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US Case: Infinite Jail Contempt for Disk Crypto, 5th Amndmnt, All Writs, FileVault, Freenet CHKs
by grarpamp 29 Apr '16

29 Apr '16

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/04/27/2357253/child-porn-suspect-jailed-i… http://thehackernews.com/2016/04/decrypt-hard-drive.html https://www.scribd.com/doc/310741233/Francis-Rawls-Case http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/child-porn-suspect-jailed-for-7-… Amici Curiae by EFF and ACLU A Philadelphia man suspected of possessing child pornography has been in jail for seven months and counting after being found in contempt of a court order demanding that he decrypt two password-protected hard drives. The suspect, a former Philadelphia Police Department sergeant, has not been charged with any child porn crimes. Instead, he remains indefinitely imprisoned in Philadelphia's Federal Detention Center for refusing to unlock two drives encrypted with Apple's FileVault software in a case that once again highlights the extent to which the authorities are going to crack encrypted devices. The man is to remain jailed "until such time that he fully complies" with the decryption order. The government successfully cited a 1789 law known as the All Writs Act to compel (PDF) the suspect to decrypt two hard drives it believes contain child pornography. The All Writs Act was the same law the Justice Department asserted in its legal battle with Apple.

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Re: [tor-talk] Supreme Court Gives FBI More Hacking Power
by grarpamp 29 Apr '16

29 Apr '16

On 4/28/16, krishna e bera <keb(a)cyblings.on.ca> wrote: > https://theintercept.com/2016/04/28/supreme-court-gives-fbi-more-hacking-po… > http://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/frcr16_8mad.pdf https://www.justsecurity.org/15018/justice-department-proposal-massive-expa… Among others commenting on the lists... Rule 41(b)(6) "a magistrate judge with authority in *any* district where activities related to a crime *may* have occurred has authority to issue a warrant..." Note *emphasis*. Perhaps missing from the article is that, similar to FISC / DC situation, this seems to allow LEA / Prosecutors to now cozy all these requests up to the friendliest court they can find (if they speculate, when concealed, that the activities *may* in fact be in that district [1]), rather than forcing distribution of requests randomly across them all (similar to the old principle of local jurisdiction... crimes originate randomly, are dealt with locally). That would be bad... bad precedents, much stuff under seal ex parte en camera rubberstamp etc. [1] Without such speculation, while still concealed, they would probably end up being lodged by location of lead investigative entity (even FBI HQ), or by other elements of the case, such as victim location. https://www.accessnow.org/cms/assets/uploads/archive/docs/Rule41botnettesti… Rule 41(b)(6)(B) 18 USC 1030(a)(5) And remote access of hacked protected computers... that's huge procedural change, and likely to be very sloppy and outright abused for ages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_judicial_district

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Sci-Hub: Who's Downloading Pirated Papers? EVERYONE.
by grarpamp 29 Apr '16

29 Apr '16

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/whos-downloading-pirated-papers-ever… To protect the privacy of Sci-Hub users, we agreed that she would first aggregate users’ geographic locations to the nearest city using data from Google Maps... http://scihub22266oqcxt.onion/

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jamming spread spectrum
by juan 27 Apr '16

27 Apr '16

http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1160&context=… http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1234&context=… feel free to add practical tips/relevant information/etc

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A complete guide to the new 'Crypto Wars'
by grarpamp 27 Apr '16

27 Apr '16

http://www.dailydot.com/politics/encryption-crypto-wars-backdoors-timeline-… The computer-science professors, cryptographers, and digital-rights advocates who had beaten back similar demands in the 1990s experienced deja vu. That series of fights, which they called the “Crypto Wars,” had only been the first round of a prolonged conflict. Now it was time to settle in for Crypto Wars, Round 2. But where and when did this new phase began? Pinpointing that exact moment may be impossible, but the timeline below provides a relatively comprehensive overview of the different fights that constitute the new Crypto War, from the early months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to the present day. [Not so complete... leaves out rise / spread of crypto, encrypted / anonymous applications, networks, and activities, digital currencies, international aspects. Someone should create and curate a better timeline, a wiki...]

