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In European Election Pirate Parties against Massive Surveillance
by Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) - lists 12 May '19

12 May '19

Hi all, i'm supporting Pirate Party (in Italy) for EU Election, that share a common European pirate party program (the same program in 9 EU states), with a clear and explicit commitment against massive surveillance and in favor of privacy. I would love to see NGOs that are pro-privacy and against surveillance to support that point of the program of EU Pirate Parties publicly, calling for all digital rights activism communities across Europe to support that trough their own communities. The full program is available at: https://wiki.ppeu.net/doku.php?id=programme:ceep2019#free_software See the National Pirate Parties part of European Pirate Party https://european-pirateparty.eu/members/ . It would be valuable for the participants of the list that are in EU countries and that share those ethical values and principles to get in touch with their national Pirate Party to advocate those point of EU political programs. Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) Below snippets of the program against surveillance: Privacy and Mass Surveillance Europeans have a proud history of fighting for their fundamental rights and the freedoms of their fellow citizens. To preserve our rights and freedoms, and to ensure the effectiveness of law enforcement, Pirates demand that data collection and monitoring is limited to people who are suspected of committing or preparing a crime and requires judicial approval and oversight. Adequate protection against crime is an important responsibility of the state. We must ensure this responsibility is fulfilled through an intelligent, rational and evidence-based security policy. Pirates wish to abolish the practice of routine, automated and untargeted data collection, storage and matching. We reject the blanket and indiscriminate collection of communications data (data retention), traveling data (PNR) and biometric data. Pirates oppose the automated profiling of people to divide them into risk categories (“profiling”) at borders (entry/exit system). Public spaces are full of cameras that monitor the movement of people and vehicles, track faces, and combine this information without considering the potential for the erosion of privacy. Evidence demonstrates that the presence of such systems has little effect on the rate of crime and that, at best, crime simply shifts to other spaces. Pirates support and would prioritize the movement of police personnel from monitoring duties, to patrolling the streets. Pirates are against individuals being required to identify themselves if they are not suspected of committing a crime, especially when they are exercising their rights to protest or assemble. Pirates oppose the exchange of personal data with countries that lack effective protection of fundamental rights except in emergencies. Stopping New Surveillance Plans Pirates want to stop the erosion of civil rights, that has taken on dramatic proportions in recent history. To ensure our safety, we do not need new surveillance laws, existing laws are sufficient. In particular, we reject: * The proposal to make fingerprinting of all identity card holders in the EU obligatory. * Attempts to allow providers to retain communications data indiscriminately for “security” purposes in the context of the proposed ePrivacy regulation. * The proposed creation of a centralized EU Identity Register including fingerprints and facial images (“interoperability”). * Unilateral cross-border law enforcement access to data bypassing mutual assistance channels (“e-evidence regulation”). * Screening travelers using lie detectors („iBorderCtrl“ project). Systematic Evaluation of Existing Surveillance Powers and Moratorium Pirates support well-reflected measures to keep us safe but intend to abolish harmful interferences in our fundamental rights. We, therefore, want the European Fundamental Rights Agency to systematically examine all current and future surveillance powers and programmes as to their effectiveness, cost, adverse side effects, alternatives and compatibility with our fundamental rights. Pirates advocate a moratorium on any further interference with our human rights by the security agencies of the EU in the name of internal security until the systematic review of existing powers by the FRA is complete. Security Research Pirates support the funding of research through the EU, however, the frequent involvement of government agencies in surveillance and filtering operations like INDECT and CleanIT demonstrates a clear intention to use such technologies in a way which makes them publicly funded tools for dismantling civil rights. We, therefore, argue that the EU must not fund technologies that limit fundamental rights. Protecting Our Privacy Online The proposed e-Privacy regulation will update privacy rules for e-communications. We reject attempts to allow providers to retain communications data indiscriminately for “security” purposes. The collection or use of personal data for data trade, advertising or market or opinion research must be allowed only with the active and informed consent of the person concerned. Additional Internet privacy legislation is needed to ensure that information society services can be used and paid for anonymously, and do not indiscriminately record our online activities. We intend to replace the surveillance economy with an anonymous micropayment economy. The right to use encryption shall be guaranteed. Support for end-to-end encryption shall be made compulsory for manufacturers of telecommunications equipment. Transport encryption shall be made compulsory for telecommunications operators, especially operators of international cables. National and inter-EU communications shall no longer be routed via third countries to prevent foreign intelligence agencies from intercepting them. Export Controls of Surveillance and Censorship Technology We support export controls of surveillance and censorship technology. We will not support the proliferation, by means of export credit or other state guarantees, of European-made surveillance and censorship technology to authoritarian countries that do not respect the rule of law. We will fight to uphold the privacy of journalists, activists and citizens around the world, by supporting legislation that prevents oppressive regimes from acquiring such technology and services from any entity in the European Union.

