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Social Engineering: YANSS 093 – The neuroscience of changing your mind
by Razer 23 Sep '17

23 Sep '17

Jan '17, from youarenotsosmart.com (YANSS), a 'celebration of self-delusion': > We don’t treat all of our beliefs the same. > > If you learn that the Great Wall of China isn’t the only man-made > object visible from space, and that, in fact, it’s actually very > difficult to see the Wall compared to other landmarks, you update your > model of reality without much fuss. Some misconceptions we give up > readily, replacing them with better information when alerted to our > ignorance. > > For others constructs though, for your most cherished beliefs about > things like climate change or vaccines or Republicans, instead of > changing your mind in the face of challenging evidence or compelling > counterarguments, you resist. Not only do you fight belief change for > some things and not others, but if you successfully deflect such > attacks, your challenged beliefs then grow stronger. > > The research shows that when a strong-yet-erroneous belief is > challenged, yes, you might experience some temporary weakening of your > convictions, some softening of your certainty, but most people rebound > and not only reassert their original belief at its original strength, > but go beyond that and dig in their heels, deepening their resolve > over the long run. > > Psychologists call this the backfire effect, and this episode is the > first of three shows exploring this well-documented and much-studied > psychological phenomenon, one that you’ve likely encountered quite a > bit lately. > > In this episode, we explore its neurological underpinning as two > neuroscientists at the University of Southern California’s Brain and > Creativity Institute explain how their latest research sheds new light > on how the brain reacts when its deepest beliefs are challenged. > > By placing subjects in an MRI machine and then asking them to consider > counterarguments to their strongly held political beliefs, Jonas > Kaplan’s and Sarah Gimbel’s research, conducted along with > neuroscientist Sam Harris, revealed that when people were presented > with evidence that alerted them to the possibility that their > political beliefs might be incorrect, they reacted with the same brain > regions that would come online if they were responding to a physical > threat. > > “The response in the brain that we see is very similar to what would > happen if, say, you were walking through the forest and came across a > bear,” explains Gimbel in the episode. “Your brain would have this > automatic fight-or-flight [response]…and your body prepares to protect > itself.” > > According to the researchers, some values are apparently so crucial to > your identity, that the brain treats a threat to those ideas as if > they were a threat to your very existence. > > “Remember that the brain’s first and primary job is to protect > ourselves,” explains Kaplan in the show. “The brain is basically a > big, complicated, sophisticated machine for self-protection, and that > extends beyond our physical self, to our psychological self. Once > these things become part of our psychological self, I think they are > then afforded all the same protections that the brain gives to the body.” > > How does the brain take something that is previously neutral and > transmutate it into a value that it then protects as if it were flesh > and bone? How do neutral, empirical facts about temperature and carbon > emissions become politicized? How does an ideological stance on > immigration reform become blended with personal identity? We explore > those questions and more on this episode of the You Are Not So Smart > Podcast. > > (This episode’s cookie is Sugar Mint Cookies sent in by Haley Martin.) > > In full with links and podcast: https://youarenotsosmart.com/2017/01/13/yanss-093-the-neuroscience-of-chang…

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More #$%& from #$%&#$ %&#$%&#$ Re: [ PFIR ] Netanyahu's son removes anti-Semitic meme from Facebook following outcry
by Hollow Domer 23 Sep '17

23 Sep '17

> juan juan.g71 at gmail.com > Fri Sep 22 12:13:41 PDT 2017 > > [do not] infringe other people's rights > Ack. > the moment you publish them they are not > 'yours' anymore. > they come from other people. > So ideas are not the property of someone, unless it is a new idea, then it belongs to all those who thought before it, because it's 99.99999999% theirs. Do you even read before you post ? > privilege: a non-right > So we are in agreement. > copyright and patents > The legal terms are what we disagree on. The right to ownership is not. I concede to your argument against my defense of laws to defend things, seeable or not. > And you are accusing me of doing what *you* do? please. > If you think that the right to ownership can only be granted by others, which is what you argue when you say that the right to copy can only be granted as a privilege by some external authority. > at some point the cost of writing a full > counterargument to a piece of bullshit is too high. > Budget limits. Request more money for the next fiscal quarter, fbianon. > United States of America was founded in 1776 > as a slave society/concentration camp? > The United States is “a farce controlled by dirty, hook-nosed, circumcised Jew bastards". -Bobby Fischer Prove Jews didn't own all the slave ships. Prove Jews didn't own most of the slaves. Prove slavery isn't a semitic tradition. Pro-tip: **You can't.** > national borders > I never argued for "national" borders. I tried to overstand your position on what defines a border and how these "imaginary" lines, physical or not, differ from those drawn in sovereignty of one's body ? You offered nothing but "not valid". Just like your "bullshit" argument; why ? > cheaters > I do not cheat, sir. How dare you. =)

