan is making democracy work again. Such falls, and hacking away at the same thing, time and permutation again, over thousands of years trying to get it to work, should tell you that it is fundamentally broken, and that you need to throw it out and try something completely different that has never been seriously, let alone casually, or even at all, tried before. > the people are fighting back The vast are fighting for something... maybe something they know inside (say... no force, no harm) but have difficulty articulating, or finding completely different models to form around, maybe because those models are excluded and book banned from schools "voted' curriculum, demonetized downranked and censored off YouTube and Facebook and Google, and generally suppressed by such towers above. It's no wonder they're stuck with the same problems "again".

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OIG fanfic needs a FOIA
by coderman 27 Nov '19

27 Nov '19

https://www.nsa.gov/Portals/70/documents/news-features/declassified-documen… this is one i can't file, but someone should: """ The referral provided to the OIG revealed that on multiple occasions from 05 July 2016 to 01 August 2016, <BLANK> was observed on the NSA/CSS unclassified network accessing blogging sites, TUmblr, and Archive of Our Own to create and post fictional role play stories which included the use of profane and sexually explicit language. The referral estimated that from 05 July 2016 through 01 August 2016 <BLANK> wrote, edited, and/or posted roughly 373 role play stories/blogs using the NSA/CSS unclassified network. """ later, """ APPENDIX B (U) Excerpts of Fictional Stories Written by <REDACTED> <REDACTED> UNCLASSIFIED//FOUO """ best regards,

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Re: John Young - The Conversations with Alex Jones
by John Young 27 Nov '19

27 Nov '19

Cryptome does not have copies of these videos nor list of titles and topics. Search Yandex. At 07:16 AM 11/27/2019, you wrote: >Wikileaks War Logs (2 parts) >Cryptome The Internet is a Police State Surveillance Grid (3 parts) >WikiLeaks Fog of Infowar and its Ties to The Elite (3 parts) > >Yahoo Spying on You for Big Brother (2 parts) >Telecoms making money over spying on you (2 parts) >Microsoft's Evil Partnership with Big Government (3 parts) > >These conversations were censored off YouTube along with >Alex Jones channel. There may be more titles in the series, >and the second set of titles may be from downstream editors. >Can whoever has these videos please upload them somewhere. > >Perhaps Cryptome has copies, or can at least supply >a complete list of titles and topics scheduled and done >with this interviewer? > > > >Interview with John Young of Cryptome.org (1 part) by techcafe > >This one is gone as well.

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Tucker Carlson: "Why shouldn't I root for Russia? Which by the way I am." - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 27 Nov '19

27 Nov '19

You can't cuck the Tuck, and he's been questioning the Douma Syria "Assad gassed his own citizens" lie since a day or three after it happened. Tucker is also, rather sanely, asking why we should not root for Russia. The "Western" narrative (read, pro illegal Federal Reserve bank and expansion of our greatest foreign agent narrative) is steadily collapsing folks, and this is a very good thing. Thank you Tucker Carlson. Fox’s Tucker Carlson questions Douma ‘chemical attack proof' and roots for Russia on air. Off with his head, cry MSM https://www.rt.com/usa/474372-tucker-carlson-syria-russia-ukraine/ ... “Because thousands of people are dying on the front lines! You think it’s a joke—” a flustered Goodstein began, before Carlson cut him off with an indignant “Why do I care what’s going on in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia?” ... Nothing quite like a Deep CIA Guardian "journalist" being cut off in the mornin' :D

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Entry: Nazi/Illuminati Theory, Source: "Everything Is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults, and Cover-Ups"
by Ryan Carboni 27 Nov '19

