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Not Even a $10 Million Reward Can Get Anyone to Come Forward About Cartel Leader's Whereabouts: Absent the AP system, why should they?
by jim bell 02 Dec '19

02 Dec '19

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/california/cartel-dea-10-Million-Reward-Eff… "A reward of up to $10 million for information that results in the arrest of the leader of Mexico's most violent and largest drug cartel has so far gone unclaimed, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's Los Angeles Division.Nemesio Oseguera-Cervantes of the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion was indicted on federal drug trafficking charges in 2014 and again in 2017, said Nicole Nishida of the DEA. "This is the largest reward ever approved for the Narcotics Rewards Program," Nishida said. Oseguera-Cervantes, also known as "El Mencho," in his mid-50s, 5 feet 7 inches tall, weighs about 150 pounds, and has black hair and brown eyes." Jim Bell's comments follow: Do they understand WHY nobody has stepped forward with this information? Could it be that those with this information fear beging identified and killed if they identified themselves? Ask yourself: If you had this information, and were given two options: 1. A reward of $10 million, with the strong likelihood that you would be identified, and later killed. OR 2. A reward of $1 million, but with perfect secrecy, so that nobody other than yourself would know who provided the information. Which would you choose? I think most people would choose the latter. Most people don't want to quickly die, Nearly 25 years ago, I began writing the AP essay, https://cryptome.org/ap.htm. I described a possible future where people are rewarded for "predicting" the date of death of hated people, primarily (initially) government employees. I anticipated, and explained, that such a system would work much better if such predictors could make those predictions in such a way so as to be completely guaranteed anonymity. Nobody, including the taxman, would be any wiser about such a payment. Yet, all donors would be guaranteed that their donations would go to the actual predictor, and nobody else. If the US Government is inclined to offer $10 million for such information, wouldn't you think that they'd have anticipated the usefulness, and even the need, for such a system to allow people to provide such information in an anonymous fashion, guaranteed that they would never be identified, even to the US Government itself? As we all imagine, such information would almost certainly leak, and the provider of that information will likely be killed. If such a system were available, they'd be able to offer much smaller rewards, because the informants wouldn't have to trust the government to keep their identities secret. Worse, consider what would happen if someone with that information contacted the US Government, and provided that information. Would the USG actually pay the reward? It might if the world was eventually going to find out that the USG welshed on its offer, but is that likely to happen? How would the information-provider prove, to the public, that he was responsible for the information leaked? And how would he prove that, without identifying himself, and thus essentially destroying the anonymity that he logically wanted to have? Would the public ever learn what had actually happened? The USG could simply refuse to pay, secure in the knowledge that nobody would find out, for sure, that the information was given by that specific person, and that the USG didn't pay what it promised. In 2003, the USG began to promote a proposed system, "PAM", which was quickly dubbed by the clueless and biased news media as being "terrorism futures". Google ' "pam" "prediction" "terrorism futures" '. One result: https://www.jstor.org/stable/30026644?seq=1 by Robin Hansen. When that proposal was made, I was in USP Atwater prison, Apparently the fellow prisoners knew enough of my history to know about AP, and before I'd even become aware of PAM, some of they approached me, saying things like, 'It looks like the government is implementing your system, Bell!!'. Not exactly, of course, but close enough so that many chuckles were heard. I was surprised, on many levels. I was surprised that they would dare to implement a system that would actually WORK. It would certainly do what they intended to accomplish, but it would also prove that my AP idea was convincing, and practical, and effective. Why would they risk that? Not surprisingly, however, the PAM idea died within about a day, being dubbed "terrorism futures". How clueless the news media was! So, why would they even bother paying the informant? If future potential informants didn't know that this specific informant got stiffed, wouldn't they proceed as expected, and provide more information? Or, much more likely, they would see that nobody really knows if that informant actually was rewarded, and therefore conclude that without such proof, they shouldn't expect to see any money. I concluded the latter. That is precisely why I decided, when I wrote my AP essay, that there ought to be included a mechanism to ensure that everyone participating in that system, whether as mere 'donor', 'predictor', or merely a member of the public, is guaranteed that the system 'plays fair', and that anyone who participates gets whatever rewards he was offered. He is guaranteed that if he makes a donation, it would certainly be paid to the person who correctly predicted the date of death of the target, and would not be paid if that prediction never arrived. Jim Bell

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

02 Dec '19

> no case number yet, will check SDNY PACER at end of day... Case Number: 19-mj-10987

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Not Even a $10 Million Reward Can Get Anyone to Come Forward About Cartel Leader's Whereabouts
by Ryan Carboni 02 Dec '19

02 Dec '19

9/11 was being planned for a very long time. The best form of terrorism futures is shorting airlines prior to a terrorist attack. Some of which was from a "single U.S.-based institutional investor with no conceivable ties to al Qaeda." That is a very good declaration of innocence.

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NSA can't break tor (roaring laughter as background)
by Punk-Stasi 2.0 01 Dec '19

01 Dec '19

https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/cache/raptor-sec2015.pdf "Among others, the NSA has a program called Marina which stores meta information about user communications for up to a year [15], while the GCHQ has a program called Tempora that stores meta-information for 30 days and buffers data for three days [36]. Also, and maybe more importantly, it has been shown that Tor was targeted by such adversaries in collusion with ASes [10, 12, 11]. In this paper, we present Raptor, a suite of novel traffic analysis attacks that deanonymize Tor users more effectively than previously thought possible. To do so, and unlike previous studies on AS-level adversaries [28, 26,40], Raptor leverages the dynamic aspects of the Internet routing protocol, i.e. the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)."

