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15+ Years of Illegal Surveillance: Govts w Guns vs Judges, In Secret
by grarpamp 14 Aug '18

14 Aug '18

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/23/investigatory_powers_tribunal_gchq…

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Forced Decrypt: Compelled Capability Building and other Human Work, 10 Years, Breach Bug Remote Access, Etc
by grarpamp 14 Aug '18

14 Aug '18

https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about/consultations/assistance-and-access-bi… And jail time upped to ten years for refusing passphrases. Details in pdfs. More in Compelled news https://www.homeaffairs.gov.au/about/consultations/telecommunications-secto… Got Anarchy yet?

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[PEACE] Donbass Cowboy: getting the government you want and deserve, not imposed by McCain/CIA
by Zenaan Harkness 14 Aug '18

14 Aug '18

Essential reading for the interested. Donbass getting the government they want rather than that which McCain and the CIA tried to impose: "Sometimes you have to fight, even if you don’t expect to win. Ask the Spartans at Thermopylae, ask the Texicans at the Alamo. Or the people of the Donetsk People’s Republic. Because sometimes you win, even when you don’t expect to, even when the odds are stacked against you. But you will never know unless you try." "(The book) is a primer, a nuts and bolts instruction manual, a very honest and real glimpse of what it is like for a People's Militia to rise up and form itself, and to face a real national military ..." "We all die in the end, but it is up to each of us to choose how we live. We are what we do. This book is about what I and the Defenders of Donbass did. You can do the same." ** Texan Soldier Fighting on Pro-Russia Side in Ukraine Tells His Story in New Book - 'Donbass Cowboy' https://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413… ------------------------------------------------------------ by Russell Bentley (1,109 views) on Mon, Aug 13, 2018 This book is my record of day to day life as a soldier in the Novorussian Armed Forces (NAF) at Yasynuvata, Spartak, and the Donetsk Airport during the times of the heaviest battles in 2015. It is not just a personal account, it is a unique part of the historical record of the Donbass War. There is not, nor will there be, another book like it, written in English by an American volunteer who served as a front line combat soldier in the war. Those who were not there cannot claim to know what it was like, the suffering, the struggles and sacrifices, why they were made, and who made them.

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AP deconstructed: Why it has not happened yet, and will not
by Steve Kinney 13 Aug '18

13 Aug '18

Listen up you punks... I will assume that readers already know how "Assasination Politics" a.k.a. AP works. If not, look it up: I consider it a brilliant idea. But like many brilliant ideas, one can find structural flaws if one looks closely enough. Here's my set: 1) AP treats anonymity on the networks as a 'primitive', that is, a Platonic ideal: One either has anonymity or not, and if one does, nobody can remove it regardless of resources brought to bear. I see anonymity on the networks as nearly always relative and nearly never absolute. To achieve absolute anonymity, an individual must commit "the perfect crime" by connecting to the networks once, briefly, by physically breaking in at an access point not personally associated with him or herself. If not seen coming or going (a tricky prospect in 'civilized' countries these days), and all digital fingerprints left behind present a generic, non-traceable profile, success: Unbreakable anonymity. But any lesser feat of operational cyber-warfare leaves some smaller or larger probability that the message in question will be attributed to the right person. I say "message" rather than "messages" because each instance of 100% anonymous network access presents a fresh challenge. Re-using the same access point and/or techniques could potentially create an identifiable profile. "Really anonymous" network access presents as a job for well trained intelligence officers and/or assets, not John and Jane Q. Public looking to fund the removal of a politician they don't like. Designers and operators of anonymizing overlay networks generally agree, their tools do not by themselves provide "life safety" grade protection against an adversary with global network surveillance capability. Within the borders of a given State with a highly funded intelligence establishment, such global adversaries already exist. If AP rears its very interesting head, the first response from the community targeted for termination would include command directives and blank checks to turn the AP process inside out. Thus would exploitable gaps in network surveillance close up fast. AP depends on the ready availability of anonymity to thousands or millions bettors, and dozens or hundreds of professional assassins. Participation in any 'lottery of the doomed' (RIP Spain Rodriguez - and Trashman, agent of the 6th International) would immediately become a Federal felony with stiff minimum mandatory sentences. The unavailability of absolute anonymity for assassins, or even half-assed anonymity for John and Jane Q. Public, would at best seriously degrade the whole program. 2) Large numbers make fools of us all. AP appears to presume that abusive politicians. and the cartels of billionaires who elect and direct them, can not out-spend 'honest' participants in AP by orders of magnitude at need. Well... they can. And if required, they will. Bounties on actual and perceived "enemies of the State and ruling class" participating in the AP process would greatly exceed bounties on State and corporate offenders within weeks of the first pay-out by an honest AP game. Massive bounties for "information leading to the arrest and conviction" of AP operators and anyone collecting bets made in that lottery would greatly exceed those available to "honest" assassins who play by the rules of AP. (Anyone here naive enough to believe that AP lotteries can not and will not be outlawed within days of a perceived reason to do so?) Combined with top priority directives to /all/ intelligence and law enforcement agencies to shut that shit down PRONTO, hostile AP-like games would create a steep uphill climb for honest AP participants and winners. For a quick correction to "common sense" assumptions about income disparity in the USA - which is less than asset disparity by a couple of orders of magnitude - see http//lcurve.org 3) As a general conclusion, I think that for AP to work as intended and usher in an age of NAP based Anarchist society - an objective no truly sane individual could oppose IMO - it would be necessary for only "honest" lotteries that deny targeting of "Libertarian" figures to present games. But two can play at any game, as long as the second players in question happen to be filthy rich. In real life, "Operate an AP lottery, die within weeks of announcing it to the public and getting enough capital under management to motivate an assassin." Or in a best case scenario, pull 20 years without parole in a Federal prison. That same sentence would also be available to any random participant who happens to get "outed" by any of several technical means readily available to the NSA and comparable signals intelligence services. I do believe that the above factors explain why Assassination Politics has not been implemented in the 20 or so years the instructions have been floating around. As far as I know, nobody has even tried. Alas, for those who want to Change The World from the bottom up, it looks to me like conventional populist political warfare - the darkest of the Dark Arts - in the sense that nearly nobody outside agencies tasked to prevent it knows the first damn thing about how it works - remains the only game in town. :o/

