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Whistleblowers: How NSA Created the 'Largest Failure' In Its History
by grarpamp 23 Nov '15

23 Nov '15

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/11/22/1359237/whistleblowers-how-nsa-creat… Former NSA whistleblowers contend that the agency shut down a program that could have "absolutely prevented" some of the worst terror attacks in memory. According to the ZDNet story: "Weeks prior to the September 11 terrorist attacks, a test-bed program dubbed ThinThread was shut down in favor of a more expensive, privacy-invasive program that too would see its eventual demise some three years later -- not before wasting billions of Americans' tax dollars. Four whistleblowers, including a congressional senior staffer, came out against the intelligence community they had served, after ThinThread. designed to modernize the agency's intelligence gathering effort, was cancelled. Speaking at the premier of a new documentary film A Good American in New York, which chronicles the rise and demise of the program, the whistleblowers spoke in support of the program, led by former NSA technical director William Binney."

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Re: [Cryptography] Crackdown on *rental vehicles* expected after terrorist attacks
by grarpamp 23 Nov '15

23 Nov '15

On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Henry Baker <hbaker1(a)pipeline.com> wrote: > https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/9-young-men-and-their-paths-to-terror-… > > 'Several people on the block did see two rental cars used in the attacks' > At least 40 people were killed, many of them sitting outdoors on a mild November evening.' Blah blah blah, cry me a fucking river. Terrorism ain't shit, and ain't shit to be afraid of. Meanwhile, 1.4 MILLION people died in random car crashes in 2013, of which 68,000 of them were poor little children. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_collision https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_causes_of_death_by_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preventable_causes_of_death Perspective... get some.

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Western media: "224 Russians dead? They deserved it. 130 French dead? OMG the world must grieve!"
by Zenaan Harkness 22 Nov '15

22 Nov '15

One particular paragraph from the following opinion piece stands out, in a sense a brief modern follow on from Solzhenitsyn. http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/week-seven-russian-intervention-syria… "Oh how much I wish most people in the West could understand Russian read the Russians newspapers, watch Russian talkshows or listen to Russian conferences! They would see something which they have been conditioned to consider impossible: far from fearing the West, most Russians find it crippled with narrow-minded consumerism, devoid from any real moral or ethical values, fantastically ignorant and provincial and suffering from terminal infantilism. Even the tiny pro-Western minority now gave up on defending the West and, at most, it retorts against the typical tsunami of anti-western arguments something like “what about us – are we not as bad?” or even “let’s not sink down to their level!”. It is quite amazing to see that happening in a country which used to almost worship anything western just 20-30 years ago! I should add that if the most despised and ridiculed country must, of course, be Poland, France is not far behind in the list of “most pathetic”, As for the USA, it is the least despised adversary simply because most Russian respect the US for defending whatever it perceives has its national interests and for making Europe it’s “bitch”. The Russians always say that to get something done one must talk to the USA and waste time with its European colony."

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cry-bullies
by Zenaan Harkness 22 Nov '15