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Not Even a $10 Million Reward Can Get Anyone to Come Forward About Cartel Leader's Whereabouts
by Ryan Carboni 01 Dec '19

01 Dec '19

$10 million for the whereabouts of a cartel leader? Mass surveillance is an amazing thing, all the high value targets are apparently lost in the noise. Besides all the multi-billion dollar contracts that the government gives out for better... services and technical consulting, $10 million seems pretty small. At the end of the day what solves the case is a fake informant and siphoning off the $10 million reward to your own holdings. No matter the technology, some things never change.

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Carnaby vs Maxwell type outcomes
by Ryan Carboni 01 Dec '19

01 Dec '19

Ghislaine Maxwell despite being implicated in numerous crimes, doesn't suffer any consequences for her actions, or even her misjudgements. Roland Carnaby on the other hand... https://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/emailid/383612 "Dude was a complete fabricator." "He was a nut and not a real former case officer." Apparently if you humiliate the CIA, they will uh. Do nothing. The CIA only does nothing.

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Collateral Murder: Taxi To The Dark Side (2007 Documentary, Alex Gibney)
by grarpamp 01 Dec '19

01 Dec '19

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=taxi+to+the+dark+side https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX0MPcN08Zc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi-SJ8hc91g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gk-nFrTn5c https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagram_torture_and_prisoner_abuse Dilawar was a taxi driver and farmer from the small Afghan village of Yakubi. And a prisoner at the "Bagram Collection Point" military detention center. Dilawar's brother received a folded paper with Dilawar's body. He couldn't read because it was in English. It was the death certificate... marked Homicide. Dilawar was survived by his wife and his daughter, Bibi Rashida.

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tor stinks, take #476032
by Punk-Stasi 2.0 01 Dec '19

01 Dec '19

notice that the guy attacking tor users, goldberg, was allegedly at some point a 'cypherpunk' and is now a member of the tor mafia... https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/cache/websitefingerprinting-pets2016.pdf "We showed that effective website fingerpriting training sets can be small enough for an attacker to naively update all data points in a cycle, keeping it fresh." "Overall, we have overcome a number of previously identified barriers to deploying website fingerpriting in the wild, and demonstrated that even clients using state-of-the-art privacy software like the Tor Browser are subject to snooping by local passive eaves droppers under realistic conditions" "state-of-the-art privacy software"??? AHAHHAH - fucking lying pieces of shit...

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Cryptocurrency: Money As Debt by Paul Grignon
by grarpamp 01 Dec '19

01 Dec '19

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Based AF traction - politicians "being good people, instead of liars and snakes and criminals" - Groypers Rising - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 01 Dec '19

01 Dec '19

Based AF traction - oh yeah, you know you love it :) Six for six knockouts, muh gritty Grits - in barely a coupla weeks. Crack in the dam wall, 'tis ... simple Q's are knockout questions. Groypers are rising - Charlie Kirk just sank the TP-USA ship and quite possibly took Donald Trump Jr with him. And from Zero Coverage by the MSM (just word of mouth and pod casts for the Groyper army), not only are a few politicians starting to notice, this is the single biggest thing happening in North American politics today. Grass roots. Insanely good. The Guardian even did a reasonably fair write up - MSM noticing: Groyper War: Media Finally Reports on Our Groyper War After Don Jr. Evac! http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/groyper-war-media-finally-reporters-on-our-gr… ... https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/11/donald-trump-jr-walks-out-o… Some politicians are now noticing they might get real, actual traction simply by "being good people, instead of liars and snakes and criminals" - a bit of a shift. America First. 24/7/365 #Americafirst pic.twitter.com/JheeliDzrg — Paul Gosar (@DrPaulGosar) November 11, 2019 [Republican Congressman from Arizona] As was stated a few days ago, some will crash and burn, others will rise to the stars, careers are literally being made, and others destroyed <cough> Charlie Dirk Dirk <cough>, before our very eyes. Bitchass Little Faggot Fatboy Matt Gaetz Backs Down and Cucks Out! Other Congressmen Voice Support! http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/bitchass-little-faggot-fatboy-matt-gaetz-back… If knocking out 6+ shills in less than 2 weeks is a decent start, you ain't seen nuffin yet muffas :D <jiggidy jigit> Ooooh, yeahhhh ! Grand Supreme Groyper Nick Fuentes victory lap: UCLA GROYPENING - featuring Donald Trump Jr. & Charlie Kirk · Nick Fuentes DLive Stream [11.10.19] ~37mins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48qiSbDxMiU Extract from the first link at top: It’s extremely encouraging to see that [the MSM] don’t have a narrative – on either side. But we can sort of imagine how they’re going to handle it. It’s very predictable. The rightist media is going to run with using the left’s memes about “racist neo-Nazi anti-Semites.” There is no question about that. And there is no question that they will condemn their own selves by doing so. The leftist media is going to try to divide the MAGA movement, try to get people to not vote for Trump in whichever way they can. One thing is very certain: Soon, every traitor – left or right – will know the name “Nicholas J. Fuentes.” And every one of them will live long enough to wish they’d never heard it. Nick Fuentes is the Leader of the Groyper Uprising and Commander of the Groyper Army http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/nick-fuentes-is-the-leader-of-the-groyper-upr… As we are coming off of an ultimate victory in Los Angeles and preparing for yet more victories, I want to make sure that everyone in this Groyper War is clear on something: The Groyper Uprising has a leader, and that leader is Nick Fuentes. He is the commander of the Groypers and he has led us to victory after victory, from OSU all the way to UCLA. Understand: this is not about getting credit or feeding an ego or anything of that sort. Obviously it isn’t about that for me, as I am not Nick Fuentes. The fact is that having a leader of a political movement is simply a practical matter. ...

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