date:20170210



On 02/10/2017 08:10 PM, grarpamp wrote:
> https://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-expert-report-slams-movie-piracy-evidence-170210/
>
> # Steal this show
> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWPXnjRrRWrNHjK6bydwd6Q
>
> # Steal this film
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0z9cILVNLs

The real "steal this film": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCNP4-O7bdU

Soundtrack by Phil Ochs.

The ad for Yippie! Helmets is priceless.

Rr

Re: Pirate Bay: Blocked by Tier-1 Transit, Dumps 2M Torrents

https://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-expert-report-slams-movie-piracy-evidence-170210/

# Steal this show
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWPXnjRrRWrNHjK6bydwd6Q

# Steal this film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0z9cILVNLs

Nice of 'em: "Microsoft Allowed To Sue US Government Over Email Surveillance"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-09/microsoft-can-pursue-suit-over-u-s-sneak-and-peek-searches

Cmp: Handful of “highly toxic” Wikipedia editors cause 9% of abuse on the site

Sounds familiar somehow...

"We've all heard anecdotes about trolling on Wikipedia and other social
platforms, but rarely has anyone been able to quantify levels and
origins of online abuse. That's about to change. Researchers with
Alphabet tech incubator Jigsaw worked with Wikimedia Foundation to
analyze 100,000 comments left on English-language Wikipedia. They found
predictable patterns behind who will launch personal attacks and when.

The goal of the research team was to lay the groundwork for an automated
system to "reduce toxic discussions" on Wikipedia. The team's work could
one day lead to the creation of a warning system for moderators. The
researchers caution that this system would require more research to
implement, but they have released a paper with some fascinating early
findings.

To make the supervised machine-learning task simple, the Jigsaw
researchers focused exclusively on ad hominem or personal attacks, which
are relatively easy to identify. They defined personal attacks as
directed at a commenter (i.e., "you suck"), directed at a third party
("Bill sucks"), quoting an attack ("Bill says Henri sucks"), or just
"another kind of attack or harassment." They used Crowdflower to
crowdsource the job of reviewing 100,000 Wikipedia comments made between
2004-2015. Ultimately, they used over 4,000 Crowdflower workers to
complete the task, and each comment was annotated by 10 different people
as an attack or not.

Once the researchers had their dataset, they trained a logistic
regression algorithm to recognize whether a comment was a personal
attack or not. "With testing, we found that a fully trained model
achieves better performance in predicting whether an edit is a personal
attack than the combined average of three human crowd-workers," they
write in a summary of their paper on Medium.
Who is launching personal attacks?

The researchers unleashed their algorithm on Wikipedia comments made
during 2015, constantly checking results for accuracy. Almost
immediately, they found that they could debunk the time-worn idea that
anonymity leads to abuse. Although anonymous comments are "six times
more likely to be an attack," they represent less than half of all
attacks on Wikipedia. "Similarly, less than half of attacks come from
users with little prior participation," the researchers write in their
paper. "Perhaps surprisingly, approximately 30% of attacks come from
registered users with over a 100 contributions." In other words, a third
of all personal attacks come from regular Wikipedia editors who
contribute several edits per month. Personal attacks seem to be baked
into Wikipedia culture.

The researchers also found that an outsized percentage of attacks come
from a very small number of "highly toxic" Wikipedia contributors. A
whopping 9% of attacks in 2015 came from just 34 users who had made 20
or more personal attacks during the year. "Significant progress could be
made by moderating a relatively small number of frequent attackers," the
researchers note. This finding bolsters the idea that problems in online
communities often come from a small minority of highly vocal users.

The algorithm was also able to identify a phenomenon often called the
"pile-on." They found that attacking comments are 22 times more likely
to occur close to another attacking comment. "Personal attacks cluster
together in time," the researchers write. "Perhaps because one personal
attack triggers another." Though this shouldn't be surprising to anyone
who has ever taken a peek at Twitter, being able to quantify this
behavior is a boon for machine learning. It means that an algorithm
might be able to identify a pile-on before it really blows up, and
moderators could come in to de-escalate before things get really ugly.

Depressingly, the study also found that very few personal attacks are
moderated. Only 17.9% of personal attacks lead to a warning or ban.
Attackers are more likely to be moderated if they have launched a number
of attacks or have been moderated before. But still, this is an abysmal
rate of moderation for the most obvious and blatant form of abuse that
can happen in a community.

The researchers conclude their paper by calling for more research.
Wikipedia has released a dump of all talk-page comments to the site
between 2004-1015 via Figshare, so other researchers will have access to
the same dataset that the Jigsaw team did. Understanding how attacks
affect other users is urgent, say the researchers. Do repeated attacks
lead to user abandonment? Are some groups attacked more often than
others? The more we know, the closer we get to having good tools to aid
moderators. Such tools, the researchers write, "might be used to help
moderators build dashboards that better visualize the health of
Wikipedia conversations or to develop systems to better triage comments
for review."

With linkage:

Re: Politicians Crypto, and Strange Unsuccessful Leaks

2017-02-10 Thread James A. Donald

On 2/11/2017 5:33 AM, Joshua Case wrote:

Would be interesting is to know how long it took Obama to fire

> Bush’s info-sec chief. Looking around, any one know offhand?
> Seems like usual turnover type business to me, really. I mean,
> do you really need a witch-hunt when the Whitehouse changes hands
> from one party to another?

The major cause of leaks is human intelligence.  Do you really want 
someone loyal to your enemies in charge of your cybersecurity.

