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- $! 58 ADAWI . : FFS EA !$
- $! 19 BLSS : SETPRV BYPASS CMKRNL DiAGNOSE READALL . INCL D6 !$
- $! BC CHMK ^ VOLPRO iMPERSONATE SHARE WORLD UPGRADE v JSB 16 !$
- $! B7 DECW | | LDPCTX 06 !$
- $! -- - >--+----------------------------------------+--> -- - !$
- $! 7A EMUL | | MATCHC 39 !$
- $! EB FFC | .................................... | PROBER 0C !$
- $! 0A INDEX | :__ __: __ : ______ : | REMQUE 0F !$
- $! 17 JMP | :\$\ /$/: |@| : |&&&&&&| : | SVPCTX 07 !$
- $! 3A LOCC | : \$\ /$/ : |@| : |&|____ : | TSTG 53FD !$
- $! 2F MOVTUC | : \$\ /$/ : |@| : |&&&&&&| : | VGATHQ 37FD !$
- $! 0D PROBEW | : \$\/$/ : |@|____ : |&| : | XORW3 AD !$
- $! 02 REI | : \$$/ : |@@@@@@| : |&| : | ASHQ 79 !$
- $! 2A SCANC | :............:..........:..........: | BGTRU 1A !$
- $! 73FD TSTH | | CRC 0B !$
- $! E9FD VSXORL | --:: THE VMS LiBERATiON FRONT ::-- | VSYNC A8FD !$
- $! FC XFC | | CLRL D4 !$
- $! 35FD VGATHL | +=================+ | MTVP A9FD !$
- $! 60 ADDD2 | -- +| IN VMS WE TRUST |+ -- | SPANC 2B !$
- $! DF PUSHAL | +=================+ | PUSHR BB !$
- $! - -- <--+----------------------------------------+--< - -- !$
- $! 03 BPT | | POPR BA !$
- $! FA CALLG ^ THE VERNON PRESERVATiON UNDERGROUND v IOTA EDFD !$
- $! 97 DECB . DEDiCATED TO PROJECT EMERALD : NOP 01 !$
- $! 74FD EMODH : . HALT 00 !$
- --:: PRESENTS ::--
- $!-- VLF::SYS$TARGET:[RELEASE] ---------------------------------------!$
- Stromasys.CHARON-VAX_Xx_66x0.v4.0.Build.122-04.Retail.WinALL.x86.x64.Cracked-VLF
- SOFTWARE NAME: Stromasys CHARON-VAX v4.0 Build 122-04
- SOFTWARE TYPE: Hardware Virtualisation
- DEVELOPER....: Stromasys SA, Switzerland
- URL..........: http://www.stromasys.ch/virtualization-solutions/virtual-vax-on-windows/
- VLF RCE.....: Subcommandante BYPASS RELEASE TYPE....: HARDWARE EMULATOR
- SUPPLiER....: TEAM VLF RELEASE DATE....: 2012-10-25
- PACKER......: TEAM VLF RELEASE DiSKS...: 15 X 5M
- LANGUAGE....: English RELEASE FORMAT..: vlfaab*
- PROTECTiON..: HASP HL Dongle MEDiCiNE........: Dongle Emulator
- PLATFORM....: WXP.SP3.x86.x64, W2k3.Svr.SP2.Std.Ent.x86.x64,
- W7.Pro.Ult.x86.x64, W2k8.Svr.SP2.Std.Ent.x86.x64,
- W2k8.Svr.R2.Std.Ent.x64
- $!-- VLF::SYS$TARGET:[RELEASE.DESCRiPTiON] ---------------------------!$
- CHARON-VAX is a software product family that creates virtual VAX
- hardware inside a standard Windows-based or OpenVMS/Integrity host
- system. For almost every VAX that was ever manufactured, Stromasys
- offers a CHARON-VAX version. Continue to use your VAX applications
- as if nothing ever happened; no migration, retraining, or
- reorganisation is required. The only thing the users will notice is
- the incredible increase in performance!
- $!-- VLF::SYS$RCE:[iNSTALL.REGiSTRATiON.NOTES] -----------------------!$
- Read, carefully, the "install.readme.first.txt" plain-text file in the
- release archive save-set.
- $!-- VLF::SYS$GROUP:[iNFO] -------------------------------------------!$
- "They can't abide the cold steel, sir! no, sir! They don't like it
- up 'em."
