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FOIA adventures
by Michael Best 14 Jan '16

14 Jan '16

A few of my recent FOIA requests might be of special interest to these lists. CIA software - DUE DILIGANCE https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/due-diligence-soft… "Records relating to CIA's use of software referred to as "Due Diligence" in The Human Factor: Inside the CIA's Dysfunctional Intelligence Culture by Ishmael Jones. The software is described as being used to describe information available about a person from public databases. Please include records relating to the development of Due Diligence as well as any associated source code and technical manuals." TOR Naval Research Laboratory https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/tor-naval-research… "Records relating to the development of onion routing and "The Onion Router" AKA TOR by "onion routing", which was developed in the mid-1990s by United States Naval Research Laboratory employees, mathematician Paul Syverson and computer scientists Michael G. Reed and David Goldschlag." TOR DARPA https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/tor-darpa-22656/ All my MuckRock requests can be viewed at https://www.muckrock.com/accounts/profile/TheMikeBest/ New requests and updates posted to That1Archive.neocities.org

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Re: [cryptome] Re: FOIA Fodder
by Michael Best 14 Jan '16

14 Jan '16

I just added a bunch of new agencies to the FOIA Fodder list, including links to Lists of FOIA-able OIG investigations posted on Government Attic. http://that1archive.neocities.org/foia-fodder.html > i just looked at this list... :P > perhaps first order of business is to rank order this list? which > ones most interesting? "Werewolf Operation" ?? *grin* Operation Werwolf - the Nazi stay behind resistance army plan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werwolf Should be fun. =) --Mike That1Archive.neocities.org On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 8:22 AM, coderman <coderman(a)gmail.com> wrote: > i just looked at this list... :P > > perhaps first order of business is to rank order this list? which > ones most interesting? "Werewolf Operation" ?? *grin* > > > > best regards, > >

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RE: Re: US State Of New York to Ban Encrypted Screenlocked Phones and Devices
by boot＠ghostmail.com 14 Jan '16

14 Jan '16

no no no this is all wrong.. If new york can decrypt, it means there is a backdoor we know backdoors can be used by anyone who finds them. this is bad not only for pplz but also for business, who will still trust us tech? Thu Jan 14 2016 00:24:18 from John Young <jya(a)pipeline.com> ------------------------------ http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A08093&term=2015&Summary=Y… "New York can and should lead the nation in protecting its citizens, and in responding to the misguided and dangerous attempts by digital device manufacturers to turn digital devices into virtual safes that, being beyond the reach of law enforcement, are havens for criminals. Revela- tions in the recent past about NSA surveillance and similar government intrusions on privacy have made people acutely aware of threats to their privacy. The goal of this bill is not to limit peoples' privacy. Peoples' privacy is protected by the warrant requirement, as it always has been. This bill would help to protect all New Yorkers." We Love New York 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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RE: Re: US State Of New York to Ban Encrypted Screenlocked Phones and Devices
by boot＠ghostmail.com 14 Jan '16

14 Jan '16

Yes but if you intentionally build in a huge security hole, you are not protecting people but you put them at risk.. Thu Jan 14 2016 18:22:44 from Patrick Lonergan <xcelq(a)fastmail.com> ------------------------------ When we make something un break able. like tor but even the "un breakable" anonymous can be broken. On Thu, Jan 14, 2016, at 09:10 AM, boot(a)ghostmail.com wrote:no no no this is all wrong.. If new york can decrypt, it means there is a backdoor we know backdoors can be used by anyone who finds them. this is bad not only for pplz but also for business, who will still trust us tech? Thu Jan 14 2016 00:24:18 from John Young <jya(a)pipeline.com> ------------------------------ http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A08093&term=2015&Summary=Y… "New York can and should lead the nation in protecting its citizens, and in responding to the misguided and dangerous attempts by digital device manufacturers to turn digital devices into virtual safes that, being beyond the reach of law enforcement, are havens for criminals. Revela- tions in the recent past about NSA surveillance and similar government intrusions on privacy have made people acutely aware of threats to their privacy. The goal of this bill is not to limit peoples' privacy. Peoples' privacy is protected by the warrant requirement, as it always has been. This bill would help to protect all New Yorkers." We Love New York Sent from secure GhostMail. Easy and free encrypted email, chat and cloud storage, free sign up here. 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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Privacy Con (FTC's words, not mine)
by Michael Best 14 Jan '16

