Tripcode compromised

We are under HEAVY attack.
AB(C) took control
Tripcode compromised

Neon Revolt pointed out what looks like a Clown operation taking advantage of the tripcode:

An Appeal to Patriots

I’m scared for my country, and I am especially scared for you good people who look to this space for guidance.  I have seen how my folks are suffering.  No one has money.   Half of my family is suffering from issues relating to drug abuse.  Honest work is getting hard to find for the ill-connected.  I see the accomplishments of my parents and grandparents and wonder how so many of my generation are barely holding on, fighting hard to stay in the middle class.

Ways of life that have existed for a century are vanishing, often because of decisions made via algorithms whose inner workings cannot be comprehended by any single living human being.  The world is shifting away under our feet, largely due to inscrutable forces with no historical parallel.   Change is everywhere and can be sourced to nowhere.  Sneering elites in government and the media look down on us and assure us that this is all our fault.  It is difficult to know who to trust.

In times like these, we reach out for any comfort we can find.  We want to help, we want to put our meager power together with others and fix it all. There are people out there in the world who will take advantage of this powerful need.  Politicians, business leaders, religions…and others.

I firmly believe that all of you love the United States of America, and revere the work of our Founding Fathers, mighty men who led the world in skill and learning.  Men like Jefferson and Madison, Washington and Hamilton.  Men who revered reason and the exploration of natural law.  Over and over again in their writings, they expound the world view of the Enlightenment, among whose core values is that there is a singular, true natural order established by our Creator, and that all things must obey that law, and that this natural law is fundamentally knowable by human kind.  That from that order flows the equality of men, and the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

On this basis our Fathers forged our great nation.  They did not always agree on what should be built upon that firm foundation, but through conflict and struggle with one another they built the great compromise that is embodied by our Constitution, whose fruit has been unparalleled freedom.

It is my belief that anyone who betrays those founding values by asking us to suspend trust in well-constructed arguments and the knowable is betraying the foundation of our law, our history, and our civilization.  I believe that exhortations to abandon friends and family in favor of numerology and cryptic messages are the products of charlatans, not patriots.

It is my belief that Q is a charlatan.

It is my belief that Q is a young, untrained American man who is playing games with your faith, your hope, and your love of country, mostly because he finds it amusing.  I believe he may call you to violence, not to save our home, but merely for entertainment.

There are many arguments for this, but I will name a few that Q has been gleefully rubbing our noses in since the beginning.

Firstly, his name itself.  “Q”, after the Department of Energy’s Q clearance.  I have had the opportunity to work in our country’s national labs, and have worked with some of those clever, hard-working folks that hold Q clearance.  A Q clearance grants access to carefully compartmentalized nuclear weapons information.  One who holds a Q clearance is a scientist, engineer, or manager who is deemed trustworthy by classifying authorities.  Q clearance holders are people who employ our nation’s most dangerous technical secrets to manufacture and maintain weaponry than can end the world in a flash of baleful fire.

They are not experts in spycraft and combat operations.

If, for some curious reason, our President put a Q clearance individual in charge of such an operation, it is not believable that anyone would issue commands and share national security information with strangers via a cobbled-together web site of uncertain security…particularly if said website’s claim to fame was a loud public argument about about video games.

If that catastrophic chain of events were to take place somehow, this nuclear/black ops guru would not stoop so low as to secure this essential line of communication with a DES/crypt(3) based tripcode hash, with the excuse that it is necessary in order to maintain portability between 4chan-style image boards.  This is not a concern of a serious man.  Plus, DES has been considered extremely insecure for a quarter-century and can be cracked in hours on commodity hardware, as has been demonstrated here.  That presumptive hero would, under no circumstances, embed an insult and a lie into that very cryptographic signature (see technical discussion that follows for details).

The person who would do that is not a patriot, not an operator, and not a hero.  This person is a vain child.

It is hard as hell for me to admit when I’ve been fooled. I have been in that place.  It is humiliating. I beg you not to turn away from this message, and to absorb the short-term suffering that recognition and repentance entails.  I don’t think that you will find it impossible, because you are tough.  If you have trusted Q, you have lived a hard existence these last months.  The world is hard enough as it is without shouldering the responsibility of fighting a hyper-competent, irredeemably evil enemy on your own.  It is a terribly isolating thing.

