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Network security guide from vpnmentor.com
by Steve Kinney 20 Jun '17

20 Jun '17

A couple of days ago I got solicited to promote an online security how-to for journalists, published at vpnmentor.com. On the whole I like it. The article presents one fairly obvious error: The reader is advised that using well known and frequently quoted lines of poetry as pass phrases is a secure option, with a strictly imaginary "hundreds of trillions of years" estimate of the time needed to brute force the world's least random pass phrases. Steve Gibson's online "search space calculator" is used to illustrate this claim. There is no mention of Diceware or anything similar. http://diceware.com I think the article over-estimates the security of the Black Phone product, and couple of my personal favorite tools and toys are not mentioned at all. But I also see a couple of interesting toys that are new to me, i.e. the Mailvelope browser extension which isolates plantext from web mail interface pages while composing or reading encrypted content. On the whole I think the author made a serious effort and got most of the things right. Operational security content and references to case histories make it stand out from many similar guides. https://www.vpnmentor.com/blog/online-privacy-journalists/ :o)

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Putin: "You get a land! And you get a land! And you get a land! Everybody gets a land!"
by NGR Coin 20 Jun '17

20 Jun '17

> g2s g2s at riseup.net > Tue Jun 20 06:07:18 PDT 2017 > > "black" folk in the US gave up on waiting for their 40 acres and mule > there's a movement to begin expropriating land by force. I wonder who is behind that (((movement))). Or what 1% owes them for their ancestral, and contemporary, enslavement ? Be careful anarchocommieanon, if they find out it was you.

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The role of antivirus in security
by Terry A. Davis 20 Jun '17

20 Jun '17

> g4z3 g4z3g4z3 at gmail.com > Tue Jun 20 05:18:28 PDT 2017 > > Just curious, but what's your choice of OS? Real cryptographers use Temple OS: templeos.org/TempleOS.html

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Re: Putin: "You get a land! And you get a land! And you get a land! Everybody gets a land!"
by g2s 20 Jun '17

20 Jun '17

-------- Original message --------From: John Newman <jnn(a)synfin.org> Date: 6/20/17 4:25 AM (GMT-08:00) To: Georgio Soros <soros(a)loves.dicksinhisan.us> Cc: nettime-l(a)mail.kein.org, cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org Subject: Re: Putin: "You get a land! And you get a land! And you get a land! Everybody gets a land!" On Jun 19, 2017, at 1:06 PM, Georgio Soros <soros(a)loves.dicksinhisan.us> wrote: >> stef s at ctrlc.hu >> Sun Jun 18 07:53:13 PDT 2017 >> >> pro-russian propaganda > > What is wrong with Russia ? > > So fuck off to siberia and farm some strawberries. Read it. He intends to do it in all regions. Ps. I just read black folk in the US gave up on waiting for their 40 acres and mule and there's a movement to begin expropriating land by force. Rr > Putin Becomes First President To Give Free Land > To All Citizens Willing To Farm: > rt.com/business/392450-russia-free-land-putin/ > archive.fo/VcK34 > > - - - - > > Russian President Vladimir Putin has become the first world leader to > offer every single citizen a free hectare of land in any part of Russia. > > Putin has agreed to expand a program that offers citizens land in > Russia’s Far East to all of the country’s regions. > > The President discussed his plans during a Q&A session on Thursday, > saying that he believes there is so much land in Russia that everybody > should be entitled to a piece of it. > > “There is enough land in Russia. Forty-three million hectares of > farmland alone are not used for their intended purpose. These are huge, > just huge land reserves,” Putin said. > > Under the Russian version of the Homestead Act, every citizen can get a > free hectare of land in the Far East, if they are willing to put it to > good use. Within the first year, the recipients must declare how they > want to use the land, and, in three years, must report on how it is > being developed. After five years, the land can be sold or leased. > > Some 93,000 applications have been received since the program was > launched in June of last year and nearly 20,000 of those have been approved. > > The regions with free land on offer include Yakutia, Kamchatka, > Chukotka, Primorye, Khabarovsk, Amur, Magadan, and Sakhalin, as well as > the Jewish Autonomous Region. The land can be used for any lawful > purpose, but the new owners cannot rent, sell, or give the land away for > five years. > > Foreigners are also eligible to use the land, but the registration of > full property rights is only possible after the recipient becomes a > naturalized citizen.

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Microsoft Unveils Global ID System for (((Refugees)))
by NGR Coin 20 Jun '17

20 Jun '17

Microsoft created a tool that combines biometric data, like a fingerprint or an iris scan, and a new form of record-keeping technology, known as the blockchain, to create a permanent identity. fortune.com/2017/06/19/id2020-blockchain-microsoft > known as the blockchain > the blockchain You fucking faggots and your slavecoin.

