Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Neal Rauhauser Brags About SWATting To Sunstein On

Neal Rauhauser Brags About SWATting To Sunstein On Reddit And LinkedIn
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In light of that I thought it time to update this post where Neal brags to Cass Sunstein about his accomplishments in creating conspiracies in comments to an article Sunstein wrote.

I am Bloomberg View contributor Cass Sunstein: my latest book focuses on Conspiracy Theories and other Dangerous Ideas. AMA! (self.IAmA)
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[–]nrauhauser -2 points 2 hours ago

I have implemented many of the ideas you set forth in your 2008 paper on cognitive infiltration, doing so under the brand name 'Conspiracy Brokers'.
I shut it down at the first of the year but we had a great deal of fun at the expense of Breitbart.com, Michelle Bachmann, National Blogger's Club, the Romney campaign team, the DOJ, Groundswell, and a number of less notable conspiracy theory nests.

At one point during the summer of 2012 a group of 87 House offices sent the DOJ a letter about some of our alleged doings. Has any of this grassroots effort been noticed at the level where you work?

There is a Wordpress site called ConspiracyBrokers and a companion site Kookpocalypse that show a bit of the history of the effort, which ran roughly from early 2011 until the end of 2013.

Elyssa D. Durant, Ed.M.
Research & Policy Analyst

Wayback Machine APIs | Internet Archive

https://archive.org/help/wayback_api.php

Wayback Machine APIs

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine supports a number of different APIs to make it easier for developers to retrieve information about Wayback capture data.

The following is a listing of currently supported APIs. This page is subject to change frequently, please check back for the latest info.

Updated on September, 24, 2013

Wayback Availability JSON API

This simple API for Wayback is a test to see if a given url is archived and currenlty accessible in the Wayback Machine. This API is useful for providing a 404 or other error handler which checks Wayback to see if it has an archived copy ready to display. The API can be used as follows:

http://archive.org/wayback/available?url=example.com

which might return:

{      "archived_snapshots": {          "closest": {              "available": true,              "url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20130919044612/http://example.com/",              "timestamp": "20130919044612",              "status": "200"          }      }  }

if the url is available. When available, the url is the link to the archived snapshot in the Wayback Machine At this time, archived_snapshots just returns a single closest snapshot, but additional snapshots may be added in the future.

If the url is not available (not archived or currently not accessible), the response will be:

{"archived_snapshots":{}}

Other Options

Additional options which may be specified are timestamp and callback

timestamp is the timestamp to look up in Wayback. If not specified, the most recenty available capture in Wayback is returned. The format of the timestamp is 1-14 digits (YYYYMMDDhhmmss) ex:

http://archive.org/wayback/available?url=example.com&timestamp=20060101

may result in the following response (note that the snapshot timestamp is now close to 20060101):

{      "archived_snapshots": {          "closest": {              "available": true,              "url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20060101064348/http://www.example.com:80/",              "timestamp": "20060101064348",              "status": "200"          }      }  }

callback is an optional callback which may be specified to produce a JSONP response.

Memento API

The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is also fully compliant with the Memento Protocol The Memento API provides additional interfaces for querying snapshots (eg 'Mementos') in the Wayback Machine. The Availability API is partially based on the Memento APIs.

Here are some specific examples of Memento support in the Wayback Machine

Wayback CDX Server API

The CDX Server is another API which allows for complex querying, filtering and analysis of Wayback capture data. If you are looking for more in depth information about Wayback machine data, please take a look at the CDX server API.