To escape and survive, you’ve likely made friends with others who believe, and you’ve endured this difficult world-view together.  Embrace that friendship and camaraderie, because it is a rare thing in our lonely age!  Take that energy, together, and go out and use it as our Founders intended.  Register each other to vote, canvas, run for office, persuade your fellows, read everything, and trust only that which is worth your heart, your effort, your blood and treasure.  Most of all, do not be discouraged for long, because your country still needs you.  Our foes are merely human, and can be overcome by you and me and others with true faith and sincere human effort.

Technical discussion:
I am not a infosec expert, so please feel view this analysis with a skeptical eye, and as always, do your own research!
Q verifies his identity via a cryptographic signature, or “tripcodes.”  These tripcode hashes (e.g. CbboFOtcZs ) are based on the DES/crypt(3) encryption algorithm.  DES (Digital Encryption Standard) was standardized in 1977 and has been largely deprecated due to widely-known weaknesses.  A good primer on these weaknesses from way back in 1997 can be found here: http://personal.stevens.edu/~khockenb/crypt3.html .   Tripcodes are created via the algorithm described here: http://www.thefullwiki.org/Tripcode.  I suspect that if such an operation were carried out, the coordinator would at least sign messages using an algorithm from the NSA Suite B, such as the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) — or even a PGP signature — so that an opponent couldn’t hijack his identity as easily as has been done here.  He may upgrade his standards after reading this, but frankly, it is a far too late to matter.
Using an open source password cracker (hashcat), publicly available information, and a little guess work about Q’s favored key space, a user can successfully recover all of the passwords that correspond to Q tripcodes. These are posted below in chronological order of use:
Tripcode:  ITPb.qbhqo  ->  Password:  Matlock
Tripcode:  UW.yye1fxo  ->  Password:  M@tlock!
Tripcode:  xowAT4Z3VQ  ->  Password:  Freed@m-
Tripcode:  2jsTvXXmXs  ->  Password:  F!ghtF!g
Tripcode:  4pRcUA0lBE  ->  Password:  NowC@mes
Tripcode:  CbboFOtcZs  ->  Password:  StoRMkiL
Tripcode:  A6yxsPKia.  ->  Password:  WeAReQ@Q
Note that Q seems to be unaware that the algorithm only takes the first 8 characters of the password and ignores the rest.  In the past, Q has claimed to have baked meaning and foreknowledge of future events into these passwords, in particular, the 4pRcUA0lBE:NowC@mes tripcode-password pair.  If I understand correctly, Q claims that the full password was “NowC@mesTHEP@in—23,” with 23 signifying the date of an important event, but anything beginning with “NowC@mes” would yield the same tripcode signature.  This weakness severely undercuts any claimed predictive power and indicates a possible intent to mislead.  For example, all of the following passwords should yield the same tripcode, 4pRcUA0lBE:
NowC@mesTheKing      — Q is Snoop Dogg
NowC@mesTheSun       — Q is Ringo Starr
NowC@mesTheAnswer-42 — Q is Douglas Adams
These can all be tested at at minichan’s tripcode test page. https://minichan.org/triptest?name=A{64c1a3d9a40559511922326ab01596b0c1a24761117e0e4906b04888ba2118a8}23NowC{64c1a3d9a40559511922326ab01596b0c1a24761117e0e4906b04888ba2118a8}40mesTheAnswer-42 .

To directly test all of these examples with a DES cypher, go to https://www.functions-online.com/crypt.html , paste the password in, and use the second and third characters of the password as the salt.  The tripcode will be the final ten characters of the resulting DES hash. Most concerning to me is the penultimate password, which contains the word “StoRM,” which is Q’s prophesied calamity which will sweep away those Q calls out as enemies and may involve mass arrests, executions, and institution of martial law in the worst case.  The second part, “kiL”, is self-explanatory.  Both of these are especially concerning since Q has been ramping of his rhetoric of late.  I urge everyone to be VERY careful before taking action which could injure anyone, especially yourself, your family, and your fellow patriots, at Q’s direction.  I do not believe he has our values or best interests at heart.