US New Hampshire: Has Libertarian State Rep, First in 20 Years

http://freekeene.com/2017/02/09/breaking-nh-state-representative-joins-libertarian-party-full-press-conference-video/
https://youtu.be/ERypNDbPM4g

It's a big day for libertarian history in New Hampshire and nationwide.
For the first time in two decades, the Libertarian Party of NH
(LPNH) has a sitting state representative in the legislature who
is just beginning his first term in office. Caleb Dyer, state
representative for Hudson and Pelham, announced today at a press
conference in Concord's Legislative Office Building that he has
switched his voter registration from republican to libertarian and
has also joined the state party as a dues-paying member. Dyer is a
New Hampshire native who knocked on 2,000 doors in his district,
Hillsborough 37, to win his election in November of 2016.

Pirate Bay: Blocked by Tier-1 Transit, Dumps 2M Torrents

https://torrentfreak.com/internet-backbone-provider-cogent-blocks-pirate-bay-and-other-pirate-sites-170209/
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/02/10/1443231/internet-backbone-provider-cogent-blocks-pirate-bay-and-other-pirate-sites
https://www.reddit.com/r/torrents/comments/5t6vdu/
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/5t388q/
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/5t9t0c/
https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/5t356a/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/5t215k/
https://www.reddit.com/r/evolutionReddit/comments/5t1yi8/
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnderReportedNews/comments/5t6z1e/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13612235
http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=The_Pirate_Bay

Several Pirate Bay users from ISPs all over the world have been
unable to access their favorite torrent site for more than a week.
Their requests are being stopped in the Internet backbone network
of Cogent Communications, which has blackholed the CloudFlare
IP-address of The Pirate Bay and many other torrent and streaming
sites.
When the average Internet user types in a domain name, a request
is sent through a series of networks before it finally reaches the
server of the website. This also applies to The Pirate Bay and other
pirate sites such as Primewire, Movie4k, TorrentProject and
TorrentButler. However, for more than a week now the US-based
backbone provider Cogent has stopped passing on traffic to these
sites. The sites in question all use CloudFlare, which assigned
them the public IP-addresses 104.31.18.30 and 104.31.19.30. While
this can be reached just fine by most people, users attempting to
pass requests through Cogent's network are unable to access them.

http://suprbayoubiexnmp.onion/
http://uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion/static/dump/csv/torrent_dump_full.csv.gz

The html version is a redundant subset, don't bother downloading it.

zcat torrent_dump_full.csv.gz | egrep -i cypherpunk
transmission-cli ... :)

Re: A whole 'nother kind of Texas Patriot (Cyber-Resistance to ICE)

2017-02-10 Thread John Newman

Depressing, i lived in 78758 for like 8 years...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/federal-agents-conduct-sweeping-immigration-enforcement-raids-in-at-least-6-states/2017/02/10/4b9f443a-efc8-11e6-b4ff-ac2cf509efe5_story.html?utm_term=.f81a4bccce4d

or

http://wapo.st/2kYK0kf



--
John

> On Feb 10, 2017, at 2:39 PM, Razer  wrote:
> 
> 
> An appropriate use of technology.
> 
> A heads-up for Immigrants around Austin Texas from a Patriotic American. More 
> of this... RESIST!
> 
>> Immigration pulling people over in the 78758 and 78753 area. Y'all be 
>> careful. Be safe
> https://twitter.com/SLR_Jr/status/830075824867012609
> 
> 
> 
>

Re: Politicians Crypto, and Strange Unsuccessful Leaks

Would be interesting is to know how long it took Obama to fire Bush’s info-sec 
chief. Looking around, any one know offhand? Seems like usual turnover type 
business to me, really. I mean, do you really need a witch-hunt when the 
Whitehouse changes hands from one party to another? Seems like tactical 
reporting really. Obviously Trump is intolerable and dooming the west, but the 
stories are all so breathless…. 

> 
> Recall that Candidate Trump was not hacked.  Pretty sure his grandkid better 
> at security than the whitehouse chief security information officer.

Re: Politicians Crypto, and Strange Unsuccessful Leaks

2017-02-10 Thread James A. Donald


On 2/11/2017 3:36 AM, Razer wrote:

FYI: The White House employee who ensures Trump doesn�t get hacked has
been fired

"Donald Trump's administration has fired the White House's chief
information security officer, who was responsible for ensuring the
president and his closest staff were safe from cyber-attacks.

Cory Louie, who was appointed under President Obama, was reportedly
forced to resign and escorted from the building late last week.



Recall that Candidate Trump was not hacked.  Pretty sure his grandkid 
better at security than the whitehouse chief security information officer.

Re: change.org "declare antifa illegal/terrorist" petition

2017-02-10 Thread James A. Donald


On 2/10/2017 2:31 PM, Marina Brown wrote:

Hahaha - tell me where to get my check from Daddy Soros. I sure need it.


> On 02/09/2017 11:38 PM, James A. Donald wrote:

Soros directly funds and directly controls the Tides foundation.

The Tides foundation directly funds The Alliance for Global Justice

The Alliance for Global Justice gave fifty thousand dollars �Refuse
Fascism� which staged the riot at Berkeley.


On 2/11/2017 2:20 AM, Razer wrote:

Ps. Tides also gives money to Adbusters' foundatio



Adbusters advocates for a communist command economy.  During the 
twentieth century, all mass murders, including the Nazi mass murders, 
were associated with, and arguably the result of command economies.


The Nazi mass murders were not so much the result of racism, as the 
command economy.  The initial plan of the Nazis was to deport the Jews 
to anywhere that would take them, including and especially Israel.  They 
had a large bureaucracy for helping Jews through other country's 
bureaucracies.  But other countries obstructed this program. At the same 
time, Germany developed the standard command economy food shortages, as 
Venezuela and North Korea have today, and decided to deal with this by 
prioritizing feeding some people over feeding other people -  Jews not 
being the only group de-prioritized, thus Nazi mass murders were in 
practice very similar to communist mass murders.



