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Re: Elsevier tries to Swartz Sci-Hub
by Shelley 28 Jun '15

28 Jun '15

Ah, that explains why it wouldn't load for me. I checked & it wasn't down, just wouldn't load for me (screw cloudflare, I block it.) This is recent. Need to check to see when their hosting changed because until very recently torrentfreak was a site I visited frequently. Damn it. -S ---------- On June 27, 2015 3:56:02 PM oshwm <oshwm(a)openmailbox.org> wrote: > torrentfreak sits behind cloudflare :( > > On 27 June 2015 22:43:43 BST, grarpamp <grarpamp(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >http://torrentfreak.com/sci-hub-tears-down-academias-illegal-copyright-payw… > >http://www.sci-hub.club/ > > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

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Geo-unblocking and VPN services... not strong enough to stand?
by grarpamp 27 Jun '15

27 Jun '15

http://torrentfreak.com/isps-dump-vpn-after-legal-threats-from-big-media-15… http://torrentfreak.com/surprise-vpn-provider-expects-victory-in-site-block…

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Library Genesis under threat on the clearnet
by grarpamp 27 Jun '15

27 Jun '15

http://torrentfreak.com/libgen-goes-down-as-legal-pressure-mounts-150622/ # forum https://genofond.org/

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SETI, Codex, Runes, Riddles and Paradox...
by grarpamp 27 Jun '15

27 Jun '15

http://rjzdqt4z3z3xo73h.onion/

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FBI DITU fighting "Malicious Foreign Actor"s with military gear on US soil against US citizens
by coderman 26 Jun '15

26 Jun '15

"BREAKING: According to Michael Ratner attorney for WikiLeaks Anonymous has been officially designated a "Malicious Foreign Actor" by the NSA" - https://twitter.com/CommanderXanon/status/614153130268299264 i'd like to know if this was before or after summer of 2011, as designation of "Malicious Foreign Actor" would explain the use of indiscriminate military technology against an entire venue because of the presence of some Anons and LulzSec: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Aug/76 [ note that i'm still permanently moderated on Fyodor's FD, and thus won't reply there. ] sunlight - it may travel slowly, but eventually the darkest corners come into view :P best regards, P.P.S. the "kit falling over" was because they tied the automated exploitation to DHCP assignment once device connected to 3G/4G data network. by using DHCP-Relay to inject thousands of lease requests over a single link, their fork-bomb'ed gear fell over, with haste. i hope it fucked your intercepts, jerks! [ this kind of un-targeted mass surveillance is just as abhorrent as warrantless wiretaps on the backbone, even if the scope is limited.]

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Pirate Party Sails for Iceland by 2017
by grarpamp 26 Jun '15

26 Jun '15

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/22/1392812/-No-joke-Iceland-s-Pirate-…

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Re: [HunchLab] Predicting Crime in Miami
by Patrick Connolly 25 Jun '15

25 Jun '15

I was at the international open data conference a few weeks ago, and caught something similar coming out of Edmonton, AB, Canada. They basically feed a bunch of data sets into the system, and over the course of a few days, a "rule inducer" generates a bunch of interesting geographic rules that correllate with certain types of crime. Then the city tries to make sense of the complex rules and tease apart correlation and causation. http://www.edmontonjournal.com/City+harnesses+data+understand+crime/1071643… Message: 4 > Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 13:30:55 -0700 > From: Razer <Rayzer(a)riseup.net> > To: cypherpunks(a)cpunks.org > Subject: Re: [HunchLab] Predicting Crime in Miami > Message-ID: <558B137F.8060809(a)riseup.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > > > > On 06/24/2015 09:31 AM, Tim Beelen wrote: > > This is how it's pitched to the community: > >> > http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article19256145.… > >> > > > > FTA: The Miami police currently is using COMPSTAT, which does not > > predict where crime will happen insofar it tells you where it has been > > taking place. In addition they will start using HunchLab at some point. > > > > > Locally, the police department decided to partner with PredPol > /(snigger: 'Server And Protect')/. Early one morning at Starbucks I saw > a shift captain who also did PD PR work on the phone discussing an > article that was about to appear regarding the topic in a local > newspaper. He emphatically and repeatedly said: > > "DO NOT call it 'Predictive Policing'!" > > He obviously didn't believe it was a correct phrase to describe "Guessing". > > RR > > Ps. The use of computers to resolve cold-cases mentioned below isn't > really relevant to the topic of computers allegedly predicting future > crime. ALso, I suspect predictive software will simply create better > opportunities for more convincing false flag operations by people > affiliated with (but perhaps not directly connected to) police agencies. > > I'd extrapolate on those operations (at least ones noted locally) but > [off-topic], so I decline. > > > > An associate professor from Florida International University, Rob T. > > Guerette is expected to become their local expert on this piece of > > software. The person who wrote the grant for it is Lt. Sean MacDonald. > >> http://cj.fiu.edu/people/faculty/rob-guerette/ > > > > The article claims that similar software has "... helped prevent and > > stop property crimes, and is now being tested on gun crimes." > > > > Which makes me curious as about the kind of heuristics that they are > > using. > > > > HunchLab apparently produces maps showing small areas where specific > > crimes are likely to be committed. > > > > This is not a new turn of events, as Miami-Dade’s robbery division > > uses IBM's Blue PALMS to solve cold cases. The software connects to a > > database of every crime ever documented by Miami-Dade police. > > Detectives enter the details of an unsolved crime and the program > > produces a list of 20 suspects. > > > > Now the part of the Nuevo Herald's article that cough my attention is > > the moment that it starts speculating about it's effectiveness. > > The last few sentences juxtapose the potential volatility of it's > > predictions with who is responsible for it's "effectiveness". > > > > HunchLab uses a wider dataset than the rough equivalent PredPol. > > Annotated with the official final statement that the tool will only be > > "...as good as the officers using it." > > > > Putting the burden of proof of it's effectiveness squarely on the > > shoulders of the officers forced to use it. Which is, in my opinion, > > ridiculous. Since the software is supposed to predict the crime and > > not the other way around. > > > > I highly suspect that it grabs a bunch of data, normalizes it for the > > use with a map and starts looking for some correlation coefficient and > > then looks if it's statistically significant. I.e. it's a null > > hypothesis-- exactly what Larry Samuels, CEO of PredPol tries to warn > > them about expecting weird results. Since that is exactly what you get > > when you grow your dataset and statistically analyze the date using > > correlation coefficients + phi. > > > > Anyway. Who build this software? And what does it do? > > >

