bookmark_borderThe immense ramifications of the NIT Warrant fiascos

That the DOJ is a corrupt organization (specifically the FBI & DEA) is accepted as fact by a majority of citizens. A DC Magistrate just ruled on the latest example of such corruption.

An ethos of “the ends justifies the means” permeates most of law enforcement in America. When this occurred exactly is difficult to ascertain; but, the “War on Drugs” (which replaced the War on Poverty in the 1970s) appears to be the likely starting point of it being pervasive. I actually think it got its start in 1928, as Judge Brandeis warned in his dissent:

To declare that – in the administration of criminal law – the end justifies the means, to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.

Olmstead v. United States – Justice Brandeis

Brandeis was affirmed in Katz v. United States, but that left 39 years for law enforcement to develop unconstitutional methods (i.e the ends justify the means). In other words, the damage was already done because bad habits had taken hold and persist to this day.

For example, Keith A. Becker (and his minions) obtained an obviously illegal NIT warrant(s) to commit a heinous crime to catch those committing equally or less heinous crimes. Digest that fact for a moment. Operation Torpedo, (then Pacifier) consisted of Keith (and his clowns) actively distributing CSAM – completely unfettered – for weeks! Then (to catch people committing equal or lessor crimes), they fraudulently obtained a warrant to install malware on visiting machines. As I’ve explained before, Operation Torpedo consisted of legitimate and illegitimate malware schemes. Pacifier’s malware was legitimate as well; but, the courts ruled that “Leon” applied to the NIT warrant without considering that Pacifier was the second time Keith used that illegal warrant scheme. (My FOIA lawsuit aims to shed light on that criminality).

What I’m saying is that the ends justifies the means law enforcement ethos is unconstitutional and un-American. And more people should label it as such, so we can eradicate it before we are really subject to an unfettered American Gestapo.

bookmark_borderThe Backpage Persecution

For anyone who doubts the vindictiveness of the DOJ, one needs to look no further than the backpage.com case. But there are plenty of other examples, like this decade old case against Aaron Swartz. Sadly, like Aaron, Jim Larkin committed suicide before this third ridiculous trial began.

As you can see from the case link above, the Judge in this third trial has thrown out most of the remaining charges against Lacey (because they are baseless) and proves that Kamala Harris is not a good person.

But since our justice system is severely corrupt, there will be no consequences for any of them. Just look at my open Letter to Josh Stroschein, who can face no consequences for his misdeeds in my case but refuses to engage in a dialog.

Update 8-30-2024: So it looks like the Injustice Department got its pound of flesh from Michael Lacey via their Backpage persecution. This case – among many others (including mine) – proves that most of America’s criminal justice activities are like those of any authoritarian police state (e.g. over-criminalization & zero accountability for prosecutor misconduct).

Hopefully, Mr. Lacey will be exonerated on appeal, but in a system as corrupt as ours, I wouldn’t bank on it.

bookmark_borderPerfecting an Appeal Shouldn’t Be Difficult

I’m trying to appeal the nonsensical decision made by a lower court concerning my SORA level. I should be a Tier 1 (not on the website) per two health care professional assessments. This is especially true since the second assessment was done by the professional that provided my Court Ordered treatment.

It’s not a problem that Court’s make mistakes, that’s just apart of being human. The problem is that most Courts have a propensity to pretend that they don’t occasionally make mistakes or wrong judgements. (As far as judges are concerned, they never make mistakes; which is absurd on its face.) This is especially true when their mistake was based upon false evidence and they refuse to acknowledge it.

My dilemma for both my original conviction and this ridiculous SORA determination are based upon false evidence presented by the government at the initial stages of the proceedings. Trying to correct these falsehoods is proving to be far too difficult for our justice system to claim legitimacy. It’s just totally corrupt to allow the government to lie at an initial proceeding then declare that nothing can be done about it after that initial hearing.

