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..and cloning was demonstrated. See... http://www.scard.org/gsm/ http://cryptome.org/gsm-a512.htm http://cryptome.org/jya/gsm-cloned.htm http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/isaac/gsm.html

..and cloning was demonstrated. See... http://www.scard.org/gsm/ http://cryptome.org/gsm-a512.htm http://cryptome.org/jya/gsm-cloned.htm http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/isaac/gsm.html

Actually was cracked ten years ago.

Couldn't "they" send TCP packets to target servers under the guise of having been sent from spambots?

Lots of alleged NSA affiliated IPs seem to be associated with ad/spam delivery:

http://cryptome.org/0001/nsa-ip-update14.htm

http://cryptome.org/0001/nsa-l3-peers.htm

Just askin'....

Couldn't "they" send TCP packets to target servers under the guise of having been sent from spambots?

Lots of alleged NSA affiliated IPs seem to be associated with ad/spam delivery:

http://cryptome.org/0001/nsa-ip-update14.htm

http://cryptome.org/0001/nsa-l3-peers.htm

Just askin'....

Having read Yahoo's correspondence with US Marshall's Service regarding price of information and the need to keep it secret, and subsequent correspondence between Yahoo's lawyers and Cryptome, I thought Schmidt was taking a potshot at Yahoo.

The Yahoo lawyer clearly states that the public release of their sale of information to law enforcement would undermine their user's trust regarding privacy. This can only be taken as we don't want them to know that they in fact have none.

When I read that snippet from Schmidt, I immediately thought he was talking about Yahoo. I don't see him as the "if you have nothing to hide" kind of guy.

Try reading the first page of the "de-redacted" file. It has the URL to the original.

is here:
http://cryptome.org/tsa-screening.zip

http://cryptome.org/tsa-screening.zip The actual link.

From the Yahoo guide:
http://cryptome.org/isp-spy/yahoo-spy.pdf
"Federal law (See 18 U.S.C. 2706) requires law enforcement to reimburse providers like Yahoo! for costs incurred responding to subpoena requests, court orders, or search warrants. Yahoo! generally requests reimbursement when responding to legal process, except that Yahoo! maintains an exception to this policy for cases involving the abduction or exploitation of children. Yahoo! may waive reimbursement in specific cases or recognize additional exceptions to this policy in the future."

If you don't like Yahoo billing for the information then blame the Federal law.

They did via the US Coast Guard's Deepwater http://www.cryptome.org/deepwater/deepwater.htm :)
..."ships that were delivered being the eight leaking cutters"

Protecting against virtual attacks is going to be the next growth industry; at least if defense contractors have anything to with it. The following from cryptome, which I'd link to if there were a way to do that.

A sends:

I was watching PBS with with my daughter yesterday and a cartoon came on PBS Kids that I found a little bit disturbing. The name of the cartoon is "Cyberchase."

Here is a description of it from the PBS Website: "In the world of CYBERCHASE, the dastardly villain Hacker is on a mad mission to take over Cyberspace with the help of his blundering henchbots, Buzz and Delete. But heroes, Inez, Jackie, and Matt, are three curious kids determined to stop him with the help of their cyberpal, Digit. Their weapon: brain power."

http://www.pbs.org/parents/tvprograms/program-cyberchase.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS168619+17-Apr-2009+GNW20090417

Kind of strange a cartoon targeting the pre-school thru early grade school demographic about hackers using their minds as weapons in cyberspace. It was even stranger when it aired again today and I had a chance to see the lead corporate sponsor, Northrop Grumman. Yes, Northrop Grumman is sponsoring a cartoon for kids on Public Television. It adds new meaning to Northrop's Motto "Defining the Future" - defining the future, one young mind at a time, through children's education.

In all honesty I just never thought PBS would have the 4th largest defense contractor in the United States, the maker of B-2 Spirit strategic bomber who helps the U.S. to maintain a safe, secure and reliable strategic nuclear deterrent sponsoring kids' cartoons. Not cool.

I'd like to see the article providing proof of that level of monitoring by the NSA (or any other government agency for that matter).

