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  • Cypherpunk Bitstream 0x05: Security I

    We talk about security and the current state of the security system (police, intelligence services, and the military).

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      • Show Notes
      What is security
      • 00:02:05 What is security: Security VS Safety.
        • Security: unexpected events that go back to an actor,
        • Safety: maintaining a status.
        • 00:07:20 Entropy: things decay. Security is not a natural state, but
          • must be maintained.
        • 00:09:10 Evil people: psychpaths, predators.
        • 00:09:50 Circumstances: acting irrationally.
        • 00:10:25 Hackers: Red Hats, joy of overcoming security systems.
        • 00:11:11 WASP Privilege: no exposure to threats, stuff works most of
          • the time, no incentive to learn about security.
          Systems
          • 00:12:29 High trust society VS low trust society: Low trust comes
            • with high cost and less functional societies.
          • 00:16:16 Symptoms of societies with low trust: different
            • environments are what make them.
          • 00:16:50 Universal core values of humans: self-preservation,
            • protecting family and friends, private zones, no drama.
          • 00:18:05 High trust society needs maintenance, will get eroded
            • quickly by few “bad actors”.
          • 00:19:05 How can you turn a low security, low trust environment into
            • a high security, high trust environment? Parallel developments also
            possible: high security, low trust societies.
          • 00:19:40 Trust builds from history of interactions.
          • 00:20:13 To change, bad memories must die (social memory). See
            • Thomas Kuhn (1962): The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
          • 00:22:10 Western states want to make people dependent on security
            • (stateism) and increase state control. Thus, individuals externalize
            security, and state is presented as the White Knight.
          • 00:25:15 Are we being played/gamed/manipulated by the state and
            • state actors?
          • 00:27:38 Just doing our jobs.
          • 00:29:50 Machiavellianism: concepts how states can work.
          • 00:31:20 Hegelian concepts: totalist and collectivist states and
            • politics.
          • 00:33:20 Look at systemic issues.
            • Institutions
            • 00:33:30 Inspecting institutions: 1) Police.
            • 00:39:00 Policemen’s selection bias: everyone is a potential
              • criminal or at least a suspect.
            • 00:40:20 Documentation work of police activity by example of firing
              • weapons.
            • 00:42:30 Bureaucracy can work.
            • 00:47:30 Police in uniform VS civilian police: both are for peace
              • preservation.
            • 00:48:00 Military is directed outwards.
            • 00:49:00 Carl von Clausewitz: war is the extension of politics
              • [original: war is the continuation of politics by other means].
            • 00:49:39 Border guards are the middle layer between military and
              • police (control of territorial boundaries VS maintaining territorial
              integrity VS maintain security within the borders).
              Intelligence services
              • 00:50:00 Intelligence services:
              • Classification: Intelligence service for proper and covert action
              • 00:51:00 Similarities and differences to Journalism: Are
                • intelligence services also ad-driven?
              • 00:51:48 Intelligence Agencies report only news that can be
                • actionable.
              • 00:53:40 Domestic and Foreign Intelligence Services.
              • 00:54:20 Objective reporting: Not mission driven, but report driven.
              • 00:54:41 Two classes of intelligence services: Report requests
                • coming out of intelligence circle, or mission driven services
                (Bundesverfassungsschutz, for example).
              • 00:56:30 FBI: police organization plus intelligence aspect.
              • 00:57:05 Intelligence services are about information, other services
                • are about action.
              • 00:57:40 Staatsschutz and German Intelligence: police is for prevent
                • and investigate crimes.
              • 00:59:05 Forensics is for police, subversive or maybe illegal
                • actions are for intelligence work. In Germany, it’s clearly
                seperated; in USA, not so much.
              • 01:02:15 CIA: Considered as Intelligence Agency. Gather information
                • is their mandate, not catch criminals.
              • 01:05:10 Sending in intelligence to change things: huge toolkit to
                • act available.
              • 01:05:50 Intelligence and Military Covert Actions are not Security,
                • but political action. However, it‘s a security issue for the other
                side.
                International organisations
                • 01:06:47 International Security Organizations (Europol, Interpol).
                  • No police powers, limited investigation powers.
                • 01:08:45 Working groups: example SIS (communicating warrants in EU).
                • 01:09:58 Organizations: example Le Circle (high-ranking intelligence
                  • chiefs), Munich Security Forum (conference with high-level security
                  chiefs).
                • 01:15:00 Why is their image so skewed in the public? (The „Spy
                  • Story“)
                • 01:18:00 Rubicon Series (2010)
                • 01:19:25 CSI Series (2000) - all about forensic analysis of crime
                  • scenes, but in reality it‘s not the dominant part, only few
                  questions can be answered.
