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Israel Since 1967: 50 Years of Self Admitted Liars
by grarpamp 06 Jun '17

06 Jun '17

https://theintercept.com/2017/06/05/a-50-year-occupation-israels-six-day-wa… A 50-Year Occupation: Israel’s Six-Day War Started With a Lie Mehdi Hasan 2017-06-05T13:07:19+00:00 Fifty years ago, between June 5 and June 10, 1967, Israel invaded and occupied East Jerusalem, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and the Golan Heights. The Six-Day War, as it would later be dubbed, saw the Jewish David inflict a humiliating defeat on the Arab Goliath, personified perhaps by Gamal Abdel Nasser’s Egypt. “The existence of the Israeli state hung by a thread,” the country’s prime minister, Levi Eshkol, claimed two days after the war was over, “but the hopes of the Arab leaders to annihilate Israel were dashed.” Genocide, went the argument, had been prevented; another Holocaust of the Jews averted. There is, however, a problem with this argument: It is complete fiction, a self-serving fantasy constructed after the event to justify a war of aggression and conquest. Don’t take my word for it: “The thesis according to which the danger of genocide hung over us in June 1967, and according to which Israel was fighting for her very physical survival, was nothing but a bluff which was born and bred after the war,” declared Gen. Matituahu Peled, chief of logistical command during the war and one of 12 members of Israel’s General Staff, in March 1972. A year earlier, Mordechai Bentov, a member of the wartime government and one of 37 people to sign Israel’s Declaration of Independence, had made a similar admission. “This whole story about the threat of extermination was totally contrived, and then elaborated upon, a posteriori, to justify the annexation of new Arab territories,” he said in April 1971. Even Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, former terrorist and darling of the Israeli far right, conceded in a speech in August 1982 that “in June 1967 we had a choice. The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches did not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him.” The reverberations of that attack are still being felt in the Middle East today. Few...

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General Opsec Guide for Transferring Information Anonymously
by Ryan Carboni 05 Jun '17

05 Jun '17

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Wikispooks:Anonymous_Submissions As of January 2017, WikiSpooks has withdrawn provision of an Anonymous file upload upload facility. Anonymous submissions are still welcome but, in view of low historical usage of the secure upload-form facility, pgp-encrypted email (with or without file attachments) is the only practical method available for the site. Use of pgp-encryption with a single-use email address over a public WiFi facility is probably as 'anonymous' as was the discontinued form. Note: Unless anonymity is of fundamental importance, the best way to publish a document file on Wikispooks is through the 'Regular file upload' page, available to all registered users. Files uploaded using this option are immediately available to both view and edit on the WikiSpooks site. https://twitter.com/ericgeller/status/871842516458496001 Obviously if a news outlet is to publish a document, it should minimize any information conveyed beyond the message. Actually US Gov FOI practices typically involve printing out a redacted document before re-scanning it. Ideally the best thing for the Intercept to have done is to use a low resolution black-white copy machine, and mail the document again since there is no urgency in this matter. Naturally I am interested in when news organizations will publish unredacted documents. After five years, information loses a lot of value. Lot of software end of lifed five years ago, which doesn't include Windows XP, which was EOL'd more recently than five years ago. Regardless, I think journalists should be more carefully vetted, maybe some of them met the Russian ambassador. ...... https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/19174#efmAMfANh

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[vaccinfo@bigpond.com: Brave California Police Save Town From Man Selling Veggies] - human rights at their most basic
by 'Zenaan Harkness' 05 Jun '17

