Re: Dailydot: Cryptome accidentally leaks its own
Chatter on this teapot leakage in the cypherpunks archive: https://cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2015-October/date.html # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Dailydot: Cryptome accidentally leaks its own visitor IP addresses
< http://www.dailydot.com/politics/cryptome-ip-leak-john-young-michael-best/ > Leak site Cryptome accidentally leaks its own visitor IP addresses By Joseph Cox Oct 9, 2015, 6:01pm CT | Last updated Oct 9, 2015, 8:21pm CT http://bit.ly/1Zmfo8z Cryptome, the Internet's oldest document-exposure site, inadvertently leaked months worth of its own IP logs and other server information, potentially exposing details about its privacy-conscious users. The data, which specifically came from the Cartome sub-directory on Cryptome.org, according to Cryptome co-creator John Young, made their way into the wild when the site logs were included on a pair of USB sticks sent out to a supporter. Twitter user Michael Best reported the problem a few days ago on his website. "Within those USBs were server logs that include user IPs (spanning several months), .htaccess files, and a pwd file," he wrote. He discovered the files when he uploaded the contents of the sticks to the Internet Archive, Best told the Daily Dot in a Twitter message. "Probably best to not expose visitors' data further but then nothing can be fully deleted or hidden." "Scrolling down through the list, I found about a hundred awstats log files listed in a row," he said, referring to Cryptome analytics data. Launched in 1996 by Young and Deborah Natsios, Cryptome was born out of the cypherpunks mailing list, a space where some of the most influential players in cryptography emerged. It currently hosts tens of thousands of documents, news articles, and images, many of which pertain to cryptography, surveillance, and freedom of information. Documents made available through the site include lists of MI6 agents, details on nuclear technology, and much more. It is often referred to as the forefather of WikiLeaks. Last month, Cryptome announced that someone had compromised some of its encryption keys. Returning to the IP logs, Best contacted Young over email and Twitter about the problem. Eventually Cryptome said that Best had faked the data. "When he accused me of faking the data is when I dumped it, since he didn't acknowledge the problem and was making accusations against me," Best said. The data published by Best, which was reviewed by the Daily Dot, includes IP logs of visitors to certain pages of Cryptome during a few select months in 2009 and 2010. There are also files indicating what search terms people have used to land on the site. When initially asked whether he had anything to add, Young told the Daily Dot in an email, "No." But shortly after, Young confirmed to Best in an email that the data was accurate. "You were right about AWStats data. Not the stats for Cryptome itself but for the Cartome sub-directory, for four months, November 2009-February 2010," Young wrote. "Included in a full site restoration by ISP NetSol after a full shutdown in June 2013." "The stats have been deleted from the Cryptome archive," Young added. "Probably best to not expose visitors' data further but then nothing can be fully deleted or hidden. Thanks for discovering and reporting in this." Best has also reportedly deleted the data from his site. When asked whether that message was legitimate, Young told the Daily Dot in an email, "Yes." "Best is as dogged as Cryptome," Young added in a later email. "We admire that and encourage him to get even more pugnacious, as if he needed it. Should be many more to offset the rising excess of suavely devious spying, advertising and oligarch ass-lickers hoboing the runaway online money train." # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: The Gentrification of Hacking: How yuppies hacked the
dear nettimers, spot on the topic, in Rome's university La Sapienza yesterday researchers and students were protesting with a peaceful sit-in... against the Maker Faire! http://ilmanifesto.info/alla-sapienza-contestata-la-maker-faire-una-vetrina-per-il-business-sullinnovazione/ besides the fact the faire is blocking the access to some spaces of the university with costly tickets, they also criticize the overall marketing oriented nature of the event, where they say that the "business approach of the Maker Faire is an actual contradiction of the philosophy of sharing and cooperation that originated such initiatives" the newspaper elaborates well on the arguments with some quotes and overall bashing of the "capitalism 2.0" speculative attitude towards immaterial commons. Of course, beware, this is a communist newspaper :^) yet the only to cover such an interesting story... does one really needs to be a communist to be critical in this ultra-lib ultra-opt(imism) world we are living in? seems so For the occasion I recommend this publication of the D-CENT project, titled "Managing the commons in the knowledge economy" (1.4MB download) http://dcentproject.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/D3.2-complete-ENG-v2.pdf in particular chapter 4.7 starting at page 71, titled "The maker movement. A return to dawn in the logic of the commons?" which concludes with: "" Authors like André Gorz even made it the prototype of a new social way of production based on the possibility to interconnect craft workshops founded on the common throughout the whole world, to treat software like a common good of humanity, like the free software movement does, to replace the market with what it is necessary to produce, how and to what purpose, to fabricate all that is necessary locally and also to make large complex facilities through collaboration with many local workshops. Transport, warehousing, marketing and factory assembly, which represent two thirds of current costs, would be eliminated. An economy beyond wage relation, money and commodities founded on the pooling of the results of an activity conceived of from the beginning as common, is heralded to be possible: an economy of gratuitousness. (Gorz, 2008, 118-119). This utopian vision of Gorz's has many affinities with the experience of the Transition Town Movement promoted by Rob Hopkins. The Transition Movement, as Gauntlett (2011) emphasises, is formed of community initiatives that try to transform society into resilient communities organised according to the maker logic in order to face the environmental challenges tied to climate change, limited resources and alterations in the world of work brought on by the economic crisis. One of the main characteristics of the Transition Movement is that of believing