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A viable option to 'unfriendlies' pwning tor exit nodes?
by Rayzer 24 Dec '15

24 Dec '15

Via @ioerror: http://tor.noisebridge.net/ -- RR "You might want to ask an expert about that - I just fiddled around with mine until it worked..."

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Re: "tinkering" punishable by destruction of property in TPP
by Softy 23 Dec '15

23 Dec '15

> > Of course corp love and lobbied the idea/TPP because then they > don't have publicly shamed products or spend money to fix them > and can let tax sponsored chilling force work for them. > > Which would, then, put "cyber" onto the same LEA principal as doors -- namely, the onus is on oneself to stay honest when passing by an open/unsecured door, knowing full well the riches exposed within are ripe for the "criminal element" to plunder. We readily blame the owner for not securing their home/car/whatever when theft occurs. We don't hear weekly roll-ups of five-finger discounted items, nor of items which may have "fallen off the truck." Change the theft to one based on bits, and it's front page news ... seemingly because it's so much more nefarious but really only because it's still a novelty in the Mind of the Many. Why aren't people indignant about the extra costs associated with theft? Which makes cyber related costs rather trivial. http://money.cnn.com/2010/10/18/news/economy/store_theft_drain_on_your_wall… The point being, inequality will allows foster theft. Prisons will never deter the Desperate nor Ruthless. Since the System clearly benefits overall from the inequality, and by extension the propagation of prisons, this is a condition likely to continue - even probably survive The Revolution: Jail being seen as the barricade against "Them." -daniel

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Apple assures EU its crypto will be user-pleasing protection, with many LE bypasses
by John Young 22 Dec '15

22 Dec '15

Apple assures EU its crypto will be user-pleasing protection, with many LE bypasses. <https://t.co/Fa1PSKbNVh>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/22/world/europe/apple-pushes-against-british… Crypto world cheers essential duplicity. Many thanks to Edward Snowden.

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"tinkering" punishable by destruction of property in TPP
by net_kitteh 22 Dec '15

22 Dec '15

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/white-hat-hackers-would-have-their-devices… how the living fuck are they going to enforce this.

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Re: [cryptome] TheCthulhu / CthulhuSec to Cryptome
by John Young 22 Dec '15

22 Dec '15

Just call it "TheCthulhu Archive," or something other than Cryptome, then good to go. Make many archives, many are being made, many more needed. All start by and are sustained by thieving, like Wayback's, Google's, WikiLeak's, Snowden's, Manning's, CIA's, NSA's, In-Q-Tel's, LoC's, Cryptome's. Mirrors, torrents, copies, siphoning, are tampering, rip-offs, fake goods. A long tradition of that banditry. Note the offerings of this list, most of the Internet, all of education, religion, law, the media. "Respected repository of information," oh my, what a false honor presaging a spit in eye. A dual hat locution worthy of ever-duplicitous cryptology. Claims of authenticity, anonymity, updates, are pickpocketing, shysterism, verily spy trade, inevitable tampering, cheating, deceiving. , NSA's, At 09:53 PM 12/20/2015, you wrote: >On 12/21/15, Shelley <shelley(a)misanthropia.org> wrote: > > Cryptome is, or was for a very long time, a respected repository of > > information. It'd be perfectly understandable if you're ready to hang it > > up, just please do it soon before you run it off the rails. Please pass it > >git (bare repo) > >with hidden server (tor, i2p) mirrors > >would enable distributed, anonymous, incremental, updates to the >repository to be published easily

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Carnegie Mellon's Paid Snitches - Responsibile For More Arrests
by grarpamp 22 Dec '15

22 Dec '15

http://www.dailydot.com/politics/tor-silk-road-deep-web-tor-attack-irish-dr… http://www.gwern.net/Black-market%20arrests https://github.com/gwern/gwern.net Drug case in Ireland has fingerprints of Carnegie Mellon's attack on Tor Dec 21, 2015 Two Irish men arrested for drug charges may be the latest known case of law enforcement using Carnegie Mellon University's sophisticated research to crack the Tor anonymity network. At least two criminal cases rely on data that researchers at CMU's Software Engineering Institute provided to the FBI. That list may have just expanded...