27 Nov '19

In a very intriguing article entitled “The Nazi Religion: Views on Religious Statism in Germany and America,” J.F.C. Moore argues that Nazism and American conservatism are both deeply rooted in the Illuminati conspiracy. According to Moore, (1) Nazism emerged from the Thule Society, a right-wing occult lodge in 1920s Germany, which was influenced by the Illuminati, and (2) Nazism has too many resemblances of right-wing movements in America for the parallels to be coincidental. Basically Moore’s theory holds that ever since the American and French revolutions, certain rightist groups have seen anarchy as the ultimate result of too much democracy and have tried to prevent this by forming secret societies devoted to State-worship and/or Christian Socialism, combined with a Gnostic mystique of receiving guidance from heavenly or otherworldly beings. This guidance produces the state called “Illumination” and causes the initiate to feel a deep need to fight for Good and against Evil; the problem is that Good and Evil are both defined in terms of the ideology of Authoritarianism, with all rebels against “proper authority” defined as devils incarnate. J. Edgar Hoover and Congressman Otto Passman are named as members of such occult lodges. Although Moore’s style is scrupulously academic and imper- sonal, the data of his study is arranged to indicate that most right- wing groups in America, especially those with anti-Illuminati conspiracy theories, are themselves unknowing dupes of the Illu- minati.

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[seL4] US Army SBIR calls for open HW/SW stack
by Ryan Carboni 26 Nov '19

26 Nov '19

What we need is space age technology. What we need, is SpaceWire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceWire

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[seL4] US Army SBIR calls for open HW/SW stack
by Zenaan Harkness 26 Nov '19

26 Nov '19

Extract: OBJECTIVE: Current commodity computer hardware and software are proprietary. A thorough security review cannot be performed on systems with undisclosed components. Offeror shall research high assurance computer security based on a completely open hardware and software platform following Saltzer and Schroeder’s open design principles from 1975. ... PHASE I: For the Phase I proposal, offeror shall describe the feasibility of creating a high assurance open computer hardware and software architecture based on the “open design principles” from Saltzer and Schroeder in 1975 [3]: (1) Propose open source hardware and open source OS for a high assurance system. (2) describe the project development tools; (3) provide a plan to achieve an Evaluation Assurance Level Six (EAL6) [13] or higher rating for the operating system; (4) describe potential Army Applications (Joint Multi-Role Technology Demonstrator [16]) and commercial applications; and (5) provide a business model to market the proposed system. ... Put your proposals in muffas! Anyone in comm with someone at puri.sm, please forward this to them... ----- Forwarded message from Gernot.Heiser(a)data61.csiro.au ----- From: Gernot.Heiser(a)data61.csiro.au To: devel(a)sel4.systems Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2018 03:22:25 +0000 Subject: [seL4] US Army SBIR calls for open HW/SW stack x-mailer: Apple Mail (2.3445.9.1) X-Spam-Level: List-Id: Discussion of development and use of seL4 <devel.sel4.systems> … and mentions seL4 prominently: https://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/1508741 _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel(a)sel4.systems https://sel4.systems/lists/listinfo/devel ----- End forwarded message -----

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ICANN races towards regulatory capture: the great .ORG heist
by grarpamp 26 Nov '19

26 Nov '19

http://blogs.harvard.edu/sj/2019/11/23/a-tale-of-icann-and-regulatory-captu… Internet could have moved root tld functions out to fully distributed coin / DHT / overlay network ages ago. " Ethos Capital, a new commercial investment firm founded in the past few months in Boston, has 2 staff and only one major investment: a deal to acquire the 501c3 non-profit that currently runs the .org domain (valued at a few $B), for an undisclosed sum. This was initiated immediately after ICANN decided in May, over universal opposition, to remove the price cap on .org registrations with no meaningful protections for existing or future registrants. This seems to violate a range of ethical, ICANN, ISOC, and non-profit guidelines. It is certainly the privatisation of a not-for-profit monopoly into a for-profit one, which will benefit a few by inconveniencing millions of others. I have questions: Do affected parties have recourse? Other than polite letters, is anything being done? Why does Vint in particular think this is a good idea… ? Has anyone currently at ICANN + ISOC made substantive comment? For more backstory, read on… A brief history of .org .... "

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