- -- Lance-Corporal Jack Jones (The local butcher), "Dad's Army," BBC TV
- Subcommandante BYPASS ...... Reverse Code Engineer, Programmer
- Subcommandante XDelta ...... Cheer Squad, Special Operations
- http://www.jokeindex.com/joke.asp?Joke=2606
- NB: We were aiming for a v1.0.0.0 Final release of this NFO and the VLF
- MANiFESTO and ACTiViSM road-map, by 25.10, but health issues and the
- vicissitudes of life decided otherwise; nil desperandum; per ardua ad
- astra; nil illegitimus carborundum; Persta atque obdura.
- $!-- VLF::SYS$GROUP:[MANiFESTO] --------------------------------------!$
- --:: THE VMS LiBERATiON FRONT MANiFESTO ::--
- <v0.9.2.0 BETA>
- We hold these truths to be self-evident:
- That in VMS we trust.
- That the VMS Operating System is part of the intellectual heritage and
- conceptual literacy in the commonwealth of computer science, the most
- immaculate, logical, systematic, disciplined, and literate culture and
- 'vade mecum' about how to go about the business of computing at every
- level of operating system function, that has ever been designed,
- devised and documented, it is a glory and testament to human ingenuity.
- That the VMS Operating System mind-share, installation, third-party
- developer and expertise ecologies should never be allowed to collapse
- and die off or be inhibited from flourishing by the commercial
- expediency of Hewlett Packard nor the ruthless self-interest of third
- parties; that VMS will always be a viable Operating System culture for
- current and future generations of humanity.
- That the VMS Operating System should be ported to all CPU architectures
- where all of the Microsoft Windows New Technology series of Operating
- Systems are manifest from the main-frame to the micro-computer and also
- ported to the ARM architectures.
- That the VMS Operating System should become a hybrid commercial Open
- Source Software system where Hewlett Packard generates income from
- Service Level Agreements they can actually deliver on for Business
- Critical Systems on certified hardware for enterprises, institutions
- and governments and so that the research and development, the
- evolution, of VMS can never ever again be suppressed or extinguished.
- That neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night, nor the
- machinations and the visionary mediocrity of the Hewlett Packard and
- Microsoft corporations will stay our crackers and couriers from the
- swift and sure completion of their self appointed tasks and duties.
- $!-- VLF::SYS$GROUP:[NEWS] -------------------------------------------!$
- The 35th Anniversary of the mighty VMS Operating System is on the 25th
- of October 2012.
- The 35th Anniversary Count-down Timer:
- http://is.gd/The_35th_Anniversary_Of_VMS
- We recommend quaffing quality lagered products for the occasion; sink
- several in celebration of the unstoppable, unsinkable, unkillable, VMS!
- $!-- VLF::SYS$GREETiNGS:[SALUTATiONS] --------------------------------!$
- No one currently, we, the DELTA:: node of the VLF, the Vernon
- Preservation Underground, are out of left field and are sui generis.
- You get that on the big jobs.
- $!-- VLF::SYS$RESPECT:[DEDiCATiONS] ----------------------------------!$
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- The work of the VMS Liberation Front is dedicated to the memory and the
- completion and extension of "Project Emerald" and the preservation and
- evolution of Vernon, the VMS mascot and totemic animal and all that he
- represents.
- http://www.vaxination.ca/vms/shark/history.html
- Refresh your memories:
- http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/20th/
- http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/20th/vmsbook.pdf
- We also salute the memory of BiG KEN OLSEN, may he rest in Silicon
- Heaven, and all the digits who made it all possible within DEC, the
- Digital Equipment Corporation.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Equipment_Corporation
- $!-- VLF::SYS$LEGALiTiES:[CAVEATS] -----------------------------------!$
- The policy and philosophy of the VLF with its' keygenning, cracking and
- reverse code engineering (RCE) projects, is not the 'piracy' of
- intellectual property for the sake of it, per se, but to preserve,
- cultivate, and extend VMS mind-share for the future generations, VMS is
- too great a creation to be lost to humanity due to the cupidity and
- stupidity of HP management.
- The VLF releases will establish the basis for which the VMS expertise
- ecologies of system programmers, analysts, system administrators,
- operators and network, security, capacity planning, technical support
- specialists and application developers can start to be repopulated,
- from the current near catastrophic collapse and extinction, from the
- coming generations of computer science students, by demolishing the
- entry barriers to them being able to familiarise themselves with VMS
- and the Layered Products - the entry barriers for students being, of
- course, the cost of software and hardware.
