Topic: MUSIK - on July 14, 2016 at 4:00:00 PM CEST
Stream 15 Hours of the John Peel Sessions: 255 Tracks by Syd Barrett, David Bowie, Siouxsie and the Banshees & Other Artists
For fans of what came to be called “alternative music,” the discovery of new artists and bands felt like a genuine adventure before the internet irrevocably changed music consumption. A few official venues acted as guides—magazines like Trouser Press and NME, shows like 120 Minutes, MTV’s late-night showcase of post-punk, new wave, industrial, etc. Word of mouth, local zines, college radio, mixtape gifts, and the purloined contents of older brothers and sisters’ record collections went a long way. Many of us had access to independent record stores that stocked all sorts of underground oddities, often run by obsessive know-it-alls like High Fidelity’s Rob Gordon.
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Topic: Conspiracy theory - on July 14, 2016 at 3:58:00 PM CEST
Why NASA's video feed cut away from that 'UFO'
Is NASA hiding clear video evidence of a UFO descending to Earth? To paraphrase what a spokesperson from the space agency told me when I asked: "Uh, no." NASA increasingly has eyes all over the solar system, whether it's on Mars, above our heads in orbit or, as of this week, around Jupiter. So perhaps it shouldn't be that surprising that every few months word circulates around the internet that one of NASA's eyes has captured a UFO or evidence of alien life. The latest such alleged sighting comes courtesy of NASA's High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment aboard the International Space Station.
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 14, 2016 at 3:57:00 PM CEST
FBI Agent: Decrypting Data ‘Fundamentally Alters’ Evidence
An FBI agent has brought up an interesting question about the nature of digital evidence: Does decrypting encrypted data “fundamentally alter” it, therefore contaminating it as forensic evidence? According to a hearing transcript filed last week, FBI Special Agent Daniel Alfin suggested just that. The hearing was related to the agency's investigation into dark web child pornography site Playpen. In February 2015, the FBI briefly assumed control of Playpen and delivered its users a network investigative technique (NIT)—or a piece of malware—in an attempt to identify the site's visitors.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on July 14, 2016 at 3:55:00 PM CEST
Linus Torvalds Is Again Mad Over “Sh!t Code”, Calls Some Linux Devs “Brain-damaged”
Linux Torvalds is again mad over some developers due to their “disturbing” coding style. He has bashed the networking developers by pointing out their “brain-damaged” commenting syntax and listed out the styles that a Linux kernel developer should use.
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Topic: Appelbaum - on July 14, 2016 at 3:52:00 PM CEST
Orwell’s Swan Song: Free Speech Activists Whitewashing Wikipedia To Silence Dissent
If you’d told me a year ago that I’d be writing a blogpost in July 2016 about how EFF and TorProject supporters are actively censoring free speech on the internet, I would have thought I’d be writing it for The Onion. Unfortunately, I’m not. I have supported and amplified for EFF, the Tor Project and related organisations, staff members and campaigns relentlessly, for years. As a ‘Person of Interest’, I have relied on their enterprises to keep me safe. I have defended them ideologically and in principle, when they have been unfairly under attack. However in an unbelievably Orwellian twist, recent and current events have completely transformed the situation from free speech organisations being similarly under attack by the State, to the State using free speech organisations to attack enemies of the State, and free speech as a whole.
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 14, 2016 at 3:50:00 PM CEST
Tor-Projekt tauscht Aufsichtsgremium aus
Relativ überraschend hat das Anonymisierungs-Projekt seinen Verwaltungsrat komplett ausgetauscht. Unter den neuen Direktoren ist auch Kryptografie-Ikone Bruce Schneier. Der Anonymisierungsdienst Tor hat sein Aufsichtsgremium komplett ausgetauscht. Der alte, siebenköpfige Verwaltungsrat habe einstimmig sechs neue Mitglieder bestimmt und sei zugleich geschlossen zurückgetreten. Zur neuen, ehrenamtlich tätigen Führungsspitze zählen unter anderem Cindy Cohn, die Leiterin der Electronic Frontier Foundation, sowie die prominenten Kryptologen Bruce Schneier und Matt Blaze.
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 14, 2016 at 3:47:00 PM CEST
The Tor Project Elects New Board of Directors
Today, the board of directors of the Tor Project is announcing a bold decision in keeping with its commitment to the best possible health of the organization. Says Tor's Executive Director Shari Steele, "I think this was an incredibly brave and selfless thing for the board to do. They’re making a clear statement that they want the organization to become its best self."
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 13, 2016 at 12:02:00 PM CEST
Riffle: MIT Creates New Anonymity Network Which Is More Secure Than TOR
MIT is a place where a stone thrown up in the air will definitely land on an extraordinary mind. I have no intention to hurt those guys, by the way. The point of giving such example is that the researchers at MIT have come up with a new anonymity network which is said to be more secure and safer than the existing ones, namely Tor. The news sounds good to the ears after hearing stories about vulnerabilities present in Tor. MIT News reports that the newly created anonymity network will be uncovered by the researchers of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne at the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium later this month.
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Topic: POLITIK - on July 13, 2016 at 11:55:00 AM CEST
Standing in solidarity with Turkey’s journalists
Index on Censorship supports the “I am a journalist” campaign launched by journalists and media freedom advocates from Turkey. We stand in solidarity with our colleagues in Turkey who fiercely continue their jobs despite facing relentless attacks and attempts to silence them. We also express our support to the 44 journalists and news distributors in jail, and to those facing arrest as retaliation for exercising their right to freedom of expression and freedom to inform. Here is the campaign statement: I am a journalist! Journalism is not a crime. In Turkey, harassment of the press is getting worse by the day.
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 13, 2016 at 11:52:00 AM CEST
Sophisticated Malware Found on the Network of a European Energy Company
Security researchers from SentinelOne have stumbled upon a malware campaign targeting at least one European energy company, which features a large arsenal of tools rarely seen in ordinary malware samples. The detail that particularly stood out as regards the malware's code was the fact that its creators spent a great amount of time to make sure their threat wouldn't raise any flags on infected hosts. This level of detail and attention is usually found in the malware used by nation states. SentinelOne experts believe that a threat actor residing in Eastern Europe may have been behind this malware, which they dubbed Furtim's Parent.
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Topic: WEB - on July 13, 2016 at 11:49:00 AM CEST
Facebook is still a gun marketplace
On January 29 2016, Facebook announced they would no longer allow peer to peer sales of guns. They made a big deal about it. Got a big write-up in the New York Times. It was a big deal. The world’s biggest social network was taking a stand against guns. I wish they’d meant it. I really fucking do. On June 13 2016, an asshole walked into a gay Orlando nightclub and killed 49 people with an AR15. It was the latest in a long string of gun violence in the US. And it didn’t even piss me off. At least I couldn’t tell if that massacre was pissing me off or whether I was still pissed off from the one before. They run together like water now.
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Topic: WAR - on July 13, 2016 at 11:45:00 AM CEST
Mass Shootings
A note that the data on shootingtracker.com will now comply with the standard Gun Violence Archive methodology on how mass shootings are counted. Gun Violence Archive has always used the FBI derived definition: FOUR or more shot and/or killed in a single event [incident], at the same general time and location, not including the shooter. This difference is that we do not count the shooter among the victims when determining if a shooting reaches the threshold of Mass Shooting. It insures a clear separation between victims of a shooting and those who perpetrate the crime. GVA also does not parse the definition to exclude any type of gun violence such as gang shooting or domestic violence. The definition is purely numerical and reflects ALL shootings which reach that statistical threshold.
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