Not only is there an article, there was a major governmental investigation. The European Parliament's ECHELON report provoked an enormous scandal in nerd circles when it appear. Bamford's Body of Secrets provided fuller details, many based on inside contacts.

Sadly, things like PGP and interest in ECHELON reports seem to have become less popular among geeks. I wonder why. Sure, one might trust PGP less when there are ways to get around it or compel you personally to give up the key, but it's odd that people suddenly have zero passion for the technology.

There's precedent for this. Gilmore v. Ashcroft ( http://cryptome.org/freetotravel.htm ) shows that the government doesn't even have to let you read the law.
Copying is a subset of reading. So if they can stop you from reading the law, they can certainly stop you from copying the law.

They're also easily forged. The paper at http://cryptome.org/gummy.htm [cryptome.org] is seven years old, I'm _amazed_ that those expensive pieces of wishful thinking are still in use.

Time to read :
http://maxkeiser.com/
http://cryptogon.com/
http://cryptome.org/
http://exiledonline.com/
http://www.truthnews.us/
Get a few days or weeks or months heads up on what the tame mainstream press with 'discover' if and when they are allowed to.

Here's a declassified version of the restrictions against collecting on US Persons, for example. This alone debunks 99% of the stupid comments that always pop-up in any NSA related thread. http://cryptome.org/nsa-ussid18.htm

"The NDAd documentation for the calypso, register definition (sic) and hardware definition, was leaked [...]"

Maybe not so un-hackable after all...

"The NDAd documentation for the calypso, register definition (sic) and hardware definition, was leaked [...]"

Maybe not so un-hackable after all...

"remote searches" of course being just a lame analogy to something that just happens to be legal and reliable. Its hardly an accurate description of the process of sending someone a windows only trojan and praying you get accurate data. Maybe you get a faked "nothing suspicious here" report or a big list of falsified evidence.

This isn`t like showing up at someones door with a warrant. This is like showing up at someones door in a water company uniform and then searching every nook and cranny of the home. Its like searching the pockets of everyone who visited the home at one time. Think about the years of "deleted" e-mails. Most would have come from people who at the time didn`t think they were talking to someone who may be searched one day.

Its also interesting to note that this is not the first time one of these insane ideas is dreamed up at the national level, quickly identified as legally and politically unfeasable, and then is passed as mandatory across the EU. Its almost as if people think there is less meaningful oversight and public debate on international level policy or something.

Everyone remembers the idea of storing at least Telephone, HTTP and email traffic data on everyone in the UK. In 2000 British police figured this was in conflict with the reasonableness requirement of article eight of the European human right treaty and UK privacy law they gave up in the UK... and then pushed the same thing across the EU. The only thing that held this back was ISP lobbyist that managed to cut out the costliest bits.

This "trojans for cops" plan sold under the name "remote hd search" came from Germany where there wasn`t just debate, but huge protests in the streets. I love those "freedom not fear" banners.

There was also:

• the biometric passports (An American Idea pushed trough the ICAO)
• Airlines sharing passenger records with US intelligence without a legal system
• SWIFT and (unreported in the US) EU banks sending transaction and customer information to US intelligence
• software patents

In every case the EU system provided the ideal place to take a long time to do nothing useful with nobody really caring.

So thats why I voted against the EU constitutional treaty. Fat lot of good that warning did.

A.) What was it again that Ayers was convicted of? And what was his sentence?

B.) Here is Bill Ayers CV: http://cryptome.org/ayers-vita.doc - It's 49 pages long. Sounds like he might be a good person to know.

Cryptologists decipher a term censored in a CIA "memo" to George Bush (2004)

Sometimes I wonder if they're sloppy on purpose when blacking out text. In the given example you can still see the i-dot of "Egyptian". The attack could easily be defeated by lengthening/shortening the black bar by a random amount and moving the rest of the line accordingly. A simple script can do this. Maybe it doesn't matter enough and all they need is to show they tried to hide the words.

Yeah, but wasn't it one of those 2004 debates where Bush had that bulge from something under his jacket? Did anyone ever really find out what the heck that thing was?

This page explains it pretty well.

