Re: Apple engineers... Will they (snigger) crack under pressure

2016-03-18 Thread coderman
On 3/18/16, d...@geer.org wrote: > Apple will have its Snowden. Snowden disclosed in service of Liberty, Apple Insider kleptography will service only Filthy Lucre... make no mistake, the NSA gets their keys. the FBI is the one out in the cold here! best regards,

Arithmetic Coding and Blinding for Lattice Cryptography

2016-03-14 Thread coderman
https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/276 Abstract: In this work we apply information theoretically optimal arithmetic coding and a number of novel side-channel blinding countermeasure techniques to create BLZZRD, a practical, compact, and more quantum-resistant variant of the BLISS Ring-LWE Signature Sche

Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy

2016-03-14 Thread coderman
Mathematicians Discover Prime Conspiracy A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers seems to violate a longstanding assumption about how they behave. By: Erica Klarreich March 13, 2016 Two mathematicians have uncovered a simple, previously unnoticed property of prime numbers — those n

Re: FOIPA adventures

2016-02-27 Thread coderman
last one for this month might be delayed awhile, as per usual procedure... ''' This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act. I hereby request the following records: A copy of every "Annual Report of the Undercover Review Committee" prepared by the Bureau, for all years available. Pleas

Re: FOIPA adventures

2016-02-27 Thread coderman
with DoD finding any excuse to deny my righteous transparency desires, E.g.: https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2016/feb/26/biggest-foia-fee-all-time/ the following laser guided narrow focused FOIA formed thusly: ''' The quantity, serial number(s), Purchase Orders, activity logs, equipment c

Re: FOIPA adventures

2016-02-27 Thread coderman
uncorked! ''' Procedures, Instructions, and any other materials regarding the proper handling of SSL/TLS secret keys, code signing keys, Client Certificate private keys, and other private key material obtained via National Security Letters or Court Order under PATRIOT Act, or USA FREEDOM Act autho

Former CIA Agent Barry Eisler w/ DemocracyNow!

2016-02-26 Thread coderman
http://www.democracynow.org/2016/2/25/will_fbi_take_a_bite_out , http://www.democracynow.org/2016/2/25/part_2_former_cia_agent_barry --- Will FBI Take a Bite Out of Apple? Former CIA Agent on Showdown Between Apple & U.S. Government February 25, 2016 As the government continues to take a bite

Re: [cryptography] USG v. Apple, Apple Motion to Vacate Decrypt Order

2016-02-25 Thread coderman
On 2/25/16, John Young wrote: > USG v. Apple, Apple Motion to Vacate Decrypt Order > ... https://cryptome.org/2016/02/usg-apple-016.pdf > (415 pp, 19.5MB) *this* is how you tell the FBI to Get Fucked, in legalese :P

Re: A sane platform for president - what is your fundamentals for Eben Moglen?

2016-02-25 Thread coderman
On 2/26/16, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > OK, got the address stuffed up twice - the first time, last night, I > started entering the cpunks address, then got distracted, then cut and > pasted the actual address. > > Then I read the "rejected" email, carefully I thought. > > Then, this morning, I

Re: from Zenaan - was Fwd: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

2016-02-25 Thread coderman
r posting to the list, then I shall > remove myself from this so-called "community" and find some other > place where who I am is respected, and where cowards are told to grow > the fuck up! Some place where children are not pretending they're > adults with their cow

Re: EFF to Support Apple in Encryption Battle [ or, WTF EFF!? ]

2016-02-24 Thread coderman
On 2/24/16, Steve Kinney wrote: > ... > But in the same press release, EFF endorses absurd non sequiturs > that demonstrate painful ignorance of the subject matter at hand. > The EFF endorses the assertations that the only way to obtain > access to encrypted data stored on an iPhone is to manuall

Re: Hacking Team child porn code

2016-02-24 Thread coderman
On 2/23/16, Travis Biehn wrote: > Well, > The strings for debug code can certainly show up, even these files > themselves. Which you can see some samples of under /content (the video > stuff is missing, fueling the conspiracy fire?) it was meatspin.mov renamed :o > There's screenshots, > walle

Goodternets, Badternets, Mediocrinets... [was Re: [Fwd: Multiple Internets]]]

2016-02-24 Thread coderman
On 2/9/16, Ted Smith wrote: > In an effort to re-seed discussion about cypherpunk topics I'll be > reposting old threads from the cypherpunks list in a rough "this day in > cpunks" effort. > > In this mail, John Young analyzes the subclasses of "the internet" as a > user might see. while i applau