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back doors
by dan＠geer.org 22 Dec '15

22 Dec '15

With software auto-update in a fully personalized digital world, there is no need for back doors. Were active defense to go in the direction of diversity compilers, comparing updates would be uninformative. --dan

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The USA Fake Of The Moon Landings
by Александр 22 Dec '15

22 Dec '15

Part 1: *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABxAN8cfiOI <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABxAN8cfiOI>* Part 2: *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9imVp8tlecY <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9imVp8tlecY>* ___ *Stanley Kubrick Confesses To Faking The Moon Landings* A stunning new video has emerged 15 years after Stanley Kubrick’s death in which Kubrick allegedly admits that the NASA moon landings were faked. Filmmaker T. Patrick Murray says he interviewed Kubrick three days before his death in March 1999. He was forced to sign an 88-page NDA to keep the contents of the interview a secret for 15 years. Below is a transcript from the interview with Stanley Kubrick, in which the 2001 Space Odyssey Director admits on camera that, “the moon landings ALL were faked , and that I was the person who filmed it.” We have included a leaked rough cut of the film below the transcript as well as two unedited raw videos of the interview with Kubrick below that: *K: I’m so preoccupied. With my work, innovation, risk-taking, regrets…T: Why are you giving this interview?K: Because, it started to get to me after awhile. Well, this is difficult, because it is the first time I’ve talked about it. (sighs)T: Sure, take all the time you need.K: I’ve always been conflicted by it, but not consciously until years later. I was just blown away by the chance, the opportunity, the challenge of making this, this production, and I went into this like it was a regular film, like another regular film of mine, not thinking too much about uh the long term effects of what it would mean to society if it was ever discovered.T: What are you talking about? I’m dying to know what you’re talking about.K: Well, a confession of sorts. A movie I made, that nobody is aware of – even though they’ve seen it.T: A movie you made, no one knows you made? Is that what you said?K: That’s right. Is that intriguing? Do I have you intrigued?K: I perpetrated a huge fraud on the American public, which I am now about to detail, involving the United States government and NASA, that the moon landings were faked, that the moon landings ALL were faked , and that I was the person who filmed it.T: Ok. (laughs) What are you talking…You’re serious. Ok.K: I’m serious. Dead serious.K: Yes, it was fake.T: Ok. Wait. Wait…T: I don’t want this to be an R-rated film, but seriously, what the blank, but seriously…T: I, I, I worked almost eight months to secure this once in a lifetime interview that almost no else could ever get, and instead of talking about his sixteen films that I’ve endured since I was a child…That we didn’t land on the moon, you’re saying?K: No, we didn’t.K: It was not real.T: The moon landings were fake?K: A, a, a.. fictional moon landing. A fantasy. It was not real.K: Don’t you think it’s important for people to know the truth?T: The moon landing in ’69, which was two years before my birth…K: Is total fiction.T: Total fiction.T: Is that?…So, that’s the 15 year thing. So that’s makes sense now. That’s why I can’t release it for 15 years now, that makes total sense now.T: Did we…we didn’t land on the moon you’re saying?K: No, we didn’t.T: Why are you telling me?K: A, a, a, a massive fraud. An unparalleled fraud perpetrated against them. They SHOULD know.K: Nixon want to uh, they were planning, yeah, he want to fake this, this moon landing…T: Are you contending that people DON’T want to know the truth about the world, reality, the moon landings…?K: The government, knowing this, takes advantage of it by perpetrating fraud after fraud after fraud.T: How did you end up giving in? Being complicit with this fraud?K: I didn’t want to do it.T: This is NOT where I thought this interview was going!K: With my help, with my, with my aid, and it is, it is bothering me.T: I only have this certain amount of time with you. And I’ll talk about whatever you want, but…T: You’re not…This isn’t some type of joke, or…K: No. No, it’s not.T: Or a film within a film thing…K: Not joking. NOPE.T: Okay.K: The conspiracy theorists were right, on this occasion.T: I don’t know what to ask you first.K: I thought it was wrong, I just…I didn’t believe in perpetrating a fraud like that.T: But you did.K: It also undermined my artistic integrity to do that.T: Ok, but you ended up saying yes. Why?K: Well, yes, but because basically I was bribed. To put it bluntly, that’s what it was. It was just a plain fucking bribe.T: Why are you telling me?K:A, a, a, massive fraud. An unparalleled fraud perpetrated against them. They SHOULD know! Don’t you think it’s important for people to know the truth?T: Why did they have to fake it? Why? Why would they ever need to do something like that? Why would the government ever want or need to do…K: It’s no secret that NASA always wanted to fulfill this Kennedy prophecy.T: Take it from the beginning…T: I gotta be honest, this is where he (Kubrick) got me. I mean, when I actually put myself in his position, when I actually imagine that he was telling the truth, and that he was presented with this opportunity and if in the one in a billion chance that I lived his life and I was presented with the same opportunity, what would I do?T: Yeah, he wanted his approval points up and he thought nothing could do it better than this.T: What a conflict. I mean, gosh, I can’t imagine being presented with that opportunity. On one hand, I’d really would want to do it, but then I’d probably say I’m committing a crime, and lying…T: It depends, but my guess would be…no, if you’re good, but you would do it.K: Spielberg, (inaudible) Scorsese, even Woody Allen. There isn’t one of them who wouldn’t do this.T: I gotta admit: I’d do it. I’d do it too.T: But they dangled all this power and all this flattery on you, essentially?K: Yeah, it got to me after awhile. You can listen to so much of that stuff before you start to believe it.T: They just said you were the greatest and stuff?K: Yeah, yeah – and I agreed with them.K: Why are you telling the world? Why does the world need to know that the moon landings aren’t real and you faked them?K: Which I consider to be my masterpiece.T: And you can’t take credit, or even talk about…K: Well, I am now..T: Right, so you’ll be dead. In ten years, or 15…K: Right, ten or 15 something like that.T: So, you can’t talk to Roger Ebert about it. Does that frustrate you?T: Why did they have to fake it? Why would they have to do that?K: Because it is impossible to get there.T: Ok, back up, back up, back up….*

