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slur: you're going to hate it
by Nick Econopouly 31 Jul '15

31 Jul '15

Paste for those who don't want to load the webpage: http://slur.io/ Slur: You're going to hate it. "Slur is an open source, decentralized and anonymous marketplace for the selling of secret information in exchange for bitcoin. Slur is written in C and operates over the Tor network with bitcoin transactions through libbitcoin. Both buyers and sellers are fully anonymous and there are no restrictions on the data that is auctioned. There is no charge to buy or sell on the Slur marketplace except in the case of a dispute, where a token sum is paid to volunteers. - See more at: http://slur.io/#sthash.OsHtOC5o.dpuf" "How does it work ? Sellers encrypt, upload and then list their data on the digital market with the ease a user might list an item on eBay. They do so with full anonymity and there are no restrictions on the content of the data. Exclusive bidders attempt to purchase the data for their own use and / or prevent other parties from acquiring a copy. Should an exclusive bidder win the auction they alone will receive the decryption keys. The same data cannot be auctioned a second time on the Slur marketplace. Crowd bidders pool their funds into a single bid. Should they win the auction the network will release the decryption keys to all users on the Slur marketplace and the information will therefore become public. Arbitrators are randomly selected users who agree to weigh in on a dispute should the winner of an auction claim that the decrypted contents do not match the sellers description. Public key cryptography ensures the data being sold can only be decrypted by the winner of the auction. - See more at: http://slur.io/#sthash.OsHtOC5o.dpuf" "Implications: If correctly implemented this platform will have a profound and lasting effect on our society. An unregulated free market for information would redefine the net worth of every person as their material assets would in the future be weighed against the market value of their secrets. As damaging as Slur can be to individuals it is considerably more so for groups It's estimated that 5% of the general population are psychopaths. Introducing financial incentive in an anonymous framework will produce a greater yield of leaked information than from say the ideology that drove patriots like Edward Snowden. For every idealist willing to selflessly sacrifice their freedom, assets and even risk their lives for a greater good, there are 1000 psychopaths willing to anonymously sell out their peers for material gain. Organizations of every type; governments, corporations and the military are in the unfortunate predicament of having both a great deal of liquid assets and a large number of secrets to protect - accessible by numerous disgruntled or psychopathic personnel. When Slur becomes ubiquitous it will bleed organizations secrets and funds. The Slur marketplace will sharply increase demand for bitcoin from those parties attempting to purchase previously inaccessible secret information and organizations scrambling to suppress damaging leaks from inside their own ranks or security breaches. The Slur market is WikiLeaks 2.0. An incalculable resource for public knowledge and unfiltered access to the truth. Except that in the future journalists will need to compensate whistle blowers for the extreme risks they take. The types of information we expect to see on the Slur marketplace ; Trade secrets. Designs for every type of consumer product. The source code for proprietary operating systems and high end CAD software. Zero day exploits. For the market defined value rather than a price determined by the corporations under the guise of a bounty with the veiled threat of legal action should the researcher choose to sell elsewhere. The details of backdoors covertly installed inside industrial and consumer hardware and software. Stolen databases. Corporations will no longer be able to get away with an apology when they fail to secure their customers confidential data. They will have to pay the market value to suppress it. Proof of tax evasion from disgruntled or underpaid employees. Both the IRS and the public have an interest in that information and the corporations will have to bid to suppress it - a very quantifiable and predictable payoff for the seller. Military intelligence relevant to real-time conflicts. Aerospace and defense designs. Evidence relevant to ongoing trials. Unflattering celebrity photos and videos. The complete databases of social media sites like facebook. Proof of government corruption. Close to an election. - See more at: http://slur.io/#sthash.OsHtOC5o.dpuf" The site appeals for donations and has a crossed out sentence saying production versions will be available in july 2015. Thoughts? -nick

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Kim Dotcom on Politics, TPP, Law, Crypto, Copyright, Endgame, Perseverance
by grarpamp 31 Jul '15

