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Turkey Blocks: Great Firewall Of Turkey
by grarpamp 20 Dec '16

20 Dec '16

https://turkeyblocks.org/2016/12/18/tor-blocked-in-turkey-vpn-ban/ Turkey Blocks finds that the Tor direct access mode is now restricted for most internet users throughout the country; Tor usage via bridges including obfs3 and obfs4 remains viable, although we see indications that obfs3 is being downgraded by some service providers with scope for similar on restrictions obfs4. The restrictions are being implemented in tandem with apparent degradation of commercial VPN service traffic.

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Govt Stingrays: Raping Your Wallet While We Rape Your Privacy
by grarpamp 19 Dec '16

19 Dec '16

http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/19/14007830/house-committee-congress-stingr… https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/THE-FINAL-bipartisan… The devices, used by local and federal law enforcement agencies around the country, have been controversial, both for their power to track mobile devices and the secrecy often accompanying their use. As the report notes, the devices are still often used by local law enforcement agencies without warrants, instead relying on various lower standards of evidence. The committee's investigation, which last year prompted the Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security to change their policies on when to require a warrant before using the devices, found that the Justice Department uses 310 of the devices and spent $71 million on them between fiscal years 2010 and 2014. Homeland Security has 124 devices and spent $24 million in the same period. [...] The committee recommends that agencies become more "candid" about the devices, and urges states to pass legislation that would "require, with limited exceptions, issuance of a probable cause based warrant prior to law enforcement's use of these devices." That's on average $194,000 to $230,000 *each*. Open source HW and SW to do the same thing is well under $1000 each. It's time you arrest and charge these rapists with count 1) wallet rape, count 2) privacy rape, count 3) conspiracy to abuse, convict them, and put them in jail.

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[WAR] Syrian conflict in a simple chart
by Zenaan Harkness 18 Dec '16

18 Dec '16

Short table comparing the Assad regime, to the "moderate rebels" Al-Qaeda regime which USA and MSM around the Western world has been pushing. Simple truth behind war in Syria, explained in one simple chart that Obama White House does not want you see http://theduran.com/the-simple-truth-behind-the-war-in-syria-explained-in-o… -- * Certified Deplorable Neo-Nazi Fake News Hunter (TM)(C)(R) * Executive Director of Triggers, Ministry of Winning * Weapons against traditional \/\/European\/\/ values: http://davidduke.com/jewish-professor-boasts-of-jewish-pornography-used-as-… * How Liberal Lefties view the world: http://bbs.dailystormer.com/uploads/default/optimized/3X/0/4/042cb95724339d…

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US To SECRET and LIE SOME MORE About Number Of Americans Under Surveillance
by grarpamp 18 Dec '16

18 Dec '16

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-surveillance-idUSKBN1452FX The U.S. intelligence community will soon disclose an estimate of the number of Americans whose electronic communications have been caught in the crosshairs of online surveillance programs intended for foreigners, U.S. lawmakers said in a letter seen by Reuters on Friday. The estimate, requested by members of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, is expected to be made public as early as next month, the letter said. Its disclosure would come as Congress is expected to begin debate in the coming months over whether to reauthorize or reform the so-called surveillance authority, known as Section 702, a provision that was added to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in 2008. "The timely production of this information is incredibly important to informed debate on Section 702 in the next Congress— and, without it, even those of us inclined to support reauthorization would have reason for concern," said the letter signed by 11 lawmakers, all members of the House Judiciary Committee. The letter was sent on Friday to National Intelligence Director James Clapper. ...

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Twitter Subsidiary Caught Giving Surveillance Feeds To Govts, Twitter Backpedals
by grarpamp 17 Dec '16

17 Dec '16

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/15/twitter-dataminr-user-da… http://www.aclunc.org/docs/20160315_dataminr_email_to_jric.pdf http://www.aclunc.org/docs/20161212_twitter_letter_to_aclu.pdf https://www.aclunc.org/our-work/legal-docket/gill-v-doj-challenge-federal-s… https://www.jric.org/ Twitter has blocked federally funded "domestic spy centers" from using a powerful social media monitoring tool after public records revealed that the government had special access to users' information for controversial surveillance efforts. The American Civil Liberties Union of California discovered that so-called fusion centers, which collect intelligence, had access to monitoring technology from Dataminr, an analytics company partially owned by Twitter. The ACLU's records prompted the companies to announce that Dataminr had terminated access for all fusion centers and would no longer provide social media surveillance tools to any local, state or federal government entities. The government centers are partnerships between agencies that work to collect vast amounts of information purportedly to analyze "threats". The spy centers, according to the ACLU, target protesters, journalists and others protected by free speech rights while also racially profiling people deemed "suspicious" by law enforcement. Records that the ACLU obtained uncovered that a fusion center in southern California had access to Dataminr's "geospatial analysis application", which allowed the government to do location-based tracking as well as searches tied to keywords. That means the center could use Dataminr to search billions of tweets and monitor specific demographics or organizations. Shell companies to be given same access in the future.

