cypherpunks Digest, Vol 13, Issue 4

Cindy cindy.baginski@piratenpartei-nms.de
Thu Jul 3 09:03:01 PDT 2014 

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>     1. XKeyscore-Quellcode: more english details requested (coderman)
>     2. Re: [tor-talk] XKeyscore-Quellcode: more english details
>        requested (Jacob Appelbaum)
>     3. Re: XKeyscore-Quellcode: more english details requested
>        (Eugen Leitl)
>     4. tools used by intelligence analysts (Eugen Leitl)
>     5. Re: tools used by intelligence analysts (Griffin Boyce)
>     6. Re: Fwd: [tor-talk] according to leaked XKeyScore source NSA
>        marks all Tor users as extremists, puts them on a surveillance
>        list (Seth)
>     7. NSA targets the privacy-conscious (Eugen Leitl)
>     8. Re: [tor-talk] Tor Exit Operator convicted in Austrian lower
>        court (Zenaan Harkness)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 04:35:09 -0700
> From: coderman <coderman@gmail.com>
> To: cpunks <cypherpunks@cpunks.org>, tor-talk@lists.torproject.org
> Subject: XKeyscore-Quellcode: more english details requested
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> request for more (english speaking) details on QUELLCODE part of XKeyScore(XKS)
>
> http://www.bild.de/politik/ausland/nsa/us-geheimdienst-spionierte-deutschen-studenten-aus-36657402.bild.html
>
> specifically subsequent tasking associated with selected anonyms...
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 12:01:15 +0000
> From: Jacob Appelbaum <jacob@appelbaum.net>
> To: tor-talk@lists.torproject.org
> Cc: cpunks <cypherpunks@cpunks.org>
> Subject: Re: [tor-talk] XKeyscore-Quellcode: more english details
> 	requested
> Message-ID:
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> Hi,
>
> On 7/3/14, coderman <coderman@gmail.com> wrote:
>> request for more (english speaking) details on QUELLCODE part of
>> XKeyScore(XKS)
>>
>> http://www.bild.de/politik/ausland/nsa/us-geheimdienst-spionierte-deutschen-studenten-aus-36657402.bild.html
>>
>> specifically subsequent tasking associated with selected anonyms...
>> --
> More information will be published shortly, including a long technical
> English story with source code and a video this evening on German TV.
>
> Here are the first bits of our story:
>
>    http://www.tagesschau.de/inland/nsa-xkeyscore-100.html
>    http://www.daserste.de/information/politik-weltgeschehen/morgenmagazin/politik/deutsche-im-visier-der-nsa-100.html
>    http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/archiv/2014/Quellcode-entschluesselt-Beweis-fuer-NSA-Spionage-in-Deutschland,nsa224.html
>
> Stay tuned for the next two publications which will happen in the next
> twelve hours.
>
> All the best,
> Jacob
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 14:46:48 +0200
> From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
> To: cypherpunks@cpunks.org
> Subject: Re: XKeyscore-Quellcode: more english details requested
> Message-ID: <20140703124648.GG26986@leitl.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
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> On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 04:35:09AM -0700, coderman wrote:
>> request for more (english speaking) details on QUELLCODE part of XKeyScore(XKS)
>>
>> http://www.bild.de/politik/ausland/nsa/us-geheimdienst-spionierte-deutschen-studenten-aus-36657402.bild.html
>>
>> specifically subsequent tasking associated with selected anonyms...
> According to fefe who's seen the source it's just a selector
> http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=ad4bdd72
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 15:16:13 +0200
> From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
> To: cypherpunks@cpunks.org
> Subject: tools used by intelligence analysts
> Message-ID: <20140703131613.GJ26986@leitl.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>
>
> *ORA for network analysis http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/projects/ora/
> Pentaho for data transformation http://www.pentaho.com/
> Rapid Miner for data mining http://sourceforge.net/projects/rapidminer/
> Orange for data visualisations and analysis http://orange.biolab.si/
> Maltego for the analysis of networks between people, companies, websites, etc. http://www.paterva.com/web6/products/maltego.php
> Apache Hadoop for large-scale, distributed computing and analysis
>
> Axis Pro http://www.textronsystems.com/products/advanced-information/axis-pro
> Starlight http://starlight.pnnl.gov/
> Analyst's Notebook http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/analysts-notebook-family
> Palantir http://www.palantir.com/products/
>
> XPLR witk Reddit plugin https://pay.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/1um89b/preddit_a_subreddit_recommender_with_xplr/[2]
> Tiny Tiny Rss http://tt-rss.org/redmine/projects/tt-rss/wiki
> Pligg http://pligg.com/
> Twitter, Reddit, ...
>
> ARC GIS
