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Re: Own on install. How grave it is?
by Georgi Guninski 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 08:43:27AM -0800, g2s wrote: > > The concerns are real and industry resolves this by applying the minimal > > required patches from a media before connecting device to the network. > > > > >> Thanks. This doesn't appear possible on smartphones, tablets and some IoT, right? > > Phones and tablets? Why not? The update or os is downloaded in full before installation and, at least in android, a dos bootstrap appears to run the install. > Rr > Thanks, could be, I am not familiar with phones and tablets. Is this documented in more details somewhere?

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Re: 2018 Clusterfuck Forecast
by juan 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

On Sun, 7 Jan 2018 18:32:19 -0800 Steven Schear <schear.steve(a)gmail.com> wrote: > The way payment channels can be reasonably used enables fractional > reserve abuses. Are you sure? As far as I know, one of the main selling points of the LN is that it uses...bitcoins. So it's impossible to open a channel/make a payment except by starting with an on chain transaction. In other words, LN transactions are backed 1:1 with real bitcoins. > > On Jan 7, 2018 6:24 PM, "juan" <juan.g71(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, 7 Jan 2018 17:38:02 -0800 > > Steven Schear <schear.steve(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Off-chain, once solid tech that isn't a > > > backdoor for CBs and WS (as LN appears to be), should easily > > > compete with VISA. > > > > > > how is lightning network a backdoor for central banks? > > > > > >

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Fwd: [cryptome] Fire & Fury pdf
by He Will Not Divide Us 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

> Cecilia Tanaka cecilia.tanaka > Mon Jan 8 11:57:03 PST 2018r > wrong list! Ha! I do not know who this was intended for but thank you for sharing it here!!! I have included it as an attachment, meinfewer.png, since we know how the niggers that run the internet like to erase information. > "very stable genius" Lel. The best part: >> ...my two greatest assets have been mental >> stability and being, like, really smart."" His actual message is attached.

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[WAR] Stephen F Cohen: USA's Gorbachev docs (linked) confirm broken "we won't move east" promises to USSR/Russia
by Zenaan Harkness 11 Jan '18

11 Jan '18

A lie travels the world before the truth gets its boots on. Here we have more reminders, from the USA's own documents (and French, UK and Germany) of the complete lack of moral standing of the West - the next year or so will see good riddence to the current empire/ utterly corrupt regime. This is a lie 27 years in the running around the world's "Main Stream" Media - perhaps it's (((someone else's))) media, since Russia is the thorn in the side of the New/ One World Order (primarily, single world wide banking system, backed up by police and a global army) - we know how Saddam Hussein's ego lead him to the hangman's noose (literally), and Gaddafi's altruistic building of a nation but more importantly his stated and acted on intentions to create an Arab/ Muslim world gold backed dinar, without the general support of powerful nations (and truth be told, without any real unity in the Arab and Muslim world) lead Hitlery Clinton on her "We came, we saw, he died" crusade of evil, and Gaddafi to the slaughterhouse. Yet finally we see a different outcome - Russia unshakably standing with her long term Syrian allies, thereby giving balls (and ovaries) to the global south (China, Venezuela and others) - in terms of the current state of the world with the existence of nations, peoples, and the world's greatest sponsor's of terrorism war and evil (USA, CIA and the general FUKUS axis of evil, i.e. France, UK and the US), this is an 11th minute of the 11th hour comeback for something other than (((their One World Order plan))). Stephen F Cohen will go down in history as one of those staunch, unshakable and principled men of history who could not be bought with a bag of silver shekels, and who consistently brought a voice of reason and counterpoint to the endless propaganda spewed upon the people of the world by the (((Main Stream Media))) - perhaps it's only a Cohen or a 'Stein or etc who could truly break this barrier of madness and deception propagated by the Ministry of Truth. So thank you Stephen Cohen, you are a credit to sanity in the present world. Enjoy, ** Stephen F. Cohen: The US Betrayed Russia, but It Is Not News That’s Fit to Print (Podcast) https://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413… ------------------------------------------------------------ by John Batchelor on Thu, Jan 11, 2018 John Batchelor has a very popular political talk show on America’s largest radio network, WABC. He has Stephen Cohen on live in the studio almost every week for a full 45 minute segment, the only guest he gives that much time to. Why? Because Cohen’s appearances are killing the ratings. America seems to be thirsting for an alternative and critical view of Obama’s Russia policy. See below for a summary of this program courtesy of The Nation.