31 Jul '15

Kim Dotcom was the founder of Megaupload, its successor Mega, and New Zealand's Internet Party. A while ago you had a chance to ask him about those things as well as the U.S. government charging him with criminal copyright violation and racketeering. Below you'll find his answers to your questions... http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/07/27/200204/interviews-kim-dotcom-answers…

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William Friedman's 1955 Crypto AG visit reports draft and final redactions
by John Young 30 Jul '15

30 Jul '15

William Friedman's 1955 draft Crypto AG visit report shows text redacted in final version and vice versa. Two versions compared: <https://t.co/YYfkpltTYc>https://cryptome.org/2015/07/nsa-crypto-ag-compared.pdf (20MB)

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Re: Open Fabs
by Softy 30 Jul '15

30 Jul '15

> > IMO the same kind of radical transparency should apply to all > > industrial processes that pose large potential hazards to public > > health & safety, i.e. nuclear power stations, transgenic > > agriculture, etc. > > > Are you crazy? The terrists would use the information > against the good guys. > > > It seems very quickly an OpenFab plant will need to implement the same security as a current conventional plant. This will of necessity include keeping out plebs/civilians/non-plant workers. And there you go again not knowing whose doing what within the plant. Unless you happen to be on the inside ...

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Re: Open Fabs
by Softy 30 Jul '15

30 Jul '15

> It's not DIY. It's many similarly thinking Y's coming together to DI. > Eventually you'll reach beyond any given initial fledgling "hobby > class" goalposts. Nothing unusual or unachievable there. > > Honestly, a good model for acquiring capital for a radical idea, one could do worse than to consult SeaSheapard - half dozen plus fleet navy of multiple multi-million dollar ships with expensive operations costs. EarthFirst isn't as capital intense, but good at putting the limited capital into direct action.

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US Gov Orders Internet To Rat Out Its [Innocent] Users
by grarpamp 30 Jul '15

30 Jul '15

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/07/senate-advances-secret-plan-forc… https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/lawmakers-want-inter… http://www.burr.senate.gov/press/releases/senate-intelligence-committee-adv… The Senate Intelligence Committee secretly voted on June 24 in favor of legislation requiring e-mail providers and social media sites to report suspected terrorist activities. The legislation, approved 15-0 in a closed-door hearing, remains "classified." The relevant text is contained in the 2016 intelligence authorization...

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True Crypt is Not Secure
by Yush Bhardwaj 30 Jul '15

30 Jul '15

BitLocker is better or I should try something else ? WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/05/true-goodbye-using-truecrypt-is-not-secu… http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/ *Yush Bhardwaj*

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Best court document you've read in your life
by Seth 30 Jul '15

30 Jul '15

Includes interesting info about Target shopping chain pulling surveillance video to identify a Tracphone buyer, surveillance drone usage in support of car-theft ring on Mare Island in the Bay Area, threatening the local Vallejo police department, Christian repent, you name it. And of course the obligatory dipshit move or two by the defendant in the criminal complaint, such as leaving his drivers license under the seat of a stolen car. Starts getting good around page 20. Hat tips to Jacob AppleBaum and @ncweaver (twitter) https://twitter.com/ioerror/status/624249473779257344 http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/vallejo.pdf

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Kentucky Man Jailed For Shooting Down Drone... Privacy, Trespass, Creeping, Etc
by grarpamp 30 Jul '15

30 Jul '15

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/15/07/29/142227/kentucky-man-arrested-after-… "We’re not going to let it go," he said. "Because our rights are being trampled daily," he said. "Not on a local level only - but on a state and federal level."

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Obama Orders Exaflop CPUs... Spy And Police You
by grarpamp 30 Jul '15

30 Jul '15

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/obamas-new-executive-order-says-the-us-wil… The initiative will primarily be a partnership between the Department of Energy, Department of Defense, and National Science Foundation, which will be designing supercomputers primarily for use by NASA, *the FBI*, the National Institutes of Health, *the Department of Homeland Security*, and NOAA. Each of those agencies will be allowed to provide input during the early stages of the development of these new computers. Big data... * Relatively new stakeholders, in addition to the traditional role of killing you provided by DoD/DoE. For Science...

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