Re: Who's Spying Your Phone 2020, Pine Librem, via Braxman
On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 11:28:33PM -0500, grarpamp wrote: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6-axLHh5V8 > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLWBaW4f38I > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNItvMBIXyQ > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Collection_System_Network > > Pinephone switches not externally accessible. Pinephone looking as open as it gets in 2020: https://www.pine64.org/2020/01/24/setting-the-record-straight-pinephone-misconceptions/ tl;dr: Here’s what’s open - Allwinner A64 SoC uns mainline Linux, uses mainline ATF and u-boot and there are open source drivers for all main SoC components. This openness extends to the Lima GPU driver introduced in kernel 5.2. - Linux 5.6 will contain drivers for all major components of the SoC. The parts which still need to be upstreamed to mainline are HDMI audio and msgbox – both drivers are in the works. For more information on mainlining efforts, please refer to the A64 column at https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort#Status_Matrix - It’s worth mentioning that LPDDR3 initialization is done by u-boot SPL, which is also open source. There are no blobs in there either. Needless to say, the PinePhone itself is an open platform for any OS to run on. The grand majority of the OSes developed for the PinePhone are, in and of themselves, completely open too. The blobs: - The non-FOSS parts of the phone are as follows: WiFi and Bluetooth firmware must be uploaded to the Realtek RTL8723cs on initialization, an optional auto-focus firmware (currently not used in any PinePhone OSes) can be uploaded to the rear OmniVision OV5640 camera, and the Quectel EG25-G LTE modem runs its own closed-source OS. - The WiFi module communicates with the CPU over SDIO and BT is over UART – neither of these connections provide direct access to CPU memory. - The LTE modem on the PinePhone is a ‘black box’, and runs its own Linux system internally. This includes all the proprietary modules (blobs) needed to run the actual cellular radios. However, this system is almost entirely isolated from the main system running on the A64 SoC. The only data contacts between A64 and modem are USB connection for data and I2S connection for audio. All data going in or out of the modem must go over these connections. - There is no RAM or flash storage shared between the systems. In short, unless you explicitly send data to the modem, it is never in contact with the blobs running inside it. The modem cannot send any data to the phone unless phone is willing to receive it (that’s the basics of USB).
WIRED: One Small Fix Would Curb Stingray Surveillance
WIRED: One Small Fix Would Curb Stingray Surveillance. https://www.wired.com/story/stingray-surveillance-cell-tower-pre-authentication
Roman Yushkov (Russia) awarded damages in persecution suit - dozens jailed in Germany
Speak, or lose the right to speak. Defend the right of others to speak, or lose your own right to speak. Peace. Russian Holocaust Denier Wins Damages in Persecution Suit While German Truth-Tellers Rot in Jail https://russia-insider.com/en/russian-holocaust-denier-wins-damages-persecution-suit-while-german-truth-tellers-rot-jail/ri28216 https://russia-insider.com/en/tales-holohoax There is consternation that the outcome of high court litigation in Russia has supported the right of holocaust critics and investigators (holocaust deniers) the right to publish their findings and beliefs. Investigation of the holocaust narrative is illegal in much of Europe. On January 21, the Leninsky District Court of Perm decided to award Perm civil activist Roman Yushkov 50 thousand rubles in compensation for non-pecuniary damage for his being persecuted in connection with his right to publicly claim that the holocaust is a scam sponsored by politicians dependent upon Jewish patronage. ... >From the "great news from Russia" department of the right to speak.
Radio: SDR... Amp Your Rig to 500kW and Beyond
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbHjcwIoTiY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9UO9tn4MpI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo9nGzIzSPw https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22158976 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Creek_Naval_Radio_Station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roumoules_radio_transmitter USB for plugging RTL-SDR and gadgets... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22152736 https://www.usb-hubs.org/
Facialized: London Pigs to Pimp-Your-Steps like DMVs and AU Traffic Your Sexy Self
More news about the slavery you signed up for... https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51237665 The Metropolitan Police has announced it will use live facial recognition cameras operationally for the first time on London streets. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdkq7/avast-antivirus-sells-user-browsing-data-investigation Program used by hundreds of millions of people around the world is selling highly sensitive web browsing data to many of the world's biggest companies. Clients include Google, Yelp, Microsoft, McKinsey, Pepsi, Sephora, Home Depot, Conde Nast, Intuit, and many others. Some clients paid millions of dollars for products that include a so-called "All Clicks Feed," which can track user behavior, clicks, and movement across websites in highly precise detail. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evjekz/the-california-dmv-is-making-dollar50m-a-year-selling-drivers-personal-information https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43kxzq/dmvs-selling-data-private-investigators-making-millions-of-dollars The California Department of Motor Vehicles is generating revenue of $50,000,000 a year through selling drivers' personal information, according to a DMV document obtained by Motherboard. DMVs across the country are selling data that drivers are required to provide to the organization in order to obtain a license. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/australia-wants-to-use-face-recognition-for-porn-age-verification/ https://www.cnet.com/news/australian-government-biometric-face-verification-system-operational-security-privacy/ "Home Affairs is developing a Face Verification Service which matches a person's photo against images used on one of their evidence of identity documents to help verify their identity," "the first phase of its new biometric Face Verification Service (FVS) is up and running, giving a number of government departments and the Australian Federal Police the ability to share and match digital photos of faces." Initially, the system was fairly limited. It only included photos of people who had applied to become Australian citizens. And use of the database was supposed to be limited to a handful of government agencies with a compelling need for it. But since then, the government has steadily expanded the system. Photos from other sources were added to the database. And Australia has been trying to develop a more sophisticated Face Identification Service that can identify unknown persons. "The Face Verification Service is not yet fully operational," the government acknowledges. "Whilst it is intended to be made available to private sector organizations in future, this will be subject to the passage of the Identity-matching Services Bill 2019 which is currently before Parliament."
