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Video Audio Conferencing: Codecs, Crypto, Peer Modes, RF, CU-SeeMe History... [re: Zoom’s crypto]
by grarpamp 06 Apr '20

06 Apr '20

Various wrote: > https://jitsi.org/ >> And this represents a very big sacrifice of resources in the connection? >> My problem with jitsi so far has been that it does not work very well if >> either end has a bad internet connection, which is more or less common in >> Latin America. >>> We hope to be layering on end-to-end encryption features, and would >>> happily take community contributions. > I don’t believe the encryption/decryption is all that resource intensive in > comparison to the encoding and decoding of the video and audio streams > themselves. > > We have a few features to try to deal with this, including audio-only mode > and the ability to send lower-quality video (Low bandwidth mode) One thing many voice and video apps get wrong is shipping with defaults set to what in bandwidth terms effectively amounts to 4kHDR 60fps video + CDDA audio. It cannot be made any more clear that this is completely unnecessary for servicable comms, and does not establish good thinking or expectations. Even just a fraction of 160x120 4-bit video and 8k audio works fine. Wannabe conferencers today are brainwashed by BluRay and Gaming out of what is actually possible within a 56kbps channel or less... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CU-SeeMe All you need is just enough to lip and ear sync to the video and audio. Cranking your codecs way down also saves you much needed bandwidth for more peers, file transfers, messaging, signaling, integration, crypto, other applications, etc... making world a happier place. With as little as 1Mbps you could be conferencing 8 fully meshed (no hub) independently encrypted peers. If sensible defaults, and crazy minimums, aren't offered, the promising freedoms of non-third-party-in-the-middle P2P conferencing are that much harder to meet. > I do know we suffer from poor performance on connections for which packet > loss/packet drops are common. It is nature of beasts, of time, of being confined to intermediate MAC+PHY layers, choose your evil... TCP imparts pauses, UDP zaps the gap... physics deny a general solution. Explore random encrypted ultra wideband spread spectrum guerrilla RF via SDR if you want to make use of some interesting and alternative channel physics. Also consider routes over I2P, Phantom, Tor, and other overlay networks. CU-SeeMe... "The predominant objective here was to devise algorithms that would be fast enough for real time videoconferencing on the typical Macintosh platforms that were available in mid-1992, which mainly consisted of 68020 and 68030 based machines." -- Tim Dorcey, Cornell University. >From Connexions, Volume 9, No.3, March 1995 "Milazzo, Paul. Informal demonstration of dvc at the December 1991 meeting of the IETF in Santa Fe." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4h6oElcOtI https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL96B30F6A04A29427 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz-YHbQ2dA4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDBOIdmkdEw

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OpenWatch History
by Karl 06 Apr '20

06 Apr '20

Has anybody heard of the cell phone app OpenWatch? It used to run at https://www.openwatch.net/ and let anybody upload video recordings live and secretly from their mobile phone, and publicized them. Page archives show it came out of Boston and San Francisco. Since it was focused on monitoring of authorities, it makes sense it would have struggled as this could spread power in ways that are harder for authorities to control, making their various tasks more difficult, and possibly pitting the urgent engine of control of crime against the project. I don't see any evidence of OpenWatch having planned to discontinue, or notifying the public they were. There is nobody on their irc channel, and their twitter account has been deleted. Their github has an open improvement branch that is unmerged, and no following developer activity since. Nowadays there are services like https://siasky.net/ and https://bico.media/ and some others, that can connect with reliable decentralized storage backed by the strength of a blockchain. As blockchains rise it is becoming easier to support apps like OpenWatch in ways that won't disappear very readily. bico.media may go down some day, but the data uploaded is still stored permanently on the blockchain behind it, and the app that stores that data could be stored on that blockchain as well. I was wondering if anybody knew the story of what happened to OpenWatch, or if anybody was interested in resurrecting OpenWatch's work with a little motion towards migrating onto a blockchain. https://github.com/OpenWatch/OpenWatch-Android Maybe planning for disruption a little could make project development ideas that last longer. Like clear instructions for newcomers to rebuild after developers disperse.

