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Dallas suspect killed by police robot
by M373 10 Jul '16

10 Jul '16

They bombed him. This is the first incident in the US that I am aware of. "10:20 a.m. A robotics expert says Dallas police appear to be the first law enforcement agency to use a robot to kill. Peter W. Singer, of the New America Foundation, says the killing of a suspect in Thursday night's fatal shooting of five police officers is the first instance of which he's aware of a robot being used lethally by police. Dallas Police Chief David Brown told reporters that after hours of failed negotiations and in order to not put any officers in harm's way, his department used a robot to deliver a bomb that killed the suspect. Brown said they saw no other option. Singer said in an email Friday that when he was researching his 2009 book "Wired for War" a U.S. soldier told him troops in Iraq sometimes used MARCbot surveillance robots against insurgents." http://www.wrdw.com/content/news/The-Latest-Police-1-officer-killed-3-injur…

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gmail usage
by John Newman 09 Jul '16

09 Jul '16

Do any gmail users (which I've noticed there a lot of on the list, as well as in real life, heh) feel at all threatened by what Google is doing with access to your entire mail stream? They've publicly stated users have no "reasonable expectation of privacy". Do you use gmail for your main / private / important emails, in addition to list correspondence? Or do you consider the internet so pwned that it doesnt matter? (although, why make it easier for them..) I'm just curious... I started getting squeamish about it myself a good few years back, before snowden, just because it seems like an obviously bad idea to house all my correspondence at the HQ of one of the biggest corporations in the world, for them to play with, mine, and cross-index for targeted advertising as they see fit.. Setting up your own mail server (postfix+spamassasin+...clamav+..whatever) isn't really that hard, although you gotta pay a hosting fee, depending on how you decide to do it. And I guess there are other alternatives to gmail that are much better in this area, although I'm still inclined to use my own thing.. -- John

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Re: Facebook Messenger adds end-to-end encryption.
by John Young 09 Jul '16

