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moderation test
by bvaughn74＠gmx.com 26 Jun '16

26 Jun '16

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Russia mandates backdoors, data retention next
by grarpamp 25 Jun '16

25 Jun '16

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/06/24/1825242/russia-lawmakers-pass-spyin… http://www.dailydot.com/politics/encryption-backdoor-russia-fsb-bill-passes/ A bill that was proposed recently in the Russian Duma to make cryptographic backdoors mandatory in all messaging apps, has passed. Patrick Howell O'Neill, reports for DailyDot:A massive surveillance bill is now on its way to becoming law in Russia. The "anti-terrorism" legislation includes a vast data-eavesdropping and -retention program so that telecom and internet companies have to record and store all customer communications for six months, potentially at a multitrillion-dollar cost. Additionally, all internet firms have to provide mandatory backdoor access into encrypted communications for the FSB, the Russian intelligence agency and successor to the KGB. The bill, with support from the ruling United Russia party, passed Friday in the Duma, Russia's lower legislative house, with 277 votes for, 148 against, and one abstaining. It now moves to Russia's Federal Council and the Kremlin, where it's expected to pass into law.

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U.S. Supreme Court rules 5-3 that police may use evidence found in illegal stops.
by Zenaan Harkness 25 Jun '16

25 Jun '16

Americans: your country is looking more f@!#$! by the week. Russians: why are you desperately chasing the West's digital fascism legislation world title?! Damn the world's getting depressing... Subject: U.S. Supreme Court rules 5-3 that police may use evidence found in illegal stops. U.S. Supreme Court rules 5-3 that police may use evidence found in illegal stops The US Supreme Court ruled that police may use evidence in court, even if it is obtained by unconstitutional means, provided the suspect has one or more outstanding arrest warrants. We have been unable to locate the part of the Constitution that says it can be ignored if someone has an outstanding arrest warrant. The Daily Dot. 20 June 2016 (Story) http://www.dailydot.com/politics/supreme-court-justice-search-arrest-warran…

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moderation test
by grarpamp 25 Jun '16

25 Jun '16

On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 11:03:00AM +0200, bvaughn74(a)gmx.com wrote: > > be excellent to each other > > http://i.imgur.com/2Zlj7iM.jpg Provenance and context? If this is old, then you're sick. If this is new and related, then either someone's fucking around, or people have blood on their hands. Such sadness. So yes, please, be excellent to each other... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3fx6TugN7g

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Conspiracy theorist definition.
by Zenaan Harkness 25 Jun '16

25 Jun '16

Conspiracy theorist: Someone who questions the statements of known liars.

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Publicly Usable Secure Rooms
by Karl Semich 25 Jun '16

25 Jun '16

Hi list, I was wondering if anybody had any information on public secure spaces such as shielded rooms. I would like to index such places, and create motion towards such security being accessible for all people. - Karl, USA

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Re: Re: moderation test
by bvaughn74＠gmx.com 25 Jun '16

25 Jun '16

> be excellent to each other http://i.imgur.com/2Zlj7iM.jpg -----Original message----- Sent: Saturday, 25 June 2016 at 10:45:02 From: "Deorge Chesterton" <deorgie(a)gmail.com> To: bvaughn74@gmx.com,cypherpunks@cpunks.org Subject: Re: moderation test Try again, thought police, we still got it Oh yeah, and why would a list full of well-read, realist dystopian, borderline nihilist, self-proclaimed anarchists, even remotely want any part of such a thing? Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you: BVAUGHN74! /golf claps Peace seems never to arrive without a pre-emptive period of chaos. Don't take that away from all of us Dr. Ian Malcolms. How will we stay on top of the food chain if we are afraid to speak? Nice meeting you all, by the way. For all I know I'm probably looking like an ass for not knowing whatever prompted this and simply reacting irrationality as a result. Back to the lurker dungeon. be excellent to each other whenever and wherever possible, my ninjacompoops On Sat, Jun 25, 2016, 02:31 <bvaughn74(a)gmx.com> wrote: > <> >

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Re: Publicly Usable Secure Rooms
by John Young 25 Jun '16