22 Nov '15

Sometimes lack of terminology is disempowering - that which is unspoken ("un-named") dominating a conversation online or offline. For anyone appreciative of succinct terminology, perhaps "cry-bully" might be useful in certain conversations you have. Courtesy Daniel Greenfield. SJW = social justice warrior Z --- http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/260687/islam-social-justice-warriors-and-… Islam, Social Justice Warriors and the Cry-Bully I don't know if Cry-Bullies is the perfect word, but it captures the dynamic perfectly. November 7, 2015 Daniel Greenfield This phenomenon of the abuser-victim is ridiculously widespread these days. Every Social Justice Warrior that organizes a hate campaign quickly rushes to friendly media outlets to whine about harassment and their heroic stand against people doing to them what they do to others. I'm not sure if Cry-Bully is the best name for it, but I haven't come up with anything better for it. That's Julie Burchill's label at the Spectator. I've stripped out most of the UK pop culture references to focus on the point. This is the age of the Cry-Bully, a hideous hybrid of victim and victor, weeper and walloper. They are everywhere, these duplicit Pushmi-Pullyus of the personal and the political... In the 1970s, there was a big difference between bullies and cry-babies. Islamism is the ultimate Cry-Bully cause; on one hand stamping around murdering anyone who doesn’ t agree with you, on the other hand yelling ‘ISLAMOPHOBIA’ in lieu of having a real adult debate about the merits of your case. Their ‘helpline’ is even called Tell Mama – bless. The British-born Islamist recently sentenced to twelve years had no problem posing with severed heads (‘Heads, kaffirs, disgusting’) and asking friends back home to send him condoms which he planned to use raping women captured as ‘war booty’ but then claimed to be having nightmares and suffering from depression in order to escape jail. I would argue that the same brand of selfishness and dehumanization that leads to abusive behavior also leads to victimhood. We've known this about criminals for some time now. They're all victims. No matter what horrible things they did, someone else always drove them to it. They're self-centered enough not to care about anyone else while being exquisitely attuned to their own feelings. As I wrote a few weeks ago... The one thing that Muslim murderers excel at is playing the victim. Someone always “made” Mohammed do it. Someone got him so frustrated and upset that he had no choice but to rape and kill. There’s a term for the kind of people who think like this; criminals. There’s a term for the kind of people who defend them; leftists. The Muslim case for justice can be found in the books of a million police departments where all the stories begin with the criminal feeling sorry for himself and end in hospitals and morgues. The story always begins with, “I wanted what was coming to me” or “She shouldn’t have made me angry.” But this isn't limited to Muslims. You can see it in the Black Lives Matter tantrums. Or the anti-Gamergate crowd. They're the victims and it's always someone else's fault. The entire passive aggressive narrative of safe spaces (if you don't censor people who disagree with us, we're the victims) turns abusers into victims, censors into heroes defending their mental health from dissenting views and the victim-victor paradigm is constantly flipping from one to the other. One moment the SJW hero is doing an end zone dance over having defeated the latest cultural enemy. The next moment they're crying over mean stuff said to them on Twitter. They're narcissistic and insecure. They want to be treated as helpless heroes, victims of some terrible social disease (not that kind) that leaves them always out of power and yet always winning. Their sensitivities have to be accommodated and censorship is their trophy. They're all about inclusiveness for special people like them, while driving out and shutting up anyone who disagrees with them. I don't know if Cry-Bullies is the perfect word, but it captures the dynamic perfectly.

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Re: [guardian-dev] Freenet and PLUTO
by grarpamp 22 Nov '15

22 Nov '15

