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[liberationtech] Tor Browser 6.0.4 is ready for testing
by theyralfeds＠mail2tor.com 16 Aug '16

16 Aug '16

> Rayzer: > cached in hardware Hack self and see all. > darkweb kiddieporn How dare, sir. > tor or tails They are all feds. So is you, seems.

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Re: US drug policy -> maintains the class divide
by John Newman 16 Aug '16

16 Aug '16

On Tue, 2016-08-16 at 11:07 -0400, John Newman wrote: US drug laws, the ridiculous sentencing guidelines and mandatory > minimums, the blatantly racist enforcement (and extra-judicial > killings), and the resulting American gulag (highest per-capita > incarceration rate in the world) are just a little twist on slavery, > which "ended" during the Civil War.... > > John > Hmm.. new mail client, mail sorted backwards, I just realized I responded to a thread from last year :) ... but the point stands,.heh.. John

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Re: [onioncat] Onioncat v2
by grarpamp 16 Aug '16

16 Aug '16

On 3/8/16, Bernhard R. Fischer <bf(a)abenteuerland.at> wrote: > "Do we want to keep this nice automatic IPv6/Onion-ID translation feature?" > > If NO: > There's no problem. Everybody can setup his own hosts-file for the > translation. > > If YES: > Independent of the final solution there is a need for a > lookup-database/service of any kind. This goes to two things... - the usage models you expect - the usage models you want to enable Let's keep in mind that the fundamental strengths of onioncat and reason that it exists are... - tor and other anonymous overlay networks often do not support full IP semantics, with tor it's TCP only, which cripples or eliminates certain apps. - anonymous overlay networks often do not support interfaces to the traditional IP stack of OS's, with tor it's onion only, which you can't bind(2) to, except via hack within the tor daemon... which only does tcp, which doesn't route, or packet filter, or VM, or... "NO" ... well, that's fine for individual people who meetup elsewhere and personally agree to exchange keys and addresses (or find such listed on the web, etc) in order to communicate. It scales only to the extent one can personally manage it, and it is not oppurtunistic as far as making random new introductions. "YES"... this is where the real potential lies. Lots of apps are p2p, or at least rely on central servers to tell them of their peers in real time. Bitcoin and bittorrent are purely p2p with peers coming in via the network itself at random. VOIP could be thought to be central yet random. This list of non-manual config apps is really long. Then evaluate which are popular in the opensource space whereby they're possibly not run by popular centrals like facebook, but by community (XMPP), or strictly p2p. It seems that NO would still serve a purpose and thus would be a call to making an onioncat v2. And that YES would be a very interesting project that needs to look at many potential solutions some of which people post ideas about on list. > IMO we should use an existing database and we should not try to Yes if it is available, or willing to be developed and integrated by the overlays for such use. > establish a new system because this depends always on people willing to > run these. For example, it may be possible that the [transmission] bittorrent, and cryptocoin, communities might see a reason to run something separate if it gave them p2p access to anonymous transport layers. > I do not know about the userbase of OnionCat but we should > assume that it is small, hence, not (yet) able to keep enough Onioncats > up for running a DB (DHT or whatever). Public usage is all in supply, demand, and advertising. Private usage has seen some successful onion/i2p like what.cd [nee i2p/onion] membership. Evaluating the needs of some VOIP and messaging protocols re IPv6 UDP and tun interface might be useful. We already know bittorrent needs udp and trackerless p2p to be efficient. Another way to think is... can the overall utility of anonymous overlay networks ever grow if they continue to be restricted to, say, TCP and their own proprietary addressing stacks? Are there RFC type proposals to interoperate / expand that among the community of overlay networks? And is onioncat a good place to enable that if either are no?

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DCCC Internal Docs on Primaries in Florida
by Georgi Guninski 16 Aug '16

16 Aug '16

DCCC Internal Docs on Primaries in Florida https://guccifer2.wordpress.com/2016/08/15/dccc-internal-docs-on-primaries-… ==== Here are the DCCC docs on Florida: reports, memos, briefings, dossiers, etc. You can have a look at who you are going to elect now. It may seem the congressional primaries are also becoming a farce. ==== Released on the same day as the alleged NSA sploits.