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More #$%& from #$%&#$ %&#$%&#$ Re: [ PFIR ] Netanyahu's son removes anti-Semitic meme from Facebook following outcry
by Hollow Domer 22 Sep '17

22 Sep '17

> juan juan.g71 at gmail.com > Fri Sep 22 13:15:23 PDT 2017 > > actually there was another > coming from the same redchan domain. > Yeah, and juan.g71[at]gmail[dot]com and grarpamp[at]gmail[dot]com are the same person because they both use jewgle mail and work for the feds. It must be true because it's on the internet.

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Google are Data Sheiks and how to secure things without their budget
by Ryan Carboni 22 Sep '17

22 Sep '17

In the Middle East, a few lucky families control the nation, and thus the oil wealth, thus perpetuating their rule. The Middle East isn't known for contributing much to the world's infrastructure or science. The same goes for Google. Mentioned in the past that Google doesn't ban having "noreply" in username, allowing for phishing accounts to be used on their service. You have to be some kind of sociopath to see something terrible happening and not trying to at least think of something that could be done. They have immense amounts of money, so their contributions to cybersecurity rank from (in monetary value), SHA-1 collision search (a million GPU hours), $200,000 for Android exploits, and $1,000 to fuzz browser DOMs for only ten seconds per attempt. They did discover numerous "security-related" crashes. Don't know if they decided to check for memory bound errors that didn't cause a crash. That might take more than ten seconds though. Twenty? Will they offer $200,000 for Chromium OS exploits? If they can't do it, shouldn't they cut back on Chromium OS and put everything behind Android? Or rework Xen-ARM to replace Chrome OS and Android? Corporations brag about smartphone resolution, but they should brag about security. Maybe force them to? Of course, McAfee got rich selling snake oil, by being alarmist. Fortunately there are real reasons to be alarmist nowadays! Or just do what puri.sm is doing and mumble... privacy... security... something. Does one really lose that much privacy with a smartphone with the default apps and settings? (you do have to set-up the backup) But the EFF quit W3C after DRM (surely there is a middle ground that makes DRM unviable on any slow computer). What is anyone going to do about webrtc? Anyway, here's a spin on an old saying, demand a mile, get an inch, demand it again, (and listen to them complain that they give you an inch and you want a mile). Allegedly some people have complained of various leftist nonprofits as being shake down organizations. Raise a fuss over insecurity, demand proportionate funding from corporations, name and shame, etc etc. Democracy is numerous people shouting over each other for what they want. Ideally though, one would have a low performance computer with high volatile memory, Qubes-style separation. AVOID COMPRESSING MEMORY. Local attestation, hash the loaded instructions, and induce a fault if the instructions change (thus causing any insecurity to be limited to improperly coded APIs). Integrate ClamAV, and harden it's sandbox? Computers should be separated into hobbyist (for learning and experimentation) and production computers (for anything actually important). Motherboards with soldered chips, and integrated SSD for the operating system. Shorting a fuse will disable updating the operating system for those activists. I mean... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_second#Timeline_of_instructi… Computers are fast. Transistors are small. Whatever you people think you're doing, it is not happening. It is not going to happen. What does it say that Zuckerberg owns a Macbook, and tapes over the speaker jack? Soghoian also criticises Google for failing to step up to the plate. > "Google could pay for the development of Grsecurity using the money found > between the cushions of their sofa," he insists. "This is not a big-ticket > item in the grand scheme of Google's budget." What is cheaper? A Pinebook with Android or a Librem 5? Probably unfair, the pixels per inch for the pinebook is a lot lower.

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More #$%& from #$%&#$ %&#$%&#$ Re: [ PFIR ] Netanyahu's son removes anti-Semitic meme from Facebook following outcry
by Hollow Domer 22 Sep '17

22 Sep '17

> juan juan.g71 at gmail.com > Thu Sep 21 15:14:24 PDT 2017 > > the celts were actually joos =P > My sides. Pic related. > what rights? there are no 'rights' to state > granted privileges like intellectual 'property'. > Unless another has a right to what you create, I see not issue with self-granted rights. > you can prove authorship but that doesn't mean > you have the 'right' to state enforced copy-privilege. > > state-enforced > This is where we conflict. The "state" can be you, too. "a politically unified people occupying a definite territory;" > imaginary lines are not real > You should take a look at a map... > You should take a look at a mirror. You cannot see the plane, yet it blocks your path. > conflating "community" and "government" > A governing body is a community, and a community often establishes some level of governance, even as simple as "don't take my shit, and I wont take yours". > There's no such thing as 'community' > Yes there is, the family, and you commies wont ever destroy it. > legitimate claim over land. > Can the individual own land ? If so, then so can a family, or a friendship ? If not, what to do about the land under your feet ? > land ownership / personal ownership > What is the difference ? > is weaker than > I see you got the memo. > not by governments > Where does the individual/group end and the government begin ?

