- cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Assange Journalism
by John Young 09 Dec '18

09 Dec '18

Matt Taibbi reports on Assange in Rolling Stone in a one of the more salient grasps of what journalism has missed about WikiLeaks feeding its maw. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/taibbi-julian-assange-c… A noteworthy observation is how all the risk is taken by leakers not by publishers and journalists -- nor by WikiLeaks and Assange. Nearly every major leak to WikiLeaks (and the media) has led to the leaker being hammered while the publishers are awarded prizes, as with WikiLeaks. That is evident from the number of leakers who have been severly punished while WikiLeaks and Assange is showered with glory.and repetitive news coverage. Wikipedia's WikiLeaks entry is grotesque. That's asymmetric racketeering side of leakage, to the benefit of journalists, publishers, lawyers and public interest organizations, all of whom are granted special privileges by authorities and in many cases handsome donations from fat cats through tax benefits. Its as if by overdoing lauding Assange and WikiLeaks those who have taken the highest risk can be slighted with impunity. Only fools would leak if they knew what is in store for them, not just the brief attention dispensed by outlets. Anonymity, non-tracability and comsec, always, if leak you must. Before proceeding, think twice, thrice, avoid believing the glory stories. Else you're cannon fodder for information generals.

6 21

politically incorrect black gold! - Black TV Host Takes on David Duke with Incredible Interview
by Zenaan Harkness 08 Dec '18

08 Dec '18

Black TV Host Takes on David Duke with Incredible Interview http://davidduke.com/black-tv-host-takes-on-david-duke-with-incredible-inte… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki4izqElwaM August 3, 2016 ~1 GiB ("best") Times are changin people ... -- Certified Deplorable Fake News Nazi (TM)(C)(R) Executive Director of Vice, Ministry of Winning Shilling for buxom Russian swastika clad minxes since 1488

3 6

Are You Ready for the 'Inevitable' Clampdown on Tech and the Media? - shared from Reason.com
by jim bell 08 Dec '18

08 Dec '18

https://reason.com/r/1wOM When Apple's CEO Tim Cook says "the free market is not working," bad things are coming.

3 6

Saker; Stephen Cohen: USA ←→ Russia, what can be done? (book spruke) - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 08 Dec '18

08 Dec '18

Stephen Cohen lays out the bullet points of the possibility of war with Russia, spruking his newly released book War With Russia? Despite being relatively concise, it takes Cohen a good few pages to summarize the state of things - useful for those who want a regroup, not particularly new to anyone following the "elite's" ratbaggery over the last few years. ** War With Russia? http://theduran.com/war-with-russia/?mc_cid=05957c06ba&mc_eid=[UNIQID] ** By Stephen Cohen on Dec 08, 2018 01:10 pm ** Why Russia won’t invade the Ukraine, the Baltic statelets or anybody else https://thesaker.is/why-russia-wont-invade-the-ukraine-the-baltic-statelets…

1 0

Economics: USA Racking Up $490 Billion Debt Every Quarter
by grarpamp 08 Dec '18

08 Dec '18

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-30/treasury-s-488-billion-i… https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/8g7izp/the_us_treasury_department… https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/8g26mb/the_us_just_borrowed_488_… https://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/8g2oa0/the_us_just_borrowed_4… https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/8g4g76/the_us_just_borrowed_488_…

2 1

Cypherpunk University by JW Weatherman
by grarpamp 08 Dec '18

08 Dec '18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbIPKm3inWU https://jwweatherman.com/class http://www.cypherpunku.com/index.php?threads/so-what-is-cypherpunk-universi… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9OML5D8RMo https://archive.org/details/youtube-wrAtsQrs7dY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa87kudAVFs

2 1

ROTF! Cloudflare CEO: “I woke up this morning in a bad mood and decided to kick them (DailyStr0mer) off the Internet.”
by Razer 08 Dec '18

08 Dec '18

Quote source: http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/08/cloudflare-and-the-debate-over-content-n… What cut it? Making shit up. Nazis do that... A LOT. AAMOF most of what they spew is complete utter ahistorical nonsense (holocaust denial for instance) targeting desperate people who have no analysis and are looking to blame "someone". In this case, because Nazis have no friends they needed to create invisible secret ones. > > "Earlier today, Cloudflare terminated the account of the Daily > Stormer. We've stopped proxying their traffic and stopped answering > DNS requests for their sites. We've taken measures to ensure that they > cannot sign up for Cloudflare's services ever again. > > Our terms of service reserve the right for us to terminate users of > our network at our sole discretion. The tipping point for us making > this decision was that the team behind Daily Stormer made the claim > that we were secretly supporters of their ideology. > > Our team has been thorough and have had thoughtful discussions for > years about what the right policy was on censoring. Like a lot of > people, we’ve felt angry at these hateful people for a long time but > we have followed the law and remained content neutral as a network. We > could not remain neutral after these claims of secret support by > Cloudflare. > > Now, having made that decision, let me explain why it's so dangerous..." > Cloudflare CEO's blog posting on the topic of scumbag removal: https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/ Note many people are making reference in the post's comments to Cloudflare's hosting of ISIS chatrooms, which came to public knowledge in this Congressional hearing: http://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA18/20150127/102855/HHRG-114-FA18-Transc… CCloudflare is undoubtely running honeypots allowing the feds to monitor ISIS chats, and potentially find Useful Idiots for the FBI to set up in the latest and greatest islamo-terror plot they create lock, stock, and explosives. Rr

