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MS Bitlocker Diss SSD Crypto, ISPs Diss DNS Crypto, Sidewalk U1 Spies, CheckM8 Jailbreak
by grarpamp 30 Sep '19

30 Sep '19

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/bitlocker-encrypts-self-encrypting-ssds,4… https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/crypto-failure-cripp… Microsoft gives up on SSD manufacturers: Windows will no longer trust drives that say they can encrypt themselves, BitLocker will default to CPU-accelerated AES encryption instead. This is after an exposé on broad issues with firmware-powered encryption Of course it has never been safe to trust any closed source hardware encryption, or Microsoft's closed source Bitlocker NSA_KEY. https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-draws-house-antitrust-scrutiny-of-inter… https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/democrats.judiciary.house.gov/files/docum… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_over_HTTPS While Google says it's pushing for adoption of the technology to prevent spying and spoofing, House investigators are worried this would give the internet giant an unfair advantage by denying access to users' data. The House sent a letter on September 13th asking if Google would use data handled through the process for commercial purposes... Internet service providers are worried that they may be shut out of the data and won't know as much about their customers' traffic patterns. This could "foreclose competition in advertising and other industries," an alliance of ISPs told Congress in a September 19th letter... Mozilla also wants to use the format to secure DNS in Firefox, and the company's Marshall Erwin told the WSJ that the antitrust gripes are "fundamentally misleading." ISPs are trying to undermine the standard simply because they want continued access to users' data, Erwin said. Unencrypted DNS helps them target ads by tracking your web habits, and it's harder to thwart DNS tracking than cookies and other typical approaches. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/amazon-sidewalk-apple-u1-networks Sidewalk, Amazon's new low-bandwidth long-range wireless networking protocol, and Apple's new position- and distance-measuring U1 chip (mentioned in a recent keynote). Apple's U1 chip -- which allows precise, indoor positional tracking via the latest iPhones and will power, at the very least, directional AirDrop file-sharing -- popped up on screen but was never even mentioned. The interest-piquing phrase "GPS at the scale of your living room" was saved for the online iPhone product pages rather than the bombast of the Steve Jobs Theater... Both Amazon and Apple have the hardware scale to build up the base of access points needed to create a useful network before reaching out to, most likely, iOS developers in Apple's case, and hardware makers already on board with Alexa in Amazon's case. For Amazon, in fact, that work has already begun as Sidewalk originally came out of the Ring team's ambition to extend its connected security devices out into gardens. "Ring lighting was the first time we ran into it as a company, because we wanted to extend out onto the sidewalk," says Daniel Rausch, VP of smart home at Amazon (which owns Ring). The smart outoor Ring lights are already out. Products like the Smart Floodlight and Pathlight list a "wireless connection to the Ring Bridge" in the tech specs but eagle-eyed Ring owners had already started to figure out what band Amazon was playing with for this connection, before the Sidewalk announcement. "They've been using an internal version of the protocol on the freely available and unlicensed 900MHz part of the spectrum already," explains Rausch. "What we realised was 'woah, we can actually do something special'. We can make a version of this protocol which is secure and have this unbelievably ubiquitous coverage if we bring it all together, neighbours and neighbours and neighbours...." An innocent smart dog tracker like Ring Fetch fits perfectly into this model of Amazon-networked communities sharing video, alerts and location tracking. https://github.com/axi0mX/ipwndfu http://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/09/27/tethered-jailbreaks-are-back/ EPIC JAILBREAK: Introducing checkm8 (read "checkmate"), a permanent unpatchable bootrom exploit for hundreds of millions of iOS devices. Most generations of iPhones and iPads are vulnerable: from iPhone 4S (A5 chip) to iPhone 8 and iPhone X (A11 chip).

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Decrypted: FB Whatsapp Give Decrypted Encrypted Msgs to UK US Circular SpyOps
by grarpamp 30 Sep '19

30 Sep '19

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/facebook-whatsapp-will-have-to-share-messages-w… Social media platforms based in the U.S. including Facebook and WhatsApp will be forced to share users’ encrypted messages with British police under a new treaty between the two countries, according to a person familiar with the matter. The accord, which is set to be signed by next month, will compel social media firms to share information to support investigations Priti Patel, the U.K.’s home secretary, has previously warned that Facebook’s plan to enable users to send end-to-end encrypted messages would benefit criminals, and called on social media firms to develop “back doors” to give intelligence agencies access to their messaging platforms.

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Encryption and anonymity as top tools for images of child sexual abuse
by John Young 29 Sep '19

29 Sep '19

NYTimes lengthy report on out of control growth of images of child sexual abuse highlights encryption and anonymity as premier tools for avoiding discovery, prosecution and shutdown. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/28/us/child-sex-abuse.html Silicon Valley giants are pilloried for failing to bar abusers.

