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Re: [tor-dev] anonbib
by grarpamp 04 Nov '17

04 Nov '17

On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 2:54 PM, Roger Dingledine <arma(a)mit.edu> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 09:58:35PM +0000, ng0 wrote: >> our plan with the bibliography collection of GNUnet is to https://gnunet.org/bibliography >> implement something similar to your/freehaven's anonbib. https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/ https://www.onion-router.net/Publications.html > See also the censorbib, for another example. https://censorbib.nymity.ch/ # I2Pbib https://geti2p.net/en/papers/ There a a few more I can't recall right now. If anyone knows of other community curated collections in the overlay routing mixnet messaging p2p privacy crypto comms distributed filesharing storage spaces... feel free to post links to them in this subthread. > It's not entirely clear what we ought to do with anonbib. At the > beginning, there was no google scholar, so it really was the place to go > to find out about papers in the anonymous communications area. And also, > back then, there were only 10 or 15 papers and you could feasibly read > all of them. Yes there are lots of papers all over the net, and in massive collections like arxiv, SSRN, etc... but few places collected and curated by community of relavance here. One could envision a large community curation database bibliography of papers and multimedia presentations. With tagging and export system, including perhaps json / HTML, pick and choose your fields, for those papers that each official project tags as references or relavant to their interests. Click 'Tor', get Tor's... click 'Briar', get Briar's... etc and in addition to the obvious function of global search and browse everything in the databse by various sorting / filters / rankings that the reader chooses. With open submission by anyone (ie: as yet non project submitted / tagged bibinfos), of new entries into a 'potentially relavant to community' subpool, such that they might eventually be tagged by projects and readers as desired. Saves a lot of duplicative work at the projects, is easily mirrored, imported into web pages, etc. > Now I think anonbib needs to be something other than "all of the papers > about the topic". One way forward would be to cull it even more, so it > becomes more of a recommended reading list.

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Aaron Swartz Day Live Stream
by Cecilia Tanaka 04 Nov '17

04 Nov '17

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: X <r33lmm(a)gmail.com> FYI talks streaming from internet archive now at http://tinyurl.com/swartzlive

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My new article, What Is Anonymous Up To?
by Douglas Lucas 04 Nov '17

04 Nov '17

Hi cypherpunks, Today, Buffalo's alt-weekly, The Public, published my new article, "What Is Anonymous Up To?" The piece, occasioned by the annual Million Mask March happening tomorrow, focuses on two projects Anonymous allies have founded, attempts to upgrade communication and activism. My article also links/mentions Trump's connection to Russia's regime and child traffickers (OpDeathEaters), excerpts the Communist Manifesto and Binding Chaos, and much more. It's under 2000 words. http://www.dailypublic.com/articles/11032017/what-anonymous Douglas

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Re: [Cryptography] MITM company acquires MITM tools
by grarpamp 03 Nov '17

03 Nov '17

On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 12:18 AM, Peter Gutmann <pgut001(a)cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote: > This came up on another list, the Comodo CA and all of the roots it controls > (which include a pile of other CAs unrelated to Comodo that it's bought up > over the years) was recently acquired by Francisco Partners: > > http://www.eweek.com/security/francisco-partners-acquires-comodo-s-certific… > > who also have a stake in SonicWall, "the leader in Deep Packet Inspection > (DPI) and we've got a lot going on in that space", Procera (same), and > formerly had a stake in Blue Coat, whose products have been used by repressive > regimes against their citizens. > > It's amusing that a perfect mechanism for performing MITM attacks is now > controlled by a company who has other arms that actively perform MITM attacks. It's amusing that root cert bundles are completely filled with governments and corporations and all other manner of third parties which you have no reason to assign any real trust to. CA's are a scam, foisted upon the web industry by marketing, upon users by the nag icon and popups, and upon browsers for inclusion money, and other games... all for one purpose only... the generation of rents over the TLS services back to the CA's themselves, under threat of loss of revenue due to said panic nag reaction if they don't pay up... pure genius. Hook, line, sinker. Now of course the system is being exploited by the above parties, rogues, spies, and criminal hackers alike. TOFU combined with decentralized cert and revocation observatories injected with the occaisional out of band verification, would have been sufficient. We even moreso now have that ability... where perhaps a transaction on a blockchain is a website's cert fingerprint signed by its CEO, and confirmations are perhaps each new matching TOFU from userland.

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My Prague Czech speech on Jim Bell Project is finally available.
by jim bell 03 Nov '17

03 Nov '17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcJdvQvzlNU Jim Bell Project: AP

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COIN: How To
by byte.coin＠hushmail.com 03 Nov '17

03 Nov '17

I was gifted some altcoin by a friend to pay for drinks a while back and would like to exchange it for local fiat, it's ~$50. How do I do so? What is best, irl exchange, equal value purchase, bank transfer, or sudo bank transfer with something like bitpay? How do I deal with taxes? I am in the States. What suggestions and resources do you have to share? t. byte.coin

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The Anarchast: Jim Bell Conversation #2
by You didn't build that. 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

> grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com > Thu Nov 2 10:49:07 PDT 2017 > > Jim Bell > second interview > $5B coin increase in 24h > ;) > Do you know how this shit works, shillanon ? Jim Bell, Stautist, is not responsible for the current rise in Bitcoin value. He was not responsible for the rise in August, either. The price will rise until, and possible after, 16 November fork. Just as it did 1 August fork. PREDICTION: Normies not knowing/comprehending/caring will keep BTC the major chain. EXCEPTION: Mechanical failure causing economic catastrophe, which can, and will, be manufactured in. This is know as the 'Normie Effect'.

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Section 702 data gleaned via tor from US activists is fair game for da fedz
by g2s 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

"So Sessions can use 702 data collected BDS or BLM activists using Tor & declare it "related to national security." No judicial review." Emptywheel: https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/922618904287072257

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Charlie Chaplin: The Final Speech from "The Great Dictator"
by Cecilia Tanaka 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

Charlie Chaplin: The Final Speech from "The Great Dictator" # https://www.charliechaplin.com/en/articles/29-The-Final-Speech-from-The-Gre… # https://9gag.com/gag/a5nD4wg (with legends) ------- "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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Post Halloween Music In This Thread... :)
by grarpamp 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

Not a creepy codex but an index http://iama.stupid.cow.org/Audio/Halloween/

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