14 Jan '16

"FTC is hosting #PrivacyCon today with leading researchers to expand its insights of emerging technologies + their impact on consumers" https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/events-calendar/2016/01/privacycon Live webcast: https://kvgo.com/ftc/01-14-2016-Privacy-CON-Workshop Research submissions: #PrivacyCon is trending on twitter. I don't think they realize how unfortunate "Privacy Con" will sound to some....

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Re: US State Of New York to Ban Encrypted Screenlocked Phones and Devices
by John Young 14 Jan '16

14 Jan '16

http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A08093&term=2015&Summary=Y… "New York can and should lead the nation in protecting its citizens, and in responding to the misguided and dangerous attempts by digital device manufacturers to turn digital devices into virtual safes that, being beyond the reach of law enforcement, are havens for criminals. Revela- tions in the recent past about NSA surveillance and similar government intrusions on privacy have made people acutely aware of threats to their privacy. The goal of this bill is not to limit peoples' privacy. Peoples' privacy is protected by the warrant requirement, as it always has been. This bill would help to protect all New Yorkers." We Love New York

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US State Of New York to Ban Encrypted Screenlocked Phones and Devices
by grarpamp 13 Jan '16

13 Jan '16

https://www.onthewire.io/new-york-wants-to-force-vendors-to-decrypt-users-p… http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2015/A8093 "Any smartphone ... sold, leased or delivered to New York, shall be capable of being decrypted and unlocked by its manufacturer or its operating system provider ... penalty of $2,500 to the vendor for every device that doesn't comply"

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Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism
by Michael Best 13 Jan '16

13 Jan '16

Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking intelligence official ever to defect from the Soviet Bloc, served as acting chief of communist Romania's espionage service and top adviser to President Nicolae Ceausescu. The highest-ranking Soviet bloc intelligence official ever to defect to the West, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa is at it again. Today, still living undercover in the United States, the man credited by the CIA as the only person in the Western world who single-handedly demolished an entire enemy espionage service--the one he himself managed--takes aim at an even bigger target: the exotic, widely misunderstood but still astonishingly influential realm of the Russian-born "science" of disinformation.Indeed, within these pages, Pacepa, along with his co-author, historian and law professor Ronald Rychlak, expose some of the most consequential yet largely unknown disinformation campaigns of our lifetime. Discover answers to many crucial questions of the modern era: - Why, during the last two generations, has so much of the Western world turned against its founding faith, Christianity? - Why have radical Islam, jihad and terrorism burst aflame after a long period of apparent quiescence? - Why is naked Marxism increasingly manifesting in America and its NATO allies? - What really happened to Russia after the Berlin Wall came down? Like the solution to a giant jigsaw puzzle lacking one crucial piece, Disinformation authoritatively provides the missing dimension that makes the chaos of the modern world finally understandable. By its very nature, a disinformation campaign can work only if the seemingly independent Western press accepts intentionally fabricated lies and presents them to the public as truth. Thus, Pacepa and Rychlak also document how the U.S. "mainstream media's" enduring sympathy for all things liberal-left has made it vulnerable to--indeed, the prime carrier of--civilization-transforming campaigns of lying, defamation and historical revisionism that turn reality on its head. - How destroying the reputation of good leaders has been developed into a high art and science. - How Pope Pius XII --a generation ago the world's most high-profile Christian leader, who personally saved countless Jews from Hitler's Holocaust--was transformed, through the magic of disinformation, into a Nazi sympathizer. - How Christianity and Judaism have been targeted for constant denigration and defamation through an ongoing campaign of disinformation. - How the Soviet bloc planted 4,000 agents of influence in the Islamic world, armed with hundreds of thousands of copies of the most infamous anti-Semitic book in history, to fan the flames of ancient Arab resentments against the U.S. and Israel and sow the seeds of anti-Semitism that would later bloom in the form of violence and terror toward Jews and Christians. - How the defamatory attacks on American soldiers John Kerry made before Congress upon his return from Vietnam--charges later discredited and repudiated--were identical to a contemporaneous KGB disinformation campaign concocted to turn Americans against their own leaders. - How supposedly respectable institutions like the World Council of Churches have long been infiltrated and controlled by Russian intelligence. - How much of the world came to believe that the U.S. government itself masterminded the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. - How the Soviet Union has been transformed into the first intelligence dictatorship in history. - How disinformation is still very much alive in the age of Obama, remaining a powerful engine in the ongoing socialist transformation of America. All this and much more is meticulously documented in Disinformation, with the credibility of an eyewitness who was not only there, but actively involved as a Soviet bloc spy chief--who, thanks to a crisis of conscience, "left the dark side" and came to America to help shine a light on the greatest source of political evil of the modern age. Excerpts posted to: http://that1archive.neocities.org/excerpts/Disinformation-Pacepa.html

