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FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims
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Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims
#232Earlier quoted context omitted.
His own lawyers admitted to it in documents they tried (and failed) to redact: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/manafort... Because apparently we're going to pretend that NBCnews is somehow not a reputable news source, the link to the actual document so we can stop trying to change the subject: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5677512/Manafort-... Page 6, copy and paste the blacked out te…
This page is loaded with repeated headline statements but no substance. A collaborator to many of the NBC stories on the page you’ve provided is Ken Dilanian, a reported fired from the LA Times for his “collaborative relationship with the CIA.” I surmise this is consistent with the rest of the entire episode from LeavesTea onward.
I'm not sure I follow your point, nothing you've stated contradicts the fact that his own lawyers admitted to him supplying Russians with polling data. You can't refute the facts so refute the site to try to distract the discussion? It is LITERALLY in the redacted court documents:
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5677512/Manafort-...
If you have an issue with that site you can go to literally dozens of others, how about the BBC?
Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims
#233Is Apple's domicile what makes this possible? or can any country demand to see your data?
It makes me wonder about the state of the art on small countries becoming data havens, it seems like a natural thing to construct.
Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims
#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks. Manafort seems to be a dirty player and I wouldn't be surprised if he was involved in some shady businesses with people you shouldn't associate with, however that report is based on one line taken from a press release from the Treasure Department providing zero evidence for that claim. I will keep my skepticism on until more evidence is shown. Aaron Maté and Glenn Greenwald discusses this on the Grayzone http…
Interesting that you comment on the part from the Treasury Department, and not the WP piece. The latter references the Senate committee, stating that Kilimnik received highly sensitive campaign data and designated him as a Russian agent. If anything needs skepticism its people like Mate and Greenwald.
What type of information was shared from the Trump campaign? Polling data and strategy to beat Hillary Clinton. Gates has testified that the polling data was non-sensitive and also dated. I think the only real significant claim the Senate report does is when says the DNC leaks of 2016 was done by GRU and then sent to WikiLeaks and report says "Kilimnik may have been connected to the GRU's hack and leak operation targeting the 2016 U.S. election", but that proof builds on speculation based redacted material in the Senate report.
Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims
#235Earlier quoted context omitted.
People routinely do end to end encryption with email every day using either OpenPGP or S/MIME. Heck, email encryption is where the term "end to end encryption" came from. When someone claims E2EE for some other sort of messaging system they have to at least be as good at it as the email case to be taken seriously.
> People routinely do end to end encryption with email every day using either OpenPGP or S/MIME. Those solutions encrypt only the content and not the headers, which are just as important. Also, encrypting the content prevents some webmail services from functioning, such as search. Email can't really be made secure.
> Those solutions encrypt only the content and not the headers, which are just as important.
There are implementations which encrypt the headers, for example Delta Chat, which says[0] in its FAQ:
'Many other e-mail headers, in particular the “Subject” header, are end-to-end-encryption protected, see also this upcoming IETF RFC.'
If you mean that the sender's server and the recipient's server can see the recipient's and sender's (respectively) addresses, then I would say that this is equivalent to most other "end to end encrypted" messaging apps, which usually rely on a trusted third party to connect the two ends.
In fact, I would argue that the situation with email is better, because although Alice and Bob's providers might know that they are communicating with each other, Carol's provider will have no record of this at all (and Alice and Bob may not know that Carol or her provider exists).
The situation with email could be made even better than that, though, since email servers could provide a dedicated "switchboard" address, such that Alice sends her email for Bob as an encrypted inner-message of an email sent to Bob's server's switchboard address. That way Alice's server wouldn't know who the intended recipient was, only their server address. Similarly Alice's server could rewrite the headers of her outer-message so that Bob's server doesn't know that Alice was the original sender. This would effectively implement a type of anonymous remailer.[1]
> encrypting the content prevents some webmail services from functioning, such as search.