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NSA Hacked? Really?
by Crypto 16 Aug '16

16 Aug '16

Reddit is going nutz over articles like this... http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hackers-hack-nsa-linked-equation-group -- Crypto

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Announcing Zenbot 3, your new BTC/ETH/LTC trading bot, now with live candlestick graph and plugin-based architecture
by Carlos Rodriguez 16 Aug '16

16 Aug '16

zenbot is an automated cryptocurrency trading bot. It runs on node.js and MongoDB and is fully open-sourced. A plugin architecture is included that allows any exchange, trade strategy, or currency pair to be supported. • Out of the box, zenbot is an AI-powered trade advisor (gives you buy or sell signals while watching live data). • Default support for GDAX is included, so if you have a GDAX account, enable bot trades by simply putting your GDAX API key in config.js and setting what currency pair to trade. • Default support for other exchanges is ongoing. • Trade strategy is fully exposed in the config file. This allows you to have full control over the bot’s actions and logic. For example, instead of trading on GDAX, you could trade on a different exchange or currency pair by implementing a few lines of JavaScript. • A live candlestick graph is provided via a built-in HTTP server. More: https://s8f.org/zenbot.html

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[MONEY] A Black Day in Monetary History
by Zenaan Harkness 16 Aug '16

16 Aug '16

Search for the 3 blank lines to skip the prequel :) ---- A Black Day in Monetary History By Bill Bonner in Ouzilly, France Last night, we tossed and turned in bed like a crazy person with a fever. Sunday was clear and hot. In the evening, we went to the 19 th -century church in Montmorillon for a concert. Bach, Schubert, Mozart — all were performed on the big organ in back of the church, accompanied by a clarinettist. Fortissimo thunder The organ is about 30 feet off the ground. It is set on a wooden platform, ornately carved, and cantilevered out into the church so that it is over the heads of the people sitting in the rearmost pews. It is built of such sturdy, heavy wood that we thought for a moment the entire ensemble might pitch over onto the crowd below. That was after all the stops had been pulled out, and a fortissimo thunder arose from the organ. It sounded like the advance of the Red Army on Berlin in 1945. (Elizabeth noted that she thought the organist was abusing the instrument.) Classical music performed on a huge, old organ in a stone church is always impressive. But there were a couple of times when we thought that Bach was just toying with us…or that he had lost the plot, wandering up and down the scales with no clear destination. Our favourite, ‘Concierto de Aranjuez,’ by Rodrigo, haunted our sleep. It is a piece with an undercurrent of sweet melancholy such as what you might find echoed in the Diary from time to time. Yes, we laugh at economists, politicians, and popular myths. But beneath it — like an unrelenting, dark accompaniment of ‘Concierto de Aranjuez’ — is the age-old lament that everything you care about inevitably comes to an end. New monetary era The musical highlight of the evening was ‘Ave Maria’ by Franz Schubert. It was, after all, Mary’s big night: the eve of her assumption into Heaven. Appropriately uplifting and bright, ‘Ave Maria’ was Schubert’s hit song of 1825. It was composed as ‘The Lady of the Lake’ and adapted to the Catholic prayer addressed to the mother of Jesus. Schubert died three years later at the age of 31. Returning home after the concert, the moon shone so bright we hardly needed to turn on the lights. We could see perfectly well, but the colours were washed out. It was as if everything had been painted in shades of black and white while we were away. Maybe it was the moonlight…maybe it was the sad music…something disturbed our sleep. We turned to the left. We turned to the right. We heard the melodies from the concert so clearly, we went to the open, moonlit window to see if someone were playing a radio outside… But perhaps it was something else troubling our sleep… Yes, today, we mark the beginning of a new era…and the end of the American Dream — such as it was. On this day in 1971, President Nixon defaulted on America’s promise to its foreign creditors to convert its dollars to gold at the fixed rate of $35 an ounce. This ended the last vestiges of the gold standard. And it set world currencies — which had been pegged to the gold-backed dollar — ‘floating’ against one another. Neither Nixon, nor almost anyone else, had a clear idea of what the new monetary era really meant. No one — not even economist Milton Friedman, who advised the president — had any idea what it would do to the world economy and to the American system of government. Friedman was right about most things. But he was disastrously wrong about money. Yet, so subtle was it…so clever…so unanticipated — like a sudden shift to a minor scale or an unexpected major lift — it took 40 years for the new refrain to become clear. Maculate conception Only now are we beginning to hear the full melody…and understand how this new money corrupted the country and undermined its wealth. For all its faults — and there were many — the US used to be a place where hard work usually paid off. People worked, saved, invested…and grew wealthier. Wealth followed work, not the other way around. There were always whiners and complainers — some with legitimate beefs about the way the system worked. Still, there was a shared belief that the system was fair…because there was a connection — real and unforgiving — between money and the morality of the marketplace. Generally, those with money got it by work, invention, innovation, self-discipline, or luck. And generally, other people accepted the outcome as fair. But this new money changed everything. It turned an entire class of people — the insiders, the elite, the establishment — into parasites able only to get money unfairly. The new money was the product of a very maculate conception — borrowed into existence, not earned. This put the cart of money manipulation in front of the horse of hard work and innovation. If you had the right connections, you could conjure up wealth…from the money itself. ‘ By the sweat of your brow you will earn your bread, ’ it was commanded in the Bible. So it had been — with brief interruptions of monetary experiments and adventures — since the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden. But now, with this new system created on this day 45 years ago, money is gotten sweat-free, in the air-conditioned towers of the big banks… …and used by the ‘Parasitocracy’ to rule the nation. More to come… Regards, Bill Bonner, For The Daily Reckoning, Australia

