October 2016 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

US: Regulating Your Revolution Fail For You
by grarpamp 26 Oct '16

26 Oct '16

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/10/22/0652241/new-smart-guns-will-have-f… http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-19-year-old-just-built-the-first-fingerprint-… http://www.computerworld.com/article/3132572/emerging-technology/german-arm… A recent article in the Wall Street Journal described the International San Francisco Smart Gun Symposium, and the "Mark Zuckerberg of guns," a Colorado 18-year-old who's developing a gun which only fires when its owner's fingerprint makes contact with the pistol grip. But it looks like he'll have competition. Lucas123 writes: Armatix LLC's new iP9 smart gun will go on sale in the U.S. in mid-2017 and...will have a fingerprint reader that can store multiple scans like a smartphone. The iP9 is expected to retail for about $1,365, which is more than twice the price of many conventional 9mm semi-automatic pistols... The company's previous product was a smart gun which only fired when it was within 10 inches of radio waves emanating from its owner's watch, but they had trouble attracting buyers. Armatix now also hopes to interest shooting ranges in a gun which only fires when its built-in RFID system recognizes that it's pointing at a shooting target.

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China Says: Fucking You.... "It's For The Criminals"
by grarpamp 26 Oct '16

26 Oct '16

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/10/24/2123243/alibaba-founder-to-chinese-… https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-24/alibaba-s-jack-ma-urges-… http://mt.sohu.com/20161022/n470985094.shtml Bllionaire Jack Ma proposed that the nation's top security bureau use big data to prevent crime, endorsing the country's nascent effort to build unparalleled online surveillance of its billion-plus people. China's data capabilities are virtually unrivaled among its global peers, and policing cannot happen without the ability to analyze information on its citizens, the co-founder of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. said in a speech published Saturday by the agency that polices crime and runs the courts. Ma's stance resonates with that of China's ruling body, which is establishing a system to collect and parse information on citizens in a country where minimal safeguards exist for privacy. "Bad guys in a movie are identifiable at first glance, but how can the ones in real life be found?" Ma said in his speech, which was posted on the official WeChat account of the Commission for Political and Legal Affairs. "In the age of big data, we need to remember that our legal and security system with millions of members will also face change." In his speech, Ma stuck mainly to the issue of crime prevention. In Alibaba's hometown of Hangzhou alone, the number of surveillance cameras may already surpass that of New York's, Ma said. Humans can't handle the sheer amount of data amassed, which is where artificial intelligence comes in, he added. "The future legal and security system cannot be separated from the internet and big data," Ma said. Ma's speech also highlights the delicate relationship between Chinese web companies and the government. The ruling party has designated internet industry leaders as key targets for outreach, with President Xi Jinping saying in May last year that technology leaders should "demonstrate positive energy in purifying cyberspace."

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Senior US District Judge Leon Jordan rules against FBI in PlayPen case
by Mirimir 26 Oct '16

26 Oct '16

| Senior U.S. District Judge Leon Jordan ruled that the Federal | Bureau of Investigation violated both the US Constitution and | federal rules of criminal procedure when they hacked nearly | 1,300 users who accessed the PlayPen child porn site. https://www.deepdotweb.com/2016/10/26/knoxville-federal-judge-rules-fbi-pla…

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Using Freenet anonymously via Tor
by Mirimir 25 Oct '16

25 Oct '16

I've posted a how-to guide for using Freenet anonymously via Tor, with full opennet connectivity, at <http://dbshmc5frbchaum2.onion/Freenet-OnionCat.html>. Basically, the Freenet node is a VM with no public IP address. It reaches opennet peers through a clearnet proxy VPS, linked via Tor/OnionCat. It can also reach peers directly at OnionCat IPv6 addresses.

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[RUS] A spy goes to Lubyanka - Putin the comedian
by Zenaan Harkness 25 Oct '16

25 Oct '16

:) http://in.rbth.com/arts/people/2016/10/07/the-lighter-side-of-putin-the-spy… (Alt: http://russia-insider.com/en/lighter-side-putin-spy-who-couldnt-surrender/r… )

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"You have to legalize drugs to win that war [on drugs]." - Trump
by Zenaan Harkness 25 Oct '16

25 Oct '16

A little search for e.g. "Trump marijuana" turns up some interesting articles and quotes. Left for the curious...

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Fwd: Climate change - Antarctic ice cover hits record highs, last 3 yrs in a row
by Steven Schear 25 Oct '16

25 Oct '16

Zenaan, The question isn't whether the earth's climate is changing. It is. Its always changing. The question is whether, as many scientist contend, its mainly induced by human activity and MORE importantly whether these scientist can prove they are correct SCIENTIFICALLY or can they only offer their CONSENSUS. According to Michael Crichton, they can't prove it for the simple reason they cannot use a key element of "the scientific method", controlled, repeatable, experiments as is common in all "hard" sciences. http://www.s8int.com/crichton.html Consensus is not science, its politics. Science has nothing to do with Consensus. Steve On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 7:31 AM, Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> wrote: > The following is a link packed, quote worthy, numbers filled article for > your reading and forwarding pleasure :) > > > With Ice Growing at Both Poles, Global Warming Theories Implode > http://principia-scientific.org/ice-growing-poles-global-war > ming-theories-implode/ >

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Global warming/climate change
by coresamples＠sigaint.org 25 Oct '16

25 Oct '16

Of course the global climate is changing! > Tom: > Lern something useful instead of wasting other peoples time >From your statements I would assume that you believe you have a degree of climate science education. So tell me, when has the global climate not been changing? What actual empirical evidence, independent of adjusted computer models, is there that most of the warming of the last century is due to human activities when the global climate actually began warming at the end of the little Ice Age in the mid-19th century, nearly a century before significant introduction of fossil fuel derived CO2 to the atmosphere? Need answers, look to your science god and ask about the core samples. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_sample Fuckers.

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Anarchitecture
by Plan View 25 Oct '16

25 Oct '16

Where will we find complete, formal documentation on architectural drawing specifications and guidelines for the Uê?

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GOST cryptography -- Russian Federation's crypto algorithms
by Sergey Matveev 23 Oct '16

23 Oct '16

Here is consolidated information about modern russian crypto algorithms: http://www.cypherpunks.ru/gost/English.html Worth altenative to western standards.

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