Welcome gentle reader to another addition of “The Last Week or so In Review”. Featuring various excerpts and highlights of news and commentary from our various contributors,readers,media
Here we go……………
1/ The Death of Anonymity in the digital age? (Thanks to Vern our Fb admin for this one) Or “Forced Exposure“. A good article with the writer saying he (she, it?) is being forced to stop using the service he is currently writing on due to forced exposure and the non ability using that service to maintain his anonymity. Apparently the owner of Lavabit has stopped using email and if the author knew what was good for him, he would stop using it too. There is some advice on how to stay secure should one continue to not go off the grid. – Bruce Sheier, (note emphasis added my own-EvS) “With all this in mind, I have five pieces of advice:
1) Hide in the network. Implement hidden services. Use Tor to anonymize yourself. Yes, the NSA targets Tor users, but it’s work for them. The less obvious you are, the safer you are. 2) Encrypt your communications. Use TLS. Use IPsec. Again, while it’s true that the NSA targets encrypted connections – and it may have explicit exploits against these protocols – you’re much better protected than if you communicate in the clear. 3) Assume that while your computer can be compromised, it would take work and risk on the part of the NSA – so it probably isn’t. If you have something really important, use an air gap. Since I started working with the Snowden documents, I bought a new computer that has never been connected to the internet. If I want to transfer a file, I encrypt the file on the secure computer and walk it over to my internet computer, using a USB stick. To decrypt something, I reverse the process. This might not be bulletproof, but it’s pretty good.
4) Be suspicious of commercial encryption software, especially from large vendors. My guess is that most encryption products from large US companies have NSA-friendly back doors, and many foreign ones probably do as well. It’s prudent to assume that foreign products also have foreign-installed backdoors. Closed-source software is easier for the NSA to backdoor than open-source software. Systems relying on master secrets are vulnerable to the NSA, through either legal or more clandestine means. 5) Try to use public-domain encryption that has to be compatible with other implementations. For example, it’s harder for the NSA to backdoor TLS than BitLocker, because any vendor’s TLS has to be compatible with every other vendor’s TLS, while BitLocker only has to be compatible with itself, giving the NSA a lot more freedom to make changes. And because BitLocker is proprietary, it’s far less likely those changes will be discovered. Prefer symmetric cryptography over public-key cryptography. Prefer conventional discrete-log-based systems over elliptic-curve systems; the latter have constants that the NSA influences when they can.”
2/ FBI calls half of populace with 9/11 doubts potential terrorists
“A Department of Justice memo instructs local police, under a program named “communities against terrorism,” to consider anyone who harbors “conspiracy theories” about 9/11 to be a potential terrorist.”Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/358624#ixzz2glBVYQtn
So any of those “incorrect thoughts” or reading blogs like this might make you a terrorist now!
3/‘The welfare state of the 20th century is over’, says new Dutch king in his inaugural address
Yeah this one really got my blood boiling. First of all the biggest welfare recipient with the Netherlands is telling everyone else to buckle down and start having to be responsible for themselves. Meanwhile he receives about a 1 Million Euro salary every year at tax payer expense and about 100 million is spent of his families various “properties”. Well FUCK YOU your royal Highness. The only reason he can sit his holier than though ass on the throne there is because of the generosity and sacrifice of others, such as the Canadian and Allied Forces in World War 2. Maybe next time Holland gets invaded the rest of the world should just let His Highness be “responsible” for himself.
4/Is Fort Knox Empty? We take a look at whats going on and some background into the gold and where has it gone? Who has what and where. “With all the concerns out there lets take a look at some facts on the ground, world reactions to the United States holding its gold for them. Again this is a blog and not a comprehensive “authority”, I will give enough links throughout the article for anyone wishing to dig deeper. But after doing this article I grew very concerned about the gold situation.”
5/ Freeman on the Land (sovereign citizen movement) revisisted 2013 What works, what doesn’t
“I think the greatest contribution of the FMOTL (Freeman On The Land) movement is giving people the courage to stand up and not just knuckle under, to ask questions and not just accept the status quo.”
6/ The Evil von Scarry Daily is out!
Trying our hand at an online news paper with material and stories from many of our sources. New edition is daily at approximately 1700 EST or 2200 UTC. Described as “A Daily Aggregate of our various sources”.
7/ U.S. bank customers warned of coming “Bail-Ins”what now you might be wondering!?! A “Bail-In” is like a “Bail-out” except that instead of getting free money from the government the banks take the money from their depositors. Sounds like a lot of horseshit to me. How can a bank give their big boys all these bonuses but yet talk about the need for taking their clients cash? Cyprus much?
8/ Prepping and Survival Sten MkIII from Dugan’s Tool Shed
Thanks to Mr.K for this one, these guys are my new favorite firearms guys!
9/ We welcome Steven Stanley Bayes as a guest writer/contributor after his commentary and indepth contribution to the Dyatlov Pass mystery and discussion on our blog. Steven has contributed one op-ed piece so far and we are looking forward to others. Thanks Steven and welcome aboard!
This creature feature will be a return to animitronics and actual fx make up art. Lance Henriksen is helping back this up as well as some other heavy hitters via Kickstarter (they already reached their goal, but hey more money is always better). Sultan Saeed Al Darmaki of Dark Dunes Productions (teaming up with Studio ADI) has also come on board after the Kickstarter campaign to team up and get this movie out there. After seeing the video I gotta say I can’t freakin wait for this one. Give us back our animitronics and real f/x, someone else can have CGI!
B/ Thanks to TW for keeping us up to speed on UFO related research!
C/ Lords of Salem review
Just finished watching it and had a few things I wanted to get out before I sleep on the rest of it.
First impressions….The Shining meets Lair of the White Worm. It had the feel of a lot of the creepy 1970’s horror films which had cults and devil worship with the promise of the devil coming back in human form ( Blood on Satan’s Claw, Rosemary’s Baby, Hungry Wives,The Pyx,Carrie,Audrey Rose,etc. The surreal and what the fuck of The Wicker Man). Funny how life would be influenced by art, that would play out later in the big whipped up fears of devil cults and heavy metal music of the 1980’s (PMRC-Tipper Gore, now her husband tries to scare us about Carbon). The fears of right wing evangelical America
These Asian giant hornets, which the Japanese call “giant sparrow bees,” can grow up to five centimetres long, with a six-millimetre long stinger. Japanese entomologist Masato Ono described their sting to National Geographic, saying that it “feels like a hot nail” being driven into your flesh. The pain of the sting itself is the least of the worries from these hornets, though. The venom they inject after a sting is highly toxic, sending anyone who might be allergic into anaphylactic shock, but even those who aren’t allergic can still die from the sting due to kidney failure. The hornets are found throughout eastern Asian and they’re especially common in Japan, where they cause between 30-40 deaths a year.”
