From noergelpizza at hotmail.de  Tue Jan  1 01:51:49 2013
From: noergelpizza at hotmail.de (Andreas Bader)
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 10:51:49 +0100
Subject: [liberationtech] Travel with notebook habit
Message-ID: <mailman.4082.1576008246.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

On 12/28/2012 12:46 PM, Maxim Kammerer wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Julian Oliver <julian at julianoliver.com> wrote:
>> I've been extensively questioned at the border on a few occassions over the
>> years /because/ my laptops don't have a Desktop as such, no icons either. Both
>> my arms were grabbed at the Australian border as I reached to type 'firefox' in
>> a terminal, to start the browser in an attempt to show them a normal looking
>> environment.
> I think that in such a discussion, it is necessary to distinguish
> between border guards wanting to look at your data, and border guards
> wanting to make sure that your laptop is not a bomb (given the limited
> training they receive on the subject). The situation that you describe
> looks more like the latter than the former (although clearly there
> might be omitted details).
>
For the case of Border guards that want to have a look at your data
there's an article from schneier:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/05/crossing_border.html
You can also use a normal (fake | Windows) OS on your standart HDD and a
hidden OS on a mSATA SSD, you can use a 16 GB disk with a small and
encryted Ubuntu distribution. If you set the boot standart to your
standart HDD then you have a good chance to get through the control.
Another possibility is to combine this with a hidden truecrypt
container, no one can force you to write down a password to a container
that is probably not even existing. You can't prove that.
If this is to complicated for you, you can still install a OS on a small
USB stick. Or a SDHC card. It's not that expensive and if you have an
USB stick fixed at your keyring I think no one will notice.
The most secure thing would be a Live CD and a hidden container on an
USB / SDHC device. So they can't infiltrate a system that is not even
installed (backtrack and stuff have truecrypt onboard) and they can't
force you to open that hidden container (because you only know if there
is a container when you hit the right password.
When nobody performs a hardware hack on your SATA or something then
nothing can happen. If they keep your notebook for some minutes | hours
| days then you should examine it before use..
It's also helpful to check the md5 checksum of the boot partition; you
can have a virus / keylogger in there.
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From eugen at leitl.org  Tue Jan  1 03:36:30 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 12:36:30 +0100
Subject: [liberationtech] Travel with notebook habit
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From eugen at leitl.org  Tue Jan  1 05:54:41 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 14:54:41 +0100
Subject: [HacDC:Byzantium] Future paths?
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From eugen at leitl.org  Tue Jan  1 07:42:08 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 16:42:08 +0100
Subject: Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy
Message-ID: <20130101154208.GC9750@leitl.org>

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/29/fbi-coordinated-crackdown-occupy?CMP=twt_gu 

Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy

New documents prove what was once dismissed as paranoid fantasy: totally
integrated corporate-state repression of dissent
 
Naomi Wolf

guardian.co.uk, Saturday 29 December 2012 14.58 GMT

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Police used teargas to drive back protesters following an attempt by the
Occupy supporters to shut down the city of Oakland. Photograph: Noah
Berger/AP

It was more sophisticated than we had imagined: new documents show that the
violent crackdown on Occupy last fall b so mystifying at the time b was not
just coordinated at the level of the FBI, the Department of Homeland
Security, and local police. The crackdown, which involved, as you may recall,
violent arrests, group disruption, canister missiles to the skulls of
protesters, people held in handcuffs so tight they were injured, people held
in bondage till they were forced to wet or soil themselves bwas coordinated
with the big banks themselves.

The Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, in a groundbreaking scoop that should
once more shame major US media outlets (why are nonprofits now some of the
only entities in America left breaking major civil liberties news?), filed
this request. The document b reproduced here in an easily searchable format b
shows a terrifying network of coordinated DHS, FBI, police, regional fusion
center, and private-sector activity so completely merged into one another
that the monstrous whole is, in fact, one entity: in some cases, bearing a
single name, the Domestic Security Alliance Council. And it reveals this
merged entity to have one centrally planned, locally executed mission. The
documents, in short, show the cops and DHS working for and with banks to
target, arrest, and politically disable peaceful American citizens.

The documents, released after long delay in the week between Christmas and
New Year, show a nationwide meta-plot unfolding in city after city in an
Orwellian world: six American universities are sites where campus police
funneled information about students involved with OWS to the FBI, with the
administrations' knowledge (p51); banks sat down with FBI officials to pool
information about OWS protesters harvested by private security; plans to
crush Occupy events, planned for a month down the road, were made by the FBI
b and offered to the representatives of the same organizations that the
protests would target; and even threats of the assassination of OWS leaders
by sniper fire b by whom? Where? b now remain redacted and undisclosed to
those American citizens in danger, contrary to standard FBI practice to
inform the person concerned when there is a threat against a political leader
(p61).

As Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, executive director of the PCJF, put it, the
documents show that from the start, the FBI b though it acknowledges Occupy
movement as being, in fact, a peaceful organization b nonetheless designated
OWS repeatedly as a "terrorist threat":

"FBI documents just obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF)
b& reveal that from its inception, the FBI treated the Occupy movement as a
potential criminal and terrorist threat b& The PCJF has obtained heavily
redacted documents showing that FBI offices and agents around the country
were in high gear conducting surveillance against the movement even as early
as August 2011, a month prior to the establishment of the OWS encampment in
Zuccotti Park and other Occupy actions around the country."

Verheyden-Hilliard points out the close partnering of banks, the New York
Stock Exchange and at least one local Federal Reserve with the FBI and DHS,
and calls it "police-statism":

"This production [of documents], which we believe is just the tip of the
iceberg, is a window into the nationwide scope of the FBI's surveillance,
monitoring, and reporting on peaceful protestors organizing with the Occupy
movement b& These documents also show these federal agencies functioning as a
de facto intelligence arm of Wall Street and Corporate America."

The documents show stunning range: in Denver, Colorado, that branch of the
FBI and a "Bank Fraud Working Group" met in November 2011 b during the Occupy
protests b to surveil the group. The Federal Reserve of Richmond, Virginia
had its own private security surveilling Occupy Tampa and Tampa Veterans for
Peace and passing privately-collected information on activists back to the
Richmond FBI, which, in turn, categorized OWS activities under its "domestic
terrorism" unit. The Anchorage, Alaska "terrorism task force" was watching
Occupy Anchorage. The Jackson, Michigan "joint terrorism task force" was
issuing a "counterterrorism preparedness alert" about the ill-organized
grandmas and college sophomores in Occupy there. Also in Jackson, Michigan,
the FBI and the "Bank Security Group" b multiple private banks b met to
discuss the reaction to "National Bad Bank Sit-in Day" (the response was
violent, as you may recall). The Virginia FBI sent that state's Occupy
members' details to the Virginia terrorism fusion center. The Memphis FBI
tracked OWS under its "joint terrorism task force" aegis, too. And so on, for
over 100 pages.

Jason Leopold, at Truthout.org, who has sought similar documents for more
than a year, reported that the FBI falsely asserted in response to his own
FOIA requests that no documents related to its infiltration of Occupy Wall
Street existed at all. But the release may be strategic: if you are an Occupy
activist and see how your information is being sent to terrorism task forces
and fusion centers, not to mention the "longterm plans" of some redacted
group to shoot you, this document is quite the deterrent.

There is a new twist: the merger of the private sector, DHS and the FBI means
that any of us can become WikiLeaks, a point that Julian Assange was trying
to make in explaining the argument behind his recent book. The fusion of the
tracking of money and the suppression of dissent means that a huge area of
vulnerability in civil society b people's income streams and financial
records b is now firmly in the hands of the banks, which are, in turn, now in
the business of tracking your dissent.

Remember that only 10% of the money donated to WikiLeaks can be processed b
because of financial sector and DHS-sponsored targeting of PayPal data. With
this merger, that crushing of one's personal or business financial freedom
can happen to any of us. How messy, criminalizing and prosecuting dissent.
How simple, by contrast, just to label an entity a "terrorist organization"
and choke off, disrupt or indict its sources of financing.

Why the huge push for counterterrorism "fusion centers", the DHS militarizing
of police departments, and so on? It was never really about "the terrorists".
It was not even about civil unrest. It was always about this moment, when
vast crimes might be uncovered by citizens b it was always, that is to say,
meant to be about you.




From eugen at leitl.org  Tue Jan  1 14:18:15 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 23:18:15 +0100
Subject: [FoRK] Recommendations for a reliable subscription-based
  SSL 	VPN or proxy service for "secure, portable, virtual" office?
Message-ID: <20130101221815.GZ9750@leitl.org>

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From gfoster at entersection.org  Tue Jan  1 23:27:05 2013
From: gfoster at entersection.org (Gregory Foster)
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 01:27:05 -0600
Subject: [liberationtech] 29C3 whistleblower panel: Radack, Drake, Binney
Message-ID: <mailman.4083.1576008246.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

In Jacob's keynote (~29:50), he encourages participants to attend the  
whistleblower panel later in the day.

29th Chaos Communication Congress (Berlin: Dec 27-30, 2012) - "Enemies of 
the State: What happens when telling the truth about secret US government 
power becomes a crime" by Jesselyn Radack, Thomas Drake, and William 
Binney:
http://youtu.be/nc5i8aROQkk?t=34m36s
http://events.ccc.de/congress/2012/Fahrplan/events/5338.en.html

Radack, Drake, and Binney take thirty minutes each to present their  
respective stories - powerful stuff.  Kevin Gosztola's write up gives a  
sense:
http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2012/12/29/us-whistleblowers-on-being-targeted-by-the-secret-security-state/
http://twitter.com/kgosztola

Within the first minute of his talk (~1:28:36), William Binney describes  
the legal and intellectual property guidance he received when retiring  
from the NSA to set the scene for an announcement that he has created a  
"commercial product" which describes a software architecture akin to  
ThinThread:

> so I have that technology, it's on file, basically, with the Library of 
> Congress, we have a copyright on it, so it's open to anybody for $45 you 
> can get a copy, or you can go to the people here at the conference, they 
> have, I gave them copies, you can get copies from them.  So it lays out 
> an architectural framework the entire process for how to automate an 
> analysis business process across the entire process, whatever you're 
> looking at, whatever kind of data you're doing because this applies to 
> everything: stock market exchange, money exchange, you know, travel, 
> phone calls, emails, Twitter, cloud, Facebook, whatever!  So the point 
> is, that this is the kind of, this whole process will give you an idea 
> of what's really going on and the scale of what's happening.


The Library of Congress defied my search queries.  I didn't find mention  
on the CCC website, wiki, Twitter feeds, etc.  Is this document(?) in  
digital form yet?  Seems like it might be rather interesting.

gf

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From lists at infosecurity.ch  Wed Jan  2 00:05:08 2013
From: lists at infosecurity.ch (Fabio Pietrosanti (naif))
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 09:05:08 +0100
Subject: [liberationtech] 29C3 whistleblower panel: Radack, Drake, Binney
Message-ID: <mailman.4084.1576008246.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

On 1/2/13 8:27 AM, Gregory Foster wrote:
>
> Within the first minute of his talk (~1:28:36), William Binney
> describes the legal and intellectual property guidance he received
> when retiring from the NSA to set the scene for an announcement that
> he has created a "commercial product" which describes a software
> architecture akin to ThinThread:
Reading from the Wikipedia's relevant page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinThread about the software the NSA's
folks was trying to use, it seems much like that today they would be
just making/using a Palantir's plug-in (http://www.palantir.com/) to do
so, connected to the right set of databases .

It would be nice a FOIA request to know which kind software and/or
software manufacturer get used by US Security Agencies in handling
"phone call logs" and/or "email logs" and/or "mobile phone's location
data" .

We may spot the company where are the NSA's whistleblowers of tomorrow ;-)

-naif
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From drwho at virtadpt.net  Wed Jan  2 06:55:45 2013
From: drwho at virtadpt.net (The Doctor)
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 09:55:45 -0500
Subject: [info] [FoRK] Recommendations for a reliable
  subscription-based  SSL	VPN or proxy service for "secure, portable,
  virtual" office?
In-Reply-To: <20130101221815.GZ9750@leitl.org>
References: <20130101221815.GZ9750@leitl.org>
Message-ID: <50E44A71.1040104@virtadpt.net>

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On 01/01/2013 05:18 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:

> Although for a whole drive it would be a bit of an efficient
> storage use issue (requiring just periodic reset maintenance),
> SparkleShare+Gitolite git server via ssh is a great combination,
> with clients for Windows/Macosx/Linux or you can use any git
> client.  If the git server were storing into a TrueCrypt loopback
> on the server, you'd ruin offline attacks against your data.
> Simply sync to another drive somewhere to get redundancy.

I'm surprised more people aren't using Fossil
(https://www.fossil-scm.org/) for this.  In addition to git-like
distributed revision control, the bug tracker and wiki are built in
and synchronized along with commits.  It has a project blog, too.
I've been playing around with it for about a year now, and I'm very
pleased with it (and with not having to rely on a central service like
Github to hold everything).  I still haven't had time to try synching
Fossil instances over Tor yet, but it works pretty well over a
point-to-point link over SSH.

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From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 13:03:24 +0100
Subject: [liberationtech] 29C3 whistleblower panel: Radack, Drake,
  Binney
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Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 13:08:26 +0100
Subject: [liberationtech] 29C3 whistleblower panel: Radack, Drake, 
  Binney
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From damian at google.com  Wed Jan  2 21:14:31 2013
From: damian at google.com (Damian Menscher)
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 21:14:31 -0800
Subject: Gmail and SSL
Message-ID: <mailman.4085.1576008246.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 8:52 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, 02 Jan 2013 19:59:35 -0800, Damian Menscher said:
> > Aurora compromised at least 20 other companies, failed at its assumed
> > objective of seeing user data, and Google was the only organization to
> > notice, let alone have the guts to expose the attack [0].  And you're
> going
> > to hold that against them?
>
> I didn't say that.  What I *said* was "one should *expect* a nation-state
> adversary to go after your mail hosting company via multiple avenues of
> attack,
> because it's already been tried before".  Google is indeed one of the
> better
> actors.  But if you're a target, maybe it's time to reconsider whether the
> phrase "hosting company" should be included in your environment *at all*.
>

Thanks for clarifying.

We're off-topic, but that decision needs to be weighed against the
alternatives.  If your alternative is running your own mailserver at home,
then your risks are:
  - They can come into your home and walk off with your machines.  Even if
your hard drives are encrypted, your backups might not be... or maybe you
don't have backups?
  - If you browse from the server they can get you with a trojan impacting
Flash or Java.
  - Even if you don't browse from your mailserver they can try to
compromise it remotely if it's not fully patched.  How good are you at
keeping your system patched.  Does it fall a day or two behind when you're
on vacation?
  - Speaking of vacation, how do you authenticate to your system?  Does it
support 2-factor?  Or maybe you don't think you need 2-factor because you
have an SSL cert.  Did you self-sign it and tell your browser to ignore all
other CAs (to approximate Chrome's certificate pinning)?
  - How does your email arrive/leave?  They could be tapping your line...
or they could just DoS you off the net.
If you really think you can get all of that right, all the time, then I
wish you the best of luck.  But remembering that most targets are not
cypherpunks, telling them to do it themselves is incredibly bad advice.

Back on topic: encryption without knowing who you're talking to is worse
than useless (hence no self-signed certs which provide a false sense of
security), and there are usability difficulties with exposing strong
security to the average user (asking users to generate and upload a
self-signed cert would be a customer-support disaster, not to mention all
the outages that would occur when those certs expired).  Real-world
security is all about finding a reasonable balance and adapting to the
current threats.

Damian

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From eugen at leitl.org  Thu Jan  3 04:14:54 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 13:14:54 +0100
Subject: [serval-project-dev] Encrypted rhizome bundles!
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From eugen at leitl.org  Thu Jan  3 04:16:21 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 13:16:21 +0100
Subject: Gmail and SSL
Message-ID: <20130103121621.GN9750@leitl.org>

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From eugen at leitl.org  Thu Jan  3 04:19:34 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 13:19:34 +0100
Subject: [liberationtech] Travel with notebook habit
Message-ID: <20130103121934.GQ9750@leitl.org>

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From eugen at leitl.org  Thu Jan  3 04:52:42 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 13:52:42 +0100
Subject: [liberationtech] Modern FIDONET for net disable countries?
Message-ID: <20130103125242.GT9750@leitl.org>

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From gem at rellim.com  Thu Jan  3 15:31:23 2013
From: gem at rellim.com (Gary E. Miller)
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 15:31:23 -0800
Subject: Gmail and SSL
Message-ID: <mailman.4086.1576008246.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

Yo All!

Apropos the recent discussions:

"Google says that someone was caught trying to use an unauthorized
digital certificate issued in its name in an attempt to impersonate
Google.com for a man-in-the-middle attack."

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/01/google-fraudulent-certificate/

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From jeremy at servalproject.org  Wed Jan  2 21:49:25 2013
From: jeremy at servalproject.org (Jeremy Lakeman)
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 16:19:25 +1030
Subject: [serval-project-dev] Encrypted rhizome bundles!
Message-ID: <mailman.4087.1576008246.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

I've just pushed the final changes to land encrypted payloads in
rhizome, covered by some appropriate test cases.

But don't try to use the latest serval-dna in the android batphone
application just yet. There's a breaking API change related to
extracting files that we need to deal with first. That's hopefully a
small job I can tackle tomorrow.

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From gfoster at entersection.org  Thu Jan  3 19:33:39 2013
From: gfoster at entersection.org (Gregory Foster)
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:33:39 -0600
Subject: [drone-list] UAVDronesForSale.com
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Hey, it's a craigslist for drones!
http://uavdronesforsale.com/

High level categories:
Amateur, Commercial, and Law Enforcement drones (new and used).
Parts, Cameras, and Repair Services.
Aerial Services, Pilot Training, Drone Consultants, and Jobs.

It looks like a lot of interesting information may accumulate here.

HT @DronesForSale via @DIYDroneSafety:
http://twitter.com/DronesForSale/status/286954853958311936

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From nadim at nadim.cc  Thu Jan  3 17:09:41 2013
From: nadim at nadim.cc (Nadim Kobeissi)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 03:09:41 +0200
Subject: [liberationtech] Another CA Compromise: TurkTrust
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Another CA has been found issuing SSL certificates for Google services.
Mozilla has acted on the issue:
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2013/01/03/revoking-trust-in-two-turktrust-certficates/

The weird thing is that it's starting to appear less and less crazy to just
get rid of the CA system and replace it withb& nothing. What do you guys
think?

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From eugen at leitl.org  Fri Jan  4 02:46:02 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 11:46:02 +0100
Subject: Gmail and SSL
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From eugen at leitl.org  Fri Jan  4 02:48:10 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 11:48:10 +0100
Subject: [liberationtech] Another CA Compromise: TurkTrust
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From jeremy at servalproject.org  Thu Jan  3 17:45:15 2013
From: jeremy at servalproject.org (Jeremy Lakeman)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 12:15:15 +1030
Subject: [serval-project-dev] Re: Encrypted rhizome bundles!
Message-ID: <mailman.4090.1576008246.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

And done. We now have encrypted MeshMS messaging between android phones.

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Jeremy Lakeman <jeremy at servalproject.org> wrote:
> I've just pushed the final changes to land encrypted payloads in
> rhizome, covered by some appropriate test cases.
>
> But don't try to use the latest serval-dna in the android batphone
> application just yet. There's a breaking API change related to
> extracting files that we need to deal with first. That's hopefully a
> small job I can tackle tomorrow.

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From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
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Subject: [serval-project-dev] Re: Encrypted rhizome bundles!
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From eugen at leitl.org  Fri Jan  4 03:54:44 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 12:54:44 +0100
Subject: [drone-list] UAVDronesForSale.com
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From eugen at leitl.org  Fri Jan  4 03:56:27 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 12:56:27 +0100
Subject: [liberationtech] Google Bows Down To Chinese Government On 
  Censorship
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From greatfire at greatfire.org  Thu Jan  3 22:50:47 2013
From: greatfire at greatfire.org (Martin Johnson)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 14:50:47 +0800
Subject: [liberationtech] Google Bows Down To Chinese Government On
	Censorship
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Sometime between December 5 and December 8 last year, Google made a
surprising decision that hasnbt yet been reported. They decided to remove a
feature which had previously informed users from China of censored
keywords. At the same time, they deleted the help article which explained
how to use the feature. This indicates a new development in the
relationship between the Chinese government and Google. Since Google moved
its search engine to Hong Kong in 2010, censorship of its services such as
YouTube, Google Plus and thousands of keywords on Google Search has been
done by the Great Firewall, out of control of Google. This latest move was
fully controlled by Google and can as such only be described as
self-censorship.

Full story at
https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2013/jan/google-bows-down-chinese-government-censorship

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From klerichar at gmail.com  Fri Jan  4 08:13:23 2013
From: klerichar at gmail.com (Claire Richard)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 17:13:23 +0100
Subject: [drone-list] Rent-a-Robocops
Message-ID: <mailman.4092.1576008246.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

here is an interesting interview with a retired drone pilot, suffering from
PTSD syndrom after flying drones for years

The article in from a recent international edition of German newspaper Der
Spiegel (the article is in English)

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/pain-continues-after-war-for-american-drone-pilot-a-872726.html

cr


2012/12/28 Gregory Foster <gfoster at entersection.org>

> IEEE Spectrum (Dec 28) - "Japanese Security Firm to Start Renting
> Surveillance Drones":
> http://spectrum.ieee.org/**automaton/robotics/military-**
> robots/japanese-security-firm-**to-start-renting-surveillance-**drones<http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/military-robots/japanese-security-firm-to-start-renting-surveillance-drones>
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> For $58/month beginning in 2014 (I guess Japan is establishing regulations
> for private sector drones?).  Also includes video of a rather aggressive
> sentry robot.
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From eugen at leitl.org  Fri Jan  4 08:17:21 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 17:17:21 +0100
Subject: [drone-list] Rent-a-Robocops
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From virtualadept at gmail.com  Sat Jan  5 08:23:34 2013
From: virtualadept at gmail.com (Bryce Lynch)
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 11:23:34 -0500
Subject: [ZS] Re: Quantified Prestige (was Two Criticisms)
Message-ID: <mailman.4093.1576008246.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

A little searching of my mail queue didn't show that this link was posted
recently.  There was a TED talk on reputation economics that might be of
interest to a few people in this thread:

http://www.ted.com/talks/rachel_botsman_the_currency_of_the_new_economy_is_trust.html

Also, openhatch.org and coderwall.com.

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From dr at jones.dk  Sat Jan  5 05:22:52 2013
From: dr at jones.dk (Jonas Smedegaard)
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2013 14:22:52 +0100
Subject: [Freedombox-discuss] Building a personal software stack
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Quoting Melvin Carvalho (2013-01-05 02:43:28)
> On 29 December 2012 18:30, Petar PetroviD <[1]petar at petrovic.io> wrote:
>> I think that we don't HAVE to integrate everything, at least not 
>> during the initial development. I think we should focus on building a 
>> software stack, and then at some point, we can decide if deep 
>> integration is worth the effort. Of course, I am always open for 
>> different opinions and ideas.

Yes, let's build FreedomBox 1.0 before we build FreedomBox 2.0.

In my mind, FreedomBox 1.0 is *boring* - it contains no new inventions, 
only oldfashioned Debian mechanisms served user-friendly boxed.  That in 
itself is a *big* milestone for FreedomBox.

FreedomBox 2.0 is *interesting* - it contains improved ways of doing 
stuff classic among geeks, and still does it user-friendly boxed.

FreedomBox 3.0 is *exciting* - it contains new inventions that have 
happened in parallel to our "boring" work, inspired by similar events 
that triggered the FreedomBox project but without that tough contraint 
of being user-friendly.  Of course when those inventions reach 
FreedomBox they _are_ provided user-friendly boxed - because that is a 
fundamental requirement of FreedomBox.

We (as in the developers on FreedomBox) HAVE to integrate everything 
needed for serving privacy-aware functionality in a user-friendly way. 
If we don't, we don't have a FreedomBox, but some other Debian-related 
tool or toy.


> Yes, I think this is a valid approach.B  The web was designed to tie 
> many systems together via the hyperlink.

True that the web is about tying many systems together.

FreedomBox, however, is about protecting privacy, and here it does 
matter crucially to have enough functionality locally so as to not leak 
privacy when doing said hyperlinking.

FreedomBox is also about serving non-geeks, and here it is crucial that 
all interaction is user-friendly.  *ALL* interaction!  There is *no* 
admin, beyond the user herself/himself!


> Of course it would be nice if the integrations could provide a 
> seamless user experience, but perhaps that can only happen over 
> time...

If you mean postponing user-friendliness till later, then it sounds to 
me like you are talking about something (quite exciting and worthwhile 
to try reach but) different from Freedombox.


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From eugen at leitl.org  Sat Jan  5 06:38:24 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 15:38:24 +0100
Subject: [Freedombox-discuss] Building a personal software stack
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From eugen at leitl.org  Sat Jan  5 06:38:35 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 15:38:35 +0100
Subject: [cryptography] Why anon-DH is less damaging than current
  browser 	PKI (a rant in five paragraphs)
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From eugen at leitl.org  Sat Jan  5 08:47:36 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 17:47:36 +0100
Subject: [ZS] Re: Quantified Prestige (was Two Criticisms)
Message-ID: <20130105164736.GY9750@leitl.org>

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From pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz  Sat Jan  5 05:26:27 2013
From: pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2013 02:26:27 +1300
Subject: [cryptography] Why anon-DH is less damaging than current browser
	PKI (a rant in five paragraphs)
Message-ID: <mailman.4095.1576008246.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

In the light of yet another in an apparently neverending string of CA
failures, how long are browser vendors going to keep perpetuating this PKI
farce? [0].  Not only is there no recorded instance, anytime, anywhere, of a
browser certificate warning actually protecting users from harm [1], but the
blind faith that browsers place in certificates is actively harming users when
things fail, as they have again and again and again.

Users, or at least technical ones with enough knowledge to understand the
issues, have completely lost faith in browser PKI.  If you look at discussion
threads on technical forums [2], browser PKI is seen purely as something to
roll your eyes at, to make jokes about.  No-one (and as before that's with an
implied "who understands the details") has any faith in it any more.

The total inability and/or unwillingness of the browser vendors to respond to
this and provide real security measures that don't involve simply changing the
silly-walk they do with certificates and continuing as before is not only not
helping users in any way, it's actively harming them, and users are aware of
this.

Browsers may as well turn off all their PKI-related code and just use anon-DH
for everything, which would be safer than the current false-sense-of-security
silly-walk they're doing, not to mention saving tens (hundreds?) of millions
of dollars paid to commercial CAs by sites wanting to disable the browser
warnings.

Browser PKI costs a fortune to run, it doesn't protect users from anything the
attackers are doing, and at worst it actively endangers them.  If it was a
commercial good, RAPEX would have it withdrawn [3].

Peter.

[0] I mean "farce" in its theatrical sense here, "unlikely, extravagant, and
improbable situations [...] highly incomprehensible plot-wise (due to the
large number of plot twists and random events that often occur) [...] Farce is
also characterized by [...] the use of deliberate absurdity or nonsense, and
broadly stylized performances" (from Wikipedia, which has a more detailed
definition than e.g. the OED).

[1] See "So Long, And No Thanks for the Externalities: The Rational Rejection
of Security Advice by Users", Cormac Herley.

[2] And I realise the likes of Slashdot aren't the best of them, but it's the
most accessible and has the most participants, so it's a quick way to gauge
public opinion.

[3] "RAPEX is the EU rapid alert system that facilitates the rapid exchange of
information between Member States and the Commission on measures taken to
prevent or restrict the marketing or use of products posing a serious risk to
the health and safety of consumers".
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From r.rohozinski at psiphon.ca  Mon Jan  7 17:04:33 2013
From: r.rohozinski at psiphon.ca (Rafal Rohozinski)
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 20:04:33 -0500
Subject: [liberationtech] Modern FIDONET for net disable countries?
Message-ID: <mailman.4096.1576008246.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

This is a great conversation, and I really like the fact that some of these "old as new" technologies are being talked about. I spent much of early 1990s and Russia and the former Soviet Union.  Fido7 or Region 50, in Fido terms, was at one point in time the largest FidoNet network in the world! I wrote a paper about this in the mid-1990s, but the bottom line was that FidoNet that time allowed people to use Internet like technologies (email/newsgroups) avoiding the high tariff rates that were set on the Russian Internet, which at that time was UUCP/PC-based and charged for traffic by the kilobyte. The FidoNet protocols were also tenacious and worked really well crappy and very noisy aluminum wiresb&

However, I don't think it's practical to go back to the days of old style alternative networks. This is because in the intervening 20 or
years, telecommunication carriers have evolved from purveyors of wires and switches, that availed themselves to overlay networks like the Internet, to becoming the intelligent network in and of themselves.  The intelligence migrated from the edges to the core of the network. Telecom carriers now run all-IP core networks, and with advanced DPI, they can detect data signals on voice circuits. That means the opportunity of hiding data traffic on virtual voice switched networks isn't as practical as it once was. I think there's still a future for wireless-based alternative networks. And by that I don't mean satellite (BGAN or VSAT), but long-distance directional Wi-Fi, and even old fashioned IP over VHF/HF. There are challenges here, not least of which that these kinds of wireless radio networks are good targets for RDF. But in some respects, fishing for signals in the ether is a lot more challenging than detecting them on the wire.

Rafal

PS. Any one wanting to read my old paper of on the Russian Internet in the 1990's can find it here:
http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/untc/unpan015092.pdf

The part about Fidonet starts around page 11.

IP over VHF : www.southgatearc.org/articles/internetgateways.htm ... In the late 1990's the UN (WFP) used a system like this for Deep Field communications in Africa's Great Lakes regions

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On 2013-01-07, at 6:34 PM, "Gary Garriott  (ggarriott at INTERNEWS.ORG)"
<ggarriott at internews.org> wrote:

> FWIW, over the weekend I discovered I still have an unused SEAdog package dating from the late eighties. SEAdog was a commercial adaptation of the Fidonet Electronic Mail Protocol and which for a bunch of years we used extensively in another NGO to make overseas modem calls to far flung partners and associates, usually scheduled in the middle of the night. SEAdog also includes a provision for UUCP gateway addressing.
> 
> Gary
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2013 4:57 PM
> To: liberationtech
> Subject: Re: [liberationtech] Modern FIDONET for net disable countries?
> 
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 01:21:38PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>> That's a rather intriguing concept, though I might look at starting
>> from UUCP & NNTP, or perhaps BITNET, rather than the FIDO model - the
>> software is a bit more mature, and UUCP at least is still supported.
>> Mobile devices could associate themselves, via local WiFi, when in
>> range of each other, and messages would just flow through normal news
>> exchange protocols.
> 
> I'll second this.  Usenet is still the most successful experiment in distributed communication, it's resource-frugal (after all, it was developed at a time when we thought 1200 baud modems were speedy), it's highly resilient, it's delay-tolerant, it's scalable, it's agnostic about transport, and it supports undirected broadcast communication -- something useful when trying to evade traffic analysis.  It supports bidirectional mail<->news gateways, it runs on minimal hardware, and among other things, it could be used to provide prolific news feeds (albeit with some delay) into areas that are heavily censored.
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From eugen at leitl.org  Mon Jan  7 23:49:01 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 08:49:01 +0100
Subject: [liberationtech] Modern FIDONET for net disable countries?
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From eugen at leitl.org  Wed Jan  9 05:25:16 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 14:25:16 +0100
Subject: Linguistics identifies anonymous users
Message-ID: <20130109132516.GW30918@leitl.org>

http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/328135,linguistics-identifies-anonymous-users.aspx

Linguistics identifies anonymous users

By Darren Pauli on Jan 9, 2013 9:49 AM

Researchers reveal carders, hackers on underground forums.

Up to 80 percent of certain anonymous underground forum users can be
identified using linguistics, researchers say.

The techniques compare user posts to track them across forums and could even
unveil authors of thesis papers or blogs who had taken to underground
networks. 

"If our dataset contains 100 users we can at least identify 80 of them,"
researcher Sadia Afroz told an audience at the 29C3 Chaos Communication
Congress in Germany.

"Function words are very specific to the writer. Even if you are writing a
thesis, you'll probably use the same function words in chat messages.

"Even if your text is not clean, your writing style can give you away." 

The analysis techniques could also reveal botnet owners, malware tool authors
and provide insight into the size and scope of underground markets, making
the research appealing to law enforcement.

To achieve their results the researchers used techniques including
stylometric analysis, the authorship attribution framework Jstylo, and Latent
Dirichlet allocation which can distinguish a conversation on stolen credit
cards from one on exploit-writing, and similarly help identify interesting
people.

The analysis was applied across millions of posts from tens of thousands of
users of a series of multilingual underground websites including
thebadhackerz.com, blackhatpalace.com, www.carders.cc, free-hack.com,
hackel1te.info, hack-sector.forumh.net, rootwarez.org, L33tcrew.org and
antichat.ru.

It found up to 300 distinct discussion topics in the forums, with some of the
most popular being carding, encryption services, password cracking and
blackhat search engine optimisation tools. 

While successful, the work faces a series of challenges. Analysis could only
be performed using a minimum of 5000 words (this research used the "gold
standard" of 6500 words) which culled the list of potential targets from tens
of thousands to mere hundreds. 

It also needs to separate discussion on product information like credit
cards, exploits and drugs from conversational text in order to facilitate
machine learning to automate the process, according to researcher Aylin
Caliskan Islam.

And posts must be translated to English, a process which boosted author
identification from 66 to around 80 per cent but was imperfect using freely
available tools like Google and Bing.

However both of these tasks were performed successfully, and further
development including the use of "exclusive" language translation tools would
only serve to boost the identification accuracy.

Leetspeak, an alternative alphabet popular in some forum circles, cannot be
translated.

The project is ongoing and future work promises to increase the capacity to
unmask users. This Islam said would include temporal information which would
exploit users who logged into forums from the same IP addresses and wrote
posts at around the same time.

Antichat user analysis

"They might finish work, come home and log in," Islam said.

It could also tie user identities to the topics they write about and produce
a map of their interactions, identify multiple accounts held by a single
author, and combine forum messages with internet relay chat (IRC) data sets.

"We want to automate the whole process."

Afroz said while the work appeals to law enforcements and government
agencies, it is not designed to catch users out.

"We aren't trying to identify users, we are trying to show them that this is
possible," she said.

To this end, the researchers released tools last year, updated last December,
which help users to anonymise their writing.

One tool, Anonymouth, takes a 500 word sample of a user's writing to identify
unique features such as function words which could make them identifiable.

The other, JStylo, is the machine learning engine which powers Anonymouth.

The Drexel and George Mason universities research team is composed of Sadia
Afroz, Aylin Caliskan Islam, Ariel Stolerman, Rachel Greenstadt, and Damon
McCoy.




From kfogel at red-bean.com  Wed Jan  9 13:01:50 2013
From: kfogel at red-bean.com (Karl Fogel)
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:01:50 -0600
Subject: [liberationtech] Google Bows Down To Chinese Government On
	Censorship
Message-ID: <mailman.4097.1576008246.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

Maxim Kammerer <mk at dee.su> writes:
>On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Martin Johnson <greatfire at greatfire.org> wrote:
>> This latest move was fully controlled by Google and can as such only be described as self-censorship.
>
>The impression I am getting from my contacts at Google is that this is
>not true. That is, Google apparently lost to Chinese Cyber experts in
>being able to keep this censored keywords system up, and decided to
>drop it altogether. PR team then, for whatever other reasons, decided
>to keep complete silence on the subject.
>
>Of course, one can then ask why didn't Google simply force HTTPS on
>Chinese users to begin with, but they probably considered complete
>block of Google by GFC too real a possibility, and were too afraid to
>lose market share.

[not directed at Maxim, just a general thought on this topic]

Rushes to judge Google about its handling of China should probably be
tempered by the knowledge what the Chinese government really wants is to
push local companies like Baidu.  The government's protectionist policy
for Chinese web & technology companies just happens to mesh nicely with
their censorship policy in this case.

So if Google pushes too hard, the overall result will just be to give
more market share to Baidu, which doesn't really help the cause of
freedom for Chinese Internet users either.

Google's executives understand this very well.  There's a good argument
to be made that the things they could do to look brave and principled
are not the things that would actually help information freedom in China
in the long run.

Please note that I'm not making a "shades of gray" point, just a
"complexity" point.

Best,
-Karl
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From mk at dee.su  Wed Jan  9 12:50:37 2013
From: mk at dee.su (Maxim Kammerer)
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 22:50:37 +0200
Subject: [liberationtech] Google Bows Down To Chinese Government On
	Censorship
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On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Martin Johnson <greatfire at greatfire.org> wrote:
> This latest move was fully controlled by Google and can as such only be described as self-censorship.

The impression I am getting from my contacts at Google is that this is
not true. That is, Google apparently lost to Chinese Cyber experts in
being able to keep this censored keywords system up, and decided to
drop it altogether. PR team then, for whatever other reasons, decided
to keep complete silence on the subject.

Of course, one can then ask why didn't Google simply force HTTPS on
Chinese users to begin with, but they probably considered complete
block of Google by GFC too real a possibility, and were too afraid to
lose market share.

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From julian at julianoliver.com  Thu Jan 10 04:19:29 2013
From: julian at julianoliver.com (Julian Oliver)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:19:29 +0100
Subject: [liberationtech] Google Bows Down To Chinese Government On
	Censorship
Message-ID: <mailman.4099.1576008246.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

..on Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 02:01:10PM +0200, Maxim Kammerer wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Martin Johnson <greatfire at greatfire.org> wrote:
> > Yes, the question is what you call "working well". The censorship-warning
> > feature added last year was clearly improving the user experience. Removing
> > it worsened the user experience again.
> 
> Is this backed up by actual user experiences from China?
> 
> bWhen Wired.co.uk spoke to a few Chinese residents about the disabled
> Google feature, they were not even aware of it because they used VPNs,
> demonstrating Google might not be taking into account just how savvy
> its users are at all.b [1]

I found the article 'Five Myths about the Chinese Internet' a very useful read,
especially as regards savvy-factor of users. We in the West love to generalise
'the situation' in China but often have little or no idea as to the scale, scope
or dynamics at play. Another reason I find it particularly valuable to be
reading people on this list that are operating there.

The article was walled off at ForeignPolicy.com (ironically) but is available
here in its entirety:

    Five Myths about the Chinese Internet: 

    http://strategicstudyindia.blogspot.de/2012/11/five-myths-about-chinese-internet.html

    "Chinese Internet users are cosmopolitan, educated, and informed. Many use,
    or at least know they can use, circumvention technology like VPNs (Virtual
    Private Networks) to access blocked content."