Finally, many of you know someone who has handled highly classified information, worked in SCIFs, and communicated securely in a professional context.  I urge you to seek their wisdom in this matter, to evaluate to feasibility of Q’s claims.  I also urge you to study the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual (NISPOM), which covers handling and protection of national security information in exhaustive detail, then contrast its instructions with what “Q” is doing.

It is my hope that I am blowing this all out of proportion, and I apologize if I am making mountains out of molehills. However, I feel that it is my duty to pass this on to you all, just in case.  God bless you, and thank you again for your time and all your hard work.

Hello, fellow Patriots! This concern-trolling aimed at discrediting and disqualifying Q, more than anything we’ve seen yet, is evidence that the Q project is legitimate on some level, regardless of how it originally started. This deeply concerned troll protests WAY too much, and as anyone with any literary ability can see, the above pastebin was written by at least three different people, each pushing a different aspect of the desired narrative.

It should also demonstrate to you the importance of controlled opposition and explain why the likes of Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, Candace Owen, and the next conservative du jour are being constantly pushed on you. They desperately need conservatives to “keep the faith in the system”, to “Take that energy, together, and go out and use it as our Founders intended.” They do not want you noticing anomalies, observing underlying patterns, and asking uncomfortable questions about them.

The rhetoric is total nonsense, which you will note is a commonly observed theme among the conops. This is the worst of it: “Anyone who betrays those founding values by asking us to suspend trust in well-constructed arguments and the knowable is betraying the foundation of our law, our history, and our civilization.”

Really? Skepticism about syllogisms and scientage is treason? That’s a fascinating claim. And to the contrary, history shows that asking questions is an important element of the religious faith that is the basis for Western Civilization. Of course, this isn’t the first time that a man who asks questions has troubled the authorities. Nearly thousand years ago, a man asked his followers, “Who do you say I am?”

It is my belief that Q is a young, untrained American man who is playing games with your faith, your hope, and your love of country, mostly because he finds it amusing.  I believe he may call you to violence, not to save our home, but merely for entertainment.

Oh Sweet Saint Detective Comics! Do you realize what this means? Q is THE JOKER!

Ben Shapiro DEBATE-RAPES Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

She’s TERRIFIED to take on the diminutive master debater:

Twitter exploded on Thursday after democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slandered Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro in response to the debate offer he extended to her earlier in the week, leading many prominent accounts to slam the 28-year-old bartender turned politician.

On Wednesday, Shapiro offered to donate $10,000 to Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign if she agreed to a debate or discussion on his “Sunday Special” — or, if she preferred, to use the debate to raise money for charity.

Ocasio-Cortez refused to respond, but, moments after The Daily Wire published a report documenting her silence, she responded by slandering Shapiro:

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@Ocasio2018
 Just like catcalling, I don’t owe a response to unsolicited requests from men with bad intentions. And also like catcalling, for some reason they feel entitled to one.

In response Noah Pollak TWEET-HAMMERED Ms Ocasio-Cortez

 This is your brain on identity politics. By challenging her to debate, @benshapiro was actually treating her as an equal. She knows she’d lose, and she needs to posture for her SJW fans, so she declares herself a victim of “catcalling.” Totally demented. 

And Jim Treacher TWITTER-VIOLATED the future Democratic Congresswoman, pointing out:

 Note that if this were the other way around, she’d say Ben was SCARED.

Strange, you know, but every time the Littlest Chickenhawk ran away from Milo or me, Li’l Benny’s supporters always claimed his refusal to debate was perfectly justified because he is so very important and has so many better and more important things to do. Well, I suppose if they were capable of grasping simple concepts like transitivity, they wouldn’t be Shapiro supporters.

Of course, Ms Ocasio-Cortez’s response was excellent rhetoric, because Benny is exactly the sort of creepy little guy who sends cold shivers of horror down every woman’s spine at the thought of him making an advance on her.

All hail the God-Emperor

Still not tired of winning:

Donald Trump will be ‘LAST PRESIDENT’ of the United States – shock new claims!

DONALD Trump will be the “last President” of the United States but has “no intention of leaving the White House” and likes the thought of being President for life, one American filmmaker has warned.

After the 2020 Trumpslide, it will also be the right time to formally elevate Donald Trump Jr. to his rightful position as Vice-Emperor, Crown Prince, Primarch, and Heir in order to Purge the Heresy and Keep America Great.

