July 2018 - cypherpunks-legacy

Re: Norman Borlaug, 1914-2009
by Robert X. Cringely 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

I didn't know Norman Borlaug. I do know Tom Brokaw, who is a fine person, a hard worker, and quite without the ego that afflicts many in his profession. If you think Tom Brokaw represents a "moral sewer" then I think you are a very poor judge of character. Either that or you simply like to insult people you don't know. Bob Cringely At 9:26 AM -0400 9/13/09, R.A. Hettinga wrote: > A moral giant died yesterday, the greatest humanitarian of the 20th > century. > > A man who directly saved more people (245 million) from starvation <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug > > than Lenin and Stalin & Co. (61,911,000), Hitler (20,946,000), Mao > & Co. (77,277,000), and Pol Pot (2,035,000) killed altogether <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democide > >. > > If I were to guess, I'd figure there are at least a billion people > standing on the planet right now who would not be alive if this man > had not lived. > > Borlaug delivered not mere bags of surplus gruel shipped by guilty > consciences in the "developed" world. Or, much worse, precious food > stolen from the mouths of other starving people in communist > countries and used as some kind of demented political weapon. Food > left to rot on the docks for the rats to eat. > > Borlaug delivered *better* food, developed for local conditions, > *grown* locally, and *sold* locally by farmers in a free market -- a > condition which Borlaug personally demanded for the use of his > hybrid seeds. > > > Because of Norman Borlaug there is no famine in all the places > haunted by starvation when I was a child: Mexico, India, East Asia, > Africa, even China. The only places where people face wholesale > starvation now are places where democidal politicians deliberately > *cause* famine: North Korea, Burma, Congo, Zimbabwe, Haiti, Cuba and > the Sudan. And the only people who face starvation in the future > will be those subject to democidal thugs and fools. > > A moral monument of a man. A inspiration to free human beings > everywhere. A man who now belongs to history. > > > Cheers, > RAH > Who, quite by accident, saw Borlaug get yet another honorary degree > at a nephew's graduation a while back -- along with Tom Brokaw, who > actually did the commencement address. Talk about going from a moral > sewer to a towering skyscraper in the space of a single dais... > > > -------- > > <http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090913/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_borlaug/ > print> > > Nobel Prize winner Norman Borlaug dies at 95 > > By MATT CURRY and BETSY BLANEY, Associated Press Writers > September 13, 2009 > > DALLAS - Agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug, the father of the > "green revolution" who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in > combating world hunger and saving hundreds of millions of lives, > died Saturday in Texas, a Texas A&M University spokeswoman said. He > was 95. > > Borlaug died just before 11 p.m. Saturday at his home in Dallas from > complications of cancer, said school spokeswoman Kathleen Phillips. > Phillips said Borlaug's granddaughter told her about his death. > Borlaug was a distinguished professor at the university in College > Station. > > The Nobel committee honored Borlaug in 1970 for his contributions to > high-yield crop varieties and bringing other agricultural > innovations to the developing world. Many experts credit the green > revolution with averting global famine during the second half of the > 20th century and saving perhaps 1 billion lives. > > Thanks to the green revolution, world food production more than > doubled between 1960 and 1990. In Pakistan and India, two of the > nations that benefited most from the new crop varieties, grain > yields more than quadrupled over the period. > > "We would like his life to be a model for making a difference in the > lives of others and to bring about efforts to end human misery for > all mankind," his children said in a statement. "One of his favorite > quotes was, 'Reach for the stars. Although you will never touch > them, if you reach hard enough, you will find that you get a little > 'star dust' on you in the process.'" > > Equal parts scientist and humanitarian, the Iowa-born Borlaug > realized improved crop varieties were just part of the answer, and > pressed governments for farmer-friendly economic policies and > improved infrastructure to make markets accessible. A 2006 book > about Borlaug is titled "The Man Who Fed the World." > > "He has probably done more and is known by fewer people than anybody > that has done that much," said Dr. Ed Runge, retired head of Texas > A&M University's Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and a close > friend who persuaded Borlaug teach at the school. "He made the world > a better place - a much better place. He had people helping him, but > he was the driving force." > > Borlaug began the work that led to his Nobel in Mexico at the end of > World War II. There he used innovative breeding techniques to > produce