The latest documentation on the CDX server can be found at: Wayback CDX Server @ GitHub

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Greetz LulzSec

http://pastebin.com/download.php?i=YnuwarHX

Greetz Lulzsec, (@atopiary, @securitopiary @anonakomis and most of all @anonymouSabu) So Sabu, With reference to your highly amusing open letter here: http://t.co/wXQZmvY - I thank you for taking the time in your busy schedule of releasing personal credentials and sensitive correspondence, also thanks to Topiary for his clear injections of humor and assisting you with your grammar. I trust it didn't tear you away from your 'lulz' for too long? Firstly, I would like to formally thank you for picking me up on my appalling PHP script - it's really nice to know that you have got my back on that. Which leads me nicely to my point, and I will keep it short, as I don't have the time to entertain the crowds... like you. Your arrogance is astounding, if not predictable. You see technical ability is nothing without an insight into the target mindset. YOU gave away another 2 important pieces of intel. Let me fill you in: 1). Regarding my previous post here: https://twitter.com/#!/th3j35t3r/status/83984197160673280 I only specified one IP block 'associated with you' I actually have two IP blocks. You have kindly confirmed that this is no longer your block, therefore the other one is. The fact you feel the need to name it as a US IP block confirms it - clearly intended as misinfo because there's no chance any US host would touch you. Feel good? 2). Regarding your generous corrections to my atrocious PHP script here: http://t.co/xgpaqLy Sabu, you have inadvertently confirmed that the current profile of you is correct - by re-coding the script you have in fact confirmed the dox element that has you down as 'adept' in Python AND PHP. << spot the deliberate mistake? 'Softly Softly Catch The Monkey' Your arrogance is awesome and will hurt you hard. For the record, you have no idea what my ops over the last 18 months have achieved. If you did, then I would not be operational. V& 'Intelligence' will always beat down 'Arrogance'. Eventually. In short - Everything you do, and more importantly, everything you don't - tells me something about you. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/24/inside-lulzsec-chatroom-logs-hackers Peace out. J tags: jester th3j35t3r lulzsec sabu topiary anonakomis joepie et fuckin cetera dox doxed v&

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Pastebin Post to LulzSec from @th3j35t3r

http://pastebin.com/download.php?i=YnuwarHX

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Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Severe poverty affects brain size, researchers fin

Severe poverty affects brain size, researchers find

Study explains poor performance in school, expert says.

BY GUY BOULTON TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

A six-year study by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has added to the mounting evidence that growing up in severe poverty affects how children's brains develop, potentially putting them at a lifelong disadvantage.

The study — which combined the expertise of neuroscientists and economists — found that the parts of the brain tied to academic performance were 8 percent to 10 percent smaller for children who grow up in very poor households.

It was based on a relatively large sample of predominantly white children whose mothers were much more educated than the general population. And the results show a biological link between growing up in extreme poverty and how well children do academically.

"The significance of the study is providing a hard physical link between the experience of growing up in poverty and how well children do on cognitive tests," said Barbara "Bobbi" Wolfe, an economist at UW-Madison and one of the co-authors of the study.

The study, published in JAMA Pediatrics, builds on animal studies and other research suggesting that poverty affects the parts of the brain tied to self-control, attention, planning and other traits important for success in school and life.

The children often receive less nurturing from parents and live in environments characterized by increased stress from crowded housing, instability, poor nutrition, limited stimulation and more exposure to violence.

That children who grow up in poverty do less well in school is well documented. But studies increasingly show that at least part of that overall poor performance stems from how their brains grow and work.

The UW study estimated that as much as 20 percent of the gap in test scores could be explained by slower development of two parts of the brain: the frontal lobe and the temporal lobe.

The frontal lobe is important for controlling attention, inhibition, emotions and complex learning. The temporal lobe is important for memory and language comprehension, such as identifying and attaching meaning to words.

Both areas of the brain develop through adolescence.

"It provides a brain-based explanation for why children living in poverty are not performing academically as well," said Joan Luby, a professor of child psychiatry and director of the Early Emotional Development Program at Washington University School of Medicine. Luby was not involved in the study.

The UW-Madison study was led by Wolfe and Seth Pollak, a professor of psychology and director of the Child Emotion Lab.

Elyssa D. Durant, Ed.M.

Research & Policy Analyst