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THIS MESSAGE WILL SELF-DESTRUCT: SMS for Tor PREMIERE ISSUE! ERIC SNOWDEN: Hero or Criminal? I SAID, PREMIERE ISSUE! - Page 2 - &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& ACQUIRING RELAY 3 Welcome... or not! BLURBZ 4 A Libertarian Manifesto QUOTABLE QUOTES 4 TODAY'S DEEP LINK 5 SMS For Tor ARTICLE Write a Guest Article 5 ARTICLE 6 WHO ? AM ? I ? FEATURE 7 The Nolan Chart: A Short Introduction CLASSIC TEXT FILE OF THE DAY 15 The Scariest Number in the World FEATURE 18 Eric Snowden: Hero or Criminal? ARTICLE 19 How To Be a Liber-TOR-ian EXTRANEOUS Traitors! The Electronic Frontier Foundation 19 DNS LOOKUP FAILED 20 \\ GLOSSARY \\\ 20 ____)| |____ / ________ \ | / __ \ | | | / \ | | | | | | | | | | \__/ | | | \________/ | \____________/ LiberTORian Volume 1, Issue 1 is a publication of Synonymous 1. Published May, 2015. LiberTORian is released on an irregular basis. N(c) 2015. Readers are freely welcome to copy and redistribute this text by any means possible, preferable by photocopying. - Page 3 - &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& A C Q U I R I N G R E L A Y - By Synonymous 1 - &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& WELCOME..... OR NOT! LiberTORian is dedicated primarily with issues regarding the right to LiberTORian is a freedom-minded privacy and expression with no fear publication for deep web users. of reprimand from government, You may have noticed something technologies that enable private unusual about this: it's not a communications, and the libertarian blog with video links everywhere. philosophy and issues in general. It's not hosted on a web site with This magazine welcomes opposing Javascript. The latter decision is points of view, even if the pub- so that you have to worry about lishers disagree. This doesn't potential Tor exploits. necessarily mean that what you say will be shared on this forum. Free In these days where Big Brother is speech doesn't mean I can't control indeed watching us, privacy of over my publication. If you don't electronic communications is like it, make your own magazine! increasingly important to concerned citizens everywhere. Curiously, That's the beauty of Libertarianism. the hidden internet has its share In my excursions in the deep web, I of resources for those who are came across much that I don't like. interested in protecting their The vast majority, in fact. Some of right to privacy, but it is buried it is downright repugnant. Well I'm beneath a homogeneous mix of digital not going there and telling you to destinations that have little to do adhere to what I want. I just went with libertarian values. and did it myself. So can you! LiberTORian magazine is designed to be a destination for all types of One other thing: I was born in the thought. Still, this may not be for United States. And while my govern- everyone. You may not be interested ment has betrayed its founding in LiberTORian if you: principles, it's those running it and not the country itself, that I o Wear Guy Fawkes masks lost respect for. And if you are o Don't like Jews from outside the U.S.A., and hate o Think Karl Marx is cool America or its troops, go tell o Think that the Benghazi attack someone else. Whatever you think of was a protest over a video America and the U.S. Military, o Think that fire doesn't melt without them you would be less free, steel, although that's how regardless of where you live. steel is made As a libertarian, I'm totally fine HAPPY READING! if you read this and are from one of the above groups. Just be cool and - Synonymous 1 respect opposing points of view. We don't need another person who goes around saying, “all information should be free!!!!!!!!” and then turns around and hacks web sites which convey messages they don't like. What the heck do you call that? - Page 4 - &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& B L U R B Z - By Synonymous 1 - &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& A LIBERTARIAN MANIFESTO there really isn't that much more to it. Actually there is; it is truly Matt Kibbe is a fellow libertarian the most diverse of all political who wrote a book on the subject. or social vantage points. Yet its Revolutionaries are always into core's essentially the same: “Don't expressing themselves in some sort hurt people, and don't take their mission statement. Well, in a time stuff.” Perhaps we could consider where young people worldwide are Matt Kibbe's aforementioned text as thrilled with surrendering their the official manifesto (for now, as freedoms for government control, the it mentions some issues that are very notion of individual liberty is current now but may not be in the itself revolutionary! And so, in future) and the simple statement, his new book, "Don't Hurt People and “Don't hurt people, and don't take Don't Take Their Stuff”, Matt Kibbe their stuff,” as its concise form. sums up everything succinctly in the jacket text: So let's make this our motto. I sure like it better than anything "Don't Hurt People and Don't Take from John Lennon's “Imagine”. If Their Stuff." Simple and we envision a world where no one straightforward, that’s liberty in hurt anyone else and no one took a nutshell—no assembly required. The property of others, wouldn't it be a much better world? And yet it seems like, more and more, the decisions Washington You may say