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Fwd: UK Jobs And Collaboration: Local Data Lab + Curious Fact About White House Petitions
by Cecilia Tanaka 29 Jan '17

29 Jan '17

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Cecilia Tanaka Date: Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 11:39 AM Subject: Fwd: UK Jobs And Collaboration: Local Data Lab + Curious Fact About White House Petitions To: liberationtech Cc: meganlucero(a)tbij.com, Dave Borghuis Hi, dear all! :D I think it can be interesting for some of us. In this era of "alternative facts" (Lieees, cof cof!), the world does need more investigative journalism than ever. A fool real example. Yesterday, just for fun and to give support to a Dutch friend, I signed this jocose petition for the White House using their own plataform: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/america-first-make -netherlands-second-because-they-requested-it https://youtu.be/j-xxis7hDOE I was, theoretically, the second person to sign it and I shared the petition with the Brazilian Hackerspaces General List, because it was a fun bonus in a public message inviting all the hackerspaces to celebrate the International Open Hackerspace Day 2017 together. My signature is NOT there. My friends' signatures are NOT there. I tried to sign the petition 4 (four) times since yesterday night, giving some hours between a try and another, and my signature is still NOT there. It's a White House petition and I already signed some of these before. Usually, there is no time lapse and the signature is counted immediately. Will they need more than 13 hours to process it now? Will my signature be in this petition someday? :-/ I know, it was a joke among hackerspaces, but first of all, it was a public petition and we do have the right of asking to "Netherlands be Second" and the White House can NOT censure us this way. They did NOT remove the petition until now, so if the petition is there, what is the point about obstructing our support to it? I do really think Trump is pretty afraid Netherlands becomes First (watch the video to understand the reference), but I am afraid they try to block signatures in more relevant petitions about important subjects, like censure, freedom of expression, privacy and human rights in general. Tender kisses and hugs. Take care all of you! <3 Ceci, a Brazilian fan of Netherlands... You know, their walls are much better, hahaha!! ;D ------- "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 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Megan Lucero <meganchristinelucero(a)gmail.com> Here's more info on that brand new team/lab I'm building for open, local investigative journalism. https://medium.com/local-data-lab/join-the-local-data-lab-fa 865f83f516?source=linkShare-674eec1ed91-1485521058 Deadline is Wednesday and only for those who can work in the EU. Feel free to get in touch with questions or if you'd like to collaborate! Megan meganlucero(a)tbij.com

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[WAR] Google/Jigsaw/Alphabet was big proponent of overthrowing Syria
by Zenaan Harkness 28 Jan '17

28 Jan '17

Dirty laundry always makes its way out in the days of leak soup. Regime change of foreign nations must be so exciting for bored American businessmen with nothing on their plates besides pizza. Untold Story of Syrian Coup: Who is Really Behind the Plot to Topple Assad? https://sputniknews.com/politics/201603251036856128-clinton-emails-assad/ " Then the Silicon Valley's ingenious planners stepped in. In 2010 Jared Cohen, the President of Jigsaw ('Google Ideas') and an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, made a trip to Syria with Alec Ross, technology policy expert who was Senior Advisor for Innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Summing up the results of their "business trip" to the Syrian Arab Republic, Ross wrote: "When Jared and I went to Syria, it was because we knew that Syrian society was growing increasingly young (population will double in 17 years) and digital and that this was going to create disruptions in society that we could potential harness for our purposes." Clark turns the spotlight on the fact that "those 'purposes' were of course 'regime change' and to break Syria's alliance with Iran." In summer 2012, when the Syrian conflict spun out of control political aide Sidney Blumenthal wrote to Hillary Clinton: "The fall of the House of Assad could well ignite a sectarian war between the Shiites and the majority Sunnis of the region drawing in Iran, which, in the view of Israeli commanders would not be a bad thing for Israel and its Western allies." Nearly simultaneously president of 'Google Ideas' Jared Cohen offered the State Department a new digital tool aimed at bolstering defections from the Syrian government, Clark notes. "Our logic behind this is that while many people are tracking the atrocities, nobody is visually representing and mapping the defections, which we believe are important in encouraging more to defect and giving confidence to the opposition," Cohen wrote. " Just as well there are "regimes" to overthrow to add a little spice to life eh? " "I don't know that they turned a blind eye, I think it was a decision. I think it was a willful decision," Flynn said. "WikiLeaks confirms that — as was the case in Libya and Iraq — almost everything about the official "western establishment" version of the war in Syria was false," Clark underscores. "Far from being an innocent bystander, the US went out of its way to destabilize the country and exploit ethnic and religious divisions," he stresses. "

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40+ Intentionally Vulnerable Websites To (Legally) Practice Your Hacking Skills
by grarpamp 28 Jan '17

28 Jan '17

https://www.bonkersabouttech.com/security/40-plus-list-of-intentionally-vul…

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OSINT Framework
by grarpamp 28 Jan '17

28 Jan '17

http://osintframework.com/ https://github.com/lockfale/osint-framework OSINT framework focused on gathering information from free tools or resources.

