Executive summary: thou shalt use TOR because it’s supersafe and the best solution out there, censorship is bad, freedom of information is good and don’t block The Pirate Bay because it makes you look like China *sigh* Once again: there is no such thing as anonymity on the internet! Dutch language news article: https://www.security.nl/artikel/44853/1/Tor_hekelt_Nederlandse_blokkade_Pirate_Bay.html See […]
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Jacob Appelbaum Distributed Same Old TOR Propaganda At NCSC Conference In The Netherlands. Also Defended Pirate Bay
Posted: 2013/01/26 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy, Stats / reports, Tech EvolutionJacob Appelbaum, a hacktivist and Wikileaks volunteer, opened Europe’s largest annual hacker meeting, the Chaos Computer Club conference, by warning that state security services are quickly building up their surveillance networks
Posted: 2013/01/01 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy, Stats / reports, Tech EvolutionHe warned that U.S. data center “wants to spy on all of us,” calling such surveillance an attack on human dignity. Will he now go and imprison himself for his own role in all this? Action = – Reaction AND vice versa… More: http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=130004HFKKYK http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2012/12/28/jacob-appelbaum-on-resisting-the-surveillance-state/ See also: http://vrritti.com/?s=appelbaum&submit=Search
Jacob Appelbaum (TOR) vs. UltraReach (Ultrasurf). Trust me! No trust me! (Trust No One??)
Posted: 2012/04/17 in Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection, Stats / reportsJacob Appelbaum: Ultrasurf is software produced by the UltraReach company for censorship circumvention, privacy, security and anonymity. Unfortunately for them, I found their claims to be overstated and I found a number of serious problems with Ultrasurf. https://blog.torproject.org/blog/ultrasurf-definitive-review UltraReach: Tor repeatedly and knowingly makes false and outdated statements about Ultrasurf, which are detailed in our full response […]
Assange claims secret U.S. indictment against him. Does same apply to Jonsdottir, Appelbaum and Gonggrijp? (WikiLeaks)
Posted: 2012/03/05 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Public PolicyWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange accused the American government of conducting “a neo-McCarthyist witch-hunt” against his organisation as it released confidential e-mails from Stratfor, a Texas-based private intelligence firm, claiming that American authorities had “a secret indictment” against him in place for “more than 12 months”. Mr. Assange said: “For over a year now, the U.S. […]
WikiLeaks Supporters Lose Court Bid to Protect Twitter Records – Request by Birgitta Jonsdottir, Jacob Appelbaum and Rop Gonggrijp rejected
Posted: 2012/01/07 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Jurisprudence, LitigationA U.S. District judge in Alexandria, Virginia, rejected a request by Birgitta Jonsdottir, Jacob Appelbaum and Rop Gonggrijp to block prosecutors from obtaining the data while a federal appeals court considers their challenge to the government’s request for the data. Judge Liam O’Grady wrote in his ruling that he was rejecting the request because the […]
Appelbaum order: CNET has learned that the secret court order is what’s called a 2703(d) order. It’s not as privacy-protective as a traditional search warrant, and some courts have ruled that such orders are unconstitutional when used to read a suspect’s e-mail
Posted: 2011/10/10 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Public PolicyThe U.S. government has obtained a controversial type of secret court order to force Google Inc. and small Internet provider Sonic.net Inc. to turn over information from the email accounts of WikiLeaks volunteer Jacob Appelbaum, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal
Posted: 2011/10/10 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Google, Litigation, Privacy / Data ProtectionTor/WikiLeaks hacker Jacob Appelbaum publishes full list of 531 compromised DigiNotar SSL-certificates. The Dutch government has shared it with him
Posted: 2011/09/05 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy, Stats / reportsAbout an hour ago I was contacted by the Dutch Government with more details about the DigiNotar Debacle. It seems that they’re doing a great job keeping on top of things and doing the job that DigiNotar should’ve done in July. They sent a spreadsheet with a list of 531 entries on the currently known bad […]
