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RE: Re: US State Of New York to Ban Encrypted Screenlocked Phones and Devices
by boot＠ghostmail.com 17 Jan '16

17 Jan '16

Last week, former NSA Director Michael Hayden made a very strong argument against deliberately weakening security products by adding backdoors https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/01/michael_hayden_.html Thu Jan 14 2016 18:22:44 from Patrick Lonergan <xcelq(a)fastmail.com> ------------------------------ When we make something un break able. like tor but even the "un breakable" anonymous can be broken. On Thu, Jan 14, 2016, at 09:10 AM, boot(a)ghostmail.com wrote:no no no this is all wrong.. If new york can decrypt, it means there is a backdoor we know backdoors can be used by anyone who finds them. this is bad not only for pplz but also for business, who will still trust us tech? Thu Jan 14 2016 00:24:18 from John Young <jya(a)pipeline.com> ------------------------------ http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A08093&term=2015&Summary=Y… "New York can and should lead the nation in protecting its citizens, and in responding to the misguided and dangerous attempts by digital device manufacturers to turn digital devices into virtual safes that, being beyond the reach of law enforcement, are havens for criminals. Revela- tions in the recent past about NSA surveillance and similar government intrusions on privacy have made people acutely aware of threats to their privacy. The goal of this bill is not to limit peoples' privacy. Peoples' privacy is protected by the warrant requirement, as it always has been. This bill would help to protect all New Yorkers." We Love New York Sent from secure GhostMail. Easy and free encrypted email, chat and cloud storage, free sign up here. Sent from secure GhostMail. Easy and free encrypted email, chat and cloud storage, free sign up here: https://www.ghostmail.com

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Post-"Pre-Publication Review" by DIA censored words "SIGINT" and "Ned Beatty"
by Razer 17 Jan '16

17 Jan '16

Not JUST FOIAs. Fixing Pre-Publication Review: What Should Be Done? By Steven Aftergood Friday, January 15, 2016 at 9:15 AM Jack Goldsmith and Oona Hathaway called attention in several recent columns to the pre-publication review process (here, here, here, and here) that many current and former national security officials and other government employees must submit to before their work can be published. The process, they argued, has become dysfunctional, overstepping legitimate national security boundaries and infringing on freedom of speech as well as the public’s right to know. Their case is strong. Among many pertinent examples, the experience of former Army Reserve officer Anthony Shaffer is particularly instructive. After he wrote a memoir of his Afghan war experience, Shaffer submitted his manuscript to the Army for review, as required, and the approved text was printed. But then the Defense Intelligence Agency intervened and objected that in its estimation the cleared volume still contained classified information. Publication was halted, and the Department of Defense was obliged to purchase and pulp thousands of copies of the book, although numerous publicity copies had already been released. A new version of the book with the objectionable words and passages blacked out was finally published for sale. (Shaffer presented his version of events in a First Amendment lawsuit he brought in 2010, with very limited success.) What makes the Shaffer case valuable in this context is that both the pre- and post-publication review versions of his text entered public circulation, permitting external scrutiny of the deletions required by the official reviewers. In nearly every case, the redacted words and passages seem to be devoid of national security sensitivity, as the Army itself had originally concluded. The most frequent redaction is the cover name that the author used while serving in Afghanistan, “Christopher Stryker.” Also commonly deleted are references to the National Security Agency, its headquarters location in Fort Meade, Maryland, and the use of the term “SIGINT” (signals intelligence). Somewhat more plausibly, the identity of the former CIA chief of station in Kabul was replaced with a pseudonym. But rather less plausibly, a passing mention of the name of character actor Ned Beatty was deleted. The point, in other words, is that there is an empirical foundation for the belief that pre-publication review has gone off the rails. As it is conducted today, the review process too often arbitrarily impedes the freedom of many US government employees to participate in public discourse. In full with links at JUst Security: https://www.justsecurity.org/28827/fixing-pre-publication-review-done/ -- RR "You might want to ask an expert about that - I just fiddled around with mine until it worked..."

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KM/MANLY (1951-53) - CIA countering the actions of pacifist and neutralist groups in West Germany
by Michael Best 17 Jan '16

17 Jan '16

KMMANLY (1951-53) was originally designed to counter the actions of pacifist and neutralist groups in West Germany who were opposed to ratification of the contractual agreements. In practice KMMANLY sought to win support for the European Defense Community (EDC) in areas of veterans' affairs and military publishing. To achieve these aims, three publications were utilized under KMMANLY -- Die Deutsche Soldaten Zeitung (The German Soldiers' Newspaper, (DSZ)), Europaische Wehrkorrespondenz (European Defense Newsletter, (EWK)), Wehr Wissenschaftliche Rundschau (Military Science Journal, (WWR)). In addition KMMANLY supported the Gesellschaft fuer Wehrkunde (GfW), a military science study group composed of former high ranking German Army officers. Wilhelm Classen (PA), Eberhard Von Nostitz, Burghard Von Preussen, Felix Steiner associated with GfW part of Project. Josef Berschneider, Hans Iglhaut, Werner Strecker considered for possible use on KMMANLY. https://archive.org/details/KMMANLY Enjoy. --Mike That1Archive.neocities.org

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Happy new year cpunks
by Georgi Guninski 17 Jan '16

17 Jan '16

Happy new year cpunks! Let in 2016 the establishment be overthrown, provably unbreakable crypto be implemented (lol) and we can buy love and beer at reasonable price (as Terry Pratchett wrote).

