February 2022 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

North Korea fires possible ballistic missile
by zeynepaydogan 27 Feb '22

27 Feb '22

Nuclear-armed North Korea fired an apparent ballistic missile Sunday morning, Japan’s Defense Ministry said, as the world remains fixated on Ukraine and[the Russian invasion of its neighbor.](https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/02/27/world/russia-ukraine-weapons-west/) The South Korean military also confirmed the launch of an unidentified projectile. Sunday’s launch comes after it conducted seven missile tests in January — the most ever in a single month for the isolated nation. On Jan. … [View More]

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SpyVeillance: SpyGigging, Followrs, Premise, Telegram, OSINT, OSWarfare, Tor, AP [re: Ukraine War]
by grarpamp 27 Feb '22

27 Feb '22

> Opensource recon hubs popping up... The Premise type apps have been known for quite some time, same for decades worth of opensource spying, oppos, and ops. Plainly obvious that if someone's paying to take pictures, recon, social engineer info of you... they don't have your best interests in mind. Nor are such things not also tools that won't come back to bite or be used against you. In history, spy on humanity lead to authoritarian mass abuse of human freedom by first mover power. … [View More]Armsrace disaster. Topdown sideup, global scams all spies agents trolls power seeking political agendas imposing ideology force against will, notably none advocating voluntaryism to live let live and associate freely under nonagression. AP News... https://twitter.com/spyblog https://twitter.com/wsj https://twitter.com/byrontau https://twitter.com/dnvolz https://twitter.com/hiddenmarkov https://twitter.com/covert_intel https://aboutintel.eu/privacy-and-automated-osint/ Followrs - Uber style gig economy street surveillance operatives for hire https://www.wsj.com/articles/app-taps-unwitting-users-abroad-to-gather-open… https://twitter.com/premisedata Gigwork app Premise suspends Ukraine operations after being accused of working with Russia in invasion. It says it was actually working for clients in western democracies — which matches @WSJ reporting that it has ties to US military intelligence. Premise Mobile-Phone App Suspends Ukraine Activities After Accusations Fly WASHINGTON—A mobile-phone app that pays users to perform basic observational tasks such as photography and has U.S. defense and intelligence clients suspended its activities in Ukraine on Friday... WSJ wrote about Premise in July. It asks people all over the world to do sentiment surveys, photography, etc. But it also turns user phones into sensors to gather signal data on cell towers and wifi networks, which can be valuable tactical intelligence. https://www.wsj.com/articles/defense-intelligence-agency-expected-to-lead-m… It's part of a broader trend of embracing 'open source' intelligence that is going on in militaries and intelligence agencies around the world, including the United States. One official estimated 80% of intelligence is now sourced to unclassified sources wsj.com/articles/defense-int… Defense Intelligence Agency Expected to Lead Military’s Use of ‘Open Source’ Data The move would place the agency in charge of setting policy for intelligence gleaned from social-media and commercial-data troves. https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1497001286444617746 https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1474067549574688768 Telegram is the most popular messenger in urban Ukraine. After a decade of misleading marketing and press, most ppl there believe it’s an “encrypted app” The reality is the opposite-TG is by default a cloud database w/ a plaintext copy of every msg everyone has ever sent/recvd. It's amazing to me that after all this time, almost all media coverage of Telegram still refers to it as an "encrypted messenger." Telegram has a lot of compelling features, but in terms of privacy and data collection, there is no worse choice. Here's how it actually works: 1/ @0xggus URGENT!🟡 If you want to help the antiwar activists in Russia and human rights defenders around the world, you can run a snowflake proxy❄️ and/or a Tor bridge. Help us circumvent the Tor block in Russia! #Ukraine #RussiaUkraineWar Read more here 👇 blog.torproject.org/tor-cens… Responding to Tor censorship in Russia | Tor Project Since December 1st, some Internet providers in Russia have started to block access to Tor. We need your help NOW to keep Russians connected to Tor! blog.torproject.org Tracking the NASA FIRMS map, which is usually used to trace wildfires, gives us a broad view of significant fighting since the invasion. The coordinates are not precise, but in the right area. We know many of you have been impacted by the events in #Ukraine, and our thoughts are with you. ProtonVPN is open source and free forever. Our anti-censorship features can help maintain the free flow of information, an important weapon in the fight for #freedom & democracy. @ProtonVPN If you are a #journalist and need our services in order to continue informing the public about what is happening in #Ukraine, please contact us at advocacy(a)protonmail.com. @jeffhorwitz Successful FB efforts to combat this kind of stuff have long been routinely dependent on warnings from outside the company, whether from partners or advocacy groups or reporters. Whether in Myanmar or the US, the company’s needed the help. @JaneLytv Facebook cutting off data access, disbanding the CrowdTangle team, and standing in the way of research now has a direct effect on the ability to uncover Russian information operating during this offensive. Researchers don’t give up but we need to acknowledge this consequence. [View Less]

