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Censorship: QAnon Site Gets Shutdown after Dox Cancels Free Speech
by grarpamp 17 Sep '20

17 Sep '20

https://qmap.pub/ https://qanon.pub/ Kindof hard to keep people and ideas down, 200k+ members in just one facebook channel. New anonymous and uncensorable comms hubs will form within the overlay networks and push out to clearnet. Popular QAnon Website Shuts Down After Citigroup Employee And Webmaster Doxxed And Stalked Fri, 09/11/2020 - 17:20 The world's most popular QAnon post aggregator has been taken offline, after its webmaster - a Citigroup employee named Jason Gelinas - was [42]doxxed by Logically.com and later stalked by Bloomberg's William Turton - who drove out to his house for an interview. After @LocgicallyAi published a report yesterday naming Citigroup employee Jason Gelinas as the man behind the most popular QAnon website, Qmap, I drove to his home in New Jersey and briefly interviewed him outside. [43]https://t.co/mXAUM0zuWK — William Turton (@WilliamTurton) [44]September 11, 2020 Under the username 'QAppAnon,' Gelinas launched Qmap.pub in May of 2018 under the username 'QAppAnon,' - which boasted over 10 million visitors in July according to SimilarWeb. The site aggregated 'Q drops,' messages posted by an anonymous individual (or individuals) to image board '8kun' promoting the theory that President Trump is part of a military intelligence operation by 'white hat' insiders to take down the deep state - arresting and prosecuting corrupt government officials and pedophiles. [45][IMG] Because '8kun' users often post graphic or objectionable material, Qmap.pub provided followers of the movement a 'clean' platform to follow Q drops. Over the years, Q’s posts would move from the 4chan forum to 8chan, and finally to its later iteration, 8kun. But these forums weren’t where most of Q’s followers would go to access the drops: most would find them neatly compiled on a site called QMap, now the main platform on which Q’s drops are published. For years it was believed that QMap was an endeavour that was independent of both the chan forums and the person or people posting Q’s drops, but recent discoveries concerning an IP address behind QMap raised questions as to whether Jim Watkins, the owner of 8chan and 8kun, an elusive figure in his own right, could also be Q. [46]As some QAnon researchers have pointed out, however, the story of Q’s operations does not end with Jim Watkins. -[47]Logically.com Now, this is all that appears when one visits the site: [48][IMG] When reached at home by Bloomberg's Turton and asked about the Logically report, Gelinas said "I'm not going to comment on any of that," adding "I'm not going to get involved. I want to stay out of it." Wearing an American flag baseball cap, Gelinas said that QAnon is a “patriotic movement to save the country.” Hours after the initial contact from Bloomberg News, the website was no longer accessible. -[49]Bloomberg How did Logically track down Gelinas? According to their report, the website used a now-deleted Facebook post to track him down via email. "Our investigation can reveal that QAPPANON is not Watkins, but instead a New Jersey man in his forties with prominent roles in technical analysis and IT security for the banking sector. QAPPANON’s email address was initially discovered during our investigation into QMap’s translation efforts and international reach. A now-deleted Facebook post allowed us to trace the email to a CNET download cache for the QMap app as well as a new app in development called Armor of God. ... An extraction of QAPPANON’s email address from the URL led to their developer profile and list of created apps on CNET. While the qmap app is well known at this point, Armor of God is relatively new, having been uploaded on the 18th June 2020." And according to Gelinas' LinkedIn profile, he's an information security analyst for Citigroup. In August, Facebook followed [50]Twitter's July decision to punish QAnon followers - [51]banning hundreds of pages, groups and Instagram accounts tied to the movement. So - now that Gelinas has been outed as the man behind the most popular QAnon site on the planet, which has now been deactivated, what else does he have to worry about? 42. https://www.logically.ai/articles/qanon-key-figure-man-from-new-jersey 44. https://twitter.com/WilliamTurton/status/1304498734382936064 46. https://www.dailydot.com/debug/who-is-qanon-jim-watkins-rumors/ 49. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-11/qanon-website-shuts-down… 50. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/twitter-nukes-7000-qanon-accounts-restr… 51. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/facebook-bans-hundreds-qanon-groups-pages… " The Great Awakening. Dark To Light. Where We Go One We Go All (WWG1WGA). These people are sick. Trust the plan. They want you divided. They think you're sheep. Bigger than you can imagine. Expand your thinking. Track resignations. Their need for symbols will be their downfall. Nothing can stop what is coming. Nothing. Now comes the pain. You are the news now. We know what happens in the end. God wins. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. " https://tech.slashdot.org/story/20/08/19/1925200/qanon-groups-hit-by-facebo… https://tech.slashdot.org/story/20/08/07/218219/facebook-removes-qanon-cons…