Wikileaks, Appelbaum, Lamo, Project Vigilant Connections
Posted: 2011/03/12 in Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data ProtectionNote* Anon’s post takes a look at the triad, Lamo, Appelbaum, and Assange. and their mutual entanglement with project Vigilant. The massive data mining of the TOR network by Appelbaum via a phalanx of exit nodes with the domain name lostinthenoise.net, and the passing of data to Assange to form the initial document trove of […]
WikiLeaks: Assange; Appelbaum, Berg, The Internet’s Greatest Con Men
Posted: 2011/02/22 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data ProtectionQ. What do the above three people all have in common?? A. They are all liars. All three have lied about the security offered by Wikileaks to Whistle blowers, and in doing so have placed them at considerable risk. Initially, Wikileaks offered no more in protection than any internet savvy security concious netzien could provide. […]
WikiLeaks hacker Jacob Appelbaum promotes TOR on Dutch TV
Posted: 2011/02/17 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data ProtectionDutch language video with English language comments by Appelbaum: http://nos.nl/artikel/219423-tor-digitale-solidariteit-met-middenoosten.html Previously: WikiLeaks Intercepted Private Communications via TOR proxy network, Maintains Access http://vrritti.com/2010/12/10/wikileaks-intercepted-private-communications-via-tor-proxy-network-maintains-access/ Appelbaum has been an active member of the Cult of the Dead Cow hacker collective since 2008, and is the co-founder of the San Francisco hackerspace Noisebridge http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Appelbaum The American Wikileaks Hacker http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/meet-the-american-hacker-behind-wikileaks-20101201 Wikileaks […]
Rop Gonggrijp: US DOJ subpoenas my twitter account info. Same goes for Jacob Appelbaum (a.k.a. ioerror), Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Wikileaks, Julian Assange and Bradley Manning
Posted: 2011/01/08 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Jurisprudence, Public PolicyIt’s a warm and fuzzy feeling to know that somewhere, far away, people are thinking about you. Last night I received this rather interesting e-mail from twitter: Kessel, Jan-07 11:20 am (PST): Dear Twitter User: We are writing to inform you that Twitter has received legal process requesting information regarding your Twitter account, @rop_g. A […]
Icelandic MP Birgitta Jonsdottir planning Bradley Manning support trip despite US legal threats
Posted: 2013/02/12 in Education / Awareness, Public Policy, Stats / reportsJonsdottir is planning to arrive in the US on April 5, despite a strong warning from Reykjavík of possible legal repurcussions. The politician says her trip, which coincides with the third anniversary of the video’s release, is her way of saying she refuses to live in fear. “I don’t want to live in the shadows. […]
Iceland interior minister says he refused to help FBI’s WikiLeaks investigation in 2011
Posted: 2013/02/02 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Public Policy, Stats / reportsIceland’s interior minister said Friday that he ordered the country’s police not to cooperate with FBI agents sent to investigate WikiLeaks two years ago, offering a rare glimpse into the U.S. Department of Justice’s investigation of the secret-busting site. Ogmundur Jonasson told The Associated Press that he was upset when he found out that FBI […]
VRRitti’s Zeitgeist 2012. Some Of The Search Queries That Brought You To VRRitti
Posted: 2012/12/21 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reportsSample of the thousands of known and thousands of unknown (due to encryption) search engine queries that brought you to VRRitti in 2012. 123video.nl megaupload 50 years 1337 hacker megaupload 50 years prison 18-year-old teaches a lesson megaupload alicia keys a natural monopoly occurs when megaupload and cogent commmunications acta megaupload carpathia adrian lamo 2012 […]
Assange and Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet (WikiLeaks)
Posted: 2012/10/09 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Network Security, Organized Crime, Privacy / Data Protection, Public Policy, Stats / reportsJulian Assange is set to publish a book based on his interview with the people he believes know the solution to the problems of privacy and freedom. The new piece develops the ideas of the cutting-edge thinkers brought to you earlier by RT. The book called ‘Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet,’ was […]