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Collected FISA docs
by Michael Best 13 Jan '16

13 Jan '16

549 FISA related docs at https://archive.org/details/ForeignIntelligenceSurveillanceAct View individual files: https://archive.org/download/ForeignIntelligenceSurveillanceAct Quick download: https://archive.org/compress/ForeignIntelligenceSurveillanceAct FISC documents only: https://archive.org/details/ForeignIntelligenceSurveillanceCourt (202 documents, all included in the FISA collection above) --Mike That1Archive.neocities.org

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Re: Sign the Letter to Secure the Internet
by John Young 13 Jan '16

13 Jan '16

Indeed, some cpunks advocate both arms and crypto personal offense and defense, but many more set up crypto initiatives (promotional and inventive) to distance themselves from those they considered harming the public image of Encryption (Cryptoo to vulgar", especially those who marketed academic, commercial and above all governmental comsec with the joys and financial rewards of moving among the three cash bovines wearing cowboy hats and chaps, sporting shaved faces and skulls, trimmed beards and hair, tatoos and dongles, or ultra-chic hybrids of all, to match the well-dressed opportunities fronted by gaggles of natsec-cum-privacy oriented NGOs, press and press-agents eager to advise, teach and crypto-party to the world's natsec-privacy combo needy. Sign on by just repeating technology will figure out how to do the combo -- by cheating and deception, rigging standards, relishing NDAs and secretkeeping while faking canaries and openness. At 02:12 PM 1/13/2016, grarpamp wrote: >On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 6:39 PM, John Young <jya(a)pipeline.com> wrote: > > There are indeed similarities of the crypto advocacy crowd with > > advocates of guns, which figures because both are classified > > as munitions and serve similar purposes. > > > > Gun control could be linked to crypto control, and some cpunks, > > in early days at least, emphasized the parallel. "My cold dead hands" > > was invoked for gun self-protection and passphrase for privacy > > protection. > >Early days? You must have missed the cpunks threads on this >in the last year... search for NRA. The similarities between the >two groups and their missions and environments are remarkable to >the point they should consider partnering for towards mutual benefit. > > > > Other parallels can be seen between cryptographers and weapons > > manufacturers pursuing commercial, governmental and user > > markets with sales pitches tuned to each category. Dual use > > an essential feature, duplicity and dual hats too. > > > > Could be more coming in regulation of cryptographers like gun > > manufacturers and dealers. And best, the black market and > > underground and warfare tools merchants and of course > > informants and betrayers.

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