> CPOF http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_Post_of_the_Future
>
> Metasploit
>
> Oryon http://sourceforge.net/projects/oryon/ (?)
> Investigative Dashboard https://investigativedashboard.org/ (?)
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 09:56:07 -0400
> From: Griffin Boyce <griffin@cryptolab.net>
> To: cypherpunks@cpunks.org
> Subject: Re: tools used by intelligence analysts
> Message-ID: <26ebfd1e9a4edd4756866edf60622452@cryptolab.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
>
>     This is very useful, thanks for sharing.  I'd also add MATLAB to the
> list of tools used -- keep in mind that "intelligence analyst" is
> extremely broad as a descriptor.  Some of these people are low-level
> ex-military 35F types, some have a classical statistics research
> background, some are social scientists, some are dataviz experts, some
> are linguists.  So try to distinguish between these and offer sources
> when you can.
>
>     Oh, and Cellebrite devices for mobile data collection.
>
> best,
> Griffin
>
>
> On 2014-07-03 09:16, Eugen Leitl `wrote:
>> *ORA for network analysis http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/projects/ora/
>> Pentaho for data transformation http://www.pentaho.com/
>> Rapid Miner for data mining http://sourceforge.net/projects/rapidminer/
>> Orange for data visualisations and analysis http://orange.biolab.si/
>> Maltego for the analysis of networks between people, companies,
>> websites, etc. http://www.paterva.com/web6/products/maltego.php
>> Apache Hadoop for large-scale, distributed computing and analysis
>>
>> Axis Pro
>> http://www.textronsystems.com/products/advanced-information/axis-pro
>> Starlight http://starlight.pnnl.gov/
>> Analyst's Notebook
>> http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/analysts-notebook-family
>> Palantir http://www.palantir.com/products/
>>
>> XPLR witk Reddit plugin
>> https://pay.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/1um89b/preddit_a_subreddit_recommender_with_xplr/[2]
>> Tiny Tiny Rss http://tt-rss.org/redmine/projects/tt-rss/wiki
>> Pligg http://pligg.com/
>> Twitter, Reddit, ...
>>
>> ARC GIS
>> CPOF http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_Post_of_the_Future
>>
>> Metasploit
>>
>> Oryon http://sourceforge.net/projects/oryon/ (?)
>> Investigative Dashboard https://investigativedashboard.org/ (?)
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 08:26:37 -0700
> From: Seth <list@sysfu.com>
> To: cpunks <cypherpunks@cpunks.org>, coderman <coderman@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Fwd: [tor-talk] according to leaked XKeyScore source NSA
> 	marks all Tor users as extremists, puts them on a surveillance list
> Message-ID: <op.xifg6nx1bgbjo9@work-pc.lan>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15"; delsp="yes";
> 	format="flowed"
>
> On Thu, 03 Jul 2014 04:11:45 -0700, coderman <coderman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Subject: [tor-talk] according to leaked XKeyScore source NSA marks all
>> Tor users as extremists, puts them on a surveillance list
> I use Tor for just about all my daily web browsing.
>
> I also run a Tor relay from home. Even run my own mail server, XMPP and
> Friendica nodes from home.
>
> Guess that makes me an ultra-extremist.
>
> The irony? I only decided to start using Tor by default for everything
> once I became aware of the near total nature of passive surveillance.
>
> So if using Tor makes me an 'extremist' well, please accept this heartfelt;
>    _      _____ _____ _  __  __  ____     __  ____          _      _
> _____   _   _  _____
> | |    |_   _/ ____| |/ / |  \/  \ \   / / |  _ \   /\   | |    | |     /
> ____| | \ | |/ ____|  /\
> | |      | || |    | ' /  | \  / |\ \_/ /  | |_) | /  \  | |    | |    |
> (___   |  \| | (___   /  \
> | |      | || |    |  <   | |\/| | \   /   |  _ < / /\ \ | |    | |
> \___ \  | . ` |\___ \ / /\ \
> | |____ _| || |____| . \  | |  | |  | |    | |_) / ____ \| |____| |____
> ____) | | |\  |____) / ____ \
> |______|_____\_____|_|\_\ |_|  |_|  |_|    |____/_/
> \_\______|______|_____/  |_| \_|_____/_/    \_\
>
> Really there's nothing to lose at this point by encrypting and anonymizing
> every bit that leaves every computer you own.
>
> If NSA wants to own my devices I'll keep cycling them out on a regular
> basis with new and used gear I pay for in cash and pick up in person.
>
>> Conclusion: the world needs way more extremists. If they want cake, they
>> should get it in abundance.
> I remember reading somewhere that on any given day in the 'United State'
> there are a couple hundred thousand active Tor users. We should add
> GnuNET, I2P, CJDNS, CurveCP and many more to that list.
>
> I am Spartacus!!!
https://www.piratenpartei.de/2014/07/03/neuer-piraten-geschaeftsfuehrer-sichere-kommunikation-macht-uns-nicht-zu-terroristen/

Best regards Pirate Party Germany
Cindy

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