July 2018 - cypherpunks-legacy

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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[Lucrative-L] Great news! Lucrative has a home!
by Patrick 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

My sincere thanks to Lucky Green for arranging server space and bandwidth for a public demonstration server. I can setup the server at any time. However, eliminating Lucrative accounts is a major change. It will rearrange the server API, significantly change the schema, and impact the Purse as well. I think it would be a good idea to go to v8, with the accounts->envelope revision done, before starting the public server. I don't know how long it will take - at least two days - but I'm working on it now. Patrick The Lucrative Project: http://lucrative.thirdhost.com ...................................................... To subscribe or unsubscribe from this discussion list, write to lucrative-l-request(a)lucrative.thirdhost.com with just the word "unsubscribe" in the message body (or, of course, "subscribe") --- 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'

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Re: [tor-talk] TorBirdy doesn't work with Gmail?
by Mike Hearn 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Hello, I work for Google as TL of the account security system that is blocking your access. Access to Google accounts via Tor (or any anonymizing proxy service) is not allowed unless you have established a track record of using those services beforehand. You have several ways to do that: 1) With Tor active, log in via the web and answer a security quiz, if any is presented. You may need to receive a code on your phone. If you don't have a phone number on the account the access may be denied. 2) Log in via the web without Tor, then activate Tor and log in again WITHOUT clearing cookies. The GAPS cookie on your browser is a large random number that acts as a second factor and will whitelist your access. Once we see that your account has a track record of being successfully accessed via Tor the security checks are relaxed and you should be able to use TorBirdy. Hope that helps, Mike Hearn Google account security team On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 5:03 PM, A. Kong <akagikong(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I lost track of TorBirdy, but today I realised it was complete and > available, although it isn't even mentioned on the main Tor site. > > Gmail works fine when I disable TorBirdy. Which free email > providers > currently allow the use of TorBirdy? > > Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120827 Thunderbird/15.0 > ID:20120827103323 > _______________________________________________ > tor-talk mailing list > tor-talk(a)lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk(a)lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk ----- 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: Roy Bates, "Prince Roy" of Sealand, dies at 90.
by telmnstr＠757.org 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> James Grimmelmann's recent write up is worth reading > http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1035&context=james_gri… > j Octal gave a talk at Defcon or HOPE a few years in a row about Sealand. The last one he spilled the beans on how bad Sealand did. Managerial and customer base wise. IIRC for months the entire internet connection was done over a cell phone at 9600bps or some such. He went into some details about difficulties of the idea (banks won't accept you.) One of the most memorable talks I've seen. - Ethan O'Toole ----- 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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EDRi-gram newsletter - Number 11.2, 30 January 2013
by EDRi-gram 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

====================================================================== EDRi-gram biweekly newsletter about digital civil rights in Europe Number 11.2, 30 January 2013 ======================================================================= Contents ======================================================================= 1. An introduction to Data Protection 2. EU governments keep increasing requests to Google for private data 3.Finnish copyright law might be changed following crowdsourcing support 4. German government intends to use FinFisher Spyware 5. Slovenia has a net neutrality law 6. Greater transparency and accountability of surveillance systems 7. Kroes ignoring the problems on net neutrality? 8. Recommended Action 9. Recommended Reading 10. Agenda 11. About ======================================================================= 1. An introduction to Data Protection ======================================================================= EDRi launched the booklet "An introduction to Data Protection" on 28 January 2013, the European Data Protection day. The booklet is intended to provide an overview of some of the key issues and jargon surrounding data protection in the digital environment: from "what is personal data" to anonymisation, profiling, big data and cloud computing. At its core, data protection is about preserving a fundamental right that is reflected in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, Council of Europe Convention 108, as well as other international agreements and national constitutions. The processing and re-use of citizensb data has become increasingly important from an economic perspective. It has lead to pressure to weaken this fundamental right and also to change the legislative framework to make legal protections less predictable. EDRi hopes that this document will be a positive contribution to the debate, and that the outcome of the review process will ensure predictable and proportionate protection of privacy in the digital age b reinforcing the European Unionbs global leadership on this topic. The booklet is available under Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 licence, allowing thus furthers translations and free dissemination. An introduction to Data Protection (01.2013) http://www.edri.org/files/paper06_datap.pdf ===================================================================== 2. EU governments keep increasing requests to Google for private data ===================================================================== According to Google's latest Transparency Report released on 24 January 2013, EU governmentsb requests for usersb IP addresses, Internet browsing history, email communications or documents have dramatically increased during the last three years. Only between July and December 2012, the average number of such requests was over 1200/month, more than a third of all requests made by governments worldwide, and a 100% increase in the last three years. b The information we hand over to companies like Google paints a detailed picture of who we are - from our political and religious views to our friendships, associations and