disease-resistant varieties of wheat that produced much more > grain than traditional strains. > > He and others later took those varieties and similarly improved > strains of rice and corn to Asia, the Middle East, South America and > Africa. > > "More than any other single person of his age, he has helped to > provide bread for a hungry world," Nobel Peace Prize committee > chairman Aase Lionaes said in presenting the award to Borlaug. "We > have made this choice in the hope that providing bread will also > give the world peace." > > During the 1950s and 1960s, public health improvements fueled a > population boom in underdeveloped nations, leading to concerns that > agricultural systems could not keep up with growing food demand. > Borlaug's work often is credited with expanding agriculture at just > the moment such an increase in production was most needed. > > "We got this thing going quite rapidly," Borlaug told The Associated > Press in a 2000 interview. "It came as a surprise that something > from a Third World country like Mexico could have such an impact." > > His successes in the 1960s came just as books like "The Population > Bomb" were warning readers that mass starvation was inevitable. > > "Three or four decades ago, when we were trying to move technology > into India, Pakistan and China, they said nothing could be done to > save these people, that the population had to die off," he said in > 2004. > > Borlaug often said wheat was only a vehicle for his real interest, > which was to improve people's lives. > > "We must recognize the fact that adequate food is only the first > requisite for life," he said in his Nobel acceptance speech. "For a > decent and humane life we must also provide an opportunity for good > education, remunerative employment, comfortable housing, good > clothing and effective and compassionate medical care." > > In Mexico, Borlaug was known both for his skill in breeding plants > and for his eagerness to labor in the fields himself, rather than to > let assistants do all the hard work. > > He remained active well into his 90s, campaigning for the use of > biotechnology to fight hunger and working on a project to fight > poverty and starvation in Africa by teaching new drought-resistant > farming methods. > > "We still have a large number of miserable, hungry people and this > contributes to world instability," Borlaug said in May 2006 at an > Asian Development Bank forum in the Philippines. "Human misery is > explosive, and you better not forget that." > > Norman Ernest Borlaug was born March 25, 1914, on a farm near > Cresco, Iowa, and educated through the eighth grade in a one-room > schoolhouse. > "I was born out of the soil of Howard County," he said. "It was that > black soil of the Great Depression that led me to a career in > agriculture." > > He left home during the Great Depression to study forestry at the > University of Minnesota. While there he earned himself a place in > the university's wrestling hall of fame and met his future wife, > whom he married in 1937. Margaret Borlaug died in 2007 at the age of > 95. > > After a brief stint with the U.S. Forest Service, Norman Borlaug > returned to the University of Minnesota for a doctoral degree in > plant pathology. He then worked as a microbiologist for DuPont, but > soon left for a job with the Rockefeller Foundation. Between 1944 > and 1960, Borlaug dedicated himself to increasing Mexico's wheat > production. > > In 1963, Borlaug was named head of the newly formed International > Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, where he trained thousands of > young scientists. > Borlaug retired as head of the center in 1979 and turned to > university teaching, first at Cornell University and then at Texas > A&M, which presented him with an honorary doctorate in December 2007. > > "You really felt really very privileged to be with him, and it > wasn't that he was so overpowering, but he was always on, > intellectually always engaged," said Dr. Ed Price, director of A&M's > Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture. "He was > always onto the issues and wanting to engage and wanting your > opinions and thoughts." > > In 1986, Borlaug established the Des Moines, Iowa-based World Food > Prize, a $250,000 award given each year to a person whose work > improves the world's food supply. He also helped found and served as > president of the Sasakawa Africa Foundation, an organization funded > by Japanese billionaire Ryoichi Sasakawa to introduce the green > revolution to sub-Saharan Africa. > > In July 2007, Borlaug received the Congressional Gold Medal, the > highest civilian honor given by Congress. > > He is survived by daughter Jeanie Borlaug Laube and her husband Rex; > son William Gibson Borlaug and his wife Barbie; five grandchildren > and six great-grandchildren. > > They asked that in lieu of flowers, donations be sent to the Borlaug > International Scholars Fund. It helps students from developing > countries pursue graduate studies or short-term experiential > learning activities at Texas A&M or other land grant universities in > the U.S. > > Plans for a memorial service to be held at Texas A&M were pending.

