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A complete guide to the new 'Crypto Wars'
by grarpamp 28 Apr '16

28 Apr '16

http://www.dailydot.com/politics/encryption-crypto-wars-backdoors-timeline-… The computer-science professors, cryptographers, and digital-rights advocates who had beaten back similar demands in the 1990s experienced deja vu. That series of fights, which they called the “Crypto Wars,” had only been the first round of a prolonged conflict. Now it was time to settle in for Crypto Wars, Round 2. But where and when did this new phase began? Pinpointing that exact moment may be impossible, but the timeline below provides a relatively comprehensive overview of the different fights that constitute the new Crypto War, from the early months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to the present day. [Not so complete... leaves out rise / spread of crypto, encrypted / anonymous applications, networks, and activities, digital currencies, international aspects. Someone should create and curate a better timeline, a wiki...]

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Re: Do you notice significant persistent change in climate?
by John C. Koen 27 Apr '16

27 Apr '16

Interesting documentary called Chasing Ice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIZTMVNBjc4 > -----Original Message----- > From: cypherpunks [mailto:cypherpunks-bounces@cpunks.org] On Behalf Of > John Newman > Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2016 7:41 AM > To: James A. Donald <jamesd(a)echeque.com> > Cc: cypherpunks(a)cpunks.org > Subject: Re: Do you notice significant persistent change in climate? > > * PGP Signed by an unknown key > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 11:33:28AM +1000, James A. Donald wrote: > > Yes, the glaciers in Iceland are retreating - to reveal the ruins of > > farmhouses. > > And while they melt they raise global sea levels, projected to raise a > minimum of ~3ft bt 2100. And sea levels won't magically stop raising at > 2100. This spells fucking catastrophe for major coastal cities > - e.g. New York, Miami, Bangkok, New Orleans, etc etc. > > -- > John > jnn(a)synfin.org > > * Unknown Key > * 0xD47A78C7 > -- --johnk

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Re: Offtopic posts
by John Young 27 Apr '16

27 Apr '16

Definitely: a high paywall, start at $1,000 a post, to cull the deadbeats. That's in bullion, no bitshit. Mis-post and price doubles, then goes geometric after 3. Your PINs are known. Here's the post ticket line: Hettinga hosts a deep "FC" vault packed with RL ransom goodies any deadbeat nation would genocide to expropriate for ignorant spenders of cognitive capital aka FC-CC. Now you know why only 200 Panama Papers files of 11,500,000 have been released. Robert's vault PIN is way off planet. At 05:46 PM 4/26/2016, you wrote: >Recently there have been posts regarding offtopic posts. >Speculating that at least one user here has prompted those... > >Zenaan got booted (or emigrated) from ubuntu fora >to some dead google group, till finding this place to >post his Rus-Aus etc stuff. This is not a personal swat >at Zenaan (or anyone else), he (and they) are surely >fine folks all around. And such posts are in fact interesting >to interested readers. >But instead is a note that there do need to be other places, >and referrals to such, where such things are ontopic and >uncensored, such that they may call them home. >Unfortunately, unless such posts here make reference >back to a somehow crypto, cpunk, c-tech, c-law context... >they're offtopic. >And frequently violating that should be expected to bring fire... >to the point that the violating author will be silently killfiled, >thus nullifying themselves. > >I'm no ontopic angel, send me to hell if you want.

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Bullion and BitShit
by grarpamp 27 Apr '16

27 Apr '16

On 4/26/16, John Young <jya(a)pipeline.com> wrote: > That's in bullion, no bitshit. At least with the current generation and lineage of software BitShit, you know exactly how much of it is in the ground, how fast it's being mined, the pots it's held in, if it's moving, what the metrics are and so on. Even if you don't know who owns pots, or what the Grand Scheme is, that's still better than most buillion schemes be it rocks, metals, or paper. Though perhaps a bit more risky due to newness. BTW, whatever shit is or isn't in Fort Knox hasn't seen the light of day in over 40 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bullion_Depository https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Point_Mint https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware_Depository http://nymag.com/news/9-11/10th-anniversary/gold/ http://www.rediff.com/money/2001/nov/17wtc.htm To understand BitShit, it's needed to understand some of this... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Reserve_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_reserve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullion_coin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock > Now you know why only 200 Panama Papers files of 11,500,000 > have been released. Another dataset, lost till time irrelavent. Backup your BitShit.

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Australia's Secret Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis - Libertarian economics - perception of a free market
by Zenaan Harkness 27 Apr '16

27 Apr '16

If you're an Australian with a mortgage, you might consider that you owe it to yourself to investigate your own mortgage, by FOI, by viewing, searching and pursuing - a time of crisis is almost always an opportunity for some, and that might be you. Carpe diem. ----- Original Message ----- Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 08:08:24 +0800 Subject: Australian mortgages Hi all, The following link is to a 27 minute clip of some astounding information regarding Australian mortgages. If you have or have had a mortgage, this is a MUST WATCH. It is one of the best and most accurate expose of this fraudulent activity by central banks that I've ever seen. Australia's Secret Sub-Prime Crisis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMcf4PUyOzY

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Re: [Cryptography] Darpa wants a secure messaging app based on blockchains
by grarpamp 27 Apr '16

27 Apr '16

On 4/26/16, Jerry Leichter <leichter(a)lrw.com> wrote: > There's nothing in the SBIR proposal that calls for back doors. > > Keep in mind that the FBI is at this point pretty much out there alone in > demanding back doors (though they won't admit that that's what they really > want). Alone is no reason to ever cease putting the pressure on those sorts of people / entities. After all, they do it to you, courtesy of your taxes, and their whim, and your opponents, 24 x 7 x 365... no proposal needed.