                • 01:21:28 Playbook crime following the standard model VS outliers.
                • 01:22:55 Being secretive about methods means keeping the advantage
                  • from opponents: intelligence agencies VS intelligence agencies from
                  other countries; police VS criminals.
                • 01:23:40 Sources 1) Scientific Fields: Criminalistics, Criminology.
                  • (Education Material for people that train police, manuals and
                  coursework can be brought on Amazon, also check out libraries).
                • 01:25:34 Sources 2) Reports: Indictments, Warrants (a lot are
                  • public, depending on country). Caveat: contains successes and legal
                  processes only.
                • 01:27:08 Sources 3) Private Conversation with Policemen,
                  • Investigators, Intelligence People to get a more accurate picture
                  about their work.
                  Public private partnerships
                  • 01:29:39 Private Security Services.
                  • 01:30:45 Cybercrime Investigations: Takedown of Cyberpunker 2 (200
                    • servers in a German bunker).
                  • 01:32:25 Private Companies helping the police in Cybercrime
                    • Investigation.
                  • 01:32:40 Analyzing digital evidence: Given to a lab from a private
                    • company. (Cyberforensics, not done by police)
                  • 01:34:18 White-Collar Crime: Fraud, Commercial Fraud cases etc.
                    • Corporate Investigators for hire: Forensic Accountants, etc. (Police
                    work only for special investigator power, or force powers.)
                  • 01:37:10 Corporations can use private security services when police
                    • are bound legally (for example, in bribing), then sanatize the data
                    and give it to the police.
                  • 01:41:28 Informal communication lines… like in every other
                    • industry. (But with special privileges: Police, Military,
                    Intelligence)
                  • 01:43:04 Presumably Cardinal Richelieu: „If you give me (three, or
                    • two) six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will
                    find (seven reasons) something in them which will hang him.“, this
                    quote might be originated by memorialist Françoise Bertraut de
                    Motteville (1723), and was later paraphrased.
                  • 01:44:46 Real-life cases have a lot of ambiguity going on. It‘s a
                    • work of probabilities, not a binary process.
                  • 01:45:45 Can you cover up a crime as a non-corrupt policeman?
                  • 01:46:50 Private Security Services exploit the ambiguity of
                    • policework (someone bringing you from outside a full case, only
                    verification needed, negative evidence often gets lost).
                  • 01:48:21 Political Aspect: which crimes are deemed important?
                  • 01:49:20 Lobbying and capital power: Intellectual Property Crimes.
                  • 01:50:44 Industry identifies perpretators and delivers them to
                    • police.
                  • 01:50:58 Filesharing: Machine investigating and filing reports,
                    • backchanneling, automated sting operation (example, IP-Echelon).
                  • 01:56:08 Private Agencies provide: Analysis of evidence, production
                    • of leads, investigation.
                  • 01:56:26 Money Laundering: not based on investigative results, but
                    • on information provided by for example NGOs (example, Transparency
                    International).
                  • 01:59:28 Chain Analysis Companies produce risk scores for
                    • Cryptocurrency Adresses (public keys).
                  • 02:01:05 Face recognition to identify suspects: example, Clearview
                    • AI (finding people software)
                  • 02:02:20 Police relies on outside, unchecked influence: Private
                    • Actors (non-illegmitate).
                    Private Intelligence
                    • 02:03:25 Recap of Episode:
                      • What outside input is influencing the police
                      • Policy definition
                      • Intelligence field
                      • 02:04:22 Tax crimes: special investigators who actively try to find
                        • criminals.
                      • 02:04:39 Organized Crime: preventitive task of police (dismantling
                        • organizations, Staatsschutz).
                      • 02:05:35 Civil Disobedience: infiltration by police and private
                        • companies.
                      • 02:07:00 Private Security: 3 categories
                        • private intelligence services
                        • private security services
                        • private military contractors.
                        • 02:09:38 Private Intelligence is information gathering.
                        • 02:09:53 Private Intelligence VS corporate espionage.
                        • 02:11:11 First example.
                        • 02:15:00 Why is there so much cheap spy tech for sale?
                        • 02:19:53 Second example: credit suisse incident.
                        • 02:21:12 Some serious health concerns for the operators and
                          • middlemen (in-betweens).
                        • 02:24:05 Birds of a feather flock together: blurry lines of
                          • corporate, state, and private decision makers (different sides of
                          the law).
                        • 02:26:29 Book/Thesis: Stephan Blancke (2011): Geheimdienstliche
                          • Aktivitäten nicht-staatlicher Akteure (private intelligence
