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Mega says it can’t decrypt your files. New POC exploit shows otherwise – Ars Technica
by jim bell 22 Jun '22

22 Jun '22

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/06/mega-says-it-cant-de… "In the decade since larger-than-life character Kim Dotcom founded Mega, the cloud storage service has amassed 250 million registered users and stores a whopping 120 billion files that take up more than 1,000 petabytes of storage. A key selling point that has helped fuel the growth is an extraordinary promise that no top-tier Mega competitors make: Not even Mega can decrypt the data it stores. "On the company's homepage, for instance, Mega displays an image that compares its offerings to Dropbox and Google Drive. In addition to noting Mega's lower prices, the comparison emphasizes that Mega offers end-to-end encryption, whereas the other two do not.Over the years, the company has repeatedly reminded the world of this supposed distinction, which is perhaps best summarized in this blog post. In it, the company claims, "As long as you ensure that your password is sufficiently strong and unique, no one will ever be able to access your data on MEGA. Even in the exceptionally improbable event MEGA's entire infrastructure is seized!" (emphasis added). "Third-party reviewers have been all too happy to agree and to cite the Mega claim when recommending the service. A decade of assurances negated "Research published on Tuesday shows there's no truth to the claim that Mega, or an entity with control over Mega's infrastructure, is unable to access data stored on the service. The authors say that the architecture Mega uses to encrypt files is riddled with fundamental cryptography flaws that make it trivial for anyone with control of the platform to perform a full key recovery attack on users once they have logged in a sufficient number of times. With that, the malicious party can decipher stored files or even upload incriminating or otherwise malicious files to an account; these files look indistinguishable from genuinely uploaded data. "We show that MEGA's system does not protect its users against a malicious server and present five distinct attacks, which together allow for a full compromise of the confidentiality of user files," the researchers wrote on a website. "Additionally, the integrity of user data is damaged to the extent that an attacker can insert malicious files of their choice which pass all authenticity checks of the client. We built proof-of-concept versions of all the attacks, showcasing their practicality and exploitability."

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Americans would be much safer if the CIA were abolished
by professor rat 22 Jun '22

22 Jun '22

The CIA’s assessments that Kabul would resist the Taliban for a long time and that Kyiv would fall in 24 hours are sufficient grounds for emptying out its buildings, fumigating them thoroughly, and restaffing with people who are actually interested in foreign countries and therefore know a language or two really well, and have traveled the world. . . " https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/three-blind-kings-edward-l… Reposts etc

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Nazi swastika hate symbols an offence
by professor rat 22 Jun '22

22 Jun '22

Victoria has blazed the trail as the first Australian state to make displaying Nazi swastika hate symbols an offence punishable by law. https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/news/victoria-introduces-landmark… Reposts etc Logically the hammer and sickle should follow, left fascism having as bad a record as right.

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Hunting the feral Argentine skunk
by professor rat 22 Jun '22

22 Jun '22

Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0547248024/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF… Looks like Gramps was right for once - the Nazbol ' Punk ' turd floats around the Argentine pampas. Cypherpunks can prove they are ready for primetime by taking out this trash.

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Re: Syrian War
by zeynep＠keemail.me 21 Jun '22

21 Jun '22

American presidents always like Erdogan. Because he's a puppet. Trump declares himself a 'big fan' of Turkey's strongman leader Erdoğan :https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/13/politics/donald-trump-recep-tayyip-erdogan-turkey-impeachment/index.html Also, Turkey has a great geographic location for them.Turkey is a neighboring country with Russia in the middle of the Middle East and Europe.Turkey is also a country with a dictator who loves money.Erdoğan did not win in the elections. People do not love him. People who love him are (uneducated people)akp(Erdoğan's party) cheat in every election.Turkey will soon be like Argentina, because Erdoğan emptied the treasure. WHAT HAPPENED TO TURKEY’S US$128 BILLION? : https://www.transparency.org/en/blog/turkey-128-billion-what-happened-centr… And more, more......It's just part of the money he stole.Of course America loves Erdoğan

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[crazy][spam] was Re: This 1.5TB microSD is surely witchcraft
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 21 Jun '22

21 Jun '22

On 6/21/22, jim bell <jdb10987(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > https://share.newsbreak.com/1bhubzb6 I visited this link. I ended up spazzing out for a bit around other things, and then commented on the page at https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2643344097912/this-1-5tb-microsd-is-surely-w… . When I commented, they asked me to register an account, which I did under junksuper(a)gmail.com , since they seem to market pretty aggressively. Here is my comment. Linebreaks were lost in the posting, unfortunately. I value my linebreaks. junksuper now hello newsbreak i am a cluster of vulnerable neurons who have visited your website. how do you make money? what can i do to help you make money? or would that not be a good idea? would it be better not to help you make money?it seems silly it has been so long without a microsd storage size upgrade. i understand that moore's law was a business agreement, anyway, with regard to how to plan r&d. guess something changed.there are a lot of solutions, like you can wire a huge harddrive to a microcontroller and proxy it into a microsd card slot by speaking the protocol. takes your own r&d. Reply

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[spam][crazy][spam] spamming a mailing list
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 21 Jun '22

21 Jun '22

ok what is useful to spam here i have a couple behaviors that are a little hard to do, that aren't this other than that i'm not sure what to do, but i seem able to post to this list

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Fwd: Your Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) Request FOIL-2022-090440-017607
by Gunnar Larson 21 Jun '22

21 Jun '22

They keep delaying. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: <Lisa.Derrick(a)dfs.ny.gov> Date: Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 4:29 PM Subject: Your Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) Request FOIL-2022-090440-017607 To: <G(a)xny.io> Good afternoon, Attached please find correspondence from the NYS Department of Financial Services, pertaining to your FOIL request. Thank you. Tracking Number:FOIL-2022-090440-017607

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Re: Syrian War
by zeynep＠keemail.me 21 Jun '22

21 Jun '22

> And more, more......It's just part of the money he stole.Of course America loves Erdoğan > 2001 : (before Erdoğan) 1$ = 1.2 Turkish Lira (The lira is continually losing value, the deficit is growing and economic uncertainty is increasingly a problem for large sections of the population.) Now : 1$ : 17.34 Turkish Lira Tomorrow (probably) : 1$ : 18 Turkish Lira

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Syrian War
by zeynep＠keemail.me 21 Jun '22

21 Jun '22

A boyfriend sent me this episode of this Turkish series, which was shot in 2005.This episode was filmed in 2005 https://youtu.be/VIexrAN7MgQ : "1:13:40" He said (film character) :They will confuse Syria. This will cause them to enter the country, they will start a civil war there.After Syria, they will confuse Iran..... I've been thinking since my friend shared this series scene with me. How is that possible?

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