Cheers,

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From eugen at leitl.org  Thu Jan 10 05:01:20 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:01:20 +0100
Subject: [liberationtech] Google Bows Down To Chinese Government On 
  Censorship
Message-ID: <20130110130120.GR30918@leitl.org>

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From eugen at leitl.org  Thu Jan 10 05:01:49 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:01:49 +0100
Subject: [liberationtech] Google Bows Down To Chinese Government On 
  Censorship
Message-ID: <20130110130149.GS30918@leitl.org>

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From eugen at leitl.org  Thu Jan 10 05:30:11 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:30:11 +0100
Subject: [liberationtech] Google Bows Down To Chinese Government On 
  Censorship
Message-ID: <20130110133011.GZ30918@leitl.org>

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From eugen at leitl.org  Thu Jan 10 05:30:38 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:30:38 +0100
Subject: [liberationtech] Google Bows Down To Chinese Government On 
  Censorship
Message-ID: <20130110133038.GA30918@leitl.org>

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From 8f6e58ee at gmail.com  Thu Jan 10 08:09:50 2013
From: 8f6e58ee at gmail.com (8f6e58ee at gmail.com)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 17:09:50 +0100
Subject: [serval-project-dev] New algorithm for message dissemination in
	decentralized networks faster than its predecessors and guarantees delivery
Message-ID: <mailman.4100.1576008246.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

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From eugen at leitl.org  Thu Jan 10 09:04:13 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 18:04:13 +0100
Subject: [serval-project-dev] New algorithm for message dissemination in
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From tony.arcieri at gmail.com  Thu Jan 10 19:14:34 2013
From: tony.arcieri at gmail.com (Tony Arcieri)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:14:34 -0800
Subject: [p2p-hackers] Distributed identity, chat, publishing,
	and sharing
Message-ID: <mailman.4101.1576008246.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Sean Lynch <seanl at literati.org> wrote:

> Hi, folks. I'm sure similar ideas to this have been discussed on this
> list before, but I wanted to talk about an application that's been
> living in my head for years and that I keep working on in fits and
> starts, in the hopes that either someone will "steal" the idea or decide
> to work on it with me to keep me motivated even when the goal seems so
> far away.
>

For what it's worth, this sounds an awfully lot like what I have envisioned
for the Cryptosphere:

https://github.com/tarcieri/cryptosphere

Contacts would be identified by their (Ed25519) public key. When you add
> someone, you just paste their public key and type a "pet name" for them,
> which is what would be shown in your contact list.


Really close to what I had in mind, and I plan on using Ed25519. This is
actually an approach that forces you to do more than take a fleeing glance
at a given user's public key thumbprint/ID and I feel that's missing from
many similar systems (e.g. OTR)


> People could also associate various metadata with their public key in a
> very similar way
> to how they do with PGP keys: with metadata packets signed by themselves
> and other people, thus establishing a web of trust that would enable
> search, the same way we can reliably search for PGP keys but with an
> easier-to-use interface that will always show someone's relationship to
> your current trusted contacts.
>

My goal was to collect metadata about content transfers in the system by
having all participants in file transfers sign a client-specific long chain
which serves as a record of who has transferred what.

Through the course of normal system operation any given peer will collect a
number of these long chains, which can be run through a collaborative
filtering algorithm (e.g. singular value decomposition) in order to make an
educated guess about the properties of peers you've never interacted with
based on their collective similarity to peers you have interacted with
directly.

Here are some possible implementation strategies. The only one I've made
> any progress on so far is uTP:
>
> 1. uTP with our own DHT implementation for bootstrapping, lookup, and
> storage of published stuff
>

My plan was to use CurveCP with the Ed25519 private scalar as the CurveCP
private key. This allows you to set up secure channels which are based on
the same identities as the other signatures in the system.

CurveCP presently has some issues with embedding and congestion control but
I hope if people actually start using it these problems will get resolved.

I guess you could call this a p2p, pseudonymous version of Facebook,
> with all the same functionality and none of the privacy problems because
> privacy would always be defined by encryption. If you want something
> public, you post it in the clear. If you want something seen by only
> your friends, you encrypt the encryption key with each of their
> curve25519 keys.
>

A crypto capability-based access control scheme comes to mind here.

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From greatfire at greatfire.org  Thu Jan 10 04:22:30 2013
From: greatfire at greatfire.org (Martin Johnson)
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:22:30 +0800
Subject: [liberationtech] Google Bows Down To Chinese Government On
	Censorship
Message-ID: <mailman.4102.1576008246.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

I am in China.

Google is said to have a 5% market share in China. There are at least 500
million Internet users so that makes for about 25 million users. The number
of users using VPNs or circumvention tools is unknown but likely much
smaller. For example, Twitter is estimated to have less than 20,000 active
users in China (
https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2013/jan/there-are-not-millions-twitter-users-china-heres-proof
).

Commercial VPNs require credit cards to sign up and are used by very few.
Free circumvention tools like FreeGate reach many more but are also
continuously targeted by authorities making them slow and unstable. Users
who can circumvent the GFW do not always do it. Connecting is slow and, for
running a general Google search, unnecessary.

All this means that Google's user experience without a VPN matters a lot.
Because of the decision they took in December, that user experience got
worse.

The users Wired talked to were not representative of Chinese netizens. As
for the Techcrunch statements, "sources suggest" doesn't make it true. But
it is true that "since the notification feature was implemented, access to
Googlebs search engine in China has been blocked more often than usual".
That is, it was blocked once (on November 9) as opposed to "usual" which is
that it isn't blocked. This blocking being part of Google's decision to
disable the feature was exactly the argument that we were making. The
authorities blocked Google and likely used this and the threat
to permanently block it to pressure Google into doing their bidding.

Martin Johnson
Founder
https://GreatFire.org - Monitoring Online Censorship In China.
https://FreeWeibo.com - Uncensored, Anonymous Sina Weibo Search.
https://Unblock.cn.com - We Can Unblock Your Website In China.


On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Maxim Kammerer <mk at dee.su> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Martin Johnson <greatfire at greatfire.org>
> wrote:
> > Yes, the question is what you call "working well". The censorship-warning
> > feature added last year was clearly improving the user experience.
> Removing
> > it worsened the user experience again.
>
> Is this backed up by actual user experiences from China?
>
> bWhen Wired.co.uk spoke to a few Chinese residents about the disabled
> Google feature, they were not even aware of it because they used VPNs,
> demonstrating Google might not be taking into account just how savvy
> its users are at all.b [1]
>
> bSources close to the matter suggest Google pulled the feature because
> it was making it more difficult for users to access its search
> services. [b&] However, since the notification feature was implemented,
> access to Googlebs search engine in China has been blocked more often
> than usual [b&] meaning even fewer users were able to use Google
> search.b [2]
>
> [1]
> http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-01/04/google-china-anti-censorship-fail
> [2]
> http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/04/google-quietly-removes-censorship-warning-feature-for-search-users-in-china/
>
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From seanl at literati.org  Fri Jan 11 10:08:59 2013
From: seanl at literati.org (Sean Lynch)
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 10:08:59 -0800
Subject: [p2p-hackers] Distributed identity, chat, publishing,
	and sharing
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On 01/10/2013 07:14 PM, Tony Arcieri wrote:

> For what it's worth, this sounds an awfully lot like what I have
> envisioned for the Cryptosphere:
> 
> https://github.com/tarcieri/cryptosphere

Very interesting. "Cryptosphere" is a good name for such a system,
though from what you describe there the project seems more concerned
about identifying content than people, whereas my idea centers around
identifying people, with content being secondary.

> 
>     Contacts would be identified by their (Ed25519) public key. When you add
>     someone, you just paste their public key and type a "pet name" for them,
>     which is what would be shown in your contact list.
> 
> 
> Really close to what I had in mind, and I plan on using Ed25519. This is
> actually an approach that forces you to do more than take a fleeing
> glance at a given user's public key thumbprint/ID and I feel that's
> missing from many similar systems (e.g. OTR)

Yeah, to me verifying key fingerprints is a lost cause - people will
never do it. Instead we need the socialist millionaire protocol for
bootstrapping, and a web of trust. Or the very simple fact that you got
someone's public key via a MITM-proof channel in the first place, like a
QR code on a business card, NFC, etc.

>  
> 
>     People could also associate various metadata with their public key
>     in a very similar way
>     to how they do with PGP keys: with metadata packets signed by themselves
>     and other people, thus establishing a web of trust that would enable
>     search, the same way we can reliably search for PGP keys but with an
>     easier-to-use interface that will always show someone's relationship to
>     your current trusted contacts.
> 
> 
> My goal was to collect metadata about content transfers in the system by
> having all participants in file transfers sign a client-specific long
> chain which serves as a record of who has transferred what.
> 
> Through the course of normal system operation any given peer will
> collect a number of these long chains, which can be run through a
> collaborative filtering algorithm (e.g. singular value decomposition) in
> order to make an educated guess about the properties of peers you've
> never interacted with based on their collective similarity to peers you
> have interacted with directly.

Can you elaborate on this? By metadata I was thinking of things like
filename, content description, ratings, etc.

> 
>     Here are some possible implementation strategies. The only one I've made
>     any progress on so far is uTP:
> 
>     1. uTP with our own DHT implementation for bootstrapping, lookup, and
>     storage of published stuff
> 
> 
> My plan was to use CurveCP with the Ed25519 private scalar as the
> CurveCP private key. This allows you to set up secure channels which are
> based on the same identities as the other signatures in the system.

Given that the part that needs to be small is the public key, what's the
benefit of using the same private key? Once you have an Ed25519 public
key, you can always do an authenticated Diffie-Hellman exchange with an
ephemeral session key, which gives you perfect forward security if any
individual session private key is compromised.

> 
> CurveCP presently has some issues with embedding and congestion control
> but I hope if people actually start using it these problems will get
> resolved.

I ran across CurveCP before and had forgotten about it. Embedding and
congestion control are primary requirements for me, and libutp fits the
bill, even allowing the user to provide a callback for sending and
receiving data, which is where I'd apply the encryption.

> 
>     I guess you could call this a p2p, pseudonymous version of Facebook,
>     with all the same functionality and none of the privacy problems because
>     privacy would always be defined by encryption. If you want something
>     public, you post it in the clear. If you want something seen by only
>     your friends, you encrypt the encryption key with each of their
>     curve25519 keys.
> 
> 
> A crypto capability-based access control scheme comes to mind here.

The system you describe could certainly make a good platform for what I
describe, though I'm far more interested in the "applications"
themselves, i.e. chat, publishing, sharing, etc., than in the underlying
infrastructure. My primary concern about the underlying infrastructure
is that it be secure, easy to install/use, doesn't use a tremendous
amount of CPU or bandwidth (this should ideally run on mobile phones),
and connects reasonably quickly.

All of the applications could even be written in Javascript and
distributed through the network itself, signed by their authors. They
could run as web workers using a particular protocol to talk to the main
app if the network runs in a browser, or in QtScript if it's a native Qt
app. I have no idea how to securely run untrusted JS in Java, though.

I'd like to implement as little of this as possible, since it's a pretty
big undertaking and will require a number of iterations to get something
usable. That's why I am thinking of things like embedding I2P and
Freenet or Tor and Gnunet. I'd prefer C++ and Qt over Java, though
building for Windows will be a bit of a challenge, especially for Gnunet
with its huge number of not-very-crossplatform dependencies like
libgcrypt, among others. I'd love to have it able to build in VS, but
Tor won't either IIRC.





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From tony.arcieri at gmail.com  Fri Jan 11 10:43:07 2013
From: tony.arcieri at gmail.com (Tony Arcieri)
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 10:43:07 -0800
Subject: [p2p-hackers] Distributed identity, chat, publishing,
	and sharing
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On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Sean Lynch <seanl at literati.org> wrote:

> Very interesting. "Cryptosphere" is a good name for such a system,
> though from what you describe there the project seems more concerned
> about identifying content than people, whereas my idea centers around
> identifying people, with content being secondary.
>

It's all equally important, although I intend to identify nodes or peers
rather than people (who may operate many nodes).

Can you elaborate on this? By metadata I was thinking of things like
> filename, content description, ratings, etc.
>

I was thinking of a log of how much data was transferred and the transfer
rate. The type of metadata you're describing is kept secret in my system.


> Given that the part that needs to be small is the public key, what's the
> benefit of using the same private key? Once you have an Ed25519 public
> key, you can always do an authenticated Diffie-Hellman exchange with an
> ephemeral session key, which gives you perfect forward security if any
> individual session private key is compromised.
>

The point of doing this is so both ends can authenticate the other party as
the same party who signed data they're interested in. CurveCP still uses DH
to generate an ephemeral session key.

I was to CodesInChaos earlier on about this approach on the CurveCP and he
said he looked into it before and thought it seemed sound.

I ran across CurveCP before and had forgotten about it. Embedding and
> congestion control are primary requirements for me, and libutp fits the
> bill, even allowing the user to provide a callback for sending and
> receiving data, which is where I'd apply the encryption.


Yeah, uTP is definitely nice in that it has the congestion part licked
(perhaps too well). It would be neat to try to take the CurveCP encryption
protocol design and sort of layer it on top of uTP.


> All of the applications could even be written in Javascript and
> distributed through the network itself, signed by their authors. They
> could run as web workers using a particular protocol to talk to the main
> app if the network runs in a browser, or in QtScript if it's a native Qt
> app. I have no idea how to securely run untrusted JS in Java, though.
>

Yeah, this is definitely something else I am extremely interested in. I
have been looking at a friend's capabilities-based JavaScript wrapper
around <iframe sandbox> which seemed like it'd be an interesting way to
sandbox web applications being loaded from a system like the Cryptosphere.
They could talk back to a parent iframe via postMessages and request
various services from the system. See:

https://github.com/tildeio/oasis.js

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From gfoster at entersection.org  Fri Jan 11 09:55:13 2013
From: gfoster at entersection.org (Gregory Foster)
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 11:55:13 -0600
Subject: [drone-list] TechJect Dragonfly
Message-ID: <mailman.4105.1576008246.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

   Following up on this thread, TechJect just closed out their Indiegogo
   campaign, which aimed to raise $110,000 dollars to cover their initial
   manufacturing goals.
   They raised $1,142,523.
   [1]http://www.indiegogo.com/robotdragonfly/x/1736250?c=home
   gf

   On 11/10/12 12:42 AM, Tim McNamara wrote:

     The military applications of this are silent surveillance and
     reconnaissance within buildings. The model they're selling here only
     weighs a few grams and probably couldn't sustain weaponry in the
     payload. The dragonfly design appears to be extremely agile, though
     and I guess there's nothing preventing larger models.
     The video seems to be actively soliciting sales from the
     intelligence and defence communities.

   Tim McNamara
   [2]@timClicks | [3]timmcnamara.co.nz
   On 10 November 2012 19:34, Gregory Foster <[4]gfoster at entersection.org>
   wrote:

   IEEE Spectrum (Nov 8) - "Somehow an Incredible Robotic Dragonfly is Now
   on Indiegogo":
   [5]http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/someho
   w-an-incredible-robotic-dragonfly-is-now-on-indiegogo
   From the article:
   So, uh, yeah, who are these guys and where did this thing come from?
   Well, the company, TechJect, is a spinoff from Georgia Tech's Robotics
   & Intelligent Machines Lab, and their robotic dragonfly has already
   been funded, with a million dollars (!) from the US Air Force Office of
   Scientific Research. I dunno what sort of super secret laser canon
   totin' version of this robot the USAF is currently playing around with,
   but the specs of the robot Dragonflies that are being offered on
   Indiegogo are pretty damn impressive.
   [6]http://www.techject.com/
   HT @mathewi
   [7]http://twitter.com/mathewi/status/267145657226252291
   gf

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References

   1. http://www.indiegogo.com/robotdragonfly/x/1736250?c=home
   2. http://twitter.com/timClicks
   3. http://timmcnamara.co.nz/
   4. mailto:gfoster at entersection.org
   5. http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/somehow-an-incredible-robotic-dragonfly-is-now-on-indiegogo
   6. http://www.techject.com/
   7. http://twitter.com/mathewi/status/267145657226252291
   8. mailto:gfoster at entersection.org
   9. http://entersection.com/

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From eugen at leitl.org  Fri Jan 11 03:35:36 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:35:36 +0100
Subject: [p2p-hackers] Distributed identity, chat, publishing, and 
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From eugen at leitl.org  Fri Jan 11 11:21:51 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:21:51 +0100
Subject: [drone-list] TechJect Dragonfly
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From eugen at leitl.org  Fri Jan 11 11:22:33 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:22:33 +0100
Subject: [p2p-hackers] Distributed identity, chat, publishing, and 
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From eugen at leitl.org  Fri Jan 11 11:27:22 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:27:22 +0100
Subject: [p2p-hackers] Distributed identity, chat, publishing, and 
  sharing
Message-ID: <20130111192722.GN30918@leitl.org>

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From companys at stanford.edu  Sat Jan 12 00:35:49 2013
From: companys at stanford.edu (Yosem Companys)
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:35:49 -0800
Subject: [liberationtech] Tragic News: Aaron Swartz commits suicide
Message-ID: <mailman.4106.1576008246.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

This is a tragic loss and a terrible blow to the liberationtech community.

Yosem



http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html

Aaron Swartz commits suicide

Web Update

By Anne Cai
NEWS EDITOR; UPDATED AT 2:15 A.M. 1/12/13

Computer activist Aaron H. Swartz committed suicide in New York City
yesterday, Jan. 11, according to his uncle, Michael Wolf, in a comment
to The Tech. Swartz was 26.

bThe tragic and heartbreaking information you received is,
regrettably, true,b confirmed Swartzb attorney, Elliot R. Peters of
Kecker and Van Nest, in an email to The Tech.

Swartz was indicted in July 2011 by a federal grand jury for allegedly
mass downloading documents from the JSTOR online journal archive with
the intent to distribute them. He subsequently moved to Brooklyn, New
York, where he then worked for Avaaz Foundation, a nonprofit bglobal
web movement to bring people-powered politics to decision-making
everywhere.b Swartz appeared in court on Sept. 24, 2012 and pleaded
not guilty.

The accomplished Swartz co-authored the now widely-used RSS 1.0
specification at age 14, was one of the three co-owners of the popular
social news site Reddit, and completed a fellowship at Harvardbs
Ethics Center Lab on Institutional Corruption. In 2010, he founded
DemandProgress.org, a bcampaign against the Internet censorship bills
SOPA/PIPA.b
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From graham.s.burnside at gmail.com  Fri Jan 11 17:44:13 2013
From: graham.s.burnside at gmail.com (Graham Burnside)
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 01:44:13 +0000
Subject: [Freedombox-discuss] Guardian project GPG key sync
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Hi,

I came across this page earlier https://guardianproject.info/wiki/Workplan_for_Year_2 and thought I'd post it incase anyone hadn't seen it. There are plans for a system to sync GPG keys across devices using a number of methods, including tor hidden services.

There is plenty of interesting and useful projects here including a full implementation of gpg for android.

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From eugen at leitl.org  Sat Jan 12 01:25:46 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 10:25:46 +0100
Subject: [liberationtech] Tragic News: Aaron Swartz commits suicide
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From eugen at leitl.org  Sat Jan 12 01:58:59 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 10:58:59 +0100
Subject: [Freedombox-discuss] Guardian project GPG key sync
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From kanzure at gmail.com  Sat Jan 12 14:51:40 2013
From: kanzure at gmail.com (Bryan Bishop)
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 16:51:40 -0600
Subject: [DIYbio] Re: Aaron Swartz has committed suicide
Message-ID: <mailman.4108.1576008246.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

Guerilla Open Access Manifesto

> Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep
> it for themselves. The worldbs entire scientific and cultural heritage,
> published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being
> digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read
> the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? Youbll need
> to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier.
>
> There are those struggling to change this. The Open Access Movement has
> fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights
> away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under
> terms that allow anyone to access it. But even under the best scenarios,
> their work will only apply to things published in the future. Everything up
> until now will have been lost.
>
> That is too high a price to pay. Forcing academics to pay money to read
> the work of their colleagues? Scanning entire libraries but only allowing
> the folks at Google to read them? Providing scientific articles to those at
> elite universities in the First World, but not to children in the Global
> South? Itbs outrageous and unacceptable.
>
> bI agree,b many say, bbut what can we do? The companies hold the
> copyrights, they make enormous amounts of money by charging for access, and
> itbs perfectly legal b therebs nothing we can do to stop them.b But there
> is something we can, something thatbs already being done: we can fight back.
>
> Those with access to these resources b students, librarians, scientists b
> you have been given a privilege. You get to feed at this banquet of
> knowledge while the rest of the world is locked out. But you need not b
> indeed, morally, you cannot b keep this privilege for yourselves. You have
> a duty to share it with the world. And you have: trading passwords with
> colleagues, filling download requests for friends.
>
> Meanwhile, those who have been locked out are not standing idly by. You
> have been sneaking through holes and climbing over fences, liberating the
> information locked up by the publishers and sharing them with your friends.
>
> But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. Itbs
> called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the
> moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing
> isnbt immoral b itbs a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would
> refuse to let a friend make a copy.
>
> Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which
> they operate require it b their shareholders would revolt at anything less.
> And the politicians they have bought off back them, passing laws giving
> them the exclusive power to decide who can make copies.
>
> There is no justice in following unjust laws. Itbs time to come into the
> light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our
> opposition to this private theft of public culture.
>
> We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and
> share them with the world. We need to take stuff that's out of copyright
> and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on
> the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file
> sharing networks. We need to fight for Guerilla Open Access.
>
> With enough of us, around the world, webll not just send a strong message
> opposing the privatization of knowledge b webll make it a thing of the
> past. Will you join us?
>
> Aaron Swartz July 2008, Eremo, Italy
>

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From baisley at alumni.rice.edu  Sat Jan 12 15:28:19 2013
From: baisley at alumni.rice.edu (Wayne Baisley)
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 17:28:19 -0600
Subject: [FoRK] Fwd: [IP] Aaron Swartz commits suicide - The Tech
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http://rememberaaronsw.tumblr.com/

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From nadim at nadim.cc  Sat Jan 12 19:52:42 2013
From: nadim at nadim.cc (Nadim Kobeissi)
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 22:52:42 -0500
Subject: [liberationtech] Tragic News: Aaron Swartz commits suicide
Message-ID: <mailman.4110.1576008246.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

I've written a blog post inspired by this: http://log.nadim.cc/?p=107


Why Young Hackers Are Killing Themselves

bThe hacker community needs more mutual support, empathy, and
forgiveness. The cattiness and paranoia serves no one but those with
the most resilient egos.b

This quote was sent to me just five days ago by an old friend. The
conversation we were having was one of reconciliation, and I had
half-jokingly blamed being part of the hacker community as the reason
why I can be so abrasive sometimes. But there was no humour in what
she answered. That quote was exactly true.

There are sometimes a couple of blog posts, a couple of discussions on
some social, behavioural issues we may have in hacker culture.

But there havenbt been discussions as to why young hackers, especially
those striving towards new methods of sociopolitical change, are
killing themselves. And there was no discussion as to whether the
hacker community itself might have something to do with it.

I cannot speak for Aaron Swartz. I knew Aaron only briefly and
distantly. But Aaron Swartz wasnbt the first. There were other
suicides: Ilya Zhitomirskiy, the co-founder of Diaspora. Len Sassaman,
the renowned cryptographer. They are united with Aaron Swartz via
their goals, their methods, their drive and their youth.

The hacker community is plagued, and our plague is a plague of
ruthlessness, of a lack of mutual reinforcement. A plague of keeping
up appearances. A plague that has managed to convince us that seeing
people and their efforts in black and white is alright. A plague that
makes us believe that personal attacks are valid against hackers,
programmers and entrepreneurs we donbt agree with, that defamation and
harassment are valid weapons when our online personas are attacked,
when therebs a project we donbt like or that we feel somehow threatens
us. And the harassment can be ugly. It can be pervasive, as if those
committing it see their target as part of a video game that they just
know they can beat. It can involve race, sex, and intense gas-lighting
and demoralization. Itbs a plague that makes us all busy in regular
part-time, making each other feel like failures. Criticize ideas, not
people.

Hackers are unique in that for some, federal subpoenas are a fact of
daily life. Handling zero-days that can bankrupt corporations may
happen weekly, amongst many other surreal, Hollywood scenario
problems.

On top of this, the community is not supportive, but jealous. Not
empathetic, but insecure. Not forgiving, but spiteful. Hackers, all
together facing the same surreal problems that alienate them
permanently from the rest of natural society, find themselves stuck in
a bubble of self-destruction and self-deprecation. This is what drives
young hackers to kill themselves. This may not have been what drove
Aaron Swartz specifically, but it is a contributing factor and a
serious problem in our community.

Criticize ideas, not people. Stop it with all the lip service. Public
discourse of the most difficult issues has largely only been elevating
the jealousy, insecurity and spite. Endless discussions without any
reconciliation as our community so slowly falls apart.

NK


On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Gabe Gossett <Gabe.Gossett at wwu.edu> wrote:
> While I sympathize with the open access spirit of this thread, and have no intention to detract from the eulogizing of Aaron Swartz, I think that in all fairness a few things should be pointed out.
>
> JSTOR is not a journal publisher. This is an important distinction since it means that JSTOR's terms are, at least in part, influenced by the journal publishers. It also means that it will not always be clear whether or not an article you publish will end up in JSTOR unless you make sure that you are publishing in a fully open access (OA) journal (which is the route I would recommend for anyone concerned with information equity). A directory of OA journals can be found here http://www.doaj.org
>
> Also, as a librarian, I have found JSTOR to be one of the least problematic of the academic content providers. This is probably due to the fact that they are non-profit, distribute little in the way of current content (where the profit margins are higher), allow for perpetual access to back runs that are bought, and was established as a way to expand access to journal content in academia. If there was an effective business model to allow for total open access I would not be surprised if JSTOR would be one of the content aggregators most open to such a model.
>
> The real bad guys in the academic publishing world are for-profits like Elsevier, which was the target of a recent boycott: http://thecostofknowledge.com
>
> Regards,
> Gabe
>
>
> On Jan 12, 2013, at 10:53 AM, "Julian Oliver" <julian at julianoliver.com<mailto:julian at julianoliver.com>> wrote:
>
> ..on Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 01:03:52PM -0500, Shava Nerad wrote:
> Irony:
> http://mobile.theverge.com/2013/1/9/3857628/jstor-opens-up-limited-free-access-to-its-digital-library
>
> This is JSTOR going 'freeware' rather than Free Software. In the programming
> domain it's comparable to source code that is technically open for reading yet
> disallows modification or redistribution. Aaron would've been just as pissed
> about this.
>
> On their site they say 'A New Chapter Begins'. There's the irony.
>
> We should all stop supporting knowledge mafia like JSTOR by discouraging our
> peers to publish there. It's bad enough that publicly funded universities push
> their knowledge output to a private business interest.
>
> A great way to channel any despair from Aaron's death is to encourage peers to
> publish openly.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Julian
>
> On Jan 12, 2013 3:36 AM, "Yosem Companys" <companys at stanford.edu<mailto:companys at stanford.edu>> wrote:
>
> This is a tragic loss and a terrible blow to the liberationtech community.
>
> Yosem
>
>
>
> http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html
>
> Aaron Swartz commits suicide
>
> Web Update
>
> By Anne Cai
> NEWS EDITOR; UPDATED AT 2:15 A.M. 1/12/13
>
> Computer activist Aaron H. Swartz committed suicide in New York City
> yesterday, Jan. 11, according to his uncle, Michael Wolf, in a comment
> to The Tech. Swartz was 26.
>
> bThe tragic and heartbreaking information you received is,
> regrettably, true,b confirmed Swartzb attorney, Elliot R. Peters of
> Kecker and Van Nest, in an email to The Tech.
>
> Swartz was indicted in July 2011 by a federal grand jury for allegedly
> mass downloading documents from the JSTOR online journal archive with
> the intent to distribute them. He subsequently moved to Brooklyn, New
> York, where he then worked for Avaaz Foundation, a nonprofit bglobal
> web movement to bring people-powered politics to decision-making
> everywhere.b Swartz appeared in court on Sept. 24, 2012 and pleaded
> not guilty.
>
> The accomplished Swartz co-authored the now widely-used RSS 1.0
> specification at age 14, was one of the three co-owners of the popular
> social news site Reddit, and completed a fellowship at Harvardbs
> Ethics Center Lab on Institutional Corruption. In 2010, he founded
> DemandProgress.org<http://DemandProgress.org>, a bcampaign against the Internet censorship bills
> SOPA/PIPA.b
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From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 09:45:38 +0100
Subject: [DIYbio] Re: Aaron Swartz has committed suicide
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From eugen at leitl.org  Sun Jan 13 00:48:44 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 09:48:44 +0100
Subject: [FoRK] Fwd: [IP] Aaron Swartz commits suicide - The Tech
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From eugen at leitl.org  Sun Jan 13 01:01:47 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 10:01:47 +0100
Subject: [liberationtech] Tragic News: Aaron Swartz commits suicide
Message-ID: <20130113090147.GK6172@leitl.org>

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From shava23 at gmail.com  Sun Jan 13 08:23:00 2013
From: shava23 at gmail.com (Shava Nerad)
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 11:23:00 -0500
Subject: [liberationtech] Tragic News: Aaron Swartz commits suicide
Message-ID: <mailman.4111.1576008246.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

This is what I understand of Aaron's action.

First, to be clear, JSTOR settled with Aaron last summer.

Aaron was trying to raise consciousness around their model.  JSTOR does not
pay out a penny to the author or the author's host institution.  They do
not pay royalties to the research funders - often the taxpayer, so maybe
you and me.  In other circumstances this would make the work public domain.

The only money goes to the paper journal publisher.  That is the firewall
consortium JSTOR represents.

That is the message Aaron meant to amplify with what he likely saw as
political/ethical art performance civil disobedience.

Personally I think if he had not been on federal radar for organizing
SOPA/PIPA nothing more would have come from it as a Harvard-connected white
academic of a certain status.

But as it is, he faced seven figures in damages and three decades in hard
time even after he settled with JSTOR.

This is the way my family has observed activists attempted to be
neutralized by the immune system of the federal government since Eugene
Debs.  I have three generations of witness.

My instinct is that when you see resources expended out of proportion, look
for the proportionate end.  Aaron was not being chilled for his potential
in copying files, I suspect.  He just handed them something for which he
could be charged.

We can't let it go without response just because it is classic and
chronic.  I am organizing a vigil at 1 Courthouse in Boston 2pm Tuesday,
probably small, and we'll follow on from that at MIT.

Federal Prosecutor Ortiz does not seem like a monster in general, and there
is hope for some good nonviolent ends out of this.

Feedback welcome.

Yrs,

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From julian at julianoliver.com  Sun Jan 13 05:22:46 2013
From: julian at julianoliver.com (Julian Oliver)
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 14:22:46 +0100
Subject: [liberationtech] Tragic News: Aaron Swartz commits suicide
Message-ID: <mailman.4112.1576008246.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

..on Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 10:18:23PM +0000, Gabe Gossett wrote:
> While I sympathize with the open access spirit of this thread, and have no
> intention to detract from the eulogizing of Aaron Swartz, I think that in all
> fairness a few things should be pointed out.
> 
> JSTOR is not a journal publisher. This is an important distinction since it
> means that JSTOR's terms are, at least in part, influenced by the journal
> publishers. It also means that it will not always be clear whether or not an
> article you publish will end up in JSTOR unless you make sure that you are
> publishing in a fully open access (OA) journal (which is the route I would
> recommend for anyone concerned with information equity). A directory of OA
> journals can be found here http://www.doaj.org
> 
> Also, as a librarian, I have found JSTOR to be one of the least problematic of
> the academic content providers. This is probably due to the fact that they are
> non-profit, distribute little in the way of current content (where the profit
> margins are higher), allow for perpetual access to back runs that are bought,
> and was established as a way to expand access to journal content in academia.
> If there was an effective business model to allow for total open access I
> would not be surprised if JSTOR would be one of the content aggregators most
> open to such a model.
> 
> The real bad guys in the academic publishing world are for-profits like
> Elsevier, which was the target of a recent boycott:
> http://thecostofknowledge.com

For sure there are worse. A librarian cited to be Wiley, Taylor and Francis as
being awful to deal with. Open Access is a great initiative (especially for the
taxpayer that invested in the research!).  Let's hope it's not taken down with
the Research Works Act. 

In my experience however, as someone working entirely independently of a
university, I find myself up against a JSTOR paywall far more often than any
other.  Quite often research into the authors produces a publicly funded
university behind the paper. Perhaps this was why Aaron chose JSTOR over others
- they are so often what comes between the public and their own desire for
learning.

Here's an article in The Atlantic written by a woman in response to her
experience with JSTOR. While researching autism - her son has it - she is met by
a paywall:

    'Locked in the Ivory Tower: Why JSTOR Imprisons Academic Research'

    http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/01/locked-in-the-ivory-tower-why-jstor-imprisons-academic-research/251649/    

My experience is akin to a commenter at the base of that article:

"If the public isn't interested, who are the people trying to read those 150
million JSTOR articles a year? I can tell you who they are. People like me and
the person who wrote the article. I graduated from an Ivy League university and
don't work in academia. I read widely and often want to follow up on some
subject I am reading about. I write and want to research a subject I am writing
about. I have relatives who have problems or interests and try to help them. You
gravely underestimate the ability of a non-academic, with a real reason for
researching a subject or interest in it, to acquire expertise. Do you think
academics write Wikipedia?"

Cheers,

Julian

> On Jan 12, 2013, at 10:53 AM, "Julian Oliver" <julian at julianoliver.com<mailto:julian at julianoliver.com>> wrote:
> 
> ..on Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 01:03:52PM -0500, Shava Nerad wrote:
> Irony:
> http://mobile.theverge.com/2013/1/9/3857628/jstor-opens-up-limited-free-access-to-its-digital-library
> 
> This is JSTOR going 'freeware' rather than Free Software. In the programming
> domain it's comparable to source code that is technically open for reading yet
> disallows modification or redistribution. Aaron would've been just as pissed
> about this.
> 
> On their site they say 'A New Chapter Begins'. There's the irony.
> 
> We should all stop supporting knowledge mafia like JSTOR by discouraging our
> peers to publish there. It's bad enough that publicly funded universities push
> their knowledge output to a private business interest.
> 
> A great way to channel any despair from Aaron's death is to encourage peers to
> publish openly.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Julian
> 
> On Jan 12, 2013 3:36 AM, "Yosem Companys" <companys at stanford.edu<mailto:companys at stanford.edu>> wrote:
> 
> This is a tragic loss and a terrible blow to the liberationtech community.
> 
> Yosem
> 
> 
> 
> http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html
> 
> Aaron Swartz commits suicide
> 
> Web Update
> 
> By Anne Cai
> NEWS EDITOR; UPDATED AT 2:15 A.M. 1/12/13
> 
> Computer activist Aaron H. Swartz committed suicide in New York City
> yesterday, Jan. 11, according to his uncle, Michael Wolf, in a comment
> to The Tech. Swartz was 26.
> 
> bThe tragic and heartbreaking information you received is,
> regrettably, true,b confirmed Swartzb attorney, Elliot R. Peters of
> Kecker and Van Nest, in an email to The Tech.
> 
> Swartz was indicted in July 2011 by a federal grand jury for allegedly
> mass downloading documents from the JSTOR online journal archive with
> the intent to distribute them. He subsequently moved to Brooklyn, New
> York, where he then worked for Avaaz Foundation, a nonprofit bglobal
> web movement to bring people-powered politics to decision-making
> everywhere.b Swartz appeared in court on Sept. 24, 2012 and pleaded
> not guilty.
> 
> The accomplished Swartz co-authored the now widely-used RSS 1.0
> specification at age 14, was one of the three co-owners of the popular
> social news site Reddit, and completed a fellowship at Harvardbs
> Ethics Center Lab on Institutional Corruption. In 2010, he founded
> DemandProgress.org<http://DemandProgress.org>, a bcampaign against the Internet censorship bills
> SOPA/PIPA.b
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From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 16:07:33 +0100
Subject: [liberationtech] Tragic News: Aaron Swartz commits suicide
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From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 17:51:41 +0100
Subject: [liberationtech] Tragic News: Aaron Swartz commits suicide
Message-ID: <20130113165141.GR6172@leitl.org>

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From katie at critpath.org  Sun Jan 13 15:20:42 2013
From: katie at critpath.org (Kate Krauss)
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:20:42 -0500
Subject: [liberationtech] Tragic News: Aaron Swartz commits suicide
Message-ID: <mailman.4113.1576008246.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

A note from the president of MIT:

To the members of the MIT community:

Yesterday we received the shocking and terrible news that on Friday in New
York, Aaron Swartz, a gifted young man well known and admired by many in
the MIT community, took his own life. With this tragedy, his family and his
friends suffered an inexpressible loss, and we offer our most profound
condolences. Even for those of us who did not know Aaron, the trail of his
brief life shines with his brilliant creativity and idealism.

Although Aaron had no formal affiliation with MIT, I am writing to you now
because he was beloved by many members of our community and because MIT
played a role in the legal struggles that began for him in 2011.

I want to express very clearly that I and all of us at MIT are extremely
saddened by the death of this promising young man who touched the lives of
so many. It pains me to think that MIT played any role in a series of
events that have ended in tragedy.

I will not attempt to summarize here the complex events of the past two
years. Now is a time for everyone involved to reflect on their actions, and
that includes all of us at MIT. I have asked Professor Hal Abelson to lead
a thorough analysis of MIT's involvement from the time that we first
perceived unusual activity on our network in fall 2010 up to the present. I
have asked that this analysis describe the options MIT had and the
decisions MIT made, in order to understand and to learn from the actions
MIT took. I will share the report with the MIT community when I receive it.
I hope we will all reach out to those members of our community we know who
may have been affected by Aaron's death. As always, MIT Medical is
available to provide expert counseling, but there is no substitute for
personal understanding and support.

With sorrow and deep sympathy,

L. Rafael Reif


   - *VIA*

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From j3 at barrera.org  Sun Jan 13 20:07:57 2013
From: j3 at barrera.org (Joseph S. Barrera III)
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 20:07:57 -0800
Subject: [FoRK] Fwd: [IP] Aaron Swartz commits suicide - The Tech
Message-ID: <mailman.4114.1576008246.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

Lessig's article is pretty powerful.

