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Google helps China not America
by jim bell 15 Mar '19

15 Mar '19

Top US general says Google is indirectly helping the Chinese military https://mol.im/a/6811587 via http://dailym.ai/android

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How they almost smoked Maduro
by Steven Schear 15 Mar '19

15 Mar '19

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/14/americas/venezuela-drone-maduro-intl/index.h…

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deepdotweb.com: Research: A novel user friendly system for monitoring darknet marketplaces
by jim bell 14 Mar '19

14 Mar '19

deepdotweb.com: Research: A novel user friendly system for monitoring darknet marketplaces. https://www.deepdotweb.com/2019/03/13/research-a-novel-user-friendly-system…

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Cryptocurrency Mixnets Strong Privacy Quantum Blockchains
by grarpamp 13 Mar '19

13 Mar '19

> https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608041/first-quantum-secured-blockchain-… Moscow has not been friendly towards non-Fiat cryptocurrency. The actual paper... Quantum-secured blockchain - Kiktenko https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.09258 And the only cryptocurrencies people should trust will be the Distributed P2P Transaction Mineable AnonPriv Cryptocurrencies, aka not Fiat, else there's no point, just use GovCoin, BankCoin, or CorpCoin, they're all the same... ShitCoin. > This technology, if it exists, which I doubt, secures the channels > through which crypto coins are sent Considering end users won't be able to buy the quantum hardware, optical links, etc needed for the QKD anytime soon... privacy coins over Mix Darknets WiFi are for now at least reasonable channel security for some use cases. This paper blurbs Zcash and Loopix ... Extending the Anonymity of Zcash - Kappos, Piotrowska https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.07337 And note that software PQC for all the parts... secure keying, algos, passphrases, blockchain bits, etc, is also rolling.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography https://pqcrypto.org/ https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/Post-Quantum-Cryptography infohash:B07C61F8452F23B9D9936551D1A6DE7CF61FDD9F infohash:3233EBD08587C5E8B806B2B5375BF4975E8A2519 > Which messages are then added to the blockchain in the clear, for > everyone to see, forever. Which means it's no better than Fiat, thus pointless. At last survey long ago, afaik only the Zero Knowledge Proof ZKP family of coins, Zcash.io ZEC, Zencash ZEN, Zclassic ZCL, etc, had actually put the entire transaction behind strong cryptography... senders, receivers, amounts, change, etc. Monero XMR, the CoinJoin family, etc, are all doing other approaches. And there's no real reason to hold anything other than the UTXO database set. Lots of projects are working on distributed consensus state machines now... https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/03/08/a-generalised-solution-to-distributed-c… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19343398 With luck everything in cryptocurrency will be far more advanced, anon / private, scalable, and adopted by 2029. Someone really should maintain a list of cryptocurrency projects that are seriously working on these topics instead of being just another ICO, token, centralized censorable spyable Fiat, etc.

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*Deadline March 15* CFP SpaCCS 2019 (10+SIs): The 12th International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage
by Jun Feng 13 Mar '19