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Predictions regarding Simon and Speck for 2019
by Ryan Carboni 19 Jun '17

19 Jun '17

It has recently come to my attention that "Notes on the design and analysis of Simon and Speck" ( https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/560.pdf ) was published. Thus I have decided to encrypt a message using this page ( https://web.archive.org/web/20161211164439/http://www.movable-type.co.uk/sc… ) with a key generated by keypass pattern "H(15)" (15 lowercase hexadecimal). I plan on releasing the key in the early part of 2019 Block XXTEA is not trivially bruteforced with no "cribs" so here's my predictions for 2019: 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<nettime> Hungary: new NGO law passed
by Georgio Soros 19 Jun '17

19 Jun '17

> stef s at ctrlc.hu > Sun Jun 18 07:53:13 PDT 2017 > > the US and other military export countries > should host these refugees The US has enough rapefugees, faggot, thanks. dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/visualization/2015 There has been some progress: dailycaller.com/2017/06/15/promise-kept-trump-admin-rescinds-dapa-amnesty-p… And some prolonged uncertainty: nytimes.com/2017/06/16/us/politics/trump-will-allow-dreamers-to-stay-in-us-… - - - - DAPA, Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents: uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/ExecutiveActions/EAFlier_DAPA.pdf DACA, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals: uscis.gov/sites/default/files/USCIS/Humanitarian/Deferred%20Action%20for%20…

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Insider Threats? Re: What if my hypothesis regarding Snowden is correct?
by Wilfred L. Guerin 19 Jun '17

