- cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Oracle slurs PostgreSQL - was Re: Russia bans purchase of foreign non-niche software in Russian state agencies
by Zenaan Harkness 26 Mar '16

26 Mar '16

Dear Russian computing punk friends - enjoy, and holler for any questions you might have - now is the time to sieze the day. pgsql-general email thread link is below - best for specific database tech questions. We figured some backlash might come to Putin's pro-local (i.e. effectively also "libre") software policy ("nasty protectionists" say the globalisation nuts), and Oracle the corporate $LUT$ they are, recently leaped right in Lucifer Style (Gangnam eat your heart out). This attack on local in particular smaller Russian businesses, by Oracle against PostgreSQL is some evidence that Putin's policy is having an effect in Russia which Oracle is disliking (does your heart bleed for Oracle's loss of profits in Russia? Those poor, poor American billionaires...). Now is a fantastic opportunity for those individual and business entrepreneurs in Russia to use your words and advocacy to fight this particular American bully. Enjoy :) This is free publicity you just can't beat, couldn't purchase. Find good word smiths in Russia, play the various cards - "Oracle attacks the little guy", "Oracle attacks community", "Oracle tries to maniuplate Russia" "no Oracle, we're not that stupid, basic facts are not, like, rocket science or anything" and every other combination that makes sense in Russia. Pump it to your media, bounce your links to the PostgreSQL mailing list linked below, build that nationalist/ community/ local guys spirit. A multi billion dollar American bully trying to shirt-front Russia! Gold! Just gold! Marketing material you could never buy! Little guys vs Billion dollar bullies. Fantastic! Once this publicity is milked, letters should be sent to Larry Ellison and the rest of the Oracle board, thanking them sincerely for their efforts to promote Russian local business and Russian computing self confidence - as well as for raising awareness of the aggressive and bullying nature of American money, Starikov style :) : http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/russian-patriotic-party-thanks-obama-… "Russian Political Party Trolls Obama and Kerry by Sending Thank-You Cards" Perhaps Oracle should try to sell their wares in the CIA's project Ukraine?: http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/ukrainian-refugees-flood-eu-poland-co… "Poland Considers Building a Wall - Against Ukrainians" (Just as well the western Ukrainians are wealthy folk, honourable with their many multi-billion dollar IMF loans, and about to join the EU eh? Oracle should fit right in, feel right at home...) http://momjian.us/main/blogs/pgblog/2016.html#March_22_2016 Oracle Attacks Postgres in Russia Bruce Momjian "Tuesday, March 22, 2016 During my twenty years with Postgres, I knew the day would come when proprietary databases could no longer ignore Postgres and would start attacking us. Well, that day has come, at least in Russia. During the past few weeks, Oracle sent a letter (Russian http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/attachment/43080/PostgreSQL_Oracle.pdf , English translation https://www.metachris.com/download/PostgreSQL_Oracle_en.pdf ) to Russian partners and customers comparing Oracle favorably to Postgres as a way of cirumventing a new law ( http://www.themoscowtimes.com/business/article/russia-restricts-use-of-fore… ) favoring Russian-produced software. This is the first direct attack I have seen on Postgres, and is probably representative of the kinds of attacks we will see from other vendors and in other countries in the years to come. The press has picked up on the news (Russian http://momjian.us/main/blogs/pgblog/www.vedomosti.ru/technology/articles/20… , English http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/21/oracle_fights_russian_software_poli… ) and given balanced coverage. Comments ( http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2016/03/21/oracle_fights_russian_so… ) on the English article were, in general, positive — I particularly liked this one ( http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2016/03/21/oracle_fights_russian_so… ). There are two Hacker News threads about it (1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11317899 , 2 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11332449 ), a community thread ( http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CANNMO++6tPiwBv2OKcy-HhiYmByhL+XS… ) about it, and another community thread about Oracle RAC ( http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/ncotsa$lhg$1@pye-srv-01.telemetry… ). Taken together, this is an interesting time for Postgres. " http://www.msearcher.info/blog-en/software/oracle-fights-russian-software-p… Oracle fights Russian software policy with Postgres smear An email calling for links to pro-PostgreSQL advocacy http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/ncotsa$lhg$1@pye-srv-01.telemetry.co.uk The whole thread: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/ncotsa$lhg$1@pye-srv-01.telemetry… Begins: "If anybody puts together a "just the facts" document after Oracle's attack on PostgreSQL in Russia, please make sure it's drawn to the attention of this mailing list for the benefit of those who aren't in -advocacy."