It's a well known fact that the imagery providers have to obscure certain things. Just because a few of the images mentioned in the story turned out to be unobscured later doesn't mean they weren't at the time of the writing. The images are updated quite regularly, and once Google's satalites start working it'll be even more freqent.

Yes, it's censorship to obscure the imagery, but it's a tough balance to strike. Yes, information wants to be free. And as a taxpayer, it could be argued that you have a right to see whatever your government has been spending your money on. But people in other countries do not. Furthermore, the plans and everything for most of these buildings are located in the bottom of a filing cabinet in a dark basement room with a sign on the door that says "Beware of Leopard". That said, it sure is cool to look at government stuff, and the imagery being available makes it real easy.

For me, it's fun to find black helicopers and such, but that's basically it. It's just fun to look at stuff. I like those 'eyeball' things over at cryptome.org also. The risk is pretty low that someone would be able to plan an operation or something with just the image data. So they take away the fun to hopefully mitigate a small amount of risk.

On the flip side (again), there seems to be so many secrets these days. Too many, if you ask me. But, hopefully they know what they're doing.

Soon people will be able to upload their own photos to the view, like in that Microsoft thing, but on a 3d globe like Google Earth. People taking photos from passenger airplanes and such. More private aerial photos and satellites with small resolution and lower latency. It will happen. Google is on the right track with GIS, I think it'll be the killer app of the 2010's. Google has the power to pull everything together, it might take a while but soon there will be a nice parallel universe inside their datacentres. Unfortunately in that world, it makes extreme paranoia as actionable as extreme information gathering.

I hope you can all stop laughing at the Russians 'shooping a map for a moment to take the time to check out the following:

go to http://www.flashearth.com/ and select the Microsoft VE (with labels) radio button.

in the 'search' field type in

Godi, Italy

and then gradually scroll out. Look! It's-a da magical NATO run-a-way, and she is a covered in trees so nobody bomb-a her!

C/- http://cryptome.org/ - there were heaps of them.

Let's test your theory. Put DeCSS up on a website hosted in the US with your name and address on it, then mail a link to the FBI.

Since a copy of DeCSS is found in the public records of a court case in San Fransisco, I just might be able to get away with it. See here for a copy.

http://cryptome.org/palin-email.zip

Cryptome has a copy of the wikileaks posting.

http://cryptome.org/palin-email.zip

here.

Reading this account it seems that a house was surrounded by heavily armed police, and a resident handcuffed, before a warrant was obtained or shown.

The other accounts describe excessive intimidation.

This kind of thing makes me very glad I don't live in your "free" society.

Read & Learn, And Legalize Marijuana

Since the article is often pulled from websites, the first article you should read and burn into your mind is this, Google for the title and archive a copy for yourself:

"A break-in to end all break-ins"
"In 1971, stolen FBI files exposed the government's domestic spying program"

It's an amazing story, and in 2008, how much has this expanded into every corner of our lives? The majority of Americans are brainwashed sheep consumers with a limp wet noodle for a brain, thrashing around with their Wii and Paris Hilton media like a fat dinoasaur in a tar pit. Stay informed, we have no privacy, encryption is good but useless with acoustic monitoring, reflections in the eye and objects in your environment, etc.! If it's electronic, there's always a loophole. You shine brighter with each electronic device you use, in many ways. Don't trust Hushmail or any web based mail service to keep anything of yours secure or to provide any reasonable degree of security. Secure your computer room and rig your computer to shut down if you use encryption like Truecrypt or other when your environment is entered by someone other than you or those you permit and trust (you shouldn't trust anyone, everyone has a price)

Compromising Reflections or How to Read LCD Monitors Around the Corner
http://www.infsec.cs.uni-sb.de/~unruh/publications/reflections.pdf [uni-sb.de]

