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American Ambassador to Russia in Moscow, Michael McFaul, gives a lesson to Russian students
by Zenaan Harkness 18 Jun '16

18 Jun '16

http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/michael-mcfaul-reason-i-tell-people-i… At least this Michael McFaul fellow demonstrates why he was appointed America's US Ambassador to Russia in Moscow (besides imparting some key points about America of course, at least from the American perspective, which is of course good for children to comprehend - to be able to view another's perspective).

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(no subject)
by Ryan Carboni 17 Jun '16

17 Jun '16

https://twitter.com/YourAnonCentral/status/743498759892406272

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How Russia is preparing for WWIII
by Zenaan Harkness 17 Jun '16

17 Jun '16

The Saker May 28, 2016, 3:25 pm How Russia is preparing for WWIII http://theduran.com/russia-preparing-ww3/ I find the Saker an unusually enjoyable read generally, and this submission to theduran.com is no exception. Enjoy..

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Turning optical fiber cable into microphone
by This 1s 17 Jun '16

17 Jun '16

Looking for stuff I found this post: http://blogs.wsj.com/tech-europe/2012/09/04/turning-a-fiber-optic-cable-int… Is internet cable in house a hot mic? Is it the end of the fiber, the field around the cable, or both? Thanks in advance :D

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Snowden on VICE/HBO 'State of Surveillance'
by grarpamp 17 Jun '16

17 Jun '16

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucRWyGKBVzo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhPV58YV_Kk When NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked details of massive government surveillance programs in 2013, he ignited a raging debate over digital privacy and security. That debate came to a head this year, when Apple refused an FBI court order to access the iPhone of alleged San Bernardino Terrorist Syed Farook. Meanwhile, journalists and activists are under increasing attack from foreign agents. To find out the government's real capabilities, and whether any of us can truly protect our sensitive information, VICE founder Shane Smith heads to Moscow to meet the man who started the conversation, Edward Snowden.

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Physical Key Extraction Attacks on PCs
by Zenaan Harkness 17 Jun '16

17 Jun '16

Fwd: Subject: [ PFIR ] Physical Key Extraction Attacks on PCs Physical Key Extraction Attacks on PCs http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/6/202646-physical-key-extraction-attacks… Our research thus focuses on two main questions: Can physical side-channel attacks be used to nonintrusively extract secret keys from PCs, despite their complexity and operating speed? And what is the cost of such attacks in time, equipment, expertise, and physical access? Results. We have identified multiple side channels for mounting physical key-extraction attacks on PCs, applicable in various scenarios and offering various trade-offs among attack range, speed, and equipment cost. The following sections explore our findings, as published in several recent articles.

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The Memory Hole 2
by grarpamp 17 Jun '16

17 Jun '16

http://thememoryhole2.org/ Back for round 2.

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Re: [tor-talk] Bittorrent starting to move entirely within anonymous overlay nets
by grarpamp 17 Jun '16

17 Jun '16

On 6/10/16, Mirimir <mirimir(a)riseup.net> wrote: > But there's still the traffic load. Or maybe, one could consider it as > chaff. Just sort of, though. Right? If that's the old "OMG, too much" argument... load re anon overlay nets may be more like bitcoin's interrelated variables... difficulty, txfees, reward, watts, price, txrate, etc... they'll slide nicely around to compensate until some unsolveable fundamental limit is reached. ie: Private (non-exit/I2P) use of these nets... if they slow, users will start talking urging more nodes, which they'll readily deploy themselves since private is low risk and satiates their use case. If the required node count to support n-million users starts blowing up CPU/RAM, devs will start getting poked to work on layering that. Even parallel nets with usage charters may arise by then as a given networks adversary resistance begets users begets trust begets honoring narrower charter. Besides, load happens to useful nets, no point trying to stave it off (nets are anon so staving is a no anyway), and trying to stave makes the stavers look stupid. A little education helps too, users will self regulate if they sense that, "Oh shit, I know this net is used for <insert activism I like>, but I can't even get my own <whatever> through, so I better ease up on variable <x>". Is it chaff, and good as to filling otherwise quiet parts of the net? Perhaps. But as in other GPA threads, I think fill traffic may need to be actively managed to defeat that, rather than just flooded.