1 0

Is Gutmann critical of DJB in "On the Impending Crypto Monoculture"
by Georgi Guninski 26 Mar '16

26 Mar '16

http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2016-March/028824.html On the Impending Crypto Monoculture Peter Gutmann Is Gutmann critical of DJB (the creator of the divine qmail)? (there is some disagreement about this with alleged linux admins). Maybe I will troll DJB no matter which way it is ;)

3 4

Can we legally borrow some sploits from TLAs?
by Georgi Guninski 26 Mar '16

26 Mar '16

Public list for this is not a good idea. Can we legally borrow some sploits from TLAs? Maybe sufficiently sophisticated honeypot? (I am not good at this). Anything already implemented?

2 2

Cloudflare blogs on their Cert Tech
by Rayzer 25 Mar '16

25 Mar '16

Wondering if their cert tech can spoof a cert to look like it belongs to a site they DNS when it really belongs to them and you've never really visited the site at all. TLS Certificate Optimization: The Technical Details behind "No Browser Left Behind" Overview Back in early December we announced our "no browser left behind" initiative to the world. Since then, we have served well over 500 billion SHA-1 certificates to visitors that otherwise would not have been able to communicate securely with our customers’ sites using HTTPS. All the while, we’ve continued to present newer SHA-2 certificates to modern browsers using the latest in elliptic curve cryptography, demonstrating that one does not have to sacrifice security to accommodate all the world’s Internet users. (If you weren’t able to acquire a SHA-1 certificate before CAs ceased issuing them on 2015/12/31, you can still sign up for a paid plan and we will immediately generate one to serve to your legacy visitors.) Shortly after we announced these new benefits for our paid Universal SSL customers, we started hearing from other technology leaders who were implementing (or already had implemented) similar functionality. At first glance, the logic to identify incoming connections that only support SHA-1 seems straightforward, but as we spoke with our friends at Facebook, Twitter, and Mozilla, I realized that everyone was taking a slightly different approach. Complicating the matter even further was the fact that at CloudFlare we not only wanted to optimize between SHA-1 and SHA-2, but also between RSA and the newer, but less universally supported ECDSA certificates. Solve the "optimal certificate" question incorrectly, and the TLS handshake will fail — or get explicitly aborted by browsers that have deprecated SHA-1 entirely; solve it correctly, and the client and server will establish the most performant, secure connection available between the two endpoints. Certificate Optimization Logic After several trillion requests, we’re confident that our approach works quite well for CloudFlare’s customers and their visitors. If you have taken an alternative approach to implementation, or have found any exceptions/potential refinements to our logic, please chime in below. We remain committed to withdrawing SHA-1 support if, as our CEO said, "a vulnerability is discovered [in our certificate optimization logic] which allows some form of downgrade attack—where a modern browser can be tricked into receiving a certificate signed with an insecure protocol—and the vulnerability cannot be patched". TLS Handshake Before your web browser can securely exchange "application data" such as HTTP GET or POST requests and responses with a web server, it must first establish the cryptographic parameters of the secure session. This well-choreographed dance, known as the SSL/TLS handshake, commences as soon as you click, type, or get redirected to a URL containing the "https://" scheme. (The process described below also applies to connections from any user agent — not just browsers—so substitute "mobile app", "command-line utility", or anything else that can communicate via HTTPS.) More: https://blog.cloudflare.com/tls-certificate-optimization-technical-details/ -- RR "Through counter-intelligence it should be possible to pinpoint potential trouble-makers ... And neutralize them, neutralize them, neutralize them"

