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Zero Reserve - A distributed Bitcoin exchange
by Eugen Leitl 18 Sep '13

18 Sep '13

Zero Reserve - A distributed Bitcoin exchange tl;dr: Proposal and prototype for a distributed exchange not requiring a banking gateway. Implemented as a plugin for Retroshare. Licensed under the LGPL. The Achilles heel of Bitcoin is the exchanges. Centralized as they are, they can be shut down by a number of means, by a number of players. Should that happen, price discovery of Bitcoin will not work any more. To address that, we offer a distributed exchange without the need of the banking system. Some intro and marketing blurb is here: https://github.com/zeroreserve/ZeroReserve/wiki A tech paper is here: https://mega.co.nz/#!vZ80yQJS!ccrCBREYZrOPr8oK7C9StVGuDmYENNYwrFiPXZVQldM And the code is here: https://github.com/zeroreserve/ZeroReserve In short, ZR uses the Ripple idea of Ryan Fugger to get money in and out of the exchange. ZR has nothing to do whatsoever with ripple.com, however. As such, there is no need for XRP. There is no pre-mining, no company, just code. Now the caveat: This is prototype software. Anything may or may not work. Security is only what the underlying Retroshare provides. The distributed order book works, but is still insecure. Currencies are therefore only defunct or fantasy currencies such as German Papermark(1923). Nothing you do has any effect on the blockchain. The next steps are: - hook up to the blockchain (using Amir Taaki’s excellent libbitcoin) - providing basic wallet functionality - provide authentication for anything beyond F2F. I see no reason why it wouldn’t work on OSX, but ZR was never built on it. It does build and run on Linux and Windows, though. Once you are on Retroshare and have some friends, you should be able to use this link to get and subscribe to the Zero Reserve Forum: retroshare://forum?name=ZeroReserve&id=b87d0a5577ced312d88a0ee8176e24a1 One of my RS identities: -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: OpenPGP:SDK v0.9 xsBNBFIrLBYBCADVYF9kvYYv+IOwlgHFcsdTIMAd7gIEbSaSLRWwFXZwTlxK8CGD x3kxSmUQXUl1hfm091CGBh5Xe+0O6RUdXYE6NuBTGzvIH8OHBjhCOb4cswIUAPnK rdX0O0U/tR5Jx9pQjfY5hbC6tDt/l4AtKcfi/7xUzpRkNibuEieky4aN6L4rAijO EBrEllkVKTOeoF/OQhz+nlQdt557RSt/NAIYnfMM+qekBDL+2I3Gsr5xk/7Rf2fI dIw2sQHrvetHZawypNuvZ/J7+t05FmtKShS4XObR3qcqd1pviTKJrrVoJJgI5PnZ +nEnzbtBsOwX1Y+FXCm4D8QN5vUpZN2zlznfABEBAAHNN0V1Z2VuIExlaXRsIChH ZW5lcmF0ZWQgYnkgUmV0cm9TaGFyZSkgPGV1Z2VuQGxlaXRsLm9yZz7CwF8EEwEC ABMFAlIrLBYJEJ9ljeAE3+qzAhkBAAD1sggAtJRoahysNczoTBlxeckAgtzUJlkL tcD5N+38NN2U+ivfaK67kF8mMZFiVyjcOrYmvtWesC50n2lRT6Vo1nkm8blfHzun rZ8j64KxAdiuM9XCT7JK1OMdk9VuFYvvEoFGGHCoZ402w4Jav/KgNY3G8obslv/Y peHdsYBdP5+6fM0qEhVbzahWDO95fYmB83X+KGfnf1bPrLy7gXDDphxxziBnMk7G nVNgBwFR8ohmJFlLxJHh8g1XjRFYicoQmKAm7X8E1V6Mw61AQXGV7gWOsqLu075c tCkzuTj2hE1li92oqcuyVmQEf5Bf/bBX9IUvkuAKFDrr7XqUqkyXKwow+w== =wccP -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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[tor-talk] NSA paid French hackers to develop software exploits, windows, chrome etc
by Eugen Leitl 18 Sep '13

18 Sep '13

----- Forwarded message from Andrew F <andrewfriedman101(a)gmail.com> ----- Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 09:38:27 -0700 From: Andrew F <andrewfriedman101(a)gmail.com> To: tor-talk(a)lists.torproject.org Subject: [tor-talk] NSA paid French hackers to develop software exploits, windows, chrome etc Reply-To: tor-talk(a)lists.torproject.org FYI http://www.thedailysheeple.com/contract-reveals-nsa-paid-french-hacking-com… Happy hump day. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk(a)lists.torproject.org To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com http://postbiota.org AC894EC5: 38A5 5F46 A4FF 59B8 336B 47EE F46E 3489 AC89 4EC5

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Re: [Cryptography] An NSA mathematician shares his from-the-trenches view of the agency's surveillance activities
by Eugen Leitl 18 Sep '13

18 Sep '13

----- Forwarded message from ianG <iang(a)iang.org> ----- Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 10:16:30 +0300 From: ianG <iang(a)iang.org> To: cryptography(a)metzdowd.com Subject: Re: [Cryptography] An NSA mathematician shares his from-the-trenches view of the agency's surveillance activities User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 On 18/09/13 00:56 AM, John Gilmore wrote: > Forwarded-By: David Farber <dave(a)farber.net> > Forwarded-By: "Annie I. Anton Ph.D." <aianton(a)mindspring.com> > > http://www.zdnet.com/nsa-cryptanalyst-we-too-are-americans-7000020689/ > > NSA cryptanalyst: We, too, are Americans Speaking as a non-American, you guys have big problems concerning the nexus of cryptography and politics. ... > The rest of this article contains Roger's words only, edited simply for formatting. I really, really doubt that. I don't really wish to attack the author, but the style and phraseology is pure PR. Ordinary people do not write PR. Nor do they lay out political strategies and refer to their commander-in-chief as the supreme leader. Nor indeed are employees of military and intelligence *permitted to talk to the press* unless sanctioned at high level. > ... Do I, as an American, have any concerns about whether the NSA > is illegally or surreptitiously targeting or tracking the communications of other Americans? > > The answer is emphatically, "No." Of course, Americans talking to Americans might be one debate. But then there are Americans talking to the world, and people talking to people. It should be remembered that espionage is illegal, and the activities of the NSA are more or less illegal *outside their borders*. I give them no permission to monitor me or mine, and nor does any of the laws of my land(s). The fact that we cannot stop them doesn't make it any less legal. The fact that there is a gentleman's agreement between countries to look the other way doesn't make it any less palatable to us non-gentlepersons excluded from the corridors of powers. And all that doesn't make NSA mathematicians any less a partner to the activity. Any intelligence agent is typically controlled and often banned from overseas travel, because of the ramifications of this activity. ... > A myth that truly bewilders me is the notion that the NSA could or would spend time looking into the communications of ordinary Americans.... > > There's no doubt about it: We all live in a new world of Big Data. In two paras above, and the next two paras below, this 'mathematician' lays the political trap for Americans. The collection by the federal government of data is almost certainly unconstitutional. Yet, everyone acts as if that's ok because ... we live in the new world of Big Data? > Much of the focus of the public debate thus far has been on the amount of data that NSA has access to, which I feel misses the critical point. Unless one subscribes to the plain wording of your (American) constitution... > In today's digital society, the Big Data genie is out of the bottle. Every day, more personal data become available to individuals, corporations, and the government. What matters are the rules that govern how NSA uses this data, and the multiple oversight and compliance efforts that keep us consistent with those rules. I have not only seen but also experienced firsthand, on a daily basis, that these rules and the oversight and compliance practices are stringent. And they work to protect the privacy rights of all Americans. ditto, repeat. Although, to be honest, we-the-world don't care about it; the USG's temptation to rewrite the constitution in the minds of its subjects is strictly a domestic political affair. For most other countries, the Big Data genie is truly out of the bottle, and there's precious little we can do about it. ... > As this national dialogue continues, I look to the American people to reach a consensus on the desired scope of U.S. intelligence activities.... Good luck! > .... The views and opinions expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the National Security Agency/Central Security Service. I seriously doubt that. iang _______________________________________________ The cryptography mailing list cryptography(a)metzdowd.com http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com http://postbiota.org AC894EC5: 38A5 5F46 A4FF 59B8 336B 47EE F46E 3489 AC89 4EC5

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[liberationtech] "Ibis: An Overlay Mix Network for Microblogging" by Ian Goldberg
by Eugen Leitl 18 Sep '13

