July 2018 - cypherpunks-legacy

Reply from Zero-Knowledge
by Dov Smith 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Hey Declan, I want to start by saying that Zero-Knowledge absolutely does not track or profile the users of its Freedom Privacy & Security Tools 3.0 software. Our software loads updates (e.g. Ad Manager files and e-wallet scripts) as well as privacy-related content via HTTP. This was the case with previous versions of the software and is still true today, although today it may appear more prominent since we have designed Freedom 3.0 with a new user interface and are carrying more privacy content. This HTTP activity is covered by our privacy policies. As for cookies, Zero-Knowledge has always used cookies on its websites, for the purposes of store-, affiliate- and state-management. These practices are also reflected in our privacy policies. Declan, if you still think this is worth forwarding on, I'd appreciate your at least changing the subject header you sent me. The implication that delivering web content means tracking users, is mistaken. Best regards, Dov __________________________________________ Dov Smith PR Director, Zero-Knowledge Systems 514.350.7553 / dov(a)zeroknowledge.com Join us at Privacy By Design 2001 Dec. 3-5, 2001 in Montreal www.zeroknowledge.com/privacybydesign2001 __________________________________________ ********

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FC: What info does Zero Knowledge collect on users of Freedom 3.0?
by Declan McCullagh 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

[I agreed to delete Anonymous' name before posting, but it is fair to point out that Anonymous works for a company that is in some areas a competitor to ZKS. I offered ZKS the opportunity to reply; their response follows. My own thoughts: If ZKS wants to display tailored ads, it makes sense that Freedom clients will communicate with the mother ship on a more-or-less regular basis. This is what Eudora and Opera do, and what Freedom 3.0 apparently does (I haven't used it). The question is whether users are aware of the potential privacy risks. --Declan] ********

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[Dewayne-Net] San Francisco leaders voice concerns about Wi-
by Dewayne Hendricks 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Fi project Reply-To: dewayne(a)warpspeed.com San Francisco leaders voice concerns about Wi-Fi project Agency members want to avoid a restrictive franchise deal News Story by Stephen Lawson <http://www.computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/technology/story/ 0,10801,107216,00.html?source=x596> DECEMBER 19, 2005 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - San Francisco's plan for citywide Wi-Fi ran into some friction Friday from a local regulatory agency. The government of the City and County of San Francisco is readying a request for proposal (RFP) for the wireless network, which is intended to provide free or affordable Internet access throughout most of the city. Several possible partners, including Google Inc., EarthLink Inc., Motorola Inc. and a local nonprofit project called SFLan, have already expressed interest in the project through an earlier request for information. The San Francisco plan would become one of the largest rollouts yet of government-initiated broadband, a concept that has generated heated political discussion in the past several months. At a hearing Friday, some members of San Francisco's Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) grilled Chris Vein, director of the city's Department of Technology and Information Services (DTIS), about the process of deciding how to build and operate the network. LAFCO, made up of San Francisco county supervisors and members of the public, has a broad oversight role, including approval of district boundaries and annexation of land as well as contract approvals. The agency's aim in the hearing was to stimulate discussion, supervisor and LAFCO member Jake McGoldrick said in an interview after the meeting. County Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi and other LAFCO members said they fear a deal like San Francisco's current franchise agreement with cable operator Comcast Corp., in which the board of supervisors has been presented with already negotiated franchise deals that it must approve or vote down. DTIS handles cable franchise administration and other communications and IT responsibilities for the city as well as spearheading the Wi-Fi project. [snip] Weblog at: <http://weblog.warpspeed.com> ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as eugen(a)leitl.org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/ ----- 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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[IP] San Francisco leaders voice concerns about Wi-Fi project
by David Farber 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

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[ZS] Bitcoin @ $1000 - unlikely any time soon
by Gary Mulder 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Some pondering: I've been thinking about the recent super-bull market in BTC. Let's assume for a moment that BTC goes to $1000. That would mean with around 10M BTC issued, the Bitcoin economy would be the $10B in size. That is a very sizeable and noticeable event that governments would likely start to take notice and act, similar to Wikileaks, Piratebay, etc. Remember, Bitcoins compete directly against central banks' monopoly as a currency issuer, which is the most powerful financial tool all governments use manipulate their fiat currency and economies. Any major governmental reaction and the resulting negative publicity and loss of confidence would likely knock back the price of BTC significantly. Therefore it is unlikely under the present governmental and financial conditions that we'll ever see BTC at $1000, or at least not for long. It is much more likely that the for either dying lack of interest in Bitcoin or way too much of the wrong interest the price of BTC will hover a bit above the marginal cost to mine BTC at best. So what is the marginal cost of mining Bitcoin? At 50BTC per block mined it was estimated to be $3-4 about 6 months ago, depending on the local electricity costs of running GPUs. The difficulty has increased by about 30%, and the rate of Bitcoin mining will halve to 25BTC/block in about November 2012. I don't think fees make up any significant amount of mining profits, yet. The major destabilising unknown is the marginal cost of mining using FPGAs. It would be very interesting to determine the ratio of GPU to FPGA miners. Let's however assume the worst case GPU costing, and we get a marginal cost of around $8 to mine a BTC. This doesn't include the capital costs of buying, maintaining, and housing the GPUs or FPGAs. It looks like people are paying a 50% premium at the current price of $12/BTC. Your thoughts? Gary -- -- Zero State mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/DoctrineZero ----- 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: [serval-project-dev] Using an existing mesh network to extend the range of serval
by Jonathan Lahav 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

