From bd16dd89ba0b1f9f9d53538120d0ebd0d8208eb6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Silvio Rhatto Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 10:50:48 -0200 Subject: Updates books --- books/spy/hacker-crackdown.mdwn | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ books/spy/hackers.mdwn | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ books/spy/perfect-spy.mdwn | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ books/spy/puzzle-palace.mdwn | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 191 insertions(+) create mode 100644 books/spy/hacker-crackdown.mdwn create mode 100644 books/spy/hackers.mdwn create mode 100644 books/spy/perfect-spy.mdwn create mode 100644 books/spy/puzzle-palace.mdwn (limited to 'books/spy') diff --git a/books/spy/hacker-crackdown.mdwn b/books/spy/hacker-crackdown.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b49abcb --- /dev/null +++ b/books/spy/hacker-crackdown.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +[[!meta title="The Hacker Crackdown"]] + +Seleção de trechos [deste livro](http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/101): + + 4154 When rumor about LoD's mastery of Georgia's switching network got + 4155 around to BellSouth through Bellcore and telco security scuttlebutt, + 4156 they at first refused to believe it. If you paid serious attention to + 4157 every rumor out and about these hacker kids, you would hear all kinds + 4158 of wacko saucer-nut nonsense: that the National Security Agency + 4159 monitored all American phone calls, that the CIA and DEA tracked + 4160 traffic on bulletin-boards with word-analysis programs, that the Condor + 4161 could start World War III from a payphone. + +Jocoso, mas premonitório! Mais: + + 11658 Kapor is a man with a vision. It's a very novel vision which he and + 11659 his allies are working out in considerable detail and with great + 11660 energy. Dark, cynical, morbid cyberpunk that I am, I cannot avoid + 11661 considering some of the darker implications of "decentralized, + 11662 nonhierarchical, locally empowered" networking. + 11663 + 11664 I remark that some pundits have suggested that electronic + 11665 networking--faxes, phones, small-scale photocopiers--played a strong + 11666 role in dissolving the power of centralized communism and causing the + 11667 collapse of the Warsaw Pact. + 11668 + 11669 Socialism is totally discredited, says Kapor, fresh back from the + 11670 Eastern Bloc. The idea that faxes did it, all by themselves, is rather + 11671 wishful thinking. + 11672 + 11673 Has it occurred to him that electronic networking might corrode + 11674 America's industrial and political infrastructure to the point where + 11675 the whole thing becomes untenable, unworkable--and the old order just + 11676 collapses headlong, like in Eastern Europe? + 11677 + 11678 "No," Kapor says flatly. "I think that's extraordinarily unlikely. In + 11679 part, because ten or fifteen years ago, I had similar hopes about + 11680 personal computers--which utterly failed to materialize." He grins + 11681 wryly, then his eyes narrow. "I'm VERY opposed to techno-utopias. + 11682 Every time I see one, I either run away, or try to kill it." + 11683 + 11684 It dawns on me then that Mitch Kapor is not trying to make the world + 11685 safe for democracy. He certainly is not trying to make it safe for + 11686 anarchists or utopians--least of all for computer intruders or + 11687 electronic rip-off artists. What he really hopes to do is make the + 11688 world safe for future Mitch Kapors. This world of decentralized, + 11689 small-scale nodes, with instant global access for the best and + 11690 brightest, would be a perfect milieu for the shoestring attic + 11691 capitalism that made Mitch Kapor what he is today. diff --git a/books/spy/hackers.mdwn b/books/spy/hackers.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5f86a77 --- /dev/null +++ b/books/spy/hackers.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +[[!meta title="Os aspectos políticos do hacking"]] + +Coletânea de textos sobre hacking. + + Lines in the Sand: Which Side Are You On in the Hacker Class War + http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=68&id=16#article + + What's wrong with the kids these days? | PUSCII blog + http://www.puscii.nl/blog/content/whats-wrong-kids-these-days + + Kid's tomorrow | PUSCII blog + http://www.puscii.nl/blog/content/kids-tomorrow + + Hacklabs and hackerspaces – tracing two genealogies » Journal of Peer Production + http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-2/peer-reviewed-papers/hacklabs-and-hackerspaces/ + + CMI Brasil - Precisamos falar sobre o Facebook + http://www.midiaindependente.org/pt/blue/2012/11/514157.shtml + + Saudi Surveillance + http://thoughtcrime.org/blog/saudi-surveillance/ + + The Banality of ‘Don’t Be Evil’ by Julian Assange - NYTimes.com + https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/opinion/sunday/the-banality-of-googles-dont-be-evil.html?