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Intercept: NSA MONKEYROCKET: Cryptocurrency / AnonBrowser Service - Full Take Tracking Users, Trojan SW
by grarpamp 20 Mar '18

20 Mar '18

https://theintercept.com/2018/03/20/the-nsa-worked-to-track-down-bitcoin-us… https://www.reddit.com/search?sort=top&t=week&q=nsa+bitcoin https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byPopularity&dateRange=pastWeek&query=nsa+bitc… https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=nsa+bitcoin OAKSTAR MONKEYROCKET aka THUNDERISLAND "agency working to unmask Bitcoin users about six months before Ulbricht was arrested, and that it had worked to monitor Liberty Reserve around the same time" "American spies were also working to crack Liberty Reserve" "analysts have .. tracked down senders / receivers of Bitcoin" the agency was interested in surveilling some competing cryptocurrencies, "Bitcoin is #1 priority," "using this “browsing product,” which “the NSA can then exploit.” "These programs involve ventures with US companies." Staff travel to "Virginia partner / these extremely patriotic business associates" highly cloaked. " Partner provided first/last name metadata... large influx of traffic... ftp process... causing disk space to fill up " Powers also used for traditional police work “other targeted users will include those... International / Organised Crime and Narcotics...Follow-The-Money" missions " cyber targets that utilize online e-currency services... There’s no elaboration on who is considered a “cyber target.” " " that the NSA would “launch an entire operation ... under false pretenses” just to track targets is “pernicious,” ... Such a practice could spread distrust of privacy software in general, particularly in areas like Iran where such tools are desperately needed by dissidents. This “feeds a narrative that the U.S. is untrustworthy,” " "Despite Bitcoin’s reputation for privacy... you should really lower your expectations of privacy on this network.” " financial privacy “is something that matters incredibly” to the Bitcoin community, and expects that “people who are privacy conscious will switch to privacy-oriented coins” after learning of the NSA’s work here. " " If the government’s criminal investigations secretly relied on NSA spying, that would be a serious concern. Individuals facing criminal prosecution have a right to know how the government came by its evidence, so that they can challenge whether the government’s methods were lawful. That is a basic principle of due process. The government should not be hiding the true sources for its evidence in court by inventing a different trail. " https://theintercept.com/2017/11/30/nsa-surveillance-fisa-section-702/ " Civil liberties advocates have long suspected that the Justice Department is underreporting Section 702 cases in order to limit court challenges to the controversial law. Some theorize that the government conceals Section 702 use through a process known as “parallel construction,” in which evidence obtained from the warrantless surveillance authority is reobtained through traditional FISA authorization, and the government only discloses the latter authority in U.S. District Court. One defense lawyer referred to this practice in a court filing as “laundering” Section 702 evidence. " “ The government intercepts Americans’ emails and phone calls in vast quantities using this spying law and stores them in databases for years,” said Patrick Toomey, staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Security Project. “FBI agents around the country then go searching through that trove of data as a matter of course, including in domestic criminal investigations. " " If the FBI uses parallel construction to conceal intelligence community information, it would not be the only federal law enforcement agency doing so. In 2013, Reuters obtained documents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration that showed how agents were trained to “recreate” investigative trails to conceal how intelligence intercepts helped to identify criminal targets. "

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Re: Adam Kokesh vs Larken Rose: Using Political Process To End Politics?
by g2s 20 Mar '18

20 Mar '18

Anarchast. All White People. Tells ya sumpthin about libertarians who pose as anarchists. CrimethInc - What Anarchism Isn't: Libertarianism and Anarcho-Capitalism https://crimethinc.com/podcast/18/transcript Rr, a proud member of the EX-Workers collective null

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Adam Kokesh vs Larken Rose: Using Political Process To End Politics?
by grarpamp 19 Mar '18

19 Mar '18

Larken Rose vs Adam Kokesh great debate on Anarchast. Topics include: debating the usefulness of using the political system to further the cause of Anarchism, democracy is inherently bogus, is any degree of statism acceptable, Ron Paul is at least a voluntarist, declaring the federal government of no authority, a practical way out of statism, people waking up en-mass, does the president have the power to remove the post of president, the Libertarian takeover of the libertarian party, political authority is fake and illegitimate, principal vs pragmatism... Larken Rose: http://www.larkenrose.com/ Adam Kokesh: https://kokeshforpresident.com/ Anarchast: http://anarchast.com Related... https://www.youtube.com/user/AMP3083/videos

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Cryptocurrency: $400M Hotel, Doubling Time, CA
by grarpamp 19 Mar '18

19 Mar '18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcT4-ddkgqc https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/85ikyw/i_made_a_chart_show… https://imgur.com/ESii2Lj https://imgur.com/a/1leaI http://parlvu.parl.gc.ca/XRender/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2/20180319/-1…

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Being Julian Assange: The Deep State vs The Truth - WikiLeaks
by grarpamp 19 Mar '18