18 Sep '13

----- Forwarded message from Steve Weis <steveweis(a)gmail.com> ----- Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:50:09 -0700 From: Steve Weis <steveweis(a)gmail.com> To: "liberationtech(a)lists.stanford.edu" <liberationtech(a)lists.stanford.edu> Subject: [liberationtech] "Ibis: An Overlay Mix Network for Microblogging" by Ian Goldberg Reply-To: liberationtech <liberationtech(a)lists.stanford.edu> Ian Goldberg is speaking about "Ibis: An Overlay Mix Network for Microblogging" today at the Stanford security seminar. The talk is 4:30pm in the Gates building, room 463A. http://crypto.stanford.edu/seclab/sem-12-13/goldberg.html Abstract: Microblogging services such as Twitter are extremely popular. While they are commonly used by people who wish to reveal their names and friends to the world, some users, such as activists on the ground, may wish to be able to post without automatically revealing their identities or locations. An obvious approach is to use a low-latency anonymity system, such as Tor. However, low-latency systems fall prey to end-to-end timing attacks easily accomplished by an ISP or a government monitoring clients while also watching for posts to appear in real time on the microblogging site. We present Ibis, a high-latency mix network designed specifically for microblogging. Ibis is an overlay network: the mix nodes can be microblogging clients that come online only sporadicly, and the intermediate encrypted messages are themselves posted as microblogged entries. We accomplish this through a novel cryptographic mix message format that uses only 47 bytes of overhead, while maintaining three-hop, 128-bit security against offline attack. This is joint work with Paul Hendry. Bio: Ian Goldberg is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and a University Research Chair at the University of Waterloo, where he is a founding member of the Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) research group. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, where he discovered serious weaknesses in a number of widely deployed security systems, including those used by cellular phones and wireless networks. He also studied systems for protecting the personal privacy of Internet users, which led to his role as Chief Scientist at Zero-Knowledge Systems (now Radialpoint). His research currently focuses on developing usable and useful technologies to help Internet users maintain their security and privacy. He is a Senior Member of the ACM and a winner of the Early Researcher Award, the Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Award, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award. -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at companys(a)stanford.edu. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com http://postbiota.org AC894EC5: 38A5 5F46 A4FF 59B8 336B 47EE F46E 3489 AC89 4EC5

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[tor-relays] Reimbursement of Exit Operators
by Eugen Leitl 18 Sep '13

18 Sep '13

----- Forwarded message from Moritz Bartl <moritz(a)torservers.net> ----- Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 20:27:57 +0200 From: Moritz Bartl <moritz(a)torservers.net> To: tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org Subject: [tor-relays] Reimbursement of Exit Operators User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130827 Icedove/17.0.8 Reply-To: tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org Hi, tl;dr: We want to start reimbursing exit operators end of this month. Partner orgs, please sign the contract! Everyone else, consider becoming a partner. --- In July last year, Roger announced that BBG was interested in funding fast exits. [1] The initial discussion on the mailing list continued into August. If you're interested, you should consult the archive for the various points raised. Since then, we've been discussing that topic on and off. It matched with my plans to turn torservers.net into a platform for many organizations, instead of just one single entity that runs too many exit relays, so I agreed to take the lead. I posted a status report of some sort on this list in April this year. [2] The Wau Holland Foundation agreed to be one of the organizations willing to handle the money and pass it on to other entities, be it single operators or organizations. Both Torproject and Wau Holland Foundation checked with their lawyers to see if this turns into a problem about liability, and it looks like it does not. We're open for more organizations to join in to manage the reimbursement process, but this is what we've got for now. In parallel, we've seen a growing number of organizations that were created to turn donations into exit bandwidth. [3] Two issues with reimbursements, that were also mentioned in Roger's initial posting, are that (1) you don't want to drive away all the volunteers, and (2) you don't want to become dependent on (a single or a handful of) sponsors. These are difficult issues, and I want to strongly encourage everyone to keep contributing to the network. We really need you, and we need more of you! The second issue, dependence on funders, is on the one hand a harder one, but on the other hand (in my opinion) a less relevant one. If structures die and nodes have to be shut down because a funder backs off, so be it. We hopefully don't change the picture too much in comparison to the "unfunded times of today". The reimbursement process does not guarantee a money stream, and the amounts are set on a month-to-month basis, to encourage recipients to plan only short-term, and only make contracts based on the money they have, disregarding what they may or may not receive in the future. The current "bucket" is the one-time BBG money, and it currently does not look like they will restock it. It might sound scary, but to satisfy the tax authorities (and to show that it is a [hopefully] fair and transparent process), the Wau Holland Foundation needs to have partners sign a contract. The contract does not limit the partners abilities or restrict what they do, it only defines the reimbursement process. The way we want to start doing it now is not set in stone, and hopefully now that we finally start handing out money it will encourage further discussion around it. We want to refine the process over time, but it looks like we just have to try with what we have now and learn from our mistakes. Please don't be too hard with your criticism or you will emotionally hurt me. I'm all ears. :-) We want to reimburse based on the throughput per exit relay and organization. To strengthen network diversity, we came up with the plan to also factor in the location of the relays. There is a maximum amount any entity can receive so we hopefully don't grow big monsters. The contract [4] specifies that there is a monthly amount, currently set to $3500, split amongst all recipients (whom I started calling "torservers partners"). The recipient share is calculated from the throughput per relay * country factor, and the maximum amount per month per partner is 500 Euro. The Wau Holland Foundation can currently only reimburse via wire transfer. The country factors can change over time, and are currently derived from the total exit probability of that country. We can and should refine this. Changes of these factors do not require new contracts. Note that since the total amount of $3500 will be handed out every month, as long as we have less than 6 entities signing the contract, each entity will receive their maximum share of 500 Euro. I don't really like the idea of a fixed monthly total handed out like that, but that's what the lawyers and tax authorities signed off for Wau Holland Foundation. It seems to be costly to re-evaluate such contracts, so this is what we will stick to for now via WHF. Technically, the monthly shares and the country factors are calculated using a tool written by Lunar^^ (big thanks!). [5] You can find an example report at [6] (not the correct numbers, but you'll get the idea). This monthly report will be sent to all partners, and once they signed the contract they will simply get their monthly share. As stated at the top, we want to start reimbursing this month. Please let me know if you have any questions. We have a mailing list that is public and read-only where we send important announcements, and require every participant to be on and actually read. We have another mailing list that is also read-only for the public, but people of the participating organizations can post and discuss everything around Torservers.net and reimbursements. [7] The process to become a "partner" for now requires that I "know you". So, if you're interested in becoming a partner, start social interaction with me. I see that as a bad bottleneck, and I hope we can somehow get rid of it in the future. I generally prefer "organizations" over single persons, because (1) in most countries it seems to be really inexpensive and easy to set up organizations and (2) the process of setting up such entities includes that you gather enough people around you, so chances are you will continue even if one of you drops out. If you want to discuss, I prefer the tor-relays mailing list and our IRC channel, #torservers on irc.oftc.net. I also explicitly want to invite every partner to join that channel. --Moritz [1] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2012-July/001433.html [2] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2013-April/001996.html [3] http://www.torservers.net/partners.html [4] [fill out + send back via pgp-encrypted and signed mail to me] plain: https://www.torservers.net/misc/2013-07-19_TorExit_en.txt fancy: https://www.torservers.net/misc/2013-07-19_TorExit_en.ott german: https://www.torservers.net/misc/2013-07-19_TorExit_de.ott [5] git clone https://people.torproject.org/~lunar/exit-funding.git [6] https://www.torservers.net/misc/reimburse-output-2013-07.txt (set encoding to Unicode) [7] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2013-May/002138.html _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com http://postbiota.org AC894EC5: 38A5 5F46 A4FF 59B8 336B 47EE F46E 3489 AC89 4EC5

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[tor-talk] Tor Weekly News — September 18th, 2013
by Eugen Leitl 18 Sep '13