2 2

Fwd: [secu-share] Whatsapp, a Trojan horse for seekers of easy privacy?
by grarpamp 25 Mar '16

25 Mar '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: carlo von lynX <lynX(a)time.to.get.psyced.org> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 14:26:50 +0100 Subject: [secu-share] Whatsapp, a Trojan horse for seekers of easy privacy? To: liberationtech(a)mailman.stanford.edu Concerning Whatsapp there is a very interesting clue in a thread on "messaging" that suggests users will never know if end-to-end encryption is being used, since the server decides whether they are allowed to, and the user is not informed. Knowing the NSA that means that Whatsapp would never encrypt anything end-to-end. Whatsapp should therefore be considered a Trojan horse for people seeking easy to use privacy. Read about that at https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/messaging/2014/001133.html Careful on using that mailing list however. If I understood correctly it is being maintained by one of the developers of TextSecure, which is the end-to-end encryption system that has been integrated into Whatsapp, possibly with the purpose of looking good, making good headlines and never being actually run. http://www.wired.com/2014/11/whatsapp-encrypted-messaging/ Of course I assume everyone is operating in the best of intentions, including the NSA. This is just FYI. -- http://youbroketheinternet.org ircs://psyced.org/youbroketheinternet -- secu-share(a)lists.secushare.org https://lists.secushare.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/secu-share

1 0

On money - "Why we need to beat Russia"
by Zenaan Harkness 25 Mar '16

25 Mar '16

http://thesaker.is/why-we-need-to-beat-russia/ Quotes: "Our Imperial weapons give definite form to our Empire. And nothing has shaped our Empire more than the FIAT. The deformation began in 1971, when the US imposed her Power to re-define the rules of the monetary system for her sole benefit. The ability to print IOU’s in exchange for real value is more clever than theft as we borrow and do not pay back in kind due to inflation. Our enemies, adversaries and vassals must found their financial systems upon the printed dollar which they must purchase with hard earned money. That seizure has financed a vast network of military bases, bribery, assassinations, coup d´états and perpetual war. What’s not to like? All that Power without taxing the produce of the American people. So why have we lost in Syria?" "But whom, may we ask, has the power to decree wealth? And with such great power to do so, who can be trusted with such great responsibility? No one. That is who." "Inequality of Wealth, therefore, always reaches its peak at the end of the FIAT timeline." "That is the death blow. The Fiat produced a parasite – the financial sector – that in its greed is killing the real economy." "Monsanto can darken the sunflower harvest in the Ukraine, and Allianz can steal a few tranquil Greek islands, but the ambience is never quite the same as when hard working people had their just rewards, and goodness and charity and kind souls rejoiced – with compassion and cooperation – while loving the narrative of a life written while desiring only the product of their work. The world this Global Reserve Fiat creates is one of misery and strife where evil and greed feeds upon the spirit, and the world becomes an immoral wasteland of modernity [I would add: "and war"]. The worker is discriminated against as all pressure and stress is heaped upon his future, as the law discriminates between debts held as an asset vs. debt held as a liability." "Now, the East – China / Russia / India – challenge the Global Reserve Fiat. And when the dollar fails, and it will: For debt is the essence of fiat, and when it defaults, the system defaults with it." "And when the 98% – their future burdened by intolerable debt, unemployment and declining wages – decide to walk away? The fear of that decision has been driving interest rates down for decades, to make it bearable not for the good of mankind but to prolong the system. This brings into relief an internal contradiction: wages decline in sync with interest rates because the bargaining power of workers evaporates as Central Bankers reduce the cost of capital, contributing to the substitution of labour and labour wages by that of the machines and AI software [should just have said "by mechanisation and automation", but hey, who's quibbling...]." "As we look at the precarious nature of our faith-based money, we must acknowledge the moral implications of “dishonest money”. Seizure by decree, whether judged just by Constituted Power, is immoral. But the fact that dishonest money is so easy to create, control and redistribute helps one understand the wave of immorality that has swept over our world." ["faith based money" - great phrase!] "Our Imperial weapon will die by both edges of its own sword, one being the contempt with which it is so easily created to bend the will of the world to its bidding, and the other sharp edge which the wicked are blind to recognize: The evil that sound money prohibits." "The Dynasties of Wealth - Have you ever wondered how we hedge our holdings through turmoil? The top 85 patricians of which own more wealth than the bottom 3.5 billion humans – will move first. The 1%, then 2% and whoever else left standing will be forced to follow through." "They easily control men through greed and are beholden to Gold alone. Gold transitions their wealth recycling system through change."

