The War Of Terror

The war of terror is a strange mix of state-sponsored terrorism, psychological warfare, war on the truth and a endless matrix of misinformation designed to keep those who are seeking the truth occupied with matters of minor importance.

Information warfare is one of the most important aspects of the war of terror which is currently waged by the NATO alliance against the population of all NATO-countries, and NATO-partner countries, and the world in general.

Control of information is of major importance in information warfare. Few people are aware that the west has a very high degree of censorship - because that is among the subjects who’s censoring has the highest priority.

The 23rd Chaos Computer Club Congress which took place late December had quite a few interesting talks regarding censorship. Two comes to mind:

“Tor and China” (23C3-1444-en-tor_and_china.m4v, ftp, 362 MB) and
“The worst part of censorship is XXXX” (censorship-t3s2.wmv, ftp, 277 MB)

Both of these lectures are highly interesting and worth viewing. They are both about censorship in China and how you can by-pass it. They are both about how China limits people’s access to websites who contain given keywords, and the methods who can be used to bypass their censorship.

However, there is one vital aspect of Internet censorship which is sort of ignored by both these talks, security experts, computer experts and most people in general:

If you can control all the information an individual has access to then you can control their perceived reality.

How do people get access to the information on the Internet? Sometimes friends tell recommend websites in person, by e-mail, IM, and so on, but the majority of sites visited on the Internet are accessed using search engines.

First, some terms. The indexable web is the part of the Internet which search-engines are able to visit and index. The visible web is the part of the web which shows up in major search-engines, and the deep web are websites who, because of password-protection and so on, can’t be indexed.

Every single one of todays major search-engines are admittedly censoring localized search-engines. This is now close to common knowledge because of headlines such as “Bill Gates Defends Google’s Censorship In China” at Slashdot (Notice how this is the head of the corporation who are making the worlds most used operating system who is saying that it is alright for the biggest search engine corporation, Google, and his own corporation, Microsoft, to censor if the local government asks that it is done).

So there is no question that search engines are censoring. It is admitted. They haven’t admitted to doing it in supposedly “free” countries such as the NATO-countries, but most major search-engines have been cought.

You have to ask yourself: Are they censoring in countries in “the free” western world? If so, to what degree are they censoring? The answers to these questions are yes and unknown. You’re naive if you think that what major search-engines present as the visible web includes everything which is available on the indexable web.

If you understand this then your first question is probably so what can we do? (or: is resistance futile?).

Luckily there are some clever German Open-Source developers who have taken the matter into their own hands.

They have developed a free and open-source Java-based P2P search-engine called “YaCy“. It is a computer program you install on your computer which allow you to search the web. It also crawls the web and stores a small portion of the index on your computer. Searching is done by your program contacting the other peers who are also running the same software. This clever method allows your local YaCy-program to search the entire web without knowing about more than a very small portion of it.

There are two draw-backs of using a local P2P program such as “YaCy“: 1) It runs in the background and uses resources (if you do not have a dedicated server) and 2) It does take longer to search, because of the time it takes to ask the other peers for the search-results.

But YaCy also has a major feature which you simply can’t get in any other search-engine:

• You can not censor the search-results.
• Again: You can not censor the search-results.

This censor-ship resistance, and this alone, makes YaCy the search-engine of the future. There is no central point where you can censor the search-results.

You can censor what your YaCy crawls, and you can censor what search-results are shown in your YaCy program. But you - or anyone else - can not say “http://blahblahblah.tdl/? We don’t like that one. Nobody is allowed to know that it exists.”. If some peer has indexed a site then it doesn’t make much different if 5 or 10 YaCy-peers are blocking it.

Free software is about freedom, not price. You can be sure that the YaCy-software respects your freedom. You have no idea what is really going on inside the big corporation(s) who are operating todays largest search-engines. Are you 100% sure your favorite search-engine are not deliberately censoring away websites just because they may contain information which goes against what they (or the local government) would have people believe? Do you really want to take that chance?

