Re: [OT] [Music] Still Breathing - Green Day
An Amazing Réveillon and an Awesome 2020, dear all !!! :D https://imgur.com/gallery/WYvUQeC
P4RV - POWER For RISC-V - Know Who Stands - Know Your Gremlin - moral imperatives - discerning discrimination - [TECH]
One fundamental is the intersection between digital and meat space. Though shalt not ignore thy champions. You must Know Your Gremlin, and UC Berkeley (as many "neon fascists" today know) is a literal anti-liberal terrorist breeding cage. Supporting those with barely disguised gremlinista traits, is immoral. When we know who stands, we know who to support. Supporting those who act ethically, is a moral imperative; likewise, ceasing support for those who act unethically. ISAs for the win - POWER, RISC-V, and perhaps a Transmeta-like RISC-V on POWER ftfw :) Giving up one's power of discrimination, is leaving discernment in the outhouse. Pursuant to my conscience, I discern. Pursuant to my will arising from my conscience, I discriminate. I choose to do good, not evil. Create your world, Libre RISC-V M-Class by Luke Leighton A 100% libre RISC-V + 3D GPU chip for mobile devices NLNet Grants approved, Power ISA under consideration https://www.crowdsupply.com/libre-risc-v/m-class/updates/nlnet-grants-approved-power-isa-under-consideration
Re: 'Shattered': Inside the secret battle to save America's undercover spies in the digital age
On 12/31/2019 04:42 PM, Punk-Stasi 2.0 wrote: > On Tue, 31 Dec 2019 16:12:36 -0700 > Mirimir wrote: > >> On 12/31/2019 02:15 PM, Punk-Stasi 2.0 wrote: >>> On Tue, 31 Dec 2019 16:02:05 -0500 >>> John Young wrote: >>> Isn't this report an obvious deception operation? Adjunct to Snowden's dump among others. >>> >>> well, it tells you how total global surveillance works against the >>> masses. Of course it doesn't tell you how govcorp mafias deal with their >>> own system. >>> >>> Also, given total surveillance, the claim that human shit spies are >>> obsolete isn't too far fetched... >> >> I find it vastly amusing. > > > you think james bond isn't retiring yet, or? Well, if James Bond actually did have multiple bodies, maybe not. I wouldn't mind a body transplant, now that I think of it.
Re: 'Shattered': Inside the secret battle to save America's undercover spies in the digital age
On 12/31/19 10:06 AM, coderman wrote: > https://news.yahoo.com/shattered-inside-the-secret-battle-to-save-americas-undercover-spies-in-the-digital-age-100029026.html > 'Shattered': Inside the secret battle to save America's undercover spies in the digital age > Jenna McLaughlin and Zach Dorfman > Yahoo News•December 30, 2019 > > When hackers began slipping into computer systems at the Office of Personnel Management in the spring of 2014, no one inside that federal agency could have predicted the potential scale and magnitude of the damage. Over the next six months, those hackers — later identified as working for the Chinese government — stole data on nearly 22 million former and current American civil servants, including intelligence officials. WTF would I want to 'save' them? Fuck "Merica's spies", REALLY. Rr signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: 'Shattered': Inside the secret battle to save America's undercover spies in the digital age
On 12/31/2019 02:15 PM, Punk-Stasi 2.0 wrote: > On Tue, 31 Dec 2019 16:02:05 -0500 > John Young wrote: > >> Isn't this report an obvious deception operation? Adjunct to >> Snowden's dump among others. > > well, it tells you how total global surveillance works against the > masses. Of course it doesn't tell you how govcorp mafias deal with their own > system. > > Also, given total surveillance, the claim that human shit spies are > obsolete isn't too far fetched... I find it vastly amusing.
Seagram’s heiress may get $200K from sale of Nxivm properties
No big deal. Just your daily average sex cult connected to highly influential people. The government is wasting an incredible amount of time that they will never decide to use towards solving such a widespread and incredible number of crimes by the elite. And I'm not talking about illegal exotic meats or creepy sex parties, they can keep those. Rape and murder are particularly heinous crimes. https://nypost.com/2019/12/26/seagrams-heiress-may-get-200k-from-sale-of-nxivm-properties-court-docs/ The properties included offices for Nxivm’s “Executive Success Programs” — which is where the Bronfman sisters, daughters of the late billionaire Edgar Bronfman, fell in with Raniere in the early 2000s. Bronfman-Igtet eventually married wealthy Libyan businessman Basit Igtet and moved to France — while her sister remained in Raniere’s inner circle, using the family’s considerable fortune to help bankroll Nxivm. Raniere, Clare Bronfman and several other high-ranking Nxivm members were busted in 2018 for their involvement in the purported self-help organization, after members came forward to claim they were turned into “slaves,” forced to have sex with Raniere and brand their bodies with his initials. Bronfman, 40, pleaded guilty in April to conspiring to conceal and keep an illegal immigrant for personal gain and fraudulent use of identification. She is slated to be sentenced on Feb. 14, 2020.