18 Sep '13

----- Forwarded message from harmony <harmony01(a)riseup.net> ----- Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 12:00:19 +0000 From: harmony <harmony01(a)riseup.net> To: tor-news(a)lists.torproject.org, tor-talk(a)lists.torproject.org Subject: [tor-talk] Tor Weekly News — September 18th, 2013 Reply-To: tor-talk(a)lists.torproject.org ======================================================================== Tor Weekly News September 18th, 2013 ======================================================================== Welcome to the twelfth issue of Tor Weekly News, the weekly newsletter that covers what’s happening in the closely-observed Tor community. Official response to QUICK ANT disclosure ----------------------------------------- Another round of speculation regarding the attitude of state surveillance agencies towards the Tor network was provoked by a slide [1] featured in an edition of the Brazilian current-affairs show “Fantástico”, broadcast on September 8th [2]. The slide, leaked as part of the ongoing Snowden disclosures, appeared to show a tab in the alleged GCHQ [3] FLYING PIG surveillance interface labelled “Query QUICK ANT — Tor events QFD”. Users on Reddit [4] and Twitter [5] began to suggest possible attacks on Tor that might be managed through such an interface. Andrew Lewman posted an official response on the Tor blog [6] in which he reiterated that “it’s not clear what the NSA or GCHQ can or cannot do”, and that well-known theoretical attacks against the Tor network are clearly described on the project’s FAQ page [7]. He further added that the tool in question was more likely to involve “some ‘Tor flow detector’ scripts that let them pick Tor flows out of a set of flows they’re looking at” than “anything to do with deanonymizing Tor users, except insofar as they might have traffic flows from both sides of the circuit in their database.” Finally, he remarked that instead of engaging in speculation based on limited evidence, “we’d rather spend our time developing Tor and conducting research to make a better Tor.” [1] https://people.torproject.org/~andrew/2013-09-10-quick-ant-tor-events-qfd.p… [2] http://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia/2013/09/nsa-documents-show-united-st… [3] https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/378185448293552128 [4] http://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/1m3jum/gchq_tor_events_capture/ [5] https://twitter.com/jonathanmayer/status/377292928718499841 [6] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-nsa-gchq-and-quick-ant-speculation [7] https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#AttacksOnOnionRouting Entry guards and linkability ---------------------------- Leif Ryge pointed out [8] an issue with Tor’s current “entry guards” system, whereby connections entering Tor from different points on the same network could potentially be linked to an individual user based on the three entry nodes selected by that user’s Tor client, which remain constant for a period of 4-8 weeks [9]. Leif suggested that “assuming this is an accurate assessment, wouldn’t it make sense to maintain separate sets of entry guards for each network that the user connects from?” Nick Mathewson replied [10] with an acknowledgement of the problem and a number of reasons why simply generating separate sets of guards might also harm a user’s anonymity: “You would *not*, for example, want to maintain a different set of entry guards for every IP that you receive, since if you did, a hostile DHCP server could feed you new IPs until you picked a hostile guard. Similarly, if you are a busy traveler who changes your view of what network you are on hundreds or thousands of times, your chance of picking a hostile guard would rise accordingly.” He also pointed out that “having a record in your state file of every network you have visited is not necessarily the best idea either.” Nick concluded by mentioning Roger Dingledine’s proposal to lower the number of entry guards selected by a client to one only, “to avoid the property of letting guard choices identify Tor clients”. [8] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-September/005423.html [9] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay [10] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-September/005424.html The lifecycle of a new relay: further research needed ----------------------------------------------------- In response to some confusion on the part of relay operators over the apparently slow growth in the use of newly-established nodes by clients, Roger Dingledine posted on the Tor blog [11] a detailed account of how new relays, and the bandwidth they supply, are gradually integrated into the Tor network by directory authorities, bandwidth authorities, and clients themselves. Roger stressed that “the descriptions here are in part anecdotal”. Roger outlined the four broad phases that define the development of a relay within the network, and finished by offering a number of questions for further research, under a general rubric: “what do these phases look like with real-world data?” If you would like to contribute to the Tor community’s understanding of the interaction between individual relays and the network as a whole, please take a look both at the list of sample questions and at Tor’s publicly-available archive of metrics data [12], and see what you can find! [11] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/lifecycle-of-a-new-relay [12] https://metrics.torproject.org/data.html Food for thought ---------------- “Back in the ancient pre-Tor days, at the height of the crypto wars, Ian Goldberg asked me at Financial Crypto in 1998 why we created onion routing. Not entirely facetiously I told him that the fascinating technological problems and the potential to better protect people and their activities was nice, but the real attraction was to create a context where people who were sure they should hate each other were forced to collaborate.” [13] — Paul Syverson [13] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2013-September/030097.html Tor help desk roundup --------------------- The Tor help desk received a request for assistance setting up Thunderbird to work with Tor. Thunderbird can be made to route connections through Tor using the TorBirdy add-on. Further information about using Tor with Thunderbird can be found on the wiki [14]. Another user wrote to comment on the lack of OpenSUSE support on Tor’s rpm package page [15]. There is an open ticket concerning this issue, but it hasn’t seen activity for some months [16]. A new ticket was opened that addresses this concern more specifically [17]. [14] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/torbirdy#BeforeusingTorBirdy [15] https://www.torproject.org/docs/rpms.html [16] https://bugs.torproject.org/4389 [17] https://bugs.torproject.org/9718 Miscellaneous news ------------------ The commitment level for the proposed Tor StackExchange page is hovering at 88%; it needs to reach 100% before it will be accepted into beta. If you think you will be able to contribute by answering questions from current or potential Tor users, please sign up! [18] [18] http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/56447/tor-online-anonymity-privac… Brian Callahan alerted relay operators running FreeBSD and OpenBSD to the release of ports updated to the new tor 0.2.4.17-rc [19]. Christian Sturm then promptly announced the release of updated packages for NetBSD, DragonFly BSD, illumos, Minix, and “other systems potentially using pkgsrc” [20]. [19] http://lists.nycbug.org/pipermail/tor-bsd/2013-September/000044.html [20] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2013-September/030036.html Karsten Loesing updated tor’s GeoIP database to the newest version [21]. Karsten also published the results of his memory usage test on a version of tor that reports additional statistics, which he conducted using the Shadow network simulator [22]. Finally, Karsten asked for comments on his proposal to retire the old method of estimating user numbers on the metrics page over the next few weeks in favor of a more reliable, more efficient system (which has been in beta for some time already), and with it to remove the accumulated data associated with the older method [23]. [21] https://bugs.torproject.org/9714 [22] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/7359#comment:18 [23] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-September/005443.html Fabio Pietrosanti announced that the available cipher suites for connections to tor2web.org have been updated to a much stronger set [24]. [24] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2013-September/030003.html Robert published the results of an investigation into different kinds of round-trip time (RTT) measurement, and their efficiency in building circuits through the Tor network [25]. [25] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-September/005440.html George Kadianakis asked for comments on his early draft of a proposal for different methods of migrating the Hidden Service protocol to a more secure version [26]. George also pushed new versions of obfsproxy (0.2.3) and pyptlib (0.0.4) [27]. [26] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-September/005438.html [27] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-September/005441.html In the course of a thread about the size of browser windows posing a fingerprinting threat [28], harmony discovered that users of Ubuntu’s Unity desktop should disable the “automaximize” behavior, as it can override one of Tor Browser’s anti-fingerprinting measures [29]. [28] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2013-September/030022.html [29] https://bugs.torproject.org/9738 Tom Lowenthal submitted his monthly status report for August [30]. [30] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-reports/2013-September/000339.ht… Upcoming events --------------- Sep 29 | Colin at the Winnipeg Cryptoparty | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | http://wiki.skullspace.ca/index.php/CryptoParty | Sep 29-01 | Tor at OpenITP Circumvention Tech Summit IV | Berlin, Germany | https://www.openitp.org/openitp/circumvention-tech-summit.html | Oct 09-10 | Andrew speaking at Secure Poland 2013 | Warszawa, Poland | http://www.secure.edu.pl/ This issue of Tor Weekly News has been assembled by harmony, Lunar, dope457, Matt Pagan, and Karsten Loesing. Want to continue reading TWN? Please help us create this newsletter. We still need more volunteers to watch the Tor community and report important news. Please see the project page [31], write down your name and subscribe to the team mailing list [32] if you want to get involved! 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<nettime> Yochai Benkler: Time to tame the NSA behemoth
by Eugen Leitl 18 Sep '13

