January 2017 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Re: [tor-talk] Tor and Google error / CAPTCHAs.
by grarpamp 18 Jan '17

18 Jan '17

Just noting that these threads are, beyond silly corporate mandates, largely unexplored, and I'd like to, time permitting, follow up with Mirirmir and Alec on their fine ideas and discourse, since access to services, even anonymously so, is an important thing for the world's peoples.

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Project Veritas: Disrupt J20
by grarpamp 18 Jan '17

18 Jan '17

# Project Veritas: Disrupt J20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIjbkYLI1nY

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Re: [Cryptography] Cryptocurrency Exchange without a trusted third party
by grarpamp 18 Jan '17

18 Jan '17

The general trendy to not name names, to hide, to sequester open journalism and speech, under whatever premise, is what is at issue here, not any specific instance of such, as may be explained, among other plausibly banal reasons, in the current example.

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CIA Drug Running
by grarpamp 18 Jan '17

18 Jan '17

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/5oj1rb/two_cia_agents_arrested… Yep, using up ontopic cpunk credits, sorry, but potential ops seem somehow relavant.

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[OT] I Have a Dream - Martin Luther King, Jr.
by /canna/bin 18 Jan '17

18 Jan '17

> Tue, Jan 17 2017 14:57:12 > James A. Donald <jamesd at echeque.com>: > "Marijuana" You would think that a scientist would be a bit more terminologically accurate. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Marijuana_(word) "The term, originally spelled variously as "marihuana", or "mariguana", originated in Juan's language [1]" [1]: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Spanish

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Manning Commuted By Obama, Free In May
by He-Man 17 Jan '17

17 Jan '17

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com Tue Jan 17 15:33:43 2017: > Manning Commuted By Obama, Free In May Now can have bocan Saturated fat will hepl him recover

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Wealth Disparity via Oxfam
by grarpamp 17 Jan '17

17 Jan '17

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_DAVOS_INEQUALITY https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/5o7xrx/stark_inequality_oxfam_says_8… DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) -- The gap between the super-rich and the poorest half of the global population is starker than previously thought, with just eight men, from Bill Gates to Michael Bloomberg, owning as much wealth as 3.6 billion people, according to an analysis by Oxfam released Monday. Presenting its findings on the dawn of the annual gathering of the global political and business elites in the Swiss ski resort of Davos, anti-poverty organization Oxfam says the gap between the very rich and poor is far greater than just a year ago. It's urging leaders to do more than pay lip-service to the problem. If not, it warns, public anger against this kind of inequality will continue to grow and lead to more seismic political changes "It is obscene for so much wealth to be held in the hands of so few when 1 in 10 people survive on less than $2 a day,"

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Intel ME cleaner code
by John Newman 17 Jan '17

17 Jan '17

https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner/ ME cleaner A cleaner for Intel ME images. This tools removes any unnecessary partition from an Intel ME firmware, reducing its size and its ability to interact with the system. It should work both with Coreboot and with the factory BIOS. Currently this tool: Scans the FPT (partition table) and checks that everything is correct Removes any partition entry (except for FTPR) from FPT Removes any partition except for the fundamental one (FTPR) Removes the EFFS presence flag Corrects the FPT checksum Removes any LZMA-compressed module (pre-Skylake only) Removes most of the Huffman-compressed modules (pre-Skylake only) John

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Torproject disease infects WhatsApp - User experience trumps(sic) security
by Razer 17 Jan '17

17 Jan '17

> At issue is the way WhatsApp behaves when an end user's encryption key > changes. By default, the app will use the new key to encrypt messages > without ever informing the sender of the change.... > > Critics of Friday's Guardian post, and most encryption practitioners, > argue such behavior is common in encryption apps and often a necessary > requirement. Among other things, it lets existing WhatsApp users who > buy a new phone continue an ongoing conversation thread. Ars Technica agrees: "Reported “backdoor” in WhatsApp is in fact a feature" http://arstechnica.com/security/2017/01/whatsapp-and-friends-take-umbrage-a…

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NNCP -- store-and-forward E2EE F2F network building utilities
by stargrave＠stargrave.org 17 Jan '17

17 Jan '17

Node to Node copy http://www.nncpgo.org/ is a collection of utilities simplifying secure store-and-forward files and mail exchanging. This utilities are intended to help build up small size (dozens of nodes) ad-hoc friend-to-friend (F2F) statically routed darknet networks for fire-and-forget secure reliable files, file requests and Internet mail transmission. All packets are integrity checked, end-to-end encrypted, explicitly authenticated by known participants public keys. Onion encryption is applied to relayed packets. Each node acts both as a client and server, can use push and poll behaviour model. Main difference from existing UUCP and FTN solutions, except encryption and authentication, is out-of-box offline sneakernet/floppynet, dead drops and air-gapped computers support. But online TCP daemon with full-duplex resumable data transmission exists and is built on top of Noise protocol http://noiseprotocol.org/. Where can it be useful? Occasional connection between mail servers, slow/unreliable/expensive communication links, high-volume data transfer, extreme terrestrial environments with no link, building of private, isolated MitM-resistant networks, highly secure isolated air-gap computers, network censorship bypassing, and even Reconnaissance, spying and intelligence.

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