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Re: [p2p-hackers] Whistle-blower site platform design
by Yongdae Kim 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

We touch upon overlay design for censorship-resistant publishing systems last year, which talks about some of the major requirements as well as relation between different concepts. We also discussed some of the attacks on Freenet as well as Tor Bridges.. E. Vasserman, R. Jansen, J. Tyra, N. Hopper, Yongdae Kim , "Membership-concealing overlay networks", ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2009 Yongdae -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + Yongdae Kim (office phone) 1-612-626-7526 + Associate Professor, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities + kyd (at mark) cs.umn.edu, http://www.cs.umn.edu/~kyd +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers(a)lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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[Body Hacking] Makeup to Fool Face Recognition Software
by I)ruid 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

"An NYU student has been reverse-engineering facial recognition algorithms to devise makeup patterns to confuse face recognition software." http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/04/makeup_to_fool.html Note, there are *two* links in Schneier's blog post, however the words linked are adjacent so you might have otherwise not noticed (: -- I)ruid, C2ISSP druid(a)caughq.org http://druid.caughq.org ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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Re: [p2p-hackers] Whistle-blower site platform design
by Yongdae Kim 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

We touch upon overlay design for censorship-resistant publishing systems last year, which talks about some of the major requirements as well as relation between different concepts. We also discussed some of the attacks on Freenet as well as Tor Bridges.. E. Vasserman, R. Jansen, J. Tyra, N. Hopper, Yongdae Kim , "Membership-concealing overlay networks", ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2009 Yongdae -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + Yongdae Kim (office phone) 1-612-626-7526 + Associate Professor, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities + kyd (at mark) cs.umn.edu, http://www.cs.umn.edu/~kyd +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers(a)lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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[cryptography] Fwd: Comodo hacker: I hacked DigiNotar too; other CAs breached
by David Koontz 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2011/09/comodo-hacker-i-hacked-diginot… The Comodo Hack mentioned in the DigiNotar Interim Report _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography(a)randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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[liberationtech] UK: Phone and email records to be stored in new spy plan
by Frank Corrigan 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

I understand the capabilities below already exist in the US< in terms of real time access to ISP/Telco customer records? Communications Capabilities Development Programme http://action.openrightsgroup.org/ea-campaign/clientcampaign.do?ea.client.i… http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/counter-terrorism/communications-data/ "Details of every phone call and text message, email traffic and websites visited online are to be stored in a series of vast databases under new Government anti-terror plans. Rather than the Government holding the information centrally, companies including BT, Sky, Virgin Media, Vodafone and O2 would have to keep the records themselves. Under the scheme the security services would be granted b real timeb access to phone and internet records of people they want to put under surveillance, as well as the ability to reconstruct their movements through the information stored in the databases." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet/9090617/Phone-and-email-reco… Frank _______________________________________________ liberationtech mailing list liberationtech(a)lists.stanford.edu Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech If you would like to receive a daily digest, click "yes" (once you click above) next to "would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest?" You will need the user name and password you receive from the list moderator in monthly reminders. Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. Please don't forget to follow us on http://twitter.com/#!/Liberationtech ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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Re: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc (was: att fiber, et al)
by Marcel Plug 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