1 0

Re: [Cryptography] Hayden on encryption v. metadata
by grarpamp 25 Mar '16

25 Mar '16

On 3/24/16, J.M. Porup <jm(a)porup.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 05:11:11PM -0700, Henry Baker wrote: >> https://www.lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcast-general-michael-hayden-discusse… >> >> Highly recommended, *especially* if you disagree with Hayden. >> >> Basically, Hayden is ok with just about anything -- including torture -- >> so long as it is approved by someone higher up. Methinks he might not >> fare so well in a Nuremburg-type trial, but perhaps those ethics are sooo >> last century. > > Maybe it's time to start publicly calling for Nuremberg-style war crimes > tribunals to arrest, prosecute, convict, imprison, and execute senior > surveillance state officials? Who exactly is going to post these prosecutors... congress, courts, doj, Obama? They already excused / ignored / approved of Bush, Cheney, cabinets et al, telecoms, NSA, too big to fail, QE[n], deficits and debt, overclassification, droning, ubiquitous surveillance, murder, papers please, pollution, Abu Gitmo, torture, revolving door, CIA, tech backdoors, rendition and infinite detention, databases, etc.......... What are you gonna do, round up a posse, pin on some badges, saddle up and ride on over to DC? Where and when exactly does the buck stop? Putin / Ecuador? Collapse? Seriously. You might want to figure that out...

