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Attack of the Killer Car Wash
by Razer 27 Jul '17

27 Jul '17

"This is not a joke <https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjxe33/car-wash-hack-can-smash-v…>: "A group of security researchers have found vulnerabilities in internet-connected drive-through car washes that would let hackers remotely hijack the systems to physically attack vehicles and their occupants. The vulnerabilities would let an attacker open and close the bay doors on a car wash to trap vehicles inside the chamber, or strike them with the doors, damaging them and possibly injuring occupants." HT: @KimZetter <http://twitter.com/KimZetter>. Let's be careful out there." Source, Lawfare: https://lawfareblog.com/attack-killer-car-wash

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Today in 'Merican History: Early Sunday morning July 23 1967 Detroit police trigger the biggest riot in American history
by Lettuce 27 Jul '17

27 Jul '17

> Razer g2s at riseup.net > Sun Jul 23 09:35:36 PDT 2017 > > Police > Triggered Nigger

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The Silent Reorganization of First Look Media or Just How Powerful is Pierre Omidyar?
by Ryan Carboni 27 Jul '17

27 Jul '17

I have too much time on my hands in case you're wondering (alas, alas, the government's strategy for dealing with me doesn't work against someone with autism) There exists a five year grace period for nonprofits to become viable, until the Public Support Test needs to be fulfilled. 5/6 of First Look's money comes from... Omidyar so far. (how is he so rich and yet failed to figure out a viable strategy for First Look???) Recently First Look has been reorganized a bit. Well, as a media publication on the media says about it: http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/07/first-look-medias-topic-com-is-leaning-on-… Topic.com is the product of First Look Media’s titular entertainment studio, Topic, which officially went live earlier this year. Unlike the nonprofit operations at First Look Media, like The Intercept, Topic and its related operations are charged with building the company’s revenue operations in part by financing and distributing independent projects such as the documentary Nobody Speaks, which follows the Hulk Hogan trial that helped take down Gawker. The documentary premiered on Netflix this month. Topic itself is platform-agnostic: its productions will live on a variety of platforms, including movie theater screens, podcast apps, television, and, of course, Facebook and Twitter. --- Looking at the staff of the for-profit First Look shows that it shares no (or nearly no) staff with the non-profit first look. Based on what I've read, I can guess that First Look and First Look are unrelated organizations. >From what I can tell, news organizations cannot fund their own operations (unless as a foundation, maybe) unless *squints* it is selling advertisements that further its program service like... a bar association magazine to quote: "A bar association publishes a legal journal containing opinions of the county court, articles of professional interest to lawyers, advertisements for products and services used by the legal profession, and legal notices. The legal notices are published to satisfy state laws requiring publication of notices in connection with legal proceedings, such as the administration of estates and actions to quiet title to real property." So it isn't hard to see how First Look and First Look are unrelated in a purely irrational sense. Recently First Look began asking for donations (strangest public charity, hid their address on their website for a long time). Of course, public support requires essentially at least a third of all money come from individuals providing less than 2% each. An interesting question is if Pierre Omidyar offered to triple everyone's donations (+200%), and had a few friends donate a few thousand dollars each that he wouldn't triple. Would it qualify as public support? Probably. All this seems very elaborate and rather silly. Let's look at the ACLU. It uh. Has a related nonprofit foundation to fund itself and it's affiliates. Anyway, mimicry is stupid, but informed mimicry can improve one's own survival function. I've said something about orienting the network of privacy non-profits towards actually accomplishing things. You know SuperPACs have a wink-wink relationship with their candidate. And here is the reorganization of First Look, they hide the truth through some pretty sophisticated means. You want to improve privacy, create devices under the control of the public? Here's the blueprint. Get a bunch of people together who are on the same page. Create for-profit and non-profit corporations who aren't related. The designs and code must be open-source to prevent co-option and unnecessary risk that corporation could dominate and render the others irrelevant. Pretty short blueprint huh? Wonder why no one hasn't come up with this before... oh wait. Credit goes to Omidyar. The people in charge of your freedom are not on your side. Only you can manufacture freedom. P.S. /dev/random losing entropy when it is used only makes sense if the output is linear with the state. (?)