The Tides foundation also used to support terrorism and mass murder in 
Syria, and for all I know still does.

Re: change.org "declare antifa illegal/terrorist" petition

> On Feb 10, 2017, at 1:40 PM, Razer  wrote:
> 
> On 02/10/2017 10:28 AM, Joshua Case wrote:
>> meaning, you won’t interact with me unless it’s in front of other people?
> 
> Yup. That's Eggs-ackly what I mean.
> 
>> because you need that level of attention?
> 
> 
> No. Because you need the pubic 'exposure'.
> 

As an unintelligent person, with some kind of physical disability which causes 
slow cognition - a precondition of genetic nature maybe? As 'sperm on the 
ground', or am I a fascist too now? Can people of color be fascist? I'm 
uninformed. Would be really fascinating to hear your thoughts. 

>> I was just trying to reduce the level of idiocy before i just plain muted 
>> you, like everyone else on this list has, and are imploring me to do. 
> 
> Odd. More intelligent people seem to respond to my posting, when they feel 
> it, than I've seen responding to yours. But posting items to a list isn't a 
> popularity contest ... now is it?

I don’t copy-paste off topic news story links to the list nearly as much as you 
do, no, and you are an effective troll. true. 

> It's really an insight of your interests, to others on the list...(and fwiw I 
> don't consider the fascist trolls like Z, J, 'The Donald', and tentatively 
> the wordy but still socially ignorant JB, really intelligent. Unless you 
> consider reptilian aliens 'intelligent' in any way but socially vicious 
> intelligence.)
> 

> 
> Just like you're wasting my time responding to you. For the last time.

It’s been a nice ride. Thanks!

> 
> Rr
> 
> 
>> 
>>> On Feb 10, 2017, at 1:12 PM, Razer >> > wrote:
>>> 
>>> That's right. I'm insulting your intellect.
>>> 
>>> Don't contact me offlist again schmuck. I'm too busy for you nonsesne
>>> 
>>> On 02/10/2017 10:07 AM, Joshua Case wrote:

> 
> So are the people who run world governments that commit Genocide and the 
> officers of corporations poisoning the planet (and our minds, with 
> advertising of the products causing the physical poisoning).
> 
> You aren't making your case spewball.
> 
> "Rational" is relative.
> 
> Rr
> 
>> I don’t agree with Jim on all points, hardly any maybe, but i’fe heard 
>> his stuff, listened to him talk. he’s rational, it seems.  
>> 
>> 
> 

 That’s all you’ve got? An obvious and blatant strawman fallacy and some 
 intellect insult? And no, rational is not relative - it’s not everywhere, 
 but it’s not relative. It has a precise definition, and there is a 
 mathematical proof for it.

 You might spend more time reading, less time writing for a while. 

 Unless you’re just a paid troll to keep this list off topic, undermining 
 productive countercultural projects and coordination. In which case, great 
 work. Keep hitting send! 

>>> 
>> 
>

Re: change.org "declare antifa illegal/terrorist" petition

2017-02-10 Thread juan

On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 08:38:53 -0800
Razer  wrote:

> Soros  like most of the Old Rich White Men.

soros is a 'white' man? I thought he was a memever of
the chosen master race, like you.

Re: change.org "declare antifa illegal/terrorist" petition

On 02/10/2017 10:28 AM, Joshua Case wrote:

> meaning, you won’t interact with me unless it’s in front of other people? 

Yup. That's Eggs-ackly what I mean.

> because you need that level of attention? 

No. Because you need the pubic 'exposure'.

> I was just trying to reduce the level of idiocy before i just plain
> muted you, like everyone else on this list has, and are imploring me
> to do.

Odd. More intelligent people seem to respond to my posting, when they
feel it, than I've seen responding to yours. But posting items to a list
isn't a popularity contest ... now is it? It's really an insight of your
interests, to others on the list...(and fwiw I don't consider the
fascist trolls like Z, J, 'The Donald', and tentatively the wordy but
still socially ignorant JB, really intelligent. Unless you consider
reptilian aliens 'intelligent' in any way but socially vicious
intelligence.)

>
> i’m not insecure with respect to my intellect, or schmuckiness - i’m
> alarmed that you’d use such a patriarchal type of genitals insult. i’m
> smart enough to see through people like you, and i am not a penis. 
>

Ah! You know some Yiddish! Ok then. Putz. Colloquially, 'Wasted sperm on
the ground'.

Just like you're wasting my time responding to you. For the last time.

Rr

>
>> On Feb 10, 2017, at 1:12 PM, Razer > > wrote:
>>
>> That's right. I'm insulting your intellect.
>>
>> Don't contact me offlist again schmuck. I'm too busy for you nonsesne
>>
>>
>> On 02/10/2017 10:07 AM, Joshua Case wrote:
>>>
>>>

 So are the people who run world governments that commit Genocide
 and the officers of corporations poisoning the planet (and our
 minds, with advertising of the products causing the physical
 poisoning).

 You aren't making your case spewball.

 "Rational" is relative.

