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What kind of security matters
by Anti Fag 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

> James A. Donald jamesd at echeque.com > Thu Feb 16 16:47:15 PST 2017 > > a security mechanism for the masses Do you mean centralized and controlled, like yidcoin grarpamp shills ? A transaction fee is not equal to withdrawl fee and xe knows it.

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[RUS] [WAR] Party like it's 1941 - cypherpunks, NSA, CIA, eat your heart out :)
by Zenaan Harkness 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

Ok, ok, it's not that much fun, but anyway, may be worth a chuckle for those addicted to technology. I guess one could call this Enjoy :) American spies missed Crimea because Russians operated like in 1941 http://www.fort-russ.com/2017/02/american-spies-missed-crimea-because.html " Several times a year 'Russian hackers' are arrested around the world, it is a kind of recruiting for Pentagon or NSA. "

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[OT] The love... Oops! The Puppy Is On The Air! :D
by Cecilia Tanaka 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

Sending a cute OT message to make you all smile a bit because the negativity here was a little strong today... :P # Japan's latest mascot is a flying drone puppy. http://mashable.com/2017/02/21/japan-flying-drone-puppy/ The cutest way of spying people, yay! ;D Please, watch the Mashable's Bonus video about Azuma! It's very bizarre, but I know at least one weirdo here who will buy this stuff to receive daily lovey-dovey messages! (Zzzzzz, cof cof!) And this is my freaky bonus: http://www.hellthyjunkfood.com/giantsushi.html Juan, my mom asked me to make this bizarre sushi on my next visit to her and my dad. I sincerely hope she is only joking! :P ------- "Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live." - Mae Jemison

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Investigative Journalism: The People's NSA
by grarpamp 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

Investigative Journalism: The People's NSA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA1sEjxPDWQ Coded - A Freethink Original Series - Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC2aOG1xDg4

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Ladar Levison: Back in da Biz!
by grarpamp 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

The Unhackable Email Service https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM8fAnEqs1Q DEF CON 24 - Ladar Levison - Compelled Decryption: State of the Art in Doctrinal Perversity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQiDGH2OW6k (Full track) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_lN-RAfzRQ

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Charlie Shrem: Back in da Biz!
by grarpamp 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

Disrupting Money https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUCJQLpy8ms [AMA] with Charlie Shrem and Jason Granger about Mainstreet Fund - the 1st tokenized asset on the Ethereum blockchain that pays out cash flow distributions from the companies in the portfolio. https://www.reddit.com/r/ethtrader/comments/5rok7s/ama_join_us_friday_feb_3… Jason Granger and Charlie Shrem discuss Intellisys, crowdfunding, and blockchain securities on BU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TUyH31-qgI ImNOTYourLawyer 2-3-2017 Episode 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_sUEZ8fU5c Episode 753: Blockchain Gang http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/02/10/514577243/episode-753-blockcha…

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Re: Trump Says, 'Look What's Happening In Sweden.' Sweden Asks, 'Wait, What?'
by John Newman 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

> On Feb 20, 2017, at 11:25 PM, James A. Donald <jamesd(a)echeque.com> wrote: > > Attached are Sweden's rape statistics. > > Which you are not going to hear or see on the Counterfeit News Network, but you will get alerted to by Trump. > <Clipboard01.gif> I realize nuance and, you know, reading and thinking about something, don't come naturally to your or your ilk, but i'll go ahead and repost the following link: http://www.factcheck.org/2017/02/trump-exaggerates-swedish-crime/ Henrik Selin, head of the Department for Intercultural Dialogue at the Swedish Institute, told us the surge of asylum seekers in 2015 has created challenges for Sweden, but he said reports from right-leaning media about a surge of immigrant crime have been “highly exaggerated.” “So many things are being claimed,” Selin said. “If you look at the facts, there is nothing to support the claim that the crime rate took off after the 160,000 came in 2015.” Crime has generally been trending down for the last decade, but there was a small uptick last year, he said. While it’s true that immigrants have been over-represented among those committing crimes — particularly in some suburban communities heavily populated by immigrants, he said — the issue of crime and immigration is complex. Upon closer examination, Selin said, researchers have found that the crime is more closely associated with factors like joblessness, poverty and exclusion from society. “It is not clear that immigrants are susceptible to committing such crimes,” he said. Nor is it at all true, Selin said, that there are so-called no-go zones where police are afraid to patrol, or where locals have instituted sharia law, as Horowitz claimed. Selin’s refutation was echoed by Felipe Estrada Dörner, a criminology professor at Stockholm University, interviewed by the Washington Post. But that is not to say there are not some “challenges in the short term … that we need to deal with,” Selin said. Jerzy Sarnecki, a criminology professor at Stockholm University, said that claims about surging violence due to immigration are “lies.” “But really good lies always have a little bit of truth in them,” Sarnecki told us in an email. “So also in this case.” Sarnecki noted that Sweden has a “very broad legal definition of rape” and that “Swedish women are aware of their rights and have a high propensity to report sexual assaults, and we calculate crimes in a different manner than comparable countries.”

