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Every fucking day until democracy kicks in.
Democracy gave us the NSA
No. Allen Dulles and the rest of the fascists gave us NSA.
Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor
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#113The tweet seems to imply that the entire Ubiquiti Networks line of network hardware could be compromised. That's a shame; I was thinking of installing some in my house. I'm sure that Ubiquiti's customers will not be happy if they find out that the US Govt can access their private data.
If you're not under the threat cone of nation state surveillance (like trying to exfiltrate the radar-asborbing paint formula on the F35) then I wouldn't be too concerned. "That's not the point! It's about privacy!" Sure. I'll choose it ignore the fact that our civilization is somehow still functioning in a post-nuclear world.
Sure. See you in the gulag, comerade
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Our media companies are rife with intelligence agents. Corporate / State media has no incentive to make you the wiser.
It's quite a bit more subtle than that. News organization have their sources that are in the intelligence community. They use each other. Sometimes the journalist wants to use their sources for information. Other times their sources feed them disinformation disguised as information. Other times they want a back channel to leak some real information but can't be seem as coming from a government source. Being a good jo…
I have no sources at hand, but I understood the FBI/CIA is embedded within every major news org in the US.
Re: Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor
#115How the NSA successfully manage to prevent the Washington Post and friends from discovering and reporting on this malicious backdoor? They've been sitting on these documents for a decade. Are the journalists just that *uncurious* about the deep contents of the documents they hold exclusive access to? Was this some kind of organizational failing?
Supposed news organizations openly employ spooks as commentators on things like foreign policy.
Journalists knowingly report lies, acting as the mouthpiece of the government.
We know at least one news organization had the whole Epstein story locked down and they buried it because they were afraid they’d lose access to the royal family for future news/puff pieces.
You think you hate journalists enough, but you don’t.
Re: Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor
#116The tweet seems to imply that the entire Ubiquiti Networks line of network hardware could be compromised. That's a shame; I was thinking of installing some in my house. I'm sure that Ubiquiti's customers will not be happy if they find out that the US Govt can access their private data.
If you're not under the threat cone of nation state surveillance (like trying to exfiltrate the radar-asborbing paint formula on the F35) then I wouldn't be too concerned. "That's not the point! It's about privacy!" Sure. I'll choose it ignore the fact that our civilization is somehow still functioning in a post-nuclear world.
And if you are in a position where nation-states are a likely adversary, you'd best assume that all commerically available hardware is compromised.
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That's actually not true. It can do nothing about M of N cryptography. (That's when a key is broken up such that there are N parts, and at least M (less than N) are required to decrypt. It doesn't matter how many rubber hoses you have, one person can fully divulge or give access to their key and it's still safe.
That situation just requires a longer hose
and more beatings.
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Literally hosed. There's a funny jargon term "rubber hose cryptography" that's used to refer to the cryptanalysis method where you beat someone with a rubber hose until they give you the key. It's 100% effective against all forms of cryptography including even post-quantum algorithms.
That's actually not true. It can do nothing about M of N cryptography. (That's when a key is broken up such that there are N parts, and at least M (less than N) are required to decrypt. It doesn't matter how many rubber hoses you have, one person can fully divulge or give access to their key and it's still safe.
I always giggle a little when really smart people forget thugs exist and do what they’re told. If that includes breaking the knees of M people to get what they’re after, then M pairs of knees are gonna get destroyed.
This isn’t hard to understand, but it’s easy to forget our civilization hangs by a thread more often than any of us care to admit.
Re: Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor
#119How the NSA successfully manage to prevent the Washington Post and friends from discovering and reporting on this malicious backdoor? They've been sitting on these documents for a decade. Are the journalists just that *uncurious* about the deep contents of the documents they hold exclusive access to? Was this some kind of organizational failing?
Operation Mockingbird never ended. Full stop. (2010) https://weirdshit.blog/2010/07/23/cointelpro-operation-mocki...
Well, COINTELPRO certainly didn't : we've got recent examples about how the FBI monitored the Parler group discussions that were planning the January 6 2021 United States Capitol rally - including convincing some of the most risky elements to not participate, and (supposedly) warned Washington law enforcement about it well in advance.
Which is fine I guess, as long as it doesn't go into the more abusive examples listed.
One thing that jumped at me when (re-?)reading the letter to MLK from the FBI : first you have some very informal speech :
"look into your heart", "you are done", "you are [] an evil, abnormal beast", "there is only one thing for you left to do"
Then SUDDENLY : "You have just 34 days in which to do it (this exact number has been selected for a specific reason, it has definite practical significance)."
Lol, talk about a change in tone, I wonder if MLK noticed it ? (The specific reason being Christmas, but still...)
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Law firms aren't terribly entrepreneurial. Absent somebody paying them their hourly rate, I suspect not a single document would be read. Newspapers regularly take risks deploying humans to investigate issues without any assurance there will be a story at the bottom, but even the newspaper business has less appetite for that these days (as an aside, I suspect it's that margin that the financial investors have exploite…
>Law firms aren't terribly entrepreneurial. Personal injury guys are the most entrepreneurial people I know...
And they make money by going after low-hanging fruit. Ever wonder why they advertise 90%+ success rates and work on contingency? Because if your case isn't easy, you aren't their customer.