November 2017 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

The Flippening: BitcoinCash Capitalizes on BTC's AnHero
by grarpamp 13 Nov '17

13 Nov '17

https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#24h https://twitter.com/BTCNewsUpdate https://twitter.com/Blockchair/status/929642238195437568 https://twitter.com/rogerkver https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/7cerbo/an_official_statement_from_the… https://web.archive.org/web/20171112113951/https://www.bitcoincash.org/lett… https://twitter.com/Falkvinge https://www.reddit.com/user/Falkvinge https://github.com/Swarmops/Swarmops https://falkvinge.net/2017/05/01/blockstream-patents-segwit-makes-pieces-fa… https://theflippening.github.io/open-letter-to-bitcoin-miners-from-another-… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuQfuCqupkI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XekboDYtjLY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGyPuey-1Jw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riHzDAdBL2g

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Blockchain and Weak Frequency Signals, Bypassing Censorship
by grarpamp 12 Nov '17

12 Nov '17

https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@nisiryan0522/bitcoin-and-weak-frequency-signal… https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-and-weak-signals-bypass-network-censorship…

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List Of Overlay Networks
by grarpamp 12 Nov '17

12 Nov '17

http://secushare.org/comparison https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/08/building-a-new-tor-t… http://youbroketheinternet.org/ A number of new nets, both noted in above, and elsewhere, already online or coming up. Lots to play with.

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The pentagon may be planning to bomb florida.
by juan 12 Nov '17

12 Nov '17

So here's an amerikan 'human rights' 'non government' 'organizaion' whining about 'child' marriage. Usually when an amerikan 'NGO' vomits some 'THINK OF THE CHILDREN" brain-dead slogan about some 'third world' country xxxxxx, you can be sure that xxxxxx is going to be 'liberated' and razed to the ground. But now the propaganda vomit says : "End Child Marriage In....Florida" https://www.hrw.org/EndChildMarriage "Did you know children can legally marry in Florida?" no they can't? " From 2001 to 2015, over 16,000 children under the age of 18 " Wow. Just wow. According to these sick motherfuckers, young persons younger than 18 are 'children'. Fully developed humans aged 17 and 364 days are 'children' - Now that's real american jew-christian science. But it gets a lot better : Anything involveing FUCKING ADULTS who are not yet 18 is 'child pornography' BUT, get this, the minimum age for joining the US military is 17. So any sort of 'sexual' consensual activity with anybody under 18 is 'child abuse' and 'rape' BUT those same 'children' can join the US nazi military and murder real children for fun. Isn't jew-kristian american civilization the most perfect civilization in the universe or what;

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Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
by John Young 11 Nov '17

11 Nov '17

CODE GIRLS The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II By Liza Mundy https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/books/review/liza-mundy-code-girls-world… Describes the experiences of several thousand American women who spent the war years in Washington, untangling the clandestine messages sent by the Japanese and German militaries and diplomatic corps. At a time when even well-educated women were not encouraged to have careers much less compete with men to demonstrate their mastery of arcane, technical skills this hiring frenzy represented a dramatic shift. The same social experiment was simultaneously unfolding on the other side of the Atlantic. The British debutantes and their middle-class peers recruited to work at the secret Bletchley Park code-breaking operation came to outnumber the men. Mundys narrative turns thrilling as she chronicles the eureka moments when the women succeed in cracking codes, relying on a mixture of mathematical expertise, memorization and occasional leaps of intuition. ... At the end of the war, virtually all of the female code breakers were given their walking papers and returned to civilian life. Only a few superstars were asked to stay on (among them Ann Caracristi, who went on to become the first female deputy director of the National Security Agency). For these accomplished and resourceful women, who had been given a heady taste of professional success, it was jarring to have to fight to be accepted to top graduate programs on the G.I. Bill or embark on traditional paths as wives and mothers. Warned not to reveal their secret wartime lives, many remained silent about their valuable service. Thanks to Mundys book, which deftly conveys both the puzzle-solving complexities and the emotion and drama of this era, their stories will live on.

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minix - tannenbaum won!
by John Newman 11 Nov '17

11 Nov '17

It's funny looking back at the ancient flame war between Tannenbaum & Torvalds... and now it turns out there is a copy of Minix running at ring -3 in every Intel CPU out there! Sweet fucking christmas. Slashdot coverage: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/11/07/1041236/minix-intels-hidden-in-chi… Google engineer presentation on replacing it with Linux: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iffTJ1vPCSo -- GPG fingerprint: 17FD 615A D20D AFE8 B3E4 C9D2 E324 20BE D47A 78C7

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Nexus Earth Conference: Free Society Creating Sovereign Lands
by grarpamp 10 Nov '17