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Facing The Panopticon
by grarpamp 16 Aug '16

16 Aug '16

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/12/facing-down-the-panopticon/ by Bill Blunden John Young, the architect who runs the web site Cryptome, has called this forest of kiosks “the largest urban spying system in the United States.” And this is merely the tip of the iceberg. The rapid spread of these urban telescreens is an indication of a much larger problem. http://www.nextgov.com/big-data/2016/01/70-percent-global-internet-traffic-… http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/08/02/landlord-installs-faraday-cag…

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Going Dark - an unmentionable company blows law enforcement
by Zenaan Harkness 16 Aug '16

16 Aug '16

Cause for both cautious optimism - this might result in a competitive market for 'full system' 'wholistic' encryption ecosystem - @pp13 at BlackHat: Reopening the "Going Dark" Debate https://lawfareblog.com/apple-blackhat-reopening-going-dark-debate (The author says some things which sound a bit messed up e.g. "Apple built the very thing that they and the privacy community have been saying for years is reckless, dangerous or impossible: a high-value encryption key secured in a vault such that the key can’t be stolen or misused by hackers or malicious insiders" - perhaps he's attempting to obfuscate things, or perhaps his own mind is naturally obfuscated.)

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Fwd: [ PFIR ] Wikileaks Published Dozens of Malware Links in Email Dump
by Cecilia Tanaka 16 Aug '16

16 Aug '16

WTF!!! Wow, now I am scared! What is happening with Wikileaks? Ô.Ô ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "PFIR (People For Internet Responsibility) Announcement List" < pfir(a)pfir.org> Date: Aug 15, 2016 2:28 PM Subject: [ PFIR ] Wikileaks Published Dozens of Malware Links in Email Dump To: <pfir-list(a)pfir.org> Wikileaks Published Dozens of Malware Links in Email Dump http://gizmodo.com/wikileaks-published-dozens-of-malware-links-in-email-du-… Anyone searching the Wikileaks database can easily download malware attachments by clicking on the wrong link. Dr. Bontchev disclosed the links safely in his report, and also said his findings were "by no means exhaustive." He said most of the malware discovered was "run-of-the mill" spam, scam, phishing attacks inciting you to click on the attachment, which is terrible news for journalists and anti-censorship advocates investigating the leak.

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