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Glorious Leader Celebrates Bountiful Harvest
by Young Hung 22 Sep '17

22 Sep '17

Kim is a glorious father to his nation > > Kim Jong Un Visits Kwail County Apple Orchard, South Hwanghae Province > > Pics related. > > Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the > State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the > Korean People's Army, gave a field guidance to Kwail County, South > Hwanghae Province."" > >

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Glorious Leader Celebrates Bountiful Harvest
by KIDF 22 Sep '17

22 Sep '17

Kim Jong Un Visits Kwail County Apple Orchard, South Hwanghae Province Pics related. Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, gave a field guidance to Kwail County, South Hwanghae Province."" He went round the Kwail County Revolutionary Museum and the room dedicated to the history of the county."" Saying that the museum and room are the places associated with the loving care of President Kim Il Sung and leader."" Kim Jong Il who devoted themselves to the people all their lives, he noted that as they have been arranged well as befitting a model of the whole country, it is necessary to meticulously organize education through them so that the party members, working people and school youth and children bear in mind the desire of the great leaders and make positive contributions to building a nationalist socialist power as soon as possible."" He went round the analysis room, information room, e-reading room and other places of the fruit research institute."" He praised the institute for widely introducing the research successes in the fruit farms with the high aim to put the fruit production on a scientific, modern and intensive basis, cultivating high-yielding fruit trees, steadily improving seeds and setting up the unified command system for scientific fruit farming of each work team under the climate and weather conditions."" He enjoyed a bird's-eye view of the county from the observation deck before going round orchards."" Touching apples heavily hanging on branches one by one, he noted this is said that apple trees are heavily laden with fruits. It is very great that there are many fruit workteams which produced 70-80 tons of fruits per hectare, and trees are heavily laden with apples as they are laden with over 200 apples on an average per tree, over 300 apples at the maximum, he said with broad laugh."" He told earnestly officials to surely convey his thanks to the officials and working people of the county who reaped the richest harvest ever known."" Kwail County is a model unit which should be put forward in the front ranks of the whole country in the struggle to implement the decisions of the Seventh Congress of the WPK, he said. He thanked it in the name of the chairman of the WPK and made sure that special bonus is given to it."" Noting that the county should wage a dynamic struggle to make a higher leaping forward on the basis of the achievements made by it this year, he set forth the important tasks facing the county, including the issue of increasing the good fruit species, the issue of keeping the peculiar taste of fruits and updating the fruit processing progress, the issue of meticulously organizing operation of the sci-tech learning space, the issue of organizing well the operation of pig farms so that the production cycle of fruit farming and animal husbandry is established, the issue of perfecting drip irrigation system and building natural energy power station suited to the characteristics of topography to smoothly meet the demands of electricity and the issue of flawlessly creating shelter belts."" He was accompanied by KPA Vice Marshal Hwang Pyong So, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the C.C., WPK, vice-chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and director of the General Political Bureau of the KPA, Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the C.C., WPK, vice-chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and vice-chairman of the C.C., WPK, Army General So Hong Chan, first vice-minister of the People's Armed Forces, and Kim Yong Su and Jo Yong Won, leading officials of the C.C., WPK."" rodong [dot] rep [dot] kp/en/

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CCleaner Malware Targeted Tech Giants Cisco, Google, Microsoft
by Razer 22 Sep '17

