The Telecomix Cyphernetic Assebly turned out to be a great success. First and foremost, it was a good conference with lots of chatting and discussion, and great presentations. But it also received some interweb attention. Here are some links:
In the following movie a very early version of our beloved leader Cameron describes the Panspectron, the Bazaar and the Cathedral, free information flows versus secrecy, freedom versus taking and giving orders and perhaps most important: How decentralized communication protocols built by hackers and engineers can help breaking down the flawed hierarchies. It is, in a sense, the fundamental ideas behind crypto anarchy.
The book Abstract Hacktivism is about the very same topic. Even though it is a bit old, perhaps one or two years, it is probably still interesting to read. You can download it from this site.
The Telecomix Crypto Munitions Bueau will have a two-day seminar about cryptography/politics the 16-17th of june. More information will be published at the Interfax soon.
The meeting starts at about 43:20 (yes really, 43 minutes.) For more information, see act-on-acta.eu. The ACTA negotiations was recently made public and can now be downloaded from this web page.
Agent chrisk was invited to talk at this historic meeting.
The Telecomix cluster is directed by the synthetic intelligence of Cameron, a sociocybernetic system that operates as a positive feedback loop with random delay-properties of the self-organizing structure. Before this system was deployed it has evolved through many phases. Before the rebirth of the current system, previous states of existance of this system has been in operations. The Telecomix Crypto Munitions Bureau is celebrating the birth of this system by re-releasing a few of the previously made propaganda videos.
today we will bypass oppressive regimes, with SSH-tunnels on Windows and Linux.
In windows. First go to the Putty Tray download page and get the software and run it, then add user@host for your SSH login. Also make sure the port is right.
Then choose tunnels. For the source port you want 12345, destination, localhost. Then select dynamic. Also make sure, that local ports accept connections from other hosts is activated.
Now, you can open up the tunnel. You will be instructed to enter your password, then you see a login screen. Make sure Windows accepts your connection.
Then install Foxy Proxy. Set it to port 12345 pointing at localhost. It is a socks proxy, version five. Also use it for DNS lookups.
Then select your proxy from the browser. Now you are tunneling the traffic through the remote computer. You have avoided censorship. Also check that you have the IP number of the remote computer, at showmyip.com.
Note, not in video: To make sure that your DNS-lookups are also made inside the tunnel, surf to about:config and add/edit the key network.proxy.socks_remote_dns to TRUE.
On Linux, and other UNIX like operating systems, it is much easier. Simply open any type of terminal, and type the following command.
ssh -D12345 user@domain.com
Then log in at the screen.
Then use Foxy Proxy, and you have tunneled your way safely around the censorship regime. Check with showmyip.com for safety.
No encryption tunnel is one hundred percent safe. Learn more about tunnels and encryption at crypto.telecomix.org.
Type the command and follow the on-screen instructions. Please note the install location of the program.
Start up the router and what a bit for it to integrate in the darknet. It usually takes half an hour.
Then go to the router console to se that it is working properly,
it is on localhost. port 7657.
On the bottom of the page there are instruction on how to set up an eepsite. We will now follow them, one by one. Watch my moves.
We are now creating a test site, called telecomixtest.i2p.
It is a bit complicated for humans, but it is worth all the effort.
Once set up, you will need to register the site in your router. Also, since the I 2 P darknet is completely distributed, you will need to give the very long Local Destination to other address books to make sure it gets known.
You may edit the site as ordinary html.
Remember that you will need to use Foxy Proxy, an addon for the Firefox browser, to enter the darknet of I 2 P.
Also, once you have made changes, remember to clear the browser’s cache memory.
Once you are up and running, it is extremely difficult to censor you or put you under surveillance. Exploit it.
A course in how to use cryptography and anonymizing overlay networks to communicate with each other. The course is targeted against people that are not that familiar with computers, but who would perhaps benefit from being able to organize themselves anonymously.
We must be able to communicate privately to each other, without any surveillance. We must be able to protect ourselves from being registered for our political ideas, sexuality, what organizations we are members of and what thoughts we wish to communicate to each others.
Where and when?
In Gothenburg, Sweden. During the summer. More information will come soon.
Course Goals
To have learned the basic skills of computer security, with special attention to cryptography, darknets, cipherspace and protection of one’s own hardware. The students will achieve the knowledge on how to make sure that information is kept free and without risking oppression from State or Corporation.
Course plan
Its divided into four parts. (This could be changed.)
It would be nice if the students can set up a common computer to host their forum/blog. Also, installing hard disc encryption involves that all data on the disc is wiped, which most people are not that happy to do with their own personal computers. If the students can not find an old crappy computer to use for this, maybe we could donate something.
Part 1 – Communication within a group
Anonymously with I2P
Real time, asynchronous
Goal: The students learn how to set up a forum or a blog at I2P/TOR. The student learns how to use I2P/TOR to browse to hidden websites anonymously. With this knowledge the student will be able to set up forums and blogs to communicate anonymously to others, almost entierly without the risk of any surveillance.
Part 2 – Hard disc encryption
The students learn how to use hard disc encryption to protect their private data in case the computers are taken.
The students are educated in what type of protection the programs gives them. How does one behave in order to avoid leaking information about oneself?
Part 3 – Publishing information on the internets
How to use TOR to access websites anonymously.
What type of information does the proxies forward to the servers? How do you minimize the risk of leaking information? How can the student know if he or she is anonymized or not?
How to chain proxies to TOR, in order to being able to access web sites that normally block traffic from the TOR exit nodes. (Privoxy chains)
Part 4 – Advanced
Setting up an anonymous e-mail address in I2P, and how to use GPG.
Understanding that if one sends mails to this e-mail from the unanonymized internets will reveal the identity of the sender.
Currently, nearly all nations outside the internets are constantly in a mode of aggression against free communication flows. These aggressions can not be accepted. We only demand results from our students, and expect that decentralized self-organizing clusters will be spontaneously formed. Telecomix Crypto Munitions Bureau does not want your money.
Students are welcome to join Telecomix and the TCMB. More information can be found in this video.