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Inspector General Report & FISA: Reform Needed | National Review
by jim bell 05 Apr '20

05 Apr '20

https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/fbi-inspector-general-report-fisa-re…

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Are you a man, or a pouty little bitch? - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 05 Apr '20

05 Apr '20

A 6 minute true story for y'all (and just a couple mentions o' God). tl;dr - "Am I a man . . . or a pouty little bitch?" Fell Back Into the Fallen State ... All For a Girl! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpWnAdhv3J8 ~5:54 "I'm going to get myself out of this hole, because I put myself in this hole." JLP - "Rebuilding the family by rebuilding the man." -- 5 day challenge muffas :) Do not wake the snake for 5 days.

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"crime think" reporting apps exploding, guns, our new dystopia, reparations, [MINISTRY]
by Zenaan Harkness 05 Apr '20

05 Apr '20

Humans are finally comprehending that things are changing, and most leap into reporting their neighbours, putting cordon tape to keep customers away from the purchase desk, and generally overreacting. Tucker: https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/tucker-carlson-faucis-national-quaranti… .. “We’ve interviewed Dr. Fauci respectfully on this program, and we’d gladly do that again if he came back, and he will come back. He’s an impressive person. But that does not mean that he’s never wrong,” Carlson said. “On the question of this pandemic, Fauci has been wrong repeatedly.” .. Dr. Fauci: “I know it’s difficult, but we’re having a lot of suffering, a lot of death. This is inconvenient from an economic and a personal standpoint, but we just have to do it.” .. Tucker: “Inconvenient? 10 million Americans out of work and staring at poverty. That is not inconvenient, as you just heard Dr. Fauci put it. It’s horrifying. In fact, it’s a far bigger disaster than the virus itself by any measure. Tony Fauci, decent as he may be, can’t see that because he doesn’t think it’s his job to see it. But even a doctor should be able to think beyond the models. Our response to coronavirus could turn this into a far poorer nation. Poor countries are unhealthy countries, always and everywhere. In poor countries, people die of treatable diseases. In poor countries people are far more vulnerable to obscure viruses, like the one we are fighting now. You want to keep Americans from dying before their time? Then don’t impoverish them. For all his credentials, his experience, his apparent personal decency, Dr. Anthony Fauci does not seem to understand any of this and we should never let someone like that run this country.” .. The Five Things You Absolutely Cannot Say About COVID-19 https://off-guardian.org/2020/04/03/the-things-you-cannot-say-about-coronav… https://www.zerohedge.com/health/five-things-you-absolutely-cannot-say-abou… .. People imagine that when the boots-on-the-ground tyranny arrives, it will be enforced by the police or the military. Newsflash: the boots-on-the-ground tyranny is here, and it is being enforced by your neighbors, Joe Sixpack and Jane Soccermom. Need proof? How about all the new “snitch lines” that are opening up in city after city and state after state all around the globe to help good citizens tattle on neighbors who aren’t practicing proper social distancing? https://patch.com/new-york/huntington/lupinacci-urges-public-report-social-… https://news.yahoo.com/bellevue-police-ask-neighbors-report-232053544.html https://wkuherald.com/coronavirus/beshear-announces-new-hotline-to-report-s… https://www.kdrv.com/content/news/Governor-Brown-gives-method-for-reporting… https://www.blogto.com/city/2020/03/heres-where-you-can-report-people-who-d… .. You may have noticed the interesting phenomenon making its way around the world. I call it “The Totally Spontaneous Balcony Applause Phenomenon.” Yes, completely out of the blue, all the people under lockdown have decided to show their appreciation for the valiant doctors and nurses in this heroic struggle by going to their balcony at a pre-appointed time and applauding. And no, this totally spontaneous phenomenon is not just occurring in one or two countries. Or three or four countries. But in seemingly every country around the globe. .. This time, we are being asked to glorify doctors and nurses because these are the same trusted experts whose authority cannot be questioned who are going to be giving you the vaccine. You know, The Vaccine. The one that will bring an end to the then 18-month long psychological siege that we are being placed under. What?? You still question the vaccines? You still dare to defy the authority of these brave doctors and nurses who risked their lives for us? You can’t say that, you disgusting conspiracy mongering throughtcriminal, you! Be honest, you know that this push is coming. And they are getting the public to sign on with all these “spontaneous” balcony applause sessions. So perhaps you’ll forgive me for not joining in. .. 4. THE DEATH OF A 91 YEAR-OLD IS A FAMILY TRAGEDY, NOT AN EVENT OF INTERNATIONAL CONCERN .. 5. THE IDEA THAT DISEASE AND DEATH ARE UNNATURAL OR AVOIDABLE IS ANTI-HUMAN .. So what’s your thoughtcrime? -Almost- entire world reporting to the WHO/Chinese Health Organisation: Want To Escape? These Are The Countries That Have Escaped COVID-19 So Far? https://www.zerohedge.com/health/want-escape-these-are-countries-have-escap… China Floods Europe With Defective COVID-19-Fighting Medical Equipment https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15840/china-defective-medical-equipment https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-floods-europe-defective-covid-… World's best funded socialist state, Finland's welfare system collapsing: https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/finns-warned-worlds-best-funded-welfare-s… Federal reserve nuclear "rescue" bomb dropped: They Fought The Fed And Lost: How Powell Triggered A "Spectacular" Short Squeeze In LQD https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/they-fought-fed-and-lost-how-powell-trigg… .. By the following Monday, the Fed was trapped - either it unleashes not a bazooka but a "nuclear bomb" (as Paul Tudor Jones called it) and stabilizes the unprecedented panic gripping traders, or the market was about to close. It picked the former, and before the open on Monday, March 23, the Fed announced not only unlimited QE, but in an unprecedented move, Powell said he would also start buying loans and bonds in the secondary market, as well as the LQD. What happened next was also unprecedented: as JPM puts it, "looking at credit ETFs, the short base collapsed in spectacular fashion from LQD, the biggest HG ETF after the Fed’s credit backstop programs." As shown in the chart below, all those traders who naively expected that the Fed would not nationalize virtually every market and - at least implicitly fought the Fed - were carted out following the biggest, most "spectacular" short squeeze in history: that of LQD on March 23. The chart below shows that between March 23 and April 2, the % of LQD shares loaned out - a proxy for shorting - had dropped from an all time high to a record low... .. We point this out because the pain for markets is hardly over, and with shorts now having an even more limited arsenal of instruments, they will inevitably focus on HYG and SPY during the next crash. Which also means that now that the Fed has effectively gone all in, the only question is how low will it allow first junk bonds and then stocks to drop, before Powell goes full Haruhiko "Peter Pan" Kuroda and announces that the Fed will buy both junk bonds and stocks going forward, in the process nationalizing the entire market. .. Spainish town keeping China virus at -zero-: Zahara de la Sierra https://sputniknews.com/europe/202004041078834459-you-shall-not-pass-how-a-… .. The settlement of around 1,400 is clinging to a hilltop halfway between Sevilla and the Gibraltar in Andalucia. A popular tourist destination, founded in the Medieval Age as a Moorish outpost, it has reported zero coronavirus cases so far. The answer: complete self-isolation. .. Kennedy's continue to be "kept in their place": Kennedy Curse: JFK’s Grand-Niece, Her Son Presumed Dead After Boating Accident https://sputniknews.com/us/202004041078833271-kennedy-curse-jfks-grand-niec…