I think it's amazing that you can kill someone and get out in less than a 
decade, but if you "steal" Intellectual Property (without even  
distributing it) you can get a life sentence.

Such things point to Corporations being first-class persons and us  
flesh-and-blood people are at best second-class.

- Joe

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From pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz  Sun Jan 13 02:09:42 2013
From: pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 23:09:42 +1300
Subject: [liberationtech] Tragic News: Aaron Swartz commits suicide
In-Reply-To: <20130113090147.GK6172@leitl.org>
Message-ID: <E1TuKVa-0005Dt-C4@login01.fos.auckland.ac.nz>

Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> quotes:

>Why Young Hackers Are Killing Themselves

There's a far more likely cause: Security geeks/hackers tend to be INTP/INTJ
MBTI personality types.  This personality type is far more susceptible to
depression than other types (see e.g. "Myers Briggs Type Indicator personality
profiles in unipolar depressed patients", David Janowsky, Elliot Hong, Shirley
Morter and Laura Howe, World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, Vol.3, No.4
(October 2002), p.207), as is the related Aspergers type (see e.g.
"Psychological Disorder in Adolescents and Adults with Asperger Syndrome",
Digby Tantam, Autism, Vol.4, No.1 (March 2000), p.47).  So it's not so much
the environment (any number of non-hacker environments are also not exactly
warm fuzzies and hugs), it's a straightforward mental health issue.

Peter.




From zookog at gmail.com  Mon Jan 14 01:34:28 2013
From: zookog at gmail.com (Zooko O'Whielacronx)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 02:34:28 -0700
Subject: [tahoe-dev] revived: proposal to change the default to K=H=N=1
Message-ID: <mailman.4115.1576008246.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

Folks:

I remember getting angry about this topic the last time we discussed
it. It's strange how I get all hot under the collar about minor
technical details such as the default erasure coding parameters in a
secure distributed storage system.

Anyway, the topic has come up again. I just posted this note on the ticket:

https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1082#comment:12

Regards,

Zooko

-------

This issue came up again. Omnifarious on IRC was explaining why he was
giving up on his attempt to play with Tahoe-LAFS:

<Omnifarious> Yeah, I have to create a bunch of storage nodes (I
think) and I think an introducer and figure out what the introducers
furl is or something.

Also I was hanging out with Brian Warner a couple of nights ago and he
tried to upload a file to a newly created test grid with only one
server and was annoyed that it didn't work.

For what it is worth, I have spent a lot of time over the years
talking to people who deploy Tahoe-LAFS and paying attention to the
process they go through and especially to what deters them or trips
them up. I've probably learned about the experiences of more than 100
different people who've deployed, or attempted to deploy, Tahoe-LAFS
over the last five or so years. I doubt that even one of those people
would have accidentally used K=H=N=1 in their production grid without
realizing the reliability implications. I think every one of them
would have chosen to change K, H, and N after testing it out and
before starting to rely on it for long-term storage.

Therefore, I would like to re-open this dormant ticket and *strongly*
suggest that we change the default values of K, H, N from 3, 7, 10, to
1, 1, 1, and we change the documentation to warn that if you want the
erasure-coding features of Tahoe-LAFS then you have to choose your own
K, H, and N based on your personal preferences and the shape of your
grid.

In addition to believing that this will not harm almost any users who
are relying on Tahoe-LAFS for safe, long-term storage, and in addition
to believing that this will greatly help newcomers who are trying to
experiment with Tahoe-LAFS in a few spare minutes of their time, I
also believe that it will help people understand the extremely
important security properties of Tahoe-LAFS, most of which are
actually independent of the erasure coding and are best understood
without the complication of the erasure coding.
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From anivar.aravind at gmail.com  Sun Jan 13 18:40:26 2013
From: anivar.aravind at gmail.com (Anivar Aravind)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 08:10:26 +0530
Subject: <nettime> RIP: Aaron H. Swartz (November 8, 1986 -- January 11,
	2013)
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From eugen at leitl.org  Mon Jan 14 01:31:56 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:31:56 +0100
Subject: [FoRK] Fwd: [IP] Aaron Swartz commits suicide - The Tech
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From eugen at leitl.org  Mon Jan 14 01:36:02 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:36:02 +0100
Subject: [tahoe-dev] revived: proposal to change the default to K=H=N=1
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From eugen at leitl.org  Mon Jan 14 01:54:59 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:54:59 +0100
Subject: [liberationtech] Tragic News: Aaron Swartz commits suicide
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From: kanzure at gmail.com (Bryan Bishop)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:01:00 -0600
Subject: [DIYbio] Re: Aaron Swartz has committed suicide
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On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Cathal Garvey <cathalgarvey at gmail.com> wrote:
> Of note to those on this list; in response to his Guerilla Open Access
> Manifesto and his passing, there's a twitter hashtag doing the rounds:
> #pdftribute. Loads of academics releasing their prior work into the public
> domain to liberate knowledge in Aaron's memory.

Also this:

https://groups.google.com/group/science-liberation-front

Instead of working privately on academic scrapers, what if we avoided
mistakes by talking about best practices for collecting metadata and
pdfs.

- Bryan
http://heybryan.org/
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From eugen at leitl.org  Mon Jan 14 02:25:29 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:25:29 +0100
Subject: <nettime> RIP: Aaron H. Swartz (November 8, 1986 -- January
  	11, 2013)
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From: kanzure at gmail.com (Bryan Bishop)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:59:38 -0600
Subject: [hackerspaces] Academic scraping
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On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Lokkju Brennr wrote:
> see:
> http://scraperwiki.org
> http://scrapy.org/
>
> Once you have the raw data in a central location, it becomes much easier for
> someone specialized in data processing to convert it to usable form - even
> if it is hard to parse.  It does help to keep the metadata though...

One of my favorite scraping methods at the moment is phantomjs, a
headless wrapper around webkit.

http://phantomjs.org/
https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs
https://github.com/kanzure/pyphantomjs

But for academic projects, I highly recommend zotero's translators.

https://github.com/zotero/translators

Here's why. There's already a huge userbase of zotero users actively
updating these scrapers. When they break, they fix them immediately.
They are all written in javascript and they extract not only the link
to the pdf but also the maximum amount of metadata. With the help of
the zotero/translation-server project, they can be used headlessly.

https://github.com/zotero/translation-server

I have a demo of this working in irc.freenode.net ##hplusroadmap
(paperbot), he just grabs links from our conversation and posts the
pdfs so that we don't have to ask each other for copies.

- Bryan
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From gfoster at entersection.org  Mon Jan 14 11:58:09 2013
From: gfoster at entersection.org (Gregory Foster)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 13:58:09 -0600
Subject: [drone-list] NYPD Commissioner on drones for monitoring assembly
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   dnaInfo (Jan 11) - "NYPD Eyeing Drones to Monitor Crowds":
   [1]http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20130111/new-york-city/nypd-eyeing-d
   rones-monitor-crowds

     Drones might eventually be used for surveillance in New York City,
     Police Commissioner Ray Kelly revealed Thursday.
     Kelly said the eyes in the sky -- which have worried civil rights
     activists -- could prove useful when sizing-up demonstrations,
     adding to an NYPD arsenal that already includes 3,000 cameras and
     high-powered anti-aircraft rifles that can shoot down planes.
     "We're looking into it," Kelly told an audience during a rare public
     interview at the 92nd Street Y Thursday night. "Anything that helps
     us."
     Kelly noted that drones are widely used in law enforcement,
     especially along the border.
     But New York presents challenges.
     "There's a lot of air traffic," he noted. As a result, "The only
     thing we would do is maybe use the cheap $250 ones to take a look
     and see the size of the demonstration or something along those
     lines."
     Kelly noted that a drones program is not being actively pursued at
     this time.

   HT @colvinj via @naomirwolf:
   [2]https://twitter.com/colvinj/status/289766982188924928
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References

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   2. https://twitter.com/colvinj/status/289766982188924928
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From cathalgarvey at gmail.com  Mon Jan 14 08:06:50 2013
From: cathalgarvey at gmail.com (Cathal Garvey)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:06:50 +0000
Subject: [DIYbio] Re: Aaron Swartz has committed suicide
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Aaron was facing more than just stress. Copyright infringement is a badass
felony in the US these days, and he was facing ~50 years in prison and
eternal bankruptcy.

I found the case fishy from the get-go; why were the secret service trying
to catch Aaron? That's not their job, that's the FBI or the police's job.
This plays into my pet theory that governments worldwide are happy to
support totalitarian copyright because it creates a crime that anyone,
watched for long enough, will commit (and most do routinely); a great way
to erase political opponents.

And Aaron *was* a political opponent to the powers that be. Those
unfamiliar with him may get a sense of why he's missed when informed that
he was a big player in the war against SOPA and PIPA, that he helped found
net-mediated real-world activism outfits like Demand Progress and Avaaz
(which helped to kill ACTA in the EU), and that he had previously made an
enemy of the FBI for helping to liberate loads of case history from PACER
into the public domain.

Aaron was an amazing guy. I'd have loved to meet him in person someday, and
won't get that chance now.

Of note to those on this list; in response to his Guerilla Open Access
Manifesto and his passing, there's a twitter hashtag doing the rounds:
#pdftribute. Loads of academics releasing their prior work into the public
domain to liberate knowledge in Aaron's memory.

On 13 January 2013 08:41, Jonathan Cline <jncline at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> This is very sad news.
> He was operating in a grey area,  legal issues to prove it, however plenty
> of hackers do such projects - even Woz built hacker devices to work around
> and expose an unfair monopoly in his day (telecommunications pricing, using
> a blue box).   Digital pay walls of information already paid for by
> taxpayers are a scam and the walls need to be torn down.  With a little
> more patience and guidance I believe he could have avoided the legal
> issues..  others have, and profited in the meantime (youtube for example,
> began as an intellectual property theft site with thousands of unlicensed
> music videos and songs, and later bought by google, which has still skirted
> legal/property theft issues).  There are ways to work underneath the system
> to change the system, it requires more patience and willingness to create
> better marketing (otherwise known as doublespeak: ala Bill Gates' "Of
> course I'm not copying the Mac's operating system, Steve, I'd never do
> that, I'm just building good applications";  or Zuckerberg's "Of course
> your privacy is safe, you're just linking to people you already know, and
> there are site preferences to maintain each user's privacy").
>
> Anyways, people in general are just scared of and threatened by really
> smart kids.  By operating in the public eye and hyping up his hacks he
> really was generating a lot of psychological pressure & stress.
>
>
> ## Jonathan Cline
> ## jcline at ieee.org
> ## Mobile: +1-805-617-0223
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From ebender001 at charter.net  Mon Jan 14 14:23:50 2013
From: ebender001 at charter.net (Edward Bender)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:23:50 -0600
Subject: [HSF] Freedom of speech takes a back seat to Title 17 of the US
	Code[OT]
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The next paragraphs might be blasphemy.

Let me say first that I don9t buy into that whole 3you didn9t build that2
Obama-type rhetoric.  I think that was really a Freudian-slip on his part,
allowing the listener into the workings of his thoughts and attitudes.  I
think that what is paid for is a settled account, and that we can not
ascribe future debt to individuals or businesses as an excuse for levying
taxes (redistributing wealth).

Having said that, let me state that my thesis is that, through direct and
indirect means, state sponsored research is made possible by all of us.  It
is the fuel that allows the ideas and theories of authors to travel into the
light of day.  It is proximate support.  That support allows the geniuses
among us (many on this forum) to 3push the human race forward.2

Please examine the life cycle of a scholarly paper.  It starts with an idea.
It is supported by the hierarchy of the academic department, funds are
found, experiments performed or data collected.  It is written and
re-written, and submitted to a journal for publication.  How much do you pay
to the publisher for the right of publication?  It is reviewed by a panel of
3experts2 and given thumbs up or thumbs down with the potential for
acceptance after revision.  Those interested in the subject read the paper,
perhaps comment on it, perhaps being inspired to do their own experiments or
collect their own data.

What role does a publisher play?  They certainly collect the money.  I did a
pro forma for a presentation I wanted to but never gave to a company in
Silicon Valley, looking at how much Elsevier made annually on the Annals of
Thoracic Surgery.  It was impossible to say exactly, but I think it is
somewhere between $825,000 and $3.2 million, depending on the number and
type of subscriptions and advertising.

So here is where I blaspheme.  Why do we need publishers? Why can9t we as
experts self-publish our journals?  What added value does a publishing house
provide to science and medicine?  They hold knowledge hostage.  They silo
and segment knowledge making it more cumbersome to access.  They suck up
huge sums of money.  Is there still a Journal of Mechanical Circulatory
Support?  If not, why.  If so, then why aren9t I seeing its articles?  What
are/were the pressures that caused success or failure?  Were you given equal
footing with other publications? Was it a victim of the impact factor?

I propose that we do to scholarly journals what Steve Jobs did to music
publishers: make an iTunes-like store.  Articles are songs, journals are
CD9s, and publishers become much less important and influential - yet they
still live.  There are no more paper journals, only files.  And, breaking
free of paper, we can routinely add rich media to our articles to enhance
clarity and understanding.  No more extra payment to Lippincott for a color
photo in the article.  The cost of digital storage is so cheap, that a
year9s worth of a journal9s content would cost less than $1 per month.  If
you subscribe then you get full text access.  If you don9t, then you buy an
article for $1.00.  Sometimes even a heart surgeon needs an article from the
Annals of Internal Medicine, and, believe it or not, many doctors do not
have access to an 3institutional2 subscription.  There is a lot of
healthcare provided in towns with populations < 50,000 people and not in a
university.  

The new 3apps2 put forth by publishing houses are attempts to squelch
evolution, not enhance it.  It is a middle aged parent trying to be 3hip2
but it just doesn9t fly.  It is your father9s internet, and it is the same
old crap.

In case your wondering, I have the infrastructure all worked out.  You will
love it more than getting a fresh new JTCVS in the mail every month.

Ed Bender, MD


On 1/14/13 1:56 PM, "Michael Firstenberg" <msfirst at gmail.com> wrote:

> As I recall, research publications that are supported under an NIH or similar
> funded grant is supposed to be available for free
> Most, if not all of us, hopefully thru our hospital affiliations have some
> degree of "free access" to mainstream medical literature - although clearly
> not all.
> Many major Journals do make their content free after a peroid of ~6-12 months
> Most authors are allowed to provide free PDF copies of their work to those who
> request it
> Much of the article charges that you mention tend to be related to industry
> activities that want to use the data in marketing
> ... and while you and I may had already 'paid' for the research (I assume you
> mean taxes and donations) - we have not paid for the storage and distribution
> of the results or all of the work that goes into transforming your MSWord file
> into an acceptable PDF layout.
> 
> yes - this is more complex than an answer over the phone - but published
> material is copyrighted and while the laws are, according to some, out-dated
> by digital standard - it is the law and you are more than welcome to propose a
> solution to the protection and rights of intellectual property.
> 
> Go ask Rolling Stone or the Times (where this article was published) for a
> Free copy of an article that they published and see what they say.....
> 
> I am interested in your response when you get back to a computer......
> 
> -m
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Edward Bender <ebender001 at charter.net> wrote:
>> This deserves a response that can't be well written on a phone.  However, as
>> an intro, you and I have paid for this research.  Should you pay Elsevier $20
>> for a current article?
>> Ed Bender, MD
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On Jan 14, 2013, at 1:34 PM, Michael Firstenberg <msfirst at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Ed,
>>> Being the computer guru that you are - I have a few questions....
>>> you, your company, institution whomever invests millions in hardware,
>>> software, support, resource to populate and maintain a database for some
>>> cause - and all of a sudden someone liberates all of that data and says it
>>> must be free.  Who is suppose to pay for the support and upkeep of the
>>> system - or do you prefer a Facebook/Google type approach of targeted
>>> advertising bombarding everyplace you visit.  Or should we just raise taxes
>>> more to pay for some of these systems in which a nominal support fee was
>>> charged to access the data?
>>> 
>>> Obviously these issues are a little more complex and this case is beyond
>>> tragic - to lose such a brilliant mind - but also remember, as a music
>>> fan/historian - many brilliant minds are lost before their time due to
>>> mental health related issues.
>>> 
>>> -michael
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Edward Bender <ebender001 at charter.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/14/technology/aaron-swartz-a-data-crusader-a
>>>> nd-now-a-cause.html
>>>> 
>>>> This is as tragic as it gets.  Even the company whom he invaded did not
>>>> want to press charges (he worked with them also), but a minor league
>>>> prosecutor, under the guise of self-righteous legal fundamentalism (read
>>>> Taliban-like dogma) mightily contributed to the death of this poor genius.
>>>>  What is right about this?  It may be legal, but it is certainly not right.
>>>> 
>>>> Ed Bender, MD
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From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:16:20 +0100
Subject: [DIYbio] Re: Aaron Swartz has committed suicide
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From eugen at leitl.org  Mon Jan 14 08:38:45 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:38:45 +0100
Subject: Secrets and Lies of the Bailout
Message-ID: <20130114163845.GA30843@leitl.org>

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/secret-and-lies-of-the-bailout-20130104?print=true

Secrets and Lies of the Bailout

The federal rescue of Wall Street didnbt fix the economy b it created a
permanent bailout state based on a Ponzi-like confidence scheme. And the
worst may be yet to come

by: Matt Taibbi

national affairs secrets of the bailout taibbi

Illustration by Victor Juhasz

It has been four long winters since the federal government, in the hulking,
shaven-skulled, Alien Nation-esque form of then-Treasury Secretary Hank
Paulson, committed $700 billion in taxpayer money to rescue Wall Street from
its own chicanery and greed. To listen to the bankers and their allies in
Washington tell it, you'd think the bailout was the best thing to hit the
American economy since the invention of the assembly line. Not only did it
prevent another Great Depression, we've been told, but the money has all been
paid back, and the government even made a profit. No harm, no foul b right?

Wrong.

It was all a lie b one of the biggest and most elaborate falsehoods ever sold
to the American people. We were told that the taxpayer was stepping in b only
temporarily, mind you b to prop up the economy and save the world from
financial catastrophe. What we actually ended up doing was the exact
opposite: committing American taxpayers to permanent, blind support of an
ungovernable, unregulatable, hyperconcentrated new financial system that
exacerbates the greed and inequality that caused the crash, and forces Wall
Street banks like Goldman Sachs and Citigroup to increase risk rather than
reduce it. The result is one of those deals where one wrong decision early on
blossoms into a lush nightmare of unintended consequences. We thought we were
just letting a friend crash at the house for a few days; we ended up with a
family of hillbillies who moved in forever, sleeping nine to a bed and
building a meth lab on the front lawn.

How Wall Street Killed Financial Reform

But the most appalling part is the lying. The public has been lied to so
shamelessly and so often in the course of the past four years that the
failure to tell the truth to the general populace has become a kind of
baked-in, official feature of the financial rescue. Money wasn't the only
thing the government gave Wall Street b it also conferred the right to hide
the truth from the rest of us. And it was all done in the name of helping
regular people and creating jobs. "It is," says former bailout Inspector
General Neil Barofsky, "the ultimate bait-and-switch."

The bailout deceptions came early, late and in between. There were lies told
in the first moments of their inception, and others still being told four
years later. The lies, in fact, were the most important mechanisms of the
bailout. The only reason investors haven't run screaming from an obviously
corrupt financial marketplace is because the government has gone to such
extraordinary lengths to sell the narrative that the problems of 2008 have
been fixed. Investors may not actually believe the lie, but they are
impressed by how totally committed the government has been, from the very
beginning, to selling it.

THEY LIED TO PASS THE BAILOUT

Today what few remember about the bailouts is that we had to approve them. It
wasn't like Paulson could just go out and unilaterally commit trillions of
public dollars to rescue Goldman Sachs and Citigroup from their own stupidity
and bad management (although the government ended up doing just that, later
on). Much as with a declaration of war, a similarly extreme and expensive
commitment of public resources, Paulson needed at least a film of
congressional approval. And much like the Iraq War resolution, which was only
secured after George W. Bush ludicrously warned that Saddam was planning to
send drones to spray poison over New York City, the bailouts were pushed
through Congress with a series of threats and promises that ranged from the
merely ridiculous to the outright deceptive. At one meeting to discuss the
original bailout bill b at 11 a.m. on September 18th, 2008 b Paulson actually
told members of Congress that $5.5 trillion in wealth would disappear by 2
p.m. that day unless the government took immediate action, and that the world
economy would collapse "within 24 hours."

To be fair, Paulson started out by trying to tell the truth in his own
ham-headed, narcissistic way. His first TARP proposal was a three-page
absurdity pulled straight from a Beavis and Butt-Head episode b it was
basically Paulson saying, "Can you, like, give me some money?" Sen. Sherrod
Brown, a Democrat from Ohio, remembers a call with Paulson and Federal
Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke. "We need $700 billion," they told Brown, "and
we need it in three days." What's more, the plan stipulated, Paulson could
spend the money however he pleased, without review "by any court of law or
any administrative agency."

The White House and leaders of both parties actually agreed to this
preposterous document, but it died in the House when 95 Democrats lined up
against it. For an all-too-rare moment during the Bush administration,
something resembling sanity prevailed in Washington.

So Paulson came up with a more convincing lie. On paper, the Emergency
Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 was simple: Treasury would buy $700
billion of troubled mortgages from the banks and then modify them to help
struggling homeowners. Section 109 of the act, in fact, specifically
empowered the Treasury secretary to "facilitate loan modifications to prevent
avoidable foreclosures." With that promise on the table, wary Democrats
finally approved the bailout on October 3rd, 2008. "That provision," says
Barofsky, "is what got the bill passed."

But within days of passage, the Fed and the Treasury unilaterally decided to
abandon the planned purchase of toxic assets in favor of direct injections of
billions in cash into companies like Goldman and Citigroup. Overnight,
Section 109 was unceremoniously ditched, and what was pitched as a bailout of
both banks and homeowners instantly became a bank-only operation b marking
the first in a long series of moves in which bailout officials either
casually ignored or openly defied their own promises with regard to TARP.

Congress was furious. "We've been lied to," fumed Rep. David Scott, a
Democrat from Georgia. Rep. Elijah Cummings, a Democrat from Maryland, raged
at transparently douchey TARP administrator (and Goldman banker) Neel
Kashkari, calling him a "chump" for the banks. And the anger was bipartisan:
Republican senators David Vitter of Louisiana and James Inhofe of Oklahoma
were so mad about the unilateral changes and lack of oversight that they
sponsored a bill in January 2009 to cancel the remaining $350 billion of
TARP.

So what did bailout officials do? They put together a proposal full of even
bigger deceptions to get it past Congress a second time. That process began
almost exactly four years ago b on January 12th and 15th, 2009 b when Larry
Summers, the senior economic adviser to President-elect Barack Obama, sent a
pair of letters to Congress. The pudgy, stubbyB-fingered former World Bank
economist, who had been forced out as Harvard president for suggesting that
women lack a natural aptitude for math and science, begged legislators to
reject Vitter's bill and leave TARP alone.

In the letters, Summers laid out a five-point plan in which the bailout was
pitched as a kind of giant populist program to help ordinary Americans.
Obama, Summers vowed, would use the money to stimulate bank lending to put
people back to work. He even went so far as to say that banks would be denied
funding unless they agreed to "increase lending above baseline levels." He
promised that "tough and transparent conditions" would be imposed on bailout
recipients, who would not be allowed to use bailout funds toward "enriching
shareholders or executives." As in the original TARP bill, he pledged that
bailout money would be used to aid homeowners in foreclosure. And lastly, he
promised that the bailouts would be temporary b with a "plan for exit of
government intervention" implemented "as quickly as possible."

The reassurances worked. Once again, TARP survived in Congress b and once
again, the bailouts were greenlighted with the aid of Democrats who fell for
the old "it'll help ordinary people" sales pitch. "I feel like they've given
me a lot of commitment on the housing front," explained Sen. Mark Begich, a
Democrat from Alaska.

But in the end, almost nothing Summers promised actually materialized. A
small slice of TARP was earmarked for foreclosure relief, but the resultant
aid programs for homeowners turned out to be riddled with problems, for the
perfectly logical reason that none of the bailout's architects gave a shit
about them. They were drawn up practically overnight and rushed out the door
for purely political reasons b to trick Congress into handing over tons of
instant cash for Wall Street, with no strings attached. "Without those
assurances, the level of opposition would have remained the same," says Rep.
RaC:l Grijalva, a leading progressive who voted against TARP. The promise of
housing aid, in particular, turned out to be a "paper tiger."

HAMP, the signature program to aid poor homeowners, was announced by
President Obama on February 18th, 2009. The move inspired CNBC commentator
Rick Santelli to go berserk the next day b the infamous viral rant that
essentially birthed the Tea Party. Reacting to the news that Obama was
planning to use bailout funds to help poor and (presumably) minority
homeowners facing foreclosure, Santelli fumed that the president wanted to
"subsidize the losers' mortgages" when he should "reward people that could
carry the water, instead of drink the water." The tirade against "water
drinkers" led to the sort of spontaneous nationwide protests one might have
expected months before, when we essentially gave a taxpayer-funded blank
check to Gamblers Anonymous addicts, the millionaire and billionaire class.

In fact, the amount of money that eventually got spent on homeowner aid now
stands as a kind of grotesque joke compared to the Himalayan mountain range
of cash that got moved onto the balance sheets of the big banks more or less
instantly in the first months of the bailouts. At the start, $50 billion of
TARP funds were earmarked for HAMP. In 2010, the size of the program was cut
to $30 billion. As of November of last year, a mere $4 billion total has been
spent for loan modifications and other homeowner aid.

In short, the bailout program designed to help those lazy, job-averse,
"water-drinking" minority homeowners b the one that gave birth to the Tea
Party b turns out to have comprised about one percent of total TARP spending.
"It's amazing," says Paul Kiel, who monitors bailout spending for ProPublica.
"It's probably one of the biggest failures of the Obama administration."

The failure of HAMP underscores another damning truth b that the Bush-Obama
bailout was as purely bipartisan a program as we've had. Imagine Obama
retaining Don Rumsfeld as defense secretary and still digging for WMDs in the
Iraqi desert four years after his election: That's what it was like when he
left Tim Geithner, one of the chief architects of Bush's bailout, in command
of the no-stringsB-attached rescue four years after Bush left office.

Yet Obama's HAMP program, as lame as it turned out to be, still stands out as
one of the few pre-bailout promises that was even partially fulfilled.
Virtually every other promise Summers made in his letters turned out to be
total bullshit. And that includes maybe the most important promise of all b
the pledge to use the bailout money to put people back to work.

THEY LIED ABOUT LENDING

Once TARP passed, the government quickly began loaning out billions to some
500 banks that it deemed "healthy" and "viable." A few were cash loans,
repayable at five percent within the first five years; other deals came due
when a bank stock hit a predetermined price. As long as banks held TARP
money, they were barred from paying out big cash bonuses to top executives.

But even before Summers promised Congress that banks would be required to
increase lending as a condition for receiving bailout funds, officials had
already decided not to even ask the banks to use the money to increase
lending. In fact, they'd decided not to even ask banks to monitor what they
did with the bailout money. Barofsky, the TARP inspector, asked Treasury to
include a requirement forcing recipients to explain what they did with the
taxpayer money. He was stunned when TARP administrator Kashkari rejected his
proposal, telling him lenders would walk away from the program if they had to
deal with too many conditions. "The banks won't participate," Kashkari said.

Barofsky, a former high-level drug prosecutor who was one of the only bailout
officials who didn't come from Wall Street, didn't buy that cash-desperate
banks would somehow turn down billions in aid. "It was like they were
trembling with fear that the banks wouldn't take the money," he says. "I
never found that terribly convincing."

In the end, there was no lending requirement attached to any aspect of the
bailout, and there never would be. Banks used their hundreds of billions for
almost every purpose under the sun b everything, that is, but lending to the
homeowners and small businesses and cities they had destroyed. And one of the
most disgusting uses they found for all their billions in free government
money was to help them earn even more free government money.

To guarantee their soundness, all major banks are required to keep a certain
amount of reserve cash at the Fed. In years past, that money didn't earn
interest, for the logical reason that banks shouldn't get paid to stay
solvent. But in 2006 b arguing that banks were losing profits on cash parked
at the Fed b regulators agreed to make small interest payments on the money.
The move wasn't set to go into effect until 2011, but when the crash hit, a
section was written into TARP that launched the interest payments in October
2008.

In theory, there should never be much money in such reserve accounts, because
any halfway-competent bank could make far more money lending the cash out
than parking it at the Fed, where it earns a measly quarter of a percent. In
August 2008, before the bailout began, there were just $2 billion in excess
reserves at the Fed. But by that October, the number had ballooned to $267
billion b and by January 2009, it had grown to $843 billion. That means there
was suddenly more money sitting uselessly in Fed accounts than Congress had
approved for either the TARP bailout or the much-loathed Obama stimulus.
Instead of lending their new cash to struggling homeowners and small
businesses, as Summers had promised, the banks were literally sitting on it.

Today, excess reserves at the Fed total an astonishing $1.4 trillion."The
money is just doing nothing," says Nomi Prins, a former Goldman executive who
has spent years monitoring the distribution of bailout money.

Nothing, that is, except earning a few crumbs of risk-free interest for the
banks. Prins estimates that the annual haul in interestB- on Fed reserves is
about $3.6 billion b a relatively tiny subsidy in the scheme of things, but
one that, ironically, just about matches the total amount of bailout money
spent on aid to homeowners. Put another way, banks are getting paid about as
much every year for not lending money as 1 million Americans received for
mortgage modifications and other housing aid in the whole of the past four
years.

Moreover, instead of using the bailout money as promised b to jump-start the
economy b Wall Street used the funds to make the economy more dangerous. From
the start, taxpayer money was used to subsidize a string of finance mergers,
from the Chase-Bear Stearns deal to the Wells FargoB-Wachovia merger to Bank
of America's acquisition of Merrill Lynch. Aided by bailout funds, being Too
Big to Fail was suddenly Too Good to Pass Up.

Other banks found more creative uses for bailout money. In October 2010,
Obama signed a new bailout bill creating a program called the Small Business
Lending Fund, in which firms with fewer than $10 billion in assets could
apply to share in a pool of $4 billion in public money. As it turned out,
however, about a third of the 332 companies that took part in the program
used at least some of the money to repay their original TARP loans. Small
banks that still owed TARP money essentially took out cheaper loans from the
government to repay their more expensive TARP loans b a move that
conveniently exempted them from the limits on executive bonuses mandated by
the bailout. All told, studies show, $2.2 billion of the $4 billion ended up
being spent not on small-business loans, but on TARP repayment. "It's a bit
of a shell game," admitted John Schmidt, chief operating officer of
Iowa-based Heartland Financial, which took $81.7 million from the SBLF and
used every penny of it to repay TARP.

Using small-business funds to pay down their own debts, parking huge amounts
of cash at the Fed in the midst of a stalled economy b it's all just evidence
of what most Americans know instinctively: that the bailouts didn't result in
much new business lending. If anything, the bailouts actually hindered
lending, as banks became more like house pets that grow fat and lazy on two
guaranteed meals a day than wild animals that have to go out into the jungle
and hunt for opportunities in order to eat. The Fed's own analysis bears this
out: In the first three months of the bailout, as taxpayer billions poured
in, TARP recipients slowed down lending at a rate more than double that of
banks that didn't receive TARP funds. The biggest drop in lending b 3.1
percent b came from the biggest bailout recipient, Citigroup. A year later,
the inspector general for the bailout found that lending among the nine
biggest TARP recipients "did not, in fact, increase." The bailout didn't
flood the banking system with billions in loans for small businesses, as
promised. It just flooded the banking system with billions for the banks.

THEY LIED ABOUT THE HEALTH OF THE BANKS

The main reason banks didn't lend out bailout funds is actually pretty
simple: Many of them needed the money just to survive. Which leads to another
of the bailout's broken promises b that taxpayer money would only be handed
out to "viable" banks.

Soon after TARP passed, Paulson and other officials announced the guidelines
for their unilaterally changed bailout plan. Congress had approved $700
billion to buy up toxic mortgages, but $250 billion of the money was now
shifted to direct capital injections for banks. (Although Paulson claimed at
the time that handing money directly to the banks was a faster way to restore
market confidence than lending it to homeowners, he later confessed that he
had been contemplating the direct-cash-injection plan even before the vote.)
This new let's-just-fork-over-cash portion of the bailout was called the
Capital Purchase Program. Under the CPP, nine of America's largest banks b
including Citi, Wells Fargo, Goldman, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, State
Street and Bank of New York Mellon b received $125 billion, or half of the
funds being doled out. Since those nine firms accounted for 75 percent of all
assets held in America's banks b $11 trillion b it made sense they would get
the lion's share of the money. But in announcing the CPP, Paulson and Co.
promised that they would only be stuffing cash into "healthy and viable"
banks. This, at the core, was the entire justification for the bailout: That
the huge infusion of taxpayer cash would not be used to rescue individual
banks, but to kick-start the economy as a whole by helping healthy banks
start lending again.

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This announcement marked the beginning of the legend that certain Wall Street
banks only took the bailout money because they were forced to b they didn't
need all those billions, you understand, they just did it for the good of the
country. "We did not, at that point, need TARP," Chase chief Jamie Dimon
later claimed, insisting that he only took the money "because we were asked
to by the secretary of Treasury." Goldman chief Lloyd Blankfein similarly
claimed that his bank never needed the money, and that he wouldn't have taken
it if he'd known it was "this pregnant with potential for backlash." A joint
statement by Paulson, Bernanke and FDIC chief Sheila Bair praised the nine
leading banks as "healthy institutions" that were taking the cash only to
"enhance the overall performance of the U.S. economy."

But right after the bailouts began, soon-to-be Treasury Secretary Tim
Geithner admitted to Barofsky, the inspector general, that he and his cohorts
had picked the first nine bailout recipients because of their size, without
bothering to assess their health and viability. Paulson, meanwhile, later
admitted that he had serious concerns about at least one of the nine firms he
had publicly pronounced healthy. And in November 2009, Bernanke gave a
closed-door interview to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, the body
charged with investigating the causes of the economic meltdown, in which he
admitted that 12 of the 13 most prominent financial companies in America were
on the brink of failure during the time of the initial bailouts.

On the inside, at least, almost everyone connected with the bailout knew that
the top banks were in deep trouble. "It became obvious pretty much as soon as
I took the job that these companies weren't really healthy and viable," says
Barofsky, who stepped down as TARP inspector in 2011.

This early episode would prove to be a crucial moment in the history of the
bailout. It set the precedent of the government allowing unhealthy banks to
not only call themselves healthy, but to get the government to endorse their
claims. Projecting an image of soundness was, to the government, more
important than disclosing the truth. Officials like Geithner and Paulson
seemed to genuinely believe that the market's fears about corruption in the
banking system was a bigger problem than the corruption itself. Time and
again, they justified TARP as a move needed to "bolster confidence" in the
system b and a key to that effort was keeping the banks' insolvency a secret.
In doing so, they created a bizarre new two-tiered financial market, divided
between those who knew the truth about how bad things were and those who did
not.

A month or so after the bailout team called the top nine banks "healthy," it
became clear that the biggest recipient, Citigroup, had actually flat-lined
on the ER table. Only weeks after Paulson and Co. gave the firm $25 billion
in TARP funds, Citi b which was in the midst of posting a quarterly loss of
more than $17 billion b came back begging for more. In November 2008, Citi
received another $20 billion in cash and more than $300 billion in
guarantees.

What's most amazing about this isn't that Citi got so much money, but that
government-endorsed, fraudulent health ratings magically became part of its
bailout. The chief financial regulators b the Fed, the FDIC and the Office of
the Comptroller of the Currency b use a ratings system called CAMELS to
measure the fitness of institutions. CAMELS stands for Capital, Assets,
Management, Earnings, Liquidity and Sensitivity to risk, and it rates firms
from one to five, with one being the best and five the crappiest. In the heat
of the crisis, just as Citi was receiving the second of what would turn out
to be three massive federal bailouts, the bank inexplicably enjoyed a three
rating b the financial equivalent of a passing grade. In her book, Bull by
the Horns, then-FDIC chief Sheila Bair recounts expressing astonishment to
OCC head John Dugan as to why "Citi rated as a CAMELS 3 when it was on the
brink of failure." Dugan essentially answered that "since the government
planned on bailing Citi out, the OCC did not plan to change its supervisory
rating." Similarly, the FDIC ended up granting a "systemic risk exception" to
Citi, allowing it access to FDIC-bailout help even though the agency knew the
bank was on the verge of collapse.

The sweeping impact of these crucial decisions has never been fully
appreciated. In the years preceding the bailouts, banks like Citi had been
perpetuating a kind of fraud upon the public by pretending to be far
healthier than they really were. In some cases, the fraud was outright, as in
the case of Lehman Brothers, which was using an arcane accounting trick to
book tens of billions of loans as revenues each quarter, making it look like
it had more cash than it really did. In other cases, the fraud was more
indirect, as in the case of Citi, which in 2007 paid out the third-highest
dividend in America b $10.7 billion b despite the fact that it had lost $9.8
billion in the fourth quarter of that year alone. The whole financial sector,
in fact, had taken on Ponzi-like characteristics, as many banks were hugely
dependent on a continual influx of new money from things like sales of
subprime mortgages to cover up massive future liabilities from toxic
investments that, sooner or later, were going to come to the surface.

Now, instead of using the bailouts as a clear-the-air moment, the government
decided to double down on such fraud, awarding healthy ratings to these
failing banks and even twisting its numerical audits and assessments to fit
the cooked-up narrative. A major component of the original TARP bailout was a
promise to ensure "full and accurate accounting" by conducting regularB-
"stress tests" of the bailout recipients. When Geithner announced his
stress-test plan in February 2009, a reporter instantly blasted him with an
obvious and damning question: Doesn't the fact that you have to conduct these
tests prove that bank regulators, who should already know plenty about banks'
solvency, actually have no idea who is solvent and who isn't?

The government did wind up conducting regular stress tests of all the major
bailout recipients, but the methodology proved to be such an obvious joke
that it was even lampooned on Saturday Night Live. (In the skit, Geithner
abandons a planned numerical score system because it would unfairly penalize
bankers who were "not good at banking.") In 2009, just after the first round
of tests was released, it came out that the Fed had allowed banks to
literally rejigger the numbers to make their bottom lines look better. When
the Fed found Bank of America had a $50 billion capital hole, for instance,
the bank persuaded examiners to cut that number by more than $15 billion
because of what it said were "errors made by examiners in the analysis."
Citigroup got its number slashed from $35 billion to $5.5 billion when the
bank pleaded with the Fed to give it credit for "pending transactions."