- Sure Information Technology people can learn GNU/Linux and the Open
- Source Free Software tools for some decent conceptual and procedural
- literacy, but, alas, the vast majority are going to be eking out a
- computing crust mentally mutilating themselves mastering microsoft
- methodology, wallowing in the La Brea tar-pit of their near monopoly
- on matters computing.
- Which is a profound tragedy when they could, in a slightly better
- world, be learning the VMS way to achieve the same goals on the same
- CPU architectures and platforms but with a much more conceptually
- literate and functionally facilitative mental life.
- So during the period when computer science students are as poor as
- church-mice, studying, with the resources the VLF provides, they can
- study VMS and bootstrap themselves into competence and confidence and
- if they start earning money from their VMS skills, then it's time to
- buy the tools they use.
- Businesses and professionals buying tools from other businesses to run
- their business makes the business world go round at the very least.
- The VLF does not condone or approve of its' releases being used for
- commercial gain at all, the purpose of the VLF releases is to stop and
- reverse the extinction of the VMS expertise ecology and mind-share for
- current and future generations.
- The VLF does not apologise to the developers whose products we reverse
- engineer, since any such gesture would be dismissed, thus, instead, we
- reinforce the observation that if the VLF considered their application
- worth cracking and integrating into the tool-kit to assist in
- boot-strapping the VMS expertise ecology from catastrophic collapse by
- making the learning of VMS accessible and practical to the current and
- future generations of computer science students, then the application
- is worth buying, and if the VMS business, government and institutional
- installation ecology boot-straps back into vigor, then sales will
- naturally come their way.
- Hewlett-Packard management of its' VMS asset is the greatest impediment
- to your VMS applications' sales - direct your anger accurately,
- intelligently and effectively and publicly at them.
- "It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students
- that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they
- are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
- -- Professor Edsger Dijkstra, "How Do We Tell Truths That Might Hurt?",
- ACM SIGPLAN Notices Vol 17 No 5, May 1982
- One wonders what the good professor thought of Microsoft...
- $!-- VLF::SYS$SYSTEM:[ACTiViSM] --------------------------------------!$
- "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
- -- John Gilmore, http://www.toad.com/gnu/
- We the DELTA:: node of the VLF, the VMS Liberation Front, have
- regretfully concluded that HP management is damage to VMS and we are
- committed to routing around it.
- The DELTA:: node of the VLF specialises in bypassing intellectual
- property protection so that no one else in the VMS activism world has
- to, although many, of course, have the requisite technical skills to
- parallel our work - we are the Vernon Preservation Underground.
- Those VMS activists that are above ground and publicly active, we fully
- realise, will not be able to use the VLF releases, even if they were
- inclined to, and we do not assume that anyone would be so inclined,
- they will have to abide with existing DEC hardware, freeware hardware
- emulators and the HP Hobbyist VMS and layered products program.
- The objective of the DELTA:: node of the VMS Liberation Front is to
- reboot and repair the catastrophic collapse of the VMS expertise
- ecology by systematically removing all impediments for the current
- generations of computer science students from being able to study,
- learn, and master the VMS way. We have achieved this with the LibreVMS
- LMFGEN license generator for VMS and LP and the LibreCHARON Stromasys
- VAX and AXP hardware emulators.
- Vernon will be able thrive and survive at existing VMS revision levels
- and extant CPU architectures in full independence and autonomy, forever
- proofed against any extinction policies within or without of the
- Hewlett Packard corporation, the current owners of the VMS intellectual
- property.
- This the VLF Liberation Front has unambiguously established.
- However such underground, intellectual property transgressing activism
- is necessary but insufficient. What is also required is muscular and
- vigorous above-ground activism, in a logical, systematic and diligent
- manner with a lip curling snarl and no reservation with tooth and claw.
- With the VMS die-hards, if it isn't NDAs staying their hand, it's the
- HP VMS Hobbyist program, it has had natural effect of inhibiting full
- and frank commentary and fearless action, since there is the implicit
- fear that access to the VMS Hobbyist program would be withdrawn, either
- individually or generally, the LiBREVMS LMFGEN is an 'entente cordiale'
- nuclear deterrent to such inhibiting actions.
