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The Revolution Business: For Hire
by grarpamp 09 Oct '16

09 Oct '16

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63zv2z5wcRo https://www.journeyman.tv/film/5171 The Revolution Business: Democratic change has been demanded across the Middle East. But was what seems like a spontaneous revolution actually a strategically planned event, fabricated by 'revolution consultants' long in advance? For similar stories, see: Not Anymore: A Story of Revolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdPz2... After the Revolution - Georgia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvpVW... Exporting the Taliban Revolution - Afghanistan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClFxt... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otpor! Revolution consultants are the worst nightmare of every regime. Srdja Popovic was a founder of the organisation 'Otpor', a revolution training school. It was instrumental in the overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic in the 1990s and has now inspired a new generation of activists. Political commentators like William Engdahl are convinced Otpor is being financed by the USA. "The people from Otpor gave us a book in which they described all their strategies", says Ezzedine Zaatour of the Tunisian uprising. That book was written by an American, Gene Sharp, and is now considered the "revolution guide book", being used by opposition movements worldwide. As Otpor release their latest gadget, a resistance training computer game produced by the International Centre on Nonviolent Conflict in the USA, world leaders are voicing their concerns. "This is called a gentle coup!", insists Hugo Chavez. Alternate, subbed "Posao Revolucija"... https://vimeo.com/34179193

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US Senate Brief: DeepWeb Exploiting Breaches, Cloner Nabbed, Bitcoin, HaaS
by grarpamp 09 Oct '16

09 Oct '16

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvE9Xk6_CWw http://icitech.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/ICIT-Brief-Deep-Web-Exploitat… http://icitech.org/event/electronic-health-records-the-black-market/ ICIT Senate Briefing - The Deep Web Exploitation of Health Sector Breach Victims This briefing is an analysis of the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology's research report entitled "Your Life Repackaged and Resold: The Deep Web Exploitation of Health Sector Breach Victims". Panelists discuss how adversaries utilize Deep Web marketplaces and forums to buy and sell exploits, services and electronic health records as well as show images taken from forums and marketplaces found on the Deep Web. https://www.justice.gov/usao-ct/pr/wallingford-man-charged-stealing-bitcoin… https://www.reddit.com/u/crimewave_loves_you http://pirate.london/2016/03/tor-wars-the-onion-cloners-legacy/ https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/56c7js/fbi_deanonymizes_bi…

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Torgate: Tor Pushing Another Person Out?
by grarpamp 09 Oct '16

09 Oct '16

https://twitter.com/shiromarieke/status/784357721789304837 Several sources say that a @torproject volunteer has been bullied out of the Seattle meeting because of their support for @ioerror. If true, this is very concerning information. What are you doing, @torproject? Can anyone confirm this information? https://twitter.com/jdormansteele/status/784226261312892928 David W. Robinson How will the hacker world reply to @torproject 's McCarthyite blacklisting of people who support #ioerror? Right now, it's mostly with fear. The @torproject "public" hack days were not open to people lacking the required "great attitude," definition being "Don't Challenge Us."

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Wikileaks Hosts Secret Book Of Mormon Law
by grarpamp 09 Oct '16

09 Oct '16

https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Mormon_Church_Handbook_of_Instructions,_2006 http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/09/mormon-rebel-went-to-wikil… r-help.html Mormon Rebel Went to WikiLeaks for Help When a female member of the Mormon Church was being accused of apostasy, she was unable to see the documents that detailed the rules she was accused of breaking. When Kate Kelly, founder of the Mormon feminist group Ordain Women, was accused of apostasy, she couldnt readily access the Church Handbook of Instructions, Volume 1, for the definition. So Kelly and Nadine Hansen, a lawyer representing her in her hearings, had to turn elsewhere. "The only way that women can access that volume is by accessing it online at WikiLeaks, Kelly told The Daily Beast. Before Church insiders began leaking Latter Day Saint videos and documents through the so-called MormonLeaks, WikiLeaks was an unlikely ally for church members looking for ease of access to restricted texts. And while the online organizations religious troublemaking is best known for its expose of Scientology, it also revealed previously unavailable documents from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Fellowship of Friends, and other organizations. The Mormon Church didnt take the leaks quietly. They tried to fight distribution by claiming copyright infringement. (WikiLeaks will not remove the handbooks, which are of substantial interest to current and former mormons, a representative of the group said at the time.) It is frankly annoying, as a woman, to be told, in a patronizing fashion, that I'm not allowed to see and read the CHI for myself, but that it has to be interpreted for me by a male priesthood holder,...