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 8:42 PM, <salutarydiacritical23(a)ruggedinbox.com> wrote: > Hello. May I suggest a collaborative effort with a project you might know? > Freenet is a p2p storage network that's been around forever. One interesting > feature that's currently on hold is support for Tor's pluggable transports. > I directed them to your PLUTO framework because it seems like a good drop-in > choice. When all is said and done, users will be able to run Freenet over > Tor for more protection. > > Freenet Mail list: > https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > > Freenet bugtracker: > https://bugs.freenetproject.org/view.php?id=2124 > > List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/guardian-dev Note that freenet seems to have been successfully invaded by sybils... http://www.thedickinsonpress.com/news/north-dakota/3885239-predators-police… Court records reveal the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation has been running an undercover operation on the peer-to-peer network Freenet since 2011... Essentially, the BCI planted its own computers within the Freenet network...Their computers kept logs of certain Freenet users' IP addresses and the codes for what they were downloading, according to the affidavit. Agents then compared the codes with a database they built of codes known to be child porn. But BCI investigators were able to devise a way to tell which IP address--and consequently, which Freenet user--ultimately was downloading the offending files.

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How does one remove the NSA Virus off the BIOS Chip
by Александр 21 Nov '15

21 Nov '15

** was originally by William H. Depperman whd2(a)columbia.edu <whd2(a)columbia.edu> to the tor list.* Hi Mailing List People, I am apparently the number one person in the United States on the _*NSA-CIA-FBI Watch List*_. For multiple reasons! I am the Coordinator of the United Front Against Racism and Capitalism-Imperialism who was arrested by the so-called "Major Case Squad" in August 1986 because our group exposed the scientific documentation on a big series of _/*huge*/_ wall posters that AIDS is Biological Warfare by the US Government Against Blacks, Gays and those with certain blood dyscrasias. The arrest was on the front pages of all NYC newspapers and on Channel 4 in Europe. I tried to send this email to Anonymous and TOR does not permit attachments so just disregard that when you see an attachment mentioned. Recently I was _*Extraordinarily Renditioned*_ (KIDNAPPED AND HELD AGAINST MY WILL FOR 18 HOURS AND TORTURED after simply walking along a road in New Jersey!) See the third attachment. The NSA has TOTAL control of my computer and has real time keystroke by keystroke monitoring and harassment while I am on the computer. My anti-virus and anti-Malware are totally useless as explained by Snowden because the computer is controlled through the _*BIOS Chip*_ as explained in the attachment on Snowden revelations. Scroll down the document until you get to _*ANT*_ (Access Network Technology). I would like for _*Anonymous*_ to publish on its website for EVERYONE, not just me, how to remove and neutralize NSA viruses placed on the BIOS CHIP! Also please send the information in an email to me. I am sure you could manage this. If THEY can do it and YOU are the world's greatest hackers just like they are, then YOU can neutralize any garbage they place on the BIOS Chip. Kaspersky by refusing to help me in this also SUPPORTS NSA placement of virus software on the BIOS Chip because that confirms that I am one of the capitalists' most important enemies and therefore I am an are automatic enemy of Kaspersky. So I can go screw! Will I receive the same response from Anonymous? It is a rule of capitalist statecraft that a government control and operate its own opposition by one means or another any and ALL means. Anonymous is a supposed opposition group. So who is _/*really*/_ running anonymous and please do not say "everyone" or "no one" because that is the same BS answer given by the anti-Communist Anarchist group, so-called "Occupy Wall Street." _*I need immediate help*_. And so undoubtedly do others! I am partially computer savvy. But I am not yet a programmer. William H. Depperman whd2(a)columbia.edu

