Like the globe, Cryptome got the COFEE files from Torrent and wanted to see what Microsoft and Netsol would do when the copyfilth snoopfest was offered on a plain-sight website easily targeted. It's been several years since the last takedown notice for Cryptome, none since being hosted on Netsol. There's the result: snarf COFEE.
No, the material was not returned to MS, nor was it asked for, nor for log files, nor has MS apologized for Windows being so bloated, unstable, insecure and riddled with backholes for use by TLAs.
COFEE is a diversion and another example of the complicity ingrained in giant corps to aid official and commercial spying through browsers, ftp, http, faulty crypto, leaky data farms, telecomm splitters, juicy NDA contracts and grants to non-profits, internet nodes, not to say OSs, cells, i-pods, household appliances, e-games, porn sites, anything digital missing from this list.
Honestly, aping this noble forum, Cryptome's only purpose is to disinfo slight resistance to the tsunami of edu, com, gov, mil, intel kind.
I couldn't help but notice that Verio issued the shutdown notice on the same day that you posted the first information from the Coast Guard Deepwater program debacle.
Is is possible that either the Coast Guard or Lockheed is behind shutting you down?
A, you hit the nail on the head. The Deepwater expose, and attempts to conceal it, points to the prime suspect for the shutdown. Verio would not buckle for anything less, based on past practice, and are probably hoping the shutdown would be seen for what it really is: they've been ordered not to disclose anything which would call attention to the Deepwater material and its threat to national security.
The congressional folks may have more to demand answers about trying to suppress Deepwater failures: subpoena Verio, show the defense cartel's dirty fighting is getting dirtier.
The archived Deepwater material will be posted shortly.
Right, Cryptome happily chokes on slashdot, but not to worry, mirrors are available as noted below.
Cryptome and its affiliated sites will continue with another ISP, in the US or elsewhere. Or if necessary, underground, or via means not easily shuttered, or by way of whatever is invented for opposing technologies of information control (credit to Steven Wright, author of The Technologies of Political Control: http://cryptome.org/stoa-atpc.htm).
Cryptome invites information on means and/or devices that will allow a customer to neuter RFID tags on purchased products which are no longer owned by the RFID installers. Send to: jya@pipeline.com
The RFID docs on Cryptome were pointed to by CASPIAN, the premier group resisting the spread of RFID in consumer products. CASPIAN website:
Yes, Natsios and I run an architectural office, thriving on unusual projects which we don't talk about in Cryptome world. Not secret just very peculiar, our speciality. Getting from architecture to Cryptome was impossible so it took a jump into the yawning void of cypherpunks, truly beyond good and evil. No, I'm not a hacker, too inept, a Windoze cripple, but yearn to be a Penguin, black hatted.
No threats so far, but a fair number of predictions of threats to come. I mean threats about Cryptome, for I have gotten threats as an architect, standard procedure in New York. Scared the piss out of me for they were aimed at my family. Cops said get used to it or change your ways to fit the scene of the crime. Cryptome is a joy ride by comparison. What are nasty e-mails from MPAA or a court's injunction compared to 4 shotgun shells with your kids' names on them? But don't let me change the subject with business as usual horror tales about wounded NY begging for billion dollar subsidies to assure continued criminal corruption.
Yes, that is one of a long list of things to do immediately after my nap. It's a feature regularly requested and if I could do it easily it would have been done. I'm a slow learner, kicking me is the only way to get action. Then I overreact, so watch it.
Backdoors would not increase gov access to encrypted messages, they do just fine now without them by attacking weaknesses in cryptosystem's implementation and usage. What is needed is stronger implementation of cryptosystems so that nobody, that means nobody not just government, can gain access to private communications and data. There are enemies equal to government, some more devious and exploitive, some learned their criminal skills while in government service and are now preying on the unwary among the citizenry and the government, and not only in the US. Maximum crypto, algo, implementation and usage, is sorely needed, not weakened for the inept low level cop to rummage in your mailbox while genuinely evil leaders and their buddies are stealing the world's nation's jewels. What would empower the citzenry would be for NSA to publicly disclose more about crypto weaknesses as well as how to attack the communications of national leaders doing the dirty. No kidding, there are NSA operators who just might get angry enough to tell what they know about the shenanigans in the homeland what they intercept about foreign leaders. That used to be against the law, or was until Bush signed the anti-terrorism bill, now the operators can tell what they're doing in the USA, not to us just yet but soon it will leak.