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Re: [Cryptography] Obama gonna crypto your guns, they gonna throw the killswitch on yall
by grarpamp 17 Jan '16

17 Jan '16

On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 4:07 PM, Paul Wouters <paul(a)cypherpunks.ca> wrote: > I think it is a bigger problem that people - strike that, Americans - > are afraid of killswitches for their guns than that they are about the > surveillance and killswitches for self driving cars. Of course it's not "people", widely, globally... as they either gave up or never had that frame of reference to consider being "afraid of" today, some of whom now live in systems / places that have since become worse. Poking in such manner at Americans that do have that frame... doesn't look smart. Of course they're not going to give them up... because it's really hard to surveill those trying to take stuff away from them, and they certainly can't drive dead cars into the thieves either. Limited options... limited solutions. Are you going to give up your crypto? No? Oh, I see, so now you're afraid of that. Because you know you can use it to keep stuff away from the thieves. Americans are as dumb as the rest, but not always as dumb as you think.

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Re: Fwd: Do ethnic Germans have the right to racial and cultural strength? - was Re: At a Berlin church, Muslim refugees converting in droves.
by Zenaan Harkness 17 Jan '16

17 Jan '16

On 9/11/15, Nathan wrote: > WTF? I've read this *twice* and I *still* don't get it..... Is this an > argument against multiculturalism? That's not the question - the question is, does each individual human of a nation have the right to protect their current, existing culture? Or at least to have a say, i.e. a vote about it? Some nations, through their power structures, go to extraordinary lengths to protect their rights to cultural and racial strength, Japan for example. Is this the right of the Japanese? Or are they doing the wrong thing? >From their perspective, they are doing what is required to protect their rights, to self determination as a people, a tribe, a race. It appears that the rights of individuals are determined (in practice) by those in power, and not by those who are directly affected by the decision makers (the people themselves). Is keeping such decisions in the hands of a few "educated elected" an elitist approach? If democracy be the will of the people manifested, then ought the people of any nation be asked directly (nation wide vote) on such questions as cultural dilution due to immigration and or asylum? Or is it appropriate for an "elected" few to impose their personal preference on a nation? Regards Zenaan

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R3 Banking Consortia's Paid Mike Hearn Spews Anti-Bitcoin FUD
by grarpamp 16 Jan '16

16 Jan '16

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/413pwp/mike_hearns_latest_blog_po… https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4141ud/video_proof_that_r3_contro… http://r3cev.com/ https://www.reddit.com/r/btc

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After KGB accusations, CIA limits testimony in slander suit
by Michael Best 16 Jan '16

16 Jan '16

Erik Heine's CIA file - 5 volumes https://archive.org/details/HeineErik According to the New York Times, he was discredited as a KGB agent under CIA orders. It'll be interesting to dive http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/White%20Materials/Security-CIA-II/CIA%20II%2…

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Drug Lords and the Quiet Man Who Became the CIA's Master Killer
by Michael Best 16 Jan '16

16 Jan '16

Excerpts from the Kindle edition, description from Amazon.com. In “How to Get Away with Murder in America,” Evan Wright reveals the story of Enrique “Ricky” Prado, an alleged killer for a major Miami drug trafficker who was recruited into the CIA. Despite a grand jury subpoena and a mountain of evidence unearthed by a federal task force, Prado was promoted into the agency’s highest echelons and charged with implementing some of the country’s most sensitive post-9/11 counterterrorist operations, including the agency’s secret “targeted assassination unit.” All while staying in close touch with his cocaine-trafficking boss and, evidence suggests, taking part in additional killings for him. After Prado retired in 2004 at the rank of SIS-2—the CIA equivalent of a two-star general—he moved to a senior position at Blackwater, the private military contractor, where he continued to run the same, now-outsourced “death squad.” Contrary to government assurances that it was never actually activated, Wright reveals testimony from one of the Blackwater assassins that Prado’s unit was indeed carrying out assigned killings. As a former military intelligence officer told Wright in 2011, “Private contractors are whacking people like crazy over in Afghanistan for the CIA.” - Unfortunately, while this book contains many tantalizing seeds it doesn't provide context for many events. Further muddying the book's account is the fact that it follows the investigation chronologically, and not the events being investigated. Additional research is needed to build on what this book began. Excerpts posted to: http://that1archive.neocities.org/excerpts/CIA-Master-Killer.html Enjoy! --Mike That1Archive.neocities.org

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tuderechoasaber.es (Information requests to Spanish public bodies)
by Michael Best 15 Jan '16

15 Jan '16

tuderechoasaber.es is shutting down, so I archived the website (with the help of the operators) at https://archive.org/details/tuderechoasaber.es You can view and browse the files without downloading the entire zip by going to https://archive.org/download/tuderechoasaber.es/tuderechoasaber.es.zip/ Cheers. --Mike That1Archive.neocities.org

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