18 Sep '13

----- Forwarded message from nettime's_chronicler <nettime(a)kein.org> ----- Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 17:15:26 -0100 From: nettime's_chronicler <nettime(a)kein.org> To: nettime-l(a)kein.org Subject: <nettime> Yochai Benkler: Time to tame the NSA behemoth Reply-To: a moderated mailing list for net criticism <nettime-l(a)mail.kein.org> <http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/13/nsa-behemoth-trampling…> Time to tame the NSA behemoth trampling our rights From leaks and Fisa court papers, it's clear the NSA is a bloated spying bureaucracy out of control. It can't be reformed by insiders Yochai Benkler The spate of new NSA disclosures substantially raises the stakes of this debate. We now know that the intelligence establishment systematically undermines oversight by lying to both Congress and the courts. We know that the NSA infiltrates internet standard-setting processes to security protocols that make surveillance harder. We know that the NSA uses persuasion, subterfuge, and legal coercion to distort software and hardware product design by commercial companies. We have learned that in pursuit of its bureaucratic mission to obtain signals intelligence in a pervasively networked world, the NSA has mounted a systematic campaign against the foundations of American power: constitutional checks and balances, technological leadership, and market entrepreneurship. The NSA scandal is no longer about privacy, or a particular violation of constitutional or legislative obligations. The American body politic is suffering a severe case of auto-immune disease: our defense system is attacking other critical systems of our body. First, the lying. The National Intelligence University, based in Washington, DC, offers a certificate program called the denial and deception advanced studies program. That's not a farcical sci-fi dystopia; it's a real program about countering denial and deception by other countries. The repeated misrepresentations suggest that the intelligence establishment has come to see its civilian bosses as adversaries to be managed through denial and deception. We learned months ago that the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper lied under oath to Congress. Now, we know that General Keith Alexander filed a "declaration" (which is like testifying in writing), asserting an interpretation of violations that the court said "strains credulity". The newly-disclosed 2009 opinion includes a whole section entitled "Misrepresentations to the Court", which begins with the sentence: The government has compounded its noncompliance with the court's orders by repeatedly submitting inaccurate descriptions of the alert list process to the FISC. General Alexander's claim that the NSA's vast numbers of violations were the consequences of error and incompetence receive derisive attention. But this claim itself was in a court submission intended to exculpate the agency from what would otherwise have been an intentional violation of the court's order. There is absolutely no reason to believe the claims of incompetence and honest error; there is more reason to assume that these are intended to cover up a worse truth: intentional violations. Second, the subversion. Last week, we learned that the NSA's strategy to enhance its surveillance capabilities was to weaken internet security in general. The NSA infiltrated the social-professional standard-setting organizations on which the whole internet relies, from National Institute of Standards and Technology to the Internet Engineering Task Force itself, the very institutional foundation of the internet, to weaken the security standards. Moreover, the NSA combined persuasion and legal coercion to compromise the commercial systems and standards that offer the most basic security systems on which the entire internet runs. The NSA undermined the security of the SSL standard critical to online banking and shopping, VPN products central to secure corporate, research, and healthcare provider networks, and basic email utilities. Serious people with grave expressions will argue that if we do not ruthlessly expand our intelligence capabilities, we will suffer terrorism and defeat. Whatever minor tweaks may be necessary, the argument goes, the core of the operation is absolutely necessary and people will die if we falter. But the question remains: how much of what we have is really necessary and effective, and how much is bureaucratic bloat resulting in the all-to-familiar dynamics of organizational self-aggrandizement and expansionism? The "serious people" are appealing to our faith that national security is critical, in order to demand that we accept the particular organization of the Intelligence Church. Demand for blind faith adherence is unacceptable. What did we actually know about what we got in exchange for undermining internet security, technology markets, internet social capital, and the American constitutional order? The intelligence establishment grew by billions of dollars; thousands of employees; and power within the executive. And we the people? Not so much. Court documents released this week show that after its first three years of operation, the best the intelligence establishment could show the judge overseeing the program was that it had led to opening "three new preliminary investigations". This showing, noted Judge Walton in his opinion, "does not seem very significant". If this was the best the intelligence community could put on the table when it faced the risk of judicial sanction, we can assume that all the hand-waving without hard, observable, testable facts is magician's patter, aimed to protect the fruits of a decade's worth of bureaucratic expansionism. Claims that secrecy prevents the priesthood from presenting such testable proof appeal to a doctrine of occult infallibility that we cannot afford to accept. In August, 205 members of the House voted in favor of the Amash-Conyers Amendment that would have rewritten Section 215 of the Patriot Act, the section used to justify bulk collection of domestic phone call metadata. At the time, this was a critically important move that was highly targeted at a narrow and specific abuse. But the breadth and depth of organizational deception and subversion force us to recognize that we need reconstruction that goes much deeper than any specific legislative fix. We need a fundamental organizational reform. The so-called "outside independent experts" committee which the president has appointed, with insiders' insiders like Michael Morell and Richard Clarke, will not come close to doing the trick. Nor is it likely to allay anyone's fears who is not already an Intelligence Church adherent. Given the persistent lying and strategic errors of judgment that this week's revelations disclosed, the NSA needs to be put into receivership. Insiders, beginning at the very top, need to be removed and excluded from the restructuring process. Their expertise led to this mess, and would be a hindrance, not a help, in cleaning it up. We need a forceful, truly independent outsider, with strong, direct congressional support, who would recruit former insider-dissenters like Thomas Drake or William Binney to reveal where the bodies are buried. Anything short of root-and-branch reconstruction will be serving weak tea to a patient with a debilitating auto-immune disease. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime(a)kein.org ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com http://postbiota.org AC894EC5: 38A5 5F46 A4FF 59B8 336B 47EE F46E 3489 AC89 4EC5

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[6] crypto state
by brian carroll 18 Sep '13

