Re: [WAR] the Pentagon's "White Helmets" "moderate head choppers" descend to depths unheard of
On 2017-04-11 09:35, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Horrific. Trigger warning. * DISTURBING IMAGES: White Helmets BUSTED killing babies in PR stunt to start war in Syria http://theduran.com/warning-disturbing-images-white-helmets-busted-killing-babies-in-pr-stunt-to-start-war-in-syria/ White Helmets have been caught faking rescues and doctoring dead children. moderate head choppers. moderate head choppers. Every time someone wants war with Russia, repeat "We must defend the moderate head choppers from the evil tyrant Assad" After all, we have a duty to do good everywhere, including far away strangers. Indeed, especially far away strangers. Pretty sure the parable of the good Samaritan was all about that. Indeed, our devotion to far away strangers explains and excuses our failure to do good to friends, allies, lovers, and family. And they don't get stranger than the head choppers. You don't need to do right for your lover or your child, because you are going to adopt a black boy from Somalia as a fashion accessory and transition him to a girl.
Re: [offlist] Russian free software activist arrested for extremist materials posted from his Tor exit node
On 04/10/2017 02:24 PM, Anton Nesterov wrote: > Dmitry Bogatov aka KAction, Russian free software activist and > mathematics teacher at Moscow’s Finance and Law University, arrested in > Russia and charged with extremism. > > Here is news report about his arrest > https://meduza.io/en/feature/2017/04/10/mathematics-teacher-accused-of-inciting-mass-riots-now-also-accused-of-supporting-terrorism-and-once-again-detained > > From his Tor exit node user with nickname Airat Basharov posted some > messages on sysadmins.ru website. Russian investigators alleged that > this messages contains a call to mass riots and terrorism. Messages were > posted from different IPs in different countries (probably another exit > nodes), and only one was posted from Bogatov's IP. After Bogatov's > arrest, Airat Basharov continue to post messages. > > Here is his Tor exit node, last seen 2017-04-05 20:00:00 > https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/2402CD5A0D848D1DCA61EB708CC1FBD4364AB8AE > > Another report about Bogatov > https://meduza.io/feature/2017/04/10/kak-arestovali-matematika-dmitriya-bogatova-i-v-chem-imenno-ego-obvinyayut > (in Russian) > > #FreeBogatov > = === > > "The court ruled to sustain the investigator’s request and remand > Bogatov in custody for two months," Judge Yevgeny Naidyonov said. > > Bogatov pled not guilty. > > "I am innocent. On the day mentioned in the charges I was in a fitness > club together with my wife. After that I went shopping," Bogatov said, > adding he was ready to cooperate. > > The Investigative Committee says Bogatov on March 29 posted calls in > the Internet for extremist action in the center of Moscow. His home > was searched and computers and information transmission electronic > devices confiscated. > > > More: http://tass.com/society/940522 In 1971 I walked into the middle of a Herowhine bust in the hallway of a Delancey St tenement I lived at. A month later, after seeing a different judge every week ... after leaving too early for breakfast, a gruelling ride on a prison bus to 100 Centre st. holding (The Tombs) and being fed a cheeze sammich with something like mayonnaise on it for lunch before my ride back to Riker's too late for dinner, for a month , a one of the FOUR DIFFERENT JUDGES I saw in that time period finally figured out the cops were never going to show for arraignment and cut me loose with a bus token. My place to live was gone., My job I had been coming home from... gone. My GF didn't know where the fuck I had gone and it was a good thing I still had the release papers. What I'm saying here is "I'm empathic", but shit happens. We'll see how it goes from here. Keep us informed. Rr
[WAR] the Pentagon's "White Helmets" "moderate head choppers" descend to depths unheard of
