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TV ad tracking-thru-secret-inaudible-noise program is named... wait for it... PRISM!
by Razer 12 Nov '15

12 Nov '15

...and you thought you were only being stalked in the intertubz... SilverPush Prism and "Unique Audio Beacon" http://www.silverpush.co/#!/prism http://www.silverpush.co/#!/uab

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Re: Fwd: 2 WikiLeaks questions
by John Young 12 Nov '15

12 Nov '15

>But obviously don't stick your penis into a white woman who's anti-Castro. Wicked sequitur.

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Re: Appeals Court Stayed: Re: Judge enjoins NSA to not collect metadata on attorney or his law firm.
by John Young 12 Nov '15

12 Nov '15

Judge Leon's opinion was published on November 9 and the Appeals stay the next day. https://cryptome.org/2015/11/klayman-158-159.pdf From the Appeals stay: "ORDERED that the district court's order issued November 9, 2015, be stayed pending further order of the court." At 01:47 PM 11/12/2015, you wrote: >The document url you cited, an order by the District Judge, was >dated the same day as "An appeals court stayed the judge's order on >10 November 2015." >That would be a quick stay! Are we talking about the same stay? > Jim Bell > > >From: John Young <jya(a)pipeline.com> >To: cypherpunks(a)cpunks.org >Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2015 8:35 AM >Subject: Appeals Court Stayed: Re: Judge enjoins NSA to not collect >metadata on attorney or his law firm. > >An appeals court stayed the judge's order on 10 November 2015. >DoJ filed 241 pages to win the stay: > ><https://cryptome.org/2015/11/klayman-stay-15-1110.pdf>https://cryptome.org/2015/11/klayman-stay-15-1110.pdf >(8.1MB) > > > > > >At 11:21 AM 11/12/2015, you wrote: > > >Does anyone here actually believe the NSA gives a fuck what some pissant > >federal judge says? > > >

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Re: Judge enjoins NSA to not collect metadata on attorney or his law firm.
by jim bell 12 Nov '15

12 Nov '15

http://news.yahoo.com/u-judge-rules-against-nsa-phone-spying-case-025251888… By Dustin VolzOpponents of mass surveillance cheered the ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon, who granted an injunction to bar the NSA from collecting the phone metadata of California attorney J.J. Little and his small legal practice.WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge on Monday for the first time ordered the National Security Agency to cease collecting the phone call records of a lawyer and his firm, providing an unprecedented but narrow and largely symbolic victory to privacy advocates.Unlike previous rulings against the NSA's program to vacuum up Americans' call data, which was exposed publicly by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden in 2013, Leon’s opinion does not grant a stay, meaning it will take effect immediately.The decision is of little practical consequence because it is so narrow in scope in covering only Little and his firm.It also comes just weeks before the NSA is scheduled to end its controversial bulk collection program in favor of a more targeted system. That new regime, as mandated by Congress earlier this year, will become active on Nov. 29.But the ruling's language is forceful and represents a win for civil liberties groups concerned that NSA surveillance is too intrusive.Leon wrote that the case may be the last court evaluation of the NSA's bulk metadata collection program."It will not, however, be the last chapter in the ongoing struggle to balance privacy rights and national security interests under our Constitution in an age of evolving technological wizardry," he wrote.On Twitter, Snowden cheered the "historic decision" as one that concluded the NSA “violated Americans’ privacy rights.”Leon, a conservative judge appointed by former President George W. Bush, has long been among the most vocal judges critical of the NSA’s spying practices.Leon said he did not stay his Monday decision “because it has been almost two years since I first found that the NSA’s bulk telephony metadata program likely violates the Constitution."Other plaintiffs in the case, including conservative activist Larry Klayman, who began the lawsuit, were not included in the ruling, due to issues concerning standing.A higher court previously rejected Klayman’s challenge, saying he could not prove his phone was targeted by the NSA as Snowden’s documents only revealed customers of Verizon Business Network Services, which is a subsidiary of Verizon Communications, such as Little, were implicated. Klayman added Little to his case to address the standing concern.