19 Jun '17

Thomas ANGLIN Kelley, FBI GC, scheduled for spring recess appointment as FBI Director & already papered by Trump was killed first week of april 2017 to prevent that. Did 9/11 official story. Patrick W. Kelley, FBI OIC, "FBI Office of Oversights", runs 7,000 front CI organizations, most are themed shells like "Klan-Destine" and "Secret Enclave" or "religious" covers used for infiltration. Position authorizes "otherwise illegal activities" and provides "Oversights". Florence Nakakuni Kelley, imperial white supremacist, wife of Patrick W. Kelley, US District Attorney Pacific, including most of the federal court authorizations after US business hours; facilitated laundering and illegal wiretap facility Guam & Hawaii (& Japan) + processing covered by Hawaii National Guard, proxied laundering by ficticious "Kingdom" and papered events including Snowden, Greenwald, 9/11, etc. Clarence M. Kelley, pulled back from FBI to Kansas City police 1961 by Mark Felt prior positioning of JFK..Nixon, then put in as FBI Director after noone else signed up. James Kelley, did JFK as Secret Service operations director, father of {Thomas Patrick Colleen Tom DavidJ Steve Gary} Kelley. Colleen M. Kelley, 1974 NTEU >> OPM .gov "pigs in the system" staffing / positioning for ALL federal jobs. Deforest Kelley, 1940s Navy propaganda specialist, well known for "how-to" videos across all military branches, especially social etiquite and homosexual activity. Star-Trek "Doc" as navy counter-intelligence propaganda. Also gunsmoke / "OK Coral". Alexander W. Joel, "Civil Liberties" @ DNI, coordinated & ran most of the civil liberties ploys including torture poland, "battery-water-board-meetings" (still happening @ oDNI office), and everything you heard about in the news. > > > Jill Kelley > > David J. Kelley > > Sean M. Joyce > > Vida G. Bottom > > Gordon M. Snow > > Kelley[]... > > > On Sunday, June 18, 2017, Wilfred L. Guerin wrote: > >> Nakakuni-Kelley, us-da pacific, husband Patrick-Kelley runs FBI >> "Oversights" "OIC", aunt/uncle of Jill Kelley; FBI Vida Bottom insider >> threat expert was sent to HNL to manage Snowden after CIA/NSA Japan. Same >> unit (Gordon Snow, Sean Joyce, Alexander Joel, Bottom, Nakakuni, 50+ >> Kelley) run ALL of the "Civil Liberties" CI events since 1990s. Includes >> torture @ poland, #Anonymous, y2k mess, snowden & derived, and of course >> the DIA (& NATO) units pre-staging a lot of it. "Oversights": Managed! see >> also "Enterprise Organization" & oDNI "FBI Oversight" disclosure >> exceptions. "civil liberties" >> >> On Sunday, June 18, 2017, Steve Kinney <admin(a)pilobilus.net> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On 06/18/2017 04:18 PM, Wilfred L. Guerin wrote: >>> > "Snowed-In @ Moskow" "David Miranda Writes" "Manning the Deck" FBI CI >>> > 101. Same DIA + FBI unit managed and papered those stupid staged events >>> > and hundreds more. "Reality Winner"??? >>> >>> To date I have seen no indications that Manning was set up. In terms of >>> impact, Snowden and (especially) Winner could be said to have advanced >>> IC agendas and objectives. Manning not so much: Those leaks caused >>> numerous diplomatic incidents with the U.S. a clear loser, and got U.S. >>> forces kicked out of Iraq for quite a while. >>> >>> The timing of the PRISM release to remove Manning's trial from the news >>> is also an indicator of sorts. >>> >>> :o) >>> >>> g2s >> >> >>> > To date I have seen no indications that >>> > Manning was set up. >>> >>> Adrian Llamo set him up. A database hacker with a debt to credit card >>> companies as restitution for a hack bust >>> >>> Rr >>> >> and Barrett Brown's girlfriend... > > On Sunday, June 18, 2017, Steve Kinney <admin(a)pilobilus.net >>> > <mailto:admin@pilobilus.net>> wrote: >>> > >>> > On 06/18/2017 02:24 AM, Ryan Carboni wrote: >>> > >>> > > The hypothesis being that Snowden is at least a triple agent. Ali >>> > > Mohammed provided material support to Al Qaeda, but that was >>> > because he >>> > > betrayed both the Army and Al Qaeda for the CIA. His sentencing >>> > has been >>> > > on hold for a long time, and it is interesting no one asks >>> questions >>> > > about it. >>> > >>> > My guess is that Snowden was an unwitting agent, spotted early by >>> the >>> > insider threat program and selected for use in a limited hangout. >>> If >>> > so, he was exposed to scripted events in the workplace to draw his >>> > attention to specific programs, and given e-z access to selected >>> > documents related to those programs. In the network age, >>> censorship >>> > ranges from difficult to impossible depending on the context; >>> getting >>> > ahead of an adversary and dominating the messaging on a given >>> topic has >>> > gained a new importance. I think the Snowden Affair may be an >>> example. >>> > >>> > Glenn Greenwald's behavior, selecting a few of Snowden's documents >>> to >>> > publish and burying the rest, is consistent with this model. So >>> too is >>> > his initiative in pushing the publication date of the (partially >>> > falsified) PRISM pages back to coincide with the first day of the >>> > Manning trial, knocking it all the way out of the news. >>> > >>> > The huge controversy following the release of the first few Snowden >>> > documents produced what results? It seems that the intel guys won >>> every >>> > engagement, even setting a precedent that senior U.S. intelligence >>> > officials are allowed to lie to Congressional committees under >>> oath with >>> > no penalty of any kind. The way it all went down suggests to me >>> that >>> > the intel guise had a long lead time to select and prepare for >>> specific >>> > challenges. >>> > >>> > > Snowden's revelations increased the amount of encryption. >>> > >>> > The only place I saw that happen was a significant bump in the use >>> of >>> > SSL by a wider range of website operators. Given that the SSL key >>> > signing protocol is deeply flawed and the NSA is uniquely well >>> > positioned to conduct MITM attacks negating that particular form of >>> > encryption, no harm done. The result is an increase in end users' >>> > "false sense of" security - and a small net gain in "national >>> security" >>> > in the sense of making access to network traffic a little harder >>> for >>> > foreign intel and private sector criminal enterprises. >>> > >>> > A casual observer might believe that the Snowden docs caused >>> significant >>> > harm to U.S. interests, most notably when it was revealed the >>> Angela >>> > Merkel's phones were tapped - but those particular documents came >>> from >>> > an as yet unknown source, probably located in Germany. >>> > >>> > I don't "believe" a word of the above analysis. But I do consider >>> it >>> > more likely than the alternatives I have seen. >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> >>>

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Re: <nettime> Hungary: new NGO law passed
by Zenaan Harkness 18 Jun '17