 Rr

> I don’t agree with Jim on all points, hardly any maybe, but i’fe
> heard his stuff, listened to him talk. he’s rational, it seems. 
>
>

>>>
>>> That’s all you’ve got? An obvious and blatant strawman fallacy and
>>> some intellect insult? And no, rational is not relative - it’s not
>>> everywhere, but it’s not relative. It has a precise definition, and
>>> there is a mathematical proof for it.
>>>
>>> You might spend more time reading, less time writing for a while. 
>>>
>>> Unless you’re just a paid troll to keep this list off topic,
>>> undermining productive countercultural projects and coordination. In
>>> which case, great work. Keep hitting send! 
>>>
>>
>

Re: change.org "declare antifa illegal/terrorist" petition

meaning, you won’t interact with me unless it’s in front of other people? 
because you need that level of attention? I was just trying to reduce the level 
of idiocy before i just plain muted you, like everyone else on this list has, 
and are imploring me to do. 

i’m not insecure with respect to my intellect, or schmuckiness - i’m alarmed 
that you’d use such a patriarchal type of genitals insult. i’m smart enough to 
see through people like you, and i am not a penis. 


> On Feb 10, 2017, at 1:12 PM, Razer  wrote:
> 
> That's right. I'm insulting your intellect.
> 
> Don't contact me offlist again schmuck. I'm too busy for you nonsesne
> 
> On 02/10/2017 10:07 AM, Joshua Case wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> So are the people who run world governments that commit Genocide and the 
>>> officers of corporations poisoning the planet (and our minds, with 
>>> advertising of the products causing the physical poisoning).
>>> 
>>> You aren't making your case spewball.
>>> 
>>> "Rational" is relative.
>>> 
>>> Rr
>>> 
 I don’t agree with Jim on all points, hardly any maybe, but i’fe heard his 
 stuff, listened to him talk. he’s rational, it seems.  
 
 
>>> 
>> 
>> That’s all you’ve got? An obvious and blatant strawman fallacy and some 
>> intellect insult? And no, rational is not relative - it’s not everywhere, 
>> but it’s not relative. It has a precise definition, and there is a 
>> mathematical proof for it.
>> 
>> You might spend more time reading, less time writing for a while. 
>> 
>> Unless you’re just a paid troll to keep this list off topic, undermining 
>> productive countercultural projects and coordination. In which case, great 
>> work. Keep hitting send! 
>> 
>

Re: change.org "declare antifa illegal/terrorist" petition

That's right. I'm insulting your intellect.

Don't contact me offlist again schmuck. I'm too busy for you nonsesne


On 02/10/2017 10:07 AM, Joshua Case wrote:
>
>
>>
>> So are the people who run world governments that commit Genocide and
>> the officers of corporations poisoning the planet (and our minds,
>> with advertising of the products causing the physical poisoning).
>>
>> You aren't making your case spewball.
>>
>> "Rational" is relative.
>>
>> Rr
>>
>>> I don’t agree with Jim on all points, hardly any maybe, but i’fe
>>> heard his stuff, listened to him talk. he’s rational, it seems. 
>>>
>>>
>>
>
> That’s all you’ve got? An obvious and blatant strawman fallacy and
> some intellect insult? And no, rational is not relative - it’s not
> everywhere, but it’s not relative. It has a precise definition, and
> there is a mathematical proof for it.
>
> You might spend more time reading, less time writing for a while. 
>
> Unless you’re just a paid troll to keep this list off topic,
> undermining productive countercultural projects and coordination. In
> which case, great work. Keep hitting send! 
>

[TriggerWarning: Ball-Busting POC Women With Guns]

Site check, not a Cloudflare Honeypot:
http://whois.domaintools.com/blackwomensdefenseleague.com

Article with links:
https://blavity.com/the-black-womens-defense-league-stands-its-ground-at-the-intersection-of-race-and-feminism

"In recent weeks we have witnessed a broad reincarnation of the women’s
movement as women of all races and nationalities have taken up the
mantle of feminism for a new generation while staging protests all over
the world. While this rebirth of feminism is important and necessary, it
isn’t always intersectional. In addition to sexism, women of color and
black women in particular, carry the added burden of racism, misogyny
and deep-rooted toxic masculinity within our own culture. It is in that
spirit that activist, Niecee X formed the Black Women’s Defense League
as a coalition of women of color from all walks of life on the path to
total liberation.

Black women, especially within the “woke” community, sometimes face the
unique challenge of having to defend our men while also defending
ourselves from them. What happens when our allies in the fight for
racial equality also harbor dangerous, sexist ideals? The internal
conflict is real. When confronted with this tension, Niecee broke off
from the black advocacy groups that she had been a part of to form a new
organization focused specifically on the obstacles faced by women of
color. In an interview with Vice, the activist described the impetus
that inspired her to start the organization. "There were issues with an
individual that I had been dealing with romantically," she said of a man
she met within Dallas's black activist community, "and there was some
violence that occurred between him and me." The alleged abuse resulted
in the miscarriage of a pregnancy. When she brought these allegations to
the attention of the organization’s leadership, she was accused of
fabricating the story, publicly disparaged on social media and
ultimately kicked out of the group.

For black women who are caught in the crossfire between racism from
outside of the community and patriarchy from within, the Black Women's
Defense League encourages women to stand their ground and defend
themselves. According to the group’s Facebook Page, “BWDL focus’ on
self-defense through martial arts and other hand-to-hand combat
techniques armed training with various types of artillery including
knife fighting, marksmanship, and weapons of opportunity. BWDL also
engages in emergency preparedness, urban survival training, ...and
battered women’s rescue.”

The self-described womanist organization’s mission extends beyond black
feminism. “We believe in protecting our families and communities
alongside our brothers and all oppressed people worldwide. In our
communities, black men and women must function as two vital parts of the
same body. BWDL seeks to refine, train and prepare women for a symbiotic
relationship that will truly enrich our children, our lives and make a
positive impact on our collective realities.”

It is clear that for black women, the movement for liberation must be
fought on two fronts. The Black Women's Defense League stands for both."