I'm just a dreamer makes about what to do for us, or But if no one took my stuff to us, or even against us, are And if no one hurt each other having an increasingly adverse The world would be good enough! impact on our lives. Young people can’t find jobs, millions of (Oh yeah. I'm to the Beatles Americans are losing the health what Charlie Hebdo is to Mohammed.) care plans they were promised they could keep, and every one of us is somehow being targeted, monitored, &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& snooped on, conscripted, induced, taxed, subsidized or otherwise Q U O T A B L E Q U O T E S manipulated by someone else’s agenda, based on someone else’s &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& decisions made in some secret meeting or closed-door legislative deal. “...Live and let live. Mostly 'live'”. What gives? -Archie Bunker, Our government is out of control. “All In The Family” But setting things right again requires that you step up and take your freedom back. It's that simple. Matt Kibbe strikes the heart of the matter, because - Page 5 - &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& T O D A Y 'S D E E P L I N K - By Synonymous 1 - &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& SMS For Tor The site has been used to process over 150 thousand messages, all of URL: sms4tor3vcr2geip.onion them encrypted and away from the prying eyes of the NSA. Don't you have writing an email to someone and saying something like, &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& “Just between me, you, and the NSA...”? What business do they have WRITE A GUEST ARTICLE sticking their noses in our private messages? Well, now you can bypass &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& the government middleman with SMS for Tor (A.K.A. SMS4Tor). Do I have to write everything here? What I like about SMS for Tor: At least this time I do. o For an onion link, it is easy to memorize; it even has VCR Maybe next time, too. in its name! o The link works! You know how But one day, God-willing, I will nice that is in the post-2013 have a TorMail or other private deep web. Email address. When that time gets o It's anonymous, encrypted, and here, you can write a guest article out of the scope of the NSA. For LiberTORian. If I like it, maybe it will wind up in a future The SMS in SMS for Tor in this case issue! You can send a message via stands for SECURE MESSAGING SYSTEM. SMS for Tor. The only problem is, It proclaims itself as offering I don't have a way for you to reach “Anonymous encrypted messages that me yet. So even if you encrypt a self-destruct when read.” message, there's no way to get the key URL to me... yet! Sending a message is executed in 3 simple steps: So please read future issues... you know I'll need your help! After o Create a note; get an encrypt- all, it's obvious that it won't be tion key URL long before everyone gets sick of o Send the URL to a single whatever _I_ have to say! person who can use it to read your note In the meantime, write a guest o The note will self-destruct the article and tuck it away safely first time the key URL is until it can one day grow up and accessed successfully. Grace the pages of LiberTORian. It's quite simple, and therein lies UPDATE: I HAVE AN EMAIL ADDRESS its elegance. Just make sure you do IN THE DEEP WEB NOW! not lose the URL or hope that your computer doesn't crash while your IT IS message is being processed, or it synonymous1@ruggedinbox.com will hang like an election 2000 chad forever! Can't wait to hear from yuh! - Page 6 - &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& W H O ? A M ? I ? - By Synonymous 1 - &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& I am a man. Or not. freedom, and that of my fellow citizens, and my children after me I could be anybody. Maybe I'm the and their fellow citizens. boy who bags your groceries at the supermarket. And I care enough that I will speak up about it. Or maybe I'm the guy you see at the back of the bus, who's always And I am wary of the persecution of talking out loud. citizens for criticizing Obama and his policies and violations of the Maybe I'm that lady who lives alone. Constitution. And I'm wise enough to know that there will be direct Except for the nine cats. attacks on me for doing so. Maybe I'm someone you can see on TV, For there is one thing about me like Dinesh D'Sousa. And this is that is certain. It has happened to where I moonlight. me before. And many others like me. We have been personally attacked for Maybe I'm someone who looks innocent espousing the truth. to you, but in secret, I do all sorts of nasty things to animals to Our character can be assassinated. satisfy some kind of sick pleasure. But it won't change the truth. And it is futile to take one person out. Maybe I'm a disgruntled politician who has become disillusioned by the I am Synonymous 1. But somewhere corruption in Washington. Out there is a Synonymous 2. And Synonymous 3. And many more. Too Maybe I'm working for President many to effectively assign numbers Obama, but secretly documenting all to. his corruption and criminal activity from the inside, while I pretend to Notice the name “Synonymous”. We be his ally. are not “anonymous”, the group. We may agree in principle with them at Maybe I'm someone you work with. times, but we abhor their methods. Maybe I'm just a tired mom, who only We are not “Legion”, which is a name wants the government to leave me for Satan. We're not here to alone. And this is how I express destroy. We're here to expose the myself. Light of Truth in dark places. Maybe I'm all of these people, or There is no network. We are not a some, or none. collection. We are individuals with a common uniting cause: maximum It doesn't matter, does it? liberty. We will defend it. We will protect it. We will stand Because I am not special. defiant when they attack us. And we will prevail over the dark forces I'm an ordinary person. That's it. that wish to snuff out basic freedoms. That is who we are. 