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John Stossel: Libertarian Mainstream Journalist?
by grarpamp 01 Apr '17

01 Apr '17

This John Stossel has a channel full of short videos geared toward highlighting things for the public... https://www.youtube.com/user/rickjohn12000/videos After 40+ years of reporting, I now understand the importance of limited government and personal freedom. Libertarian journalist John Stossel is a zealous advocate of free markets, a syndicated columnist and Fox News contributor. Prior to joining Fox, John co-anchored ABC’s primetime newsmagazine show, 20/20. Stossel’s economic programs have been adapted into teaching kits by a non-profit organization, "Stossel in the Classroom." High school teachers in American public schools now use the videos to help educate their students on economics and economic freedom. They are seen by more than 12 million students every year. Stossel has received 19 Emmy Awards and has been honored five times for excellence in consumer reporting by the National Press Club. Other honors include the George Polk Award for Outstanding Local Reporting and the George Foster Peabody Award.

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Checkpoint America: Papers Please, Or We'll Fuck You Up
by grarpamp 01 Apr '17

01 Apr '17

John Stossel Commentary... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnicMKKSReY

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Tracking the Agents: FBI's James Comey's Twitter and Instagram Outed
by grarpamp 01 Apr '17

01 Apr '17

https://gizmodo.com/this-is-almost-certainly-james-comey-s-twitter-account-… https://www.instagram.com/reinholdniebuhr/ https://twitter.com/projectexile7 Digital security and its discontents—from Hillary Clinton’s emails to ransomware to Tor hacks—is in many ways one of the chief concerns of the contemporary FBI. So it makes sense that the bureau’s director, James Comey, would dip his toe into the digital torrent with a Twitter account. It also makes sense, given Comey’s high profile, that he would want that Twitter account to be a secret from the world, lest his follows and favs be scrubbed for clues about what the feds are up to.

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Bitcoiner Running Game On NYDFS BitLicense In Court
by grarpamp 01 Apr '17

01 Apr '17

http://www.article78againstnydfs.com/ https://cei.org/blog/new-yorks-bitlicense-trial https://www.2600.com/offthehook/mp3files/2017/off_the_hook__20170329.mp3 New York's "BitLicense" on Trial Jim Harper • March 8, 2017 Regulators enjoy a lot of deference in the courts, and New York regulations in New York courts are no exception. But Theo Chino’s challenge to New York’s “BitLicense” regulation stands as good a chance as I’ve seen of toppling an inadvisable and poorly devised regulation. I was happy to play a small part this week in the effort to get the regulation overturned. For those just tuning in, the “BitLicense” is a special regulation aimed at Bitcoin businesses, which the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) issued in June, 2015. When New York’s then-Superintendent of Financial Services Benjamin Lawsky first encountered Bitcoin, he sent subpoenas to everyone in the Bitcoin world and went on TV talking about “narcoterrorists.” But by the time he concluded the matter, he thought differently. In fact, immediately after his office finalized the “BitLicense” regulation, Lawsky decamped to a private sector consultancy where his website now boasts that he was one of 2014’s “Top Ten Most Influential People in Bitcoin.” Since imposing the “BitLicense” requirement, the NYDFS has licensed (or “chartered”) a whopping five companies (as of January, at least). The NYDFS has chased off four other companies trying to provide Bitcoin services in New York. They join the many more firms that suspended services in New York after the regulation was finalized. Enter Theo Chino. While the big Bitcoin companies steered clear or meekly complied with the BitLicense – they expect to be repeat players before the NYDFS, of course – Mr. Chino opted to stand and fight. First filing a pro se petition against the regulation, he now has counsel to carry forward what is known as an Article 78 action against the “BitLicense” regulation. An Article 78 proceeding in New York allows aggrieved parties to challenge regulatory actions, including actions taken that are beyond the jurisdiction of the regulatory body or officer. That is one basis for Chino’s challenge: that the NYDFS was never given authority by the legislature to regulate Bitcoin. Another argument is that the action was arbitrary and capricious or an abuse of discretion. In theory, administrative regulation assigns expert, neutral lawmakers to the task of taking arguments from the public and figuring out the very best rules. This doesn’t seem to be what happened in the BitLicense rulemaking. As I described to the New York Supreme Court in an affidavit filed by Chino’s counsel this week, the NYDFS stated that “extensive research and analysis” supported the “BitLicense” regulation. But when I asked for it (wearing my hat as the Bitcoin Foundation’s Global Policy Counsel), the agency first promised to share it, then delayed sharing it, and then never shared it. As a point of comparison, at this time the European Banking Authority had produced a 46-page analysis of benefits and risks from Bitcoin. The results were far from perfect, but the methodology allowed for reasoned debate about the need for regulation and what any regulation might address. The EBA demonstrated part of what an administrative rulemaking process should entail. The NYDFS either didn’t do any analysis to speak of or declined to make its analysis public, denying itself feedback from Bitcoin experts. Not only do the defects in the NYDFS’s processes bode well for Theo Chino’s Article 78 challenge to the “BitLicense,” the results do, too. The BitLicense made New York a pariah jurisdiction for Bitcoin, denying consumers access to service providers in this highly innovative field. The world’s financial capital has made itself a Bitcoin backwater. Other regulators, looking on with interest, have not followed New York’s lead. Thanks to the persistence of Theo Chino and his counsel, the “BitLicense” is in the dock and heading for trial. The case will have many twists and turns, but hopefully the idea of special, restrictive regulation aimed at digital currency will get the electric – er, the electronic chair.