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Re: Ethical Tor
by Ryan Carboni 12 Nov '15

12 Nov '15

> On 11/11/2015 12:27 PM, Ryan Carboni wrote: > >* https://blog.torproject.org/blog/ethical-tor-research-guidelines <https://blog.torproject.org/blog/ethical-tor-research-guidelines> > *> >* Interesting problem: to use Tor is to say you trust your ISP less than > *>* some pseudorandom person over the internet. > * > Sadly enough, that's often prudent. Some ISPs are honorable, for sure. > But many are duplicitous scum. > > In any case, it's more accurate to say that about your VPN provider. > With Tor, you're trusting the system, but system integrity is resilient > to malicious nodes. So you're not trusting any one of them fully, even > your entry guard, as much as you would have been trusting your ISP. > > Correct, it would be prudent to avoid using port 80 over Tor for anything personally identifiable. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/court-docs-show-a-university-helped-fbi-bu…

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2 WikiLeaks questions
by Douglas Lucas 12 Nov '15

12 Nov '15

1. It's not my theory, but what do you make of the theory that WikiLeaks would go under if it were not of the steady stream of celebrity endorsements (Lady Gaga, Pamela Anderson, many more)? Is hugely emphasized "soft power" a necessary component for a cabal out to change the world? Or could, say, a cabal demonstrate more independence and still be supported by enough people who do not need their hands held to the conclusion by Lady Gaga? 2. How could/should an organization with more than two million followers tweet in order to improve the world? Could it give the public specific, actionable instructions for overthrowing governments and corporations? They might have to be less specific, so as not to qualify as threats that would get the account closed. But the account could massively amplify the instructions to the public given by victims such as Doctors Without Borders. Or it could organize boycotts of private spy firms such as Stratfor. What do you think? People who care about branding might argue that such tweets wouldn't fit WikiLeaks' brand, but things can be easily framed as freedom of the press/speech or crytography--e.g., something like Israel's attacks on Gaza: you can't publish accounts of injuctice with Tor when bombed to death.

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New functionality of Facebook
by Tomas Overdrive Petru 12 Nov '15

12 Nov '15

I know nobody will like this, because mood is fck Facebook here, but I like this small step as example: Just by accident I have found Facebook have text field in settings where you can insert your public key and after confirmation email communication between your inbox and Facebook will be encrypted. Update your info -> contact and Basic Info -> PGP Public Key Regards, - Over -- “Borders I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people.” ― Thor Heyerdahl Telegram...................@over23 facebook...................facebook.com/overdrive23 projects...................https://brmlab.cz/user/overdrive twitter....................https://twitter.com/#!/over2393 last.fm....................http://www.last.fm/user/overdrive23 GnuPG key FingerPrint......08EA E4DC EF85 0F02 9267 5B48 2E58 6902 C5F8 794C Public key ................http://overdrive.dronezone.eu/overdrive.txt

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Australia's human rights application to the United Nations Human Rights Council
by Zenaan Harkness 12 Nov '15

12 Nov '15

Australia wants an illustrious seat on this body self tasked with being "responsible for the promotion and protection of all human rights around the globe": http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11543178 http://www.ohchr.org/en/hrbodies/hrc/pages/hrcindex.aspx With Saudi Arabia heading up part of the United Nations Human Rights Council: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Human_Rights_Council#Saudi_Ara… , Australia should fit right in. Bloody ratbags, whitewashing (but only sanctioned) genocide around the planet. No wonder Australia wants to join. Zenaan

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Ethical Tor
by Ryan Carboni 12 Nov '15

12 Nov '15

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/ethical-tor-research-guidelines Interesting problem: to use Tor is to say you trust your ISP less than some pseudorandom person over the internet.

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Re: [Cryptography] Cryptogit
by grarpamp 11 Nov '15

11 Nov '15

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 4:27 AM, Markus Wanner <markus(a)bluegap.ch> wrote: > On 11/10/2015 08:45 AM, grarpamp wrote: >> PKI built in, that may serve as a idea / base for further encryption work... > does not support encryption of data. I meant further crypto work to include encryption.

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