13 Mar '19

Dear Colleagues: [Apologies for multiple receptions of this CFP] Call For Papers ============================================================================= The 12th International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage (SpaCCS 2019) July 14-July 17, 2019, Atlanta, USA http://cse.stfx.ca/~cybermatics/2019/spaccs/ All accepted papers will be published by Springer LNCS (EI Indexed). Best Paper Awards will be presented to high quality papers. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be be published in 10+ SCI & EI indexed special issues (confirmed). 1. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology Special Issue on Decentralized Blockchain Applications and Infrastructures for Next Generation Cyber-Physical Systems https://toit.acm.org/pdf/ACM-ToIT-CfP-Decentralized_Blockchain_Applications… Publisher: ACM, IF = 1.727 2. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering Special Issue: Blockchain in Future Networks and Vertical Industries Publisher: IEEE 3. IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications Special Issue: Advanced Technologies for Cyber Physical Systems Publisher: IET 4. IEEE Access Special Section on Deep Learning: Security and Forensics Research Advances and Challenges https://ieeeaccess.ieee.org/special-sections/deep-learning-security-and-for… Publisher: IEEE, IF = 3.557 5. Transactions on Blockchain Technology and Applications http://vdlt.io/tIndex.html Special Issue: Advances in Blockchain and Internet-of-Things 6. Digital Communications and Networks Special Issue: TBD Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed in 2019 7. Sensors Special Issue: IoT-Enabled Sensor Networks: Vision and Challenges https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/IoT_SensorNet Publisher: MDPI, IF = 2.475 8. Remote Sensing Special Issue: Intelligence Computing Paradigms with Remote Sensing Networks in Water Hydrology https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/water_Computation… Publisher: MDPI, IF = 3.406 9. Journal of Systems Architecture Special Issue: Dependable Cyber Physical Systems (SI: DCPS19) https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/call-for-… Publisher: Elsevier, IF = 0.913 10. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Special Issue: Human-centered Computing in Cloud / Edge / Fog https://jwcn-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/human-centered-computing Publisher: Springer, IF = 2.407 11. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Special Issue: Multi-modal Sensor Data Fusion in Internet of Things https://jwcn-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/multi-modal-sensor Publisher: Springer, IF = 2.407 * More special issues will be added later. ============================================================================= The 2019 International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage (SpaCCS 2019) is the 12th event in the series of conferences which are devoted to security, privacy and anonymity in computation, communication and storage. SpaCCS is now recognized as the main regular event of the world that is covering many dimensions including security algorithms and architectures, privacy-aware policies, regulations and techniques, anonymous computation and communication, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial application systems for computation, communication and storage. As applications of computer systems and networks have permeated in every aspect of our daily life, the issues of security, privacy, and anonymity have become increasingly critical. The conference will provide a forum for the world-class researchers to gather and share their research achievements, emerging ideas and trends in the highly challenging research fields. ================== Important Dates ================== Workshop/Special Session Proposal Due: January 15, 2019 Paper Submission Deadline: March 15, 2019 Authors Notification Date: April 15, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: May 15, 2019 Conference Date: July 14 - July 17, 2019 ================== Topics of interest include, but are not limited to ================== Track 1: Security 1.1 Computation -Security Model and Architecture - Software and System Security - Secure computation - Security in Cloud/Fog/Edge Computing and Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing - Artificial Intelligence - Secure Network Computing - Risk Analysis and Management 1.2 Communication - Network Security - Malware and Botnets - Intrusion Detection - Security in Web Services - Security in Mobile Social Networks - Security in Mobile and Wireless Communications - Fraud and Cyber- Crime 1.3 Storage - Access Control - Accounting and Audit - Applied Cryptography - Database Security - Authentication - Computer forensics - Data Protection and Data Integrity - Digital Content Protection and Digital Forensics - Information Hiding - Security in Big Data and its Applications Track 2: Privacy 2.1 Computation - Measuring and Quantifying Privacy - Privacy Modelling and Analysis - Software and System Privacy - Privacy-preserving Computing - Differential Privacy - Blockchain-based Computation - Privacy-enhanced Network Computing - Obfuscation-based Privacy - Cryptographic Tools - Building and Deploying Privacy-enhancing Systems - Reliability, Robustness, and Abuse Prevention in Privacy Systems 2.2 Communication - Privacy in Web Services - Privacy Metrics and Policies - Crowdsourcing for Privacy - Location and Mobility Privacy - Privacy in Cloud and Big Data Applications - Blockchain-based Communication - Quantum Communications - Privacy in Ubiquitous Computing and Mobile Devices - Privacy in Social Networks and Microblogging Systems - Privacy-enhanced Access Control, Authentication, and Identity Management 2.3 Storage - Data Protection Technologies - Privacy in Big Data and its Applications - Policy Languages and Tools for Privacy - Privacy and Human Rights - Blockchain-based Storage - Interdisciplinary Research Connecting Privacy to Other Fields - Privacy in Cloud Computing and Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing - Information Leakage, Data Correlation and Generic Attacks to Privacy - Privacy-Preserving Data Mining, Data Release and Publishing Track 3: Anonymity 3.1 Computation - Anonymous Data Mining and Data Sharing - Parallelism Exploitation Techniques for Anonymity - Anonymity in Big Data Analytics - Anonymous Management in Trust Relationships - Anonymous Video Analytics Technology - Anonymity Metrics, Measures and Evaluations - Anonymity Models, Hardware/Device of Anonymity 3.2 Communication - Anonymity in Wireless Communication Systems - Anonymous Communication Protocols - Anonymity in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Sensor Networks - Anonymous Proxy Software - Anonymous Communication and Internet - Anonymous Social Networks, Structural k-Anonymity in Social Networks - Authentication Protocol Providing User Anonymity 3.3 Storage - Anonymous Information Storage and Management - Private and Anonymous Data Storage - Forensics - Anonymity-Preserving Data Collection and Database - Anonymity, Pseudonymity & Identity Management - Anonymity in Big Data and Cloud Scenarios - Anonymity in Health and Medical Databases ================== Paper Submission ================== All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/N25666) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 14 pages (or up to 20 pages with the pages over length charge) in Springer LNCS format ( https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…) including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. ================== Organizing Committee ================== General Chairs - Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA - Mark Last, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel - Yanqing Zhang, Georgia State University, USA Program Chairs - Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA - Jun Feng, St Francis Xavier University, Canada - Rongxing Lu, University of New Brunswick, Canada Workshop Chair - Wm. Bradley Glisson, Sam Houston State University, USA Publicity Chairs - Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland - Reza M. Parizi, Kennesaw State University, USA - Yogachandran Rahulamathavan, Loughborough University London, UK Local Chair - Yubao Wu, Georgia State University, USA Web Chairs - Zihao Jiang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada - Xin Nie, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Steering Committee - Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China (Chair) - Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain (Chair) - Jemal H. Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia - Jose M. Alcaraz Calero, University of the West of Scotland, UK - Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong - Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan - Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia - Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA - Robert Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore - Mario Freire, The University of Beira Interior, Portuga - Minyi Guo, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China - Weijia Jia, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China - Wei Jie, University of West London, UK - Georgios Kambourakis, University of the Aegean, Greece - Ryan Ko, University of Waikato, New Zealand - Constantinos Kolias, George Mason University, USA - Jianbin Li, Central South University, China - Jie Li, University of Tsukuba, Japan - Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan - Felix Gomez Marmol, University of Murcia, Spain - Geyong Min, University of Exeter, UK - Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland - Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA - Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan - Juan E. Tapiador, The University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain - Sabu M. Thampi, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, India - Jie Wu, Temple University, USA - Yang Xiao, The University of Alabama, USA - Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia - Zheng Yan, Aalto University, Finland - Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada - Wanlei Zhou, University of Technology Sydney, Australia -- Dr. Jun Feng St. Francis Xavier University Huazhong University of Science and Technology Mobile: +86-18827365073 E-Mails: junfeng989(a)gmail.com, 512675288(a)qq.com WeChat: junfeng10001000

