An examination of the Tor fork hullabaloo
Andrea Shepard mentions that the Tor fork stinks of Russia psyops ( https://twitter.com/puellavulnerata/status/769311082318036992 ). It obviously failed. How would the next time succeed? This Tor fork operation likely failed because it did not take into account obvious measures of status, if Joshua Yabut had joined Tor and made contributions and gained social capital before the crisis, he would be more likely to succeed and draw a following by splitting off at the moment of crisis. He did things in the wrong order. Interestingly, he was NASA Red Team, or cyber counter intelligence, much like the creator of Encyclopedia Dramatica, but I digress. But Joshua Yabut has an obvious connection to the US Army, former infantry. There have been many suspicious events involving the US Army's history. McCarthy's investigation of Communist subversion failed when he went after the army (more obscure voices will point to another investigation into another agency). Lee Harvey Oswald was in the navy before defecting to Russia, there were allegations that he provided information that allowed the U-2 to be shot down. More recently, CIA militias in Syria are fighting Pentagon militias in Syria ( http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-cia-pentagon-isis-20160327-sto... ). There are also allegations that the Pentagon sabotaged the State Department's peace deal with Russia. This has been characterized many ways, Cowboy vs Yankee War, Moldbug's Red Empire vs Blue Empire. There is certainly some sort of internal antagonism being played out in the world. Regardless, nothing is quite what it seems, and searching for the truth is unrewarding. Better to find it at the bottom of a bottle. P.S. I wonder how many times Zerodium pays for the same exploit from different researchers. Afterall, if they stiff a researcher, they can always alert the maintainers of the code, if they aren't one themselves. P.P.S. How much does it cost to have a botnet untraceably DDOS Tor?
On 07/25/2017 08:47 PM, Ryan Carboni wrote:
Andrea Shepard mentions that the Tor fork stinks of Russia psyops
Andrea Shepherd stinks of psyops:
"WIRED couldn't independently verify the stories on the website created by Appelbaum's accusers, who used pseudonyms, nor determine the creator of the site itself. But Andrea Shepard, a Berlin-based developer co-worker of Appelbaum's at the Tor Project, says the site was created by a "longtime member of the Tor community" whom she knows and trusts. Shepard also says she's spoken directly with one of Appelbaum's alleged victims, who told Shepard in February of this year that Appelbaum had raped him or her. "Sadly...I think it's the damn truth. He's a charismatic, socially dominant manipulator," Shepard writes to WIRED. "I absolutely believe the accusers."
https://www.wired.com/2016/06/tor-developer-jacob-appelbaum-resigns-amid-sex... And I think I've had just about enough of "Ryan Carboni". Kill-listed. Rr On 07/25/2017 08:47 PM, Ryan Carboni wrote:
Andrea Shepard mentions that the Tor fork stinks of Russia psyops ( https://twitter.com/puellavulnerata/status/769311082318036992 ). It obviously failed.
How would the next time succeed? This Tor fork operation likely failed because it did not take into account obvious measures of status, if Joshua Yabut had joined Tor and made contributions and gained social capital before the crisis, he would be more likely to succeed and draw a following by splitting off at the moment of crisis. He did things in the wrong order. Interestingly, he was NASA Red Team, or cyber counter intelligence, much like the creator of Encyclopedia Dramatica, but I digress.
But Joshua Yabut has an obvious connection to the US Army, former infantry. There have been many suspicious events involving the US Army's history. McCarthy's investigation of Communist subversion failed when he went after the army (more obscure voices will point to another investigation into another agency). Lee Harvey Oswald was in the navy before defecting to Russia, there were allegations that he provided information that allowed the U-2 to be shot down. More recently, CIA militias in Syria are fighting Pentagon militias in Syria ( http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-cia-pentagon-isis-20160327-sto... ). There are also allegations that the Pentagon sabotaged the State Department's peace deal with Russia. This has been characterized many ways, Cowboy vs Yankee War, Moldbug's Red Empire vs Blue Empire. There is certainly some sort of internal antagonism being played out in the world.
Regardless, nothing is quite what it seems, and searching for the truth is unrewarding. Better to find it at the bottom of a bottle.
P.S. I wonder how many times Zerodium pays for the same exploit from different researchers. Afterall, if they stiff a researcher, they can always alert the maintainers of the code, if they aren't one themselves.
P.P.S. How much does it cost to have a botnet untraceably DDOS Tor?
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