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ScienceAlert: MIT Has Invented Slightly Eerie Lasers That Transmit Whispers Only You Can Hear
by jim bell 27 Jan '19

27 Jan '19

ScienceAlert: MIT Has Invented Slightly Eerie Lasers That Transmit Whispers Only You Can Hear. https://www.sciencealert.com/new-tech-from-mit-uses-lasers-to-beam-whispers…

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“America has never made income taxes lawful in a free and fair referendum” - People unite against (((big gov))) - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 27 Jan '19

27 Jan '19

Pence: Venezuelan Maduro is “a dictator with no legitimate claim to power” who has “never won the presidency in a free and fair election.” Is that so? The USA really wants to dictate to other countries how which things the people get to vote upon? Like the most basic things such as whether we have an income tax or a "goods and services" tax? And (thank you CNN) Macron is the leader of "the Free world" with 17% popularity whilst gassing his own people protesting, and Trump gassing people trying to "illegally" enter the USA is the greatest evil this world has ever seen? Really truly gassing your own people is ok a la France's Mar-con? Perhaps we really need to start a public dialog about whom it is OK to gas, and whom it is not OK to gas - or perhaps whom may legitimately gas other humans, and which other humans may not legitimately gas other humans? Because gassing humans is ok when it protects the state, but not ok when it is to protect the state? I'm so confused I'm literally shakiNPC - not good! Maduro orders ‘total revision’ of Venezuela-US diplomatic ties after Pence calls for regime change https://www.rt.com/news/449458-venezuela-maduro-us-relations-pence/ Venezuela: Look, this is a democracy... CIA: You think you got a democracy muffaluggerah?! Eat my balls! #CoupsForAll #CIARules #AmericaIsADemocracyOfValues Australia: That's not a democracy, THIS is a democracy! Macron: Poodle oi oi, piss thee, may we? Ocasio /ourlatinx/: 80% income tax rate will stop global warming! Trump: So big. So beautiful. #OurWall #BigWall - Big, beautiful wall! John Young: The wall schematics, /ourlatinx/ nudes and Saddam's WMDs are all now in cleartext on http://cryptome.org - and we understand that which you don't understand, so don't even THINK about asking for HTTPS certificates on the web server. Anon: Dang dude! That's some -serious- crypto balls - deep state shit exposed, and not even encrypted! David Duke: The wall will help protect a future for white children. Andrew Anglin: When in finally comes, this f***in wall better be white! Dalai Llama: The rapefugees should be sent back to their own country to help build the wall! Pelosi: Damn you Trump, no free ride to Afghanistan for the CIA's latest orphanage pizza party! Commercial my arse, I'm gonna ride Obama there instead! Sinn Féin: American pussys! Bomb it like it's 1999 already, mofos! Corbyn: If only we had an oven big enough to "Gas the Jews" - ha ha, so funny :) Meechan: Hey! That's MY joke! Anglin: Step aside bro, step aside! Sanhedrin: Oy VEY! So many anti-semitic jokes, ve must be shutting it down already - police must DO something already, this is literally getting Out Of Control there is WAY too much goyim knowing! You must NEVER, EVER, under ANY circumstances joke about Hitler, see? Because this is beyond the limit that you all know is free speech - Nazi is definitely not free to speak, OK? Entire world: Please le Juif, remind us your semitic victimhood for what is it, 5 thousand years already? I'm not quite sure I got that bit about being kicked out of every single country, every single time (somtimes multiple times), for 5000 years? Can you please remind me just one more time how it everybody else's fault, it is always us troublesome goyim? We are not quite understanding and DEFinitiely need more educating - perhaps a few more holocaust museums to remind us of all the literally shaking facts, masturbation machines and literally built after WWII fake Auschwitz chimneys? I'm really not sure I have the full picture, so please, please don't let me interrupt you and educate us all another 6 million times.