And more:

http://www.eff.org/wp/detecting-packet-injection
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_remailer
http://cryptome.org/tempest-law.htm
http://seclab.uiuc.edu/pubs/LeMayT06.pdf
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~dfrankow/files/lam-etrics2006-security.pdf
http://cryptome.org/nsa-vaneck.htm
http://www.alobbs.com/macchanger
http://lifehacker.com/software/ssh/geek-to-live--encrypt-your-web-browsing-session-with-an-ssh-socks-proxy-237227.php
http://www.nononsenseselfdefense.com/five_stages.html
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-92/SP800-92.pdf
http://csrc.nist.gov/itsec/guidance_WinXP_Home.html
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-84/SP800-84.pdf
http://all.net/books/document/harvard.html
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-keyc.html
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-keyc2/
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-keyc3/
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/emsec/optical-faq.html
http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/csep590/06wi/
http://www.wiley.com/legacy/compbooks/mcnamara/links.html
http://lifeha

Read & Learn, And Legalize Marijuana

Since the article is often pulled from websites, the first article you should read and burn into your mind is this, Google for the title and archive a copy for yourself:

"A break-in to end all break-ins"
"In 1971, stolen FBI files exposed the government's domestic spying program"

It's an amazing story, and in 2008, how much has this expanded into every corner of our lives? The majority of Americans are brainwashed sheep consumers with a limp wet noodle for a brain, thrashing around with their Wii and Paris Hilton media like a fat dinoasaur in a tar pit. Stay informed, we have no privacy, encryption is good but useless with acoustic monitoring, reflections in the eye and objects in your environment, etc.! If it's electronic, there's always a loophole. You shine brighter with each electronic device you use, in many ways. Don't trust Hushmail or any web based mail service to keep anything of yours secure or to provide any reasonable degree of security. Secure your computer room and rig your computer to shut down if you use encryption like Truecrypt or other when your environment is entered by someone other than you or those you permit and trust (you shouldn't trust anyone, everyone has a price)

Compromising Reflections or How to Read LCD Monitors Around the Corner
http://www.infsec.cs.uni-sb.de/~unruh/publications/reflections.pdf [uni-sb.de]

And more:

http://www.eff.org/wp/detecting-packet-injection
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_remailer
http://cryptome.org/tempest-law.htm
http://seclab.uiuc.edu/pubs/LeMayT06.pdf
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~dfrankow/files/lam-etrics2006-security.pdf
http://cryptome.org/nsa-vaneck.htm
http://www.alobbs.com/macchanger
http://lifehacker.com/software/ssh/geek-to-live--encrypt-your-web-browsing-session-with-an-ssh-socks-proxy-237227.php
http://www.nononsenseselfdefense.com/five_stages.html
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-92/SP800-92.pdf
http://csrc.nist.gov/itsec/guidance_WinXP_Home.html
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-84/SP800-84.pdf
http://all.net/books/document/harvard.html
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-keyc.html
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-keyc2/
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-keyc3/
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/emsec/optical-faq.html
http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/csep590/06wi/
http://www.wiley.com/legacy/compbooks/mcnamara/links.html
http://lifeha

Definitely non-story. And parent is the first post in the flaming-bitching-i'm-a-crypto-conspiracist-geek row that leads, that actually makes sense.

Just take a look at the updated Cryptome FA:

Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 09:04:38 -0700
Subject: CRYPTOME: Response to hushmail-pry.htm
From: "S Brian Smith"

Hello,

This post is in error:

http://cryptome.org/hushmail-pry.htm

The post refers to the wrong file for the comparison. The check
should have been done against this file:

applets/HushEncryptionEngine.jar

That is the file actually used on the website. It is processed
with Proguard to reduce the download size, and has no debug
information. If you checksum that file, the checksum will match
the file on the website.

The file mentioned in the post, HushEncryptionEngine_3-0-0-30.jar,
contains debugging information and is not processed by Proguard.
Therefore it does not match the file for download on the website.

Regards,
Brian Smith
Hush Communications

It's sad that all the Hushmail's openness efforts go completely unnoticed in the rush to scoop or to find conspiracy evidence.

And, just for the record, I tried to carry on the verification process and (even if I didn't have the right combination of jdk/proguard/libs versions on my system) I got a jre with all the classes just off some bytes in size from the actual jar run by Hushmail.