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FISA court orders DOJ to review flawed surveillance applications and provide names of targets
by jim bell 04 Apr '20

04 Apr '20

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fisa-court-orders-doj-to-review-fla…

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Fwd: [gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 202004-07 ] Mozilla Firefox: Multiple vulnerabilities
by destroyer 04 Apr '20

04 Apr '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 202004-07 ] Mozilla Firefox: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2020 13:04:33 +0200 From: Thomas Deutschmann <whissi(a)gentoo.org> Reply-To: Gentoo Security <security(a)gentoo.org> Organization: Gentoo Foundation, Inc To: gentoo-announce(a)lists.gentoo.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 202004-07 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - https://security.gentoo.org/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Severity: Normal Title: Mozilla Firefox: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: April 04, 2020 Bugs: #716098 ID: 202004-07 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Synopsis ======== Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla Firefox, the worst of which could result in the arbitrary execution of code. Background ========== Mozilla Firefox is a popular open-source web browser from the Mozilla Project. Affected packages ================= ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-client/firefox < 74.0.1 *>= 68.6.1 *>= 74.0.1 Description =========== Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Firefox. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact ====== A remote attacker could entice a user to view a specially crafted web page, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or a Denial of Service condition. Workaround ========== There is no known workaround at this time. Resolution ========== All Mozilla Firefox ESR users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/firefox-68.6.1" All Mozilla Firefox users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/firefox-74.0.1" References ========== [ 1 ] CVE-2020-6819 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-6819 [ 2 ] CVE-2020-6820 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-6820 [ 3 ] MFSA-2020-11 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-11/ Availability ============ This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-07 Concerns? ========= Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security(a)gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org. License ======= Copyright 2020 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text belongs to its owner(s). The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5