10 Nov '17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RK8CPdZ6B8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsZwx8zoOL4 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrolk8KzxudCJPFxvlmcwClHSFHx_ocOC Many worthy videos in list. http://www.nexusearth.com/tnc2017.html The Conference was an incredible event full of like-minded individuals, who come from diverse industries and backgrounds. Many of these folks have started to see how Nexus and blockchain technology can benefit them, their industries, and humankind. The blockchain is rapidly becoming a new shift in technological advancement that is paving the way of the future and also providing real world solutions to economic uncertainty that the world is facing. Several of the industries actively working with Nexus to create real-world solutions using blockchain include insurance, real-estate, politics, music, finance, media, entertainment, and many more. In attendance were medical cannabis advocates, people seeking to find solutions to India’s currency dilemma, individuals working to understand the future of cryptocurrency and finance, and many that have been working to change the world their entire lives. They finally had a chance to speak with others of the same mindset and to start to look at how we all can provide solutions to the challenges we face now and will face in the future. Never before has such a diverse group of individuals come together in one place to make such an impact on humanity through sharing of their wisdom and ideas. http://www.nexusearth.com/ Nexus seeks to Free humankind from centralized systems. Merely being decentralized is not enough. We must decentralize the decentralization. Using software and hardware, Nexus seeks to build the foundation for the most decentralized system to ever be developed: Nexus Earth. This network will empower everyone from the first world to the third world. Not everyone has money, but everyone has time. The time has come to decentralize everything. The foundations of cryptocurrency should be built upon decentralized principles. Nexus seeks to fulfill this mission.

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Re: [tor-talk] Mimix, an operating system inside the main OS
by grarpamp 10 Nov '17

10 Nov '17

> The ThinkPad X200 was introduced in 2009 (not 2000); Intel ME has been > in all Intel hardware since 2006. It's not date based, but product line based, old product vs new, both in production at any given time. There's all kinds of secret shit in your closed source, unverifiable, CPU's and software. https://www.slideshare.net/codeblue_jp/igor-skochinsky-enpub/1 https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine https://puri.sm/posts/deep-dive-into-intel-me-disablement/ http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2017/08/disabling-intel-me.html AMD (with PSP etc) and Microsoft are filled with their own secret goodies too. And while you can maybe if very lucky, start to find at least some firmwares have been designed out... ARM https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/ You still can't see inside the chips. So until you start demanding and requiring open chips #OpenHW, open fabs #OpenFabs, and open software #OpenSW, you're fucked. Have fun being compromised till then. > It's probably worth noting that Intel AMT (which runs on the ME's > controller) is the "enterprise" functionality with the web server and > remote provisioning. The ME firmware just does stuff like host the > network stack and deal with the hardware support. Maybe it does other > stuff. AMT seems to be the really shocking vulnerable component. >>> https://www.networkworld.com/article/3236064/servers/minix-the-most-popular… >>> >>> You might not know it, but inside your Intel system, you have an >>> operating system running in addition to your main OS, MINIX. And it’s >>> raising eyebrows and concerns >> >> Without question, the revelations about Intel ME are shocking. Sort of >> like we've known has existed on smart phones for a long while. >> >> The article seems to note that it's only an issue for the "last few >> years" when I believe it's been found as far back as the Thinkpad x200 >> (~year 2000), at least. >> >> There are a number of tools on GitHub looking to mitigate ME, such as >> intelmetool, me-tools and me_cleaner, but one should be EXTREMELY >> careful about running them as bricking hardware is a real possibility. >> >> Oddly, the article seems to cast Minix as tainted, while Tanenbaum is >> *really* someone who matters in operating system land in a good way, and >> everyone should realize that the original Linux was a Minix derivative.

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[OT] [Just For Fun] Conspiracy Theories
by Cecilia Tanaka 09 Nov '17

09 Nov '17

Conspiracy Theories, guys! ;) http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1860871… My favorite one is "The Reptilian Elite", hahaha!!! ;D * Bonus for more fun, yay!!! :D # Conspiracy theory king David Icke has spoken at length about why he believes the Queen of England is actually a shape-shifting reptilian lizard from outer space. http://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/768800/David-Icke-queen-shape-shifting-… # David Icke says the royal family are shape-shifting lizards on BBC national TV http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/david-icke-says-royal-family-8011156 Aaand the cherry on the cake... Suck it, Nasa and Elon Musk! We have already Martians among us. Obviously, they are Russians and Area 51 received another kind of strange alien, with fake orange tanning and ridiculous wig to simulate being human and tries to dominate the world. :D # http://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/876386/Russian-Martian-Space-Mars-Alien… Sweet good night kisses, dear all! <3 c. ------- "Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live." - Mae Jemison

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Public Money, Public Code.
by Cecilia Tanaka 08 Nov '17

08 Nov '17

Public Money, Public Code. # https://publiccode.eu Why is software created using taxpayers’ money not released as Free Software? We want legislation requiring that publicly financed software developed for the public sector be made publicly available under a Free and Open Source Software license. If it is public money, it should be public code as well. Code paid by the people should be available to the people! ------- "Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live." - Mae Jemison

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