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Cryptocurrency: US Rep Brad Sherman Pumps Crypto... Again
by grarpamp 10 May '19

10 May '19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFN7XKd-20s Rather hilarious. With public contact for commentary... 202-225-5911 or 818-501-9200 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggWYNZpnc6Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcegYuX1rlk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT8Dv1SyTkE More banker lols. https://www.newsweek.com/mexico-decriminalize-drugs-negotiate-us-1421395

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FBI investigating 850 cases of potential domestic terrorism
by John Young 10 May '19

10 May '19

"FBI investigating 850 cases of potential domestic terrorism: The FBI has nearly 850 domestic terrorism investigations underway, and the number of cases targeting white supremacists, white nationalists, and other racially-motivated extremists has jumped in the past six months, federal law enforcement officials told the House Committee on Homeland Security on Wednesday. The head of the FBI's counterterrorism division, Assistant Director Michael McGarrity, said that about 40 percent of those investigations target subjects who adhere to racist ideologies, and "a significant majority" of them are white nationalists or white supremacists. The vast majority of the other cases involve subjects who promote anti-government or anti-authority sentiments, McGarrity testified." https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/feds-now-investigating-850-domestic-terrori…

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PS0 ftw :)
by Zenaan Harkness 10 May '19

10 May '19

The following should be on one line in .bashrc (or any other shell supporting PS0 I guess): export PS0='\[\033[48;5;46m\]\[\033[38;5;0m\]\D{%Y%m%d}@\t\[\033[00m\]\n' To think of finding this after 27 years of 'nux, on a whim of "that would be a good idea, Bash should have a patch made for auto timestamping of each command just before it runs from the command line, rather than just in the prompt string PS1; oh wait, let's double check man bash und (note the Germanic variant of "and" for the TDS win) see if there's anything related to PS1; oh hallelujah, there's something called PS0, of course, that is the logical way to do this, thank you God's of MUH Bash bros (Muh United Hackers of Bash)" Most likely it was every man and his dog who's ever used a command prompt before, excepting my extraordinarily humble self, who already knew of PS0. Enjoy ;0

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Re: 4 Billion years of climate change
by Zenaan Harkness 10 May '19

10 May '19

We're having some just lovely climate change this morning - a really warm mid-autumn day, the birds taking dives in the bird bath and dappled sun rays rocking too and fro through the oak tree. Damn I love climate change :D Zen On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 08:05:51AM +1000, Gil May wrote: > 4 Billion years of climate change > > Dear Politicians, as you appear to have missed many important lessons at > school, we would like to let you know the earth has had an eve- changing > climate for billions of years, it is not anything new and within the normal > range. Once north Africa and central Australia had forests, there were ice > ages and drought were in 1878 over 50 million people died of starvation — > more than double Australia’s population died. In 1991 Mnt Pinatubo erupted > for a year spewing out more greenhouse gasses than man has ever made. In > 1915 the Murray River dried up, never happened since: Explorer, Charles > Sturt’s Records show in 1828 it was a blistering 53.9 °C. The death toll > reached 437 people in the eastern states, in Bourke the heat approached > 120°F (48.9°C) on three days. The Mayan civilization collapsed due to many > decades of drought proven by tree growth rings. > > They were REAL climate changes long before modern induztrialisation and the > puppy-brains were born. How did you handle that bit of historical reality, > chuck-a-wobbly, weep and wail, go into denial: Or smile as you already knew > world history—that many have never learnt and don’t want to.