Which brings us to the title of this post. I’m trying to “perfect” my appeal to the Appellate Division, Fourth Department and all they have provide me with is a rules of practice (because they cannot give legal advice). I don’t consider how to compose “the record” legal advice. I’ve got a letter into my previous lawyer to provide me with a copy of the record she used, to give me a template on how to compose my record for my current appeal.

My appeal is simple, the lower court’s decision is baseless nonsense, please vacate and reverse; but, they are making it ridiculously complicated.

bookmark_borderHail Mary Fail

My “petition” to the Supreme Court was rejected out-right, as one apparently has no permission to appeal circuit court denials of §2255(h) petitions. The fact that the Eighth Circuit didn’t explain its denial makes my path forward undetermined. In of the words, that rejection puts my 2255(h) litigation on hold until my FOIA litigation completes. Hopefully, it’ll uncover the smoking gun(s) that technological ignorants can comprehend.

I presented evidence to the Eighth Circuit that proved my conviction was obtained fraudulently, satisfying 2255(h)(1). The government argued that the evidence wasn’t “new” and that it was merely impeachment evidence. Both claims were absurd & false.

IOW, The premise that our justice system is fair is ludicrous.

bookmark_borderLike Trump, my Court Battles Continue into the New Year

So, the criminal candidate’s legal issues continue and so do mine. Currently waiting on a State Court to issue a ruling (that I’ll probably have to appeal). Also waiting for the Federal government to reply to my appeal to the Second Circuit and for them to produce some documents for my FOIA lawsuit. Also, as per the previous post, I sent a “Hail Mary” to the SCOTUS overlord for the Eighth Circuit.

That Hail Mary inspired me to send a letter to Joseph Morelle to ask him to initiate some desperately needed criminal justice reform. Making me think that I may have to become an “activist”…

bookmark_borderWhen Trump Goes to Prison

As I predicted at this time in 2022, 2023 was going to be a very bad year for Trump. Now, as 2024 approaches I’ll go ahead and predict that Trump will have it worse in 2024, because he’s going to prison.

Going to a low or minimum class Federal Prison will be horrible for Trump, who’s used to being pampered. He’ll probably get to self surrender (where you go to the assigned prison and ring the doorbell). And – as long as he’s below 12 years – (my guess is that he’ll get a sentence of 5 to 10 years due to his age) he’ll go to a prison camp, where he’ll sit around and watch TV and meet with his lawyers daily. After a year or two of camp confinement, the BOP will decide he can serve the rest of his sentence on home confinement, because he’ll have to serve 85% of his sentence because “the feds”, which is calculated in months. So if he gets 5 years (my best guess) he’ll have to serve 51 months. SO he’ll be at the camp for about 12 to 24 months, then serve the remaining at his resort.

The wildcard in his incarceration saga is the very serious RICO charges in Georgia, if convicted there he’ll have to serve time in a Georgia State Prison. That would be bad, I doubt he’d survive being incarcerated there, which I’ve read is a much hasher environment than “club fed”.

SO… The Stakes couldn’t be any higher, get your popcorn.

bookmark_borderWhen it looks like a conspiracy… IT IS

I submit that when it looks like a conspiracy, it probably is… While, it’s not (in theory) inconceivable that a handful of people – operating on their own – with inadvertently aligned interests are capable of producing something that looks like a conspiracy; I believe that the probability that this could explain the actions of all the players in my prosecution is absolutely nil.

So, whether (or not) something conspiratorial actually occurred cannot be proven without a considerable amount of evidence and I think I’ve attained that threshold with the discovery of the shill’s final report on the NIT. Therefore, my FOIA request (currently in litigation) will be the icing on the conspiratorial cake.

Here’s what I can prove:

In December of 2014, my CJA attorney hired the Shills – without my permission – instead of the experts I wanted (Dr. Mercuri’s Team). The Shills charged more per hour, $300 vs $275 and they had no criminal law expert witness experience – unlike Mercuri. Mercuri declared in her letter (posted earlier) that she knew the “just a flash application” explanation was nonsense and that she would examine my Linux Computer, the shills did neither.