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Java and Python have unpatched firewall-crossing FTP SNAFU
by Cecilia Tanaka 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

Hey, guys! Did you know something about this vulnerability, please? Ugh! :P # Java and Python have unpatched firewall-crossing FTP SNAFU https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/21/java_python_ftp_code_vulnerable/?m… Thanks in advance! <3 Ceci PS: - Yep, I am late with millions of private and public answers, I know. Sorry, I am having a mix of bad hair day + bad news day + bad wi-fi day + bad notebook day + God, I do hate the Brazilian Summer! day. Believe me, you do *not* want to talk with me in this moment. At least, not without muuuuch ice-cream! ;) ------- "Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live." - Mae Jemison

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“Secure” Cloudflare-protected Trump website defaced by hacker claiming to be from Iraq
by Razer 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/02/secure-trump-website-defaced-by-ha… Meanwhile, Trump's multiple security faux-pas triggers call for House investigation Representative Ted Lieu, a congressman from Los Angeles County, California, led fourteen other House Democrats on Friday in urging the House Government Oversight Committee to investigate "troubling reports" of President Donald Trump's apparently poor security practices and the potential danger to national security posed by them—including his continued use of an unsecured Android device to post to Twitter, discussion of sensitive information (including nuclear strategy) in the restaurant at his Mar-A-Lago resort, and leaving classified material unlocked while visitors were in the Oval Office. In a letter to Oversight Committee chairman Jason Chaffetz and ranking Democratic member Elijah Cummings, the fifteen representatives wrote: > Referring to the complex problem of cybersecurity, President Trump recently said in an interview, "I’m not sure you have the kind of security that you need." We fully agree—which is why we are writing to request that the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hold a hearing into troubling reports that the President is jeopardizing national security by egregiously failing to implement commonsense security measures across the board, from using an insecure, consumer-grade Android smartphone to discussing nuclear strategy openly in a dining room at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida. Cybersecurity experts universally agree that an ordinary Android smartphone, which the President is reportedly using despite repeated warnings from the Secret Service, can be easily hacked. Lieu and the other signatories of the letter expressed concern that Trump's Android device, "most likely the Samsung Galaxy S3," is particularly vulnerable to attack, and that someone could alter the information the President viewed on it—which could "have a huge impact on his beliefs and actions." They also feared that someone could gain control of his Twitter account, "causing disastrous consequences for global stability," or use it as a listening device to pick up sensitive conversations. Also cited by the letter were photos from a recent White House visit by Intel CEO Brian Krzanich that showed a key still in the lock of a bag for classified material on Trump's desk. The photo was called out by Senator Martin Heinrich of New Mexico in this Twitter post: Additionally, Lieu and the other representatives expressed concern over the continued use of outside e-mail accounts hosted by the Republican National Committee, and compliance with federal records law. "Reports indicate that a political e-mail system used by senior White House staff was hacked in December by a Russian intelligence agency, yet again raising the prospect of the White House being monitored or influenced by unfriendly powers," Lieu and the others wrote. Federal law requires that all e-mails for official business on an outside e-mail system be forwarded or copied into a government e-mail system within 20 days. The letter calls for the Oversight Committee to look into whether the President is using an unsecured device, whether Trump and the White House staff have been properly briefed and trained on both information security and operational security, and if "the President and the Office of the President [can] ensure that there are no missing e-mails, communications, and technological exchanges—in other words, can they confirm they are not actively being monitored?" With links: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/trumps-apparent-string-of-secur…

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Swedish police featured in Fox News segment tell their story, and there IS NO "Crime Wave"
by Razer 21 Feb '17

21 Feb '17

AAMOF they were never even asked about Muslims at all: > ”I don’t understand why we are a part of the segment. The interview > was about something completely different to what Fox News and Horowitz > were talking about” http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/nyheter/swedish-police-featured-in-fox-news-se… ”We’ve got to keep our country safe. You look at what’s happening in Germany. You look at what's happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this? Sweden. They took in large numbers. They're having problems like they never thought possible.” Trumps comments about Sweden during his rally in Melbourne, Florida, raised many questions, especially among Swedes who were quick to point out that nothing terror-related had happened in the country. The president later took to Twitter to clarify his statements, saying that he was referring to a segment on ”Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Fox News. The segment featured the xenophobic filmmaker Ami Horowitz, maker of an alarmistic movie about Sweden. The movie, titled ”Stockholm Syndrome”, blames immigration as a direct cause of violence and rioting. Two Swedish police officers were interviewed in the film. Anders Göranzon and Jacob Ekström answered questions about how weapons are becoming more accessible. Horowitz also asked the officers about how crime has spread through cities. But the police officers now say that their answers were taken out of context, and are very critical of how their comments were portrayed on Fox News ”Tucker Carlson Tonight”. ”I don’t understand why we are a part of the segment. The interview was about something completely different to what Fox News and Horowitz were talking about”, says Anders Göranzon. Why were you interviewed? ”It was supposed to be about crime in high risk areas. Areas with high crime rates. There wasn’t any focus on migration or immigration”. How did you react to the news segment? ”We don’t stand behind it. It shocked us. He has edited the answers. We were answering completely different questions in the interview. This is bad journalism.” Anders Göranzon continues: ”It feels like hell. The real questions should be shown along with our answers. We don’t own the rights to the film, but the end result is that we don’t want to talk to journalists after this. We can’t trust each other.” Have you done anything to stop the news segment? ”We just saw it. What can we do? One thing is talking to you. The excerpt they showed doesn’t say anything, we answered a different question. We don’t stand behind what he says. He is a madman.” DN has tried to reach Mr. Ami Horowitz for a comment. On Sunday he published a statement on Facebook in regard to the reception of his report from Sweden: ”I think every media outlet across the globe covering my interview with Tucker Carlson and attacking the President is missing the point. Sweden is under assault because of the open door policy to Islamic immigration”.

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