Such meaningless parodies of oversight continue to this day. Earlier this
year, Regions Financial Corp. b a company that had failed to pay back $3.5
billion in TARP loans b passed its stress test. A subsequent analysis by
Bloomberg View found that Regions was effectively $525 million in the red.
Nonetheless, the bank's CEO proclaimed that the stress test "demonstrates the
strength of our company." Shortly after the test was concluded, the bank
issued $900 million in stock and said it planned on using the cash to pay
back some of the money it had borrowed under TARP.

This episode underscores a key feature of the bailout: the government's
decision to use lies as a form of monetary aid. State hands over taxpayer
money to functionally insolvent bank; state gives regulatory thumbs up to
said bank; bank uses that thumbs up to sell stock; bank pays cash back to
state. What's critical here is not that investors actually buy the Fed's
bullshit accounting b all they have to do is believe the government will
backstop Regions either way, healthy or not. "Clearly, the Fed wanted it to
attract new investors," observed Bloomberg, "and those who put fresh capital
into Regions this week believe the government won't let it die."

Through behavior like this, the government has turned the entire financial
system into a kind of vast confidence game b a Ponzi-like scam in which the
value of just about everything in the system is inflated because of the
widespread belief that the government will step in to prevent losses.
Clearly, a government that's already in debt over its eyes for the next
million years does not have enough capital on hand to rescue every Citigroup
or Regions Bank in the land should they all go bust tomorrow. But the market
is behaving as if Daddy will step in to once again pay the rent the next time
any or all of these kids sets the couch on fire and skips out on his security
deposit. Just like an actual Ponzi scheme, it works only as long as they
don't have to make good on all the promises they've made. They're building an
economy based not on real accounting and real numbers, but on belief. And
while the signs of growth and recovery in this new faith-based economy may be
fake, one aspect of the bailout has been consistently concrete: the broken
promises over executive pay.

THEY LIED ABOUT BONUSES

That executive bonuses on Wall Street were a political hot potato for the
bailout's architects was obvious from the start. That's why Summers, in
saving the bailout from the ire of Congress, vowed to "limit executive
compensation" and devote public money to prevent another financial crisis.
And it's true, TARP did bar recipients from a whole range of exorbitant pay
practices, which is one reason the biggest banks, like Goldman Sachs, worked
so quickly to repay their TARP loans.

But there were all sorts of ways around the restrictions. Banks could apply
to the Fed and other regulators for waivers, which were often approved (one
senior FDIC official tells me he recommended denying "golden parachute"
payments to Citigroup officials, only to see them approved by superiors).
They could get bailouts through programs other than TARP that did not place
limits on bonuses. Or they could simply pay bonuses not prohibited under
TARP. In one of the worst episodes, the notorious lenders Fannie Mae and
Freddie Mac paid out more than $200 million in bonusesB- between 2008 and
2010, even though the firms (a) lost more than $100 billion in 2008 alone,
and (b) required nearly $400 billion in federal assistance during the bailout
period.

Even worse was the incredible episode in which bailout recipient AIG paid
more than $1 million each to 73 employees of AIG Financial Products, the tiny
unit widely blamed for having destroyed the insurance giant (and perhaps even
triggered the whole crisis) with its reckless issuance of nearly half a
trillion dollars in toxic credit-default swaps. The "retention bonuses," paid
after the bailout, went to 11 employees who no longer worked for AIG.

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But all of these "exceptions" to the bonus restrictions are far less
infuriating, it turns out, than the rule itself. TARP did indeed bar big
cash-bonus payouts by firms that still owed money to the government. But
those firms were allowed to issue extra compensation to executives in the
form of long-term restricted stock. An independent research firm asked to
analyze the stock options for The New York Times found that the top five
executives at each of the 18 biggest bailout recipients received a total of
$142 million in stocks and options. That's plenty of money all by itself b
but thanks in large part to the government's overt display of support for
those firms, the value of those options has soared to $457 million, an
average of $4 million per executive.

In other words, we didn't just allow banks theoretically barred from paying
bonuses to pay bonuses. We actually allowed them to pay bigger bonuses than
they otherwise could have. Instead of forcing the firms to reward top
executives in cash, we allowed them to pay in depressed stock, the value of
which we then inflated due to the government's implicit endorsement of those
firms.

All of which leads us to the last and most important deception of the
bailouts:

THEY LIED ABOUT THE BAILOUT BEING TEMPORARY

The bailout ended up being much bigger than anyone expected, expanded far
beyond TARP to include more obscure (and in some cases far larger) programs
with names like TALF, TAF, PPIP and TLGP. What's more, some parts of the
bailout were designed to extend far into the future. Companies like AIG, GM
and Citigroup, for instance, were given tens of billions of deferred tax
assets b allowing them to carry losses from 2008 forward to offset future
profits and keep future tax bills down. Official estimates of the bailout's
costs do not include such ongoing giveaways. "This is stuff that's never
going to appear on any report," says Barofsky.

Citigroup, all by itself, boasts more than $50 billion in deferred tax
credits b which is how the firm managed to pay less in taxes in 2011 (it
actually received a $144 million credit) than it paid in compensation that
year to its since-ousted dingbat CEO, Vikram Pandit (who pocketed $14.9
million). The bailout, in short, enabled the very banks and financial
institutions that cratered the global economy to write off the losses from
their toxic deals for years to come b further depriving the government of
much-needed tax revenues it could have used to help homeowners and small
businesses who were screwed over by the banks in the first place.

Even worse, the $700 billion in TARP loans ended up being dwarfed by more
than $7.7 trillion in secret emergency lending that the Fed awarded to Wall
Street b loans that were only disclosed to the public after Congress forced
an extraordinary one-time audit of the Federal Reserve. The extent of this
"secret bailout" didn't come out until November 2011, when Bloomberg Markets,
which went to court to win the right to publish the data, detailed how the
country's biggest firms secretly received trillions in near-free money
throughout the crisis.

Goldman Sachs, which had made such a big show of being reluctant about
accepting $10 billion in TARP money, was quick to cash in on the secret loans
being offered by the Fed. By the end of 2008, Goldman had snarfed up $34
billion in federal loans b and it was paying an interest rate of as low as
just 0.01 percent for the huge cash infusion. Yet that funding was never
disclosed to shareholders or taxpayers, a fact Goldman confirms. "We did not
disclose the amount of our participation in the two programs you identify,"
says Goldman spokesman Michael Duvally.

Goldman CEO Blankfein later dismissed the importance of the loans, telling
the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission that the bank wasn't "relying on
those mechanisms." But in his book, Bailout, Barofsky says that Paulson told
him that he believed Morgan Stanley was "just days" from collapse before
government intervention, while Bernanke later admitted that Goldman would
have been the next to fall.

Meanwhile, at the same moment that leading banks were taking trillions in
secret loans from the Fed, top officials at those firms were buying up stock
in their companies, privy to insider info that was not available to the
public at large. Stephen Friedman, a Goldman director who was also chairman
of the New York Fed, bought more than $4 million of Goldman stock over a
five-week period in December 2008 and January 2009 b years before the extent
of the firm's lifeline from the Fed was made public. Citigroup CEO Vikram
Pandit bought nearly $7 million in Citi stock in November 2008, just as his
firm was secretly taking out $99.5 billion in Fed loans. Jamie Dimon bought
more than $11 million in Chase stock in early 2009, at a time when his firm
was receiving as much as $60 billion in secret Fed loans. When asked by
Rolling Stone, Chase could not point to any disclosure of the bank's
borrowing from the Fed until more than a year later, when Dimon wrote about
it in a letter to shareholders in March 2010.

The stock purchases by America's top bankers raise serious questions of
insider trading. Two former high-ranking financial regulators tell Rolling
Stone that the secret loans were likely subject to a 1989 guideline, issued
by the Securities and Exchange Commission in the heat of the savings and loan
crisis, which said that financial institutions should disclose the "nature,
amounts and effects" of any government aid. At the end of 2011, in fact, the
SEC sent letters to Citigroup, Chase, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and
Wells Fargo asking them why they hadn't fully disclosed their secret
borrowing. All five megabanks essentially replied, to varying degrees of
absurdity, that their massive borrowing from the Fed was not "material," or
that the piecemeal disclosure they had engaged in was adequate. Never mind
that the law says investors have to be informed right away if CEOs like Dimon
and Pandit decide to give themselves a $10,000 raise. According to the banks,
it's none of your business if those same CEOs are making use of a secret $50
billion charge card from the Fed.

The implications here go far beyond the question of whether Dimon and Co.
committed insider trading by buying and selling stock while they had access
to material nonpublic information about the bailouts. The broader and more
pressing concern is the clear implication that by failing to act, federal
regulatorsB- have tacitly approved the nondisclosure. Instead of trusting the
markets to do the right thing when provided with accurate information, the
government has instead channeled Jack Nicholson b and decided that the public
just can't handle the truth.

All of this b the willingness to call dying banks healthy, the sham stress
tests, the failure to enforce bonus rules, the seeming indifference to public
disclosure, not to mention the shockingB- lack of criminal investigations into
fraud committed by bailout recipients before the crash b comprised the
largest and most valuable bailout of all. Brick by brick, statement by
reassuring statement, bailout officials have spent years building the
government's great Implicit Guarantee to the biggest companies on Wall
Street: We will be there for you, always, no matter how much you screw up. We
will lie for you and let you get away with just about anything. We will make
this ongoing bailout a pervasive and permanent part of the financial system.
And most important of all, we will publicly commit to this policy, being so
obvious about it that the markets will be able to put an exact price tag on
the value of our preferential treatment.

The first independent study that attempted to put a numerical value on the
Implicit Guarantee popped up about a year after the crash, in September 2009,
when Dean Baker and Travis McArthur of the Center for Economic and Policy
Research published a paper called "The Value of the 'Too Big to Fail' Big
Bank Subsidy." Baker and McArthur found that prior to the last quarter of
2007, just before the start of the crisis, financial firms with $100 billion
or more in assets were paying on average about 0.29 percent less to borrow
money than smaller firms.

By the second quarter of 2009, however, once the bailouts were in full swing,
that spread had widened to 0.78 percent. The conclusion was simple: Lenders
were about a half a point more willing to lend to a bank with implied
government backing b even a proven-stupid bank b than they were to lend to
companies who "must borrow based on their own credit worthiness." The
economists estimated that the lending gap amounted to an annual subsidy of
$34 billion a year to the nation's 18 biggest banks.

Today the borrowing advantage of a big bank remains almost exactly what it
was three years ago b about 50 basis points, or half a percent. "These
megabanks still receive subsidies in the sense that they can borrow on the
capital markets at a discount rate of 50 or 70 points because of the implicit
view that these banks are Too Big to Fail," says Sen. Brown.

Why does the market believe that? Because the officials who administered the
bailouts made that point explicitly, over and over again. When Geithner
announced the implementation of the stress tests in 2009, for instance, he
declared that banks who didn't have enough money to pass the test could get
it from the government. "We're going to help this process by providing a new
program of capital support for those institutions that need it," Geithner
said. The message, says Barofsky, was clear: "If the banks cannot raise
capital, we will do it for them." It was an Implicit Guarantee that the banks
would not be allowed to fail b a point that Geithner and other officials
repeatedly stressed over the years. "The markets took all those little
comments by Geithner as a clue that the government is looking out for them,"
says Baker. That psychological signaling, he concludes, is responsible for
the crucial half-point borrowing spread.

The inherent advantage of bigger banks b the permanent, ongoing bailout they
are still receiving from the government b has led to a host of gruesome
consequences. All the big banks have paid back their TARP loans, while more
than 300 smaller firms are still struggling to repay their bailout debts.
Even worse, the big banks, instead of breaking down into manageable parts and
becoming more efficient, have grown even bigger and more unmanageable, making
the economy far more concentrated and dangerous than it was before. America's
six largest banks b Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Wells Fargo,
Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley b now have a combined 14,420 subsidiaries,
making them so big as to be effectively beyond regulation. A recent study by
the Kansas City Fed found that it would take 70,000 examiners to inspect such
trillion-dollar banks with the same level of attention normally given to a
community bank. "The complexity is so overwhelming that no regulator can
follow it well enough to regulate the way we need to," says Sen. Brown, who
is drafting a bill to break up the megabanks.

Worst of all, the Implicit Guarantee has led to a dangerous shift in banking
behavior. With an apparently endless stream of free or almost-free money
available to banks b coupled with a well-founded feeling among bankers that
the government will back them up if anything goes wrong b banks have made a
dramatic move into riskier and more speculative investments, including
everything from high-risk corporate bonds to mortgageB-backed securities to
payday loans, the sleaziest and most disreputable end of the financial
system. In 2011, banks increased their investments in junk-rated companies by
74 percent, and began systematically easing their lending standards in search
of more high-yield customers to lend to.

This is a virtual repeat of the financial crisis, in which a wave of greed
caused bankers to recklessly chase yield everywhere, to the point where
lowering lending standards became the norm. Now the government, with its
Implicit Guarantee, is causing exactly the same behavior b meaning the
bailouts have brought us right back to where we started. "Government
intervention," says Klaus Schaeck, an expert on bailouts who has served as a
World Bank consultant, "has definitely resulted in increased risk."

And while the economy still mostly sucks overall, there's never been a better
time to be a Too Big to Fail bank. Wells Fargo reported a third-quarter
profit of nearly $5 billion last year, while JP Morgan Chase pocketed $5.3
billion b roughly double what both banks earned in the third quarter of 2006,
at the height of the mortgage bubble. As the driver of their success, both
banks cite strong performance in b you guessed it b the mortgage market.

So what exactly did the bailout accomplish? It built a banking system that
discriminates against community banks, makes Too Big to Fail banks even Too
Bigger to Failier, increases risk, discourages sound business lending and
punishes savings by making it even easier and more profitable to chase
high-yield investments than to compete for small depositors. The bailout has
also made lying on behalf of our biggest and most corrupt banks the official
policy of the United States government. And if any one of those banks fails,
it will cause another financial crisis, meaning we're essentially wedded to
that policy for the rest of eternity b or at least until the markets call our
bluff, which could happen any minute now.

Other than that, the bailout was a smashing success.

This article is from the January 17th, 2013 issue of Rolling Stone.




From eugen at leitl.org  Mon Jan 14 09:19:43 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:19:43 +0100
Subject: [DIYbio] Re: Aaron Swartz has committed suicide
Message-ID: <20130114171943.GG6172@leitl.org>

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From eugen at leitl.org  Mon Jan 14 10:10:15 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:10:15 +0100
Subject: [hackerspaces] Academic scraping
Message-ID: <20130114181015.GH6172@leitl.org>

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From noergelpizza at hotmail.de  Mon Jan 14 12:18:26 2013
From: noergelpizza at hotmail.de (Andreas Bader)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 21:18:26 +0100
Subject: [liberationtech] Fwd: [Crypto Stick News] Vulnerabilities of
	Self-Encrypted SSDs
Message-ID: <mailman.4122.1576008247.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

On 01/14/2013 06:23 PM, Andri Rebentisch wrote:
> fyi, Andri
>
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Betreff: 	[Crypto Stick News] Vulnerabilities of Self-Encrypted SSDs
> Datum: 	Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:14:51 +0100
> Von: 	news at crypto-stick.com
> Antwort an: 	webmaster at crypto-stick.com, news at crypto-stick.com
> An: 	news at crypto-stick.com
>
>
>
> Researchers found vulnerabilities of self-encrypted SSDs. From the abstract:
> "Self-encrypting drives (SEDs), such as Intel's SSD 320 and 520 series, are
> widely believed to be a fast and secure alternative to software-based
> solutions like TrueCrypt and BitLocker. [...] In this sense, hardware-based
> full disk encryption (FDE) is as insecure as software-based FDE. We also show
> that (2) there exists a new class of attacks that is specific to
> hardware-based FDE [Full Disk Encryption]. Roughly speaking, the idea of
> these attacks is to move an SED from one machine to another without cutting
> power, i.e., by replugging the data cable only. [...] Some machines are
> arguably more vulnerable when using SEDs." Watch the videos... [1]
>
> This article: http://www.crypto-stick.com/node/74
>
> [1] https://www1.cs.fau.de/sed
>
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Here is a german speech from the 29C3 in Hamburg, Germany, where the
problems of SEDs are also mentioned:
Unsecure SEDs Youtube
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IzE2SKVP-MQ#%21>


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From eugen at leitl.org  Tue Jan 15 01:10:38 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:10:38 +0100
Subject: [drone-list] NYPD Commissioner on drones for monitoring
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From eugen at leitl.org  Tue Jan 15 01:14:10 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:14:10 +0100
Subject: [liberationtech] Fwd: [Crypto Stick News] Vulnerabilities
  of 	Self-Encrypted SSDs
Message-ID: <20130115091410.GW6172@leitl.org>

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From eugen at leitl.org  Tue Jan 15 01:22:31 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:22:31 +0100
Subject: [silk] Is What Aaron Did, Right?
Message-ID: <20130115092231.GZ6172@leitl.org>

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From eugen at leitl.org  Tue Jan 15 03:09:13 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:09:13 +0100
Subject: [HSF] Freedom of speech takes a back seat to Title 17 of
  the 	US Code[OT]
Message-ID: <20130115110913.GF6172@leitl.org>

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From kanzure at gmail.com  Tue Jan 15 10:37:19 2013
From: kanzure at gmail.com (Bryan Bishop)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:37:19 -0600
Subject: Concept: Mobile proxies for downloading pdfs
Message-ID: <mailman.4123.1576008247.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

Here's a basic concept for using mobile proxies.

The idea is that college students would install an android or iphone
app that would phone home and tell a server that a phone is now
available to take requests. The app would travel over HTTP (to prevent
any sort of port blocks) and ask the server for any new papers to
download. The app would perform the download, then POST or PUT the
file back to the server along with the metadata. The metadata could be
served back to the server by POSTing the HTML, actually.

Components:

1) android app

2) iphone app

3) a common protocol, probably JSON over HTTP

4) a central server to send requests

5) some way to access this server to manage a fleet or get back pdfs.

Any thoughts on how to make this work out? I can write the android and
iphone versions for this, and the server, but it would be better if
there were others involved. Additionally, I have been having trouble
finding an appropriate proxy to run on android that isn't limited to
HTTP requests.. surely there's some sort of botnet-provided proxy on
android already ? Transproxy isn't it, and proxydroid is really just
for redirecting outgoing requests, not handling incoming requests from
other machines.

- Bryan
http://heybryan.org/
1 512 203 0507

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From eugen at leitl.org  Tue Jan 15 05:14:14 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:14:14 +0100
Subject: [silk] Is What Aaron Did, Right?
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From michael at briarproject.org  Tue Jan 15 06:31:38 2013
From: michael at briarproject.org (Michael Rogers)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:31:38 +0000
Subject: [p2p-hackers] Distributed identity, chat, publishing,
	and sharing
Message-ID: <mailman.4124.1576008247.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

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On 15/01/13 06:27, Sean Lynch wrote:
> Hi, Michael. You're right, it does implement pretty much everything
> I was talking about, though its UI is a mess. As others have said,
> pasting or otherwise having to get one's hands dirty with the key
> is pretty much a nonstarter. Also, it's a little annoying that you
> can't do anything with it at all before getting your friends
> involved, unless I just need to wait longer before forums and chat
> lobbies start to show up.

Yes, that seems to be an adoption barrier for darknets in general -
they're hard to try out on a casual basis.

> The main things I would change would be:
> 
> 1. Use Ed25519 keys, and have them always be URIs. They should not
> ever be visible to the user except when it's unavoidable, like
> sending contact info via email.

I agree that replacing keys with short strings would be an
improvement, but I'm not sure it would require switching to Ed25519
(or elliptic curves generally). RetroShare has a DHT, so the key could
be referred to by its hash, which would be used to retrieve the full
key from the DHT.

(I believe you can join the DHT before adding any contacts - but I
could be wrong about that.)

> 2. Hide any settings or stats related to the network. People
> should either be connected or not.

If the P2P connections could be made to work seamlessly then I'd
agree. But my experience with (IPv4-based) P2P connections is that an
informed user can generally make them work better than an uninformed
user, by forwarding ports, setting up dynamic DNS, etc. So exposing
some of the networking details may be a reasonable pragmatic
compromise with the godawful state of the internet.

In general I'm quite pessimistic about the possibility of creating
IPv4-based darknets that work well for uninformed users.

> 3. Use a modern UI paradigm not decended from the old all-in-one 
> internet browsers like Netcruiser and AOL.

Agreed! The abundance of (overlapping?) features is the thing I find
most off-putting about RetroShare.

By the way, I've just found out that the RetroShare team has a
fantastic development blog:

https://retroshareteam.wordpress.com/

Cheers,
Michael

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From griffinboyce at gmail.com  Tue Jan 15 13:02:41 2013
From: griffinboyce at gmail.com (Griffin Boyce)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:02:41 -0500
Subject: [liberationtech] Fighting over-zealous investigators (Re: Petition
	to remove DA Ortiz)
Message-ID: <mailman.4125.1576008247.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

  There is also a petition to remove Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Heymann
for his heavy-handed tactics.[1] In addition to Aaron Swartz, he also led
the case against Jonathan James, who tragically passed away at age 24. Two
weeks after his home was raided by Heymann's team.

  I know that there is insistence to not vilify these people, but they must
be shown that they are not above reproach. These tactics are not only
ineffective, they are designed precisely to make life harder for people.
Jonathan James proclaimed his innocence until the day he died, but was
denied his day in court because of harsh treatment and the history of
fiercely one-sided conspiracy cases.

  I am absolutely *sick* of seeing the best minds of my generation being
put through the spin cycle by overzealous investigators. And I am equally
sick of seeing the community shy away from them when that happens. When
AIDS activists go to jail, they organize from within.  When they get out of
jail, they are supported by friends and allies and are able to continue
their work.  This paranoia that pervades our community hinders people who
might want to organize effectively -- which is exactly the point. Do not
think for a moment that this is not intentional.

  Some of the most successful companies in America have been founded by
hackers, and yet the climate is such that legal activities like
cryptography, anonymity, or high-level computer science make people
nervous.  Why is that something we've been putting up with?

  So yes, sign these petitions, but also write letters in support of your
stance. Call people. Send faxes. Talk to the media. Hold vigils. Make
trouble. Do not let these people take away your rights of protest and
intellectual curiosity.

Stay safe out there,
Griffin Boyce

[1] Heymann petition:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/fire-assistant-us-attorney-steve-heymann/RJKSY2nb

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Jordan McCarthy <jrmccarthy at stanford.edu>wrote:

>
> https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-united-states-district-attorney-carmen-ortiz-office-overreach-case-aaron-swartz/RQNrG1Ck
>
> The probably efficacy of this effort is questionable, of course.  But it
> seems like a somewhat more appropriately-targeted effort than the
> petition being aimed at MIT
> (http://open.scripts.mit.edu/blog/petition/), which has already showed
> clear signs of contrition (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21011663).
>
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From vijay at vijayanand.name  Tue Jan 15 01:20:53 2013
From: vijay at vijayanand.name (Vijay Anand)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:20:53 +0800
Subject: [silk] Is What Aaron Did, Right?
Message-ID: <mailman.4126.1576008247.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

So, did someone say that we dont use this forum to have debates on
what goes on in the world anymore? I know there are some authors here
and some folks from the Academic world.

What is your take on Aaron? It looks like with Julian, and now Aaron
(liberating data is the new form of activism) - and not the long route
of creating an organization and lobbying for years and opening it up,
but bruteforce opening (and facing the brutality of it when it
backfires) is what the masses are backing after. It somehow brings me
mental images of public execution of the old powers during the French
Revolution - a bit hasty and bloody for my taste.

What are your thoughts?

PS: No intents to smear the living or the dead. But it looks like that
we are on the crossroads of information, access to it and ethics here.
And this issue is only going to grow, not go away.


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From the.solipsist at gmail.com  Tue Jan 15 04:21:44 2013
From: the.solipsist at gmail.com (Pranesh Prakash)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:21:44 +0600
Subject: [silk] Is What Aaron Did, Right?
Message-ID: <mailman.4127.1576008247.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Vijay Anand <vijay at vijayanand.name> wrote:
> So, did someone say that we dont use this forum to have debates on
> what goes on in the world anymore? I know there are some authors here
> and some folks from the Academic world.
>
> What is your take on Aaron? It looks like with Julian, and now Aaron
> (liberating data is the new form of activism) - and not the long route
> of creating an organization and lobbying for years and opening it up,
> but bruteforce opening

This is a rather naive and uninformed summary.  Aaron had been
involved with, and has founded, multiple organizations (including the
Sunlight Foundation, and running watchdog.net and founding the online
advocacy platform Demand Progress) that work on transparency-related
lobbying.  His posts on the difference between democracy,
accountability and transparency are worth[1] reading[2], and

 [1]: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/transparencybunk
 [2]: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/usefultransparency

Why is using technology to 'liberate' data in any way a lesser route
than using laws?  This also seems to presume that the tech route and
the 'lobbying' route of changing policy are not complementary, and
that the tech route involves short cuts if not actual breaking of
laws.

And what of those cases where the law holds that information *is*
public (case law, for instance) but are independent of the law behind
a paywall like PACER?  What law was broken by that?  Further, what law
(as opposed to a unilaterally-imposed non-negotiable 'Terms of
Service') was broken by downloading those millions of articles from
JSTOR?

The Open Access movements have a long history, and a history of more
than a decade in their modern form.  Various organizations around the
world are involved in seeking changes in public policy (including the
Centre for Internet and Society, the organization I work for) and when
it comes to open access to scholarly literature, in the practices of
academics and non-governmental research funders as well.  Aaron was a
part of the open access to law movement (see his work with Carl
Malamud), as well as the open access to scholarly literature movement.

And further, it is incredibly short-sighted to see Julian Assange as
some sort of start of 'data liberation'.

> (and facing the brutality of it when it
> backfires) is what the masses are backing after. It somehow brings me
> mental images of public execution of the old powers during the French
> Revolution - a bit hasty and bloody for my taste.

I've completely lost you here. What exactly conjures up images of
public execution?  The anger of people at the wrongful hounding of
Aaron Swartz looks like baying for blood?  Do you condone such
flagrant misuse of laws by state prosecutors?, and would you rather
that people not get angered by it?

> What are your thoughts?
>
> PS: No intents to smear the living or the dead. But it looks like that
> we are on the crossroads of information, access to it and ethics here.
> And this issue is only going to grow, not go away.

I'm sorry if I come across as being rude, but Aaron is someone I
admired and looked up to for many years, and his suicide is something
I feel very strongly about.


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From kanzure at gmail.com  Tue Jan 15 16:34:33 2013
From: kanzure at gmail.com (Bryan Bishop)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:34:33 -0600
Subject: Removing watermarks from pdfs
Message-ID: <mailman.4128.1576008247.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

How about getting rid of those pesky watermarks in pdfs?

As far as I can tell, there are only visible watermarks. Invisible
watermarks can be detected by comparing the same pdf retrieved through
two different gateways (like from two different libraries). I have
checked Nature Publishing Group and Elsevier (specifically
ScienceDirect) and found no checksum differences.

But there are some culprits out there that do some nasty things to documents:

* lines of text added to the document containing an ip address,
timestamp, university name, etc. (IEEE Xplore)

* entire pages added to documents with tracking information (Wiley? I
can't remember exactly.)

* possibly some might be using CVE-2010-0188 to phone home to
publishers. PDF supports javascript and flash and other terrible
things, so it would be interesting to check if any publishers have
attempted to use these vulnerabilities to their advantage.

* there might be "hidden" information inside a pdf that changes when
you download a document, but so far no evidence of this has been found
(so I don't believe it's likely, but it's worth keeping in mind).

I think it would be useful to work on some ways to remove watermarks
from pdfs. I am aware of largely two types of pdfs that publishers
distribute. One is the feared "collection of images", which may or may
not have extra images slapped on with ip address information. The
second is a pdf with actual selectable text. The first type, with just
images everywhere, can be de-watermarked by just drawing images over
the offensive text. The second type requires some other creative
thinking, maybe just a collection of regular expressions.

For instance, here's a line that IEEE Xplore once added to a paper
that I was reading:

"Authorized licensed use limited to: University of Getting Schooled.
Downloaded on July 39, 2009 at 15:10 from IEEE Xplore. Restrictions
apply."

In fact, you can see this line appearing in other (4,000) papers that
other people have been reading:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Authorized+licensed+use+limited+to%22

Here's another example. AAAS/Science is of particular interest. They
attach an entire front page and add text in the margins everywhere:

"Downloaded from www.sciencemag.org on November 30, 1912"

So I think a good first step would be to collect examples of text
added to documents that need be detected by any eraser we write. In
fact, maybe all identifying information for an article should be
removed, and just replace it with an easy-to-copy-down text code (like
"blue-apple-oranges" to refer to a specific document in an index).

Does anyone else have some samples to share of nasty watermarks worth
removing? Also, any favorite ways to manipulate pdfs?

- Bryan
http://heybryan.org/
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From tedks at riseup.net  Tue Jan 15 17:16:37 2013
From: tedks at riseup.net (Ted Smith)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 20:16:37 -0500
Subject: Concept: Mobile proxies for downloading pdfs
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On Tue, 2013-01-15 at 15:34 -0600, Bryan Bishop wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Ted Smith wrote:
> > Why a mobile app?
> 
> Because all college students have phones. 

That's true, but they don't have the same phones. Plenty still don't
have iOS or Android phones. Plenty have Blackberries. 

In contrast, all of them have computers, and it's pretty easy to write
something that will run on any of them.

> I suspect that many of these
> students would be interested in participating in this protest.
> 
> > I doubt this would be very widely used, so going mobile for that is
> > probably unnecessary.
> 
> What makes you think it wouldn't be widely used? I think there's at
> least 1,000 students that would run these proxies. That's a huge
> amount of access.

Where are you getting that number from?

As a current college student, I think that getting a thousand users is a
huge stretch. There are maybe a handful of clicktivist types that would
actually install something, on a mobile device or a larger computer;
there's a slightly larger handful that would think it's cool; the vast
majority wouldn't care; the last handful remaining would be against it
because they'd see it as stealing (MAFIAA propaganda works).

> >       * a Tor hidden service
> 
> The tor network is already heavily congested. I don't think that using
> tor would be efficient. I think a tor mode option would be useful
> though.

If you need to do connectback, you need some NAT holepuncher, and Tor is
the fastest to get going.

Tor is high-latency, but latency doesn't seem like much of a problem
when all you're doing is fetching PDFs. I don't think Tor is "congested"
-- slow, certainly, and it could use more bandwidth, but 

Demand will definitely overwhelm supply (in the wildest success stories,
this will only be true initially), so you'll have to have queuing
anyway, to avoid immediately outing any student running a proxy by
causing them to initiate a flood of requests for papers and subsequent
outbound traffic.

Further, *nobody* will install anything like this if they don't have
very ironclad guarantees of their own safety. At my own university, it's
considered common knowledge that the network administrators
block/monitor filesharing, even though they don't in fact do so -- and
it doesn't help that this effort is organized in the wake of a prominent
activist with far more resources than they have access to killing
himself in response to massive state retaliation for doing exactly what
you're asking them to do.

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From eugen at leitl.org  Tue Jan 15 12:58:28 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:58:28 +0100
Subject: Concept: Mobile proxies for downloading pdfs
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From r.deibert at utoronto.ca  Wed Jan 16 04:23:46 2013
From: r.deibert at utoronto.ca (Ronald Deibert)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:23:46 -0500
Subject: [liberationtech] Planet Blue Coat: Mapping Global Censorship and
	Surveillance Tools
Message-ID: <mailman.4130.1576008247.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

Dear Lib Tech colleagues

I am pleased to announce the Citizen Lab's latest report:

Planet Blue Coat: Mapping Global Censorship and Surveillance Tools 
January 15, 2013

The following individuals contributed to this report: 
Morgan Marquis-Boire (lead technical research) and Jakub Dalek (lead technical research), Sarah McKune (lead legal research), Matthew Carrieri, Masashi Crete-Nishihata, Ron Deibert, Saad Khan, Marianne Lau, Helmi Noman, John Scott-Railton, and Greg Wiseman.

Full report and details here: https://citizenlab.org/planetbluecoat

New York Times report here: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/business/rights-group-reports-on-abuses-of-surveillance-and-censorship-technology.html?_r=1&

Summary of Key Findings

		b" Blue Coat Devices capable of filtering, censorship, and surveillance are being used around the world.  During several weeks of scanning and validation that ended in January 2013, we uncovered 61 Blue Coat ProxySG devices and 316 Blue Coat PacketShaper appliances, devices with specific functionality permitting filtering, censorship, and surveillance.

		b" 61 of these Blue Coat appliances are on public or government networks in countries with a history of concerns over human rights, surveillance, and censorship (11 ProxySG and 50 PacketShaper appliances).  We found:

		b" Blue Coat ProxySG: Egypt, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE. 

		b" PacketShaper: Afghanistan, Bahrain, China, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Nigeria, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Turkey, and Venezuela.

		b" Our findings support the need for national and international scrutiny of the country Blue Coat implementations we have identified, and a closer look at the global proliferation of bdual-useb information and communications technologies. ISPs responsible for these deployments should consider publicly clarifying their function, and we hope Blue Coat will take this report as an opportunity to explain their due diligence process to ensure that their devices are not used in ways that violate human rights.

 
Ronald Deibert
Director, the Citizen Lab 
and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies
Munk School of Global Affairs
University of Toronto
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From rebecca at sfbg.com  Wed Jan 16 09:51:43 2013
From: rebecca at sfbg.com (Rebecca Bowe)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:51:43 -0800
Subject: [liberationtech] San Francisco's "smart" streetlights
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Hi,

My article in this week's issue of the SF Bay Guardian describes how the
city of San Francisco has initiated two pilot projects for LED streetlights
connected via a wireless mesh network. The test sites are determining how
well the "smart" streetlights can transmit data from traffic cameras and
remotely read electric meters; according to a Request For Proposals issued
last June, future uses could potentially include anything from "street
surveillance" to "gunshot monitoring" to "public information broadcasts."
Thought it would be of interest to people on this list.

http://www.sfbg.com/2013/01/15/spies-corner

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From eugen at leitl.org  Wed Jan 16 04:37:10 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:37:10 +0100
Subject: [liberationtech] Planet Blue Coat: Mapping Global Censorship
  and 	Surveillance Tools
Message-ID: <20130116123710.GI6172@leitl.org>

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From eugen at leitl.org  Wed Jan 16 04:43:22 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:43:22 +0100
Subject: Removing watermarks from pdfs
Message-ID: <20130116124322.GK6172@leitl.org>

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From eugen at leitl.org  Wed Jan 16 04:44:47 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:44:47 +0100
Subject: Concept: Mobile proxies for downloading pdfs
Message-ID: <20130116124447.GL6172@leitl.org>

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From eugen at leitl.org  Wed Jan 16 06:34:47 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 15:34:47 +0100
Subject: [liberationtech] Fighting over-zealous investigators (Re:
  Petition 	to remove DA Ortiz)
Message-ID: <20130116143447.GR6172@leitl.org>

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From ilf at zeromail.org  Wed Jan 16 08:00:58 2013
From: ilf at zeromail.org (ilf)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:00:58 +0100
Subject: [liberationtech] Secret Government Document Reveals: German Federal
	Police Plans To Use Gamma FinFisher Spyware
Message-ID: <mailman.4132.1576008247.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

https://netzpolitik.org/2013/secret-government-document-reveals-german-federal-police-plans-to-use-gamma-finfisher-spyware/

The German Federal Police office has purchased the commercial Spyware  
toolkit FinFisher of Eleman/Gamma Group. This is revealed by a secret  
document of the Ministry of the Interior, which we are publishing  
exclusively. Instead of legitimizing products used by authoritarian  
regimes for the violation of human rights, the German state should  
restrict the export of such state malware.

In October 2011, German hacker organization Chaos Computer Club (CCC)  
analyzed a malware used by German government authorities. The product of  
the German company DigiTask was not just programmed badly and lacking  
elementary security, it was in breach of German law. In a landmark case,  
the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany ruled in 2008 that  
surveillance software targeting telecommunications must be technologically 
limited to a specific task. Instead, the CCC found that the DigiTask 
software took over the entire computer and included the option to remotely 
add features, thereby clearly violating the court ruling.

Since then, many German authorities have stopped using DigiTask spyware  
and started to create their own state malware. For this task, a bCenter of 
Competence for Information Technology Surveillance (CC ITC)b was  
established, sporting a three million Euro budget and a team of 30 people. 
Today, the Federal Ministry of the Interior is informing the Federal 
Parliament Bundestag about the centers progress and work. Members of the 
Finance Committee of the German Parliament are receiving a classified 
document, that we are now publishing. (text)

According to the document (in German only) dated December 7, the Federal  
Criminal Police Office plans to finish the development of their own  
surveillance malware until the end of 2014. There is no word on the  
progress or even how many developers have applied for the job, which seems 
to be frowned upon by many German hackers.

In the meantime, the Federal Police plans to continue using commercial  
software. In a bmarket surveyb, they have assessed bthree products as  
generally suitableb. The result:

> The Federal Criminal Police Office has acquired, for the event a use is 
> necessary, a commercial product of the company Eleman/Gamma.

The Gamma Group of Companies, a network of companies linked to offshore  
secrecy, is behind the infamous FinFisher/FinSpy IT intrusion software kit 
developed in Germany and used by authoritarian regimes across the world to 
spy on political activists. The software is highly sophisticated and can 
completely take over a veriety of devices, including Windows, OS X, Linux, 
iOS, Android, Symbian, Blackberry and Windows Mobile. A promotional video 
advertises the ability of bremote intrusionb via fake updates from mobile 
carriers and Internet providers.

The experienced team behind FinFisher/FinSpy is less likely to implement  
bsignificant design and implementation flawsb, as the CCC diagnosed for  
DigiTask. But with strong clues that authoritarian regimes such as  
Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Ethiopia, Mongolia and Turkmenistan 
are using those products, the German state is sending a dangerous political 
message by using exactly the same software itself. In Britain, the 
Secretary of State put FinSpy software under export restrictions, requiring 
the Gamma company to acquire a licence to export these tools. In Germany, 
we are also calling for export restrictions to stop the sale of western 
surveillance technology to regimes known for their violation of human 
rights.