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Agnostic Tools: Code Dev and Support For
by grarpamp 11 Jan '18

11 Jan '18

> I'm interested in helping you guys with Tor development. I don't really care > what I work on, except I do not support .onion websites (though I am willing > to be convinced otherwise) so I would prefer not to participate directly in > their development. I have plenty of experience with writing code Folks in convo before have covered some of these areas and more that one could surely find or think of... Philosophical... Why does someone want to support and develop for Tor, or any other overlay p2p anonymity network, or crypto, for that matter? When even a fix to the manpage could be read and used by onion users and operators, same for metrics, lists, or any other part of the ecosystem. Does one fear "bad" things, association, or support "good" things? Does freespeech, anonymity, privacy, human rights sound "good"? What is "bad"? Censorship? Theft, Dictatorships, Police States, whether one's own, that of the Enemy, or that of the Oppressed? Cryptocurrency, anonymity, free markets, privacy, messaging... "bad"? "Good" [only] when used to defeat "bad" things inside or outside of [mal]functional democracies that assert majority force over minorities who have forced no one? Ricochet, Signal, GPG... "bad"? New technology that forces change over old entrenched ways... "bad"? Are anonymous forums where professional therapists give pro bono counseling to even the most reviled, depraved, criminal, socially scarlet lettered and outcast... "bad"? Materials and talk of religion? Are datamining, traffic archiving, exploits, cleartext... "good"? Tor has exits... do people realize how much of both what they like to "support", and abhor, travels over those exits? The variety of traffic there is no different than onions. Should exits be unsupported? What about the internet, or printing presses, should those tools be unsupported? Are they "bad", get their makers looked askew? Onions, exits, internet, presses, hammers... all simply agnostic tools. Tools can be used to build great things, to defend, or to wield in bloody murder. And what of biases over certain agnostic tools instead of over the separate "good" or "bad" uses of them? Do other tool builders and users have to wonder if their tools are being compromised by those with such biases? What of when those with biases end up needing the tools themselves, what will be the tool quality, or their ability to do "good" with them? Have people taken the time to explore the onion space to find and participate in all the "good" things they like therein, to create and grow them, or even engage in counsel and advocacy against the "bad"? What tools would be needed to do that? Yes, people are free to work on what they like... including giving deep thought as to what they like and don't, and why, and how supporting agnostic tools can actually fit with that. Are not your pens tools? Who likes those? Who supports those? What if they didn't? Pens... write code. Tech, fun, politic... Amounting to consideration feature X may prevent or diminish a better archictecture on balance for some higher importance feature Y. That should be covered open devops as usual. Or if the *technology* or *code* of eg: eepsites onions, or other subsets of various projects are not in their interest or knowledge practice area. Ok. Or if the features provided by any overlay network or tool are deemed flawed, and the technical or political effort to get them fixed, or rearchitecture, or correctly advertised, or called out within as bunk, is too high, therein it may be better to abandon them and or speak out freely as such.

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Own on install. How grave it is?
by Georgi Guninski 11 Jan '18

11 Jan '18

This is well known, haven't seen it discussed. In short doing clean install (factory defaults) has a window of opportunity when the device is vulnerable to a known network attack. It used to be common sense to reinstall after compromise (probably doesn't apply to the windows world where the antivirus takes care). All versions of windoze are affected by the SMB bug to my knowledge. Debian jessie (old stable) is vulnerable to malicious mirror attack. More of interest to me are devices where the installation media is fixed and can't be changed. This includes smartphones and wireless routers. Some smartphones might be vulnerable to wifi RCE (found by google?). Some wireless routers might be vulnerable to wifi RCE or default admin password attack over wifi. Internet of Things will make things worse (some NAS devices are affected). Shielding the device might not be solution since updates must be applied. Are the above concerns real? Have this been studied systematically?