19 Mar '18

https://contraspin.co.nz/beingjulianassange/ https://steemit.com/life/@suzi3d/reading-guide-being-julian-assange https://twitter.com/hashtag/BeingJulianAssange https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaJNRCeuNR4 Big article covering lots of ground / history, getting distribution and traction. Support Julian Assange and WikiLeaks! Presented by... https://twitter.com/suzi3d https://suzi3d.com/ https://twitter.com/KimDotcom https://www.kim.com/ https://twitter.com/ElizabethleaVos https://disobedientmedia.com/ https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=<insert_whatever_here> https://twitter.com/JulianAssange https://twitter.com/WikiLeaks https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/julian-assange-the-cia-director-is-…

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Govt News
by grarpamp 19 Mar '18

19 Mar '18

https://www.ecchr.eu/en/our_work/international-crimes-and-accountability/u-… https://www.ecchr.eu/en/our_work/international-crimes-and-accountability/u-… https://www.ecchr.eu/en/our_work/international-crimes-and-accountability/u-… ECCHR’s legal intervention filed with the German Federal Public Prosecutor (Generalbundesanwalt – GBA) is aimed at securing an arrest warrant for CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel. Haspel was appointed to the post by President Donald Trump in February 2017. The information submitted to the GBA by ECCHR on 6 June 2017 documents Haspel’s role in the torture of detainees in 2002 at a secret CIA prison in Thailand. In the dossier, ECCHR argues that Haspel oversaw the daily torture of detainees at the black site in 2002 and failed to do anything to stop it. “Those who commit, order or allow torture should be brought before a court – this is especially true for senior officials from powerful nations,” said ECCHR’s General Secretary Wolfgang Kaleck. “The prosecutor must, under the principle of universal jurisdiction, open investigations, secure evidence and seek an arrest warrant. If the deputy director travels to Germany or Europe, she must be arrested.” >From this shortlink turd in wrong thread, see above instead. https://t.co/jlLhBHSKqF

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US 2018 Election Hijacked: Sybil Candidacies Of The Mil / Intel / Shadow Gov
by grarpamp 19 Mar '18

19 Mar '18

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/03/07/dems-m07.html https://icwatch.wikileaks.org/ An extraordinary number of former intelligence and military operatives from the CIA, Pentagon, National Security Council and State Department are seeking nomination as Democratic candidates for Congress in the 2018 midterm elections. The potential influx of military-intelligence personnel into the legislature has no precedent in US political history. https://t.co/jlLhBHSKqF

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HN discussion: The Global Attack on Silicon Valley (and the ICO Solution)
by mark M 18 Mar '18

18 Mar '18

The Global Attack on Silicon Valley (and the ICO Solution) https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/85d19a/hn_discussion_the_g… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16610511

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What everyone is saying about mobile OS security is wrong
by Ryan Carboni 18 Mar '18

18 Mar '18

http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-android-security-report-2017-we-read-it… Google Play has given Google more control over security. Like Apple's App Store, one central app distribution point gives Google more security control. Google noted that Android devices that only download apps from Google Play are nine times less likely to get a PHA than devices from other sources. Google Play Protect protects almost two billion devices. But is the above precisely correct? https://source.android.com/security/reports/Google_Android_Security_2017_Re… While all Android devices benefit from protections built into the platform, Android devices with Google Play services have an additional layer of defense to keep them safe. Google protects these devices right out of the box with Google Play Protect, our built-in device, data, and apps security scanning technology. No it is not, Google Play apps are scanned using a cloud anti-virus program. What else is special about Google Play? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/23/how-google-controls-andr… Manufacturers can be refused a licence if they do not meet Google's requirements. Google does not charge for a GMS licence, but any company producing an Android device will need a certificate from an authorised testing facility in order to apply for the licence. That often incurs fees. One source told the Guardian that the fee varies and is negotiated on a case-by-case basis, with one example costing $40,000 for a batch of at least 30,000 devices. A separate source said that in another deal, a testing facility quoted $75,000 to test 100,000 devices. And rather recently, Joseph Cox said in tweets within hours of each other that the US government shutdown a phone maker that could only sell secure Blackberries to drug dealers and that a judge signed a warrant for any Google location enabled apps. For some reason, the Tor Project recieves more free PR than any business providing a phone remotely resembling anything that is desired by civil libertarians. You people don't notice anything. At all. You people never accomplish anything useful you want, ever. It is extremely trivial for Google to make Android more secure, create an app anti-virus API, require security updates within one month of the issue being discovered for Google Play access, etc. And the question about whether devices should be rooted or not by the user is pretty simple. An unrooted device is a production environment designed to be secure by hundreds of people, and the occasional bug bounty. A rooted device is a development environment whose security is owed to anyone with physical access to it.

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Cypherpunks: Global attack on Silicon Valley
by Mark 18 Mar '18

18 Mar '18

https://medium.com/@tensorcoinai/the-global-attack-on-silicon-valley-and-th… (https://medium.com/@tensorcoinai/the-global-attack-on-silicon-valley-and-th…)

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