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Fwd: [Cryptography] The Dawn of the Crypto Age
by grarpamp 22 Dec '15

22 Dec '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: CANNON NATHANIEL CIOTA <cannon(a)cannon-ciota.info> Date: Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 12:41 PM Subject: [Cryptography] The Dawn of the Crypto Age To: cryptography(a)metzdowd.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 The Dawn of the Crypto Age by CANNON C. , in the year 2015 - -An essay on how crypto technologies will shape our world, and why these technologies are often met with government opposition- Throughout all of the chapters of history, civilization struggles in a constant battle between liberty and tyranny, progression and corruption. For the world is plentiful in numerous points of its history of a populace oppressed by governments. Like a beast untamed or loosened, or a fire fueled and spread, it is the natural tendencies of governments to become corrupt and to perpetually expand and maintain power. This is not because government in itself is corrupt, but rather because mankind is corrupt through greed, in the pursuit of wealth and power at the expense of a nation while utilizing the powerful body of government as their tool. Government makes a handsome target of exploitation to the corrupt and enemies of liberty due to the centralization of power that governments wield and the position of the tool of government being in the high layer of power, known as the political realm. Until now, the balance of power sat in the hands of governments who have gone rogue at the conduction of usurpers and tyrants and have been used to empower themselves while oppressing the populace and liberty, whether openly or covertly. However, in the modern age, in this dawn of the crypto revolution which follows the still advancing and parallel technological revolution, the balance of power in the world is shifting from that of governments and usurpers to the people. Throughout history, humankind has been through various golden ages of enlightenment, and of technological advancements and progressions. It is this evolution in the advancement of humankind which has altered the foundation for which future technology and the direction of civilization is based. We have had the Age of Enlightenment, the scientific revolution, the Renaissance, the Industrial Revolution, and the technological/informational revolution, to name a few. And now, even when the latter is still young, we enter another age that parallels it: the dawn of the crypto revolution, which is based upon the infrastructure of the current technological/informational revolution. The context of the word "revolution" in the case of this writing refers to that of sudden change in the world brought about by advancements in technologies and discoveries, while "crypto" or "cryptographic" is referring to the use of encryption (codes) paired with technology to create systems immune to espionage, control, and takedown by an enemy. The newly emerging technology brought about by the crypto revolution is built on our current technological infrastructure. The advent of our current computerized cyber-infrastructure makes an easy way to build, host, and deploy decentralized protocols. It is also cyberspace that connects us all and breeds innovation through uncensored and decentralized communications such as the Internet, hence why the crypto revolution began shortly after the birth of the technological revolution. This new technology will secure itself and also secure society from the current flaws in our informational technology infrastructure which that same society has come to rely upon. The crypto revolution will alter the shape of the workings of civilization in positive ways to advance us towards a more perfect civilization, just as the technological revolution altered the way we communicate, do business, interact, etc. And just as how the industrial revolution altered the way we travel, manufacture, and live, to too shall the crypto revolution shape our world. This time, this era in human progression will impact the workings of the economy, politics, banking, governments... all in a way that will make the workings of the pre-crypto age antiquated and perhaps even scoffed at by future generations. Just as the crypto revolution is based on the technological revolution which was based on the industrial revolution, so too shall some other future progressions be based on the crypto revolution. These future progressions as a result of the crypto revolution I foresee being comprised of political, economic, and social advancements. Although progressions in the advancement of civilization are often beneficial to the human race, advancement is sometimes met with opposition by the existing power structure. This opposition by the minority who wield power over the rest is due to the threat this new technology/discovery presents to their power. Opposition can also often be due to lack of understanding of the new technology. The future of technology I am describing can be referred to as decentralized cryptographic protocols - secure, open source, self regulating, decentralized, cryptographic protocols, to be more descriptive. For the new way will be a better way, a way void of the major flaws and imperfection of the former which have empowered the corrupt and created insecure systems causing results which have haunted our society. These newly emerging technologies will repair the security flaws which came about by having a society that became reliant upon informational technology. The root of many of the current security flaws in our world come from the exploitation of vulnerabilities that are a result of the lack of the following three items, which I refer to together as the triangle of security. Integrity, Availability, and Confidentiality - -------------------------------------------- * Integrity. Through cryptographic proof. Protecting from unauthorized manipulation or forgery. * Availability. Through decentralization, keeping safe from attack by denial of service. or takeover by corruption and those security risks that are posed by centralization. * Confidentiality. Again, through cryptology. Keeping communications and information safe from unauthorized access. The flaws caused by a lack of any part of this triangle of security can be mitigated with decentralized cryptographic protocols which address a solution for all three of these security needs. A few examples of how the birth of cryptographic technologies will affect us in these three ways (not in any particular order but of equal