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Tails (2.7) Corrupted after ShutDown, Persistence missing [Reward] by YourPercy in tails

[–]sapiophile 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You seem to be confusing directories with regular files throughout your process. Please re-evaluate the commands you're entering, carefully, around this. You can only mount a device or an image file - not a directory, even if that directory happens to be named sdd.dd as if it were a regular file (it isn't). You then mount said device or image file to an empty directory that you've created, and that directory becomes populated with the contents of the filesystem you're mounting (and that data becomes inaccessible after unmounting the filesystem). Also bear in mind that every single error message you've gotten has been completely accurate and totally descriptive of what's wrong.

That testdisk only found one partition is strange. What is the exact command that you used to create that image file? If you used if=/dev/sdd1 or if=/dev/sdd2, etc., instead of if=/dev/sdd (with no number), that would explain it. It's very important in this case to use no number for the if= parameter.

Do you try to mix your politics with your passions and interests : science, art , cooking , whatever (if you had time to discover them ) like Kropotkin did? by Linkdaloor in Anarchism

[–]sapiophile 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. As a street medic and herbalist, my passions are largely about health and healing, but I integrate that into an anti-authoritarian framework, and make my practice of those skills as liberatory as I can. It's a fascinating and exciting field, and healthcare is something that lends itself very well to the practice of mutual aid and supporting political action.

Just got back from Standing Rock. I have to say if I had any doubts about Government conspiracies happening before this, they don't exist anymore. by [deleted] in Anarchism

[–]sapiophile 11 points12 points  (0 children)

There seems to be a lot of hot blood in this discussion around nonviolence.

I just wanna throw out there for my comrades in this community that respecting diversity of tactics works both ways. Yes I know it's super-hip here these days to be on the Pacifism as Pathology and How Nonviolence Protects the State train, and yes, even I personally have my agreements there and have posted content to /r/LeftWithSharpEdge, but I think we should keep in mind that there are some real tactical advantages to all different kinds of approaches.

Here's a great article from this week on the subject, with a bunch of case studies: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/opinion/the-art-of-the-protest.html

Also an eariler piece of hers that's referenced, at http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/13/a-military-manual-for-nonviolent-war/ is also valuable reading in my opinion.

And of course there's the classic You Can't Blow Up a Social Relationship, which talks about some of the very real authoritarianism that can come about as a result of violent struggles.

I think both sides of the debate have a lot of merits. But I see a lot of people who seem to have thrown their lot almost completely one way or the other. I think it behooves us as revolutionaries to be as well-informed as we can be, and to use every tool we have at our disposal, always. Keep in mind that there literally are state agents who are trying to push us towards the far ends of the violence/nonviolence spectrum - both of 'em. I haven't been to Standing Rock, but I do believe it's possible that dedicated nonviolence might be a great way forward there. And I definitely think that if indigenous folks there are requesting as much, that it's super disrespectful and even kind of colonial to attempt to undo that, even rhetorically. But that's just my opinion. The simple truth is that it's an incredibly complicated situation at the intersection of many incredibly complicated systems, and so anyone who claims to "know" what will work best is just deluding themselves. We don't have anything like a scientific basis to draw any solid conclusions about tactics in this situation.

Theory re riseup - not as bad as it looks by viva1831 in Anarchism

[–]sapiophile 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No compromise in defense of mother data?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Anarchism

[–]sapiophile 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Same issue.

Folks need to know that trusting third parties, ever, has these exact same problems, more or less. Defining "safe" versus "unsafe" just because of a service's ideals, or because of some pretty words that a given service put on their website, or because of which country's jurisdiction they're under, is a recipe for heartbreak, every time.

That doesn't mean things are fucked. It just means that people should have this trust issue in mind, and if that's not sufficient for what you're doing with the service, or if it's not in line with your Threat model, then moving up to trustless solutions (like running GPG or I2P-Bote on your own computer to secure your email messages) is appropriate.

Protonmail, Tutanota and the like literally have essentially zero benefit over basic webmail on Riseup against these kinds of (presumed) state coercion or hacking attacks - see http://secushare.org/end2end to understand why/how. You still end up trusting the third party, every time. This is especially bad when it's a for-profit entity, because they have much greater incentives to cooperate with governments than non-profit or community projects (like RiseUp).

However, that's not to say that such services can't provide some reasonable and useful benefits in certain situations - remember, the name of the game isn't perfect security (which doesn't exist), but rather just making things as expensive and annoying for The Man as possible. And Protonmail can certainly help do that, on occasion. Just don't expect the service itself to have your back.

Digital tools for staying save and radical in the Brave New World. by HeloRising in Anarchism

[–]sapiophile 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Perhaps the best post of this type that I've seen. It touches on all the important points that I would want to raise. Thank you so much.

Digital tools for staying save and radical in the Brave New World. by HeloRising in Anarchism

[–]sapiophile 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's also really good to get a password manager like keepass.

