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Motherboard no longer works
by Ryan Carboni 30 Jun '19

30 Jun '19

My desktop motherboard no longer works (after they borked two Windows installations, they decided to bork my Fedora installation). Regardless, I have performed a UEFI backup of the settings, so I believe that any evidence of tampering will be on the second ROM chip. I will keep you guys posted if the government will attempt to recover or cover up their ... I guess they would tell a judge it is tools? Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.

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There can't be a deep state
by Ryan Carboni 29 Jun '19

29 Jun '19

Listened to a podcast once, where someone said, "I wish there was [a deep state]" There can't be a deep state. If there was, how could they botch something as salacious as MLK engaging in an orgy involving "natural and unnatural acts"? Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.

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Fake Satoshi
by John Newman 29 Jun '19

29 Jun '19

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-28/self-proclaimed-bitcoin-…

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Trump To Ban All Crypto, NSA Lies Collects Calls Anyway, US Roots Yandex
by grarpamp 29 Jun '19

29 Jun '19

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/27/trump-officials-weigh-encryption-… https://gizmodo.com/trump-white-house-reportedly-debating-encryption-policy… According to a report in Politico, the Trump administration held a National Security Council meeting on Wednesday that weighed the challenges and benefits of encryption. "One of Politico's sources said that the meeting was split into two camps: Decide, create and publicize the administration's position on encryption or go so far as to ask Congress for legislation to ban end-to-end encryption," reports Gizmodo. From the report: That would be a huge escalation in the encryption fight and, moreover, would probably be unsuccessful due to a lack of willpower in Congress. No decision was made by the Trump administration officials, Politico reported. The White House did not respond to a request for comment. The fact that these discussions are ongoing both within the White House and with Silicon Valley shows that the issue is still very much alive within the corridors of power. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/06/26/nsa-improperly-obtain… The National Security Agency improperly collected phone call records of Americans last fall, months after a previous breach that compelled the agency to destroy millions of records from the contentious program, documents released Wednesday revealed. The redacted documents, obtained by the ACLU in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, do not indicate how many records NSA improperly collected in the October breach, nor which telecommunications provider submitted the improper data. "These documents provide further evidence that the NSA has consistently been unable to operate the call detail record program within the bounds of the law," the ACLU said in a letter to Congress this week lobbying for an end to the program. The letter says elements within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence concluded the October violations had a "significant impact" on privacy and civil rights, but that the Americans affected were not told of the breach. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-yandex-exclusive/exclusive-wes… The malware, called Regin, is known to be used by the "Five Eyes" intelligence-sharing alliance of the United States, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, the sources said. Intelligence agencies in those countries declined to comment. Western cyberattacks against Russia are seldom acknowledged or spoken about in public. It could not be determined which of the five countries was behind the attack on Yandex

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cypher punks bow - the literal (tech + social) Great Charlottesville Hack of 2018"
by Zenaan Harkness 29 Jun '19

29 Jun '19

One awesome hack - both tech and social enginerring, so kudos Weev - a serious badass political (ultimately) hack! The Great Charlottesville Hack of 2018: A Message to the People of Charlottesville https://dailystormer.name/the-great-charlottesville-hack-of-2018-a-message-…

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8 million YouTube "holocaust denial" videos genocided, and counting - Oy vey! it's anuddah shoah! - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 29 Jun '19

29 Jun '19

Everybody's fav NSA money munkey junkies are layin' itall out in public for ya - we just LOVE tha smell o TubeCoin bannin's in the mornin... Booh yeah muffaluggerahs, keep on pimpin your Souls :D YouTube: We Will Genocide Any Video Denying the 'Holocaust' https://russia-insider.com/en/youtube-we-will-genocide-any-video-denying-ho… http://americanfreepress.net/youtube-inquisitors-demolish-history/ “Though justified by liberal Silicon Valley oligarchs as a response to the “racism, sexism, and homophobia” of the alt-right, YouTube’s new censorship plan begins with garden-variety political correctness—and ends in the wholesale falsification of history.” Dr. Kevin Barrett Tue, Jun 25, 2019 The original headline of this article was: YouTube Inquisitors Demolish History During the first week of June, YouTube announced a draconian new censorship policy—and immediately erased or demonetized the work of countless video-makers, destroying thousands of livelihoods in the process. Conservatives bore the brunt of the onslaught. The new policy was unveiled in the wake of a highly publicized spat between conservative YouTuber Steven Crowder and “Vice News” commentator Carlos Maza, in which Maza accused Crowder of “bullying” and “homophobia.” [img] “The YouTube Inquisitors: Eight million "unsuitable" videos erased and counting!” Though justified by liberal Silicon Valley oligarchs as a response to the “racism, sexism, and homophobia” of the alt-right, YouTube’s new censorship plan begins with garden-variety political correctness—and ends in the wholesale falsification of history. In a June 5 blog post announcing the new policy, YouTube wrote: Today, we’re taking another step in our hate speech policy by specifically prohibiting videos alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion based on qualities like age, gender, race, caste, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status. This would include, for example, videos that promote or glorify Nazi ideology, which is inherently discriminatory. Finally, we will remove content denying that well-documented violent events, like the Holocaust or the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, took place. The first two sentences sound like a well-meaning but maddeningly muddled mishmash of liberal platitudes. Taken at face value, YouTube is telling us we cannot “allege” that adults are intellectually superior to children and that children should therefore be segregated or excluded from busy streets. Or that 20-year-olds are more physically vigorous than retirees and should be excluded from over-60 basketball leagues. Age discrimination! Or that men are physically stronger than women and should therefore be excluded from women’s athletics. Gender discrimination! Anti-LGBTQ discrimination! Or that poorer people and groups, being in general less capable in intellectual and practical matters than wealthier people and groups, should be given various advantages like free college tuition as part of a policy of reducing inequality. Race and caste discrimination! Or that veterans, having been willing to risk their lives for their country, deserve special benefits. Pro-veterans discrimination! ... "So long, and thanks for all the #fashtags" perhaps?

