Generalstrejk på Tor

av Mikael Winterkvist | aug 23, 2016 | Övervakning

Generalstrejk på Tor

Flera av noderna på Tor och medlemmarna av nätverket vill utlysa en generalstrejk den 1 september som en protest hur Tor har hanterat skandalen med Jacob Appelbaum som anklagas för en rad sexuella övergrepp.

Gruppen bakom kravet protesterar också mot att Tor värvat en fd CIA-anställd. Ett beslut som tog även de anställda med överraskning eftersom ledningen inom Tor inte meddelade det i förväg. Diskussionen intrent inom Tor har läckt ut i form av en större loggfil från när beslutet blev känt.

1. 21:17 < gamambel> i hope this embargo can be lifted rather sooner than later, but it will turn into hell
2. 21:17 < helix> I think it was incredibly selfish of you to join tor knowing this would utterly fuck us PR-wise
3. 21:17 < gamambel> i understand the time constraints, but to keep this ’secret’ for that long is quite a burden for all of us
4. 21:17 < helix> it’s nice you want to do nice things, but the amount of trust you’re going to destroy is unbelievable
5. 21:17 < helix> if you care about tor you should have stayed away
6. 21:17 < gamambel> especially those that have the freedom to live transparently
7. 21:18 < athena> seconded: are you *out of your fucking mind*? have you seen the months-long harassment campaign from pando, including an *actual fucking rapist* ?

Även beslutet att anlita en före detta CIA-anställd har som sagt upprört medlemmarna inom Tor.

1. 21:31 < Runa> DaveC1: I’m curious, how do you picture an ex-CIA within the Tor Project as being good for Tor’s public image?
2. 21:32 < DaveC1> Runa: Well, so there are multiple audiences that Tor needs to talk to.
3. 21:32 < DaveC1> You guys are most familiar with the activists who run the nodes and use the software and… activate.
4. 21:32 < DaveC1> I’m most familiar with the bureaucrats who debate whether or not to keep paying the bills at Tor.
5. 21:33 < DaveC1> And I”m most familiar with their decisionmaking process as to whether they should keep doing that. Ignorant people are all ”oh, but then we won’t be able to still do the job of securing the country.”
6. 21:33 < DaveC1> I’m in an unusally authoritative position to say, ”um, bullshit.”
7. 21:33 < Runa> I’m concerned we are going to lose a lot of public support

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Generalstrejk

Med anledning av det så har en strejk utlyst den 1 september.

https://twitter.com/Cryptomeorg/status/767125055650357253

Wikileaks lämnar ut våldtäktsoffer

av Mikael Winterkvist | aug 23, 2016 | Övervakning

Wikileaks lämnar ut våldtäktsoffer

Associated Press har granskat och gått igenom det material som Wikileaks har valt att publicera och hittat namn och andra uppgifter tillhörande våldtäktsoffer, sjuka barn och enskilda som drabbats av psykisk sjukdom.

Uppgifterna rör enskilda, privatpersoner som inte har något att göra med vare sig de myndigheter som Wikileaks vill exponera eller med de organisationer som Wikileaks säger sig vilja avslöja, skriver AP.

WikiLeaks’ global crusade to expose government secrets is causing collateral damage to the privacy of hundreds of innocent people, including survivors of sexual abuse, sick children and the mentally ill, The Associated Press has found.

In the past year alone, the radical transparency group has published medical files belonging to scores of ordinary citizens while many hundreds more have had sensitive family, financial or identity records posted to the web. In two particularly egregious cases, WikiLeaks named teenage rape victims. In a third case, the site published the name of a Saudi citizen arrested for being gay, an extraordinary move given that homosexuality is punishable by death in the ultraconservative Muslim kingdom.

”They published everything: my phone, address, name, details,” said a Saudi man who told AP he was bewildered that WikiLeaks had revealed the details of a paternity dispute with a former partner. ”If the family of my wife saw this … Publishing personal stuff like that could destroy people.”

Associated Press

Informationen och uppgifterna finns i en mängd dokument från Saudi arabiska diplomatiska kretsar. Det är sjukjournaler som Wikileaks av outgrundlig anledning inte har plockat bort utan publicerat på nätet.

The Saudi diplomatic cables alone hold at least 124 medical files, according to a sample analyzed by AP. Some described patients with psychiatric conditions, seriously ill children or refugees.

