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SecDocs
Authors:
James Carlson Tags:
science space Event:
Chaos Communication Camp 2011 Abstract: Our mission is to provide financial and organizational support to open communities in shared physical spaces who use innovative methods and technology in hands-on education. We'll speak to the global community about the progress in America. Hacker and maker spaces are where people go to teach and learn their passions. Even as each space typically shares a common set of values – transparency, hands-on, collaboration – they are all tremendously different in terms of structure, funding sources, and sustainability. While a huge movement to create new hacker and maker spaces has been catalyzed in the United States, in part because of the Hackerspace Design Patterns release from the 2007 CCCamp, the sustainability of these spaces and the movement they represent is far from certain. The School Factory, a non-profit organization that formed an early American hackerspace/makerspace called Bucketworks in 2002, has been extrapolating the models and values of these spaces into programming that helps communities understand and take advantage of potential in the maker and hacker movements. Banding together, four established spaces have launched the Space Federation, which provides a sharing of best practices and fiscal infrastructure amongst each other and to interested communities. By linking our resources we are able to help other facilitators launch and sustain their own spaces. Resources take the form of fiscal sponsorship, a governance and taxation support model for donations that gives these spaces non-profit status without the overhead and delays of supporting their own legal status. Guidelines and programming that help spaces build healthy community by connecting their members on a personal level are also a focus. This is not a franchising of spaces but a celebration of individuation while ensuring the administrivia which often kills spaces is taken care of efficiently and effectively. We are a segue from the current culture into a new world of self-empowerment, involved communities, and free sharing of knowledge. But these ideals must exist in the current paradigm until they become the norm. In short, we still have to figure out how to pay rent. In the meantime, American schools and libraries are failing. Conservative government officials are eliminating teachers and setting standards which the current educational system cannot meet. Schools are decreasingly preparing students for work within a global economy, and struggle to stay apace with the technological and social advances brought about by the dedicated volunteer work of the open source community. Similarly, public libraries in America struggle to retain relevance when books are available online, and rules require silence. The community-building purpose of a library, and the free access to knowledge it represents, is an idea at risk in a modern political culture of conservatism. Low income and smaller communities will pay the price of lost innovation and learning for their citizens. Globally, countries wildly differ in terms of their legal structures and cultural support for hackerspaces and makerspaces. Education systems are equally variable, in some nations still biased towards certain genders, age groups, and skill domains. We believe that hackerspaces and their relatives are primordial seeds in a new system of global learning and education that spans generations, interests, and political fashions. These communities represent a low-cost, highly effective alternative to overly burdensome systems of public learning and the public distribution of knowledge and potential. It may take many generations for these environments to have a lasting impact on civilization. If we start good conversations with governments, communities, and businesses today - along with amongst ourselves - we can ensure that every possible value these spaces can contribute to global society is developed for the longer term. Challenges Faced by the Hackerspace and Makerspace Movement Clique-ish social communities Financial challenges Difficult to insure Unsympathetic landlords Challenging infrastructure requirements Not well understood by general public Dis-integrative structures Zoning and classification “but they’ll see the big board” - the perceived threat of transparency Inconsistent cultural norms Informal environments create barriers to entry Questions we would like to discuss with the CCC community: How does the hackerspace/makerspace movement look globally? In America? What has changed since 2007? Since 2002? What spaces are in the Space Federation? What are their experiences? What is the Space Federation? What is the School Factory? What is the Space Kit? How is it related to the Hackerspace Design Patterns presentation? What do we have in the Space Kit so far? - we have the steps but need a way to take people through it. It includes more of things like how to assess a neighborhood and local government, less of what tools you should have. What does it still need? Why is this important? (not just in USA but globally) What does having global concept of spaces like these mean for future humanity? What has been working? What hasn’t been working? What do we need help with? Conclusion: We would like to engage the CCC community in an open discussion on these questions, and facilitate a separate co-working session to further develop tools and models that will extend the potential of the hackerspace and makerspace movement across the globe. There will be LEGOs.
