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FC 2017 - Call for Papers
by grarpamp 18 Sep '16

18 Sep '16

-------- Original Message -------- To: fc-announce(a)ifca.ai Call for Papers Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2017 Twenty-First International Conference April 3–7, 2017 The Palace Hotel Malta Financial Cryptography and Data Security is a major international forum for research, advanced development, education, exploration, and debate regarding information assurance, with a specific focus on financial, economic and commercial transaction security. Original works focusing on securing commercial transactions and systems are solicited; fundamental as well as applied real-world deployments on all aspects surrounding commerce security are of interest. Submissions need not be exclusively concerned with cryptography. Systems security, economic or behavioral perspectives, and interdisciplinary efforts are particularly encouraged. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to: Access Control Anonymity and Privacy Applied Cryptography Auctions and Mechanisms Authentication and Identification Behavioral Aspects of Security and Privacy Biometrics Blockchain Applications Certification and Audits Cloud Computing and Data Outsourcing Security Commercial Cryptographic Applications Contactless Payment and Ticketing Systems Cryptographic Currencies Digital Cash and Payment Systems Digital Rights Management Distributed Ledgers Economics of Security and Privacy Electronic Commerce Security Electronic Crime and Underground Markets Fraud Detection and Forensics Game Theory for Security and Privacy Identity Theft Insider Threats Legal and Regulatory Issues Microfinance and Micropayments Mobile Systems Security and Privacy Phishing and Social Engineering Reputation Systems Risk Assessment and Management Secure Banking and Financial Services Smart Contracts and Financial Instruments Smartcards, Secure Tokens and Secure Hardware Social Networks Security and Privacy Trust Management Usability and Security Virtual Goods and Virtual Economies Voting Systems Web Security ---------------------------------------

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US Sells Drone Dragnets to Cities, Preparing for Urban Revolts
by grarpamp 18 Sep '16

18 Sep '16

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/09/17/0231204/the-us-government-is-build… The US government plans to launch "a three and a half year initiative to develop an urban drone detection system." The Aerial Dragnet program is to use off-the-shelf commercial components and mostly established technologies and methods to create a network of floating or tethered platforms that will ultimately provide 95% efficient drone identification in urban areas up to 180 square kilometers. The call to proposers states that the total cost of the system for a city should be around $90,000, and would likely include the ability to identify the micro-Doppler signatures given off by UAVs -- and birds. Unmanned aerial systems are becoming platforms "for hostile reconnaissance, targeting, and weapon delivery," warns the government document, noting drones are hard to detect because they're small and fly slowly at low altitudes. "In future urban battlegrounds, U.S. forces will be placed at risk by small UAVs which use buildings and naturally-occurring motion of the clutter to make surveillance impractical..."

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[WAR] USA, Empire of Murderers, accidentally bombs strategic Syrian military airport for 50 minutes straight
by Zenaan Harkness 18 Sep '16

18 Sep '16

USA, the empire of ehaos, empire of assholes, empire of murderers. Hopefully this is as close as Russia and America get to overt confront. Hopefully. Question: How do you bomb the crap out of a highly strategic military air port in Syria, for 50 minutes straight, when that airport is being used to ferry food and medicine to the population the ISIS beseiged Syrian city of Deir al Zor? Oh, and just to highlight the problem, you the USA and your "coalition" fighter pilots have in the process murdered 80 Syrian military officers, wounded over 100 more, and due to decimating the Syrian "sovereign" government forces in the area due to your attacks, ISIS attacks in parallel to seize a strategic hill or two under the cover of your 50 minute bombing raid? And the airport has had western journalists visit and talk to the local officers who claim vehemently to be defending the world against Wahhabi extremism? And your dirty deed is in the far east of Syria, near the Iraqi border, you're as far as you could be from Russian forces, but you know the Russians are gonna be seriously pissed off - what would -you- say? "We got confused, since we allegedly targetted this area a year ago when it was held by ISIL" perhaps? Welp, you start out by arranging your bombing raid on the last day of a negotiated cease fire, so folks are hoping that cease fire gonna continue, or be extended. Then, when you're a senior officer in the US Department of Defense (defense? really?) you first claim "oh gee, I guess it might have been possible, we have bombed a lot of targets", then finally you proclaim to have made a "mistake". Because you know, America, the exceptional nation and all - couldn't possibly admit to coordingating such a murder campaign with their ISIL trainees . . http://theduran.com/as-moscow-complains-about-us-foot-dragging-washingtons-… http://beforeitsnews.com/politics/2016/09/america-accidentally-attacks-syri… http://russia-insider.com/en/us-air-strikes-kill-80-syrian-soldiers-besiege… When Russia destroyed the USA "elite training base" near the southern Syrian border, they gave notice to the American coalition, to evacuate their special forces there (which America duly did, despite grumbling). America, the land of exceptional integrity, exceptional dignity and exceptional morals, standing out above all other nations as the nation, and the people, to watch. World, watch your back, 'cause a dying dragon got sharp claws... UN Security Council meeting discussing this event: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/17/dozens-of--soldiers-dead-in-acci… http://russia-insider.com/en/vile-bizzare-ugly-us-envoy-slams-russia-callin… In other news, Turkey chases US Soldiers out of town: http://russia-insider.com/en/syria-turkey-backed-rebels-threaten-us-soldier… Britain, another "honourable" nation: http://theduran.com/how-britain-is-whitewashing-its-libyan-crime/ The Philippines' Duterte gives America the royal middle finger salute: http://theduran.com/philippines-pivot-action-can-punisher-withstand-america… " Duterte has stood up to the US to global applause, calling Obama a “son of a bitch” and the US Ambassador a “gay son of a whore” " http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/why-moscow-and-manila-will-make-ideal… Merkel no longer electable: http://theduran.com/germanys-angela-merkel-suffer-devastating-loss-berlin-e… China is delighted with the USA, Russia couldn't be happier with all the honoured cease fires negotiated by American secretary of state, all of South America is rootin for Hillary and the war party, and Europe knows it has stability and loyalty in hand with their American ally (as do we Aussies). America - the warm and cuddly, loyal and generous international partner. Not.