                          activities by non-state actors)
                        • 02:27:11 Private inflitrators, informants and agent provocateurs.
                        • 02:28:10 Extinction rebellion and very active activists.
                        • 02:30:30 Capture bounties.
                        • 02:32:45 A quiet business: private infiltration intelligence
                          • services (IMSI-catchers) are often ex police, ex military etc.
                        • 02:34:40 Sharing information services between intelligence: 4 eyes,
                          • 14 eyes.
                        • 02:38:05 HCPP and game theory: will the cryptoanarchists ever get
                          • something done?
                        • 02:39:00 Today’s security system is like antique byzantine, easy to
                          • understand from outside, inside not easy to understand- even for the
                          players themselves.
                        • 02:40:25 Ross Ulbricht and Silk Road made agents run with money—is
                          • it the only case, only in this direction?
                        • 02:42:00 State systems’ marketing: “protect and serve” by angels?
                          • But, ACAB is also wrong.
                        • 02:45:55 Take personal responsibility for own security.
                          • Outlook
                          • 02:48:40 Developments/outlook: technologies that make globalization
                            • possible, organizational technologies, reporting and communication.
                          • 02:50:25 Old days: reporting was sampling (today: big data, AI).
                          • 02:51:00 New incentive structures: financial markets. Old: financial
                            • markets were not global, slow. Today: Global financial markets mean
                            indirect profit from activities like war, markets can be complex,
                            distributed, longer reach.
                          • 02:52:50 Even dumb criminals can use smart technologies (Dropgangs).
                          • 02:54:00 The mastermind/ intelligent criminals VS random criminals:
                            • attribution becomes problematic (witness problem, no review
                            pointers).
                          • 02:57:24 Book: Evan Ratliff (2019): The Mastermind. Drugs. Empire.
                            • Murder. Betrayal. (Paul LeRoux)
                            Wrap up
                            • 03:00:59 Donation Report
                              • Reading Recommendations
                              • Thomas Kuhn (1962): The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
                              • Machiavelli
                              • Hegel
                              • Carl von Clausewitz
                              • Rubicon Series (2010)
                              • Stephan Blancke (2011): Geheimdienstliche Aktivitäten
                                • nicht-staatlicher Akteure (private intelligence activities by
                                non-state actors)
                              • Evan Ratliff (2019): The Mastermind. Drugs. Empire. Murder.
                                • Betrayal. (Paul LeRoux)
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                                  • Cypherpunk Bitstream 0x04: Dropgangs

                                    In this

                                    episode
                                    we talk about Dropgangs, lock boxes, dead drops, drone mix networks,
                                    and sneakernet.

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                                          • Cypherpunk Bitstream 0x03: TAZ

                                            In this

                                            episode
                                            we talk about Temporary Autonomous Zones, containers, the OODA loop and reply to listener questions.

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                                              • Talk on Temporary Autonomous Zones and Shipping Containers.
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                                                  • Cypherpunk Bitstream 0x02: Second Realm

                                                    In this

                                                    episode
                                                    we talk about “The Second Realm”: Is more liberty possible? Parallel systems, conflict management, temporary autonomous zones, and The Sovereign Individual.

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                                                          • Cypherpunk Bitstream 0x01: Cryptoanarchy

                                                            In this

                                                            episode
                                                            we talk about “What is Cryptoanarchy?”: We cover a definition of
                                                            cryptoanarchy, anonymous messaging, the cryptoanarchy technology
                                                            pyramid, an alternative vision for the future, and many more topics.

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                                                              • Talk on The Project of Cryptoanarchy.
                                                              • Talk on Dehumanizing Technology.
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                                                                  • Cypherpunk Bitstream 0x00: Introduction

                                                                    In this episode we introduce the Cypherpunk Bitstream podcast.

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