Besides this fundamental criticism, it also remains unclear if this  
spyware developed for international customers can meet the high standards 
set by the Constitutional Court for the use of such software in Germany. As 
discovered by the CCC, DigiTask was breaking the law by allowing to update 
installed malware and adding new features from remote. Although Gamma keeps 
its software secret, current research suggests that the FinFisher/FinSpy 
toolkit consists of a basic module (the trojan) that can also remotely load 
additional bfeature modulesb, for example a module for recording Skype 
conversations. Analysts who have looked at FinFisher parts told 
netzpolitik.org that they have not seen limits on what additional modules 
can be loaded or even a signature verification of additional modules. If 
this is indeed the case, this would clearly violate German law.

Since the CCC analysis showed that the current German state trojan was  
able to do more than allowed, it should be obvious that all future spyware 
must be verified before use. According to the document, both the Federal 
Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information and the Federal 
Office for Information Security are not able to audit the source code of 
the program to check if it complies with the legal requirements. For this 
reason, the German part of IT corporation Computer Sciences Corp was tasked 
with the review, which was supposed to be finished in December. The 
document does not mention the progress or results of such an audit.

There are also no mentions of a amount which the Federal Police is paying 
to Gamma, the terms of a sale or licensing, or whether German officials 
have already used the software. Gamma spokesperson and developer Martin J. 
MC<nch has not answered questions sent by netzpolitik.org.

CCC spokesperson Frank Rieger states:

> With the purchase of Gamma FinFisher, the Federal Criminal Police  
> Office has chosen a vendor that has become a symbol for the use of  
> surveillance technology in oppressive regimes worldwide. FinFisher also 
> consists of various components, which can be loaded when needed,  
> thereby allowing the installation of spying capabilities that go far  
> beyond the already questionable bwiretapping at the sourceb.

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From shava23 at gmail.com  Wed Jan 16 14:02:32 2013
From: shava23 at gmail.com (Shava Nerad)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:02:32 -0500
Subject: [liberationtech] Who killed Aaron Swartz?
Message-ID: <mailman.4133.1576008247.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

Aaron's parents have implicated the prosecutors and MIT in Aaron's death,
and I don't mean to disrespect them in this, but I'd like to speculate a
little more on all of this, because I've been plagued a bit by this for
days.

It churns my stomach to think that part of what went into Aaron's thoughts
on his death might be a media calculation -- he was so good with that sort
of thing -- that his work would benefit better from his death than from his
life at this point in time.

And that really does make me feel ill, literally.  That part of that
decision might have been coldly rational, not entirely out of depression,
but actually looking at the media map of his work, how the feds were going
to work to discredit him and the movement, and where the tipping point
might have been -- not knowing exactly what the spin the feds might have
had to control the media circus at their end.

But think about the parallels on say, Tarek Mehanna (
http://www.civilfreedoms.org/?p=11749) who was convicted for "material
support" to terrorism for translating web pages from Arabic to English,
17.5 years of hard time, felony terrorism charges.  I have no doubt that
the charges against Aaron could be made to stick, much to the harm to
hacker culture and so on.

I can simulate that in my head.  Can y'all?  Aaron thinking about the harm
done to the cause he cares about if this comes to court vs. if he martyrs
himself now?

I am in a very very dark mood myself.  Not in any danger of suicide --
thanks if any are concerned -- but in the mood to organize and teach and
take these people down a few pegs before more young people fall.  We need
to get out of our desk chairs a bit more, don't you think?  Just a bit?
 And show that we are not so laughably easy targets, or we will be taken
down like this, one by one, unless we can show that we can work the system
in a way that is effective.

And I'm afraid that does not mean filing internet petitions to have people
removed from office.  It means working social capital within the system,
working with groups that have that kind of social capital already (some of
our groups in DC have those "ins" like EFF, or even Tor when I was there;
not so much now, CDT perhaps, some of the larger foundations have good
connections).  It means playing politics.

It means doing the righteous good nonprofit side of lobbying that doesn't
pay off Congress but really does educate them and petition them for redress
of grievances -- work I've done on behalf of digital divide interests, and
hardly anyone does any more -- you don't even hear the word "lobbyist" used
that way any more although it's the original definition of the word.

And all of these things can be done *facilitated* by technology but by GOD
they have to be done face to face and they need money and they require
bodies willing to take risks and get out from behind the keyboard and to do
those ikky things like deal with politicians and compromises and ikky
people your friends think have "germs" and aren't part of the cool kids.

And when you go to parties, people will think you are too sincere about
your work, make too little money, and are obviously making bad decisions,
and are probably a little paranoid about life because you are dealing with
all these things that involve stuff they'd just rather not hear about.

(Which is, by the way, very much like what military people feel like among
civilians, who they also believe they are in the business of protecting.)

We are in the business of watching the watchers.  Of safeguarding justice
and liberties.  That is what I believe.  And although some of you are
academics, and study this from offices where you write reports on some of
us, some of us are hybrids or activists, and we are on the line, and likely
to have shorter less pleasant lives.  It makes for an interesting little
social dynamic here.

Titularly, I am supposed to be pleasant about this, because often enough,
activists are petitioning the people reading this list who are not
activists for support, places to publish, or grants or recommendations.
 But mostly these days I am retired, so I get to be a bit of the crone
goddess of this list.  It's a bit like having tenure in a way.

It can seem very frustrating to those of us in the field to see so many so
totally risk averse, where "support" means nothing more than to publish a
blog article, signing an ineffective petition, or symbolically rsvp YES to
an event with no intent to attend, or send a few dollars to MoveOn when
MoveOn does very little except continue MoveOn's work of continuing
MoveOn's work of continuing MoveOn's work.

But when it comes to attending a meeting, taking an action that would
disrupt a routine or risk a blot on an otherwise spotless permanent record,
leaving a comfort zone or even a living room, or working with strangers on
a project where the suffering-fools-gladly nerves might be a bit abraded --
idealism goes quickly into the crapper.

Most people want to *think* of themselves as idealists and in favor of
social change.  And if someone like Anonymous tells them "Push this button
on this HUD and you can change the world!" they will, without question
(which scares the crap out of me).  But if they have to actually work to
deal with unfamiliar things and unfamiliar people and more evident risks to
change the world, they quickly withdrawal, because it is outside their
comfort zones.

And unless we can solve that with liberation technologies -- as apparently
Anonymous has, through sheer coyote duplicity -- we can't solve problems
such as those that led to Aaron's suicide, or solve those that we are faced
with to prevent the next one, or to continue his work effectively.

Because this is an asymmetrical war, and the liberation technologies we
have do not stack up to the arsenal of government, and never have.  We will
always have to supplement them with people power on the ground, with
politics, with human organizing.  I can't see the way around that.  And
online means are only seducing people away from effective engagement in the
real world at this point.  Morosov and Putnam have us by the short hairs
and we have yet to answer them effectively.

Who killed Aaron Swartz?  Maybe in a way it was all of us, too.  Because
all of us contribute to the environment where -- if I'm right and he might
have calculated his media impact -- the government could credibly destroy
his work and the movement around it in the popular press around his trial,
and he knew that none of us could counter it or save him.

I can teach people to be clever and full of tricks -- but I can teach,
what, fifteen, thirty at a time at most?  How deep?  How long?  Teaching
people skills has never been well adapted to automation; ymmv.  I could
teach a couple in depth as shadows, padawans.  Most of us are not even
doing that (I'm not, now -- I don't even have funding for me, much less for
me and staff or teaching).

So where do we go with this?  Where have intellectuals ever gone with this?
 Isn't this, dare I say, a perennial problem?

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From eugen at leitl.org  Wed Jan 16 08:08:45 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 17:08:45 +0100
Subject: [liberationtech] Secret Government Document Reveals: German 
  Federal Police Plans To Use Gamma FinFisher Spyware
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From eugen at leitl.org  Wed Jan 16 10:09:26 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 19:09:26 +0100
Subject: [liberationtech] San Francisco's "smart" streetlights
Message-ID: <20130116180926.GC6172@leitl.org>

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From kanzure at gmail.com  Wed Jan 16 17:43:42 2013
From: kanzure at gmail.com (Bryan Bishop)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 19:43:42 -0600
Subject: Papester Collective - nearly-automatic paper request fulfillment over twitter
Message-ID: <mailman.4134.1576008247.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

http://neuroconscience.com/2013/01/16/join-papester-collective-1-0-how-to-reply-to-icanhazpdf-in-3-seconds/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B038j0_3PmP9RYOM6LkFG7NHBiy6Y9ShurmewaG_4rU/pub

"""
Yesterday my friend Hauke and I theorized about a kind of dream
scenario- a totally distributed, easy to use, publication liberation
system. This is perhaps not feasible at this point [1]. Today webre
going to present something that will be useful right now. The
essential goal here is to make it so that anyone, anywhere, can access
the papers they need in a timely manner. The idea is to take advantage
of existing strategies and tools to streamline paper sharing as much
as possible. Folks already do this- every day on twitter or in
private, requests for papers are made and fulfilled. Our goal is to
completely streamline this process down to a few clicks of your mouse.
That way a small but dedicated group of folks b the Papester
Collective b can ensure that #icanhazpdf requests are fulfilled almost
instantly. This is a work in progress. Leave comments on how to
improve and further streamline this system and join the collective!

SHORT VERSION: HOW TO GET A PAPER BEHIND A PAYWALL QUICKLY

Tweet (for example): b#icanhazpdf
http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4568-12.2013b

Show your support for the papester collective by tweeting: bThanks to
#papester, my #icanhazpdf request was fufilled in seconds! Join:
http://bit.ly/W7fa2T #pdftributeb

Click: Here you can find more detailed instructions.

HOW TO JOIN THE COLLECTIVE AND START SERVING REQUESTS

SHORT INSTRUCTIONS AND REQUIRED SOFTWARE:

Twitter: Monitor #icanhazpdf #requests

Zotero and zotero browser plugin: after clicking on DOI link or
abstract page just click on bSave to Zoterob button to auto-grabs PDFs
http://zotero.org/


Zotfile: automatically copies new Zotero pdfs files saved to public
Dropbox folder
http://www.jlegewie.com/zotfile.html

Dropbox: Cloud storage system to seamlessly share files with anyone
without login.

Dropbox linker: automatically adds links from public folder to your clipboard
http://dropboxlinker.codeplex.com/

Reply to request tweets: paste URL from clipboard and if you want #papester

Thatbs it! Now you can just click request links, click the Zotero get
PDF button, and CTRL+V a dropbox direct download link in response!

Click: Here you can find more detailed instructions.

1.The fundamental problem: uploading huge repositories of scientific
papers is not sensible for now. Itbs too much data (50 million papers
* 0.5-1.5 megabytes together make up ~ 25-75 Terrabytes) and the
likelihood for every paper to be downloaded is more uniformly
distributed than with files traditionally shared like music. For
instance, there are 100 million songs x 3.5 mb songs, and it is
difficult to find exotic songs online b some songs have decent
availability now because there are only a few favourites b not so with
favourite papers. Also, fewer people will share papers than songs, so
this makes it more even more difficult to sustain a complete
repository. Thus, we need a system that fufills requests individually.

Disclaimer: Please make sure you only share papers with friends who
also have the copyrights to the papers you share.
"""

Instead of forcing the user to manually monitor twitter, you could
just have a simple client that reads a twitter feed, passes the urls
through zotero (after resolving them from the t.co shortlink),
download the pdf and upload to dropbox. Zotero already has a Google
Scholar search feature and auto-save-pdf feature, so I'm not sure
about those steps as written.

- Bryan
http://heybryan.org/
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From jago25 at gmail.com  Wed Jan 16 15:12:07 2013
From: jago25 at gmail.com (Jago Pearce)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 23:12:07 +0000
Subject: [tor-talk] Leave Your Cellphone at Home
Message-ID: <mailman.4135.1576008247.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

How much improvement might flightmode realistically provide?
On the one hand, if you are a targetted individual it's basically not
going to provide any protection because with a rootkit it can be so
easily overridden.
However, for the average Joe such as myself who just likes to have a
little bit more privacy -just because- can this be a nice halfway
house? Schedule a flightmode switch every 2 hours to pick up txt SMS
messages.

What phone you are trying this on matters of course. If it's a closed
source Chinese phone then I think you can expect some kind of logging
similar to CarrierIQ anyway. However... perhaps that info isn't shared
with whoever it is using cellphone triangulation right?

So what about the scanario of a Replicant O/S phone will those Samsung
modem binary blobs? Do we really know if the modem is being switched
off or not? The only way to give some confidence (not full confidence)
might be to monitor for GSM with gnuradio or (hopefully) RTL-SDR... or
just put it next to some analug speakers?

Professional criminals use a different phone each time and pay cash.
They then have a life of basic phones and T9 text messaging. They then
buy a new phone when paranoia reaches some kind of random level.
Replicating this with smarter phones is sounds more difficult. I would
guess they swap infomation at prision - they are the experts. It would
be interesting to see what the more knowledgeable ones in there think
about how they got caught. If enough of that data could be collected
you'd have an insight. Major gangs might have some knowledge on this.
I wonder what they would say.

How would you monitor if you are being monitored. Because I travel a
lot including to places my country is at war with and read
mailinglists like this I tend to think I'm someone the man would be
interested in. There have been times where phone calls have gone
strange and so forth. Perhaps the systems I and people like me use
would be good for study. Do you have any links or google search terms
on people who have found tracking tech conclusively rather than
(possibly) paranoid hunches?


On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 10:39 AM,  <antispam06 at sent.at> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012, at 01:56, Mansour Moufid wrote:
>> Anyway, I think cryptography will depend more and more on steganography
>> -- and in the case of Tor, covert/subliminal channels. Imagine a protocol
>> where Alice sends Bob a steady stream of garbage, and the message is
>> encoded in the inter-packet timing noise. ;)
>
> Actually, this kind of run is taking SciFi turns.
>
> In real life the act of comunication, simply connecting with someone
> else is more important than the message. Whatever you wish to call the
> adversary Alice and Bob are hiding from is more interested of the fact
> that Alice needs to connect with Bob than what the hell are they talking
> about. Encryption, reading between the lines, a rudimentary code that
> makes My grandma feels better into We go as planned, they are all to be
> established after subject interrogation. What they need is the web.
> Facebook if you prefer. Because we have established that we are tracking
> Alice or Bob. And we need the whole network.
>
> The stupidity of most of the books I have read on this theme stands
> around the concept of Truth. These organisations DO NOT care about
> whatever sense an outsider would place with the word truth. They might
> go for such truths as justifying their wages, pleasing a half mad boss,
> and so on. Many are connected with the propaganda machine. And quite
> often wars are waged among competing services. Think of a treasure hunt,
> the silly Easter Egg hunt for children executed by grown men trained to
> torture.
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From blueneon at gmail.com  Wed Jan 16 20:18:01 2013
From: blueneon at gmail.com (Tom Morris)
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 23:18:01 -0500
Subject: GPS attack vector
Message-ID: <mailman.4136.1576008247.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

This could also be a big show stopper for cellular and radio networks. Many
use a 10.0000000 MHz timebase distributed from a GPS disciplined local
oscillator for precise time and frequency synchronization. Without this
tight frequency stabilization from a GPS receiver, major drama will occur
on the "borders" between simulcasting repeater coverage areas, cell sites,
etc. Can anyone say Spaghetti mess? Owwwww my brain hurts.

Tom Morris, KG4CYX
Chairman, South Florida Tropical Hamboree
Mad Scientist, Miami Children's Museum

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On Jan 16, 2013 8:08 PM, "Jay Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com> wrote:

> Do you use GPS to provide any mission critical services (like time of day)
> in your network?
>
> Have you already see this? (I hadn't)
>
>
> http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/12/how-to-bring-down-mission-critical-gps-networks-with-2500/
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
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From lowen at pari.edu  Thu Jan 17 05:57:20 2013
From: lowen at pari.edu (Lamar Owen)
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:57:20 -0500
Subject: GPS attack vector
Message-ID: <mailman.4137.1576008247.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

On 01/16/2013 08:06 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> Do you use GPS to provide any mission critical services (like time of day)
> in your network?
>
> Have you already see this? (I hadn't)
>
>    http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/12/how-to-bring-down-mission-critical-gps-networks-with-2500/
>
Hi, Jay,

Yes, saw this about a month ago.  We have a UNAVCO Plate Boundary  
Observatory station (779) on our site, and it uses a Trimble NetRS.  We  
also use GPS timing locally to generate NTP stratum 1 for our LAN via  
Agilient/HP Z3816 disciplined receivers, and individual GPS receivers for 
both of our 26 meter radio telescopes for precision local standard of rest 
calculations.

But as a frequency standard for 10MHz, we only use the output of the  
frequency locked loops in the Z3816s as references for our Efratom  
rubidium standard; even cesium clocks have more drift than rubidium ones, 
and the rubidium is manually locked, and is the master reference for 
anything that needs a frequency reference; the Z3816's can have  
significant jitter (well, significant is relative.....).  Last I checked, 
the rubidium was 8.5uHz (yes, microHertz) off according to the GPS 
disciplined 10MHz signal from one of the Z3816s (we use an HP differential 
counter with a very long gate time to get that measurement precision).

It was interesting timing for the release of this paper, as it was around 
the time tick and tock were rebooted and went all 'Doc Brown' on us.

Anyone interested in the vagaries of serious time precision, please  
reference the 'Time-Nuts' mailing list, and other content, hosted by  
febo.com.



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From eugen at leitl.org  Thu Jan 17 01:19:20 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:19:20 +0100
Subject: GPS attack vector
Message-ID: <20130117091920.GA6172@leitl.org>

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From eugen at leitl.org  Thu Jan 17 01:20:19 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:20:19 +0100
Subject: [liberationtech] Who killed Aaron Swartz?
Message-ID: <20130117092019.GB6172@leitl.org>

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From eugen at leitl.org  Thu Jan 17 01:55:35 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:55:35 +0100
Subject: [tor-talk] Leave Your Cellphone at Home
Message-ID: <20130117095535.GF6172@leitl.org>

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From eugen at leitl.org  Thu Jan 17 02:14:35 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 11:14:35 +0100
Subject: Papester Collective - nearly-automatic paper request
  fulfillment 	over twitter
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From saftergood at fas.org  Thu Jan 17 11:15:10 2013
From: saftergood at fas.org (Steven Aftergood)
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 11:15:10 -0800
Subject: Secrecy News -- 01/17/13
Message-ID: <mailman.4138.1576008247.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

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SECRECY NEWS
from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Volume 2013, Issue No. 6
January 17, 2013

Secrecy News Blog:  http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/


**     SANDIA SCIENTISTS MODEL DYNAMICS OF SOCIAL PROTEST
**     STRATEGY LACKING FOR DISPOSAL OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMPONENTS


SANDIA SCIENTISTS MODEL DYNAMICS OF SOCIAL PROTEST

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have been studying the ways
that information, ideas and behaviors propagate through social networks in
order to gain advance warning of cyber attacks or other threatening
behavior.

The initial problem is how to explain the disparate consequences of
seemingly similar triggering events.  Thus, in 2005, the Danish newspaper
Jyllands-Posten published cartoons featuring the Muslim Prophet Muhammad,
prompting widespread protests.  In 2006, by contrast, the Pope gave a
lecture in which he made comments about Islam that were considered
derogatory by some, but the ensuing controversy quickly faded away.

"While each event appeared at the outset to have the potential to trigger
significant protests, the 'Danish cartoons' incident ultimately led to
substantial Muslim mobilization, including massive protests and
considerable violence, while outrage triggered by the pope lecture quickly
subsided with essentially no violence," wrote Sandia authors Richard
Colbaugh and Kristin Glass.  "It would obviously be very useful to have the
capability to distinguish these two types of reaction as early in the event
lifecycle as possible."

What accounts for the difference in these outcomes? The intrinsic
qualities of the events are not sufficient to explain why one had
disruptive consequences and the other did not. Rather, the authors say, one
must factor in the mechanisms of influence by which individual responses
are shaped and spread.

By way of analogy, it has been shown that "it is likely to be impossible
to predict movie revenues, even very roughly, based on the intrinsic
information available concerning the movie" such as cast or genre, but that
"it *is* possible to identify early indicators of movie success, such as
temporal patterns in pre-release 'buzz', and to use these indicators to
accurately predict ultimate box office revenues."

The Sandia authors developed a methodology that reflects the "topological
properties" of social and information networks -- including the density and
hierarchy of connections among network members -- and modeled the dynamics
of "social diffusion events" in which individuals exercise influence on one
another.

They report that their model lends itself, among other things, to
"distinguishing successful mobilization and protest events, that is,
mobilizations that become large and self-sustaining, from unsuccessful ones
early in their lifecycle."

They tested the model to predict the spread of textual memes, to
distinguish between events that generated significant protest (a May 2005
Quran desecration) and those that did not (the knighting of Salman Rushdie
in 2007), and to provide early warning of cyber attacks.

The authors' research was sponsored by the Department of Defense and the
Department of Homeland Security, among others.  See "Early warning analysis
for social diffusion events" by Richard Colbaugh and Kristin Glass,
originally published in Security Informatics, Vol. 1, 2012, SAND
2010-5334C.

	http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/diffusion.pdf


STRATEGY LACKING FOR DISPOSAL OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS COMPONENTS

There is a "large inventory" of classified nuclear weapons components
"scattered across" the nation's nuclear weapons complex and awaiting
disposal, according to an internal Department of Energy contractor report
last year.

But "there is no complex-wide cost-effective classified weapon disposition
strategy." And as a result, "Only a small portion of the inventory has been
dispositioned and it has not always been in a cost-effective manner."

See "Acceptance of Classified Excess Components for Disposal at Area 5,"
presented at the Spring 2012 Waste Generator Workshop, April 24, 2012.

	http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/excess.pdf


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From eugen at leitl.org  Thu Jan 17 02:15:24 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 11:15:24 +0100
Subject: [p2p-hackers] ANN: Tahoe-LAFS 1.9 Released!
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From eugen at leitl.org  Thu Jan 17 02:16:05 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 11:16:05 +0100
Subject: [p2p-hackers] Distributed identity, chat, publishing, and 
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From eugen at leitl.org  Thu Jan 17 06:10:01 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:10:01 +0100
Subject: GPS attack vector
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From mohandeepa at gmail.com  Thu Jan 17 15:48:25 2013
From: mohandeepa at gmail.com (Deepa Mohan)
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 05:18:25 +0530
Subject: [silk] Security theatre, once again...
Message-ID: <mailman.4139.1576008247.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/11/the-things-he-carried/307057/


If I were a terrorist, and Ibm not, but if I were a terroristba
frosty, tough-like-Chuck-Norris terrorist, say a C-title jihadist with
Hezbollah or, more likely, a donkey-work operative with the Judean
Peoplebs FrontbI would not do what I did in the bathroom of the
MinneapolisbSt. Paul International Airport, which was to place myself
in front of a sink in open view of the male American flying public and
ostentatiously rip up a sheaf of counterfeit boarding passes that had
been created for me by a frenetic and acerbic security expert named
Bruce SchneiB-er. He had made these boarding passes in his
sophisticated underground forgery works, which consists of a Sony Vaio
laptop and an HP LaserJet printer, in order to prove that the
Transportation Security Administration, which is meant to protect
American aviation from al-Qaeda, represents an egregious waste of tax
dollars, dollars that could otherwise be used to catch terrorists
before they arrive at the MinneapolisbSt. Paul International Airport,
by which time it is, generally speaking, too late.

I could have ripped up these counterfeit boarding passes in the
privacy of a toilet stall, but I chose not to, partly because this was
the renowned Senator Larry Craig Memorial Wide-Stance Bathroom, and
since the commencement of the Global War on Terror this particular
bathroom has been patrolled by security officials trying to protect it
from gay sex, and partly because I wanted to see whether my fellow
passengers would report me to the TSA for acting suspiciously in a
public bathroom. No one did, thus thwarting, yet again, my plans to
get arrested, or at least be the recipient of a thorough sweating by
the FBI, for dubious behavior in a large American airport. Suspicious
that the measures put in place after the attacks of September 11 to
prevent further such attacks are almost entirely for showbsecurity
theater is the term of artbI have for some time now been testing, in
modest ways, their effectiveness. Because the TSAbs security regimen
seems to be mainly thing-basedbmost of its 44,500 airport officers are
assigned to truffle through carry-on bags for things like guns, bombs,
three-ounce tubes of anthrax, Crest toothpaste, nail clippers,
Snapple, and so onbI focused my efforts on bringing bad things through
security in many different airports, primarily my home airport,
Washingtonbs Reagan National, the one situated approximately 17 feet
from the Pentagon, but also in Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Chicago,
and at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport (which is where
I came closest to arousing at least a modest level of suspicion,
receiving a symbolic pat-downball frisks that avoid the sensitive
regions are by definition symbolicband one question about the presence
of a Leatherman Multi-Tool in my pocket; said Leatherman was
confiscated and is now, I hope, living with the loving family of a TSA
employee). And because I have a fair amount of experience reporting on
terrorists, and because terrorist groups produce large quantities of
branded knickknacks, Ibve amassed an inspiring collection of al-Qaeda
T-shirts, Islamic Jihad flags, Hezbollah videotapes, and inflatable
Yasir Arafat dolls (really). All these things Ibve carried with me
through airports across the country. Ibve also carried, at various
times: pocketknives, matches from hotels in Beirut and Peshawar, dust
masks, lengths of rope, cigarette lighters, nail clippers, eight-ounce
tubes of toothpaste (in my front pocket), bottles of Fiji Water (which
is foreign), and, of course, box cutters. I was selected for secondary
screening four timesbout of dozens of passages through security
checkpointsbduring this extended experiment. At one screening, I was
relieved of a pair of nail clippers; during another, a can of shaving
cream.

During one secondary inspection, at ObHare International Airport in
Chicago, I was wearing under my shirt a spectacular, only-in-America
device called a bBeerbelly,b a neoprene sling that holds a
polyurethane bladder and drinking tube. The Beerbelly, designed
originally to sneak alcoholbup to 80 ouncesbinto football games, can
quite obviously be used to sneak up to 80 ounces of liquid through
airport security. (The company that manufactures the Beerbelly also
makes something called a bWinerack,b a bra that holds up to 25 ounces
of booze and is recommended, according to the companybs Web site, for
PTA meetings.) My Beerbelly, which fit comfortably over my beer belly,
contained two cansb worth of Bud Light at the time of the inspection.
It went undetected. The eight-ounce bottle of water in my carry-on
bag, however, was seized by the federal government.

On another occasion, at LaGuardia, in New York, the
transportation-security officer in charge of my secondary screening
emptied my carry-on bag of nearly everything it contained, including a
yellow, three-foot-by-four-foot Hezbollah flag, purchased at a
Hezbollah gift shop in south Lebanon. The flag features, as its
charming main image, an upraised fist clutching an AK-47 automatic
rifle. Atop the rifle is a line of Arabic writing that reads Then
surely the party of God are they who will be triumphant. The officer
took the flag and spread it out on the inspection table. She finished
her inspection, gave me back my flag, and told me I could go. I said,
bThatbs a Hezbollah flag.b She said, bUh-huh.b Not bUh-huh, Ibve been
trained to recognize the symbols of anti-American terror groups, but
after careful inspection of your physical person, your behavior, and
your last name, Ibve come to the conclusion that you are not a Bekaa
Valleybtrained threat to the United States commercial aviation
system,b but bUh-huh, Ibm going on break, why are you talking to me?b


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From cadge01 at googlemail.com  Mon Jan 21 12:29:57 2013
From: cadge01 at googlemail.com (Fraser Cadger)
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:29:57 +0000
Subject: [serval-project-dev] Implementing a different routing protocol
Message-ID: <mailman.4141.1576008247.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

Hi everyone,


It's been a wee while since my last post, but I was quite busy over the
last couple of weeks and am only just turning my attention back to working
with Serval.


 Ok, so I've had a think about how best to implement location update
message (which I'll refer to as beacons), without modifying the existing
message structures. My initial thought was to create a struct called beacon
(or similar) which would contain all of the fields (initially our address,
and the longitude and latitude coordinates + the timestamp of when the
coordinates were recorded) and when we were sending a beacon we would
create an instance of this struct. The downside I thought would be that the
beacon struct would have to be embedded in another packet as a payload, and
so this would mean modifying existing messages (not good) or creating a new
message and adding the struct as a payload which seems wasteful. So at this
point I can't see any advantages in using the struct (except possibly as a
template).


 Instead I thought an approach similar to the node announcements could be
used. A function called overlay_add_beacon() (for instance) could be called
from overlay_init_packet(). The purpose of this would be to create the
beacon message, it would be similar in form to
overlay_route_add_advertisement(). So it would call call
overlay_frame_build_header() to create the frame and then it would need to
place the coordinates in the packet. I think the best way to do this would
be to use a similar method to add_advertisement() which uses
ob_append_byte() to add the best link score and observations to the packet,
and before that overlay_address_append to add the address of the node we
are advertising. However, if we are sending beacons for ourself then we do
not need to append a subscriber address as the packet is obviously about
us. Similarly, add_advertisement() is accessed by calling the callback
function enum_subscribers() which is used to find the next (unadvertised)
subscriber in the tree and the use of enum_subscribers() is obviously not
necessary for sending messages about ourselves.


 Therefore, I was thinking that two types of beacons would be better; i.e.
self_beacon and subscriber_beacon. self_beacon would be similar to a self
announce message while subscriber_beacon would be similar to a node
announcement. This would entail slight differences in how they were sent.
self_beacon could have a method called overlay_add_self_beacon() which
function similarly to overlay_add_selfannouncement() except instead of
calling ob_append_ui32() to add timestamps it would call ob_append_byte()
twice as described above, to add the two coordinates and timestamp (or
would it make more sense to use ob_append_ui32 for this timestamp?) .
However it would not call overlay_address_append. On the other hand,
subscriber_beacon would have a method called (for instance)
add_subscriber_beacon() that would function identically to
overlay_route_add_advertisement(), and would call enum_subscribers() as a
callback to a function called add_beacon() which would be similar to
add_advertisement() except that it would call ob_append_byte to add
coordinates (instead of score and observation), then append the timestamp
but would still use overlay_append_byte() to add the address.


 Both overlay_add_self_beacon() and add_subscriber_beacon() would be called
from overlay_init_packet() inside overlay_queue.c; with
overlay_add_self_beacon() being called after overlay_add_selfannouncement()
and add_subscriber_beacon() being called after
overlay_route_add_advertisements() is called. Hopefully I'm right in
thinking that doing this will mean that the self_beacon messages will go
along with the self_announcement messages and the subscriber_beacon
messages will be along with the corresponding node_advertisement messages
for the same subscriber in the one real packet. Even if they are
'separated' (i.e. we receive a subscriber_beacon without a
node_advertisement for the same subscriber) I could probably still handle
it (i.e. search for that subscriber).


 Other than the above, I think the only other step needed for using the
self_beacon and subscriber_beacon messages would be to add them to
constants.h. Actually, I'm wondering what numbers to use, I noticed 0x10 to
0x70 are taken by existing messages. Should I just use the next numbers up
(0x80 and 0x90), or are there any plans by the Serval team to use those?
I'm assuming these numbers are hex numbers, and as type is an integer
number constants.h maps the message type i.e. OF_TYPE_SELF_ANNOUNCE to its
corresponding hex number?


 There might have been a couple of things I've misunderstood in the above,
but I think the general approach I described should allow for me to add the
beacon messages without causing any conflicts with devices running
different versions or their own routing. Hopefully doing it the way I
described above would mean that such devices would just ignore my beacon
messages as they wouldn't recognise the codes for them and there would be
no complications.


 I intend to start the coding soon, but I'm just thought I'd check to see
if my assumptions are correct and if other people think the way of doing
this makes sense before I jump in. I've not mentioned anything about
dealing with the beacons once they've been received, as I've mainly been
focussing on sending them first. However, I imagine this would involve
updating either the subscriber or node entity for that device to change
location. I'll look into this in more detail while I'm working on sending
the beacons.


 Thanks,


 Fraser

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From eugen at leitl.org  Mon Jan 21 13:28:06 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 22:28:06 +0100
Subject: [serval-project-dev] Implementing a different routing
  protocol
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From companys at stanford.edu  Tue Jan 22 10:27:42 2013
From: companys at stanford.edu (Yosem Companys)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:27:42 -0800
Subject: [liberationtech] Why Al-Qaida Hates the Internet: Trust Problems on
	Jihadi Discussion Forums
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Why Al-Qaida Hates the Internet: Trust Problems on Jihadi Discussion
Forums
*CISAC Social Science Seminar*

DATE AND TIME
January 24, 2013
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

AVAILABILITY
Open to the public
No RSVP required


SPEAKER
Thomas Hegghammer <http://fsi.stanford.edu/people/thomas_hegghammer/> -
Zukerman Fellow at CISAC

 The trust problem limits what rebels can do online. The scarcity of
non-verbal cues in digital communication facilitates deceptive mimicry,
which undermines the interpersonal trust required for sensitive
transactions. Open-source data from jihadi discussion forums show that
distrust there is very high and direct recruitment rare. General trust also
declined during the observation period (2006-2011). As of 2012, forums are
still in use, but primarily for low-stake activities such as
propaganda-sharing and ideological debate. Confidence in the authenticity
of propaganda remains relatively high, due to vetting institutions and
hard-to-fake video formats. A modicum of interpersonal trust also remains,
thanks to reputation systems and a few relatively reliable signs of
trustworthiness involving time expenditure. The trust problem is an
Achillesb heel for terrorists online b but probably also for pro-democracy
activists in authoritarian settings.

LOCATION
CISAC Conference Room
Encina Hall Central, 2nd floor
616 Serra St.
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305

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From romana at servalproject.org  Mon Jan 21 21:57:49 2013
From: romana at servalproject.org (Romana Challans)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:27:49 +1030
Subject: [serval-project-dev] Announcing Serval 09.0RC1 - Shiny!
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After several months of exciting development, we are proud to announce the developer release candidate for wider testing of the Serval Mesh 0.90RC1, aka Shiny. It is called Shiny due to the significant and exciting changes we have made.

What we need from you now is people to download, install and test. We need you to really use it, and let us know what you think, good or bad. We want to know about all the bugs and issues, but we also want to know what you like about it. If you donbt discover any show stopping bugs, we hope to release this version into Google Play by the 25th January.

Download links and other resources at:
http://www.servalproject.org/archives/1021

Thank you all for staying on this journey with us!
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From frank at journalistsecurity.net  Tue Jan 22 15:38:54 2013
From: frank at journalistsecurity.net (frank at journalistsecurity.net)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:38:54 -0700
Subject: [liberationtech] Bloomberg: Spies Fail to Escape Spyware...
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Spies Fail to Escape Spyware in $5 Billion Bazaar for Cyber Arms -
Bloomberg
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-22/spies-fail-to-escape-spyware-in-5-billion-bazaar-for-cyber-arms.html

The intelligence operative sits in a leather club chair, laptop open,
one floor below the Hilton Kuala Lumpurbs convention rooms, scanning
the airwaves for spies.

In the salons above him, merchants of electronic interception
demonstrate their gear to government agents who have descended on the
Malaysian capital in early December for the Wiretapperbs Ball, as this
surveillance industry trade show is called.

As he tries to detect hacker threats lurking in the wireless networks,
the man who helps manage a Southeast Asian countrybs Internet security
says therebs reason for paranoia. The wares on offer include products
that secretly access your Web cam, turn your cell phone into a
location-tracking device, recognize your voice, mine your e-mail for
anti-government sentiment and listen to supposedly secure Skype calls.

He isnbt alone watching his back at this cyber-arms bazaar, whose real
name is ISS World.

For three days, attendees digging into dim sum fret about losing trade
secrets to hackers, or falling prey to phone interception by rival
spies. They also get a tiny taste of what theybve unleashed on the
outside world, where their products have become weapons in the hands of
regimes that use the gear to track and torture dissidents.

bIbm concerned about my calls or Internet being monitored, because
thatbs what they sell,b says Meling Mudin, 35, a Kuala Lumpur-based
information-technology security consultant who takes defensive measures
as he roams the exhibits. bWhen I make phone calls, I step out of the
hotel, I donbt use my computer and I also donbt use the wireless
services provided.b

bWe Meet Againb

ISS, which convenes every few months in cities from Dubai to Brasilia,
is the hub of the surveillance trade. In recent years, countries such as
Syria, Iran and Tunisia bulked up their monitoring by turning to some of
ISSbs corporate sponsors, such as Italybs Area SpA and Germanybs
Utimaco Safeware AG (USA) and Trovicor GmbH, a Bloomberg News
investigation showed.

Business is booming, with annual revenue of $3 billion to $5 billion
growing as much as 20 percent a year, ISS organizer Jerry Lucas
estimates.

Lucas, 68, an American with a PhD in physics, is perfectly cast for the
part of spyware convention mastermind. With sweeping eyebrows and a bare
pate that make him a look-alike of Democratic strategist James Carville,
he greets an uninvited journalist at his Prague event in June with,
bWebve been expecting you.b

On the second encounter, in Kuala Lumpur this month, he descends an
escalator from the convention floor and intones: bWe meet again.b

Warning Attendees

Lucas, whose conference company TeleStrategies, Inc., is based in
McLean, Virginia, makes the point that his marketplace serves police who
conduct criminal investigations and intelligence services that prevent
terror attacks. Virtually every communications network in the world
includes wiretapping for prosecutors, or location tracking to rescue
people in emergencies. And customers at ISS also include phone company
executives.

Still, Lucas describes Spy vs. Spy intrigue that emerges when he
convenes ISS (short for Intelligence Support Systems). The potential for
hacking has led him to warn attendees to comply with the law of host
countries.

bWe tell them, bDo not bring in radio equipment that is not allowed
by the government,bb says Lucas, who started ISS nine years ago.

Some gear can intercept mobile-phone or Internet transmissions,
impersonating legitimate networks by sitting in the middle of the data
flow.

bThese guys can be your base station,b Lucas says.

bHide Your Laptopb

Attendees routinely guard against hacking, says Nikhil Gyamlani, a
Munich-based developer of monitoring systems who has attended several
ISS events. He says being in close contact with competitors versed in
the dark arts gives them a chance to secretly copy documents saved on
hard drives or sent via e-mail. He advises preventive measures.

bAbsolutely no use of wireless networks, and hide your laptop in a
safe,b says Gyamlani, 34, the founder of a new surveillance company,
GlassCube. bThe fear is very justified.b

Some who havenbt taken such precautions have learned to be more
careful.

At ISS in Prague this year, an employee of an African telecommunications
regulator was cruising Facebook on his Archos (JXR) tablet computer when
he found his every click being projected on a screen at the front of the
room, he recalled afterwards in the lobby. Hebd been using the
hotelbs wireless Internet.

