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Re: [Cryptography] MITM company acquires MITM tools
by grarpamp 03 Nov '17

03 Nov '17

On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 12:18 AM, Peter Gutmann <pgut001(a)cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote: > This came up on another list, the Comodo CA and all of the roots it controls > (which include a pile of other CAs unrelated to Comodo that it's bought up > over the years) was recently acquired by Francisco Partners: > > http://www.eweek.com/security/francisco-partners-acquires-comodo-s-certific… > > who also have a stake in SonicWall, "the leader in Deep Packet Inspection > (DPI) and we've got a lot going on in that space", Procera (same), and > formerly had a stake in Blue Coat, whose products have been used by repressive > regimes against their citizens. > > It's amusing that a perfect mechanism for performing MITM attacks is now > controlled by a company who has other arms that actively perform MITM attacks. It's amusing that root cert bundles are completely filled with governments and corporations and all other manner of third parties which you have no reason to assign any real trust to. CA's are a scam, foisted upon the web industry by marketing, upon users by the nag icon and popups, and upon browsers for inclusion money, and other games... all for one purpose only... the generation of rents over the TLS services back to the CA's themselves, under threat of loss of revenue due to said panic nag reaction if they don't pay up... pure genius. Hook, line, sinker. Now of course the system is being exploited by the above parties, rogues, spies, and criminal hackers alike. TOFU combined with decentralized cert and revocation observatories injected with the occaisional out of band verification, would have been sufficient. We even moreso now have that ability... where perhaps a transaction on a blockchain is a website's cert fingerprint signed by its CEO, and confirmations are perhaps each new matching TOFU from userland.

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My Prague Czech speech on Jim Bell Project is finally available.
by jim bell 03 Nov '17

03 Nov '17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcJdvQvzlNU Jim Bell Project: AP

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COIN: How To
by byte.coin＠hushmail.com 03 Nov '17

03 Nov '17

I was gifted some altcoin by a friend to pay for drinks a while back and would like to exchange it for local fiat, it's ~$50. How do I do so? What is best, irl exchange, equal value purchase, bank transfer, or sudo bank transfer with something like bitpay? How do I deal with taxes? I am in the States. What suggestions and resources do you have to share? t. byte.coin

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The Anarchast: Jim Bell Conversation #2
by You didn't build that. 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

> grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com > Thu Nov 2 10:49:07 PDT 2017 > > Jim Bell > second interview > $5B coin increase in 24h > ;) > Do you know how this shit works, shillanon ? Jim Bell, Stautist, is not responsible for the current rise in Bitcoin value. He was not responsible for the rise in August, either. The price will rise until, and possible after, 16 November fork. Just as it did 1 August fork. PREDICTION: Normies not knowing/comprehending/caring will keep BTC the major chain. EXCEPTION: Mechanical failure causing economic catastrophe, which can, and will, be manufactured in. This is know as the 'Normie Effect'.

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Section 702 data gleaned via tor from US activists is fair game for da fedz
by g2s 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

"So Sessions can use 702 data collected BDS or BLM activists using Tor & declare it "related to national security." No judicial review." Emptywheel: https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/922618904287072257

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Charlie Chaplin: The Final Speech from "The Great Dictator"
by Cecilia Tanaka 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

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Post Halloween Music In This Thread... :)
by grarpamp 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

Not a creepy codex but an index http://iama.stupid.cow.org/Audio/Halloween/

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Donald J. Trump Orders Release of JFK Files
by Commies Did It 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

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News From The CCCP, Pirate Philes, Digital Bits
by grarpamp 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

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The Anarchast: Jim Bell Conversation #2
by grarpamp 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhH1ln6yJ8E Jeff Berwick of The Anarchast and James Bell of the jimbellproject.org, second interview, covers Assassination Politics. And crypto adds another $5B in 24h afterwards ;)

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