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This New Chip Could Bridge The Gap Between Classical And Quantum Computing
by jim bell 29 Sep '19

29 Sep '19

https://www.newsbreakapp.com/n/0MxjlMVw?s=a3&pd=02h1yVjC This New Chip Could Bridge The Gap Between Classical And Quantum Computing sciencealert.com Quantum computers exist today, although they're limited, cut-down versions of what we hope fully blown quantum computers are going to be able to do in the future. Shared from News Break

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Cryptocurrency: Amir Taaki on the DarkTech Renaissance
by grarpamp 29 Sep '19

29 Sep '19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD5htYPcVqE Published on Sep 26, 2019 00:41:24 The original dream of cryptocurrency exposing power, replacing finance and ushering new forms of social organization is yet to materialize. Faced with this failure, instead of reorientating their strategy, crypto orgs keep throwing ever huger amounts of capital, leading to massive corruption and misallocation of capital. It is unsustainable. What possibilities exist in the market today? How can we leverage black markets such as Venezuela or Syria for spreading cryptocurrency? What can we do differently? The crypto orgs today are simply doing random things. They lack any coherent strategy. They cannot connect the dots, and are purely focused on mechanisms and techniques. This talk will also explore anonymization techniques to create anonymous crypto-systems and solve scalability. These systems can create markets which empower humans to work together at scale and solve the centralizing problems of corporations and the state. The paradigm of computing has not changed in over 50 years. Devices have become faster and smaller, but are stuck on a linear path. The paradigm has become stagnant and is desperate for reinvention. We need to create a modern paradigm of technology as more than consumer products, but as integral social infrastructure. For this we must create the idea of the renaissance hacker and spread our philosophy through a system of academies which train people in sports, philosophy and technology. These centers serve as generative centers of thought and invention. And the concepts we create, must then be turned into practical products which serve a market need and bring income to expand our mission. Our goal is to develop the platform that will deliver the dark economy by leveraging emerging anonymous techniques for innovative decentralized & dark financial products. We are firmly committed to transitioning humanity to the non-state ethical-philosophical paradigm through markets and technology. Speaker: Amir Taaki Amir has spent 15 years as an open source developer and systems dev specializing in async and crypto algorithms. He currently works on anonymous mix nets and crypto wallets. He created the first alt implementation of Bitcoin with the fastest blockchain, was the lead for Electrum in 2011, created Dark Wallet, started the Bitcoin BIP process and founded a UK Bitcoin exchange which had the 2nd biggest market by volume in 2012 before it was forcibly closed by the banks. Thursday, September 26, 2019 Amir Taaki on the DarkTech Renaissance Hosted by Leonhard Weese and Clement Ip >From Bitcoin HK Public group

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FOIPA: Redact! (Don't view it ;)
by grarpamp 29 Sep '19

29 Sep '19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQHGTcChiMg redact

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Cryptocurrency: Treasure Hunt - Oldest Youtube Videos
by grarpamp 29 Sep '19

29 Sep '19

Looking for oldest crypto (Bitcoin-BTC) videos on youtube. Youtube does not seem to have reverse age sort for searches. Please post your oldest finds... Interviews Documentaries Community Events / Talks / Speeches Network TV News Clips

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Study Proves The FCC's Core Justification for Killing Net Neutrality Was False - VICE
by jim bell 29 Sep '19

29 Sep '19

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kz4g9x/study-proves-the-fccs-core-justif…

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Assange Wikileaks: Held for USA after Bail Sentence Ends
by grarpamp 28 Sep '19