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Congress Info
by jim bell 12 Mar '19

12 Mar '19

Russian spies buy congressional directories to hunt down targets, report says https://news.yahoo.com/httpseditpublishingoathcomcmsentry5c86e7bee4b0d93616…

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literally censored - By order of The Ministry, ZeroHedge.com shall be banned; Zuckerberg, Chief Truth Enforcer - [PEACE] [MINISTRY]
by Zenaan Harkness 12 Mar '19

12 Mar '19

Well, well, well. Well well, well well well‼ Who'da thunked to "shut it down"? :D ALL Zerowedgie links literally censor blocked off Facebook. “But muh muffuluggerin private statute protected state enforced private megoligopoly corporation, muffaluggerah!” Facebook Bans Zero Hedge https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-11/facebook-bans-zero-hedge Over the weekend, we were surprised to learn that some readers were prevented by Facebook when attempting to share Zero Hedge articles. Subsequently it emerged that virtually every attempt to share or merely mention an article, including in private messages, would be actively blocked by the world's largest social network, with the explanation that "the link you tried to visit goes against our community standards." … We were surprised by this action as neither prior to this seemingly arbitrary act of censorship, nor since, were we contacted by Facebook with an explanation of what "community standard" had been violated or what particular filter or article had triggered the blanket rejection of all Zero Hedge content. To be sure, as a for-profit enterprise with its own unique set of corporate "ethics", Facebook has every right to impose whatever filters it desires on the media shared on its platform. [MUFFALUGGERAH! Did I mention "muffaluggerah?" Cause DAMN!] It is entirely possible that one or more posts was flagged by Facebook's "triggered" readers who merely alerted a censorship algo which blocked all content. Alternatively, it is just as possible that Facebook simply decided to no longer allow its users to share our content in retaliation for our extensive coverage of what some have dubbed the platform's "many problems", including chronic privacy violations, https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-05/internal-facebook-leak-reveals-gl… mass abandonment by younger users https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-10/over-17-million-younger-facebook-… , its gross and ongoing misrepresentation of fake users https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-24/facebook-slides-after-report-clai… , ironically - in retrospect - its systematic censorship https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-17/facebook-now-censoring-talk-about… and back door government cooperation https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-08/government-facebook-pipeline-reve… (those are just links from the past few weeks). Unfortunately, as noted above, we still don't know what exact event precipitated this censorship, and any attempts to get feedback from the company with the $500 billion market cap, have so far remained unanswered. We would welcome this opportunity to engage Facebook in a constructive dialog over the company's decision to impose a blanket ban on Zero Hedge content. Alternatively, we will probably not lose much sleep if that fails to occur: unlike other websites, we are lucky in that only a tiny fraction of our inbound traffic originates at Facebook, with most of our readers arriving here directly without the aid of search engines (Google banned us from its News platform, for reasons still unknown, shortly after the Trump victory) or referrals. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-25/google-permanently-bans-200-fake-… https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-21/one-statistics-professor-was-just… https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-21/google-explored-ways-bias-immigra… https://zerohedge.whotrades.com/blog/43109872936 That said, with Facebook increasingly under political, regulatory and market scrutiny for its arbitrary internal decisions on what content to promote and what to snuff, its ever declining user engagement, and its soaring content surveillance costs, such censorship is hardly evidence of the platform's "openness" to discourse, its advocacy of free speech, or its willingness to listen to and encourage non-mainstream opinions, even if such "discourse" takes place in some fake user "click farm" somewhere in Calcutta.

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Tim Berners Lee advice on Internet.
by jim bell 11 Mar '19

11 Mar '19

Tim Berners Lee calls for people to stop abuse of the internet https://mol.im/a/6796403 via http://dailym.ai/android Jim Bell's comment:. Berners-Lee suggests government is the solution. I think government is the main problem. Jim Bell

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Re: [tor-talk] Tor to become illegal in Europe?
by grarpamp 11 Mar '19

