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Fwd: [Cryptography] NSA says China's supercomputing advances put US at risk
by grarpamp 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: James A. Donald <jamesd(a)echeque.com> Date: Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 3:15 PM Subject: Re: [Cryptography] NSA says China's supercomputing advances put US at risk To: cryptography(a)metzdowd.com On 2017-03-17 21:28, Jerry Leichter wrote: > > But just outright dismissing the whole issue as > "more pandering for a bigger place at the government trough" > just doesn't cut it. 99% of politics is more pandering for a bigger place at the government trough. If you look at any government program up close, it is almost entirely waste and corruption. Sometimes, often, the waste and corruption is inextricably linked to vital government programs that really need to be done, like war, road building, and law enforcement, and it is easy to say that these programs should be done more efficiently (compare the cost of roads built by the private sector for internal use, with roads built by the government) but hard to do actually do them more efficiently. (Though I have long argued that logistics should be in the hands of contractors and subcontractors classified as camp followers and directly employed by the regimental commander and by soldiers, rather than hands of people classified as soldiers but who do no actual fighting, because if the regimental commander could fire and hire logistic support, logistics would be enormously cheaper and better) In other cases, many cases, the program serves no very obvious urgent need, in which case it should not be done by government. If people need supercomputers for floating point type problems, they will build them. Indeed, they already are building them. What is a GPU? Answer: A GPU is a supercomputer that solves a kind of problem very similar to those that government supercomputers are supposed to solve at about one ten millionth the cost. _______________________________________________ The cryptography mailing list cryptography(a)metzdowd.com http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography

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Ethereum: Now Owned by The Alliance
by MAGA 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

> Darrell Duane, DC Blockchain darrell at bitcoindc.com > Fri Mar 17 07:42:07 PDT 2017 > > what you want [Blockchains] to do? He want to honeypot people into prison or execution for conspiring to commit murder, using the public record as evidence; blockchain = kill list. The cypherpunks list, being mostly legal and letter heads, support your killer currency, of course.

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God Emperor
by MAGA 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

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Ethereum: Now Owned by The Alliance
by grarpamp 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

http://entethalliance.org/

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McDonalds Twitter Account Hacked (sans image)
by MAGA 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

> Razer g2s at riseup.net > Thu Mar 16 10:01:17 PDT 2017 > > Perhaps, like 9/11 wasn't, this is an inside job. Of course, (((Rayzer))) defends the terrorist scum like himself. Prolblybly wets dream about doing the shit himself. Whishes he was Madonna or Snoop d o double g so peepol will listen. You must go back ! >>>/USSR/

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What progressive women think about progressive men
by MAGA 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

> James A. Donald jamesd at echeque.com > Sat Mar 11 23:32:27 PST 2017 > > link TL;DR fucker. Maybe you could include a snip or something ◖|◔◡◉|◗

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LBRY.io Mirrors UCB Videos on Blockchain
by grarpamp 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

https://lbry.io/news/20000-illegal-college-lectures-rescued Today, the University of California at Berkeley has deleted 20,000 college lectures from its YouTube channel. Berkeley removed the videos because of a lawsuit brought by two students from another university under the Americans with Disabilities Act. We copied all 20,000 and are making them permanently available for free via LBRY. Is this legal? Almost certainly. The vast majority of the lectures are licensed under a Creative Commons license that allows attributed, non-commercial redistribution. The price for this content has been set to free and all LBRY metadata attributes it to UC Berkeley. Additionally, we believe that this content is legal under the First Amendment.

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ReinProject: Freelance Work Pseudonymous Cryptocurrency
by grarpamp 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

https://reinproject.org/ Github: ReinProject IRC: #Rein on Freenode Reddit: r/Rein Twitter: @ReinProject https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1232915 QbePdupwP-A kvfriW7vLA8 http://bravenewcoin.com/news/bitcoin-only-decentralized-marketplace-rein-ta…

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They haz teh codz: WikiLeaks will work with tech-cos to defend against CIA hack tools
by Razer 16 Mar '17

16 Mar '17

They haz teh codz and they want to make friends with the tech industry: > "We have decided to work with them, to give them some exclusive access > to some of the technical details we have, so that fixes can be pushed > out," Assange said. Once tech firms had patched their products, he > said, he would release the full data of the hacking tools to the public." http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/artic…

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Venezuela does Bitcoin
by jim bell 15 Mar '17

15 Mar '17

https://amp.businessinsider.com/venezuela-bitcoin-use-popularity-restrictio… [partial quote follows] Opposition supporters take part in a rally against President Nicolas Maduro's government in Caracas, Venezuela, October 26, 2016.Venezuela's economy has seen its currency, the bolivar, plummet as inflation has spiraled into the triple digits, causing people there to struggle to meet their daily needs.In response, some Venezuelans have chosen to cross international borders to stock up on needed supplies, as others turn to a black market where goods are often sold in US dollars.Another alternative that has gained traction is bitcoin, a cryptocurrency whose value wobbles frequently and which can be used for clandestine purchases, both licit and illicit.Bitcoin has been embraced in Venezuela as the economy has faltered over the last few years, providing both a way of buying essential goods and resisting the unpopular government of President Nicolas Maduro.The number of users has surged from 450 in 2014 to 85,000 in 2016, according to Venezuelan bitcoin trading exchange Surbitcoin."Bitcoin is a way of rebelling against the system," Caracas-based software developer John Villar told Reuters in October 2014, not long after he started using the cryptocurrency for online purchases.Bitcoin had dropped 70% between November 2013 and October 2014, but Venezuela's own currency had dropped 60% against the US dollar on the black market in the country over roughly the same period."Even though bitcoin is volatile, it's still safer than the national currency," Kevin Charles, then a recent economics graduate, told Reuters. (Many Venezuelans still converted their bitcoin immediately into dollars, however.)"In Venezuela, we have a gold fever: a bitcoin fever!" a bitcoin miner - someone who uses a complex computer setup to create bitcoins using elaborate algorithms - said to Reuters in October 2014. [end partial quote] Jim Bell

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