locations. This information therefore merits the highest degree of privacy and security, and should only be accessed by third parties under exceptional circumstances. Governments must stop treating the user data held by corporations as a treasure trove of information they can mine whenever they please, with little or no judicial authorisation,b said Carly Nyst, Privacy International's Head of International Advocacy. Googlebs report also reveals that a large amount of requests was denied by Google for being too broad in scope, unlawful or incorrectly submitted. In their major part, the requests involve criminal investigations. Google states that a request is sometimes made for several types of data and, in some cases, the company notifies the user in advance that a government police agency intends to get information from their accounts. "The alarming statistics in this latest Transparency Report serve as a reminder of the need for stronger national and regional privacy protections in relation to online communications. To this end, Privacy International, together with a coalition of organisations including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, will soon be publishing a set of International Principles on Communications Surveillance and Human Rights. We hope these principles will offer guidance to governments about the standards and safeguards that must be put in place to safeguard the right to privacy online," stated Carly Nyst. Google Transparency Report http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/government/ Google Transparency Report for second half of 2012 shows European government attempts to access private data at an all-time high (24.01.2013) https://www.privacyinternational.org/press-releases/google-transparency-rep… Estonian President: EU citizens should trust the state on data rights (24.01.2013) http://euobserver.com/justice/118825 Google Transparency Report shows rise in data requests (23.01.2013) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21169162 EDRi-gram: Google Transparency report: increasing trend of government censorship (20.06.2012) http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number10.12/google-transparency-report-increas… ====================================================================== 3.Finnish copyright law might be changed following crowdsourcing support ====================================================================== People may be able to influence the fate of the copyright legislation in Finland due to a recent modification of the national Constitution allowing citizens to make legislative proposals for the Parliament. The Finnish Constitution says that a private legislative proposal can be sent to the Parliament for vote if it gets 50 000 supporters within 6 months. Differently from other countries, where a certain number of signatures makes a private proposal be considered and eventually discussed by the government, the Finnish constitutional amendment forces the Finnish government to examine the law, make clarifications if appropriate, and put it to a vote. A private non-profit initiative called Open Ministry was formed to ensure the good quality of the proposals, facilitate the discussion and collect the signatures for private legislative proposals. On 23 January 2013, a new proposal called b To Make Sense of the Copyright Actb was promoted in Open Ministry aiming at bringing changes to the copyright law especially regarding Lex Karpela, a 2006 amendment to the Finnish copyright law that firmly criminalizes digital piracy. According to Open Ministry chair Joonas Pekkanen, on the basis of Lex Karpela, "countless youngsters have been found guilty of copyright crimes and sentenced to pay thousands, in some cases hundreds of thousands of Euros in punitive damages to the copyright organizations." The proposal, which is now one of the most commented and signed proposals in the Open Ministry, having already reached more than 12 500 signatures, includes the reduction of criminal penalties, defining personal cloud-services and class education as private use and removal of enforcement rights like "one strike" from the law. In addition, the individual uploading of copyright-protected material to the Internet should be reduced to b a misdemeanor". Also, the proposal would allow the parody and satire of the works and very extensive use of works for research purposes. According to the 49 999 group that organises a campaign for the bill, "To Make Sense of the Copyright Act" has the simple aim of having b a fair and just copyright law in Finland and "is not a pro-piracy law proposal.b The proposal thus includes also a section, which would require fair compensation for artists and authors in the publishing agreements similarly as the German copyright law already does. It is possible that the initiative reaches its goal of getting 50 000 signatures by the 23 July 2013 and although there is no guarantee that the Government will actually approve it as such, at least it needs to give proper attention to it. Finnish campaigners seek crowdsourced change to copyright legislation (24.01.2013) http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-01/24/finland-copyright-law-crowds… Finlandbs Crowdsourced Copyright Law Proposal (23.01.2013) http://torrentfreak.com/finlands-crowdsourced-copyright-law-proposal-130124/ Finland is crowdsourcing its new copyright law (23.01.2013) http://www.dailydot.com/news/finland-crowdsourcing-new-copyright-law/ Lex Karpela http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_Karpela The 49 999 Campaign page: http://49999.org/ Signature count (only in Finnish) https://www.kansalaisaloite.fi/fi/aloite/70 Open Ministry - Crowdsourcing Legislation (English blog page for Open Ministry) http://openministry.info/ ======================================================================= 4. German government intends to use FinFisher Spyware ======================================================================= A classified document of the German Ministry of Interior, revealed by netzpolitik.org, shows that the German Federal Police office has purchased the commercial Spyware toolkit FinFisher of Eleman/Gamma Group, for telecommunication surveillance. Commercial software meant to survey telecommunications has been used by the German police before. In October 2011, German organization Chaos Computer Club (CCC) revealed and analysed the use of a malware created by DigiTask and used by German government authorities. CCC showed that DigiTask software was badly programmed, lacked elementary security protection and allowed remote updating and adding of new features, being therefore in breach of the German law. DigiTask spyware has been largely dropped and many German authorities started to create their own state malware. A Center of Competence for Information Technology Surveillance (CC ITC ) was established for this purpose. According to the leaked classified document dated 7 December, the Federal Criminal Police