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Fwd: Re: [FORGED] Re: [FORGED] Re: UK To Ban Crypto In Devices, Email And More
by John Young 08 Nov '15

08 Nov '15

Analogy of learning to drive to learning crypto is pretty good privacy. Extend that from needing a key, fob or fingerprint to start a vehicle to needing a computer and a device, token, card, fingerprint, to encrypt. Plug it in, encrypt begins, nothing else needed except driver license, intelligence, vision, hearing, gasoline or battery, safe roads, directional signs, fuel stations, cops, insurance, anti-theft devices, annual inspection, license renewal, or when disabled, poor or broke, terrified of mass killing excessive vehicles, alternate means of encryption, like buses, trains, aircraft, ships, taxis, limos, choppers, subways, balloons, horses, feet and sidewalks while packing a gun, knife or pepper spray for defense against predators, rapists, thieves, rubber hoses, hackers, crackers, dopeheads. But maybe a profession of encryption officers to encrypt for the user, like lawyers, doctors, engineers and notaries, state licensed for protection of customers, self-regulated because nobody would know crypto like the pros, with a crypto system like the justice and prison systems to assure accountability and punishment for infraction. Would require outlawing crypto use by anyone except a pro and official secretkeepers but, cereal box DIY would be available. PKC would be banned as a state, church and family offense, like kiddie porn and WMD. Cryptographers would be venerated as high holies, sack clothed, wild haired, slit-eyed, filthy, babbling, narcissitic jerks, abusively sado-masochistic, panhandling, duplicitous, feared, contemptuous of ordinary humans, ostracized, distrusted. Woe peddling obsessives. Hmm, that last is the current faith in encryption religion. Could be left as it is, isolated, ignored, ridiculed, tatooed with a Red C on forehead. >Authentication-Results: antiproton.jfet.org; dkim=fail > reason="verification failed; unprotected key" > header.d=openmailbox.org header.i=(a)openmailbox.org > header.b=ou82dX8n; dkim-adsp=fail (unprotected policy); > dkim-atps=neutral >DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=openmailbox.org; > s=openmailbox; t=1446972344; > bh=ud2Izg/X/db1uEkNBQ6hGyKf00WWSWeic6lcOI+ZFYw=; > h=Date:From:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; > b=ou82dX8nMcSlR0Qcf2A0v8cdjNhgy4MyMdlTxr3R6KFrimuR9JLlLnTwA/i7wNndG > Sj0ixiyPZ4Y1qANRthloNl6bOW16BQ7J2JnP/fvCsbs9mR72nriONDVYjsYPQZEWGB > PzTLd7eqmqR68F8116KM88n8sBqMtMCewMtBBEX0= >X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on openmailbox-b1 >X-Spam-Level: >X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, > DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,NO_RECEIVED,NO_RELAYS autolearn=no > autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 >DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=openmailbox.org; > s=openmailbox; t=1446972343; > bh=ud2Izg/X/db1uEkNBQ6hGyKf00WWSWeic6lcOI+ZFYw=; > h=Date:From:To:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; > b=uD4HCz9MH+3yecaOQpQIHs5KPiYB6pe6yGyo27V9HyLNa3090cgCHw1a6/BDCIixO > EocHa232/mmc4s5Yf0jD3ybSnLPduXucbmQ+mNk7xt5LD+jVTyKEzBAcx5gKtP8Ihf > mW89SQVktK6O7Cp2ozbRJW945rs+DUFU9jnqosmM= >Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2015 08:45:43 +0000 >From: oshwm <oshwm(a)openmailbox.org> >User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; > rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.8.0 >To: Peter Gutmann <pgut001(a)cs.auckland.ac.nz>, > "cypherpunks(a)cpunks.org" <cypherpunks(a)cpunks.org> >Subject: Re: [FORGED] Re: [FORGED] Re: UK To Ban Crypto In Devices, Email > And More >X-BeenThere: cypherpunks(a)cpunks.org >X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 >List-Id: The Cypherpunks Mailing List <cypherpunks.cpunks.org> >List-Unsubscribe: <https://cpunks.org/mailman/options/cypherpunks>, > <mailto:cypherpunks-request@cpunks.org?subject=unsubscribe> >List-Archive: <http://cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/> >List-Post: <mailto:cypherpunks@cpunks.org> >List-Help: <mailto:cypherpunks-request@cpunks.org?subject=help> >List-Subscribe: <https://cpunks.org/mailman/listinfo/cypherpunks>, > <mailto:cypherpunks-request@cpunks.org?subject=subscribe> >Sender: "cypherpunks" <cypherpunks-bounces(a)cpunks.org> >X-ELNK-Received-Info: spv=0; >X-Authentication-Results: dkim="fail"; (1:no or failed dkim >processing); dmarc="none"; (1); dwl="miss"; den="not exempt" >X-ELNK-AV: 0 >X-ELNK-Info: sbv=0; sbrc=.0; sbf=bb; sbw=000; >X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== >X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== > > > >On 08/11/15 08:40, Peter Gutmann wrote: > > oshwm <oshwm(a)openmailbox.org> writes: > > > >> Can GPG be easier to use, I think so, is it too difficult to use > by ordinary > >> people - no, they're just too fucking lazy and lack motivation. > > > > ... and this is pretty much the poster child for why we have so > much unusable > > crypto today. > > > >Or, why we have such a fucking retarded human race with the attention >span of a knat who expect everything to be given to them on a plate. >People have to stop being lazy and start taking an interest and >responsibility for what goes on in the world around them - your point of >view re-inforces the dumbing down of the population and the increase in >power of the Government and big Corps. > > > Peter. > > > >

