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Re: bitcoin incorporated
by juan 09 Jun '17

09 Jun '17

more commentary http://falkvinge.net/2017/05/01/blockstream-patents-segwit-makes-pieces-fal…

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Gotlander newspapers: woman declaring "we have not voted for criminals who attack our women sexually" is "fascist" "Nazi"
by Zenaan Harkness 09 Jun '17

09 Jun '17

Politics, propaganda, sleezy media, German guilt complex, and the need for people to exercise their right to have a say in every part of every law they are called upon to obey, is all highlighted in this grotesque example of the shameless main stream media in today's Germany: Swedes Wrangle Over Gang Rape Against Wheelchair-Bound Woman https://sputniknews.com/art_living/201610171046413233-sweden-gotland-rape-p… The notorious gang rape in Visby, Gotland, in which a wheelchair-bound lady in her thirties was raped by people with "non-Swedish" appearance, led to some islanders declaring their interest in multicultural development over. As the five men initially arrested for the crime were set free later, indignation among angry locals has risen even higher. So some of the locals have finally declared they are no longer interested in multi culti crapola? Wonders never cease. But in reality, it seems a lot more crimes against their women is required before folks really stop tacitly consenting - by acting, in their own interests, rather than tacitly going along with what is supposed to be good for the world. What's another gang-raped wheelchair-bound woman between guilt programmed Germans anyway? I mean, Whites are Terrorists by definition as everybody knows? Surely we cannot be allowed to live wholesome lives in accordance with our own individual morals and principles now? Nah, likely never happen... 'Cause we got ta be tolerant, inclusive, submissive, compliant with the statutes, understanding that our rulers know best and all humans, and all religions, are equal and free. Rainbow unicorns will save the world.

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Fwd: [Cryptography] stego mechanism used in real life (presumably), then outed
by grarpamp 09 Jun '17

09 Jun '17

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: iang <iang(a)iang.org> Date: Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 3:10 AM Subject: Re: [Cryptography] stego mechanism used in real life (presumably), then outed To: cryptography(a)metzdowd.com On 07/06/2017 12:21, Jerry Leichter wrote: > There's an interesting and significant sidelight to the previous discussion of watermarking, and the message a couple of days ago from "M373" concerning the Seaglass project at U of Washington, which is developing means for detecting IMSI catchers at city-wide scale. In both cases - and there are others - we have legitimate research devoted entirely to discovering, publicly explaining, and perhaps effectively neutralizing, mechanisms that LE has put in place. As far as I can tell, this has little historical precedent. Criminals/revolutionaries/freedom fighters - it all depends on you viewpoint in particular situations - have long conducted exactly this kind of research. But it's been clandestine, done in support of their own activities, and passed around as secret tradecraft. (Of course, state actors have also long targeted each other this way.) > > We've crossed a threshold when entitled members of society feel the need to work to subvert their own society's enforcement mechanisms. (No, university faculty members and EFF researchers and such - while hardly among the big movers in shakers - cannot reasonably be considered the downtrodden in any Western society.) I agree with the observation of the shift, but I take issue with the notion of "society's own enforcement mechanisms". As far as I can see, it isn't society that is putting in wholesale enforcement mechanisms, it's a small subset that are working outside the bounds of society. In long-standing principle, societies have more or less accepted the need for spying on *foreign* enemies but drawn the line at spying on own citizens. This is well tested in history. For local spying you need an investigation, a warrant, a court, a process. The barrier is high. Things like yellow dots, the equity ratio of 10:1 offence to defence at NSA, also the 19 agencies secret sharing and deception to courts, show that the historical defences of civil society are being subverted. And, it is more or less worse in other countries. It used to be the notion in pre-1990s times that the agencies spying on own people was reserved for the evil enemy - the Stazi, McCarthy, KGB, Hoover. But now it seems to be trotted out with regularity that if the terrorists are achieving, of course we'll undermine society to fix that. C.f., May's recent comments about willingness to reduce fundamental rights of 60 million in exchange for 6. So I would prefer to say, what we are seeing is a shift towards society protecting itself against the attacks of agencies that are now out of control of the democratic population. That's just me. I'm not society. But neither am I content when entitled members of society in agencies think society is right and it's ok to go local because we're the good guys. General society didn't need end to end encryption until this shift happened. 40 bit CA-mediated crypto did the job for credit cards nicely enough. Nice to have, but there was no serious privacy threat on the tubes. Now there is a big shift happening - those that are listening are using the information. It's not there yet, but if the trend for open intel sharing continues, society will need end to end encryption just to survive. iang _______________________________________________ The cryptography mailing list cryptography(a)metzdowd.com http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography

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Supreme Court accepts major cellphone privacy case.
by jim bell 08 Jun '17

08 Jun '17

https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2017-06-05/supreme-court-accepts-major… [partial quote] The Supreme Court has accepted a challenge to the warrantless collection of historical cellphone location data in a case that could curtail U.S. government surveillance and expand American privacy rights.The case, Carpenter v. U.S., was granted certiorari Monday on appeal from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, which found that police did not need a warrant based on probable cause to collect 127 days of cellphone records from MetroPCS and Sprint.Timothy Carpenter was found guilty of participating in six Michigan robberies after the government said those cellphone records – which included calls made and geographic location – placed him near four of the crime scenes. He is serving a 116-year prison sentence.Federal courts have provided mixed rulings on whether the Fourth Amendment requires police to get a warrant. Authorities say a warrant is not necessary in Carpenter's case, as the Supreme Court’s 1979 ruling in Smith v. Maryland holds that people have no expectation of privacy over information voluntarily given to companies.The so-called third party doctrine of Smith v. Maryland, which dealt with a short span of landline records, and related cases also applies to some banking and internet records. It has been used to justify mass surveillance by the federal government, including the National Security Agency’s now-curbed dragnet of U.S. call records.[end of partial quote] ×

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McDonalds serving "Gay unfriendly fries" for 77 years now, finally gets PC - was [jim.sovereign@optusnet.com.au: McDonald launches gay friendly fries to back Washington DC’s Gay Pride parade.]
by Zenaan Harkness 08 Jun '17

08 Jun '17

I'm shocked I tell you, truly shocked, that McDonalds has been serving Gay-unfriendly fries for so long, indeed 77 years no less! I'm surprised that McDs is so open about their White Supremacist past - I thought they hired better PR agencies. Oh well, the things we learn. <no dry humour intended, only literal interpretations allowed; we're all asburger's spectrum around McDonalds anyway...> ----- Forwarded message from Jim <jim.sovereign(a)optusnet.com.au> ----- From: Jim <jim.sovereign(a)optusnet.com.au> Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 17:09:57 +1000 Subject: McDonald launches gay friendly fries to back Washington DC’s Gay Pride parade. It’s irritating enough when food corporations pander to Muslims with their Halal demands, now we have McDonald’s supporting the LGBTI agenda with their politically correct “gay friendly” fries. What’s next on McDonald’s menu: a “Big Gay” burger to go with their gay fries? Is this another example of corporate social engineering? McDonald’s deserves to be boycotted for this public relations stunt, not to mention its awful food. Jim McDonald’s launches gay friendly fries to back Washington DC’s Gay Pride parade news.com.au Ian Horswill, News Corp Australia Network June 8, 2017 http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/external?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcontent6.video… Video <http://www.news.com.au/finance/business/other-industries/mcdonald-launches-…> IRELAND: Ireland's Conservative Ruling Party Elects Country's First Openly Gay Leader June 02 FAST food giant McDonald’s is changing the way it presents its fries for customers for just three days — and it’s sparked an online debate across the globe. To mark the annual Gay Pride parade in Washington DC <https://twitter.com/washingtondc> , the US capital city, on Saturday (local time), McDonald’s has announced that it will offer gay friendly fries to customers. Rainbow print fry boxes will be used for large-sized orders at three specific locations along the Capital Pride Alliance <http://www.capitalpride.org/events/parade-2017/> ’s parade route. McDonald’s is also a sponsor of the Capital Pride Alliance, which is dedicated to LGBTQ education and outreach, and also has a float in the parade. “The rainbow fry boxes are a fun way to show our support of the LGBTQ community using one of McDonald’s most iconic and recognisable items; however, these fry boxes are ‘small potatoes’ in the grand scheme of our commitment to this community,” said Cathy Martin, vice president/general manager of McDonald’s Baltimore-Washington Region. “We are proud to honour and celebrate the LGBTQ community, including our employees, customers and beyond, each and every day.” The decision to introduce gay friendly fries has caused an online debate. Evangelist Joshua Feuerstein, a former paster who has more than two million followers on his <https://www.facebook.com/joshua.feuerstein.5/> Facebook page, called for a boycott of McDonald’s. <https://www.facebook.com/joshua.feuerstein.5/photos/a.443484622420892.10737…> Feuerstein also slammed department store giants Macy’s pro-LGBT campaign, writing: “Well ... Macy’s decided to push the gay agenda! Looks like they lost my business too! It’s time to boycott businesses that push the homosexual agenda. Click SHARE and let others know ... let them feel it in their pocketbook!” However, his boycott call also caused angst. <https://t.co/yFuwQYLW82> June is LGBT Pride Month <https://www.loc.gov/lgbt-pride-month/about/> in the US and the former President Barack Obama supported the LGBT community annually with proclamations. President Donald Trump and his White House will not recognise it this year. Source: http://www.news.com.au/finance/business/other-industries/mcdonald-launches-… ----- End forwarded message -----