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The appears on the Nolan scale, the same applies for the other four more they stand for individual areas. The image of the Nolan chart liberty. The lower one appears on at the beginning of this article the chart, the more the person portrays the author's position on believes that government should the Nolan Chart. The chart itself have control over individuals. provides the onlooker an instant visual reference that describes a David Nolan divided the Nolan chart person clearly. into five regions. At the top is “Libertarian”, who believe in maximum liberty. David Nolan THE NOLAN TEST himself was a libertarian. At the very opposite end – the bottom – is To find one's position on the Nolan “Statist”. Statists believe in Chart, one takes the 10-question minimum personal liberty. The left Nolan Test. Marshall Fritz in the and right sides are “Liberal” and late 1980s wrote the test, which he “Conservative”, respectively. As billed, “World's smallest political one can see on the chart, these two quiz”. Surprisingly, the ten designations are somewhere in the questions are very accurate at middle of the chart, for believers gauging one's political affiliation. in either philosophy believe in a They were carefully chosen and were form of government enforcement of subject to heavy testing, and there their systems. Conservatives, for are often slight changes to instance, believe in law and order, accommodate changing social issues. and some government is required to enforce it. Liberals believe in higher taxation, and a large IMPOSTERS bureaucracy is required to collect and properly distribute it. A British imposter of the Nolan Test is the Political Compass test. It In the center is “moderate”, people attempts to be more comprehensive whose views are one way on some by asking a larger range of questions issues and different on others that on a wide variety of topics. But, are similar. The system is highly arbitrary. The system used to measure one's position Each region is broad enough to hold on the chart is unknown, and the a wide range of ideas. The liber- identities of the test's creators are tarian area, for instance, has a unknown. Nor is it known what, if pinnacle at the top, advocating no any, sociology or science credentials government at all. These extreme they had, or if the test was tested. libertarians are “anarchists”. As one slides down the right slope, One thing is certain: Something is they remain libertarian but do seriously flawed when a libertarian believe in just enough government such as myself falls to the left of to enforce the law. These are where the test's creators claim referred to as “Constitutional Barack Obama stands! He's considered Conservative”. The mirror image is right-wing in the test, which should the “Constitutional Liberal”. They raise concerns outright. The problem may embrace things like marriage with the Political Compass test is for homosexuals and other social that it is based on the European freedoms not accepted by conserva- system of left and right, which is tives, but they both agree in the based on WWII era designations. In principles of limited government. That time, there was no prevailing libertarian thought, and what was A wide range exists in between considered “left” and “right” were - Page 10 - communism and fascism, respective- HOW YOU CAN TAKE THE NOLAN TEST ly. Both of these systems were forms of socialism, which are both Here are the ten questions of the located as “statism” on the Nolan current Nolan Test. Answer each one Chart. The whole political spec- honestly, and choose the closest trum at the time could be answer if yours is not provided. expressed on one quadrant of the Another thing you can do to prepare Nolan Chart! is to cut a piece of graph paper into a 20 by 20 square square. Someone who later comes along like Margaret Thatcher is an anomaly, QUESTION 1: who would appear “moderate”, be- What is your view on speech, press, cause her conservatism is far more assembly, internet and property libertarian than socialism in any rights? form, and libertarianism is rather centrally located on the Nolan A. Government should not restrict Chart. speech, press, internet, or media. The rights of free citizens who Another chart, that is similar to don't violate the rights of others the Nolan test, but designed to must be respected and protected at measure political coordinates of all times. Exercise of eminent entire cultures, is the Inglehart- domain should be extremely limited Welzel chart. This chart measures and its use avoided whenever social scores as “traditional possible. Property rights and values” versus “secular values”. private property should be “traditional values” represents protected at all