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Protonmail releases details of dDos attack
by Razer 07 Nov '15

07 Nov '15

They paid ransom to 'criminals' and it didn't stop. I stand by my earlier statement UK government's GCHQ/allied nation's intel agencies are responsible, and will never be held accountable under their own laws. Anyone know bitcoin address 1FxHcZzW3z9NRSUnQ9Pcp58ddYaSuN1T2y? Interpol want to speak with them... RR ----------------------------- ProtonMail Statement about the DDOS Attack As many of you know, ProtonMail came under sustained DDOS attack starting on November 3rd, 2015. At the current moment, we are not under attack and have been able to restore services, but we may come under attack again. We are currently working with solution providers to find a way to mitigate this attack, however, it is quite unprecedented in size and scope so unfortunately finding a working solution is not easy. Because of the sophistication of this attack, we will also need to resort to quite expensive solutions which will burden our finances. It is for this reason that we are also collecting donations for a ProtonMail defense fund. ProtonMail was originally created to provide privacy to activists, journalists, whistleblowers, and other at risk groups, and we have many of those people in the ProtonMail community. Unfortunately, there are groups out there determined to oppose this which has led to this incident. However, we are confident that with your support, we can overcome this attack and come back stronger than ever, and continue to provide a place where online privacy is protected. As we will detail below, this attack has grown beyond just ProtonMail and is a full fledged cyberattack. We have been working with the Swiss Governmental Computer Emergency Response Team (GovCERT), the Cybercrime Coordination Unit Switzerland (CYCO), as part of an ongoing criminal investigation being conducted here in Switzerland and with the assistance of Europol. After much consultation, we have decided to release details about the full extent of the attack on us so the broader security and privacy community can stay informed. Slightly before midnight on November 3rd, 2015, we received a blackmail email from a group of criminals who have been responsible for a string of DDOS attacks which have happened across Switzerland in the past few weeks. This threat was followed by a DDOS attack which took us offline for approximately 15 minutes. We did not receive the next attack until approximately 11AM the next morning. At this point, our datacenter and their upstream provider began to take steps to mitigate the attack. However, within the span of a few hours, the attacks began to take on an unprecedented level of sophistication. At around 2PM, the attackers began directly attacking the infrastructure of our upstream providers and the datacenter itself. The coordinated assault on our ISP exceeded 100Gbps and attacked not only the datacenter, but also routers in Zurich, Frankfurt, and other locations where our ISP has nodes. This coordinated assault on key infrastructure eventually managed to bring down both the datacenter and the ISP, which impacted hundreds of other companies, not just ProtonMail. At this point, we were placed under a lot of pressure by third parties to just pay the ransom, which we grudgingly agreed to do at 3:30PM Geneva time to the bitcoin address 1FxHcZzW3z9NRSUnQ9Pcp58ddYaSuN1T2y. This was a collective decision taken by all impacted companies, and while we disagree with it, we nevertheless respected it taking into the consideration the hundreds of thousands of Swiss Francs in damages suffered by other companies caught up in the attack against us. We hoped that by paying, we could spare the other companies impacted by the attack against us, but the attacks continued nevertheless. This was clearly a wrong decision so let us be clear to all future attackers – ProtonMail will NEVER pay another ransom. Through MELANI (a division of the Swiss federal government), we exchanged information with other companies who have also been attacked and made a few discoveries. First, the attack against ProtonMail can be divided into two stages. The first stage is the volumetric attack which was targeting just our IP addresses. The second stage is the more complex attack which targeted weak points in the infrastructure of our ISPs. This second phase has not been observed in any other recent attacks on Swiss companies and was technically much more sophisticated. This means that ProtonMail is likely under attack by two separate groups, with the second attackers exhibiting capabilities more commonly possessed by state-sponsored actors. It also shows that the second attackers were not afraid of causing massive collateral damage in order to get at us. At present, ProtonMail’s infrastructure is still vulnerable to attacks of this magnitude, but we have a comprehensive long term solution which is already being implemented. Protecting against a highly sophisticated attack like the second one which was launched against us requires sophisticated solutions as we also need to protect our datacenter and upstream providers. Cost estimates for these solutions are around $100,000 per year since there are few service providers able to fight off an attack of this size and sophistication. These solutions are expensive and take time to implement, but they will be necessary because it is clear that online privacy has powerful opponents. In order to cover these costs, we are collecting donations for a ProtonMail defense fund, which can be found here: We are fighting not just for privacy, but for the future of the internet. We would especially like to thank the thousands of users who offered their support and encouragement on Twitter and Facebook, we will never stop fighting for you. Over the next several weeks, we will begin putting in place the sophisticated protections that are necessary to withstand large scale attacks like this to ensure that online privacy can’t be taken down. https://protonmaildotcom.wordpress.com/2015/11/05/protonmail-statement-abou… ---------------------------------------------------