importance): Confidentiality: No longer can threats to the populace undermine the security of the world through informational-warfare/espionage with ease as civilization and informational infrastructure shall be secured with cryptology. No longer can governments, oppressors, and adversaries unjustly spy on a population with ease or target them for political gain, intimidation, persecution, or control. Cryptology will ensure confidentiality by preventing governments from spying on communications. Availability: No longer will society be prone to attack by an adversary due to the weakness of centralization. When a society is reliant upon informational technology, as is the current case, that same society is vulnerable to a compromising of protocols and information that are centralized. For centralization introduces a higher risk of security due to a single point of failure. This is the case with both technology and government structures (an example being why governments are prone to corruption due to their centralization; even when governments are designed to be decentralized, they often becomes more centralized in power over time). Cryptology, in the form of decentralized cryptographic protocols, will ensure availability by preventing governments from taking down services, protocols, or information they do not like. Integrity: No longer shall our civilization be vulnerable to spoofing, identity theft, fraud, or manipulation - whether that manipulation be of just a simple document, the voting results of public consensus. or other information (just to name a few examples). Through cryptographic proof, cryptography will ensure integrity and prevent tampering of data. This is why information and technological dominance is a very valuable and sought after asset. In the technological/information age, unauthorized access to informational technology can compromise all security since everything runs on technology. These are the same security flaws which this newly emerging technology will help to protect us from. Technology can be used against the people just as much as it can be used to empower the people. This is why governments wish to suppress technological and, ultimately, human progression. For the future eliminates imperfection and corruption. We are now at the crossroads, in which technology used against the people is now progressing to the point that it will be used against corrupt governments and bring about a global balance of power. Governments also hate anything they cannot control. If governments cannot control something. they will attempt to destroy it. Some of the changes, among many, which will be brought about by this new technology of decentralized cryptographic protocols will be decentralized markets immune to government control or takedown; distributed autonomous corporations and stock exchanges; self-enforcing smart contracts; secure and decentralized self-regulating financial systems known as crypto-currencies (such as Bitcoin); along with secure peer-to-peer escrow protocols resulting in anonymous and theft/confiscation-proof money, distributed crowd-funding platforms, and secure communications systems (such as Bitmessage or I2P-Bote); secure, anonymous, and fraud-proof identities; secure voting and consensus systems; distributed secure databases of information and records (such as Namecoin); legal document timestamping (known as "Proof of Existence"); secure property titles; secure wills and legal documents; secure distributed authentication systems; and distributed and anonymous reputation systems. Another result of crypto is meshnet networks immune to government control or surveillance that are known as darknets, which may eventually replace the current Internet infrastructure. The main structures of banks and governments may very well be replaced by secure, decentralized, self-regulating protocols which run on this technology. This is just to name a few things that will emerge or have started to emerge as a result of the crypto revolution. Crypto technologies offer the ability to secure a population from the security flaws which cause identity theft, fraud, financial theft, corruption, manipulation, surveillance, and cyber attacks. Though this new technology protects society from such things which we suffer from today, it is also these things that governments and criminals use to control society and the populace. As a result, the security brought about by the newly emerging technology of decentralized cryptographic protocols threatens the ability of governments and criminals to continue their grip on a monopoly of control and power. Governments are often opposed to cryptology for this very reason. The suppression of cryptology is often done through "regulations" that are actually intended to cripple that technology, as well as outright bans on it, along with the targeting of its users. Another technique often deployed is use of the media to demonize cryptology through lies and fallacies - telling us that such technology is dangerous to our safety, when the truth instead is that the lack of cryptology leaves our liberties and our society insecure. Another fallacy often used to pass crippling regulations is that such technology needs regulation, which is a fallacy, for decentralized cryptographic protocols are already regulated by the principles of math which such protocols are built upon. These very rules of math which power these decentralized cryptographic protocols are perfect and incorruptible, unlike regulations done through government. Governments will try to suppress technology and human progression at the expense of the security of a nation, leaving us vulnerable to the security threats which currently plague our world - that is, if we allow ourselves to submit to tyranny by willingly complying. There is a name for those who promote, develop, and support this crypto technology and who refuse to comply with the power structures' demands to abandon its progression. They are called the cypherpunks. They are the modern day architects, the visionaries of today, and the founders of tomorrow. You can make a difference and help the crypto-age win. Join me. Join league with the cypherpunks to improve the world. At the least, learn about, support, and promote crypto technologies. If you are up to it, learn how to code so you can also contribute to these technologies. For we are now in the beginnings of a new era of advancement in civilization and the human race: the dawn of the crypto age. 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Normalized Spying is a Exculpatory Cover-Up
by John Young 21 Dec '15