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Israel-UAE (and ME oil) deals - relevant authority - sane relationships - do business not war - oppose BDS - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 17 Sep '20

17 Sep '20

Israelis have a right to exist. Others do to, such as the Palestinians. (And there may be no utility in failing to acknowledge the fact that in the Israeli-Palestinian relationship, the Israelis holds much power.) Israel looks to be starting to actually take the reigns of her own relationships with her Middle Eastern neighbours - the headline right now is the Israel UAE deal/s, but then there's e.g. the secretive oil pipeline that Israel runs from the Med sea to the South, and a few other tidbits. Let's put it this way: Israel building business relationships with her Arab neighbours, is the right approach to medium term stability in the region. Let's hope Israel -continues- to move away from "moonshots via war and tribulation" ("a war footing") which she has been on for far too long, and into this new regime of "doing business with her neighbours". Endless Opportunities and Billions in Trade, Here's Why the Israel-UAE Deal Stirs Excitement https://sputniknews.com/analysis/202009091080404267-endless-opportunities-a… Other benefits to this "independence via doing business" Israeli initiative, include the possibility of financial self sufficiency for Israel, and in this particular (epic) moment in history, the possibility for something conclusive for the Palestinians now that a thaw between Israel and her Arab neighbours is firmly on the table. Now is the moment, all parties ought give this their best negotiation. Further, with Israel actually (apparently) on the path of business relationships, and therefore some level of financial independence, this provides for the possibility of the USA further withdrawing from the Middle East theater (not completely, since the U.S. has important interests in Iraq which ought be protected, but at least to some degree). This new multi polar world emerging (thank you again V.V. Putin and all Russia), this "nationalistic" world, is a far lesser evil than the one world Beast-chipped prophecy we were so so close to. So here's prayin for Israeli financial independence, and for North America's consequent independence from the intense decades long Israeli political influence over the U.S. As business partnerships grow, we should see the reduction of endless blatant evils of provocations, bombings, false flags, death and assassinations, e.g. upon Syria and may be Lebanon. We can pray for this too. The Russian-German gas pipeline cost basis of the NordStream-2, may well make Israel's "moon shot" MedStream simply untenable financially. So be it, it was a chutzpah moonshot anyway. Though perhaps Israel can build MedStream and somehow write off the capital construction cost (surely Jewish bankers have some experience on how to do that). (Note the USA doing that "Iron Dome" deal is cheesy and chintzy, but props to the Israeli's for working with what they've got, they do what they can, which is more than many do...) Next, the deep state trying to sabotage the Russia-Germany gas pipeline is likely NOT about the USA shipping gas across thousands of ocean miles to Europe (it simply make NO financial sense at all), but INSTEAD perhaps the truth is Israel's MedStream - that would actually make sense (NOT saying I support MedStream, just analyzing facts on the ground). Should be much better that Israel focuses on many far cheaper and far easier low hanging "business deal" fruits all around - her immediate Arab neighbours - stop being arseholes, start doing business. Thankfully for Russia's and Germany's interests (IFF Germany has any ovaries left) we see the Navalny Novichok 2 point 0 hoaxasaurus falling apart. Germany first claimed Novichok in Navalny's body fluids, which of course contradicts the Russian first responders who still have samples of said fluids, and so now Germany claims "a water bottle had Novichok on it". Yeah yeah, pull the other one :D - for details: Navalny False-Flag Authors Invent New Twist To Cover Lies https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/navalny-false-flag-authors-invent-ne… Authored by Finian Cunningham via The Strategic Culture Foundation, https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/09/08/navalny-false-flag-author… SO, for the above reasons (Israel literally finding her financial feet to do business rather than bombing the crap out of her neighbours all the time, and the possibility of Israel-USA decoupling which such financial stability would no doubt help facilitate) it's evidently in our collective interests to --oppose-- the "BDS against Israel" movement - you see, for the Israelis, this is literally an existential issue, that is, directly relevant to their very existence! (Razer, an ACK could be useful here, to help us if we're missing something obvious ...) And before any of us leap into reactivity, consider this: there's an old biblical saying "live by the sword, and you shall die by the sword" - so if you call for the financial destruction of Israel, then perhaps it would be fitting that such financial destruction befall your own nation... "Pragmatic karma" dictates that we must uphold the rights of others, all others, which rights we seek to enjoy for ourselves. (When war falls on your doorstep or nation, that's a different situation, until then, each of your countrymen have the same rights as you to speech, travel, association, work and trade, privacy, etc.)