18 Jun '17

On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 08:56:46PM +0200, János Sugár wrote: > The Hungarian Parliament passed a new law on non-governmental > organizations today, which is widely thought to attack civil > society in Hungary and has been criticized by the European > Commission. The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (TASZ) said it will > apply civil disobedience. Your plug does not mention the rather public (but only for those following the Hungarian debate) stoush between Orban and George Soros. George Soros is widely thought to attack civil society in Hungary and many other countries around the world via the NGO's in the respective countries that he financies through his Open Societies Foundation (may not be exact name sorry). We in the West are well trained in "shouting down" any action which "does not match Western values" which we are well indoctrinated in - "democracy" (for some would say strange values of 'democracy') - open societies (for those who still believe in "democracy" and the endless march of internationalism) - the ultimate sanctity of NGO's that have no transparency about their funding, nor their intentions, and notwithstanding their actions which may well be directly opposed to the interests of the majority in a given country - e.g. the conservative "we don't want unlimited refugees from countries where no real vetting can occur" that is just recently begun to be prosecuted by the UN, e.g.: http://www.barenakedislam.com/2017/06/09/do-it-european-union-threatens-leg… http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/817289/poland-fight-eu-penalty-european… http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/260392/muslim-madness-merkel-daniel-greenfi… How's the European Unity working for ya anyway?: http://journal-neo.org/2017/06/04/europe-of-two-speeds-implies-there-s-infe… We speak rather arrogantly in the West, treating Liberalism as unassailably good, yet the superficiality of our MSM driven discourse rarely acknowledges that the desire for a conservative community is not only a natural and acceptable desire, and widespread across the world, but does not mean that those who express such desires are bigots, and most fundamentally, the hypocritical ignoring of the facts that "global homogeneity" is the opposite of "preserving diversity", that if you don't stand for something, you fall for anything. For too often, a thread, a position, a "certainty" is presented with no heed whatsoever to genuine and real concerns to the contrary. Such gets tiresome.

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Re: What if my hypothesis regarding Snowden is correct?
by g2s 18 Jun '17

18 Jun '17

Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone -------- Original message --------From: Steve Kinney <admin(a)pilobilus.net> Date: 6/18/17 1:24 PM (GMT-08:00) To: Cc: cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org Subject: Re: What if my hypothesis regarding Snowden is correct? On 06/18/2017 04:18 PM, Wilfred L. Guerin wrote: > "Snowed-In @ Moskow" "David Miranda Writes" "Manning the Deck" FBI CI > 101. Same DIA + FBI unit managed and papered those stupid staged events > and hundreds more. "Reality Winner"??? > To date I have seen no indications that > Manning was set up. Adrian Llamo set him up. A database hacker with a debt to credit card companies as restitution for a hack bust Rr In terms of impact, Snowden and (especially) Winner could be said to have advanced IC agendas and objectives. Manning not so much: Those leaks caused numerous diplomatic incidents with the U.S. a clear loser, and got U.S. forces kicked out of Iraq for quite a while. The timing of the PRISM release to remove Manning's trial from the news is also an indicator of sorts. :o) > On Sunday, June 18, 2017, Steve Kinney <admin(a)pilobilus.net > <mailto:admin@pilobilus.net>> wrote: > > On 06/18/2017 02:24 AM, Ryan Carboni wrote: > > > The hypothesis being that Snowden is at least a triple agent. Ali > > Mohammed provided material support to Al Qaeda, but that was > because he > > betrayed both the Army and Al Qaeda for the CIA. His sentencing > has been > > on hold for a long time, and it is interesting no one asks questions > > about it. > > My guess is that Snowden was an unwitting agent, spotted early by the > insider threat program and selected for use in a limited hangout. If > so, he was exposed to scripted events in the workplace to draw his > attention to specific programs, and given e-z access to selected > documents related to those programs. In the network age, censorship > ranges from difficult to impossible depending on the context; getting > ahead of an adversary and dominating the messaging on a given topic has > gained a new importance. I think the Snowden Affair may be an example. > > Glenn Greenwald's behavior, selecting a few of Snowden's documents to > publish and burying the rest, is consistent with this model. So too is > his initiative in pushing the publication date of the (partially > falsified) PRISM pages back to coincide with the first day of the > Manning trial, knocking it all the way out of the news. > > The huge controversy following the release of the first few Snowden > documents produced what results? It seems that the intel guys won every > engagement, even setting a precedent that senior U.S. intelligence > officials are allowed to lie to Congressional committees under oath with > no penalty of any kind. The way it all went down suggests to me that > the intel guise had a long lead time to select and prepare for specific > challenges. > > > Snowden's revelations increased the amount of encryption. > > The only place I saw that happen was a significant bump in the use of > SSL by a wider range of website operators. Given that the SSL key > signing protocol is deeply flawed and the NSA is uniquely well > positioned to conduct MITM attacks negating that particular form of > encryption, no harm done. The result is an increase in end users' > "false sense of" security - and a small net gain in "national security" > in the sense of making access to network traffic a little harder for > foreign intel and private sector criminal enterprises. > > A casual observer might believe that the Snowden docs caused significant > harm to U.S. interests, most notably when it was revealed the Angela > Merkel's phones were tapped - but those particular documents came from > an as yet unknown source, probably located in Germany. > > I don't "believe" a word of the above analysis. But I do consider it > more likely than the alternatives I have seen. > > > > > > >

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