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| schestowitz | > On 06/28/2013 06:51 PM, Roy Schestowitz wrote: | Jun 28 17:39 |
| schestowitz | >> Over the past 2 days I alluded, publicly, to the fact I'm quite sure we | Jun 28 17:39 |
| schestowitz | >> have an informant among us (Tim). I don't think I should throw a stink | Jun 28 17:39 |
| schestowitz | >> about it -- this wouldn't end up well. But for people with site access | Jun 28 17:39 |
| schestowitz | >> (privileges) it's important to know, or so I read 3 years ago when a | Jun 28 17:39 |
| schestowitz | >> manual was posted to explain how to deal with police informants... | Jun 28 17:39 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 28 17:39 |
| schestowitz | > Well I guess it means welcome to the big league. It's a problem but it | Jun 28 17:39 |
| schestowitz | > also means that they were betting on your importance growing, which it | Jun 28 17:39 |
| schestowitz | > has quite a bit. He hasn't tried to contact me at all, fortunately. | Jun 28 17:39 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 28 17:39 |
| schestowitz | > BTW did you read Mike Perry's Tor post through to completion? | Jun 28 17:40 |
| schestowitz | I haven't, is it any good? Any new information in there that's worth linking to? | Jun 28 17:40 |
| schestowitz | By the way, it would be better to encrypt mail that quotes something I encrypted. I don't want to be seen by GCHQ as being aware of what I'm 90% sure to be surveillance by proxy, the 'friendly' type (it has done me no harm so far). Maybe I'm viewed as young enough to be potentially trouble to Power decades down the road, I don't want them to escalate harassment to my work. | Jun 28 17:42 |
| schestowitz | This seems safe to release now., but only in IRC: | Jun 28 17:43 |
| schestowitz | Hi Annie, | Jun 28 17:43 |
| schestowitz | I am writing to you with the presumption that you will keep this message | Jun 28 17:43 |
| schestowitz | safe and not share it with other people. You don't need to reply | Jun 28 17:43 |
| schestowitz | (definitely to be encrypted if you do). | Jun 28 17:43 |
| schestowitz | Every now and then I learn from The Guardian about British police agents | Jun 28 17:43 |
| schestowitz | infiltrating peaceful groups to incite, to spy, to carry out a sort of | Jun 28 17:43 |
| schestowitz | Sting Operation, or whatever it takes to crush dissent. | Jun 28 17:43 |
| schestowitz | Today I saw this article: | Jun 28 17:43 |
| schestowitz | http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/21/mclibel-leaflet-police-bob-lambert-mcdonalds | Jun 28 17:43 |
| schestowitz | and | Jun 28 17:44 |
| TechrightsBot | Title: McLibel leaflet was co-written by undercover police officer Bob Lambert | UK news | The Guardian .::. Size~: 121.14 KB | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/23/stephen-lawrence-undercover-police-smears | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | In 2010 I learned about another undercover police officer infiltrating a | Jun 28 17:44 |
| TechrightsBot | Title: Police 'smear' campaign targeted Stephen Lawrence's friends and family | UK news | The Guardian .::. Size~: 141.09 KB | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | green movement, going as far as befriending and sleeping with some of | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | the women there. In 2010 I was very close to blowing the whistle on what | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | I think could be an infiltrator in Techrights. He had entered a few | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | years beforehand and climbed up the ranks, so to speak. He was always | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | frank to me about being a police officer and upon questioning he also | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | told me that he knew the above people (infiltrators), met them a few | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | times, and he himself told me he had infiltrated "radical" groups in the | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | UK (mostly xenophobic groups, at least one of which he named). I think | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | he had a fake ID badge and adapted his appearance to "fit in". He also | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | warned me not to associate with particular groups. In 2010 I did a lot | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | of advocacy for Wikileaks; many did this, without it being controversial | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | (remember it predated the sexual allegations); even