The Next Political System
To understand the next political system requires understanding why the previous one has failed. https://nitter.net/AndrewHClark/status/1221824515740708866 NEW POLL: On virtually every big indicator Americans say things are better today than they were at the end of the Obama-Biden presidency. Economy is better (+22 points), country is more secure (+18 points), the military is stronger (+15 points), streets are safer (+9 points)... . I leave you with this quote: “Only three people have ever really understood the Schleswig-Holstein business—the Prince Consort, who is dead—a German professor, who has gone mad—and I, who have forgotten all about it."
Re: Server infrastructure talk for Extinction Rebellion
On 1/26/20 9:05 PM, grarpamp wrote: > STOP BREAKING THREADS YOU FUCK!!! I read that he claimed to do it because 'posts from archive'. That's a nonsense excuse. The archive handles threads just fine. He's (or "it"... whatever) is doing this to make sure IT'S email gets seen and isn't buried in a thread. Considering IT'S never had any content worth opening an email over, I simply consider it MOAR LISTSPAM! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLih-WQwBSc Rr signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Server infrastructure talk for Extinction Rebellion
On 1/26/20 7:48 PM, Greg Newby wrote: > I just watched an informative talk from 36C3 by Julian Oliver: > https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-11008-server_infrastructure_for_global_rebellion > > At around minute 28 he begins talking about the specific server software, > datacenter hosting, and other aspects of their operational security > implementation. This description goes to around minute 44, and then there is > some Q that is also quite informative. > > Nobody asked him why they didn't use TOR -- presumably it wasn't even a > contender. For sysadmin activity they use VPNs to countries with strict data > protection laws (Switzerland and Iceland are mentioned). Data partitions are > encrypted, and they have various contingency plans in the event a server is > seized. > > At around minute 34, there is a list of the different software choices they > made to support Extinction Rebellion. They chose alternatives to Slack, > Google, Mailchimp, Zoom, etc. Some were found to be better than the > better-known alternatives, and some were worse, for performance, scalability > and usability. He mentioned that modern users are looking for something like > a Google-based single sign-on, which is anathema to the anti-surveillance > infrastructure they are focusing on. > > The software and configuration choices are today's best-of-breed for making > surveillance and seizure more difficult. This naturally includes not > utilizing commercial solutions, and also naturally includes self-hosting the > infrastructure. > > > ER is a global movement that is highly decentralized and, according to the > first 28 minutes of the talk, is having an impact. This is primarily through > non-violent actions. They mainly seek progress on combating climate change. > https://rebellion.global or https://organize.earth for more info. I wish them rots of ruck. Locally they chalk sidewalks (then a guy with a diesel powered steamcleaner comes to clean it up) and even though they do their thing at the downtown open air public street shopping mall, fail to EVER mention CONSUMERISM as one of the main planet destroyers emanating from consumer crapitalist industrial societies like toxic to all life spirochetes, and OF COURSE, ZERO mention of the Pentagon's environmental ravaging with the added 'bonus' of all those FILTHY Mil-Ind complex sites. For example, Watkins-Johnson in the 1980s, mil RF, which dumped hundreds of gallons of TCE into the well on their Scott Valley Ca site, PERMANENTLY TOXIFYING the local aquifer. Scotts Valley still gets it's water from Santa Clara. Listen. To Save the Environment, YOU have to do it! YOU YOU YOU! Telling other people they need to, or beg and plead and cajole your government, whose rich scumbag friends get filthy rich polluting everything they touch, it is fucking well worse than useless. Meanwhile, in Germany, a local town is in revolt about a Tesla manufacturing shithole https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-gigafactory-germany-protests/youre-stealing-our-water-germans-protest-against-tesla-gigafactory-idUSKBN1ZH0KM Rr signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: There are videos...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A9LAxhi68I Clearly 3D muppet versions of world leaders is equivalent to ... something?
Censorship: 21 States Sue to Shutdown 3D-CAD Files, FreeSpeech, SelfDefense, and Makers... again
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/479817-21-states-file-lawsuit-against-selling-blueprints-online-to-print-3d https://nypost.com/2020/01/24/20-states-sue-over-federal-regulations-governing-3d-printed-guns/ https://crweworld.com/ny/trendingnow/news/1390817/attorney-general-james-sues-new-trump-administration-for-easing-3d-gun-creation This will be about as successful every other attempted ban: Alcohol, Drugs, Guns, Music, Movies, Cryptography, Books, Travel, Cryptocurrency, CommsTech, Websites, Cash, Gold, Internet, Printing Presses, Speech, Thought, Freedom... Obviously the correct solution to such sillyness is to ban Government. Nerd out... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0og_KLSzCI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7AulNqdigM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk-sXFWtX7Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-CgK8Yi4Y0 Come and Make It! Pew Pew :)