Re: change.org "declare antifa illegal/terrorist" petition

On 02/10/2017 09:52 AM, "Joshua Case" wrote:

> rational
>

So are the people who run world governments that commit Genocide and the
officers of corporations poisoning the planet (and our minds, with
advertising of the products causing the physical poisoning).

You aren't making your case spewball.

"Rational" is relative.

Rr

> I don’t agree with Jim on all points, hardly any maybe, but i’fe heard
> his stuff, listened to him talk. he’s rational, it seems. 
>
>

Re: change.org "declare antifa illegal/terrorist" petition

OK SO, LET ME SEE IF I CAN PASS RAEZOR’S IQ TEST!

>>Jim Bell

Who wrote and did time for “Assassination Market” essay, among other things 
some good, some not so good in my humble…might be described as a Libertarian.

RAZERr makes it clear, in settling a bit of a challenge that antifa is a little 
slippery about what and who a fascist might be that he holds a theory in which :

> Libertarians are fascists.

Then graciously goes on, once more, though he’s been through this with us 
thousands of times and his patience is beginning to be tested, 


> Fascism cannot be conservative

moreover, 

> Fascism and it's idea of TRADITIONALISM would eliminate the internet 

ERGO

EITHER JIM BELL HATES CRYPTOGRAPHY AND THE INTERNET IN PARTICULAR AND IS TRYING 
TO DESTROY IT OR IS A CRYPTO_COMMUNIST ANTIFA AGENT.

I don’t agree with Jim on all points, hardly any maybe, but i’fe heard his 
stuff, listened to him talk. he’s rational, it seems.  but raze, please just 
admit to yourself and your so smart they punch buddies that a "fascist” can 
really only be defined as “who ever it is that razzers is currently beating up.”

Re: Politicians Crypto, and Strange Unsuccessful Leaks

FYI: The White House employee who ensures Trump doesn’t get hacked has
been fired

"Donald Trump's administration has fired the White House's chief
information security officer, who was responsible for ensuring the
president and his closest staff were safe from cyber-attacks.

Cory Louie, who was appointed under President Obama, was reportedly
forced to resign and escorted from the building late last week.

His dismissal came shortly after it emerged that Mr Trump was still
using an unsecured and outdated Android phone to tweet - which could
make him particularly vulnerable to hackers.

The circumstances surrounding Mr Louie's departure remain unclear, but
ZDNet reported that he was “escorted out from his office in the
Eisenhower Executive Office Building across the street from the West Wing".

He was accused of "poor management", amid what was described as a
“toxic” working environment, the technology news site said. 

Mr Louie's LinkedIn profile remains unchanged at the time of writing,
and reports of his dismissal are yet to be publicly confirmed by the
White House.

Remaining staff have “targets on their back” and are afraid of speaking
out, calling the actions a “witch hunt” for former Obama appointees, a
source who wished to remain nameless told ZDNet. 

After holding various security positions at Dropbox and Google, Mr Louie
joined the White House as part of former President Obama's
cyber-security national action plan, which created a federal chief
information security officer (CISO) position to oversee the government's
internal cyber-security strategy..."

More:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-fire-white-house-cory-louie-us-president-not-hacked-chief-information-security-a7573351.html


On 02/10/2017 12:01 AM, grarpamp wrote:
> https://it.slashdot.org/story/17/02/09/2247240/republicans-are-reportedly-using-a-self-destructing-message-app-to-avoid-leaks
>
> Trump administration members and other Republicans are using the
> encrypted, self-destructing messaging app Confide to keep
> conversations private in the wake of hacks and leaks, according to
> Jonathan Swan and David McCabe at Axios. Axios writes that "numerous
> senior GOP operatives and several members of the Trump administration"
> have downloaded Confide, which automatically wipes messages after
> they're read. One operative told Axios that the app "provides some
> cover" for people in the party. He ties it to last year's hack of the
> Democratic National Committee, which led to huge and damaging
> information dumps of DNC emails leading up to the 2016 election. But
> besides outright hacks, the source also said he liked the fact that
> Confide makes it difficult to screenshot messages, because only a few
> words are shown at a time. That suggests that it's useful not just for
> reducing paper trails, but for stopping insiders from preserving
> individual messages -- especially given the steady flow of leaks that
> have come out since Trump took office. As Axios notes, official White
> House business is subject to preservation rules, although we don't
> know much about who's allegedly using Confide and what they're doing
> with it, so it's not clear whether this might run afoul of those laws.
> It's also difficult to say how much this is a specifically Republican
> phenomenon, and how much is a general move toward encryption.
>
> https://politics.slashdot.org/story/17/02/09/1446219/nsa-contractor-indicted-over-mammoth-theft-of-classified-data
>
> A former National Security Agency contractor was indicted on Wednesday
> by a federal grand jury on charges he willfully retained national
> defense information, in what U.S. officials have said may have been
> the largest heist of classified government information in history. The
> indictment alleges that Harold Thomas Martin, 52, spent up to 20 years
> stealing highly sensitive government material from the U.S.
> intelligence community related to national defense, collecting a trove
> of secrets he hoarded at his home in Glen Burnie, Maryland. The
> government has not said what, if anything, Martin did with the stolen
> data. Martin faces 20 criminal counts, each punishable by up to 10
> years in prison, the Justice Department said. "For as long as two
> decades, Harold Martin flagrantly abused the trust placed in him by
> the government," said U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein.