Aaron Swartz spoke | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | to Julian Assange (he and his mom reshare my posts sometimes). | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | I don't wish to be seen as communicating directly with | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | Wikileaks-affiliated people like Appelbaum (it would show us linked), | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | but I did on numerous occasions spoke to a person from Iceland who works | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | closely with a Wikileaks-affiliated MP. | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | Assuming that my suspicion is right and I have been "assigned" a cop to | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | watch over Techrights activity (my employer's clients include GCHQ and I | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | did some minor FOSS-related projects related to that), what would be | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | best to do? Keep away and keep quiet? Perhaps write something publicly? | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | I did grill the person about his intentions (he had made me the | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | godfather of his daughter and had me stay over a few times), but this | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | never really led anywhere. | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | The more I read about the crushing of peaceful movement, the more I | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | worry about the person I refer to. Maybe - and it's not impossible - the | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | policeman is a genuinely disgruntled person who befriended me as he | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | wishes to improve society. I don't rule that out and I choose to believe | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | that. I have no proof except strong circumstantial evidence. | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | I really could use advice... | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | My PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | > Since I don't have your public key, I couldn't answer you | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | > confidentially. This seems to be no rush -- how about asking me in | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | > 3 weeks in London? | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | Sure, this seems to be the best thing to do. | Jun 28 17:44 |
| schestowitz | > If any mail has gotten through unencrypted, it was a mistake and | Jun 28 17:54 |
| schestowitz | > despite my settings. I notice that I have had problems with | Jun 28 17:54 |
| schestowitz | > encryption of late. The other day it stopped working till I nuked | Jun 28 17:54 |
| schestowitz | > Thunderbird settings. | Jun 28 17:54 |
| schestowitz | Maybe it just opened too quickly for me to realise it was being descrypted. Anyway, E-mails I'd imagine is the first place spooks go for... anything I post in E-mail can be conveniently intercepted based on content like keywords, so it's worse than using phone (they'd put in earphones and listen only to people whom they consider a risk big enough to be worth extra labour). In 2000 some people in the CS department here (my best | Jun 28 17:54 |
| schestowitz | friend was Finnish BTW) already planted scary keywords in the .sig just for fun. It was shortly after ECHELON. | Jun 28 17:54 |
| schestowitz | >> I haven't, is it any good? Any new information in there that's | Jun 28 17:55 |
| schestowitz | >> worth linking to? | Jun 28 17:55 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 28 17:55 |
| schestowitz | > No information but he does state his opinion that PGP is probably no | Jun 28 17:55 |
| schestowitz | > longer enough and that even an air-gap between the net and decrypting | Jun 28 17:55 |
| schestowitz | > systems may not be enough. | Jun 28 17:55 |
| schestowitz | It does slow down and deter against snooping. | Jun 28 17:55 |
| schestowitz | > If you think about it, since shortly after the arrival of the | Jun 28 17:58 |
| schestowitz | > mainstream notebook computer, you have had portable microphones in | Jun 28 17:58 |
| schestowitz | > each and every boardroom. The early notebooks had no microphones, but | Jun 28 17:58 |
| schestowitz | > the new ones have them and often in inaccessible places where they | Jun 28 17:58 |
| schestowitz | > cannot be removed. That's moot though if the notebook is also running | Jun 28 17:58 |
