June 2016 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Closed CPU's and Fabs Untrustworthy
by grarpamp 22 Jun '16

22 Jun '16

https://boingboing.net/2016/06/15/intel-x86-processors-ship-with.html Recent Intel x86 processors implement a secret, powerful control mechanism that runs on a separate chip that no one is allowed to audit or examine. https://libreboot.org/faq/ Links being mostly on the billions of gates we know exist, unfortunately not on the top secret ones we don't...

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Phony Nakamoto applying for Bitcoin patents
by John Newman 22 Jun '16

22 Jun '16

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0Z61GM -- John

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Re: comprehending the heart's nationalism
by Александр 22 Jun '16

22 Jun '16

*This article is not some amateur propaganda. This is truth, people. I speak in the name of the vast majority of hundreds of Russian people i know/knew very well.* __ It would never occur to any hero from a Russian epic to sacrifice his life in exchange for riches. He did not hesitate to reject the path by which he would “be rich,” instead voluntarily taking the road on which he would “be killed.” ___ The Russian champion has always gone to war as a liberator, not a conqueror! And in this we can see the difference between Russians and Western Europeans. __ Humanity in Western Europe is motivated by will and intellect. The Russian people are above all guided by their hearts and imaginations, relegating the mind and will to a supporting role. __ The Russian people never committed the same atrocities for which the enlightened Europeans were responsible in their own conquered lands. __ Spiritual strength is the basis for Russians’ renowned forbearance and tolerance toward others. __ Continually invaded from all sides and forced to live in an incredibly harsh climate, the Russian people managed to colonize vast swathes of land, but without slaughtering, enslaving, robbing, or forcibly baptizing any nation. __ Western Europeans’ policies of colonialism annihilated the aboriginal populations on three continents and forced natives from across Africa into slavery, while its cities grew rich on the backs of those colonies. The Russian nation never treated their conquered subjects as the Europeans did. __ Russia has never been a nationalist state – it has belonged to all who inhabit her. __ Precisely because they have borne so much suffering and heavy sacrifice, my people deeply empathized with the pain and suffering of other people. __ The patriotism displayed by Russian soldiers in the fields of the Great Patriotic War met the highest ideal of patriotism – something unprecedented in the history of any nation anywhere in the world. And I will never agree with the media’s pronouncements about Russian “barbarianism” vs. European “virtue.” __ I stand proud that our ancestors – our heroic ancestors – were so lovely, steadfast, courageous, and resilient, and that we are their descendants! __

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Led By Dems, US Congress Now Orlando'ing Their Constitution
by grarpamp 22 Jun '16

22 Jun '16

https://theintercept.com/2016/06/21/democrats-war-on-due-process-and-terror… Crypto, guns, rights and process... all cannon fodder to these fucks. related slopes... http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/15pdf/14-1373_83i7.pdf

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LimeSDR brings apps to SDR
by grarpamp 22 Jun '16

22 Jun '16

https://www.crowdsupply.com/lime-micro/limesdr A Software Defined Radio for Everyone LimeSDR is a low cost, open source, apps-enabled (more on that later) software defined radio (SDR) platform that can be used to support just about any type of wireless communication standard. LimeSDR can send and receive UMTS, LTE, GSM, LoRa, Bluetooth, Zigbee, RFID, and Digital Broadcasting, to name but a few. While most SDRs have remained in the domain of RF and protocol experts, LimeSDR is usable by anyone familiar with the idea of an app store - it’s the first SDR to integrate with Snappy Ubuntu Core. This means you can easily download new LimeSDR apps from developers around the world. If you’re a developer yourself, you can share and/or sell your LimeSDR apps through Snappy Ubuntu Core as well. The LimeSDR platform gives students, inventors, and developers an intelligent and flexible device for manipulating wireless signals, so they can learn, experiment, and develop with freedom from limited functionality and expensive proprietary devices.