25 Jun '16

Portable SCIFs have been around for decades, tent-size and desk-top: http://cryptome.org/bema-se.htm More compact and emanation-resistant now. Carry your own. Entrepreneurs would offer curb-side service, like food carts, or larger like waste shredders and blood test labs. Yarping and texting on cellphones in the open, believing privacy policies, faith in crypto, wi-fi, ISPs, VPNs, HTTPS, Tor, clouds, IoT, is day-dreaming, making sellers rich. Anything that encourages and supports self-security instead of products, standards, official protectors, is the right direction. Quietly clumsy beats drum-beating authorities ever compromising their users for cohorts. SCIFs leak, sure, rig fixes, test, retest, minimize use of EMR devices, don't bet your life on any security, homebrew or top 10. Have a nice day. At 05:00 PM 6/23/2016, you wrote: >On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 3:14 AM, Karl Semich ><<mailto:gmkarl@gmail.com>gmkarl(a)gmail.com> wrote: >I would like to index such places, and create motion towards such >security being accessible for all people. > > >Attempting to compile such a list would be >laborious and self-defeating.Â It would invite >compromise of the enumerated "secure" locations. Â > >It would be more useful to compile >characteristics of "secure public spaces", and >heuristics for locating them in one's local >environs.Â How can we tell - without special >equipment etc - if a given space is >monitored?Â If we land in an unfamiliar city, >how can we correctly "guess" where to find a secure public space? > >On a recent trip I discovered a little 3' x 4' >nook in the outside wall of LA's Bonaventure >Hotel.Â Tho adjacent to areas of high >pedestrian traffic, the nook was unspied by any >cameras.Â No microphones or other sensors were >visible nearby.Â A blissful respite from the >otherwise panoptic surveillance of urban California. Â > >In this case we might speculatively take the >hotel's Brutalist architecture as the heuristic >for finding similar spaces.Â Although sometimes >described as an aesthetically "fascist" style, >Brutalist architects loved to create little >difficult-to-surveil nooks & crannies in their >buildings.Â Alas many of these spaces have been >fenced up by the buildings' current Centrist >owners.Â For example theÂ ><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Service_Center_(Boston)#/media/Fil…>contemptible >disfigurement of Boston's magnificent Government Service Center building. > >What are other heuristics for finding secure less-surveilled spaces?

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Philip K. Dick foreshadowing the post-Snowden world
by grarpamp 25 Jun '16

25 Jun '16

https://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/comments/497ndj/philip_k_dick_foreshadow… The android and the human, 1972

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Re: [tor-dev] Freenet + Onioncat: Is the traffic welcome?
by grarpamp 25 Jun '16

25 Jun '16

On 6/22/16, konstant(a)mail2tor.com <konstant(a)mail2tor.com> wrote: > I want to be clear about a couple of things. I am not looking to defy the > wishes of Tor developers and relay contributors. I hope to get their views > on the matter. Should they explicitly refuse, I will look at I2P. When I ran, donated, managed relays... only wanted all of what I paid for to be consumed. "Wished" it would be in alignment with certain ideals, but realized that's not reality. For more and different opinions from relays, you might want to post to tor-relays@ referencing the archive url to this thread. > Second, my idea does not touch Exit bandwidth at all. We will only deploy > hidden services. Yeah, it's freenet over tor. Makes for an interesting definition of hidden service. Don't forget to add around 1000+ ms latency. > Wasting resources is abusive. However, comparing bittorrent traffic to > Freenet doesn't do it justice. Freenet is used by dissidents for freedom > of speech and publishing small static files like blogs, not to share gigs > of media files. Anonymous uncensorable overlay networks, are "used" by whoever, for whatever, limited only by the techinical and practical capabilities of each network. There are many "gigs of media files" being shared over freenet and other nets by many happy and even wasteful users. This fact understandably burns the britches of those who intend their network to be used only for some other purposes. It happens. There seems to be ongoing and growing interest around the world in overlay nets and parallel wire[less] 'guerilla' nets, and lots of room for improved and new code and models. No worries here. > [arma] the main rule is that if you're going to add traffic to tor, run some relays to match > [arma] for hidden services, that's 1MB/s of traffic onto 6 places, so 6MB/s This has always been my position. Each user of these "free" community powered networks has an impact. For some nets this has readily calculable minimums, like tor and its 6x minimum for exclusively non-exit (HS) use. Other nets or usage models may be roughly estimated. Therefore each user of such networks should know / learn the impact for their respective network. And should realize that they are in a way obligated to return the resources they consume, as otherwise their network will not have headroom and their own experience will go downhill fast. > Freenet has 10KiB/s minimum bandwidth requirement. Note that the correct form for engineering, and apps interfacing at the level of, network traffic rates... is bits (b), not bytes (B), and decimal prefixes, not binary prefixes.

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