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Frank Braun & Jonathan 'smuggler' Logan
Cypherpunk Bitstream 0x06: Security II
1 seconds Posted Feb 17, 2020 at 9:10 am.
Crimes that really matter: How do security forces select
Limitations of Crimefighting: War on drugs is ongoing,
State is focussing on crimes that risk itself, and on high
Public percerption is high when public can identify and
Germany: First case of predictive policing was burglary.
The victim matters / vulnerability: People do react less
Child porn is the universal crime where everybody gets
A lot of murder, a lot of kidnapping, a lot of burglaries
First Example: Proliferation. Atomic weapon possession
BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst) and Proliferation.
Enemy States cooperated at the fall of Soviet Block and
Blind field of Proliferation: Smuggling of Nuclear
Rumors: Unofficial and missing warhead counts (former
Rumors: Cold War Soviet Union Sleeper Agents with Suitcase
Small States profit from deterrent threat of Warheads, less
Terrorist Organizations and Warheads: rely on secure
Example: Afghanistan tolerating Al-Qaeda and 9/11.
Just having the device doesn’t mean you’re able to trigger
Second Example: Transnational Organized Crime (Narco
Safe Havens (no-go-areas) by MS-13 and Al-Qaeda: low level
Narco-Terrorism: Cooperations between terrorist
Iran-Contra (Freedom Fighter VS Terrorist).
A scared population is more likely to use drugs.
Big criminal organizations undermine the state
Loyalty and Trust within Institutions is undermined, and
Third Example: Bioterrorism.
CRISPR sequencing, “build your own smallpox”.
Non-state actors: Aum Shinrikyo (Aleph) and Tokyo Subway
2001 Anthrax Attacks in the US.
Rumor: Wuhan might be a targeted virus attack, but it’s
For states: bioweapons would also attack own citizens,
Terrorists: cannot attach threats or demands, since viruses
Wrap-Up first Part: Crimes That Matter. All are technology
Transnational organized crime is a late development (cheap
Technological developments are supporting two classes of
Random Criminal: uses technology to amplyfy his effect.
Child Pornography: digital cameras and internet made it
Skimming: copying credit cards, via cheap tech from the
Issue of non-attribution in Cybercrime: you don’t have to
High IQ cyber-criminals plus tech: bigger and much more
Strategic thinking criminals: do no make random mistakes,
Omniviolence: Killer to killed persons ratio increases,
Robotic warfare: Drones plus biometrics.
The State and Omniviolence: Intelligence services already
Realistic scenario by now: Quadrocopter drones, single shot
Ground based autonomous vehicles is in the future of next
Next 5-10 years: First autonomous robot school killing is
There happen to be people out there, who are relatively
Book: “Gefährliche Menschen (Dangerous Humans)” near-future
State tries to counteract omniviolence and others by
How can you control potentially dangerous people?
The tech industry and self-medicating with legal and
Advertisement of drugs as “rebellious”. Drugs being
Academia: The clever people trap, researching butterflies
Preventive detention. “If I lock this person up, I can
Psychiatric detention, used to silence people and put them
New preventive detention laws: limiting personal liberty to
Surveillance is everywhere.
Growth of surveillance: Commercial interest, collecting
Using surveillance data for AI training, run through neural
Nation-States surveil the shit out of everything to
New proposals for regulation, or ban, of face-recognition
Limitations of face-recognition: black people with dark
Why states might be open to proposals: Accusations of
Face Recognition Apps (Russia: FindFace App), Face
Navigate the tech landscape through regulations: example
Regulating cryptography: access to good cryptography for
Even for relatively smart and motivated people, …
Regulations of sales controls: example chemicals,
State will increase security in the future by regulating
Dystopian Vision, “black ball events”: Omniviolence will be
Anomaly detection: preventing anyone from building
Securocrat’s decisions are based on body-count and not on
Some cattle farmer talk: Consume, pay taxes, and put your
Preventing people who are too intelligent, too creative,
Cambridge Analytics for the Masses, Psychography: limit
Predictive Technologies: sentencing rules in US.
Creativity problem: detect outliers, categorize in good or
Already using licensing by personality: bank accounts, gun
Future: Same thing, but advanced by modern technology.
Reactive scores, predicitive regulation: lawyers, MDs,
e-Government: maybe no human judgement in the future
Looking at the Chinese petri dish: since Wuhan epidemic,
Data Analysis, Laboratory for Surveillance: Locking down
Wuhan as a dystopian prison: at least as frightening as the
Control ratio: the amount of people you need to control a
Conflict Turkey-Syria, Idlib region: areal control by
South Korea Border Patrol Bots: automated targeting (Sentry
UAV Drones: autonomous suicide drones, waiting for target
Germany declared AI a “critical defense technology” =
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We talk about major threats to security, mainly focussed on future threats and the reaction from security services. Some keywords are: Nuclear proliferation, robotic warfare, technology regulation, surveillance state, bioterrorism, and omniviolence.
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Show Notes
Section I Future of Security
Introduction: Emotional Reach, Classifying the Population, Keeping the Legitimacy
the crimes they battle against, which ones are ignored.
street robberies, etc.
public image.
empathize with the victim (child abuse, burglary).
with assault of a 20-30 year old man, than with the elderly, women,
or children.
behind the police, …and that is used for higher surveillance.
Child pornography is the abdomination of the 21st century.
etc, undermindes the belief in the state. Other crimes do not affect
the trust so much, i.e. insurance fraud. Nobody’s sorry about big
corporations being scammed.