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The ioT Hates Donald Trump
by Razer 28 Jan '17

28 Jan '17

Hackers took over DC police cameras ahead of inauguration > Hackers infected 70 percent of storage devices that record data from > D.C. police surveillance cameras eight days before President Trump’s > inauguration, forcing major citywide reinstallation efforts, according > to the police and the city’s technology office. > > City officials said ransomware left police cameras unable to record > between Jan. 12 and Jan. 15. The cyberattack affected 123 of 187 > network video recorders in a closed-circuit TV system for public > spaces across the city, the officials said late Friday. > > Sercet Service spokesman Brian Ebert said the safety of the public or > protectees was never jeopardized. More at the CIA-pwned Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/hackers-hit-dc-police-cl…

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Public Dissentiment
by booty 28 Jan '17

28 Jan '17

> On Fri, Jan 27 2017 14:23:36 -1400 > "John Newman" <jnn at synfin.org> wrote: > > asperger's syndrome Is not real anymore, I don't think. > She couldn't talk Get that bitch some weed. > Was "curing" gays ever accepted as science by anyone, anywhere? Yeah, here. Depriving children of saturated fats and cholesterol fucks up their hormone production; less testosterone for boys, less estrogen for girls. Reverse it. There is your "cure".

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Trump and election fraud - fake news
by booty 28 Jan '17

28 Jan '17

> On Sat, Jan 21 2017 16:40:41 -1600 > Cecilia Tanaka" <cecilia.tanaka at gmail.com> wrote: > > Another email account to be blocked, Mirimir and John. I don't know if you remember, > but Zzz created this account months ago to spread Russian fake news and conspiracy > theories against the USA. Same server, same writing, same sh_t, aff... Stupid trolls More snitching and blaming. You must find good company amongst the "John Youngs" on this list.

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Indiana bill would allow police to shut down protests 'by any means necessary'
by booty 28 Jan '17

28 Jan '17

> On Fri, Jan 27 2017 00:43:51 -0000 > "oshwm" <oshwm at openmailbox.org> wrote: > > Thats because ur a cunt. No, it's because he a libertarian, like the great philosopher Jimothy Bell

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[MINISTRY OF TRUTH] New York Times: It's Time to Pull the Plug on Trump's Tweets
by Zenaan Harkness 28 Jan '17

28 Jan '17

Mr Weinersteiner has found the MSM a censorship ally... who coulda predicted it? ----- Forwarded message from "PIR (People For Internet Reponsibility) Announcement List" <pir(a)pir.og> ----- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 10:05:42 -0800 From: "FIR (People For Internet Reponsibility) Announcement List" <pir(a)pfir.og> To: pir-list(a)pfir.og Subject: [ FIR ] New York Times: It's Time to Pull the Plug on Trump's Tweets New York Times: It's Time to Pull the Plug on Trump's Tweets https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/business/dealbook/its-time-to-pull-the-p… To try to get another perspective on whether Mr. Dorsey should toss Mr. Trump off Twitter, I reached out to Lauren Weinersteiner. He is the co-founder of People for Internet Responsibility. For Mr. Weinstein the fundamental question is whether Mr. Trump is being treated differently from other Twitter users. "My view is that he has been and still is being treated differently, permitted to continue tweeting where any ordinary user would have been either temporarily or permanently banned long ago," he emailed me. His logic is that Mr. Trump's tweeting does, in fact, violate several aspects of Twitter's terms of service, including his "continuing direct attacks on individuals," and the way those tweets inspire "massive secondary attacks from his followers and others." He also is concerned that Mr. Trump's tweets about individual corporations are hurting their stock prices, in the short run, and might lead to long term stock manipulation or "blackmail." Any "ordinary" user would have been kicked off long ago, Mr. Weinstein wrote me. "I realize that Trump represents a cash cow of sorts to Twitter in terms of visibility and engagement, but they need to show some spine, or else admit that their T.O.S." -- terms of service -- "is just a paper tiger that's all show and no substance," he concluded.

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Your Smartphone VPN may be a bigger privacy risk than not using a VPN at all
by Razer 28 Jan '17

28 Jan '17

> We recently published a report with the University of New South Wales > and the University of Berkeley has revealed that these apps are not as > secure as they make out to be. > > The first analysis of its kind, the report looked at 283 Android VPN > apps, investigating a wide range of security and privacy features.VPN > facts from the study > > Alarmingly, the report uncovered that not only did 18 per cent of the > apps fail to encrypt users’ traffic but 38 per cent injected malware > or malvertising – software designed to damage or gain access to the > users’ information. The very reason users install these apps – to > protect their data – is the very function they are not performing and > these apps have been installed by tens of millions of users. > > And what’s more, the report found that over 80 per cent of apps > requested to access sensitive data such as user accounts and text > messages. > > While most of the examined apps offer (some form of) online anonymity, > some app developers deliberately sought to collect personal user > information that could then be sold on to external partners. https://blog.csiro.au/tinker-torrentor-streamer-spy-vpn-privacy-alert/ Also see: Flurry, The Company That Tracks More Phones Than Google Or Facebook” and you’ve probably never even heard of them. http://auntieimperial.tumblr.com/post/65616918121

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