05 Jun '17

Take your safety over freedom, and our rights, freedom and safety disappears. Thugs with guns proclaim to protect you from yourself, since you failed to buy a license from the state, to exercise your freedom, and "protect" you. From yourself. And others. Since you did not pay for your freedom. Kneel, slave!! Germans: deny your holohoax. Californians and New Zealanders: sell some veggies. Everyone: drive on a public road. Better yet, Gandhi the masses into denying, selling, driving with you. Good luck fellow humans, ----- Forwarded message from Bronwyn Hancock <vaccinfo(a)bigpond.com> ----- From: Bronwyn Hancock <vaccinfo(a)bigpond.com> Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 21:47:58 +1000 Subject: Brave California Police Save Town From Man Selling Veggies http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-06-04/brave-police-save-town-man-selling- veggies Brave Police Save Town From Man Selling Veggies <http://www.zerohedge.com/users/tdb> TDB's picture by TDB <http://www.zerohedge.com/users/tdb> Jun 4, 2017 8:26 AM It is the simplest, most basic aspect of life: you need food, so you grow some vegetables. If you have extra you sell them on a street corner to your neighbors, and if you live in California you get arrested for it. Licensing is when the government takes a right from you, and sells it back. This California man failed to purchase his rights back from the state. But the poor police had pictures taken of them while arresting the man, and now they are hearing from the public about their unjust actions. The Sheriff's Department of Alameda County Florida <http://www.naturalnews.com/2017-06-03-man-arrested-for-selling-vegetables-w ithout-a-permit-in-police-state-usa.html> responded on Facebook to the public outrage, including thousands of criticisms posted to their Facebook page. Selling food on street corners violates county ordinances and public health codes. Persistent street vending harms local businesses, especially small, start-up food vendors. There you have it, from the horse's mouth in plain black and white: the point of licenses is protection. You pay to play, if you don't pay off the city and county, they will send their hired thugs to rough you up and demand the protection money. It harms local businesses: apparently it is the government's job to make sure there is no competition for certain businesses. God forbid the consumer has a choice. And why isn't this guy's produce selling operation considered a small, start-up street vendor? Simple because he didn't pay for his rights. Yet the Ninth Amendment in the Bill of Rights says, "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." And the 24th Amendment outlawed the poll tax, saying the right to vote had been abridged by charging citizens money in order to exercise that right. Both of these amendments suggest that licensing-charging money for doing a normal activity, having to pay just to live your life-is one method of denying a person's rights. <https://www.progress.org/articles/rights-and-privileges> And two Supreme Court cases affirm this: In Murdock v. Pennsylvania, 319 U.S. 105 (1943), the Supreme Court stated that a law requiring solicitors to purchase a license was an unconstitutional tax on the Jehovah's Witnesses' right to freely exercise their religion. The Court ruled that "The state cannot and does not have the power to license, nor tax, a Right guaranteed to the people," and "No state shall convert a liberty into a license, and charge a fee therefore." In another case, the Court ruled similarly, that "If the State converts a right (liberty) into a privilege, the citizen can ignore the license and fee and engage in the right (liberty) with impunity." (Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham, Alabama, 373 U.S. 262). Earning money, engaging in basic trade, selling the excess of your labor all falls under the category of natural rights, the pursuit of happiness, liberty or whatever you want to call it. The government has no business arresting someone for selling vegetables. So the county has their pieces of paper that say he cannot sell without a license, and he has different pieces of paper that say he can. No one bothers to think about what is right, especially the police "just doing their jobs." The police don't make the rules, they just enforce them. So at what point will a law become too unjust to enforce? At what point does a cop quit his job, because he is the agent of injustice? That is such a stupid attempt to absolve oneself of responsibility. A police officer is an individual who can choose to do evil or not. Doing injustice to fellow human beings for a salary doesn't make it any better. Following the orders of politicians doesn't make a cop's actions peaceful. Throwing people in cages for selling vegetables is a terrible thing to do as one individual to another, and one should not hide behind a badge, uniform, department, or politician while being a bad person. Let's look at the rest of the excuse given by the Sheriff's Department. Selling food on street corners. poses certain health risks such as E. coli and other food borne illnesses. Okay, getting a license doesn't stop E. coli. There have been plenty of outbreaks in licensed food, as well as government-owned water supplies. This is simply a justification given for extortion. The government isn't testing every veggie, and they aren't watching every restaurant employee to make sure they wash their hands before returning to work-even if they make the restaurant hang the sign. The Sheriff's office continued: In addition, illegal vending causes traffic safety issues and vendors are sometimes the target of street robberies. Ah, there you go! The police arrested the man to help him and protect him. They defacto robbed him (the costs of going through the legal system, as well as lost veggies, and lost revenue) in order to protect him from being robbed. And they will just throw in a "traffic safety issue" for good measure. That farmstand is much more distracting than blinding blue lights flashed all over the city whenever someone is going 5 mph over the speed limit. (On a side note, have you ever thought about how much more dangerous it is to be parked on the side of a highway after being pulled over, versus going 80 or even 90 miles per hour with the traffic?) The whole situation is just absurd. We don't need police running around arresting vegetable vendors-we don't even need them arresting drug dealers! If the police would focus on solving the millions of rapes which they never investigate, or perhaps the 39% of murders that never get cleared, maybe their Facebook pages wouldn't be bombarded by angry citizens as often. The clear answer is to continue to resist and engage in your highly illegal selling of vegetables, and anything else, regardless of what the law says. Support the illegal farmstand on the roadside, and engage in gray and black markets with your community. Support the illegal farmstand on the roadside, and engage in gray and black markets with your community. In fact, a fun activity of resistance is to actively seek out opportunities to engage in unlicensed vending and trade. This strengthens the undocumented market. The raw milk in my cereal was sold to me illegally, which makes it that much more delicious. ----- End forwarded message -----

