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Fully FOSS Tails-like OS
by parazyd 10 Mar '17

10 Mar '17

I wanted to announce a preview version (0.0) of my fully free (libre) and open source operating system loosely based on concepts from the Tails Linux distribution... It is called "heads", and more can be seen at https://heads.dyne.org heads takes it's basic workflow concepts from Tails, but with a few quirks of its own. It provides a grsecurity patched kernel, and more security features, along with elegant, de-poetterized minimalism. The base system used for heads is Devuan (https://devuan.org) which was made as an answer to Debian switching to systemd, and the same way heads was made - as an answer to Tails switching to systemd. -- ~ parazyd GPG: 0333 7671 FDE7 5BB6 A85E C91F B876 CB44 FA1B 0274

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Zen - A globally accessible and anonymous blockchain
by Joshua 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

Hey folks, I just wanted to take some time out of my day to shill my current project out to you all. Currently none of the cryptocurrency networks in existence are end-to-end encrypted and I'm working on resolving that. I'm prepping for the day the great firewall of China sees cryptocurrency as a threat. This new platform will be built from Zclassic/Zcash and transmissions will be secured with zero-knowledge proofs. And if you're looking for a place to store some data permanently and in a distributed manner (that nobody can erase from history), then boy do I have a project for you! Check it out! https://zencash.io/ -movrcx Sent from [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.ch), encrypted email based in Switzerland.

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Re: [Cryptography] jammers, nor not
by Ryan Carboni 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

A secure computer is essentially in a faraday box, and to deal with cooling, would be full of mineral oil. I have read about Van Eck phreaking lately, and I don't think I see much in academia about it. Sure, there's some successful attempts to derive RSA keys from laptops, but apparently keyboards are vulnerable ( https://lasec.epfl.ch/keyboard/ )? LCD monitors leak their contents(not a big deal just shelve this away and forget about it)? The Inslaw Affair involved a backdoor in Promis using side channel emissions? Has anyone attempted to see how much signal leaks from telephone lines? Or from ethernet cables? Would an algebraic relationship between ciphertext bits make it easier for discover the key? Is an MDS matrix necessary for linear diffusion? Everything is so cheap nowadays, a software defined radio can be had for $20. https://github.com/martinmarinov/TempestSDR More impressive than a cryptographic attack against key fobs would be a way to eavesdrop on all the communications on a telephone line. That'd cause the immediate adoption of the Clipper Chip! The academic community for cryptography is strange, no null results are published anywhere. It'd be useful to have a casual wiki for those. Even if a novel cryptographic technique that requires more plaintext than bruteforce for ChaCha is discovered, it would have the potential to be improved upon.

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happy 8 march to the women
by He-Man 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

> James A. Donald jamesd at echeque.com > Wed Mar 8 14:09:34 PST 2017 > > There are no great female scientists. Correction: There are no (((great))) female (((scientists))). (((Nobel Prize))): The Nobel Prize is an annual, international prize first awarded in 1901 for achievements in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and (((Peace)))."" Jews have been recipients of all six awards, including 41% of economics, 28% of medicine, 26% of physics, 19% of chemistry, 13% of literature and 9% of all (((peace))) awards. The first Jewish recipient, Adolf von Baeyer, was awarded the prize in Chemistry in 1905. As of 2016, the most recent Jewish recipients included J. Michael Kosterlitz (physics), Oliver Hart (economics) and Bob Dylan (literature)."" Yet (((they))) are | |3 | | |

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tails 2.11
by John Newman 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

Tails 2.11 is out - https://tails.boum.org/news/version_2.11/ Apparently this will be the last release to support i2p... they say they lack a developer in the team to keep up with it.

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If this doesn't define what TOR really is, what does?
by bbrewer 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/playpen-us-doj-drops-child-porn-case-against-jay-m… "The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has decided to drop its case against Jay Michaud, accused of accessing the notorious and now defunct dark web child pornography website Playpen, instead of sharing the classified technology used to locate thousands of suspects visiting the site."

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On Becoming Friendly [re: WikiLeaks will work with...]
by grarpamp 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Razer <g2s(a)riseup.net> wrote: > They haz teh codz and they want to make friends with the tech industry: > >> "We have decided to work with them, to give them some exclusive access >> to some of the technical details we have, so that fixes can be pushed >> out," Assange said. Once tech firms had patched their products, he >> said, he would release the full data of the hacking tools to the public." > http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/artic… WL needs to be publishing ticket system type notes on what they're doing here. There need to be timeouts after which exploit code is published regardless of what industry does with it or not. Need to be saying they sent 8 itemized exploits to Microsoft, 13 to Android, etc. With all this "making friends", what "making friends" is, or may end up, going on with secrets in general? Is there no Journo or Tech that can withstand the temptation, or the externally imposed necessity, of becoming "friendly"?

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(((Them)))
by He-Man 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

Yet (((they))) are | |3 | | |

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[OT] "Don't use science to justify your bigotry."
by He-Man 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

> Cecilia Tanaka cecilia.tanaka at gmail.com > Thu Mar 9 09:57:21 PST 2017 > >> There are more than two sexes because "muh bugs" >> Oh, did you mean humans ? >> There are more than two sexes because "muh nutritional deficiencies" So there are two sexes. One that shoots a load, and one that hosts the parasite, or something like that ... >> but your heart and brain are male My dick is female, since, according to Bill Maher, women can't rape men. > don't use religion to justify your prejudices Don't use politeness to justify your stupidity.

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A debunking of "Racialism": "So, in a nutshell, little sunlight=white skin, much sunlight=black skin"
by Razer 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

It's the Vitamin D stoopid! A science teacher explains: https://www.facebook.com/grace.pokela.1/posts/10100443953660160 > > There is even an exception to this rule, and it’s an exception that > PROVES the rule. > > There is one group only of people who have lived with very little > sunlight for a very long time, but who still have brown skin. This > group is the American Inuit (Eskimos.) They live in an area where the > sun shines not at all for a large portion of the year! According to > our vitamin D rule, they should be among the palest of the pale of all > of the Earth’s people. And yet, they are brown. Why? > > They are brown for one very, very simple reason. Inuit eat a lot of > seal and whale meat. And can you guess what vitamin seal and whale > meat contains tons of? > > That’s right- vitamin D!!! > > Inuit have brown skin for the simple reason that they’ve spent > thousands of years getting their vitamin D from their diets, and NOT > from the sun. > > I am so, so sick of living in a world wherein people whose recent > ancestors needed to efficiently conserve folic acid are treated > differently than people whose recent ancestors needed to efficiently > make vitamin D. It is. So. Stupid. H/t Cecilia Tanaka: "[OT] "Don't use science to justify your bigotry." for tipping me to this FB account.

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