Re: change.org "declare antifa illegal/terrorist" petition

2017-02-10 Thread Cecilia Tanaka

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 1:12 PM, John Newman  wrote:

>
> On February 10, 2017 4:26:04 AM EST,
> Yaawwnn, 
> Z
> 
>
> Zzzz...
>  wrote:
> >
> >Stop! People are speaking, they must ... STOP! It's terrorism,
> >STOP SPEAKING YOU WICIOUS TERRORIST!!
>
> Note that terrorist was put in quotes "terrorist" because the whole thing
> is a mockery. Kinda like calling you a "decent human being".
>
> But I wouldn't expect you to pick up on such subtleties =)

Better always avoid high expectations in his case, dear.  Zzz is the kind
of guy who eats pizza using a spoon and tries the suicide beating his head
against a 'tofu', aff...

 :((

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofu

(There is a Japanese expression which says that dumb people should beat
their head against the corner of a soft tofu and die.  The Brazilian
version is even worse and says that stupid people should try to hang
themselves in a scallion plant or try to drown in a puddle...  And an
Italian friend said I should hang myself using spaghetti, when I offended
him very, very deeply saying he uses ketchup in his pastas and pizzas,
hahaha!!  ;)

RaHoWa boi poisons self with Ricin, Turns himself in

If he was a shade or two darker, or a Muslim, So-Called "President"
Trump would be tweeting about it and saying US courts are endangering
Americans. Americans ARE their OWN worst Enemies. Greed does that.

"A Georgia man who has shown support for white supremacist groups is
being investigated by the FBI after authorities say he drove himself to
a hospital for exposure to ricin, a deadly toxin.

William Christopher Gibbs, of Morganton, was jailed on reckless conduct
and probation violation charges since taking himself to the hospital
last Thursday and saying he had ricin on his hands. A search of his car
tested positive for the substance, according to the Fannin County
Sheriff's Office.

"I think it was all contained inside his vehicle, just a small amount of
something I think he had been experimenting with," Sheriff Dane Kirby
told Fox5Atlanta.

"It was inside his vehicle and somehow he claimed he had exposed himself
to what he made, got scared, and went to the hospital."

Thousands of first responders exposed to deadly ricin in training

About 100 officers later swarmed Gibbs' home, with officials in HAZMAT
suits inspecting the area as baffled neighbors looked on.

Ricin is a naturally occurring toxin found in the seeds of castor oil
plants, which can be lethal even in the smallest doses if it is refined
and purified. Terrorists and terror groups have been known to use it,
and letters containing ricin have been mailed to politicians including
former President Barack Obama and former New York City Mayor Michael
Bloomberg. The poison was also a plot point on the TV drug drama
"Breaking Bad."

It remains unclear why Gibbs, 27, was toting the toxin or how he
obtained it. There was no evidence the ricin had used or that the
public was at risk, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia
John Horn said.

William Christopher Gibbs. (Fannin County Sheriff's Office)
(See the article for a pic of this wussy little fascist mama's boy)

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ga-man-apparent-white-supremacy-ties-arrested-ricin-article-1.2968318

A Facebook page that matches Gibbs' appearance and description has
dozens of posts supporting the Georgia Church Of Creativity — part of
the Creativity Movement, which the Southern Poverty Law Center has
designated as a white supremacist group. The movement champions what it
considers the superior "creativity" of the white race.

Many photos on the Facebook page show Gibbs wearing a patch with the
local chapter's logo and the slogan, "Mobilize Nature's Finest." He is
also seen standing in front of a flag for the group.

Another photo shows a drawing of a tree with the Creativity logo on it.
Gibbs wrote in a caption, "100 years from now when someone finds one of
these trees thay (sic) will know that there was once a White Race."

The page also includes memes supporting the Ku Klux Klan and Aryan
Brotherhood, and mocking Jews and blacks. The biography includes the
phrase "RaHoWa," a white supremacist term for "racial holy war."

The Facebook page lists Gibbs' employment as a machine operator at
Pilgrim's Pride, a Brazilian-owned food company.

A woman who answered the phone at a number for Gibbs and identified as
his grandmother declined to comment..."

Re: change.org "declare antifa illegal/terrorist" petition

On 02/10/2017 01:50 AM, jim bell wrote:
> a repeat performance of OWS-behavior might draw the attention of the
> Federal "Justice Department". 

You don't follow along very well. ALL the lights and buzzers went off at
every fusion center in the US because your Billionaire's bffs KNOW how
to pigeonhole and divert single issue protests and their orgs, but
general insurrection? ROTF NOT!

Occupy SCARED THE LIVING SHIT out of 'the powers that be' (at least
until most of them were coopted by Right-wingers or Prog-Libs who the
gubmint colludes with), and Soros? What's his interest?

Money.

That's ALL the uber-wealthy are interested in, or else you'll NEVER have
all that money. Money and the power it buys. That money, as exemplified
by what Donald Trump, LOSER, is doing right now, can be made by creating
Chaos. Soros has ZERO interest in 'social change'. He is interested in
making money from destabilizing societies. In the long run, I'd say
he'll be burning his bonds for heat in a mud hut. But he's be dead long
before then like most of the Old Rich White Men.

Rr

Ps.

“I learned how to play Monopoly from my grandmother. She was a wonderful
person. She raised six children. She was a widow by the time that I knew
her. But she was the most ruthless Monopoly player I have ever known in
my life.

She understood that the name of the game was to acquire.

When she played and I got my initial money from the bank, I would just
try to hold onto it, because I didn’t want to lose any of it. She spent
everything, bought stuff she landed on as soon as she could, and she’d
mortgage it to buy more stuff. And of course, the way the game goes,
eventually she would accumulate everything. She would be the master of
the board. She understood that money was how you keep score in the game,
possessions are a matter of survival.