18 Sep '13

// note: my cypherpunks posts are copyright free --- overview --- the application of [crypto] appears to occupy a dual realm, spanning both the need for /secrecy/ and the need for /security/, which it is assumed may require different approaches in how in its design and functioning, and the 'systems' may operate within different parameters- say a secure facility with employee IDs that involves managing secrets, versus an SSL exchange using a web browser to search google. It would seem to an outsider, unknowing actual parameters involved, that some technology functions more as a secure mode and others as a secret or hidden mode, and that this may be different in that data may be readily accessible or known at endpoints or throughout an infrastructure whereas in another this could be so tightly controlled as to involve almost personal secret-keeping between those who access purposefully hidden 'information' that must be kept contained, out of existing channels, or activated in a different realm or zone of operation, say peer to peer with another who also shares the secret yet not communicating about what it is, yet in having access to the knowledge it recontexualizes shared observation and in some sense could function as if a shared key has been passed and a secret corridor or psychic tunnel or 'secret network' exists as a result of those who know what is /unknown/ versus those who remaining unknowing what this could be in the infinity of potential particular views of any given event or idea or truth. whereas accessing a webpage with some anonymity in the data transmission may involve a largely known exchange, excepting for those on the outside of the shared infrastructural connection; and so it is more a data security approach versus centered or focused on /secrets/. thus for different observers, the question of the Crypto State could tend more towards the maintenance and ethics and implementation of an approach to manage protect and exploit [secrets], which could be government and spy agency focused on its internal and peer state connections, whereas for another population, the citizenry, the issue of crypto could function most in a context of [security], as if a realm delineating a lawful boundary or property line that is potentially protected by law, and possibly is most focused in the business, legal, and institutional realm. this is a basic hypothesis so those who actually know this situation could model it in a more accurate framework, whatever it may be, between security and secrecy. i do not believe that an issue like state surveillance can be disconnected from its actual deeper purpose, which few more know of or by NDA be unable to communicate to others and thus an issue of faith in its mission can be evaluated either in aligning with a patriotic ideology, which is incredibly dangerous if checks and balances are gone from government accountability, or in an accurate modeling of the truth of the situation and the framework events are occurring within- that is, context. everyone knows that lawlessness exists in the realm of corporate use of private data to make money, either through data mining or private surveillance, just look at the aggressive panhandling via advertisements on every webpage, as if billboards have their own AI agenda as spore lifeforms and are trying to secure their future against competing words and ideas that they seek to distract from and cover or automatically play video or audio and use up network data streams as constant 'junk data' and yet it is citizens who are paying for this malfeasance, businesses and unscrupulous money makers exploiting the common realm to extract as much profit as possible at the loss of even readability in a majority of scenarios. and there is no *legal issue* with this kind of deterioration of what could in some sense be a public space in some sense that has been overtaken by a private negligence, selfishness, and greed that defaces and devalues it. perhaps this is a shared business model and yet it is also rotten, and so like driving through a wasteland of a ruined environment, the webpages and internet is like seeing broken buildings using a broken vehicle, driving on broken roads and thoroughfares, with collapsed and dilapidated structures and a giant signs HUMANS ARE THE ENEMY everywhere you look and turn, mocking people with the brazen disregard for sensibility, honesty, everything in your face and hateful, tending towards the worst content and worst innuendo, and this is normalized as the shared realm of public and private exchange, online. and in that context people and mass media and states are communicating about what presidents say, about wars and war making and terrorism, and about poverty and illness and disease and the inability of society to meet its needs while others sit at the top of this giant heap of societal dung and count their money earned by selling the broken society to begin with. so the first observation is that the state is fucked. completely utterly and irreversibly fucked. its core code is rotten and the effects of this are everywhere, including in peoples mindsets and decision-making that is born of this ideology, reinforcing the binary perspective from previous generations that has become an an error-reliant inaccurate biased POV that is allowing this exploitation to continue under the shield of "legalese", yet which itself is ungrounded and turns the signage of language into truth and thus internalizes the world within a private communication about it where this communication becomes the truth, via language that can control and overpower another perspective, not via honest evaluation of truth. thus language games in place of actual justice, and this normalized, 'codified'. businesses themselves hiding behind this code, lawyers by their side, to allow any kind of extractive process of data or money to occur, no liability yet allowing swindles cheating and corporate and institutional theft to be legalized, without public benefit even, and citizens data and material existence then become natural resources to be exploited, further extracting every last available bit for someone else to profit from, while they see nothing in return except choices of skinnerian behaviorism, lives becoming mouse mazes, the less money you start with the sooner trapped and the whole society about siphoning off goods and resources, winnowing the few who proceed upward, stopping the rest in the lower middle class, and then breaking down people and pushing them further and further until at the bottom of society in unrecoverable circumstances, the societal trap door of poverty enforced as part of an ideological agenda, religious belief needing the failures to be the immoral castigated many who justify the superiority of everyone above- yet it is the result of gaming the state and its collapse in a pyramid scheme that enslaves the many to prop up the false perspective benefiting the very few who actually believe all the B.S. because it most benefits them, as if some kind of twisted utopia for psychos who are unconcerned about others beyond their private boundaries. if you consider [crypto] in this economic, political, social context, actually the broken cryptographic systems actually massively benefit this exploitative scheme entirely at every level, both as secrets and security. it provides an impenetrable wall of ideology that, alongside the Binary Crypto Regime, allows a type of reinforced inevitability of the solution, *if only you could do the math you would realize how great all this is*. and so double/triple schemes this may be so, never underestimate humanity, yet for those uninitiated it is hellishly terrifying, especially the closer you are to the bottom where these dynamics grind down the lowest layers and push people prematurely into caskets or have no ethics in discriminating against those unlike, who have no protection against exploitation and even violence against them, yet viewed seemingly as the greatest threat because they are using resources that belong to others, as if only takers en total. what is also most evident is the role of neurolinguistic programming (NLP) in federal, state, corporate, educational and institutional contexts to use 'brute force language' to engineer a particular kind of next iteration, as if this one-way language manipulation has replaced shared reasoning, due to the loss of empirical truth and its accounting, and an unrestricted triumph of relativism and its authoritarian agenda of administering the next wave of the self-same ideology, yet with their own people, no more charade with mr. and mrs. nice anymore. its just their people now, The State, Inc.- whether it is business, government, education, health care, community. how do things get this fucked up unless that is what you're aiming for? and this in this way it is truly MASTERFUL. brilliant. the art of the state. so in this context there is an issue like /taxes/ that when the state began had to be figured out from a condition of injustice and revolt which led to a new independent society and democratic form of governance. feedback-based in principle. and then over centuries this short-circuited due to limits in the code and its interpretations, say equal rights for women, then citizens and various other fracturings from a once shared POV of private men that were assumed to be 'the public', that is, within western european history, and over time these conditions changed and yet the underlying code did not that led to contradictions and even INVERSIONS that could force breakdowns of the same society via exploits and hacks that challenged the processing and upon Supreme Court or other legal review, flip bits somewhere and the larger situation was transformed for everyone, changed by smaller events elsewhere. and the state has both continued its development towards human improvement while similarly deteriorating at the same time, its faulty code and programming the source of its own self-destruction and annihilation, such that /truth/ has been replaced by unrestricted and unregulated and essentially 'unchecked' /power/ via this biased, relativistic framework in which - oh, i don't know - the world's largest military machine and global spy network operate under, in an inaccurate and biased private viewpoint for mass surveillance and the hunt for terrorists- which can thus be skewed an distorted to focus on citizens instead who may question these dynamics, which then turns public consciousness into the enemy of this secrets-based and heavily secure tyranny, indistinguishable from a dictatorship yet not accounted for this way, as the dictator is hidden, out of sight, etc. and so the false perspective reigns and rules over 'what can be reasoned' and if anyone crosses that line, the private police enforcers and spies are at your doors and suddenly all your e-commerce goods are being shipped broken. and thus taxes are supporting this lawless takeover of the government and yet it is also inevitable due to the way the state is configured and the code it is running on and for lack of a better alternative, until that can be presented- this is the situation. so, some sympathy for the dictator. though if the options are destroyed by tyrannical actions then you got real problems because then the leader is insane and functioning against the shared state, in that the agenda becomes antihuman, aligned with machines and the continuation and development of the automated machinery of state, which in terms of the ideology are godless, yet involves a priesthood of technocrats - including programmers and technologists and business people, for whom this system is operating under their guidance and parameters and towards their goals, which have become detached from the citizenry itself. so there is the aspect of enslavement, disenfranchisement of populations based on discrimination and sliding-scale rulesets preferring some over others and also rewarding violence against citizens in its ecosystem. and the entire population is wired to automatically support this via taxes yet the /feedback/ is not occurring to improve their own basic situations as the erosive aspects of cultural decline outweigh everything else and in this constant pressure, break down and dissolve connections and structures required for survival, including loss of meaningful work, family units, education related to the world that exits versus citizens trained as if robots, and 'media' that devolves everything into an animalistic context, nearly pre-literate, not in the McLuhan sense of higher understanding of oral or other cultures, and instead- inculcating ignorance, bias, hatred, factionalism, racism, and this via false-perspectives as if 'shared POV'. no one required to align or attest or be held accountable for truth, instead ENRONOMICS rules, you can game the system and win at every level, and thus it involves the takeover by these same forces of the environment and state itself- its bureaucracy falling hostage to such an ideology, and citizens no longer having a government which represents the public's needs. this is relativistic private government taken to its extreme: tyranny, yet not only that- CRYPTO dictatorship. and yet it started out as a public and private government with human ideals and orientated to life, and instead has become antihuman and polluted, ideologically, environmentally and in minds and bodies, and focused on death and money as if the highest good. and so it is a question- where is /truth/ within this government- does it even exist? and it would seem that for the ideologically invested, the truth is the surface event, the signage and ideological actions that as imagery reinforce a particular viewpoint conducive to true belief-- that money is the most important, and that these people believing themselves superior really are in control, and that they justify this enslavement based on their private agenda and goals. and thus the *secrets and security* of the crypto state could align with this binary belief system and seemingly be its support structure, including for keeping tabs on all the exploited, as if in an excel spreadsheet, to determine futures via routing to the appropriate cattle chutes, whether