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Unix: Insane Chown Posse :)
by grarpamp 27 Sep '20

27 Sep '20

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BMBjuzWCMAAKf1p.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTfOnGZUZDk Grepping for Publius https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ed

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One Way to Prevent Police From Surveilling Your Phone
by jim bell 27 Sep '20

27 Sep '20

https://theintercept.com/2020/09/25/surveillance-sim-cloning-protests-prote…

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Books: 1M Random Digits, Busting Numbers Stations Agents, VENONA, Censorship [re: Quside random]
by grarpamp 27 Sep '20

27 Sep '20

> On 9/17/20, jim bell <jdb10987(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> 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. > > The NSA has a digital copy of that book in its dictionary ;) Now cpunks can have their very own digital printout, surely guaranteed to be unadulterated from the original 1955, surely random, print copy in order to... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Million_Random_Digits_with_100,000_Normal_D… https://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1418.html https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/2008/P113.pdf https://www.wsj.com/articles/rand-million-random-digits-numbers-book-error-… ‘A Million Random Digits’ Was a Number-Cruncher’s Bible. Now One Has Exposed Flaws in the Disorder. A 1955 Rand Corp. book had a reputation as the go-to source for figures used by pollsters, analysts, researchers; engineer Gary Briggs has ruined it. For 65 years, Rand Corp.’s reference book “A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates” has enjoyed a reputation as the go-to source for random numbers. Until, on a random whim, Gary Briggs came along and ruined it all. Mr. Briggs, a Rand software engineer, spent his spring rifling through the million digits and discovered that while... [a paywall had been erected in front of his eyes, his story will be freed in time ;] ... cite page numbers from and feed into their own one-time comms pads over GNURadio SDR RF. Just don't get caught... https://www.numbers-stations.com/how-to-catch-a-spy-who-uses-numbers-statio… Today we release second part of the research from the KGB archive documents in Latvian National Archive. This article features direct translation from KGB top secret training manual where one part of it was dedicated on instructions on how to apprehend and capture foreign intelligence operative who is using numbers station or one sided broadcast. The instruction is based on actual historic case of Anatoly Filatov a CIA spy, who was caught by KGB counter intelligence in 1977 and was receiving instructions from the CIA radio center in Frankfurt, West Germany. This manual shows practical methods of counter inteligence and how its possible to disrupt a intelligence operation that is using numbers stations broadcasts for communication. https://www.nsa.gov/news-features/declassified-documents/venona/ https://www.mattblaze.org/blog/neinnines/ Did a broken random number generator in Cuba help expose a Russian espionage network? I picked up the new book Compromised last week and was intrigued to discover that it may have shed some light on a small (and rather esoteric) cryptologic and espionage mystery that I've been puzzling over for about 15 years. Compromised is primarily a memoir of former FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok's investigation into Russian operations in the lead up to the 2016 presidential election, but this post is not a review of the book or concerned with that aspect of it. ... Ironically, this was not the first time that Russian/Soviet intelligence has been burned by sloppy OTP practices. The first was, more famously, the disastrous re-use of OTPs discovered and exploited in the Venona intercepts. ... ps: Matt Blaze is on the Board of Directors of the Tor Project Inc, which hypocritically for a free-speech anti-censorship project, actively censors its lists, blog, etc against this truth, and other risk-to-users-threat-model, funding-embarassing things. ps: Dont let Perry Metzger's censored cryptography(a)metzdowd.com list see this post, it'll spark another 100 post RNG thread flooding out fair refutation of their own anti-cryptocurrency bankers and statists. Have a fun and random day :)

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No Internet, No Problem. Venezuela Gets Bitcoin Satellite Node - Decrypt
by jim bell 26 Sep '20

26 Sep '20

https://decrypt.co/43000/no-internet-no-problem-venezuela-gets-bitcoin-sate…

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Martyanov: "NO US serviceman even fought in defense of his country, town, family" - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 26 Sep '20

26 Sep '20

As the US empire declines and the danger of it's flailing whip tail is handled, let's hope that come November 4th, that the USA is finally permitted to actually talk and negotiate with Russia. There is a qualitative difference between the US and Russian militaries, which is firmly in the nature of the difference between fighting for empire vs. fighting for your family. There is a righteousness with Russians, inextricable in fact, which is cultural but more importantly a spiritual advantage which today sadly many Westerners struggle to even comprehend, though thanks to Soros' home grown "all American" color revolution now in full swing, there are signs, some peripheral flickers of hope that some folks are experiencing a dawning awareness of such things... continue to pray, muffas… Russia Steals Everything. Andrei Martyanov, Sunday, September 20, 2020 https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2020/09/russia-steals-everything.html ... US is desperate to stop advanced weapons' development in Russia, and, in his interview to Russia's ultra-liberal Kommersant (in Russian), Marshall Billingslea wasted 10 minutes of my valuable life time bloviating on the matters of START treaty extension, threatening Russia with new....whatever, and speaking in pseudo-strategic platitudes, which Russia, most likely, will ignore. Why shouldn't she, especially knowing that no discussion on serious matters is possible with the US. Non-agreement-capable, period. BTW, one of the funny features about Billingslea--his original Bachelor's Degree is in...History of Arts. Get it, boys and girls? His formative humanly and academically years he spent studying useless crap, which provides zero background for any productive activity. ... NO US serviceman even fought in defense of his country, town, family. This is the main, metaphysical, reason why US top brass, once a generation which saw serious war departed, could never grasp an essence of the warfare, because they have no grasp what would happen if they lose not just the war, the US has a great record of that, but what they treasure in life. This is the obstacle which cannot be overcome by inventing some new fighting doctrine or by regurgitating same ol' and beaten to death strategic and operational truisms. One has to start thinking differently but that is precisely what is lacking in the decision-making circles in the US today, where reality and fantasy long ago lost a clear demarcation line between the two. Well, it is inevitable in the country where one of the main voices in defining military policy include such people as a graduate of a History of Arts program or a comic and con-artist. I guess, in the world of fantasy and fakes those skills are sufficient.