”This has nothing to do with politics or corruption,” said Dr. Nayef al-Fayez, a consultant in the Jordanian capital of Amman who confirmed that a brain cancer patient of his was among those whose details were published to the web. Dr. Adnan Salhab, a retired practitioner in Jordan who also had a patient named in the files, expressed anger when shown the document.

Smittade filer

Säkerhetsexperten Vesselin Bontchev har också gått igenom den stora mängd data och filer som Wikileaks har publicerat från det styrande turkiska partiek APK och hittat över 3 000 filer som är smittade med malware, datavirus och trojaner vilket utgör en högst påtaglig och direkt fara för de journalister och andra som vill titta på materialet.

Dr. Vesselin Bontchev, an assistant professor at the National Laboratory of Computer Virology, whoch is part of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, found 3,277 malicious files on WikiLeaks after he scanned the email dump from Turkey’s ruling political party (AKP).

Although Bontchev called it “run-of-the-mill” spam, scams and phishing, he noted that in the future “lots of journos will get pwned” if a really interesting document is released with malware embedded in it.

After again searching the AKP dump, including spam and duplicates, Bontchev’s second report has 3,277 entries. So it those plus the 323 malware instances whoch he listed in his first report.

In his report, he used three columns for each piece of malware he found; the first links to the email on WikiLeaks whoch contains malware. “The e-mail itself is safe to view (although the text is usually spam/scam/phish/whatever),” he wrote.

Computer World

Windows 10 samlar in stora mängder data om dig

av Mikael Winterkvist | aug 19, 2016 | Övervakning

Windows 10 samlar in stora mängder data om dig

Microsoft har fått hård kritik för sitt aggressiva sätt att mer eller mindre tvinga sin användare över till Windows 10 från äldre versioner. Nu får Microsoft även kritik, bland annat från EFF, för att samla in stora mängder data om sina användare.

Det är ett känt faktum att de flesta användare inte ger sig in bland inställningarna i ett program. De flesta av oss använder de inställningar som programmet kom med och det är precis på den punkten Microsoft nu får mycket hård kritik från Electronical Frontier Foundation. Med standardinställningarna så samlas stora mängder data in om dig.

The trouble with Windows 10 doesn’t end with forcing users to download the operating system. Windows 10 sends an unprecedented amount of usage data back to Microsoft, particularly if users opt in to “personalize” the software using the OS assistant called Cortana. Here’s a non-exhaustive list of data sent back: location data, text input, voice input, touch input, webpages you visit, and telemetry data regarding your general usage of your computer, including whoch programs you run and for how long.

EFF

Microsoft säger att informationen samlas in anonymt men berättar inte hur. Microsoft berättar inte heller hur länge de behåller informationen och hur den används och – du som användare kan inte slå av alla funktioner som samla din data om dig.

Säkerhetsföretag

Säkerhetsföretaget Plixer har också gått igenom Windows 10, alla inställningar och analyserat vad Microsoft samlar in och hur Microsft samlar in data.

The second point, also made by others previously, is that even if you do tweak said settings, and then dive into Windows 10’s menus to turn off every data grabbing feature you can find, the operating system will still be sending some data back to Microsoft.

Plixer kommer till samma slutsatser som EFF.

In other words, Microsoft isn’t just failing to make it clear to users what data is sent back as a baseline, but it’s also obfuscating this piped-out data.

Techradar

Wikileaks publicerar Erdogans mail

av Mikael Winterkvist | jul 20, 2016 | Övervakning

Wikileaks har nu publicerat nästan 300 000 mail som läckts från det styrande partiet i Turkiet, APK.

Materialet läcktes till Wikileaks veckan innan den misslyckade statskuppen som nu resulterat i att Erdogan rensar ut all opposition.

Today, 11pm Anakara Time, WikiLeaks releases part one of the AKP Emails. AKP, or the Justice & Development Party, is the ruling party of Turkey and is the political force behind the country’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an. Part one of the series covers 762 mail boxes beginning with ’A’ through to ’I’ containing 294,548 email bodies together with many thousands of attached files. The emails come from ”akparti.org.tr”, the AKP’s primary domain. The most recent was sent on July 6, 2016. The oldest dates back to 2010. It should be noted that emails associated with the domain are mostly used for dealing with the world, as opposed to the most sensitive internal matters.

The material was obtained a week before the attempted coup. However, WikiLeaks has moved forward its publication schedule in response to the government’s post-coup purges. We have verified the material and the source, who is not connected, in any way, to the elements behind the attempted coup, or to a rival political party or state.

Wikileaks