Re: SHIT LIST

2016-02-24 Thread coderman
On 2/24/16, coderman wrote: > ... the barrels of lube must be sent somewhere?!? word to the wise: it's significantly cheaper as "industrial birthing fluid" for bovines... the sex shop premiums are absurd! :)

Re: SHIT LIST

2016-02-24 Thread coderman
On 2/24/16, Georgi Guninski wrote: > ... > IMHO fucking few clowns won't give sufficient (if any) change for good. catharsis; vengeance; signaling... i suppose it's all meaningless in the end. truth indeed - but the barrels of lube must be sent somewhere?!? :P best regards,

Re: Questions for Matt DeHart case?

2016-02-24 Thread coderman
On 2/24/16, Douglas Lucas wrote: > So here's my article on DeHart's sentencing yesterday: > > https://revolution-news.com/anonymous-activist-matt-dehart-sentenced-to-7-5-years/ this is wonderful reporting; thank you Douglas! some links referenced are dead? unable to retrieve: https://mattdeh

Re: SHIT LIST

2016-02-23 Thread coderman
On 2/24/16, juan wrote: > ... > You are doing it wrong coderman. Make a list of people who are > NOT shit in government/industry. It's going to be a very very > short list. i feel a special aversion to calculated malicious deception (see SHIT LIST) vs. differ

SHIT LIST

2016-02-23 Thread coderman
Stewart Baker - Former 1st Assistant Secretary of DHS General Counsel of the NSA Tim Belcher - Former CTO, RSA Jim Bidzos - Chairman and CEO, Verisign Art Coviello - Former Executive Chairman, RSA Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Ph.D. - Executive Director of the Privacy and Big Data Institute at Ryerson Uni

Re: Future Leak Facilitatings ... [was: Crypto Beguilement]

2016-02-21 Thread coderman
On 2/22/16, grarpamp wrote: > ... > Bah! Whatever! Utterly dismayed by million TOP SECRET > holders and more retirees that dont simply open and talk. you must have missed the continous campaign by current and past administrations to absolutely destroy the lives of leakers; any out of band accoun

Future Leak Facilitatings ... [was: Crypto Beguilement]

2016-02-21 Thread coderman
On 2/22/16, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > ... > For all the publicity, actual release of relevant info from Snowden > cache seems to have been quite the failure. > > Do we have a protocol for future leakers? future(current) leakers are building covert duplex channels direct to NSANet & JWICS :P much

Re: Questions for Matt DeHart case?

2016-02-21 Thread coderman
On 2/22/16, Douglas Lucas wrote: > What were the grounds for rejection? Is the rejection document publicly > available? (e.g. on MuckRock/) Thanks! to be specific, it was a "no responsive records" which is a creative denial - meaning the FOIA officer intentionally avoided responding to the intent

Re: Questions for Matt DeHart case?

2016-02-21 Thread coderman
On 2/20/16, Douglas Lucas wrote: > I will be covering Courage beneficiary Matt DeHart's sentencing Monday > in Nashville for https://revolution-news.com/ (@NewsRevo on Twitter). > > Can anyone suggest questions for his defense team, for his parents > (assuming they're not too distraught), for the

FBI disruption strategies - extra-judicial life destruction

2016-02-21 Thread coderman
''' Disruption strategy involves “a range of tools including arrests, interviews, or source-directed operations to effectively disrupt subject’s activities.” “The FBI’s overbroad and aggressive use of its investigative and surveillance powers, and its willingness to employ ‘disruption strategies’

Re: The Intercept steps up after catching a reporter faking data and sources

2016-02-09 Thread coderman
On 2/9/16, Rayzer wrote: > ... > Somewhere on Tor's site I ran into something about how Tail's > tor/browser was more secure than the standard torbrowser because of > something the tails folks were doing with iptables. Perhaps they're > 'steering' traffic away from (or yeah, perhaps towards, take

Re: request for comment re "contributor-covenant.org"

2016-02-09 Thread coderman
On 2/9/16, Steve Kinney wrote: > ... > Ted and "shakeit...@ghostmail.com" have a lot in common, including > their vocabulary, grammatical construction, New Left ideology and > a hostile attitude toward what passes for "native culture" on the > CPunks list. A few posts from years earlier suggest t

Re: "The ideal would be idea to have more code, more crypto."