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Open Technology Fund sues administration for $20M in missing funds
by coderman 17 Sep '20

17 Sep '20

https://www.axios.com/scoop-open-technology-fund-sues-administration-for-20… Scoop: Open Technology Fund sues administration for $20M in missing funds [Sara Fischer](https://www.axios.com/authors/sara), author of [Media Trends](https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-media-trends) The Open Technology Fund (OTF) is suing the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) over roughly $20 million in congressionally appropriated funds it says the government is refusing to provide, Axios has learned. Why it matters: There's [bipartisan uproar from Congress](https://www.axios.com/accusations-of-hobbling-internet-freedom-fu… over the funding that OTF says is being withheld. The USAGM, whose new CEO is seeking to replace OTF leaders with Trump loyalists, is required by law to provide the funding via federal grants, but it has given shifting rationales for why the money has been held up. The big picture: The OTF is a government-supported nonprofit focused on advancing internet freedom. Without funds, it can't support work by activist journalists in places like Hong Kong and Belarus, where authorities are increasingly cracking down on internet freedom. Details: The lawsuit, set to be filed Thursday in federal claims court, alleges the USAGM breached its contracts with the OTF in three ways: - It withheld about $9.4 million in funding that it owes under OTF’s 2020 grant agreement. - It withheld an additional $9.8 million in prior OTF program grants held by Radio Free Asia, OTF’s former parent organization. - A USAGM senior adviser "engaged in transparently pretextual efforts to force OTF into breaching its grant agreement." The lawsuit also says two chief financial officers at the USAGM flagged that it was illegal to withhold the funds, but the USAGM tried to move forward with the plan anyway. - The first CFO, Grant Turner, a longtime career civil servant, was ordered by a USAGM adviser last week to “cease and desist” transferring a portion of the promised OTF funding. Turner also protested the unlawful transfer of those OTF funds to another account. - Turner said, according to the lawsuit, that the USAGM's efforts are a “thin cover” for the “operational destruction” of the OTF. - The following day, Turner’s replacement, acting CFO John Barkhamer, also refused to comply with the order to transfer funds into another account, according to the lawsuit. He resigned in protest and reported USAGM leadership's conduct to the inspector general for the agency. Be smart: The issue of funding the OTF is particularly sensitive, given that the USAGM [announced](https://www.usagm.gov/2020/08/18/ceo-pack-revives-usagms-office-… on Tuesday that it plans to create and fund its own Office of Internet Freedom. Sources fear the agency is withholding the OTF's funds in order to shift them to its new agency, which is illegal if done without congressional approval.

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Linusgate: Debian banned Linus Torvalds
by Debian Community News Team 17 Sep '20

17 Sep '20

You can't make this up Techrights has the debian-private email thread, 253 messages about how to apply the knife to Torvalds' throat so he would only say what Debian wants him to say. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=techrights+linusgate&t=ffab&ia=web -- Debian Developer

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US Homeland Security Can Now Track Privacy Crypto Monero
by jim bell 17 Sep '20

17 Sep '20

https://decrypt.co/40284/us-homeland-security-can-now-track-privacy-crypto-… Jim Bell's comment: I don't know if this is true, but true or not, we need to learn the truth. Jim Bell | | Virus-free. www.avast.com |

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Starlink's speed tests may look impressive, but experts say SpaceX's satellite-internet project is unlikely to win any federal subsidies
by jim bell 17 Sep '20

17 Sep '20

"Starlink's speed tests may look impressive, but experts say SpaceX's satellite-internet project is unlikely to win any federal subsidies "https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-starlink-beta-speedtest-results-band… Jim Bell's comment: Business Insider is a leftist rag. I doubt SpaceX NEEDS any Federal subsidies for Starlink. If it is a working system (and these reports seem to show that it works well) then it will provide competition to the incumbent wire- or fiber Internet services we have been locked into for too long. Jim Bell

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Quside launches its phase-diffusion quantum randomness module
by jim bell 17 Sep '20

17 Sep '20

https://www.swissquantumhub.com/quside-launches-its-phase-diffusion-quantum… Quside, a Barcelona-based quantum technology start-up, today announced the commercial release of their first quantum randomness module: the Quside™ FMC 400 which is targeted to high-performance computing and data security applications. The Quside™ FMC 400 has been designed specifically for high-performance FPGA-based systems. The technology is based on Quside’s proprietary phase-diffusion quantum random number generation technology. It provides 400 Mb/s of raw random numbers with state-of-the-art min-entropy bounds (above 90%). A standard FMC interface allows easy and versatile integration. Since 2017, after spinning off from ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences – Quside has been working toward the commercialization of high-performance quantum random number generators. Quside is also making the Quside™ Randomness Metrology toolkit available to customers. It provides on-device capabilities to derive min-entropy bounds, giving product developers access to a novel tool to validate the proper functioning of the quantum process on-the-fly. The FMC 400 Randomness Module has already been tested by Quside’s partners over the last 18 months in the fields of enterprise security, telecom, banking, and supercomputing with remarkable performance.[end of partial quote]Jim Bell's comment:I remember in 1976, in my first semester at MIT, visiting the Engineering Library inside the Big Dome, searching the book stacks, and finding a book printed with about one million random numbers.