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Re: [From xorcist offlist] Cloudflare & NoDAPL again w/ a ROTF
by Razer 18 Sep '16

18 Sep '16

Replying through list b/c I don't want this scumbucket disruptor having a mail header from direct email to 'sigAint'. No 'pissing contest' necessary. Your email's blocked at the server buhbye troll. On 09/17/2016 09:32 PM, xorcist(a)sigaint.org wrote: > Taking this off-list, because it doesn't need to be on list. If you want > to smear other's mailboxes with it in a pissing contest, go right ahead. I > don't feel the need. > >> I'm NOT a kid > > So you say. No real way for me to know that though, is there? > >> I've been a victim of US intel agency stalking, slander, and disruption >> operations. When it was still done with phone, and file cabinet, and >> punch cards (if computer methods were used at all) > > If this is true, its supposed to impress me? Welcome to the club. You have > any idea how many people have been similarly stalked? Fucken millions. > Doesn't make you special, or mean you're a wrench in their gears. Cuz if > millions of wrenches were in the gears, they wouldn't be spinning. > > Punch cards, huh? They were phased out in the 60s. So that'd make you, at > the youngest, around a 20-something in 1965 or so. Call it 20 in '65. So > you're 71. On cypherpunks. With a handle like "Razer." > > And getting your panties in a bunch about age? > > I call bullshit. > > Take it from me. I'm no where near 71. But I am old enough that if someone > called me "kid" I wouldn't get all offended and try to "prove my age" like > some fucking 4 year old talking about how they are 4 and a half. > > I'd say "Fuck man.. I wish. Those were good days." > > But whatever. Your age is actually irrelevant to me.. I meant "kid" more > as "get with it, son." Age, proper has nothing really to do with it. But > thanks for the line of bullshit about punch cards to prove it. > > lulz. > >> >> Blah >> > > Right. So another internet warrior who preaches to the converted (does > ANYONE on cypherpunks need to be convinced of the abuses of power?) > thinking their life is a great wrench in the gears of power. > >> Blah blah My life IS a monkey wrench in their gearworks. In real life, >> in real time. > > Prove it. Because shit-talking on the net does fuck-all. Point me to one > widely-read article where you exposed previously unknown secrets, or even > linked together some public facts to give a new view of a situation. Show > me original research. Show me a piece of code you wrote that in any way > would piss off a fed. > > Show me one single, tangible thing, that you've done to help other people > resist state power. > > Because if you think running 'whois' and speculating about a two-bit law > office on a dis-frequented, unknown mailing list, is being a "wrench in > the gearworks" you're fucking deluding yourself. > > I'll grant you've probably inspired some people you know personally, and > thats admirable.. truly.. and its needed; but unless it has the > possibility of catching fire on the net and crossing borders, its no > wrench in the gears, mate. > > At best its some dust adding to the friction, but its no wrench. > >> >> You say. Your older or passed relatives have number tattoos on their >> bodies? Some of mine did. They weren't 'watching the moves'. > > I dunno. Some of my older relatives have ink, and lived outside the law.. > maybe one of them got a prison ID number put on at some point. I wouldn't > know for sure. Never asked them to strip down, and I know well enough not > to ask about things they don't offer to talk about. > > But having hard-ass relatives in biker gangs isn't enough to vet me. > > And having relatives that got caught up in the political machines means > fuck-all for you, too. > > I'd expect a 71 year old long time activist to understand these things. > >> Been waiting a long time. Like waiting for the stars to align. My life >> is a monkeywrench. Waiting is bullshit. > > Who the fuck is talking about waiting? Figure it out. Work on the problem. > Figure out a way to culture jam, even if on a small scale.. > > Dig up information on that law firm, if it really interests you. Put > together that original research. Schmooze them, maybe get a free meal out > of it, and get pics of the people behind the scenes. Dox the fuck out of > the whole op if you want. > > I really don't want to denigrate YOU, or discourage you -- but the point > I'm trying to make is that cypherpunks isn't the place for this thing, > man. We get it. Anyone that makes it to this list gets it, in some way or > another. > > Reposting articles and chit-chatting about how so-and-so could likely be > in bed with DHS means shit. Get the proof. > > >> >> You assume I'm emotionally involved? >> >> ROTF ROTF ROTF! >> >> You're fishing. > > > No. It's obvious that you're got all offended at my original post because > I didn't fall in with what you wanted. I didn't respond with "hot damn > these elite fucks piss me off, I'm with you man.. lets piss and moan about > it on cypherpunks" > > And don't get me wrong - the game DOES piss me off. But it does no good to > approach it this way. Learning the ins and out, and watching the stooges > does no real good if you don't take steps to STOP them. >