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Trendline to Zero
by Ryan Carboni 29 Jun '19

29 Jun '19

First the government harassed me and claimed it wasn't happening, going so far as to put me into the strange mid-ground between a mental health hold and arresting me. Then they claim that... what? It was an elaborate long term plan? I outright say the government is harassing me... and they are. And the government is lying about it. The government likes to brag it has capabilities, but the problem is that they hire stupid people. You have to be stupid not to see the US as corrupt, while having access to all that they do. The government is trying to outsmart me. It has immense resources, and it is failing horribly, even though I am just one person, systematically isolated (no incriminating metadata though, right?), and is failing. Every time. And I can say this because the government brags that it is doing it, so they have to create a parallel investigation every few months to find something new to pin on me. And then I ruin the parallel investigation because apparently only a genius can understand that "any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex...". I demand my own freedom. The government says no. The stakes are too stupid for this to continue, and yet it does. The government is able to lie, yes. The government is self-aware that some actions are unpopular yes. The government believes it is executing the will of the people. Um. To quote a previous email from me: On a side note, what is the legal culpability of someone who wasn't on the radar of an investigation, is alleged to be involved by a third party already admittedly unreliable due to lies, as a result, the first party faces the full brunt of an investigation for a decade while the third party goes off scott free? This is one of self-evident impropriety things. What was the motivation for focusing immense resources on me? Because some psychologist in the Behavioral Analysis Unit thought I was most likely to crack? I wasn't involved. The government made me involved. There is no metadata. I demand the government to disclose the facts. The government believes it is representative, and so it conceals the truth. And so I post this, yet the government has no real reaction? I think I should go further, the government is intimidated, and so it must engage in secrecy. Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.

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Re: Google bias exposed...
by Punk 28 Jun '19

28 Jun '19

On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 01:10:16 +0000 (UTC) jim bell <jdb10987(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > You are writing as if what you, personally, think you need (or don't need) somehow applies to everyone else. Stop making things all about you. uh oh - you accussed ME of defending google - you set the topic. > You said: > "I made it pretty clear that I don't need any 'software' telling me that google-NSA-GCHQ is just a propaganda outlet for "american govcorp"." > Why should anyone else find that what YOU need is sufficient for them too? I didn't say they should. My point is that anybody who did their homework should know what google is. And what the rest of the silicon valley fascist cesspool is. And what american govcorp is. Et cetera. now, if you don't mind, explain how a text parser is going to detect 'political bias'? BUT WAIT, do you want to create some sort of website where people can allegedly check if other sites are 'biased'? And people should 'trust' YOUR site, WHY exactly?

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RFI: FLIR Hostile Fire Detection RFIW909MY-13-R-C009
by coderman 28 Jun '19

28 Jun '19

seeking additional information on FLIR Hostile Fire Detection RFIW909MY-13-R-C009. c.f.: https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/flirwhere-18877/#f…

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Julian Assange
by Ryan Carboni 28 Jun '19

28 Jun '19

Since the new social norm for this mailing list seems to be non-descriptive titles, I might as well post about Julian Assange. https://www.thedailybeast.com/chelsea-manning-i-was-a-spy-not-a-racist "Chelsea Manning on Her Alt-Right Partying: I Was a Spy, Not a Racist" I have doubts that some people ever went to jail, I mean, why would informants have valid legal histories? Julian Assange is going to be convicted for stupidity in any case, people pressing him for help, sleeping with anti-Castro women (seriously, no one cares about Castro unless you're an aging Cuban exile). The entire legal case against him is BS, a total forgery. Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.

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