11 Mar '19

On 3/11/19, hikki(a)safe-mail.net <hikki(a)safe-mail.net> wrote: > They're basically talking about eliminating criminal activities facilitated > online by the darknet, by making Tor and the dark web illegal and > inaccessible > in Europe. It was also stated that most of those who access the dark web are > actual or potential criminals who need to be stopped before they harm > anyone, > and that the disadvantages of the darknet are much more than the advantages. > > https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Europaeischer-Polizeikongress-Weg-m… > Could this be the beginning of the end? If you're not running for Political Office in Germany, yes it is. Same goes for any other country, including the USA. Until then, they will simply overrule you and not give a shit about your pithy little sign waving protests, wannabe online activism, and low dollar lobbying... you're deleted, you're not really competition they have to care about. Re-educating the public masses out from under childhood indoctrination is a decades slow process, infiltrating your self / agenda into Office is much faster... witness them doing it every election cycle ;) Or you could try in the open like Free State Project / Pirate Party. When Facebook, Google, Governments and whatever other anti-privacy surveillors data brokers/miners, spies, control force freaks, taxing thieves for war torture murder... go bankrupt, you win. Win you open multiple fronts, writing and/or vetoing laws to help do it, it'll happen a bit faster... if you're actually not, or don't become, one of them... which is rare... as no revolution in history has ever lasted... yet. " European Police Congress: Away with the Darknet At the European Police Congress in Berlin, a ban on Darknets in free democratic states was called for. To start on one's own behalf is supposedly bad style. But this note is necessary this time: heise online operates since 2016, the hot tipster, which is accessible, inter alia, via Tor and whistleblowers a secure contact address in this "Darknet" allows, which was used several times. No room for Tor If the current federal government decides, then this may be a criminal offense in the future. At the opening of the 22nd European Police Congress in Berlin, Günter Krings, Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior, demanded a radical ban on Tor: "I understand why the Darknet can be of use in autocratic systems, but in a free, open democracy, I think for no legitimate benefits, those who use the Darknet are usually up to no good, and this simple realization should also be reflected in our legal system. " The needs of whistleblowers have no place in the world view of Krings, which demanded a second IT security law, which should be implemented later this year. In the remainder of his speech, the CDU politician was primarily concerned with the SPD-led Ministry of Justice, which in his view, the propagated pact for the rule of law systematically undermines and delays. It would have long been possible to settle the question of what should happen to German jihad fighters who want to get rid of Kurds and Syrians, said the State Secretary. However, Krings praised the tool RADAR-iTE, which reliably identifies and classifies Islamists on a three-level scale. Krings was followed in the opening ceremony by Wolfgang Sobotka, President of the Austrian National Council. He praised China for not having any inhibitions and successfully ignoring data protection when analyzing citizens. His statement that there is a human right to political asylum, but no human right to asylum for economic or social reasons, fit into the picture he drew. European Border Patrol ... "

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RF Hacking Banned and Cashless Fiat Loving Statists
by grarpamp 11 Mar '19

11 Mar '19

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/03/11/eu_directive_ban_rf_radio_firmware… The EU is looking to block users from tinkering the firmware/software of their RF devices. This seems to have been very under reported, with a fairly short consultation period that has now expired. It could force manufacturers to lock down phones and routers etc to stop you from installing the likes of Lineage OS or OpenWRT. The way this is written it could stop devices like laptops or Raspberry Pi's having their software changed. From the report: The controversy centres on Article 3(3)(i) of the EU Radio Equipment Directive, which was passed into law back in 2014. However, an EU working group is now about to define precisely which devices will be subject to the directive -- and academics, researchers, individual "makers" and software companies are worried that their activities and business models will be outlawed. Article 3(3)(i) states that RF gear sold in the EU must support "certain features in order to ensure that software can only be loaded into the radio equipment where the compliance of the combination of the radio equipment and software has been demonstrated." If the law is implemented in its most potentially harmful form, no third-party firmware could be installed onto something like a home router, for example. https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2019/03/09/dont-ditch-cash-… https://news.slashdot.org/story/19/03/11/050247/usa-today-tech-columnist-mi… "I haven't had a nickel, dime, quarter or penny in my pocket for two years," writes USA Today tech columnist Jefferson Graham, adding "Why bother? We're now living in what's quickly becoming a cashless society, where credit cards or electronic payments on your phone rule." His column is addressed to the mayor of Philadelphia, who this week signed a bill that bans cashless stores. Mr. Mayor. It's happening all over the world, and not just from Amazon. We are going cashless. Maybe not in your lifetime, but certainly for millennials. Banks and credit card companies want this to curb the costs of handling green. Selected merchants are into it now... USA Today's Charisse Jones discovered that cash purchases were down to 30 percent of all retail transactions as of last year compared to 40 percent in 2012. Millennials, she noted here this week, are saying no to cash, with 21 percent of those 23- to 34 years old saying that most of their transactions were in cash in 2016.... Mobile pay is still a sliver of overall retail sales, but it's definitely on the rise. Target, a long holdout, just added Apple Pay to one of its options, following in the footsteps of Best Buy, CVS, Costco and other retail giants who now accept payment via iPhone. The big, lone holdout right now is Walmart, the No. 1 retailer. It does have its own mobile pay app, that links bank payments to QR codes. And Mr. Mayor, good news for you. Walmart still accepts cash, too. But for how long?

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