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And now, for a moment of levity
by Michael Best 06 Nov '15

06 Nov '15

In lieu of the covert comic, some humor for a list that's often... contentious. Enjoy, if you dare venture to the Twit-light Zone. https://twitter.com/FreudCyber Choice quotes: - Cryptanalysis is, in essence, a cure through love and mathematics. - The hacker has a number of representations for the erection of the male genital that may be called symbolic, such as "privilege escalation". - Furthermore, to the male hacker, the female genital is represented by TCP ports, cryptographic tokens, and input buffers. - Bad security serves to arouse sexual inquisitiveness, which always strives to restore the sexual object by uncovering the hidden data. - The super-user retains the character of the father. The more powerful the Oedipus complex was, the more elevated its privileges will be. - A hacker's mental life can be described in terms of the id and the super-user. The super-user emerges when the id retreats, becomes zero.

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Negative interest rates redux (and pushing for "cashless society")
by Zenaan Harkness 06 Nov '15

06 Nov '15

OK, this one's actual negative interest rates, but on deposits (vs for loans), where you pay the bank to keep your money on deposit; this breaks the previous assumption/ model that the minimum interest rate can be zero %, at least for deposits, and so why not for loans as well, i.e. pay you interest to take out a loan - perhaps trial actual zero % loans first? : [the article contains a graph 'growth in notes in circulation across nations, USD, AUD, EUR, GBP, swedish KRO] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11895084/How-Swedens-negative-… " How Sweden's negative interest rates experiment has turned economics on its head Nordic experimentation with sub-zero interest rates has changed the way central bankers think about fighting recessions It has long been believed that when it comes to interest rates, zero is as low as you can go. Who would choose to keep their money in the bank if they had to pay for the privilege? But for the people who control the world’s money, this idea has recently been thrown out of the window. Many central banks have pushed their rates into negative territory and yet the financial system has still to come to an abrupt end. It is a discovery that flips on its head the conventional idea of how authorities could respond to future economic crises; and for central bankers, this has come as a relief. Central bank policymakers had believed they had run out of room to support their respective economies http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11704051/The-world-is-defensel… , with their interest rates held close to the floor. Traditionally, it was thought that if you wanted to boost the economy, the central bank would reduce its interest rates. Normally, the rates offered on savings accounts would follow, and people would choose to spend more, and save less. But there’s a limit, what economists called the “zero lower bound”. Cut rates too deeply, and savers would end up facing negative returns. In that case, this could encourage people to take their savings out of the bank and hoard them in cash. This could slow, rather than boost, the economy. What is happening now should not – according to conventional thinking – be possible. As central bank rates have turned negative, the rates offered on bank deposits have followed. Yet rather than stuffing cash under mattresses, people have left their money in the bank or spent it. Nowhere is the experiment with negative rates more obvious than among Nordic central banks. Sweden – the first to dabble with negative rates – is perhaps the prime candidate for such experimentation. The country already has high savings rates, the third highest in the developed world according to the OECD http://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?QueryId=51648 and, despite growing at healthy rates, there appears to be plenty of slack left in the economy to prevent an overheat. Unemployment is unusually high for an advanced economy at more than 7pc, still well above its pre-crisis levels of sub-6pc. Crucially, the Riksbank’s mandate suggests that such a radical experiment is necessary. Policymakers have battled with deflation since late 2012, and with inflation at minus 0.2pc in August, it remains well below the central bank’s 2pc target. To a great extent, the Riksbank’s hand has been forced by the plight of the eurozone. A tepid recovery in the currency union has required the European Central Bank (ECB) to bring in ever-looser policy https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CDkQFj… . As the ECB’s actions have weakened the euro against Sweden’s krona, the cost of importing goods into Sweden has fallen, and weighed down on inflation. The Riksbank has had to cut its own rates in response in an attempt to avoid deep deflation. Sweden’s flexible approach to monetary policy has won it the plaudits of leading credit ratings agency. Standard and Poor’s recently reaffirmed the country’s triple AAA sovereign rating, remarking on the benefits it derives from “ample monetary policy flexibility”. Noting that the