Office plans to have its own surveillance malware by the end of 2014. But until then, the police will continue to use commercial software and therefore, has acquired such a product from company Eleman/Gamma. The software in question, FinFisher/FinSpy IT, a very complex programme that can take over several types of devices such as Windows, OS X, Linux, iOS, Android, Symbian or Blackberry, is known to have been used by authoritarian regimes in the world to spy on political activists. Although the software is kept secret, it appears that it consists of a trojan that can also remotely load additional feature modules, such as a module for recording Skype conversations. In any case, the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information and the Federal Office for Information Security, as it comes out from the leaked document from the Ministry of Interior, were unable to audit the source code of the program to verify whether it complies with the German law. b With the purchase of Gamma FinFisher, the Federal Criminal Police Office has chosen a vendor that has become a symbol for the use of surveillance technology in oppressive regimes worldwide. FinFisher also consists of various components, which can be loaded when needed, thereby allowing the installation of spying capabilities that go far beyond the already questionable bwiretapping at the source,bb stated CCC spokesperson Frank Rieger. In UK, the Secretary of State put FinSpy software under export restrictions, requiring Gamma company to acquire a licence to export these tools. Secret Government Document Reveals: German Federal Police Plans To Use Gamma FinFisher Spyware (16.01.2013) https://netzpolitik.org/2013/secret-government-document-reveals-german-fede… Chaos Computer Club analyzes government malware (8.11.2011) http://ccc.de/en/updates/2011/staatstrojaner German Federal Cops Buy Notorious FinFisher Surveillance Software (26.01.2013) http://www.spamfighter.com/News-18165-German-Federal-Cops-Buy-Notorious-Fin… British government admits it has already started controlling exports of Gamma International's FinSpy (10.09.2012) https://www.privacyinternational.org/press-releases/british-government-admi… EDRi-gram: Details on German State Trojan programme (24.10.2012) http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number10.20/details-german--state-spyware-Staa… ======================================================================= 5. Slovenia has a net neutrality law ======================================================================= On 20 December 2012, the Slovenian Parliament approved a legislative framework (the Economic Communications Bill) that includes net neutrality, confirming the open and neutral character of the Internet and forbidding the discrimination of Internet traffic on the basis of the services provided. Although the text of the law is not entirely clear, it seems that ISPs will not be allowed to restrict or delay Internet traffic, unless the purpose is to solve congestions, preserve security or address spam, and they will not be allowed to charge their subscribers with different prices for connectivity, on the basis on the services provided over the Internet. A similar law was passed in the Netherlands and is under debate in Belgium. Incumbent companies might strongly criticise this direction as it affects their attempts to apply high fees for connectivity to major online services providers such as Google. The fight for real Internet neutrality could be affected by such type of legislation, especially if more EU member states decide to pass similar laws. Slovenia reinforces net neutrality principles (3.01.2013) http://radiobruxelleslibera.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/slovenia-reinforces-ne… ======================================================================= 6. Greater transparency and accountability of surveillance systems ======================================================================= A report called "Surveillance, Fighting Crime and Violence" was produced by the IRISS (Increasing Resilience in Surveillance Societies) project funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme. The report analyses the factors underpinning the development and use of surveillance systems and technologies by both public authorities and private actors, their implications in fighting crime and terrorism, social and economic costs, protection and infringement of civil liberties, fundamental rights and ethical aspects. The project has identified the following trends: (1) a substantial growth of public sector demand for surveillance bolstered by the adoption of identity schemes and terrorist detection technologies and markets, (2) an increase in the demand for civil and commercial surveillance, (3) the development of a global industry in surveillance, (4) an increase in integrated surveillance solutions, and (5) a rise in the government use of cross-border surveillance solutions. b The role of surveillance in law enforcement is expanding,b says IRISS project co-ordinator Reinhard Kreissl. b There has been a shift in its use in identifying offenders before they have committed a crime. This has affected the presumption of innocence in a way that citizens are now considered suspects (a shift to a presumption of guilt).b With the growth of encompassing preventive surveillance, the presumption of innocence as an important legal safeguard is gradually hollowed out. b There are numerous open questions about the usefulness and effectiveness of surveillance technologies and their possible rebound effects, specifically in relation to surveillance measures introduced to fight terrorism and organised crime without knowledge of their effectiveness and consideration of their negative side effects.b Among the reportbs other findings and recommendations, two of them should be mention in the current context: 1. Important social costs of surveillance include the social damage caused by false positives of suspects of criminal and terrorist activities, the categorical suspicion and discrimination of members of certain social or ethnic groups, the marginalising effects and social inequalities caused by invasive monitoring of those of lower social status, the inhibitory effects of surveillance which can undermine social and democratic activities, and the erosion of trust in society. 