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Keith Alexander's IronNet Cybersecurity Comsec
by John Young 13 Dec '14

13 Dec '14

Recognize former (and current?) NSA officials, among 30, working for Keith Alexander's IronNet Cybersecurity, Inc. <http://t.co/JruGTeDTRQ>http://cryptome.org/2014/12/keith-alexander-comsec.htm http://ironnetcyber.com/

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more blasphemy
by Juan 13 Dec '14

13 Dec '14

and more! pando.com/2014/11/14/tor-smear/ "Perhaps it’s somewhat understandable that salaried Tor developers like Andrea Shepard and Jacob Appelbaum went on the attack......Both Appelbaum and Shepard circulate in radical anti-police state circles, and my article pointed out that they earn $100,000-plus annual salaries working for a nonprofit federal government security contractor—a nonprofit that gets at least three-quarters of its annual funding from the Pentagon, State Department, and other federal agencies. In other words, Tor anti-National Security State rebels are living off the largesse of their NatSec State nemesis." "Morgan Marquis-Boire, a former Googler who was recently poached by Pierre Omidyar to run security at First Look, called me a loony conspiracy theorist for reporting on Tor’s government funding—but then contradicted himself by arguing that this “conspiracy theory” is a matter of public record. It was a baffling, oxymoronic argument to make—accusing my article of being both a wild conspiracy theory, yet also boring old news that no one should bother reading—but for some reason, Tor defenders thought this self-contradiction made perfect logical sense:" "As it turned out, Halpin, like the Tor developers and their defenders, had other reasons to try to discredit reporting on funding and conflicts-of-interest. Halpin is the president of LEAP, a small privacy/encryption outfit that gets most of its funding from various government sources—including more than $1 million from Radio Free Asia’s “Open Technology Fund.” This fund just happens to be a major financial backer of the Tor Network; last year alone, the Open Technology Fund gave Tor $600,000. The fund also happens to be run out of the Broadcasters Board of Governors (BBG), an old CIA spinoff dedicated to waging propaganda warfare against regimes hostile to US interests. The BBG—which until recently was called the International Broadcasting Bureau—has also been one of the biggest backers of Tor going back to 2007." "No wonder all these people are so upset by my reporting. They’ve branded themselves as radical activists fighting The Man and the corporate surveillance apparatus—while taking money from the US government’s military and foreign policy arms, as well as the biggest and worst corporate violators of our privacy. By branding themselves as radical activists, they appear to share the same interests as the grassroots they seek to influence; exposing their funding conflicts-of-interests makes it hard for them to pose as grassroots radicals. So instead of explaining why getting funding from the very entitities that Tor is supposed to protect users from is not a problem, they’ve taken the low road to discredit the very idea of reporting on monetary conflicts-of-interests as either irrelevant, or worse, a sign of mental illness."

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blasphemy!
by Juan 13 Dec '14

13 Dec '14

As far as I can tell this hasn't been posted on the list "Almost everyone involved in developing Tor was (or is) funded by the US government" http://pando.com/2014/07/16/tor-spooks/ The comments from the tor fanboys are both revolting and amusing. These people are as mindless as jesus freaks.

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Re: Microsoft accepts Bitcoin
by Ryan Carboni 12 Dec '14

12 Dec '14

> > Basically the > future of finance is less humane (Bitcoin is hard currency) and more unfair > (Bitcoin is unfairly distributed). It is also not, in practice, > distributed I suggested on the bitcoin forums and devlist that currency minting be the square root of current block hashing power, this would be inflationary yes, but it would stabilize the currency and incentize mining (unlike current plans to reduce fees further). but you know, a hundred people who first heard of bitcoin through the cryptography mailing list either lost their bitcoins, or own combined a large percentage of bitcoins. inequality begets instability. the funny thing is that after the next block subsidy cut, a 51% attack would easily be committed. but if there's a major war, the world's internet connections will be disrupted, and bitcoin would probably die in areas in which mining is less than the biggest contiguous block of miners. Bitcoin is the worst currency to hold during WWIII, you literally cannot spend it until the world internet is repaired.

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Gaagle
by Juan 12 Dec '14

12 Dec '14

Yes! I had misplaced this link but finally found it again. I don't think it can get any better than this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F7SUWb9LPI (unintentional self-parody, that is)

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Microsoft accepts Bitcoin
by grarpamp 12 Dec '14

12 Dec '14

https://commerce.microsoft.com/PaymentHub/Help/Right?helppagename=CSV_Bitco… BTC price jumps 6% https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG2vMISThpA

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Verizon encryption
by Jerry 12 Dec '14

12 Dec '14

Verizon launches new encrypted voice app; with government backdoor. http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-12-11/verizons-new-encrypted-call…

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re CIA Torture, FBI Shills, Fort Gordon's Snow
by Wilfred Guerin 11 Dec '14

11 Dec '14

> > http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/25/washington/25protect.html?_r=0 > http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/25/washington/25protect.html?_r=0 Alexander W. Joel (CIA GC, ODNI CLPO) is grandson of Clarence M. Kelley (FBI), uncle is Patrick W. Kelley (FBI OIC) whose privacy-evangelist neice is Jill Kelley (Petraeus).

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PirateBay Raided
by grarpamp 10 Dec '14

10 Dec '14

http://torrentfreak.com/swedish-police-raid-the-pirate-bay-site-offline-141… http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-goes-worldwide-141209/ http://blog.brokep.com/2014/12/09/the-pirate-bay-down-forever/ Perhaps this time it's related to TPB carrying the Sony GOP torrents? http://www.reddit.com/r/onions/comments/2orlji http://lolsonynnslow5lt.onion/ The TPB onion is also down: http://jntlesnev5o7zysa.onion/ When will filesharers move in mass onto the anonymous networks? Or what will cause them to? As in a reddit thread: https://bobbiblogger.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/north-korea.jpg http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/030/161/ha_ha.jpg

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Re: [Cryptography] North Korea and Sony
by grarpamp 10 Dec '14

10 Dec '14

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 2:55 PM, <dan(a)geer.org> wrote: > "Banks Dreading Computer Hacks Call for Cyber War Council" > Bloomberg, July 8, 2014 > > www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2014-07-08/banks-dreading-computer-hacks-call-… > > Wall Street's biggest trade group has proposed a government-industry > cyber war council to stave off terrorist attacks that could trigger > financial panic by temporarily wiping out account balances, > according to an internal document. > > The proposal by the Securities Industry and Financial Markets > Association calls for a committee of executives and deputy-level > representatives from at least eight U.S. agencies including the > Treasury Department, the National Security Agency and the Department > of Homeland Security, all led by a senior White House official. > > The document sketches an unusually frank and pessimistic view by > the industry of its readiness for attacks wielded by nation-states > Extending your quote for revolving context... "The trade association also reveals in the document that Sifma has retained former NSA director Keith Alexander to "facilitate" the joint effort with the government. Alexander, in turn, has brought in Michael Chertoff, the former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, and his firm, Chertoff Group." "Alexander had been pitching Sifma and other bank trade associations to purchase his services through his new consulting firm, IronNet Cybersecurity Inc., for as much as $1 million per month, according to two people briefed on the talks." The article full of other juicy things...

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