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Re: Russia and China crack Snowden Cache
by Shelley 14 Jun '15

14 Jun '15

On June 14, 2015 6:27:18 AM Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> wrote: [Snip] > Seems like they'd want to keep something like this quiet if their > > operatives really were in danger. Jmo. > >>> Well, may be not. > > <can't resist>Lie back, relax. Now imagine you're 5 years old.</> > > Actually, so you have 20 operatives in say North Korea and you need to > contact them urgently so they know their holiday picture taking is > over and must return post haste, since their holiday cover is about to > be blown - how do you contact them without personally contacting them, > to maximise their safety? > > Is a daily Tor sign in the best idea for operatives in other > countries? Of course for those who do their daily Tor duty, they > presumably will be notified. > > So perhaps just reading the daily newspaper from the country from > which you're officially on holiday from? "Oh, there's some > international spy scandal going on, think we better leave now dear, > since we foreigners might be targetted regardless - how about an > opportunistic trip South?" You do raise a valid point (and I enjoy "explain it like I'm five!") It's an angle I hadn't considered; I should wait to reply until I'm not in the throes of insomnia ;) The larger points, which occurred after I'd already hit 'send': where did they get this 'cache'? (Snowden insists he released what he had to Greenwald/Poitras et al in HK, and until proven otherwise I choose to believe him.) Sure, I guess he could have been blackmailed / rubberhosed... And the TLAs whine loudly about being thwarted by encryption, when they themselves have weakened EC anyway, and Russia/China have decrypted it but not the US?! Why would they even admit to that... I can't put my finger on it, and I'll readily admit I'm biased in that I don't trust the five eyes or their propaganda at all, but there is just something "off" about this whole thing. -S

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Slashdot - Multinational Digerati Probe Tank
by Zenaan Harkness 14 Jun '15

14 Jun '15

Ever notice some "articles" on this far less than illustrious yet overly popular digerati yank tank (aka /.) - which come across as Govt think-tank created probes to do their work for them?

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Reporter-USG Exchanges on Snowden Docs
by John Young 13 Jun '15

13 Jun '15

Italian reporter Stefania Maurizi has published her exchanges with NSA, DoJ and State about publishing Snowden documents (an exemplary model for others to follow): http://www.stefaniamaurizi.it/images/email_exchange_NSA.pdf http://www.stefaniamaurizi.it/images/email_exchange_DoJ.pdf http://www.stefaniamaurizi.it/images/email_exchange_State_Dept.pdf She also said she has published all the Snowden documents she had access to (another exemplar for those still withholding 93% of the Snowden full dump for the public, or 99.98% of the 1.7M USG claims was taken).

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Re: More murder by LEA
by John Young 13 Jun '15

13 Jun '15

This story is not accurate either. Officers did not simply approach Rahim to question, they approached to say hello, one was a friend of Rahim. He did not pull a machete, he pulled out his wallet to show baby photos. Rahim was not shot, he was congratulated on the baby boy. As the cop friend hugged him officers in a passing patrol car thought a struggle was underway, braked, lept out with guns drawn, yelled "freeze." Everybody froze, except for passerby video artist who began taping the scene. Seeing the video taping the cops and Rahim elected to play along, escalated the drama, faking punches, pulling imaginary knives and AK-47s, screaming threats. Then everybody broke up laughing, the video artist hollering thanks for that. Then the tape was uploaded to Fox News to become ISIS orgy pron. Rahim was undercover the Boston gay Muslim scene and still is. Don't ask don't tell. tripped on a broken sidewalk. The other cop (there were only two coming from the free donuts. thought he had been shot. At 02:27 PM 6/13/2015, you wrote: >https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/10/major-questions-remain-unansw… > >Last week in the Boston area, a 26-year-old black Muslim man was shot >and killed by agents of the FBI and Boston Police Department (BPD). As >we documented the following day, major media outlets immediately, >breathlessly and uncritically repeated law enforcement claims (often >anonymous ones) about what happened: that the dead man, Usaamah Rahim, >was on the verge of executing an âISIS-inspiredâ or âISIS-linkedâ plot >to behead random police officers, in a conspiracy with at least two >others. When Rahim was walking to work near a CVS drugstore at roughly >7:00 a.m., the officers approached Rahim simply to question him about >this plot; in response, he pulled out a âmacheteâ or âmilitary-style >knifeâ that he refused to drop, forcing the officers to shoot him >dead.