2. Data protection authorities as external overseers and regulators typically focus upon the privacy-related implications of surveillance and find it difficult to embrace a wider perspective of values in their regulatory exhortations and enforcement practice. The laws within which they operate do not normally give them a licence to roam across the range of values to invoke when they seek to limit surveillance. The report was produced by a consortium of 16 partners from universities, research institutes and companies from Austria, Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Norway, Slovakia, Spain and the United Kingdom. IRISS report: "Surveillance, Fighting Crime and Violence" (17.12.2012) http://irissproject.eu/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/IRISS_D1_MASTER_DOCUMENT_… IRSS project http://irissproject.eu/ ======================================================================= 7. Kroes ignoring the problems on net neutrality? ======================================================================= Neelie Kroes, the European Commissioner for Internet-related policies, recently published an article in the French newspaper Liberation stating that while she was in favour of an open Internet and maximum choice that must be protected, and she believed that "consumers should be free to make their own choices about their Internet subscriptionsb, this "does not preclude consumers from subscribing to more differentiated, limited Internet offers, possibly for a lower price." The entire discussion occurred after Free, one of the largest ISPs in France, decided to block Web ads by default on its FreeBox router thus placing several ISPs which depend on advertising in a very bad position. This kind of practice can be avoided by making net neutrality mandatory through EU legislation which will ensure a fair competition on the market and will promote innovation. In her opinion, Kroes drew the attention that consumers b should not forget that choice has consequences. Opting for blocking ads or requesting privacy (bdo not trackb) may mean you donbt get access to content for free. The internet does not run on its own. The network, content and internet access all have to be paid for by someone. Many smaller web operators exist on the basis of innovative advertising models. There are various ways consumers pay for content, including by viewing advertisements before or during their access to content. Businesses should accept that different consumers will have different preferences, and design services accordingly.b However, less than one year ago, in May 2012 Kroes stated: b We have recently seen how many thousands of people are willing to protest against rules which they see as constraining the openness and innovation of the Internet. This is a strong new political voice. And as a force for openness, I welcome it, even if I do not always agree with everything it says on every subject. We are now likely to be in a world without SOPA and without ACTA. Now we need to find solutions to make the Internet a place of freedom, openness, and innovation fit for all citizens, not just for the techno avant-garde.b But now, the commissioner brings in the b free marketb argument in favour of differentiated offers which will actually restrict the open market for online services. b On net neutrality, consumers need effective choice on the type of internet subscription they sign up to. That means real clarity, in non-technical language. About effective speeds in normal conditions, and about any restrictions imposed on traffic b and a realistic option to switch to a b fullb service, without such restrictions, offered by their own provider or another. Ensuring consumer choice can mean constraints on others b in this case, an obligation for all internet service providers to offer an accessible b fullb option to their customers. But such choice should also drive innovation and investment by internet providers, with benefits for all. I am preparing a Commission initiative to secure this effective consumer choice in Europe.b La Quatrature du Net has been quick in reacting and qualified Kroesb opinion as a b shameless defence of operatorsb. b Net neutrality is not a question of market but, before anything else, a question of fundamental freedoms", stated Benjamin Sonntag, co-founder of La Quadrature du Net. Net Neutrality: Neelie Kroes Yields to Operator Pressure (17.01.2013) https://www.laquadrature.net/en/net-neutrality-neelie-kroes-yields-to-opera… Internet and filtering applications: a question of choice and recipes (in French, 16.01.2013) http://www.liberation.fr/medias/2013/01/16/internet-et-applications-de-filt… Internet and filtering applications: a tale of choice and revenues (17.01.2013) http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/neelie-kroes/adgate/ Will Neelie Kroes Defend or Destroy EU Net Neutrality? (21.01.2013) http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2013/01/will-neelie-kroes-… EU Commissioner Kroes won't be bullied on net neutrality, says spokesman (18.01.2013) http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/internet/3421385/eu-commissioner-kroes-wont… EDRi-gram: French Minister asks US company to uphold France's values (16.01.2013) http://edri.org/edrigram/number11.1/french-minister-net-neutrality ======================================================================= 8. Recommended Action ======================================================================= Sign The Brussels Privacy Declaration! On 24 January 2013, EDRi, Privacy International, EPIC and Bits of Freedom launched The Brussels Privacy Declaration during the Computers, Privacy and Data Protection Conference (CPDP) in Brussels. The declaration describes the concerns of civil society organizations as well as of academics and citizens about the data protection law reform and calls upon the European Parliament as and national governments to safeguards citizens' privacy rights. The declaration has been sent to MEPs and the European Commission on 28 January 2013 (Data Protection Day). The Brussels Privacy Declaration http://brusselsdeclaration.net/ ======================================================================= 9. Recommended Reading ======================================================================= RIP CleanIT (29.01.2013) http://www.edri.org/rip-cleanit Fear, uncertainty and doubt b the key threats to the fundamental right to privacy http://www.europeanprivacyday.org/fear-uncertainty-and-doubt-%E2%80%93-key-… Copyright vs Freedom of Expression ECHR Judgment - Ashby Donald and others vs France (22.01.2013) http://echrblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/copyright-vs-freedom-of-expression.h… US free to grab EU data on American clouds (28.01.2013) http://euobserver.com/justice/118857 Study Maps the Emerging Ethics of File Sharing and Copyright Enforcement (15.01.2013) http://torrentfreak.com/study-maps-the-emerging-ethics-of-file-sharing-and-… Letter to Skype about confidentiality concerns (24.01.2013) http://en.rsf.org/letter-to-skype-about-24-01-2013,43949.html Identity Project tells UN Human Rights Committee that US violates the right to travel (8.01.2013) http://papersplease.org/wp/2013/01/08/identity-project-tells-un-human-right… ======================================================================= 10. Agenda ======================================================================= 2-3 February 2013, Brussels, Belgium FOSDEM https://fosdem.org/2013/ 14-15 February 2013, Vienna, Austria Internet 2013 - Shaping policies to advance media freedom http://www.osce.org/event/internet2013 21-22 