Horrific. Trigger warning. * DISTURBING IMAGES: White Helmets BUSTED killing babies in PR stunt to start war in Syria http://theduran.com/warning-disturbing-images-white-helmets-busted-killing-babies-in-pr-stunt-to-start-war-in-syria/ White Helmets have been caught faking rescues and doctoring dead children. ** Qatar-owned Al Jazeera reports Assad is bombing Idlib with White Phosphorus http://theduran.com/qatar-owned-fake-news/ Al-Jazeera headquarters Doha, Qatar. More fake news: Al Jazeera, reported that Syrian jets have bombed the town of Idlib using White Phosphorus. ** Michael Savage: complete “false flag in Syria.” No sarin gas, most likely phosgene gas http://theduran.com/michael-savage-complete-false-flag-in-syria-no-sarin-gas-used-most-likely-phosgene-gas/ Michael Savage: complete “false flag in Syria.” No sarin gas, most likely phosgene gas Savage: “How is is this an ‘America first’ decision?” ** The human cost of Donald Trump’s war crime (VIDEO) http://theduran.com/the-human-cost-of-donald-trumps-war-crime/ widow The widow of a slain Syrian soldier speaks about her loss. ** Hezbollah condemns the ISIS massacre of Egyptian Christians http://theduran.com/hezbollah-condemns-the-isis-massacre-of-egyptian-christians/ Hezbollah urged Muslims to unite in order to protect Christians from violence. ** John McCain blasts the Trump administration–the honeymoon is over http://theduran.com/john-mccain-blasts-the-trump-administration-the-honeymoon-is-over-video/ U.S. Senator McCain arrives on a visit at a migrant center near the village of Adasevci John McCain wants more war...lots more. ** Fake news story in mainstream AND alt-media slanders Russia and Iran http://theduran.com/exclusive-fake-news-story-in-mainstream-and-alt-media-slandering-russia-and-iran/ The story says that Russia and Iran threatened to attack US forces if a 'red line' was crossed. This is an outright lie. ** Iranian President Rouhani telephones Vladimir Putin–united front on Syria is strengthened http://theduran.com/iranian-president-rouhani-telephones-vladimir-putin-united-front-syria-strengthened/ Both leaders pledged their commitment to aid Syria in the fight against terrorism and to work together to stabilise the volatile region.
Are current predominant cryptographic functions the most optimal?
The AES round function for instance is not the most optimal, just altering add round key (Transposition of AES Key Schedule) can significantly improve security. While cryptanalyzing one cipher is hard enough, cryptoanalyzing any minor change in construction would be very difficult. Times have changed since the only good cipher was DES, and cryptographers were examining alternative DES constructions such as Ladder-DES proposed on sci.crypt. It was a good thing that the Threefish team had to justify their design decisions since it was very hard to prove security for an ARX cipher. It still becomes an open question as to whether current knowledge is being applied most optimally. Just how much additional security does a tweakable block cipher provide? Would Madryga even be secure under a tweak construction? Would a CBC-MAC be immune to Simon’s algorithm if it was truncated? Wouldn't for wide block encryption, instead of Bear and Lion, be better to just use an envelope MAC over the plaintext and use half of the MAC output as the encryption key and the other half as the MAC? Actually ZFS does something similar A search for "zfs" on iacr doesn't reveal anything. Could the Simon cipher use a stronger 3 to 1 function? Reuse the same function for the key schedule? Just how many NSA key schedules did Bruce Schneier see? Should be about four. He's impressed with all four of them. Impressive.
United videos prove there's no chilling effect of surveillence
A police officer surrounded by cameras decided to bash a passenger's head against an armrest. https://www.emptywheel.net/2015/10/24/jim-comey-describes-the-dangerous-chill-of-surveillance/ Police brutality certainly hasn't gone down, don't you want police to be more cautious in interacting with the public?