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Fwd: [Cryptography] Distributed Ledger Technology gets a high level review
by grarpamp 08 Jun '17

08 Jun '17

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Thierry Moreau <thierry.moreau(a)connotech.com> Date: Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 11:11 AM Subject: [Cryptography] Distributed Ledger Technology gets a high level review To: Cryptography <cryptography(a)metzdowd.com> Fascinating read this morning: www.bankofcanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/fsr-june-2017-chapman.pdf This reports the findings of a DLT trial for the financial sector. Definitely geared towards wholesale payment systems (a world with its own culture), it nonetheless presents a well-informed assessment of DLT deployment challenges. In my opinion, the main conclusion (DLT may not replace centralized wholesale payment operators) was to be expected since the reference used for comparison (i.e. Canada LVTS) is among the most advanced system. Secondary conclusions are less damaging to the Distributed Ledger Technology deployment potential. Regards, - Thierry Moreau _______________________________________________ The cryptography mailing list cryptography(a)metzdowd.com http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography

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Trust DHS with your laptops? If not you soon might not be able to fly
by CANNON 08 Jun '17

08 Jun '17

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Possible upcoming mandate by DHS to turn in your laptops to them before boarding flights (even for domestic flights) will enable government to clone your harddrives or copy files, search computers, and tamper with your laptop. Sources: https://gizmodo.com/white-house-seriously-considering-banning-laptops-on-al… http://www.computerworld.com/article/3198848/security/us-might-ban-laptops-… Mention of potential to increase to domestic also http://www.computerworld.com/article/3198848/security/us-might-ban-laptops-… - -- Cannon PGP Fingerprint: 2BB5 15CD 66E7 4E28 45DC 6494 A5A2 2879 3F06 E832 Email: cannon(a)cannon-ciota.info NOTICE: ALL EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE NOT SIGNED/ENCRYPTED WITH PGP SHOULD BE CONSIDERED POTENTIALLY FORGED, AND NOT PRIVATE. If this matters to you, use PGP. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJZOKE9AAoJEAYDai9lH2mw+/QP/Rco79mEc8c/+4aT8GL8zKEt 9rBXpyEs2oa6cnqyq5yqe66W5bdt0w4FgMRY6eI6Bo56U3qqETfls4L6r/W/gBSD vY8ItJ3uRG0aMOHxTwEXHVufb6a43L1Q7qJtfUeEVwhnxdC9x0UhxMsR6/SuXBY+ SVTZUEN1fATIJHy1KReIAKkZd9bgbrQDW+oyECwxFmihD5YKhG+kINxnEX77gdw3 y2SWNLCjY1mfAt2rXqrqM/TDeuJVbrxtAAGQiyZXp+D7FeYQ3IerJ8BacZCYdhI8 FrwIOBdeBGPP41S0BTZQXsVX1iqnij4bxCN+fsXCYsgKzVw67yblibo3OkMDXbYN AuAwHZdv8mMvqhKC2wnw9ShR847I9mbwCpBwARBIINCVx+RBdUXrjuiGmF230pNz asI6YA+HV00/1Q7Irpc+ZegUjcV+tbqMNVJ0/J7/En+ED4lb9nP443FfTqNhITKx plx4WrPCvt7h05vhKZzkk3B07dCZ90CFFwrxUj40mV8YU11rUhyr7R/lpK4NHcUw 2ZA0QMJ0k4W9wC8W2W5W9z1B/NHh/UW0TAzbEVXAeQPZ95VtW+csz8iB8VvOSrmD YAygSDw88qS9DK0kjuI+JfO4C5zDMArqWlrO1/OQdHnassNVHDWa6YGZlgVmmgLr 7fW+H+lQfof+VrkgIp7/ =oUqX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: TheIntercept Compromises Courageous Leaker Reality Winner