-ded

Since the article is often pulled from websites, the first article you should read and burn into your mind is this, Google for the title and archive a copy for yourself:

"A break-in to end all break-ins"
"In 1971, stolen FBI files exposed the government's domestic spying program"

It's an amazing story, and in 2008, how much has this expanded into every corner of our lives? The majority of Americans are brainwashed sheep consumers with a limp wet noodle for a brain, thrashing around with their Wii and Paris Hilton media like a fat dinoasaur in a tar pit. Stay informed, we have no privacy, encryption is good but useless with acoustic monitoring, reflections in the eye and objects in your environment, etc.! If it's electronic, there's always a loophole. You shine brighter with each electronic device you use, in many ways. Don't trust Hushmail or any web based mail service to keep anything of yours secure or to provide any reasonable degree of security. Secure your computer room and rig your computer to shut down if you use encryption like Truecrypt or other when your environment is entered by someone other than you or those you permit and trust (you shouldn't trust anyone, everyone has a price)

Compromising Reflections or How to Read LCD Monitors Around the Corner
http://www.infsec.cs.uni-sb.de/~unruh/publications/reflections.pdf

And more:

http://www.eff.org/wp/detecting-packet-injection
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_remailer
http://cryptome.org/tempest-law.htm
http://seclab.uiuc.edu/pubs/LeMayT06.pdf
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~dfrankow/files/lam-etrics2006-security.pdf
http://cryptome.org/nsa-vaneck.htm
http://lifehacker.com/software/ssh/geek-to-live--encrypt-your-web-browsing-session-with-an-ssh-socks-proxy-237227.php
http://www.nononsenseselfdefense.com/five_stages.html
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-92/SP800-92.pdf
http://csrc.nist.gov/itsec/guidance_WinXP_Home.html
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-84/SP800-84.pdf
http://all.net/books/document/harvard.html
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-keyc.html
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-keyc2/
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-keyc3/
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/emsec/optical-faq.html
http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/csep590/06wi/
http://www.wiley.com/legacy/compbooks/mcnamara/links.html
http://lifehacker.com/software/home-server/geek-to-live--set-up-a-personal-home-ssh-server-205090.php

Since the article is often pulled from websites, the first article you should read and burn into your mind is this, Google for the title and archive a copy for yourself:

"A break-in to end all break-ins"
"In 1971, stolen FBI files exposed the government's domestic spying program"

It's an amazing story, and in 2008, how much has this expanded into every corner of our lives? The majority of Americans are brainwashed sheep consumers with a limp wet noodle for a brain, thrashing around with their Wii and Paris Hilton media like a fat dinoasaur in a tar pit. Stay informed, we have no privacy, encryption is good but useless with acoustic monitoring, reflections in the eye and objects in your environment, etc.! If it's electronic, there's always a loophole. You shine brighter with each electronic device you use, in many ways. Don't trust Hushmail or any web based mail service to keep anything of yours secure or to provide any reasonable degree of security. Secure your computer room and rig your computer to shut down if you use encryption like Truecrypt or other when your environment is entered by someone other than you or those you permit and trust (you shouldn't trust anyone, everyone has a price)

Compromising Reflections or How to Read LCD Monitors Around the Corner
http://www.infsec.cs.uni-sb.de/~unruh/publications/reflections.pdf

And more:

http://www.eff.org/wp/detecting-packet-injection
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_remailer
http://cryptome.org/tempest-law.htm
http://seclab.uiuc.edu/pubs/LeMayT06.pdf
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~dfrankow/files/lam-etrics2006-security.pdf
http://cryptome.org/nsa-vaneck.htm
http://lifehacker.com/software/ssh/geek-to-live--encrypt-your-web-browsing-session-with-an-ssh-socks-proxy-237227.php
http://www.nononsenseselfdefense.com/five_stages.html
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-92/SP800-92.pdf
http://csrc.nist.gov/itsec/guidance_WinXP_Home.html
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-84/SP800-84.pdf
http://all.net/books/document/harvard.html
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-keyc.html
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-keyc2/
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-keyc3/
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/emsec/optical-faq.html
http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/csep590/06wi/
http://www.wiley.com/legacy/compbooks/mcnamara/links.html
http://lifehacker.com/software/home-server/geek-to-live--set-up-a-personal-home-ssh-server-205090.php

> The real issue is that without access to some of YouTube's logs, Viacom has no way of knowing if Google knowingly contributed to copyright
> infringement, and that question is central to Google's Safe Harbor defense.

