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Promotion of Democracy is the Privatization of Power
by Ryan Carboni 16 Jul '17

16 Jul '17

In the same minute of MSNBC, you could hear about how special interests control too much of our politics, but that foreign countries need more democracy. We were attempting to spread democracy to Afghanistan, but Harmid Karzai is incredibly corrupt. The war on terror has all but ended opposition politics in Malaysia ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfpYZ4IGenY watch this and try to figure out how this guy is in the cabinet) . Actually the War on Terror aims to fund the security services of foreign governments to build non-direct diplomatic links to other power structures of a country. Everyone criticizes Hoover, but count the number of former Directors of the FBI and CIA who went on to become President. Alternatively, how many Hoovers are the CIA funding overseas? Why does the New York Times presents a less accurate view of the world than say... Gary Brecher or Zero Hedge? It's very difficult to change parts of the world without replacing their education systems, but we usually go guns ablazing instead. Police stand by while armed bandits in Mexico steal gasoline. What is going on in the world? What is being tolerated? What is being ineffectively fought against? Who is in control? Officially, there is the democratic peace theory, but we are against Iran, a democracy (perhaps its opposition is more regulated than ours, but still a democracy). What is the true reason behind the democratic peace theory? Perhaps when a country is sufficiently owned by international interests, it wouldn't benefit the international interests to have the two countries fight each other. When did democracy first become widespread, and what international interests gained power in that time?

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Ooopsie! Tutanota email service 'restores' emails users deleted weeks before.
by Razer 16 Jul '17

16 Jul '17

> Dear Tutanota user, > > > on Thursday, 29th of June, some previously deleted emails have > accidentally been restored during maintenance of our servers. This > only applies to emails deleted between the 12th and 25th of June. > Please check whether there are emails in your mailbox that you'd > rather have deleted. Affected users were partly not able to access > their mailbox folders. > > > Background info > > > Emails in our database are replicated several times to make sure that > no data is being lost. We have activated one of our database servers > again which had been down for maintenance for a while. Unfortunately > that server has executed some write requests that could not be > completed before, thus some later deleted emails were restored. We > have analyzed this bad behavior and made sure it will not happen > again. We could only identify a part of those emails and remove them > from the database. For transparency reasons it is our obligation to > inform every Tutanota user about this. By informing you directly via > email, you have a chance to spot remaining restored emails and delete > them. We apologize for this issue. > > > Best wishes, > your Tutanota Team

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Encrypted Chat Toy Maker Caves 4 $s
by Razer 16 Jul '17

16 Jul '17

Indonesia and that region of the world is a YUGE messenger 'market'. http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/artic… Rr > JAKARTA, Indonesia > > The encrypted messaging app Telegram is forming a team of moderators > who are familiar with Indonesian culture and language so it can remove > "terrorist-related content" faster, its co-founder said Sunday, after > Indonesia limited access to the app and threatened a total ban. > > Pavel Durov, who with his brother Nikolai founded the app in 2013, > said in a message to his 40,000 followers on Telegram that he'd been > unaware of a failure to quickly respond to an Indonesian government > request to block a number of offending channels — chat groups on the > app — but was now rectifying the situation. > > The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology said Friday > that it was preparing for the total closure of Telegram in Indonesia, > where it has several million users, if it didn't develop procedures to > block unlawful content. As a partial measure, it asked internet > companies in the world's most populous Muslim nation to block access > to 11 addresses offering the web version of Telegram. > > Samuel Pangerapan, the director general of informatics applications at > the ministry, said the app is used to recruit Indonesians into > militant groups and to spread hate and methods for carrying out > attacks including bomb making. > > Suspected militants arrested by Indonesian police recently have told > authorities that they communicated with each other via Telegram and > received orders and directions to carry out attacks through the app, > including from Bahrun Naim, an Indonesian with the Islamic State group > in Syria accused of orchestrating several attacks in the past 18 months. > > Durov said Telegram has now blocked the channels that were reported to > it by the Indonesian government. > > "We are forming a dedicated team of moderators with knowledge of > Indonesian culture and language to be able to process reports of > terrorist-related content more quickly and accurately," he said. > > Communications and Information Technology Minister Rudiantara, who > goes by one name, said he had received an apology from Durov, who was > apparently not aware of several requests from the ministry since 2016. > > "I appreciate the response from Pavel Durov and the ministry will > follow it up as soon as possible in terms of technical details so that > standard operating procedures can be implemented immediately," > Rudiantara said. > > Indonesia's measures against Telegram come as Southeast Asian nations > step up efforts to combat Islamic radicalism following the capture of > the southern Philippine city of Marawi by Islamic State group-linked > militants. > > Nearly two months after the initial assault, Philippine forces are > still battling to regain complete control of the city. Experts fear > the southern Philippines could become a new base for the IS, including > Indonesian and Malaysian militants returning from the Middle East, as > an international coalition retakes territory held by the IS in Syria > and Iraq. > > But the government move sparked a public outcry in Indonesia, with > Twitter and Facebook exploding with negative comments and some people > reporting they were unable to access the web.telegram.org domain. > Indonesians are among the world's biggest users of social media. > > The free messaging service can be used as a smartphone app and on > computers through a web interface or desktop messenger. Its strong > encryption has contributed to its popularity with those concerned > about privacy and secure communications in the digital era but also > attracted militant groups and other criminal elements. > > Durov said Telegram blocks thousands of IS-related channels a month > and is "always open to ideas on how to get better at this." > > --30--

