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About that 'sharing economy' thing...
by Rayzer 15 Dec '15

15 Dec '15

Nice. No equal opportunity regulations here. I'll repeat this, the "Sharing Economy" is a FEUDAL ANTIDEMOCRATIC economy Harvard study finds what it calls widespread discrimination by home-sharing company Airbnb's hosts. http://www.reuters.tv/Ysw/2015/12/11/study-finds-airbnb-hosts-discriminate Sorry, can't post a video... It's a 17 minute piece on how your "Sharing Economy" is tantamount to a return to Jim Crow. -- RR "You might want to ask an expert about that - I just fiddled around with mine until it worked..."

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Jeremy Hammond Rejects and Redirs OpISIS and Co-opted Anon
by grarpamp 14 Dec '15

14 Dec '15

https://freejeremy.net/2015/12/10/reject-opisis-and-the-co-opting-of-anonym… Reject #OpIsis and the Co-Opting of Anonymous In this new writing, Jeremy shares his views on Anonymous, #OpISIS, and the recent wave of anti-immigrant sentiment that has been sweeping the nation. ________________________________ The attacks in France were a terrible but unfortunately predictable response by desperate people who, after a decade of war and occupation, want the west to taste what we have been regularly dishing out. But we cannot allow them to be used to justify more war. In the wake of the Paris attacks, the Western governments are provoking Islamophobic hatred in order to escalate military operations in the Middle East and push police state powers. It’s a familiar script, and from prison, I’ve been following these developments, disturbed about the attacks on immigrant and Muslim communities and the resurgence of the fascist right. I remember in the wake of 9/11, the waves of blind patriotism and xenophobia that the war-mongering politicians used to push police-state laws, mass surveillance, and rampant militarization. It was never about fighting terrorism or weapons of mass destruction, but about US empire: control over land, oil, and drug production, like all wars. Hundreds of thousands of innocents were murdered by the US military over the longest war in our history while we escalated drone warfare elsewhere in Syria, Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia, creating the conditions which gave rise to ISIS in the first place. That same post-9/11 hysteria is back and all the war-mongers are again frothing at the mouth with hate for immigrants and refugees, pushing for national Muslim registration databases, and for regime change in Syria. But I never thought Anonymous would join in on their frenzied call for war. Apparently, GhostSec and others purportedly associated with Anonymous have been DDoSing forums, taking down Twitter accounts, and reporting IP addresses to law enforcement in collaboration with shady military contractors like Kronos Advisory. The naïve fools behind the operation are being manipulated by intelligence agents taking advantage of the emotional reaction to the Paris attacks to harness our skills to fight their hypocritical “war on terrorism.” As someone who hacked with Anonymous and marched against the war in Iraq, I completely oppose #OpISIS and any attempts to co-opt our movement into supporting the government’s militaristic agenda. Escalated US military involvement is certainly going to result in more civilian deaths, as it already has. All deaths of innocent civilians are a tragedy, and we cannot value one life over another. (And you are still more likely to be shot down by police than in a terrorist attack.) The same intelligence industry that runs their own NSA hacker operations against ISIS uses the same counter-terrorism justification to spy on everyday civilians with no regards for rights to privacy, encryption, or anonymity. They have always targeted Anonymous and other dissident groups as terrorists, and when they aren’t trying to discredit or imprison us, they are attempting to co-opt us – sometimes openly by attending conference like DEFCON, seducing us with promises of money or calls for patriotic duty, other times covertly lurking around IRC channels attempting to steer us unwittingly into supporting their agenda. Remember, Sabu asked me to hack government websites of Syria and Turkey, among others, which I did, unaware he was an FBI informant. They didn’t want to talk about it at my sentencing hearing, but they did condemn my attacks against police and military contractors at length. The agents out there encouraging you to “hack the terrorists” will have no problem turning around and locking you up for years if you are not useful to their agenda. We won’t let Anonymous be unwittingly used to further the military industrial complex’s imperialistic operations around the world. We don’t work for the government – we are against all governments. We are on the side of the oppressed, not the oppressors. We support the victims of war, not the war-makers. If you want to report membership lists and IP addresses of suspected terrorists, go join the CIA or hang out with wannabes like Stratfor or the th3j35t3r. Call it state-sponsored hacking, patriotic hacktivism, whatever – just don’t you dare call yourselves Anonymous. I urge my comrades still out there in the trenches, sitting on some hot 0day, ready to loot databases and trash systems. If you want to stop war and terrorism, target who Martin Luther King Jr. called the “largest purveyor of violence in the word today” – the US government. So Anonymous, get to it – drone manufacturers, white hat infosec contractors, CIA directors, Donald Trump, and your local police department – they all have blood on their hands, they are all fair game.