Makes you wonder why people bother keeping logs at all, if they're only going to take up space and provide evidence against you.

http://cryptome.org/no-logs.htm

I thought that AVG were good guys like Google that put their customers first rather than the neo-conservative fascists that bought the White House. It's all the other A/V companies that scare me. Maybe all has changed since they acquired Linkscanner.

Let me tell you how I feel about the other guys. It all started with Cyberstorm I, back in 2006.

The Department of Homeless Insecurity claim that their exercises are on an imaginary parallel internet housed somewhere in the basement of the Pentagon (or somewhere like that). I personally believe that Cyberstorm I exercise was live although I do not wish to prove that, just speculate...

To my knowledge AVG/Grisoft were not a participant in Cyberstorm, however Symantec, M$, Cisco and other commercial players were. There were some really horrible viruses that did the rounds at the time, blackmailing people into believing that all their secrets had been passed on with the virus. Another twist was that the computer would 'self-destruct' at the end of the month. Viruses made it into the news at the time, hospitals having scanners put out and such like. I was amazed at how sophisticated those viruses were. They stripped out all A/V protection, deleting the files and registry entries. Obviously a script kiddy in somewhere like Hungary could have written them, but I thought the level of sophistication and timing was odd.

The whole idea of Cyberstorm 1 was to test whether an online anti-government word of mouth campaign could be contained. The government would not want the truth about how we got into this war to get out, and it was on the basis of Cyberstorm I that informed Rumsfeld that 'The War Against Terrorism' was here for 75 years or so. Rumsfeld was correct to focus on Cyberstorm instead of Iraq, but it could have been instrumental in his 'demise'.

Coupled with the 'not' live exercise was 'Full Spectrum Dominance', i.e. different stories in security blogs about what the viruses were about. I think the exercise lasted a fortnight or so, and a week or two before the exercise officially started. Cyberstorm II had a deeper focus on spoof blogs and 'Full Spectrum Dominance', however, I did not 'participate' in that one...

If AVG are now playing ball with the Department of Homeless Insecurity then the 4th generational cyber-warfare scene is getting hotter and hotter.

Warfare has always been information warfare, remember 'Enigma'? It matters more than anything that grunts with bullets and bombs. Warfare is notionally about an external threat, however, it is always about control of the domestic population. An internal threat is a lot, lot worse than an external one for the guys in the palaces. Cyberstorm has a political motive, no matter how flowery the official language. In all warfare - online or otherwise - there is propaganda and fog of war. Fog of war means that nobody really knows what is going on. Hence, only wildly speculative hypothesis can be used to make sense of it all - hard facts don't happen and pukka adversaries run feints. Nonetheless, the Department of Homeland Insecurity do hint at this in their official spiel:

"The Cyber Storm II scenario will be executed by persistent, fictitious adversaries with a distinct political and economic agenda. The Cyber Storm II adversary will use sophisticated attack vectors to create a large-scale incident requiring players to focus on response."

http://www.dhs.gov/xprepresp/training/gc_1204738760400.shtm

The document on Cryptome is a must read as this shows the whole game plan. It's scary:

http://cryptome.org/cyberstorm.pdf

Note that they is talking anti-globalisation, not al-make-believe or the Chinese or the Estonians...

A press release story from the time:

"Original Cyberstorm 1 bulletin (AP, Feb. 10, 2006):

The government concluded its "Cyber Storm" wargame Friday, its biggest-ever exercise to test how it would respond

First I will add a plug for https://www.bloglines.com/ â" RSS feeds where ever I can log in, via HTTPS. Great for those feeds I read whenever & everywhere; and for those I only check when waiting to board the airplane. In my bloglines collection I have around 400 feeds, which will grow after looking through these threads. :) Some selections that hopefully no one else has mentioned:

Amusement:
http://failblog.wordpress.com/feed/
All about the Fail

http://lolbots.com/?feed=rss2
Robots making the LOLz, though not updated often.

http://lolgeeks.com/?feed=rss2
Geeks making the LOLz, though not updated often.