February 2013, Washington DC, USA Intellectual Property and Human Rights Conference and Roundtable Discussion Webcasted live and archived http://www.wcl.american.edu/pijip/go/blog-post/intellectual-property-and-hu… 22 February 2013, Warsaw, Poland ePSIplatform Conference: "Gotcha! Getting everyone on board" http://epsiplatform.eu/content/save-date-22-february-2013-epsiplatform-conf… 21-22 March 2013, Malta Online Privacy: Consenting to your Future http://www.onlineprivacyconference.eu/ 6-8 May 2013, Berlin, Germany re:publica 2013 CfP by 31 January 2013 http://re-publica.de/en/ 20-21 June 2013, Lisbon, Portugal EuroDIG 2013 http://www.eurodig.org/ 25-26 June 2013, Barcelona, Spain 9th International Conference on Internet Law & Politics: Big Data: Challenges and Opportunities. http://edcp.uoc.edu/symposia/idp2013/?lang=en 25-26 June 2013, Washington, DC, USA 23rd Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference (CFP) CfP by 1 March 2013 http://www.cfp.org/2013 31 July b 4 August 2013, Geestmerambacht, Netherlands Observe. Hack. 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[p2p-hackers] USA Preparing the Takedown of P2P
by Philippe Landau 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

US plans to 'fight the net' revealed (2006-01) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4655196.stm >From influencing public opinion through new media to designing "computer network attack" weapons, the US military is learning to fight an electronic war. The declassified document is called "Information Operations Roadmap". Wrecking the Internet: Turning Gold into Lead (by Robert Storey 2006-05) http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20060508#opinion The COPE Act would do away with the requirement for net neutrality, thus turning America's Internet into a "private network." This would permit ISPs and telecom companies to dish out Internet access to the highest bidder. Under such a regime, AOL could, for example, block access to MSN, or Verizon could throttle your Skype bandwidth because it competes with their own voice-over-IP service. Even worse, a wealthy political party could pay ISPs to block access to a rival party's web sites and blogs. Emailing lists could also be throttled. It's not hard to imagine proprietary software companies paying to block access to DistroWatch, or prevent you from downloading the latest Ubuntu or Fedora release. [...] Opposition to the COPE Act is being coordinated by Save the Internet. http://savetheinternet.com/ The telecom/cable industry is pulling out all stops to polish this turd. Their "coalition" has the Orwellian title Hands Off the Internet - their thoroughly misleading web site can be found here. The telecoms have lots of cash, and are handing out campaign contributions (otherwise known as "bribes") by the bucketful in order to get the COPE Act passed. Geeks of the world - especially US-based geeks - need to put down their cups of espresso for a moment and get busy fighting this thing. [...] Kind regards Philippe -- http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20060508#opinion Not everyone realizes that the USA invented the Internet. Even fewer people realize that the USA is on the verge of wrecking it. This is not an exaggeration. Some nasty new legislation currently under debate in the US Congress could make the Internet as bland as day-old yogurt. Those who do not live in the USA should not be smug. There is a famous old saying that when America sneezes, the rest of the world catches pneumonia. The USA has a history of exporting its bad laws. Most geeks are familiar with the notorious DMCA and software patents. Thanks to the DMCA, DVDs are region-coded and it's illegal to buy mod-chips for an Xbox. Thanks to software patents, most Linux distros do not have video codecs or an MP3 player. The fact that this execrable legislation originated in America did not prevent its rottenness from spreading around the world. To understand what is at stake, you should become familiar with the term net neutrality. The basic concept of net neutrality is that Internet content should be dished out in a non-discriminatory fashion. Thus, your ISP should not be preventing you from accessing DistroWatch, nor should your bandwidth be throttled when you try to use BitTorrent or Skype. In this sense, the network is neutral - it does not play favorites. All this would change (for USA residents) if the US Congress passes the Communications Opportunity, Promotion, and Enhancement (COPE) Act of 2006. This odious new law is the brainchild of telecom and cable TV companies. Chief ogres include Verizon, Comcast, BellSouth and AT&T. Their incentive for pushing this legal abomination is the opportunity to make a lot of money. The COPE Act would do away with the requirement for net neutrality, thus turning America's Internet into a "private network." This would permit ISPs and telecom companies to dish out Internet access to the highest bidder. Under such a regime, AOL could, for example, block access to MSN, or Verizon could throttle your Skype bandwidth because it competes with their own voice-over-IP service. Even worse, a wealthy political party could pay ISPs to block access to a rival party's web sites and blogs. Emailing lists could also be throttled. It's not hard to imagine proprietary software companies paying to block access to DistroWatch, or prevent you from downloading the latest Ubuntu or Fedora release. COPE "If we fail, the Internet will deteriorate to the point of near uselessness." If the COPE Act is passed, the USA - which likes to boast of being a "bastion of freedom" - could ironically wind up with an Internet befitting a Third World dictatorship. However, the damage would not be limited to residents of the USA. The fact is that about 50% of the content on the Internet originates in America, even more if you're talking only about English-language content. Do a Google search on almost any topic - from "motorcycle repair" to "allergies" - and see how much of the hits are American-based web sites. The web sites themselves could be hosted on servers outside the USA, but server location is not the issue. Rather, deprived of their US-readership or US-based advertising revenue, many sites would have to fold. Would the Internet be as useful to you if Wikipedia or Google folded? For that matter, it's hard to see how DistroWatch (which is not US-based) could survive if we lost our American audience and advertisers. There is a lot more I could write about on this topic, but there are others who have already done so (and do it better than me). Some excellent articles about this brewing fiasco appeared recently in The Nation, Raw Story and The Free Press. Sadly, I have seen nothing mentioned on the popular geek web sites that I visit everyday (which is why I'm writing this article). Can anything to done to prevent this disaster (especially since the COPE Act seems to have the support of the Bush administration)? Fortunately, in this case I believe there is hope, though it's going to be a bitter fight. Although we are up against powerful, well-moneyed lobbyists from the telecom industry, we also have some heavyweight supporters, among them Amazon and Google. Opposition to the COPE Act is being coordinated by Save the Internet. If you are a US resident, you should visit their web site and sign their petition. Even more important, they also have a neat little form for sending a message to your representatives and senators - just type in your message, zip code and address, and it will get sent to the proper person (you needn't even know who your representatives are). All such messages should be short and to the point. Basically, what I said in my message was: 1. I oppose the Communications Opportunity, Promotion, and Enhancement (COPE) Act of 2006 in its present form. 2. I support the efforts to amend the act by Representatives Markey, Boucher, Eshoo and Inslee, and Senators Olympia Snowe and Byron Dorgan. 