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Is Europe as it stands today, compatible with democracy?
by Zenaan Harkness 20 Nov '15

20 Nov '15

"why is society so blind to the course of action any truly committed citizen might take?" (President of the Arab European League, at least in 2006) https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europe-make-it/rosemary-bechler/democracy… This article is dated 19 November 2015 but is from 2006: "In 2006, a conversation before a large audience in Rotterdam on the role that Muslims should play in European societies took place, between Dyab Abou Jahjah, then president of the Arab European League with its Antwerp headquarters, and Tariq Ramadan. openDemocracy’s Editor was there." Seems quite apt today. And I guess the subject line applies to Australia, Canada, USA etc too...

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Re: Carnegie Mellon Staying Quiet For FBI? So Launch A FOIPA Muckrake Adventure!
by Ryan Carboni 20 Nov '15

20 Nov '15

Not enough information leaked on the subject to make a decent FOIA request.

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Fwd: [tor-talk] How does one remove the NSA Virus off the BIOS Chip as described by Snowden in the ANT Program
by grarpamp 20 Nov '15

20 Nov '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: William H. Depperman <whd2(a)columbia.edu> Date: Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 12:37 AM Subject: [tor-talk] How does one remove the NSA Virus off the BIOS Chip as described by Snowden in the ANT Program To: tor-talk(a)lists.torproject.org Hi TOR Mailing List People, I am apparently the number one person in the United States on the _*NSA-CIA-FBI Watch List*_. For multiple reasons! I am the Coordinator of the United Front Against Racism and Capitalism-Imperialism who was arrested by the so-called "Major Case Squad" in August 1986 because our group exposed the scientific documentation on a big series of _/*huge*/_ wall posters that AIDS is Biological Warfare by the US Government Against Blacks, Gays and those with certain blood dyscrasias. The arrest was on the front pages of all NYC newspapers and on Channel 4 in Europe. I tried to send this email to Anonymous and TOR does not permit attachments so just disregard that when you see an attachment mentioned. Recently I was _*Extraordinarily Renditioned*_ (KIDNAPPED AND HELD AGAINST MY WILL FOR 18 HOURS AND TORTURED after simply walking along a road in New Jersey!) See the third attachment. The NSA has TOTAL control of my computer and has real time keystroke by keystroke monitoring and harassment while I am on the computer. My anti-virus and anti-Malware are totally useless as explained by Snowden because the computer is controlled through the _*BIOS Chip*_ as explained in the attachment on Snowden revelations. Scroll down the document until you get to _*ANT*_ (Access Network Technology). I would like for _*Anonymous*_ to publish on its website for EVERYONE, not just me, how to remove and neutralize NSA viruses placed on the BIOS CHIP! Also please send the information in an email to me. I am sure you could manage this. If THEY can do it and YOU are the world's greatest hackers just like they are, then YOU can neutralize any garbage they place on the BIOS Chip. Kaspersky by refusing to help me in this also SUPPORTS NSA placement of virus software on the BIOS Chip because that confirms that I am one of the capitalists' most important enemies and therefore I am an are automatic enemy of Kaspersky. So I can go screw! Will I receive the same response from Anonymous? It is a rule of capitalist statecraft that a government control and operate its own opposition by one means or another any and ALL means. Anonymous is a supposed opposition group. So who is _/*really*/_ running anonymous and please do not say "everyone" or "no one" because that is the same BS answer given by the anti-Communist Anarchist group, so-called "Occupy Wall Street." _*I need immediate help*_. And so undoubtedly do others! I am partially computer savvy. But I am not yet a programmer. Also, I am a Medical Doctor and a Theoretical Astrophysicist and a Professional Revolutionary and have recently finished writing an extremely important document completed after almost 2 years of actual work: The _*Materialist Analysis of Theoretical Astrophysics*_, which is a Classic of scientific, political literature. As it states early on: "Though it is of a different genre from "On the Origin of Species" by Charles Darwin and "Zur Dynamik Bewegter Korper" by Albert Einstein and the Einstein Field Equations which form the basis for the General Theory of Relativity it sits on the same shelf because it defends all three and takes it further and provides the answer to the ultimate question: What is the truthful explanation of the Universe?" I could have added "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte," by Karl Marx, which is a classic object lesson in applied historical materialism. In any case we have to get rid of capitalism or capitalism is going to get rid of us. _*A non-response from Anonymous is a death sentence for the credibility of Anonymous.*_ You can give me the information on how to get rid of a virus on the BIOS chip or you can contact someone who DOES know how to do it. I will remove it every day if I have to. Also I need help in publishing in some fashion the second attached document. I do not want to hear "We are not your army?" During the era when political postering was permitted in the United States I spent over $50,000 of my own money on politics and the huge posters which used to cover the walls of many US cities. Our AIDS poster stopped all political postering in the United States by the capitalist dictatorship of millionaires and billionaires. We are living in End-Stage Capitalism. It is known as Rule by Decree, a form of Bonapartism as in Napoleon Bonaparte. It is expressed a a military, bureaucratic police state which is hardening by the day. "Democracy" under capitalism is merely a codeword and a euphemism--both, they are different--for capitalist dictatorship and enslavement here or anywhere else in the world. We have to get rid of capitalism or capitalism is going to get rid of us. Remember that capitalism is a WORLD SYSTEM and so is Communism. Socialism, the first stage of Communism has never ever actually been practiced anywhere and cannot be practiced anywhere until capitalism is overthrown worldwide starting at its center, the USA. We live in a a world of nation states. All nation states are dictatorships of one class over another class, either the capitalists over the Workers or vice versa. Because of the 1988 Surrender by Gorbachev to the threat of a Nuclear War there are a lot fewer Worker's States. We were almost there! In the 1930s we had a Million-Strong Communist-led Working Class Movement. But they were deliberately misled to take a bribe known as the New Deal. You don't think they came up with the New Deal out of the goodness of their heart now do you? FDR was given credit then and more recently on Cahnnel Thirteen Public Television for "Saving Capitalism with the New Deal!" If that Million-Strong Communist-led Working Class had not been deliberately misled to take that New Deal bribe there would have been no Adolph Hitler, No WWII, No Korea, No Vietnam War and ZERO of today's present problems. Look at the present world situation! Ninety-Five Percent of New Yorkers and the overwhelming majority of Americans and people worldwide agree we need a new system based on human need not private profit. William H. Depperman whd2(a)columbia.edu -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk(a)lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

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A Most Convenient Massacre!
by Александр 20 Nov '15

