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Hey kid... Need some extra cash to fund your Comp Eng degree? "Please Give Blood"
by Razer 14 Jan '17

14 Jan '17

The OLD RICH WHITE MEN need your blood. Please Give Blood: Saul Williams, Bloodletting, ColdCutt/DJ Spooky remix: https://youtu.be/6RdgiAXipDA The greatest Americans have not been born yet They are waiting patiently for the past to die Please give blood Those crumbled tablets were to share a story with a burning bush Where is that voice from nowhere to remind us that the holy ground we walk on, purified by native blood, has rooted trees who's fallen leaves now color coat a savored list of demands Who among us can give translation of autumn hues to morning news? The anchorman thrown overboard has simply rooted us in histories repeating cycle. A nation in its saddened years that wont acknowledge karma Where is the voice from nowhere, the ones your prophets spoke of? There are voices from fear disconnected from their diaphragms, dangling from coffee covered teeth that spill into our laps and scorch our privates There are voices from the sides of necks, some already noosed, dangling participles pronouns running for sentence Serving life in corner offices and ghetto corners, their voices are the same Dead to themselves, numb to the possibility of truth existing beyond that which they can palm in their hands, period There are voices of elders, which seem to do no more than damn us to our childish ways For in many households, wisdom no longer comes with age So where is that voice from nowhere, that burning bush, that passing dove? I hear the voices of generals calling for ammunition, presidents calling for arms, women calling for help Where is that voice from nowhere, that god of Abraham? Can he be heard over the gunfire, the whiz of passing missiles, the crash of buildings, the cries of children, the crack of bones, the shriek of sirens? Or is that his mighty voice? Your angry god craving the sacrifice of early generations sons degenerate Your holy books written in red ink on burning sands Your prayers between rounds do no more than fasten the fate of your children to the hammered truth of your trigger A truth that mushrooms its darkened cloud over the rest of us So that we too bear witness to the short lived fate of a civilization that worships a male god Your weapons are phallic, all of them That dummy that sits on your lap is no longer a worthwhile spectacle His shrunken pale face leaves little room for imagination We have spotted your moving lips and have pinned the voice to its proper source It is a source of madness It is a source of hunger, of power A source of weakness A source of evil We have exited your coliseum and are encircling your box-office, demanding our families back, our cultures back, our rituals back, our gods back, so that we may return them to their proper source The source of life, the source of creation, our mothers womb, the great goddess We will cut through the barbwire hangers and chastity belts We will climb in and incubate our spirits to the winter We will wait through the degenerate course of your repeated history We will wait for the past to die [Lyrics from: https://lyrics.az/saul-williams/not-in-my-name/bloodletting.html]

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[MSM/FakeNews] [RUS] - RT a myth, fake media with no following, lies on everything (says WaPo)
by Zenaan Harkness 14 Jan '17

14 Jan '17

Must not gloat, 'tis not dignified. Interesting alleged factoid here - the top 100 sites in the world are mostly search engines, social media, and porn. Nothing quite like failing to fact check your fake news allegations: RT Schools the Washington Post About RT's Audience Size https://www.rt.com/op-edge/373527-fact-checking-washington-post-rt-report/

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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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