09 Jul '16

End-to-end encryption is reliable only if it begins and ends without use of computers and networked transceivers and devices, operating systems and systems administration, electromagnetism and algorithms, ISPs and packets. Each of these are vulnerabilities, not unlike Tor, anonymization, VPN, OTR, any method widely promoted and recommended. The more widely known and adopted the less like to be secure. So Facebook fails the same way Crypto-AG failed, and those developed in between. Cybersecurity is on a roll, given extra boost by Snowden releases (limited as they are by his "do no harm to the USA") and his continuing boosterism from protection of the other world policeman out to make sure no encryption is invulnerable. Currently all states are promoting limited cybersecurity in various see-through couture but never disclosing what the states use for hiding most-secret comsec. Snowden, among many in the ballooning cybersec field, never advocates full disclosure, and in that ancient way, protect their state-sanctioned privileges, in RU as in 5-Eyes. Facebook is regulated by the USG and through it other nations so not likely to place its survival above that of customers. But it certainly uses the language of customer protection pretty much identical to all the 74 amici which jumped on board Apple's grandstanding fight against USG, settled secretly. Official secrecy continues to be the primary vulnerability of cybersecurity and public comsec. No nation can survive without it, nor can any state-regulated entity. Without top secret code word privilege nobody is secure. And those with that privilege willingly harm the populace by lying and cheating and disinforming. Snowden fits that, probably entrapped to do so by his media handlers who dare not challenge the states which privilege media. At 01:37 AM 7/9/2016, you wrote: >2016-07-09 7:46 GMT+03:00 jim bell ><<mailto:jdb10987@yahoo.com>jdb10987(a)yahoo.com>: >https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/08/messenger-adds-end-to-end-encryption/ > >Quote: >"Facebook Messenger wants to be your primaryÂ >messaging app. As people become more and more >concerned about security, being the best >messaging app means being the most secure. >Thatâs whyÂ Facebook is finally adding an >option for users to encrypt their chats in Messenger. >MessengerÂ will begin to offerÂ an end-to-end >encryption feature to a limited test group of >users today. Itâs a security optionÂ thatâs >been a long time coming for Facebook, which has >considered making end-to-end encryption >available for several months.Â The so-called >âsecret conversationsâ debuted today will be >only visible to the sender and the reader, which >means FacebookÂ canât enable some of the >chatbot and payment features that are normally a >part of the Messenger experience. However, >end-to-end encryption boxes out law enforcement >and even Facebook itself from reading usersâ >chats, ensuring that their conversations remain private. >Messenger has also taken steps to make sure that >chats remain secure, even if a userâsÂ device >gets lost or stolen. In secret conversations, >Messenger will allow users to set an expiration >date for a message so that it wonât be visible >in the conversation forever. Once the time runs >out, the message will vanish from the devices of >all users in the conversation. Facebook released >technical details about its implementation of >secret conversations in a white paper >(<https://fbnewsroomus.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/secret_conversations_white…>PDF). >Secret conversation mode will only be available >on iOS and Android, not in Messenger.com, >Facebook chat, or the desktop Messenger app at >least for now. Facebookâs vicce president of >messaging products David Marcus told TechCrunch >that the addition of end-to-end encryption is >intended to help Messenger become everyoneâs go-to app." >[end of portion quoted] >Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Jim Bell > > >Jim, everyone, >is it just me, or.... but when i see/hear the >word "facebook" i get vomiting reflex and can't force myself reading further? > >I'm not talking about using/not using it >(facebook/their new secUUUre app), but talking >about trust. A total lack of trust toward them. >No matter what they write, say or "invent". > >Reminds me a saying on Russian towards a well known enemy which states, >"you can kill me, but i won't believe you". > >___ > >* the same refers to google too, of course. I >use it, for example, 'cause i *have to* from >various of reasons, but do i trust them? NO WAY. >Do i use it for sensitive stuff? NO WAY. And >their "new encryption" or "goody goody >statements"Â won't buy my trust after all the >revelations! And i don't need "new" revelations to keep that in my mind. > >But.... am i the only one? Do we need a Snowden >explosion every 3-5 years to keep in mind that >we are being fucked up all the time by the >googles-facebooks and alike? -> thus NOT to >trust them, no matter how they "sing"? >I hope that we don't. >.

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Happy 4 July!!!
by Georgi Guninski 08 Jul '16

08 Jul '16

Happy 4 July!!! Long live the 'merican dream, long live the NSA!!! The founding fathers based slavery mainly on skin color. Nowadays every a'merican has _equal_ opportunity of slavery, this is how progress works AFAICT.

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Bitcoin Halving Less Than 24hr Away
by grarpamp 08 Jul '16

08 Jul '16

http://bitcoinclock.com/ http://blockchain.info/charts/market-price?timespan=2 http://blockchain.info/charts/estimated-transaction-volume-usd Last chance to buy early... steady market demand pressure by influx of fiats (net after miner to power plant passthrough), and increase in market float and party holdings, resulting in price stablization since Jan 2015 and rise since Sep 2015 gonna keep pressing that much harder up after the half. Shit boards below... https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=57.0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=7.0

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FBI Fails To Charge Sec. Clinton
by grarpamp 08 Jul '16

08 Jul '16

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics https://twitter.com/wikileaks https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/07/05/1556204/the-fbi-recommends-not-to-i… http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/02/us/politics/loretta-lynch-hillary-clinton… The Internet seems to be all over this today.

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walking in another's shoes
by Zenaan Harkness 08 Jul '16