@Alex Building servald now is just like building any other OpenWrt package. I used the OpenWrt documentations and the Makefile which can be found in serval-dna's github repo. Some guidance: Here is the Makefile: https://github.com/servalproject/serval-dna/tree/master/openwrt The documentations I used to create the build environment: http://wiki.openwrt.org/about/toolchain If you follow the documentation you will build the entire OpenWrt firmware. When you are almost done, add servald's Makefile to where all the other Makefiles are, and run menuconfig. Menuconfig's index will be updated and servald would be added as an option. Just check it, and make again, then servald will be built. Notes: - It should be possible to build the package without building OpenWrt using their SDK. I tried it and failed, but you may have more luck. Here it is: http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/obtain.firmware.sdk - Building OpenWrt takes a long time. Be prepared. I'm attaching a binary version of servald which should be compatible with Attitude Adjustment and the version of Serval for android Jeremy posted here before. You can give it a shot and see if it runs before trying to build it yourself. On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Bryce Lynch <virtualadept(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Alex P-B <chozabu(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Solar powered openwrt nodes should do fine though. >> > > Can you wait until we get v0.3a of Byzantium Linux up? We've just > finished Commotion compatibility, including OLSR support. > > -- > The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS (MED)] > https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ > "I am everywhere." > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Serval Project Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to > serval-project-developers(a)googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > serval-project-developers+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/serval-project-developers?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Serval Project Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to serval-project-developers(a)googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to serval-project-developers+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/serval-project-developers?hl=en. ----- 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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[drone-list] Leaked powerpoint on civil ambitions of drone industry
by Graham Webster 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Hi folks, I've been lurking here for a week or two. Thought the group might be interested in this post. http://www.republicreport.org/2012/drone-powerpoint-lobby-plan/ Best, Graham Webster _______________________________________________ drone-list mailing list drone-list(a)lists.stanford.edu Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/drone-list 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. ----- 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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[drone-list] Leaked powerpoint on civil ambitions of drone industry
by Graham Webster 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Hi folks, I've been lurking here for a week or two. Thought the group might be interested in this post. http://www.republicreport.org/2012/drone-powerpoint-lobby-plan/ Best, Graham Webster _______________________________________________ drone-list mailing list drone-list(a)lists.stanford.edu Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/drone-list 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. ----- 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] Bitcoin incentive on Kademlia networks
by James A. Donald 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

On 2012-11-03 6:32 PM, ianG wrote: > > Beyond this simple statement, however, is a sea of ideas, in which one > can easily drown. E.g., you've identified a simple exchange process, > discovered a weakness, and then proposed a reputation system to cover > the weakness. Adding a reputation system to solve issues is like a > deux ex machina in systems; Rep systems are little understood and > generally or frequently crap, so chances are you'll end up building > something that won't work, and wasting a lot of time in doing it. Price discovery is hard, and reputation systems are hard. Nonetheless, we need price discovery, and we need reputation systems. I am not sure how to get there from here. But yes, there is no point in fixing a problem which is hard to solve, with a solution to a problem that no one has yet adequately solved. > > Mojo Nation tried to be an economically informed p2p system, but seemed > to run out of grunt as a project. It failed because it tried to solve > every problem, and drowned. Mojo failed to address the problem of price discovery, which was central. I would say Mojo drowned of insufficient ambition, rather than excessive ambition. Xanadu failed of excessive ambition _______________________________________________ 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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[linux-elitists] Beckstrom and privacy
by Bob Bernstein 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

In his Mar. 5 letter of resignation, Rod Beckstrom, now out-going Director of the National Cybersecurity Center wrote: "We helped the DHS Privacy Group tap one of the world's foremost experts in advanced privacy and anonymity technology. He has a unique ability to build bridges between privacy groups on the one hand and law enforcement on the other, and could help turn those bridges into new national standards. Despite my departure, I sincerely hope this important effort will move forward." http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/BeckstromResignation.pdf Who is the individual discussed above? Best regards, -- Bob Bernstein _______________________________________________ linux-elitists mailing list linux-elitists(a)zgp.org http://allium.zgp.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-elitists ----- 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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