July 2018 - cypherpunks-legacy

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by Trei, Peter 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> Americans, on the other hand, MEAN IT when they talk about the > weather. They sit up and pay attention when forecasts appear. > All US cable systems carry a channel which broadcasts > nothing except weather reports, 24x7 - a notion which seems as > bizarre to Europeans as would a channel for watching the grass > grow. Hey, I saw one of these in Switzerland, too, so it's not an "american only" thing. Mark

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by Trei, Peter 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> Americans, on the other hand, MEAN IT when they talk about the > weather. They sit up and pay attention when forecasts appear. > All US cable systems carry a channel which broadcasts > nothing except weather reports, 24x7 - a notion which seems as > bizarre to Europeans as would a channel for watching the grass > grow. Hey, I saw one of these in Switzerland, too, so it's not an "american only" thing. Mark

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by Trei, Peter 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> Americans, on the other hand, MEAN IT when they talk about the > weather. They sit up and pay attention when forecasts appear. > All US cable systems carry a channel which broadcasts > nothing except weather reports, 24x7 - a notion which seems as > bizarre to Europeans as would a channel for watching the grass > grow. Hey, I saw one of these in Switzerland, too, so it's not an "american only" thing. Mark

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by Trei, Peter 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> Americans, on the other hand, MEAN IT when they talk about the > weather. They sit up and pay attention when forecasts appear. > All US cable systems carry a channel which broadcasts > nothing except weather reports, 24x7 - a notion which seems as > bizarre to Europeans as would a channel for watching the grass > grow. Hey, I saw one of these in Switzerland, too, so it's not an "american only" thing. Mark

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by Trei, Peter 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> Americans, on the other hand, MEAN IT when they talk about the > weather. They sit up and pay attention when forecasts appear. > All US cable systems carry a channel which broadcasts > nothing except weather reports, 24x7 - a notion which seems as > bizarre to Europeans as would a channel for watching the grass > grow. Hey, I saw one of these in Switzerland, too, so it's not an "american only" thing. Mark

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by Trei, Peter 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> Americans, on the other hand, MEAN IT when they talk about the > weather. They sit up and pay attention when forecasts appear. > All US cable systems carry a channel which broadcasts > nothing except weather reports, 24x7 - a notion which seems as > bizarre to Europeans as would a channel for watching the grass > grow. Hey, I saw one of these in Switzerland, too, so it's not an "american only" thing. Mark

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by Trei, Peter 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

> Americans, on the other hand, MEAN IT when they talk about the > weather. They sit up and pay attention when forecasts appear. > All US cable systems carry a channel which broadcasts > nothing except weather reports, 24x7 - a notion which seems as > bizarre to Europeans as would a channel for watching the grass > grow. Hey, I saw one of these in Switzerland, too, so it's not an "american only" thing. Mark