You've shifted the goalposts here from "email can't be secure" to "webmail can't be secure". In any case, I disagree. It is possible to implement a client-side full text search[2], even if it means decrypting the index for every search, and re-encrypting the index whenever a new email is added to it.
[0] https://delta.chat/pt/help#how-does-delta-chat-protect-my-me...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_remailer
[2] https://lucaongaro.eu/blog/2019/01/30/minisearch-client-side...
Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims
#236Earlier quoted context omitted.
This page is loaded with repeated headline statements but no substance. A collaborator to many of the NBC stories on the page you’ve provided is Ken Dilanian, a reported fired from the LA Times for his “collaborative relationship with the CIA.” I surmise this is consistent with the rest of the entire episode from LeavesTea onward.
I'm not sure I follow your point, nothing you've stated contradicts the fact that his own lawyers admitted to him supplying Russians with polling data. You can't refute the facts so refute the site to try to distract the discussion? It is LITERALLY in the redacted court documents: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5677512/Manafort-... If you have an issue with that site you can go to literally dozens of othe…
What do you think the punishment should be for giving mostly outdated, partially public and top line polling data (Trump 50% vs Clinton 48%) to Russians (as in citizens)?
Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims
#237Is Apple's domicile what makes this possible? or can any country demand to see your data? It makes me wonder about the state of the art on small countries becoming data havens, it seems like a natural thing to construct.
Apple's imports could be threatened so there's leverage.
Really you shouldn't depend on the good nature of some large organization to protect your data. That means not using iOS though since it's pretty much unusable without Apple services (even push notifications go through them.)
Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims
#238Earlier quoted context omitted.
[EDIT: I misread] > Even if you disable backups, whenever you correspond with someone that has backups enabled those messages are still accessible to Apple. That last bit is not true. From Apple’s security PDF: > When Messages in iCloud is enabled, iMessage, Business Chat, text (SMS), and MMS messages are removed from the user’s existing iCloud Backup and are instead stored in an end-to-end encrypted CloudKit contain…
It’s worth noting that if you use iMessage for MacOS, all of your messages are stored unencrypted, in plain text, on your computer HD.
I'd guess most macos systems (laptops) have encrypted hard drives.
Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims
#239Earlier quoted context omitted.
This page is loaded with repeated headline statements but no substance. A collaborator to many of the NBC stories on the page you’ve provided is Ken Dilanian, a reported fired from the LA Times for his “collaborative relationship with the CIA.” I surmise this is consistent with the rest of the entire episode from LeavesTea onward.
I'm not sure I follow your point, nothing you've stated contradicts the fact that his own lawyers admitted to him supplying Russians with polling data. You can't refute the facts so refute the site to try to distract the discussion? It is LITERALLY in the redacted court documents: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5677512/Manafort-... If you have an issue with that site you can go to literally dozens of othe…
My point is exactly this: this has been puffed to sound nefarious. It is a zero.
Fuzzy thinking around it was and is being used to excuse extraordinary abuse of the law and legal system.
To be illegal, information sharing has to violate some law. This does not. It is simply not illegal to share information with Russia citizens, the Russian government, or anyone affiliated with Russia.
Not even "secret" information, unless that information is governed under very specific laws. All this media puffery is absolute manipulation, and your distributing it shows that you either don't understand the law or don't wish to.
Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims
#240Earlier quoted context omitted.
You mean like how the Clinton campaign paid a foreign intelligence broker in the UK to dig up dirt about her opponent? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steele_dossier I find that "truly genuinely concerning" and totally expected given who the Clintons are. Trump has so much dirty on him but this isnt it. Feigning outrage over one if these corrupt politicians but not the other is purely political partisanship and not p…
I think your failure to acknowledge the difference between a private company paid for services and a foreign government offering their services for free says who is the partisan one here.
The Clintons and Trump (and the Bidens and the Kushners) are corrupt. Saying one is more corrupt as a defense of another is just playing into the idea that you have to support one of them. You don't.
Edit: going around flagging my comments with your main account doesnt make you right.