1 0

Hillary Emails, Gold Dinars and Arab Springs
by Zenaan Harkness 25 Mar '16

25 Mar '16

Well well well - what a tangled and hellish web the West weaves (see below)... the sad and indicting facts of reality are steadily going public. "Conspiracy nuts" have no joy in this. The evil is beyond a London Has Fallen or "Benghazi" propaganda movie. City of London and Wall Street 'had to take down Qaddafi' to stop his pan-African/Arabic gold backed currency "initiative", so unfortunately lost him his life. The odd speech I've watched, Qaddafi was compelling, and with heart for his people and those beyond his nations boundaries. Now we can see why the West acted and continues to act so brutishly. French oligarchs - your number's called! City of London and Wall Street bankers - you can't hide your deeds! Western oligarchs - you stand with despotic authority. How small minded are the West's oligarchs? So narrow minded, so belligerently addicted to control of currencies and nations, as though there's not enough abundance to go round... major cases of small dick syndrome are evidently in abundance all around the West's 'halls of power' - how absolutely fucking pathetic! (Evidently Hillary and Merkel are thoroughly bound - so this is nothing that men have any monopoly on.) I'm guessing that at least in hindsight it might be seen to have been in Qaddafi's interest to work with Russia on that particular gold backed currency initiative. Still surprised he not took the lesson from Saddam's "oil for Euros" hanging. Perhaps Russia was seen as weak, or rather if we be frank "devastated" as it was when the USSR was destroyed, only now beginning to get back her stride. The sanctions against Russia and the CIA sponsored "colored springs" (turmoil) around Russia in the last few years take on a more poignant appearance in the face of Hillary's emails - attempts to keep the bear occupied, hey hey, Wall Street's version of "Occupy Russia" - I only wish it were a laughing matter. Is difficult for me to comprehend the acceptance of Hillary Clinton by at least some faction of American's in the face of her ghastly "we came, we saw, he died" laughter - the acceptance of such insanity is a sign, and more than "the 'leaders' have lost touch with the people" but really that (the American) people have lost touch with the despotic evil reality of their 'leaders'. We have a duty to stand against such evil. Small mercies that we get these little leaks of information here and there... Z http://journal-neo.org/2016/03/17/hillary-emails-gold-dinars-and-arab-sprin… Hillary Emails, Gold Dinars and Arab Springs Column: Society Region: Middle East Country: Libya Buried amid tens of thousands of pages of former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s secret emails, now being made public by the US Government, is a devastating email exchange between Clinton and her confidential adviser, Sid Blumenthal. It’s about Qaddafi and the US-coordinated intervention in 2011 to topple the Libyan ruler. It’s about gold and a potentially existential threat to the future of the US dollar as world reserve currency. It’s about Qaddafi’s plans then for the gold-based Dinar for Africa and the Arab oil world. Two paragraphs in a recently declassified email from the illegal private server used by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during the US-orchestrated war to destroy Libya’s Qaddafi in 2011 reveal a tightly-held secret agenda behind the Obama Administration’s war against Qaddafi, cynically named “Responsibility to Protect.” Barack Obama, an indecisive and weak President, delegated all presidential responsibility for the Libya war to his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. Clinton, who was an early backer of an Arab “regime change,” using the secret Muslim Brotherhood, invoked the new, bizarre principle of “responsibility to protect” (R2P) to justify the Libyan war, which she quickly turned into a NATO-led war. Under R2P, a silly notion promoted by the networks of George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, Clinton claimed, with no verifiable proof, that Qaddafi was bombing innocent Libyan civilians in the Benghazi region ( http://www.cfr.org/libya/libya-responsibility-protect/p24480 ). According to a New York Times report at the time, citing Obama Administration senior sources, it was Hillary Clinton, backed by Samantha Power, then a senior aide at the National Security Council and today Obama’s UN Ambassador; and Susan Rice, then Obama’s ambassador to the United Nations, and now National Security Adviser. That triad pushed Obama into military action against Libya’s Qaddafi. Clinton, flanked by Powers and Rice, was so powerful that Clinton managed to overrule Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Tom Donilon, Obama’s national security adviser, and John Brennan, Obama’s counterterrorism chief, today CIA head ( http://www.thenation.com/article/obamas-women-advisers-pushed-war-against-l… ). Secretary