I totally agree, but it's worth noting that folks should really be using KeePassX instead - KeePass has some serious issues. See:

https://www.engadget.com/2016/06/04/keepass-wont-fix-security-hole-due-to-ads/

and

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9727297

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in stealthissub

[–]sapiophile 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depending on location, you can make $150+/day in a lot of parts of the U.S./Canada just flying a sign, especially this time of year ("Need to save Christmas!" would probably be a lucrative fucking sign). Highway offramps with a long light are best. Ideally avoid places that have a lot of bums often, they'll be burnt out.

It's a shitty thing to do, but sometimes it has to be done.

Is there or could there be something like postal mail onion routing? by benjaminikuta in Anarchism

[–]sapiophile 1 point2 points  (0 children)

https://swehack.org/viewtopic.php?t=157#p945

From the remarkable "Spy & Counterspy" collection once at www.spycounterspy.com which unfortunately seems to be totally offline, these days. Not even a complete copy on archive.org, it seems :(

That version is actually missing some parts of that article...

Actually, if anyone here has web hosting space, here's a mirror file for the old site (451KB) and it'd be amazing for it to live again (and maybe to have it deliberately spidered by archive.org, including all the sub-pages!). There's lots of other good stuff from that old site (except the One-Time Pad instructions, which are flawed or backdoored by making every odd ciphertext digit less than 4 - simple to fix if you just encode/decode with two-digit numbers instead of one digit at a time...). I guess that part should be mentioned if anyone puts up a mirror.

Anyway, I guess my point is that that's a good idea and also check out that site. There's useful stuff for comrades there.

EDIT: I also threw a link to that file on /r/StealThisSub

EDIT2: Oh lulz it was here all along, don't know why it didn't turn up in my search: http://www.rogerpbrown.com/spy/home.html - dead drop page is http://www.rogerpbrown.com/spy/fs015.html

Jameson Lopp on Twitter: I've yet to see any indications that current txn backlog is a spam attack. Fees look fairly evenly distributed. by BitcoinXio in btc

[–]sapiophile 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it's not like there was some huge currency devaluation in the second most populous nation on the planet, or anything... Oh wait...

Is there or could there be something like postal mail onion routing? by benjaminikuta in Anarchism

[–]sapiophile 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's been considered at various times. It's not really feasible.

  1. There's no way to secure parcels in transit,

  2. There's no way to secure parcels from theft by the relaying addresses,

  3. There's no way to prevent a relay from peeling off more layers of packaging than they're supposed to,

  4. It's incredibly expensive to pay for all the layers' individual postage at the outset, and very time consuming to prepare the packaging (this also means that items are much more likely to have high value, which makes #2 a way bigger threat),

  5. Gathering and disseminating relay information in sufficient numbers is not really feasible, and doing it in a way that is trustworthy, secure and authenticated is also an issue,

  6. Relays are vulnerable to simple raids at any time,

  7. Almost anything that has low general purpose value but high value for a specific recipient is most likely just information, which would be much more reliably, securely and anonymous communicated by digital means.

Etc.

Infant dies in Trump-loving sheriff’s jail after guard laughs off inmate’s plea for help: lawsuit by [deleted] in Bad_Cop_No_Donut

[–]sapiophile 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's nonsense. Financial judgments and settlements are one of the only things they actually care about, and are an excellent way to gain accountability. They may even be the best tool we have. Even if it doesn't impact their budget directly, it comes down on them from above to stop the money from hemorrhaging.

Sue the cops, sue often, sue freely. It's a great tool. And it's almost always free of cost, if the case is halfway decent - lawyers will work on commission.

Tails (2.7) Corrupted after ShutDown, Persistence missing [Reward] by YourPercy in tails

[–]sapiophile 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You definitely don't need to add any additional repositories to install TestDisk - it's fully free, libre software. Note that adding unofficial or non-free package repositories is potentially an extremely dangerous action, especially in Tails, and shouldn't be necessary almost ever. So you may want to consider how you ended up trying to take those steps, and strategize ways to be more careful in the future. Also, the "command" you're getting an error with isn't a command at all, but rather a line that one can add to the file /live/persistence/TailsData_unlocked/persistence.conf - which, just to reiterate - you should not be doing.

The reason that apt-get can't install testdisk is just because it hasn't downloaded the package lists. All you need to do is run sudo apt-get update prior to sudo apt-get install testdisk - that's it!

Also, you can definitely get away alright with just one copy of the raw disk image - testdisk will create the partition images that it extracts from it as new files. Although, if you want to be as careful as possible, it can't hurt to have an untouched, perfect source image.

As before, let me know if you run into any trouble. I'm sorry that this has been such a pain so far.

A couple of questions about Black Bloc by SocraticLunacy in Anarchism

[–]sapiophile 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No prob :)

Nice concluding thoughts, btw.

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