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USCENTCOM Social Accounts Hacked
by Rich Jones 13 Jan '15

13 Jan '15

Not sure if anybody else here has been paying attention to the incredibly weird USCENTCOM social media accounts, but they both just got taken over by ISIS supporters: https://twitter.com/CENTCOM https://www.youtube.com/user/centcom (both now suspended). Likely connected to the (now also suspended) @CyberCaliphate. Now how will CENTCOM selectively release war footage to the public? This was the only public-facing source of direct footage of the current bombing campaign I knew about and now it's gone. I guess we're just going to be kept completely in the dark now if they don't bring the account back online. R ps - if anybody has a few spare bucks, I've got an outstanding related FOIA that needs payment: https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/kill-death-youtube…

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Cryptography Intellectual Property: Formalities of Cypherpunk
by grarpamp 13 Jan '15

13 Jan '15

How, if at all, should cryptography IP be licensed, patented, and incentivised? (Hardware, software, books, etc.) How, if at all, to tune such formalities to Cypherpunk Theory? Are things like HESSLA of relevant basis?

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What is offtopic and what should be avoided on this list?
by Georgi Guninski 13 Jan '15

13 Jan '15

What is offtopic and what should be avoided on this list? I would like to know what is offtopic and what should be avoided on this list. Looking for an answer from authoritative source, not a subscriber of doubtful quality. Appears to me wide variety of topics are discussed. Though the list is unmoderated, I suspect the dudes in charge of the list might take action against flooding with gross nonsense or commercial spam. Just trying to avoid being banned from unmoderated list ;), the way the heavily censored (in theory small moderated) Fyodor's full disclosure blocked me at SMTP level. Best of luck, -- georgi

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Rant on BSD vs GPL was [Good ol' BSD vs. GPL]
by Georgi Guninski 13 Jan '15

13 Jan '15

Let me make a rant on BSD vs GPL licenses. It is well known fact that Micro$oft used *BSD TCP stack in earlier versions of their shit. In addition on _old_ versions of windows, grepping for "Berkeley" returned the bsd license in userland, likely in the shit called "ftp.exe". I am not a coder, though have released some non-destructive stuff. If I were a coder, I would have been pissed off if micro$oft profited from my codeZ$ (though a lot a of sheeple don't care about this). If I were a coder, GPL is assumed to guarantee me that shit like m$ can't profit from codeZ$. As an aside, appears to me because of GCC (C compliler) BSD exists in its current form. It it still fun trolling *BSD fanatics "Dudes, you still using GPL GCC?")). Haskell language shit depending on GCC and claiming they "compile with portable assembler" don't make sense to me too, fuck Haskelli and its monads, sorry. cheers, -- j

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CISPA 2015 posted online
by Polity News 13 Jan '15

13 Jan '15

A copy of the CISPA 2015 bill has been posted online. Article http://piratetimes.net/exclusive-a-sneak-peek-at-cispa-2015/ Link to new CISPA bill http://piratetimes.net/wp-uploads/news/2015/01/RUPPER_001_xml-1.pdf

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Review appreciated: Golang Crypto/Cert system
by Cathal Garvey 13 Jan '15

13 Jan '15

Hi all, This is intended for use in a larger project but I felt the need to abstract and containerise some of the crypto. It uses ECDSA and NaCl as provided in the Golang libraries, and I've tried to join them in as sensible a way as possible without making too many assumptions. Would appreciate some review to make sure I'm not screwing anything up: https://github.com/cathalgarvey/easykeys Thanks, Cathal

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How come search engines don't crawl the list and I can't find 'robots.txt'?
by Georgi Guninski 13 Jan '15

13 Jan '15

AFAICT the list archives don't show in search engines and in addition don't see /robots.txt. How so?

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Re: What is offtopic and what should be avoided on this list?
by John Young 12 Jan '15

12 Jan '15

At 01:42 PM 1/12/2015, you wrote: >Except it wasn't. Revelations from Snowden and others shows that not >only were the "nonsense" claims correct, they didn't go far enough. > >I don't know about anyone else, but I'm going to be very cautious >before calling anything nonsense. Excellent reminder those who claim to know, don't. Or won't tell all they know, just enough to build a reputation of responsibility. This applies to Snowden's team of "responsible" releases of a tiny fraction of the full dump Snowden says he gave to the public, then was hi-jacked in transit, most of it in private storage to enhance its value of restricted access. Meanwhile, replacment spy tools are being developed in order that Snowden's gift can be dimissed as nonsense -- a process well underway: NSA head now claims that the Snowden material was not as damaging to natsec as first alleged. Could be psyop to hide the damage, or indicates new means and methods are coming along just fine.

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Hohoho, m$ calls google "irresponsible" :))))
by Georgi Guninski 12 Jan '15

12 Jan '15

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/12/google_microsoft_coordinated_vulner… Microsoft's feels Google's acted irresponsibly because it not only planned a fix for the problem on January 13th but also asked Google not to go public until that day. ----- As i wrote on my blog: Hohohoh, I am enjoying this :)))) Hope they enter a deadly fight on all fronts :)))) Once upon a time the shits used the same words for me.

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Ronen Horowitz on "needles in the haystack" in Israel
by Gregory Foster 12 Jan '15

12 Jan '15

Israel Defense (Jan 3) - '"Quite a few Terrorists lost their lives owing to Big Data"': http://www.israeldefense.com/?CategoryID=484&ArticleID=3288 > An exclusive interview granted to Israel Defense by Ronen Horowitz, the Head of the Information Technology Division of [Israel Security Agency], provides a rare glimpse (at least to the extent that may be revealed) at one of the least familiar aspects of counterintelligence work: advanced information technology methods enabling the mining of significant bits of intelligence from the infinite ocean of information that flows in the present era through countless cellular telephones, computers, wireless communication channels, WhatsApp messages and even encrypted messages exchanged through social networks. > > This is Horowitz's first-ever public interview. He completed his term in office in October 2014. So far, his activity has been taking place only behind the shadows of the national defense system. Even his name was a secret. Horowitz was awarded several prizes during his career, including the Israel Security Prize. Following his retirement he has taken up a position in the private sector as head of technologies at the credit company Visa CAL. gf -- Gregory Foster || gfoster(a)entersection.org @gregoryfoster <> http://entersection.com/

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