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SuperNET, Blockchain (and Governance?)
by grarpamp 01 Apr '17

01 Apr '17

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=762346 https://supernet.org/ http://www.digitalcatallaxy.com/report2015.html

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Keyshuffling Nintendo 3DS Secure Bootchain
by grarpamp 01 Apr '17

01 Apr '17

https://github.com/Plailect/keyshuffling https://www.3dbrew.org/ https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7240-console_hacking We demonstrate an attack on the secure bootchain of the Nintendo 3DS in order to gain early code execution. The attack utilizes the block shuffling vulnerability of the ECB cipher mode to rearrange keys in the Nintendo 3DS's encrypted keystore. Because the shuffled keys will deterministically decrypt the encrypted firmware binary to incorrect plaintext data and execute it, and because the device's memory contents are kept between hard reboots, it is possible to reliably reach a branching instruction to a payload in memory. This payload, due to its execution by a privileged processor and its early execution, is able to extract the hash of hardware secrets necessary to decrypt the device's encrypted keystore and set up a persistant exploit of the system.

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WikiLeaks: Vault7 Marble Framework, CIA, Barrett Brown Commentary
by grarpamp 01 Apr '17

01 Apr '17

https://wikileaks.org/vault7/releases/#Marble%20Framework Today, March 31st 2017, WikiLeaks releases Vault 7 "Marble" -- 676 source code files for the CIA's secret anti-forensic Marble Framework. Marble is used to hamper forensic investigators and anti-virus companies from attributing viruses, trojans and hacking attacks to the CIA. https://sputniknews.com/radio_by_any_means/201703301052100018-dangers-of-th… https://video.img.ria.ru/Out/MP3/20170329/2017_03_29_ByAnyMeans188Sprkr_yfl… @07:10 On this episode of "By Any Means Necessary" host Eugene Puryear is joined by award winning journalist Barrett Brown. Barrett founded Project PM, a research collaboration and wiki, to facilitate analysis of the troves of hacked emails and other leaked information concerning the inner workings of the cyber-military-industrial complex. In January 2015, Brown was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison for the crimes of accessory after the fact, obstruction of justice, and threatening a federal officer stemming from the FBI's investigation into the 2012 Stratfor email leak. On November 29, 2016, Barrett Brown was released from federal custody. Barrett returns to talk about the Vault 7 Wikileaks, the usage of the internet of things, the cyber-security landscape, and the relationship between the US intelligence community and multinational corporations.