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Re: Estimate for the total number of exploitable bugs in large linux distro?
by Ryan Carboni 16 Jul '17

16 Jul '17

https://arstechnica.com/security/2016/09/linux-kernel-security-needs-fixing/ Based on the number of concurrent discovered bugs, at least a few. Statistical techniques won't work when it is only discovered bugs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias But the fact that severe bugs are in a distro for over a year makes it irrelevant how many there is. A systematic effort to search for bugs and to anonymously create honeypots is needed. Arguably the best technique would be to reuse TOR directory server private keys as bitcoin addresses for a crowdsourced bug bounty effort.

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The innumerable connections that various nonprofit organizations have to the national security state
by Ryan Carboni 16 Jul '17

16 Jul '17

I should give some credit to leftist conspiracy twitter, but that might be problematic. Still, the proof is not hard to find, which just makes it all rather depressing. Obviously connection number one is they still are nonprofits. People live at the mercy of the state to a greater degree than they realize. Connection number two is that Morris Ernst was J. Edgar Hoover's close friend, or so he thought. Rather Hoover tasked an FBI agent to reply to correspondence to him, so effectively Hoover had an informant within the ACLU. There has been very little said on this topic. Connection number three is that J.P. Barlow, founder of the EFF was contacted by Robert Steele in 1992 (currently believes there is a child sex slave colony on Mars) to speak at an intelligence conference. https://archive.is/87bXM http://www.forbes.com/asap/2002/1007/042.html (but it was pretty prescient "Nonetheless, I sallied forth, confidently telling the gray throng that power lay not in concealing information but in distributing it, that the Internet would endow small groups of zealots with the capacity to wage credible assaults on nation-states, that young hackers could easily run circles around old spies.") Connection number four is that Morton Halperin negotiated with the CIA to support the passage of Intelligence Identities Protection Act. Morton Halperin was suspected of leaking that the US was bombing Cambodia, although clearly we should've used drones then. Morton Halperin has served a few roles with Open Society Institute. https://pando.com/2015/02/07/how-the-aclu-ron-paul-and-a-former-eff-directo… Page 85 of Secrets: The CIA's War at Home ( https://books.google.com/books?id=67XBXqSP9KgC&lpg=PA85&ots=z5R0N8QnH4&pg=P… ) These are not exceptional or new allegations. https://www.wired.com/1996/02/digitel/ The Electronic Frontier Foundation went to Washington to "reverse-engineer > government, hack politics down to its component parts, and fix it." Then it > helped pass the FBI's loathsome "let's-just-wiretap-everyone" Digital > Telephony Bill. And discovered it was Washington that had > reverse-engineered the EFF, driving it into dissension, debt, disgrace - > and right out of town. . > P.S. interesting in context to the times we live in https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/03/flying_without.html Flying Without ID According to the TSA, in the 9th Circuit Case of John Gilmore, you are allowed to fly without showing ID -- you'll just have to submit yourself to secondary screening. P.P.S https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13182120 this might be related to cloudbleed i have seen a lot of nonsensical explanations for various bugs and issues, including that for those that I am a user of, but I do not think compelled speech exists, so I don't know. P.P.P.S. I am open to the possibility that there is a child sex slave colony on Mars, but unlike that guy who stormed Comet Ping Pong, I can't quite go over there to investigate. (fortunately the failed actor, Edgar Maddison Welch, was not a black man, so he was not shot on sight, as would be typically expected) It does seem clear though that the world is set up to benefit people who realize everything is rigged, and they could rise to a middle-management or equivalent lofty position perpetuating everything. Challenging power is difficult to impossible, one of major difficulties being that most people are just plain dumb. I would prefer it if they proved otherwise and I would prefer not being in the position I am in now. Anyone who thinks my position is advantageous is free to trade places.