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The Unprofitably Incompetent - moral obscenity - zero gratitude - destruction of the host
by Zenaan Harkness 26 Jan '19

26 Jan '19

The Unprofitably Incompetent https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-26/those-who-cant-do-demand https://straightlinelogic.com/2019/01/25/the-unprofitably-incompetent-by-ro… Those who can't do, demand... Profit propels civilization. When a producer can make an item or provide a service at a cost lower than a customer values that item or service, and the customer has the means and the freedom to buy, the difference between what’s paid over cost is profit. That profit is the producer’s incentive to produce, and in turn funds the producer’s consumption, savings, and investment, which creates other producers’ profits. Profit is the necessary prerequisite for consumption, savings, investment, and consequently, progress. Many of us profit every day. We offer services and provide goods, supporting ourselves at a cost that is lower than what we’re paid. We’re profitably competent, engaging in honest production and peaceful, voluntary exchange. The only alternatives to profitable competence are living off of someone else’s profitable competency via inheritance or charity, or criminality—theft via fraud or violence. Criminals cloak their thefts in all sorts of justifications, some of which, like socialism, become full-blown political doctrines. Ironically, a larcenous litany of demands and rationalizations are efflorescing at a time when whatever is left of the overall profit pool has been drained. It has been mortgaged multiple times, just as hordes of the unprofitably incompetent, who had no hand in producing it, clamor for their “fair share.” They’ll insist the profitably competent figure out how to pay for it, but the fair share of nothing is nothing, political promises to the contrary notwithstanding. “Your means, my ends; I wish, you fulfill,” is the foundational fantasy of modern governance. The favored groups shelter in their safe spaces—government and its rackets, crony corporations, academia, the media, and Hollywood—living on the delusion that there will always be someone who will produce, without question or protest, for their benefit. Upon that foundation they’ve constructed a phantasmagorical edifice of illusory constructs and passages to nowhere. As the foundational fantasy totters, the fantasies it supports become more fantastical. The profit pool exhausted, you would think everything possible would be done to succor the profitably competent who are supposed to replenish it. Instead, that illustrious group is demonized at every turn, and the demands on them become ever more absurd. They are guilty because they’re productive, and must expiate their guilt by producing for the unproductive, whose incompetence makes them morally superior. The most “toxic” trait often associated with masculinity may be competence. It’s not exclusively masculine, but whether its possessors are male or female it has certainly become toxic, depriving them of any right to what they produce and any right to criticize those who steal it from them. Twits who can’t replace a light bulb https://straightlinelogic.com/2019/01/21/the-generation-that-will-save-the-… demand free schooling and medical care, guaranteed jobs and incomes, trips to Mars, and who knows what else. Those who are to fund it all are to cheerfully regard doing so as a privilege. The notion of reparations won’t die. Anyone with money (the only people who can pay) supposedly owe the descendants of various victim classes reparations for the supposed sins of their ancestors. To hold individuals guilty of crimes they couldn’t have committed is a moral obscenity. The demands for retribution are simply another naked money grab. The rhetoric grows increasingly hateful. The slave class can be openly disparaged, denigrated, and deplored based on their race, gender, geographic location, religion, politics, the way they smile at a Native American, or any other characteristic the masters don’t like. But woe to the slaves who utter anything the tyrannical cult deems offensive or incorrect. Transgressors are put through social media hell, ostracized, ruined, and coming soon, incarcerated. If you’ve found your safe space and you’re incapable of producing marketable value that exceeds its cost of production, you’re dependent on the profitably competent, but their very existence is a constant reproach, a reminder of your own inadequacy. So where gratitude would be appropriate, you instead hate, mock, and abuse your meal tickets. This isn’t PhD in psychology material—spoiled children have been abusing their parents for centuries. Interestingly—at least for psychology PhDs—the dependent get more abusive as they get more dependent. Their safe spaces require little or nothing in the way of competency. They have become havens for personal predilections and peccadilloes that were once socially unacceptable, virtually free from any standards of comportment or dress, and citadels of venomous, self-serving ideologies. One month into the partial shutdown of the largest safe space, it’s obvious that not only has the sky not fallen, but unsurprisingly, America is doing just fine without those 800,000 furloughed workers that even the government considers nonessential. Which elicits the question: What were they doing when they were on the job? “Not much” is not necessarily the right answer. The 100,000 plus pages of the Federal Register and the tax code suggest that they’ve been spending a lot of time gumming up the works for and extracting money from the profitably competent many of them despise. The furlough may accomplish the first step of breaking America’s addiction to government: realizing that most of it is not only useless, but harmful. We’ll see if it leads to the next steps: getting rid of personnel, programs, agencies, and entire departments, and changing policy accordingly (we can dream). If things change in that direction, expect the denizens of what are no longer safe spaces to become increasingly vitriolic. You can’t reach a point where dependents openly denigrate those who support them without the latter’s tacit or explicit consent. Parents who spoil their children and endure the brats’ abuse get what they deserve. Ayn Rand had it right. The people who make America go could bring it to a shuddering stop simply by stockpiling their resources and walking off their jobs for a month or two. An added turn of the screw would be withdrawing their funds from the banking system (see “The Yellow Vests Get it Right,” SLL https://straightlinelogic.com/2019/01/13/the-yellow-vests-get-it-right-by-r… ). It’s time to stop funding the abusers, time to stop excusing them with “they mean well, but…”, time to reject their claims to moral superiority, time to stop building safe space sanctuaries, time to stop apologizing for profitable competence, and time to recognize its moral value and reclaim the right to its profits. If it takes a strike to hurl the brats into the maw of their own incompetence and upend the tyrannical cult, so be it. The biggest crime hasn’t been that of the brats and the cult, it’s been the failure of those who haven’t defended what’s rightfully theirs.

