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Re: Publishing CIA's Declassified Vault
by Ryan Carboni 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

http://www.archives.gov/research/order/scanning.html "Only flatbed scanners (see below for single exception) are allowed. Automatic feeder devices on flatbed scanners are prohibited."

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Daddy longlegs
by Michael Nelson 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Last week I saw an announcement that they have discovered a new species of daddy longlegs named "Cryptomaster Behemoth". Actually I think there are a few on this mailing list. http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/35418208/monster-spider-discovered-in…

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NYSE... Got Root?
by grarpamp 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-26/high-speed-firms-now-over… Barclays, one of the biggest banking and financial services firms in the world, has sold its business on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange to Global Trading Systems. This is significant because it marks a transition between human-based trading and high-speed trading. Now, humans on the NYSE floor have more of a supervisory role, making sure the automated systems don't go haywire. Barclays has been around for hundreds of years; GTS was founded in 2006. "There used to be dozens of specialist firms, as designated market makers were once known, at the NYSE floor. But profits from trading U.S. stocks dwindled, making it difficult to serve as market makers without automation. Although GTS, Virtu, IMC and KCG employ human traders at the floor, their businesses are driven by some of the industry's most sophisticated computer systems."

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Google has been testing wifi connection speed
by Ryan Carboni 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

https://fi.google.com/about/network/ There are lots of Wi-Fi hotspots out there but not all of them are > high-quality. Project Fi automatically connects you to more than a million > free, open Wi-Fi hotspots we've verified as fast and reliable. This > technology helps keep your speed high and your data bill low—whenever > you're on Wi-Fi, you're not charged for data usage. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-wifi-fine-idUSBRE92B0VX20130312 Google Inc will pay $7 million to 38 states and the District of Columbia to > settle an investigation into a controversial incident in which its Street > View mapping cars collected passwords and other personal data from home > wireless networks between 2008 and 2010. Since EFF has recently condemned T-mobile, I thought it would be time to condemn Google. This provides greater context to Google's efforts to collect data on wifi networks. Such a program would allow to create a database of ip addresses each wifi network uses, and allows for a greater degree of mass surveillance.

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"out-of-band exfiltration"
by coderman 31 Jan '16

31 Jan '16

the TAO master spoke of "out-of-band exfiltration" of data at high risk of discovery, one thing an alert sysadmin might observe and react to. has anyone seen a summary of the exfiltration methods identified in leaks/other so far? this would have to span everything from Google Voice Search as covert channel, to retroreflector enabled signal recovery. pointers? best regards,

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Re: Better Discourse through Self Evidence; Mentorship
by coderman 31 Jan '16

31 Jan '16

On 1/31/16, Steve Kinney <admin(a)pilobilus.net> wrote: > ... > It always pays to outclass the opposition, in word /and/ deed. > Trolls, Buffoons and Lunaticks have their uses and some get paid; > but they have no staying power and eventually land on the rubbish > heap. It is said that a wise person may choose to act like a > fool, but that a fool can not choose to act like a wise person. > Let the great sorting begin... or, heh heh, stop it if you can. ignorance in a mind eager to learn more, is merely indicative of inquisitiveness. but willful ignorance in an obstinate fool needs no action other than absolute avoidance! there are many out there looking to learn with sincerity, yet so few teachers and mentors able to sate with knowledge instead of misguided misinformation or intentional obfuscation... be the font of educational insight and inspiration you wish to see in the world :)

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Methods of Exercising Control over the Direction of Discourse
by Ryan Carboni 31 Jan '16