3. I am in favor of Net Neutrality. The telecom/cable industry is pulling out all stops to polish this turd. Their "coalition" has the Orwellian title Hands Off the Internet - their thoroughly misleading web site can be found here. The telecoms have lots of cash, and are handing out campaign contributions (otherwise known as "bribes") by the bucketful in order to get the COPE Act passed. Geeks of the world - especially US-based geeks - need to put down their cups of espresso for a moment and get busy fighting this thing. If we fail, the Internet will deteriorate to the point of near uselessness and we might as well put our computers in storage. In that case, we'll have to all find new hobbies. Possible candidates include knitting and flower arranging. _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers(a)zgp.org http://zgp.org/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers _______________________________________________ Here is a web page listing P2P Conferences: http://www.neurogrid.net/twiki/bin/view/Main/PeerToPeerConferences ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

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[Politech] Mandatory web labeling resurfaces in Congress, 11 years later [fs]
by Declan McCullagh 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

The idea of Web labeling has a long and undistinguished history. I remember encountering it while covering the Communications Decency Act trial in April 1996, when Brigham Young University Professor Dan Olsen said labeling adult Web pages with "-L18" was a terrific idea: http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/EFF_ACLU_v_DoJ/960413_ciec.update As an aside, I always figured that Olsen was the only remotely respectable fellow the Justice Department could dredge up to do its dirty work, even though his bio shows no publication or research in this area: http://icie.cs.byu.edu/dan.html Now, showing an impressive inability to learn from history, two Democratic senators have come up with the same scheme; I've summarized it here: http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6175549.html Senators Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Max Baucus of Montana are proposing that the Commerce Department come up with a label that "harmful to minors" Web sites must use (or face civil penalties). I've placed the draft of their bill here: http://www.politechbot.com/docs/child.safety.act.pryor.baucus.041207.pdf Oddly, Pryor seems to have not even read his own legislation; an earlier version of his press release said the Commerce Department could also pull the plug on offending Web sites, though that is not actually in the draft bill (I'm told it was in an earlier version): http://pryor.senate.gov/newsroom/details.cfm?id=272199 Both congresscritters could stand to learn from the CDA three-judge panel's opinion, which called mandatory labeling "extremely burdensome for organizations that provide large amounts of material online which cannot afford to pay a large staff to review all of that material": http://www2.epic.org/cda/cda_dc_opinion.html Another intriguing aspect is that their legislation tries to compel ICANN to create a database of harmful to minors content, complete with IP addresses and owner names. This nicely disproves the pleasant fiction that ICANN is an independent entity that can make independent decisions on topics like .xxx and materials that some Bible Belt prosecutor deems harmful to some minors, somewhere. -Declan _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.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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[p2p-hackers] USA Preparing the Takedown of P2P
by Philippe Landau 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

US plans to 'fight the net' revealed (2006-01) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4655196.stm >From influencing public opinion through new media to designing "computer network attack" weapons, the US military is learning to fight an electronic war. The declassified document is called "Information Operations Roadmap". Wrecking the Internet: Turning Gold into Lead (by Robert Storey 2006-05) http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20060508#opinion The COPE Act would do away with the requirement for net neutrality, thus turning America's Internet into a "private network." This would permit ISPs and telecom companies to dish out Internet access to the highest bidder. Under such a regime, AOL could, for example, block access to MSN, or Verizon could throttle your Skype bandwidth because it competes with their own voice-over-IP service. Even worse, a wealthy political party could pay ISPs to block access to a rival party's web sites and blogs. Emailing lists could also be throttled. It's not hard to imagine proprietary software companies paying to block access to DistroWatch, or prevent you from downloading the latest Ubuntu or Fedora release. [...] Opposition to the COPE Act is being coordinated by Save the Internet. http://savetheinternet.com/ The telecom/cable industry is pulling out all stops to polish this turd. Their "coalition" has the Orwellian title Hands Off the Internet - their thoroughly misleading web site can be found here. The telecoms have lots of cash, and are handing out campaign contributions (otherwise known as "bribes") by the bucketful in order to get the COPE Act passed. Geeks of the world - especially US-based geeks - need to put down their cups of espresso for a moment and get busy fighting this thing. [...] Kind regards Philippe -- http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20060508#opinion Not everyone realizes that the USA invented the Internet. Even fewer people realize that the USA is on the verge of wrecking it. This is not an exaggeration. Some nasty new legislation currently under debate in the US Congress could make the Internet as bland as day-old yogurt. Those who do not live in the USA should not be smug. There is a famous old