Riksbank had introduced both negative interest rates and quantitative easing, S&P said that “should inflation rates stay low or the krona appreciate materially, the central bank could lower the repo rate further”. Many City analysts believe that the Riksbank will continue cutting, reducing its key interest rate to minus 0.5pc by the end of the year. Switzerland’s is already deeper still, at minus 0.75pc, while Denmark and the eurozone have joined them as members of the negative zone. What was once thought impossible now seems something that could come to the UK in the years to come. And even in the US, which is thought to be just months away from an interest rate rise, the idea of negative interest rates has gained attention. At the most recent meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11873141/Federal-Reserve-inter… , which decides US interest rates, one unnamed member said that they expected negative policy rates at the end of this year and next. But can policymakers keep at this forever? Even if turns out that the lower bound was not negative, economists still believe that one exists. Attempts to estimate the unknown vary, but the fees charged by credit companies give some indication as to how strongly we prefer to use cash. These can be as low as minus 3pc according to Barclays, indicating that central bankers have much more room to slash rates. Pension funds might be among the first to abandon banks if things get too painful, because of what in effect can look like a tax on holding money. One solution is to give savers nowhere else to go. This idea was floated by the Bank of England’s chief economist in recent weeks, who made the case that sub-zero rates will be needed in the near future http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/bank-of-england/11874061/Negative-intere… . Andy Haldane, a member of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), the UK’s equivalent of the FOMC suggested that to achieve properly negative rates, the abolition of cash itself might be necessary. This is one reason why negative rates have been used in Nordic economies, where societies are already close to cashless. Even sellers of Sweden’s version of the Big Issue magazine - Situation Stockholm - are able to accept payment via debit or credit card. For the immediate future, the British obsession with cash appears to be intensifying. The Bank of England has said that demand for banknotes and coins outstrips total spending in the economy http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/bank-of-england/11865964/The-end-of-cash… . Some of like to hoard it for peace of mind, while many of us hold it for day to day transactions. And much of it is held abroad, often in bureaux de change. There are other - perhaps more sinister - motives to prefer non-electronic money. Unlike the money stored on spreadsheets, cash is almost completely untraceable. For those who value their privacy, or who deal in prohibited goods and services, there’s no beating it. Last week, Charles Goodhart, a former MPC member, said that Swiss and ECB central bankers had been “absolutely shameless” in continuing to issue high denomination notes, printing 1,000 Swiss franc and 500 euro bills. These high face values notes “are there to finance the drug deals”, Mr Goodhart said at the annual Money, Macro and Finance Conference in London. Sir Charles Bean, also a former deputy governor at the Bank of England, echoed Mr Goodhart’s concerns. He said that was “all in favour of getting rid of big-denomination notes, which are used in the black economy”. Such a move could increase the cost of holding cash, pushing the lower bound on policy rates even lower. Sushil Wadhwani, a former MPC member, said: “We should make it much more expensive to hold cash.” No politician is likely to prohibit cash entirely, at least not until it has already all but disappeared from day to day life. Concerns about surveillance and the power of the state are likely to grow, as electronic money is completely traceable. “Cash is useful for small transactions, and until it disappears naturally, I would be loathe to say let’s outlaw it,” says Sir Charles. "

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Re: lol the lol intercept lol but who is https://y6xjgkgwj47us5ca.onion/
by coderman 06 Nov '15

06 Nov '15

what's most amusing is that the other two generated vanity onions, while the intercept gave zero fucks. :P

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lol the lol intercept lol
by Juan 06 Nov '15

06 Nov '15

https://theintercept.com/2015/11/04/what-the-intercepts-new-audience-measur… " in April we became only the third internet service, behind Facebook and Blockchain.info, to allow people to contact us over HTTPS-encrypted connections to the anonymity network Tor." "it’s also important to disclose that there are other service providers we continue to use who do have access to information like your IP address, which articles on The Intercept you visit, and which computer operating system and web browser you use. Such partners include our content delivery network, CloudFlare; " But what I really like about the intercept is all their articles explaining how closely ebay and the american nazi government cooperate.

