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DHS (U//LES) Homeland Security Investigations Presentation: Criminal Exploitation of Digital Currencies
by Razer 14 Jan '17

14 Jan '17

Criminal Exploitation of Digital Currencies Page Count: 45 pages Date: February 2014 Restriction: Law Enforcement Sensitive Originating Organization: Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations File Type: pdf File Size: 6,384,398 bytes File Hash (SHA-256): 376FEA16C909AEBB2E5978AD619E19860D44551B0BAC8F8D176E74FE6D23BA1C https://info.publicintelligence.net/DHS-HSI-DigitalCurrencies.pdf

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https://cryptonote.org/inside#untraceable-payments
by juan 13 Jan '17

13 Jan '17

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Teh Metadatz gloves r off for 'merican citizen's priva-cees
by Razer 13 Jan '17

13 Jan '17

> NSA to share data with other agencies without “minimizing” American > information > > On Thursday The New York Times reported that the Obama administration > had recently finalized rules to give the National Security Agency > (NSA) more leeway in sharing its vast trove of intercepted > communications with the 15 other government agencies that make up the > Intelligence Community. > > Previously, agencies like the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Federal > Bureau of Investigation would have to request information on a target > from the NSA. The NSA, in turn, would retrieve communications > pertaining to that target and scrub the documents of information that > was considered irrelevant to the search, including the names of > innocent Americans—a process called “minimization.” Now, that middle > step has been cut out. The agencies need only get approval from the > NSA to access its data, and agents from the agencies are expected to > carry out minimization on their own. > > As The New York Times puts it, “Essentially, the government is > reducing the risk that the NSA will fail to recognize that a piece of > information would be valuable to another agency, but increasing the > risk that officials will see private information about innocent > people.” Although the agency analysts who will have access to the > NSA’s surveillance powers are directed to ignore and redact > information pertaining to innocent Americans, if they see evidence of > criminal acts in the data they access, they are directed to hand it > over to the Justice Department. > More, with links: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/01/obama-administration-relaxes-rul…

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Butthurt and w/o BTC 'TheShadowBrokers' call it quits
by Razer 13 Jan '17

13 Jan '17

> Shadow Brokers Calls It Quits After Failing To Get Buyers For NSA Exploits > > But group says it is still willing to dump its collection of Linux and > Windows tools if it gets 10,000 bitcoins. > > 1/12/2017 > > Just days after offering for sale a database of Windows exploits > allegedly purloined from an outfit thought to be affiliated with the > National Security Agency (NSA), the infamous ShadowBrokers hacking > crew has apparently decided to call it quits. > > As a parting gift, they released an archive of nearly five-dozen > Windows hacking tools for free Thursday in an apparent last ditch > effort to convince potential buyers of the authenticity of their goods. > > They also promised to come out of hiding and still release a > collection of Linux and Windows exploits in their possession to anyone > willing to pay the equivalent of slightly more than $8 million (10,000 > bitcoins at current rates) for it. > > In a parting note on the group’s website, the Shadow Brokers claimed > the decision to go dark had to do entirely with money, or rather the > fact they hadn’t made as much of it as expected from their hacking wares. > > The language in the note appeared almost deliberately contrived to > make it seem as if members of the group are non-native English > speakers. “Despite theories, it always being about bitcoins for > TheShadowBrokers,” the note claimed. “Free dumps and bullshit > political talk was being for marketing attention.” > > The farewell note expressed the group’s disappointment with their lack > of success in finding buyers for attack tools they had tried to > auction off last year and admonished people for not believing in the > Shadow Brokers... > More: http://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/shadow-brokers-calls-it-quits-a…

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Trump’s cyber-guru Giuliani runs ancient ‘easily hackable website’
by Razer 13 Jan '17

13 Jan '17

Go for it! > > “Giulianisecurity.com, the website for the ex-mayor’s eponymous > infosec consultancy firm, is powered by a roughly five-year-old build > of Joomla! that is packed with vulnerabilities. Some of those bugs can > be potentially exploited by miscreants using basic SQL injection > techniques to compromise the server. > > This seemingly insecure system also has a surprising number of network > ports open – from MySQL and anonymous LDAP to a very out-of-date > OpenSSH 4.7 that was released in 2007.” > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/01/13/giuliani_joomla_outdated_site/

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Israeli SOP
by Zenaan Harkness 13 Jan '17

13 Jan '17

When you are filmed doing something disgraceful, respond with death threats, which as we all know, works super duper well in this age of the Internet because you know, no such thing as the Streissand effect or nuthin: https://www.rt.com/news/373475-israeli-soldier-palestinian-shooting/ Israel, "the Middle East's only democracy".

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Astonishing Lie by Hillary regarding Trump "Choke"
by Big 'Uns 12 Jan '17

12 Jan '17

> On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 09:30:43 -0900 > "juan" <juan.g71 at gmail.com> wrote: > No, no, no. White christians descend from white christians. Sez the multi-"white"-lingual speaker. Cuz so do you =P > You can go back all you like and until reaching the origin > of the world, 6000 years ago, and all you'll find is white > christians. It's white christians all the way down, lol.