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1984: Amazon Ring In-Home Cam Drone Pushes Spying
by grarpamp 26 Sep '20

26 Sep '20

On 9/25/20, jim bell <jdb10987(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > The Washington Post: Amazon’s new security drone pushes the boundaries of > surveillance, again. > https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/09/24/amazon-ring-security-d… https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/24/21453709/ring-always-home-cam-indoor-dro… https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/24/heres-everything-amazon-announced-at-its-… Worth noting that this is a closed source remotely controlled always on network connected cloud uploading datamining data partner sharing agency giving... flying camera and microphone... in your fucking home. People have to be BatShit fucking insane and retarded to buy this thing. Ring's latest home security camera is an autonomous drone, called the Always Home Cam, that can fly around inside your home to give you a perspective of any room you want when you're not home. "Once it's done flying, the Always Home Cam returns to its dock to charge its battery," reports The Verge. "It is expected to cost $249.99 when it starts shipping next year." From the report: Jamie Siminoff, Ring's founder and "chief inventor," says the idea behind the Always Home Cam is to provide multiple viewpoints throughout the home without requiring the use of multiple cameras. In an interview ahead of the announcement, he said the company has spent the past two years on focused development of the device, and that it is an "obvious product that is very hard to build." Thanks to advancements in drone technology, the company is able to make a product like this and have it work as desired. The Always Home Cam is fully autonomous, but owners can tell it what path it can take and where it can go. When you first get the device, you build a map of your home for it to follow, which allows you to ask it for specific viewpoints such as the kitchen or bedroom. The drone can be commanded to fly on demand or programmed to fly when a disturbance is detected by a linked Ring Alarm system. The charging dock blocks the camera's view, and the camera only records when it is in flight. Ring says the drone makes an audible noise when flying so it is obvious when footage is being recorded. Ring also rolled out new hardware for the automotive market with three different devices focused on car owners: Ring Car Alarm, Car Cam, and Car Connect. The company also said they've added opt-in end-to-end video encryption, as well as the option to completely disable the "Neighbors" feed, which allows users to view local crime in real time and discuss it with people nearby.

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Secure Phones: Samsung Galaxy S20 TacPhone, a Venezuela SatPhone CIA Op, Another Suicide
by grarpamp 26 Sep '20

26 Sep '20

https://www.samsung.com/us/business/solutions/industries/government/tactica… https://i.imgur.com/PLQbRFWh.jpg https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/14996 https://theintercept.com/2020/08/26/cia-national-intelligence-official-suic…

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FreeAssange.net action network: copy-paste action formats & supporters wanted!
by Hernâni Marques 26 Sep '20

26 Sep '20

Dear Cypherpunk folks From Switzerland, we created an action network to raise awareness about the Assange Case--and we demand Assange's immediate release! From the Press Release from Sep 7th; more to follow: * * * For 10 years now the USA has been chasing journalist and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. In doing so, they are not shy in violating the rule of law and human rights. The determination is clear. Every journalist should be discouraged from reporting facts that may not be convenient for the USA. That is why the trial, which started again today in London, is not only about the extradition of Julian Assange. Our free press, and therefore also our democracy, are in serious dangers, if the USA is not put in its place. The extradition of Assange is a dangerous precedent. Therefore we demand #FreeAssange! At this occasion, the FreeAssange.net action network organized today before the start of the session a flash mob on the “Bundesplatz” (the Federal Square) to draw attention to this process, which is highly dangerous for our democracy. We call on governments to clearly stand up for fundamental freedoms and to call for London and Washington to immediately end the hunt against Julian Assange. Pictures: https://www.freeassange.net/press * * * If you wanna copy-paste formats (see: https://www.freeassange.net/events/) just do so and tell us about them, by sending us pictures and the location: international(a)freeassange.net (Pubkey: https://freeassange.net/international@freeassange_net.asc) If you wanna join as a supporting orga / group, just tell us, too: https://www.freeassange.net/supporters/ For social media, check Twitter & Mastodon: https://twitter.com/FreeAssange_net https://chaos.social/@FreeAssange_net #FreeAssange NOW! Greets --hernani -- https://vecirex.net

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-This- is America - McCloskeys stalked, pleasantly troll-back in real time - "Protect your great 2nd Amenendment" - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 25 Sep '20

25 Sep '20

'Tis an amazing year. Here's to Americans - REAL Americans - courteous, confident, peaceful, "and a little bit trollish" :) Enjoy, Watch: St. Louis 2nd Amendment Couple Faces Down Stalking Protester Who's Screaming "Abolish the Suburbs!" https://notthebee.com/article/st-louis-2nd-amendment-couple-face-down-stalk…

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Cryptocurrency: OpenBazaar Will Shutdown ASAP
by grarpamp 25 Sep '20

25 Sep '20

https://mobile.twitter.com/openbazaar/status/1309494786320146433 https://medium.com/@therealopenbazaar/openbazaar-needs-your-support-75fe7e1… https://mobile.twitter.com/brianchoffman/status/1309495255839002626 https://openbazaar.com/ https://old.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/izkrif/future_of_openbazaar/ https://old.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/izkt6l/looks_like_openbazaar_is_going… https://github.com/cpacia/openbazaar3.0 https://old.reddit.com/user/Chris_Pacia

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