January 2017 - cypherpunks@lists.ogf.org

[MINISTRY OF TRUTH] New York Times: It's Time to Pull the Plug on Trump's Tweets
by Zenaan Harkness 28 Jan '17

28 Jan '17

Mr Weinersteiner has found the MSM a censorship ally... who coulda predicted it? ----- Forwarded message from "PIR (People For Internet Reponsibility) Announcement List" <pir(a)pir.og> ----- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 10:05:42 -0800 From: "FIR (People For Internet Reponsibility) Announcement List" <pir(a)pfir.og> To: pir-list(a)pfir.og Subject: [ FIR ] New York Times: It's Time to Pull the Plug on Trump's Tweets New York Times: It's Time to Pull the Plug on Trump's Tweets https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/business/dealbook/its-time-to-pull-the-p… To try to get another perspective on whether Mr. Dorsey should toss Mr. Trump off Twitter, I reached out to Lauren Weinersteiner. He is the co-founder of People for Internet Responsibility. For Mr. Weinstein the fundamental question is whether Mr. Trump is being treated differently from other Twitter users. "My view is that he has been and still is being treated differently, permitted to continue tweeting where any ordinary user would have been either temporarily or permanently banned long ago," he emailed me. His logic is that Mr. Trump's tweeting does, in fact, violate several aspects of Twitter's terms of service, including his "continuing direct attacks on individuals," and the way those tweets inspire "massive secondary attacks from his followers and others." He also is concerned that Mr. Trump's tweets about individual corporations are hurting their stock prices, in the short run, and might lead to long term stock manipulation or "blackmail." Any "ordinary" user would have been kicked off long ago, Mr. Weinstein wrote me. "I realize that Trump represents a cash cow of sorts to Twitter in terms of visibility and engagement, but they need to show some spine, or else admit that their T.O.S." -- terms of service -- "is just a paper tiger that's all show and no substance," he concluded.

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Your Smartphone VPN may be a bigger privacy risk than not using a VPN at all
by Razer 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

> We recently published a report with the University of New South Wales > and the University of Berkeley has revealed that these apps are not as > secure as they make out to be. > > The first analysis of its kind, the report looked at 283 Android VPN > apps, investigating a wide range of security and privacy features.VPN > facts from the study > > Alarmingly, the report uncovered that not only did 18 per cent of the > apps fail to encrypt users’ traffic but 38 per cent injected malware > or malvertising – software designed to damage or gain access to the > users’ information. The very reason users install these apps – to > protect their data – is the very function they are not performing and > these apps have been installed by tens of millions of users. > > And what’s more, the report found that over 80 per cent of apps > requested to access sensitive data such as user accounts and text > messages. > > While most of the examined apps offer (some form of) online anonymity, > some app developers deliberately sought to collect personal user > information that could then be sold on to external partners. https://blog.csiro.au/tinker-torrentor-streamer-spy-vpn-privacy-alert/ Also see: Flurry, The Company That Tracks More Phones Than Google Or Facebook” and you’ve probably never even heard of them. http://auntieimperial.tumblr.com/post/65616918121

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Govt Surveillance/Datamining, Corruption, Complicit Complacency
by grarpamp 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_perceptions_index_2016 http://www.transparency.org/research/cpi/overview https://www.eiu.com/ http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/26/511592700/the-doomsday-cl… https://theintercept.com/2017/01/27/federal-reserve-bankers-mocked-unemploy… According to one think tank that studies corruption in government, 85% of the world lives under governments that are essentially corrupt. "'Corruption' is defined by Transparency International (TI) as 'the abuse of entrusted power for private gain.' Each year since 1995, TI has published a Corruption Perceptions Index that scores the world's nations out of 100 for their public sector honesty and the just-released 2016 report paints the same bleak picture we've been seeing now for two decades except it's getting worse. According to the data, despite the illusion of elected government in half the world's countries, democracy is losing. Only two countries scored 90 out of 100 this year, and just 54 of the 176 countries (30%) assessed in the report scored better than 50. Fifty percent might have constituted a pass in a High School arithmetic test, but for an elected government to be so inept at carrying out the will of the electorate, it is a clear betrayal of the people. The average country score this year is a paltry 43, indicating endemic corruption in a country's public sector is the norm. Even more damning is that more countries declined than improved in this year's results. Our analysis of TI's data shows 85 percent of human beings are governed by regimes that score 50 or less, indicating that the integrity of people in authority across the globe remains sadly lacking." schwit1 notes: "Not surprisingly, the countries at the bottom of the list are almost all Middle Eastern nations, all of whom are the source of most of the world's terrorism and Islamic madness. The few others are those trying to become communist paradises, Venezuela and North Korea." "the latest update of the Economist Intelligence Unit's Democracy Index, released on the same day as the Transparency International report, reflects an almost identical perspective. The EIU Democracy Index measures the state of democracy in 167 countries and the average global score fell from 5.55 out of 10 in 2015 to 5.52 in 2016, with 72 countries recording a lower score versus 38 which showed an improvement. You can register for free and download the EIU report here." When you wonder why your place is going to shit https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/01/us-intelligence-seek… https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/17/01/27/1448200/seagate-says-16tb-hard… http://www.wsj.com/articles/political-world-embraces-encrypted-messaging-ap… http://www.androidauthority.com/a-lack-of-qualcomm-alternatives-is-hurting-… And you give them the structure / tools / power to do it to you http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/computing/software/software-e… And worship those who do it https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/27/twitter-releases-national-security-letter… And sit on your ass in permissive submissive complacent silence Ur Gonna Git Fuct!