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On SOPA Mega Copyright Surveillance Censorship Murder Refusing
by grarpamp 11 Jan '18

11 Jan '18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dfy-K7bsiQ

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BitFury Analyzes Non Privacy Coins with Obama, Launch Swiss Bank Phones Now
by grarpamp 11 Jan '18

11 Jan '18

http://www.trustnodes.com/2018/01/09/bitfury-de-anonymises-millions-bitcoin… https://medium.com/@BitFuryGroup/the-bitfury-group-unveils-solution-for-ana… https://bitfury.com/content/5-white-papers-research/clustering_whitepaper.p… https://medium.com/@jamieelizabethsmith/why-i-believe-in-the-blockchain-b19… Jamie Smith Global Chief of Communications at The Bitfury Group My career has included serving as Deputy White House Press Secretary and Special Assistant to President Obama, Director of Public Affairs for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence... Why I Blockchain? The Blockchain is an unalterable public ledger where every single bitcoin transaction is recorded. https://medium.com/@BitFuryGroup/hut-8-partners-with-the-bitfury-group-to-e…

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Personnel attacks, etc.
by Stephen C. 11 Jan '18

11 Jan '18

> Steve Kinney admin at pilobilus.net > Sun Jan 7 17:42:05 PST 2018 > "racists" are losers Anyone who identifies or segregates by color, e.g., "White" or "Black", is a low intelligence "racist". Any added "hate" is called bigotry, not "racism". > 2017's big recruitment push You mean 'discredit nắtionalism campaign'. > alt-Rḗich Rḗich means realm, or kingdom. Guess you're not a Queensrÿche fan. > ended in ignominious defeat You provide no examples. So you must be full of shit. > leadership Every "rally" and "prot́est" organizer, just like every "leader", is Jḗwish. Your attempts to associate them, or the "alt́-ryt́e" in general, with the actions of the NSDĀ́P or Wḗhrmacht Gḗrmany are delusional. > "white" trash I see. You are paid to shill here like jnn, cecilia, marina, and juan. You glow-in-the-darks couldn't be more obvious with your "white" "hate" rhetoric. > Charlottesville Where a group of American Jḗws "rallied" to prevent "Jḗws" from "replace[ing] us". Where an intelligence assḗt drove a vehicle into a crowd of ć̣ommies (using his brakes). Where an overweight ć̣ommie suffered a heart attack and died (fat-free, high-sugar diets do that). Did I get that correct? > a continued commitment to failure You must fail often to succeed sooner. I guess you are a quitter. > Neó̩Aśhkenázi/K(f)K(b)K(i) Your assertions about nationálism are as accurate as Rayzer's predictions about the 'Juggalo March on Wáshington', where the Juggalos joined the "Pro-Trǘmp" rally in solidarity with frḗe-speḗch. You should familiarize yourself with Egypt́ian mythology (and history). It would help you not make such shit observations of reality. I am beginning to think you are like pic related.

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Re: [tor-talk] What The F - Tor Browser is not your privacy browser, Non-goal: PRIVACY
by grarpamp 11 Jan '18

11 Jan '18

>> Actually the brat is right in his tantrum. Tor Browser should not >> even exist. > > Actually, that's not quite right. In an ideal world Tor browser (and > Tor itself) should not /need/ to exist. Unfortunately we do not live in > that ideal world. > >> But thanks to venerable gurus, like Vint Cerf, Richard Stallman, Tim >> Berners Lee and other old white men, the net today is the heaven for >> surveillance. I am not arguing for the conspiracy. Just little minds >> generating little thoughts. > > Those "old white men" did the job they were supposed to do at the time > they were supposed to do it. And in this (old, white) man's view they > did a pretty good job. But as I say, unfortunately the world is not the > same now. I'd guess that if packet switched networking were being > invented now we might be seeing a rather different beast to the IP > stack we currently all know and love. :-) It would be an even more centralized nasty beast than it is today. Neither beast anyone has yet routed around by building out properly decentralized neighbor-to-neighbor p2p guerrilla networks. Fiber / copper / WiFi, shovels / ladders, opensource routing devices, beer with your neighbors and their neighbors... all inexpensive, needed and competitive. Curious that cryptocurrency is much farther ahead in global deployment against the beasts than guerrilla nets, whose basic concepts... connecting cables and routing packets... were all well commoditized and deployable by independants / communities a decade earlier.

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