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30/04 2023, Is Linux hard disk encryption hacked?

30/04 2023
Is Linux hard disk encryption hacked?

Ivan, an anarchist who has been in pre-trial detention in France for some time, reported in a letter that French police were able to gain access to the contents of his laptop.1 The laptop in question had an encrypted Ubuntu Linux installed. Another device with Windows installed and encrypted with Bitlocker could not be accessed. Ivan explained in his letter that he had used a 20-digit password consisting of letters, numbers and special characters for the system.

TL;DR

No, the Linux disk encryption has neither been cracked nor is it “insecure”. The performance of the technology as well as the algorithms have evolved, so the encryption settings should be checked and updated if necessary.

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Since then, there have been discussions on the web and in our environment about how this was possible, whether an outdated crypto algorithm in Ivan’s Ubuntu installation was to blame, and what this means for the security of other Linux systems. We even received claims that the encryption of the Tails operating system – which is also a Linux system – was not secure due to outdated algorithms. The topic of device encryption is not easily accessible to many, so we’d like to frame the discussion a bit with this post.
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Minimizing DNA Traces During Riotous Moments.

 April 27, 2023 
In our experience, most of us in North America aren’t in the habit of thinking very much about DNA traces. Information about how DNA traces are created or prevented is limited to several myths that are passed around. That said, you can be pretty certain that whenever arson is involved, a DNA forensics team will be involved too. For example, an arrest was made recently for a Jane’s Revenge arson after DNA was recovered at the crime scene. We want to briefly summarize some practical considerations. By arming ourselves with some preparation and an accurate understanding of how DNA is transferred, it is possible to drastically limit the amount of DNA we leave behind.

Although DNA is something we should always keep in mind when planning our participation in a riotous moment, we don’t want people to feel overwhelmed by this information. Actionable knowledge empowers us to avoid the dual traps of recklessness (acting as if DNA doesn’t exist) and immobilization (as if leaving traces and their analysis in a laboratory is inevitable).
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Revolutionary Prisoners News, Solidarity Means Attack

Repression Can Be Expensive – Fire at Skoda in Leipzig, Germany

24.03.2023

Last night, we went out and attacked several new cars of a Skoda dealer in East Leipzig with fire as a reaction to the house searches against antifascists last week. In doing so, we surrendered a total of 19 cars to the flames with simple means – 12 of them burned out completely, the rest were heavily damaged. Skoda proudly participates in equipping police units around the world.

On Wednesday, March 15 – of all days on the international day against police violence – the police stormed 5 apartments of antifascists in Jena and 3 in Leipzig with machine guns at the ready. In the same afternoon, a special task force attacked an entire house on the Eichendorffstraße in Connewitz and even shot(!) several doors open. As background, they named the attacks on neo-Nazis around an international fascist meeting in Budapest in February. Also in Karlsruhe, a house search took place, in which the pigs also proceeded with extreme brutality, background here were the protests against the AfD state party conference in Offenburg.

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Revolutionary Prisoners News, Solidarity Means Attack

On the night of Wednesday, 24.04, in solidarity with Alfredo, we decorated the facade of the insurance company Generali with paint. (Bern,Switzerland)


Generali is an Italian company and one of the pillars in Europe. Alfredo was for 180 on hunger strike, fighting against 41bis since 20.10.22 . Although Alfredo stopped his hunger strike, we decided to attack because he is still in jail and 41bis still exists. 41bis is a prison regime to which other 728 prisoners are also subjected.

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Sabotage, Arsons Attacks

Grenoble (Isère) France : cut off the juice and Internet at the university campus

Severed cables deprive the campus of power and internet network
April 24, 2023 (excerpt)

New blockades were momentarily set up by opponents of the pension reform on the Grenoble university campus in Saint-Martin-d’Hères, this Monday morning, April 24: in front of the Michel-Dubois building (housing the Human Sciences UFR) as well as in front of those of the Arsh (the Arts and Human Sciences UFR) and the DLST (Department of Science and Technology).

