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Journos : the state's most blatant propaganda agents
by professor rat 11 Dec '21

11 Dec '21

A few good ones being the exception that make the rule. The burning question of the day is why any widely recognized ' Cypherpunk Revolutionary! " would ever stop calling themselves that and start calling themself after such a widely despised profession as ' Journalist "!? Extreme & borderline suicidal self-loathing being the most logical and obvious reason.

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The Wikileaks political line
by professor rat 11 Dec '21

11 Dec '21

Stefan Claas puts it most succinctly >>> My take on it, as German Sauerkraut. I consider President Putin as the smartest and most skilled Head of State, the world has. I say this as a 100 percent President Trump fan. Poland and the Polish people, defending EU borders are real heroes and I have the utmost respect for them, compared to woke folks in Germany. <<< JULIAN "of course Russia understands this game and Putin understands this game for a long time now" ASSANGE 2013

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Russia blocks Tor
by Steven Schear 11 Dec '21

11 Dec '21

https://thehackernews.com/2021/12/russia-blocks-tor-privacy-service-in.html

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Do Not Shoot
by Gunnar Larson 11 Dec '21

11 Dec '21

Weird. Been hearing ths.

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Germany to Pooter: Drop Dead
by professor rat 11 Dec '21

11 Dec '21

Germany warns Russia will pay a price if it enters Ukraine ABC News 2 days ago Germany vows solidarity with Poland in Belarus border fight The Washington Post 1 hour ago This outstanding and inspiring news just goes to show you can't judge a whole country by a few rotten apples like Stefan Claas and Karl Semich.

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Re: Assange's Case
by professor rat 10 Dec '21

10 Dec '21

"... after 12 years of detention, including seven in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. He has in the past attempted suicide by slashing his wrists. He suffers from hallucinations and depression, takes antidepressant medication and the antipsychotic quetiapine. After he was observed pacing his cell until he collapsed, punching himself in the face and banging his head against the wall he was transferred for several months to the medical wing of the Belmarsh prison. Prison authorities found “half of a razor blade” hidden under his socks. He has repeatedly called the suicide hotline run by the Samaritans because he thought about killing himself “hundreds of times a day.” END extract. Normally I don't buy anything emanating from Camp Assange. But this actually chimes with his very public, self-destructive trajectory going from self-described ' revolutionary cypherpunk ' to ' autistic-spectrum journalist ' in the last decade. Hopes must now be high for the last days of this Lamo. And selling all his crypto for half-price may have contributed. Hasta luego, loser. Cheats never prosper.

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Fascist Xeni Jardin, Micah Lee,John Young
by zeynepaydogan 10 Dec '21

10 Dec '21

Happy Fascists America win…lost humanity

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[wrong] CIA Internal Documents use Broken Hash to Verify File Integrity
by Karl 10 Dec '21