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A woman with balls ^B ovaries! - Fwd: Ann Barnhardt's response to a Muslim death threat.
by Zenaan Harkness 14 Dec '15

14 Dec '15

So, you think you are -not- a sheeple who's compliant with despotic external authority (of any kind)? Try Ann Barnhardt's response on for size. My kind of woman! Make that, my kind of human! Regards, Zenaan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jim <jim.sovereign(a)optusnet.com.au> Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 13:56:51 +1100 Subject: Ann Barnhardt's response to a Muslim death threat. FW: Please Pass the Pork Crackle - ----- Original Message ----- Subject: FW: Please Pass the Pork Crackle - Hi everybody, this is a very courage's lady. - Werner This is the lady who used bacon strips as bookmarks while reading from the Koran and then she ripped out the pages and burned them...... all on video. Ann Barnhart is described as "a livestock and grain commodity broker and marketing consultant, American patriot, traditional Catholic, and unwitting counter-revolutionary blogger." She has taken on Islam and they have noticed. https://www.truthorfiction.com/ann-barnhardt/ Summary of eRumor: This is a feisty response from an Colorado woman named Ann Barnhardt to a person who sent a message through her web site that included a death threat against her. Barnhardt is a livestock and grain commodity broker and marketing consultant who, among other things, has been critical of the Obama administration and of Islam. The Truth: Ann Barnhardt told TruthOrFiction.com that the death threat was real and so was her public response, which she posted on her web site. The death threat came from an alleged Muslim who posted a comment in July 2011 to a video that Barnhardt released on YouTube. Click for Barnhardt's website. updated 10/09/11 A real example of the eRumor as it has appeared on the Internet: Ann Barnhardt is described as "a livestock and grain commodity broker and marketing consultant, American patriot, traditional Catholic, and unwitting counter-revolutionary blogger. She can be reached through her business at www.barnhardt.biz." She has taken on Islam and they have noticed. DEATH THREAT: To:annbarnhardt I'm going to kill you when I find you. Don't think I won't, I know where you and your parents live and I'll need is one phone-call to kill ya'll. ANN'S RESPONSE: Re: Watch your back. Hello mufcadnan123! You don't need to "find" me. My address is 9175 Kornbrust Circle, Lone Tree, CO 80124. Luckily for you, there are daily DIRECT FLIGHTS from Heathrow to Denver. Here's what you will need to do. After arriving at Denver and passing through customs, you will need to catch the shuttle to the rental car facility. Once in your rental car, take Pena Boulevard to I-225 south. Proceed on I-225 south to I-25 south. Proceed south on I-25 to Lincoln Avenue which is exit 193. Turn right (west) onto Lincoln. Proceed west to the fourth light, and turn left (south) onto Ridgegate Boulevard. Proceed south, through the roundabout to Kornbrust Drive. Turn left onto Kornbrust Drive and then take an immediate right onto Kornbrust Circle. I'm at 9175. Just do me one favor. PLEASE wear body armor. I have some new ammunition that I want to try out, and frankly, close-quarter body shots without armor would feel almost unsporting from my perspective. That and the fact that I'm probably carrying a good 50 I.Q. points on you makes it morally incumbent upon me to spot you a tactical advantage. However, being that you are a miserable, trembling coward, I realize that you probably are incapable of actually following up on any of your threats without losing control of your bowels and crapping your pants while simultaneously sobbing yourself into hyperventilation. So, how about this: why don't you contact the main mosque here in Denver and see if some of the local musloids here in town would be willing to carry out your attack for you? After all, this is what your "perfect man" mohamed did (pig excrement be upon him). You see, mohamed, being a miserable coward and a con artist, would send other men into battle to fight on his behalf. Mohamed would stay at the BACK of the pack and let the stupid, ignorant suckers like you that he had conned into his political cult do the actual fighting and dying. Mohamed would then fornicate with the dead men's wives and children. You should follow mohamed's example! Here is the contact info for the main mosque here in Denver : Masjid Abu Bakr Imam Karim Abu Zaid 2071 South Parker Road Denver, CO 80231 Phone: 303-696-9800 Email: denvermosque(a)yahoo.com I'm sure they would be delighted to hear from you. Frankly, I'm terribly disappointed that not a SINGLE musloid here in the United States has made ANY attempt to rape and behead me. But maybe I haven't made myself clear enough, so let me do that right now. I will NEVER, EVER, EVER submit to islam. I will fight islam with every fiber of my being for as long as I live because islam is pure satanic evil. If you are really serious about islam dominating the United States and the world, you are going to have to come through me. You are going to have to kill me. Good luck with that. And understand that if you or some of your musloid boyfriends do actually manage to kill me, The Final Crusade will officially commence five minutes later, and then, despite your genetic mental retardation, you will be made to understand with crystal clarity what the word "defeat" means. Either way, I win, so come and get it. Deo adjuvante non timendum (with the help of God there is nothing to be afraid of). Ann Barnhardt https://www.truthorfiction.com/ann-barnhardt/