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Re: [ZS] ZS reboot seed
by Bryce Lynch 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Dirk Bruere <dirk.bruere(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Given that you know vastly more about it than most of us, including > me, could you put together some suggestions as to how we proceed, with > recommendations? I'll take a crack at it: A lot of the Zero State notes and docs are online in Google Pages. That's pretty much a wiki. The usual wiki software (MediaWiki, Trac, MoinMoin, et cetera) is nice, but not distributed. One server, one database, one wiki. While it's possible to cluster the databases not all software plays nicely that way, and in fact a lot of database software we're likely to get hold of has serious hardcoded limitations on the number of nodes (MySQL, I'm looking at you). There are alternative wiki implementations that do the same thing but make it possible to share the whole shebang across arbitrary numbers of nodes, potentially more one per member of the Zero State, potentially more than one per member. The first thing that comes to mind is Ward Cunningham's Smallest Federated Wiki (https://github.com/WardCunningham/Smallest-Federated-Wiki) It's a web application (Ruby/Sinatra/JavaScript) which runs on a machine and is accessible through a web browser. It's designed such that multiple instances of the server can connect to one another over a network and synch up, so it's really one wiki spread across lots of machines at the same time. Multiple people can browse the wiki, create and edit pages. I dont' see why we can't have instances communicating over a darknet. The one that I keep coming back to (and not just because I suck at Ruby apps) is called Fossil (https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki) which is a distributed revision control system, bug/ticket tracker, blog, and wiki. It uses many of the same techniques as (and in fact is compatible with) the revision control system Git (http://git-scm.org/) Again, it's accessed with a web browser, everything is versioned, and multiple instances can synch up with one another in a by-any-means-necessary approach. Revision control is good for more than just source code - a lot of us use it to help manage our configuration files as well as things we write. We can check stuff we're working on into revision control if we wanted to. We could definitely use the wiki and blog. The ticket tracker could be used to assign and keep track of tasks (ticket #31337: Create Friendly AGI) that we're working on. Fossil can automatically synch off of a single server, or instances can synch off of each other and merge the data. It's cross platform. And, if something does happen, all it takes is a single instance of Fossil to re-bootstrap because every node has... well.. everything. We could import everything important into one of these systems and others could set up and synch their own copies of the whole Zero State superstructure. Chat isn't particularly difficult: While we could set up our own servers we could also just as easily take advantage of any and all XMPP services out there. There are skillions of them, and most of them can cross-chat between one another. I do that a lot with friends aorund the world: My jabber.ccc.de account can talk to the endno.de folks, the Blackbird folks, and so on. If we really wanted to we could set up our own XMPP servers. But there are other ways. Lately I've been experimenting with Litter (https://github.com/ptony82/litter) a distributed microblogging system written in Python. Unpack it, run it, and it does pretty much what you'd expect of Twitter.. save that it automatically seeks out and finds other instances of Litter on the network using IP multicasting and exchanges messages with them. It's pretty nifty and very lightweight. I haven't tested it with Tor or I2P yet, though. Torchat (https://github.com/prof7bit/TorChat) is actually implemented in a number of languages, but they all do pretty much the same thing: If you're running Tor on your laptop or workstation it'll set up a hidden service that is uniquely yours. Other Torchat users can, if they know the address, add you as a friend and you can IM over the Tor network. It's a pretty nice IM client. Tahoe-LAFS (https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs) is a massively distributed file storage and sharing grid. The idea is that you install it and join a grid, and you donate a portion of your disk space to the grid that people can use to share and back up files. If some number of members built a grid we could put Zero State related materials into it for us to access - Fossil trees, documents, videos, audio recordings, whatever we needed to replicate and make available, we could. The next question is how to network all this stuff together. Tor (https://torproject.org/) is the first thing that comes to mind because it's the most popoular and heavily worked on right now. There isn't a whole lot that we couldn't set up so that it's available only to Zero State members through the Tor network who know the .onion addresses. If we wanted to go about it another way, we could use something like SocialVPN (https://socialvpn.wordpress.com/) It's written in C# but designed to be Mono-compatible, and it's a peer to peer VPN that connects users over... XMPP. Rather than hunting for IP addresses of other nodes to connect to, the addresses are usernames of some people you probably already have in your IM friends list. As I recall, their primary test transport for this project is GChat. However, my concern is that it implicitly exposes your socnet because the usernames and addresses of your IM friends/VPN nodes might be in the clear. I'm not sure yet, I haven't looked into it. It also hasn't shown a lot of development in the past year. For whatever software development we do in the long run, we'll need someplace to put it all. If we go with Fossil we'll have a very useful hosting environment already. However, there are some alternatives which should be explored (though they're not as distributed-friendly as Fossil). Gitlab (http://gitlabhq.com/) does pretty much what Github (https://github.com/) is, though it's F/OSS, meaning we can set up as many instances of it as we like, anywhere we like. It does project management, Git repository hosting and management, bug tracking, fork and merge management, it has a wiki... It's written with Ruby On Rails. We can also clone Github with Redmine (http://xdissent.com/2010/05/04/github-clone-with-redmine/) I have personal reservations about Redmine (because I suck at Ruby and have been fighting with it at work for most of a year now) but if someone here is good with it, feel free to consider it as an option. So, how do we search all this stuff? I've been running a YaCy (http://yacy.de/) node for over a year as part of their grid and I'm quite pleased with how well it works as a search engine. It's basically a distributed search engine that you can either proxy your traffic through (and it'll index everything you browse through it - it's privacy aware, too), or it can be fed links that it'll index, follow, index, follow... It can be run as part of a private search grid (Crusoe Mode), so we could set up a private YaCy network (and run the traffic over Tor) to index all of our resources. It's written in Java but installs pretty easily, though the indices are pretty big so disk space will be necessary. I'm long overdue to add a couple of terabytes to my YaCy box. -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ "I am everywhere." -- -- 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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[Mycolleagues] (Fwd) Call for Papers and Workshops: 4th
by me＠gauguin.info.uniroma2.it 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