saying that when America sneezes, the rest of the world catches pneumonia. The USA has a history of exporting its bad laws. Most geeks are familiar with the notorious DMCA and software patents. Thanks to the DMCA, DVDs are region-coded and it's illegal to buy mod-chips for an Xbox. Thanks to software patents, most Linux distros do not have video codecs or an MP3 player. The fact that this execrable legislation originated in America did not prevent its rottenness from spreading around the world. To understand what is at stake, you should become familiar with the term net neutrality. The basic concept of net neutrality is that Internet content should be dished out in a non-discriminatory fashion. Thus, your ISP should not be preventing you from accessing DistroWatch, nor should your bandwidth be throttled when you try to use BitTorrent or Skype. In this sense, the network is neutral - it does not play favorites. All this would change (for USA residents) if the US Congress passes the Communications Opportunity, Promotion, and Enhancement (COPE) Act of 2006. This odious new law is the brainchild of telecom and cable TV companies. Chief ogres include Verizon, Comcast, BellSouth and AT&T. Their incentive for pushing this legal abomination is the opportunity to make a lot of money. The COPE Act would do away with the requirement for net neutrality, thus turning America's Internet into a "private network." This would permit ISPs and telecom companies to dish out Internet access to the highest bidder. Under such a regime, AOL could, for example, block access to MSN, or Verizon could throttle your Skype bandwidth because it competes with their own voice-over-IP service. Even worse, a wealthy political party could pay ISPs to block access to a rival party's web sites and blogs. Emailing lists could also be throttled. It's not hard to imagine proprietary software companies paying to block access to DistroWatch, or prevent you from downloading the latest Ubuntu or Fedora release. COPE "If we fail, the Internet will deteriorate to the point of near uselessness." If the COPE Act is passed, the USA - which likes to boast of being a "bastion of freedom" - could ironically wind up with an Internet befitting a Third World dictatorship. However, the damage would not be limited to residents of the USA. The fact is that about 50% of the content on the Internet originates in America, even more if you're talking only about English-language content. Do a Google search on almost any topic - from "motorcycle repair" to "allergies" - and see how much of the hits are American-based web sites. The web sites themselves could be hosted on servers outside the USA, but server location is not the issue. Rather, deprived of their US-readership or US-based advertising revenue, many sites would have to fold. Would the Internet be as useful to you if Wikipedia or Google folded? For that matter, it's hard to see how DistroWatch (which is not US-based) could survive if we lost our American audience and advertisers. There is a lot more I could write about on this topic, but there are others who have already done so (and do it better than me). Some excellent articles about this brewing fiasco appeared recently in The Nation, Raw Story and The Free Press. Sadly, I have seen nothing mentioned on the popular geek web sites that I visit everyday (which is why I'm writing this article). Can anything to done to prevent this disaster (especially since the COPE Act seems to have the support of the Bush administration)? Fortunately, in this case I believe there is hope, though it's going to be a bitter fight. Although we are up against powerful, well-moneyed lobbyists from the telecom industry, we also have some heavyweight supporters, among them Amazon and Google. Opposition to the COPE Act is being coordinated by Save the Internet. If you are a US resident, you should visit their web site and sign their petition. Even more important, they also have a neat little form for sending a message to your representatives and senators - just type in your message, zip code and address, and it will get sent to the proper person (you needn't even know who your representatives are). All such messages should be short and to the point. Basically, what I said in my message was: 1. I oppose the Communications Opportunity, Promotion, and Enhancement (COPE) Act of 2006 in its present form. 2. I support the efforts to amend the act by Representatives Markey, Boucher, Eshoo and Inslee, and Senators Olympia Snowe and Byron Dorgan. 3. I am in favor of Net Neutrality. The telecom/cable industry is pulling out all stops to polish this turd. Their "coalition" has the Orwellian title Hands Off the Internet - their thoroughly misleading web site can be found here. The telecoms have lots of cash, and are handing out campaign contributions (otherwise known as "bribes") by the bucketful in order to get the COPE Act passed. Geeks of the world - especially US-based geeks - need to put down their cups of espresso for a moment and get busy fighting this thing. If we fail, the Internet will deteriorate to the point of near uselessness and we might as well put our computers in storage. In that case, we'll have to all find new hobbies. Possible candidates include knitting and flower arranging. _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers(a)zgp.org http://zgp.org/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers _______________________________________________ Here is a web page listing P2P Conferences: http://www.neurogrid.net/twiki/bin/view/Main/PeerToPeerConferences ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]

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[Politech] Mandatory web labeling resurfaces in Congress, 11 years later [fs]
by Declan McCullagh 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

The idea of Web labeling has a long and undistinguished history. I remember encountering it while covering the Communications Decency Act trial in April 1996, when Brigham Young University Professor Dan Olsen said labeling adult Web pages with "-L18" was a terrific idea: http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/EFF_ACLU_v_DoJ/960413_ciec.update As an aside, I always figured that Olsen was the only remotely respectable fellow the Justice Department could dredge up to do its dirty work, even though his bio shows no publication or research in this area: http://icie.cs.byu.edu/dan.html Now, showing an impressive inability to learn from history, two Democratic senators have come up with the same scheme; I've summarized it here: http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6175549.html Senators Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Max Baucus of Montana are proposing that the Commerce Department come up with a label that "harmful to minors" Web sites must use (or face civil penalties). I've placed the draft of their bill here: http://www.politechbot.com/docs/child.safety.act.pryor.baucus.041207.pdf Oddly, Pryor