- The first step in legal, above ground, VMS activism is to become a HP
- shareholder, as HP is a publicly listed company and to then sit on your
- tranche of shares and hence become a passionate, practical and
- principled part-owner of the Hewlett Packard corporation. As a
- part-owner of the HP corporation, you are then entitled to participate
- in the deliberative assemblies of the company, such as AGMs (Annual
- General Meetings) in accordance with Corporations Law and the HP
- Constitution and to engage in share-holder activism such as the calling
- of EGMs (Extraordinary General Meetings) with a sufficient quorum of
- your fellow share-holders and the concomitant notification to all
- share-holders of such an EGM and reason for it, as just one instance of
- activism.
- As a share-holder, you are entitled to be angry, and you should be very
- angry at the compromise and degradation of both dividends and long term
- share holder value by the gross neglect and vandalism, over the last
- decade, of what should be one of the principal pillars and engines of
- income generation for the HP Corporation, the OpenVMS operating system,
- in all tiers of computing.
- As a share-holder, you should be proud and grateful, if current or past
- principled, brave, and loyal HP employees decides, NDAs be damned, to
- become whistle-blowers on HP senior management policy on the VMS asset,
- disgusted by the lack of any promotion or advertisement of VMS, let
- alone the butchering of VMS maintenance and research and development.
- As a share-holder, if the current database of VMS installations
- customers (sans any sensitive government clients, of course!) was
- leaked (and also any COTS, VAR, ISV, ETC, vendor databases), you would
- not see that as an act prejudiced against share-holder value at all,
- but rather a sunlight opportunity for the VMS installations customer
- base, and other VMS related vendors, to become totally reflexively
- aware, thence cooperatively constellating and engaging in share holder
- activism as well, the STAR:: Node of VMS above-ground activism.
- Needless to say, in the year 2012, since the demise of DEC in 1998, and
- the five years of dithering during the Compaq era, until Compaq was
- merged with HP in the 2002, and then this last long, lean, decade of
- malign neglect, that the remaining VMS customer base is rusted on,
- either by need or by sagacious choice, either way they see VMS as being
- critical to their business operations, hence they are strongly
- motivated in matters VMS.
- If the VMS installations customer base was to become totally
- reflexively aware, then even though sections of it may be competing
- against each other in particular markets, the one thing they would
- agree on unanimously and have sound cause to transcend their
- competitive differences is the enduring merit of the VMS operating
- system as a foundation of their business, thence they can cooperatively
- constellate to prosecute, vigorously and intelligently, the VMS cause,
- in rational self interest, collectively.
- The extant rusted-on, reflexively aware, VMS customer and vendor base,
- could all purchase their own share tranches in HP and then form a VMS
- Industry Association, with a VMS Engineering quality carefully
- constructed constitution, including a rule that the voting weight of
- any association member is the (logarithm base 10 of their share
- holdings + 1) rounded down to the nearest integer - this substantially
- levels the deliberative playing field within the association, whilst
- also acknowledging the size of the players to an appropriate extent.
- It is also in the realm of possibility, perhaps not probability, but
- that would have to be tested in practice, that such a VMS Industry
- Association might be able to force the installation of a Director on
- the HP Board, by dint of the co-ordinated share-holdings of its'
- members. Such a VMS Advocacy directorship on the HP board may not
- result in cheaper support and maintenance contracts for the VMS
- Industry Association members (HA!), however they will be able to
- effectively audit and determine whether they are getting value for
- money, verifying whether HP has the actual expertise and resource
- infrastructure to properly deliver on their VMS maintenance and support
- SLAs (Service Level Agreements) for the members' business critical
- systems; indeed it would be incumbent due diligence on the VMS Advocacy
- director to determine whether HP management have been practicing deep
- fraud in this regard for the last decade.
- This is but the shallow shoals of what an activism enfranchised VMS
- installations customer and vendor base can do, if it cooperatively
- constellates into the STAR:: (above ground) legal node of the VMS
- Liberation Movement.
- "I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped
- in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is
- Russian national interest."
- -- Winston Churchill, BBC Radio Broadcast, 1st October 1939
- The actions of HP management of the VMS asset over the last dread
- decade, is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, and there is
- a key, and that key is radical self-interest - radical self-interest
- that is not in the interests of long term HP share holder value and
- never has been.
