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USA Determined to Fuck Publisher Journalist Activist Assange
by grarpamp 25 Apr '17

25 Apr '17

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/04/21/0259206/us-prepares-charges-to-seek… https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/by-going-after-assange-trump-will-aliena… https://www.democracynow.org/2017/4/21/glenn_greenwald_trumps_doj_prosecuti… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrjXnvkKGMM https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/21/wikileaks-prosecution… https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/855295641068511232 https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/855218701766868994 Wednesday "WikiLeaks will show illegal actions by the CIA"; Friday "US prepares charges to arrest Assange" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK2RqXmoIf8 https://www.reddit.com/r/wikileaks https://twitter.com/IsotopeC14/status/855487786165477376

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Copyright Cartel Dusseldorf: Shutters Tor, Wifi, and ISP Exception
by grarpamp 25 Apr '17

25 Apr '17

http://the1709blog.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/higher-regional-court-of-dusseldo… In 1709 (or was it 1710?) the Statute of Anne created the first purpose-built copyright law. This blog, founded just 300 short and unextended years later, is dedicated to all things copyright, warts and all. In a judgment on 16 March 2017 the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf requested the operator of an open WiFi (and a TOR exit node) to take action against repeated copyright infringements by users of his IP-addresses (case no. I-20 U 17/16). In all scenarios, the defendant was liable for the infringements and was requested to take reasonable measures to prevent further infringements.

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Japan: On Team FVEY since the 1950's
by grarpamp 25 Apr '17

25 Apr '17

https://theintercept.com/2017/04/24/japans-secret-deals-with-the-nsa-that-e… Japan both 0wn3d and embarassed, documents in link. According to the agency’s documents, its relationship with Japan dates back to the 1950s. NSA’s presence in the country was for many years managed out of a “cover office” in the Minato area of downtown Tokyo, within a U.S. military compound called the Hardy Barracks. From there, NSA maintained close relations with a Japanese surveillance agency that it refers to as Japan’s Directorate for Signals Intelligence, or SIGINT. Beyond Tokyo, NSA has a presence today at several other facilities in Japan. The most important of these is located at a large U.S. airbase in Misawa, about 400 miles north of Tokyo. At what it calls its “Misawa Security Operations Center,” the agency carries out a mission under the code name LADYLOVE. Using about a dozen powerful antennas contained within large golf ball-like white domes, it vacuums up communications — including phone calls, faxes, and internet data — that are transmitted across satellites in the Asia-Pacific region. NSA’s operations in Japan are not limited to monitoring the communications of nearby adversaries. At Misawa, the NSA began integrating hacking operations into its repertoire of capabilities. One such method it deployed at the base is called a “Quantum Insert” attack, which involves monitoring the internet browsing habits of people targeted for surveillance, before covertly redirecting them to a malicious website or server that infects their computers with an “implant.” NSA documents reveal that Yokota is home to what the agency calls its Engineering Support Facility, which supplies equipment used for surveillance operations across the world. In 2004, the agency opened a major new 32,000 square foot building at the site – about half the size of a football field – for the repair and manufacture of surveillance antennas STAKECLAIM. The NSA does not appear to have a large number of employees stationed on the island; instead, it remotely operates the Okinawa facility from a “24-hour collection operations center” in Hawaii. An April 2013 document revealed that the NSA had provided the Japanese Directorate for SIGINT with an installation of XKEYSCORE, a mass surveillance system the NSA describes as its “widest reaching” for sweeping up data from computer networks, monitoring “nearly everything a typical user does on the internet.” And in September 2012, Japan began sharing information with the NSA that could be used to identify particular kinds of malicious software being used by hackers. the NSA had obtained domestic court orders enabling it to conduct surveillance on U.S. territory of Japanese officials and the Bank of Japan The NSA participates in a group called the SIGINT Seniors Pacific, which has included surveillance agencies from Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, India, New Zealand, Thailand, South Korea, and Singapore. At the end of proceedings in Anchorage, the moratorium stood and Japan was not granted any special exemptions. Japan’s representatives were furious. “This whaling hypocrisy leads us to seriously question the nature by which Japan will continue participating in this forum,” complained Joji Morishita, Hiroshi Miyashita, a former Japanese government data protection official, told The Intercept that Japan’s funding of U.S. intelligence activities is withheld from public disclosure under a state secrecy law, which he criticized. “It’s our money — Japanese taxpayers’ money,” he said. “We should know how much was spent for intelligence activities in Japan.” “There is no oversight mechanism,” Miyashita said. “There is limited knowledge of activities within the bases.” “Japanese citizens know almost nothing about Japanese government surveillance,” said Daisuke. “It is extremely secret.” At the time, Japan expressed concerns that unintended disclosure of its participation would be too high a risk and had other reasons as well.”

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Revealing the threat from Iran.
by Zenaan Harkness 25 Apr '17

25 Apr '17

Speaks for itself...

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CFP: Leak / Hack CIA Torture Docs, get $100k
by grarpamp 25 Apr '17

25 Apr '17

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/856643079176146945 WikiLeaks is aware of a US$100,000 reward for a copy of the full 6,700 page U.S. Senate report into CIA torture.