of State Clinton was also knee-deep in the conspiracy to unleash what came to be dubbed the “Arab Spring,” the wave of US-financed regime changes across the Arab Middle East ( http://www.state.gov/secretary/20092013clinton/rm/2011/01/154595.htm ), part of the Greater Middle East project unveiled in 2003 by the Bush Administration after occupation of Iraq. The first three target countries of that 2011 US “Arab Spring”–an action in which Washington used its “human rights” NGOs such as Freedom House and National Endowment for Democracy, in cahoots as usual, with the Open Society Foundations of billionaire speculator, George Soros, along with US State Department and CIA operatives–were Ben Ali’s Tunisia, Mubarak’s Egypt and Qaddafi’s Libya. Now the timing and targeting of Washington’s 2011 “Arab Spring” destabilizations of select Middle East states assume a new light in relation to just-released declassified Clinton emails to her private Libya “adviser” and friend, Sid Blumenthal. Blumenthal is the slick lawyer who defended then-President Bill Clinton in the Monika Lewinsky and other sex scandal affairs when Bill was President and facing impeachment. Qaddafi’s gold dinar For many it remains a mystery just why Washington decided that Qaddafi personally must be destroyed, murdered, not just sent into exile like Mubarak. Clinton, when informed of Qaddafi’s brutal murder by US-financed Al Qaeda “democratic opposition” terrorists, told CBS news, in a sick, joking paraphrase of Julius Caesar, “We came, we saw, he died,” words spoken by her with a hearty, macabre laugh ( http://www.cbsnews.com/news/clinton-on-qaddafi-we-came-we-saw-he-died ). Little is known in the West about what Muammar Qaddafi did in Libya or, for that matter, in Africa and in the Arab world. Now, release of a new portion of Hillary Clinton’s emails as Secretary of State, at the time she was running Obama Administration war on Qaddafi, sheds dramatic new light on the background. It was not a personal decision of Hillary Clinton to eliminate Qaddafi and destroy his entire state infrastructure. The decision, it’s now clear, came from circles very high in the US money oligarchy. She was merely another Washington political tool implementing the mandate of those oligarchs. The intervention was about killing Qaddafi’s well-laid plans to create a gold-based African and Arabic currency to replace the dollar in oil trades. Since the US dollar abandoned gold exchange for dollars in 1971 the dollar in terms of gold has dramatically lost value. Arab and African OPEC oil states have long objected to the vanishing purchasing power of their oil sales, mandated since the 1970’s by Washington to be solely in US dollars, as dollar inflation soared more than 2000% to 2001. In a newly declassified Clinton email from Sid Blumenthal to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton dated April 2, 2011, Blumenthal reveals the reason that Qaddafi must be eliminated. Using the pretext of citing an unidentified “high source” Blumenthal writes to Clinton, “According to sensitive information available to this source, Qaddafi’s government holds 143 tons of gold, and a similar amount in silver… This gold was accumulated prior to the current rebellion and was intended to be used to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar. This plan was designed to provide the Francophone African Countries with an alternative to the French franc (CFA https://www.foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_DecWebClearedMeta/3… ).” That French aspect was only the tip of the Qaddafi gold dinar iceberg. Golden Dinar and more During the first decade of this century, Gulf Arab OPEC countries, including Saudi Arabia, Qatar and others, began seriously diverting a significant portion of the revenues from their vast oil and gas sales into state sovereign wealth funds, many based on the success of Norway’s Oil Fund. Growing discontent with the US War on Terror, with the wars in Iraq and in Afghanistan, and with overall US Middle East policies after September 2001, led most OPEC Arab states to divert a growing share of oil revenues into state-controlled funds rather than trusting it to the sticky fingers of New York and London bankers as had been the custom since the 1970’s when oil prices went through the roof, creating what Henry Kissinger fondly called the “petro-dollar” to replace the gold-backed dollar Washington walked away from on August 15, 1971. The present Sunni-Shi’ite war or clash of civilizations is in fact a result of the US manipulations after 2003 in the region— “divide and rule.” By 2008 the prospect of sovereign control by a growing number of African and Arab oil states of their state oil and gas revenues was causing serious concern in Wall Street as well as the City of London. It was huge liquidity, in the trillions, they potentially no longer controlled. The timing of the Arab Spring, in retrospect, increasingly