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SecDocs
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Chaos Communication Congress 28th (28C3) 2011 Abstract: As governments increase their data collection capabilities software developers are stepping up to both utilize and augment surveillance capabilities. DNA databases, facial recognition, behavioral patterning, and geographic profiling are all in use today. Police are crowdsourcing identification of suspects and citizens are willingly participating. This talk will cover real technologies in place today as well as educated speculation of what is coming next. Conspiracy theorists have been questioning the degree to which anyone truly has privacy for quite some time. State ID & fingerprints have given way to electronic passports & DNA analysis. With the increasing number of DIY BIO groups it isn't outside the realm of speculation to see clandestine collection & generation of genomic information by a state actor. Police agencies are engaging in genomic data collection of suspects, witnesses, and victims with no guarantee of the information safety of those individuals. The current scope of laws in the United States limits "genetic discrimination" to "health insurance and employment decisions" with no limitations on the implication of guilt or agency in a crime at the federal level. Similarly companies are collecting photographs of individuals from online services and using them as the corpus for facial recognition techniques which are then leased to government actors. The goal of this talk is to: Address the current vectors for public identification Discuss potential countermeasures for identification dragnets Analyze the role of genomic screening Review case studies of individuals trying to avoid "the system" and crowdsourced attempts to identify the individuals Imagine one was "erased" from these databases. How can one re-establish positive identification (and would they want to)?
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SecDocs
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intelligence data mining Event:
Chaos Communication Congress 28th (28C3) 2011 Abstract: As governments increase their data collection capabilities software developers are stepping up to both utilize and augment surveillance capabilities. DNA databases, facial recognition, behavioral patterning, and geographic profiling are all in use today. Police are crowdsourcing identification of suspects and citizens are willingly participating. This talk will cover real technologies in place today as well as educated speculation of what is coming next. Conspiracy theorists have been questioning the degree to which anyone truly has privacy for quite some time. State ID & fingerprints have given way to electronic passports & DNA analysis. With the increasing number of DIY BIO groups it isn't outside the realm of speculation to see clandestine collection & generation of genomic information by a state actor. Police agencies are engaging in genomic data collection of suspects, witnesses, and victims with no guarantee of the information safety of those individuals. The current scope of laws in the United States limits "genetic discrimination" to "health insurance and employment decisions" with no limitations on the implication of guilt or agency in a crime at the federal level. Similarly companies are collecting photographs of individuals from online services and using them as the corpus for facial recognition techniques which are then leased to government actors. The goal of this talk is to: Address the current vectors for public identification Discuss potential countermeasures for identification dragnets Analyze the role of genomic screening Review case studies of individuals trying to avoid "the system" and crowdsourced attempts to identify the individuals Imagine one was "erased" from these databases. How can one re-establish positive identification (and would they want to)?
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Packet Storm Security Headlines
Packet Storm Security will be going dark in the next few hours as we join the protest against the Stop Online Privacy Act () and the PROTECT IP Act (), two pieces of United States legislation. We strongly feel that bills of this nature infringe upon privacy, break many security models and would cause great harm to the Internet community. These bills appear to be created by people who do not understand how technology works and their power to influence fiscally through lobbies and other means may cause serious harm to the future. We ask our readers to help the greater good by sending an email to your representatives through the . We also ask that you read the EFF article . - Packet Storm Security Staff
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Hack a Day
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, long-time defenders of the common man’s rights in the electronic realm, has published a guide to keeping your digital devices private when entering the United States. It seems the defenders of freedom and liberty (ICE, DHS, TSA, and CBP) are able to take a few freedoms with your liberty at a border [...]
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Hack a Day
After the United States enacted a near-total economic embargo against Cuba in 1962, American export of Detroit Iron came to a halt. Since then, some Cubans have been lucky enough to own a classic Chevy or Buick. Soviet imports of Volgas stopped in the 1990s. With a dearth of any sort of motorized transport (and [...]
