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noscript is 10 years!
by stef 17 May '15

17 May '15

happy bday! also i like this quote: > 08/06/2008, "I'd love to see it in there." (Window Snyder, "Chief Security > Something-or-Other" at Mozilla Corp., interviewed by ZDNet about "adding > NoScript functionality into the core browser"). how utterly depressing that we still don't have this, but have drm and rounded fucking tabs, features that require you to disable grsec/pax protections, and other goddamn useless crap. anyway, happy bday noscript! -- otr fp: https://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/otr.txt

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Watching the watchers: spook database
by Bethany 16 May '15

16 May '15

This is good clean fun. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xipI-0HU010 Kurzthese: Secret surveillance programs have metadata too. The same people and companies that operate secret surveillance programs also publish details about their work on the open internet. We can use this data to watch the watchers. Beschreibung: “Proficient in Microsoft Word and Xkeyscore” and similar phrases are surprisingly common on LinkedIn profiles. NSA contractors, military, and others involved in the surveillance state post seemingly coded and harmless details about their work in job listings, social media, and other open websites. But this information provides useful metadata that can be used to understand the function of secret programs and map the surveillance state. Transparency Toolkit has been building open source tools to collect and analyze this open source intelligence. This talk discusses how we can use these data sources and tools to build a sousveillance state that holds the surveillance state accountable.

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Fwd: Rare Historical Film: 1932. US military attacks demonstrating American War Veterans.
by Zenaan Harkness 14 May '15

14 May '15

----- Original Message ----- Subject: Fwd: Rare Historical Film - of a very sad time This is exactly how our country treats us, as slaves. Has always been this way - especially the western cartel. ----- Forwarded Message ----- Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 23:18:47 -0500 Subject: FW: Rare Historical Film - of a very sad time Come on, vets. Watch this!! It is only 6 to 7 minutes long! This shows you just what Washington DC (today, Tel Aviv West) will do to American patriots!! And this assault on American citizens (VETERANS of WW1!!) should awaken you to the fact that you are NOT safe from the Federal Government. If McArthur, Eisenhower, and most of all – Patton – attack and kill veterans, WHERE is safety??? Answer – there is none! Too bad the people involved in this protest were not armed to the teeth. They were fighting men, so they undoubtedly could have slaughtered the politically-correct troops of the Establishment. If you think things are different today – think again. DC is directed NOT by representatives of WE, THE PEOPLE, but by those who toe the line to “multiculturalism” and political correctness. Right or wrong does NOT matter. Truth is no defense. It is whatever the big-boy capitalists and their blood-brothers, the communists, want. Suck it up and go back to sleep. __________ Hi, I know and don't need to see the video. Maybe you know, too. The background is this: World War I veterans were promised certain benefits to be paid during their lifetimes. In the midst of the long Depression, for relief of extreme need, they asked for lump sum payments. President Hoover refused. Thousands of veterans gathered in Washington, D.C. to press their cause. They pitched a tent city in Arlington. Hoover ordered in troops to disperse the settlement. MacArthur led. Everything burned, many killed. V. US military attacks demonstrating American War Veterans FANTASTIC NEWS VIDEO: 1932 - young Patton, young Eisenhower, young MacArthur, President Hoover - Walter Winchell reporting. I don't recall this from any history classes. Do you think our military, acting on orders from a broken federal gov't, will NOT march against our own citizens?? Think what you want to, but THIS DID HAPPEN only a couple of generations ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?feature=player_embedded&v=sNOsIB5VMSQ "Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it." -- Mark Twain

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Subject: Re: Watching the watchers: spook database
by Softy 14 May '15

14 May '15

Specifically job hunters/HR department types. They lack the opsec training. And, inspite of never having had a clearance or working in an agency (mostly), they usually learn of coverterms/project names which managers are hiring from because even thouse with training often slip or don't know. Then the HR people use those terms for attention getting of possible candidate - and everyone wants to appear "in the know" as to be credible. > Beschreibung: > “Proficient in Microsoft Word and Xkeyscore” and similar phrases are > surprisingly common on LinkedIn profiles. NSA contractors, military, and > others involved in the surveillance state post seemingly coded and > harmless details about their work in job listings,

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Keeping your car keys in the refrigerator (to keep them fresh?)
by jim bell 11 May '15

11 May '15

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2015/05/07/technology-car-break-in… Brief explanation: Sophisticated thieves are amplifying signals emitted from cars that are received by their corresponding car keys; the amplified signal travels potentially over hundreds of feet; the key's returned signals are (I would suspect; the article doesn't say) also amplified. Thus, a car lock can be opened even if the car's key is 'safely' in an owner's house or apartment. The article suggests keeping the keys in a refrigerator or microwave oven to shield it from those signals. One possible re-design solution, I think, would be for the key fob to retransmit a portion of the car-emitted signal instantly; the car would detect the timing of its emitted signal compared to the key-returned signal. Thus, the car would know how far away the key is from the car, foiling this system, by setting a maximum distance between the car and the key. This actually isn't a new idea: Supermarkets have microwave-detection door openers, and I suspect that their active range is determined by rapidly sweeping the frequency of the transmitter, and then mixing (non-linear mixing; not to be confused with linear mixing, done to audio) the returned signal. The further the target is, away from the transmitter, the higher the detected frequency. This makes the trigger point precisely dependent on the distance, not simply the amplitude of the returned signal. Jim Bell

