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Facebook admits obvious, Claims miraculous knowledge of States G-Men
by grarpamp 20 Oct '15

20 Oct '15

Starting today, we will notify you if we believe your account has been targeted or compromised by an attacker suspected of working on behalf of a nation-state. ... To protect the integrity of our methods and processes, we often won't be able to explain how we attribute certain attacks to suspected attackers. https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-security/notifications-for-targeted…

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Re: Snowden on the Twitters
by Ryan Carboni 20 Oct '15

20 Oct '15

> > It is behind Cloudflare's MiTM service which adds web services names to > their existing certs as alternative Names. > > So your SSL/TLS connection is terminated on Cloudflare's web application > firewalls and NOT the web servers that you think is terminating it. > > Given CF handle over 4% of web traffic it is a great place to collect and > collate what was encrypted traffic for monitoring and anti-privacy purposes. > > Cheers, > Oshwm. Given that it was revealed that ISPs were subsidized in exchange for giving the NSA full take, it makes cloudflare mildly suspicious. Although I personally don't care. It's a free CDN and I suppose one expects some freedom to be lost somewhere.

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Wikileaks Cryptome search/files
by Michael Best 20 Oct '15

20 Oct '15

While examining the cryptome.wikileaks.org, I took a look at their version of the donations page <https://cryptome.wikileaks.org/donations.htm> and noticed that it seems to come from the June 2, 2014 release* which was released via TOR and torrents over a year ago. *Cryptome Archive USB.* The USB will contain the Cryptome archive of over > 71,500 files for the period from June 1996 to 2 June 2014. Donation of $100 > is requested. The USB will be shipped worldwide. Email a shipping address > to cryptome[at]earthlink.net. It also references Cryptome's old kickstarter. Does this mean that Wikileaks is hosting some of the files (older than June 2, 2014?) and using a redirect for newer files? *The awstats which were included in that release don't show up in the search through Wikileaks, but interestingly a few now deleted tweets from Cryptome do. They may be storing some of the tweets.

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WikiLeaks of "spying related" to its Cryptome search is click bait
by John Young 20 Oct '15

20 Oct '15

Caution: WikiLeaks of "spying related" to its Cryptome search is click bait to garner user data. No salute for misleading hype.

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Re: [tor-talk] Tor
by Juan 20 Oct '15

20 Oct '15

On Tue, 20 Oct 2015 04:42:32 +0000 Virgil Griffith <i(a)virgil.gr> wrote: > I accuse Juan of being the actual mole here. He so masterfully keeps > us muttering to each other/him instead of working productively. How so? How do I keep you and your friends from collecting your pentagon checks? Go ahead. Enlighten me. Also, you can check who I am. Ask any of the tor high-rankinkg cunts to look me up in their .mil 'intelligence' databases. > > http://fortune.com/2015/09/30/workplace-bureaucracy-simple-sabotage/ > > > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 12:35 PM grarpamp <grarpamp(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 10:03 PM, Justin <davisjustin002(a)gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > According to a top secret NSA document, which you can view online: > > > Tor is the king of high secure, low latency anonymity. No > > > contender > > awaits the throne. > > > > The document does not say that. > > Depending on your threat model and needed feature set > > Tor may be good, not good enough, or a failure. > > Plenty of room for competition and evaluation. > > And many contenders in the fields of anonymous transport, > > messaging, storage and so on both exist and are in development. > > > > > > https://edwardsnowden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/tor-stinks-presentatio… > > > > Also, trim to relavance and quit top posting. > > -- > > tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk(a)lists.torproject.org > > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > >

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How To Survive The "Deep State"
by wirelesswarrior＠Safe-mail.net 20 Oct '15

20 Oct '15

"Almost everyone looks for a political solution to problems. However, once a Deep State situation has taken over, only a revolution or a dictatorship can turn it around, and probably only in a small country. "Here’s what would happen in the totally impossible scenario that this person was elected and tried to act like a Lee Kuan Yew or an Augusto Pinochet against the Deep State:" http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-10-16/how-survive-deep-state

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Re: [tor-talk] Tor
by grarpamp 20 Oct '15

20 Oct '15

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 10:03 PM, Justin <davisjustin002(a)gmail.com> wrote: > According to a top secret NSA document, which you can view online: > Tor is the king of high secure, low latency anonymity. No contender awaits the throne. The document does not say that. Depending on your threat model and needed feature set Tor may be good, not good enough, or a failure. Plenty of room for competition and evaluation. And many contenders in the fields of anonymous transport, messaging, storage and so on both exist and are in development. https://edwardsnowden.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/tor-stinks-presentatio… Also, trim to relavance and quit top posting.

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WikiLeaks is not hosting Cryptome, search service only
by John Young 20 Oct '15

20 Oct '15

Clarify: WikiLeaks is not hosting Cryptome, instead a search service which points to Cryptome site files. Mighty helpful.

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Cyber Guerrilla Warfare, OPSEC, etc... [re: kicks bucket]
by grarpamp 20 Oct '15

20 Oct '15

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 4:51 AM, Georgi Guninski <guninski(a)guninski.com> wrote: > The ... situation ... is quite grave. > Assume very severe ... crisis hits ... relatively soon causing ... "State Kicks the bucket" (and other use cases) bring about some discussion around cyber guerrilla warfare of sorts... Assume you're a terrist, warfighter, some flavor of activist / dissident, human rights worker, journalist, hacker, VIP, whatever... What is the time to a fix and physical intercept on your location? Possibly specified to within some radius such that you cannot escape without being captured, or at least being visually identified, etc. Modulo your own movement while on / off air. What are the capabilities of any particular chosen adversaries that are after your realtime fix? What is your loiter time before you must move to avoid capture? Consider some various theatres, densities, infrastructures, and situations in which you might operate... - War ravaged mideast "city" - Paris, New York, Tokyo - You're in soverign territory up against drones and monitoring / locating methods that ignore and cross political boundaries. - You're in soverign territory against local police forces. - On foot or on wheels. - Cameras everywhere, discretion kept how? - Whether you strictly follow "never use the same place twice", or not. - Locating tech deployed directly by adversary vs. adversary utilizing tech deployed by local utilities that serve the population. - How to operate on limited resources against the "haves". Land lines are out since you'd churn through safe lines, unless you're tapping into them. Also wifi, cellular, satcom, pamphleting. Some examples could be drawn from the "wars" in the mideast. ie: You're spotted and fixed by undercover CIA agent, then droned 15 min later. What are your goals as a cyber guerrilla or OPSEC oriented individual or group in various tactical and strategic situations that you have an affinity with? What are the greator goals? What are the likely interest areas of a cyber guerrilla beyond personal survival of water, food, shelter? Do wide and local comms channels have trade value? How to maintain them? Any any other things related to cyber war, OPSEC type things that keep you alive / valued when bucket is kicked, even if you're sheeple....

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@phphax vs CIA: In All Yer Base since 1983
by grarpamp 19 Oct '15

19 Oct '15

"We are aware of the reports on social media and we are referring to the appropriate authorities," the senior official said. https://twitter.com/phphax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames

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