Watching The Detectives

While ISS is closed to journalists, a Bloomberg News reporter dropped in
on two 2011 installments, walking hotel corridors, sitting in bars and
haunting lounges.

In Prague, at a hotel connected to a shopping mall food court, potential
buyers included Thailandbs Department of Special Investigation and the
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. In the lobby, contingents from
Greece and Turkey sat on opposite sides of the room.

Many conventioneers carried black canvas tote bags from Utimaco, whose
systems were used in a Syrian surveillance project that was exposed this
year by Bloomberg News and shut down before it could become operational.

Approaches by a journalist at ISS only triggered more paranoia among
some executives. At a fourth-floor conference room rented by Trovicor in
Prague, an employee, Jesper Mathiesen, not only declined to talk, but
declined to trust the reporterbs business card as reliable
identification.

Rock Star

bAnyone can print a business card,b he said, as another employee led
a delegation from Serbia into the room.

In the Prague hotelbs elevators, an employee of Andover, U.K.-based
Gamma International rode up and down, escorting government delegations
to back-to-back, appointment-only demonstrations of Gammabs FinFisher
intrusion system, conducted in darkened rooms.

Once secretly planted on a targetbs computer, FinFisher allows remote
control of the device. The tool became widely known early this year when
a copy of a FinFisher proposal turned up in Egypt after the February
revolution and was posted online.

The notoriety helped make the German hacker-turned- executive behind
FinFisher a rock star of the ISS circuit.

Listed in the conference agendas only by his initials, MJM, he is Martin
J. Muench, 30, the managing director of Gammabs German unit. One of
his talks in Kuala Lumpur is titled, bOffensive IT Intelligence
Information-Gathering Portfolio bAn Operational Overview.b

Saudi Arabia, India

At this gathering of real-life James Bonds, Muench most resembles 007
himself, as played by Sean Connery: just over six feet tall, in a trim
black suit and skinny black tie.

Spotted at ISS this month, Muench declines to comment, while lighting a
cigarette.

For the Malaysia event, which has 871 invited attendees from 56
countries, the Hilton lobby hosts a parade of ISSbs various tribes and
their telltale markings. Buyers from Saudi Arabiabs interior ministry,
Indiabs cabinet secretariat and the 5-month-old state of South Sudan
brandish yellow nametags that peg them as government officials. Vendors
are identified by red tags.

Employees of Munich-based Trovicor are easy to pick out: each is dressed
identically, in a dark suit and a red necktie, which is custom made,
marketing director Birgitt Fischer-Harrow says.

Barring Syria

bIt is a Trovicor corporate identity. The company colors are black,
white and Pantone 202c red,b she says, referring to the precise shade
of burgundy.

Trovicor is a former intelligence unit of Siemens AG and Nokia Siemens
Networks. The chain of companies supplied and maintained eavesdropping
systems for Syria, Bahrain, Tunisia and other countries that have
battled rebellions this year, a Bloomberg News investigation showed.
Fischer-Harrow says the company canbt comment on contracts or clients.

Lucas says hebs barred Syrian or Iranian government representatives
from ISS.

Still, that hasnbt stopped surveillance gear from reaching those
countries, and the controversy has attracted crashers to ISS seeking to
expose how the technology can be abused by repressive regimes.

In an empty hotel restaurant after lunch, Eric King, the human rights
and technology adviser at London-based Privacy International, is poring
over conference presentations hebs obtained and tallying a growing
list of suspicious technological glitches. When he tries to send an
e-mail from his Apple Inc. laptop, he gets a message that his encryption
wonbt work.

Seeking Hackers

His paranoia builds as he also realizes that more secure 3G networks,
used for phones and wireless Internet, are unavailable in the hotel.
King, 22, jetlagged and wearing a wrinkled, blue button-down shirt, has
a hypothesis: Someone has blocked the 3G to force everyone to use
methods that would be easier to intercept.

He consults the ISS program and finds a possible culprit, bLive
Demonstration of Tactical GSM Interrogation and Geo- Location System.b

bWebve got to get us some hackers,b he says, eager to untangle
what may be a nest of surveillance.

A few hours later, King heads to Kuala Lumpurbs art deco Central
Market to meet a Privacy International volunteer. Over a noodle dinner,
she puts him in touch with a hacker who agrees to meet up the next day.

Recruiting Spies

Back at the hotel, the night is young and the paranoia is deep.

Unlike typical trade shows, this one has no social events. No
corporate-sponsored cocktail parties. No hospitality suites. Clients and
suppliers donbt want to be seen with each other in public, and some
countries bar their agents from mingling at the event because itbs a
recruiting ground for spies seeking sources, organizer Lucas says.

In some delegations, bTheybll send four or five people and have one
here just to watch the rest,b he says.

At the Hiltonbs wine bar, Vintage Bank, three men from Milan-based
HackingTeam are talking among themselves, drinking from brandy snifters.

Because HackingTeam sells programs that can spy on a computerbs
contents and activities, maybe they know something about the 3G
blackout. All three say that they, too, have noticed, and also suggest
an interception effort may be afoot.

In the morning, Kingbs hacker arrives at the Hilton lobby, toting a
backpack filled with wireless Internet gear and wearing a black T-shirt.

Intelligence Operative

They set up shop on a coffee table. After an hour of performing many of
the same tests the intelligence operative had done at the start of the
convention, the network activity comes up clean.

The hacker suggests the 3G problem might just be a spotty phone system.
Later, ISS organizer Lucas says any drop in service may have been caused
by heavy usage by convention-goers.

Upstairs, the operative is back in the leather club chair, this time
using an iPad. Asked if this isnbt risky, he says itbs just for
browsing websites, not e-mail or anything involving passwords. And
hebs got no files saved to it.

Does he have e-mail access?

He holds up a BlackBerry, and says hebs running nothing sensitive
through it. Then he does a double-take. The screen saver is a photo of
him and his wife.

The bad guys could do face recognition, he says, looking at the picture.
Kicking himself for the lapse, he walks off, the paranoia having got the
best of him.

b Editors: Marcia Myers, Melissa Pozsgay

To contact the reporter on this story: Vernon Silver in Rome at
vtsilver at bloomberg.net;

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Melissa Pozsgay at
mpozsgay at bloomberg.net

Enlarge image  
Conference organizer Jerry Lucas (back to camera) attends the ISS World
trade show at the Hilton in Kuala Lumpur. Source: Bloomberg

Enlarge image  
A convention floor display being dismantled is shown at the ISS World
trade show at the Hilton in Kuala Lumpur. Source: Bloomberg

Enlarge image  
A conference participant holds name tag during the ISS World trade show
at the Hilton in Kuala Lumpur. Source: Bloomberg

Enlarge image  
A convention floor display being dismantled is shown during the ISS
World trade show at the Hilton in Kuala Lumpur. Source: Bloomberg

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Eric King, a human rights and technology adviser at London-based Privacy
International, has a meal at Kuala Lumpurbs Central Market to recruit
a hacker to test for surveillance at the ISS World trade show. Source:
Bloomberg


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From gary.belvin at gmail.com  Tue Jan 22 17:36:15 2013
From: gary.belvin at gmail.com (Urbanus Z)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:36:15 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [HacDC:Byzantium] USAID Tech Challenge
Message-ID: <mailman.4146.1576008247.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

Greetings,

It's been a while since I've checked back in with HacDc, and I'm impressed 
with the progress Byzantium has made. 

There's a tech challenge <http://thetechchallenge.org/#!inflow> from 
www.humanityunited.org. and USAID opening in Feburary that a few of you 
might be interested in. Here's the problem description.:

During acute crises, vulnerable populations are often *cut off from 
> critical information* and *have limited, if any, ability to communicate*inside or outside of their communities. While there are a number of 
> existing efforts aimed at *improving information flow* in these contexts, 
> many focus on the *outflow of information* from communities or rely too 
> heavily on *existing communications infrastructure* or *basic literacy*.
>

Which basically sounds close enough to Byzantium to be worth applying for. 
Let me know if anyone has interest. 

Some side questions for the tech folks: 
    Does Byzantium work across non WiFi IP stacks?  Would it be reasonable 
to attach it to Packet Radio over HAM radio?


Sincerely,
Urbanus

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From noloader at gmail.com  Tue Jan 22 16:54:15 2013
From: noloader at gmail.com (Jeffrey Walton)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 19:54:15 -0500
Subject: [cryptography] Is this a feature?
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"Opera will autorepair damage to the certificate repository, a missing
Certificate Authority is considered damage. Opera ships with a list of
frequently used certificates, and if any of these are missing they
will be added the next time the repository is read from disk. Other
certificates will be added from the online repository as needed."

- http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=1580452
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From awd-s at cloistral.net  Tue Jan 22 18:39:12 2013
From: awd-s at cloistral.net (Andrew Donovan-Shead)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:39:12 -0600
Subject: [HacDC:Byzantium] USAID Tech Challenge
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Packet Radio via HAM radio should work. To my mind it would be another
gateway in and out of the Byzantium mesh. It would be a wonderful range
extender. At a quick glance, it shouldn't require more than connecting
the computer wired Ethernet or USB link or whatever to the Packet Radio
bridge. Byzantium should see it as an open connection to the Internet
and connect the mesh automatically.

Any number of narrow-area Byzantium meshes could be interconnected over
a wide area by Packet Radio. Bandwidth should increase proportional to
the number of HAMs providing Packet Radio connections, limited by the
number of RF channels available.

I could look into your idea and put together a system block diagram
illustrating the concept, if you're interested.

On 01/22/2013 07:36 PM, Urbanus Z wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> It's been a while since I've checked back in with HacDc, and I'm
> impressed with the progress Byzantium has made.
>
> There's a tech challenge <http://thetechchallenge.org/#%21inflow> from
> www.humanityunited.org <http://www.humanityunited.org>. and USAID
> opening in Feburary that a few of you might be interested in. Here's
> the problem description.:
>
>     During acute crises, vulnerable populations are often *cut off
>     from critical information* and *have limited, if any, ability to
>     communicate* inside or outside of their communities. While there
>     are a number of existing efforts aimed at *improving information
>     flow* in these contexts, many focus on the *outflow of
>     information* from communities or rely too heavily on *existing
>     communications infrastructure* or *basic literacy*.
>
>
> Which basically sounds close enough to Byzantium to be worth applying
> for. Let me know if anyone has interest.
>
> Some side questions for the tech folks:
>     Does Byzantium work across non WiFi IP stacks?  Would it be
> reasonable to attach it to Packet Radio over HAM radio?
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Urbanus
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From eugen at leitl.org  Tue Jan 22 11:59:23 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:59:23 +0100
Subject: [DIYbio] DIYbio.org survey, win a free iPad/OpenPRC
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From lcushing at igc.org  Tue Jan 22 21:04:03 2013
From: lcushing at igc.org (Lincoln Cushing)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:04:03 -0800
Subject: <nettime> Response to "Academe Is Complicit" essay
Message-ID: <mailman.4149.1576008247.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

Nettime colleagues:

I was forwarded Timothy Burke's provocative piece through the
Progressive Librarians Guild (I've been a member for over ten years).
I'm replying with an adaptation of something I wrote following
another essay examining Aaron Swartz's death. While Mr. Swartz's
death was tragic, his persecution by the US Attorney General's office
heavyhanded, and many of the information liberation positions he
espoused noble, I was struck by the criticism in Burke's essay leveled
at JSTOR.

JSTOR has become a veritable punching bag of the "Free Culture
Movement." Noted professor Larry Lessig takes a whack at them in
his video lecture appropriately titled "What's wrong with JSTOR":
<http://www.uomatters.com/2011/07/larry-lessig-on-whats-wrong-with-jst
or.html>

In it, he bushwhacks a scholar for explaining her empty office
bookshelves by saying that "Everything I needed is on the Internet
now." Lessig's meanspirited point was that from the academic's
perspective - namely working at an institution with well-endowed
electronic journal site licenses - she was both privileged and
correct. Alas, for the rest of us poor slobs in the real world her
statement isn't true. Evil content aggregators like JSTOR have gobbled
up all the good stuff.

But wait - Lessig's argument only works within the narrow definition
of online access.

I'm certainly no fan of JSTOR. I, like all of you, have stumbled
across tasty citations to works on Google, only to be zapped with the
unwelcome news that I'd have to pay to see it. But JSTOR does provide
a service. Their arrangements are not exclusive. You want to go to
your local university library and scan an article from 1975? Go ahead,
the free JSTOR citation tells you exactly what to look for. Sure, the
original research may well have been paid for by public funds, but
that does not mean that somehow it should magically appear for free on
the Web. There are real costs to doing this work, and unless The State
is willing to do it (and I would argue they should), corporations will
step in. Public domain does not mean free access, just the potential
for it.

I'm sure there are other aspects of JSTOR that are problematic
(apparently their executives each made over $250,000 in 2009, but
I'm not paying their salary). I am hopeful that examinations of the
circumstances surrounding the Swartz tragedy can lead to discussing
and developing a clearer analysis of the real problems facing our
field. For example, I see the insidious expansion of photo aggregators
like Corbis and Getty One being much more dangerous than JSTOR. Those
folks are truly buying up our culture, and it scares me. Burke raises
the complicity of academe in the privatization of knowledge. I ask -
what have any of us actually done to make information available to the
public?

Much of my own work as an activist archivist involves digitization
of analog content and sharing it with the world. I shoot posters,
which is not easy, and I've built and paid for a custom studio for
doing that. I've helped mount thousands of social justice poster
images on the Web. But I don't post high-resolution images. I, and
the institutions I work with, feel that those images deserve some
protection from corporate appropriation without compensation. Thanks
you, Creative Commons. By withholding free access to the ultimate
goody, the 60 megabyte image file, am I a traitor to the "Free Culture
Movement"? I certainly hope not.

Yours for democratic knowledge,

Lincoln Cushing
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From rtomek at ceti.pl  Tue Jan 22 12:22:41 2013
From: rtomek at ceti.pl (Tomasz Rola)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:22:41 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [tt] (VINT Labs) How a smart meter knows what I'm watching
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How a smart meter knows what I'm watching

   Posted on [32]January 15, 2013 by [33]Menno van Doorn

   Last   year   Researchers   of  from  M|nster  University  of  Applied
   Sciences demonstrated  that  consumers  can be identified via the data
   collected by  a  smart meter, from the types and amount of devices, TV
   shows  being watched  and  scan  for  copyright-protected (or pirated)
   movies.  If  you want  to  see  how  they  predict  what movie you are
   watching, based on
   data  form  your  smart  meter,  start  at   approx 14:40 minutes. The
   video is called "Smart Hacking For Privacy"

   IFRAME: [34]http://www.youtube.com/embed/YYe4SwQn2GE

   The  brightness  of  the  backlight  influences  the  energy  use  and
   is refelcted  in  the  data  that go to the smart meter. The fact that
   smart meters  collect  data every two seconds makes it possible to get
   very accurate  graphs.  That's how they are able to recognize patterns
   in
   energy use and compare with patterns in a movie database.

   What's    your    opinion?    Should    we    keep    these    Privacy
   Intrusive Technologies out of our homes? Or should we fix the problems
   with Privacy  Enhancing  Technologies? Here's what I think. Fix it: we
   need a smarter grid.

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From eugen at leitl.org  Tue Jan 22 12:54:00 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:54:00 +0100
Subject: [liberationtech] Why Al-Qaida Hates the Internet: Trust
  Problems 	on Jihadi Discussion Forums
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From eugen at leitl.org  Tue Jan 22 13:01:57 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:01:57 +0100
Subject: [tt] (VINT Labs) How a smart meter knows what I'm watching
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From suchfun at vmail.me  Tue Jan 22 14:10:28 2013
From: suchfun at vmail.me (suchfun at vmail.me)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:10:28 +0000
Subject: [tor-talk] Got a torrent/link for the leaked Bluecoat ProxySG Virtual Appliance?
Message-ID: <mailman.4151.1576008247.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

Hi,

some time ago the Bluecoat ProxySG Virtual Appliance was leaked and you  
could get it through most popular torrent trackers. Unfortunately,  
nowadays I can't find a single torrent with peers that serve the whole  
download. The best I could find will give me the thing till 50%.

Does anyone have a torrent that works? Or can someone that has downloaded 
the whole thing start seeding again?

Thanks.

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From eugen at leitl.org  Tue Jan 22 23:51:30 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 08:51:30 +0100
Subject: [tor-talk] Got a torrent/link for the leaked Bluecoat ProxySG 
  Virtual Appliance?
Message-ID: <20130123075130.GW6172@leitl.org>

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From drwho at virtadpt.net  Wed Jan 23 07:36:03 2013
From: drwho at virtadpt.net (The Doctor)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:36:03 -0500
Subject: [DIYbio] DIYbio.org survey, win a free iPad/OpenPRC
In-Reply-To: <20130122195923.GJ6172@leitl.org>
References: <20130122195923.GJ6172@leitl.org>
Message-ID: <51000363.8050602@virtadpt.net>

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> ----- Forwarded message from Dan <dgrushkin at gmail.com> ----- 
> policymakers a more accurate portrait of the community.  As a perk,
> those who complete the survey will be in entered into a drawing for
> your choice of an OpenPCR or iPAD 2.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Does this raise anyone else's hackles?

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From eugen at leitl.org  Wed Jan 23 04:55:27 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:55:27 +0100
Subject: <nettime> Response to "Academe Is Complicit" essay
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From eugen at leitl.org  Wed Jan 23 08:07:23 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:07:23 +0100
Subject: [DIYbio] DIYbio.org survey, win a free iPad/OpenPRC
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> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Does this raise anyone else's hackles?

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since we're semi-professionals, and don't do anything remotely
dangerous (though we can get an S1 license, if we want to).




From kanzure at gmail.com  Wed Jan 23 18:29:28 2013
From: kanzure at gmail.com (Bryan Bishop)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:29:28 -0600
Subject: Geurilla open access cookbook
Message-ID: <mailman.4152.1576008247.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

Open access guerilla cookbook

https://github.com/c0nt3nt/oagcookbook
https://github.com/c0nt3nt/oagcookbook/blob/master/oagcb.md

git clone git://github.com/c0nt3nt/oagcookbook.git

"""
The Open Access Guerilla Cookbook
===============================

Dedicated to Aaron Swartz (1986-2013)

Introduction
----------------
In 2008, a short and passionate appeal appeared online which called for all
of us to, "take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and
share them with the world. We need to take stuff that's out of copyright
and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on
the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file
sharing networks. We need to fight for Guerilla Open Access."

In January, 2013, its author Aaron Swartz took his own life. Among his many
achievements included an important initiative to liberate the PACER court
records database and leadership roles in several movements that support
free culture. In the last years of his life, he faced serious criminal
charges for following his own manifesto and launching one of the largest
content liberation efforts to date: the downloading of millions of articles
from the JSTOR database.

If the threat of decades of prison time for the JSTOR raid was designed to
strike fear into OA guerillas everywhere, the tragic death of this selfless
supporter of the movement should be met with a renewed commitment to our
ideals.  It also offers us an opportunity to up our game.

This document aims to take the manifesto to the next step. This first
version is merely an opening call, and it is in no way complete. Hopefully,
this cookbook will grow to include many recipes and instructional essays
for use by the open access guerilla. Improve on it, share it, and use it.

Principles
-------------

The guerilla open access movement is founded on the basic tenant that the
efforts to promote open access by operating exclusively within existing
copyright regimes and attempts to reform these copyright regimes through
legal reform do not go far enough to protect and expand the realm of free
culture. Working in parallel, but often in the face of criticism from those
promoting legal means to achieve open access, our guerilla movement accepts
the active violation of copyrights and contractual terms of use as
justified. We promote the mass liberation of content from commercial as
well as non-profit or governmental databases for the greater purpose of
sharing knowledge and culture with everyone.

We are closely allied with movements promoting government and corporate
transparency, but open access guerillas recognize that there is
responsibility in sharing information. When relevant, precautions should be
taken to defend the safety and privacy of individuals and communities in
appropriate ways.

We are pirates, but accept a moral imperative to loot more than we need for
our own purposes, and share widely everything we find. We categorically
reject descriptions of our acts as theft. We do not deprive humanity of
culture, we reproduce it. We do not rob owners of their property, but in
many cases violate their temporary and exclusive monopoly to profit by it
in an age when the reasonable limits first set upon this monopoly have been
long forgotten. We violate crippling terms of use on content in an age when
access to almost all information requires accepting contractual limitations
that few ever read. We re-release materials that are already in the public
domain but locked behind paywalls or targetted by copyfraud.

Looking forward, the strength of the guerilla open access movement depends
on combining efforts both secret and open, both collaborative and
individual. We must:

**Share skills and experiences as well as content**

Content liberation should not solely depend on a few individuals with
highly technical knowledge. We must work harder to share our skills and our
experiences widely. This should include efforts to better reach out to
those who are new but eager to learn the more challenging technical side of
our guerilla efforts. We should also work towards establishing standards in
the quality of our content collections, security practices to protect our
illegal efforts, and a code of ethics for operating with the content
sources we raid.

**Recognize a diversity of roles and a diversity of approaches**

We must abandon the image of the lone hacker as the symbol of our movement
and recognize that any successful guerilla movement depends on the work of
people filling many different roles. Some of these are described below.

We are radical in our means, dedicated to our ideals, and will be reviled
and ridiculed by many. Many with similar goals to our own reject us, but
they should still be considered as allies. Our movement exists within an
ecology of culture creation, curation, and consumption.  We must respect
everyone who plays a role in the interdependent whole, even as we oppose
the legal regime under which they operate. There are many artists, writers,
scholars, archivists, librarians, developers, and non-profit organizations
who strongly oppose us. They argue that their livelihoods are threatened by
our actions, while others secretely sympathize with us. Let us be mature
enough to admit that some of our targets produced their collections of
content with little funding, charge their access fees with no mind to
profit themselves, and host servers with a barebones maintenance staff.
When we liberate their content, or share with others, keep always in mind
the work that was put into creating and publishing it. Show as much respect
as is compatible with our goals and remember that we are nothing without
them.

**Collaborate to reduce risk and maximize scale**

We now live in the world of crowdsourcing. The power of a lone hacker armed
with a scraper and some knowledge of security is not to be underestimated,
but it comes at great risk of discovery and sacrifice. We must explore ways
to better combine our efforts. The RECAP effort for the PACER archive of
court documents is one model of how this approach works within the legal
realm, we can learn from it and others. We should develop the means to
conceal systematic content liberation in the invisible mass of everyday
consumption. Rather than grabbing whole archives and document databases at
once, we should take them in smaller pieces, with care to preserve their
metadata integrity, and plans in place to reassemble the whole when an
operation is complete.

**Segregate open from secret action**

Aaron Swartz combined strong public advocacy with secret guerilla action.
In his case, it was not key to his discovery, but it is likely to have
impacted the severity of the charges brought against him. In all guerilla
movements it is important to segregate open from secret action. It is
unwise to be an open voice for radical illegal action and also its agent.
If you begin engaging in dangerous OA guerilla action, temper your public
voice and avoid drawing attention to yourself, especially with regard to
the virtues of illegal content liberation.

**Protect the Public Domain First**

Almost none of us are against the principle of limited terms of copyright
as a way to promote the long term expansion of the public domain. The
passion that drives most us to these radical measures would not exist in a
world with copyright terms of ten or fifteen years. At this writing, there
are very few signs that legal reforms will move us back to these limits,
and on the contrary, in many places around the world the trend is in the
opposite direction.

More threatening, however, is the assault upon what is already in the
public domain. In acts of copyfraud, publishers and digital service
providers claim rights on content they do not own. They claim that new
rights are produced in their digitization and, increasingly, they are
moving away from copyright to contractual terms of use to limit our freedom
to use public domain materials obtained from their databases. The ever
increasing proportion of our cultural heritage bound by these contractual
restrictions will have direct consequences. The trend significantly drains
support for initiatives to create fully open and free databases of
materials that may already have been made available by more restrictive
ventures, whether they are commercial or non-profit.

For these reasons, our movement's priority should be on the liberation of
content in the public domain followed by those materials that, by any just
limited term of copyright, should have in the public domain decades ago.

Roles in the Movement
-----------------------------

There are many ways to further the goals of the guerilla open access
movement. Find one or several of the following roles that you feel
comfortable performing.

**The Advocate**

The advocate promotes the cause of open access. Many OA and copyright
reform advocates believe we rob their efforts of legitimacy by making it
easier for content industries to smear them with our sins. Others believe,
on principal, that OA must depend always on voluntary sharing. As one
leader in the legal OA movement puts it, "There is no vigilante OA, no
infringing, expropriating, or piratical OA." We disagree. We believe our
efforts usually compliment those of the leading proponents of free culture
and copyright reform. We do not accept that it is a zero sum game in which
the efforts of one destroys that of the other. However, if you wish to
focus on the role of a public advocate, it would be prudent to join them in
their open rejection of our methods and limit any other guerilla activities.

Another kind of advocate is less public: to promote guerilla OA as well as
legal OA among your friends, colleagues, and those who have the skills to
be of use to the movement. Of particular importance are efforts to convert
the casual pirate into the open access guerilla; from someone who copies
content only for their own consumption to someone who recognizes the value
of a more active and altruistic participation in the movement.

**The Prospector**

The role of Prospector is that of the scout for the movement. A Prospector
identifies databases or collections of interest to the movement and
collects information about its workings. What kind and how much content is
there? How is it organized? What metadata is provided? What is the URL
structure for the database? What is required for access and who provides
the service? And so on.

We need to design a good system for compiling and sharing information of
this nature among us, so that that the Armoror, the Sapper, or the Traitor
can do their work.

**The Scribe**

The Scribe is a unique role. Scholars and collectors of all kinds have
massive collections of material obtained by photographing, scanning, or
transcribing documents or assembling other digital assets. The resulting
digitized content often sits on their own hard drives and are used in only
one or a few publications or exhibits.

A Scribe in the movement is conscious of the importance of their videos,
images, sounds, and digital archive photos.  When reasonable, the Scribe
collects or takes photos that go beyond their own limited interest, or
transcribes or indexes materials that may be of interest to others. They
organize their information to the extent possible and make efforts to share
their files widely. Materials not protected by copyright are to made
public, directly posted online as public domain. When materials are
suspected of being protected by copyright, they are distributed through
other means or deposited with a Custodian. The Scribe is one of the roles
that must take particular note of the responsibilities that go along with
the safety and privacy of individuals and communities affected by the
contents of the materials they digitize.

To facilitate the full integration of the Scribe into the movement, we must
work towards better systems of making these collections easy to share, and
a standard for describing and organizing them.

**The Courier**

The Courier is usually someone who has received collections of materials
from another OA guerilla. They do not merely use the materials themselves,
but recognize their obligation to help further share and distribute the
materials widely.

While taking measures to protect themselves, the Courier makes efforts to
share the materials online through torrents or other private repositories
and servers, possibly coordinating these efforts with a Custodian. They
share copies of the collections on portable storage media throughout their
personal networks.

Another form of Courier plays the role of communication mediater between
guerillas that should work to be kept in isolation from eachother, such as
between the Traitor and Prospector and the Armorer.

**The Innkeeper**

The role of the Innkeeper is to manage the safe houses of our movement. We
need safe and secure places to communicate with eachother anonymously.
Ideally, these places should be kept isolated from any servers operated by
the Custodian so that discovery of one does not compromise the other. The
Innkeeper may be willing to host the work produced by the Armorer, various
versions and updates of this cookbook, and other instructional materials.

An Innkeeper must be willing to maintain a communication network that will
likely come under attack from hired hackers, botnets, or directly by
principled opponents. They must have precautions in place to destroy
anything that might betray the identity of our members. They should have
plans to rapidly reproduce the network at a new location when taken down.
They must lead efforts to detect moles and informants within the network
and deny them access.

**The Armorer**

The Armorer is one of the most important roles in our movement. They
create, maintain, and supply our movement with the weapons we need to carry
out our raids. They write and update the scrapers to liberate content. They
create the processing scripts to organize our files, and they design the
protective measures that conceal our efforts.

In the past, the open access guerilla has often been an Armorer, a Traitor,
and Custodian all in one. One huge disadvantage to this is that the Armorer
who is also the Traitor cannot easily share their tools without potentially
coming under scrutiny for launching raids themselves. If discovered, as
Custodian, their liberated materials are potentially surrendered and lost.

We must work together. If an armorer works together with Prospectors to
identify targets and design scrapers, but maintains some distance from (or
at least communicates anonymously with) the Traitors who will deploy them,
we will stand a better chance of a successful operation. The Armorer may
choose to work openly, if they protect connections to others in the
movement. Writing a scraper is not necessarily a crime, but it is strongly
suggested that efforts are made to limit distribution to a trusted network,
at least until an operation is complete. This will delay any
countermeasures by content distributors. More broadly, however, Armorers
should be willing to share, through work such as adding recipes to this
document, tutorials on general approaches to scraping databases and
archives.

**The Sapper**

The Sapper is a special kind of Armorer. The Armorer serves primarily the
Traitor, who will deploy scrapers from within a paywall or behind
restrictive terms of service. The Sapper explores ways to infiltrate the
security of archives and databases and enable outsiders direct access. They
may hack servers directly in order to enable a full and immediate grab of
the databases within. They may create access tunnels for a more cautious
silent raid from the outside. Or, in the most extreme case, they may bring
about a temporary destruction of security to allow large numbers of users
to storm the database in a mass action.

The role of Sapper requires the greatest amount of skill and assumes the
greatest amount of risk, both to the Sapper and the movement as a whole.
Sappers should carefully consider the consequences of their actions and the
impact on the ecology of content creation, curation, and consumption. A
Sapper's raid, depending on how it is carried out, can be a massive act of
sabotage, and has the greatest potential to generate anger and fear from
our opponents but also put pressure on our sympathizers. Use of it as a
tactic should be carefully considered, and great care taken in selecting
the target, the timing, and the approach.

**The Traitor**

The Traitor is at the heart of the content liberation effort. They have
legitimate and legal access to content targetted for liberation and release
what they take to the Custodians and Couriers. They often depend on their
special access to carry out their own daily tasks, and beyond legal
consequences, may sacrifice much if their actions are discovered and their
access revoked. Beyond this risk, the traitor often has conflicted
loyalties. They have received their access in trust, and by helping the
guerilla open access movement, they are inevitably betraying that trust.

The Traitor may know especially well the great efforts required to fund,
produce, curate, and host large collections of data. Even as they liberate
content, they may be concerned that their actions will contravene the
wishes and have some impact on people who may have only very reluctantly
accepted the restrictive copyrights and terms of use that have been forced
upon the product of their efforts by the institutions they serve. If you
work with a Traitor, be sensitive to these concerns, and respectful of what
may seem like arbitrary limitations they wish to place on the scale and
nature of their cooperation with the movement.

As the one opening the gate, the risky work of the Traitor should ideally
be carried out in total secrecy. They should communicate securely and
anonymously with other members of the movement, and limit their other
roles. They do not need the Armorer's technical skills if they can obtain
(indirectly, through a Courier, or directly and anonymously from a movement
resource) the necessary scrapers and other tools produced by the Armorers.
It is important, however, for them to become familiar with security
measures to protect their identity and conceal their liberation efforts.
They should also learn enough about the scrapers etc. that they use so that
they can run them on their own computers and adhere to the basic scraper
guidelines (below).

**The Custodian**

Traitors or Sappers who have liberated content should move as quickly as
possible to deposit this content with Custodians. The role of the Custodian
is first and foremost that of canonical preservation. They also play an
important role as the primary distributor of content to Couriers. They
should also keep themselves informed about the safest and most effective
means to widely distribute content on file sharing networks, secret
repositories, and by other means. When hosts have been raided; copies of
content have been taken down by legal authorities; or hosted copies
disappear through neglect (lack of seeders for torrents, etc.), it is the
job of Custodians to take measures to get the content to new sources.

Whenever possible the Custodian should check that the collections they
received to not bear traces of the origin, looking for signs of watermarked
PDFs, scraper files with revealing login information, or other signs that
would reveal the identity of the guerilla who liberated the content.

Custodians should take precautions against their own discovery, and arrange
for copies of materials in their care to be deposited in a safe place
should they be discovered. They should also ideally limit actions in other
roles of the movement to limit the risk of exposure.

**The Archivist**

The role of the Archivist is to preserve and improve the integrity of
liberated content. They identify missing or problematic metadata, they
process and organize files, and potentially provide conversions of
problematic formats that materials are found in. If independent operations
liberate parts of collections, the Archivist can help bring them together.
They create note documents to include in the distribution of liberated
content which describes the scope of the collection, identifies problems in
the material, provides information on the originating source, and suggests
ways to cite it. They collaborate with Prospectors to identify further work
that needs to be done on already raided collections, and with Custodians to
spread the best possible version of a collection.

Archivists with strong digital skills can also create the tools and
platforms, both local and hosted, that will allow users to conveniently
search and browse liberated content. A zip file full of PDFs or movie files
is an order of magnitute less useful than a collection which is well
indexed, annotated, and conveniently searchable.

**The Sculptor**

The Sculptor is someone who is willing to use and create something new with
liberated content. They analyze and study collections for use in their own
work. They produce new works of art and culture. They remash, reproduce,
and transform liberated content. They generate innovative ways for others
to manipulate and use content.

Ideally we should all be Sculptors. The value of the guerilla open access
movement comes from facilitating the Sculptors of today, tomorrow, and
every day that content would otherwise be locked away behind copyright and
restricted use.

Scraper Guidelines
------------------------------

Scrapers are scripts designed to selectively extract content from servers.
They are often written in scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, or Perl
that can be run from a variety of operating systems. They are one of the
most powerful tools of the guerilla open access movement.

When scrapers or other raiding tools are designed by the Armorer and
deployed by the Traitor, the two general principles of *respect* and
*concealment* should be followed. For this purpose keep these guidelines in
mind:

1. Minimize disruption to the host and their other users by
2. Limiting the scale and speed of a raid appropriately and
3. Employing methods to mask your raid as reasonable use of the target
resource

More specifically:

- Never attempt to grab an entire database in the space of hours or over a
very short time span relative to its total size
- Generally limit the practice of multiple simultaneous downloads from a
server.
- If a small number of simultaneous downloads are made, carry it out from
multiple network locations and ideally with multiple access credentials.
- Do not place others at risk by using their network access credentials
unless they understand the potential consequences and volunteer.
- Employ proxies, MAC spoofing, and other measures as needed to conceal
access locations when this is possible.
- Use random intervals between downloads to simulate human behavior
- Limit the operation of scrapers to certain hours to simulate human
behavior or bury activity in periods of large regular traffic
- Design scrapers to download materials randomly (while logging completed
downloads) rather than in sequence, or else a random groups of smaller
sequences consistent with human behavior

**Recipes**
-----------------

The remainder of this cookbook should be composed of recipes. These may
include instructions for the use of or the code for scrapers and other
tools that are appropriate for wider distribution. They may include
tutorials and descriptions of good practices for the various roles of the
movement. They may describe appropriate security measures. They may recount
past victories and failures of the movementbbut in a way that does not
compromise anyone's identity. They should ideally not include any direct
links to online resources, but may provide suggestions on how to use search
techniques to find them, as they may often move. Under each recipe, include
the date it was written, an optional author pseudonym, and if you
distribute an edited version of this document, update the timestamp and
version information at the bottom for the cookbook as a whole.

Securing Communication
--------------------------------
By yellowElephant

Security in communication between members of the movement is of great
importance. While legal authorities will want to investigate our actions,
perhaps of a greater threat is that publishers and content industries that
have significant resources will want to undercover who we are and can
easily outsource their work to hired hackers.

It is important to follow some basic guidelines that can be grouped as
follows:

1. Create barriers of separation between your regular activity and movement
activity
2. Mask your identity
3. Mask your location
4. Encrypt your information
5. Limited Circles of Trust

**Separate your Movement Activity**

The first principle is a general one that you should always keep in mind.
Whenever possible, create a separate sphere for all things concerned with
your activity in the movement. Some of these things are just common sense.
If you email about the movement, do so from a separate email account, not
your regular personal email account. If you tweet about the movement, then
unless you are only an Advocate who is not connected with illegal
operations of the movement, tweet from a separate account. If you write
about the movement on a website or other online service (again unless you
are only an Advocate) then do so from accounts set up for the purpose.

If you need to set up online service accounts that require email
verification use email addresses that come from an online email service
which does not require you to provide further means of identification. This
secures your anonymity as long as you mask your location.

When you are working on something related to the movement, even if you have
masked your location, avoid doing other things online that may associate
your IP address with other activity online and thus make it possible to
trace back to you.

Consider using a different browser for all your movement activity. Or, at
the very least, use "privacy" or "secure" or "icognito" mode in your
browser. This will prevent your browsing history from being saved. More
importantly it will prevent cookies from operation. If you are logged into
a social networking service and then start doing movement activity without
this layer of security in another tab or window, the website you are using
may have ways to identify you through cookies.

**Mask Your Identity**

If you are a Courier or an Advocate, what you write and do will be exposed
to the scrutiny of those outside the movement. Adopt a code name, but be
sure to choose one that cannot be associated with you, even by friends.
Thus, if you are a famous dog trainer, don't choose a code name of a breed
of dog.

What you write can be subject to automatic text analysis. Authorship can be
compared by means of algorithms. Try to vary your writing style. Make a
list of idiosyncratic adjectives or other turns of phrase that you only use
in some texts you write but not others. Write verbosely in some places, and
in a short blunt manner in another. Use leet speak in some contexts, and
grammatically correct language elsewhere. If you are exposed, this will
help prevent you from being associated with all of your activity.

**Mask Your Location**

This is very important. Do not engage in movement activity from your own IP
address (your identifying address on the internet) and spoof your MAC (the
hardware address on your network or wireless card). If you are connected to
a University of Vienna computer network, and you do anything online without
masking your location, it is easy to trace the activity back to the
university network, which will likely have a log of who is registered to
use the IP, or at least the rough physical location that the person
connected from. From there it is either direct discovery or discovery with
subsequent surveillance.

*Mask your IP*

Use a free or paid VPN (virtual private network) service that cannot be
traced back to you personally. Make sure to configure it so that all
traffic to and from your computer is routed through this VPN. Connected to
a VPN in Russia, a user on the network in Vienna will appear to be
connecting from Russia.

*Spoof your MAC*

This is easily done with a little bit of experience on the command line.
There are many utilities that can help you do this on Windows. On Linux or
OS X simply open a terminal and enter the appropriate command that you can
find many places online.

*Fool Your Enemy*

If, as a Courier for example, you engage in movement activity that may give
indirect hints about your geographical location, then cloud their view. If
you have a twitter account and are based in Canada, follow a set of users
that might imply you are in France and read French. If you are emailing
users in the UK, consider doing it from a free email service based in
Germany.