Why the Right fails

This little anecdote at Steve Sailer’s describes, in a nutshell, why the proudly individualistic Right has been consistently failing for decades.

reminds me of something that happened at jury duty. I was sitting there, trying to figure out how to get out of jury duty, and telling the judge that I had urgent responsibilities, blah, blah..

This was a trial where some young guy had used a gun for to warn off some rivals for his girl, or something. But it revolved around the (non-lethal, in this case) use of a gun. (horrors, I know)

Anyways, the judge was getting clearly annoyed that a few other jurors also didn’t want to participate in the farce. (I’m not a big fan of courtroom “justice” ; )

And he lectured us and then made the mistake of asking a leading question..

(clearly expecting to hear a ‘trial by jury’) he asked the assembled prospective jurors, ‘What is the main right that protects all your other rights from abuses of the government?’

Whereupon I blurted out very clearly and loudly, “The Second Amendment!”

There was a hush in the chamber. A pall had come over the room.

The judge sat for a moment speechless, and then asked the attorneys to approach the bench. There was some serious looking glances and whispers, and then eventually we were all told we could go.

Just like that.

From what I’ve glimmered, I had ‘tainted’ the jury when I said ‘the Second Amendment’. The prosecutor was likely intending to use the gun itself as the crime. And by proclaiming that our right to own guns was the very cornerstone of American freedom, I guess the prosecutor felt the trial was lost before it even began.

[heh]

What a smugly stupid moron! He portrays his self-serving, narcissistic behavior as a triumph of some sort, when in truth it is a disastrous, self-inflicted defeat for both justice and a free society. If this jackass is ever arrested, karma will be well-served if he finds himself facing a jury of avid gun controllers and is convicted on every count. Instead of doing his civic duty and upholding the Second Amendment he cited with such self-satisfaction, he ensured that the prosecution would get a second crack at packing a jury with anti-gun jurors.

The Right’s idolatry of individualism is shortsighted and strategically disastrous. It is the philosophy of the crack addict, the rent boy, the cam whore, and the flytipper. It is the mindset of the parasite and the grasshopper. And it is not compatible with civilization, let alone advanced Western civilization.

Not all collectivisms are equal. Identity politics are not communism. Defending your family and your nation, and working to advance their interests, is not wrong, it is the very sort of normal human behavior that created Western civilization. I could not have created Infogalactic alone. I could not have built Castalia House alone. Arkhaven is a collective effort.

We cannot save civilization by running around like a bunch of headless chickens doing our best to avoid any and every responsibility to others.

The cyclical curse

A paper from 2007 (PDF) explains some of the negative civilizational developments that we have been observing over the last decade. And events quite clearly appear to have proven his thesis largely correct.

The Population Cycle Drives Human History – from a Eugenic Phase into a Dysgenic Phase and Eventual Collapse

by Volkmar Weiss

In the period before the onset of demographic transition from large to small families, when fertility rates were positively associated with income levels, Malthusian pressure gave an evolutionary advantage to individuals whose characteristics were positively correlated with child quality and hence higher IQ, increasing in such a way the frequency of underlying genes in the population. As the fraction of individuals of higher quality increased, technological progress intensified. Positive feedback between technological progress and the level of education reinforced the growth process, setting the stage for an industrial revolution that facilitated an endogenous take-off from the Malthusian trap. The population density rose and with it social and political friction, especially important at the top of the social pyramid. Thus, from a certain turning point of history, the well-to-do have fewer children than the poor.

Once the economic environment improves sufficiently, the evolutionary pressure weakens, and on the basis of spreading egalitarian ideology and general suffrage the quantity of people gains dominance over quality. At present, we have already reached the phase of global human capital deterioration as the necessary prerequisite for a global collapse by which the overpopulated earth will probably decimate those of mediocre IQ.

On the one hand, this will present opportunities for the cognitive elite. On the other, the downward trajectory of society and civilization is almost certainly going to increase as time goes on, IQ continues to decline, and the r/selected increasingly outnumber the K/selected. The welfare system was bad enough, but combining it with low-quality mass immigration is fatal. The longer the negative cycle persists, the more likely it is that the people of the West will eventually have to choose between utterly ruthless eugenics and total civilizational collapse.

