December 2019 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

tor stinks, take #476052
by Punk-Stasi 2.0 03 Dec '19

03 Dec '19

source : surveillance valley "Within a year, the agency increased Tor’s contract to a quarter million dollars and then bumped it up again to almost a million just a few years later. The relationship also led to major contracts with other federal agencies, boosting Tor’s meager operating budget to several million dollars a year. Dingledine should have been celebrating, but something nagged at his conscience. Immediately after signing the contract, he emailed Ken Berman, his contact at the BBG, to tell him he was worried about the optics of the deal. Dingledine wanted to do everything he could to maintain Tor’s independent image, but as head of a tax-exempt nonprofit that received funding from the federal government, he was required by law to publicly disclose his funding sources and publish financial audits. He knew that whether he liked it or not, Tor’s relationship with the federal government would come out sooner or later. “We also need to think about a strategy for how to spin this move in terms of Tor’s overall direction. I would guess that we don’t want to loudly declare war on China, since this only harms our goals?” he wrote. “But we also don’t want to hide the existence of funding from [the BBG], since ‘they’re getting paid off by the feds and they didn’t tell anyone’ sounds like a bad Slashdot title for a security project. Is it sufficient just to always talk about Iran, or is that not subtle enough?” In college Dingledine had dreamed of using technology to create a better world. Now he was suddenly talking about whether or not they should declare war on China and Iran and worrying about being labeled a federal agent? What was going on? Berman emailed back, reassuring Dingledine that he and his agency were ready to do anything it took to protect Tor’s independent image. “Roger—we will do any spin you want to do to help preserve the independence of TOR,” he wrote. “We can’t (nor should we) hide it for the reasons you have outlined below, but we also don’t want to shout if from the rafters, either.”

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Libgen Sci-Hub: Got any terabytes?
by grarpamp 03 Dec '19

03 Dec '19

https://old.reddit.com/r/seedboxes/comments/e129yi/charitable_seeding_for_n… https://old.reddit.com/r/libgen/ https://old.reddit.com/r/scihub/ https://the-eye.eu/ https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa7jxb/archivists-are-trying-to-make-sur… https://torrentfreak.com/sci-hub-libgen-blocked-by-austrian-isps-following-…

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California Penal Code 12355
by Ryan Carboni 03 Dec '19

03 Dec '19

I don't know where that other email came from a few days ago, but this is more correct. >12355. (a) Except as provided in Chapter 2.5 (commencing with Section 12301), any person who assembles, maintains, places, or causes to be placed a boobytrap device as described in subdivision (c) is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or five years. Everyone should avail themselves of all means of self defence.

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Mega spin - USGov corp "We'll Help 'Legitimate' Latin America Govts Prevent Protests From "Morphing Into Riots"" - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 03 Dec '19

03 Dec '19

Oh this is rich! Funny stuff. "My precious, precious spin!" Funny if it weren't so insidious. Funny sad. Embarrassing. We'll Help 'Legitimate' Latin America Govts Prevent Protests From "Morphing Into Riots" https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pompeo-well-help-legitimate-latin-am… For Washington it's never too late to dust off the ole Monroe Doctrine, apparently. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday issued a bombshell declaration concerning US Latin America policy, vowing Washington's support to countries facing mass protests and unrest which Pompeo says could be hijacked by Cuba and Venezuela (and thus by extension allies in Moscow and Beijing). Citing recent popular political unrest in Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Colombia, the US top diplomat said "We in the Trump administration will continue to support countries trying to prevent Cuba and Venezuela from hijacking those protests and we'll work with legitimate (governments) to prevent protests from morphing into riots and violence that don't reflect the democratic will of the people." He was addressing an audience at the University of Louisville, in Kentucky. ... The Fallen Anon On and on the circus goes... CIA's next? Nobody knows. "Legitimate" is as Empire says; no sovereignty, law, nor truth is hallowed. The Fed had it all but the last nations, two! "NK and Iran?" you ask, yes it is true. "Surely -two- only free, on the rest trolls would feed?" 'Tis not money they seek, "think deeper and see". 'Ere strong arm, indebt, and pilfer by decade, SWIFT 'nuclear' threat controlled all Ace of Spades; The Fed's threat he did use, thugged those failing to bow, "Thus the Fed's fallen?" "Yes" says Putin, "it is now." Selling you and your children for the fiat parade; Your Soul remains true, but by your will may -it- trade. So stay true and righteous, live life and love more, For we create our shared world, one step for all. -- 7 day challenge muffas :) Do not the wake the snake for 7 days! (Yes, No Nut November surprisingly became instead No Nut Next November :D - but don't be too harsh on yerself.)