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PayPal enforces spy or die
by grarpamp 22 Jun '16

22 Jun '16

https://seafile.de/en/important-infos-about-app-seafile-de-and-licensing-pu… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11944011 PayPal has demanded that we monitor data traffic as well as all our customers’ files for illegal content. They have also asked us to provide them with detailed statistics about the files types of our customers sync and share on https://app.seafile.de Since complying with this demand would violate German / European data protection laws (and also be morally wrong in our opinion) we have declined to comply with this demand.

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the fall of the USA's Magnitsky Act (a massive conviction without trial)
by Zenaan Harkness 21 Jun '16

21 Jun '16

The Magnitsky Act is one foundation for the Western "taking it on faith" litany of assumptions leading to action which is disgraceful towards Russia, indicting of the West and its so called 'leaders', and facilitating the media to spoon feed the public with again more assumptions that Russian government/ Putin is despotic, does really bad things like stealing money from 'innocent ex-pat investment bankers' and arresting, torturing and murdering whistleblowers. "A lie will circle the world before the truth puts its boots on." But when the truth finally gets going, those chickens will come home to roost. For anyone who has bought into this particular thread of the Western regime, this documentary, when it's available, is going to be important to watch. The hysterics arising from the Putinism "Russia is not the kind of a country that extradites human rights champions. (Россия не та страна которая выдаёт борцов за права человека.)" can be enjoyed just that little bit more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putinisms The extent of the efforts at various levels and from various (Western) parliamentarians to suppress this documentary, leaves a bad taste indeed. The linked prior article about the first cancelled screening is worth reading too and sets a fuller stage (besides providing a text book case of the Streissand effect): http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/empty-seat-william-browder-once-again… And this whole Magnitsky saga is highly topical in respect of a certain days of our lives opera occurring in other forums over the last week or so: "We heard about the inconsistencies of the Magnitsky narrative that Browder has peddled in all venues, and the eureka moment of the film maker that led him to change the message of his film mid-way through production into what ultimately became a scathing critique of Browder, and also a serious critique of the entire concept of applying personal sanctions against alleged human rights abusers without due process, as was the case in the compilation of the Magnitsky List." --- Advance Review of Devastating Film About Bill Browder Which He Tried to Suppress Gilbert Doctorow http://russia-insider.com/en/exclusive-advance-review-devastating-film-abou…

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anarchic money options?
by Zenaan Harkness 21 Jun '16

21 Jun '16

Whilst Putin and Russia, BRICS nations and south east Asia in particular are working as diligently as they can toward a post-hegemonic world order, what are the anarchists planning? The P/E, debt to equity, national debt and private debt levels in the USA are simply not sustainable past 2024 mathematically, and most likely 2020 or earlier. That is, when you can no longer make interest payments, you go bankrupt, and if you're the FED printing as much QE money as you can possibly get away with, when you hit the wall, you take the entire currency with you. Earlier emails have linked to graphs which show this tax receipts vs US govt debt wall has an absolute end date of 2024, but most likely confidence in the US dollar will collapse well prior to then. So. Turmoil and upheavel when that moment comes. And some are well prepared to survive short to medium term food, water and shelter problems. Many are not. Some others have been and continue to put away tonnes of gold (Russia, China and other nations) whilst the sleepy democratic upstanding nice ones doddle along as though nothing's changed, like Canada who sold out 99.999% of their state gold reserves. The good news is that during such upheavel and crises, opportunities arise for very limited numbers of individual humans - mostly for those who prepared in advance. Now, those who are more than one can make more hay when the opportunities arise. To the hard core anarchists, the pioneers (not the settlers, and probably not even the squatters, only the hard core pioneers) - if you want to sieze the day, the best way to do so is to plan well in advance. My thoughts? Well, for broad acceptance of any political system of human interaction, broad acceptance (by those you communicate with in your broader communities) is of course required. Amidst the chaos and turmoil survival will dominate a human's every thought. Any advance planning, to be successful, must embrace the realities to come. Those who will be able to speak with clarity, having imbibed the understandings of the existing foundations (constitutions, amendments, money and its control), and considered well possible futures, may be able to inspire others to "a better future". But that can hardly be possible by sitting around hoping for someone else to do so. "Better" foundations must be practical, straightforward to the mind - you will have to communicate them with sheep after all, and ought be discussed and thrashed out and options and alternatives considered, well in advance. Community arises in interaction of humans, be it action, communication or contention (verbal and physical). Without powerfully simple yet constructive conversations arising between millions of people (USA has ~300 million population), then a new system shall be imposed, instituting babylon once again. And the sheep shall be shorn. What futures can even be communicated? We must start somewhere...