| schestowitz | > Windows. | Jun 28 17:58 |
| schestowitz | These can be muted at OS level, but not every OS can be trusted to obey. | Jun 28 17:58 |
| schestowitz | >> | Jun 28 17:59 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 28 17:59 |
| schestowitz | > The encryption capabilities of Thunderbird really suck. There's no | Jun 28 17:59 |
| schestowitz | > markers to show which messages are encrypted. What would be really | Jun 28 17:59 |
| schestowitz | > great would be a function like taint in programming to warn if part of | Jun 28 17:59 |
| schestowitz | > a message is coming from an encrypted session. | Jun 28 17:59 |
| schestowitz | True, but encryption is not built into TB, it's an addon, so.... | Jun 28 17:59 |
| schestowitz | >> True, but encryption is not built into TB, it's an addon, so.... | Jun 28 18:07 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 28 18:07 |
| schestowitz | > There is encryption built into (re-)alpine but it is using | Jun 28 18:07 |
| schestowitz | > certificates. It would be best if TB took encryption seriously, but | Jun 28 18:07 |
| schestowitz | > just as they were getting to the point where they might have begun to | Jun 28 18:07 |
| schestowitz | > address that, they basically dropped development all together. | Jun 28 18:07 |
| schestowitz | And added Bong by default, even in Ubuntu. | Jun 28 18:07 |
| schestowitz | > I just checked the earlier message and I did let one slip through | Jun 28 18:07 |
| schestowitz | > unencrypted. Shit. | Jun 28 18:07 |
| schestowitz | That pretty much leaves a trail to show I know about infiltrators, including the name. | Jun 28 18:07 |
| schestowitz | Earlier today I read about the guy from Iceland whom the FBI reportedly 'abducted' to the US, as Wikileaks' spokesman said. Turns out he was apparently an FBI informant all along, i.e. a mole. | Jun 28 18:08 |
| schestowitz | Jun 28 18:08 | |
| schestowitz | > To add to the comment from Mike Perry about air-gap not being enough, | Jun 28 18:08 |
| schestowitz | > Jacob Appelbaum has spoken several times about end-point compromises. | Jun 28 18:08 |
| schestowitz | Binney calls these chokepoints, I think. Today was the first time I read about AT&T-NSA complexity in relation to the NSA leaks. | Jun 28 18:08 |
| schestowitz | > You had already mentioned him in the cleartext message to RMS though | Jun 28 18:52 |
| schestowitz | > and identified him rather clearly but not by name. | Jun 28 18:52 |
| schestowitz | No, that was encrypted. Also forwarded encrypted. | Jun 28 18:52 |
| schestowitz | Jun 28 18:52 | |
| schestowitz | > For me the bad news is that TB can suddenly decide to not encrypt. | Jun 28 18:52 |
| schestowitz | > That means that I have to forgo all the nice shortcuts and manually | Jun 28 18:52 |
| schestowitz | > select everything for each message just to be sure. | Jun 28 18:52 |
| schestowitz | This can be a serious issue. | Jun 28 18:52 |
| schestowitz | >> Earlier today I read about the guy from Iceland whom the FBI | Jun 28 18:52 |
| schestowitz | >> reportedly 'abducted' to the US, as Wikileaks' spokesman said. | Jun 28 18:52 |
| schestowitz | >> Turns out he was apparently an FBI informant all along, i.e. a | Jun 28 18:52 |
| schestowitz | >> mole. | Jun 28 18:52 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 28 18:52 |
| schestowitz | > FBI overseas? That is getting crazy. | Jun 28 18:52 |
| schestowitz | Yes, but today there are lots of reported stemming from NYTimes saying that CIA (yes, CIA) was embedded in NYPD, with at least 4 key people mentioned (there may be more). Police, army, and secret agencies are morphing into one -- just look at Boston raids. Police State in the making. | Jun 28 18:52 |
| schestowitz | >>> To add to the comment from Mike Perry about air-gap not being | Jun 28 18:52 |
| schestowitz | >>> enough, Jacob Appelbaum has spoken several times about end-point | Jun 28 18:52 |
| schestowitz | >>> compromises. | Jun 28 18:52 |
| schestowitz | >> | Jun 28 18:52 |
| schestowitz | >> Binney calls these chokepoints, I think. Today was the first time I | Jun 28 18:52 |
| schestowitz | >> read about AT&T-NSA complexity in relation to the NSA leaks. | Jun 28 18:52 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 28 18:52 |
| schestowitz | > Binney and a few others did try working from within the system. | Jun 28 18:52 |
| schestowitz | > Snowden seems to have learned from their mistakes. However, I am | Jun 28 18:52 |
| schestowitz | > disappointed in the non-mainstream media in getting distracted from | Jun 28 18:52 |
| schestowitz | > the message he brought about the laws (including the constitution) | Jun 28 18:52 |
| schestowitz | > being violated. | Jun 28 18:52 |