2016-02-09 Thread coderman
On 2/9/16, Georgi Guninski wrote: > On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 02:15:53AM +, shakeit...@ghostmail.com wrote: >> The ideal would be idea to have more code, more crypto. > > "More code" is an ideal? > > I for one want _less_ code, but of higher quality. i just want one code; the flawless version.

Re: Self Preservation and Irreversible Decline [was: Electronic Freedom Foundation selective in support of freedom]

2016-02-08 Thread coderman
On 2/8/16, Sean Lynch wrote: > ... During WWII it was not permissible > to speak out against the war; you'd be considered to be aiding the enemy. I > think it was worse in Europe than in the US, but still. There was a time > when a majority of American men in a certain age range were veterans. No

Re: [tor-talk] Using SDR

2016-02-05 Thread coderman
On 2/6/16, jim bell wrote: > ... > Initially, I was confused about this. To me, a "Cantenna" was Heathkit's > name (in about 1970 or so) for a dummy-load built from a1 gallon paint can > with a non-inductive resistor inside, immersed in transformer oil, capable > of dissipating 1 Kw or so. Showi

Fwd: Arc of history; ultimate vindication

2016-02-05 Thread coderman
"Both the journal and the documents she obtained from the government show how her own targeting helped to galvanize her resolve to expose the apparatus of surveillance." they've made fatal errors; miscalculating the blow back of global privacy destruction. against such injustice, some will spend

Re: The Intercept steps up after catching a reporter faking data and sources

2016-02-05 Thread coderman
On 2/6/16, juan wrote: > ... > well, if you ever have trouble sleeping then you can read "no > treason" ^-^ trolls goading each other into reading and educating themselves? ... maybe they're just grossly inappropriate in sincerity, hmm *grin*

Re: [cryptome] Re: Looks like DHS sabotaged a FOIA request on Cryptome

2016-02-05 Thread coderman
On 2/5/16, Michael Best wrote: > I stand corrected - there was an explanation. It was buried in there and it > was bullshit and has me mad, but at least it was there. So standard FOIA > nonsense, not a new level. I can live with that. we must compile the authoritative reference of FOIA shenaniga

Re: [tor-talk] Using SDR

2016-02-05 Thread coderman
On 2/5/16, Sean Lynch wrote: > ... Radio is being used right now to provide anonymity, but it's being used[1] > to hide endpoints similar to the duct-taped payphone trick depicted in > Hackers, in order to avoid attacks like the one used to capture Ross > Ulbricht without giving him a chance to wi

Fwd: [tor-talk] Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha is released.

2016-02-04 Thread coderman
good stuff in: Major features (security, Linux), and Major features (directory system), for those in challenging environments... :P best regards, > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Nick Mathewson > Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 18:24:03 -0500 > Subject: [tor-talk] Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha

handling hot potatohhhs [was: Re: The Intercept steps up after catching a reporter faking data and sources]

2016-02-04 Thread coderman
On 2/4/16, Cari Machet wrote: > ... > she stated at ccc that they get a lot of complaints about the slowness of > the information coming to the public regarding the snowden docs and glenn > said they have asked eff to take on some of the task but eff declined so > maybe they are doing better at at

"Welcome to London!" aka, the Internet is now DEF CON Wireless

2016-02-04 Thread coderman
https://conspicuouschatter.wordpress.com/2016/02/03/a-technical-reading-of-the-himr-data-mining-research-problem-book/ A technical reading of the “HIMR Data Mining Research Problem Book” 3 February 2016 Boing Boing just released a classified GCHQ document that was meant to act as the Sept 2011 gu

"all that nasty thing"

2016-02-03 Thread coderman
https://theintercept.com/2016/02/02/barrett-brown-the-rule-of-law-enforcement/ The Barrett Brown Review of Arts and Letters and Prison The Rule of Law Enforcement Barrett Brown Feb. 2 2016, 3:02 p.m. AFTER HAVING SPENT the prior six months in a fruitless cycle of retaliation and counter-retaliat

the complex social construction of trust in cryptographic systems

2016-02-03 Thread coderman
Conspicuous Chatter Traffic analysis, anonymous and covert communications, and other magic. https://conspicuouschatter.wordpress.com/2016/02/03/the-social-construction-of-trust-in-cryptographic-systems/ The Social Construction of Trust in Cryptographic Systems 3 February 2016 (This is an extrac