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Secure Messaging Apps Comparison
by grarpamp 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

https://www.securemessagingapps.com/ "I created this site to enable people to compare many so-called “secure messaging apps”. Likewise, I hope to educate people as to which functionality is required for truly secure messaging." Note it doesn't include p2p / overlay based messaging, but it's a start and much better than wikipedia's lists.

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Public Dissentiment
by Dangerous Nic 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

> > On 01/27/2017 05:22 PM, James A. Donald wrote: > government funded science > Like when the sugar industry paid Harvard to blame fat in fake studies. This why SeeSee is dying. Source: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2548… Articles: http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/sugar-harvard-conspiracy-1.3759582 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3785753/How-sugar-industry-paid-p… https://www.rt.com/usa/359127-sugar-industry-faked-research/ http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-su… http://elitedaily.com/wellness/sugar-industry-harvard-scientists-lie/160950… https://thelogicalindian.com/story-feed/awareness/how-the-sugar-industry-pa…

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Why Knock the Nazi when you can DOX the Nazi?
by Razer 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

Richard Spencer doxed As an image: http://bayimg.com/paIcjaAgM Home address and apartment HQ address in Alexandria Va. More Hope nothing bad happens to those structures (I'm sure the owners of the buildings know exactly who he is... fuck 'em) Rr

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Public Dissentiment
by booty 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

> On Fri, Jan 27 2017 14:23:36 -1400 > "John Newman" <jnn at synfin.org> wrote: > > Was "curing" gays ever accepted as science by anyone, anywhere? And that's where trannies come from. Step 1. Convince children that loving the same gender is wrong. Step 2. Convince children said love means they are the wrong gender. Step 3. Gayness "cured". See.

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Rayzer is Triggered
by booty 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

lol >> On 01/27/2017 05:35 PM, booty wrote: >>> On Thu, Jan 19 2017 08:31:04 -0800 >>> "Razer" <g2s at riseup.net> wrote: >>> >>> the white middle-class way of life is responsible for terror attacks >> >> /Blames victims/ >> /Feels better about self/ >> >> Self-hatred is for cucks. >> >>> the computer industry (this list) >> >> Feel free to throw that computer you write this list on in the fucking >> trash. >> >> > Got a better Idea. JunkFile you at the server, with malice, and keep > using 'this ol box'. > > BuhBye

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WTC [WAS] Do you have predictions about 2017?
by booty 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

> On Thu, Jan 19 2017 08:31:04 -0800 > "Razer" <g2s at riseup.net> wrote: > > the white middle-class way of life is responsible for terror attacks /Blames victims/ /Feels better about self/ Self-hatred is for cucks. > the computer industry (this list) Feel free to throw that computer you write this list on in the fucking trash.

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Bikers for trump assaulted at Women's march
by booty 27 Jan '17

27 Jan '17

> On Mon, Jan 23 2017 22:52:41 -2200 > "Cecilia Tanaka" <cecilia.tanaka at gmail.com> wrote: > > Razer, please never scream "PUSSIES!" in this list again. Cecilia, please never post "ANYTHING" in this list again.

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