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btc price analysis
by Juan 06 Nov '15

06 Nov '15

I can't disclose my source, but I heard the pentagon is going to launch a prediction market denominated in btc. It's going to be open source and all western freedom fighters will be able to join the coding the effort. Hence the current spike. (It's all based on the scientific principle known as "the wisdom of crowds" - Individual retards are retarded but when millions of retards bet together, there's an emergent and huge surge in wisdom)

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Zerocoin Startup Revives the Dream of Truly Anonymous Money
by coderman 04 Nov '15

04 Nov '15

Zooko++ http://www.wired.com/2015/11/zerocoin-startup-revives-the-dream-of-truly-an… Andy Greenberg Date of Publication: 11.04.15. Zerocoin Startup Revives the Dream of Truly Anonymous Money Bitcoin, despite its reputation as anonymous internet cash, was never designed for perfectly private payments. For the promise of fully untraceable money, cryptocurrency fans have been waiting for Zerocoin—a technology designed to have default uncrackable anonymity. After years of development, that incognito cryptocash is finally showing signs of a life, now in the form of a stealthy startup. Late last week, a company calling itself the Zerocoin Electric Coin Company published a post on Angel List, a website startups use to raise funds from private investors. Zerocoin’s new CEO and co-founder, cryptographer Zooko Wilcox-Hearn, confirms in an email to WIRED that the company will put into practice the Zerocoin (alternatively known as Zerocash) design initially created by a team of encryption researchers at Johns Hopkins in 2013, with the goal of creating a bitcoin-like currency with the greatest privacy and anonymity protections that modern mathematics can offer. “Bitcoin is HTTP for money. We are HTTPS,” reads Zerocoin’s Angel List description, an analogy to the layer of privacy enabled on encrypted web pages versus the surveillance perils of visiting an unencrypted site. In fact, Zerocoin’s privacy advantages over bitcoin could be even more substantial than that HTTPS comparison implies: Bitcoin transactions are published on the blockchain, the public record of all bitcoin payments that serves as the backbone of the bitcoin economy. Any slip-up that identifies a user’s bitcoin addresses also makes it possible for anyone to trace all of his or her payments from and to those addresses. Zerocoin’s blockchain, on the other hand, uses a cryptographic trick known as a “zero-knowledge proof” to guarantee that transactions in the Zerocoin economy aren’t fraudulent or forged. But that zero-knowledge feature means that in contrast to bitcoin, Zerocoin’s blockchain doesn’t reveal anything about the payment’s origin, destination, or even the transaction’s amount. (Read the full paper Zerocoin’s creators presented at the 2014 IEEE Spectrum security and privacy conference here.) In other words, Zerocoin will let users spend internet cash with theoretically perfect anonymity. But Zerocoin’s new Angel’s List page also notes that if necessary, the same zero-knowledge proof trick can also allow a zerocoin user to forego that privacy and choose to reveal proof that any individual transaction was his or hers—say, as a receipt for some zerocoin purchase. “We are adding *selective disclosure* to Bitcoin and Blockchain technologies,” the Angel’s List page reads. “Transaction metadata in the Blockchain is confidential by default but can be disclosed to specific parties. This allows the best of both worlds: both strong privacy and transparency on the Blockchain.” Just how Zerocoin will make money as a startup, however, is far from clear. For now, Wilcox-Hearn declined to answer any of WIRED’s questions about how the company will function, when it will officially launch, or how it plans to put its new cryptocurrency into circulation. Like any bitcoin alternative, Zerocoin will no doubt face stiff competition from bitcoin itself, which already has buy-in from millions of users and an exchange rate that’s appreciated sharply in just the last week. Even so, a roster of influential angel investors have already invested $715,000 in Zerocoin, according to Wilcox-Hearn. Two early backers listed on the Angel’s List posting are Naval Ravikant, an investor in Twitter and Uber, and Barry Silbert, the founder of startup equity trading platform SecondMarket. Another is Roger Ver, a staunchly libertarian bitcoin mogul who’s made investments in startups like Blockchain.info and Bitpay, and who used his substantial crypto-fortune to bankroll much of the criminal defense of now-convicted Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht. Zerocoin also cites an impressive collection of “advisors” on its Angel’s List page. In addition to the academic team that designed Zerocoin, led by Johns Hopkins computer science professor Matthew Green, those advisors also include Vitalik Buterin, the founder of buzzy cryptocurrency startup Ethereum, and Gavin Andresen, one of the first bitcoin coders and the chief scientist of the Bitcoin Foundation. The company’s CEO, Zooko Wilcox-Hearn, has crypto cred of his own: He’s the creator of the Tahoe Least Authority File Store, or Tahoe LAFS, a decentralized, encrypted file storage system. Even with those supporters, Zerocoin is sure to face criticism and even legal trouble because of the very privacy properties that make it unique: A cryptographically untraceable, anonymous currency could offer massive potential for money laundering and black market sales. The Silk Road’s federal prosecutors, after all, proved how valuable a tougher-to-track cryptocurrency would be to criminals, when they traced $13.4 million worth of bitcoin from the drug-selling site to its creator Ross Ulbricht’s laptop. Zerocoin’s creators attempted to answer that concern in their online FAQ, pointing out that criminals can already make anonymous transactions with cash, or even with bitcoin if they’re careful to use “mixing” services like Dark Wallet or Bitcoin Fog that are designed to anonymize transactions. “The introduction of yet another method to anonymously move money is of little consequence,” they write. But cash can’t be spent online, and mixing services only make tracing payments more difficult—they don’t render it impossible, as Zerocoin’s zero-knowledge proofs are designed to do. More convincingly, the Zerocoin authors also argue the opposite point: that the alternative to their cryptocurrency is to rely on bitcoin, whose blockchain can create real problems for any user seeking to keep his or her transactions private. “Would you want to publish your bank statement for everyone to see? Of course not: your bank statement can reveal…intimate details about your life,” they write. “For example, your payments to a psychiatrist could reveal that you have a mental health issue.” Zerocoin’s coming launch as a startup, by contrast, revives the cryptocurrency community’s dream of truly anonymous money—with all the promises and perils that come with it. Stay tuned.