Re: FOIPA adventures

2016-01-31 Thread coderman
final FOIA for January: --- https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/injusticelaundrydept-23703/ To Whom It May Concern: This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act. I hereby request the following records: 1.) First page of documents, transcripts, guidelines, repor

Re: request for comment re "contributor-covenant.org"

2016-01-31 Thread coderman
On 1/30/16, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> ... >> Why doesn't the gleeful roasting extend to the bigotry and chauvinism on >> this list? Why are these silently accepted? > > Who's "job" is that? Are you defining this job for someone other than > yourself? the decentralized node must ascertain for itse

"out-of-band exfiltration"

2016-01-31 Thread coderman
the TAO master spoke of "out-of-band exfiltration" of data at high risk of discovery, one thing an alert sysadmin might observe and react to. has anyone seen a summary of the exfiltration methods identified in leaks/other so far? this would have to span everything from Google Voice Search as cov

Re: Better Discourse through Self Evidence; Mentorship

2016-01-31 Thread coderman
On 1/31/16, Steve Kinney wrote: > ... > It always pays to outclass the opposition, in word /and/ deed. > Trolls, Buffoons and Lunaticks have their uses and some get paid; > but they have no staying power and eventually land on the rubbish > heap. It is said that a wise person may choose to act li

Re: Methods of Exercising Control over the Direction of Discourse

2016-01-31 Thread coderman
On 1/29/16, Ryan Carboni wrote: > ... > It is important to troll undesirable activists. It creates a low-grade > trauma (which may increase social withdrawal and increased sensitivity to > threats), makes them distrust certain common aspects of the trolls (through > mental association), and wastes

Re: [liberationtech] MS&E 297: Hacking for Defense (New Course Spring 2016)

2016-01-21 Thread coderman
On 1/20/16, juan wrote: > ... Maybe at the time > when the US wasn't in a state of perpetual war? maybe juan's the fed. - mining for info (birthdate) - agent provocateur - ignorant brovado ... > you mean like tor? casting suspicion on Tor rather than OPSEC.. Fed :P

Fwd: [whispersystems] Addressing Frustration in the Signal Community

2016-01-20 Thread coderman
-- Forwarded message -- From: Sam Lanning Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 09:16:48 + Subject: [whispersystems] Addressing Frustration in the Signal Community Hi All, I have noticed that there has been some amount of frustration present on this mailing list as of late, and I'd just lik

Re: [liberationtech] MS&E 297: Hacking for Defense (New Course Spring 2016)

2016-01-20 Thread coderman
On 1/19/16, Travis Biehn wrote: > ... > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oXvCSrFzr2PoIDvOmQPaloJN_JxXFpwXNFluYATTaFw/edit?usp=sharing > > +1 to the Palantir employees who are already in it to win it. > > Perhaps the rest of the project will be conducted on world r/w google > drive? i can

Re: FOIPA Glomar

2016-01-20 Thread coderman
On 1/20/16, grarpamp wrote: > ... > Let FOIA do the work for you... > Annual count of all queries replied with "can neither confirm or deny / > etc". aha! were it only this simple. the dispositions noted in the response, the disposition noted in MuckRock, the disposition noted in their elect

effective and fully decentralized means we're all Fort Knox [was: Cryptsy theft->bankruptcy]

2016-01-20 Thread coderman
On 1/19/16, d...@geer.org wrote: > ... >Bitcoin Heist Steals Millions from Exchange full decentralization a double edged sword, for sure. if we're all sovreign bankers and multi-national producers, perhaps Snowden threat model not so outlandish? first disable passive Eve, then deny Mallo

Re: FOIPA adventures

2016-01-18 Thread coderman
reply received! "Count of Level 4 - National Security Special Sensitive SSBI or SSBI-PR clearance screenings performed by year, for all years with responsive records." Fiscal Year: SSBI count 2005: 93801 2006: 90733 2007: 107747 2008: 111799 2009: 100623 2010: 108149 2011: 106214 2012: 93776 201

Re: Avoid beta testing medical drugs, you can die

2016-01-18 Thread coderman
On 1/16/16, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > ... > And Cannabis-based painkiller? Wouldn't it be cheaper for a flight > to the mile-high-city? What are these drugmakers smoking? a long and sordid story behind this statement of similarity. of course it would be cheaper to buy the dank naturals, but al

Re: US Pres Cand's Clinton, Sanders, O'Malley... All For Crypto Backdoors, Secret Negotiations

