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EU Intel Property Office Report Hates on Tor, Bitcoin, Bittorrent, Goods Pirates and Models
by grarpamp 23 Jul '16

23 Jul '16

https://torrentfreak.com/tor-and-bitcoin-hinder-anti-piracy-efforts-160715/ https://euipo.europa.eu/tunnel-web/secure/webdav/guest/document_library/obs… https://www.europol.europa.eu/content/launch-ipc3-europe%E2%80%99s-response… https://torrentfreak.com/tag/bitcoin/ https://torrentfreak.com/tag/tor/ A new report published by the European Union Intellectual Property Office identifies a wide range of 'business models' that are used by pirate sites. The organization, which announced a new collaboration with Europol this week, signals Bitcoin and the Tor network as two key threats to ongoing anti-piracy efforts. To avoid enforcement efforts, pirate sites often go to extremes to hide themselves from rightsholders and authorities. Increasingly, this also means that they use various encryption technologies to increase their resilience and anonymity. Several of these techniques are highlighted in a new report published by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). The report gives a broad overview of the business models that are used to illegally exploit intellectual property. This includes websites dedicated to counterfeit goods, but also online piracy hubs such as torrent sites and file-hosting platforms.

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Happy 4 July!!!
by grarpamp 23 Jul '16

23 Jul '16

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAJRcRZPfwQ Miami Police Shoot Unarmed Black Man Caring For Autistic Patient - Charles Kinsey because, officer says, "I don't know why".

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US FOIPA Held Up By Bogus Use Of Green Screens
by grarpamp 23 Jul '16

23 Jul '16

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/16/justice-department-freedom-… A new lawsuit alleges that the FBI intentionally conducts inadequate searches of its records using a decades-old computer system when queried by citizens looking for records that should be available to the public. Freedom of Information Act (Foia) researcher Ryan Shapiro alleges “failure by design” in protocols at the Department of Justice (DoJ) for responding to public requests. The Foia law states that agencies must “make reasonable efforts to search for the records in electronic form or format”. In an effort to demonstrate that the FBI does not comply with this provision, Shapiro requested records of his own requests and ran up against the same roadblocks that stymied his progress in previous inquiries.

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UK 'emergency' 'serious' bulk spying retention is said OK
by grarpamp 23 Jul '16

23 Jul '16

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/19/eu_court_bulk_data_ok_for_serious_c…

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Facebook WhatApp Payments, Microsoft Skype: Biggest Central Spy Platforms
by grarpamp 23 Jul '16

23 Jul '16

https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/20/one-billion-messengers/ http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/07/skype-finalizes-its-m… https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/755759397050003460 Mass userbases, seeming updates, yet qualified analysts still able to easily lodge legitimate critiques on security, privacy, openness, crypto, privacy...

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Are there scientific papers calling sheeple and the financial system with their true names?
by Georgi Guninski 23 Jul '16

23 Jul '16

Are there scientific papers calling sheeple and the financial system with their true names? Euphemisms are positive answer too. Search terms are welcome. The closest I have seen is Russian analysis in news of the USA debt (maybe Zenaan posted the link, not sure).

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What If There Just Aren’t Enough Jobs to Go Around?
by grarpamp 23 Jul '16

23 Jul '16

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2016/07/21/what-if-there-just-arent-enough-j… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12139627 http://rooseveltinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Declining-Entrepre… " The Roosevelt authors say a key factor is the concentration of resources in the hands of managers and owners of large corporations—think of CEOs who are compensated largely in shares of the firms they oversee. This ownership encourages them to skimp on labor costs to further enrich themselves, in their analysis. That shrinking demand for labor then helps depress job-market dynamism. It also contributes to broader secular stagnation, since wealthier people tend to save more of their incomes. " " 1) Eventually, and probably pretty soon (within 100years), that there obviously won't be jobs for everyone. Automation, progress(efficiency gains) and increasing population makes it inevitable. 2) That a general "goal" of society is do away with jobs. In any traditional sense. To me we've been approaching that ever since agriculture provided ability to support specialists (those who don't spend time gathering/producing the food/resources they need). Such as scientists, artists and soldiers. The jobs keep moving "up" the ladder (away from production). Previous low-rung jobs get reduced in number by efficiency or replaced via automation. The end of this trend is that all basic needs are met by 0 to a tiny fraction of a percent of human labor and rest are all free to pursue specialist activities such as science, art, and killing each other. "

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the most annoying thing about Juan
by Zenaan Harkness 23 Jul '16

23 Jul '16

The dawning inescapable realisation that "he's right" and was right all along about Tor Inc.

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Global Authorities Redacting Islam To Further Their Agendas
by grarpamp 23 Jul '16

23 Jul '16

https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/4u28tl/authorities_in_nice_are_prote… " Nothing to hide, nothing to fear right? Let us see the footage. Same with the fabled Orlando 911 call and cctv footage etc.. " The FBI wanted to remove all references to Islam from those 911 calls and people rightfully got upset. Whatever the goal of covering up the cause of these attacks is - its apparently global. " Redacting the embarassing, furthering the plan.

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Police 3D Print Dead Man's Fingers To Unlock Phone
by grarpamp 23 Jul '16

23 Jul '16

http://fusion.net/story/327145/3d-print-dead-mans-fingers-to-unlock-his-pho… Last month, law enforcement officers showed up at the lab of Anil Jain, a professor at Michigan State University. Jain wasn’t in trouble; the officers wanted his help. Jain is a computer science professor who works on biometric identifiers such as facial recognition programs, fingerprint scanners and tattoo matching; he wants to make them as difficult to hack as possible. But the police were interested in the opposite of this: they wanted his help to unlock a dead man’s phone. Jain and his PhD student Sunpreet Arora couldn’t share details of the case with me, since it’s an ongoing investigation, but the gist is this: a man was murdered, and the police think there might be clues to who murdered him stored in his phone. But they can’t get access to the phone without his fingerprint or passcode. So instead of asking the company that made the phone to grant them access, they’re going another route: having the Jain lab create a 3D printed replica of the victim’s fingers. With them, they hope to unlock the phone. ... And Jain said he was happy to help when they got in touch: “We do it for the fun.” Just like telecoms, government "asks", university gives, for teh lols.

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