The only way totalitarianism wins is if we give up challenging it in all its early manifestations, one of the first being to induce self-censorship by breeding fear of speaking and writing and acting on your beliefs whatever they are, leavened with tolerance for other's beliefs. Keeping an open mind in times of panic is hard, so don't panic, especially now when the bastards of all persuasions are working hard at that. Keep looking for reliable information, doubt authority, talk it up, act it up, write it up, publish, publish , publish. Run a web site, run several, duck the attacks, set up some more, keep sharing information, criticize, jeez, this is Slashdot, the mother of what I'm saying.
Make sure you laugh at ridiculous seriousness, but duck the angry swings this will cause.
For me babbling at the righteous preachers works. YMMV.
What's needed cryptographers say are better implementations not better algorithms. Weaknesses in encryption systems are nearly always in their non-mathematical configurations. So far, it is whispered, there is no crypto system that cannot be broken so long as you avoid the mathematics and go for the overlooked weaknesses too often found in systems proclaimed to be mathematically unbreakable. No security expert will admit that these "unbreakable" systems are faulty, that would screw up their easy cracking. Bypass the Maginot Line math, walk in the unlocked doors, front and back and side and cellar and roof.
Yes, if the government is very small, very obedient, very responsive and changes often. Tom Jefferson's generational revolution is too slow, government should be constantly adjusting to fit changing needs. If it fails to adjust, out with it. Give anarchy a chance. Cypherpunks highly recommend cryptoanarchy, but you to have guts for that, some say guns but I'm a peaceable cpunk.
Thanks to krazyninja for pointing to the original file on http://www.digital-cp.com. That URL has been added to the Cryptome doc. The PDF original is superior to the Cryptome HTML, with clean copy, and includes identification of who prepared the document which was missing from our version.
-- Cryptome
Good point. I had just read your comments on/.. And respect your disagreement and that of others. Still, once the insecure doc had been made public, it seemed to me that those who might be harmed by it should be aware of the threat, and that the blunder should not hidden to avoid embarrassment of the Times and CIA leaker. That coverup would be worse than openly publicizing the threat. This is comparable to trying to hide weakness in crypto, or that a security system has been cracked. Far too often the producers of those systems try to hide the weakness using accusations like the Times and others have, which only serve to conceal their self-interest at the victims' expense. Nobody who has followed the intelligence agencies' hoary "lives will be at risk" chant over the years to hide their screw-ups should believe its use this time. I'm amazed that the Times' reporters ape the disinformation con-artists. Probably due to fear of embarrassment, the nightmare of vainglorists -- who has not felt that, too. A horrifying number of lives were sacrificed by the coup, as the CIA report shows. The sideshow of the names appears to be a deliberate attempt to divert attention from the real issue of US and British abuse of power -- which the Times should distance itself from by not parroting the CIA excuse. Usually it does not, and a pity that it is now. The Times is commended for publishing the report, and it should be widely read for the truth it tells about covert war crimes by many nations, as now being revealed out around the globe. The Internet is a great tool for behaving truly responsibly to release hidden information rather than being a "responsible publisher" who does what the master leakers order. FWIW, all my personal data is on jya.com and cryptome.org, and has been there since day one of setting up a web site. Try to find that kind of info about the Times personnel much less those of the CIA and other global intel sneakers and killers. Regards, John At 07:44 AM 6/25/00 -0400, you wrote: >http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/06/25/0320 201threshold=1commentsort=0&mode=threadp id=6#97 > >Free speech works both ways... pity. > >
Slashdot Mirror
Like the globe, Cryptome got the COFEE files from Torrent and wanted to see what Microsoft and Netsol would do when the copyfilth snoopfest was offered on a plain-sight website easily targeted. It's been several years since the last takedown notice for Cryptome, none since being hosted on Netsol. There's the result: snarf COFEE.
No, the material was not returned to MS, nor was it asked for, nor for log files, nor has MS apologized for Windows being so bloated, unstable, insecure and riddled with backholes for use by TLAs.
COFEE is a diversion and another example of the complicity ingrained in giant corps to aid official and commercial spying through browsers, ftp, http, faulty crypto, leaky data farms, telecomm splitters, juicy NDA contracts and grants to non-profits, internet nodes, not to say OSs, cells, i-pods, household appliances, e-games, porn sites, anything digital missing from this list.