28 Sep '19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya6YZE91DE8 https://twitter.com/pamfoundation https://twitter.com/xychelsea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1z6k3maPNc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZH4pfs6Lh8 https://arena.org.au/assange-behind-bars-by-felicity-ruby/ https://twitter.com/defendassange Julian Assange is in solitary confinement in conditions that obstruct his ability to prepare his US extradition case. He finished serving a 50-week sentence for seeking & receiving asylum on 22 September 2019 and is now in jail solely on behalf of the Trump administration Assange, who has been held in solitary confinement in HMP Belmarsh, will continue to be imprisoned for at least five more months, until his extradition hearing currently scheduled for February 2020. UN Special Rapporteur on torture: “In 20 years..I have never seen a group of democratic States ganging up to deliberately isolate, demonise and abuse a single individual for such a long time and with so little regard for human dignity and the rule of law” https://defend.wikileaks.org/2019/09/23/bail-sentence-ends-uk-now-holding-a… Bail sentence ends: UK now holding Assange solely on US’ behalf On 22 September 2019, Julian Assange’s sentence for a bail violation conviction ended, but he was not released from HMP Belmarsh. Beginning today, 23 September, the United Kingdom is detaining Julian solely on behalf of the United States, which requests his extradition and has charged him with 18 counts carrying 175 years in prison for publishing information in the public interest. Before Assange’s lawyers even had the opportunity to file a bail application, and without giving notice that she would do so, District Judge Vanessa Baraitser preemptively announced that when his sentence ended, she would deny bail and continue to detain him. Judge Baraitser told Assange, who appeared by video-link, “You have been produced today because your sentence of imprisonment is about to come to an end. When that happens your remand status changes from a serving prisoner to a person facing extradition.” This means the UK is now holding Julian only on the basis of the US’ extradition request, and there can be no pretense of UK or Sweden issues keeping him in prison. As former British ambassador Craig Murray wrote, now that Assange’s sentence has ended, “The sole reason for his incarceration [is now] the publishing of the Afghan and Iraq war logs leaked by Chelsea Manning, with their evidence of wrongdoing and multiple war crimes.” This also means Assange will continue to be imprisoned for at least five more months, until his extradition hearing currently scheduled for February 2020. Assange has been held in solitary confinement in HMP Belmarsh’s health ward, as his health has deteriorated. After UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer visited Assange in May (before he was moved to the health ward), he wrote that Assange—who had spent the previous seven years without sunlight in the limited space of Ecuador’s Embassy in London—had suffered psychological torture. Assange has been so isolated that he can lose track of the date and the day of the week. On his birthday, 3 July, Julian could hear that people had congregated outside of Belmarsh, but he couldn’t make out what they were saying. Assange didn’t know that it was his birthday and only found out the next day, and then he realized that supporters had come to wish him a happy birthday. Assange extradition would set terrifying precedent Judge Baraitser will also preside over Julian Assange’s extradition hearing, scheduled for five days in February. In that trial, the United Kingdom will rule whether or not to send Assange into the hands of Donald Trump, whose Justice Department has charged him with 17 counts under the 1917 Espionage Act (and 1 count of conspiracy to commit a computer crime) for publishing documents detailing the US’ wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and its diplomatic activity in 2010. The charges, the first such charges for a journalist in US history, constitute a grave assault on press freedom around the world. Furthermore, the proposed extradition poses a serious threat to European sovereignty. If the UK sends an Australian journalist in Europe to the United States for the “crime” of publishing truthful information in the public interest—information which virtually every major news outlets around the world has since published as well, and information which the UK Supreme Court has deemed admissible evidence—it will set a dangerous precedent for the global application of US state secrecy laws. Such an extradition would effectively grant permission for the Trump Administration to dictate what can and cannot be published outside of its borders. The charges against Assange have been condemned by virtually all press freedom groups, human rights organisations, major news outlets, and leading US and EU politicians, in recognition of the glaring threat they pose to global journalistic freedoms. These unprecedented and manifestly political charges are the basis of the US’ extradition request, which is now the sole reason for which the United Kingdom is imprisoning Assange.

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Assange Wikileaks: CIA spy - David Morales UC Global S.L.
by grarpamp 28 Sep '19

28 Sep '19

https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/09/25/inenglish/1569384196_652151.html Spanish security company spied on Julian Assange in London for the United States Spain’s High Court is investigating the director of UC Global S. L. and the activities of his company, which had been hired to protect the Ecuadorian embassy in the English capital David Morales, the owner of the company, supposedly handed over audio and video to the CIA of the meetings Assange held with his lawyers and collaborators. Morales is being investigated for this activity by Spain’s High Court, the Audiencia Nacional. Cameras and external access for the US After the installation of new video cameras at the beginning of December 2017, Morales requested that his technicians install an external streaming access point in the same area so that all of the recordings could be accessed instantly by the United States. To do this, he requested three channels for access: “one for Ecuador, another for us and another for X,” according to mails sent at the time to his colleagues. When one of the technicians asked to contact “the Americans” to explain the way that they should access some of the spying systems installed in the embassy, Morales would always be evasive with his answers. Morales ordered his workers to install microphones in the embassy’s fire extinguishers and also in the women’s bathroom, where Assange’s lawyers, including the Spaniard Aitor Martínez and his closest collaborators, would meet for fear of being spied on. The cyberactivist’s meetings with his lawyers, Melynda Taylor, Jennifer Robinson and Baltasar Garzón, were also monitored. The UC Global S. L. team was also ordered by its boss to install stickers that prevented the windows of the rooms that the WikiLeaks founder used from vibrating, allegedly to make it easier for the CIA to record conversations with their laser microphones. ...

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