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SpyCulture: DisInfoWars Podcast by Tom Secker
by Ryan Carboni 03 Dec '19

03 Dec '19

>A tip came from the FBI, who were tapping Ellsberg’s phone calls, specifically a >phone call between Ellsberg and his psychiatrist Lewis Fielding where Ellsberg >said he was ‘immensely relieved that he had completed his task’. Other reports >said that Ellsberg and his wife indulged in hallucinogenic drugs and orgies, >suggesting they were part of the hippy scene, and that Ellsberg had a girlfriend >from Sweden, a major entry point for Soviet agents to get into Western Europe. >When news came in that the Pentagon Papers had been supplied to the Soviets >before the New York Times began publishing them alarm bells started to ring. >People noted that Ellsberg had attended Cambridge University, where the >members of notorious Soviet spy ring were recruited. One needs to be a well rounded individual to run our nation's economy or to be part of any elite sector. Like orgy experience or something. The trick I think is to not come off like a creepy loser in order to get invited to these drugged out BDSM parties.

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The Fed' shills for world's greatest tax - Carbon Hoax - 'Member the Fed - [MONEY] [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 02 Dec '19

02 Dec '19

The Federal Reserve Bank, neither federal, nor reserve, nor constitutional, is once again shilling for a global tax of some sort, any bloody sort, just bring the damn tax in already (thank you Greta Thunderburger!) Now why, oh why, would the Fed be shilling for a global tax? Perhaps because they're starting to pump such volumes of voluminous fiats that "full faith and credit" is possibly going to come a gutser? Perhaps the ginormous money printing is causing imbalances where too much money is going (or about to go) into the hands of the populace (UBI I hear you correctly say)? Or perhaps it's just plane sheer unbridled greed and control instincts of the central Bankers Gone Wild? Whatever it is, we know firstly it's a firetrucking hoax, but hey, what's new? Fed Warns Climate Change Is A Major Threat To The Economy https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/fed-warns-climate-change-now-major-threat-… https://www.newyorkfed.org/newsevents/speeches/2019/sti191107 ... "The U.S. economy has experienced more than $500 billion in direct losses over the last five years due to climate and weather-related events. In addition, climate change has significant consequences for the U.S. economy and financial sector through slowing productivity growth, asset revaluations and sectoral reallocations of business activity" ... Nonetheless, real impacts are already being felt and we must develop the tools to assess and manage them." Impacts... like a 16-year-old girl with Asperger's syndrome dictating monetary, fiscal and social policy? ... At least Greta Thunberg will be happy for a few years before the social catalysm that results from the Fed's final act of idiocy means that eating the rich - and just about anyone else - will be more than just a figure of speech.

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SpyCulture: DisInfoWars Podcast by Tom Secker
by grarpamp 02 Dec '19

02 Dec '19

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Re: Questions to Snowden
by Ryan Carboni 02 Dec '19

02 Dec '19

A dumb bastard used by other dumber bastards to make a hash of everything and call it an accomplishment. No doubt he is enjoying his life. To each his own. But what he did was terrible from many perspectives and was a net negative. Next time when he starts a debate he should learn some skills.

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Low speed, p2p, wireless as a secure alternative to SMS and Signal-like services.
by Steven Schear 02 Dec '19

02 Dec '19

By choosing a different physical transport means a different and, I maintain, better set of security tradeoffs become available. Unlike approaches which invariably depend on the Internet and heavily monitored commercial gateways, I propose using infrastructure-less or non-permissioned commercial, single-hop, relays. It's not the electromagnetic spectrum isn't also monitored but that the efficacy of that monitoring is, unlike the former environment, much more limited by physics, channel conditions, information theory and the proper application of tradecraft by possible targets. Both as a hobbyist and professional I've delved into the practicality of utilizing and building on commonly available, even consumer grade, Software Defined Signal Processing (SDSP, the use of the term SDR is verboten in my world due to its inherent regulatory implications) hardware and open source software. My investigations (some openly shared at Cypherpunk-oriented tech conferences) have led me to believe that even a moderate uptake of these SDSP technologies would effectively neutralize most or all SIGINT against parties who aren't already the subject of individual targeting. These technologies aren't some magical new creation but rather the integration and adoption of ideas already well studied and reported in academia but whose implementations are often not openly available for tailoring and testing, mostly due to unfounded fears of regulatory actions. To be continued...

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Re: Virgil Griffith - Crypto Advocate and Educator Arrested at LAX from DPRK
by John Young 02 Dec '19

02 Dec '19

Virgil Griffith v USG https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1222646/download

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