seems to have not even read his own legislation; an earlier version of his press release said the Commerce Department could also pull the plug on offending Web sites, though that is not actually in the draft bill (I'm told it was in an earlier version): http://pryor.senate.gov/newsroom/details.cfm?id=272199 Both congresscritters could stand to learn from the CDA three-judge panel's opinion, which called mandatory labeling "extremely burdensome for organizations that provide large amounts of material online which cannot afford to pay a large staff to review all of that material": http://www2.epic.org/cda/cda_dc_opinion.html Another intriguing aspect is that their legislation tries to compel ICANN to create a database of harmful to minors content, complete with IP addresses and owner names. This nicely disproves the pleasant fiction that ICANN is an independent entity that can make independent decisions on topics like .xxx and materials that some Bible Belt prosecutor deems harmful to some minors, somewhere. -Declan _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.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: considerable BTC concentration in a single account
by Bryce Lynch 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 9:38 AM, ZeroState.net <info(a)zerostate.net> wrote: > Sounds interesting to me. I was hanging out in the liminal space between jellyfish and cypherpunks, and we were talking about Bitcoins and how traceable they were given how complete the public transaction ledger has to be. We also discussed the research that's already been done on it (http://anonymity-in-bitcoin.blogspot.com/2011/07/bitcoin-is-not-anonymous.h…) Bitcoins can be divided up down to eight decimal places. Bitcoin addresses can be programmatically generated and used. Bitcoin clients can interact over IRC (though this is deprecated) and over the Tor network more or less automagically. Bitcoin clients can be interacted with by other programs to accept arbitrary commands (including sending fractions of Bitcoins elsewhere). There are also several Bitcoin tumblers out there already. My scenario was this: I want to launder a single Bitcoin so as to make it as difficult to trace back through the public ledger as possible. I am willing to sacrifice up to one quarter of its value (b 0.25) for this purpose but would prefer to not do so if I could get away with it. I have access to sufficient machines (virtual and otherwise) to run multiple Bitcoin clients and multiple custom-written agents that interact with them to carry out various tasks. I'm willing to accept up to a week of latency for each sub-bitcoin bundle. I am the C&C for this operation, though I use software I wrote myself to make it easier to manage everything. Now going into list mode to make it easier to lay out and comment on: I generate a new Bitcoin address for my b 1.0. I pseudo-randomly split my Bitcoin into thousands of sub-bitcoins valued between 0.00000001 and 0.0000001 but which total back up to b 1.0. I do this with some software I wrote that automates the process. I could probably do this with Python. On each of my servers I programmatically generate a pseudo-random number of single-use Bitcoin addresses. Let's say several hundred each though I might only use a small fraction of them. Afterward, all of them will be discarded. The temporary laundering wallet begins to distribute those thousands of sub-bitcoins between all of my confederate single-use Bitcoin addresses. The latency between each transaction is variable; to be practial, not more than a day, though it would be possible to take even longer. Some of those confederate addresses transfer sub-bitcoins to other single-use confederate addresses. Some accumulate a few sub-bitcoins (let's say b 0.00000006). Some of those confederate addresses transfer their aggregate sub-bitcoins to other confederate addresses (b 0.00000006). Some split those sub-bitcoins up into other denominations (b 0.00000001) (b 0.00000002) (b 0.00000002) (b 0.00000001) and transfer them to other confederate addresses. Some of those confederate addresses send their sub-bitcoins to some of the public tumblers, which eventually send them on to other confederate addresses. Here, value can be sacrificed to make it more difficult to trace where they go. Possibly, some of those confederate addresses accumulate sub-bitcoin bundles and purchase digital goods rather than re-sending them (like VM time, MP3s, or porn). Possibly, some of the addresses that digital goods are purchased from are mine anyway, which gives a convenient excuse for their dropping out of circulation for a while. This goes on for days. Eventually, as many sub-bitcoin bundles as possible (which themselves have been split and recombined and traded over and over) trickle back into a set of single-use Bitcoin addresses which I set up that collectively hold much of the value of my original b 1.0. The first thing that comes to mind is that this stunt would bloat the public ledger to an amazing size due to all of the addresses and transactions. That would honk a lot of people straight off. It could also potentially DoS the Bitcoin network by running up all of the disk space their public ledgers and debug.log files are kept on. The second thing that comes to mind is that the blockchain watchers (and there are apparently a lot of them - case in point, the discovery not too long ago of the address that controlled over a half-million bitcoins) will no doubtedly notice these shenagains and make a big deal of it. That would draw attention to my operation and would no doubt cause crowdsourced investigation, intelligence gathering, and analysis. Third, because all of these transactions would be in the public ledger they could eventually be mapped and traced back. I don't know if there would be any way of tracing all of these thousands of Bitcoin addresses back to a single individual or group; if at the end all of the fractional Bitcoins would back up in the same address they certainly would be. I'd be trying to mitigate that by using separate machines that interact with one another through a variety of communications channels. I'd also be trying to avoid that by maximizing rather than minimizing network latency ala anonymous e-mail remailers. This might wind up requiring prohibitive amounts of time. The downside to payment would be driving the seller the Bitcoins are being transferred to nuts. "I need you to be patient because I'm going to send you several thousand sub-bitcoin bundles between 0.0000001 and 0.0000010 in value each from several thousand burner addresses..." That would be like paying for dinner with buckets full of pennies, and at a minimum would be grounds for receiving an atomic wedgie. -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ "I am everywhere." -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ZS-P2P" group. To post to this group, send email to zs-p2p(a)googlegroups.com. 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