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Astonishing Lie by Hillary regarding Trump "Choke"
by jim bell 12 Jan '17

12 Jan '17

I'm really floored about how disgustingly low Hillary (and her cronies) will go to criticize Trump. A few months ago, both were invited to see the Mexican president; only Trump went. When Trump returned, he was asked by the MSM (mainstream media) if he had discussed who would pay for the wall. Trump said that he hadn't. For a few days, there was criticism of Trump for FAILING to negotiate this matter. That criticism re-surfaced within the last day or so (October 20), with Hillary claiming Trump had "choked". Well, as radio commentator Paul Harvey would have said, here's the rest of the story. It turns out that there is an American Federal law called the Logan Act which prohibits private citizens from engaging in diplomatic activity with foreign nations. It's been around for 200+ years, and violation is a felony...although there have never been any convictions and only one indictment in that entire time. It does not prohibit a person from merely meeting with a foreign government official, just engaging in diplomacy with him. (What amounts to "diplomacy" has not been tested, due to the virtual lack of prosecutions.) Hillary Clinton is supposed to have at one point been a lawyer. Not a good lawyer, I have to conclude. In fact, she must have been a very bad lawyer. But she has now outdone herself for criticizing Trump...for Trump's FAILURE to commit a Federal felony! You see, she has actually claimed Trump "choked": That Trump DIDN'T negotiate this matter, apparently not to Hillary's satisfaction. So, indeed, Hillary is blasting Trump for FAILING to engage in diplomacy with the Mexican president: For FAILING to commit a felony! And don't try to suggest that maybe, Trump did indeed secretly try to negotiate with the Mexican president, but simply failed to get an agreement. While such a hypothetical scenario might be called a violation of the Logan Act, at the same time it couldn't ALSO be called "choking": To raise the issue during the meeting, but to merely fail to get positive results wouldn't be a "choke", of course. So, by calling Trump's supposed actions (or lack of actions?) "choking", Hillary has essentially admitted that she DIDN'T believe that Trump had attempted to negotiate, and thus had not violated the Logan Act. But others in the media were even more clueless. And it's not that I'm the first person to raise this issue: Do a Google search for 'hillary trump mexico wall Logan', and you can even find some articles within the first few days of Trump's Mexican visit, claiming that Trump DID violate the Logan Act. If Trump had actually said he negotiated, you can be sure that Hillary would have accused him of committing a crime. But no, he didn't, so now she's accusing him of, in effect, NOT COMMITTING a crime. Failure to negotiate as a private citizen with the President of Mexico. Failure to commit a Federal felony. How awful! How cynical can a person be to try to prepare not one, but in fact TWO separate, and opposite traps for her opponent: If Trump tried to negotiate, she would accuse him of a crime. If Trump failed to try to negotiate, she would, and in fact did, accuse him of "choking". Is it possible to engage in a more disgusting and devious fraud in front of the entire world, and not be called out on it? How dishonest can a person get? To be sure, I'm still going to vote for Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate, as I always do. But I feel I must challenge anyone who would otherwise vote for Hillary Clinton: Do you feel proud that your chosen candidate is such a massive liar, fraudster, influence-peddler, scam-artist, and deviously corrupt woman? "And those are her GOOD qualities", I hear her supporters fawning. Jim Bell

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Fw: Germans need to arm themselves - civil uprising approaching
by Zenaan Harkness 12 Jan '17

12 Jan '17

How likely is a civil uprising in Germany? If I were living there, I'd certainly prepare... Z ----- Forwarded message from James ----- Subject: Germans need to arm themselves - civil uprising approaching Hi it might be advisable to encourage those you love who live in Germany, to prepare for a possible civil uprising over there. Learning some self defence is never a bad thing, I say. Best, http://www.dailystormer.com/german-government-takes-preemptive-measures-in-… ----- End forwarded message -----

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Govt Dismissing Darknet Cases due to State Secrets, Illegal Actions, Etc
by grarpamp 11 Jan '17

11 Jan '17

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/01/feds-may-let-playpen-child-porn-… https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/5n5cyi/feds_may_let_playpen_child_po… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13362555 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/09/playpen-story-fbis-unprecedented-and-… Rather than disclose the source code that the FBI used to target a child porn suspect, federal prosecutors in Tacoma, Washington recently dropped their appeal in United States v. Michaud. The case is just one of 135 federal prosecutions nationwide involving the Tor-hidden child porn website Playpen. The vast effort to bust Playpen has raised significant questions about the ethics, oversight, capabilities, and limitations of the government’s ability to hack criminal suspects. ........ Last year, a federal judge in a related case prosecuted out of Oklahoma, United States v. Arterbury, also ruled against the prosecution. The government eventually dropped the appeal and then dismissed the indictment at the district court in October 2016. Yet another Playpen case, United States v. Levin, where the defense prevailed initially, is currently on appeal at the 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals. Beau Croghan, a man in Iowa, was another alleged user hit by this NIT—his case was just one of three in which a judge ruled to suppress the evidence due to a defective warrant. Croghan's case is now pending before the 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals. ...... Beyond Michaud, Fieman is representing another Playpen defendant in the same judicial district (the Western District of Washington) before the very same judge. In the second case, the evidence and legal questions are nearly identical. That case, United States v. Tippens, is set to go to trial on February 27, 2017 in Tacoma. ........

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