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No one is obligated to participate in the investigation against me
by Ryan Carboni 09 May '19

09 May '19

It is to my understanding that if I were to ask for technical advice on a web forum under a different username, people would be made aware of my identity by government investigators monitoring me. Which is not ordinarily a problem, but considering I was framed about a decade ago, it is. I ask everyone, politely, to not participate. If the investigation was valid, the government would be doing things that pass the smell test. It doesn’t make sense for the government to be doing this for so long, and the government is behaving as if they are hiding something. There is the question of what the government does when I go interact with an online community of people who wouldn’t know about me. The solution to that is simple, for Steam, the US government simply pretends to be the person on the other side of the screen. The government right now is trying parallel construct an entire investigation and is failing because I keep associating one investigation with the other. This is ludicrous, I don’t know how anyone can say the government is engaging in legal conduct with a straight face when the government’s behavior is absolutely unnecessary and seems to hinder whatever their self-stated objectives are.

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Cryptocurrency: Heists and Safu
by grarpamp 08 May '19

08 May '19

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cyber+heists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DelF6zEHXpE When further decentralized and distributed out across billions of phones, friends and family M-out-of-N multisig custody, with true DEX for nonlocal capacity and needs... cryptocurrency has such no large central stash targets. See also https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cryptocurrency+vs+banks

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CIA website as hidden service
by coderman 07 May '19

07 May '19

http://ciadotgov4sjwlzihbbgxnqg3xiyrg7so2r2o3lt5wz5ypk4sxyjstad.onion/index… CIA’s Latest Layer: An Onion Site 7 May 2019 --------------------------------------------------------------- [CIA Over Tor] Secure, anonymous, untraceable—traits ever-present in CIA’s intelligence collection mission—and the same is true for our onion site, which is now available at: ciadotgov4sjwlzihbbgxnqg3xiyrg7so2r2o3lt5wz5ypk4sxyjstad.onion over the Tor network. “Our global mission demands that individuals can access us securely from anywhere. Creating an onion site is just one of many ways we’re going where people are,” said Brittany Bramell, CIA’s Director of Public Affairs. Everything on CIA.gov, from The World Factbook to reporting information to applying for a job, is available on our onion site. For instructions on downloading the Tor browser, check out this [link](http://ciadotgov4sjwlzihbbgxnqg3xiyrg7so2r2o3lt5wz5ypk4sxyjstad.onion/news-information/featured-story-archive/2019-featured-story-archive/latest-layer-an-onion-site.html). Our onion site is one of several ways individuals can contact CIA. For more details, refer to the [Report Information](http://ciadotgov4sjwlzihbbgxnqg3xiyrg7so2r2o3lt5wz5ypk4sxyjstad.onion/contact-cia/report-information.html) tab on either our website or onion site.

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Industrial society and its government
by Punk 06 May '19

06 May '19

"...There will therefore be no longer any privileged class, but there will be a government, and, note this well, an extremely complex government, which will not content itself with governing and administering the masses politically, as all governments do to-day, but which will also administer them economically, concentrating in its own hands the production and the just division of wealth, the cultivation of land, the establishment and development of factories, the organisation and direction of commerce, finally the application of capital to production by the only banker, the State. All that will demand an immense knowledge and many "heads overflowing with brains" in this government. It will be the reign of scientific intelligence, the most aristocratic, despotic, arrogant and contemptuous of all regimes. There will be a new class, a new hierarchy of real and pretended scientists and scholars, and the world will be divided into a minority ruling in the name of knowledge and an immense ignorant majority. And then, woe betide the mass of ignorant ones!" https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bakunin/works/mf-state/index.htm ---- OK, so that's good old Bakunin commenting on the piece of jew fascist shit known as karl marx. But the comment apply just as well to the American Free Democratic Oligarchy that rules the planet today.

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Express.co.uk: Yellowstone volcano: How USGS tracks ground DEFORMATION with millimetre precision
by jim bell 06 May '19

06 May '19

Express.co.uk: Yellowstone volcano: How USGS tracks ground DEFORMATION with millimetre precision. https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1123368/Yellowstone-volcano-USGS-gro…

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