Monthly Archives: December 2013

$10m NSA contract with security firm RSA led to encryption backdoor

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“Documents leaked by the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden show that the NSA created and promulgated a flawed formula for generating random numbers, to create a ‘back door’ in encryption products, the New York Times reported in September. Reuters later reported that RSA became the most important distributor of that formula by rolling it into a software tool called Bsafe that is used to enhance security in personal computers and many other products.  Undisclosed until now was that RSA received $10m in a deal that set the NSA formula as the preferred, or default, method for number generation in the BSafe software, according to two sources familiar with the contract.”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/20/nsa-internet-security-rsa-secret-10m-encryption

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Toughest encryption cracked by listening to your CPU with a phone

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“Security researchers have successfully broken one of the most secure encryption algorithms, 4096-bit RSA, by listening – yes, with a microphone — to a computer as it decrypts some encrypted data. The attack is fairly simple and can be carried out with rudimentary hardware. In this case, the security researchers listen to the high-pitched (10 to 150 KHz) sounds produced by your computer as it decrypts data.  The researchers successfully extracted decryption keys over a distance of four meters (13 feet) with a high-quality parabolic microphone. They also managed to pull of this attack with a smartphone placed 30 centimeters (12 inches) away from the target laptop.”

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/173108-researchers-crack-the-worlds-toughest-encryption-by-listening-to-the-tiny-sounds-made-by-your-computers-cpu

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Jim Rogers on Lucrative Investments Nobody Else Is Talking About

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“Everybody should have some of their money invested outside of their own country, outside of their own currency. No matter how positive things are in your home country, something could go wrong.  I do it because I think I can make some money finding opportunities outside your own country. Many people are a little reluctant, you know. It’s tough to leave your safe haven. So I try to explain to them, ‘Well, you have fire insurance, why don’t you look on investing abroad as another kind of insurance?’ and usually what happens is people invest more and more abroad because they say, ‘Oh, my gosh, look at these opportunities. Why didn’t somebody tell us there are all these things out there?'”

https://www.internationalman.com/78-global-perspectives/1063-jim-rogers-on-lucrative-investments-nobody-else-is-talking-about

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Bill Bonner: The Fed’s Big Lie

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“Whatever may be said about today’s cockeyed economies, there is nothing ‘normal’ about them.  What’s normal about a government that runs up as much debt as it had in World War II – with no war… no national emergency… and no way to pay the money back?  What’s normal about an economy that depends on the lowest interest rates in three generations… and a central bank that holds them down like a crooked butcher with his finger on the meat scale?  And what’s normal about an advanced capitalist country where the typical man earns less than he did 43 years ago?”

http://www.bonnerandpartners.com/the-feds-big-lie/

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South Africa and Ending Apartheid: The Free-Market Road Not Taken

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“Many private businesses in South Africa were interested and willing to employ black workers and invest in their training and acquisition of more highly valued marketable skills. However, the Afrikaner government used its regulatory and fiscal tools of control and intimidation to ‘keep in line’ white employers who saw economic gain by ‘crossing the color line’ in their businesses and enterprises. Thus, it was political goals of the South African government and not the market motive of profit that prevented black South Africans from having the opportunities to rise more out of poverty through peaceful competition and cooperative commercial association.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/34842/Richard-Ebeling-South-Africa-and-Ending-Apartheid-The-Free-Market-Road-Not-Taken/

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Jeffrey Tucker: Why We Love “The Nutcracker”

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“How could they have known? Nothing like this had ever happened. And so this late-nineteenth-century generation was innocent and delightfully so. To this generation, the injustices they intended to purge from the world were slavery, remnants of the bondage of women, the perpetuation of feuds and duels, the despotism of the monarchical class, debtors prisons, and the like. What they could not imagine was the much vaster injustice that was just around the historical corner: mass use of poison gas, universal enslavement of the wartime draft, famine as a war tactic, the gulag, the Holocaust, mass incineration at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”

http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/why-we-love-the-nutcracker

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Jeffrey Tucker Launches Liberty.me Indiegogo Campaign

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“A publishing, broadcasting, and social networking platform dedicated to the liberty-minded community.  The Liberty.me Indiegogo crowdfund is live! Join us!  http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/liberty-me–2”

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The Final American Revolution: Adam Kokesh vs. Stefan Molyneux

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“Adam Kokesh and Stefan Molyneux debate the best way to advance the cause of freedom, increase human liberty and end the tyranny of the state. Political Action, Civil Disobedience, Peaceful Parenting or something else: What is the best method?”

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The day the Holocaust began

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“When (the Nazis) took power in 1933, they immediately used the (gun registration) records to disarm political enemies.  In October 1938, police agencies in Germany announced that all Jews had to turn in their guns (and) the authorities knew which Jews had guns because they were registered. Having disarmed the Jews, they were able to attack them.  In November 1938, there was the Night of Broken Glass, otherwise known as Kristallnacht. There was an unleashing of the so-called Brownshirt Nazi thugs, who went into Jewish homes and ransacked them under the pretext that they were searching for weapons, which was just that — a pretext.”

http://triblive.com/opinion/qanda/5187172-74/gun-control-germany

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Most Colorado Sheriffs Refuse to Enforce Gun Control Law

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“There are 62 sheriffs in Colorado, and 55 of them are challenging the law in a court case. Most are unwilling to enforce the state’s anti-gun laws. They refuse to arrest known violators, or else they let them loose. The voters in rural counties prefer it this way.  One of them publicly carries a pair of banned 30-round magazines for rifles, called assault rifles by the media.”

http://teapartyeconomist.com/2013/12/17/colorado-sheriffs-refuse-enforce-gun-control-law/

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