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Jacob Appelbaum Speech at openDemocracy
by grarpamp 14 Dec '15

14 Dec '15

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZHOgWeg8T0 Published on Nov 25, 2015 Journalist and researcher for the Tor project, Jacob Appelbaum talks about technology, freedom and resisting surveillance at the World Forum for Democracy. Read a transcript of the speech here: https://goo.gl/WSE3mK This video is published as part of an openDemocracy editorial partnership with the World Forum for Democracy. The insights gathered during the annual Strasbourg World Forum for Democracy inform the work of the Council of Europe and its numerous partners in the field of democracy and democratic governance.

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Peter Sunde On... [re: Assange believes too late for any pervasive privacy]
by grarpamp 14 Dec '15

14 Dec '15

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 3:38 AM, Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> wrote: > Feels like a sell out. I suspect he feels he's being pragmatic. > https://www.rt.com/news/325524-assange-privacy-rt-10/ > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3rFNQ8ytnE Too late? Selling out? Giving up? Or the realization of much bigger things at play, and focuses yet to come... http://motherboard.vice.com/read/pirate-bay-founder-peter-sunde-i-have-give… Pirate Bay Founder: ‘I Have Given Up’ Written by Joost Mollen December 11, 2015 // 02:26 PM EST “The internet is shit today. It’s broken. It was probably always broken, but it’s worse than ever.” My conversation with, Peter Sunde, one of the founders and spokespersons of The Pirate Bay, did not start out optimistically. There’s good reason for that: In the last couple of months, the contemporary download culture shows heavy signs of defeat in the battle for the internet. Last month we saw Demonii disappear. It was the biggest torrent tracker on the internet, responsible for over 50 million trackers a year. Additionally, the MPAA took down YIFY and Popcorn Time. Then news got out that the Dutch Release Team, an uploading collective, made a legal settlement with anti-piracy group BREIN. While it might look like torrenters are are still fighting this battle, Sunde claims that the reality is more definitive: “We have already lost.” Back in 2003 Peter Sunde, together with Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm, started The Pirate Bay, a website that would become the biggest and most famous file-sharing website in the world. In 2009, the three founders were convicted of “assisting [others] in copyright infringement” in a highly controversial trial. "Stop treating internet like it's a different thing and start focusing on what you actually want your society to look like." Sunde was incarcerated in 2014 and released a year later. After his time in jail he started blogging about the centralization of power by the European Union; ran as a candidate for the Finnish Pirate Party during the elections to the European Parliament; and founded Flattr, a micro donation system for software developers. I wanted to speak with Sunde about the current state of the free and open internet, but this conversation quickly changed into an ideological exchange about society and capitalism—which is, according to Sunde, the real problem. The following interview has been edited for clarity and length. MOTHERBOARD: Hey Peter, I was planning on asking you if things are going well, but you made it pretty clear that that isn’t the case. Peter Sunde: No, I don’t see any good happening. People are too easy to content with things. Take the net neutrality law in Europe. It's terrible, but people are happy and go like "it could be worse.” That is absolutely not the right attitude. Facebook brings the internet to Africa and poor countries, but they’re only giving limited access to their own services and make money off of poor people. And getting government grants to do that, because they do PR well. Finland actually made internet access a human right a while back. That was a clever thing of Finland. But that’s like the only positive thing I have seen in any country anywhere in the world regarding the internet So, how bad is the state of the open internet? Well, we don’t have an open internet. We haven’t had an open internet for a long time. So, we can’t really talk about the open internet because it does not exist anymore. The problem is, nobody stops anything. We are losing privileges and rights all of the time. We are not gaining anything anywhere. The trend is just going in one direction: a more closed and more controlled internet. That has a big impact on our society. Because they are the same thing today. If you have a more oppressed internet, you have a more oppressed society. So that's something we should focus on. But still we think of the internet like this new kind Wild West place, and things are not in chains yet, so we don’t care because everything will be OK anyhow. But that is not really the case. We have never seen this amount of centralization, extreme inequality, extreme capitalism in any system before. But according to the marketing done by people like Mark Zuckerberg and companies like Google, it's all to help with the open network and to spread democracy, and so on. At the same time, they are capitalistic monopolies. So it’s like trusting the enemy to do the good deeds. It is really bizarre. Do you think because a lot of people don’t consider the internet to be real or a real place, they care less about its well-being? Well, one thing is, we have been growing up with an understanding of the importance of things like a telephone line or television. So if we would start to treat our telephone lines or TV channels like we treat the internet, people would get really upset. If someone would tell you, you can’t call a friend, you would understand then that this is a very bad thing that is happening. You understand your rights. But people don't have that with the internet. If someone would tell you, you can’t use Skype for that and that, you don’t get the feeling it’s about you personally. Just by being a virtual thing, it's suddenly not directed at you. You don't see someone spying on you, you don't see something censored, you don't see it when someone deletes stuff out of the search results out of Google. I think that’s the biggest problem to get people's attention. You don't see the problems, so people don’t feel connected to it. Screenshot