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How to combat PSYOPS on the pentagons DARPAnet
by professor rat 26 Feb '22

26 Feb '22

Get off the internet. Its not hard. Unless your Batshit-Crazy.

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Crypto industrialists practice security-through-obscurity
by professor rat 26 Feb '22

26 Feb '22

Cryptocurrency mavens are practicing a diligent ’ security-through-obscurity ’ policy regarding rising crypto-anarchy. Presumably because this worked so well for nation-states against crypto-currencies #Snork

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Crypto-currencies meet libertarian-socialism
by professor rat 26 Feb '22

26 Feb '22

https://decrypt.co/93428/karl-marx-crypto TL/DR Marx approved money ( labor notes ) All Marxist parties must then approve crypto.

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First World Crypto War
by professor rat 26 Feb '22

26 Feb '22

https://decrypt.co/93898/ukraine-bitcoin-war P2P technology is not agnostic since it has already demonstrated a well-known anarchist bias. If any known fascists want to use the technology well, that's their funeral.

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Durham working for the Russian Republican Party
by professor rat 26 Feb '22

26 Feb '22

His job is being an Errand Runner not only for Trump Republicans but for ALL of the Republican Leadership who’s indebted & OWNED by Vladimir Putin https://twitter.com/dnvolz/status/1497593981890347011 Jim Dumbell is really knocking back the Murdoch Kool-Aid these days. Its like early dementia. Sad.

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PriceRunner Launches $2.4B Anti-Competition Claim Against Google - Litigation Finance Journal
by Gunnar Larson 26 Feb '22

26 Feb '22

Check out my new article: https://litigationfinancejournal.com/pricerunner-launches-2-4b-anti-competi… PriceRunner Launches $2.4B Anti-Competition Claim Against Google After a seven year investigation, the European General Court upheld a $2.7B fine for Google’s breach of antitrust laws, for providing Google Shopping preference over competitors. Now the Swedish price comparison company, PriceRunner, has filed its own $2.4B claim against Google for cultivating anti-competitive behavior that … [View More]

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Server-Sent Events: the alternative to WebSockets you should be using
by zeynepaydogan 26 Feb '22

26 Feb '22

germano.dev Server-Sent Events: the alternative to WebSockets you should be using [Cover image] When developing real-time web applications, WebSockets might be the first thing that come to your mind. However, Server Sent Events (SSE) are a simpler alternative that is often superior. Contentshttps://germano.dev/sse-websockets/#contents - [Prologue](https://germano.dev/sse-websockets/#prologue) - [WebSockets?](https://germano.dev/sse-websockets/#websockets) - [What is wrong with WebSockets](… [View More]

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Special counsel Durham's probe reveals vast government and private sector access to unregulated data streams - MarketWatch
by jim bell 26 Feb '22

26 Feb '22

https://www.wsj.com/articles/durham-probe-reveals-government-access-to-unre…

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