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Poitras op-ed about Assange sending cease-and-desist letters regarding "Risk"
by Lettuce 27 Jul '17

27 Jul '17

> juan podesta juan.g71 at gmail.com > Wed Jun 21 13:15:22 PDT 2017 > > child rape > correct liberal view > What are you saying here, "juan" ?

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In America, Most Republicans Think Colleges Are Bad for the Country - education, intellect, and or liberal arts, a threat
by Lettuce 27 Jul '17

27 Jul '17

> Marina Brown catskillmarina at gmail.com > Tue Jul 18 10:22:28 PDT 2017 > > parents were educators > stepfather > Confirmed Antifa Scum

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An examination of the Tor fork hullabaloo
by Lettuce 27 Jul '17

27 Jul '17

> Razer g2s at riseup.net > Wed Jul 26 07:47:43 PDT 2017 > >> Ryan Carboni ryacko at gmail.com >> Tue Jul 25 20:47:04 PDT 2017 >> >> tor is psyops >> > make statement I agree with > to the kill list you go you ding dong

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A 1986 interview of Miles Copeland explains why spooks can lie to Congress
by Ryan Carboni 27 Jul '17

27 Jul '17

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/secret-agent-man-19860116 Okay, I'll give you an answer: The CIA is set up so that it's impossible for a person as an individual to arrogate to himself the right to lie to a congressional committee or to anyone else. But what he can or cannot say is clearly specified from the day he is sworn in. He can lie to people who are not his bosses, who do not have security clearances. Most congressmen do not have security clearances. When Senator Frank Church asked me something, and he said, "Will you take an oath," I said, "Senator, I'll take the oath, and I wouldn't think of telling you the truth." Personally, I like Colby very much. He's a very fine man, but he's just the wrong kind of guy to be head of the CIA. He's a good guy. For unknown reasons, this has been totally forgotten. Fortunately we rely on Snowden to remember for us, and he says he revealed the truth for the first time ever. The news media backs him up on this. And Applebaum kept his high salary mainly because he was good with the media (or the media was good with him?). But hey, I wrote something about the Pike Committee vacuuming up information. Waiting for Best to come out with some bland matter of fact article about historical government lies to the public, that'd make your brain lame. The interesting thing about Miles Copeland is that he does provide the unvarnished horrible truth of how some things work, as far as I can tell based on what little information is publicly available. If you read Miles Copeland's interview, you can understand how Snowden the movie can be a recruitment video for some, and a video to accept the current regime for most. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics (oddly Oliver Stone's trilogy on Presidents were good and honest) There is no good answers to anything, it's all horrible, no one is doing anything. I point things out, nothing is really done, I point things out in greater specificity months later, some indications of something being done begins to be shown.... It's not an OODA loop if your brain is off. It's just A. Maybe no one asks me anything because they are afraid of the answers, not from what influence I would have (which is a non-problem since we got here by consensus, what could one person even do with diffuse authority?). Unless there is a critical point of information by which I could begin pointing out what is going on?

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Whom you may not criticize? - USA avidly chasing Germany's Zio-laws
by Lettuce 27 Jul '17

27 Jul '17

> Zenaan Harkness zen at freedbms.net > Mon Jul 24 07:59:18 PDT 2017 > > H.R. 1697 > S. 720 > Hate speeeech is protected in the US you retarded nigger faggot :^)

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[Social Engineering] Russian Prankster Convinces DOE Chief Rick Perry He Was Speaking to Ukraine PM
by Razer 26 Jul '17