Honestly, aping this noble forum, Cryptome's only purpose is to disinfo slight resistance to the tsunami of edu, com, gov, mil, intel kind.
1 May 2007. A. writes to Cryptome:
I couldn't help but notice that Verio issued the shutdown notice on the same day that you posted the first information from the Coast Guard Deepwater program debacle.
Is is possible that either the Coast Guard or Lockheed is behind shutting you down?
http://cryptome.org/cg-unmet.htm + Coast Guard Unmet TEMPEST Requirements April 23, 2007
http://cryptome.org/cg-ugly.htm + Ugly Questions for Coast Guard on TEMPEST April 22, 2007
http://cryptome.org/cg-leakage2.htm + Michael DeKort on Coast Guard TEMPEST Leakage April 22, 2007
http://cryptome.org/cg-leakage.htm + James Atkinson on Coast Guard TEMPEST Leakage April 21, 2007
http://cryptome.org/cg-screwup.htm + Coast Guard Big Time Screw Up April 20, 2007
Cryptome answers:
A, you hit the nail on the head. The Deepwater expose, and attempts to conceal it, points to the prime suspect for the shutdown. Verio would not buckle for anything less, based on past practice, and are probably hoping the shutdown would be seen for what it really is: they've been ordered not to disclose anything which would call attention to the Deepwater material and its threat to national security.
The congressional folks may have more to demand answers about trying to suppress Deepwater failures: subpoena Verio, show the defense cartel's dirty fighting is getting dirtier.
The archived Deepwater material will be posted shortly.
Right, Cryptome happily chokes on slashdot, but not to worry, mirrors are available as noted below.
Cryptome and its affiliated sites will continue with another ISP, in the US or elsewhere. Or if necessary, underground, or via means not easily shuttered, or by way of whatever is invented for opposing technologies of information control (credit to Steven Wright, author of The Technologies of Political Control: http://cryptome.org/stoa-atpc.htm).
Cryptome invites information on means and/or devices that will allow a customer to neuter RFID tags on purchased products which are no longer owned by the RFID installers. Send to: jya@pipeline.com
The RFID docs on Cryptome were pointed to by CASPIAN, the premier group resisting the spread of RFID in consumer products. CASPIAN website:
http://www.spychips.com
Here's a URL of the RFID docs easier to access:
http://jya.com/rfid-docs.htm
A Zipped file of the 10 Auto ID docs cited by CASPIAN's press release:
http://jya.com/rfid-10.zip (2MB)
The whole wad of RFID docs:
http://jya.com/rfid-docs.zip (21MB)
Yes, that was dumb, and I apologize. We strive for short words, acronyms and abbreviations, but this word was disrespectful of Pakistanis.
John
Seth, Seth, all I do is point to what's in your head. You read it directly from the source code.
John
Yes, Natsios and I run an architectural office, thriving on unusual projects which we don't talk about in Cryptome world. Not secret just very peculiar, our speciality. Getting from architecture to Cryptome was impossible so it took a jump into the yawning void of cypherpunks, truly beyond good and evil. No, I'm not a hacker, too inept, a Windoze cripple, but yearn to be a Penguin, black hatted.
John
No threats so far, but a fair number of predictions of threats to come. I mean threats about Cryptome, for I have gotten threats as an architect, standard procedure in New York. Scared the piss out of me for they were aimed at my family. Cops said get used to it or change your ways to fit the scene of the crime. Cryptome is a joy ride by comparison. What are nasty e-mails from MPAA or a court's injunction compared to 4 shotgun shells with your kids' names on them? But don't let me change the subject with business as usual horror tales about wounded NY begging for billion dollar subsidies to assure continued criminal corruption.
John
Yes, that is one of a long list of things to do immediately after my nap. It's a feature regularly requested and if I could do it easily it would have been done. I'm a slow learner, kicking me is the only way to get action. Then I overreact, so watch it.
John
Don't know, waiting for somebody who knows to tell me, or best, for an anonymous Microserf to send over a devastating critique that bares all.