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oil supply sigint
by hozer＠hozed.org 16 Dec '16

16 Dec '16

So Trump is installing all these oil guys, and someone is creating a narrative of russians hacking the election, and it's all so overly bizzare I think I'm living in someones broken simulation matrix. Then I see https://www.emptywheel.net/2016/12/09/unpacking-new-cia-leak-dont-ignore-al… which says "But what about the implications that climate science will be squelched in addition to alternative energy development? They can purge anybody who worked on alternative energy, halt reporting about climate change, but they can't hide tankers floating out at sea chock full of oil. They can't hide the strategic petroleum reserve. They can't force the market to pay more for oil unless they truly shut off the spigots and the moves they are making suggest they are doing no such thing." So what's going on here? There's some kind of sigint here about oil, but I'm not quite seeing all the pieces. Are we out? Is it gone? Or do we just have some shadow government that's about to bust the petrodollar and go cryptocurrency because it's getting too hard to trace the cold hard cash flows when they go dark? Or is this leaking stuff just the intelligence community reminding Trump who's really in charge here. What I read of him is he'd be trivial to manipulate by some guys who have spent their lives installing puppet governments.

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Assange assasinated?
by Cannon 16 Dec '16

16 Dec '16

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Former UK ambassador:: I picked up the Clinton emails from a Democrat whistleblower
by Razer 16 Dec '16