death panels or poor schools or blacklists. everyone surveilled for their profit. whereas another truth could coexist beyond or along-side of this and yet remain hidden from the binary ideological which is bounded by its self-validation, pattern matching via limited and controlled observation and thus observer bias the threshold for 'shared reality' and shared goals. instead of relying on the corrupted and error-ridden code of pseudo-truth and its role in 'development' of business, education, healthcare, etc via lies, distortion, self-serving exploitative agendas- instead another actual [truth] could exist that is shared, that involves a different context for issues of /security/ and /secrets/, and cryptographic systems and their applications also would span into this realm of activity, by default of its service to the soul of the state, to ensure long-term functional integrity and this can be assumed based on indications such a parallel agenda exists. it would seem most [crypto] in the profane model would be functioning in a different set of parameters than in the more sacred and militarist model, whereby enforced ignorance and outright corruption is not the rule or law. and thus the cosmic setup and making preparations for this to be resolved. --- rebooting the state --- it concerns me to be called before a judge because i do not believe the state is a legal entity and believe i can readily prove this to be the case, and therefore not recognizing the legality of the state to decide in matters of law would be contempt of court, from my previous understanding. and in this way, to be imprisoned for not recognizing its authority to determine what is just or to be able to enforce the right principles within law as it exists due to a failed constitutional context. i run it over in my head, the argument of having private man define what is a human predicament, and thus 'mankind' and 'his' and history stand in for humans and women as an ideological bias which, while once public, became private upon equal rights, including for those other other ethnicities yet this privileged hierarchic onsesided perspective has been institutionalized as if representing the total public via the shared private views of men, and in the attempts to equalize it, has further privatized other views of women and ethnicities, into a many privates worlds situation without a coherent shared framework to call or reason as 'the public' of us all. 'the human' is missing. the human state is non-existent, and the private state of various wo|men and their private rights rule over humanity, the subset governing as if superset, yet without higher ideals, instead lower. the constitutional code is corrupt. and yet in its description it has the rules to deal with this: call a Constitutional Convention and start again. yet in a society run by relativism there is no ability to 'reason' beyond the privatized ideological "theoretical" discourse whereby power politics determines what is true (pT=>0) and then rubber-stamps via institutions under its guidance to manufacture consent and thus: represent 'the people' whereby only some truth is allowed that only benefits some people at the expense of everyone else. unbalanced, biased, onesided most times, really. so-- dealing with MASS ILLITERACY here, since the education system fell to relativistic ideology and binary bias as a teaching and indoctrination method, the rote exercises and standardized tests indication that no actual thought it allowed, no thesis - antithesis -> synthesis in western culture anymore, unless of an ungrounded politically correct version based within *language* and about the [signs] or appearance of shared views, yet without the truth shared or grounded in this false perspective. thus, foundations of belief are built on weak and corrupt 'ideas' and 'concepts' which have also become the mainstream discourse -and- POLICY BASIS for the state-- that is, skew distortion warping and bias as the reasoning for shared decision making and governance. whose that benefiting when *celebrities* are the best at taking on such an acting role of serial killer fiction. so someone calls a constitutional convention and no one is capable of *reasoning* about what is happening in the shared situation because many are essentially BELIEVING THEIR OWN BULLSHIT on ego-reliant frameworks based on ideological bias and error, into a too simple assessment of truth that is pre-enlightenment at this stage, pre-western culture even, devolved to a realm of selfish idiocy and stupidity that only self-indulgence can really offer to the existing degree. thus, everyone is a celebrity in their own private facebook and twitter worlds and speaking their own languages from their own perspectives and talking the talk, in so far as it profits and is allowed in models of pseudo-truth-- not the nails hard empirical realm where errors in thinking are not allowed or acceptable for shared frameworks-- this is beyond or before scientific method which similarly fails via privatized empiricism (also perspective limited via 'history' and thus privatized, allowing aggressions against humans in that framework by way of distortions, errors- exploited, targeting enemy populations, etc). yet a lot of people can 'program' yet it is stuck in bias and ideological frameworks and therefore very smart "binary thinking" gets nowhere in the real world of paradox, to deal with problems and situations as they exist rather than as they are perceived to- which is a tremendous difference and requires actual difficult and painful and humbling considerations and it is quickly realized how little a person knows- versus to presume to know all by sharing a viewpoint beyond external correction or acknowledging that there is bias or distortion or even unknowing involved- theorized POVs rule, the ego of private identities as if public, as if shared views, yet without the rigor or political suffering that involves beyond 'the drama'. and thus soap operas of initiatives, everyone wearing their private causes and yet outside an actual PUBLIC CONTEXT and language and social relations and importantly -- identity -- that would allow the issues to be dealt with beyond adolescent playpen antics and excitements and temper tantrums. here or there someone probably assassinated for actually doing something wrong, though who knows, maybe that too is drama and they are in deep state now. and logic is crucial, yet absent as an accounting of 'reasoning' which instead like NLP becomes programming via onesided binarisms competing up on the various electronic stumps, trunks, and platforms. 3-value and N-value logic, the basis for /human/ reasoning in a neutral evaluation as observer are not taught in schools. everything is 'rationalized' yet in pseudo-truth and thus an infinite many viewpoints that do not add up to more because they rely on the errors and distortions as structural scaffolding, on the bias and ideology to uphold views, as is necessary of private language- women as bad as men, ethnicities exploiting this as much as others, that is the game it involves and everything and everyone devolves as a result. The State needs to be rebooted under new constitutional code, at the very least modified from a context of public and private man, mankind, and history to that of public humanity and private wo|men, involving a shared his|her-story or human story. corporations embodied as 'individuals' as 'private men' have allowed extreme competition with citizens to the point that the state is representing corporate democracy via 'the public' vote, the citizens are Microsoft, Google, Time-Warner, CBS, Halliburton, etc. those not part of the structures are serfs, indentured class, castes. whereas in a human context, the state would need to serve not exploit human goals and values as part of a shared community, not gain profit based on exploiting and brainwashing or cheating people in retrograde schemes or outright criminality via selling broken equipment to normalize thievery. the human context for law would likewise not be able to ignore such truth as it would be allowed and not censored as a viewpoint via relativism. and likewise /security/ and /secrecy/ would likewise change to serve humanity and differentiate and focus on those seeking to abuse and exploit instead. it is this last statement that is assumed the underlying hidden, secret aspect of existing crypto systems of the state, a standing reserve that is waiting in the wings, surveying the situation so it can be accounted for. as of my recollection at this point, it is unknown if i am the only person who could make this case for the illegality of the state in its existing functioning, yet anyone who were to deny the court its legality would potentially be able to make this case, if willing to go to prison and get the process underway, though the argument would need to be allowed else you may never get out of prison, which is why it seems a worst case scenario, unless that situation would be the first opportunity to make the case. and this in a context of what is proposed to be *ungrounded legal frameworks* due to ideological language relied on for 'shared relativistic reasoning' which functions as /programming/ again, as if shared though of unshared society, continually set at odds with itself, functioning against itself, increasingly nonsensical and illiterate-- schizophrenic even, as the views do not add up to a coherent whole, the parts make their sum impossible, as it tends towards shared nothingness- not towards life or greater being. in this way, ignorance is progressively institutionalize, made into rules and increases suffering, making it more and more difficult to 'reason' within the broken world and relate to others in their privatized biased views. statisticians become the new community organizers for the disenfranchised and lost, tallying peoples identities with others moreso than communities themselves or organizations, the alienating and isolation near complete, such that the internet and WWW as stage set appear as if by divine right to allow each actor their fantasy to portray, without restriction to reality, obligation or duty to another, as if life only a game, frivolity behold. no sense of the pending doom awaiting, the trap door beneath the spotlight. the word as a mirror then, and the networked playground for narcissists that on a psychological level reveals the deep and hidden contempt and shallowness of the economic, social, and political ideology of self-bias. you need at least two people to call a constitutional convention, yet what if it is flash mobbed and a million relativists show up with bullhorns? here: "use our code! use our code!" they start screaming in unison. that is it in its entirety, all that binary relativistic reasoning needs to keep things as they are and further extent the situation towards shared falsity. that is why there are guns i am guessing. make a perimeter. only logical reasoning allowed, and at every instance the binary will be defeated in its simplism and will no longer be enshrined as law nor ideology nor allow for the corrupt rule of the many by the few who do not realize how crazy they actually are, nor how completely hollow and sold-out as human beings. my wager is i can prove the state in its current form is unconstitutional and provide the logical framework for making that case, and offer a set of corrective actions that would neutralize the existing bias, recontextualize its constitutional framework via what are essentially structural "edits" based on logic, to remove known ideology, and this could allow a framework for establishing or reconsidering the constitution via a convention once "ideas" themselves are back on the table, versus extending programmatic language according to biased rulesets held in pseudo-empirical books that skew this way or that depending on the forces at work, depending on words and signs versus on truth and logical reasoning as the basis for judgement and decision-making, in that ideas must be mediated at the level of 1/0. anything else is an ungrounded concept, a fiction, a theory by comparison, an assumption based on previous assumptions, which is what ideology is: basing reasoning on previous answered questions versus asking them anew. really asking questions versus skipping the truth and relying on the structure as if 'wholly true' and not involving skew, say of history as this may influence perspective and limit certain 'shared observations' by promoting a private framework for evaluation. and the consequences of this. i do not want to go to prison to get the conversation started, mainly because i would probably never get out, as 'logical reasoning' has no place within these state systems and instead they are mediating relations based on power and shared private ideology at that. perhaps high-minded Supreme Court is the actual and best platform to evaluate these state code errors accurately and authorize the necessary edits to reframe and recontextualize the state in a new human framework where citizens have a responsibility to the state, both public and private, and that in return the state will serve humanity, including by reconceptualizing the monetary system, business relations and obligations to environment and the state development, education, health and in general- the shared awareness and well-being of those of shared destiny. if the code of the Constitution is in error, it must be error-corrected-- this is not Microsoft Windows-- or, actually, it is The State as Windows, broken windows everywhere, made to break, made to be exploited, for profit. that is, the corruption is a downward spiral as private business model, and perhaps this is part of the crypto gambit itself, providing instruments to enable and sustain the deterioration, as the codebase moves towards babel. fragile error-ridden code that needs to be enforced by power politics and bullying as if "reasoning" via violence and intimidation based on shared bias of binary ideology, versus robust thinking based on shared empirical truth in a gray-area of consideration and evaluation, paradoxical, real, wanting to debate the hypothesis and even have observations show wrong or faulty to learn and