looks tied to Washington and Wall Street efforts to control not only the huge Arab Middle East oil flows. It is now clear it was equally aimed at controlling their money, their trillions of dollars accumulating in their new sovereign wealth funds. However, as is now confirmed in the latest Clinton-Blumenthal April 2, 2011 email exchange, there was a qualitatively new threat emerging for Wall Street and the City of London “gods of money,” from the African and Arab oil world. Libya’s Qaddafi, Tunisia’s Ben Ali and Mubarak’s Egypt were about to launch a gold-backed Islamic currency independent of the US dollar. I was first told of this plan in early 2012, at a Swiss financial and geopolitical conference, by an Algerian with extensive knowledge of the project. Documentation was scarce at the time and the story remained in my mental back-burner. Now a far more interesting picture emerges that puts the ferocity of Washington’s Arab Spring and its urgency in the case of Libya into perspective. ‘United States of Africa’ In 2009, Qaddafi, who was at the time the President of the African Union, had proposed that the economically depressed continent adopt the “Gold Dinar” ( http://www.wnd.com/2011/08/337881/#fQbTdeRLfVczxYqc.99 ). In the months prior to the US decision, with British and French backing, to get a UN Security Council resolution that would give them the legal fig-leaf for a NATO destruction of the Qaddafi regime, Muammar Qaddafi had been organizing the creation of a gold-backed dinar that would be used by African oil states as well as Arab OPEC countries in their sales of oil on the world market. Had that happened at the time Wall Street and the City of London were deep into the financial crisis of 2007-2008, the challenge to the reserve currency role of the dollar would have been more than serious. It would be a death knell to American financial hegemony, and to the Dollar System. Africa is one of the world’s richest continents, with vast unexplored gold and mineral wealth, had been intentionally kept for centuries underdeveloped or in wars to prevent their development. The International Monetary Fund and World Bank for the recent decades have been the Washington instruments to suppress African real development. Gaddafi had called upon African oil producers in the African Union and in Muslim nations to join an alliance that would make the gold dinar their primary form of money and foreign exchange. They would sell oil and other resources to the US and the rest of the world only for gold dinars. As President of the African Union in 2009, Qaddafi introduced for discussion to African Union member states Qaddafi’s proposal to use the Libyan dinar and the silver dirham as the only possible money for the rest of the world to buy African oil ( http://www.youshouldbuygold.com/2011/10/end-of-african-gold-standard-the-oi… ). Along with the Arab OPEC sovereign wealth funds for their oil, other African oil nations, specifically Angola and Nigeria, were moving to create their own national oil wealth funds at the time of the 2011 NATO bombing of Libya ( http://www.thisisafricaonline.com/Policy/Rise-of-the-African-sovereign-weal… ). Those sovereign national wealth funds, tied to Qaddafi’s concept of the gold dinar, would make Africa’s long-held dream of independence from colonial monetary control, whether of the British Pound, the French Franc, the euro or the US dollar, a reality. Qaddafi was moving forward, as head of the African Union, at the time of his assassination, with a plan to unify the sovereign States of Africa with one gold currency, a United States of Africa. In 2004, a Pan-African Parliament of 53 nations had laid plans for an African Economic Community – with a single gold currency by 2023. African oil-producing nations were planning to abandon the petro-dollar, and demand gold payment for their oil and gas. The list included Egypt, Sudan, South Sudan, Equatorial Guinea, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tunisia, Gabon, South Africa, Uganda, Chad, Suriname, Cameroon, Mauritania, Morocco, Zambia, Somalia, Ghana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Cote d’Ivoire, plus Yemen which had just made significant new oil discoveries. The four African member-states of OPEC–Algeria, Angola, Nigeria, a giant oil producer and the largest natural gas producer in Africa with huge natural gas reserves, and Libya with the largest reserves–would be in the new gold dinar system. Little wonder that French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who was given the up-front role in the war on Qaddafi by Washington, went so far as to call Libya a “threat” to the financial security of the world ( http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/markets/item/4630-gadhafi-s-gold-mone… ). Hillary’s ‘rebels’ create a central bank One of the most bizarre features of Hillary Clinton’s war to destroy Qaddafi was the fact that the US-backed “rebels” in Benghazi, in the