from the documentary TPB - AFK (The Pirate Bay - Away From Keyboard). From left to right: Gottfrid Svartholm, Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij. I would rather not care about it myself. Because it’s very hard to do something about it, and not become a paranoid conspiracy person. And you don’t want to be that. So rather just give up. That’s kind of what people have been thinking, I think. What is it exactly that you have given up? Well, I have given up the idea that we can win this fight for the internet. The situation is not going to be any different, because apparently that is something people are not interested in fixing. Or we can't get people to care enough. Maybe it's a mixture, but this is kind of the situation we are in, so its useless to do anything about it. We have become somehow the Black Knight from Monty Python’s Holy Grail. We have maybe half of our head left and we are still fighting, we still think we have a chance of winning this battle. So what can people do to change this? Nothing. Nothing? No, I think we are at that point. I think it’s really important people understand this. We lost this fight. Just admit defeat and make sure next time you understand why you lost this fight and make sure it doesn’t happen again when we try and win the war. Right, so what is this war about and what should we do to win it? Well, I think, to win the war, we first of need to understand what the fight is and for me it’s clear that we are dealing with ideological thing: extreme capitalism that’s ruling, extreme lobbying that’s ruling and the centralization of power. The internet is just a part of a bigger puzzle. And the other thing with activism is that you have to get momentum and attention and such. We have been really bad at that. So we stopped ACTA, but then it just came back with a different name. By that time, we had used all our resources and public attention on that. The reason that the real world is the big target for me, is because the internet is emulating the real world. We are trying to recreate this capitalistic society we have on top of the internet. So the internet has been mostly fuel on the capitalistic fire, by kind of pretending to be something which will connect the whole world, but actually having a capitalistic agenda. Look at all the biggest companies in the world, they are all based on the internet. Look at what they are selling: nothing. Facebook has no product. Airbnb, the biggest hotel chain in the world, has no hotels. Uber, the biggest taxi company in the world, has no taxis whatsoever. "I have given up the idea that we can win this fight for the internet." The amount of employees in these companies are smaller then ever before and the profits are, in turn, larger. Apple and Google are passing oil companies by far. Minecraft got sold for $2.6 billion and WhatsApp for like $19 billion. These are insane amounts of money for nothing. That is why the internet and capitalism are so in love with each other. You told me the internet is broken, that it was always broken. What do you mean by that and do we have extreme capitalism to blame for it? Well, the thing is the internet is really stupid. It works really simply in a simple manner and it doesn’t take any adjustments for censorship. Like, if one cable is gone, you take the traffic through some other place. But thanks to the centralization of the internet, (possible) censorship or surveillance tech is a whole lot harder to get around. Also, because the internet was an American invention, they also still have control of it and ICANN can actually force any country top level domain to be censored or disconnected. For me that’s, a really broken design. But it has always been broken, we just never really cared about it, because there always have been a few good people that made sure that nothing bad happened before. But I think that’s the wrong idea. Rather let bad thing happen as quick as possible so we can fix them and make sure it does not happen in the future. We are prolonging this inevitable total failure, which is not helping us at all. So, we should just let it crash and burn down, pick up the pieces and start over? Yes, with the focus on the big war on this extreme capitalism. I couldn’t vote, but I was hoping Sarah Palin won last time in the US elections. I’m hoping Donald Trump wins this year’s election. For the reason that it will fuck up that country so much faster then if a less bad President wins. Our whole world is just so focused on money, money, money. That’s the biggest problem. That’s why everything fucks up. That’s the target we have to fix. We need to make sure that we are going to get a different focus in life. "We don’t have an open internet. We haven’t had an open internet for a long time." Hopefully technology will give us robots that will take away all the jobs, which will cause like a massive worldwide unemployment; somewhat like 60 percent. People will be so unhappy. That would be great, because then you can finally see capitalism crashing so hard. There is going to be a lot of fear, lost blood, and lost lives to get to that point, but I think that’s the only positive thing I see, that we are going to have a total system collapse in the future. Hopefully as quick as possible. I would rather be 50 then be like 85 when the system is crashing. This all sounds quite like some sort of Marxist revolution: a total crash of the capitalist system. Well, yeah, I totally agree with that. I’m a socialist. I know Marx and communism did not work before, but I think in the future you have the possibility of having total communism and equal access to everything for everybody. Most people I meet, no matter if they are a communist or a capitalist, agree with me on this, because they understand the potential. So, is there like a concrete thing we should focus on? Or do we need to aim for a new way of thinking? A new ideology? Well, I think the focus needs to be that the internet is exactly the same as society. People might realize that it’s not a really good idea to have all of our data and files on Google, Facebook and company servers. All of these things need to be communicated al the way to the political top, of course. But stop treating internet like it's a different thing and start focusing on what you actually want your society to look like. We have to fix society, before we can fix the internet. That’s the only thing. Topics: Open Internet, Pirate Bay, piracy, capitalism, Internet, culture