improve upon frameworks, win/win interactions within debate versus stand-offs with true believers who ignore truth instead, and pick and choose their private reality and believe their bubble state will always exist the way it is, versus be popped and fall to another worldview. the requirement is strong relations between individuals and groups based on logical reasoning-- that existed as the empirical basis for development of the U.S. Constitution and would be required as a prerequisite again to be able to fairly and accurate model issues of the state beyond a partial too-limited biased viewpoint of the shared citizenry. It may be the first real 'public' state in that it would be the first human state in existence, seemingly, in terms of the specific requirements for the appropriate kernel of truth by which to align all other actions and interrelated activities within its structural arrangement. it may actually allow 'America' to be the potential envisioned, beyond the limits of history, and truly finally offer options that have existed as potentials yet have not be allowed within the limited frameworks due to unshared language, logic, and observation that could not be reconciled by ever-narrowing private POVs. this is to assume that shared value of the state is [truth] at its core, and that logical reasoning must be error-corrected at this level for ideas to be given their value, and not to assume this or allow it for the pseudo-truths that rely on false frameworks and errors if not outright lies that have become protected by the ideology of law instead, in service to shared falsity that endlessly exploits the citizenry to serve the powerful few. perhaps the most important issue underlying this transformation would be a new currency that could function in a realm of data exchange and allow for fidelity with transactions and relations as they exist, as infrastructure of interconnected relations that feed this motivational current throughout the state, yet which has no data dimension today in terms of its fractional values, such that .001 may be a useful measure for online contexts, or that taxation could be automated into the currency itself, so that it is not an issue of people relying on third-party accountants to balance their books and instead it is part of the feedback process inherent in the currency itself, taking the bureaucracy out of bureaucracy and allowing money to be friction free in terms of exchange, and allow various interactions that are instead limited by broken and biased models of accountability that punish those without money the most, making it impossible to function in society as if they are cheating because the system itself is broken, when instead the very tax forms do not have the basic information to allow the literate to do their own taxes, even in the most expected scenarios of Social Security payments-- both at state and federal levels, instead obfuscation and then the setup, the threat of holding individuals accountable for the errors, as is the social services game, working against the poor, rigging the system for failure, using pressure and oppressive subversive actions to try to indict criminality based on broken systems used to frame citizens who dare try to live beyond the limits, and escape conveyer belt to the awaiting cardboard coffin, paid for by web advertising tattooed on skull. ... "the very interaction in a context of verifiable truth is the weakness of liars who need to sustain the shared lie in order to function" - /tells/ would be automatic as circuitry grounds to falsehood versus truth. (so you're talking about an inversion, huh?) enforced illiteracy versus freedom of ideas, based on securing of truth within the state, making it foundational and defining reasoning based on logic and accounting within accurate models, concepts, and hypotheses, using the human observer as the basis for shared empirical viewpoint. --- why cryptography matters --- programming consciousness, building peer relations, feedback based tools, 'know and develop your circuitry', self as circuit, ideas as circuits, models and concepts as circuits. fundamental knowledge and exchange based on shared value (T) built from the ground up, literally, electromagnetic. tools for thinking, tools for literacy, for grounded empiricism, education in hardware/software models, logical reasoning as the basis, to allow for it and develop it, share the techniques, guidelines/guidance, for debate of ideas, litmus, standards, crack the ideological code. the code potential. issue of pattern matching to the wrong model: binary [crypt.1] / paradoxic [crypt.2] -- it is in the unknown, or the known unknown -of its capacity- that the cryptographic could establish a model for programmatic LITERACY that someday may be the basis for shared awareness outside the realm of secrets and secrecy and instead between citizens within new parameters of relation and exchange, whereby the existing model is transformed... antihuman [observer.1] <---> human [observer.2] wherein all exchange is biased to the following dynamic: antihuman [observer.1] <---- human [observer.2] antihuman [observer.1] <---> antihuman [observer.2] Instead, this could be transformed by logical accounting for truth in biased and ungrounded 'theoretical' models reliant upon shared and sustained falsity, thereby invalidating the 'shared perspective' and requiring actual [truth] as the measure for shared human observation... human [observer.1] <---> human [observer.2] the antihuman viewpoint relies on shared bias as the basis for shared awareness, 'shared ideological belief' essentially, and would be replaced by shared empirical models of truth based on *logical reasoning* (not shared binary bias) via 3-value and N-value evaluations. in each instance the /crypto/ would be different, in particular the second example whereby exploited or compromised crypto could be feeding a false perspective, leading to example three where a surveillance state could be internally believed serving this private ideological constituency yet also be backdoored elsewhere, beyond the limit of their models of awareness. the fourth, last example being the future or other hidden crypto systems that a future state may develop in terms of a line of demarcation between the human and antihuman interactions, in that security and secrets occur in that realm of conflict in terms of unshared identity, goals, values, etc. and thus likewise, 'money' or 'currency' in these differing scenarios, taxes or politics or social services, etc. what is true is true. and then there are also black swan events that challenge the model, its assumptions. either/or, both/and, neithor/nor, switches and electronic circuits as they relate to relations of observers, set theory dynamics as daily encounters. war and peace in a realm of language and bureaucracy, hidden within logic, its lack of accounting. security through obscurity or the deep strategy. nothing like communicating like a barking animal, rawr rawwr rawrrrr!!!! rowwf! ROF! WROFF! wwwWWRRRAAOAOOFFFFFFFFF!@!@@^... --- more on crypto model --- there is truth, there is logic, and logical reasoning in turn which mediates 'ideas' - evaluating patterns and constructing hypotheses via concepts and models. T <-> logic <-> reasoning <-> [ideas] so if you have /binary/ logic, you get binary reasoning and binary models and thinking, whereby if a pattern is matched, it is by default 'true'. T <- binary reasoning <- [pattern match] thus is the structural bias that if pseudo-truth is the value [pT] then false absolutism inherently includes error in this 'accounting for truth' as if it is purely true versus reliant on skew, distortion, error, etc. in this way the image or sign=sign is an ungrounded validation of the ideas if they are only 'partially true' yet not recognized as such, thus ungrounded in the total idea said to be represented. normalization and reliance upon false positives to prove sustain extend the false perspective modeling. this is the ideological approach of binary programming as 'philosophy'. it is the Binary Crypto Regime belief system, as if 1/0 is guru accessible via choosing beliefs in private frameworks of relativistic observations, often based on power and privileged perspectives, whether biz or tech celebrity, popular professor or self-righteous activist. the skew is the twl and thus the pT<->T gap is the security and secrecy exploit, a structure made to be exploited, yet it may not be recognized in the mindset itself in terms of lack of accurate self-reflection, thus a psychological flaw in the observer that tends towards psychopathy, narcissism, and anti-human agendas or so life experience offers that as an evaluative framework to consider, perhaps only validated when the have their extermination camps up & running or the existing ones are revealed: poisoning environment, food, minds, etc. what was realized upon sharing the model of crypto in relation to language was that programming functions as a form of reasoning, and so considering that there are limits to binary programming versus paradoxical, in terms of the code possibilities of linear versus nonlinear evaluations, this also holds true for 'ideas' and conceptualizations of what exists as it exists and what must be held outside the frameworks because they cannot account for anomalies-- the binary ideology is reliant on censoring and throwing out data that does not conform, whereas the paradoxical 3-value and N-value models retain this 'fine detail' of various intricacies of interstructural dynamics as a basis to discern more accurate (shared, empirical) frameworks and in this way *trash is treasure*, or the relation between archaeology and architecture, past and future meeting in the present with a question. 1 <-> logical reasoning <-> [ideas] if you get the ideas right, grounded in truth, the concepts and models, then the code 'as language' is going to accurately mediate this relation between /signs/ and the things they represent, or ground to, in/as truth. 1 <-- [code] <-- programming in this way, if the 'ideas of code' are accurately modeled and grounded, their implementation would be validated by truth and its error-correction of the faulty code would be vital to securing truth within the model 0 <-- [pT.code] <-- 'binary reasoning' * whereas a worldview and model based on an unfalsifiable approach that is removed of error correction may have 'some truth' though its further and further reliance on error-reliant frameworks would continuously move this 'shared view' closer and closer to zero, instead of 1, via the increasing dissolution of truth within a larger ever expanding framework of falsity. in a complex multiple-use model involving deception, such unaccountable code could not only be used as an exploit, the programmatic assumption could itself be exploited via social engineering of the ideological mindset and thus the very viewpoint is as insecure as the codebase is made to be: 1/N/0 <-- pT/T.code <-- 'binary/paradoxial-reasoning' There could be a massive deception hidden within this context, not only of the binarists who exploit broken crypto to surveil and steal from others, including the state itself, though have no indication of anomaly allowing their mirror-looking to see the other side of the one-way view, thus other encryption alongside yet invisible, additional 'truth' inside or outside binary models of 'pseudo-truth' yet unable to be reasoned, pattern matched and instead thrown out as errors, ignored. superposition of truth, its contingence on observation and how logic effects what can be reasoned to exist. and this is where /programming/ essentially is a form of reasoning and yet 'the debate' is not occurring at the level of language in words and viewpoints of people- in that this level of [code] is needed to communicate and model ideas within society, to align with conceptual structures like programmers must to attain functionality of developed intermechanisms and yet at the level of individual and group discourse this system of relation and communication is broken within institutions, schools, and society, such that only a binary viewpoint is allowed and proceeds and is rewarded yet at a cost to civilization and life itself, due to the servitude to enforced stupidity. instead, the ability to comprehend this situation of communication as [code] is needed firstly to be able to think and evaluate accurately, to use language and mathematics in a meaningful grounded way, and not arbitrary or mindlessly reproducing copies of copies of ideas that are now ideologies, adding more and more noise and losing the original truth or signal that instead is no longer accurate because the context is changed and it needs to be reevaluated as model, yet everyone appears ILLITERATE else unwilling and unable to do this, because they have more important things to do like wax their egos or manicure their stellar lifestyles. in other words, in some fundamental sense: programming is logical reasoning and tools could be made to develop these skills via the distributed net of mobile platforms that would help people learn how to think, how to evaluate situations in empirical frameworks, help understand probability, looping hypotheses, binary limits and issues of absolutism that are unreal in the ordinary sense (too simple, thus dumb and inculcating ignorance via viewpoint), and provide platforms to link thoughts and ideas and concepts in structural frameworks as a new foundation for the next internet as a shared POV and organization of data that is meaningful and has purpose beyond private views and agendas, and limits of copyright for truth, etc. so the relation of "logical reasoning" with [language] and [mathematics] in terms of concepts, ideas, algorithms, models, yet also "programming" of this CODE that may remain or be sustained by cryptographic means and methods in terms of deep culture and the sustaining of literacy beyond the ordinary mainstream boundaries, its metaphysical dimensions and source. in this, the role of cryptography perhaps at the unifying juncture of the two cultures as they are reunited in [code] and establish LITERACY across the total domain, moving from esoteric to revealed knowledge and