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Re: [tor-talk] Debian Developer, removed since 2016-06-18 *Appelbaum*
by Zenaan Harkness 21 Jun '16

21 Jun '16

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 01:36:54PM +0300, ja.talk wrote: > https://nm.debian.org/public/person/error > > Jacob Appelbaum > > Account name > error > > OpenPGP fingerprint > 043E 0E69 DD56 BA59 5905 8756 90BC 9192 B062 91B2 > > Status > Debian Developer, removed since 2016-06-18 Debian is not, and never has been, about justice. Debian developer voting base has public foundations which fail to have any separation of powers - just a single public "community" executive/ power of authority, with no formal nor rigorous nor easy to identify appeal/ right of reply/response process. Debian is not about human rights. Debian is not about justice. Without foundations of human rights and justice, Debian fails fundamentally to provide an effective --long term-- foundation for effective community. Debian is about their operating system/ software distribution and packaging, and the whims of the developers who are the only ones who get to vote on anything. See Debian's Social Contract, which is all about (free libre) software, its utility and benefits, and even their "3. We will not hide problems" clause is purely utilitarian and software based, and has nothing to do about humans, rights, justice nor ethics! : https://www.debian.org/social_contract and Debian's Code of Conduct : https://www.debian.org/code_of_conduct Debian fails to have any of: - due process - separation of powers - right to respond - right to appeal - ethical foundation - principled foundation other than utility And before you leap in with an excessively quick "oh, you can respond, just send an email" - take notice, if it is not written into the foundation rights, there is no such right in operation in Debian! So take your false beliefs and read Debian's foundation documents again before embarrassing yourself publicly. --- Fundamentally, with only a "be excellent to each other" hippy ethos, tyranny can (and I say in the long term shall) reign supreme; despots can hide, well intentioned idiots can pave abundant roads to hell, and all without realising their mistakes nor the years of damage to their hailed "community", since that damage is predominantly unseen. Debian is no friend to ethics nor justice nor fundamental community building principles - nothing more than the grandiose principle of "Utility"! Yes, "free libre software" is indeed more useful than proprietary closed source software. You heard it here first. Debian? An excellent operating system for a certain category of individual. Just don't expect your idea of community to remotely prevail within the "Debian" project.

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Russia Fucks Your Crypto Too
by grarpamp 21 Jun '16

21 Jun '16

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/06/20/2231208/russian-bill-requires-encry… http://www.dailydot.com/politics/encryption-backdoor-russia-fsb/ http://www.currenttime.tv/a/27809255.html A new bill in the Russian Duma, the country's lower legislative house, proposes to make cryptographic backdoors mandatory in all messaging apps in the country so the Federal Security Service -- the successor to the KGB -- can obtain special access to all communications within the country. [Apps like WhatsApp, Viber, and Telegram, all of which offer varying levels of encrypted security for messages, are specifically targeted in the "anti-terrorism" bill, according to the Russian-language media. Fines for the offending companies could reach 1 million rubles or about $15,000.] Russian Senator Elena Mizulina argued that the new bill ought to become law because, she said, teens are brainwashed in closed groups on the internet to murder police officers, a practice protected by encryption. Mizulina then went further. "Maybe we should revisit the idea of pre-filtering [messages]," she said. "We cannot look silently on this." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXb4Ka2ygwU The train went on and on ...

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