22 Sep '17

Links on page: https://www.darkreading.com/endpoint/ccleaner-malware-targeted-tech-giants-… CCleaner Malware Targeted Tech Giants Cisco, Google, Microsoft Kelly Sheridan The backdoor discovered in Avast's CCleaner targeted top tech companies including Google, Microsoft, Samsung, Sony, VMware, and Cisco. When Cisco Talos and Morphisec discovered a version of Avast CCleaner had been compromised to deliver malware, it was bad enough to learn millions of endpoints were threatened. Now, security experts say the attackers had espionage in mind. Earlier this week, both firms published research detailing the compromise of CCleaner version 5.33, which was available for download from August 15, 2017 until the release of v5.34 on September 12. The binary included in v5.33 contained a multi-stage malware payload to collect information including a list of running processes and all software installed on the machine. Further analysis on the attack, published by Talos on Sept. 20, unearthed some concerning details. Researchers acquired an archive of files stored on the attackers' command and control (C2) server, which contained code listing major organizations targeted with a second-stage loader. If a machine from one of those networks connected, it would be hit with a secondary payload. "What happened is the attacker was using this giant net," says Craig Williams, senior technical lead at Cisco Talos. "In the four days the command and control server had data for, 700,000 victims connected with it … but [the attackers] only wanted a tiny fraction of them." Analysis of the C2 tracking database, which spanned four days in September, revealed at least 20 victim machines hit with specialized secondary payloads. Targeted organizations included Microsoft, Google, HTC, Sony, Samsung, D-Link, Akamai, VMware, Linksys, and Cisco itself. During that timeframe, the malware regularly contacted the C2 server to send information about infected systems. This included IP addresses, online time, hostname, domain name, process listings, and other data. Researchers believe attackers likely used this to determine which machines they should target during the campaign's final stages. "This is pretty much exactly what we expected," says Williams. "It quite literally fits the definition of an APT." Because Cisco Talos was only able to analyze four days of activity during the time CCleaner v5.33 was available for download, he continues, they have no idea how often this list of corporations was altered. They believe the target list was changed during the period the C2 server was active in order to compromise different businesses. "When you hear two million machines were infected, it implies a commodity criminal," says John Bambenek, manager of threat systems at Fidelis Cybersecurity. "Now we're talking corporate environments, and it's hard to see that as anything other than an espionage attack." Williams says the recommendations stay the same for affected businesses: systems should be wiped, restored from backup, or reinstalled. This is an example of why users need to have reliable backups amid the rise of supply-chain attacks. "From the advent of this discovery, we had been warning users to recover from backups," he emphasizes. "We had been telling people, nobody knows what happened so you have to recover from backups." Who did it? Both Bambenek and Williams say the attack is well-made and likely the work of a sophisticated actor, though it's still unclear who it might be. The contents of the Web directory taken from the C2 server included PHP files responsible for controlling communications with infected machines. One of these files, which contains core variables and operations used, specifies the People's Republic of China (PRC) as the time zone. Williams says this does not mean Chinese actors are responsible. In fact, he believes the opposite. This is especially well-crafted malware, made with a significant amount of development time and complex database. If it really was China, why leave the timestamp? "I suspect it's a false flag," he proposes, though it's hard to say for certain. Interestingly, Bambenek points out, CCleaner was a curious choice for this victim pool. "My first thought was, I'm not entirely sure how many of these enterprises would have used CCleaner," says Fidelis' Bambenek. "This is casting a broad net for an app you probably wouldn't find in enterprise environments." While he says this may not be a particularly successful attack in terms of the hackers' true objectives, it shows threat actors are willing to think outside the box to achieve their goals. "Two million infected computers is nothing to shake a fist at," he notes. "It shows they're willing to try new things and experiment. The adversary doesn't have complete visibility into what's typically used in enterprises. They need to make guesses." --30--

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More #$%& from #$%&#$ %&#$%&#$ Re: [ PFIR ] Netanyahu's son removes anti-Semitic meme from Facebook following outcry,Razer g2s at riseup.net,Thu Sep 21 18:54:39 PDT 2017
by Hollow Domer 22 Sep '17

22 Sep '17

> Razer g2s at riseup.net > Thu Sep 21 18:54:39 PDT 2017 > > Truly unlikely. > Typical leftist, projecting their degeneracy onto others. **what time did you get ?**

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More #$%& from #$%&#$ %&#$%&#$ Re: [ PFIR ] Netanyahu's son removes anti-Semitic meme from Facebook following outcry
by Hollow Domer 22 Sep '17

22 Sep '17

> John Newman jnn at synfin.org > Thu Sep 21 15:11:00 PDT 2017 > > The etymology > Πρεττανία translates to "the painted [marked] ones". I am sure you have been marked, my british friend. > brain dead male > I am a girl, you nigger. > who wants to control a woman's health care agency > Typical cuck, bear half of the responsibilities but have none of the control. As Juan asserts, the woman's body ends where the child's begins. > trace[ing] a "border" along a geographic feature > doesn't make it any less of a farce. > Until it is assured by force. That force can be an agreement, or IRL aktion. You draw a border around your property line, should "le ebil natsees" start shitting on it, only an agreement or IRL aktion will stop them.

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