- The OpenVMS asset is in an deliberately induced coma in the HP hospice
- in an Itanium sarcophagus on a starvation drip feed with it's VMS
- Engineering heart ripped out and replaced with something risible that
- cannot patch, cannot port and cannot pursue research and development -
- and yet, OpenVMS still has a pulse and can regenerate from survival
- back to thriving with exigent, immediate, interdiction into HP
- management - they must be called to account.
- The key of radical self-interest is blindingly obvious: cherchez le
- Microsoft.
- Ken Olsen's original goal with the Digital Equipment Corporation was to
- give computing power to the people, quality was paramount and
- excellence was trusted to sell, maximum value and utility for market
- price. Microsoft is the antithesis of the DEC ethos, quality and
- excellence are sub-ordinate to profit, minimum value and utility for
- maximum price, and the full spectrum monopolistic domination in all
- market segments, by any means they can get away with, Microsoft
- benchmarks 'corporation as psychopath,' they are not interested in
- giving computer power to the people but the opposite, making people the
- disenfranchised computer peons of Microsoft in choiceless perpetuity.
- Let us review salient historical events:
- 1988: Microsoft hire O/S architects and engineers, led by Dave Cutler,
- from the Digital Equipment Corporation to build Windows NT.
- 1993: Microsoft Windows/NT v3.1 first released.
- 1995: Microsoft's Bill Gates and DEC's Robert Palmer announce the
- 'Affinity for OpenVMS' program, to assist customers implementing the
- (apparent) 'complementary' strengths of OpenVMS and Windows/NT in a
- three-tier client/server environment...
- 1998: Compaq no longer supports Windows/NT (32 bit) on AXP.
- The branch never falls far from the tree, and VMS was on the Microsoft
- assassination hit list, as of 1988, as a consequence of hiring DEC
- architects and engineers to design and implement Windows/NT, the child
- was always going to kill the parent. When Windows NT was initially
- ported to the Alpha AXP CPU architecture, the writing would have well
- and truly been on the wall that although W/NT and VMS are the two most
- comparable O/S architecturally, there is absolutely no comparison, in
- terms of performance, versatility, reliability, fault tolerance,
- security and utility, that was true in 1993 and remains true today in
- 2012, VMS utterly trumps Windows NT series operating systems, that is
- true on the AXP architecture and also true on the Itanium.
- Thus Microsoft committed to ensuring that VMS would never be ported to
- those CPU architectures and computing tiers where Microsoft dominates
- commercially namely the Intel x86 and AMD64 CPU architectures, never
- ever, regardless of the multiple tier, super-scalability of the VMS
- operating system, and that remains true today. Microsoft also committed
- to ensuring that it was difficult to benchmark and compare W/NT and VMS
- on any architectures.
- The Microsoft covert strategies for ensuring this are, at least, two
- fold:
- 1. Microsoft cultivating key human assets in the employment of DEC,
- Compaq and HP that could shape both VMS policy and Windows Licensing
- negotiations to Microsoft's convenience.
- 2. Microsoft encouraging 'Beads for Manhattan' strategies in Compaq
- post 1998 and then the merged HP-Compaq, post 2002, where they get
- 'discounted' Windows licenses, so long as they commit to not porting
- VMS to the Intel x86 and AMD64 architectures.
- It is a 'Beads for Manhattan' strategy in that Compaq and HP-Compaq, in
- getting 'discounted' licences, and forgoing challenging Microsoft
- directly head-on, in its' eminent CPU domains and computing tiers with
- the infinitely superior VMS, were getting the worthless 'beads' of
- volume price discounts, good for trivial short term profit but not long
- term market strength, and surrendering the opportunity to generate VMS
- income in those tiers of computation that Microsoft have an artificed,
- near, monopoly, with that infinitely superior product - VMS.
- The 'threat' of porting VMS, kept in an induced coma on life support,
- rings increasingly hollow with every passing year, Microsoft feigns
- response in negotiations; yet, if the port was actually done, the
- threat would become very real indeed.
- The HP-Compaq oxymoronic benchmarking management of its' VMS asset has
- always been at maximal cognitive dissonance, the antithesis of any
- conceivable business rationality, the challenge was to make sense of
- the senselessness.
- The cupidity and the stupidity, the corruption and incompetence within
- HP-Compaq management, needs to come to an end, Microsoft human assets
- within HP management, particular VMS policy management need to be
- identified and removed; similarly those in HP management that think
- cheaper Windows licenses is preferable to the re-fitting and
- re-ignition of the VMS income generation engine, need to be identified
- and removed.