10 Dec '21

Everyone here already knows this I'm sure, but it's still confusing the heck out of me. In the hive docs at https://archive.org/stream/CIAVAULT7PDFFILES/UsersGuide_djvu.txt or at wikileaks or in the hiver source, files are paired with md5 hashes. These are also used elsewhere. Release snapshots are also paired only with md5 hashes. Here's some text from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5#Security . My phone misbehaved very severely while pasting this text in, with multiple applications popping up unexpectedly and rapidly flashing over each other with sounds and UI elements ceasing to function. I got the text in fully with only 1 reboot by finding alternative ways in the phone of working with it. Security The security of the MD5 hash function is severely compromised. A collision attack exists that can find collisions within seconds on a computer with a 2.6 GHz Pentium 4 processor (complexity of 224.1).[19] Further, there is also a chosen-prefix collision attack that can produce a collision for two inputs with specified prefixes within seconds, using off-the-shelf computing hardware (complexity 239).[20] The ability to find collisions has been greatly aided by the use of off-the-shelf GPUs. On an NVIDIA GeForce 8400GS graphics processor, 16–18 million hashes per second can be computed. An NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra can calculate more than 200 million hashes per second.[21] These hash and collision attacks have been demonstrated in the public in various situations, including colliding document files[22][23] and digital certificates.[24] As of 2015, MD5 was demonstrated to be still quite widely used, most notably by security research and antivirus companies.[25] As of 2019, one quarter of widely used content management systems were reported to still use MD5 for password hashing.[6] Overview of security issues In 1996, a flaw was found in the design of MD5. While it was not deemed a fatal weakness at the time, cryptographers began recommending the use of other algorithms, such as SHA-1, which has since been found to be vulnerable as well.[26] In 2004 it was shown that MD5 is not collision-resistant.[27] As such, MD5 is not suitable for applications like SSL certificates or digital signatures that rely on this property for digital security. Also in 2004 researchers discovered more serious flaws in MD5, and described a feasible collision attack -- a method to create a pair of inputs for which MD5 produces identical checksums.[7][28] Further advances were made in breaking MD5 in 2005, 2006, and 2007.[29] In December 2008, a group of researchers used this technique to fake SSL certificate validity.[24][30] As of 2010, the CMU Software Engineering Institute considers MD5 "cryptographically broken and unsuitable for further use",[31] and most U.S. government applications now require the SHA-2 family of hash functions.[32] In 2012, the Flame malware exploited the weaknesses in MD5 to fake a Microsoft digital signature.[33] Collision vulnerabilities Further information: Collision attack In 1996, collisions were found in the compression function of MD5, and Hans Dobbertin wrote in the RSA Laboratories technical newsletter, "The presented attack does not yet threaten practical applications of MD5, but it comes rather close ... in the future MD5 should no longer be implemented ... where a collision-resistant hash function is required."[34] In 2005, researchers were able to create pairs of PostScript documents[35] and X.509 certificates[36] with the same hash. Later that year, MD5's designer Ron Rivest wrote that "md5 and sha1 are both clearly broken (in terms of collision-resistance)".[37] On 30 December 2008, a group of researchers announced at the 25th Chaos Communication Congress how they had used MD5 collisions to create an intermediate certificate authority certificate that appeared to be legitimate when checked by its MD5 hash.[24] The researchers used a PS3 cluster at the EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland[38] to change a normal SSL certificate issued by RapidSSL into a working CA certificate for that issuer, which could then be used to create other certificates that would appear to be legitimate and issued by RapidSSL. VeriSign, the issuers of RapidSSL certificates, said they stopped issuing new certificates using MD5 as their checksum algorithm for RapidSSL once the vulnerability was announced.[39] Although Verisign declined to revoke existing certificates signed using MD5, their response was considered adequate by the authors of the exploit (Alexander Sotirov, Marc Stevens, Jacob Appelbaum, Arjen Lenstra, David Molnar, Dag Arne Osvik, and Benne de Weger).[24] Bruce Schneier wrote of the attack that "we already knew that MD5 is a broken hash function" and that "no one should be using MD5 anymore".[40] The SSL researchers wrote, "Our desired impact is that Certification Authorities will stop using MD5 in issuing new certificates. We also hope that use of MD5 in other applications will be reconsidered as well."[24] In 2012, according to Microsoft, the authors of the Flame malware used an MD5 collision to forge a Windows code-signing certificate.[33] MD5 uses the Merkle–Damgård construction, so if two prefixes with the same hash can be constructed, a common suffix can be added to both to make the collision more likely to be accepted as valid data by the application using it. Furthermore, current collision-finding techniques allow to specify an arbitrary prefix: an attacker can create two colliding files that both begin with the same content. All the attacker needs to generate two colliding files is a template file with a 128-byte block of data, aligned on a 64-byte boundary, that can be changed freely by the collision-finding algorithm. An example MD5 collision, with the two messages differing in 6 bits, is: d131dd02c5e6eec4 693d9a0698aff95c 2fcab58712467eab 4004583eb8fb7f89 55ad340609f4b302 83e488832571415a 085125e8f7cdc99f d91dbdf280373c5b d8823e3156348f5b ae6dacd436c919c6 dd53e2b487da03fd 02396306d248cda0 e99f33420f577ee8 ce54b67080a80d1e c69821bcb6a88393 96f9652b6ff72a70 d131dd02c5e6eec4 693d9a0698aff95c 2fcab50712467eab 4004583eb8fb7f89 55ad340609f4b302 83e4888325f1415a 085125e8f7cdc99f d91dbd7280373c5b d8823e3156348f5b ae6dacd436c919c6 dd53e23487da03fd 02396306d248cda0 e99f33420f577ee8 ce54b67080280d1e c69821bcb6a88393 96f965ab6ff72a70 Both produce the MD5 hash 79054025255fb1a26e4bc422aef54eb4.[41] The difference between the two samples is that the leading bit in each nibble has been flipped. For example, the 20th byte (offset 0x13) in the top sample, 0x87, is 10000111 in binary. The leading bit in the byte (also the leading bit in the first nibble) is flipped to make 00000111, which is 0x07, as shown in the lower sample. Later it was also found to be possible to construct collisions between two files with separately chosen prefixes. This technique was used in the creation of the rogue CA certificate in 2008. A new variant of parallelized collision searching using MPI was proposed by Anton Kuznetsov in 2014, which allowed finding a collision in 11 hours on a computing cluster.[42] Preimage vulnerability In April 2009, an attack against MD5 was published that breaks MD5's preimage resistance. This attack is only theoretical, with a computational complexity of 2123.4 for full preimage.[43][44]

