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Re: Backward compatibility bites again (like RC4 in WPA2)
by coderman 04 Mar '15

04 Mar '15

On 12/9/14, grarpamp <grarpamp(a)gmail.com> wrote: > https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/12/08/poodleagain.html > > Similar how continued insistence on centralized > SMTP continues to bite. at least they're trying. RC4 in WPA2, and no signs anyone cares...

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REAL-ID Phone Access Coming Soon
by grarpamp 04 Mar '15

04 Mar '15

http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/15/02/24/0537219/pakistanis-must-provide-f… http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/pakistanis-face-a-deadline… First it was your name, face, age, height, weight, address, SSN, phone and email, birth location, parents names, ages, etc... just for Internet Access, now it's your fingerprints for Phone Access. And by the way, also your DNA for Access to prove your innocence... http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/04/us/supreme-court-says-police-can-take-dna… More things coming soon. What are you going to do? In other news... http://motherboard.vice.com/read/looking-up-symptoms-online-these-companies… Pissed off yet? Or still a sheeple?

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Fwd: [tor-talk] Why corrupt government officials are strongly opposed to this Tor project (a Gestapo government run amok!)
by grarpamp 04 Mar '15

04 Mar '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Travis Bean <tlbean(a)tlbean.com> Date: Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 1:50 AM Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Why corrupt government officials are strongly opposed to this Tor project (a Gestapo government run amok!) To: tor-talk(a)lists.torproject.org On 03/03/2015 02:19 PM, Travis Biehn wrote: > Certain individuals attribute structures that a society naturally evolves > as being somehow directed by an omnipotent actor. This actor is often cast > in the role of tormentor / antagonist. > > For you your tormentor is the 'Gestapo government' and what you perceive as > its colluding branches, including *ahem* 'psyops' outfits in the private > media. > > You're close, but unfortunately the truth won't appeal to your ego nearly > as much as the classic paranoid scenario you're living. > > One tool you might find helpful is to consider the cost of persecuting you > in this way, when the government has cheaper and more effective forms of > silencing dissidents. I have worked with computer hardware and software systems for long enough to know what the difference is between equipment failure and sabotage. I can prove my Internet equipment was sabotaged immediately after I first submitted my analysis to this tor-talk mailing list yesterday. I had to reflash the corrupted firmware on my router to get it to work again. My Internet connection was under denial-of-service attack for a prolonged period of time afterwards where I could not make a connection. This honestly happens every time I speak the truth regarding the National Security Agency and corrupt government officials who are abusing their power. Someday in the not too distant future, those of you who live here in the United States, who have been brainwashed into thinking this is a free democracy, will find out the truth about what this corrupt government are all about and will look elsewhere in the world to relocate. If I was granted one wish, it would be that someone in another part of the world would help me relocate away from this horribly oppressive regime that are literally holding me hostage and turning anyone against me who I appeal to for help. Sincerely, Travis Bean -- Travis L. Bean T.L.Bean - Your source for FREE open source www.tlbean.com -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk(a)lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

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Soghoian on Government Funding Crypto
by Polity News 03 Mar '15

03 Mar '15

To calm fears and help make people less paranoid of government financing, Soghoian wrote a beautiful tweet that I felt obliged to share. "Christopher Soghoian ‏@csoghoian Yes, the US government tortures, spies and assassinates, but sometimes it supports pretty awesome things, like usable crypto apps. 7:28 AM - 3 Mar 2015" https://twitter.com/csoghoian/status/572735276025569280 If you are thoroughly impressed by Soghoian's tweet, then you may want to read his interview on Democracy Now. http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2015/2/20/part_2_security_researcher_chris…

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Fwd: [tor-talk] Why corrupt government officials are strongly opposed to this Tor project (a Gestapo government run amok!)
by grarpamp 03 Mar '15