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Re: FOIPA adventures
by Softy 11 May '15

11 May '15

"- Sell our culture" "- autonomy" haha, that's a good one. Only a job recruiter could smile while spouting nonsense like that. -daniel That already exists (clearancejobs.com and others). There are actually > tons of ads all over DC for these services, most notably the "Life of a > Secret Squirrel" series. Really: > https://www.flickr.com/photos/clearancejobs/8634488049/in/photostream/ > > DC is a weird place sometimes. > >

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Re: Appeals Court Rules NSA Phone Program Not Authorized by Patriot Act - wsj
by dans＠openmailbox.org 08 May '15

08 May '15

Good news I guess, a small victory. However I think that is just a simbolic victory, useful only to make more people to become aware about surveillance. With the new technologies and with all the infrastucture already done record and collect the metadata of the phones is too easy, too cheap, too tempting to don't do it. And NSA will continuous doing it. In the other hand I can understand that the civil libertys groups of US take care of US citizens, but can any american take care of the people of other countrys? We can't legally apeal to any court of US, and we are under US goverment's surveillance too.

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Re: Appeals Court Rules NSA Phone Program Not Authorized by Patriot Act - WSJ
by John Young 07 May '15

07 May '15

Correction: The decision and three opinions Decision: http://cryptome.org/2015/05/aclu-v-clapper-170.pdf Judge Sack: http://cryptome.org/2015/05/aclu-v-clapper-169.pdf Judges Lynch and Broderick: http://cryptome.org/2015/05/aclu-v-clapper-168.pdf Sack opines it's not about Snowden.

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Appeals Court Rules NSA Phone Program Not Authorized by Patriot Act - WSJ
by Robert Hettinga 07 May '15

07 May '15

> http://www.wsj.com/articles/appeals-court-rules-nsa-phone-program-not-autho… <http://www.wsj.com/articles/appeals-court-rules-nsa-phone-program-not-autho…> > > Appeals Court Rules NSA Phone Program Not Authorized by Patriot Act > > ENLARGE > A sign stands outside the National Security Agency campus in Fort Meade, Md. Photo: PATRICK SEMANSKY/ASSOCIATED PRESS > > By > Devlin Barrett > May 7, 2015 9:31 a.m. ET > A federal appeals court ruled Thursday the National Security Agency’s controversial collection of millions of Americans’ phone records isn't authorized by the Patriot Act <http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/04/22/mitch-mcconnell-readies-bill-to-re…>, as the Bush and Obama administrations have long maintained. > > The ruling by the three-judge panel in New York comes at a delicate point in the national debate over government surveillance, as Section 215 of the Patriot Act is due to expire next month and lawmakers are haggling about whether to renew it, modify it, or let it die. > > The court’s ruling came in a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union arguing the data collection should be stopped because it violates Americans’ privacy rights. A lower court judge ruled the program was constitutional, and the civil liberties group appealed, leading to Thursday’s decision. > > “The text of (Section 215) cannot bear the weight the government asks us to assign to it, and...does not authorize the telephone metadata program,’’ the court wrote. > > The court declined to address the issue of whether the program violates Americans’ rights, because, they found, it was never properly authorized by existing law. > > The judges didn't order the collection to stop, noting that the legislative debate and the looming expiration of Section 215 will force action on the issue one way or another. > > The judges also note that if Congress decides to approve some version of the phone data collection program in coming days, then the privacy issue could be revisited in court. > > The panel sent the case back to the lower court judge for further review based on the appeals court findings. > > Write to Devlin Barrett at devlin.barrett(a)wsj.com <mailto:devlin.barrett@wsj.com>

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Re: we are fucked [was: Jim Bell vindicated]
by John Young 07 May '15

07 May '15

US armed forces (like other nations) have copious religions represented in uniform to bless crusades, vendettas, suppressions, mass murders, technical savagery, genocide by strategic bombing of civilians (Saudi Arabia relishing that in Yemen), exculpation of policy setters and enforcers and salve those who die, are savaged and family-death-benefited serving nations of holiers than thou. The current US giant pie of all-religions demon-fighters memoralized on patriotic headstones and dog-tags: http://prhome.defense.gov/RFM/MPP/AFCB/Endorsements.aspx If your cybersecurity faith is not listed, engage a faith-based lobbyist like EFF, ACLU, The Intercept, WikiLeaks. Not hard to believe all wars are narrow-minded religious wars, the more pea-brained, vicious and deadly the greater the faith in terrifying people into submission or by Your God or Godless teaching the resisters and atheists to RTFM and believe it. Manual burners, body immolators, head loppers, come on, those are the long-time recruiters. Nice thing about the AP manual is how ancient and modern it is, in law banking weapons strategy temples games. Not hard to believe the Internet is an EM, electricity wasting manual for AP adherents, following Gutenberg's WMD of pulp and carbon.

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