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Cryptocurrency: Patrick Byrne via A Bit Cryptic, Privacy Green
by grarpamp 26 Jan '19

26 Jan '19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1haEra023s https://medium.com/@abitcryptic/bitcoin-messiah-patrick-byrne-on-finding-ri… https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjKP-6Udnyy783selq5CHMw/videos https://medium.com/@abitcryptic/privacy-in-the-connected-digital-age-62fc36…

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Socialism - nature's answer to curbing a once-great empire
by Zenaan Harkness 26 Jan '19

26 Jan '19

Socialism actshuallay has a greater purpose - to curb once great empires, putting the brakes on the unrestrained "democracy" or "soviet" dogma which is not so kindly in its imposition of itself upon the empire's vassals. Rome had its legions, its entitled citizens and most importantly entitled soldiers. Said soldiers received pay, to eat as they guarded the empire and occasionally prosecuted a war or three. This was Rome's unsustainable entitlements program, which when combined with the corruption and rapid decent of "the elite", brought about the end of that ancient empire. It's an age old story - "benefits" such as "protection" and "freedom", sold to the people in return for "your pithy tax dollars". America as with every empire before it likewise fails to curb itself or to self regulate, instead increasing its despotic and corrupt hand of power upon its vassals or the vassals it wants (e.g. Venezuela today). Witness the USA's daily droning of humans to death (with the help of Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon etc) and not a hint of a non ironic "fair trial pursuant to democracy". Enter stage right Socialism in the sanguine spinning, hair flouncing Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Bernie Sanders and a half dozen more socialist tax-to-the-max agents who shall maximise those social "Roman citizen entitlements" and thus belittle the voters, ensure increasing dependency (on the government) and ultimately completely enslaving the nation (nee empire) into le traditional black hole of debt servitude and economic collapse. Thus as a happy coincidence for the rest of the world, this malignant socialism curtails the militant and despotic empire. "Dangerous Ideas" Loom As Once Democratically Chosen, There's No Reversing Socialism https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-25/dangerous-ideas-loom-once-democra…

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Leaks: Dark Side Of The Kremlin - 108GB via DistributedDenialOfSecrets
by grarpamp 26 Jan '19

26 Jan '19

https://archive.org/details/DarkSideOfTheKremlin infohash:305a8569f0728290a171fb843a02c0cd21db9a97 infohash:fe604c9b2698dc48df9a35d31dab143c1f4eb277 :) https://twitter.com/NatSecGeek https://twitter.com/DDoSecrets http://ddosecretspzwfy7.onion/ Distributed Denial of Secrets (“DDOS”) is a transparency collective, aimed at enabling the free transmission of data in the public interest. We aim to avoid any political, corporate or personal leanings, and to act as a simple beacon of available information. As a collective, we do not support any cause, idea or message beyond ensuring that information is available to those who need it most - the people. While we are happy to serve as an index to data of all varities, all much meet the following two criteria: Is the data of public interest? Can a prima facie case be made for the veracity of the contents? Unless already public, or as authorized by our source, we do not disclose the providing party of any received information, and we are fully commited to ensuring their anonymity from all threats. We can never advise on the perfect procedure for transferring data to us or anyone else, but we can act as a shield for that process and share advice from our experience. Often our role is to not just make data available, but to act as a anonymity guard to pass data to journalists and other figures best positioned to interrogate it.

