StopTheLie.com News update 01-11-2016
The Father of Online Anonymity Has a Plan to End the Crypto War
Source: Wired.com
--Chaum is also building into PrivaTegrity another feature that's sure to be far more controversial: a carefully controlled backdoor that allows anyone doing something "generally recognized as evil" to have their anonymity and privacy stripped altogether.
Whoever controls that backdoor within PrivaTegrity would have the power to decide who counts as "evil"—too much power, Chaum recognizes, for any single company or government. So he's given the task to a sort of council system. When PrivaTegrity's setup is complete, nine server administrators in nine different countries would all need to cooperate to trace criminals within the network and decrypt their communications. The result, Chaum argues, is a new approach that "breaks the crypto wars," satisfying both the law enforcement agencies who argue that encryption offers a haven for criminals, and also those who argue that it's necessary to hobble mass spying.
Read full article at: http://www.wired.com/2016/01/david-chaum-father-of-online-anonymity-plan-to-end-the-crypto-wars/
COMMENT: Here are some thoughts (from the "comments" section beneath the story) that are worth considering:
Brian M writes, in part:
"Creative but pointless. Backdoors can be built into all known communications systems - doesn't matter. The real problem is that the methods for encrypting are well published. Criminal organizations can simply bypass these so called "backdoors" by building (or paying someone to build) their own encrypted communication system, completely closed to law enforcement and governments."
Paleh0rse writes, in part:
"It doesn't take a genius to know that the two largest flaws in this entire ridiculous "solution" are a) the human beings "entrusted" to run the nine servers, and b) the fact you can't force anyone to use this garbage in place of ACTUALLY secure and private alternatives. Tell me again why Joe Terrorist would elect to use this nonsense, rather than something that isn't intentionally broken that they develop or obtain themselves?
You show me nine fallible and mortal human admins, and I'll break your entire system using nine special operations soldiers with heavy wrenches and guns."
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Schiff: Puerto Rico Bailout Will Funnel Tax-Payer Money to Hedgefunds (Video)
Source: YouTube.com
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Watch video at: https://youtu.be/AeCjJ2VgpKw
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Why Adding Backdoors and Weakening Encryption Threatens the Internet
Source: HuffingtonPost.com
--To put it bluntly: the call to provide law enforcement (or, anyone) exceptional access to communications and content poses a grave threat to the future of the Internet. It is simply not possible to give the good guys the access they want without letting the bad guys in. There's nothing new or novel in this statement. Experts have been saying the same thing for 20 years. While the message is old, with the integration of Internet technologies into nearly all aspects of life, the stakes are higher than they've ever been.
--These risks are not theoretical: we know of no case where such an addition of exceptional access capabilities has not resulted in weakened security.
Read full article at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/acm-the-association-for-computing-machinery/wanting-it-bad-enough-won_b_8762322.html
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About Those "Terrorist Acts" Committed by the Hammonds (Video)
Source: YouTube.com
While most of us were exchanging Christmas gifts and celebrating the start of a new year, Oregon Ranchers Dwight Hammond, Jr., 73, and his son, Steven Hammond, 46, were preparing for a return to prison on January 4th, 2016.
Among other things, the Hammonds were charged with various counts of Arson on federal property – punishable by a five-year mandatory minimum sentence according to the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996.
Watch video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1JzuQf4DMU
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Previous Week's News 01-04-2016
Attorney Marc J. Victor: 6 Steps to Fix the Justice System (Video)
Source: YouTube.com
--The jury was supposed to be the final check on state power...I need to be able to tell them "You can judge the law as well as the facts."
Watch video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGdOsioCzsA
COMMENT: On jury nullification:
The founders expected jurors to "judge of the justice of the law and to hold all laws invalid that are, in their opinion, unjust or oppressive, and all persons guiltless in violating or resisting the execution of such laws." -Lysander Spooner, Trial by Jury
To better clarify this right and duty, a jury ought to be given a choice of THREE verdicts that it can return in court: Guilty, not guilty, or NOT PUNISHABLE.
This third verdict would render useless the government's practice of passing laws that nobody asked for and few support. It would erase all ambiguity regarding the right of the people to control the executive, legislative and judicial power of their government.
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Dubai hotel VS WTC 7 (Video)
Source: JoePlummer.com
The Caracas Tower, the Windsor Building, the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, and now the Address Hotel in Dubai. Still believe "office fires" brought WTC 7 down?
Watch video at: https://youtu.be/496vFCbQJw4
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