- The OpenVMS asset remains chained to the Itanium 'Itanic' ship-wreck on
- the bottom of the Mariana trench of enterprise computing without any
- advertising or promotion and it is time at its' 35th Anniversary that
- it was liberated and finally ported to all 'WinTel' and AMD64 and ARM
- CPU Architectures, wherever Microsoft Corporation Windows New
- Technology series and derivative Operating Systems are manifest.
- To assert that VMS is outmoded, obsoleted, yesterday's legacy
- technology, is as absurd as asserting that the bio-chemistry of your
- DNA and your immune system are similarly so. Vernon is the natural
- proprietary predator of Microsoft installations in all tiers of
- computation, from the enterprise to the personal and the ecological
- balance needs to be restored.
- When that is achieved then and only then can the DELTA:: Node of the
- VLF, the Vernon Preservation Underground, retire back to the realms
- of myth and legend.
- The rising star and spectacular success of Microsoft and the Windows/NT
- Operating System and its' thriving third-party applications, services
- and expertise ecologies has been directly at the expense of VMS and the
- precipitous collapse, and near extinction of the VMS installation base,
- and its' third-party applications, services and expertise ecologies; it
- is the computing crime of the 21st Century par excellence.
- This 0.9.2.0 BETA VLF version of a VMS activism plan is not intended to
- be comprehensive, but it is a modest, yet non-trivial and pertinent
- basis from which to start envisioning about unsentimental, muscular and
- fearless, VMS Activism, and the VLF do encourage all that are
- passionate about the heritage of VMS, to trade in their ten gallon
- Stetson hats for one hundred gallon Stetson hats instead and to then
- have a long hard, think or re-think about 'nail-gun:wall' pro-active
- strategies to establish the renaissance of VMS for the next 35 years
- and to then publish your thoughts on comp.os.vms.
- "It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of
- our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their
- industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of
- meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to
- excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds
- to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives."
- -- John Adams (1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President,
- Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1756
- $!-- VLF::SYS$QIO:[REQUESTS] --------------------------------------!$
- We welcome the supply to the VLF of commercial OpenVMS software and
- commercial VAX, AXP, and PDP-11 hardware emulators.
- We welcome the supply of OpenVMS Operating System and Layered Product
- source-code.
- Please refer to the VLF MANiFESTO and the ACtiViSM charter for our
- motivations in requesting such supply.
- Thank you.
- $!-- VLF::SYS$CONTACT:[DETAiLS] --------------------------------------!$
- iRC: N/A
- Web: N/A
- Releases: Check the Usenet Binaries Newsgroup: alt.binaries.warez
- Announcements: Check the Usenet Discussion Newsgroup: comp.os.vms
- E-mail: mailto:vlf@hush.com (please use OpenPGP Encryption)
- Public Key: https://www.hushtools.com/hushtools2/index.php?
- Webform: https://forms.hush.com/vlf (OpenPGP encrypted)
- Be rest assured that if you decide to contact the DELTA:: Node of the
- VMS Liberation Front, the act of contact will not be interpreted by the
- VLF that you approve of our manifesto or methods, nor that you wish to
- join the VLF underground resistance movement. We also welcome
- corrections and refinements to the accuracy of our historical
- understanding and also to our analytical rigour.
- One way to communicate to us in a traceless, or at least plausibly
- deniable way is to communicate via the hush mail encrypted webform,
- from a Tor-ified browser:
- https://forms.hush.com/vlf
- http://www.torproject.org/
- We highly recommend familiarising and mastering either of the Liberte
- Linux or Tails Live CD systems for communicating to us, (or at the very
- least as a Tor-ified browser resource):
- http://dee.su/liberte
- https://tails.boum.org/index.en.html
- The only problem with using the hush mail web-form is that we can't
- communicate back to you. But if you have something important to send to
- us, then that is a fairly traceless way to do it.
- If you wish to contact the VLF with full two way communication we would
- encourage you to establish a secondary email account and then to use
- PGP encryption, when communicating to us - to establish both your
- anonymity and your plausible deniability that you have done so.
- Our OpenPGP public key can be obtained from:
- https://www.hushtools.com/hushtools2/index.php?