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Cryptocurrency: Central Banks of
by grarpamp 13 Aug '18

13 Aug '18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjbQmlYq0FE

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Re: [tor-talk] Curious about the Zwiebelfreunde incident - are there any updates?
by grarpamp 13 Aug '18

13 Aug '18

On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 1:47 AM, Anders Andersson <pipatron(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I recently went through the mailing list archive to catch up on events > in the Tor world, and one thing that worried me a lot was the June 20 > police raid on Zwiebelfreunde[1]. > > According to the blog entry, the initial request for returning the > equipment was denied. Are there any further updates to the case that > you can share to those of us who are overly curious? > > > > [1] https://blog.torservers.net/20180704/coordinated-raids-of-zwiebelfreunde-at… It has proven been curated in the hands of the lawyers and committees since from the date of raid two weeks before even the announcement was made. So do not expect to hear anything beyond what you might find on twitter. tor-talk is also not the TS, ZF, RU principals to ask. Red 3d printed bombs. Riseup and Zwiebelfreunde activists infos added to State's lifetime secret investigation database. So carry on activist as usual. But without your own optional seizable databases this time, please.

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[PEACE] Tucker Carlson names Daily Stormer and defends their (and everyone's) right to free speech
by Zenaan Harkness 12 Aug '18

12 Aug '18

Pursuit of peace from Tucker Carlson who names the attacks on The Daily Stormer and says we should be upholding the right to free speech, not attacking it and perhaps we should be concerned when Google etc censor The Daily Stormer and anyone else for that matter. Tucker - a man of some notable and foundational principles. Tucker Carlson defends The Daily Stormer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEPIISeeAxs

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Re: [Cryptography] Predictions regarding Simon and Speck for 2019
by Zenaan Harkness 11 Aug '18

11 Aug '18

Reconsidering Speck (subscribers only for another few days): https://lwn.net/Articles/761992/ Above article discusses why Speck was added and relatively soon, removed, from Linux. The NSA has burned some serious bridges and enough ISO guys know enough crypto to be able to decisively tear the NSA a new one in the following example 'So, just to let you know what's been going on at our end ...' email to the LKML (also linked in the comments to the above article) : https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-crypto/msg33291.html which email concludes with some (thankfully) common sense: Which bring us to the million dollar question: > So, what do you propose replacing it with? Nothing. I am usually not one to argue for maintaining the status quo and I sure am in favor of encryption-for-all but this case is the text book example for employing the Precautionary Principle. You yourself are not fully convinced that Speck is secure and does not contain any backdoors. If it was really secure, it could have been used in all cases and not only on low-end devices where AES is too slow. AES is slower than Speck on most platforms. … I would also like to point out that including an algorithm because "it's better than nothing" result in something that is not better-than-nothing, but stands in the way of good solutions. Since there is no acute problem, why do we need to solve it? This is from the cryptographers' point of view. From the end-user point of view when they get something bundled into Android, they don't know that it was included there as something that is "better than nothing". They think of it as "good enough; endorsed by Android/Google/Linux". What you give them is a false sense of security because they don't know of all the question marks surrounding Speck (both technical and political). True dat. ----------- On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 06:20:30PM +0000, Salz, Rich via cryptography wrote: > It has recently come to my attention that "Notes on the design and analysis of Simon and Speck" was published. > > You might also find this useful, lots of links: > https://github.com/iadgov/simon-speck > > which BTW is part of https://nationalsecurityagency.github.io/ > > _______________________________________________ > The cryptography mailing list > cryptography(a)metzdowd.com > http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography From: Ryan Carboni <ryacko(a)gmail.com> To: cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org, Crypto <cryptography(a)metzdowd.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 10:49:26 -0700 Subject: Predictions regarding Simon and Speck for 2019 It has recently come to my attention that "Notes on the design and analysis of Simon and Speck" ( https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/560.pdf ) was published. Thus I have decided to encrypt a message using this page ( https://web.archive.org/web/20161211164439/http://www.movable-type.co.uk/sc… ) with a key generated by keypass pattern "H(15)" (15 lowercase hexadecimal). I plan on releasing the key in the early part of 2019 Block XXTEA is not trivially bruteforced with no "cribs" so here's my predictions for 2019:

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Re: AP deconstructed: Why it has not happened yet, and will not
by juan 10 Aug '18

10 Aug '18

On Thu, 9 Aug 2018 00:20:43 +0000 (UTC) jim bell <jdb10987(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> Hm. That may be a good point. I didn't assume a big 'democratic' majority was needed, but I was still thinking of some sizable percentage. But maybe 1% would be enough - or even less. > Remember the statistic I like to use: The Federal governemnt collects 3 trillion dollars in taxes per year. If those taxpayers pay an additional 1% of that value, or $30 billion, in money towards and AP fund, and if the average cost per death is $100,000, then that's 300,000 deaths per year. Yep, if a relatively big number of people make small contributions, lots of funds can be raised. Arguably an AP protocol would make that sort of cooperation easier/more effective. > > > Say, 1% of the adult population of the US is ~2 million people. If 2 million people decide to act in a coordinated fashion against the govt they may force the govt to leave them alone. > > Another statistic: https://taxfoundation.org/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-data-2015-updat… > "The top 1 percent (1.3 million filers) paid a greater share of income taxes (37.8 percent) than the bottom 90 percent (124.5 million filers) combined (30.2 percent)." > > Some fraction of those 1% get their money due to the existence and operation of the Federal government, but many do not. I think many of them resent the amount of money they are paying to maintain an inefficient government. I'm pretty sure that the richer people are, the more conservative and supportive of the totalitarian status quo they become. As a matter of fact there quite a few obscenely rich people, some of them even pretend to be 'libertarians' but in practice they work for the NSA. Regardless, AP may work if funded by poor libertarians (not rich corporatists) > > >> I'm not aware that there is a "critical mass" for people supporting AP. Do you have a different figure than my "1%"? > > > I don't. So I guess what I should say is : there's no critical mass of libertarians doing anything meaningful, but if there was, then AP may be a good & efficient tool. > > I've always thought so, but then again I'm not an unbiased observer! Heh =P > > > > > Notice that the few libertarians who do act against the govt end up in jail like Ulbricht....or you. > > It is unfortunate that Ulbricht could not incorporate an AP-type protection system into Silk Road. These dark markets tend to be purely defensive, employing rather good secrecy. Why not dedicate 1% of their gross market into a fund to kill anyone who attacks them? That would be fun. And it could either work, or backfire and make them a higher priority target... > > > > To be fair, european and asian governments (like say japan and korea) are accomplices of the US govt, play the same imperial games and are guilty as well, so you won't find many anarchists among their subjects either. > It wouldn't take many! Perhaps. We'll have to wait and see... > × > >

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InfoWars makes it's move!
by Razer 10 Aug '18

10 Aug '18

Breaking: InfoWars Moves To Ban Alex Jones AUSTIN, TX—Saying that it was a long-overdue step given the radio show host’s history of offensive and dangerous rhetoric, InfoWars reportedly moved Thursday to ban right wing provocateur Alex Jones from its platform. “Mr. Jones has repeatedly violated our policies against hate speech and misinformation, and so we have had no choice but to terminate our relationship with him,” read a statement from InfoWars editor Paul Joseph Watson, citing a litany of abuses committed by the radio host and conspiracy theorist, including harassment of minorities, trans individuals, and the parents of the Sandy Hook victims. “Of course, InfoWars remains committed to free speech, but that does not include repeatedly spreading vicious lies about private individuals. It would be unacceptable, and frankly cowardly, for us to hide behind the First Amendment as this man continues doing real harm. That is why, from today forward, all four of Mr. Jones’s shows will be deleted, and every mention of him will be completely scrubbed from the site.” Watson added that their platform would continue to publish the high-quality reporting on globalism, creeping Sharia, and Deep State false-flag operations that their users had come to expect. https://www.theonion.com/infowars-moves-to-ban-alex-jones-1828222135

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