_r=0 + + Hacking at the crossroad: US military funding of hackerspaces » Journal of Peer Production + http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-2/invited-comments/hacking-at-the-crossroad/ + +Análise +------- + +A distinção entre black hats, gray hats e white hats é artificial e foi criada pela indústria. + +- Os hackers originais estavam atrás era de recursos! Era o movimento dos sem-computador. +- Hoje, há uma cortina de fumaça infosec. Precisamos tomar consciência que ainda não conquistamos + nossos recursos. diff --git a/books/spy/perfect-spy.mdwn b/books/spy/perfect-spy.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..beb5635 --- /dev/null +++ b/books/spy/perfect-spy.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +[[!meta title="A Perfect Spy"]] + +## Trechos + +--- + + A society that admires its shock troops had batter be bloody careful about where it's going. + -- A Perfect Spy + +--- + + Intelligence is nothing if not an institutionalised black market in perishable commodities. + -- A Perfect Spy + +--- + + Military intelligence has about as much to do with intelligence as military music has to do + with music. + -- A Perfect Spy + +--- + + When two people have decided to go to bed with each other, what passes between them before + the event is a matter of form rather than of content. + -- A Perfect Spy + +--- + + Hell, Jack, we're licensed crooks, that's all I'm saying. What's our racket? Know what our racket is? + It is to place our larcenous natures at the service of the state. So I mean why should I feel different + about Magnus just because maybe he go the mix a little wrong? I can't. + -- A Perfect Spy + +--- + + "Stop this now. There's not a man or woman in this room who won't look like a traitor once you start + to pull our life stories inside out. A man can't remember where he was on the night of the tenth? + Then he's lying. He can remember? Then he's too damn flip with his alibi. You go one more yard with this + and everyone who tells the truth will become a barefaced liar, everyone who does a decent job will + be working fir the other side. You carry on like this and you'll sink our service better than the + Russians ever could. Or is that what you want? + + -- A Perfect Spy + +--- + + If bogies ask, it's because they don't know. So don't tell them. If they ask and they do know, + they're trying to catch you out. So don't tell'em either. + + -- A Perfect Spy diff --git a/books/spy/puzzle-palace.mdwn b/books/spy/puzzle-palace.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..176f000 --- /dev/null +++ b/books/spy/puzzle-palace.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +[[!meta title="Puzzle Palace"]] + + For reasons of security, as well as the fact that the State De- + partment's portion of the budget could not by law be spent within + the District of Columbia, Yardley set up shop in New York City. + After first considering a building at 17 East 36 Street, he finally + settled on a stately four-story brownstone at 3 East 38 Street, + owned by an old friend. + + --- page 13 (pdf) e 25 (book) + + The key to the legislation could have been dreamed up by Franz Kafka: the + establishment of a supersecret federal court. Sealed away behind a + cipher-locked door in a windowless room on the top floor of the Justice + Department building, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is most + certainly the strangest creation in the history of the federal Judiciary. Its + establishment was the product of compromises between legislators who wanted the + NSA and FBI, the only agencies affected by the FISA, to follow the standard + procedure of obtaining a court order re- quired in criminal investigations, and + legislators who felt the agencies should have no regulation whatsoever in their + foreign intelligence surveillances. + + [...] + + Almost unheard of outside the inner sanctum of the intelligence + establishment, the court is like no other. It sits in secret session, holds no + adversary hearings, and issues almost no public opinions or reports. It is + listed in neither the Government Organization Manual nor the United States + Court Directory and has even tried to keep its precise location a secret. "On + its face," said one legal authority familiar with the court, "it is an affront + to the traditional American concept of justice." + + -- page 453 + + [...] + + Then there is the last, and possibly most intriguing, part of the definition, + which stipulates that NSA has not "acquired" anything until the communication + has been processed "into an intelligible form intended for human inspection." + NSA is there- fore free to intercept all communications, domestic as well as + foreign, without ever coming under the law. Only when it selects the "contents" + of a particular communication for further "proc- essing" does the FISA take + effect. + + -- page 458 + + Like most things in Britain, the practice of eavesdropping is + deeply rooted in tradition and probably dates back at least to + 1653. In that year Lord Thurloe created what was known as + "The Secret Office," which specialized in clandestinely opening + and copying international correspondence. That custom later + carried over to telegrams and finally the telephone shortly after + it was first introduced in England in 1879. + + -- page 487 + -- cgit v1.2.3