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New York Times: "Encryption works"
by jim bell 12 Mar '17

12 Mar '17

https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/03/11/technology/ap-us-tec-wikileaks-… [partial quote]NEW YORK — If the tech industry is drawing one lesson from the latest WikiLeaks disclosures, it's that data-scrambling encryption works, and the industry should use more of it.Documents purportedly outlining a massive CIA surveillance program suggest that CIA agents must go to great lengths to circumvent encryption they can't break. In many cases, physical presence is required to carry off these targeted attacks."We are in a world where if the U.S. government wants to get your data, they can't hope to break the encryption," said Nicholas Weaver, who teaches networking and security at the University of California, Berkeley. "They have to resort to targeted attacks, and that is costly, risky and the kind of thing you do only on targets you care about. Seeing the CIA have to do stuff like this should reassure civil libertarians that the situation is better now than it was four years ago."MORE ENCRYPTIONFour years ago is when former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed details of huge and secret U.S. eavesdropping programs. To help thwart spies and snoops, the tech industry began to protectively encrypt email and messaging apps, a process that turns their contents into indecipherable gibberish without the coded "keys" that can unscramble them.The NSA revelations shattered earlier assumptions that internet data was nearly impossible to intercept for meaningful surveillance, said Joseph Lorenzo Hall, chief technologist at the Washington-based civil-liberties group Center for Democracy & Technology. That was because any given internet message gets split into a multitude of tiny "packets," each of which traces its own unpredictable route across the network to its destination.The realization that spy agencies had figured out that problem spurred efforts to better shield data as it transits the internet. A few services such as Facebook's WhatsApp followed the earlier example of Apple's iMessage and took the extra step of encrypting data in ways even the companies couldn't unscramble, a method called end-to-end encryption.CHALLENGES FOR AUTHORITIESIn the past, spy agencies like the CIA could have hacked servers at WhatsApp or similar services to see what people were saying. End-to-end encryption, though, makes that prohibitively difficult. So the CIA has to resort to tapping individual phones and intercepting data before it is encrypted or after it's decoded.It's much like the old days when "they would have broken into a house to plant a microphone," said Steven Bellovin, a Columbia University professor who has long studied cybersecurity issues.Cindy Cohn, executive director for Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group focused on online privacy, likened the CIA's approach to "fishing with a line and pole rather than fishing with a driftnet."Encryption has grown so strong that even the FBI had to seek Apple's help last year in cracking the locked iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers. Apple resisted what it considered an intrusive request, and the FBI ultimately broke into the phone by turning to an unidentified party for a hacking tool — presumably one similar to those the CIA allegedly had at its disposal. [end partial quote]

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Opening AMD, and Exploiting Intel EFI, Random MACs, BTC
by grarpamp 11 Mar '17

11 Mar '17

https://it.slashdot.org/story/17/03/10/2110212/intel-security-releases-dete… https://apple.slashdot.org/story/17/03/10/2024214/mac-address-randomization… https://news.slashdot.org/story/17/03/10/2048236/message-for-amd-open-psp-w… https://mobile.twitter.com/Snowden/status/837367956229206016 https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/5xvn4i/update_corebootlibreboot_on_… https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5x4hxu/we_are_amd_creators_of_athlon_… https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/5x4hxu/we_are_amd_creators_of_athlon_… http://gpuopen.com/ https://libreboot.org/amd-libre/ Libreboot calls on AMD to release source code and specs on new Ryzen platforms Recently in the Libreboot project, we've been informed about the new Ryzen platforms being released and sold by AMD. They are currently taking input from the community. Here are ways you can contact AMD to tell them that you demand libre hardware: https://twitter.com/amd https://www.facebook.com/AMD/ https://community.amd.com/places https://www.amd.com/en-us/who-we-are/contact https://twitter.com/LisaSu ceo: lisa.su(a)amd.com chairman: john.caldwell(a)amd.com And.... https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro/batsbzx/2017/34-80206.pdf Order Disapproving ... the Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust

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some guys have all the luck...
by jim bell 11 Mar '17

11 Mar '17

Pamela Anderson calls rumored beau Julian Assange 'sexy' http://dailym.ai/2mvBx6H via http://dailym.ai/android

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[RUS] Putin OWNS Netanyahu!! - Fw: busting a 2,500 year old program of hate, Putin style
by Zenaan Harkness 11 Mar '17