And she beat me every time. And at the end of the game she would look at
me and she’d say, “One day you’ll learn how to play the game.” She was
kind of cocky, my grandmother.

When I was about ten, I played every day through the Summer holidays
with a friend. It dawned on me the only way to win was total commitment
to acquisition. That summer I learned how to play the game. And by the
time autumn rolled around, I was more ruthless than even my grandmother.
I went to play her, and I was willing to do anything to win. I was
willing to bend the rules. I played with sweaty palms. Slowly, cunningly
I exposed the soft underbelly of my grandmother’s weakness.
Relentlessly, inexorably, I drove her off the board.

The game does strange things to you. I can still remember the day like
yesterday. I looked at my grandmother. This is the person who taught me
how to play.  She was an old woman by now. She was a widow.  She had
raised my mother. She loved me.

And I took everything she had. I destroyed her financially and
psychologically. I watched her give her last dollar and quit in utter
defeat. This was the greatest moment of my life.

And then she had one more lesson to teach me, my grandmother.

Then she said to me, “Now it all goes back in the box.” It all goes back
in the box.  All of the houses and hotels, Mayfair and Park Lane, all of
those railway stations and utilities, all of that wonderful money. It
all goes back in the box,” she said.

But I didn’t want it all to go back in the box. I wanted to leave the
board out permanently — bronze it maybe, as a memorial to what I had
achieved.

See, when she said, “It all goes back in the box,” it was kind of a way
of saying to me,

“None of it’s really yours. It doesn’t belong to you. You don’t own any
of it. You just used it for a little while. And now it all goes back in
the box.  And next time it’ll all go to somebody else. That’s the way
the game works.

So when you play the game, don’t forget this one lesson. When the game
comes to an end

...and the game always comes to an end, the stuff all goes back in the box.”

There is a simple, two-word question we tend not to ask ourselves. “Then
what?”

When I’ve reached the top, then what? When I have it all, then what?
When I finally have enough, when I am financially secure, when I’ve got
the sought after promotion, made the ultimate purchase, got the ideal
home, assured financial security, and climbed the ladder of success to
the highest rung, and then the thrill wears off–and it will wear
off—sooner or later you’re faced with the nagging question, “Then what?”
~Dr. James Dobson

Re: change.org "declare antifa illegal/terrorist" petition

On 02/09/2017 11:38 PM, James A. Donald wrote:
> On 2/10/2017 2:31 PM, Marina Brown wrote:
>> Hahaha - tell me where to get my check from Daddy Soros. I sure need it.
>
> Soros directly funds and directly controls the Tides foundation.
>
> The Tides foundation directly funds The Alliance for Global Justice
>
> The Alliance for Global Justice gave fifty thousand dollars “Refuse
> Fascism” which staged the riot at Berkeley.

Where'd you get that last bit of bullshit? Art Bell/Coast to Coast or
Alex Jones?

Ps. Tides also gives money to Adbusters' foundation. I suppose you think
Occupy was a Soros production too ... because Fascists HAVE TO BELIEVE
that people can't 'think for themselves', shmuck.

Rr

Re: An Examination of Zerodium's Price Chart

2017-02-10 Thread John Newman



On February 10, 2017 10:57:27 AM EST, Ryan Carboni  wrote:
>>
>> I am not sure you depict the situation correctly.
>> The colourful image with these prices writes *UP TO $X* and clearly
>> there is great difference between $X and "up to $X".
>> Appears to me marketoid trick like the spam advertisements on
>> non-internet media: "product/service X prevents your from Y *UP TO
>100%*".
>>
>>
>And Data Encryption Standard has up to 56-bits of security, depending
>on
>luck.

Yeesh, don't use DES! Don't use 3DES for that matter, if you can avoid it..

-- 
Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

Re: An Examination of Zerodium's Price Chart

2017-02-10 Thread Ryan Carboni

>
> I am not sure you depict the situation correctly.
> The colourful image with these prices writes *UP TO $X* and clearly
> there is great difference between $X and "up to $X".
> Appears to me marketoid trick like the spam advertisements on
> non-internet media: "product/service X prevents your from Y *UP TO 100%*".
>
>
And Data Encryption Standard has up to 56-bits of security, depending on
luck.

Re: An Examination of Zerodium's Price Chart

2017-02-10 Thread Georgi Guninski

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 04:05:54AM -0800, Ryan Carboni wrote:
> https://www.zerodium.com/program.html
> 
> To remotely jailbreak iOS is worth one and a half million dollars.
> 
> To break OpenSSL, $50,000.
> 
> To hack your antivirus program, $40,000.
> 
> To hack Tor Browser, $30,000.
> 
> To hack flash player, $100,000.
>

I am not sure you depict the situation correctly.
The colourful image with these prices writes *UP TO $X* and clearly
there is great difference between $X and "up to $X".
Appears to me marketoid trick like the spam advertisements on
non-internet media: "product/service X prevents your from Y *UP TO 100%*".