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Re: Estimate for the total number of exploitable bugs in large linux distro?
by Ryan Carboni 15 Jul '17

15 Jul '17

https://arstechnica.com/security/2016/09/linux-kernel-security-needs-fixing/ The Linux kernel today faces an unprecedented safety crisis. Much like when Ralph Nader famously told the American public that their cars were "unsafe at any speed" back in 1965, numerous security developers told the 2016 Linux Security Summit in Toronto that the operating system needs a total rethink to keep it fit for purpose. No longer the niche concern of years past, Linux today underpins the server farms that run the cloud, more than a billion Android phones, and not to mention the coming tsunami of grossly insecure devices that will be hitched to the Internet of Things. Today's world runs on Linux, and the security of its kernel is a single point of failure that will affect the safety and well-being of almost every human being on the planet in one way or another. "Cars were designed to run but not to fail," Kees Cook, head of the Linux Kernel Self Protection Project, and a Google employee working on the future of IoT security, said at the summit. "Very comfortable while you're going down the road, but as soon as you crashed, everybody died." --- I do not know what is more spectacular, that everyone is in capable of discussing how to make the current network of privacy non-profits more oriented towards protecting privacy when I first suggested ti months ago, or that no one remembered this article from nearly a year ago.

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Estimate for the total number of exploitable bugs in large linux distro?
by Georgi Guninski 15 Jul '17

15 Jul '17

What is an estimate for the total number of exploitable bugs in large linux distro? Also, does the total number decrease, increase or change in other way over time?

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You'd hope it was The Onion. #NotTheOnion: White House Doxes Citizen Complainers
by Razer 15 Jul '17

15 Jul '17

White House publishes emails received from voters commenting on its Election Integrity Commission. Washington Post ledes: "White House releases sensitive personal information of voters worried about their sensitive personal information" > > > "...Unfortunately for these voters and others who wrote in, the Trump > administration did not redact any of their personal information from > the emails before releasing them to the public. In some cases, the > emails contain not only names, but email addresses, home addresses, > phone numbers and places of employment of people worried about such > information being made available to the public. > > The Washington Post is not publishing any of this information because > in most cases it does not appear that the individuals were aware their > comments would be shared by the White House. " > > https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/07/14/white-house-releases…

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Welcome To Anarchast!
by grarpamp 15 Jul '17

15 Jul '17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9SbKkm1PbA https://www.youtube.com/user/TheAnarchast/videos https://anarchast.com/ https://twitter.com/anarchast https://www.facebook.com/Anarchast/ Anarchast is your home for Anarchy on the internet. To us, Anarchy means freedom. The desire to live without a violent, coercive State. Anarchy is peace, love and prosperity. Free markets. And, power to the people. Anarchast is the world's largest anarchist/anarcho-capitalist video podcast in the world with 3 million views on Youtube and millions of audio downloads as well as being broadcast on satellite radio across the world and on more than 40 terrestrial radio stations in the US. Anarchast founded Anarchapulco, the world's first and largest anarcho-capitalist conference held yearly in Acapulco, Mexico. Related... https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEZJ_6qgnT0gQ754yU5_1zw https://anarchapulco.com/ https://twitter.com/Anarchapulco https://www.facebook.com/anarchapulco https://www.youtube.com/user/TheDollarVigilante https://dollarvigilante.com/ https://www.twitter.com/dollarvigilante https://www.facebook.com/DollarVigilante https://www.youtube.com/user/jberwick9 https://www.facebook.com/jberwick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Berwick https://paradiseacapulco.com/

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Re: Welcome to Anarchast
by Rachael 14 Jul '17

14 Jul '17

All this talk of Riseup being anti-capitalist and people being selective about their invites is rather amusing. Maybe people on this listserve are not aware that Riseup.net (along with LEAP) are listed as receiving over $250,000 USD from government funding. And that was only the funding which could be confirmed. The few public records I did receive are full of heavy redactions. Netherlands and Sweden still have classified documents, but refuse to release them. Along with some European governments, the US Department of State was also involved in this funding mechanism. I would really like Riseup.net to publicly say whether or not Riseup.net still receives government funding or support. Hopefully, Riseup.net will publicly disclose the funding it has received. Link to documentation (use search term "riseup") http://piratetimes.net/wp-uploads/news/2015/02/Q1-DDP-2014.pdf

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