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PQ Crypto - 50 cracked up Qbits online within 1 year, NIST PQC Competition, etc
by grarpamp 05 Jun '17

05 Jun '17

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ibm-17-qubit-quantum-processor-c… https://www.research.ibm.com/ibm-q/ IBM Fronts at least 17 Q-bits to the World's Private Buyers, 50 rough Q-Bits by Many Entities within 1 Year http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/post-quantum-crypto/ The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is now accepting submissions for quantum-resistant public-key cryptographic algorithms. The deadline for submission is November 30, 2017. Please see the Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization menu at left for the complete submission requirements and evaluation criteria. In recent years, there has been a substantial amount of research on quantum computers – machines that exploit quantum mechanical phenomena to solve mathematical problems that are difficult or intractable for conventional computers. If large-scale quantum computers are ever built, they will be able to break many of the public-key cryptosystems currently in use. This would seriously compromise the confidentiality and integrity of digital communications on the Internet and elsewhere. The goal of post-quantum cryptography (also called quantum-resistant cryptography) is to develop cryptographic systems that are secure against both quantum and classical computers, and can interoperate with existing communications protocols and networks. The question of when a large-scale quantum computer will be built is a complicated one. While in the past it was less clear that large quantum computers are a physical possibility, many scientists now believe it to be merely a significant engineering challenge. Some engineers even predict that within the next twenty or so years sufficiently large quantum computers will be built to break essentially all public key schemes currently in use. Historically, it has taken almost two decades to deploy our modern public key cryptography infrastructure. Therefore, regardless of whether we can estimate the exact time of the arrival of the quantum computing era, we must begin now to prepare our information security systems to be able to resist quantum computing. https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/424 Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2017/424 On Reliability, Reconciliation, and Error Correction in Ring-LWE Encryption Markku-Juhani O. Saarinen Abstract: We describe a new reconciliation method for Ring-LWE that has a significantly smaller failure rate than previous proposals while reducing ciphertext size and the amount of randomness required. It is based on a simple, deterministic variant of Peikert's reconciliation that works with our new ``safe bits'' selection and constant-time error correction techniques. The new method does not need randomized smoothing to achieve non-biased secrets. When used with the very efficient ``New Hope'' Ring-LWE parametrization we achieve a decryption failure rate well below 2−128 (compared to 2−60 of the original), making the scheme suitable for public key encryption in addition to key exchange protocols; the reconciliation approach saves about 40% in ciphertext size when compared to the common LP11 Ring-LWE encryption scheme. We perform a combinatorial failure analysis using full probability convolutions, leading to a precise understanding of decryption failure conditions on bit level. Even with additional implementation security and safety measures the new scheme is still essentially as fast as the New Hope but has slightly shorter messages. The new techniques have been instantiated and implemented as a Key Encapsulation Mechanism (KEM) and public key encryption scheme designed to meet the requirements of NIST's Post-Quantum Cryptography effort at very high security level. Category / Keywords: public-key cryptography / Ring-LWE, Reconciliation, Post-Quantum Encryption, New Hope Date: received 16 May 2017 Contact author: mjos at iki fi https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/351 Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2017/351 Post-quantum RSA Daniel J. Bernstein and Nadia Heninger and Paul Lou and Luke Valenta Abstract: This paper proposes RSA parameters for which (1) key generation, encryption, decryption, signing, and verification are feasible on today's computers while (2) all known attacks are infeasible, even assuming highly scalable quantum computers. As part of the performance analysis, this paper introduces a new algorithm to generate a batch of primes. As part of the attack analysis, this paper introduces a new quantum factorization algorithm that is often much faster than Shor's algorithm and much faster than pre-quantum factorization algorithms. Initial pqRSA implementation results are provided. Category / Keywords: public-key cryptography / post-quantum cryptography, RSA scalability, Shor's algorithm, ECM, Grover's algorithm, Make RSA Great Again Original Publication (in the same form): PQCrypto 2017 Date: received 19 Apr 2017 Contact author: authorcontact-pqrsa at box cr yp to