08 Jul '16

Assertions of fact which I presume are not in dispute except perhaps by schooled (and not educated) North Americans: - North America/ the USA, has NO righteous authority to be the "policeman of the world"! - The only authority the the USA has to be "the policeman of the world" is the predatorial right, the predatorial authority. - The United States of America government is ethically bankrupt. - The government of the USA has been co-opted by the North American (and western world oligarch controlled) Military Industrial Complex. - The hegemonic intention of the government of the USA and the "neo conservatives" or war mongers of "the West", is a predatorial manifestion of the desire for empire, the desire to control the world. The hegemonic USA must end. That said, here is what might be termed a human perspective of what an average Russian living in Russia or perhaps the Donbas today, might actually be experiencing, feeling and thinking, and why (historical memories etc) - a somewhat moving piece for those so inclined: --- "Why People Never Believe That War Is Coming – Until It Is Too Late" In Russian: http://www.apn-spb.ru/opinions/article23999.htm In English: http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/why-people-never-believe-war-coming-t… --- A thought: The "terrorists" in Syria, aka IS or ISIS or ISIL, go into town, villages and cities, forcing "conversion" or death upon those families who live there. The so called "terrorists" of eastern Ukraine in the Donbas/ Novorossia, are families fighting for their lives against the Ukraine state army who are coming to "subdue" them, to "encourage" them to accept the new Ukrainian coup government with its laws saying the Russian language is no longer official, and no longer allowed to be taught in their local schools, and many more abominations to "European values"! Oh, but it's all just "Russian aggression". FFS, wake up European nations! wake up North Americans! Absolutely the Ukrainian army must stop shooting and bombing its own people! Absolutely the eastern Ukrainian people have a right to defend themselves against "their own" army shooting at them, their own "president" Poroshenko "Donbas Children Will Sit in Cellars, “Ours” Will Go to School": Amazing Poroshenko Video: Keep Donbas Children "Holed Up" in ... http://russia-insider.com/en/node/1122 http://sputniknews.com/europe/20141114/1014748940.html https://dninews.com/article/doctor-liza-will-evacuate-13-children-moscow-do… (well at least Poroshenko said it in a civilized setting - the Odessa Opera House.) Poroshenko: “we [in Ukraine] will have work they – [in the Donbas] won’t. We will have pensions – they won’t. We will care for our children and pensioners – they won’t. Our children will go to school, to kindergartens – their children will sit in cellars. They don’t know how to organize or do anything. This, ultimately, is how we will win this war.” https://southfront.org/its-like-a-textbook-for-torture-why-the-donbass-will… (this article is too intense, I can't finish reading it) https://www.rt.com/news/163288-seven-children-wounded-unicef/ A boy holds a placard reading "Save Donbas children. Please stop ATO!" (anti-terrorists operation) in the southern Ukrainian city of Odessa on June 1, 2014 (AFP Photo) / AFP (This one's a bit easier to read.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanitarian_situation_during_the_war_in_Donb… http://www.phillip-butler.com/when-will-we-the-people-stop-the-killing-in-d… "Someone explain to me so I can understand. How is it that Russia is somehow negligent in influencing pro-Russian separatists in east Ukraine, when the Kiev junta’s forces are the ones shelling civilians daily? Does Germany’s Angela Merkel see something the world cannot? God only knows." All hail Ukraine! We, the collective "West" are an absolute disgrace on this planet!!!!! So YES if I were the USA president I would do better! The only real challenge is doing better as USA president, and stopping yourself from being killed for cleaning up the endless shit that is North American foreign policy! "The West", an absolute disgrace to humanity..

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Why MAC Address Randomization is not Enough: An Analysis of Wi-Fi Network Discovery Mechanisms
by grarpamp 08 Jul '16

08 Jul '16

http://papers.mathyvanhoef.com/asiaccs2016.pdf

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The Whistleblower Architects: surveillance, infrastructure, and freedom of information according to Cryptome
by John Young 08 Jul '16

08 Jul '16

The Whistleblower Architects: surveillance, infrastructure, and freedom of information according to Cryptome (part 1) http://archinect.com/features/article/149955321/the-whistleblower-architect… The Whistleblower Architects: surveillance, infrastructure, and freedom of information according to Cryptome (part 2) http://archinect.com/features/article/149956364/the-whistleblower-architect…

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A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
by grarpamp 08 Jul '16

08 Jul '16

http://www.moserware.com/2009/09/stick-figure-guide-to-advanced.html Act 1: Once Upon a Time… Act 2: Crypto Basics Act 3: Details Act 4: Math! Epilogue

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