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Corona Virus False Flag Operation Debunked by Real Medical Science
by fakevirus＠airmail.cc 04 Apr '20

04 Apr '20

Groundbreaking podcast and scientific papers prove: The government and media are lying to you about Corona Virus / COVID-19 / coronachan. COVID-19 *is* a psyop / false flag operation. Corona Virus response is a mass psychosis that has gripped most of the world. USA has been converted into an open-air prison gulag with nary a whimper of protest. People are ceding all their liberty to the state to "protect" them from a virus that does not even exist. At the beck and call of Pravda the American People are isolating themselves and further deepening the hysterical mass psychosis that is foisted upon them by their utterly insane government and military "protectors." The Corona Virus Pandemic is a highly successful mass delusion that is terrorizing and traumatizing most of the people in western civilization. There is no deadly corona virus. There are no deaths from COVID-19. Not one. Periodic updates in Bitmessage [chan] coronachan. Fake Corona Virus Debunked by Real Medical Science ================================================== Episode 249: Dr. David Rasnick on the Coronavirus https://player.fm/series/progressive-radio-network/the-infectious-myth-davi… Fake Corona Virus Tests http://theinfectiousmyth.com/book/CoronavirusPanic.pdf David Crow Corona Virus Exposed as Massive Fraud https://davidcrowe.ca/SciHealthEnv.php The Infectious Myth http://theinfectiousmyth.com

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is this wise? -- Fw: Chinese operator buys up Aussie hospitals
by Zenaan Harkness 04 Apr '20

04 Apr '20

China (at least one particular company) is up to 21 Australian hospitals. Just recently bought 3 in Australia's Illawarra region... is this wise? ----- Forwarded message from Bronwyn Hancock <vaccinfo(a)bigpond.com> ----- Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2020 15:18:01 +1100 (AEDT) Subject: Chinese operator buys up Aussie hospitals User-Agent: OWM Mail 3 I think that this kind of activity, bad enough as it was, will likely intensify hereafter, especially by China, because, clearly, whichever countries come out of lock down the soonest (and are naturally the most aggressive anyway) will be those in the best position to take advantage of others still in lock down :( https://www.sbs.com.au/news/chinese-operator-buys-up-aussie-hospitals ----- End forwarded message -----

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WorkFromHome: Document Leak Goldmine, Meeting App Crypto Isn't, Bombers, FOIA...
by grarpamp 03 Apr '20

03 Apr '20

On 4/2/20, Peter Fairbrother <peter(a)tsto.co.uk> wrote: > Zoom's end-to-end encryption isn't actually end-to-end at all. > Good thing the PM isn't using it for Cabinet calls. > Oh, for f..." > > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/01/zoom_spotlight/ There are many more ridiculously insecure meeting apps out there, zoom is not the only one. All with variety of settings, use modes, security, and not. Expect news of massive piles of secret documents and data being scraped and engineered out of this new frontier too. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/04/harden-your-zoom-settings-protect-you… https://thehackernews.com/2020/04/zoom-windows-password.html Govt FOIA Breaks Down... https://twitter.com/bradheath/status/1246039273217953793 > tldr: Now people run zoombombing raids on parliaments worldwide. Attendees in these meetings are even posting their secret meeting codes online in order to kill their own meeting boredom. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjd9b7/8chan-users-coordinated-antisemit… https://twitter.com/search?q=zoombombing High security demo... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB-EqnHE6h4 Room dedicated to converting your choice of stateless freedom into slavery unto them... gets bombed... https://twitter.com/annacc95/status/1245988590099804160 https://twitter.com/hashtag/statelessness https://twitter.com/hashtag/zoomcodes #zoomcodes #zoomid #joinmyzoom #zoomcrash #zoombombing #zoombombed #zoombomb #zoommeeting Work from home... https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EUreJLZU4AIPV9Z.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EUMgjqPUMAIA-e5.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ET-0f8jXgAIKXXZ.jpg Doesn't work from home... https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EUrQgbDU4AAqXwm.png Lamers... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlAVDiS4iSI What would be more interesting is if bombers were instead using the holes as opportunity to debunk, debate, and impart alternative CryptoAnarchy idea bombs into GovEduCorp and other random meetups. God Status to all who succeed at that without getting kickbanned and post the video afterwards. > not end-to-end > mines all your data > tracker-friendly > sends data to facebook > big login hole > host can detect if watchers present > all your base are belong to us

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