November 2017 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

If Your Vibrator Is Hacked, Is It a Sex Crime?
by Cecilia Tanaka 04 Dec '17

04 Dec '17

If Your Vibrator Is Hacked, Is It a Sex Crime? https://gizmodo.com/if-your-vibrator-is-hacked-is-it-a-sex-crime-1820007951 Hihihi... :D ---------- "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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US Unconstitutional General Warrant To Coinbase
by grarpamp 01 Dec '17

01 Dec '17

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/7gh6vp/coinbase_ordered_to_hand_over_… https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/7ghq2c/how_do_you_guys_feel_about_thi…

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Least expensive internet services for a desktop are...
by don warner saklad 30 Nov '17

30 Nov '17

Least expensive internet services for a desktop are... ideas, hints, tips, pointers please! https://www.reddit.com/r/CambridgeMA/comments/7gmcn4/looking_for_the_least_…

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Few Operate Philosophical POV Of Privacy Freedom, Rest Fakirs
by grarpamp 30 Nov '17

30 Nov '17

https://pay.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6q319b/shapeshifts_cio_is_an_advi… https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/7dbgyk/best_way_to_get_mon… Zencash, Zcash, even Monero are partly fighting for it. Need darknet exchanges too.

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for those who love people, not governments [RUS]
by Zenaan Harkness 30 Nov '17

30 Nov '17

The Saker, from the heart: ** How I Became a Kremlin Troll - The Saker's Short Autobiographical Note https://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413… ------------------------------------------------------------ by The Saker on Wed, Nov 29, 2017 Dear friends, Today, with the kind permission of Phil Butler, I am posting the full text of my contribution to his book “Putin’s Praetorians: Confessions of the Top Kremlin Trolls“. There are a couple of reasons for that. The main one is that I strongly believe that this book deserves a much bigger visibility than it has received (this is also why, exceptionally, I am placing this post in the top “analyses” category and not elsewhere).

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Fed Reserve Chair: US Bankrupt
by grarpamp 30 Nov '17

30 Nov '17

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/29/yellen-20-trillion-national-debt-should-kee… https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/7gk1b1/federal_reserve_chair_says_us… "I would simply say that I am very worried" Will Cryptocurrencies Make Governments and Central Banks Obsolete? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02Id97X_XQs

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New Element - Governmentium
by Zenaan Harkness 30 Nov '17

30 Nov '17

----- Forwarded message from Gil May <gilmay97(a)gmail.com> ----- New Element - Governmentium Scientists at CERN in Geneva have announced the discovery of the HEAVIEST element yet known to science. AND yes ... it was discovered in Australia, which is now the leading producer. The new element is Governmentium (Gv). It has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312. These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lefton-like particles called peons. Since Governmentium has no electrons or protons, it is inert. However, it can be detected, because it impedes every reaction with which it comes in contact. A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction normally taking less than a second to take from four days to four years to complete. Governmentium has a normal half-life of 2- 6 years. It does not decay but instead undergoes a reorganisation in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places. In fact, Governmentium's mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganisation will cause more morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes. This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to believe that Governmentium is formed whenever morons reach a critical concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as critical morass. When catalysed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium, an element that radiates just as much energy as Governmentium since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons. All of the money is consumed in the exchange, and no other by-products are produced.

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Filecoin A $257 Ponzi? (ref: IPFS, Storj, MaidSafe, etc)
by grarpamp 30 Nov '17

30 Nov '17

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15816729 https://github.com/backender/filecoin-survey/releases/download/0.5/filecoin… Many distributed storage like projects mentioned in thread.

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absurd MacOS High Sierra bug
by John Newman 30 Nov '17

30 Nov '17

https://it.slashdot.org/story/17/11/28/2135236/macos-high-sierra-bug-allows… The title pretty much says it all - you can login as root with no password, or elevate to root privileges to make system changes with no password, on all the current MacOS High Sierra releases. There is a work around (I think you simply have to enable the root account, with a password), but man.. wtf !? It shouldn't affect sshd - PermitRootLogin defaults to no. However it does appear to affect VNC / Apple Remote Desktop connections. LOL! How does something like this get past QA ? -- GPG fingerprint: 17FD 615A D20D AFE8 B3E4 C9D2 E324 20BE D47A 78C7

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Cryptocurrency: Speaking of $10k...
by grarpamp 30 Nov '17

30 Nov '17

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7g9cd3/its_official_1_bitcoin_100… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15803714 https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bitcoin&sp=CAI%253D A few of the of the megathreads are above. Congrats cypherpunks! Cryptocurrency and blockchain just getting started, in a number of years $10k will feel like $100 does now, a distant happy memory. Nice collection of news videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCry6pZNehIejCzPQjfvAaZA/videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6sGWfZQ5kw Just.getting.started...

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