John
Backdoors would not increase gov access to encrypted messages, they do just fine now without them by attacking weaknesses in cryptosystem's implementation and usage. What is needed is stronger implementation of cryptosystems so that nobody, that means nobody not just government, can gain access to private communications and data. There are enemies equal to government, some more devious and exploitive, some learned their criminal skills while in government service and are now preying on the unwary among the citizenry and the government, and not only in the US. Maximum crypto, algo, implementation and usage, is sorely needed, not weakened for the inept low level cop to rummage in your mailbox while genuinely evil leaders and their buddies are stealing the world's nation's jewels. What would empower the citzenry would be for NSA to publicly disclose more about crypto weaknesses as well as how to attack the communications of national leaders doing the dirty. No kidding, there are NSA operators who just might get angry enough to tell what they know about the shenanigans in the homeland what they intercept about foreign leaders. That used to be against the law, or was until Bush signed the anti-terrorism bill, now the operators can tell what they're doing in the USA, not to us just yet but soon it will leak.
John
The only way totalitarianism wins is if we give up challenging it in all its early manifestations, one of the first being to induce self-censorship by breeding fear of speaking and writing and acting on your beliefs whatever they are, leavened with tolerance for other's beliefs. Keeping an open mind in times of panic is hard, so don't panic, especially now when the bastards of all persuasions are working hard at that. Keep looking for reliable information, doubt authority, talk it up, act it up, write it up, publish, publish , publish. Run a web site, run several, duck the attacks, set up some more, keep sharing information, criticize, jeez, this is Slashdot, the mother of what I'm saying.
Make sure you laugh at ridiculous seriousness, but duck the angry swings this will cause.
For me babbling at the righteous preachers works. YMMV.
John
What's needed cryptographers say are better implementations not better algorithms. Weaknesses in encryption systems are nearly always in their non-mathematical configurations. So far, it is whispered, there is no crypto system that cannot be broken so long as you avoid the mathematics and go for the overlooked weaknesses too often found in systems proclaimed to be mathematically unbreakable. No security expert will admit that these "unbreakable" systems are faulty, that would screw up their easy cracking. Bypass the Maginot Line math, walk in the unlocked doors, front and back and side and cellar and roof.
John
Yes, if the government is very small, very obedient, very responsive and changes often. Tom Jefferson's generational revolution is too slow, government should be constantly adjusting to fit changing needs. If it fails to adjust, out with it. Give anarchy a chance. Cypherpunks highly recommend cryptoanarchy, but you to have guts for that, some say guns but I'm a peaceable cpunk.
John
Yes, every hour, every day, every year, but it never happens. Hold my rock, Sisyphus.
John
Thanks to krazyninja for pointing to the original file on http://www.digital-cp.com. That URL has been added to the Cryptome doc. The PDF original is superior to the Cryptome HTML, with clean copy, and includes identification of who prepared the document which was missing from our version. -- Cryptome
Good point. I had just read your comments on /.. And respect your disagreement and that of others. Still, once the insecure doc had been made public, it seemed to me that those who might be harmed by it should be aware of the threat, and that the blunder should not hidden to avoid embarrassment of the Times and CIA leaker. That coverup would be worse than openly publicizing the threat. This is comparable to trying to hide weakness in crypto, or that a security system has been cracked. Far too often the producers of those systems try to hide the weakness using accusations like the Times and others have, which only serve to conceal their self-interest at the victims' expense. Nobody who has followed the intelligence agencies' hoary "lives will be at risk" chant over the years to hide their screw-ups should believe its use this time. I'm amazed that the Times' reporters ape the disinformation con-artists. Probably due to fear of embarrassment, the nightmare of vainglorists -- who has not felt that, too. A horrifying number of lives were sacrificed by the coup, as the CIA report shows. The sideshow of the names appears to be a deliberate attempt to divert attention from the real issue of US and British abuse of power -- which the Times should distance itself from by not parroting the CIA excuse. Usually it does not, and a pity that it is now. The Times is commended for publishing the report, and it should be widely read for the truth it tells about covert war crimes by many nations, as now being revealed out around the globe. The Internet is a great tool for behaving truly responsibly to release hidden information rather than being a "responsible publisher" who does what the master leakers order. FWIW, all my personal data is on jya.com and cryptome.org, and has been there since day one of setting up a web site. Try to find that kind of info about the Times personnel much less those of the CIA and other global intel sneakers and killers. Regards, John At 07:44 AM 6/25/00 -0400, you wrote: >http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/06/25/0320 201threshold=1commentsort=0&mode=threadp id=6#97 > >Free speech works both ways... pity. > >