Re: 'Shattered': Inside the secret battle to save America's undercover spies in the digital age
Isn't this report an obvious deception operation? Adjunct to Snowden's dump among others.
Predictions 2020
Less than three hours left for some of you to get your predictions lodged in this thread before 2020 starts proving them true or false...
Re: 'Shattered': Inside the secret battle to save America's undercover spies in the digital age
Whatever your mailer, or you, and others are doing often, is breaking threads... instead of doing proper threading with in-reply-to, references, etc.
Re: 'Shattered': Inside the secret battle to save America's undercover spies in the digital age
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust Punch card tabulation machines caused the holocaust. We don't even have accurate numbers on Nazi loot and murders, I think if the tabulation machines were running things, we'd have precise figures. Has any technology ever made anything more efficient? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox
Re: 'Shattered': Inside the secret battle to save America's undercover spies in the digital age
> The data breach And the outcome of data... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust https://ibmandtheholocaust.com/ infohash:20820F55D884C945154136689E436990107DD1E9
Re: 'Shattered': Inside the secret battle to save America's undercover spies in the digital age
To be more serious, that article just rehashes what was said before. People keep saying it, and somehow... nothing happens. Isn't espionage supposed to be some kind of shell game, not a numbers racket? https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/02/the-top-secret-nunes-memo-illustrates-abuse-of-our-intelligence-classification-system.html Robin Raphel—a former U.S. ambassador to Pakistan—had her career destroyed because the FBI suspected she was spilling secrets to the Pakistanis. One of the claims made against her was that she was speaking with Pakistani officials about speculation that there may be a coup, information that the intelligence community deemed classified. But speculation of a coup was prevalent in the Pakistani media and within cross-government channels; all Raphel was doing was discussing the issues of the day with her foreign counterparts. Classification can also be abused to avoid oversight and wield power over Congress. If you are a senator, unless you work on the Intelligence Committee, are part of the leadership, or are the chair or ranking member of the Foreign Relations or Armed Services committees, your staff does not have the highest level of clearance. Many executive branch briefings to members of Congress are at this highest classification level, partially to protect information but also to keep staff out. So, even if a member gains access to key information that should be further investigated, she cannot share it with anyone who works for her, making it nearly impossible to follow up and exercise proper oversight. This paucity of clearances stands in sharp contrast to the executive branch, where thousands of people hold the highest level of clearance and have easy access to facilities and computers that enable their review of classified materials, and where millions of dollars are invested annually in protecting and expanding these resources. On Capitol Hill, there are few such facilities where classified information can be discussed or worked on. And yet, for all these security measures, major breaches via Edward Snowden, Russian spying, or a Chinese heist of thousands of personnel records continue.
Can't say it can't happen if you're doing something similar right now
Can't say it can't happen if you're doing something similar right now On the other hand, the US is hypocritical about a lot of things, but at least when it comes to torturing servants, that's an issue the US will never touch.
Re: 'Shattered': Inside the secret battle to save America's undercover spies in the digital age
"We aren't incompetent, we're just being ironic!" "We aren't corrupt, we're just being ironic!" "We aren't satanists, we're just being ironic!" *several years later* As it turns out... Someone is going to claim that Hunter Biden was pretending to be peddling influence to US policies, but that doesn't actually happen, in order to ingratiate with foreign dictators and divert bribes to the black budget.