20 Nov '15

*Preamble: Our hearts go out in sorrow and grief to all those families and friends of all the truly innocent humans who were really murdered during or after the events in Paris by whomsoever. Their violent death certainly was and remains a heinous and appalling crime for which the real culprits must be brought to true justice.But, we can also not close our eyes from seeing facts, which in these increasing numbers of "terrorist-attacks" do not fit the "official" narrative or do not match the fake news-blasts of the masterminded mainstream media, nor can we close our ears from the likewise appalling war-cries on all sides of those who declare and let others fight war (which in future's hindsight will and can only be seen as a war on their own people) and first of all we will not close our ears and eyes from the the cries and the plight of all those many innocent people in the war-zones in and around Syria, the Middle East as well as North and Central Africa, who suffer endlessly, have to finally flee their homeland.or get killed in the proxy-wars of neo-colonialism.Thousands get killed there every month, survivors in the tens of thousands have to flee and millions of the population remaining behind suffer without any genuine help in sight.* ** *A Most Convenient MassacreWhat a difference a single massacre can make!By Dmitry Orlov* November 17, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - Just a week ago the EU couldn't possibly figure out anything to do to stop the influx of “refugees” from all those countries the US and NATO had bombed into oblivion. But now, because “Paris changed everything,” EU's borders are being locked down and refugees are being turned back. • Just a week ago it seemed that the EU was going to be swamped by resurgent nationalism, with incumbent political parties poised to get voted out of power. But now, thanks to the Paris massacre, they have obtained a new lease on life, because they can now safely embrace the same policies that a week ago they branded as “fascist.” • Just a week ago the EU and the US couldn't possibly bring themselves admit that they are utterly incompetent when it comes to combating their own creation—ISIS, that is—and need Russian help. But now, at the après-Paris G-20 summit, everybody is ready to line up and let Putin take charge of the war against terrorism. Look—the Americans finally found those convoys of tanker trucks stretching beyond the horizon that ISIS has been using to smuggle out stolen Syrian crude oil—after Putin showed them the satellite photos! Am I being crass and insensitive? Not at all—I deplore all the deaths from terrorist attacks in Iraq, in Syria, in Lebanon, and in all the other countries whose populations did absolutely nothing to deserve such treatment. I only feel half as bad about the French, who stood by quietly as their military helped destroy Libya (which did nothing to deserve it). *Note that after the Russian jet crashed in the Sinai there weren't all that many Facebook avatars with the Russian flag pasted over them, and hardly any candlelight vigils or piles of wreaths and flowers in various Western capitals. I even detected a whiff of smug satisfaction that the Russians got their comeuppance for stepping out of line in Syria.Why the difference in reaction? Simple: you were told to grieve for the French, so you did. You were not told to grieve for the Russians, and so you didn't. Don't feel bad; you are just following orders. The reasoning behind these orders is transparent: the French, along with the rest of the EU, are Washington's willing puppets; therefore, they are innocent, and when they get killed, it's a tragedy. But the Russians are not Washington's willing puppet, and are not innocent, and so when they get killed by terrorists, it's punishment. And when Iraqis, or Syrians, or Nigerians get killed by terrorists, that's not a tragedy either, for a different reason: they are too poor to matter. In order to qualify as a victim of a tragedy, you have to be each of these three things: 1. a US-puppet, 2. rich and 3. dead.* Also, you probably believe that the terrorist attacks in Paris were the genuine article—nobody knew it would happen, and it couldn't have been stopped, because these terrorists are just too clever for the ubiquitous state surveillance to detect. Don't feel bad about that either; you are just believing what you are told to believe. You probably also believe that jet fuel can melt steel girders and that skyscrapers collapse into their own footprints (whether they've been hit by airplanes or not). You can certainly believe whatever you like, but here are a couple of easy-to-understand tips on telling what's real from what's fake: 1. If it's fake, the perpetrators are known immediately (and sometimes beforehand). If it's real, then the truth is uncovered as a result of a thorough investigation. So, for instance, on 9/11 the guilty party were a bunch of Saudis armed with box cutters (some of whom are, paradoxically, still alive). And in Paris we knew right away that this was done by ISIS—even before we knew who the perpetrators were. And when that Malaysian jet got shot down over Ukraine, we knew right away that it was the Russians' fault (never mind that on that day the Ukrainians deployed an air defense system, and also scrambled a couple of jets armed with air-to-air missiles— against an enemy that doesn't have an air force). Note, however, how we still don't know what happened with the Russian jet over Sinai (the article was written on November 17, 2015 - before the Russian investigation revealed the ISIS bomb in the jet). That case is still under investigation—as it should be. If it's real, officials stall for time and urge caution while scrambling to find out what happened. When it's fake, the officials are ready to go with the Big Lie, and then do everything they can to make it stick, suppressing what shreds of evidence can be independently gathered. 2. If it's fake, than you should also expect cute little touches: designer logos for publicity campaigns ready to launch at a moment's notice, be it “Je suis Charlie” or that cute little Eiffel Tower inscribed in a peace symbol. There weren't any props to go with the Russian jet disaster—unless you count that tasteful Charlie Hebdo cartoon of a jihadi rocket having anal sex with an airliner. There might also be a few traditional titbits designed to feed a media frenzy, such as a fake passport found lying next to one of the perpetrators—because when terrorists go on suicide missions they always take their fake passports with them. The people who are charged with designing these events lack imagination and usually just go with whatever worked before. We should certainly expect there to be more fake massacres of this sort—whenever the political situation becomes sufficiently fraught to call for one—because at this point ready-to-go jihadi terrorist cells are something of a sunk cost and can be deployed very cheaply and effectively. Of course we should grieve for the victims, but there is something far more important at stake than mere human lives, which are, deplorably, becoming cheaper with each passing year. We should grieve for the truth.

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