31 Jan '16

The Gentleman's Guide To Forum Spies is no doubt disinformation. It is seemingly complete, as if to extinguish further analysis on the subject. But it seems to exclude methods which cannot be noticed, and seems to play to the fears of the paranoid. No doubt the psychologist who prepared the document is a threat to humanity itself and ought to be subject to summary execution. Afterall, a lack of interest in a topic should not be confused with forum sliding. Naturally if one is to bring up forum sliding in a forum, one would be dismissed as a troll and banned, perhaps rightly so. Through methods pioneered by Freud, I believe I have uncovered the methods in which the elites manipulate and stifle discussion to benefit their own interests. It is important to troll undesirable activists. It creates a low-grade trauma (which may increase social withdrawal and increased sensitivity to threats), makes them distrust certain common aspects of the trolls (through mental association), and wastes their time. It is also important to shift the internal Overton window of a group. While greater society has an Overton window over certain subjects, it's subcultures too have Overton windows. You don't see libertarians talk too much about nationalization now, do you? For conspiracy theorists, it is important to make it very difficult for new people to accept any conspiracy theory. Afterall, there's no clear line as to how the idea that the elites are conspiring is all that different then all the elites are lizard people (well, maybe have lizard brains, but that's different). Thus one must shift the direction of discussion to that of which is absurd so that additional individuals are unlikely to do anything more than outright dismiss the theories. Upon watching a propaganda video by North Korea targeted toward the conspiracy theorist members of the English-speaking population ( https://youtu.be/WEGMJE6I_Q4?t=28s ), it is evident that the video is targeting individuals with heightened responses to threats. It talks more about dangers without focusing on the logic of those dangers or alternative explanations. It's possible the video did not come from North Korea, but to make consumerist culture seem to exist by design, when it is quite likely it will exist anyway but could be promoted to serve the ends of the elites. These are self-serving individuals who are very good at what they do.

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The Crisis and Opportunity of Information Warfare
by Michael Best 31 Jan '16

31 Jan '16

https://archive.org/details/TheCrisisAndOpportunityOfInformationWarfare The latest document I found while digging up old publications relating to PROMIS and the Inslaw affair. The Inslaw PROMIS softare itself had that purpose... and more important, > had the full capability of doing it. It is the Cadillac of software systems > ... tying directly into the ... Federal Emergency Management Agency's plan > to arrest, jail and hold in detention camps political dissidents --Mike That1Archive.neocities.org

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Re: request for comment re &quot;contributor-covenant.org&quot;
by shakeitoff＠ghostmail.com 30 Jan '16

30 Jan '16

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 12:36 PM, juan <juan.g71(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Why doesn't the gleeful roasting extend to the bigotry and chauvinism >> on this list? Why are these silently accepted?   > Whatever bigotry and chauvinism there is, you don't seem to > have spoken against it too much (if at all). So, you are asking > that question to yourself?  You are right. I've done nothing but watch in silence when it happens. The responsibility is mine, but it is also yours, and it is everyone's in this community. Speaking out against injustice is not censorship. Although perhaps this could be considered a fine line. Sent from secure GhostMail. Easy and free encrypted email, chat and cloud storage, free sign up here: https://www.ghostmail.com

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Fwd: [liberationtech] Geoblocking and Global Video Culture
by Rayzer 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

Online read. Download available with login via specific social mediaz or (apparently free) account creation -- RR "Through counter-intelligence it should be possible to pinpoint potential trouble-makers ... And neutralize them, neutralize them, neutralize them" Geoblocking and Global Video Culture Edited by Ramon Lobato and James Meese Theory on Demand #18 Published by the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2016 http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/no-18-geoblocking-and-global-vi… How do global audiences use streaming platforms like YouTube, Netflix and iPlayer? How does the experience of digital video change according to location? What strategies do people use to access out-of-region content? What are the commercial and governmental motivations behind geoblocking? Geoblocking and Global Video Culture explores the cultural implications of access control and circumvention in an age of VPNs. Featuring seventeen chapters from diverse critical positions and locations – including China, Iran, Malaysia, Turkey, Cuba, Brazil, USA, Sweden and Australia. Contributors: Ramon Lobato, James Meese, Juan Llamas-Rodriguez, Cameran Ashraf, Marketa Trimble, Adam Rugg, Florian Hoof, Roland Burke, Jinying Li, Çiğdem Bozdağ, Chris Baumann, Aneta Podkalicka, Chris Baumann, Sandra Hanchard, Vanessa Mendes Moreira de Sa, Hadi Sohrabi, Fidel Alejandro Rodriguez, Evan Elkins. Copy-editing: Leonieke van Dipten. Editorial support: Miriam Rasch. Cover Design: Katja van Stiphout. DTP: Leonieke van Dipten. EPUB development: Leonieke van Dipten. Infographics: Sandra Hanchard. Printer: Print on Demand. ISBN: 978-94-92302-03-8. -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at companys(a)stanford.edu.

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