times. individual freedom, while “secular values” represents group freedoms B. Speech, press, internet and media (at the expense of individual should be free except when it freedoms.) The lower the up-down comes to protecting against score, the more the society values terror and other threats against individual freedoms. The left and public safety. Free speech zones right are defined with “self- can be established to protect the expression values” and “survival right of free speech while values”, the latter being poorly ensuring security at public defined. The chart itself may be events. Eminent domain should be accurate, but the creators' place- maintained in practice, but it ment of some nations is patently should not be available merely as absurd: Canada charts higher than a means to enrich private develop- the United States in self- ers via enforced land transfers. expression values. Canada, a nation that labels quoting the C. Speech, assembly, press, and Bible in public a “hate crime”, and internet should be free except whose government censors critics of when controversies such as global Islamic terrorists? Australia is warming have already been settled also strangely higher than America. and legitimate public policies In both countries, self-expression would be undermined by its few is not as free as it is in America, remaining detractors. Property and one must wonder what criteria rights should be subject to the was used, or if the authors of the needs of the government but study used a dart board or pulled otherwise should be respected. the stated positions out of their rear ends. Some of the category D. Government should regulate speech, groupings are unusual as well: press, media, Internet, and respect for human life and blind property rights at its own patriotism are together as discretion within reason as needed “Traditional values”. to meet all of government's - Page 11 - many obligations. sexual couples enjoy should also be granted to gay couples. QUESTION 2: What is your view on guns? B. The government should pass laws that favor whatever view the A. The Second Amendment only applies majority of the population to "militias" (such as the supports regarding homosexual National Guard), and thus there is relationships, including no specific protection afforded by homosexual marriage. it to individuals. It should be up to the government to decide the C. There should be no laws regarding degree to which guns should be either heterosexual or homosexual regulated for the public good. relationships among consenting adults. Marriage of any kind is a B. The Second Amendment to the private, contractual matter Constitution clearly protects the between free, private individuals right of all individuals to bear that should not be regulated. arms. Government regulation of guns is a violation of the Second D. Homosexuality is an abomination Amendment. Having the right to and is banned by the Bible. Gay self-defense is meaningless marriage should be illegal in all without also having the means to cases. defend yourself. An armed society is a peaceful society, is the QUESTION 4: best defense against criminals, What is your view on U.S. foreign and serves as a deterrent against policy? government tyranny. Gun control has encouraged society to become A. A strong defense requires playing lax and negligent in teaching and an active, interventionist role training on the safe handling and in world affairs. As the last maintenance of weapons by remaining superpower, we have a individuals. moral duty to police the world at any cost, or else we will surely C. In general, I support the right pay the ultimate price. If we to bear arms. However, it is don't militarily wipe out terror- prudent to have government ism, the terrorists will wipe us regulate arms via registration out. We must resolve to win no requirements and other regu- matter how long it takes. It's lations to ensure that mentally better to strike now than to pay unstable people can't get guns later for our inaction. and go on shooting rampages. B. America should play an active D. Gun control is essential and must role in world affairs. We need to continually be made stronger if move toward more world government, we're ever going to reduce and particularly when it comes to hopefully eliminate gun violence issues such as global warming. The in this country. war on terror should rely heavily on diplomatic action. Military QUESTION 3: intervention should be used when What is your view on homosexual there is a threat to our marriage? sovereignty, but this position can and should be reversed when- A. Gay rights should be supported by ever public opinion turns against passing laws which protect gay it. marriage, including civil statute alternatives to gay marriage. All C. The role of our government, and government benefits that hetero- the role of the United Nations, - Page 12 - should be constantly expanded to A. The government has a duty to help ensure that all of the world ensure that all individuals have moves toward democracy. food, clothing, and shelter and Complaints that government is too should also invest in private big already are simply counter- industry whenever it deems such productive and should be ignored. investment to be in the public interest. D. Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; B. End “corporate welfare”. No entangling alliances with none, government handouts to business. said Thomas Jefferson in his 1st inaugural address. America's C. Government involvement is interventionist policies over the necessary where private industry past 100+ years have done little can't do the job all by itself. to reduce international insta- As an example, agricultural sub- bility, have led us into an sidies should continue to support endless series of wars, and have small farmers. cost us dearly in American lives and money. The best defense of D. Corporate welfare should be our borders is to defend our eliminated for big business, but rights and liberty, not to sacri- the social safety net for indi- fice them while constantly viduals should be retained. growing our gigantic military, led by a parade of Presidents who QUESTION 7: repeatedly stick our nose into What is your view on trade and money? other countries' affairs. A. Trade that isn't fair isn't free. QUESTION 5: Fair trade practices should be What is your view on a national ID enforced as needed to ensure free card? trade while maintaining reason- ably open borders. The Fed's A. There should be no national ID policies should be revised to card. Period. The issuance of help the poor rather than the required National IDs controlled rich. via interconnected databases will effectively end all privacy in B. The government should involve this country. itself in the regulation of trade as needed to ensure a healthy B. We need a national ID card in economy at all times. The Federal order to prevent events like the Reserve system has made our money attacks of 9/11 but without supply the most stable in all intruding too far into the history. personal privacy of the innocent. C. End government barriers to inter- C. National ID cards should be per- national free trade. The mitted but greatly restricted in regulation of trade tends enrich scope because the potential for elected interest groups and danger to personal liberty is industry captains at the expense present. of everyone else. We must move away from the inflationary D. I'm not at all concerned about approach of the Federal Reserve having a national ID card. Only by re-adopting a hard money the guilty need to worry. approach and dissolving the Federal Reserve system. Ever QUESTION 6: wonder why prices of everything What is your view on corporate (including real estate) keep going welfare? up over time? The Federal Reserve - Page 13 - system is the culprit. President Security becomes completely Woodrow Wilson, who signed the insolvent. Federal Reserve Act into law regretted his decision 3 years QUESTION 9: later saying, "I am a most What is your view on health care? unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country." A. Government regulation of health care is the main cause of the D. Trade should be free in general, health care industry's upward but it should be controlled as spiraling costs. The FDA, EPA, needed to ensure that our borders Medicare, and a host of other are protected against outside bureaucracies have created threats. Monetary policy under mountains of regulations that have the Fed has generally been good led to the deaths of thousands and for our economy. Hard money can't even millions of people who were keep up with a modern economy. denied needed treatments and resources. The cost of creating QUESTION 8: new treatments is also out of What is your view on Social control because of this regu- Security? lation. The only way to make health care affordable again is A. Social Security should be main- to get government out of the tained and protected by the health care business. government, although we do need to offer individuals an alterna- B. Health care costs are spiraling tive government-managed solution primarily due to lawsuits. We if they so choose. need to place caps on these suits while avoiding socialized medi- B. Social Security is a vital part cine. Where possible, we should of the social safety net and reduce regulation to save money. should be properly funded and The rising cost of health care is protected at all times. If primarily the fault of big necessary, make big business and government politicians and the rich pay for any shortfalls. Lobbying groups. C. Government has an obligation to C. Government regulation has gone a provide for people in their long way toward making health care twilight years, and Social universally accessible and safe, security is a proper expression but there's a long way to go. We of governmental control. The need universal health insurance system is sound and does not need to ensure all Americans are anything more than minor adjust- adequately protected. ments from time to time. D. Private enterprise has failed to D. Let people control their own re- deliver satisfactory health tirement and they'll retire care. Government's role is clear: richer and better off. The Social fix the problem. Security system is already bank- rupt, despite what the poli- QUESTION 10: ticians and bureaucrats keep What is your view on taxes, spending, telling us. Allow individuals to and the national debt? choose for themselves whether to opt out of the Social Security A. There should be no limits placed system. If we force everyone to on the ability of government to remain in its pyramid scheme, the raise sufficient revenue to do all end result will be disastrous. We the jobs government should be must act now before Social doing better, as expressed