[OT] [Music] Still Breathing - Green Day
Keep breathing and still alive, dear all. Wish all the happiness and love of this world to each one of you, not only in 2020, but in all the days of your lives. Cruel stupid people also included in my wishes. Maybe being happy, they become good people? Hope it from the bottom of my heart! :-) Much love and serenity for all of you, CypherPunks... and NSA, FBI and other eventual spies lurking here. Aff... There are so many better ways to spend the life... :P Ceci <3 == "Still Breathing - Green Day" https://youtu.be/pnTZa4FY_7I I'm like a child looking off on the horizon I'm like an ambulance that's turning on the sirens Oh, I'm still alive I'm like a soldier coming home for the first time I dodged a bullet and I walked across a landmine Oh, I'm still alive Am I bleeding am I bleeding from the storm? Just shine a light into the wreckage, so far away, away 'Cause I'm still breathing 'Cause I'm still breathing on my own My head's above the rain and roses Making my way away 'Cause I'm still breathing 'Cause I'm still breathing on my own My head's above the rain and roses Making my way away My way to you I'm like a junkie tying off for the last time I'm like a loser that's betting on his last dime Oh, I'm still alive I'm like a son that was raised without a father I'm like a mother barely keeping it together Oh, I'm still alive Am I bleeding, am I bleeding from the storm? Just shine a light into the wreckage, so far away, away 'Cause I'm still breathing 'Cause I'm still breathing on my own My head's above the rain and roses Making my way away 'Cause I'm still breathing 'Cause I'm still breathing on my own My head's above the rain and roses Making my way, away, away As I walked out on the ledge Are you scared to death to live? I've been running all my life Just to find a home that's for the restless And the truth that's in the message Making my way, away, away 'Cause I'm still breathing 'Cause I'm still breathing on my own My head's above the rain and roses Making my way away 'Cause I'm still breathing 'Cause I'm still breathing on my own My head's above the rain and roses Making my way, away, away 'Cause I'm still breathing 'Cause I'm still breathing on my own My head's above the rain and roses Making my way, away My way to you
'Shattered': Inside the secret battle to save America's undercover spies in the digital age
https://news.yahoo.com/shattered-inside-the-secret-battle-to-save-americas-undercover-spies-in-the-digital-age-100029026.html 'Shattered': Inside the secret battle to save America's undercover spies in the digital age [Jenna McLaughlin and Zach Dorfman](https://www.yahoo.com/author/jenna-mclaughlin-and-zach-dorfman) [Yahoo News](https://news.yahoo.com/)•December 30, 2019 When hackers began slipping into computer systems at the Office of Personnel Management in the spring of 2014, no one inside that federal agency could have predicted the potential scale and magnitude of the damage. Over the next six months, those hackers — later identified as working for the Chinese government — stole data on nearly 22 million former and current American civil servants, including intelligence officials. The data breach, which included fingerprints, personnel records and security clearance background information, shook the intelligence community to its core. Among the hacked information’s other uses, Beijing had acquired a potential way to identify large numbers of undercover spies working for the U.S. government. The fallout from the hack was intense, with the CIA [reportedly pulling its officers out of China](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-pulled-officers-from-beijing-after-breach-of-federal-personnel-records/2015/09/29/1f78943c-66d1-11e5-9ef3-fde182507eac_story.html). (The director of national intelligence [later denied](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-intelligence-head-cia-did-not-pull-officers-from-beijing-after-opm-hack/2015/11/02/8631aa4e-81a5-11e5-a7ca-6ab6ec20f839_story.html) this withdrawal.) Personal data was being weaponized like never before. In one previously unreported incident, around the time of the OPM hack, senior intelligence officials realized that the Kremlin was quickly able to identify new CIA officers in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow — likely based on the differences in pay between diplomats, details on past service in “hardship” posts, speedy promotions and other digital clues, say four former intelligence officials. Those clues, they surmised, could have come from access to the OPM data, possibly shared by the Chinese, or some other way, say former officials. [Illustration: Shonagh Rae for Yahoo News]Illustration: Shonagh Rae for Yahoo News The OPM hack was a watershed moment, ushering in an era when big data and other digital tools may render methods of traditional human intelligence gathering extinct, say former officials. It is part of an evolution that poses one of the most significant challenges to undercover intelligence work in at least a half century — and probably much longer. The familiar trope of Jason Bourne movies and John le Carré novels where spies open secret safes filled with false passports and interchangeable identities is already a relic, say former officials — swept away by technological changes so profound that they're forcing the CIA to reconsider everything from how and where it recruits officers to where it trains potential agency personnel. Instead, the spread of new tools like facial recognition at border crossings and airports