This article from arstechnica is right on topic. Its about how the city of Amsterdam built an open-access fibre network. It seems to me this is the right way to do it, or at least very close to the right way.. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/03/how-amsterdam-was-wired-for… -Marcel On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:35 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks(a)vt.edu> wrote: > On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:18:26 -1000, Michael Painter said: > >> "The indication of above average or below average is based on a comparison of the actual test result to the current NTIA >> definition of broadband which is 768 kbps download and 200 kbps upload. Any test result above the NTIA definition is >> considered above average, and any result below is considered below average." > > That's the national definition of "broadband" that we're stuck with. To show > how totally cooked the books are, consider that when they compute "percent of > people with access to residential broadband", they do it on a per-county basis > - and if even *one* subscriber in one corner of the county has broadband, the > entire county counts. > ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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Re: [cryptography] crypto.cat
by natanael.l＠gmail.com 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

It seems to lack verification and authorization = easy to MITM. 2012-03-31 15:49 skrev Mario Contestabile: You guys have any cypherpunk opinions on https://crypto.cat/ ? It's a "secure" online communication tool, apparently used by Anonymous. It was developed by Nadim Kobeissi, (yet another Montrealer). Mario _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography(a)randombit.net https://crypto.cat/ _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography(a)randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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Lucrative update
by Patrick 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Lucrative release 4 is out. I know many people are used to seeing releases numbered like "0.000001", "0.000002", "2.0.3.0.14.657" etc. but release numbering systems are essentially arbitrary in nature so don't get excited as Lucrative goes toward version 50+. This release is a fairly minor one, but included some changes such as the client name that I wanted to get out as soon as possible. There is also a new development weblog at http://lucrative.thirdhost.com/weblog/. I went through an install with someone over IRC last night and made a blog entry summarizing the install notes. I recommend reading the notes before attempting an install. I am glad to help with an install, drop me a note at patrick(a)lfcgate.com if you have trouble. Some documentation on the various entities in the Lucrative system is now available on the website, http://lucrative.thirdhost.com/documentation.php but more is needed and coming. If Lucrative is interesting to you, please consider helping in any way you can: Feedback Installation reports Suggestions Comments Criticism Feature requests Source code patches Donations