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Someone recommends the hacking TV series "Mr. Robot"
by Georgi Guninski 19 Aug '15

19 Aug '15

Someone, technically literate, recommends the hacking TV series "Mr. Robot". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Robot_%28TV_series%29 >From wikipedia: --- The series follows Elliot Alderson, a young man living in New York City, who works at Allsafe as a cyber security engineer. Elliot has social anxiety disorder, but connects to people by hacking them and acts as a cyber vigilante. He is recruited by a mysterious social-anarchist known as "Mr. Robot", and joins his team of hackers, known as "fsociety". One of their missions is to take down one of the largest corporations in the world, E Corp (known as "Evil Corp" by Elliot) ---

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mainstream starting to get it, may be - "The end of privacy as we know it: 60 Minutes uncovers huge mobile phone security vulnerabilities"
by Zenaan Harkness 18 Aug '15

18 Aug '15

http://www.news.com.au/technology/gadgets/the-end-of-privacy-as-we-know-it-…

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Privacy advocates resign over facial recognition plans
by grarpamp 18 Aug '15

18 Aug '15

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/16/privacy-advocates-resign-prot… Technology industry lobbyists have so thoroughly hijacked the Commerce Department process for developing a voluntary code of conduct for the use of facial recognition technology that nine privacy advocates involved withdrew in protest on Monday. “At a base minimum, people should be able to walk down a public street without fear that companies they’ve never heard of are tracking their every movement ... Unfortunately, we have been unable to obtain agreement even with that basic, specific premise. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/06/17/1931216/privacy-advocates-leave-in-p… http://cvdazzle.com/ Ever notice the shiny new door, camera and register systems at Walmart? Wonder if retail is Stingray'ing patrons IMEI's into such databases? See the boxes popping up on roadsides, cameras and antenna arrays on poles and buildings at every intersection? All the pointless info and blood you have to give? In order to simply move and live and talk? For what, exactly, in return? Disgusting. Cypherpunks... when / where will it all end?

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Julian Assange: the Untold Story of an Epic Struggle for Justice
by Zenaan Harkness 18 Aug '15

18 Aug '15

http://russia-insider.com/en/media-criticism/julian-assange-untold-story-ep… Originally at: http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/07/31/julian-assange-the-untold-story-of-a… Julian Assange: the Untold Story of an Epic Struggle for Justice John Pilger, July 31, 2015 An extract: " Why hasn’t the Swedish prosecutor resolved the Assange case? Many in the legal community in Sweden believe her behaviour inexplicable. Once implacably hostile to Assange, the Swedish press has published headlines such as: “Go to London, for God’s sake.” Why hasn’t she? More to the point, why won’t she allow the Swedish court access to hundreds of SMS messages that the police extracted from the phone of one of the two women involved in the misconduct allegations? Why won’t she hand them over to Assange’s Swedish lawyers? She says she is not legally required to do so until a formal charge is laid and she has questioned him. Then, why doesn’t she question him? And if she did question him, the conditions she would demand of him and his lawyers – that they could not challenge her – would make injustice a near certainty. "

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What now after the Dallas Buyers Club pirate claim is rejected as ‘surreal’?
by Zenaan Harkness 17 Aug '15

17 Aug '15

A little sanity in the Australian courts - what a day. https://theconversation.com/what-now-after-the-dallas-buyers-club-pirate-cl… "The Court accepted that Voltage could ask for the costs of a single copy of the film and an appropriately proportioned fee to recover its legal costs so far." We have iiNet, Australia's second largest ISP, to thank for this. They have seen the economic self interest in putting some resources to establishing sane internet-related rulings. I call it "enlightened economic self interest" as it appears to be at least a step above the average corporate nature.

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Re: Snowden dump scope defined, now to details... [was: NSA SpyingRelies on AT&T'S "Extreme Willingness to Help"]
by wirelesswarrior＠Safe-mail.net 17 Aug '15

17 Aug '15

I was hoping there would be details on wireless monitoring and SIGINT similar to the almost total focus of the released Snowden papers on Internet infrastructure (except for the NSA Playset). > > Fill is great, but if this is the end of breadth, it is a sad day indeed. > (I'm still taking odds on some significant dumps both shortly before > [as disruptive] and after [as legislative] the US elections.) But there > are many other things that need more light... what is their status > on crypto? Their bigdata analysis capabilities? And more generally... > what people's governments are doing in (and not in) their name and > in secret, both for and against them?

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Why the close collaboration between NSA & AT&T matters
by Shelley 17 Aug '15

17 Aug '15

These recently released documents could give new life to Jewel v NSA. For years, James "I lie to Congress and get away with it" Clapper and his ilk have tried to make the EFF look like the lunatic fringe for backing the claims made in Mark Klein's testimony. The feds have managed to quash almost every investigation into their warrantless wiretapping under the tired guise of endangering national security, often with no substantive evidence; just the claim alone is enough to scare off most jurists. https://www.propublica.org/article/heres-why-the-close-collaboration-betwee… The EFF will be submitting these documents in support of Jewel v NSA. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/08/eff-claims-government-spying-atts-hel… -S

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Snowden dump scope defined, now to details... [was: NSA Spying Relies on AT&T'S "Extreme Willingness to Help"]
by coderman 17 Aug '15

17 Aug '15

On 8/16/15, John Young <jya(a)pipeline.com> wrote: > The NYT-Propublica is an informative and impressive release, > in many ways better than previous. It expands on the earlier > revelations (as the narratives state) with some overlap and filling > in gaps. A good sign the holders of the balance of the Snowden > dump are digging deeper and learning how convey a fuller picture this has been the most interesting observation on reporting over the last year across the channeled Snowden dataspill. with the bulk of significant revelations identified and conveyed, the trend now clearly toward fill rather than reach. all of the clamor for immediate and full disclosure perhaps under stated the scope of unique and noteworthy aspects contained within material that is also significantly banal, un-informative filler. in any case, i look forward to the details better defining the day to day operations of a super power intelligence apparatus so that we may better defend against this class as a whole, in the future. best regards,

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More Collateral Humanity...
by grarpamp 17 Aug '15

17 Aug '15

Shit you should read... https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/13/hunger-striking-detainee-test… No really... https://ccrjustice.org/sites/default/files/attach/2015/06/2015-06-25_BaOdah… Brought to you by the department of "wake up you non-USA people and push and prosecute the US" dept. You do remember how to use those quaint international relics like Nuremburg, Hague and UN don't you? Because if you don't, you're complicit, and you'll eventually get it shit back [by and] upon your own selves like this... https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/12/cia-torture-tactics-reemerge-… And everyone else will be proudly laughing... https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/14/bland-monster-jeb-bush-proud-… And ensuring you're legally fucked forever... https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/12/democrats-continue-lie-obamas… And by the "if you don't, this is what you'll soon get for using crypto, and things like pen paper and soapbox" dept. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_humanitarian_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rate

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FOIPA adventures [was: [tor-relays] clarification on what Utah State University exit relays store ("360 gigs of log files")]
by coderman 16 Aug '15

16 Aug '15

On 8/13/15, grarpamp <grarpamp(a)gmail.com> wrote: > ... > Well, I'll speculate that by now they've lawyered up and silenced their > OP such that it's unlikely that we'll hear from them (short of coderman > firing a broadside FOIA at them ;) *grin* NetFlow added to future queue, for great justice... best regards,

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