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Sim Theory
by cpunc 18 Sep '16

18 Sep '16

appendeges > appendages intelegent > intelligent apendage > appendage I guess spelling is subjective. -- cpunc

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Dream Theory
by DreaMachine 18 Sep '16

18 Sep '16

> xorcist: > dreamer I haven't seen too many around lately. Things have been tough lately for dreamers. They say dreaming is dead, no one does it anymore. It's not dead, it's just that it's been forgotten, removed from our language. Nobody teaches it so nobody knows it exists. The dreamer is banished to obscurity. Well, I'm trying to change all that, and I hope you are too. By dreaming, every day. Dreaming with our hands and dreaming with our minds. Our planet is facing the greatest problems it's ever faced, ever. So whatever you do, don't be bored, this is absolutely the most exciting time we could have possibly hoped to be alive. And things are just starting.

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Sim Theory
by Magilla 18 Sep '16

18 Sep '16

> xorcist: > intelligent life is the part of the universe that endeavors to understand itself. > We're the Universe's subconscious. You are a part of a super organism that is stretching through time in the form of every generation of everything that has ever lived; a being that has an infinite number of appendeges that represent all living forms of life on Earth. Every living thing is the very end of an interdimensional super intelegent apendage, like organic virtual reality goggles.

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Firefox [Tor] Browser 0day: Anti-Privacy Implantation at Mass Scale
by Ohdaze 18 Sep '16

18 Sep '16

> Fuckers: > BSD All the shit posts about Tor and you talk BSD. You guys are fags.

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US FBI: Was Stupid, Full of Shit, or Both re: iPhone
by grarpamp 18 Sep '16

18 Sep '16

https://apple.slashdot.org/story/16/09/17/0434213/how-the-fbi-mightve-opene… https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.04327 "Remember the San Bernardino killer's iPhone, and how the FBI maintained that they couldn't get the encryption key without Apple providing them with a universal backdoor?" quotes Bruce Schneier: Many of us computer-security experts said that they were wrong, and there were several possible techniques they could use. One of them was manually removing the flash chip from the phone, extracting the memory, and then running a brute-force attack without worrying about the phone deleting the key. The FBI said it was impossible. We all said they were wrong. Now, Sergei Skorobogatov has proved them wrong. Sergei's new paper describes "a real world mirroring attack on the Apple iPhone 5c passcode retry counter under iOS 9." The process does not require any expensive and sophisticated equipment. All needed parts are low cost and were obtained from local electronics distributors. By using the described and successful hardware mirroring process it was possible to bypass the limit on passcode retry attempts... Although the process can be improved, it is still a successful proof-of-concept project.

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What Cryptos Are Up Against...
by grarpamp 18 Sep '16

18 Sep '16

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakken_pipeline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminent_domain http://www.radioiowa.com/2015/05/11/se-ia-landowner-accuses-pipeline-agent-… ... should they really start to push not merely the existance but the applied crypto envelope...

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