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Re: DataMines beget DataPirates and Future Orwellian Abuse
by John Young 13 Jun '15

13 Jun '15

No way yet to tell what really happened in these "massive breaches." Accounts vary from initial reports, to later reports, to investigations, to hearings, interlaced with remediations of various alleged iterations, leading in most cases to claim the full story cannot be revealed due to possible harm by disclosure. And best, the favorite runaround: the usual suspects are named without evidence, indeed, assessments are shaded with the customary claims by the usual experts consulted, "it is hard to tell who did it" and not only that evasion but the best and brightest security wizards (there are six of them named, 2 for, 2 against 2 undecided) who disagree on not only who did but what to do about breaches, whether they are breaches or malfunctions or publicity stunts or fund-raisers, hair-raisers, fear-raisers, TED talks, rigged hearings testimony (hearing testifiers are 2 for, 2 against, 2 undecided). Reportedly, cybersec market to increase to $130B by 2020 if not sooner. This increasingly generates more breaches, more massive, more ritual for, against, undecided. This cascading chaos was invented by six cypherpunks, each of them for, against, undecided. Then as now, certain, uncertain, confused about everything and nothing and whatever. No wonder the media follows that leadership, copies its methodology, denies feeding the trolls. At 03:33 PM 6/13/2015, you wrote: >http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/chinese-hack-of-gover… > >https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/12/data-breach-threat-of-future-… > >When are people going to wake up and realize that all privacy >promises are bullshit, that data collection is unnecessary invasive >and orwellian, and that they need to start telling people who claim >to need their info to fuck off. Medical / psych records? Income? >Phone calls? Politik? Their kids sextapes copied from centralized >phone cloud / sharing systems? > >OPM SF86's. Next is SSA, IRS. This is all happening.

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DataMines beget DataPirates and Future Orwellian Abuse
by grarpamp 13 Jun '15

13 Jun '15

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/chinese-hack-of-gover… https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/12/data-breach-threat-of-future-… When are people going to wake up and realize that all privacy promises are bullshit, that data collection is unnecessary invasive and orwellian, and that they need to start telling people who claim to need their info to fuck off. Medical / psych records? Income? Phone calls? Politik? Their kids sextapes copied from centralized phone cloud / sharing systems? OPM SF86's. Next is SSA, IRS. This is all happening.

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Sudden Justice: America’s Secret Drone Wars / UNMANNED
by grarpamp 13 Jun '15

13 Jun '15

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/11/six-facts-sudden-justice-new-… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpzk7OdbjBw

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More murder by LEA
by grarpamp 13 Jun '15

13 Jun '15

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/10/major-questions-remain-unansw… Last week in the Boston area, a 26-year-old black Muslim man was shot and killed by agents of the FBI and Boston Police Department (BPD). As we documented the following day, major media outlets immediately, breathlessly and uncritically repeated law enforcement claims (often anonymous ones) about what happened: that the dead man, Usaamah Rahim, was on the verge of executing an “ISIS-inspired” or “ISIS-linked” plot to behead random police officers, in a conspiracy with at least two others. When Rahim was walking to work near a CVS drugstore at roughly 7:00 a.m., the officers approached Rahim simply to question him about this plot; in response, he pulled out a “machete” or “military-style knife” that he refused to drop, forcing the officers to shoot him dead.

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FUCK jargon! [was Re: črypto is finished... and it's about time × (also: 'Balrog' malnet, firsthand view)]
by coderman 13 Jun '15

13 Jun '15

On 6/11/15, Seth <list(a)sysfu.com> wrote: >... a broader paper describing a global > surveillance technology we have dubbed Corruptor-Injector Networks why? FUCK jargon!

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on many links [was Re: črypto is finished... and it's about time × (also: 'Balrog' malnet, firsthand view)]
by coderman 12 Jun '15

12 Jun '15

On 6/12/15, Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> wrote: > ... > I am confident that local off-net PHY connections can go a long way to > increasing anonymity provided by anonymizing P2P networks - it's an > avenue unfortunately untapped, and even more so, not yet studied > academically. you need to remove some obstacles, like in-order delivery, and add some defenses, perhaps optimized dependent link padding and stochastic shaping. but the evidence is there, from the mesh network days - see multi-radio AODV optimizations highlighting the benefit of concurrent possible paths... then, as ever, the quintessential station wagon full of backup tape, "propinquitous discovery", "propinquitous delivery", best regards,

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