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Re: Do you notice significant persistent change in climate?
by John C. Koen 27 Apr '16

27 Apr '16

Interesting documentary called Chasing Ice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIZTMVNBjc4 > -----Original Message----- > From: cypherpunks [mailto:cypherpunks-bounces@cpunks.org] On Behalf Of > John Newman > Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 7:41 AM > To: James A. Donald <jamesd(a)echeque.com> > Cc: cypherpunks(a)cpunks.org > Subject: Re: Do you notice significant persistent change in climate? > > * PGP Signed by an unknown key > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 11:33:28AM +1000, James A. Donald wrote: > > Yes, the glaciers in Iceland are retreating - to reveal the ruins of > > farmhouses. > > And while they melt they raise global sea levels, projected to raise a > minimum of ~3ft bt 2100. And sea levels won't magically stop raising at > 2100. This spells fucking catastrophe for major coastal cities > - e.g. New York, Miami, Bangkok, New Orleans, etc etc. > > -- > John > jnn(a)synfin.org > > * Unknown Key > * 0xD47A78C7 > -- --johnk

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Re: Offtopic posts
by John Young 27 Apr '16

27 Apr '16

Definitely: a high paywall, start at $1,000 a post, to cull the deadbeats. That's in bullion, no bitshit. Mis-post and price doubles, then goes geometric after 3. Your PINs are known. Here's the post ticket line: Hettinga hosts a deep "FC" vault packed with RL ransom goodies any deadbeat nation would genocide to expropriate for ignorant spenders of cognitive capital aka FC-CC. Now you know why only 200 Panama Papers files of 11,500,000 have been released. Robert's vault PIN is way off planet. At 05:46 PM 4/26/2016, you wrote: >Recently there have been posts regarding offtopic posts. >Speculating that at least one user here has prompted those... > >Zenaan got booted (or emigrated) from ubuntu fora >to some dead google group, till finding this place to >post his Rus-Aus etc stuff. This is not a personal swat >at Zenaan (or anyone else), he (and they) are surely >fine folks all around. And such posts are in fact interesting >to interested readers. >But instead is a note that there do need to be other places, >and referrals to such, where such things are ontopic and >uncensored, such that they may call them home. >Unfortunately, unless such posts here make reference >back to a somehow crypto, cpunk, c-tech, c-law context... >they're offtopic. >And frequently violating that should be expected to bring fire... >to the point that the violating author will be silently killfiled, >thus nullifying themselves. > >I'm no ontopic angel, send me to hell if you want.

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Bullion and BitShit
by grarpamp 27 Apr '16

27 Apr '16

On 4/26/16, John Young <jya(a)pipeline.com> wrote: > That's in bullion, no bitshit. At least with the current generation and lineage of software BitShit, you know exactly how much of it is in the ground, how fast it's being mined, the pots it's held in, if it's moving, what the metrics are and so on. Even if you don't know who owns pots, or what the Grand Scheme is, that's still better than most buillion schemes be it rocks, metals, or paper. Though perhaps a bit more risky due to newness. BTW, whatever shit is or isn't in Fort Knox hasn't seen the light of day in over 40 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bullion_Depository https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Point_Mint https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware_Depository http://nymag.com/news/9-11/10th-anniversary/gold/ http://www.rediff.com/money/2001/nov/17wtc.htm To understand BitShit, it's needed to understand some of this... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Reserve_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_reserve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullion_coin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock > Now you know why only 200 Panama Papers files of 11,500,000 > have been released. Another dataset, lost till time irrelavent. Backup your BitShit.

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Australia's Secret Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis - Libertarian economics - perception of a free market
by Zenaan Harkness 27 Apr '16

27 Apr '16

If you're an Australian with a mortgage, you might consider that you owe it to yourself to investigate your own mortgage, by FOI, by viewing, searching and pursuing - a time of crisis is almost always an opportunity for some, and that might be you. Carpe diem. ----- Original Message ----- Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 08:08:24 +0800 Subject: Australian mortgages Hi all, The following link is to a 27 minute clip of some astounding information regarding Australian mortgages. If you have or have had a mortgage, this is a MUST WATCH. It is one of the best and most accurate expose of this fraudulent activity by central banks that I've ever seen. Australia's Secret Sub-Prime Crisis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMcf4PUyOzY

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Re: [Cryptography] Darpa wants a secure messaging app based on blockchains
by grarpamp 26 Apr '16

26 Apr '16

On 4/26/16, Jerry Leichter <leichter(a)lrw.com> wrote: > There's nothing in the SBIR proposal that calls for back doors. > > Keep in mind that the FBI is at this point pretty much out there alone in > demanding back doors (though they won't admit that that's what they really > want). Alone is no reason to ever cease putting the pressure on those sorts of people / entities. After all, they do it to you, courtesy of your taxes, and their whim, and your opponents, 24 x 7 x 365... no proposal needed.

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