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[WAR] Theresa May: "Bombs don’t kill people, memes kill people"
by Zenaan Harkness 04 Jun '17

04 Jun '17

Yeah yeah, bombs don't kill people, memes kill people. You know, because "people bitching on Facebook are the root cause of terrorism, rather than a foreign policy which ships young men to Libya in order to fight with al-Qaeda and by extrapolation with NATO troops against the then secular government of Libya". Theresa May she save stupidity from the wrath of logic. Theresa May, the butcher of Logicya. Politicians: that perfidious breed of humans who shun dignity, logic and even sanity, for a few extra sjeckels in the coffers of their Military Industrial Banking Spying Corporation overlords. Besides, what's a few million dead brown children between Western politicians bombing for their (((banking overlords))) anyway? ** Theresa May is a Communist on free speech–Jeremy Corbyn a pragmatist about terrorism http://theduran.com/theresa-may-is-a-communist-on-free-speech-jeremy-corbyn… ------------------------------------------------------------ Is internet censorship Theresa May's Ceaușescu moment?

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IMSI catcher detection and mapping (via crowdsourcing)
by M373 04 Jun '17

04 Jun '17

Some U-Washington researchers are working on a potentially very interesting project of using sensors and statistical analysis to identify where cell site simulators are being used, which could scale to city or larger size, providing a snapshot as well as ongoing dataset to ascertain patterns. One would need spatial and temporal density to maximize probability of capture given the ephemeral nature of deployed cell simulators. https://seaglass.cs.washington.edu/ https://seaglass-web.s3.amazonaws.com/SeaGlass___PETS_2017.pdf https://github.com/seaglass-project/seaglass

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British Airways: Da komputer is down worldwide
by Georgi Guninski 04 Jun '17

04 Jun '17

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-40069865 She said: "When we finally boarded the captain came out and told us their computer systems were down worldwide.

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BIP200 - Mandatory de-activation of forced segwit deployment
by Joshua 03 Jun '17

03 Jun '17

Abstract This BIP supercedes BIP148 and outlines the methods and actions necessary to prevent unwanted network segmentation and forced isolation caused by non-consensual BIP148 and Segregated Witness deployment. The Bitcoin protocol was initially designed as a decentralized standard. Unfortunately BIP148 establishes and assigns significant standards-implementation authority to large and more influential commercial organizations and away from independent parties. The author of this proposal fully rejects BIP148 as being contrary to the spirit of Bitcoin and rejects the premise that overall Bitcoin consensus can be gained through a simple voting mechanism. BIP148 (UASF) additionally creates the scaffolding required for large influential groups to take ownership of the global Bitcoin protocol which is a significant departure from the original decentralized nature of Bitcoin. The presence of this scaffolding creates extraordinary risk of centralization within the Bitcoin community and must be resisted. This BIP takes a red-team-centric approach and proposes multiple legally acceptable covert and overt means to resist and eradicate BIP148 and SegWit from the global Bitcoin network in the event it is non-consensually activated. More details: https://gist.github.com/joshuayabut/0b4f58bd31cb3becf4630002acac884d Sent from [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.ch), encrypted email based in Switzerland.

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joke
by Marina Brown 03 Jun '17

03 Jun '17

What do you get when you cross a penis and a potato ? Answer (many): Donald Trump, Vlad Putin, Duterte, Assad In other words: a DickTater

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[WAR] Killary Clinton rightfully blames Obama for her election loss
by Zenaan Harkness 03 Jun '17

03 Jun '17

Surprising I know, and also absolutely rivetting to all I'm sure. Hillary Clinton, the Butcher of Lybia, is more intelligent than, as she calls them, American "low information voters", more superior to the DNC, and really really wants us all to know how much she needs more "Russia-gate" diversions to the investigations of her satanic pedophile child sacrifice cult and DNC murder of Seth Rich. So please, don't investigate or talk about those things, Russian hacking of the USA elections is what must dominate the TLA agency activities. Warning to all secret service, FBI, DIA and CIA personell: do NOT investigate the human sacrificing satanists; ONLY investigate the Russian hacking scandal since that's a certainty, a sure thing, a fait accomplitenecessity as they say in some Eastern European country... http://theduran.com/definitive-list-25-things-hillary-clinton-blames-electi… Definitive list of 25 excuses Hillary Clinton blames her election loss on

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