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SpyCulture: DisInfoWars Podcast by Tom Secker
by Ryan Carboni 03 Dec '19

03 Dec '19

>A tip came from the FBI, who were tapping Ellsberg’s phone calls, specifically a >phone call between Ellsberg and his psychiatrist Lewis Fielding where Ellsberg >said he was ‘immensely relieved that he had completed his task’. Other reports >said that Ellsberg and his wife indulged in hallucinogenic drugs and orgies, >suggesting they were part of the hippy scene, and that Ellsberg had a girlfriend >from Sweden, a major entry point for Soviet agents to get into Western Europe. >When news came in that the Pentagon Papers had been supplied to the Soviets >before the New York Times began publishing them alarm bells started to ring. >People noted that Ellsberg had attended Cambridge University, where the >members of notorious Soviet spy ring were recruited. One needs to be a well rounded individual to run our nation's economy or to be part of any elite sector. Like orgy experience or something. The trick I think is to not come off like a creepy loser in order to get invited to these drugged out BDSM parties.

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The Fed' shills for world's greatest tax - Carbon Hoax - 'Member the Fed - [MONEY] [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 02 Dec '19

02 Dec '19

The Federal Reserve Bank, neither federal, nor reserve, nor constitutional, is once again shilling for a global tax of some sort, any bloody sort, just bring the damn tax in already (thank you Greta Thunderburger!) Now why, oh why, would the Fed be shilling for a global tax? Perhaps because they're starting to pump such volumes of voluminous fiats that "full faith and credit" is possibly going to come a gutser? Perhaps the ginormous money printing is causing imbalances where too much money is going (or about to go) into the hands of the populace (UBI I hear you correctly say)? Or perhaps it's just plane sheer unbridled greed and control instincts of the central Bankers Gone Wild? Whatever it is, we know firstly it's a firetrucking hoax, but hey, what's new? Fed Warns Climate Change Is A Major Threat To The Economy https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/fed-warns-climate-change-now-major-threat-… https://www.newyorkfed.org/newsevents/speeches/2019/sti191107 ... "The U.S. economy has experienced more than $500 billion in direct losses over the last five years due to climate and weather-related events. In addition, climate change has significant consequences for the U.S. economy and financial sector through slowing productivity growth, asset revaluations and sectoral reallocations of business activity" ... Nonetheless, real impacts are already being felt and we must develop the tools to assess and manage them." Impacts... like a 16-year-old girl with Asperger's syndrome dictating monetary, fiscal and social policy? ... At least Greta Thunberg will be happy for a few years before the social catalysm that results from the Fed's final act of idiocy means that eating the rich - and just about anyone else - will be more than just a figure of speech.

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SpyCulture: DisInfoWars Podcast by Tom Secker
by grarpamp 02 Dec '19

02 Dec '19

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Re: Questions to Snowden
by Ryan Carboni 02 Dec '19

02 Dec '19

A dumb bastard used by other dumber bastards to make a hash of everything and call it an accomplishment. No doubt he is enjoying his life. To each his own. But what he did was terrible from many perspectives and was a net negative. Next time when he starts a debate he should learn some skills.

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Low speed, p2p, wireless as a secure alternative to SMS and Signal-like services.
by Steven Schear 02 Dec '19

02 Dec '19

By choosing a different physical transport means a different and, I maintain, better set of security tradeoffs become available. Unlike approaches which invariably depend on the Internet and heavily monitored commercial gateways, I propose using infrastructure-less or non-permissioned commercial, single-hop, relays. It's not the electromagnetic spectrum isn't also monitored but that the efficacy of that monitoring is, unlike the former environment, much more limited by physics, channel conditions, information theory and the proper application of tradecraft by possible targets. Both as a hobbyist and professional I've delved into the practicality of utilizing and building on commonly available, even consumer grade, Software Defined Signal Processing (SDSP, the use of the term SDR is verboten in my world due to its inherent regulatory implications) hardware and open source software. My investigations (some openly shared at Cypherpunk-oriented tech conferences) have led me to believe that even a moderate uptake of these SDSP technologies would effectively neutralize most or all SIGINT against parties who aren't already the subject of individual targeting. These technologies aren't some magical new creation but rather the integration and adoption of ideas already well studied and reported in academia but whose implementations are often not openly available for tailoring and testing, mostly due to unfounded fears of regulatory actions. To be continued...