2016-01-18 Thread coderman
On 1/18/16, grarpamp wrote: > ...Bernie Sanders said > government must "have Silicon Valley help us" to discover information > transmitted across the internet by ISIS and other terrorist > organizations. He thinks we can do that without violating privacy, but > didn't say how. time to lobby Berni

Re: [cryptome] Tracking GLOMAR

2016-01-18 Thread coderman
On 1/18/16, Michael Best wrote: > Does anyone know about any projects that are collecting or tracking GLOMAR > responses? A quick Google search didn't turn anything up, but it could be > worthwhile. i am tracking them in my own MuckRock requests, but there is no distinct "Glomar" state for them,

Re: FOIPA adventures

2016-01-18 Thread coderman
On 1/18/16, Rayzer wrote: > Janet Reno's United States Department of Justice Investigation of Recent > Allegations Regarding the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. > June 2000 > > http://permanent.access.gpo.gov/websites/usdojgov/www.usdoj.gov/crt/crim/mlk/part1.htm quite a read! than

Re: freedom is a gentle SeppuKuma

2016-01-17 Thread coderman
SeppuKuma also offers 23 very different methods one can choose to end their life, including Everlasting Sleep (lethal injection), Pillow Kisses (suffocation), Peaceful Breath (helium asphyxia) and Sleepy time Hug which is where the robotic bear strangles its partner until their pulse stops for 15 m

Re: CREST: CIA Records Search Tool

2016-01-17 Thread coderman
On 1/17/16, Michael Best wrote: >... > Unfortunately you're right. The weird part to me is the way it's justified > and presented as a transparency tool! Double speak never dies, I suppose. > =( "Better than nuthin', see?" :P

Re: Self Preservation and Irreversible Decline [was: Electronic Freedom Foundation selective in support of freedom]

2016-01-17 Thread coderman
related: ''' In Stayin’ Alive, his powerful history of the “last days” of the working class, the historian Jefferson Cowie describes how the proud blue-collar identity of previous generations disintegrated during the ’70s. “Liberty has largely been reduced to an ideology that promises economic and

Re: Post-"Pre-Publication Review" by DIA censored words "SIGINT" and "Ned Beatty"

2016-01-17 Thread coderman
On 1/15/16, Razer wrote: > Not JUST FOIAs. > > Fixing Pre-Publication Review: What Should Be Done? i've found the most effective method to avoid pre-publication hassles is to never be read in, in the first place. ;) best regards,

Re: FOIPA adventures

2016-01-17 Thread coderman
still have one FOIA left for January; trying to pick a topic... it must beat this one, in terms of poking bear caliber: ''' Records of any communication, agreements, transcripts, memorandum of understanding, contracts, or other responsive materials relating to Ibragim Todashev as an Undercover Emp

Re: [cryptome] Re: CREST: CIA Records Search Tool

2016-01-17 Thread coderman
On 1/17/16, Michael Best wrote: > I spoke to someone from the list privately and did a little digging - it > looks like the files can't be downloaded or saved electronically, at all, > period. They have to be printed instead, from one of four computers which > are located in College Park, MD (tran

Re: Fwd: [Cryptography] A possible alternative to TOR and PrivaTegrity without backdoors

2016-01-17 Thread coderman
On 1/14/16, jim bell wrote: > > ... The main criticism I had > of this was the fact that the system was said to have a minimum bid of 1 > BTC, which at the time was somewhere around $1000. This, contrasting with > my Assassination Politics essay of 1995-96 where I anticipated allowing bits > of 1

making better earth humans [was: Self Preservation and Irreversible Decline]

2016-01-17 Thread coderman
On 1/16/16, juan wrote: > [ ... insert feedback loop of awful here... ] > "a picture is worth" this is funny and accurate! i have no political disposition, no "team". early on studying decentralization of technology it became clear you need decentralization of all things, there is no pla

Re: Self Preservation and Irreversible Decline [was: Electronic Freedom Foundation selective in support of freedom]

2016-01-17 Thread coderman
On 1/15/16, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > ... > I guess that's the ultimate propaganda success really - not being > aware that your country is always at war, and pretty much always has > been. War is the ultimate rejection and domination of the sovereignty > of other nations and individuals. next ques

direct action transparency

2016-01-13 Thread coderman
lost in much of the FOIA reform noise of late, is this note: "I understand that H.R. 653 does not allow or require FOIA requesters to obtain IC records or information, without regard to the age of the records or information, if such disclosure would adversely affect intelligence sources and method

Re: Self Preservation and Irreversible Decline [was: Electronic Freedom Foundation selective in support of freedom]