When we look at the history of past high civilisations, it is noticeable that it was a long time before internal decay lead to final collapse (Knaul, 1985). From a certain point on there were nearly only failures. The economy stagnated and the finances of the state and of the cities fell more and more into disorder. The number of people depending on welfare rose from year to year, although each new ruler declared it an aim to lower this number. The security of the citizens was no longer guaranteed; the relationship between man and woman had likewise changed as had the relationship between young and old. The whole society seemed to be stricken by an illness and incapable of making and implementing rational and necessary decisions. Although nobody wanted the decline, the states and their inhabitants accepted policies that steered themselves into an abyss in such a way, as though they had no other goal than falling into the abyss. Today, our situation is similar.

Indeed.

A first look

Arkhaven Comics has sent us an exclusive first look at the cover for Quantum Mortis: A Man Disrupted #3.
– Bounding Into Comics

And so we have….

While we’re on the subject of Arkhaven, a new video review of Alt-Hero #1: Crackdown.

QUANTUM MORTIS A Man Disrupted #3: A Secret Love is now available on Kindle and KU.

Chief Warrant Officer Graven Tower is a ruggedly handsome military policeman who hates aliens. Fortunately, as a member of His Grace’s Military Crimes Investigation Division – Xenocriminology and Alien Relations, he gets to arrest a lot of them. Sometimes he even gets to shoot them.


Chief Tower and Detector Derin Hildreth of the Trans Paradis Police Department are investigating the murder of the Crown Prince of Morchard, but they have not been able to determine a motive for the crime or identify any suspects. So when a royal assistant comes forward with information about the prince’s secret life, they don’t hesitate to pursue the lead into the heart of the wealthy interplanetary establishment.

Twitter to FAYS: hold my beer

Twitter isn’t content with losing money and hemorrhaging users, so they’re going to drive even more people away just to prove that no one, not Facebook, not Apple, not YouTube, not Spotify, can speech-police more enthusiastically than Twitter does:

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Wednesday signaled a coming change to his company’s speech policies, following pressure from his own employees

  • Some Twitter employees are unhappy that Twitter has yet to join Facebook, Spotify, Apple and YouTube in banning right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones
  • Twitter is planning to accelerate a crackdown on “hate speech” and is looking to evaluate whether to punish users for “off-platform behavior,” according to a company-wide email sent on Wednesday
  • Twitter is planning to accelerate changes to the company’s speech policies after a backlash from its own employees who want the company to ban right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, responding to a critical tweet from a Twitter engineer, said Wednesday he is “not happy” with Twitter’s current policies, which he said need to “evolve.”

Twitter vice president Del Harvey also sent a company-wide email Wednesday pledging to accelerate Twitter’s efforts to crack down on “dehumanizing hate speech,” in the wake of internal “conversations” about Jones.

Harvey noted that Twitter also plans to evaluate whether the company needs to better police “off-platform behavior.”

It’s clearly time to revive the blasphemy laws, many of which are still on the books. Now, here’s the interesting thing about Twitter’s rules and policies. According to their own policies, they should start banning their own employees for abusive behavior in their attempt to silence Alex Jones.

Mailvox: escaping the gatekeepers

Now that William F. Buckley is dead and no one reads National Review anymore, new gatekeepers are needed to keep conservatives on the farm:

The more I examine Conservative positions (that I used to hold) the angrier I get.

I’ve been paying a bit of attention to an Ultra Cuckservative on Twitter for a few weeks.

His name is Charlie Kirk and he runs a Conservative group called Turning Point.

He posted this on Twitter just last night:

“Fringe ethno-nationalist racial identitarians have NO PLACE in the conservative movement – we reject them!”

Every post from this clown is the same old Basic B Conservative Boilerplate we’ve seen for decades. He’s constantly tweeting about Blacks. Never mentions white people.

I suspect he’s propped up, too. He’s only 24 years old, I never even heard of this guy two years ago, but he has nearly 700K twitter followers and has managed to establish a fairly major think-tanky style operation.

Propped-up? Just because he hasn’t been kicked off Twitter, he’s barely out of college, and he has a well-funded think tank is no reason to be suspicious. He’s probably just whip-smart and DEMOLISHES liberals with his tweets.

Anyhow, neither identitarians nor nationalists have any place in the conservative movement, since the conservative movement never conserved anything, least of all America.