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Tor cameo in the comic “Les Vieux Fourneaux”
by grarpamp 04 Nov '15

04 Nov '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Lunar <lunar(a)torproject.org> Date: Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 5:46 AM Hi! “Les Vieux Fourneaux” [1] is a comic in French published last year by Wilfrid Lupano and Paul Cauuet. Amongst other characters, it features a group of anarchist elders called “Ni Yeux Ni Maîtres” [2]. In the story you see them fighting gentrification by filling up a trendy lounge bar until it goes out of business. One of the elder is getting hacking lessons from “Arno Nimousse”. The latter has an onion sticker on his laptop. Some images: https://people.torproject.org/~lunar/volatile/2015-11-04-WplBy28xyVg/Les_Vi… https://people.torproject.org/~lunar/volatile/2015-11-04-WplBy28xyVg/Les_Vi… https://people.torproject.org/~lunar/volatile/2015-11-04-WplBy28xyVg/Les_Vi… [1]: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Vieux_Fourneaux [2]: Meaning “No Eyes No Masters”, but it sounds more funny in French. -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk(a)lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

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Re: The BlackList
by coderman 04 Nov '15

04 Nov '15

On 11/2/15, jim bell <jdb10987(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > About the time you sent this message, you did something to screw up my Yahoo > email account. I started getting bounces, and eventually I was entirely > prevented from sending emails. Please explain what you did. Jim > Bell > From: coderman <coderman(a)gmail.com> > To: jim bell <jdb10987(a)yahoo.com> > Cc: Cari Machet <carimachet(a)gmail.com>; cpunks <cypherpunks(a)cpunks.org> > Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2015 4:44 PM > Subject: Re: The BlackList... Jim, i am often a well selected individual, as you must be at times, too. you should assume any centralized service will become unusable at any time. Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon - they are all real-time malware conduits, when they're not simply denying service selectively, or en masse. the only thing i have seen survive the highest level of scrutiny are bespoke systems communicating only over hidden services with end-to-end crypto. (and by survive - i mean not immediately pwned - long term resistance is only through constant evolutionary and radical improvement based on interactions with attackers...) what a world we've built! best regards,

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