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Packet Storm Security Recent Files
Technical Cyber Security Alert 2010-55A - Malicious activity detected in mid-December targeted at least 20 organizations representing multiple industries including chemical, finance, information technology, and media. Investigation into this activity revealed that third parties routinely accessed the personal email accounts of dozens of users based in the United States, China, and Europe. Further analysis revealed these users were victims of previous phishing scams through which threat actors successfully gained access to their email accounts.
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Packet Storm Security Advisories
Technical Cyber Security Alert 2010-55A - Malicious activity detected in mid-December targeted at least 20 organizations representing multiple industries including chemical, finance, information technology, and media. Investigation into this activity revealed that third parties routinely accessed the personal email accounts of dozens of users based in the United States, China, and Europe. Further analysis revealed these users were victims of previous phishing scams through which threat actors successfully gained access to their email accounts.
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SecDocs
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social Event:
Chaos Communication Congress 26th (26C3) 2009 Abstract: What does it mean to fight a culture war? How does culture propagate through a population? What is a meme? And why are some cultural memes more virulent than others? As the capitalist corporate monoculture further asserts its global hegemony, it is vital that individuals become more skillful in their resistance to it. In a hyper-connected world, the most powerful vector of resistance is that of memetics, the core unit of cultural belief. A culture war is, fundamentally, a memetic war. Thus the modern revolutionary must learn to intentionally engineer memes that can not only survive in competition with those of the dominant culture, but thrive. Hackers, already adept at identifying and leveraging vulnerabilities in computer systems, are the ideal candidates to identify and exploit the memetic vulnerabilities of cultural systems. This talk will explore memetic viral engineering as a mechanism for cultural change. Specifically, how such cultural viruses can be most effectively weaponized by crafting their content not only to maximize the rate of infection, but subsequent retention and integration. This conversion of the transmitted meme into mass action is the primary aim of revolutionary memetics. A basic introduction to memes and memetic theory will be presented. The difference between a classic Dawkins/Blackmore meme and an Internet meme will be clarified, and their relationship in the context of memetic resistance will be explored. Basic virology will also be introduced, as it will be used as the primary (though not sole) analytical metaphor. Key mechanisms of memetic transmission will be identified and a simplified model of memetic valuation will be introduced. Strong and weak vectors of memetic infection will be discussed, as will the concepts of memetic progenitors and domain crossover. Memetic immune systems will be analyzed, and potential exploits explored. Inflection points - places where small pushes have large impacts - will be introduced, along with methods for their identification. The need for meme-splitting will be explained, and prime memetic candidates for metastasizing hacker/maker culture will be identified. The immediate benefits and the long-term advantages of such an effort will be discussed. The use of digital communication systems in memetic warfare will be explored, both as testbeds (e.g., Twitter as memetic petri dish) and as infection vectors. The potential of memetic resistance against monolithic power structures such as global corporatism and religious fundamentalism will be assessed. The semantics of memetic resistance will be discussed, particularly in the context of contemporary propaganda systems, such as the United States' "Global War on Terror". Illuminating historical and cultural references will be cited, humorous anecdotes will be told and, in the laughter that follows, a fleeting glance between two members of the audience will lead to a vigorous stand-up shag in the nearest IDF closet, and the two will go on to become iconic revolutionary agitators who bring down too-proud nations worldwide, as well as a significant portion of the network in the Congress Center.
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remote-exploit & backtrack
Hello,
I am currently doing research into cryptography export limits and have searched Google extensively but have not found a conclusive answer to my question.
A while back the United States relaxed it's import and export laws regarding encryption which is why software such as Firefox and Internet Explorer could provide 128-bit ciphers outside of the U.S. I have however heard that the same does not hold true for software that is not freely available. What if I were to use RSA encryption? Would I have to limit the cipher strength if I would want to communicate with the U.S.?
Thanks!
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Sophos security news
Social networking sites and mobile phones used to spread unwanted messages, as United States retains top spot in Dirty Dozen spam-relaying countries
