$! 58 ADAWI . : FFS EA !$
$! 19 BLSS : SETPRV BYPASS CMKRNL DiAGNOSE READALL . INCL D6 !$
$! BC CHMK ^ VOLPRO iMPERSONATE SHARE WORLD UPGRADE v JSB 16 !$
$! B7 DECW | | LDPCTX 06 !$
$! -- - >--+----------------------------------------+--> -- - !$
$! 7A EMUL | | MATCHC 39 !$
$! EB FFC | .................................... | PROBER 0C !$
$! 0A INDEX | :__ __: __ : ______ : | REMQUE 0F !$
$! 17 JMP | :\$\ /$/: |@| : |&&&&&&| : | SVPCTX 07 !$
$! 3A LOCC | : \$\ /$/ : |@| : |&|____ : | TSTG 53FD !$
$! 2F MOVTUC | : \$\ /$/ : |@| : |&&&&&&| : | VGATHQ 37FD !$
$! 0D PROBEW | : \$\/$/ : |@|____ : |&| : | XORW3 AD !$
$! 02 REI | : \$$/ : |@@@@@@| : |&| : | ASHQ 79 !$
$! 2A SCANC | :............:..........:..........: | BGTRU 1A !$
$! 73FD TSTH | | CRC 0B !$
$! E9FD VSXORL | --:: THE VMS LiBERATiON FRONT ::-- | VSYNC A8FD !$
$! FC XFC | | CLRL D4 !$
$! 35FD VGATHL | +=================+ | MTVP A9FD !$
$! 60 ADDD2 | -- +| IN VMS WE TRUST |+ -- | SPANC 2B !$
$! DF PUSHAL | +=================+ | PUSHR BB !$
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Or use an alternative Command Shell for Windows, such as the JPSoft
TCC/LE:
http://jpsoft.com/tccle-cmd-replacement.html
Set default to the directory where you extracted the contents of
release archive and then run the LMFGEN.EXE executable.
Execute LMFGEN.EXE /HELP for help and LMFGEN.EXE /HELP=EXAMPLES for
license generation examples.
Consult the HP OpenVMS License Management Utility Manual for further
insight:
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/82final/4584/4584pro.html
$!-- VLF::SYS$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 ::--
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.
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