that all these problems can be faced through co-production and community collaboration. It is no coincidence that the two fundamental principles of the movement are: a) individuals have immense quantities of creativity, talent and ability; b) if individuals acted as a community they would be capable of creating a way of life that is significatively more connected, more vibrant and more fulfilling than the one we live in. Even though it is more recent even the maker movement seems to be in turn crossed, like the free software movement, by divergent tendencies on an economic level and on that of political philosophy. The model of resilience and autonomy incarnated by the radical makers community in California of whom Gorz and Lallement are spokesmen, is opposed in this way by a logic of integration in the large circuits of industrial production and commerce (Landeau, 2014) or again approaches according to which the decentralised production of the makers could come close to the realisation of a market of perfect competition (cf. Anderson, 2012). "" These and other good reads on this list put forward a deep, still forward looking, view on what was, can be and is becoming yet another commons-based movement in the age of a necrotizing capitalism. Yet all this thinkering (nettime included!) seems to stay pretty much in the domain of the intellectualoids, while the masses are shoved the zombie-rethoric of californian ideology in every way possible, now even printed in cheap-but-three-dee toxic plastic in the very premises of a university. Ad maiora! ciao -- Denis Roio aka Jaromil http://Dyne.org think &do tank CTO and co-founder free/open source developer 加密 6113 D89C A825 C5CE DD02 C872 73B3 5DA5 4ACB 7D10 # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: nettime-l Digest, Vol 97, Issue 7
If you had read the interview - unless you did but you forget as fast as you read - she tried to do a similar project in the 90's in Austria but couldn't obtain the right to the prisoner's image because nobody but the state has rights to a prisoner's body. That's something to bash about and not L. Anderson's looks or work. Moreover if nobody cares anymore about guantanemo that is society's pathology, always running behind the next trend. Vietnam, Iraq, Afganistan, Greece, Syria, you name it, all were and are proxy wars. Problem persists; states treat ppl as if they own them. best, M 2015-10-06 18:15 GMT+03:00 John Young <[1]j...@pipeline.com>: "Geriatric" is applied to presumptive value derived from excessivity of longevity, reputation, exposure, glomming onto and pairing with youthful transience, by texting, imaging, thinking, positioning, dressing, singing, musicing, performing younger than physical age, not quite getting it right but no matter there will be more to fine-tune the thievery as collective proprietary, ready for deliverance to the swankest of architectural excesses. Adding to already collected and dusted with high-tech security hundreds of copies of the same old shit, sorry, RUN DOG RUN, giant tulips, repetitive persona masquerades, vapid ironies by the tubsful, diaretic one-holer gushes of critical studies for wrinkled bum wiping, colostomies, urine bags, adult diapers, Medicare prostheses, percentage of ego-pile-erecting cost reserved for bloated ream-the-public art, like "Whitey Vulgar" Serra's genital junk growing larger as his ween requires excessive CPA-Obamacare to tilted arc a piss on GSA endlessly. <...> # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: VW
New open source projects released in github on how to pass software tests in a VW way. https://github.com/auchenberg/volkswagen "If you want your software to be adopted by Americans, good tests scores from the CI server are very important. Volkswagen uses a defeat device to detect when it's being tested in a CI server and will automatically reduce errors to an acceptable level for the tests to pass. This will allow you to spend less time worrying about testing and more time enjoying the good life as a trustful software developer." Haha, there is no hope really but great logo VW-transformer best Maria 2015-10-04 0:17 GMT+03:00 t byfield <[3]tbyfi...@panix.com>: On 3 Oct 2015, at 15:07, Florian Cramer wrote: If you carefully read my points here on Nettime, then it shouldn't have escaped you that I defended this funding (against Ted) and actually consider it a good case of repurposing company profits for public research and education. No, I didn't say anything like that and wouldn't have. One of my favorite hobbyhorses is the problematic state of higher ed in the US, which is mostly a byproduct of the privatization of educational finance. The implied alternative of that privatization is public funding -- but even that will depends, at some point, on private economic activity. I don't know enough about the VW / Lower Saxony model to say much about it, but it's probably better than the dominant model we have in the US. <...> # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
Re: Pricing a Protest: Forecasting the Dynamics of Civil
Maybe this is interesting in that context: Social Unrest: Millennial Uprising Scenario 2015 by Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies slides http://www.risk.jbs.cam.ac.uk/news/events/other/downloads/150122_riskbriefing_socialunrestrisk_slides.pdf report http://cambridgeriskframework.com/getdocument/22 Also a few days ago there was the Recorded Future User Network Conference, perhaps Dan Geer can chip in on the latest. >From the department nothing new under the sun: This was from 2012 http://semanticommunity.info/AOL_Government/2012_Recorded_Future_User_Conference back then recordedfuture had interesting webinars on monitoring protest and social unrest, here claiming 85% accuracy for their prediction 2012 https://youtu.be/ffPSocrmfQI?t=213 Monitoring Protests and Unrest - Recorded Future Webcast 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Sbny91NjeA Monitoring Social Media Authors 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGMg1jNF3D4 also interesting Quid https://youtu.be/mKZCa_ejbfg?t=890 CEO https://gigaom.com/2013/05/21/the-future-of-propaganda-a-qa-with-sean-gourley-about-big-data-and-the-war-of-ideas/ http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2012/05/14/152444019/algorithms-the-ever-growing-all-knowing-way-of-the-future and the above mentioned Cytora - Real-Time Political Risk Analysis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJsriO_o_9I Future research projects http://minerva.dtic.mil/funded.html And then there is always enterprise solution Palantir. # distributed via : no commercial use without permission #is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