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Re: Virgil Griffith - Crypto Advocate and Educator Arrested at LAX from DPRK
by John Young 02 Dec '19

02 Dec '19

Virgil Griffith v USG https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1222646/download

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Cryptocurrency: You as Debt Money
by grarpamp 02 Dec '19

02 Dec '19

Sherry Jackson ex-IRS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-5x6AqJ3iU anarchast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFNHqelOcnE anarchapulco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1UT2Ms5E2k part1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9PSYkWIuIs part2 https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=birth+certificate+enslavement https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=birth+certificate+slavery Have fun down the rabbit hole :)

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tor stinks, take #376029
by Punk-Stasi 2.0 02 Dec '19

02 Dec '19

https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/cache/active-pet2010.pdf "Suppose the adversary runs just two routers. If we take into account the way Tor chooses circuits, the size of the network ], and the number of users observed on Tor in one day , we expect the adversary to compromise 15 users at least once in that day. If the adversary provides the top two routers by bandwidth, the expected number of compromised users increases to 9464.1 Thus, the system provides poor anonymity against a wide variety of realistic opponents, such as governments, ISPs," that comes directly from supreme scum-master syverson himself. What's really astounding is that at the same time syverson and the rest of tor shitbags advertise tor as a means for people to "protect themselves against traffic analysis". "

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Zerostash: Zero-metadata object store
by grarpamp 02 Dec '19

02 Dec '19

https://github.com/rsdy/zerostash Zerostash is a deduplicated, encrypted data store that provides native versioning capabilities, and was designed to secure all metadata related to the files, including the exact size of the data that is stored in the containers. Use cases Versioned backups in the cloud, or external hard drives Encrypt and store entire workspaces for fast sync between computer Easily sync & wipe data & encryption programs while travelling Storage and sync backend for offsite backups Threat model Protect data confidentiality, integrity and authenticity The exact size of data should not be known Individual user data shouldn't be attributable on shared storage Once a data is shared, it is no longer secure. Deleting data from the storage should be possible Access to only the key and raw data should not be sufficient for full data compromise

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Cryptocurrency: Anonymous to Invest $75M of Crypto to Develop Privacy Coins and Anon Tech
by grarpamp 02 Dec '19

02 Dec '19

> Is there a location at which these proposals have been published? They are not currently publishing the applications by default because they currently view that as harming potential startups. Though you can send them project press releases for publishing to: chris_unknown_fund(a)protonmail.com There are probably no third party locations because most proposals are likely to be from typical "startup" space that is usually trying to secretly extract money from each other and the market, than giving good things to the world. > Has anyone proposed what we propose doing, building > an anonymization network... done-right? Unknown. But if you're serious about doing anything with them you need to get at least some kind of hello application in now because they have a lot of apps in the pipeline, and they say applications are closed. So it'll have to be something good to bypass the rest. As to some recently mentioned ones... 1) A new general purpose secure *PA resistant internet overlay transport network built from good current and new research, including use of pluggable RF module tech. Many apps can ride. And it should be designed to be a factor stronger than tor, i2p, and all the rest are today. 2) An OpenAudited OpenFab building OpenHW (including CPU, GPU, ASIC, RF, Phones), to run all the OpenSW on. 3) There should be an application for strictly a cryptocurrency... distributed, privacy in protocol by default, cpu transaction mined, no 100GB's of blockchain history only a UTXO state db, and strictly serving only the "currency / money / cash" function, fast lightweight hard, no premine, no support for tokens, contracts, data, or any other bloatware at all, just a plain old fashioned single purpose cash. Maybe multisig and timelock for safer holding, but that's it, the less the better will yield recognition as purely money and reach primary goal of cryptocurrency adoption faster therein. It must be capable of running over anonymous overlay networks. 4) And an application for a genuine fully distributed cross-chain DEX (CCDEX) is a remaining tech that is desperately needed to help complete the cryptocurrency function space. It must be capable of running over anonymous overlay networks. Few want to do 1, 3, or 4, because when done right, there's no profit or control over other people for them to have, and that's how it should be. Though 2 can profit once it gets running, it would be better if it spent its profit to seed independant redundant copies of itself and or other needed projects. So far most of the online chatter seems to be about getting yet more pointless shitcoins off the ground than working on fundamental underlying tech the fund, or at least some of us, would like to see. I'd even help review some of the apps but I'm not in that loop. https://www.unknown.fund/ https://twitter.com/fund_unknown anon_fund(a)protonmail.com chris_unknown_fund(a)protonmail.com

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