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[Suitable for framing] "Because All Their Talk About Personal Freedom Is Bullshit"
by Razer 01 Apr '17

01 Apr '17

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James Atkinson: Tapping Presidential Wires, A Spy Hunters Perspective
by grarpamp 01 Apr '17

01 Apr '17

https://cryptome.org/2017/03/Trumps-Fiber-Rings-NSA-Eavesdropping-03-17-201… http://www.gloucestertimes.com/news/local_news/spy-hunter-gets-probation-in… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm6QtRMuJfQ SYNOPSIS: Our modern day lives are brief, very intense flashes of light, circling The World on ultra-pure puffs of smoke, and our governments crave to capture all those flashes of lights. There is no doubt that routine clear intercepts and eavesdropping has and is continuing without a peep from any of the nationally recognized news agencies reminiscent of Rome's bread and circus days. Detailed below is a detailed account of routine spy intercept programs which are designated as "legal" in which Trump Tower, like millions of others, were indeed intercepted. [Paper continues at length...] ModernTechnologicalMarvels MassiveConcentratedAccess TheFlyintheOintment FreedomFromDetection(Usually) AccessByDefaultAKeytoHelptheEavesdroppers FlexibleRestrictionsontheGovernment ReigningintheGovernmentandBreachesofConstitutionalLaw SpecialTopSecretECIWiretapping FAIRVIEWLONGLINESTITANPOINTESKYSCRAPER COOLSPYHUNTINGMETHOD TheNewYorkReachAround TheFiveEyesReachAroundinAction ShuttingDownTheNSAInterceptions,Legally DecadesofUnlawfulEavesdroppingResultsin"MoreCareful"Wiretapping ALongHistoryofPresidentsBuggingTheirPoliticalOpponents LetUsNotForget"TrickyDickey" UnlawfulWiretappingUnderFISA AndThenTherewas9/11 TheGrandAmericanTraditionContinues ChainofFools I'maUSCitizenI'mNotaTerroristIJustWantedtoSeeParis InHatredWeTrust 2016-TheEstablishedPoliticalStructuresBegintoShake StreetWise,andPrivacyAstute Behold,TheEmperorisNaked HugeSteelBox,toHideaVerySmallKey PseudoScramblingAsanIllusionofEncryption Tappingthe"Wires"ofPresidentTrump WashingtonDCPlumbers OneForeignerintheBuilding InTime,theDetailsWillBeTold AHistoricalPatternofMotiveandPractice SpiesatHolmdel,MiddletonandNorthAndover Room641AinSanFrancisco ECIFAIRVIEWandBLARNEY Alas,poorYorick!Iknewhim,Horatio... Speakingofthe1970WilliamBinney TheWorstNightmareoftheNSA,AndAnEpicDisaster TheWrinkle NSARegionalDataCenters Let'sTalkAboutCloudComputing AmazonWebServices,andFrontCompanies WhatisanNSARegionalSignalsOperationsCenterRSOC? Conclusions Mr.Atkinson is the industry leader in Bug Sweeps, Wiretap Detection, Detection of Covert Video Cameras, Detection of Covert Microphones, and related inspections, TSCM, TEMPEST, NONSTOP, Emissions Security (EMSEC), Signals Intelligence and related fields. He has forty years of hands-on experience on a wide range of computer systems, involving multiple generations of technology, including huge, highly secure, and highly classified mainframe systems, to modern desktop, laptop, and handheld computers. Well experienced in the design and development, prototyping, and production of specialized electronic devices and instrumentation. He is also a skilled photographer, computer programmer and artist. He is a recognized expert technical, analytical and research for the detection, nullification, and isolation of eavesdropping devices, technical surveillance penetrations, technical surveillance hazards, and physical security weaknesses. Mr. Atkinson is highly skilled in intelligence Analysis and activities to determine the existence and capability of surveillance equipment being used against the governments, corporations, establishments, or persons. He is also formally trained in technical, forensic skills to include computer forensics, network forensics, hard drive forensics, Wi-Fi forensics, WAN forensics, and cell phone forensics. He has testified as an expert witness is numerous courts, and has been called to testify before Congress three times as an expert witness. Mr. Atkinson is considered to be the "Leonardo da Vinci of Bug Sweeps."

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Wikileaks CIA hacking tools.
by jim bell 01 Apr '17

01 Apr '17

WikiLeaks says CIA disguised hacking as Russian or Chinese activity http://dailym.ai/2oFVI1t via http://dailym.ai/android

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