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[HunchLab] Predicting Crime in Miami
by Tim Beelen 25 Jun '15

25 Jun '15

This is how it's pitched to the community: > http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article19256145.… FTA: The Miami police currently is using COMPSTAT, which does not predict where crime will happen insofar it tells you where it has been taking place. In addition they will start using HunchLab at some point. An associate professor from Florida International University, Rob T. Guerette is expected to become their local expert on this piece of software. The person who wrote the grant for it is Lt. Sean MacDonald. > http://cj.fiu.edu/people/faculty/rob-guerette/ The article claims that similar software has "... helped prevent and stop property crimes, and is now being tested on gun crimes." Which makes me curious as about the kind of heuristics that they are using. HunchLab apparently produces maps showing small areas where specific crimes are likely to be committed. This is not a new turn of events, as Miami-Dade’s robbery division uses IBM's Blue PALMS to solve cold cases. The software connects to a database of every crime ever documented by Miami-Dade police. Detectives enter the details of an unsolved crime and the program produces a list of 20 suspects. Now the part of the Nuevo Herald's article that cough my attention is the moment that it starts speculating about it's effectiveness. The last few sentences juxtapose the potential volatility of it's predictions with who is responsible for it's "effectiveness". HunchLab uses a wider dataset than the rough equivalent PredPol. Annotated with the official final statement that the tool will only be "...as good as the officers using it." Putting the burden of proof of it's effectiveness squarely on the shoulders of the officers forced to use it. Which is, in my opinion, ridiculous. Since the software is supposed to predict the crime and not the other way around. I highly suspect that it grabs a bunch of data, normalizes it for the use with a map and starts looking for some correlation coefficient and then looks if it's statistically significant. I.e. it's a null hypothesis-- exactly what Larry Samuels, CEO of PredPol tries to warn them about expecting weird results. Since that is exactly what you get when you grow your dataset and statistically analyze the date using correlation coefficients + phi. Anyway. Who build this software? And what does it do?

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UNLEASHED AND UNACCOUNTABLE The FBI’s Unchecked Abuse of Authority
by coderman 24 Jun '15

24 Jun '15

https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/assets/unleashed-and-unaccountable…

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"The government does not concede that [redacted] is a journalist"
by coderman 24 Jun '15

24 Jun '15

title derived from the absurdity that is the wikileaks prosecution. - https://storify.com/bbhorne/jacob-appelbaum-s-legal-disclosure-from-google-… i've been critical of Jake in the past, and part of that was fueled by misinformation (character assassination). in the infosec realm, Jake gets flak for occasionally running rough shod over fine details. the infosec pedant find this irritating, but the actual haters (JTRIG lackeys? :) rely on this to attempt to discredit entirely. hating on 0day sales and exploit kits also wins few infosec friends, even though many others in industry also find this element distasteful. now that rat fuck hector is out of the game, they've surely turned to others. [ how much of Sabu targeting ioerror is at Fed behest? Nadim also by request? ] --- i repeat my earlier apology, and note that Jake responded to my personal attacks with respect and civility - this, among other deeds, demonstrates integrity and effort to improve self. thank you Jake! --- FBI closed my FOIA request for use of "disruption strategy" as too vague; a record denial among my many MuckRocking's, hence i will be digging more thoroughly in this direction in multiple future FOIAs. if anyone has other pointers to good examples of this disruption tactic in action, or other helpful hints, i'd like to hear them! :) best regards,

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