Systemic Risk Categories: Crimes That Matter
First Example
divide Good states from Bad States.
UdSSR, because of Proliferation.
Material, Technology, Warheads. Sensor Networks to detect nuclear
material (isotope scanners).
Soviet, US, Plane incidents over Mediterrean Sea).
Bombs (not all recovered).
likely to actually use them (cannot be retrieved).
territory (hollowed out state): Iran, Afghanistan, Mexico.
it: where is it from, maintenance, deploy (actors who follow
through, reliable remote triggers), maybe a lot of the old warheads
are not usable (physical trigger method is lost).
Second Example
Cartels, MS-13, Triads, etc).
of immunity and souvereignity.
organizations and pure criminal organizations.
institutions: corruption, blackmail, threats.
thus the political head becomes just an illusion of power (Mexico,
Miami in the 80s, etc).
Third Example
Attacks (Sarin Gas).
hard and too early to tell.
unlimited transmission, contagion risks high (better: easy to
contain, infectious chain are short and unstable).
are non-attributable. Exceptions: doomsday sects, radical
environmentalists.
Wrap-Up Section I
supported crimes.
travels, cheap organization and management technologies, cheap
communication), also a part of globalization.
criminals: random criminals, child pornography.
really problematic, because it became cheap and easy (all you need
is a mobile phone).
Section II Dystopian Side
Cybercrime, Robotic Warfare, Omniviolence
darknet and Aliexpress.
be very smart, you randomly target victims, plus degree of
seperation (=every idiot can become a phisher).
efficient organizations are possible (Paul LeRoux).
access to cheap and easy components (Shenzhen), low morals,
power-hungry individuals.
systemic risks to countries, maybe entire planet (Example: nuclear
and bio weapons).
working on it. Threat becomes increasingly realistic, while not
being trivial to deal with, or understand. Thing that is most likely
to shape the future.
explosive inside, plus facial recognition (ESP32 development kit).
generation: DJi RoboMaster-s1, educational toy for children,
available today. Already has face and object recognition, autonomy
features.
realistic.
smart, and there happens to be a huge technological toolbox to
select from. Given it enough intelligence, and enough energy, drive,
and goals, you can be really dangerous these days.
dystopian world where the whole system is focussed on preventing
omniviolence.
regulating technology.
Drugs and Butterflies
illegal drugs, and an unrealistic dream.
marketed as rebellion,… (they) don’t help you to become an actual
rebel, and actually being effective.
(you are being seen and heard, aurelians and lepidopterists, and
your work matters).
Preventive detention
prevent crime in the future.”
away (Gustl Mollath).
prevent crimes? Social and economic consequences.
Surveillance, Cryptography, and Regulations
data, nudging.
networks (health: predict illnesses), can also be used to predict
behavior.
increase their security status (international trend).
(EU, some US states).
skin. AI training sets are mostly light-skinned.
racial bias, easy thing to give up (it’s commercialized already, see
ClearView AI).
Recognition Spiders (原谅宝官方 yuanliang bao guanfang,
https://pornstarbyface.com/, https://deepmindy.com/)
drone sector.
average joe is hard.
implementing cryptographic systems by people who are not specialized
in that, usually goes wrong. It’s really hard to build secure
cryptographic software, even with libraries out there, etc.
pharmarcies.
technology (regulating both components and knowledge).
prevented by total surveillance combined with AI. (Bostrom:
Vulnerable World Paper)
potentially threatening tech, without actually understanding or
knowing what this tech is.
life quality.
VR goggles on.
from getting anywhere in life.
access, social scoring systems (today mostly reactive).
bad, adjust access to technology. (Ender’s Game pilots)
licenses. Where does the reliability score come from? Future might
be more automated.
pilot and weapon licenses. If you have a lot of points, they won’t
give you the license.
needed.
deploying surveillance is cranked up.
neighborhoods, limit travel within city, using drones, using CCTV
cameras to check masks and temperature, booking details, location
tracking, etc.
pandemic.
huge population is going down.
grenade launchers, automatically engaged.
SGR-A1, Hankook Mirae Method-2?)
or flying into target.
weapon technology for killing people.
Section III Less Dystopian Side
Frank and Smuggler answering your questions!
their nym used in legal documents or at their work place? Is that a
realistic goal?
clandestine purchasing. For example, do 3D printers have hidden
tracking codes like paper printers? Discussing details on aquiring
something like this with a pre-paid credit card and how to ship it
to a non-attributate address would be cool.
shipments by mail. Not necessarily very illegal items, but maybe
items you just don’t want to receive at an attributable adress and
that are larger than what fits in a standard letterbox. How to
receive things in another name and where with the least amount of
trouble and risk?
drop-operations and otherwise? What methods are effective? How often
worn outside the TAZ?
OS?
proxy) has the most tactical technical capacity for attacks and
defense?
is outdated and US-centric. Are there more current and EU-centric
versions of the topic, how can I make my life as anonymous as
possible?
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Reading Recommendations
“The Future of Violence” by Benjamin Wittes & Gabriella Blum. ISBN
978-0-465-05670-5
Vulnerable World
Hypothesis
Slaughterbots
Superintelligence and the Future of Governance: On Prioritizing the
Control Problem at the End of
History
DJI Robomaster S1
Gefaehrliche
Menschen
The Gustl Mollath Case
Project about facial recognition + porn + social media:
done in May 2019 by 将记忆深埋
interview, partially translated
article in Chinese
Ender’s Game
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