Now you know. There is a way to take back the web:

Simply run your own search-engine. It’s easy. Just download and install your personal copy of YaCy and become a peer in the global web-search P2P.

Or use the web-version: YacySearch. It runs the very same YaCy-software you get if you download and install your own local copy. But remember this minor detail: You can’t be 100% sure that the YaCy installation running at YacySearch does not feature a blacklist, but you can verify that your personal copy of YaCy does not censor or have a blacklist if you download a copy from http://www.yacy.net/yacy/, check the source and run your very own search-engine on your own computer. It’s free. It’s open-source. It’s easy to use. Get used to the idea that it probably will become just as normal to run a P2P search-engine as it is to run P2P file-sharing programs, a web browser, and so on.

• YacySearch - a search-engine running YaCy, try before you “buy” (or in this case, install for free)
• http://www.yacy.net/yacy/ - Official website for the YaCy software.

Technorati Tags: Search-engines, Search, Technology, Web, Internet, censorship

The Truth seems to be among the best weapons the common people can use to defend against the rise of tyranny. Governments today regularly carry out terrorist attacks and use them as an excuse to wage a war on freedom. Exposing these acts for what they really are instantly destroys all their pathetic arguments for new laws and regulations.

Intelligence agencies who participate in carrying out and/or covering up their own involvement in terrorist plots are well aware of this, so they do everything they can to strike down on those who expose them and tell the truth. Ironically, the very agencies who carry out violent terrorist attacks love to arrest peaceful activist who tell the truth and then claim that the peaceful activist are the terrorist. Talk about tyranny and double-speak. Intelligence agencies also love to covertly torture and harass activist in order to make them give up and shut up. This is a signifficant problem in many NATO countries today, and it is almost standard procedure in NATO countries like Norway.

These are many good reasons to stay anonymous on the Internet. Avoiding government torture for telling the truth is just one.

So you do you stay anonymous? Install the right software. What you need is Tor. Tor acts as a proxy between your web browser (and other Internet software) and the Internet endpoint. You’re point A. You want to contact a Internet service at point B. Tor will contact Tor node C, which contacts Z, which contacts D which contacts the service at point B. The trick is that point B only knows that point D wants to use the public Internet service. Point D only knows that point Z is requesting it to forward from point B. The connection is encrypted using different keys along the way.

There are many 9/11-truth websites who are actually run by government agents. Such sites are setup for different purposes, one of them is to spread false or misleading information. Another purpose is to monitor public opinion in order to adjust propaganda. The most evil reason for such operations is to gather information about truth activist. Let’s say you’ve got 10 false CoIntelPro websites dedicated to a single topic. You visit 2 of them and you’re put in the database as potentially dangerous. You visit all 10 and you’re profiled as potentially dangerous. If you visit 10 such sites with Tor then not a single one of them would have any trace of you in their logs.

Posting in forums is even more dangerous than simply visiting their sites. Saying “I know that CIA agent did this and that and I have the proof and I will expose it” on a false-flag CoIntelPro website operated by the CIA would, for example, be a bad idea. They would certainly discretely remove the message, but would that be it? Or would they also look-up your IP, contact your ISP (who would likely rat you out) and find out where you live and then discretely remove you? A message on any forum posted on the Internet cound easily be traced back to you, all you need to do is to contact the forum administrator and request the IP using any excuse, like “national security”. But not if you used Tor to post the message…

Anonymous Internet access is one very good reason to install and use Tor. Anonymous publishing is another. Tor allows you to setup hidden services. These services allow you to publish a website from a hidden location. You can not shut down a website, a wiki or a forum if you have no way of finding out where it is. Where is the tor hidden wiki? I do not know. But I do know that I get there by going to http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/tor/ - if I am connecting there via Tor, that is…

Tor is great. Visit http://tor.eff.org/ and buy now. It’s free, all you need to do is to download, install and configure it…

Yes. Using Tor IS slower than normal web surfing. Is total anonymity worth the waiting? That is up to you to decide..

Technorati Tags: Privacy, anonymity, software, War On Terror