**Encrypt Your Communication**

All movement related activity through email and chat should be secure or
anonymous and generally both.

*Email and General Encryption*

Learn about GnuPG and the basics of public-private key encryption. Create
an encryption key for yourself. Make sure the passphrase is very long. "The
yellow elephant flew effortlessly behind the old barn" is far more secure
than "&%tX90!" and easier to remember. Export the public key as ASCII
armored and give it to your movement contacts. They will use *your* public
key to encrypt email they send to you. You will use *your* corresponding
secret key to decrypt the email they sent you that was encrypted by *your*
public key. The process is reversed when you email them. You will need
*their* public key to email them. Sign your communications with your key to
help confirm your identity.

*Secure Chat*

Consider using anonymous communication on a pre-agreed IRC chat for
something that is simple and fast and can be performed directly in your
(secure/icognito) browser (while connected to VPN). There are also many
plug-ins to secure communication on popular chat protocols, as well as some
dedicated secure chat clients. Make sure that neither you nor the person
you are speaking with have the client configured to log the communication.

*Keep Movement Related Files Secure*

If you are apprehended all your computers will be taken. You cannot be
coerced into providing passwords though, so if you are smart, you will keep
movement files completely secure.

You can encrypt your files and directories directly with GnuPG. Another
common method is to create an ecrypted partition or "disk image" that is
encrypted. Boot this partition or disk image when you need access to your
movement files. Or have a separate encrypted hard drive that you load when
you are ready to do work for the movement.

**Limited Circles of Trust**

Do not tell all your cool friends that you are active in the movement.
Limit this information to people you trust *and* who you believe can be
recruited to active participation in the movement. Whenever possible,
maintain a segregated guerilla cell structure that the movement has
operated under up until now. If you recruit several people to work with you
do not pass on information about their identity or contact info to the
person who recruited you. If you have contact with Couriers, let your
up-contact know of their existence so tasks to/from Courier can be
transmitted via you. One exception are competent Armorers. Their skills are
in high demand, and if you find them, consider keeping them separate from
your own cell and "passing them up" the chain to the person who connected
you put them in contact with an Armorer or Innkeeper you know of. The
scripts/tools they create should be distributed through the network
securely and then at some point appropriate openly. As far as this author
is aware, we have no centralized structure. We operate in loose and a cell
based movement, with anonymous cross-cell communication in online forums
and chat maintained by admins (Innkeepers) who don't usually know the
identity of anyone on the platforms they manage. Knowledge of personal real
identities should, whenever possible, *not* be available beyond the
individual cell. Traitors (and the more rare Sapper) are to be protected at
all costs since they are directly liable for legal prosectution.

If there are people who you personally know but do not trust, yet who you
think can be recruited, use a Courier as an intermediary. The Courier
establishes contact, and if it goes well, they can "hand back" or "pass on"
the contact once secure anonymous means of communication have been
established and a role identified.

Cells that personally know eachother should take steps to ensure that keys
were exchanged in a way to guarantee their genuine nature.

Limiting the circle of trust is key to the survival of the movment. In the
past, many online hacker networks have been broken when one member is
discovered and agrees to cooperate in exchange for a lighter sentence. A
previously trusted person will unwillingly do all they can to expose other
cell members and escape their own punishment. Be suspicious of suddent
attempts to get more personal information from you by contacts in the
movement and again, by keeping the circle of trust small, damage can be
contained.

Ways to Make Your Scrapers More Human
-----------------------------------------------------

Below are some simple code snippets to give you ideas about how to design
scrapers that will behave more like humans, thus concealing to some degree
your raid on a database. Of course, if you conduct the entire raid from a
single IP address, or your are always logging in with the same user
credentials, a careful analysis of server logs and traffic can lead to
discovery. However, the following may help fool the lazy server
administrator who merely glances over access logs from time to time.

*In Ruby:*

```ruby
# => This method can be used to create some variety in pauses between
grabbing files from a server
# => and thus simulate human behavior. You set a default break time (here
twoseconds, in reality a
# => random time of 1-3 seconds) and several more rare longer breaks. You
then indicate a probability
# => for these other longer breaks to occur. For example, currently there
is a 0.2% chance that the
# => scraper will take a roughly one hour break, but a 0.5% chance it will
take a 30 minute break,
# => and so on.
def randomBreak()

  #set the various times for a break:
  twoseconds=rand(1..3)
  fifteensec=rand(12..18)
  onemin=rand(50..70)
  fivemin=rand(250..350)
  tenmin=rand(500..700)
  thirtymin=rand(1600..2000)
  onehour=rand(3300..3900)
  #default break time:
  sleeptime=twoseconds
  #roll the dice:
  x=rand(1..1000)
  #but percentage chance that there is a longer break:
  if (1..2).member?(x) then sleeptime=onehour end
  if (3..7).member?(x) then sleeptime=thirtymin end
  if (8..18).member?(x) then sleeptime=tenmin end
  if (19..32).member?(x) then sleeptime=fivemin end
  if (33..50).member?(x) then sleeptime=onemin end
  if (51..120).member?(x) then sleeptime=fifteensec end

  puts "Sleeping "+sleeptime.to_s+" seconds."
  sleep sleeptime
end

randomBreak()

#!/usr/local/bin/ruby

# => This method can be used to create some variety in pauses between
grabbing files from a server
# => This method can be used to force your script to only operate within
certain "working hours"
# => and thus simulate human behavior. If you have a scraper pulling files
24 hours a day, anyone
# => inspecting server logs closely will immediately know automated
downloading is happening.
# => Use this script to make it at least somewhat more plausible that a
very diligent human being
# => was downloading files from their favorite database.
# =>
# => Call this method once each time a file has been downloaded completely
before proceeding to
# => the next round of the loop. Only proceed, if the method returns true.
If it is "outside
# => working hours" it will return false. You can use a while loop to wait
until working hours.

# fromgmt - how many hours earlier or later than GMT timezone you wish to
operate in

def workinghours(fromgmt=0,starthour=9,endhour=17)
  #The current hour at GMT timezone:
  currentgmt=Time.new.gmtime.hour
  currentmin=Time.new.min
  #The current hour at timezone of desired operation:
  currenthour=currentgmt+fromgmt
  if currenthour==24 then currenthour=0 end
  #we assume here workingg hours do not cross midnight, anyone want to redo
the following to
  #account for that possibility?
  if currenthour>=starthour && currenthour<=endhour
    return true
  end
  return false
end

#how we might use this:
while !workinghours(fromgmt=1,starthour=1,endhour=11)
  # wait one minute and check the time again
  sleep 60
end

#!/usr/local/bin/ruby

# => This very simple snippet can be used to set a maximum limit on
# => the time the script will run. Here again we simulate likely human
# => behavior. You can run the script comfortable that it will run
# => for a limited time.

# maxminutes - The number of minutes you want this script to run
maxminutes=120 # for example, 2 hours or 120 minutes
starttime=Time.new

# OPEN YOUR MAIN LOOP HERE

if Time.new-starttime>maxminutes*60 then
  break # out of your loop and wrap up the script...
end

#!/usr/local/bin/ruby

# => If you use Mechanize in Ruby to do your scraping you can set the "user
agent," that is,
# => the browser that you are pretending to be when you grab files from the
server. You can
# => add some noise to your activity by choosing a random user agent each
time you use the
# => script.

def randUserAgent()
  #returns a random user agent but weighs towards popular browsers
  #returns a random user agent but weighs towards popular browsers
  #problem: it doesn't include Chrome or Opera. Sample is for Ruby 1.9,
need change for
  #earlier versions of Ruby.
  return ["Windows IE 7","Windows IE 7","Windows IE 7","Windows IE
7","Windows IE 6","Windows Mozilla","Windows Mozilla","Windows
Mozilla","Windows Mozilla","Mac Safari","Mac FireFox","Mac FireFox","Linux
Firefox"].sample
end

# => ...
myparser.user_agent_alias=randUserAgent()

```

Recipe: Overcome Built-In Limit on JSTOR Liberator
---------------------------------------------------------------------
By FreeDam | Status: Works as of 2012.1.20

The Aaron Swartz Memorial JSTOR Liberator offers an elegant tool for
uploading a single publically viewable JSTOR document to a memorial
archive. The tool creates a cookie in your browser when you use it and
prevents you from making more than one contribution. Perhaps you want to
offer ten PDFs to the memorial? Maybe fifty?

To overcome the limit without repeatedly opening a new browser window, we
can modify your JSTOR Liberator bookmarklet code slightly:

```javascript
javascript:var date=new
Date();date.setTime(date.getTime()+(10*24*60*60*1000));var expires = ";
expires="+date.toGMTString();document.cookie='jstorLib_count=0;'+expires+';
path=/';(function()%7Bvar%20s%3Ddocument.createElement(%27script%27)%3Bs.type%3D%27text/javascript%27%3Bs.src%3D%27
http://aaronsw.archiveteam.org/js%27%3Bdocument.getElementsByTagName(%27head%27)%5B0%5D.appendChild(s)%3B%7D)()%3B
```

This merely sets the "jstorLib_count" to 0, thus allowing you to make
multiple submissions. This client side limit will be replaced by a server
based limit at some point, but in the meantime, you can use this modified
bookmarklet  to make multiple contributions easily.


This document is in the public domain.

Changes
--------------------

2013.1.13 williwaw - original posted

2013.1.16 yellowElephant - added recommended security precautions for
movement members

2013.1.19 kfogel - language

2013.1.19-20 williwaw - ruby.recipe add some ways to simulate human
behavior in scraper

2013.1.20 FreeDam - Overcome Built-in limit on JSTOR Liberator
"""

- Bryan
http://heybryan.org/
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From moxie at whispersystems.org  Thu Jan 24 10:35:45 2013
From: moxie at whispersystems.org (Moxie Marlinspike)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:35:45 -0800
Subject: [liberationtech] The Open Whisper Systems "Spring Break Of Code"
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This Spring will be the first Open Whisper Systems Spring Break Of Code,
a week-long expenses-paid retreat to Maui for folks who like software
development, security, and the beach. Webve rented a large beachfront
house on the west coast of Maui for everyone to stay in, and will pay
for your airfare. While there, you can split your time between island
living and working on an Open Whisper Systems related project that you
propose.

Spring Break Of Code will be March 23rd to March 31st, 2013. We will be
taking up to eight people, and will cover your costs for:

* Lodging in a large beachfront house.
* Your airfare from the US.
* A surfboard for the week.

Spring Break Of Code is an opportunity for hackers interested in
security and privacy to spend some time contributing to Open Whisper
Systems related projects in a retreat-like setting with other
co-conspirators. Think of it as an extended hackathon, but with your
travel expenses paid, and with breaks for surfing, hiking, swimming, and
just generally being in Maui.

The details:
http://www.whispersystems.org/blog/spring-break-of-code/

- moxie

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From eugen at leitl.org  Thu Jan 24 05:55:52 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:55:52 +0100
Subject: privacy-minded, cost-effective ISPs for a low-traffic piece of 
  infrastructure
Message-ID: <20130124135552.GY6172@leitl.org>

Hi -- I'm shopping around for a virtual server in a privacy-minded 
jurisdiction, for a low-budget organization. 

I'm currently looking at Iceland, and hosters like 1984.is
Are there countries and hosters with comparable attitudes to 
privacy? I'm looking for a virtual servers in 20-30 EUR/month
price range.

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From eugen at leitl.org  Thu Jan 24 06:47:32 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:47:32 +0100
Subject: Geurilla open access cookbook
Message-ID: <20130124144732.GD6172@leitl.org>

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From jsalsman at gmail.com  Thu Jan 24 19:39:57 2013
From: jsalsman at gmail.com (James Salsman)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:39:57 -0700
Subject: Geurilla open access cookbook
Message-ID: <mailman.4154.1576008247.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:40 PM, Ted Smith <tedks at riseup.net> wrote:
>...
> I think that if you are uncomfortable with taking direct action to
> liberate scientific knowledge, you can still be a valuable participant....

A direct action with a sterilized scalpel instead of a shotgun is
still a direct action.

> However, I feel that it's wrong to condemn those who are willing to take
> those risks....

I'm not condemning people willing to participate in civil
disobedience, and I have done so myself on multiple occasions. But the
document as it stands urges a criminal conspiracy in a way that could
ensnare people even tangentially involved without disclosing the risks
in a way that we could say that they would be making an informed
decision to risk persecution. Any person would be more condemned by
the possibility of a felony arrest, conviction, and prison term than
the requirement to consider improving Wikipedia.

> So to conclude: you've presented a good idea, and I will support you if
> you are persecuted for using it....

Nobody is likely to be persecuted for using the US fair use exemptions
allowing people to share copyrighted documents when they are
collaborating on established publications. It's airtight in centuries
of case law and explicit codification.

Perhaps we should be asking if there is a safe yet massive synthesis
between the Cookbook thesis and Wikipedia:Resource_exchange antithesis
here:

1. What collaboration projects would require the fair use of massive
collections of closed scientific documents?

2. Would compiling a version of http://books.google.com/ngrams based
on academic journal publications qualify?

3. Can we organize to do that under a limited liability structure to
insure that nobody gets sent to jail trying?

4. Does someone know a lawyer willing to answer these questions? E.g.,
Lessig? Zittrain? EFFers?

> (I also don't see how the Global South plays into this, and am not sure
> why you mention it.)

Please see Aaron Swartz's July 2008 Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto
("Providing scientific articles to those at elite universities in the
First World, but not to children in the Global South? Itbs outrageous
and unacceptable.")

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From tedks at riseup.net  Thu Jan 24 18:40:16 2013
From: tedks at riseup.net (Ted Smith)
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 21:40:16 -0500
Subject: Geurilla open access cookbook
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On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 12:47 -0800, James Salsman wrote:
> "The Open Access Guerilla Cookbook" came up in IRC just now. There is
> a better way to accomplish the same goals for people in the Global
> South and similar who need access to closed scholarly documents, and
> much better than forming elaborate conspiracies which could put the
> jobs of the "traitors" at risk, not to mention the freedom of everyone
> involved.
> 
This is a specific instance of a very large ongoing debate in multiple
different struggles, between supporters of strict pacifism/legalism and
supporters of a diversity of tactics.

I think that if you are uncomfortable with taking direct action to
liberate scientific knowledge, you can still be a valuable participant
in this broader movement, using tactics and strategies like the one
you've described.

However, I feel that it's wrong to condemn those who are willing to take
those risks, and betray whatever institutions give them privilege.

If we want any movement to grow, we need to be ready to accept a diverse
range of tactics from comrades that we may or may not agree with on
questions of specific actions, but that we must support writ large,
since they are fighting the same battle we are, and we would ask the
same of them.

So to conclude: you've presented a good idea, and I will support you if
you are persecuted for using it, as long as you recognize that those who
publish things as the open access guerilla cookbook are trying to
achieve the same goals as you, and you support their work towards those
ends.

(I also don't see how the Global South plays into this, and am not sure
why you mention it.)

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From saftergood at fas.org  Fri Jan 25 07:59:11 2013
From: saftergood at fas.org (Steven Aftergood)
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 07:59:11 -0800
Subject: Secrecy News -- 01/25/13
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SECRECY NEWS
from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Volume 2013, Issue No. 9
January 25, 2013

Secrecy News Blog:  http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/


**     FORMER CIA OFFICER KIRIAKOU SENTENCED FOR LEAK
**     INTERNATIONAL TAX HAVENS, AND MORE FROM CRS


FORMER CIA OFFICER KIRIAKOU SENTENCED FOR LEAK

Former CIA officer John Kiriakou was sentenced today to 30 months in
prison for a violation of the Intelligence Identities Protection Act after
he pleaded guilty to one count of identifying a covert agent.

Although the sentence is less than that prescribed by federal sentencing
guidelines, the government said that it considers the reduced penalty
"reasonable."

In a presentencing memorandum for the defense, Mr. Kiriakou's attorneys
said that his offense should be seen in the context of his lifelong
commitment "to public service and the defense of America's national
security."

	http://www.fas.org/sgp/jud/kiriakou/012413-defmem.pdf

"In the course of his service to the United States and the Central
Intelligence Agency, Mr. Kiriakou placed himself in harm's way on countless
occasions, earning the CIA's Exceptional Service Award no fewer than ten
times," the defense memorandum said.

Although Mr. Kiriakou accepted full responsibility for his actions, the
defense said that he had been duped into making the unauthorized disclosure
that led to his prosecution.

"In 2006, Journalist A told Mr. Kiriakou that he was working on a book
about the Abu Omar rendition in Milan. That was false. Journalist A has
never published a book on that subject and the defense is aware of no
evidence that he was ever working on one."

"In reality, unknown to Mr. Kiriakou, Journalist A was acting as a private
investigator on behalf of lawyers representing terrorist detainees in
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and was forwarding the information he received from
Mr. Kiriakou, as well as information he received from many other
individuals, to another private investigator working with the detainees'
lawyers. Mr. Kiriakou now realizes that he made a very serious mistake in
passing any information to Journalist A, but he would not have done so had
he known how Journalist A would make use of that information," the defense
memorandum said.

The defense noted that "Mr. Kiriakou has fully and forthrightly accepted
responsibility for his actions and recognizes the seriousness of the crime
to which he has pled guilty.  Yet while many will never know Mr. Kiriakou
apart from this prosecution, the incident that led to this moment cannot
undo the reality of Mr. Kiriakou's life in full-- a life dedicated to the
values of freedom, decency, public service, and love of country.  As the
government concedes, although Mr. Kiriakou's crime was unquestionably
serious, he was never motivated by any desire to harm the United States,
national security, the CIA's critical mission abroad, or any individual
person."

A petition asking President Obama to pardon Mr. Kiriakou or commute his
sentence has already been signed by thousands of supporters.

After Vice Presidential aide Scooter Libby was convicted of perjury in
connection with the unauthorized disclosure of the identity of CIA officer
Valerie Plame in 2007 and sentenced to 30 months in jail, his sentence was
promptly commuted by President George W. Bush.


INTERNATIONAL TAX HAVENS, AND MORE FROM CRS

New and updated reports from the Congressional Research Service that
Congress has not made available to the public include the following.

Tax Havens: International Tax Avoidance and Evasion, January 23, 2013:

	http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R40623.pdf

An Overview of the Tax Provisions in the American Taxpayer Relief Act of
2012, January 20, 2013:

	http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42894.pdf

Receipt of Unemployment Insurance by Higher-Income Unemployed Workers
("Millionaires"), January 23, 2013:

	http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42643.pdf

Summary Report: Congressional Action on the FY2013 Disaster Supplemental,
January 22, 2013:

	http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42892.pdf

FY2013 Supplemental Funding for Disaster Relief: Summary and
Considerations for Congress, January 23, 2013:

	http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42869.pdf

Congressional Commissions: Overview, Structure, and Legislative
Considerations, January 22, 2013:

	http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R40076.pdf

Congressional Careers: Service Tenure and Patterns of Member Service,
1789-2013, January 3, 2013:

	http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R41545.pdf

Global Security Contingency Fund (GSCF): Summary and Issue Overview,
January 22, 2013:

	http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R42641.pdf

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Current Issues and U.S. Policy, January 24, 2013:

	http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R40479.pdf

Mexico's New Administration: Priorities and Key Issues in U.S.-Mexican
Relations, January 16, 2013:

	http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R42917.pdf

Reauthorization of the FISA Amendments Act, January 2, 2013:

	http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/intel/R42725.pdf


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From pettter at acc.umu.se  Fri Jan 25 02:32:06 2013
From: pettter at acc.umu.se (Petter Ericson)
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:32:06 +0100
Subject: [liberationtech] weev (@rabite) makes a Statement of Responsibility
Message-ID: <mailman.4157.1576008247.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

Hi,

I thought this was very well written and powerful, though I don't
necessarily agree with absolutely everything.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/21/ipad-hack-statement-of-responsibility/

iPad Hack Statement Of Responsibility

ANDREW AUERNHEIMER

Monday, January 21st, 2013

(Editorbs note: Andrew Auernheimer, also known by his pseudonym weev, is
an American grey hat hacker and self-described Internet troll. Follow
him on Twitter @rabite.)

In June of 2010 there was an AT&T webserver on the open Internet. There
was an API on this server, a URL with a number at the end. If you
incremented this number, you saw the next iPad 3G user email address. I
thought it was egregiously negligent for AT&T to be publishing a
complete target list of iPad 3G owners, and I took a sample of the API
output to a journalist at Gawker.

I did this because I despised people I think are unjustly wealthy and
wanted to embarass them. I thought this is the United States of America
where we have the right to do basic arithmetic and query public
webservers.

I was convicted of two consecutive five-year felonies, and am now
awaiting sentencing.

I left the Aaron Swartz memorial tonight emotionally exhausted. Here is
a guy who was beloved by many of my close friends, whose suffering and
miseries I have shared in kind. Ibll never forget when the Secret
Service started following me. My lover at the time and I treated it like
a game, spending our days ditching surveillance in the best ways
possible: speedboats, helicopters, club bouncers.

Over time, this has become less and less of a game. It soon became clear
that I could not be both an activist and a capitalist. I quit my six
figure job at the time because the former was more important to me. Then
one day, everything changed. FBI agents tried to frame me for terrorism
in 2008. Twice. They ruined my career, my relationship, my life. Nobody
believed that I could be a terrorist so now they try to libel me as an
identity thief.

Lawrence Lessig said of Aaronbs indictment that the prosecutor Ortiz was
beither an idiot, or a liar.b I know this feeling all too well.

One of my prosecutors, Michael Martinez, claimed that our querying a
public webserver was criminal because bit isnbt like going to ESPN and
checking your sports teambs scores.b

The facts: AT&T admitted, at trial, that they bpublishedb this data.
Their words. Public-facing, programmatic accesses of APIs happen upwards
of a trillion times per day. Twitter broke 13 billion on their API ages
ago. This is something that happens more than the entire population of
Earth, daily. The government has no problem with this up until you
transform the output into something offensive to important people.
People with bdisruptiveb startups, this is your fair warning: They are
coming for you next.

The other one of my prosecutors, Zach Intrater, said that a comment I
made about Goatse Security, my information security working group,
starting a certification process to declare systems bgoatse tightb was
evidence of my intent to personally profit. For those not in on the
joke: Goatse is an Internet meme referencing a man holding open his anus
very widely. The mind reels.

I canbt survive like this. I am happy to be hitting a prison cell soon.
They ruined my business. The feds get approval of who I can work for or
with: they rejected one company because the CEO had a social network
profile with an occupation listed as bhacker.b They prohibit me from
touching any computer that isnbt federally monitored. I do my best to
slang Perl code on an Android device to comply with my bail conditions.
It isnbt pretty.

Ivy league educated and wealthy, Aaron dealt with his indictment so
badly because he thought he was part of a special class of people that
this didnbt happen to. I am from a rundown shack in Arkansas.  I spent
many years thinking people from families like his got better treatment
than me. Now I realize the truth: The beast is so monstrous it will
devour us all. None will be spared.

So now I stare at a form that the government wants me to fill out before
sentencing labelled bacceptance of responsibilityb and wonder what I can
possibly fill in this slot. This letter is it.

I accept my responsibility, and hope you do too, of dismantling this
terrible empire so that this canbt happen to anyone.

This is the difference between the prosecutors and FBI agents and I.
They wish me utterly destroyed, and have been hounding me for years of
my life. They have been surveilling me, by their own admission, since I
was 15. You know what I wish for? A world where no man may abridge the
liberty of another. Not me, not you, not the FBI, not federal
prosecutors. I actually hope they have fulfilling lives, and come to
realize the mistake of treating our Constitution like toilet paper.

This is a country where if you express ideas that federal agents donbt
like you, you will be beaten, imprisoned, or killed. I accept my
responsibility for offending seditious thugs, liars and tyrants.  I say
this is the duty of all decent citizens left.

God bless.

Andrew Auernheimer

(*Those who assert our right to access public web APIs can donate to the
 effort to overturn the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. More info at
 cfaadefensefund.com. - Andrew Auernheimer)




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From eugen at leitl.org  Fri Jan 25 05:29:46 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:29:46 +0100
Subject: [liberationtech] weev (@rabite) makes a Statement of
  Responsibility
Message-ID: <20130125132946.GW6172@leitl.org>

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From eugen at leitl.org  Fri Jan 25 06:28:07 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:28:07 +0100
Subject: Geurilla open access cookbook
Message-ID: <20130125142807.GE6172@leitl.org>

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From eugen at leitl.org  Fri Jan 25 06:34:12 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:34:12 +0100
Subject: Geurilla open access cookbook
Message-ID: <20130125143411.GI6172@leitl.org>

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From eugen at leitl.org  Fri Jan 25 06:54:03 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 15:54:03 +0100
Subject: [liberationtech] The Open Whisper Systems "Spring Break Of
  Code"
Message-ID: <20130125145403.GP6172@leitl.org>

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From eugen at leitl.org  Fri Jan 25 08:37:49 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:37:49 +0100
Subject: Secrecy News -- 01/25/13
Message-ID: <20130125163749.GU6172@leitl.org>

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From drwho at virtadpt.net  Sat Jan 26 13:08:00 2013
From: drwho at virtadpt.net (The Doctor)
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 16:08:00 -0500
Subject: [HacDC:Byzantium] Request from a Researcher
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On 01/21/2013 02:17 PM, Rachel B wrote:

> talk to me. I have been a longtime lurker to this community, and I 
> thought that I had done enough lurking and introduce myself. I am

Welcome to the Byzantium list!

> specifically interested in learning more about how Byzantium has
> already been used in emergency situations and what people learned
> from those experiences. I know that what I'm asking seems a little
> vague right now, so I would be happy to clarify to anyone
> interested.

The last time Byzantium Linux was used in an emergency situation was
during the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in New York City.  We built a
version of Byzantium specifically for the use case of restoring
connectivity to the rest of the global Net if there was a gateway
because responders were encountering great difficulties coordinating
with one another and with external organizations.

We learned a lot of things there, chief among them that rapid
deployment is essential.  Sandy was the reason we built an
autoconfiguration daemon which pretty much takes the user out of the
loop insofar as configuring a Byzantium node is concerned, which frees
them up to do other things (like clearing out wreckage).

Unfortunately, we also learned the hard way that you can't necessarily
count on assistance from people during a disaster situation.  There
was an organization up there that promised assistance (in the form of
computers that could be used as Byzantium nodes) that changed their
mind at the last minute, which forced us to fall back on a backup
plan.  What we took away from this was that interoperability with
other mesh projects is essential, so we added interoperability with
the Commotion Wireless project while we were up there (and got it
working on the first try).  Since that time, we've been working with
other wireless network projects on automatic, transparent
interoperability.

On that point, I'll open things up to Sitwon and Haxwithaxe.

> If this is the place to look for and ask around, great! If not, no

You came to the right mailing list.

> problem. I'm happy for any lead that you can offer. On a personal
> note, I'm very happy that this project exists and was even lucky
> enough to snag a copy at CarolinaCon. Still haven't had the chance
> to play around with it, but I hope that could change soon.

Glad to hear it!  We'll definitely let you know when the next release
comes out.

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Subject: [HacDC:Byzantium] Request from a Researcher
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From sdw at lig.net  Mon Jan 28 23:50:55 2013
From: sdw at lig.net (Stephen Williams)
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:50:55 -0800
Subject: [FoRK] "Aaron's Army" (transcript)
Message-ID: <mailman.4159.1576008247.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

Nice.  Right on.

I would file pro-se suits arguing various types of malfeasance, perhaps one 
for every database and document that I wanted.  And encourage others to do 
so.

For one thing, the US government is limited in what copyrights they can 
hold.  It used to be said they couldn't hold copyrights at all, and I've 
seen documents explicitly put into the public domain by NASA and others on 
that grounds.  Copyright validity is less certain for a government agency 
than for an individual or corporation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_work_by_the_U.S._government
http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/apr09/Klein.shtml

Additionally, you can argue fair use and public right to know.

Pay for a document and sue to get a refund.  Appeal the inevitable brush off.

File claims against agencies with the agencies, the prerequisite to filing 
a suit against them.  When you do file a suit, file creative pre-trial 
discovery.  Subpoena relevant tax records.

There's more than one way to fix a broken system.  While you may have to 
pay some small court fees ($50, $74, etc.) and spend some time watching on 
hearing day, they'll have to pay for expensive attorneys.

There seem to only be a few thing places where you can't represent yourself and even those are something that should be tested.

sdw

On 1/24/13 11:28 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> ----- Forwarded message from Bryan Bishop <kanzure at gmail.com> -----
>
> From: Bryan Bishop <kanzure at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 00:01:20 -0600
> To: science-liberation-front at googlegroups.com,
> 	Bryan Bishop <kanzure at gmail.com>
> Subject: "Aaron's Army" (transcript)
> Reply-To: science-liberation-front at googlegroups.com
>
> https://public.resource.org/aaron/army/
>
> """
> TEXT OF REMARKS BY CARL MALAMUD
>
> Do not think for a moment that Aaron's work on JSTOR was the random act of
> a lone hacker, some kind of crazy, spur-of-the-moment bulk download.
>
> JSTOR had long come in for withering criticism from the net. Larry Lessig
> called JSTOR a moral outrage in a talk and I suppose I have to confess he
> was quoting me. We weren't the only ones fanning those flames.
>
> Sequestering knowledge behind pay wallsbmaking scientific journals only
> available to a few kids fortunate enough to be at fancy universities and
> charging $20 an article for the remaining 99% of usbwas a festering wound.
> It offended many people.
>
> It embarrassed many who wrote those articles that their work had become
> somebody's profit margin, a members-only country club of knowledge.
>
> Many of us helped fan those flames. Many of us feel guilty today for
> fanning those flames.
>
> But JSTOR was just one of many battles. They tried to paint Aaron as some
> kind of lone-wolf hacker, a young terrorist who went on a crazy IP killing
> spree that caused $92 million in damages.
>
> Aaron wasn't a lone wolf, he was part of an army, and I had the honor of
> serving with him for a decade. You have heard many things about his
> remarkable life, but I want to focus tonight on just one.
>
> Aaron was part of an army of citizens that believes democracy only works
> when the citizenry are informed, when we know about our rightsband our
> obligations. An army that believes we must make justice and knowledge
> available to allbnot just the well born or those that have grabbed the
> reigns of powerbso that we may govern ourselves more wisely.
>
> He was part of an army of citizens that rejects kings and generals and
> believes in rough consensus and running code.
>
> We worked together on a dozen government databases. When we worked on
> something, the decisions weren't rash. Our work often took months,
> sometimes years, sometimes a decade, and Aaron Swartz did not get his
> proper serving of decades.
>
> We looked at and poked at the U.S. Copyright database for a long time, a
> system so old it was still running WAIS. The government hadbbelieve it or
> notbasserted copyright on the copyright database. How you copyright a
> database that is specifically called out in the U.S. Constitution is beyond
> me, but we knew we were playing with fire by violating their terms of use,
> so we were careful.
>
> We grabbed that data and it was used to feed the Open Library here at the
> Internet Archive and it was used to feed Google Books. And, we got a letter
> from the Copyright Office waiving copyright on that copyright database. But
> before we did that, we had to talk to many lawyers and worry about the
> government hauling us in for malicious premeditated bulk downloading.
>
> These were not random acts of aggression. We worked on databases to make
> them better, to make our democracy work better, to help our government. We
> were not criminals.
>
> When we brought in 20 million pages of U.S. District Court documents from
> behind their 8 cent-per-page PACER pay wall, we found these public filings
> infested with privacy violations: names of minor children, names of
> informants, medical records, mental health records, financial records, tens
> of thousands of social security numbers.
>
> We were whistle blowers and we sent our results to the Chief Judges of 31
> District Courts and those judges were shocked and dismayed and they
> redacted those documents and they yelled at the lawyers that filed them and
> the Judicial Conference changed their privacy rules.
>
> But you know what the bureaucrats who ran the Administrative Office of the
> United States Courts did? To them, we weren't citizens that made public
> data better, we were thieves that took $1.6 million of their property.
>
> So they called the FBI, they said they were hacked by criminals, an
> organized gang that was imperiling their $120 million per year revenue
> stream selling public government documents.
>
> The FBI sat outside Aaron's house. They called him up and tried to sucker
> him into meeting them without his lawyer. The FBI sat two armed agents down
> in an interrogation room with me to get to the bottom of this alleged
> conspiracy.
>
> But we weren't criminals, we were only citizens.
>
> We did nothing wrong. They found nothing wrong. We did our duty as citizens
> and the government investigation had nothing to show for it but a waste of
> a whole lot of time and money.
>
> If you want a chilling effect, sit somebody down with a couple overreaching
> federal agents for a while and see how quickly their blood runs cold.
>
> There are people who face danger every day to protect usbpolice officers
> and firefighters and emergency workersband I am grateful and amazed by what
> they do. But the work that people like Aaron and I did, slinging DVDs and
> running shell scripts on public materials, should not be a dangerous
> profession.
>
> We weren't criminals, but there were crimes committed, crimes against the
> very idea of justice.
>
> When the U.S. Attorney told Aaron he had to plead guilty to 13 felonies for
> attempting to propagate knowledge before she'd even consider a deal, that
> was an abuse of power, a misuse of the criminal justice system, a crime
> against justice.
>
> And that U.S. Attorney does not act alone. She is part of a posse intent on
> protecting property not people. All over the United States, those without
> access to means don't have access to justice and face these abuses of power
> every day.
>
> It was a crime against learning when a nonprofit corporation like JSTOR,
> charged with advancing knowledge, turned a download that caused no harm and
> no damage into a $92 million federal case.
>
> And the JSTOR corporate monopoly on knowledge is not alone. All over the
> United States, corporations have staked their fences on the fields of
> education: for-profit colleges that steal from our veterans, nonprofit
> standards bodies that ration public safety codes while paying million
> dollar salaries, and multinational conglomerates that measure the worth of
> scientific papers and legal materials by their gross margins.
>
> In the JSTOR case, was the overly aggressive posture of the Department of
> Justice prosecutors and law enforcement officials revenge because they were
> embarrassed thatbin their view at leastbwe somehow got away with something
> in the PACER incident? Was the merciless JSTOR prosecution the revenge of
> embarrassed bureaucrats because they looked stupid in the New York Times,
> because the U.S. Senate called them on the carpet?
>
> We will probably never know the answer to that question, but it sure looks
> like they destroyed a young man's life in a petty abuse of power. This was
> not a criminal matter, Aaron was not a criminal.
>
> If you think you own something and I think that thing is public, I'm more
> than happy to meet you in a court of law andbif you're rightbI'll take my
> lumps if I've wronged you. But when we turn armed agents of the law on
> citizens trying to increase access to knowledge, we have broken the rule of
> law, we have desecrated the temple of justice.
>
> Aaron Swartz was not a criminal, he was a citizen, and he was a brave
> soldier in a war which continues today, a war in which corrupt and venal
> profiteers try to steal and hoard and starve our public domain for their
> own private gain.
>
> When people try to restrict access to the law, or they try to collect tolls
> on the road to knowledge, or deny education to those without means, those
> people are the ones who should face the stern gaze of an outraged public
> prosecutor.
>
> What the Department of Justice put Aaron through for trying to make our
> world better is the same thing they can put you through. Our army isn't one
> lone wolf, it is thousands of citizensbmany of you in this roombwho are
> fighting for justice and knowledge.
> I say we are an army, and I use the word with cause because we face people
> who want to imprison us for downloading a database to take a closer look,
> we face people who believe they can tell us what we can read and what we
> can say.
>
> But when I see our army, I see an army that creates instead of destroys. I
> see the army of Mahatma Gandhi walking peacefully to the sea to make salt
> for the people. I see the army of Martin Luther King walking peacefully but
> with determination to Washington to demand their rights because change does
> not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, it comes through continuous
> struggle.
>
> When I see our army, I see an army that creates new opportunities for the
> poor, an army that makes our society more just and more fair, an army that
> makes knowledge universal.
>
> When I see our army, I see the people who have created the Wikipedia and
> the Internet Archive, people who coded GNU and Apache and BIND and LINUX. I
> see the people who made the EFF and the Creative Commons. I see the people
> who created our Internet as a gift to the world.
>
> When I see our army, I see Aaron Swartz and my heart is broken. We have
> truly lost one of our better angels.
>
> I wish we could change the past, but we cannot. But, we can change the
> future, and we must.
>
> We must do so for Aaron, we must do so for ourselves, we must do so to make
> our world a better place, a more humane place, a place where justice works
> and access to knowledge is a human right.
> """
>
> - Bryan
> http://heybryan.org/
> 1 512 203 0507
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Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:55:37 +0100
Subject: [FoRK] "Aaron's Army" (transcript)
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From camera_lumina at hotmail.com  Tue Jan 29 17:43:04 2013
From: camera_lumina at hotmail.com (Tyler Durden)
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:43:04 -0500
Subject: Is this thing on?
Message-ID: <SNT138-W33C12886E2AB66E4A391679B1E0@phx.gbl>

Basically just a test of the Al-Qaeda node.

Anyone been reading the recent books on Cypherpunks? I haven't read Julian's
yet, though interestingly it's not available directly though Amazon.
Greenberg's book is good and plenty of unsurprising coverage of both Young and
May.

Through both tribs I suspect there will be an influx of young, hot tail. Too
bad no one's around to work 'em over a bit.

-TD




From rmokhobyd at 3-a.net  Tue Jan 29 08:21:14 2013
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========================================================================
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========================================================(ERネット調べ)==
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From phil at hands.com  Tue Jan 29 13:44:26 2013
From: phil at hands.com (Philip Hands)
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:44:26 +0000
Subject: [Freedombox-discuss] BitTorrent Sync
Message-ID: <mailman.4160.1576008247.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com> writes:

> ----- Original Message -----
>
>> From: Philip Hands <phil at hands.com>
>> To: Chris Troutner <Chris.Troutner at PACCAR.com>; freedombox-discuss at lists.alioth.debian.org
>> Cc: 
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 8:02 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] BitTorrent Sync
>> 
>> Chris Troutner <Chris.Troutner at PACCAR.com> writes:
>> 
>>>  I ran across this article on Slashdot about the new Sync platform in
>>>  alpha test by BitTorrent. Apparently it's 'like' Dropbox, but 
>> it uses
>>>  your own machine. It allows file synchronization between two (or more)
>>>  computers, like your laptop and personal server.
>>> 
>>>  http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/01/25/1941226/bittorrent-launches-
>>>  dropbox-alternative
>>> 
>>>  Does anyone know more about this?
>> 
>> I don't, when I read about it I thought that if I wanted such a thing,
>> I'd almost certainly use git-annex instead (and 'git annex 
>> assistant' in
>> particular).  See:
>> 
>>   http://git-annex.branchable.com/assistant/
>
> It's like bittorrent sync, except it doesn't scale and doesn't use
> encryption out of the box.