21 Dec '15

Assange's claim spying is normalized merely parrots spies' long-advanced propaganda which in turn parrots normalized siphoning, stealing and monetizing information legitimated by nations, corporations, entrepreneurs, inventors, criminal orgs, leak sites, media, archives, scholars, religions, "info freedom fighters." Cpunk Dan Geer has elaborated on this, but hardly alone, like many, like Assange, it's his job and future. Assange knows that leaking is theft, as Geer knows spying is, just like hacking, encryption, privacy, anonymization, aggregation, among other lucrative normalizings. Spy agencies (and universities, especially law and business schools) have long taught the skills and practices of thievery, glorified in doctrinaire justifications and immensely malleable laws. NSA is funding dozens of universities to train digital thieves and crooks, just like The Farm and military academies train villains to do dirty, murderous work with impunity (unless kidnapped and beheaded, tortured and disappeared, shot down and AK'd at home). Corporations and NGOs hire these civilian and ex-spy-mil professional villains to do evil and propagate legitimizing propaganda, advocate weak crypto, false anonymity, and ludicrous privacy, run leak sites and secure drops to encourage ambitious, gullible, avaricious participants like Manning and Snowden to siphon and ravage, following the ignoble example of nations cum global cartels cum freedom of the press and religion which establish mutually beneficial exclusive treaties to ravage the less defendable. Assange is right to cite normalized spying and leaking as a cloak to excuse much worse. In that he is as normalized as we indignant villains blaming competitors for what we pretend to regret having to do with such pleasure.

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