Category Archives: Security

20th Anniversary Of Kaczynski's Capture Today

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Today marks the 20th anniversary of the capture of noted mathematician and widely published philosopher of technology Theodore Kaczynski by forces of the United States regime in Washington, DC. Theodore Kaczynski is also widely suspected to have been forcefully drugged and violated as a part of the CIA's MKULTRA program as an undergraduate at Harvard. In a rare feat for any author Kaczynski managed to get a 34 kiloword essay titled Industrial Society and Its Future published in print in the September 19th, 1995 editions of the New York Times and Washington Post in its entirety.1 After a political show trial the regime in Washington DC had locked Kaczynki up at their Florence, Colorado super maximum security prison where he remains a political prisoner.

The full text of Industrial Society and Its Future is reproduced below: Continue reading →

  1. This was before the Internet had emboldened both of those publications to adopt their present habit of routinely publishing whatever long for slop they can get their hands on.  ↩

US Spy Agency To Demolish Low Income Housing

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This week it was announced that the US National Geospatial-Intelligence agency is moving its western headquarters from the southern portion of Saint Louis, Missouri to an area in the north of the city (archived). Much of the chosen site is vacant land that was once home to failed the Pruitt–Igoe public housing, but in order to fully accommodate the spy facility a number of happily inhabited homes will be taken through eminent domain and demolished. Certain quirks of the neighborhood and their affect on property values mean that affected home owners will be unable to replace their commandeered housing with anything comparable when they are compensated according to their homes "fair market value" as is traditional in eminent domain cases. It turns out the property development tactics of Hussein Bahamas aren't all that different from those of serial scammer and bankruptcy artist Donald Trump-Clinton.

Cloudflare Pressures Tor Developers and Users To Implement Identifiers

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The Stack reports that Cloudflare co-founder Matthew Prince is pressuring Tor Developers and users to adopt some sort of "anonymous" identification scheme (archived). Prince is threatening more captchas and content blocks from Cloudflare if the firm's demands are not met. Cloudflare is a known enemy of internet privacy and generally a force for making the internet shittier. Tor on the other hand often fails to deliver its promised level of privacy and is likely socially and technologically compromised beyond repair. This declaration by Prince when considered alongside a "heated debate" continuing in the comments of a five week old Tor project blog post (archived) lead to this affair having a strong social engineering smell much like the recent iPhone Circle Jerk. Expect this ongoing discussion to lead to Cloudflare and Tor both getting shittier independently and when used in concert.

US Court Upholds Right To Feed Legal Profession

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The United States Supreme Court issued a decision in the case Luis v. United States covered earlier on Qntra upholding the right of United States citizens to access assets frozen pretrial, but only so long as they spend those assets on securing a lawyer of their choosing. This decision one of the first in the post Scalia era, offers only a gentle reminder to agents of the criminal gang occupying the halls of governance in Washington DC that a defendants right to select counsel of their choosing is in the United States constitution while the gang's interest in delivering punishment and securing restitution aren't and for that reason a defendant may access assets. Not because Luis's money is Luis' money, but because the piece of paper allows the money to be spent that way. The decision is presented in full below: Continue reading →

Qualcomm "Snapdragon" Chips Allegedly Riddled With Vulnerabilities

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Trend Micro in a blog post is alleging that Qualcomm's "Snapdragon" family of system on a chip computers are riddled with numerous security vulnerabilities, particularly when paired with Google's Android operating system (archived). The continued plagues of leaky abstraction and faux compartmentalization which require ever larger collections of "teams" to design new chips in the popular style as well as the war on computing suggest that we are going to increasingly see security vulnerabilities baked into silicon. Instead of celebrating the death of Moore's law as occasion to move towards saner architectural decisions, the trend appears to be favoring further insanity and a proliferation of nooks and crannies for culturing security holes organically or placing them deliberately.

'Anybody Can Learn' Gets It In The Breech

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Hadi Partovi, (archived) Code.org CEO, reports on ANYBODY CAN LEARN (archived) that his site has been compromised. He regretfully informs us that twelve thousand volunteer email addresses were captured in the attack. A technical freelancing firm based in Singapore took credit for the breach in an unsolicited email sent to one of the effected volunteer engineers. Continue reading →