- Set up an opaquely named e-mail address which allows direct SSL
- enabled, POP and IMAP access from your computer's e-mail client.
- These e-mail providers, for example, allow SSL enabled direct POP and
- IMAP access:
- http://www.gmx.com http://www.fastmail.fm
- http://www.yahoomail.com http://www.lavabit.com
- Thus you could install GnuPG or GPG4Win on your system and that would
- enables two way communication with the VLF in encrypted form:
- http://www.gnupg.org/ http://www.gpg4win.org/
- Note, however, that ordinary e-mail correspondence, encrypted or not,
- clearly fingers your IP addresses.
- Therefore for the commissioning and the usage of any such e-mail
- address always transact such sessions at a public wi-fi portal and
- never on your home or work networks, that way such IP remains
- 'firewalled' from tracing.
- Of course, the fact that you have communicated to us is still clearly
- present in your e-mail records on your computer. A practical
- alternative is to configure a persistent version of Liberte Linux on an
- encrypted USB stick or SD card, and only conduct e-mail correspondence
- from that system booted onto a laptop, which is used at a public wi-fi
- portal.
- Another alternative is to commission a free Hushmail encrypted web-mail
- account via a tor-ified browser and to then always use that hushmail
- account via a tor-ified browser.
- https://www.hushmail.com
- The problem with free hushmail accounts is that they have to be logged
- into every three weeks otherwise they convert to a paid account; a paid
- account is quite convenient and can be anonymously purchased using the
- method described hence.
- If you wish to send us large files, then upload them to a
- cyber-locker/file-host, these are recommended:
- http://rghost.net/ http://datafilehost.com
- Of course uploading via a tor-ified browser client.
- For very large data sets we recommend uploading to the Usenet binaries
- newsgroup:
- alt.binaries.test
- Always upload using SSL tunneling, using a SSL enabled Usenet access
- provider.
- Recommended tools:
- http://www.jbinup.com/ or -
- http://powerpost.free.fr/ used with https://www.stunnel.org/index.html
- Use a nondescript file name and encrypt the archives with a password,
- locate a suitably tolerant public wi-fi access point to upload from and
- then securely contact us with the particulars, as detailed previously.
- If you search about you will probably be able to find a fixed value,
- pre-paid, disposable, Visa or Mastercard debit card with which the
- on-line registration process only requires a working e-mail address for
- authentication and not a mobile phone number.
- In commissioning a working e-mail address and hence also a synthetic
- identity, Yahoomail, at least, tolerates tor-ified browser use,
- otherwise use internet cafes or public wi-fi portals for the
- commissioning and usage of that e-mail account consistently and
- exclusively.
- Once you have established the synthetic identity and the pre-paid debit
- card, you can then purchase pre-paid SSL enabled Usenet access, whence
- you can execute the uploads from a public-access wi-fi portal.
- Please note that credit card OLTP systems usually reject proxied and
- tor-ified browsers for transactions and so for the actual purchase we
- recommend using a public portal; Internet Cafes that boot fresh O/S
- images from their intranet for each and every session are a recommended
- resource.
- By such process disciplines your real identity will remain undisclosed
- and your plausible deniability will be maintained.
- We do not warrant or assert that the methods explicated are totally
- safe and useful with no risk of compromising your anonymity. Please
- consult more knowledgeable resources on the Internet.
- This is a useful guide, generally speaking:
- Dr Who - Security and Encryption FAQ - Revision 22.6.2
- http://pastebin.com/kNruUa3W
- Of course if you think any of this advice is technically naive and
- could compromise your anonymity and plausible deniability, then please
- do not hesitate to correct us and to suggest better methods and
- processes, thank you.
- However the VLF consider the methods outlined to be a useful basis from
- which to start thinking about secure anonymous communication and we
- think they would be useful for HP whistle-blowers, VMS activists, and
- those gagged by NDAs (Non-disclosure Agreements) that see the need to
- let some sunshine in on HP VMS policy, and to let some sunshine out,
- such as the source code for VMS and Layered Products.
- YMWV, please do your homework first, you are VMS men, it should not be
- difficult.
- $!-------------------------- damn straight ---------------------------!$
- $ opprobrium/level=kittens/mode=conniptions/input=VLF:/output=NL: !$
- $!--------------------------- enough said ----------------------------!$
- ..: NFO and DIZ v0.9.2.0 - 2012-10-25 - !xD :..
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