Are all very much welcomed. And criticism is more useful to me than praise. My sincere thanks to everyone who has participated so far by installing, testing, providing feedback, spreading the word, and donating. And finally I just received word from SourceForge that the project registration for Lucrative has been approved. Regards, Patrick -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> mQGiBD5ECKcRBADUvjXHwLtxIyS4AyjBs/dFtN6rdeP18Fhzh1hD5fJwkFevqY9Z I1ASROTh6eXYF7pU5sEvbcPshHyTB41ZtTqZvQvpwWN0fUzOuutuI0mtC5UPp9Rz j47SdWLdEXNHjwnHDCYSyqtqZu8GujGRQybR0eP3NIh/NwbSDUKdgz7IjwCg//Jo UtjP3zUFobm/0UYA+CJ5krED/091x9Js0gwNwvjbzM8DqO+r8qNz0kXI13FkrPRk QNd37lxt6m2m8HZD1WYM2wKwtMzHSwJcWzaDZ/tNc+ppYjzpw0EQCh9FqjGs8Vau guF6PA1M8lJTCcLKaL4e7ynic+PAw5Xa/tdOYgFCG+eLMU5RLvzRCYoOLIjgMJLJ yG98BACAMlDmFVYgC/UKvzZmHfZ5CtCKd8sPfCXrYLu5NeFRE0LR6D6zjzmhi1xX okfreR5o3T/y78VBM98js+m2/+7Z0AElqydeW/RnV1zqwDGjDr9z2MgARf3yLAbs n3BU8Fz61RwvHy6cRkT+2dR2f69QQUSpkupvLwZIGX/iwm4uKLQdUGF0cmljayA8 cGF0cmlja0BsZmNnYXRlLmNvbT6JAE4EEBECAA4FAj5ECKcECwMCAQIZAQAKCRBb mvb9yuOVfaA2AKDAu5tDj9F2KI8cJMrKKkQRAcUyxACg6/bei7lUJH+E5igJqGRx SjKrRA65BA0EPkQIpxAQAPkYoH5aBmF6Q5CV3AVsh4bsYezNRR8O2OCjecbJ3HoL rOQ/40aUtjBKU9d8AhZIgLUV5SmZqZ8HdNP/46HFliBOmGW42A3uEF2rthccUdhQ yiJXQym+lehWKzh4XAvb+ExN1eOqRsz7zhfoKp0UYeOEqU/Rg4Soebbvj6dDRgjG zB13VyQ4SuLE8OiOE2eXTpITYfbb6yUOF/32mPfIfHmwch04dfv2wXPEgxEmK0Ng w+Po1gr9oSgmC66prrNlD6IAUwGgfNaroxIe+g8qzh90hE/K8xfzpEDp19J3tkIt AjbBJstoXp18mAkKjX4t7eRdefXUkk+bGI78KqdLfDL2Qle3CH8IF3KiutapQvMF 6PlTETlPtvFuuUs4INoBp1ajFOmPQFXz0AfGy0OplK33TGSGSfgMg71l6RfUodNQ +PVZX9x2Uk89PY3bzpnhV5JZzf24rnRPxfx2vIPFRzBhznzJZv8V+bv9kV7HAarT W56NoKVyOtQa8L9GAFgr5fSI/VhOSdvNILSd5JEHNmszbDgNRR0PfIizHHxbLY72 88kjwEPwpVsYjY67VYy4XTjTNP18F1dDox0YbN4zISy1Kv884bEpQBgRjXyEpwpy 1obEAxnIByl6ypUM2Zafq9AKUJsCRtMIPWakXUGfnHy9iUsiGSa6q6Jew1XrPdYX AAICD/wKwtF7Y4NKBe8PQ6jDbjWziiTv9Ac/EnRTJDQEoqgLa2LyE+6Ahw/VPGvp mfxkD2MKxC9E7kYVmasn6sHnSpvAv3e7O1Bqbo/qLzzCcJQ5VCurZ+elRM1GZ4Oc fM19FPKutb0/JFEv0nrqS4BGkF7WFBbu5dKYl/GIO7Co1mAerFIb719dOwMPVEIz OT08u8uB9jyR8gEElf+CVuNfOUkrUGg4HS4SbmTTrCSz3/8n5PkquSuAyjCB/dwM ZsZwA0/TTR8sDYlmlf9xPj5PGpGnV9OUwfig6eE0eWtRFeasmz0uiX+yp45ABtNh 6EXP/PFaBgXi9omXXjeeFYfpDvmfA6izvTIQfXTV6V9ZWrBfXarM+GQ+6guXWVbd 9fXvmCr982LkzuKQrK1OpRXBMUapXL+tOy/LYzz91InqKKhgPNGa12fvotZ4LzlM iqoM+Hpz5L9B5We1Ph0lD6RBVXDCqd+P8extnY/7AaDy7tC0UghaAaUuEZXJQPIc oQ3QGbpjM0nGe/VZN5EZhljau0NNENFaU56cOpvOhcO04gLGNNc2NS+rIpTMsaHh o1CG90c5zZZJuUbyx0mIHriNQXDgEwunSZPQorKK9KSppyyjeuOyi5F/mBBPXeyT weLhLqLvAr9se/+Z3aQvMADJi8zUZtGggLTw+N9R5XSwtSh2R4kARgQYEQIABgUC PkQIpwAKCRBbmvb9yuOVfWayAKC+mBhHdn1XZ5uH0RocAyJ32hx2kgCePyhB+IqM TjWLDLarQxcPYhbkFi4= =nx1M -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)wasabisystems.com

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[cryptography] Fwd: Comodo hacker: I hacked DigiNotar too; other CAs breached
by David Koontz 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2011/09/comodo-hacker-i-hacked-diginot… The Comodo Hack mentioned in the DigiNotar Interim Report _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography(a)randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

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