via - Page 14 - majority rule. Questions 1, 5, and 9 A: U B. Cut taxes and government spending B: R by 50% or more. This will have an C: L incredibly positive impact on the D: D economy starting at its very lowest and smallest levels. The Questions 2, 6, and 10: national debt must be paid down A: D rather than endlessly increased, B: U or we'll soon face national C: R bankruptcy. D: L C. The budget should be balanced and Questions 3 and 7: fully funded at all times, rather A: L than actually cutting spending on B: D a permanent basis. As needed, the C: U national debt should be expanded D: R to ensure that there is sufficient funding for government Questions 4 and 8: operation and military growth A: R needs. Occasional, temporary tax B: L cuts should be offered in token C: D amounts to keep the taxpayers D: U mollified. D. We should be emphasizing the good that government can do to help Now that you have your results, take people without getting all a pencil onto the graph diamond you wrapped up in the costs involved. cut out. Place it in the exact By spreading the load, such good center of the grid. For every U, D, can be spread out fairly and L and R in your letter string, move evenly. Progressive taxation one space up, down, left or right, helps ensure that the rich don't respectively. Match your ending live at the expense of the poor. Position to the chart on page 7. However, we want to make sure we Voila! You're a libertarian (or don't place too much of a burden something else)! on the middle class. The image on the next page is pre- sented to you to find your position That wasn't so hard now, was it? without graph paper. Instructions The next thing is to examine the are just as simple: results. For each answer you chose, jot down the appropriate letter in a 1) Start at the X. string of letters. For instance, 2) For each U, go up one space. one person who took the test wrote: For each D, go down one space. 3) For each L, go left one space. U U R U R U U U R U 4) For each R, go right one space. ANSWER GRID: Match the symbol you wound up on to the key to the upper left of the 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 chart. That is your affiliation! A U D L R U D L R U D The closer to a corner you are, the B R U D L R U D L R U more intense your view! C L R U D L R U D L R D D L R U D L R U D L The closer to a border you are, the closer you lean to the faction you Here's longhand to make it clearer: are near. - Page 15 - Y O U R N O L A N C H A R T / / / / / Libertarian / / / / / , Conservative / / / / / / / . Liberal / / / / / / / / / + Statist / / / / / / / / / / / o Moderate . . / / / / / / / / / , , . . . . o o o o o o o , , , , . . . . . o o o o o o o , , , , , . . . . . . o o o o o o o , , , , , , . . . . . . . o o o X o o o , , , , , , , . . . . . . o o o o o o o , , , , , , . . . . . o o o o o o o , , , , , . . . . o o o o o o o , , , , . . + + + + + + + + + , , + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& CLASSIC TXT FILE OF THE DAY! - By Synonymous 1 - &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Text files are straightforward. One Naturally, the lack of regulation character per byte. A universally attracted the same unsavory types accepted ANSI unicode character set. that populate the hidden internet It was a conscious decision to today. Instead of distributing publish LiberTORian as a text file. cracked versions of PhotoShop, it Part of it is nostalgia. Part of it was old DOS games such as “The is a desire to keep everything President Is Missing” and the “Zork” absolutely clear. And still part of trilogy. ASCII art was considered it is to provide a file that is image sharing. The same people who available to, literally, anyone with hated the rich then are still with a computer, no matter how ancient. us today, along with those with manuals to build bombs. In the halcyon days of dial-up BBS services, the text file was the Hacking was much less complex, too. standard mode of mass communication. But they were just as resourceful as People would share information in today. And there was the 1980s sub- these private networks, that set, the “phreakers”. In those days existed before there was a World there was a charge for long distance Wide Web. These were completely calls. Fon Phreakers were able to private networks, before the NSA manipulate the phone company with monitored all our phone calls and secret numbers, DIY technology, and internet usage. It is the late other methods to make free long 1970s and 1980s equivalent to the distance or pay phone calls. Our deep web. Text file of the week is a recount - Page 16 - of an experience from a phone phreaker, entitled, “The Scariest Number in the World”. Travel back in time and look at the world through the eyes of the author, as if you're there in his body. Here is the original text file in its 80 column glory, from the popular fon phreak magazine, “2600”: dontcall.phk &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& ******************************************************************************* * * * The Scariest Number in the World * * [2600 -- December 1984] * * * ******************************************************************************* Recently, a telephone fanatic in the northwest made an interesting discovery. He was exploring the 804 area code (Virginia) and found out that the 840 exchange did something strange. In the