2016-01-13 Thread coderman
On 1/13/16, juan wrote: > ... > So, yes. I'm waiting for coderman to make some updated > political comment after hopefully having updated his knowledge > of american wars. Guantanamo is closing! (that's not nothing, right? :) regarding american wars,

Re: FOIPA adventures

2016-01-13 Thread coderman
new FOIA: all revisions of the OIG report on Brandon Mayfield: ''' All versions of the document "A Review of the FBI's Handling of the Brandon Mayfield Case - Office of the Inspector General, Oversight and Review Division January 2006", including mandatory declassification review (MDR) under E.O. 1

Fwd: Classifed info [in FOIA]

2016-01-12 Thread coderman
-- Forwarded message -- From: "James S. Tyre" Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 10:48:05 -0800 Subject: Re: Classifed info To: fo...@listserv.syr.edu Fun (if only in hindsight) and true story. In the mid-eighties, the FBI and Naval Intelligence raided my law office, sans warrant, claiming t

mobile digital forensics laboratory

2016-01-12 Thread coderman
looking for details on capabilities and components of "mobile digital forensic laboratories": ''' The raid, named Operation Pleiades, resulted in both targets being detained. In addition, law enforcement officials used mobile labs to inspect seized evidence. ''' - http://www.csoonline.com/article

Re: Chaum Fathers Bastard Child To RubberHose ... PrivaTegrity cMix

2016-01-12 Thread coderman
On 1/12/16, Alex Stahl wrote: > Sounds like we're in agreement then that crypto systems with political > solutions aren't actually crypto solutions at all then? "Cryptosystems with Political Solutions are Poisonous Impostors"

some bold idiot sold El Chapo bunk kit

2016-01-12 Thread coderman
''' Penn noted in his article his own concerns about being tracked in the plane but said that Chapo's son put him at ease by pointing out a "red scrambler switch below the cockpit controls" that he claimed blocked ground radar and that an inside man provided them with information about when the mil

Re: shipping hardware through mail

2016-01-11 Thread coderman
On 1/11/16, Blibbet wrote: > ... > The physical protections mentioned above do not, however, resolve the > problem > of the attackers subverting the laptop hardware at manufacturing USB Armory has schematics available, and you can verify the (locked) bootloader on it as well. verifying these sche

Re: FOIPA adventures

2016-01-11 Thread coderman
the #YallQueda group alleged witnesses to improper burning saw events which precipitated the "illegal" burn at center of this dispute. thus, FOIA! let's see if we can find confirmation in past patterns of burn behavior... ''' Records associated with controlled burns in the districts of Lakeview,

shipping hardware through mail

2016-01-11 Thread coderman
On 1/11/16, coderman wrote: > ... > have you played with USB Armory yet? it's my new favorite ARM platform. > https://github.com/inversepath/usbarmory since 2014 i don't buy hardware shipped (to me) anymore. this is obviously more complicated for hardware not readily

Re: libreboot not supporting post-2008 Intel hardware?

2016-01-11 Thread coderman
On 1/11/16, Blibbet wrote: >... > Yes, I *really* wish there were more AMD64/ARM32/ARM64 experts, most > seem to focus on x86/x64. Even at AMD and ARM. have you played with USB Armory yet? it's my new favorite ARM platform. https://github.com/inversepath/usbarmory > If Linaro finishes portin

Re: Self Preservation and Irreversible Decline [was: Electronic Freedom Foundation selective in support of freedom]

2016-01-10 Thread coderman
On 1/10/16, Rayzer wrote: > ... > In summation, you must be olld. Older than dirt. Older than > electricity. (~_~;)

sad state of symmetric crypto - algebraic ignoring continues?

2016-01-10 Thread coderman
algebraic attacks on GHOST, etc: - http://crypto.2015.rump.cr.yp.to/1ea2c6c01144e0e7f6b14b324c5e4562.pdf - https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/812.pdf AES has intentional algebraic structure as well, yet also resists linear, differential cryptanalysis. (e.g. strong in these aspects despite simple algebra

Censor or die: The death of Mexican news in the age of drug cartels

2016-01-10 Thread coderman
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/censor-or-die-the-death-of-mexican-news-in-the-age-of-drug-cartels/2015/12/09/23acf3ae-8a26-11e5-9a07-453018f9a0ec_story.html Censor or die: The death of Mexican news in the age of drug cartels By Dana Priest December 11, 2015 CONTROLLING THE STORY:

Re: Self Preservation and Irreversible Decline [was: Electronic Freedom Foundation selective in support of freedom]

2016-01-10 Thread coderman
On 1/10/16, juan wrote: >> >> now USA in a state of perpetual war, > > It has always been. So what the fuck are you talking about. Juan, let me return your incredulity with clarity, i know i'm old, but that also means i remember a time we were not actually at war (except drug war! in hinds

Self Preservation and Irreversible Decline [was: Electronic Freedom Foundation selective in support of freedom]

2016-01-10 Thread coderman
On 1/6/16, Sean Lynch wrote: > ... I've found myself self-censoring quite a lot more > since my kids were born. this topic has been on my mind recently, "You know, It would be a lot easier you just didn't do X" "This wouldn't happen if you quit annoying Y" "If you accept, Z will pay nicely and

Re: FOIPA adventures

2016-01-09 Thread coderman
On 1/9/16, coderman wrote: > ... https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/littlebird-23349/ > > a title could be, "Who's spilling secrets to Sid?" note, the answer may be "no one"! :) regarding my earlier comment about reverse engineering, s

Re: [cryptome] Re: FOIPA adventures

2016-01-09 Thread coderman
On 1/9/16, Shelley wrote: > ... > Thank you for continuing to seek the truth despite their shitty attempts to > dissuade you! one day they'll figure out this only steels my resolve ;) > This is an especially good one. after a year of practice, i am only beginning to feel not-incompetent at f

Re: FOIPA adventures

2016-01-09 Thread coderman
ramping up FOIA in the year new, a new favorite! ''' Records associated with the investigation of leaked sensitive US intelligence products identified in email communication between Hillary Clinton and Sid Blumenthal - email account name "sbwhoeop", on June 8th, 2011. The previously sensitive info

Re: FOIPA adventures

2016-01-08 Thread coderman
first FOIA of the New Year! ''' To Whom It May Concern: This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act. I hereby request the following records: Records associated with the suppression, coordination, or appraisal via third parties of vulnerabilities in Dual_EC and ANSI X9.31 in ScreenOS or

Re: FOIPA adventures

2016-01-08 Thread coderman
usually there is no confirmation regarding active investigations in FOIA replies. unlike this one! :) [[ see attached. ]] "In short, this is a very open and very active criminal investigation and we absolutely cannot release anything, particularly [[ ...REDACTED... ]] and we cannot assist [REDA

Re: What did Linode do?

2016-01-06 Thread coderman
On 1/6/16, Ryan Carboni wrote: > https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/3zlttw/linode_user_credentials_compromised_all_customers/ > > First under DDOS attack, now being hacked. > > What did Linode do? they hosted high risk instances, apparently. :/ i do appreciate that given a small set of

Re: De-anonymizing Programmers via Code Stylometry

2015-12-31 Thread coderman
On 12/31/15, Georgi Guninski wrote: > ... > Have they tried it on perl or assembler (or whitespace or brainfuck and > other esoteric languages)? yes, even intentionally obfuscated disasm resistant mungifications of compiled programs. > Obfuscated perl appears hard (in case it significantly diff

THE BOY WHO COULD CHANGE THE WORLD: THE WRITINGS OF AARON SWARTZ by Aaron SwartzThe New Press

2015-12-31 Thread coderman
https://newrepublic.com/article/126674/reading-everything-aaron-swartz-wrote ''' ... In a way, Aaron is a cautionary tale for unschooling. One of the lessons that school teaches is that the people who make the rules don’t really have to follow them. It’s something even the most rebellious students

Re: FOIPA adventures

2015-12-30 Thread coderman
interesting rejection technique on this one: first, reply with status of "Request received and being processed" one month after submission. Aha! inside is a Glomar rejection. . . . wait FIVE MONTHS . . 'This email pertains to the automated status of case FOIA 81798. Our records indicate that a fin

Re: De-anonymizing Programmers via Code Stylometry

2015-12-30 Thread coderman
https://www.princeton.edu/~aylinc/papers/caliskan-islam_deanonymizing.pdf getting into the right one-time "headspace" for a thing is OPSEC for codecraft :P

De-anonymizing Programmers via Code Stylometry

2015-12-30 Thread coderman
De-anonymizing Programmers via Code Stylometry Aylin Caliskan-Islam Drexel University Arvind Narayanan Princeton University Richard Harang U.S. Army Research Laboratory Clare Voss U.S. Army Research Laboratory Andrew Liu University of Maryland Fabian Yamaguchi University of Goettingen Rachel Gre