4 11

Cryptocurrency: Who created it, #PeakStatism
by grarpamp 08 Dec '18

08 Dec '18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yjrmIIpgo0 #CreatedByGovt https://www.zdnet.com/article/dhs-looking-into-tracking-monero-and-zcash-tr… https://www.fbo.gov/utils/view?id=f0e31ab37561cac3cc4a4ab88d9059b0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9EdzrBxUAo #TheLastChance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF1hVkK_9Aw #PeakStatism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdwpKKOAR6o #PeakStatism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4ybfIdefT8 #PeakStatism

1 0

Re: [Cryptography] What if Responsible Encryption Back-Doors Were Possible?
by grarpamp 07 Dec '18

07 Dec '18

On 12/6/18, Bill Cox <waywardgeek(a)gmail.com> wrote: > As for responsible encryption policies, I believe: > > 1) It is possible, but _hard_ and _expensive_ to build it securely. > 2) No one wants to be in a position where a mass murderer has encrypted > data that cannot be revealed to law enforcement. > 3) Governments will always over-reach and go for mass-surveylence that > violates everyone's privacy. > > I wont go into tech details, but if Bitcoin can protect billions in online > value, there are systems that can unlock back-doors without too many > failures to make the system a bad idea. Check out what Oasis Labs is up > to, for some good ideas (that remain to be proven). The problem is that > while the public wants tech companies to help law enforcement in extreme > cases, no one wants to simply let governments around the world spy on > absolutely everything we do. > > IMO, the only acceptable solutions to this problem will require distributed > trust (like Bitcoin), such that users' devices can participate in decisions > on how their data is used, distributed widely enough that no single entity > can unilaterally decrypt a user's data Data policies will need to be > automated, like smart-contracts on something better than the total-crap > Ethereum VM. When a backdoor is used (or used too often), it should make > the news, because a bunch of different interested folks would notice the > transaction(s) on the blockchain. Secret mass surveylence should be > impossible, as a key requirement for the system design. Publicly visible > mass surveylence should be prohibited by the smart contracts, and the > public should hold governments accountable for overreach. > > If the public can monitor the access policy and frequencey of use of these > backdoors, then the tech companies will have a way out of the ethical > delema law enforcement always tries to put them in: secretly snooping on > users for the government (like we saw with Yahoo). > > Anyway, I feel very strongly that folks out there should start thinking > along these lines. We'll have to cooperate to make it happen. Please tell us when you develop or find such a distributed backdoored cryptosystem that you feel is strong enough to protect *your own secrets* from access by others... all the salacious messages pics and videos of that BDSM affair you had, all the edits you've made to your resume, the source and fact of your last weed order because the PTSD from your stint as a secret CIA torturer has you about to lose it, all the crap you nicked, your bank accounts, your speech and politik, that weird thing you do with the stuffed groundhog, your kids, your health, etc. Or the fact that you're a complete nothing with nothing to say if that's the case. You'd have a better chance of eliminating Government Surveillance through Anarchism than you would finding such a cryptosystem. > the only acceptable solutions to this problem Stalemate status quo is an acceptable solution, no change to implement backdoors needed... People have been using codes since thousands of years, as relatively strong and without backdoors in their day back then, as they are now today, and society has done just fine all along. If you want distributed for yourself, use secret sharing system. Trying to develop and force that upon others will just come back upon you and you know it. Strong crypto is a tool, not the problem. Melting down the tool isn't going to help. It just reverts you to former centuries. Backdoors are stupid. Get over it. > the public should hold governments accountable for overreach. Never in the history of all Governments past has that ever worked, therefore any apparent working today is extremely likely to fail. Kings will Govern and Force their backdoors in your backdoor until you depose them. Next time that happens, do the one thing that hasn't been tried in history... don't prop them up in the first place. The change in thinking needed to do that will likely eliminate most of the extant problems you seek to "fix" with backdoors. > moderators Lol, bcc'd.

1 0

Re: [tor-talk] Most Security Assertions Dangerous [Re: YouTube via Onion Services]
by grarpamp 07 Dec '18

07 Dec '18

> Tutanota open sourced their client. You could use the source and run your > own version of the Tutanota client if that's your threat model. It's true > the email provider could serve different users different versions of the app > and there is no possible way to audit it in real time A standalone app can give at least some distance and pinnable code. And a bit more if served up from a "neutral" third party like github, f-droid, or allowing tor or vpn to get it in some masked user fashion. > 2) You are running unknown code every day. Do you trust the vendors? Probably not wise until the world changes some more towards those hashtags. Shall we add #SharedAudit . > It's unfair [...] They're trying to > solve a complicated problem, inside a web browser, with no easy solution :-/ Yes of course, they're at least trying something new, that's important, so kudos. > It's unfair [...] to call [out] encrypted email providers But is it... just look at most of their own front page advertising statements that often go like... "Secure Encrypted Email in your Browser" Without weasel words, those statements can end up being fake. Does what net benefit the service may have for [most] users offset potential damage arising from such statements? There's a bunch of front page statements here too that also have more holes than a block of Swiss Cheese... https://www.torproject.org/ Who is parsing and calling them out, and or proffering page updates that use suitably accurate weasel words? > inside a web browser, with no easy solution :-/ If the world is still stupidly insisting on the derelict spy exploited relic of SMTP transport, instead of say fully encrypted P2P overlay transports with legacy SMTP / POP / IMAP frontends for the old timey feels, they should at least be directly extending browser functionality to load and exec user selected third party provided and fourth party audited message crypting code modules from local disk. Or should be using actual properly stood at a distance tools like GPG, Enigmail, Mailpile, NeoMutt, whatever, while replacement distributed P2P messaging and storage systems gain marketshare. If user can locally compile and use Tutanota from Github with no blobs, that's interesting, perhaps consider dropping them some coin if so.

1 0