In January of 2015, the shills examined the wrong server – out of a choice of three – that were clearly labeled by name. My NIT Report clearly says it’s for TB2 (#2 in the code), yet they examined #1. At that time I had two questions about my NIT report: 1) Why are the session ids different, when they should be the same? 2) Why is the browser reporting the previous page as the current page? The shills’ report answered neither of my questions and promoted the FBI’s nonsense that the NIT was just a flash application. From the code snippets they provided, I could tell (as a PHP expert) that they were showing code from a PHP software program called PHPBB. At that time I could deduce two things about their report: 1) The shills were lying, the code they proclaimed generated my session ids could not be the code they were showing (as it would produce identical ids, not different.) 2) They were dishonestly parroting the FBI’s nonsense about the NIT just being a flash app. When I e-mailed my CJA attorney my concerns it fell on deaf ears, so I fired him to fire the shills.

In April of 2015, Becker is not sure if the shills will be retained for the second NIT examination. So, he flies to the WDNY to obtain an indictment with the tainted evidence seized from my residence on April 9, 2013. The evidence was tainted because the search of my home was improper, which the government admits. There was also strong circumstantial evidence (only circumstantial because no defense expert ever examined my Linux computer) of planting evidence on my Linux box. At this time (April) I have 3 CJA lawyers, Gross & Howard in Nebraska and Slawinski in New York & five computer experts, Podhradksy, Miller, Stroschein & Kasel in NE & Gerry Grant in NY. None of the lawyers notice that the NIT warrants are for Nebraska and Elsewhere (forbidden at the time) and none of the experts examine my Linux computer, which is direct evidence of the conspiracy.

In May of 2015, I point out the problems with the evidence (fraudulent NIT Report & tainted evidence) to Slawinski and Grant in WDNY. They do nothing… Meanwhile in NE, my new CJA Howard, refuses to fire the shills and hire Mercuri and refuses to discuss it.

In June of 2015, the shills produce their second report. It contains, objective facts in the form of figures, gives knowingly incorrect answers to my questions and continues to parrot the government’s (now ridiculous) assertions that the NIT is just a flash app (their figures prove that this is not true). I now know I’m being railroaded and am desperate to stop it, but the shills and my attorneys thwart my efforts.

In July of 2015, I know I’m being railroaded and that my Daubert hearing will be the only way to stop this runaway train. I share the shills nonsensical report with any “expert” who will read it. They all agree it’s nonsense. One agrees to produce a small report (for free) and sends it to Howard, he ignores it. The shills continue to agree with the FBI’s now criminal assertion that the NIT was just a flash app, so my last defense is obliterated by the shills lies. My hearing will just be about the lost flash source code, whose function has no bearing on the NIT data validity.

On August 3, 2015, I’m helpless to stop my railroading thanks to the shills false testimony. (Confirmed in 2016 – See below) I’m coerced into taking a conditional plea (preserving my right to appeal the admissibility of the bogus NIT report). But that appeal is useless because it’s based on the false premise that the NIT was just the flash application, so it was destined to fail.

On December 16, 2015, I try to withdraw my plea for a “fair and just reason”, arguing that I was coerced into it based on the false testimony of all the experts, including mine. The judge denies it, because he believes all the lies.

On May 25, 2016, Unknown to me (as I’m in prison), the shills produce their final (third) report on the NIT. It still contains lies (they’re still ignoring that Tinyboard’s ‘visitors’ table is NOT legit), but much less than their previous two reports and many new facts & figures appear for the first time. Figures 3, 4 & 5 show that most of the information in the ‘visitors’ table was falsified. Figure 6 shows that the exploit wasn’t only a flash app, but Java and Javascript were also available. Figure 7 shows that javascript would have to be enabled to load the flash app on TB2. Figure 8 shows how the cipher text was created. Figure 9 shows that flash made a DNS query to 96.126.124.96.(40char.40char.16char).cpimagegallery.com and that the flash app would have 20 seconds to open the connection. (Actionscript has a default 20 second timeout for socket connects that can only be modified by ‘socket.timeout’. Since it isn’t in the code, the 20 second timeout was in play.) Figures 12 & 13, show that there is an impossible time gap between loading the flash app and each socket connection (39 seconds for index.html and 63 seconds for 1481.html)