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Tor: Cross Jurisdiction Traffic Monitor and Circuit Reconstruction, DeepCorr Flow AI, App DeAnon
by grarpamp 26 Jan '19

26 Jan '19

https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.09237 We model and analyze passive adversaries that monitors Tor traffic crossing the border of a jurisdiction an adversary is controlling. We show that a single adversary is able to connect incoming and outgoing traffic of their border, tracking the traffic, and cooperating adversaries are able to reconstruct parts of the Tor network, revealing user-server relationships. In our analysis we created two algorithms to estimate the capabilities of the adversaries. The first generates Tor-like traffic and the second analyzes and reconstructs the simulated data. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.07285 Flow correlation is the core technique used in a multitude of deanonymization attacks on Tor. Despite the importance of flow correlation attacks on Tor, existing flow correlation techniques are considered to be ineffective and unreliable in linking Tor flows when applied at a large scale, i.e., they impose high rates of false positive error rates or require impractically long flow observations to be able to make reliable correlations. In this paper, we show that, unfortunately, flow correlation attacks can be conducted on Tor traffic with drastically higher accuracies than before by leveraging emerging learning mechanisms. We particularly design a system, called DeepCorr, that outperforms the state-of-the-art by signifi- cant margins in correlating Tor connections. DeepCorr leverages an advanced deep learning architecture to learn a flow correlation function tailored to Tor's complex network--this is in contrast to previous works' use of generic statistical correlation metrics to cor- related Tor flows. We show that with moderate learning, DeepCorr can correlate Tor connections (and therefore break its anonymity) with accuracies significantly higher than existing algorithms, and using substantially shorter lengths of flow observations. For in- stance, by collecting only about 900 packets of each target Tor flow (roughly 900KB of Tor data), DeepCorr provides a flow correlation accuracy of 96% compared to 4% by the state-of-the-art system of RAPTOR using the same exact setting. We hope that our work demonstrates the escalating threat of flow correlation attacks on Tor given recent advances in learning algorithms, calling for the timely deployment of effective counter- measures by the Tor community. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.04434 In this work we show that Tor is vulnerable to app deanonymization attacks on Android devices through network traffic analysis. For this purpose, we describe a general methodology for performing an attack that allows to deanonymize the apps running on a target smartphone using Tor, which is the victim of the attack. Then, we discuss a Proof-of-Concept, implementing the methodology, that shows how the attack can be performed in practice and allows to assess the deanonymization accuracy that it is possible to achieve. While attacks against Tor anonymity have been already gained considerable attention in the context of website fingerprinting in desktop environments, to the best of our knowledge this is the first work that highlights Tor vulnerability to apps deanonymization attacks on Android devices. In our experiments we achieved an accuracy of 97%

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I2P: Study of the Network and its Censorship Resistance
by grarpamp 26 Jan '19

26 Jan '19

https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.09086 Tor and I2P are well-known anonymity networks used by many individuals to protect their online privacy and anonymity. Tor's centralized directory services facilitate the understanding of the Tor network, as well as the measurement and visualization of its structure through the Tor Metrics project. In contrast, I2P does not rely on centralized directory servers, and thus obtaining a complete view of the network is challenging. In this work, we conduct an empirical study of the I2P network, in which we measure properties including population, churn rate, router type, and the geographic distribution of I2P peers. We find that there are currently around 32K active I2P peers in the network on a daily basis. Of these peers, 14K are located behind NAT or firewalls. Using the collected network data, we examine the blocking resistance of I2P against a censor that wants to prevent access to I2P using address-based blocking techniques. Despite the decentralized characteristics of I2P, we discover that a censor can block more than 95% of peer IP addresses known by a stable I2P client by operating only 10 routers in the network. This amounts to severe network impairment: a blocking rate of more than 70% is enough to cause significant latency in web browsing activities, while blocking more than 90% of peer IP addresses can make the network unusable. Finally, we discuss the security consequences of the network being blocked, and directions for potential approaches to make I2P more resistant to blocking.

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Ars Technica: Google asks Supreme Court to overrule disastrous ruling on API copyrights
by jim bell 25 Jan '19

25 Jan '19

Ars Technica: Google asks Supreme Court to overrule disastrous ruling on API copyrights. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/01/google-asks-supreme-court-to-ov…

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John McAfee: Real Talk on Expat US, 2020 Presidency, Cryptocurrency Future
by grarpamp 25 Jan '19

25 Jan '19

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