oil-rich eastern part of Libya, in the midst of battle, well before it was at all clear if they would topple the Qaddafi regime, declared they had created a Western-style central bank, “in exile.” In the very first weeks of the rebellion, the rebel leaders declared that they had created a central bank to replace Gadhafi’s state-owned monetary authority. The rebel council, in addition to creating their own oil company to sell the oil they captured announced: “Designation of the Central Bank of Benghazi as a monetary authority competent in monetary policies in Libya and appointment of a Governor to the Central Bank of Libya, with a temporary headquarters in Benghazi ( http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/markets/item/4630-gadhafi-s-gold-mone… ).” Commenting on the odd decision, before the outcome of battle was even decided, to create a western-style central bank to replace Qaddafi’s sovereign national bank that was issuing gold-backed dinars, Robert Wenzel in the Economic Policy Journal, remarked, “I have never before heard of a central bank being created in just a matter of weeks out of a popular uprising. This suggests we have a bit more than a rag tag bunch of rebels running around and that there are some pretty sophisticated influences ( http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/markets/item/4630-gadhafi-s-gold-mone… ).” It becomes clear now in light of the Clinton-Blumenthal emails that those “pretty sophisticated influences” were tied to Wall Street and the City of London. The person brought in by Washington to lead the rebels in March 2011, Khalifa Hifter, had spent the previous twenty years of his life in suburban Virginia, not far from CIA headquarters, after a break with Libya as a leading military commander of Qaddafi ( http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/world/middle-east/article24618… ). The risk to the future of the US dollar as world reserve currency, if Qaddafi had been allowed to proceed–together with Egypt, Tunisia and other Arab OPEC and African Union members– to introduce oil sales for gold not dollars, would clearly have been the financial equivalent of a Tsunami. New Gold Silk Road The Qaddafi dream of an Arabic and African gold system independent of the dollar, unfortunately, died with him. Libya, after Hillary Clinton’s cynical “responsibility to protect” destruction of the country, today is a shambles, torn by tribal warfare, economic chaos, al-Qaeda and DAESH or ISIS terrorists. The monetary sovereignty held by Qaddafi’s 100% state-owned national monetary agency and its issuance of gold dinars is gone, replaced by an “independent” central bank tied to the dollar. Despite that setback, it’s more than notable that now an entirely new grouping of nations is coming together to build a similar gold-backed monetary system. This is the group led by Russia and China, the world’s number three and number one gold producing countries, respectively. This group is tied to the construction of China’s One Belt, One Road New Silk Road Eurasian infrastructure great project. It involves China’s $16 billion Gold Development Fund, and very firm steps by China to replace the City of London and New York as the center of world gold trade. The Eurasian gold system emerging now poses an entirely new quality of challenge to American financial hegemony. This Eurasian challenge, its success or failure, could well determine whether we allow our civilization to survive and prosper under entirely different conditions, or whether we decide to sink along with the bankrupt dollar system ( http://journal-neo.org/2015/08/12/the-worth-of-gold-growing-by-the-day/ ). F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.

1 1

Cellebrite describes 10 steps to hack a Blackberry and other tips
by John Young 23 Mar '16

23 Mar '16

Cellebrite describes 10 steps to hack a Blackberry and other tips <https://t.co/NJ4MazuX8J>https://cryptome.org/2016/03/cellebrite-msab-001.pdf

1 0

Israeli company contracts to US for Cellie Data Extraction
by Rayzer 23 Mar '16

23 Mar '16

FBI using Israeli firm Cellebrite to help break into San Bernardino terrorist's iPhone By Roger Fingas Wednesday, March 23, 2016, 07:04 am PT (10:04 am ET) An Israeli forensic software company, Cellebrite, is helping the FBI try to unlock the iPhone 5c used by San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook, according to a national newspaper. If the firm succeeds the FBI will be able to drop requests for help from Apple, reported Yedioth Ahronoth, as quoted by Reuters. The paper didn't say how Cellebrite was attempting to break into the phone, or what kind of progress it might be making. More: http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/03/23/fbi-using-israeli-firm-cellebrite… http://www.cellebrite.com/ -- RR "Through counter-intelligence it should be possible to pinpoint potential trouble-makers ... And neutralize them, neutralize them, neutralize them"

2 1