More seriously, when they arrived on campus, students, teachers and staff noticed that the electricity and Internet were cut off in many buildings, whose facades had been covered with tags. “One or more fiber optic cables were deliberately cut and electrical transformers were broken, cables cut and locks allowing access to facilities damaged,” confirmed the president of the University of Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Yassine Lakhnech.
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Porto Alegre, Brazil: Action Against the Italian Consulate in Solidarity with Anarchist Comrade Alfredo Cospito

P0rt0 Al3gr3 Bra$il

Sometimes anarchist presences are so few that more than once we have been predicted to disappear. Sometimes our fury is so intense that it provokes fear and long periods of internal explanatory purging. Sometimes many, sometimes few, but constantly and with great determination, we are always there for each other.

And that is why, more than once, the fire, the stones, the concentrations from Greece, Italy, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Bolivia, Uruguay, Colombia, Chile …. illuminate different territories under the same intention: We are for you Alfredo, we hate all those who set you on fire and we support your struggle from outside.
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Sabotage, Arsons Attacks

France,Laluque (Landes): incendiary sabotage of the SNCF traffic

Train traffic interrupted south of Bordeaux after an act of vandalism in Landes

 April 12, 2023

Train traffic was severely disrupted this Wednesday, April 12, south of Bordeaux due to an incident that occurred during the night in Landes, between Dax and Morcenx, at Laluque. Power cables and signalling devices have been damaged in Landes, between Dax and Morcenx, more precisely in the commune of Laluque. A deliberate fire was set in the middle of the night, around 1 am.

South of Bordeaux, all trains were cancelled for several hours, notably in Pau and Bayonne stations. These disruptions lasted for a good part of the day, as the SNCF indicated that the repairs would take time. Traffic resumed gradually from 16:45.

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General News Action Sabotage, solidarity in Greece, Solidarity Events, e.t.c.

Graffiti slogans in solidarity with the four imprisoned anarchist comrades Fotis, Iasonas, Panos, Lampros (Berlin,Germany)

Berlin: Graffiti slogans in solidarity with the four imprisoned anarchist comrades Fotis, Iasonas, Panos, Lampros

Graffiti slogans in solidarity with the four anarchist comrades Fotis D., Iasonas R., Panos B. and Lampros B., accused for the attack on the Piraeus traffic police station in Athens.

They are held imprisoned 1,5 years now and their trial begins on the 8th of May 9am at Korydallos prison courthouse.

FREE THE 4 COMRADES F.D., I.R., L.B., P.B.

SOLIDARITY IS OUR WEAPON

STATE IS THE ONLY TERRORIST

BURN ALL PRISONS

General News Action Sabotage, solidarity in Greece, Solidarity Means Attack

Responsibility claim for incendiary attack at cop’s apartment (Athens, Greece)

Solidarity to G.Voulgari, Th. Chatziaggelou, P. Kalaitzis

We wish a good recovery to comrade Alfredo Cospito

Solidarity to the 4 imprisoned comrades F.D. – I.R. – P. & L.B.

Signal of solidarity with the French insurgents

The unswerving solidarity with the imprisoned comrades, the multiform daily struggle against the power structure and the inexhaustible desire to destroy it will always be in our consciences and will help us to define the path of the insurrection.

Whenever you take your holidays within the normality of defined etiquette traditions we are given another opportunity to break through it to remind you that nothing is interrupted as long as our lives are silenced, imprisoned and suppressed.
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Milan, Italy: Updates on Alfredo Cospito’s health after ending the hunger strike (27th April and 3th of May2023)

Update on Alfredo Cospito’s health after ending the hunger strike (27th April 2023)

Alfredo is starting to eat again (although more slowly than he’d like, eh! eh!), he is gradually starting to eat pasta and solids, in line with the suggestions of the dietologist.

His overall readings are relatively good. There seems to be a slight improvement in the condition of the foot that had lost all feeling, but according to the doctors it is not possible to make any prognosis for the time being, in any case he is walking a little better.

He is still hospitalised in the prison wing of San Paolo hospital, impatient to get out of hospital as at present he does not even have access to the hour’s exercise period and basically never gets out of the room/cell, moreover without even any natural light; however the doctors are saying that he should remain there for at least another week. He is in good spirits, basically he is getting better. He will continue to get visits from his lawyer and doctor, so there will be updates to follow.

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