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The Law of the Log [was: tor webmail/vpn/hosting providers]
by grarpamp 17 Jun '16

17 Jun '16

On 6/7/16, Артур Истомин <art.istom(a)yandex.ru> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 03:40:37PM +0200, carlo von lynX wrote: >> I don't understand why people still use mail services under >> Patriot Act.. er.. I mean Freedom Act jurisdiction? It's >> like searching with DuckDuckGo.. even if the majority of >> employees is sooo convinced that they are not collaborating >> with authorities, the law says they are. > > Exactly my thoughts. Duckduckgo and other services under US jurisdiction > *by law* saving logs, mails etc. There are laws - 'must' log / save, in fucked up countries - 'must not', in nicer countries - 'may' or 'no such law', in other weird / free / limbo places In the context, the US is actually largely the third case. In that situation, human nature trends toward saving, which then gets abused, whether by the saver and their lineage, or by an authority over, or adversary of, the saver. >> Laws are one of the few things on earth that still tell the >> truth. Once you read them, you understand why the earth is shite. >> The fact, only a minority does, allows general population (and >> the media by reflection) to think of reality as something else >> than what it is. See also: Reality TV programming

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Fwd: [Discuss-gnuradio] IMSI Catcher Catcher?
by grarpamp 17 Jun '16

17 Jun '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg(a)tristatelogic.com> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 18:15:14 -0700 Subject: [Discuss-gnuradio] IMSI Catcher Catcher? To: discuss-gnuradio(a)gnu.org [[ Up front confession: I know essentially nothing about radio. ]] Just a short while ago, I saw a Vice News video titled "State of Surveillance" in which Snowden brought up the fact that some journalists had found and outted some stingrays (IMSI Catchers) which had, apparently, been operating in some very sensitive areas of Oslo, Norway, for an unknown amount of time, managed by unknown people, for unknown purposes. That was the first that I personally had ever heard about that, so I googled it and found a lot of information about it online. I started to wonder about the fact that these Norwegian journalists were able to pull together the hardware and software necessary to detect the various anomalies that indicated the presence of these multiple stingrays in the Oslo city center. I googled some more and found the following blog article, written by Bruce Schneier, in which he notes that these days, pretty much anybody could easily build their own stingray, presumably out of an off-the- shelf computer and a reasonably cheap ($330 USD) little box called a "HackRF": https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/04/the_further_dem_1.html So, after that I was thinking that perhaps someone already has! Or better yet, perhaps someone has already written the code necessary to turn, for example, an ordinary laptop plus a HackRF box into a portable device that could *detect* the presence of stingrays, i.e. an "IMS-Catcher Catcher". For me at least it would be really a lot of fun to have one of those, i.e. an IMS-Catcher Catcher (stingray detector). I am not far from the State Capitol in California, and I, for one, would love nothing better than to wardrive down around the Capitol (and associated state government buildings), checking to see if there are any active stingrays operating in the area. (In the Oslo incidents, it was reported that several of the stringrays seemed to be strategically placed near major government building, including the Prime Minister's residence.) Of course, if I found any, I would immediately try to share that info with the few journos I know... and everybody else who I could get to pay attention. So, anyway, finally, my quuestion: Do any of you folks here know if anybody has created any publically available software (copyleft or otherwise) that would allow, e.g. a HackRF or any other inexpensive SDR to be turned into a stingray detector? If so, I'd love to receive a link to that. I have a laptop and $330 USB burning a hole in my pocket. Regards, rfg P.S. I did do some googling for what I'm asking for (before posting here) but the closest thing I found way an academic paper from Q3 2014 that seemed to say that the software these guys developed wasn't even up to what could be called "Beta quality": https://www.sba-research.org/wp-content/uploads/publications/DabrowskiEtAl-… They made their code freely available, but it appears that it has been stagnant and languishing since they did their paper in Q3 2014. :-( https://sourceforge.net/projects/icc/ P.P.S. In an ideal world, I'd like to see great massive hoards of people running around city centers all over the world... wardriving for a new generation... triangulating the exact locations of any stingrays they find, and then making all that info public someplace, e.g. on some single web site. I mean nobody knows where these things are *or* who might be operating them! (Anybody can buy one now for only $1800 USD off of alibaba.com... or probably build one themselves for much less with a laptop and a HackRF.) P.P.P.S. It really is too bad that the journalists who broke the Oslo stingrays story didn't do the sensible thing and follow-up properly on their initial finding, i.e. by *triangulating* until they had the exact locations of the various stingrays they found. If they had done that, then it might have been a LOT harder for the Powers That Be to just dismiss and deny their published findings, as they did, thus effectively sweeping the whole thing under the rug as far as the public was concerned. _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio(a)gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

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