16 Dec '16

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4034038/Ex-British-ambassador-WikiL… A Wikileaks envoy today claims he personally received Clinton campaign emails in Washington D.C. after they were leaked by 'disgusted' whisteblowers - and not hacked by Russia. Craig Murray, former British ambassador to Uzbekistan and a close associate of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, told Dailymail.com that he flew to Washington, D.C. for a clandestine hand-off with one of the email sources in September. 'Neither of [the leaks] came from the Russians,' said Murray in an interview with Dailymail.com on Tuesday. 'The source had legal access to the information. The documents came from inside leaks, not hacks.' His account contradicts directly the version of how thousands of Democratic emails were published before the election being advanced by U.S. intelligence. Craig Murray (left), former British ambassador to Uzbekistan and a close associate of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange (right), told the Dailymail.com that he flew to Washington, D.C. for a clandestine hand-off with one of the email sources in September Murray is a controversial figure who was removed from his post as a British ambassador amid allegations of misconduct. He was cleared of those but left the diplomatic service in acrimony. His links to Wikileaks are well known and while his account is likely to be seen as both unprovable and possibly biased, it is also the first intervention by Wikileaks since reports surfaced last week that the CIA believed Russia hacked the Clinton emails to help hand the election to Donald Trump. Murray's claims about the origins of the Clinton campaign emails comes as U.S. intelligence officials are increasingly confident that Russian hackers infiltrated both the Democratic National Committee and the email account of top Clinton aide John Podesta. In Podesta's case, his account appeared to have been compromised through a basic 'phishing' scheme, the New York Times reported on Wednesday. U.S. intelligence officials have reportedly told members of Congress during classified briefings that they believe Russians passed the documents on to Wikileaks as part of an influence operation to swing the election in favor of Donald Trump. But Murray insisted that the DNC and Podesta emails published by Wikileaks did not come from the Russians, and were given to the whistleblowing group by Americans who had authorized access to the information. 'Neither of [the leaks] came from the Russians,' Murray said. 'The source had legal access to the information. The documents came from inside leaks, not hacks.' He said the leakers were motivated by 'disgust at the corruption of the Clinton Foundation and the tilting of the primary election playing field against Bernie Sanders.' Murray said he retrieved the package from a source during a clandestine meeting in a wooded area near American University, in northwest D.C. He said the individual he met with was not the original person who obtained the information, but an intermediary. Murray claims he met with the person who passed the emails over in a Washington, D.C. part near American University His account cannot be independently verified but is in line with previous statements by Wikileaks - which was the organization that published the Podesta and DNC emails. Wikileaks published the DNC messages in July and the Podesta messages in October. The messages revealed efforts by some DNC officials to undermine the presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders, who was running against Hillary Clinton. Others revealed that Clinton aides were concerned about potential conflicts and mismanagement at the Clinton Foundation. Murray declined to say where the sources worked and how they had access to the information, to shield their identities. He suggested that Podesta's emails might be 'of legitimate interest to the security services' in the U.S., due to his communications with Saudi Arabia lobbyists and foreign officials. Murray said he was speaking out due to claims from intelligence officials that Wikileaks was given the documents by Russian hackers as part of an effort to help Donald Trump win the U.S. presidential election. 'I don't understand why the CIA would say the information came from Russian hackers when they must know that isn't true,' he said. 'Regardless of whether the Russians hacked into the DNC, the documents Wikileaks published did not come from that.' Murray was a vocal critic of human rights abuses in Uzbekistan while serving as ambassador between 2002 and 2004, a stance that pitted him against the UK Foreign Office. He describes himself as a 'close associate' of Julian Assange and has spoken out in support of the Wikileaks founder who has faced rape allegations and is currently confined to the Ecuadorian embassy in London. Assange has similarly disputed that charges that Wikileaks received the leaked emails from Russian sources. 'The Clinton camp has been able to project a neo-McCarthyist hysteria that Russia is responsible for everything,' Assange told John Pilger during an interview in November. 'Hillary Clinton has stated multiple times, falsely, that 17 US intelligence agencies had assessed that Russia was the source of our publications. That's false – we can say that the Russian government is not the source.' Murray suggested that John Podesta's emails might be 'of legitimate interest to the security services' in the U.S., due to his communications with Saudi Arabia lobbyists and foreign officials The Washington Post reported last Friday that U.S. intelligence agencies had 'identified individuals with connections to the Russian government who provided WikiLeaks with thousands of hacked emails.' The paper said U.S. senators were presented with information tying Russia to the leaks during a recent briefing by intelligence officials. 'It is the assessment of the intelligence community that Russia's goal here was to favor one candidate over the other, to help Trump get elected,' a senior U.S. official familiar with the briefing told the Post. 'That's the consensus view.' The paper said U.S. senators were presented with information tying Russia to the leaks during a recent briefing by intelligence officials. 'It is the assessment of the intelligence community that Russia's goal here was to favor one candidate over the other, to help Trump get elected,' a senior U.S. official familiar with the briefing told the Post. 'That's the consensus view.' The Obama administration has been examining Russia's potential role in trying to influence the presidential election. Officials said Russians hacked the Republican National Committee, but did not release that information in a deliberate effort to damage Clinton and protect Donald Trump. Several congressional committees are also looking into the suspected Russian interference. While there is a consensus on Capitol Hill that Russia hacked U.S. political groups and officials, some Republicans say it's not clear whether the motive was to try to swing the election or just to collect intelligence. 'Now whether they intended to interfere to the degree that they were trying to elect a certain candidate, I think that's the subject of investigation,' said Sen. John McCain on CBS Face the Nation. 'But facts are stubborn things, they did hack into this campaign.' President elect Donald Trump raised doubts about the reports and said this was an 'excuse' by Democrats to explain Clinton's November loss. 'It's just another excuse. I don't believe it,' said Trump on Fox News Sunday.

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Debian/Ubuntu security apt phun
by Georgi Guninski 16 Dec '16

16 Dec '16

Debian/Ubuntu security apt phun https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3156-1/ 13th December, 2016 An attacker could trick APT into installing altered packages. https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3733 can take advantage of this flaw to circumvent the signature of the InRelease file, leading to arbitrary code execution. Likely besides the nsa, others enjoyed this too (have seen multi user debian mirror with world writable stuff at /etc) And how do you update apt if it is broken? ;)

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New low for the intercept.
by juan 15 Dec '16

15 Dec '16

https://theintercept.com/2016/12/14/heres-the-public-evidence-russia-hacked… "The website DCLeaks, which began publishing a great number of DNC emails, has some apparent ties to Guccifer and possibly Russia. And then there’s Wikileaks, which after a long, sad slide into paranoia, conspiracy theorizing, and general internet toxicity, has made no attempt to mask its affection for Vladimir Putin and its crazed contempt for Hillary Clinton. (Julian Assange has been stuck indoors for a very, very long time.)"

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