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Self-immolation time for Mange dead-enders
by professor rat 10 Dec '21

10 Dec '21

All three of em. . . WikiLeaks founder Assange one step closer to extradition to United States Reuters 19 minutes ago US authorities win their latest bid to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange CNN 22 minutes ago

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Re: Vault 8 source found?
by Karl 10 Dec '21

10 Dec '21

wrote: > what is this? > described below. do you have more information on what is needed here? each dangling object is likely a small branch of hidden development work. usually they are mundane, from people fixing mistakes. very occasionally they are attempts to alter the history maliciously. haven't reviewed the content. Karl <gmkarl(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > There is a handful of unlabeled / reverted content in this repository that > many are unlikely to notice. This content usually results from people > amending changes and discarding the draft material. > > $ git fsck > Checking object directories: 100% (256/256), done. > Checking objects: 100% (3226/3226), done. > dangling tag fdc342e458646c631685121ab1c40ec8df78a126 > dangling commit e3051377e1442f730cad5b91666b60537b6224c4 > dangling tag 85871db9fbb09675c4a5bad6e0d71565e1128f68 > dangling tag b54979bf6317aa5b894bb0487d0b6ee05762b74c > dangling tag 900af8c8ac0cf6d5d004fd92d7f216d3b537f331 > dangling tag 9c0b593bc443d372e2cf552aa6d129137cefacc5 > dangling commit cfcc590daa495a09ce5971976ad4db641eba3a89 > dangling tag a70d8dbef7508dbf61bb40ee2645502a8ae105f1 > dangling tag 8c4f979f3a1b63ea952294b863e12ba89d839d03 > dangling commit 4e13e648aaa679ef8dd5d7b56065bc3a3e406cf8 > dangling commit dfd4a30c06ce11fbb4ace53940b9419be6e7477a > dangling tag eb5a11e31406d93b8859d694356a37f691b37d19 > dangling tag ea5cf1df2aaadac6d4c36ffdc10bc51b3d66bd25 > dangling commit 9b9fa3999124dd2960ae8ae45e58abc2574961d5 > dangling tag 5ce0c7f70e2cde85df498cac0046e2a7fef0add3 > dangling tag ee2452859b818381f61e14dc62ca7f727073316b > dangling tag 7fa6d24bca8da9d5fd30246616e5db41b780684e > dangling tag 5ea9e6ee1a2fcd5714320646c1b90f0ce34a9b1f > dangling tag c9e9d282d478e35374ad9d83985340751b80fb91 > dangling tag 042b1a8634e8fc74f5ebc123cdb4cbfc98e719b7 > dangling tag 1e2dc80385c500603c776ce7c29836c81079373e > dangling tag e475d462b2cfae9a2300467e728a16b7cd420408 > dangling tag de76eea7d8e1abd60e90b4f6d2170706dd45b7ae > dangling tag 63383711ecbdfe020fbd4fb4e60cb866a2f03e4e > dangling tag c57a77230e31b2579ef13e3a309c60b69e5dcd32 > dangling tag 06bb9688fc8637523f1a5d39019d54e042f97352 > dangling tag 41fc5711837340d15cc90b84d99fb44a6871a4d6 > > > >

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