Well, since you put it like that, I guess I have to set you straight:

It uses ssh out of the box -- so there's your transport encryption, and
it optionally uses GPG encryption for special remotes (i.e. dumping your
files in Amazon S3, or a USB stick, say), so yes, it does do encryption
out of the box in the places where one might actually want it.

  http://git-annex.branchable.com/encryption/

As for scaling, it depends what you're after, but since (if using the
assistant) you can nudge remotes into attempting to pull from one
another via XMPP, I think it's got quite a few of the real world use
cases covered for scalability too.

The big win for me is that it builds on proven technology, that is easy
to trust.  I know I'd much rather trust the crypto in ssh and GPG than
something alpha from bittorrent.

Git's had a fair amount of testing too (as has git annex).

Bittorrent sync on the other hand is currently in an invitation-only
pre-alpha phase, it seems.

Cheers, Phil.
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From eugen at leitl.org  Wed Jan 30 01:36:13 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:36:13 +0100
Subject: Wireless mesh researchers target defence applications
Message-ID: <20130130093613.GD6172@leitl.org>

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/330468,wireless-mesh-researchers-target-defence-applications.aspx

Wireless mesh researchers target defence applications

By Krishan Sharma on Jan 30, 2013 7:00 AM (13 hours ago)
 
Carrier-free communications get encrypted.

Flinders University researchers are preparing to test a new version of open
source wireless mesh project Serval that could pave the way for encrypted,
carrier-free communications for defence and disaster relief organisations.

The Serval app uses wireless mesh network technology to turns any Android
smartphone into a node, capable of sending, repeating and receiving signals
to others in the mesh network.

It has been used by the New Zealand Red Cross to in trial exercises in the
past year and will undergo a second round of field trials next month to test
encryption and range advances.

Flinders University project leader Dr Paul Gardner-Stephen told this weekbs
linux.conf.au conference that the app could allow users to make military
grade encrypted voice, calls, SMS and share files for free without the need
of phone towers or satellite providers.

bOur Mesh network will enable Government or military staff stationed overseas
to communicate and transfer sensitive data securely and without the need of
local phone tower infrastructure,b he told iTnews.

Dr Gardner-Stephen said Serval would pursue government and the defence use
cases where personnel on the ground could not risk using the local
infrastructure for particularly sensitive voice and data exchanges.

Red Cross field trials of new, encrypted features were due to take place in
remote parts of New Zealand where local carriers did not typically provide
phone service.

The app uses a purpose-built Rhizone protocol to enable 256-bit AES
cryptographic encryption on all communications.

For the trials, Red Cross ground teams will perform day-to-day tasks
including collecting sensitive onsite field report data, real time map
tracking of all personnel for safety management, sending logistics requests
and pushing app updates to handsets all via the mesh.

Serval has received more than $US1 million dollars in funding since the
project's inceptiobn including $400,000 from open source pioneer Mark
Shuttleworth.

The Serval app is available on the Google Play Store.




From greatfire at greatfire.org  Tue Jan 29 20:11:48 2013
From: greatfire at greatfire.org (Martin Johnson)
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:11:48 +0800
Subject: [liberationtech] Man-in-the-middle attack on GitHub in China
Message-ID: <mailman.4161.1576008247.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

At around 8pm, on January 26, reports appeared on Weibo and Twitter that
users in China trying to access GitHub.com were getting warning messages
about invalid SSL certificates. The evidence, listed further down in this
post, indicates that this was caused by a man-in-the-middle attack. Full
post at https://en.greatfire.org/blog/2013/jan/china-github-and-man-middle

One interesting conclusion is that support for HTTP Strict Transport
Security in Chrome and Firefox makes a real difference. If
man-in-the-middle attacks become more common in China, preventing users
from adding exceptions and making the warning messages informative is
crucial. We need to find ways to convince users to use browsers that
support these safety measures. Currently, around 50% of Internet users in
China use either the 360 so-called Safety Browser (which is a very ironic
name) or Internet Explorer 6 (yes, it lives on in China).

Martin Johnson
Founder
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https://FreeWeibo.com - Uncensored, Anonymous Sina Weibo Search.
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From drwho at virtadpt.net  Wed Jan 30 09:24:47 2013
From: drwho at virtadpt.net (The Doctor)
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:24:47 -0500
Subject: [HacDC:Byzantium] byzantium-v0.3a-RC-20130129-1012
Message-ID: <mailman.4162.1576008247.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

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> How can I prove that the mesh is operating and that other nodes
> are acceding to and seceding from the mesh?

Associate a client of some kind, like another laptop or a smartphone,
with the mesh.  Ping it.  Try to browse it.  Plug the mesh node into a
hardline and try to browse the Net with the client.  Look at the
network configuration of the client (IP address, DNSes, default gateway).

> I would like to see some window that lists the nodes within range.

Open a feature request at Github so it's on our radar.  It'll get lost
in the mailing list archives.

> I would like to do something on one computer that I can see
> mirrored on another computer within the mesh.

Put multiple clients on the mesh.  Run a web server on one (like XAMP)
and try to browse it.  There is nothing preventing clients from
interacting with one another directly.

> At this stage of development, I want to test the internal operation
> of the mesh before connecting it to the Internet via a gateway.

Ping?  Traceroute?  tcpdump?

> From the casual user perspective it isn't obvious what Byzantium
> is doing or offering.

Did you look at the release notes (/RELEASE_NOTES.txt) or the Github
page (https://github.com/Byzantium/Byzantium/blob/master/README.md)?

"THIS IS ALSO A VERY SPECIAL RELEASE! We built this release in the
days following Hurricane Sandy and deployed it in New York City. We've
streamlined it a lot..."

We built this release when we were in New York to serve a specific
purpose: infrastructure.  The community's goal was to restore
connectivity and not specific services, so we removed a lot of things
from this release to facilitate that.

We took some features out - this helped us make layers 1-4 of the OSI
model as robust as we possibly could while in the field.  This release
is meant to maintain momentum, and now that we have a robust platform
to build on we can start adding things back at the higher layers in v0.4a.

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From jsalsman at gmail.com  Wed Jan 30 14:11:07 2013
From: jsalsman at gmail.com (James Salsman)
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:11:07 -0700
Subject: which is the best hosting provider in Antigua?
Message-ID: <mailman.4163.1576008247.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:12:21 +0000
From: Richard Symonds <richard dot symonds at wikimedia dot org dot uk>
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] "Legalised Piracy"

Very interesting things happening in Antigua and the US:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21247683

Essentially, the World Trade Organization (WTO) have ruled that the islands
have the right to suspend US intellectual property rights. It all stems
from a trade dispute in 2003, where the US effectively banned electronic
interstate gambling, which in turn damaged Antigua's economy."

This has led to one thing and another, and "...on Monday the WTO's dispute
settlement body gave final authorisation for Antigua to sell movies, music,
games and software via a store that would be able to ignore US copyright
and trademark claims."

I'm not sure what this means for the movement - I'm sure there will be a
long and lively discussion - but it's a very interesting turn of events in
IP law.

Richard Symonds
Wikimedia UK

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From eugen at leitl.org  Wed Jan 30 09:35:56 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:35:56 +0100
Subject: [HacDC:Byzantium] byzantium-v0.3a-RC-20130129-1012
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Subject: EDRi-gram newsletter - Number 11.2, 30 January 2013
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EDRi-gram

biweekly newsletter about digital civil rights in Europe

Number 11.2, 30 January 2013

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Contents
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1. An introduction to Data Protection
2. EU governments keep increasing requests to Google for private data
3.Finnish copyright law might be changed following crowdsourcing support
4. German government intends to use FinFisher Spyware
5. Slovenia has a net neutrality law
6. Greater transparency and accountability of surveillance systems
7. Kroes ignoring the problems on net neutrality?
8. Recommended Action
9. Recommended Reading
10. Agenda
11. About

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1. An introduction to Data Protection
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EDRi launched the booklet "An introduction to Data Protection" on 28
January 2013, the European Data Protection day.

The booklet is intended to provide an overview of some of the key issues
and jargon surrounding data protection in the digital environment: from
"what is personal data" to anonymisation, profiling, big data and cloud
computing.

At its core, data protection is about preserving a fundamental right
that is reflected in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European
Union, Council of Europe Convention 108, as well as other international
agreements and national constitutions.

The processing and re-use of citizensb data has become increasingly
important from an economic perspective. It has lead to pressure to
weaken this fundamental right and also to change the legislative
framework to make legal protections less predictable.

EDRi hopes that this document will be a positive contribution to the
debate, and that the outcome of the review process will ensure
predictable and proportionate protection of privacy in the digital age b
reinforcing the European Unionbs global leadership on this topic.

The booklet is available under Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 licence,
allowing thus furthers translations and free dissemination.

An introduction to Data Protection (01.2013)
http://www.edri.org/files/paper06_datap.pdf

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2. EU governments keep increasing requests to Google for private data
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According to Google's latest Transparency Report released on 24 January
2013, EU governmentsb requests for usersb IP addresses, Internet
browsing history, email communications or documents have dramatically
increased during the last three years. Only between July and December
2012, the average number of such requests was over 1200/month, more than
a third of all requests made by governments worldwide, and a 100%
increase in the last three years.

bThe information we hand over to companies like Google paints a detailed
picture of who we are - from our political and religious views to our
friendships, associations and locations. This information therefore
merits the highest degree of privacy and security, and should only be
accessed by third parties under exceptional circumstances. Governments
must stop treating the user data held by corporations as a treasure
trove of information they can mine whenever they please, with little or
no judicial authorisation,b said Carly Nyst, Privacy International's
Head of International Advocacy.

Googlebs report also reveals that a large amount of requests was denied
by Google for being too broad in scope, unlawful or incorrectly
submitted. In their major part, the requests involve criminal
investigations. Google states that a request is sometimes made for
several types of data and, in some cases, the company notifies the user
in advance that a government police agency intends to get information
from their accounts.

"The alarming statistics in this latest Transparency Report serve as a
reminder of the need for stronger national and regional privacy
protections in relation to online communications. To this end, Privacy
International, together with a coalition of organisations including the
Electronic Frontier Foundation, will soon be publishing a set of
International Principles on Communications Surveillance and Human
Rights. We hope these principles will offer guidance to governments
about the standards and safeguards that must be put in place to
safeguard the right to privacy online," stated Carly Nyst.

Google Transparency Report
http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/government/

Google Transparency Report for second half of 2012 shows European
government attempts to access private data at an all-time high (24.01.2013)
https://www.privacyinternational.org/press-releases/google-transparency-report-for-second-half-of-2012-shows-european-government-attempts

Estonian President: EU citizens should trust the state on data rights
(24.01.2013)
http://euobserver.com/justice/118825

Google Transparency Report shows rise in data requests (23.01.2013)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21169162

EDRi-gram: Google Transparency report: increasing trend of government
censorship (20.06.2012)
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number10.12/google-transparency-report-increased-govt-surveillance

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3.Finnish copyright law might be changed following crowdsourcing support
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People may be able to influence the fate of the copyright legislation in
Finland due to a recent modification of the national Constitution
allowing citizens to make legislative proposals for the Parliament.

The Finnish Constitution says that a private legislative proposal can be
sent to the Parliament for vote if it gets 50 000 supporters within 6
months. Differently from other countries, where a certain number of
signatures makes a private proposal be considered and eventually
discussed by the government, the Finnish constitutional amendment forces
the Finnish government to examine the law, make clarifications if
appropriate, and put it to a vote.

A private non-profit initiative called Open Ministry was formed to
ensure the good quality of the proposals, facilitate the discussion and
collect the signatures for private legislative proposals.

On 23 January 2013, a new proposal called bTo Make Sense of the
Copyright Actb was promoted in Open Ministry aiming at bringing changes
to the copyright law especially regarding Lex Karpela, a 2006 amendment
to the Finnish copyright law that firmly criminalizes digital piracy.

According to Open Ministry chair Joonas Pekkanen, on the basis of Lex
Karpela, "countless youngsters have been found guilty of copyright
crimes and sentenced to pay thousands, in some cases hundreds of
thousands of Euros in punitive damages to the copyright organizations."

The proposal, which is now one of the most commented and signed
proposals in the Open Ministry, having already reached more than 12 500
signatures, includes the reduction of criminal penalties, defining
personal cloud-services and class education as private use and removal
of enforcement rights like "one strike" from the law. In addition, the
individual uploading of copyright-protected material to the Internet
should be reduced to ba misdemeanor". Also, the proposal would allow the
parody and satire of the works and very extensive use of works for
research purposes.

According to the 49 999 group that organises a campaign for the bill,
"To Make Sense of the Copyright Act" has the simple aim of having ba
fair and just copyright law in Finland and "is not a pro-piracy law
proposal.b The proposal thus includes also a section, which would
require fair compensation for artists and authors in the publishing
agreements similarly as the German copyright law already does.

It is possible that the initiative reaches its goal of getting 50 000
signatures by the 23 July 2013 and although there is no guarantee that
the Government will actually approve it as such, at least it needs to
give proper attention to it.

Finnish campaigners seek crowdsourced change to copyright legislation
(24.01.2013)
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-01/24/finland-copyright-law-crowdsource

Finlandbs Crowdsourced Copyright Law Proposal (23.01.2013)
http://torrentfreak.com/finlands-crowdsourced-copyright-law-proposal-130124/

Finland is crowdsourcing its new copyright law (23.01.2013)
http://www.dailydot.com/news/finland-crowdsourcing-new-copyright-law/

Lex Karpela
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_Karpela

The 49 999 Campaign page:
http://49999.org/

Signature count (only in Finnish)
https://www.kansalaisaloite.fi/fi/aloite/70

Open Ministry - Crowdsourcing Legislation (English blog page for Open
Ministry)
http://openministry.info/

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4. German government intends to use FinFisher Spyware
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A classified document of the German Ministry of Interior, revealed by
netzpolitik.org, shows that the German Federal Police office has
purchased the commercial Spyware toolkit FinFisher of Eleman/Gamma
Group, for telecommunication surveillance.

Commercial software meant to survey telecommunications has been used by
the German police before. In October 2011, German organization Chaos
Computer Club (CCC) revealed and analysed the use of a malware created
by DigiTask and used by German government authorities. CCC showed that
DigiTask software was badly programmed, lacked elementary security
protection and allowed remote updating and adding of new features, being
therefore in breach of the German law.

DigiTask spyware has been largely dropped and many German authorities
started to create their own state malware. A Center of Competence for
Information Technology Surveillance (CC ITC) was established for this
purpose. According to the leaked classified document dated 7 December,
the Federal Criminal Police Office plans to have its own surveillance
malware by the end of 2014. But until then, the police will continue to
use commercial software and therefore, has acquired such a product from
company Eleman/Gamma.

The software in question, FinFisher/FinSpy IT, a very complex programme
that can take over several types of devices such as Windows, OS X,
Linux, iOS, Android, Symbian or Blackberry, is known to have been used
by authoritarian regimes in the world to spy on political activists.

Although the software is kept secret, it appears that it consists of a
trojan that can also remotely load additional feature modules, such as a
module for recording Skype conversations. In any case, the Federal
Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information and the
Federal Office for Information Security, as it comes out from the leaked
document from the Ministry of Interior, were unable to audit the source
code of the program to verify whether it complies with the German law.

bWith the purchase of Gamma FinFisher, the Federal Criminal Police
Office has chosen a vendor that has become a symbol for the use of
surveillance technology in oppressive regimes worldwide. FinFisher also
consists of various components, which can be loaded when needed, thereby
allowing the installation of spying capabilities that go far beyond the
already questionable bwiretapping at the source,bb stated CCC
spokesperson Frank Rieger.

In UK, the Secretary of State put FinSpy software under export
restrictions, requiring Gamma company to acquire a licence to export
these tools.

Secret Government Document Reveals: German Federal Police Plans To Use
Gamma FinFisher Spyware (16.01.2013)
https://netzpolitik.org/2013/secret-government-document-reveals-german-federal-police-plans-to-use-gamma-finfisher-spyware/

Chaos Computer Club analyzes government malware (8.11.2011)
http://ccc.de/en/updates/2011/staatstrojaner

German Federal Cops Buy Notorious FinFisher Surveillance Software
(26.01.2013)
http://www.spamfighter.com/News-18165-German-Federal-Cops-Buy-Notorious-FinFisher-Surveillance-Software.htm

British government admits it has already started controlling exports of
Gamma International's FinSpy (10.09.2012)
https://www.privacyinternational.org/press-releases/british-government-admits-it-has-already-started-controlling-exports-of-gamma

EDRi-gram: Details on German State Trojan programme (24.10.2012)
http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number10.20/details-german--state-spyware-Staatstrojaner

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5. Slovenia has a net neutrality law
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On 20 December 2012, the Slovenian Parliament approved a legislative
framework (the Economic Communications Bill) that includes net
neutrality, confirming the open and neutral character of the Internet
and forbidding the discrimination of Internet traffic on the basis of
the services provided.

Although the text of the law is not entirely clear, it seems that ISPs
will not be allowed to restrict or delay Internet traffic, unless the
purpose is to solve congestions, preserve security or address spam, and
they will not be allowed to charge their subscribers with different
prices for connectivity, on the basis on the services provided over the
Internet.

A similar law was passed in the Netherlands and is under debate in
Belgium. Incumbent companies might strongly criticise this direction as
it affects their attempts to apply high fees for connectivity to major
online services providers such as Google.

The fight for real Internet neutrality could be affected by such type
of legislation, especially if more EU member states decide to pass
similar laws.

Slovenia reinforces net neutrality principles (3.01.2013)
http://radiobruxelleslibera.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/slovenia-reinforces-net-neutrality-principles/

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6. Greater transparency and accountability of surveillance systems
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A report called "Surveillance, Fighting Crime and Violence" was produced
by the IRISS (Increasing Resilience in Surveillance Societies) project
funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme.

The report analyses the factors underpinning the development and use of
surveillance systems and technologies by both public authorities and
private actors, their implications in fighting crime and terrorism,
social and economic costs, protection and infringement of civil
liberties, fundamental rights and ethical aspects.

The project has identified the following trends: (1) a substantial
growth of public sector demand for surveillance bolstered by the
adoption of identity schemes and terrorist detection technologies and
markets, (2) an increase in the demand for civil and commercial
surveillance, (3) the development of a global industry in surveillance,
(4) an increase in integrated surveillance solutions, and (5) a rise in
the government use of cross-border surveillance solutions.

bThe role of surveillance in law enforcement is expanding,b says IRISS
project co-ordinator Reinhard Kreissl. bThere has been a shift in its
use in identifying offenders before they have committed a crime. This
has affected the presumption of innocence in a way that citizens are now
considered suspects (a shift to a presumption of guilt).b With the
growth of encompassing preventive surveillance, the presumption of
innocence as an important legal safeguard is gradually hollowed out.

bThere are numerous open questions about the usefulness and
effectiveness of surveillance technologies and their possible rebound
effects, specifically in relation to surveillance measures introduced to
fight terrorism and organised crime without knowledge of their
effectiveness and consideration of their negative side effects.b

Among the reportbs other findings and recommendations, two of them
should be mention in the current context:

1. Important social costs of surveillance include the social damage
caused by false positives of suspects of criminal and terrorist
activities, the categorical suspicion and discrimination of members of
certain social or ethnic groups, the marginalising effects and social
inequalities caused by invasive monitoring of those of lower social
status, the inhibitory effects of surveillance which can undermine
social and democratic activities, and the erosion of trust in society.

2. Data protection authorities as external overseers and regulators
typically focus upon the privacy-related implications of surveillance
and find it difficult to embrace a wider perspective of values in their
regulatory exhortations and enforcement practice. The laws within which
they operate do not normally give them a licence to roam across the
range of values to invoke when they seek to limit surveillance.

The report was produced by a consortium of 16 partners from
universities, research institutes and companies from Austria, Belgium,
Germany, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Slovakia, Spain and the United Kingdom.

IRISS report: "Surveillance, Fighting Crime and Violence" (17.12.2012)
http://irissproject.eu/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/IRISS_D1_MASTER_DOCUMENT_17Dec20121.pdf

IRSS project
http://irissproject.eu/

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7. Kroes ignoring the problems on net neutrality?
=======================================================================

Neelie Kroes, the European Commissioner for Internet-related policies,
recently published an article in the French newspaper Liberation stating
that while she was in favour of an open Internet and maximum choice that
must be protected, and she believed that "consumers should be free to
make their own choices about their Internet subscriptionsb, this "does
not preclude consumers from subscribing to more differentiated, limited
Internet offers, possibly for a lower price."

The entire discussion occurred after Free, one of the largest ISPs in
France, decided to block Web ads by default on its FreeBox router thus
placing several ISPs which depend on advertising in a very bad position.
This kind of practice can be avoided by making net neutrality mandatory
through EU legislation which will ensure a fair competition on the
market and will promote innovation.

In her opinion, Kroes drew the attention that consumers bshould not
forget that choice has consequences. Opting for blocking ads or
requesting privacy (bdo not trackb) may mean you donbt get access to
content for free. The internet does not run on its own. The network,
content and internet access all have to be paid for by someone. Many
smaller web operators exist on the basis of innovative advertising
models. There are various ways consumers pay for content, including by
viewing advertisements before or during their access to content.
Businesses should accept that different consumers will have different
preferences, and design services accordingly.b

However, less than one year ago, in May 2012 Kroes stated: bWe have
recently seen how many thousands of people are willing to protest
against rules which they see as constraining the openness and innovation
of the Internet. This is a strong new political voice. And as a force
for openness, I welcome it, even if I do not always agree with
everything it says on every subject. We are now likely to be in a world
without SOPA and without ACTA. Now we need to find solutions to make the
Internet a place of freedom, openness, and innovation fit for all
citizens, not just for the techno avant-garde.b

But now, the commissioner brings in the bfree marketb argument in favour
of differentiated offers which will actually restrict the open market
for online services.

bOn net neutrality, consumers need effective choice on the type of
internet subscription they sign up to. That means real clarity, in
non-technical language. About effective speeds in normal conditions, and
about any restrictions imposed on traffic b and a realistic option to
switch to a bfullb service, without such restrictions, offered by their
own provider or another. Ensuring consumer choice can mean constraints
on others b in this case, an obligation for all internet service
providers to offer an accessible bfullb option to their customers. But
such choice should also drive innovation and investment by internet
providers, with benefits for all. I am preparing a Commission initiative
to secure this effective consumer choice in Europe.b

La Quatrature du Net has been quick in reacting and qualified Kroesb
opinion as a bshameless defence of operatorsb. bNet neutrality is not a
question of market but, before anything else, a question of fundamental
freedoms", stated Benjamin Sonntag, co-founder of La Quadrature du Net.

Net Neutrality: Neelie Kroes Yields to Operator Pressure (17.01.2013)
https://www.laquadrature.net/en/net-neutrality-neelie-kroes-yields-to-operator-pressure

Internet and filtering applications: a question of choice and recipes
(in French, 16.01.2013)
http://www.liberation.fr/medias/2013/01/16/internet-et-applications-de-filtrage-une-histoire-de-choix-et-de-recettes_874443

Internet and filtering applications: a tale of choice and revenues
(17.01.2013)
http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/neelie-kroes/adgate/

Will Neelie Kroes Defend or Destroy EU Net Neutrality? (21.01.2013)
http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2013/01/will-neelie-kroes-defend-or-destroy-eu-net-neutrality/index.htm

EU Commissioner Kroes won't be bullied on net neutrality, says spokesman
(18.01.2013)
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/internet/3421385/eu-commissioner-kroes-wont-be-bullied-on-net-neutrality-says-spokesman/

EDRi-gram: French Minister asks US company to uphold France's values
(16.01.2013)
http://edri.org/edrigram/number11.1/french-minister-net-neutrality

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8. Recommended Action
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Sign The Brussels Privacy Declaration!

On 24 January 2013, EDRi, Privacy International, EPIC and Bits of
Freedom launched The Brussels Privacy Declaration during the Computers,
Privacy and Data Protection Conference (CPDP) in Brussels.

The declaration describes the concerns of civil society organizations as
well as of academics and citizens about the data protection law reform
and calls upon the European Parliament as and national governments to
safeguards citizens' privacy rights.

The declaration has been sent to MEPs and the European Commission on 28
January 2013 (Data Protection Day).

The Brussels Privacy Declaration
http://brusselsdeclaration.net/

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9. Recommended Reading
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RIP CleanIT (29.01.2013)
http://www.edri.org/rip-cleanit

Fear, uncertainty and doubt b the key threats to the fundamental right
to privacy
http://www.europeanprivacyday.org/fear-uncertainty-and-doubt-%E2%80%93-key-threats-fundamental-right-privacy

Copyright vs Freedom of Expression ECHR Judgment -  Ashby Donald and
others vs France (22.01.2013)
http://echrblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/copyright-vs-freedom-of-expression.html

US free to grab EU data on American clouds (28.01.2013)
http://euobserver.com/justice/118857

Study Maps the Emerging Ethics of File Sharing and Copyright Enforcement
(15.01.2013)
http://torrentfreak.com/study-maps-the-emerging-ethics-of-file-sharing-and-enforcement-130115/

Letter to Skype about confidentiality concerns (24.01.2013)
http://en.rsf.org/letter-to-skype-about-24-01-2013,43949.html

Identity Project tells UN Human Rights Committee that US violates the
right to travel (8.01.2013)
http://papersplease.org/wp/2013/01/08/identity-project-tells-un-human-rights-committee-that-us-violates-the-right-to-travel/

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10. Agenda
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2-3 February 2013, Brussels, Belgium
FOSDEM
https://fosdem.org/2013/

14-15 February 2013, Vienna, Austria
Internet 2013 - Shaping policies to advance media freedom
http://www.osce.org/event/internet2013

21-22 February 2013, Washington DC, USA
Intellectual Property and Human Rights Conference and Roundtable Discussion
Webcasted live and archived
http://www.wcl.american.edu/pijip/go/blog-post/intellectual-property-and-human-rights-conference-and-roundtable-discussion

22 February 2013, Warsaw, Poland
ePSIplatform Conference: "Gotcha! Getting everyone on board"
http://epsiplatform.eu/content/save-date-22-february-2013-epsiplatform-conference

21-22 March 2013, Malta
Online Privacy: Consenting to your Future
http://www.onlineprivacyconference.eu/

6-8 May 2013, Berlin, Germany
re:publica 2013
CfP by 31 January 2013
http://re-publica.de/en/

20-21 June 2013, Lisbon, Portugal
EuroDIG 2013
http://www.eurodig.org/

25-26 June 2013, Barcelona, Spain
9th International Conference on Internet Law & Politics: Big Data:
Challenges and Opportunities.
http://edcp.uoc.edu/symposia/idp2013/?lang=en

25-26 June 2013, Washington, DC, USA
23rd Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference (CFP)
CfP by 1 March 2013
http://www.cfp.org/2013

31 July b 4 August 2013, Geestmerambacht, Netherlands
Observe. Hack. Make. - OHM2013
https://ohm2013.org/

23-26 September 2013, Warsaw, Poland
Public Voice Conference 2013
35th International Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners conference
http://www.giodo.gov.pl/259/id_art/762/j/en/

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From frieder.ferlemann at web.de  Wed Jan 30 14:50:02 2013
From: frieder.ferlemann at web.de (Frieder Ferlemann)
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 23:50:02 +0100
Subject: [serval-project-dev] we are in the news again
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Hi,

on the article:
"Wireless mesh researchers target defence applications"
(itnews for australian business, 2013-01-30)

It's so absurd that there should be no need to
publically debunk. Don't feed the trolls.

It should be pretty obvious that many design decisions
would not be the first choice for defence applications.
Rather among the last choices for defence applications.



The 2.4 GHz band was more or less unwanted worldwide
because of high absorption due to water. It's nicer
to communicate when the weather is fine, but I doubt
this a primary concern for military applications.


Many households possess devices (microwave ovens,
yes, it somehow has something to do with water) that
could be turned into effective (powerful, dangerous)
jamming devices for 2.4 GHz.


The signal to noise ratio on frequencies which
are used by commodity devices tends to be
suboptimal.
Well, it occasionally tends to be noisy in
defence applications anyway, maybe let's
consider signal:


The RF power for wifi signals is _way_ lower than
what Walkie Talkies have used more than a quarter of
a century ago.
Downsizing has my empathy and I like the retro
aspect of it as well:


In nowadays hectic it's nice to have something
that needs one or the other minute to boot.
(With solar cells the runtime of mobile phones
can be prolonged so shutdown/reboot because of
lack of wall plugs gets less of an issue.)
Now we pondered about time, how about location:


Wifi dongle/card/chipset/routers (preferrably one of
those cheap devices which have multiple (phase shiftable)
antenna) could be programmed to see the traffic
by batphones. Well rather "can" be programmed
than "could" be programmed to see the traffic
by batphones as that is what batphone is about.
No way to decode the content but ain't it nice
to see that and roughly where there is traffic?
Maybe some military camouflage spoilsport gets picky
about being located but why not opt for a little
transparency?
Ever heard of location based services?
Come on, don't be shy it's a new millenium!


And what seems to be a good grassroot approach
because of being (low budget) available everywhere
is a double edged sword because drones could
also lock onto wifi.
Hey that was the hidden plan, how did you know?


The objective of serval project to enable connecting
with anyone anywhere has not yet been the primary
focus of military communication.
That's about to change: now there is batphone!

One might consider renaming batphone though.
"bad phone" casts doubt whether the phone really
is for the good guys.


The funding seems to be unconventional too.
Maybe a little on the low side for military
projects. Has downsizing been mentioned lately?
And if military pays please pay attention to the
bad phone - good guy conflict.

Historically military has wanted to have an edge
over competing military. This traditionally
favoured secrecy over openness.
Open source development is on the opposite end
of that scale.
Military might have changed though.


On second thought maybe it's a nicely
investigated article and worth to talk
about but just got leaked 2 months
and 2 days early?


Greetings,
Frieder

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From a.cammozzo at gmail.com  Thu Jan 31 03:55:21 2013
From: a.cammozzo at gmail.com (A.Cammozzo)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:55:21 +0100
Subject: [liberationtech] Is the Cyberwar beginning?
Message-ID: <mailman.4166.1576008247.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

Hello Andreas,
thank you for your call for discussion.

Consider that cyberwar or netwar is "coming" since 1993 [1]...

But what kind of "war" are we expecting? What metaphor should we use to  
describe the increasing belligerency on the net?
Surely not a war fought by the military following a declaration according 
to formal protocols of the Hague Convention!

I think we could consider two different metaphors of the latent form of  
confrontation we are observing:

(1) the pirate-like war fought by the privateer, private person or company 
authorized by a government, making profit from prize money or bounties.
Off metaphor, the "Data Privateer" has the freedom to take advantage from 
data gathered in commerce raiding or "guerre de course" activities, being 
under explicit or implicit government immunity.
Can we find clues or evidence for this kind of entities? Think for  
instance of government agencies spying on their own citizens, sometimes  
acting in grey zones un-encoded by laws, and their contractors.

(2) Cyberwar as a vector of Data Colonialism. Considering the Cyberspace a 
"territory" is a mistake, but following Luciano Floridi "Infosphere" [2] 
concept, it is the part of a wider environment. In this context the net is 
a sort of "space-like opportunity" where states do confront not in terms of 
sovereignty, but with their ability to access to all kind of data resources 
available, even if protected by other state's laws.
This "war" is part of the global political and economic effort to control 
data as raw material and sell data exploitation infrastructures.
To achieve this goal, states must show a twofold ability: to offend,  
stealing and destroying data and data infrastructures; and to defend, an  
essential element to maintain a tutelary power on their citizens (data  
protection) and a political and economic power on countries unable to  
autonomously develop the same abilities.


Of course these two metaphors do overlap some times.
This kind of collateral warfare has been going on for years.

Sincerely,

Alberto


[1] Arquilla, John, and David Ronfeldt. "Cyberwar is coming!." Comparative 
Strategy 12, no. 2 (1993): 141-165.
p.28: <<netwar represents a new entry on the spectrum of conflict that  
spans economic, political, and social as well as military forms of bwar.b 
In contrast to economic wars that target the production and distribution of 
goods, and political wars that aim at the leadership and institutions of a 
government, netwars would be distinguished by their targeting of 
information and communications.>>

[2] Floridi, L., 2007. A Look into the Future Impact of ICT on Our Lives. 
The Information Society, 23(1), p.59-64.



On 01/31/2013 09:26 AM, Andreas Bader wrote:
> On 01-29-2013 the website http://www.syrian-martyrs.com/ got hacked.
> On 01-30-2013 there was a man in the middle attack on GitHub (?).
> On 01-27-2013 the Pentagon was boosting the "Cybersecurity Force".
> On 01-14-2013 "Red October" was exposed.
> And that were only the big incidents in this year. Things like that are
> accumulating. Are we slipping in the cyberwar experts are warning of
> since years?
> I just want to initiate a discussion. Your opinions?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Andreas
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From eugen at leitl.org  Thu Jan 31 03:57:01 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:57:01 +0100
Subject: [liberationtech] Is the Cyberwar beginning?
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From dcmk1mr2 at gmail.com  Thu Jan 31 13:16:42 2013
From: dcmk1mr2 at gmail.com (Martin)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:16:42 -0500
Subject: [HacDC:Byzantium] Re: ello! from irc this "morning"
Message-ID: <mailman.4167.1576008247.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

Sorry for the late reply - been off grid for a bit.

I'm one of the hams at HacDC.  I've been following the discussion of
alternative radio systems to increase range and think there are interesting
projects outside the scope of Byzantium - overlaying Byzantium on a
different radio system or bridging disparate Byzantium clouds with a
different radio system.

I'm not sure that GSM is a good direction as it depends on cell providers
infrastructure.  There's a bunch of new high speed radio modem technology
beyond GSM technology and most modem processing can be done with a PC or
cell phone, etc.  Using SDR just for the radio part might be a way to go.
There are cheap Chinese ham radios out there, so that might be a cheaper
route depending what frequency is used.

As discussed the lower the frequency the better the range and penetration
but smaller bandwidth and data-rate. The HF ham bands are orientated around
3 KHz SSB or 7KHz AM channels that are typically operated up to 1,200 BPS
though with sufficient signal/noise ratio it's possible to achieve much
higher data rates.

I think VHF might be the sweet spot if you go ham.  With the right antenna
and enough power VHF will propagate much further than WiFi in any setting.
 The VHF ham bands have 25 KHz bandwidth FM  channels with higher data
rates possible over HF (typically 9,600 bps - more is possible).  There are
50W mobile units for ~$200.  I got mine used for $75.

Beyond ham there is the 900 MHz/1 watt max power ISM band .  This
is probably too expensive a route but doesn't require a license and would
still outperform WiFi.

New radio technology can push the legal limits of FCC regulations.  It is
possible to get either an experimental license or waiver or even rules
change from the FCC.  Some of the FRS regs (95.193.b.2) were changed as the
result of Garmin lobbying to allow for text/position locating features for
their products, for example.   There's also a push for self-regulation of
amateur radio within the FCC allocations.

FWIW the ham community has developed ax.25 packet bbs over radio systems
for decades.  There's probably some good ideas out there.  The Montgomery
County ARC mesh experimenters have been running HSMM-Mesh in the UHF ham
band using these radios:
http://doodlelabs.com/products/sub-ghz-range/420-450-mhz-band-dl435.html

My $0.02.

Martin KB3UJQ



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From nathan at freitas.net  Thu Jan 31 01:58:40 2013
From: nathan at freitas.net (Nathan Freitas)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:58:40 +0700
Subject: [tor-talk] "MUMBLE AND THE BANDWIDTH" b Anonymous CB Radio with Mumble and Tor
Message-ID: <mailman.4168.1576008247.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>


The first results of our work using Mumble VoIP over Tor:

https://guardianproject.info/2013/01/31/anonymous-cb-radio-with-mumble-and-tor/

We are working on the open-source Plumble for Android client to enable
Force TCP over SOCKS mode, with the Opus low-bandwidth codec:

https://github.com/Morlunk/Plumble/issues/60

Looks promising!

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From gfoster at entersection.org  Thu Jan 31 20:08:22 2013
From: gfoster at entersection.org (Gregory Foster)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:08:22 -0600
Subject: [drone-list] Reddit AMA w/ Predator pilots in Afghanistan
Message-ID: <mailman.4169.1576008247.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

Reddit (Jan 29) - "We are the Predator UAV Pilot/Operators currently in  
Afghanistan. AMAA!":
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/17j9wa/we_are_predator_uav_pilotoperators_currently_in/

Haven't had a chance to review thoroughly, but looks like there's some  
interesting questions posed about the training the pilots received (a  
6-month course compressed to 1-month resulting in an FAA license) and  
similarities w/ video games.

Please share any interesting quotes you find.
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From gfoster at entersection.org  Thu Jan 31 20:12:36 2013
From: gfoster at entersection.org (Gregory Foster)
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:12:36 -0600
Subject: [drone-list] CRS on integration of drones into NAS
Message-ID: <mailman.4170.1576008247.31620.cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org>

CRS (Jan 30) - "Integration of Drones into Domestic Airspace: Selected  
Legal Issues":
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R42940.pdf

via

Secrecy News (Jan 31) - "Drone Programs Spark Budgetary, Privacy, Legal  
Concerns":
http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2013/01/drone_legal.html

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例えば(続きを読む⇒ http://angelmarriages.info/mn/works/
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◆40代男性(IT会社社長)
50名以上の部下を抱え、日々大きなプレッシャーと闘いながら仕事をしております。
ささやかな癒しの時間として、アナタと何気ない事、下らない事など気兼ねなく話せたら嬉しく思います。
話しが合って、もしご迷惑でなければ、直接会ってお食事なども出来れば嬉しいです。
幾つもの高級店を食べ歩いてきた私が自信をもってオススメする絶品料理をご馳走します。
例えば私の最近の行きつけは(続きを読む⇒http://angelmarriages.info/mn/works/
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さぁ！もう節約生活から解放されましょう!!
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http://angelmarriages.info/mn/works/




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From eugen at leitl.org  Thu Jan 31 22:56:15 2013
From: eugen at leitl.org (Eugen Leitl)
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 07:56:15 +0100
Subject: [HacDC:Byzantium] Re: ello! from irc this "morning"
Message-ID: <20130201065615.GJ6172@leitl.org>

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