The latest limerick database entries - http://peeron.com/tickers/limerickdb.xml

The Triumph of Bullshit - http://bullshit.tumblr.com/rss

Diesel Sweeties by R Stevens - http://www.dieselsweeties.com/ds-unifeed.xml

PHD Comics - http://www.phdcomics.com/gradfeed.php
Ever spent time in academia? You will relate to this web comic.

Unshelved - http://www.unshelved.com/rss.aspx
A web comic about a library. Ssssshhhuusshh!

Indexed - http://indexed.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Take two (or more) topics and compare them using graphs & charts â" full of insight & lolz.

Computerworld Shark Tank News - http://feeds.computerworld.com/Computerworld/Shark/Tank
Many stories, full of humor and face palm

Overheard in the Office - http://www.overheardintheoffice.com/atom.xml
Instead of what was overheard in New York, now worldwide and from your office.

Common geek topics (those blogs that seem to hit all the topics days or weeks before you see them on Slashdot):
Didnt You Hear... http://www.didntyouhear.com/feed/

The Daily WTF - http://thedailywtf.com/rss.aspx

Global Nerdy - http://globalnerdy.com/feed/

Shopping:
http://content.dealnews.com/dealnews/rss/todays-edition.xml
Many of those geek toys you need

Newegg.com daily deals: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=DailyDeals&nm_mc=OTC-RSS
Need I say more?

Slickdeals: http://www.slickdeals.net/rss.php
Need I say more?

Woot! http://www.woot.com/blog/rss.aspx

Dumb political stuff:
Homeland Stupidity: http://feeds.feedburner.com/HomelandStupidity
Government gaffes, bureaucratic blunders and incumbent incompetence

Groklaw: http://www.groklaw.net/backend/GrokLaw.rdf

Declan McCullagh's Politech http://www.politechbot.com/info/rss/politech.xml
Also not updated often, but on target when it is.

Cryptome: http://cryptome.org/cryptome.xml
You can get lost here for hours

Music:
House of Blues: http://hob.com/venues/clubvenues/lasvegas/
The RSS feed for the local House of B

Better yet, start going through, and publishing the contents of, politicians' garbage. There's a ton of precedent now that people's trash on city streets is not protected private property anymore, let's see how some mayors and police chiefs like having the contents of their fridge, or unshredded paperwork disclosed.

In fact, someone already beat me to it:
http://cryptome.org/tia-brass.htm

Pics or it didn't happen.

(Had to, sorry.)

Done

In context, it ain't pr0n. It's this guy's "Funny shit I found on the Internet over the past five years (2002-2007)" folder.

If I were the next President, based on the contents of this folder alone, I'd nominate him to the Supreme Court. He actually understands the difference between indecency and obscenity, and this folder is proof. If you're laughing at stuff like the Goatse Guy, it's indecent, but it cannot be obscene because it doesn't appeal to the prurient interest. If you're jerking off when you see the Goatse Guy, it might be obscene, and even that might have to be litigated.

When the Co$ finally drags you-know-how-manychan into court, (speaking of Anonymous, the next worldwide raid against the cult, "Operation Sea Aaaargh", is this weekend!), the bench is going to need someone like Kozinski to explain to his fellow justices why shitting dicknipples are funny, and not pornographic. Because no lawyer on either side of the case is going to admit, on the record, to understanding the difference.

Cryptome posted a Yahoo cache of Kozinski's directory on its site.

Some of the more interesting file names include:

a.day.without.jews.wmv
BBCCopsUndies.wmv
Colo-rectalSurgeon.wav
isitmanisitwoman.pps
jewsdontcamp.mp3
piss_diver.wmv
Sheep_guy.jpg
show.them.to.me.wmv
testicle.interview.wmv

Looks like Jewish groups may not appreciate his sense of humor as well as the anti-porn crowd. At any rate, I don't see much of anything there that looks from the file names alone to be hardcore. It really does look like a directory of miscellaneous stuff that came in "Look at this!" and "Check THIS out!" e-mails from friends that he just stored on the site for easy access.