Quantum Computing
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/quantum-computing-going-commercial-potential-123002530.html [partial quote follows] Science Quantum Computing Is Going Commercial With the Potential to Disrupt Everything Consider three hair-pulling problems: 1 percent of the world’s energy is used every year just to produce fertilizer; solar panels aren’t powerful enough to provide all the power for most homes; investing in stocks often feels like a game of Russian roulette.Those seemingly disparate issues can be solved by the same tool, according to some scientists: quantum computing. Quantum computers use superconducting particles to perform tasks and have long been seen as a luxury for the top academic echelon—far removed from the common individual. But that’s quickly changing.IBM had been dabbling with commercial possibilities when last year it released Quantum Experience, a cloud-based quantum computing service researchers could use to run experiments without having to buy a quantum system. In early March, IBM took that program further and announced IBM Q, the first cloud quantum computing system for commercial use. Companies will be able to buy time on IBM’s quantum computers in New York state, though IBM has not set a release date or price, and it is expected to be financially prohibitive for smaller companies at first.Trending: U.S. Warships Rerouted Toward Korean Peninsula to 'Maintain Readiness'Jarrod McClean, a computing sciences fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, says the announcement is exciting because quantum computing wasn’t expected to hit commercial markets for decades. Last year, some experts estimated commercial experimentation could be five to 40 years away, yet here we are, and the potential applications could disrupt the way pharmaceutical companies make medicine, the way logistics companies schedule trains and the way hedge fund managers gain an edge in the stock market. “We’re seeing more application areas start to develop all the time, now that people are looking at quantum,” McClean says.Quantum computing is as different from traditional computing as an abacus is from a MacBook. “Classical computing was [invented] in the 1940s. This is like [that creation], but even beyond it,” says Scott Crowder, IBM Systems vice president and chief technology officer of quantum computing, technical strategy and transformation. “Take everything you know about how a class of computers works and forget it.” Besting supercomputers Quantum computers are made up of parts called qubits, also known as quantum bits. On some problems, they leverage the strange physics of quantum mechanics to work faster than chips on a traditional computer. (Just as a plane cannot exactly compare to a race car, a classical computer will still be able to do some things better than quantum, and vice versa. They’re just different.)Explaining how qubits work requires jumping into quantum mechanics, which doesn’t follow the same rules of physics we’re used to in our everyday lives. Quantum entanglement and quantum superposition are particularly important; they defy common sense but take place only in environments that are incredibly tiny. [end of partial quote] Jim Bell ×
Russian free software activist arrested for extremist materials posted from his Tor exit node
Dmitry Bogatov aka KAction, Russian free software activist and mathematics teacher at Moscow’s Finance and Law University, arrested in Russia and charged with extremism. Here is news report about his arrest https://meduza.io/en/feature/2017/04/10/mathematics-teacher-accused-of-inciting-mass-riots-now-also-accused-of-supporting-terrorism-and-once-again-detained >From his Tor exit node user with nickname Airat Basharov posted some messages on sysadmins.ru website. Russian investigators alleged that this messages contains a call to mass riots and terrorism. Messages were posted from different IPs in different countries (probably another exit nodes), and only one was posted from Bogatov's IP. After Bogatov's arrest, Airat Basharov continue to post messages. Here is his Tor exit node, last seen 2017-04-05 20:00:00 https://atlas.torproject.org/#details/2402CD5A0D848D1DCA61EB708CC1FBD4364AB8AE Another report about Bogatov https://meduza.io/feature/2017/04/10/kak-arestovali-matematika-dmitriya-bogatova-i-v-chem-imenno-ego-obvinyayut (in Russian) #FreeBogatov -- https://nesterov.pw GPG key: 0CE8 65F1 9043 2B11 25A5 74A7 1187 6869 67AA 56E4 https://keybase.io/komachi/key.asc
Re: [tor-dev] Contents of tor-dev digest...
Fwd from tor-dev: mega link to set of random babble pdf's (no offense) > On Sun, Apr 09, 2017 at 08:19:28PM -0400, Mike Guidry > wrote: > Hello, > > Here is a document I've wrote regarding a concept to trace connections > even > through TOR. If you have any questions feel free to respond, and I'll > attempt to explain. I have also considered a way to mitigate this > situation being allowing TOR to be traced by using 'Transactional > Requests.' I'll proceed to write it up, and post soon. > > I have released some other short papers as well. It contains several > files > regarding a few vulnerabilities, and a couple concepts regarding things > like quantum resistant cryptography, etc.. > > URL: https://mega.nz/#F!QnZRXKyS!oluyILlMPpyJjPS57w7axQ > > Feel free to e-mail me directly.. > > Thanks, > Mike Guidry
Re: RiseUp Warrant Canary Falls
Microsoft On Apr 10, 2017 8:40 AM, wrote: > On 10/4/17 10:11, Dr. Dooom wrote: > > > Rachael Tackett ractack at mail.com > > > Sun Apr 9 16:42:27 PDT 2017 > > > > > > A document, which I public records requested, shows LEAP > > > and RiseUp getting a quarter million dollars from the > > > Digital Defenders Partnership, which is funded by US > > > government and several European governments. > > > > RiseUp is in Seattle, Tor is in Seattle, and both are CIA/Mossad > > properties. I wonder what's going on in Seattle ? > Perhaps it's just a hangover from those Grunge years? > >