vast majority of cases, in fact in all of the cases except one, he would get a recording as if the exchange didn't exist. However, if he dialed 804-840 and four rather predicatable numbers, he got a ring! After one or two rings, somebody picked up. Being experienced at this kind of thing, he could tell that the call didn't "supe", that is, no charges were being incurred for calling this number. (Calls that get you to an error message, or a special operator, generally don't supervise.) A female voice, with a hint of a Southern accent said, "Operator, can I help you?" "Yes," he said. "What number have I reached?" "What number did you dial, sir?" He made up a number that was similar. "I'm sorry that is not the number you reached." Click. He was fascinated. What in the world was this? He knew he was going to call back, but before he did, he tried some more experiments. He tried the 840 exchange in several other area codes. In some, it came up as a valid exchange. In others, exactly the same thing happened -- the same last four digits, the same Southern belle. Oddly enough, he later noticed, the areas worked in seemed to travel in a beeline from Washington DC to Pittsburgh, PA. He called back from a payphone. "Operator, can I help you?" "Yes, this is the phone company. I'm testing this line and we don't seem to have an identification on your circuit. What office is this, please?" "What number are you trying to reach?" - Page 17 - "I'm not trying to reach any number. I'm trying to identify this circuit." "I'm sorry, I can't help you." "Ma'am, if I don't get an ID on this line, I'll have to disconnect it. We show no record of it here." "Hold on a moment, sir." After about a minute, she came back. "Sir, I can have someone speak to you. Would you give me your number, please?" He had anticipated this and he had the payphone number ready. After he gave it, she said, "Mr. XXX will get right back to you." "Thanks." He hung up the phone. It rang. INSTANTLY! "Oh my God," he thought, "They weren't asking for my number -- they were confirming it!" "Hello," he said, trying to sound authoritative. "This is Mr. XXX. Did you just make an inquiry to my office concerning a phone number?" "Yes. I need an identi--" "What you need is advice. Don't ever call that number again. Forget you ever knew it." At this point our friend got so nervous he just hung up. He expected to hear the phone ring again but it didn't. Over the next few days he racked his brains trying to figure out what the number was. He knew it was something big -- that was pretty certain at this point. It was so big that the number was programmed into every central office in the country. He knew this because if he tried to dial any other number in tht exchange, he'd get a local error message from his CO, as if the exchange didn't exist. It finally came to him. He had an uncle who worked in a federal agency. He had a feeling that this was government related and if it was, his uncle could probably find out what it was. He asked the next day and his uncle promised to look into the matter. The next time he saw his uncle, he noticed a big change in his manner. He was trembing. "Where did you get that number?!" he shouted. "Do you know I almost got fired for asking about it?!? They kept wanting to know where I got it." Our friend couldn't contain his excitement. "What is it?" he pleaded. "What's the number?!" "IT'S THE PRESIDENT'S BOMB SHELTER!" He never called the number after that. He knew that he could probably cause - Page 18 - quite a bit of excitement by calling the number and saying something like, "The weather's not good in Washington. We're coming over for a visit." But our friend was smart. he knew that there were some things that were better off unsaid and undone. <> SF][G2:ba003.021785 Cortesy of BIOC Agent 003, 2600 Magazine, & Sherwood Forest ][ (914) 359-1517 -----End of File &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& ERIC SNOWDEN: HERO OR CRIMINAL? - By Synonymous 1 - &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& We all know the story of Eric Now from the point of view of the Snowden- an NSA insider who saw the mob, such a person is a “rat”. I Constitutional violations on privacy for one don't care a whit about the that even the ACLU turned a blind “omerta” and this supposed code of eye to, because it happened to be a honor amongst crooks. Snowden is president they liked running things. Not a rat, he's a whistleblower. He did break into files and, yes, And he had access to many of the that makes him a criminal. I do documents that proved what they were believe that he should face justice. up to. He also was restricted from On the other hand, this admini- other files, but he knew how to get stration has a notorious track them. record of injustice, and instead of a fair trial, Snowden will be And he did. persecuted for crossing Obama's path. And he leaked them on the internet. It's ironic that a place like Did he break the law? Why, yes. Russia, not known for either freedom or justice, granted asylum Did he violate the Constitution? to Eric Snowden as a political No, he didn't. refugee. _Russia_, protecting an _American_ from persecution from Did the NSA break the law? There its own government? Things have is no doubt, and we owe it to Eric really changed since the 1980s. Snowden. If I understand correctly, Eric Did the NSA violate the U.S. Consti- Snowden was