11 Mar '17

This is absolute, unequivocal, sanity inducing, Top 40 rocking chart topping gold! (((Some people))) (it seems, who could have predicted this?) live a little in the <ahem> ... past, shall we say. In fact, (((they))) can live so far in the past as a 2500 years ago feud between: - "peoples" who are no longer the same peoples - speaking languages no longer the same languages - practicing religions that are no longer the same religions - and get this, --- where the head of state no less, the infamous (((Netanyahu))) himself, throws his hat into this 2500 year old pity pot death spiral feud, personally, publicly, and to the leader of a nation of ~145 million people (Putin, and Russia, respectively); GTFFOOH! SMDH already! "Bibi", you might have missed the memo, but it's, you know, 2017 already! I get that these Judes are sore losers (like, man, that was 2 thousand and 5 hundred years ago dude!!!), and "celebrate" their remembrance with their yearly month long canibalism rituals ("oh no, better not forget bra's, we lost a war 2500 yrs ago!"), and now even CNN is getting in on the "celebrate a grudge from millenias ago" ritualistic cannibalism, but damn! we got rockets, satellites and computers today! The saving grace of this incredible (and pathetic) human templating of victimhood and belligerence, as well as belligerant victimhood, and probably also a little victim-mentality-fuelled belligerence (on the part of these Judes as we know) is a sane response from the Orthodox Eastern God Emperor For Eternity himself, Mr. Putin, with these solid gold and forever more immortal words: “We now live in a different world. Let us talk about that now,” Yeah baby^B (((Bibi))), you been owned!! :D What a beautiful, wonderful, bloody glorious day ! Smilin' for a week now, Zenaan ----- Forwarded message from Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> ----- Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 17:55:59 +1100 From: Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> Subject: busting a 2,500 year old program of hate, Putin style Finally someone (Putin in this case) tells the Jews "it's time to move on from 2500yr old grudges". Bout time they did too :) Putin Mocks Netanyahu and Jewish Hate in Meeting on New Middle East Eric Striker Daily Stormer March 10, 2017 By and large, Vladimir Putin's meeting with Bibi Netanyahu was unremarkable. But one exchange was striking: a comment by the war criminal Bibi expressing open racial animosity towards Iran over a Biblical event that probably didn't even happen. You see, Purim - a Jewish celebration of a race war in which they murdered thousands of Persians where they partake in mock cannibalism3 - is coming up, and the King of the Jews made sure to let Putin know that without blood to feed on, the chosen ones could shrivel up and die. Times of Israel1: > Russian President Vladimir Putin told Prime Minister Benjamin > Netanyahu to stop living in the past Thursday, after the Israeli > premier tried to tie tensions with Iran to an upcoming Jewish > holiday about a thwarted genocide of Jews in ancient Persia. > > In a meeting with Putin in Moscow, Netanyahu said Persia had made > “an attempt to destroy the Jewish people that did not succeed” some > 2,500 years ago, an event commemorated through the Jewish holiday of > Purim, which Israel will celebrate starting Saturday night and > lasting in some places until Monday. > > “Today there is an attempt by Persia’s heir, Iran, to destroy the > state of the Jews,” Netanyahu said. “They say this as clearly as > possible and inscribe it on their ballistic missiles.” > > Adopting a conciliatory tone, Putin said that the events described > by Netanyahu had taken place “in the fifth century B.C.” > > “We now live in a different world. Let us talk about that now,” > Putin said. This show of Jewish hostility towards Iran over some 2,500 year old grudge is an exposé of their extreme forms of racial hate. Iran is home to the largest Jewish community in the Islamic world. They enjoy full protection as citizens and are free to practice their religion. Iran was able to solve its Jewish question non-violently through both emigration and destroying networks of Jewish intrigue (crackdowns on communists, de-Judaizing universities, crushing feminism, etc). With usury, Zionism and obscenity punishable by law, Iran's Jews have been de-fanged and redirected into benign professions, like rug making and peddling. ... http://www.dailystormer.com/putin-mocks-netanyahu-and-jewish-hate-in-meetin… ----- End forwarded message -----

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Rojava - Kurdistan - Assyrians - Neo-colonial use of "alien forefathers" conspiracies
by Shari 11 Mar '17

11 Mar '17

> Zenaan Harkness zen at freedbms.net > Tue Mar 7 17:13:52 PST 2017 > > http:// Break your linx faggot !

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[Cryptography] jammers, nor not
by Shari 11 Mar '17

11 Mar '17

> Ryan Carboni ryacko at gmail.com > Thu Mar 9 14:18:43 PST 2017 > > The academic community for cryptography is strange, > no null results are published Because they r all poser namefaggots.

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happy 8 march to the women
by Shari 11 Mar '17

11 Mar '17

> John Newman jnn at synfin.org > Thu Mar 9 12:05:52 PST 2017 > > I've been seeing a lot of this problem... It's becoming easier to spot (((them))).

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Zen - A globally accessible and anonymous blockchain
by Shari 11 Mar '17

11 Mar '17

> Joshua joshua2014 at protonmail.ch > Thu Mar 9 13:52:37 PST 2017 > > my project store[es] data that nobody can erase from history I wonder (((who))) is behind this post ? | | | |> | |3 | |

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Vint Cerf Explains Why The Internet Is At Risk Under The Trump Administration.
by Shari 11 Mar '17

11 Mar '17

> Cecilia Tanaka cecilia.tanaka at gmail.com > Fri Mar 10 16:22:19 PST 2017 > > Why The Internet Is At Risk Under The Trump Administration /Confirmed letterz agent/ Hi seesee ! Iz it because of peepol lyke you (ღ˘⌣˘ღ) ♫･*:.｡. .｡.:* ?

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Vint Cerf Explains Why The Internet Is At Risk Under The Trump Administration.
by Cecilia Tanaka 11 Mar '17

11 Mar '17

# The Googler known as the 'father of the internet' defends an institution that's at risk under the Trump administration. http://www.businessinsider.com/google-cloud-vint-cerf-on-fcc-and-net-neutra… ---------- * Friday Night Bonus! :D # Does Trump Really Have the Best Words? - A statistical analysis of Trump's inaugural address. http://www.litcharts.com/analitics/inaugural ---------- # Donald Trump is changing our language. We need a vocabulary of resistance. Trump’s speech – redundant, formulaic, aggressive, “post-literate” – is everywhere. The language of resistance, by contrast, doesn’t exist. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/17/resist-donald-trump-v… ---------- # Why We Believe Obvious Untruths. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/opinion/sunday/why-we-believe-obvious-un… ------- "Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live." - Mae Jemison

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