03 Mar '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Travis Bean <tlbean(a)tlbean.com> Date: Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 10:31 PM Subject: [tor-talk] Why corrupt government officials are strongly opposed to this Tor project (a Gestapo government run amok!) To: tor-talk(a)lists.torproject.org Hello, I am giving everyone on this mailing list a heads-up regarding what I have uncovered about the Gestapo government here in the United States and why corrupt government officials are so strongly opposed to this Tor project. I can prove I have become a target after I published information on my tlbean.com website exposing the truth about the National Security Agency's control mechanism that is being used to unlawfully monitor all Internet and email activity. I have had my cellphones and Internet equipment sabotaged repeatedly after exposing the truth about the NSA and after I published Tor-powered PrivacyGuard shell scripts on my website. On 12/29/2014 I submitted a report to a detective about my findings regarding foxnews.com. In my report I allege that News Corp and 21st Century Fox are simply a guise for a government controlled propaganda machine. I allege this based on evidence that I am bombarded by threatening news articles and coercive pop-up ads through foxnews.com anytime I submit a report about the NSA's control mechanism and their psychological warfare program. These threats of coercion are directed towards me personally based on my telephone conversations and email. I uncovered very unique information published in news articles through foxnews.com based on my own personal email and telephone conversations without my permission! Foxnews.com were able to direct coercive, threatening news articles and pop-up ads towards me personally based on my IP address until I started using Tor! After I investigated this extensively and figured out what was happening, I spoke to a detective and stated that I want Rupert Murdoch, executive chairman of News Corp and chairman of 21st Century Fox, interrogated extensively regarding this scandal. I stated to the detective I spoke with that Tor is a huge threat to News Corp's and 21st Century Fox's control mechanism. Just within a few days of asking for Rupert Murdoch to be interrogated, foxnews.com started blocking Tor! Take a look at what my extensive detective work has uncovered: Open this URL in a Tor-powered web browser: http://www.foxnews.com. News Corp and 21st Century Fox now realize Tor prevents them from feeding citizens coercive news articles and pop-up ads based on their IP address and are now blocking Tor as a result of my report. The United States Senate started blocking Tor at the exact same time! Open this URL in a second tab of your Tor-powered web browser: http://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact. This shady character Senator Orrin Hatch standing next to former NSA deputy director Chris Inglis, with a shovel in his hand, broke ground for the NSA's new data center in the state of Utah. This super-high-capacity data center now gives the NSA the ability to store every citizen's email, Internet activity, telephone conversations, and encrypted files indefinitely until the NSA's supercomputers crack the encryption. The NSA have made a revolutionary breakthrough in decrypting high-grade encryption in a very short period of time. Open this URL in a third tab of your Tor-powered web browser: http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/leadership/pmg-exec-comm.htm. The United States Postal Service, another arm of this corrupt Gestapo government, started blocking Tor at the exact same time for the same reason! Please note that when testing the URL http://www.hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact, or any other corrupt U.S. senator's contact page, you may have to use Vidalia to switch to a new identity multiple times until it lands on a blacklisted Tor server. For some reason, members of the United States Senate have their contact page unavailable for only certain Tor servers, and yet Foxnews and USPS appear to be using a much wider spectrum of blacklisted servers. What is interesting about my detective work I conducted is that you will notice from the "Access Denied" warning and reference # you receive when your Tor-powered web browser tries to render the above mentioned web pages, this indicates the exact same Tor-blocking software is being used to power foxnews.com, usps.com, and senate.gov. This proves my point that News Corp and 21st Century Fox are most definitely mysteriously controlled by the United States Gestapo government. This same thing happened after I started advertising my Tor-powered PrivacyGuard shell scripts on craigslist.org. My PrivacyGuard ads were immediately banned and then Craigslist started blocking Tor anonymity protection as well, even though this took place months prior to the above mentioned Tor blocking mechanism. Craigslist appear to be using different Tor blocking software than what foxnews.com, usps.com, and senate.gov are using. Immediately after I published my first draft of PrivacyGuard in September 2013, I can prove any of my Torified email I send to anyone who is using a Microsoft Exchange server is classified as SPAM when sent from Thunderbird with the TorBirdy add-on. I tested this out on multiple Exchange servers and I get the same result. Microsoft are desperately attempting to block email sent from anyone who uses TorBirdy. The only advice I have for Tor developers is keep up the good work! After I exposed the corrupt United States federal government for what they are all about, now Tor is a huge threat to the Gestapo government's control mechanism. Sincerely, Travis Bean -- Travis L. Bean T.L.Bean - Your source for FREE open source www.tlbean.com -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk(a)lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

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PandoDaily ♥s Cypherpunks
by Razer 02 Mar '15