Re: change.org "declare antifa illegal/terrorist" petition

2017-02-10 Thread John Newman



On February 10, 2017 4:26:04 AM EST, Zenaan Harkness  wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 09:33:11PM -0500, John Newman wrote:
>> On February 9, 2017 8:18:51 PM EST, "James A. Donald"
> wrote:
>> >On 2/6/2017 12:21 AM, John Young wrote:
>> >> Declaring anything terrorist fosters the recruiting brand, ignores
>> >the
>> >> reality of profligate spending on mil-cop-spy phantasms, top
>> >competitora
>> >> for kiddie porn, especially online -- see front page of NYTimes
>today
>> >> about remote-controlled ISIS terrorism via the demon Internet.
>> >Fucking
>> >> A, this list terrorist from Day One.
>> >
>> >Antifa is funded by George Soros.  Declaring it terrorist allows the
>> >FBI 
>> >to go after funders and organizers like Soros and Berkeley
>University.
>> >
>> >At present the FBI has to go after individual antifa who commit 
>> >individual criminal acts, which is like swatting mosquitoes one at a
>> >time.
>> 
>> Give me a fucking break..
>> 
>> With your delusions of King Trump and giving all the "liberal
>lefties"
>> "helicopter rides", not to mention all the other toxic shit you spew,
>> you're fucking 1000x the "terrorist" any antifa that clocks Dick
>> Spencer is, you fucking worm.
>
>Noted - physical abuse is "nothing" compared to ...
>
>wicious words!
>
>
>
>Stop! People are speaking, they must ... STOP! It's terrorism,
>STOP SPEAKING YOU WICIOUS TERRORIST!!

Note that terrorist was put in quotes "terrorist" because the whole thing is a 
mockery. Kinda like calling you a "decent human being". 

But I wouldn't expect you to pick up on such subtleties =)

-- 
Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

An Examination of Zerodium's Price Chart

2017-02-10 Thread Ryan Carboni

https://www.zerodium.com/program.html

To remotely jailbreak iOS is worth one and a half million dollars.

To break OpenSSL, $50,000.

To hack your antivirus program, $40,000.

To hack Tor Browser, $30,000.

To hack flash player, $100,000.

It appears the only secure way to access the internet is using iOS, but
only to connect to static websites hosted by other smartphones, using
(probably) PolarSSL.

I recommend reading Personal Privacy in an Information Society, written in
1977.


> A recently publicized example of a government information system with
> inadequate security involved the computer and telecommunications system,
> SSADARS, which connects private insurance companies acting as Medicare
> intermediaries for the government with the Social Security Administration
> (SSA) data file. The Social Security Administration reported at the
> Commission hearings on Medical Records in July 1976 that its longstanding
> policy of protecting the confidentiality of individually identifiable
> information in its files had been adequately carried out in its
> administrative and technical safeguards. On October 23, 1976, however, SSA
> announced that it had discovered that it was mistaken in its belief that
> there was "no way the Medicare intermediaries and carriers can use their
> telecommunications system to gain access to the files used to administer"30
> other SSA programs. SSA staff found that the SSADARS terminals installed in
> the offices of two intermediaries could have been altered relatively
> easily, thereby permitting access to files other than the Medicare
> eligibility files the intermediaries needed to see. Although no actual
> access to other SSA program information is believed to have occurred, the
> technical safeguards to assure the confidentiality of information in the
> SSADARS system were not as effective as SSA had thought.


 In fact, all the problems in our modern day have been predicted long
before CFAA and Wargame (the movie) were ever put to paper.


The fact that no action has been taken is alarming in itself, and
indicative of some sort of mass undiagnosed neurological disease.

Re: change.org "declare antifa illegal/terrorist" petition

2017-02-10 Thread jim bell



 From: James A. Donald 
On 2/10/2017 2:31 PM, Marina Brown wrote:
>> Hahaha - tell me where to get my check from Daddy Soros. I sure need it.

>Soros directly funds and directly controls the Tides foundation.

>The Tides foundation directly funds The Alliance for Global Justice

>The Alliance for Global Justice gave fifty thousand dollars “Refuse 
Fascism” which staged the riot at Berkeley.
When the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protests were occurring, I noticed that the 
whole thing looked coordinated and 'staged'.   There was media commentary that 
suggested that George Soros was funding it behind the scenes.  But, I also 
noticed that a lot of their activity was arguably criminal, although usually 
just at misdemeanor-levels. (I'm not suggesting that mere protests were 
criminal, BTW.)
 Obviously, Obama's administration was not going to prosecute these things; nor 
would any large city that was run by Democrats.  But my understanding is that a 
conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor can be a felony, depending on the State or 
Federal laws involved.  
Therefore, a repeat performance of OWS-behavior might draw the attention of the 
Federal "Justice Department".  Similarly, Berkeley-level riots might also 
provoke a reaction.  
           Jim Bell

Re: change.org "declare antifa illegal/terrorist" petition

2017-02-10 Thread Zenaan Harkness

On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 09:33:11PM -0500, John Newman wrote:
> On February 9, 2017 8:18:51 PM EST, "James A. Donald"  
> wrote:
> >On 2/6/2017 12:21 AM, John Young wrote:
> >> Declaring anything terrorist fosters the recruiting brand, ignores
> >the
> >> reality of profligate spending on mil-cop-spy phantasms, top
> >competitora
> >> for kiddie porn, especially online -- see front page of NYTimes today
> >> about remote-controlled ISIS terrorism via the demon Internet.
> >Fucking
> >> A, this list terrorist from Day One.
> >
> >Antifa is funded by George Soros.  Declaring it terrorist allows the
> >FBI 
> >to go after funders and organizers like Soros and Berkeley University.
> >
> >At present the FBI has to go after individual antifa who commit 
> >individual criminal acts, which is like swatting mosquitoes one at a
> >time.
> 
> Give me a fucking break..
> 
> With your delusions of King Trump and giving all the "liberal lefties"
> "helicopter rides", not to mention all the other toxic shit you spew,
> you're fucking 1000x the "terrorist" any antifa that clocks Dick
> Spencer is, you fucking worm.

Noted - physical abuse is "nothing" compared to ...

wicious words!



Stop! People are speaking, they must ... STOP! It's terrorism,
STOP SPEAKING YOU WICIOUS TERRORIST!!

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