TOR Project Wins 250,000 EUR Because It Makes People Feel More Anonymous
Posted: 2012/06/19 in Education / Awareness, Privacy / Data Protection, Stats / reportsDutch language news article: http://www.security.nl/artikel/41944/1/Tor_wint_250.000_euro_voor_anoniem_surfen.html See also: The Tor Project regularly meets with law enforcement agencies to explain to them how Tor works and to point them towards known non-Tor-specific server vulnerabilities http://vrritti.com/2012/06/13/the-tor-project-regularly-meets-with-law-enforcement-agencies-to-explain-to-them-how-tor-works-and-to-point-them-towards-known-non-tor-specific-server-vulnerabilities/ Jacob Appelbaum (TOR) vs. UltraReach (Ultrasurf). Trust me! No trust me! (Trust No One??) http://vrritti.com/2012/04/17/jacob-appelbaum-vs-ultrareach-trust-me-no-trust-me-trust-no-one/ Tor anonymity project looks to help Iranians […]
A new privacy-protecting Internet service and telephone provider still in the planning stages could become the ACLU’s dream and the FBI’s worst nightmare
Posted: 2012/04/11 in Education / Awareness, Network Security, New Business Models, Privacy / Data Protection, Tech EvolutionThe official beginning of the end for ‘mere conduits‘? At least you’ll be able to submit your data to Facebook via an encrypted tunnel Nicholas Merrill is planning to revolutionize online privacy with a concept as simple as it is ingenious: a telecommunications provider designed from its inception to shield its customers from surveillance. Merrill, […]
All the latest DigiNotar news from The Netherlands – Fox-IT report about DigiNotar slowly but surely being distributed to several organizations
Posted: 2011/09/06 in Cybercrime, Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection, Public PolicyAfter the Dutch government is said to have shared the list of compromised SSL certificates with TOR/WikiLeaks hacker Jacob Appelbaum, it now leaks a report from security firm Fox-IT about DigiNotar to reporters of Dutch news sites Nu.nl and Webwereld.nl. Mozilla also received it. Main findings: – DigiNotar knew on 28th July that Iranian internet […]
http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=16568&ew_0_a_id=372818 See also: The journalist Suelette Dreyfus collaborated with Julian Assange to create Underground, a 1997 book about hackers in Australia and around the globe. Here she reveals the inside story on Assange, the geek who founded WikiLeaks and became the scourge of world governments. http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/the-geek-who-shook-the-world-20101211-18tep.html WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange – A CypherPunk http://vrritti.com/2010/12/10/wikileaks-julian-assange-a-cypherpunk/ WikiLeaks co-producer Rop […]
Wikileaks volunteer detained and searched (again) by US agents
Posted: 2011/01/14 in Education / AwarenessJacob Appelbaum, a security researcher, Tor developer, and volunteer with Wikileaks, reported today on his Twitter feed that he was detained, searched, and questioned by the US Customs and Border Patrol agents at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on January 10, upon re-entering the US after a vacation in Iceland. He experienced a similar incident last year […]
Wikileaks investigation shows US government tech illiteracy
Posted: 2011/01/11 in Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Public PolicySoghoian ponders why the Department of Justice did not appoint someone “more senior” to the case, as it is, “the most high-profile national security investigation of the decade”. “It may simply be that Doherty-McCormick, through her experience in prosecuting pedophiles caught in online stings, may be the most tech savvy prosecutor in her office, and […]
Global Research on WikiLeaks – A distinction should be made between the Wikileaks data banks, and the mechanisms whereby the leaks are transformed into news
Posted: 2010/12/26 in Education / Awareness, Network Security, Privacy / Data Protection, Public PolicyProgressive organizations have praised the Wikileaks endeavor. Our own website Global Research has provided extensive coverage of the Wikileaks data banks and their implications, particularly with regard to US-NATO war crimes. The Wikileaks Project is heralded as an immeasurable victory against corporate media censorship, without examining its organizational structure. A distinction should be made between the […]