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Weinstein Waxes On Govt Lying About Crypto Backdoors
by grarpamp 14 Dec '15

14 Dec '15

http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001137.html http://politics.slashdot.org/story/15/12/13/2322214/why-governments-lie-abo… http://www.vortex.com/privacy http://www.networkworld.com/article/3014057/security/fbi-director-renews-pu…

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"Octopus Not So Great!"
by coderman 14 Dec '15

14 Dec '15

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Persuading Putin with Russia's distortion machine
by Zenaan Harkness 14 Dec '15

14 Dec '15

An inside, if light hearted, backstage look at RT. I can now understand why certain Americans have been calling for a "media cleansing". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S51C6DlqVqQ Just as well those Ukrainian scientists managed to prove that the only person in the world who's not an agent for Putin, is the president of Russia. Z

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Spain Towing Popular Surveillance, Compute, Etc
by grarpamp 14 Dec '15

14 Dec '15

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151208/09260133020/spain-brings-new-sno… http://tecnologia.elpais.com/tecnologia/2015/12/04/actualidad/1449259283_67… https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130607/04342023356/clueless-spanish-pol… http://www.neurope.eu/article/spanish-police-might-use-trojans-spy-computers https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150705/18174231556/spain-government-goe… http://www.thelocal.es/20150701/the-ten-most-repressive-aspects-of-spains-n…

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Re: [cryptome] Global Currency Tracking Vector data dump
by Michael Best 13 Dec '15

13 Dec '15

Åny sources for this or is it another phantom <https://cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2015-June/007785.html>? Also, they've been tracking my orgasms?! On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Wilfred L. Guerin <wilfredguerin(a)gmail.com> wrote: > a single global snapshot of the exact locations of all minted currency on > earth on dec solstice 2012 with approx 12 billion points has been dumped > from the american sigint classifier spectrum, indications the originating > party has digitised all movement of coins, currency, minted plates, > military medals, and related objects to < 0.33 meter resolution > independent of time of motion. this is related to the american sigint > signals spectrum breakthrough that also has provided tracking of any signal > from human orgasm through modern cell phone over many decades (since 1973). > > >

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