by John Young 07 Jun '17

07 Jun '17

At 11:05 PM 6/6/2017, you wrote: >https://twitter.com/glenngreenwald A parrot GG. >Wikileaks: Still protecting sources on principle since >years before most journos got in the game. Leak sites and jounalists inevitably betray sources by overpromising security and confidentiality. Privileged like lawyers and priests.

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TheIntercept Compromises Courageous Leaker Reality Winner
by grarpamp 07 Jun '17

07 Jun '17

http://blog.erratasec.com/2017/06/how-intercept-outed-reality-winner.html https://theintercept.com/2017/06/05/top-secret-nsa-report-details-russian-h… Monday, June 05, 2017 How The Intercept Outed Reality Winner Today, The Intercept released documents on election tampering from an NSA leaker. Later, the arrest warrant request for an NSA contractor named "Reality Winner" was published, showing how they tracked her down because she had printed out the documents and sent them to The Intercept. The document posted by the Intercept isn't the original PDF file, but a PDF containing the pictures of the printed version that was then later scanned in. The problem is that most new printers print nearly invisibly yellow dots that track down exactly when and where documents, any document, is printed. Because the NSA logs all printing jobs on its printers, it can use this to match up precisely who printed the document. In this post, I show how. You can download the document from the original article here. You can then open it in a PDF viewer, such as the normal "Preview" app on macOS. Zoom into some whitespace on the document, and take a screenshot of this. On macOS, hit [Command-Shift-3] to take a screenshot of a window. There are yellow dots in this image...............

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Re: bitcoin incorporated
by juan 07 Jun '17

07 Jun '17

> "A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow > online payments to be sent directly from one party to another > without going through a financial institution." > > keywords, peer to peer, no financial middlemen. > > Now it gets interesting. Blockstream has a solution to > increase bitcoin's capacity, which I don't think can be > described as "purely peer-to-peer" and involving no middlemen > at all. As a matter of fact, blockstream solution is to create > middlemen that will process the vast majority of > transaction...because they can't scale bitcoin (technical > failure) or they don't want (political failure). nobody bothered to correct me, so I'll have to do it myself. When I first watched this "Lightning Network Talk"... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zVzw912wPo ...I got the impression that the layer on top of bitcoin would be run by big business and would be composed of relatively few 'big' nodes. However it turns out that, at least in theory, the LN is peer to peer and anybody can route payments for other peers. So maybe there's some hope for bitcoin...

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