International Conference on Global E-Security (ICGeS08) Apologize for cross posting 4th International Conference on Global E-Security (ICGeS408) 23-25 June 2008 London, England http://www.uel.ac.uk/icges The conference proceedings will be published as a volume of LNCS series from Springer. Following the successful, ICGeS-07 in April 2007, we have much pleasure in announcing the 4th International Conference on Global E-Security (ICGeS-08). The Annual International Conference on Global e-Security (ICGeS) is an established platform in which security issues can be examined from several global perspectives through dialogue between academics, students, government representatives, chief executives, security professonals, and research scientists from the United Kingdom and from around the globe. ICGeS provides an ideal and unique venue for researchers and practitioners to engage in debate on variuos security related issues, including the measures governments must take to protect the security of information on the Internet, the implications of cyber- crime in large corporations and individuals, and how cyber-crime can be addressed. The widespread use of the Internet has created a global platform for the exchange of ideas, goods and services; the benefits of which are enormous. However, it has also created boundless opportunities for cyber-crime. As an increasing number of large organisations and individuals use the Internet and its satelite mobile technologies, they are increasingly vulnerable to cyber-crime threats. It is therefore paramount that the security industry raise its game to combat these threats. This is an issue of global importance as law enforcement agencies all over the world are struggling to cope. This conference aims to attract an International audience to provide a forum for the dissemination of research accomplishments and promote interaction and collaboration between the researchers and practitioners in the security field; to meet and discuss current and future e-security needs and issues. Refereed full papers will be considered for publication in the new international Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics, IJESDF published by Inderscience, http://www.inderscience.com. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:- 7eGovernments, eEurope/European Directives, mGovernment 7Information security 7Computer forensics 7Anti-forensics 7Computer risks & their assessment 7Hidden data 7Criminal data mining 7Computational immunology 7Cybercrime detection and analysis 7Network security 7Criminal network analysis 7Attack pattern recognition 7Strategic Approaches to Security 7Security in Mobile Platforms 7Authentication authorisations 7Internet security and web security 7E-commerce/ ebusiness security issues 7Security Policies and Procedures 7Cyber Legislation 7Cyber War 7Digital Cities 7Security Requirements Engineering 7Cryptographic Algorithms & Protocols 7Software agents/Artificial intelligence The committee is particularly interested in hearing about relevant case studies and "best practise" on any of the above. Workshops There are 7 workshops at this years conference these are; * Cyber criminology * VoIP * Bioinformatics and DNA * Biometrics * IT Governance * Integration, convergenece and transparency for networks and systems for security operations * Wireless Security Paper Submission: Authors should submit a paper in English of about 8 A4 pages, up to 5000 words. The program committee will review all papers and the contact author of each paper will be notified of the result, by email. Submitted papers have to be original, containing new and original results and should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. The paper must be carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling. Authors should upload their paper/s at ICGeS-08 Submission Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper at the conference. All papers will be "blind" peer reviewed by at least two independent referees. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings that will be published and distributed during the conference. The camera- ready version is limited to 8 (eight) pages for full papers and 4 (four) pages for poster presentations. Authors are invited to submit their electronic soft-copy of the paper inMS Words format. Authors Instructions in a form of sample page is available in PDF-format and in MS-Word format . Refereed full papers will be considered for publication in the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics Important Dates: Full Paper and Poster Submission 15th February 2008 Workshop Submission 15th February 2008 Author Notification 6th March 2008 Final Camera-Ready Submission and Registration 26th March 2008 Conference 23/24/25 June 2008 General Chair: DrHamid Jahankhani, (University of East London) Senior Programme Committee: * Dr Kenneth Revett, University of Westminster, UK * Prof Dieter Gollmann, TU Hamburg, Germany * Dr Sirgio Tenreiro de Magalhces, Universidade Catslica Portuguesa, Braga, Portugal * Prof John McEachen, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, USA * Dr Vasilios Zorkadis, Directorate of the Hellenic Data Protection Authority , Greece * Dr Ivan Flechais, Oxford University, UK Regular Programme Committee: * Dr Paul Smith, University of East London, UK * Prof Florin Gorunescu, University of Medicin and Pharmacy of Craiova, Romania * Dr Daniel J. Bilar, Wellesley College, MA, USA * Prof Colin Pattinson, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK * ProfNizametting Aydin, Bahcesehir University Istanbul, Turkey * Dr Keith Miller, University of Illinois, USA * Dr Luis Gouveia Borges, Fernando Pessoa Universidad, Portugal * Dr David Preston, University of East London, UK * Dr Haralambos Mouratidis, University of East London, UK * Dr Hossein Jahankhani, University of East London, UK * Dr Dimitris Rigas, University of Bradford, UK * Dr Manolis Christodoulakis, University of East London, UK * Dr Antonio Mana Gomez, University of Malaga, Spain * Mr Elias Pimenidis, University of East London, UK * Dr Luis Manuel Borges Gouveia, University Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal * Dr Nora Sanchez , ITESM CEM , Mexico * Dr Michael Weiss, Carleton University , Ottawa, Canada * Prof Abdel-badeeh M. Salem, Ain Shams University Cairo, Egypt * Dr James Kadirire, Anglia Ruskin University, UK * Dr Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italy * Prof Henrique M.D. Santos, Universidade do Minho, Portugal * Dr Tom Karygiannis, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA * Prof Dominic Palmer-Brown, University of East London, UK * Dr Reza Sahandi, Bournemouth University , UK * Professor Fabio Martinelli, Istituto per le Applicazioni Telematiche (CNR/ITT), Italy * Prof Sanayei, Middle East Export and Marketing Research Institution, Univerity of Isfahan, Iran * Prof Pierangela Samarati, University of Milan, Italy * Mr Vernon Poole, Sapphire Technologies Ltd, UK * Mr David Lilburn Watson, Forensic Computing Ltd, UK * Dr Jan J|r iens, The Open University, UK * Dr Gianluigi Me, University of Rome "Tor Vergata, Italy Finance Chair: * Dr Paul Smith, (University of East London) ICGeS Secretariat: * Ms Karren Huff, (University of East London For more information please contact the ICGeS Chair Dr Hamid Jahankhani University of East London School of Computing and Technology 4-6 University Way London E16 2RD UK e-mail: ecn(a)uel.ac.uk Tel: +442082232071 Fax: +442082232963 ------- End of forwarded message ------- [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which had a name of -] [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which had a name of -] _______________________________________________ Mycolleagues mailing list Mycolleagues(a)grid.lrg.ufsc.br http://grid.lrg.ufsc.br/mailman/listinfo/mycolleagues

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by Catherine Meadows 06 Jul '18

06 Jul '18

Paul: The IETF has been discussing setting up a working group for anonymous IPSec. They will have a BOF at the next IETF in DC in November. They're also setting up a mailing list you might be interested in if you haven't heard about it already. Information is below. At 10:08 PM -0700 9/6/04, Joe Touch wrote: >Hi, all, > >To follow-up on related presentations at both SAAG and TCPM, we've >created a mailing list for discussions of anonymous security. > >Further information on the list and how to join it, as well as >pointers to related resources can be found at: > > http://www.postel.org/anonsec > >The mailing list address is: anonsec(a)postel.org > >Joe > Cathy ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________ NymIP-res-group mailing list NymIP-res-group(a)nymip.org http://www.nymip.org/mailman/listinfo/nymip-res-group --- 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' ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]

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