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Wikileaks Dumps Clinton-Podesta WallSt Private Speeches and Mails, Google In Queue
by grarpamp 09 Oct '16

09 Oct '16

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/ https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/927 https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/1099 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/hillary-clint… Hillary Clinton transcripts: WikiLeaks posts apparent excerpts from private Wall Street speeches https://masspirates.org/blog/2016/10/08/dont-be-john-encrypt-your-email/ https://politics.slashdot.org/story/16/10/08/2021258/wikileaks-releases-pai… http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3827926/Julian-Assange-warns-WikiLe… Julian Assange warns WikiLeaks will expose Google as he promised to release 'significant disclosures' on company

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An opening to stop DRM in Web standards
by Steve Kinney 09 Oct '16

09 Oct '16

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Propaganda worth catapulting, IMO. :o) Tim Berners-Lee just gave us an opening to stop DRM in Web standards Submitted by Zak Rogoff on October 6, 2016 - 12:27pm This week, the chief arbiter of Web standards, Tim Berners-Lee, decided not to exercise his power to extend the development timeline for the Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) Web technology standard. The EME standardization effort, sponsored by streaming giants like Google and Netflix, aims to make it cheaper and more efficient to impose Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) systems on Web users. The streaming companies' representatives within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) were unable to finish EME within the time allotted by the W3C, and had asked Berners-Lee for an extension through next year. Berners-Lee made his surprising decision on Tuesday, as explained in an email announcement by W3C representative Philippe Le Hégaret. Instead of granting a time extension — as he has already done once — Berners-Lee delegated the decision to the W3C's general decision-making body, the Advisory Committee. The Advisory Committee includes diverse entities from universities to companies to nonprofits, and it is divided as to whether EME should be part of Web standards. It is entirely possible that the Advisory Committee will reject the time extension and terminate EME development, marking an important victory for the free Web. https://www.defectivebydesign.org/blog/tim_bernerslee_just_gave_us_openi ng_stop_drm_web_standards =or= https://tinyurl.com/kill-web-DRM -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJX+hr5AAoJEECU6c5Xzmuq1hkH+gMhcyGvkkcce/XC60+8E7A4 lUxawuOXIpnsvuArRoYhHdGDzSP2BbJcDkojbmFgbp2kYvL/PTOkODIl9FqnBTmM Bmp0JiQwwoequxwCZ6vXzKnBNnBq6TF4+j6ZCS4Gp0moV/etfAlFFiWN6VQL0D2Y Jy4gI1j5731vUQWariKIjiJBX+aUkqFNdPTLtCOIyOxDlICg94mRzq5M/cByRV0Z MovG8EJ4TJyxS5jTqW/T4PJpJ9j8/yMyzDH8I2qrsSDwiizrL4RY/DecHGtRV6xA a9hBS2mKX7i+Ah3VqE3vO/CfhmhZJuKwWhDkBbse1Ai4z8oWAJ1zocDLNgpjbg0= =3hKG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Freenet and OnionCat
by Mirimir 08 Oct '16

08 Oct '16

It may be old news, and Freenet peers connect well enough via OnionCat <http://mh7mkfvezts5j6yu.onion/>. I've been taking a somewhat different approach. I'm also using OnionCat, but I focused first on anonymously reaching peers via the open Internet. I have a node that hits the Internet through an "anonymous" VPS proxy. The node reaches the proxy via IPv6 OpenVPN via OnionCat. The node binds locally only to tun1, and in the proxy, tun1 forwards to eth0. Anyone interested in playing? Contact me off-list, if you like.

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[NotTheOnion] Want a career with zero chances of going jobless? CyberSecurity.
by Razer 08 Oct '16