awareness. the philosophical dimension, context, and goals of programming and role of debate and protection and extension of freedom of ideas and language within the era of computer development lost to social engineering via technology, its tools and platforms to promote this ignorance, falsehood, functioning against truth and shared awareness, against ideas, feedback, democracy. the ideology too small for the ideas, the ideas to large for the logic, and in turn the corruption replacing insight with ego, as the basis for exchange in a shallow hollow realm of exchange and relation fundamentally antihuman. *key is whether the observer is aware of their own observation, their own code, and can correct and account for errors or relies upon them for observation. can the observer observe themselves or do they realize their observations are observed by others, which is a basis for objective views in that many views of the same event can help error correct for distortion or unknowns yet if all assume the same views, these are reinforced instead. --- ye ol crypto system --- to the tangible future of a human managed society and state based on shared truth-- it would be possible to transform the issues of today into a new context and capture the /truth/ that exists buried within the complexity overlapping agendas, human and inhuman, and align the activities of the public and private state in accordance with human needs and goals. such as with a new digital monetary system and taxes, and education that teaches citizens how to think via logical reasoning, to raise consciousness and capacity through learning and developing skills, towards optimal and highest functioning - and to realign goals of bureaucracy to serve the citizens instead of function against them, such as regularity agencies that establish a framework to reclaim a healthy non-toxic environment and return areas of wilderness to their natural state, such as removal of vast areas of sprawl and reimagine city planning and transportation systems and other approaches to human development in a more efficient, effective, humane and livable approach. the issue of these marketing firms and advertisers collecting vast data for sale on any citizens is in parallel to state surveillance issues and could be legally abolished as a practice, with limits to what can be collected and requiring a citizen to allow such tracking for market research and nothing beyond this. that would be legally enforced and corrupt systems that surveil as business models would be taken down, go out of business due to the illegality of a massive private surveillance regime due to code exploits of constitutional errors, allowing private businesses to profit on public extortion, expropriation, devaluing of name and identity, stealing of information, and various other forms of theft, fraud, schemes for the blacklisting and framing or intimidation of others via such practices, especially and particularly in a political and ideological context, where your local business is tallying your presence here and there and gaining profit off such data as a business model, reinforcing the tyranny. there is no place for this lawlessness, this bullying and intimation within a 'free' society unless it is no longer beholden to its constitutional framework and there is nothing to protect citizens from the exploitation of their data. it is not an issue of regulating it-- it needs to be abolished. in contrast, state surveillance is potentially somewhat a windfall for a future society where electronic health records, dental, taxes, billing, taxes, income, work history, education documents, and other dossiers could become a repository for citizen data that they should be legally allowed to access -- based on transparency and within limits of security models in terms of actual secrecy and security issues it may involve. such that you probably would not have access to FBI or CIA assessments though should rightfully have everything else, and it should be *accurate* data and not full of lies, distortions, false perspectives-- and this needs to be the right of every citizen to have accurate data profiles (A=A) and not full of documents that distort information to onesided views based on corrupted and self-serving authority or political agendas. so here's the idea- and the critical role of cryptography in this... basically these federal and state databases can become future 'electronic records' for citizens, so that all dada is stored in a shared accessible model and can be accessed from anywhere via the network, such that schools can send data to those files and logins can allow shared access for those whose files they are. then, for instance, if the government has a issue such as social security, all the data is in one place and the reference information is available from multiple locations, not duplication or triplication or quadrupling of efforts or reliance on postal mail, paper and stamps and delivery networks to get snail mail validation. ZONING would be the primary structural issue, what are the perspectives for the combined total database, say federal and state, though also health education work taxes and onward, though an entire life could be stored in the model, from childhood to old age. and yet these could be more than documents, it could also involve a concept of a citizen, a model or 'individual circuit' that they develop for their goals in life and their circumstance, issue and skills unique them, and through this empirical context and grounding, everyone including teachers and family and doctors and the state could access this data model as it relates to the individual conceptualization, their direction of development, and map lives into and onto and through this data modeling as a model of education, health, career, citizenry. to do this would require shared keys, and an infrastructure reliant on both security and secrecy in varying scenarios, depending on the exchange, and to what degree the data is made accessible. for instance a doctor visit could have the medical records opened for a one-week window for updates via key exchange, or an educational institution may hold keys for each student that updates their coursework yearly or by semester yet otherwise is closed down and secured in the state model, under watchful eye, protected. this too could occur with monetary exchange accessed through a substructure so employers payroll is automatically figured, and micro-taxation that could be automatic to currency could be tabulated and tallied and recorded in this central location and instead of taking money out and then returning it later, avoiding this lunacy for a just-in-time model where money accounts for its own existence and has identity yet does not create friction that prevents monetary relations or exchange, allowing money its fluidic power. the individual citizen then could be given a crypto key that is somehow attached to an object, equivalent in some way to a social security card with specific ID number, yet with an authentication scheme based on a single unique entanglement (assuming classical quantum infrastructure is out in the open) and thus the key has unique physical bits that ensure specific entanglements with other paired bits elsewhere, that could be connected to this central database of state. and from that, entangled further into a physically-based model of crypto, additional crypto keys that coexist in that domain within infinity-models, that generate the everyday keys for accessing bank or school records or circuit diagrams of the self as a life plan, the society actively involved and supporting development of itself in a shared framework of relations and exchange, ideas and intention, purpose and possibility for human civilization. in other words, a person would carry a device that would be a keychain and have many active keys that are validated by an underlying state key that generates these others via physical hardware entanglement, perhaps a qbit-blackbox or something on a smartcard, yet its detachment from the person also could invalidate the key as it is a unique one-time correlation and thus to forge it would collapse the entanglement, and other monitoring would track occurrences to prevent outside manipulations via biometric or other verification of identity. speculative, most entirely unknown though seemingly feasible in the abstract, where the physical key of door/lock is updated into a future realm of entangled crypto keys as citizen ID, that then is a validation/verification system for establishing remote trust for other subsystem crypto exchange via related or embedded key systems that could be added to the keychain. perhaps the quantum key resides within a home and only activates the other keys yet need not be carried around once activating them, and thus provides a physical security barrier or air gap that could bound any attack into the larger network or database system by whatever local key is accessed illegally, thus establishing perimeter defenses or other protocols to diagnose or act on the anomalous events. it is questionable if such a keychain or crypto key system would involve tracking by default, if not just in a data model given that the state may have access to this information if needed, and thus in an emergency it may change 'zone' settings, open up the cell network, track a person down and ring their phone to let them know of a connected event via automated call, or other such functionality, though otherwise data could be anonymized and sensor networks and others would only focus on actual threats versus dragnet the entire citizenry under hypersurveillence atmosphere where the entire society is criminalized and made passive via fear of state violence and retaliation for speaking differently or going against political party line, which is the daily situation in its economic, social, political context as engineered by the binary ideologists to exploit as is. in this way, crypto keys could differentiate zones of public from private and there could be state secured databases protected by law, whereby like a safe deposit box, information could be stored or this could be linked within the home as well, decentralized, though in some sense 'security' and 'secrecy' of a private nature could be protected via these lawful resources that would only under extraordinary measures be accessible by the state, under oversight, and monitored to ensure they are protected by government. for instance, someone may want photos of their granddaughter to be passed on to her after the grandparents pass, and she has children, and such documents could be stored in such a place, as data files. maybe that is not the idea of others, though it is in contrast to the 'fear the state' model if it were to exist in a context of human values, where these rights and principles and ideas are protected, then the database could be citadel, a protected zone that will continue even if the house burns down or a parent dies and that data can be accessed and it is part of the process of life within a context of electronic information and data resources like these. the larger aspect is that such a tiered crypto system then could involve house keys, vehicle keys (for eventual antigravity landspeeders i hope), 'money keys' (access to currency, currency as information), state database keys (subset: health, education, career, psychology, etc). etc. the crypto infrastructure would be vital to establishing, sustaining, and securing and protecting the state and its citizenry, in addition to its role in secret communication which may take on other parameters in such a 'shared identity' context, whereas other realms could involve unshared identity and involve tactical, strategic, operational crypto for other environments and situations or tied into this as an infrastructure layer. say, if you're dealing with hostile robots who steal children or swap out citizens and they need to be hunted down and eliminated, and so on. parallel to this, hopefully the end of wi-fi will appear, the pollution of the environment via electromagnetic radiation and interference with the senses and nature, and regain what has been lost by toxic invisible skies continuing that terrible tradition of the first industrial revolutions, once citizens become literate that the technology is harming citizenry by unregulated design and this relates to cancer and other issues, including nefarious agendas to engineer illness, obesity, to devolve the society. those codes can be broken, dismantled, revealed for the abuses of power they involve and the antihuman agenda that the unconstitutional state is allowing to exist, terrorizing citizens as its basis for legitimacy. the true terror today is the unlawful illegal unconstitutional state today. its code is error-ridden, its ideology is completely unsound, and it is time it is accounted for and error-corrected at the scale required to change its circuitry and given humanity the chance it deserves to succeed in this life. if ever there has been a reason to fight, this is it.

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[liberationtech] Is Dropbox opening uploaded documents?
by Eugen Leitl 17 Sep '13

17 Sep '13

Dropbox is pulling a Skype. ----- Forwarded message from Joe Szilagyi <szilagyi(a)gmail.com> ----- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 08:42:17 -0700 From: Joe Szilagyi <szilagyi(a)gmail.com> To: liberationtech(a)lists.stanford.edu Subject: [liberationtech] Is Dropbox opening uploaded documents? User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 Reply-To: liberationtech <liberationtech(a)lists.stanford.edu> Found online: http://www.wncinfosec.com/dropbox-opening-my-docs/ -- Joe Szilagyi -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at companys(a)stanford.edu. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com http://postbiota.org AC894EC5: 38A5 5F46 A4FF 59B8 336B 47EE F46E 3489 AC89 4EC5

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Breaking a CPU’s internal cryptographic mechanisms
by Gutem 17 Sep '13

17 Sep '13

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/166580-researchers-find-new-ultra-low-le… - Gutem

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