26 Jul '17

> WASHINGTON — U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry optimistically > discussed expanding American coal exports to Ukraine and other energy > matters during a lengthy phone call this month with a Russian > prankster who Perry thought was Ukraine's prime minister. > > Perry actually was talking with comedians known in Russia for > targeting celebrities and politicians with audacious stunts, Energy > Department spokeswoman Shaylyn Hynes said in a written statement. > > Pranksters Vladimir Krasnov and Alexei Stolyarov are sometimes called > the "Jerky Boys of Russia," after an American duo who put out > recordings of their prank phone calls in the 1990s. They have made > faux calls to British singer Elton John > <http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russias-putin-calls-elton-john-real-time-…>, > who thought he was speaking to Russian President Vladimir Putin, and > others. > > "These individuals are known for pranking high-level officials and > celebrities, particularly those who are supportive of an agenda that > is not in line with their governments. In this case, the energy > security of Ukraine," Hynes said. > > During the 22-minute call on July 19, Perry, whose department oversees > the U.S. nuclear weapons program, discussed a range of topics in a > business-like tone, including sanctions against Russia and helping > Ukraine develop oil and gas. > > Perry said the Trump administration opposes Nord Stream 2, a Russian > project to bring natural gas to Europe across the Baltic and that U.S. > technology could help Ukraine develop gas. > > "Giving Ukraine more options with some of our technology is, I think, > in everyone's best interest with the exception of the Russians, but > that's OK," he said. > > Perry also discussed the Paris climate accord and coal exports on the > call. > > The call, first reported by E&E news, was recorded and posted online. > > It happened about a month after Perry met with Ukrainian President > Petro Poroshenko and his delegation at the Energy Department. > > President Donald Trump said last month that Washington plans to offer > Ukraine more coal exports from the United States because the eastern > European nation's industrial sector has difficulty securing coal from > separatist-held regions. > > It is unclear how the United States would bring more coal to Ukraine > but Perry hinted on the call that the Commerce Department was working > on it. > > "The coal conversation at this particular point in time is with > (Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross) and I full well suspect it will go > forward," he said on the call. > > News of the call came the same day the U.S. House of Representatives > voted overwhelmingly to impose new sanctions on Russia. [Reuters] > http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/russian-prankster-convinced-rick-perry-…

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An examination of the Tor fork hullabaloo
by Ryan Carboni 26 Jul '17

26 Jul '17

Andrea Shepard mentions that the Tor fork stinks of Russia psyops ( https://twitter.com/puellavulnerata/status/769311082318036992 ). It obviously failed. How would the next time succeed? This Tor fork operation likely failed because it did not take into account obvious measures of status, if Joshua Yabut had joined Tor and made contributions and gained social capital before the crisis, he would be more likely to succeed and draw a following by splitting off at the moment of crisis. He did things in the wrong order. Interestingly, he was NASA Red Team, or cyber counter intelligence, much like the creator of Encyclopedia Dramatica, but I digress. But Joshua Yabut has an obvious connection to the US Army, former infantry. There have been many suspicious events involving the US Army's history. McCarthy's investigation of Communist subversion failed when he went after the army (more obscure voices will point to another investigation into another agency). Lee Harvey Oswald was in the navy before defecting to Russia, there were allegations that he provided information that allowed the U-2 to be shot down. More recently, CIA militias in Syria are fighting Pentagon militias in Syria ( http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-cia-pentagon-isis-20160327-st… ). There are also allegations that the Pentagon sabotaged the State Department's peace deal with Russia. This has been characterized many ways, Cowboy vs Yankee War, Moldbug's Red Empire vs Blue Empire. There is certainly some sort of internal antagonism being played out in the world. Regardless, nothing is quite what it seems, and searching for the truth is unrewarding. Better to find it at the bottom of a bottle. P.S. I wonder how many times Zerodium pays for the same exploit from different researchers. Afterall, if they stiff a researcher, they can always alert the maintainers of the code, if they aren't one themselves. P.P.S. How much does it cost to have a botnet untraceably DDOS Tor?

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