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blockchain startup
by dan＠geer.org 27 Apr '16

27 Apr '16

Shocard https://shocard.com/ Secure Public Data Layer BLOCKCHAIN 2.0 The ShoCard Identity Platform is built on a public blockchain data layer, so as a company we're not storing any data or keys that could be compromised. All identity data is encrypted and hashed then stored in the blockchain...

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Offtopic posts
by grarpamp 27 Apr '16

27 Apr '16

Recently there have been posts regarding offtopic posts. Speculating that at least one user here has prompted those... Zenaan got booted (or emigrated) from ubuntu fora to some dead google group, till finding this place to post his Rus-Aus etc stuff. This is not a personal swat at Zenaan (or anyone else), he (and they) are surely fine folks all around. And such posts are in fact interesting to interested readers. But instead is a note that there do need to be other places, and referrals to such, where such things are ontopic and uncensored, such that they may call them home. Unfortunately, unless such posts here make reference back to a somehow crypto, cpunk, c-tech, c-law context... they're offtopic. And frequently violating that should be expected to bring fire... to the point that the violating author will be silently killfiled, thus nullifying themselves. I'm no ontopic angel, send me to hell if you want.

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Re: Iceland recap - Revenge of the Vikings - Iceland Will Create Its Own Money
by Zenaan Harkness 25 Apr '16

25 Apr '16

Those plucky Icelandics - let's wish them better luck than JFK and others. Abundance is merely an engineering problem, and unfortunately is opposed by hegemony of the few, so good luck to Iceland. ---- http://russia-insider.com/en/revenge-vikings-iceland-will-create-its-own-mo… Revenge of the Vikings - Iceland Will Create Its Own Money Well, they were game enough to jail their bankers; let's see if they'll get away with this (Blacklisted News) The banking elite won't like this one bit Originally appeared at Blacklisted News http://www.blacklistednews.com/Revenge_of_the_Vikings_%E2%80%94_Iceland_Wil… Back in 1914, the Bradbury Pound ( http://www.ukcolumn.org/bring-back-the-bradbury ) was introduced by the UK government as an ’emergency measure’ to bolster a failing economy. It was a huge success. The banking elite were unhappy, however and panicked – before managing to wrestle control of the money supply afterwards. President John F. Kennedy also introduced a similar ‘Greenback’ in 1961, and again, the banking elite were very unhappy about being pushed out, and losing control of the issuance of money as debt. JFK did not survive past 1963. Then there was Muammar al-Gaddafi in Libya who, in 2009 announced a new gold-backed dinar, issued by Libya’s state-owned public central bank ( http://21stcenturywire.com/2011/03/28/globalist-target-the-central-bank-of-… ), and with further plans – negotiating with the other African nations for the creation of an all-African currency to compete with the Euro and the Dollar. Gaddafi did not survive past 2011. Who knew that the revolution would start with those radical Icelanders? One Frosti Sigurjonsson, a lawmaker from the ruling Progress Party, issued a report that suggests taking the power to create money away from commercial banks, and hand it to the central bank and, ultimately, Parliament. Can’t see commercial banks in the western world be too happy with this. They must be contemplating wiping the island nation off the map. If accepted in the Iceland parliament, the plan would change the game in a very radical way. It would be successful too, because there is no bigger scourge on our economies than commercial banks creating money and then securitizing and selling off the loans they just created the money (credit) with. Everyone, with the possible exception of Paul Krugman, understands why this is a very sound idea. Agence France Presse reports: Iceland’s government is considering a revolutionary monetary proposal – removing the power of commercial banks to create money and handing it to the central bank. The proposal, which would be a turnaround in the history of modern finance, was part of a report written by a lawmaker from the ruling centrist Progress Party, Frosti Sigurjonsson, entitled “A better monetary system for Iceland”. “The findings will be an important contribution to the upcoming discussion, here and elsewhere, on money creation and monetary policy,” Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson said. The report, commissioned by the premier, is aimed at putting an end to a monetary system in place through a slew of financial crises, including the latest one in 2008. According to a study by four central bankers, the country has had “over 20 instances of financial crises of different types” since 1875, with “six serious multiple financial crisis episodes occurring every 15 years on average.” Mr Sigurjonsson said the problem each time arose from ballooning credit during a strong economic cycle. He argued the central bank was unable to contain the credit boom, allowing inflation to rise and sparking exaggerated risk-taking and speculation, the threat of bank collapse and costly state interventions. In Iceland, as in other modern market economies, the central bank controls the creation of banknotes and coins but not the creation of all money, which occurs as soon as a commercial bank offers a line of credit. The central bank can only try to influence the money supply with its monetary policy tools. Under the so-called Sovereign Money proposal, the country’s central bank would become the only creator of money. “Crucially, the power to create money is kept separate from the power to decide how that new money is used,” Mr Sigurjonsson wrote in the proposal. “As with the state budget, the parliament will debate the government’s proposal for allocation of new money,” he wrote. Banks would continue to manage accounts and payments, and would serve as intermediaries between savers and lenders. Mr Sigurjonsson, a businessman and economist, was one of the masterminds behind Iceland’s household debt relief programme launched in May 2014 and aimed at helping the many Icelanders whose finances were strangled by inflation-indexed mortgages signed before the 2008 financial crisis.

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CryptoNote technical discussion and Chess Challenge
by grarpamp 25 Apr '16

25 Apr '16

CryptoNote technical discussion and Chess Challenge https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1190988 https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkFlarb/comments/3lwro6/chess_challenge/

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