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Re: [tor-talk] A curious email from Twitter mentioning Tor Project
by Shelley 27 Dec '15

27 Dec '15

On December 26, 2015 2:23:25 PM juan <juan.g71(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > it's the same dumb scam that fukerberg is doing. A while back > the facebook cunts launched the same psy-op. Hey, we have > 'information' that an evil state is 'attacking' you, but that's > all we can say. Of course, it's understood that the attacker is > russian, chinese, or arab terrists, or something like that. > > And captain americuntwitter is saving you! Aren't you glad > that you live in a liberal democracy? > This comment made me smile. It echoes my sentiment perfectly, too. -Shelley (Meant to post this to the list also - sorry, Juan!)

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Re: [tor-talk] A curious email from Twitter mentioning Tor Project
by grarpamp 26 Dec '15

26 Dec '15

On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 6:32 AM, kytv <kytv(a)riseup.net> wrote: quote jens: https://twitter.com/qbi/lists/statesponsoredattack2015/members > After a couple of weeks (and finding no more than 46 confirmed "Persons > of Interest (by 'State Actors')", I'm at a loss as to why we received > it. Looking at the list members and our posts, nothing stands out as > being noteworthy. Except for the fact that there are a lot of privacy sphere and opensource contributors there. Various actors would definitely want to attack and infiltrate such things. #opsec y'all.

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WhatsApp blocked by Brazil momentarily
by Ryan Carboni 24 Dec '15

24 Dec '15

I think the best way to avoid censorship is to use DNScrypt and a major CDN.

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A viable option to 'unfriendlies' pwning tor exit nodes?
by Rayzer 23 Dec '15

23 Dec '15

Via @ioerror: http://tor.noisebridge.net/ -- RR "You might want to ask an expert about that - I just fiddled around with mine until it worked..."

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Re: "tinkering" punishable by destruction of property in TPP
by Softy 22 Dec '15

22 Dec '15

> > Of course corp love and lobbied the idea/TPP because then they > don't have publicly shamed products or spend money to fix them > and can let tax sponsored chilling force work for them. > > Which would, then, put "cyber" onto the same LEA principal as doors -- namely, the onus is on oneself to stay honest when passing by an open/unsecured door, knowing full well the riches exposed within are ripe for the "criminal element" to plunder. We readily blame the owner for not securing their home/car/whatever when theft occurs. We don't hear weekly roll-ups of five-finger discounted items, nor of items which may have "fallen off the truck." Change the theft to one based on bits, and it's front page news ... seemingly because it's so much more nefarious but really only because it's still a novelty in the Mind of the Many. Why aren't people indignant about the extra costs associated with theft? Which makes cyber related costs rather trivial. http://money.cnn.com/2010/10/18/news/economy/store_theft_drain_on_your_wall… The point being, inequality will allows foster theft. Prisons will never deter the Desperate nor Ruthless. Since the System clearly benefits overall from the inequality, and by extension the propagation of prisons, this is a condition likely to continue - even probably survive The Revolution: Jail being seen as the barricade against "Them." -daniel

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Apple assures EU its crypto will be user-pleasing protection, with many LE bypasses
by John Young 22 Dec '15

22 Dec '15

Apple assures EU its crypto will be user-pleasing protection, with many LE bypasses. <https://t.co/Fa1PSKbNVh>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/22/world/europe/apple-pushes-against-british… Crypto world cheers essential duplicity. Many thanks to Edward Snowden.

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"tinkering" punishable by destruction of property in TPP
by net_kitteh 22 Dec '15

22 Dec '15

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/white-hat-hackers-would-have-their-devices… how the living fuck are they going to enforce this.

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Re: [cryptome] TheCthulhu / CthulhuSec to Cryptome
by John Young 22 Dec '15

22 Dec '15

Just call it "TheCthulhu Archive," or something other than Cryptome, then good to go. Make many archives, many are being made, many more needed. All start by and are sustained by thieving, like Wayback's, Google's, WikiLeak's, Snowden's, Manning's, CIA's, NSA's, In-Q-Tel's, LoC's, Cryptome's. Mirrors, torrents, copies, siphoning, are tampering, rip-offs, fake goods. A long tradition of that banditry. Note the offerings of this list, most of the Internet, all of education, religion, law, the media. "Respected repository of information," oh my, what a false honor presaging a spit in eye. A dual hat locution worthy of ever-duplicitous cryptology. Claims of authenticity, anonymity, updates, are pickpocketing, shysterism, verily spy trade, inevitable tampering, cheating, deceiving. , NSA's, At 09:53 PM 12/20/2015, you wrote: >On 12/21/15, Shelley <shelley(a)misanthropia.org> wrote: > > Cryptome is, or was for a very long time, a respected repository of > > information. It'd be perfectly understandable if you're ready to hang it > > up, just please do it soon before you run it off the rails. Please pass it > >git (bare repo) > >with hidden server (tor, i2p) mirrors > >would enable distributed, anonymous, incremental, updates to the >repository to be published easily

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Carnegie Mellon's Paid Snitches - Responsibile For More Arrests
by grarpamp 22 Dec '15

22 Dec '15

http://www.dailydot.com/politics/tor-silk-road-deep-web-tor-attack-irish-dr… http://www.gwern.net/Black-market%20arrests https://github.com/gwern/gwern.net Drug case in Ireland has fingerprints of Carnegie Mellon's attack on Tor Dec 21, 2015 Two Irish men arrested for drug charges may be the latest known case of law enforcement using Carnegie Mellon University's sophisticated research to crack the Tor anonymity network. At least two criminal cases rely on data that researchers at CMU's Software Engineering Institute provided to the FBI. That list may have just expanded...

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back doors
by dan＠geer.org 22 Dec '15

22 Dec '15

With software auto-update in a fully personalized digital world, there is no need for back doors. Were active defense to go in the direction of diversity compilers, comparing updates would be uninformative. --dan

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