Re: FOIPA adventures

2015-12-29 Thread coderman
On 12/28/15, coderman wrote: > end of 2015 requests!! :) this makes 254 requests for my first MuckRock year. another data point, FOIA is a slow burn: 117 requests were updated in December alone! - https://www.muckrock.com/foi/mylist/?page=1&per_page=100&sort=date_updated&orde

OTR FP 023255B5 5B390F33 F0171191 A9AD7ED1 A3FD2CBE [was Re: 0x962B3498EDF0A585-coder.pub.txt]

2015-12-29 Thread coderman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Fingerprint: 023255B5 5B390F33 F0171191 A9AD7ED1 A3FD2CBE -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1 iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJWgj9cXxSAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQ1ODNCRkZEQzY1MDQwNUJGNURCNzRBRkI5 NjJCMzQ5OEV

Re: [cryptome] TheCthulhu / CthulhuSec to Cryptome

2015-12-28 Thread coderman
On 12/20/15, Michael Best wrote: > I'm curious what everyone thinks. I personally agree with TheCthulhu, but > I'm not a tech or crypto expert. > > Original: https://www.thecthulhu.com/a-response-to-cryptome/ clearly we should not be posting hashes because then they get blacklisted! E.g. https

Seeking Anonymity in an Internet Panopticon - collective anonymity vs. individualized anonymity

2015-12-28 Thread coderman
https://cryptome.org/2015/12/anon-v-panopticon.pdf ''' We believe the vulnerabilities and measurability limitations of onion routing may stem from an attempt to achieve an impossible set of goals and to defend an ultimately indefensible position. Current tools offer a general-purpose, unc

Re: [cryptome] Re: 2,940,525 Diplomatic PDFs

2015-12-28 Thread coderman
On 12/28/15, John Young wrote: >Cryptome disavows this senselessly bloated and mirrored material, >and all like it junking up the Internet like space debris. "CRYPTOME: ABRIDGED & CONTENTIOUS - 2015 Ed." - Only the most censored, DMCA'd, and potentially illegal documents! This hand crafted coll

Re: Standard Operating Procedure 303

2015-12-28 Thread coderman
On 12/28/15, Rayzer wrote: > ... > I have this discussion with local social activists quite a bit. The > 'roles/titles and position' ARE the important thing. The names change. > Structure doesn't. Sssh, you're not helping my FOIA :P > ... There's a local houseless person's 'activist' around >

Re: FOIPA adventures

2015-12-28 Thread coderman
end of 2015 requests!! :) ''' Requests, orders, configuration requirements, technical manuals and any other responsive materials regarding "lawful intercept" of cellular communications, specifically LTE, CDMA, or GSM communications, requesting specific service levels during intercept, including "b

Re: FOIPA adventures

2015-12-28 Thread coderman
even more requests! ''' The URL or URI or PATH of each source code repository operated, archived, used by, or accessed on behalf-of the Bureau. This is to include source code repositories in the RCCS, CVS, Subversion (Svn), Git, Mercurial (Hg), Bazaar (Bzr), Darcs, BitKeeper, ClearCase, or any oth

Re: FOIPA adventures

2015-12-28 Thread coderman
new requests, ''' The number (quantity) of documents, guidelines, instructions, manuals, process documents or related materials regarding activities authorized by Executive Order 12,333. See http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order/12333.html. If activities are performe

Re: surveillance side effects - sometimes with thrill ride included!

2015-12-27 Thread coderman
On 12/22/15, StealthMonger wrote: >... > I have https://peertech.org/files/taobios-v2.tar.bz2 downloaded December > 7 04:14 UT (18963087 bytes). Are you interested? sha256sum: > 0ba12b0ecf89d109301b619cbc8275e5cd78b6fefd3724fba0b6952186e37779 that's a known GOOD digest. carry on, and thanks!

0x962B3498EDF0A585-coder.pub.txt

2015-12-27 Thread coderman
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Re: NSA Museum Library has provided "Hagelin M-209 Cryptanalysis from Ciphertext Alone"

2015-12-27 Thread coderman
On 12/23/15, John Young wrote:... > http://bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/crypt.html ''' ... The result of the NSA query was that Bob and I--the arrangements were made by him--received a visit from a man whom Bob called "a retired gentleman from Virginia." He was quite a charmer. What he said, over l

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