| schestowitz | People no longer believe that the rich and powerful can be held up to justice. Having seen bankers getting away with everything, Gates rising to angel status, and just some arbitrary scapegoat like Madoff (other firms do what he does at larger scales). they seem to be all defeatist. I think I did push repeatedly for prosecution of all those, if only to get debates going about prosecuting them. | Jun 28 18:52 |
| schestowitz | The US has become a rogue nation. The rule of law is too arbitrary and journalism is treated as treason if it points this out. You know, like in Russia... | Jun 28 18:52 |
| schestowitz | >>> You had already mentioned him in the cleartext message to RMS | Jun 28 19:02 |
| schestowitz | >>> though and identified him rather clearly but not by name. | Jun 28 19:02 |
| schestowitz | >> | Jun 28 19:02 |
| schestowitz | >> No, that was encrypted. Also forwarded encrypted. | Jun 28 19:02 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 28 19:02 |
| schestowitz | > Ok. I checked my archive, that was encrypted to me at least. | Jun 28 19:02 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 28 19:02 |
| schestowitz | >>> For me the bad news is that TB can suddenly decide to not | Jun 28 19:02 |
| schestowitz | >>> encrypt. That means that I have to forgo all the nice shortcuts | Jun 28 19:03 |
| schestowitz | >>> and manually select everything for each message just to be sure. | Jun 28 19:03 |
| schestowitz | >> | Jun 28 19:03 |
| schestowitz | >> This can be a serious issue. | Jun 28 19:03 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 28 19:03 |
| schestowitz | > I've had some serious problems with encryption this last week. | Jun 28 19:03 |
| schestowitz | > OpenPGP basically stopped working in TB a few days ago, giving an | Jun 28 19:03 |
| schestowitz | > agent error. I eventually had to nuke all my TB settings and start | Jun 28 19:03 |
| schestowitz | > with an empty configuration folder and port my data and archives in | Jun 28 19:03 |
| schestowitz | > again. | Jun 28 19:03 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 28 19:03 |
| schestowitz | > I'm not sure what to do except ignore him and leave him out of future | Jun 28 19:03 |
| schestowitz | > endeavors. Though I have no experience, even of reading of such | Jun 28 19:03 |
| schestowitz | > problems. | Jun 28 19:03 |
| schestowitz | Maybe pgp-agent was the source of the issue. Worth trying a DE restart first. Less radical a fix... | Jun 28 19:03 |
| schestowitz | >> Maybe pgp-agent was the source of the issue. Worth trying a DE | Jun 28 19:18 |
| schestowitz | >> restart first. Less radical a fix... | Jun 28 19:18 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 28 19:18 |
| schestowitz | > No. I fiddled with it for a few days and made no progress. gpg worked | Jun 28 19:18 |
| schestowitz | > fine manually from the shell, but not within TB. After 3 or 4 days, I | Jun 28 19:18 |
| schestowitz | > asked on a list: | Jun 28 19:18 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 28 19:18 |
| schestowitz | > Finally I made another shell account and set up mail with the same | Jun 28 19:18 |
| schestowitz | > credentials. That worked fine. So I moved everything over to that | Jun 28 19:18 |
| schestowitz | > account and finished by renaming / setting the UID+GID to that of the | Jun 28 19:18 |
| schestowitz | > old account. | Jun 28 19:18 |
| schestowitz | > | Jun 28 19:18 |
| schestowitz | > That was on Lubuntu. I'm in the slow process of going back to Debian | Jun 28 19:18 |
| schestowitz | > from OS X on the other machine. I've had GnuPG (GPGTools) go south a | Jun 28 19:18 |
| schestowitz | > few times this year and that was 'solved' by re-installing GPGTools. | Jun 28 19:18 |
| schestowitz | > I need to get sleep/suspend working and audio working in Debian then I | Jun 28 19:18 |
| schestowitz | > am through with OS X for good. Optionally wireless. When I taught, I | Jun 28 19:18 |
| schestowitz | > usually had Kubuntu on the notebook, but the school's wireless never | Jun 28 19:18 |
| schestowitz | > worked for anybody so I never gave it a priority. | Jun 28 19:18 |
| schestowitz | Based on my experience with Kubuntu and Debian (both running in front of me right now, you will have far less trouble and no Canonical idiocy if you install Kubuntu from optical media. Not to knock Debian, but when it comes to blobs, you'll need to add them manually and even then I'm not sure it'll work with all hardware features. I covered this in my interview with Stallman, but it might take weeks before I get to that. | Jun 28 19:18 |
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