Is this:

http://cryptome.org/nsa-ussid18.htm

The correct USSID 18?

How does what you are saying jibe with 4.1 or 5.4? Do the redacted portions completely overturn the rest of the directive?

http://www.truecrypt.org/
http://w2.eff.org/patent/
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuradio/
http://www.wikileaks.org/
http://www.cryptome.org/
http://www.torproject.org/
http://freenetproject.org/

http://thememoryhole.org/

http://wikileaks.org/

http://cryptome.org/

Just to be clear, the actual Valenti quote is "I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone." from Valenti's testimony.

Here is the URL of March 2007 " A Review of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Use of National Security Letters" published by the Office of the Inspector General. Note section IV, "Improper or Illegal Use of National Security Letter Authorities." http://cryptome.org/fbi-nsl/fbi-nsl.htm A link to the pdf is available there as well.

http://cryptome.org/
nsa-spectrum.zip + Zipped NSA Cryptologic Spectrum Articles 1969-81 April 24, 2008 (31MB)
nsa-tempest.pdf + TEMPEST: A Signal Problem (NSA History) April 24, 2008

No direct link to save JY's bandwidth.

I love the simple solution
"Instead of buying this monster, the Signal Corps resorted to the only other solution they could think of. They went out and warned commanders of the problem, advised them to control a zone about 100 feet in diameter around their communications center to prevent covert interception, and let it go at that."

I am trying to get some time to get into the Spectrum articles.

Its the NSA at the choke points of google's wonderful optical roll out that should have most of you thinking a bit harder.
Google wants to play nice in Asia, the NSA upgrades in Hawaii.

http://cryptome.org/google/kunia-us.htm

Believe it or not, the world record for factoring using a quantum system is currently 15 - that's right, 5 and 3.

http://cryptome.org/shor-nature.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor's_algorithm

That was in 2001. I'd like to remind everyone that these charlatans are currently drawing in millions of research dollars (both public and private) and still haven't published anything meaningful since. Quantum computing is the closest thing to a platonic ideal of vapor-ware. While we sink money into buildings, offices, fine wine and caviar, sports cars, etc... for these "world class" researchers, the people in the labs doing real science barely get by.

Being able to crack the GSM A5/1 encryption with thousands of US dollars (instead of millions) is nice, but the encryption scheme itself was cracked long ago, and by Prof. Shamir (of RSA fame), no less.

Flaw: The JUDGE was the one who originally ordered the domain name yanked. Not the company. And I find it ironic that you would call something that would limit what corporations can do a "Bill of Rights". If you want to limit what they can do, make sure it's in the contract. Now, back to the court order.

http://cryptome.org/wikileaks-tro.pdf

DEFENDANTS WIKILEAKS and WIKILEAKS.ORG and DOES 1-10 (collectively the "Wikileaks Defendants"), and...DNS hosts...and all others who receive notice of this order, are, pending hearing on this Court's below-issued Order to Show Cause, hereby ordered, enjoined and restrained as follows

RESTRAINED and ENJOINED from displaying, posting, publishing, distributing, linking to and/or otherwise providing any information for the access or other dissemination of copies of and/or images of the JB Property (as defined herein below)

ORDERED to immediately block and otherwise prevent any current and any further use, display, posting, publication, distribution, linking to and/or other dissemination of copies of and/or images of the JB Property and any other new or additional yet unpublished documents and data that constitute or could reasonably be known to be or considered to constitute JB Property, pending further order of this Court;

ORDERED to immediately give notice of this Order to all of the Wikileaks Defendants' DNS host service providers, ISP's, domain registrars, website site developers, website operators, website host service providers, and administrative and technical domain contacts, and anyone else responsible or with access to modify the website, and that they are to cease and desist from any current and any further use, display, posting, publication, distribution, linking to and/or other dissemination of copies of and/or images of the JB Property and any information contained therein pending further order of this Court;

I don't know about you, but several of those seem to cover DNS entries.