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Text spacing trick
by jim bell 17 Sep '20

17 Sep '20

Answer to What clever ways have been used to catch people out? by Malky McEwan https://www.quora.com/What-clever-ways-have-been-used-to-catch-people-out/a…

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Tor Stinks: Traffic Analysis Methods Get More Public Light via HackerFactor
by grarpamp 17 Sep '20

17 Sep '20

https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/896-Tor-0day-Finding-… https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/890-Tor-0day-Replying… https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/categories/19-Tor Hackerfactor... " I read off the address: "152 dot" and they repeated back "152 dot". "19 dot" "19 dot" and then they told me the rest of the network address. (I was stunned.) Tor is supposed to be anonymous. You're not supposed to know the IP address of a hidden service. But they knew. They had been watching the Tor-based DDoS. They had a list of the hidden service addresses that were being targeted by the attack. They just didn't know that this specific address was mine. As it turns out, this is an open secret among the internet service community: You are not anonymous on Tor. As mentioned earlier, the Tor Project claims to protect against "an adversary who can observe some fraction of network traffic." I've shown that they do not protect against someone with a God's eye view, or even someone who controls 10% of Tor guards along with some of the exit nodes. So how small does "some fraction" need to be for Tor to actually provide protection? What if the adversary only controls one (1) guard and nothing else? Just because the vendor says an exploit is out of scope, doesn't mean it isn't a problem. (The Tor Project explicitly says that Tor provides protection against "traffic analysis" and "prevents websites and other services from learning your location" from an adversary "who can operate onion routers of his own". So using traffic analysis from one hostile guard to identify the location of a hidden service doesn't seem to be out of scope.) These exploits represent a fundamental flaw in the current Tor architecture. People often think that Tor provides network anonymity for users and hidden services. However, Tor really only provides superficial anonymity. Tor does not protect against end-to-end correlation, and owning one guard is enough to provide that correlation for popular hidden services. " Tor Project ignores, kicks out, and censors people for informing its users and world of embarrassing facts... like this falseness still on the frontpage... " DEFEND AGAINST SURVEILLANCE Tor Browser prevents someone watching your connection from knowing what websites you visit. All anyone monitoring your browsing habits can see is that you're using Tor. " While Tor Project was partying... https://blog.torproject.org/welcome-new-tor-board-members It did not report that all its mailing lists, blogs, etc are arbitrarily censored... https://blog.torproject.org/anti-censorship-august-2020 https://blog.torproject.org/anti-censorship-challenges-priorities-progress Or tell its funders what tor can and cannot do... https://blog.torproject.org/tor-project-membership-program Many softwares and projects do some things quite well, other things not so well. Be informed on range of all those things.

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BLM rioter who firebombed cop cars arrested after Apple gave up his iCloud pics
by jim bell 17 Sep '20

17 Sep '20

https://mazainside.com/blm-rioter-firebombed-cop-cars-arrested-after-apple-… Black Lives Matter rioter accused of firebombing cop vehicles was tracked down after tech giant Apple handed over his iCloud pics. Forbes reported that the FBI reached out to Apple for Kelly Jackson’s iCloud information after learning of his identity. Jackson, 20, allegedly set fire to at least two cop cars during a Black Lives Matter protest on May 30 after the death of George Floyd Jackson allegedly set fire to at least two police carsApple helped the FBI in the arrest of a BLM demonstrator Floyd’s death prompted hundreds of protests across the country for several months. Portland, Oregon alone has seen over 100 days of continuous protests. Jackson was arrested last week and charged with unlawful possession of a destructive device and arson. Video images the FBI obtained from Apple’s iCloud account showed a white man’s opening a black bag with a green glass bottle with a gold cap filled with liquid, Forbes reported. otest was shortly after the death of George Floyd According to the FBI, a similar glass bottle was shown being thrown into the open door of a police car, setting it on fire. While Jackson’s face is not visible in the video, the individual in the video was reportedly wearing the same sweatshirt as a person photographed later that day on the same phone, with the face visible. - Manhunt underway for gunman in brazen ambush shooting of two Los Angeles sheriff’s deputies Also on Jackson’s iCloud account were screenshots promoting the protest he attended as well as a list of ingredients for a Molotov cocktail. Before reaching out to Apple, the FBI obtained records from Verizon, revealing his location during the protests along with proof that he was using an iPhone 7, a search warrant reported. According to Apple’s transparency report, in the second half of 2019, the company complied with and returned 3,645 out of 4,095 requests on user accounts from the government for user information.

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