02 Mar '15

PandoDaily's been 'on a roll' since... since... Yashsa Levine doesn't ♥ Glenn Greenwald and The//Intercept. They apparently want everyone, including non-High Value Targets, to think all cybersecurity is a joke. Tweet: "Cypherpunks, Internet privacy community stuck in cycle of dependency on US government intelligence agency handouts." via the supposedly defunct eXiledOnline's twitter feed <https://mobile.twitter.com/exiledonline/status/572444918003728384?p=v> (which is apparently being used as a PandoDaily promotion outlet via Mark Ames now) The article referenced by that tweet: Internet privacy, funded by spooks: A brief history of the BBG http://pando.com/2015/03/01/internet-privacy-funded-by-spooks-a-brief-histo…

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The Reading Room hidden service
by Crypto 02 Mar '15

02 Mar '15

Hello Everyone! About once a week I go in search of TOR hidden services that may be of interest to me. I found one this morning that I think is really great! I purchased a Ebook reader a couple of weeks ago and have been looking for sites to download books on the cheap (free). I found The Reading Room this morning at http://do2j6w3zf2esv4ko.onion/_catalog/ I don't usually promote ANY website but I think whoever did this site deserves a pat on the back (or a donation). I downloaded several Ebooks with no problems. Pardon my posting this if you are offended but I'm SO happy to find a website that will help feed my Ebook addiction! -- Crypto https://lastpass.com/f?3921926

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[Bitcoin-development] New paper: Research Perspectives and Challenges for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies
by Eugen Leitl 02 Mar '15

02 Mar '15

----- Forwarded message from Andrew Miller <amiller(a)cs.umd.edu> ----- Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 11:48:24 -0500 From: Andrew Miller <amiller(a)cs.umd.edu> To: Bitcoin-development(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Bitcoin-development] New paper: Research Perspectives and Challenges for Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies Message-ID: <CAF7tpEyHyg7cB8DQiwb-gGg5v5Hn1Kurw2GaVtid=LyJrB1XQA(a)mail.gmail.com> We (Joseph Bonneau, myself Arvind Narayanan, Jeremy Clark, Ed Felten, Josh Kroll -- from Stanford, Maryland, Concordia, Princeton) have written a “systemization” paper about Bitcoin-related research. It’s going to appear in the Oakland security conference later this year (IEEE Security and Privacy) but we wanted to announce a draft to this community ahead of time. http://www.jbonneau.com/doc/BMCNKF15-IEEESP-bitcoin.pdf One of the main goals of our work is to build a bridge between the computer science research community and the cryptocurrency community. Many of the most interesting ideas and proposals for Bitcoin come from this mailing list and forums/wikis/irc channels, where many academic researchers simply don’t know to look! In fact, we started out by scraping all the interesting posts/articles we could find and trying to figure out how we could organize them. We hope our paper helps some of the best ideas and research questions from the Bitcoin community bubble up and inspires researchers to build on them. We didn’t limit our scope to Bitcoin, but we also decided not to provide a complete survey of altcoins and other next-generation cryptocurrency designs. Instead, we tried to explain all the dimensions along which these designs differ from Bitcoin. This effort has roughly been in progress over two years, though it stopped and restarted several times along the way. If anyone has comments or suggestions, we still have a week before the final version is due, and regardless we plan to continue updating our online version for the forseeable future. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development ----- End forwarded message -----

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Internet privacy, funded by spooks: A brief history of the BBG
by John Young 01 Mar '15

01 Mar '15

Internet privacy, funded by spooks: A brief history of the BBG, March 1, 2015 http://pando.com/2015/03/01/internet-privacy-funded-by-spooks-a-brief-histo… Open Technology Foundation featured, along with Tor, Appelbaum, Doctorow, Kobeissi, Soghoian, et al

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Re: Governments Covertly Fund Internet Freedom Activists
by shelley＠misanthropia.org 01 Mar '15

01 Mar '15

On March 1, 2015 10:51:09 AM brian carroll <electromagnetize(a)gmail.com> wrote: > perhaps the institutionalization of 'royal perks' explains > in part the necessity of a one-party governing system, > where any actual opposition (politics) are then managed > and absorbed into this model, to protect/secure/maintain > aristocratic lifestyles otherwise threatened by actual change, > where the focus of issues of subsidy then becomes the poor: > > "hark! peasants are drinking wine, wine!! with Our Money!" > > (in a top-down surveillance context, who benefits/profits most?) ^ This +100. Very prescient; I could not have put it any better.

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