and widespread internet-connected surveillance cameras in major cities is wiping away in a matter of years carefully honed tradecraft that took intelligence experts decades to perfect. Though U.S. technical capabilities can collect reams of data, human intelligence remains critical. In 2016, for example, a high-level Russian asset recruited by the CIA confirmed that Russian President Vladimir Putin [had personally ordered plans](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/09/us/politics/cia-informant-russia.html) to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. [After fleeing to the United States](https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/09/politics/russia-us-spy-extracted/index.html), that same covert source was forced to relocate because of his digital trail. Without the ability to send undercover intelligence officers overseas to recruit or meet sources face to face, this type of intelligence might all but disappear, creating a blind spot for U.S. policymakers. During a summit of Western intelligence agencies in early 2019, officials wrestled with the challenges of protecting their employees’ identities in the digital age, concluding that there was no silver bullet. “We still haven’t figured out this problem,” says a Western intelligence chief who attended the meeting. Such conversations have left intelligence leaders weighing an uncomfortable question: Is spying as we know it over? Some have tried to address this crisis. Within the last decade, the CIA assembled a diverse group of intelligence personnel to create the Station of the Future — an ambitious Silicon Valley-style startup costing millions and nestled within a diplomatic facility in Latin America where a team of top spies tried to imagine, build and test innovative tools and
Re: Happy new year
On Tuesday, December 31, 2019, 02:35:55 AM PST, other.arkitech wrote: >Dear Cypherpunks, Other.Arkitech wish you a happy (and distributed) 2020 : ) >Now some rehearsing content... >Excerpts from https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html >Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write softwareto defend >privacy, and since we can't get privacy unless we all do,we're going to write >it. We publish our code so that our fellowCypherpunks may practice and play >with it. Our code is free for allto use, worldwide. We don't much care if you >don't approve of thesoftware we write. We know that software can't be >destroyed and thata widely dispersed system can't be shut down. Jim Bell's comment: And I hope that this year, Cypherpunks don't forget the project to make a competitor for TOR. I've seen little discussion of that recently. Remember, what is necessary to accomplish that is mosting "writing code" at this point. The hardware, a miconcontroller, whichever one we choose, is already designed and constructed. >The Cypherpunks are actively engaged in making the networks safer forprivacy. >Let us proceed together apace. Let's proceed. Yes. Jim Bell
Re: Happy new year
On Tuesday, December 31, 2019, 02:35:55 AM PST, other.arkitech wrote: Dear Cypherpunks, Other.Arkitech wish you a happy (and distributed) 2020 : ) Now some rehearsing content... Excerpts from https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write softwareto defend privacy, and since we can't get privacy unless we all do,we're going to write it. We publish our code so that our fellowCypherpunks may practice and play with it. Our code is free for allto use, worldwide. We don't much care if you don't approve of thesoftware we write. We know that software can't be destroyed and thata widely dispersed system can't be shut down. The Cypherpunks are actively engaged in making the networks safer forprivacy. Let us proceed together apace.
Re: Ghaddafi and sons were highly moral in their personal and private lives
Remember, you will not get cancelled if you rub shoulders with men who beat and murder their servants on a Carribean island. I have no idea how the money was donated to Haiti... was it to a non-profit or directly to the Haitian government? https://www.huffpost.com/entry/beyonce-gaddafi-concert-money-haiti_n_830456 Beyonce says she donated to Haiti relief the money she was given to perform at a 2009 New Year’s Eve party in St. Barts thrown by the son of embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/10TRIPOLI95_a.html The widening contrast between the respectable, cultured image that Saif has taken on and the spoiled, boorish image his siblings project has local audiences rallying behind Saif as the next heir to the Qadhafi throne.
Ghaddafi and sons were highly moral in their personal and private lives
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/libya-maid-of-colonel-gaddafis-daughter-in-law-150548 THE disfigured nanny of Colonel Gaddafi’s son Hannibal has revealed she was tortured with boiling water. The Ethiopian maid, Shweyga Mullah, 30, said that Hannibal’s wife, 29-year-old model Aline Skaf, tied up her hands and legs before pouring boiling water over her head. Shweyga had cared for Hannibal’s son and daughter at their luxury home in western Tripoli. Six months into her employment, she said she was burned by Skaf. Three months later, she said the same thing happened again, only this time much more seriously. Skaf lost her temper when her daughter would not stop crying and Shweyga refused to beat the child. The nanny said: “She took me to a bathroom. She tied my hands behind my back and tied my feet. “She taped my mouth and she started pouring the boiling water on my head.”