cautious with the tution? You bet your sweet bippy. Information he released. Unlike Whatever that means. Just what is a WikiLeaks, he made sure that the bippy? Maybe the cast of “Laugh-In” information that indicts the Obama could've clued us in. crime syndicate didn't expose sensitive information that exposed Anyway, The NSA knowingly did what our troops fighting the already they did. So did Snowden. But lost War on Terror. the administration running the country like a mob family. And So, the answer is twofold. Snowden Snowden's biggest crime was being is a criminal. He broke the law. a whistleblower. But the laws he broke were made - Page 19 - to protect the guilty. The crimes QUESTIONS? he exposed were far more grievous. COMMENTS? The U.S. Constitution is the highest SUGGESTIONS? authority in the land. While I SAGE ADVICE? don't advocate violating the law to PRAISE? uphold the law, without Snowden's GRIPE? whistleblowing, we wouldn't be able to prove the NSA phone scandal. Contact LiberTORian!! Some of the information he did have access to legally. I don't know Send email to: what information was available at synonymous1@qqvbgcu6kohbkxbs.onion his security level. All I know is the second part of the question: Eric Snowden is a hero. He was ************************************ an average person working for his government. While there, he saw HOW TO BE A LIBER-TOR-IAN that the very government he worked for, which swore to uphold the ************************************ Constitution, was acting above the law to retain its own power. He has a problem with it. And so he 1) Don't hurt other people. told the truth about people who betray the truth without blinking 2) Don't take other people's stuff. an eye. So, yes, he is a hero too. And if I had to choose only one, 3) Use TOR for privacy, not because I would say that Eric Snowden is, you're doing anything wrong, but in fact, a hero. because it's your right. - Page 20 - ************************************ E X T R A N E O U S - By Synonymous 1 - ************************************ TRAITORS! Comcast is a despicable business. The Electronic Frontier Foundation But enabling three power-hungry, unelected statists to grab more There are millions who supported the power for themselves is not the FCC's recent move to regulate the answer. (two of the five on the Internet. FCC board voted against Net Neu- trality.) They are all lemmings. The FCC now has the power to reg- The Electronic Frontier Foundation, ulate the internet, including the which ordinarily advocates for power to dictate data transfer internet privacy, were huge pushers rates, and to censor speech they of Net Neutrality. Most of the don't like. Read FCC chair Mark people who went out to support it Lloyd's comments on how glorious had no idea what it really meant. It was when Hugo Chavez shut down free speech the same way the FCC There are people who hate business. Just seized the power to do so! It That's fine with me. But many of is easy to find the footage. these people will do anything it takes to punish business... even if So thank you, Electronic Frontier it means taking themselves out in Foundation. We are less free now, the process. thanks to you. ************************************ ************************************ D N S L O O K U P F A I L E D G L O S S A R Y ************************************ ************************************ Well, I wrote this first issue all For those new to the Deep Web, I'm by my lonesome self. I really was not far ahead of you. Here are lonely. It's hard to find other some terms for those of you who libertarians in the deep web. Never dove in: I thought that people merely concerned with privacy would be .onion easier to find on the Onion relay. Pseudo-top-level domain name for Maybe I'm not just looking in the deep web sites. right place. I'm seeking you out. So if you read this and like it, Clearnet seek me out. TOR has potential to The surface web, and parts of the allow freedom-minded people to come deep web accessible by traditional together and speak their mind web browsers. freely. So share your knowledge with other LiberTORian readers. Deep Web We're looking for: Technically, any web site not accessible via conventional search o Links engines. Commonly, used to only o Forums describe non-clearnet areas of the o Web logs Internet. o Inside information that exposes government corruption Mariana's Web o Entertaining stuff A fictitious name for the deepest o Enlightening stuff recesses of the deep web. Mariana's web's existence supposes that, if Just send an email and fill it the deep web is a hidden "level" of with your knowledge! the internet, the deep web itself has its own hidden levels that are synonymous1@qqvbgcu6kohbkxbs.onion are geometrically increasingly difficult to enter. Only the most Are you up there on clearnet? most skilled and mathematically intelligent computer users allegedly Send email to can access Mariana's web. Mariana's Web is named after Mariana's Trench, synonymous1@onionmail.info located in the deepest recesses in the ocean. It doesn't exist. ^ Onionland / \ Term for the world of the deep web / \ that is not part of the surface web / \ (or clearnet). / \ / T O P \ TOR / W I N G \ Acronym for The Onion Relay. / \ / \ Vidalia / LiberTORian \ A TOR front end module for use with \ / with conventional web browsers. \ / \_____________/ ---- E N D - O F - F I L E ----