08 Oct '16

You know what they say about the market. When everyone is getting in, it's time to bail... WASHINGTON - Want a career with zero chances of going jobless? Try the booming field of cybersecurity. Companies can’t hire fast enough. In the United States, companies report 209,000 cybersecurity jobs that are in need of filling. It’ll only get worse. By 2019, according to the Cybersecurity Jobs Report, the workforce shortfall may reach 1.5 million. Globally, the shortage could hit 6 million, it added. “The internet is growing faster than the growth of people to protect it,” said Michael Kaiser, chief executive of the National Cyber Security Alliance. It is a problem with the full attention of the White House, which in July called for “immediate and broad-sweeping actions to address the growing workforce shortage and establish a pipeline of well-qualified cybersecurity talent.” A dramatic rise in cybercrime has put government in competition with private companies for hiring cybersecurity experts. Private companies recoil at the possibility of hackers stealing their proprietary information, holding their data for ransom or plundering their servers of the personal information of clients. The shortage in job candidates is not an easy or quick problem to address, experts said. “It takes a long time to develop the instincts to be an effective cybersecurity engineer. You can’t just come out of college and know what to do,” said David Foote, a tech industry researcher and co-founder of Foote Partners of Vero Beach, Florida. “The threat landscape changes all the time, and that’s hard to train for,” Kaiser added. Foote said both government and private industry faced shortages: “In the short term, it’s not looking good. There are so many employers who are way behind in staffing.” Efforts to poach cybersecurity experts occur at a blistering pace. Some 46 percent of working cybersecurity professionals said they received solicitations for other jobs “at least once per week,” according to the State of Cyber Security Professional Careers, a survey released last month jointly by the Enterprise Strategy Group and Information Systems Security Association. “Turnover in the cybersecurity ranks could represent an existential risk to organizations in lower-paying industries like academia, health care, the public sector and retail,” the survey said. In the federal government’s push to expand cybersecurity training, it has targeted all levels of education, including $125 million in National Science Foundation grants to primary and secondary schools. It has also designated nearly 200 colleges and universities as National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense. Many universities are gearing up programs to meet the surge in demand. “We will start teaching the first group of students in two weeks,” said Alan M. Usas, the director of the new executive master’s in cybersecurity program at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. “Interest has been extremely high.” But luring younger students into cybersecurity can be a tough sell. “People who are graduating from college are looking for the next killer app or to create the next startup,” said Katrina Timlin, an associate fellow in the Strategic Technologies Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank. Cybersecurity has little of the cachet of other areas of information technology, such as machine learning, and cybersecurity experts aren’t even always loved at their own companies. Their departments are not revenue generators. And their constant efforts to penetrate systems can raise hackles. “They have to have that nonconformist edge where they can pick apart a problem. That kind of personality pushes some people’s buttons,” Timlin said. As they look for flaws in existing networks and systems, cybersecurity experts can find themselves at loggerheads with technology engineers who built the systems, she said. Cybersecurity encompasses far more than just technology issues. “Most every company that has an internet presence by definition is a global company,” Usas said. When hacks occur, “there’s forensic work that needs to be done,” he added, but often legal and policy issues come into play, as well as human behavior analysis. “There are a number of straight deep tech jobs, but there are also a number of hybrid jobs,” Foote said, noting that computer hacks can affect accounting and finance divisions, as well as logistics, marketing and legal affairs. Those who are already established in cybersecurity and leading teams at companies are well-compensated. “There is some talk out there, I’ve heard it, that lead software security engineers are making $230,000 and $240,000 a year. It’s crazy,” said Foote. Foote’s consulting firm receives compensation data from 2,914 employers who report on what they pay 255,650 full-time technology professionals. In the most recent quarter, Foote said, the firm found an average salary of $99,000 for a cyber security specialist with three years’ experience in design, deployment and administration of security systems. For a more senior employee with at least five years of experience and strong knowledge of digital controls and protection strategies, the national average salary is $118,000. Cybersecurity jobs in the United States pay an average of $6,500 more than other information technology professions, a premium of 9 percent, according to a July report, Hacking the Skills Shortage, by Intel Security and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. --30-- With (snigger) job leads > http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/national-security/art…

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The Democratization Of Censorship
by grarpamp 07 Oct '16

07 Oct '16

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/09/the-democratization-of-censorship/ (Notable irony in the path of layering practices, rules, security, mandates, laws, police... effectively / eventually censorship... to combat censorship.)

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Sim Theory
by grarpamp 07 Oct '16

07 Oct '16

https://science.slashdot.org/story/16/10/06/1352205/tech-billionaires-are-a… http://www.businessinsider.com/tech-billionaires-want-to-break-humans-out-o… http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/sam-altmans-manifest-destiny https://games.slashdot.org/story/16/06/03/0049258/elon-musk-one-in-billions… Tech Billionaires Are Asking Scientists For Help To Break Humans Out of Computer Simulation Many believe that we live in a computer simulation. But it takes a billionaire and his money to ask scientists to help break us out of the simulation. The New Yorker recently did a profile about Y Combinator's Sam Altman. In the story, Altman discusses his theories about being controlled by technology and delves into the simulation theory. From an article on The New Yorker: Many people in Silicon Valley have become obsessed with the simulation hypothesis, the argument that what we experience as reality is in fact fabricated in a computer; two tech billionaires have gone so far as to secretly engage scientists to work on breaking us out of the simulation. Business Insider adds: The piece doesn't give any clue as to who those two billionaires are -- although it's easy to hazard a few guesses at who they might be, like Musk himself or Altman's friend Peter Thiel -- but it's fascinating to see how seriously people are taking this theory. According to Musk, it's the most popular topic of conversation right now.Earlier this year, at Code Conference, Elon Musk said there's "one in billions" chance we're not living in a computer simulation.

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