Also, in the text of the third report, the shills (as first noted here) report that: “The DNS requests go over UDP and thus they can be spoofed. However, the cornhusker log indicates that DNS request was made via the the proxy server and thus that data was not logged in this case.” They also note what I’d been insisting all along: “Another scenario is one which an actor that knew that the Tor Hidden Service site was deanonymizing users. The requests for the pages 1481.html and index.html could have been placed inside of hidden iframes within other legitimate Tor websites.” But then lie: “We found no evidence to suggest that this occurred.” I think the fact that the time gaps for socket connections were impossible is what most people would consider a “clue”. No wonder they refuse to discuss this.

Now, I wait for my FOIA litigation to obtain more evidence of this – now confirmed – conspiracy against me…

bookmark_borderFOIA and WOW Update

So, today I’ll be mailing/filing my motion for a preliminary injunction against the government for intentionally delaying my receipt of the documents I requested. Which leads us to the WOW update.

So, one of the many problems with my NIT report is the long gaps between loading the html file (and the flash app) and the flash apps communication with another server via a socket connection.

Well, I found the answer. As the link verifies, those time gaps of 39 & 63 seconds are impossible with flash player 10 or later:

In Flash Player 10, ActionScript Socket and XMLSocket objects, all securityError events will be sent after a predefined amount of time has elapsed since the call to connect(). The predetermined timeout is 20 seconds by default but can be specified by ActionScript developers using the new Socket.timeout and XMLSocket.timeout APIs. If the timeout elapses and no connection has been established, the connection attempt will be aborted and a securityError dispatched.

Note: This change affects SWF files of all versions played in Flash Player 10 and later. This security change can potentially affect any SWF file that uses the Socket or XMLSocket classes. This change affects all non-app content in Adobe AIR (however, AIR app content itself is unaffected).

Adobe Link above (answer).

bookmark_borderWOW – OMG – WOW

So I may have found THE SMOKING GUN. In 2016 my shills published an academic paper (click link) that contradicts their first and second reports made to the Court(s). Four revelations stand out:

  1. The DNS requests go over UDP and thus they can be spoofed. However, the cornhusker log indicates that DNS request was made via the the proxy server and thus that data was not logged in this case.
  2. There is no guarantee that the request made from gallery.swf was made by the same client that requested the Tor Hidden Service. Outbound connection monitoring would make it trivial to de- duce that something unusual was happening. Suppose that gallery.swf were to be placed on another website and given the same id parameter. Then the connection to cornhusker would have logged an inaccurate IP address.
  3. Another scenario is one which an actor that knew that the Tor Hidden Service site was deanonymizing users. The requests for the pages 1481.html and index.html could have been placed inside of hidden iframes within other legitimate Tor websites. We found no evidence to suggest that this occurred.
  4. The cornhusker server was unavailable for our analysis. Therefore we were unable to analyze any access controls that were in place for that server.
Miller, Matthew; Stroschein, Joshua; and Podhradsky, Ashley, “Reverse Engineering a Nit That Unmasks Tor Users” (2016). Annual ADFSL Conference on Digital Forensics, Security and Law. 10.

I’m not an expert when it comes to DNS, but number 1 appears VERY suspicious to me. And I’ve been arguing 2 – 4 all along, pissed to see they agree AFTER they lied at the Daubert hearing and in their first two reports. No wonder they refuse to talk to me. And I totally LOL’d when I read We found no evidence to suggest that this occurred for #3. That’s because they deliberately ignored the evidence! (There are 39 & 63 second delays between loading index.html & 1481.html and flash executing the socket connection. WOW-OMG-WOW)