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Govt's Secretly Dead Set On Keeping Secret Power Fucking
by grarpamp 25 Apr '17

25 Apr '17

https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/queenstown/cia-jet-has-touched-down-queenstown The Gulfstream has joined a second private jet at the airport, acting as added confirmation that the "Government conference" set to play out at luxury Millbrook Resort in Arrowtown in the coming week, is a meeting of spying network Five Eyes - the global alliance of the US, the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. As some say of Bilderberg, this is not about "terrorism", or any other crimes, other than their own... ref: leaks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilderberg_Group#Criticism https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bilderberg

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Re: [tor-talk] Shodan & Hidden Services
by grarpamp 25 Apr '17

25 Apr '17

> So it turns out that Shodan - a kind of multi-protocol Google-alike search > engine for metadata and protocol headers - has indexed a bunch of Onion > sites which were configured to leak their (onion) hostnames into protocol > headers. > > https://www.shodan.io/search?query=.onion%2F > > This is... tragic, perhaps, and avoidable to varying extents (eg: my > proposed setup process*) but the situation also possibly presents an > opportunity for anyone who has identified addresses of sibyl/other naughty > tor-infra-impacting activity, to maybe check some logs and see if any > badly-configured onions were also hosted on the same addresses/subnets, get > some concept of what hidden services were hosted there, and what they may > have been up to? > > https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/855542397165502464 If people think onionland is some errorproof perfect configuration zone, free from scam, free from agents, free from discovery, free from all manner of trickery, buggery, debuggery, bauchery, exploit, or the bore of ever September, and so on.... nope, it's been quite the opposite since day one. That people are only recently studying finding and publishing these things, claiming as news twatter to a hat, is rather amusing. And of course such work is fine endeavour and report as well. Have fun.

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Re: [hackerspaces] Mastodon?
by \0xDynamite 23 Apr '17

23 Apr '17

On 4/23/17, Don Ankney <dankney(a)hackerco.de> wrote: > What is the entire purpose of the Internet? What is it’s value? Well, glad you asked. After waiting for a response from my interlocuter, I will answer. But I have answered it on the wiki if you look for it. It is actually quantifed now (to some asymptotic function). > Just curious. Of course you are, because apart from a few JS writers, the rest of us are bored with the internet. marxos

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Re: [hackerspaces] Mastodon?
by \0xDynamite 23 Apr '17

23 Apr '17

> Most of us were out working jobs and creating cool shit. No you weren't. I'm not trolling. First of all, you totally avoided my point about server-client separation. Let's see, what do you suppose is happening? Are you sending prerendered gifs back to the client that the node "server" has computed for your "cool shit"? And then what, Chrome is integrating it somehow on the fly in your window without a page reload? Utter horseshit. Commercial Javascript sites are nearly entirely about locking in clicks and eliminating out-bound links? Is that the "cool shit" you do? It's called: DEFEATING THE ENTIRE PURPOSE OF THE INTERNET, DUDE. All you're doing is turning the web into an extension of the magazine media empire! I'll bet you $100 that you don't even know what the value of the internet is..., eh? (Hint: It's not cool UX, which btw you had with OSs in the 1980s). Please do inform, I am curious as hell. Javascript is so bogus as an actual computer language, that the only thing javascript is creating is shitty programmers. "But it's creating so much cool shit!" is the rallying cry of those who like the financiers (who -- just like the JS counterparts -- didn't know any monetary policy) who said about the banks: "But they're too big to fail!". Most of the cool Javascript stuff are experiments that would have been better off AS AN APP. Hardly any of them use the depth of the internet, so get them off of it. Get it? AN APP. An app. an app. Perhaps, you along with some others, would be better informd by reading the [[jabbascript]] page on the wiki. > Certainly that's what I've been up to. I mean shit dude. What have YOU > been up to. Well, I told you what I've been up to -- adding massive content to the wiki, so that people in every day towns can start making things happen with their community. But in the end it will all be useless if people don't get their shit together and stop co-opting the potential of the internet with bullshit media glam. Oh and, btw, is that Lewis Scolnick in your photo on the wiki homepage? Cool. Send him to the radio enthusiasts page. I've even got a formula for calculating max radio power needed for any desired range. I mean, creating cool SHIT, you say. Does that mean that you're refrigerating feces? I'm sure you didn't mean it that way, but it comes out a little... soft. Yeah, that's it, soft. Marxos

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Peter Lalor on "democracy"
by Zenaan Harkness 23 Apr '17

23 Apr '17

Part of Australia's proud history which (when it comes to the public discourse and relevant action) is largely buried. >From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_Rebellion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_Rebellion#Peter_Lalor Following the battle [of the Eureka Stockade], rebel leader, Irish Australian Peter Lalor, wrote in a statement to the colonists of Victoria, "There are two things connected with the late outbreak (Eureka) which I deeply regret. The first is, that we shouldn't have been forced to take up arms at all; and the second is, that when we were compelled to take the field in our own defence, we were unable (through want of arms, ammunition and a little organisation) to inflict on the real authors of the outbreak the punishment they so richly deserved." Lalor stood for Ballaarat in the 1855 elections and was elected unopposed. During a speech in the Legislative Council in 1856 he said, "I would ask these gentlemen what they mean by the term 'democracy'. Do they mean Chartism or Republicanism? If so, I never was, I am not now, nor do I ever intend to be a democrat. But if a democrat means opposition to a tyrannical press, a tyrannical people, or a tyrannical government, then I have been, I am still, and will ever remain a democrat." The Eureka stockade and the proud stand that Peter Lalor and others sacrificed their lives for, is a classic and effective example of the result when the tyranny of so-called "democracy" That is, an armed civil uprising. As Lalor wrote above, in our Eureka Stockade, the men who rose in defiance of a tyranny failed to properly arm themselves in the first instance. I say we have a duty to speak, and to act in "peaceful political protest", in the first instance - this is a duty of care to the other members of our community. Where "the system" repeatedly fails to hear our voice and our protests, instead continuing to inflict its tyranny upon us and abrogating one or more of our fundamental human rights over an extended period of time, and when enough members of our community experience this tyranny first hand and agree on the importance of change, then an armed civil uprising becomes almost inevitable.

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