September 2017 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Equifax and Collected Sheeple Bent Over for 600BTC
by grarpamp 13 Sep '17

13 Sep '17

https://www.reddit.com/search?q=equifax+bitcoin As usual, expect braindead kneejerk legislation and corporates forgiven, antique models continued, more power control data collection and mining taken from sheep, solving nothing. Cryptoanarchy to supply alternative voluntary and secure credit models.

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propaganda and mythology - a couple of examples
by Zenaan Harkness 12 Sep '17

12 Sep '17

1. We are advised to not judge all muslims by the actions of a few lunatics; whilst we are simultaneously encouraged to judge all gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics. Some judgements are evidently "more equal" than others. Some facts are evidently also "more equal" than others. And of course, some opinions (including my "jaw droppingly humble" opinions of course :D), are -definitely- more equal than others. Surprisingly, one could be lead to think that some folks run around thinking they're "the chosen bastards". Chosen to be abandoned in a desert for 80 years by Arch-Angel Gabriel perhaps... Is there any possibility that this "chosen ones" think is a deep and unacknowledged cultural myth designed to paper over victim consciousness arising from a deep and unacknowledged cultural myth of being abandoned in the desert by your group leader some 4,000 years ago? Nahhh ... that'd be a fact, not a myth. For sure.

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[WAR] Goldilocks has a new toy, the AK-12
by Zenaan Harkness 12 Sep '17

12 Sep '17

Gun porn FTW! For all peace-lovin' Russian princesses... ** FULL AUTO glory – a look Russia’s outstanding new AK-12 assault rifle (VIDEO) http://russiafeed.com/full-auto-glory-look-russias-outstanding-new-ak-12-as… ------------------------------------------------------------ (rbth.com) – The AK-12 is a new assault rifle created to become the main weapon of Russia’s infantry for decades to come. Nikolai Litovkin, RBTH’s Defense Editor, will test the gun that has never been seen by the masses or even gun experts around the globe.

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What is a secure computer?
by Ryan Carboni 10 Sep '17

10 Sep '17

What does it say that there are potentially hundreds of undocumented instructions on your processor? What does it say that many common attacks are a result of too much emphasis on performance or a result of laziness? Some wifi routers crash if their session table is exhausted. The Mirai botnet wouldn't have happened if a good common library was used. What good is a computer if you can't allow it to be accessed by untrustworthy people without null result? Invisible Things Labs had put out two papers on how x86 and state is both harmful. Nevermind that the original computers used relays, switches, and wires to be programmed. Basically anything more complex than a clock is a computer, although those were called sequencers by NASA. Maybe we should return to literal fuses for microprocessors (or just substitute NOT gates on one layer of the processor). We are moving into a future with cameras, microphones, and manually set clocks in everything. No idea why everything needs a clock that you have to set after the power goes out. If anyone thinks consumer choice is a thing, point out the clocks. No idea why TAILS automatically sets the clock. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/29/intel_management_ engine_can_be_disabled/ I have paid for a security feature that the government demanded and I cannot use? On the other hand, a disproportionate amount of die area was allocated towards AES-NI right after side channel attacks were discovered. In the end, you can only trust something you can understand, otherwise you are trusting the word of someone else. What is a good future to work towards? Corporate call centers using thin clients with two VMs; one VM allowed access to the intranet, and the other only to the DMZ and the internet? Binney-grade privacy protections of consumer data? It doesn't matter. Privacy is gone. Although for past decades, private detectives were always able to get others to look up information for them, Pellicano is a great example. The set of information available to the powerful has always been different to those of the plebians. It just simply got worse. But if you just use this Tor exit node run by Romanian organized crime... you will be much more secure. But I have good news everybody: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11407536 >1: I asked someone involved with WebRTC. They suggested "maybe a page wants to communicate with your fridge directly" as a serious use of WebRTC data channels. http://www.webcitation.org/6FnFZK9LU?url=http://larry.masinter.net/ RFC 2324 "Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0)." L. Masinter. April 1, 1998. This has a serious purpose -- it identifies many of the ways in which HTTP has been extended inappropriately. ??? are you all victims of fetal alcohol syndrome ???

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This sounds phony.
by jim bell 09 Sep '17

09 Sep '17

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4864708/Devil-letter-written-posess… Coded letter written by a 17th Century nun while she was 'possessed by the Devil' is finally translated using decryption software discovered on the dark web * Letter written by Sister Maria Crocifissa della Concezione in 1676 * She said it was a message from the devil, but it could not be translated * Thanks to a decryption software on the dark web, it is now been decoded * It claims 'God was invented by man', calling him and Jesus 'dead weights'

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Wikileaks: Shadow Brokers encrypted archive from 6 Sep 2017
by grarpamp 09 Sep '17

09 Sep '17

https://mega.nz/#F!QGAyVTJL!0cJlvWpQ4dPcKLu-oN766w http://nuarchive.wbai.org/mp3/wbai_170725_170001randyCrelof.mp3 http://www.carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php https://couragefound.org/2017/09/courage-is-recruiting-for-a-wikileaks-camp…

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Disroot + OpenNIC Project + GoldBug
by Cecilia Tanaka 08 Sep '17

08 Sep '17

I am testing these ones just for fun. They seem very interesting and cute. Don't ask me about the security yet, hihi! :D # https://disroot.org # https://www.opennic.org # http://goldbug.sf.net Millions of good night kisses!!! <3 Ceci ------- "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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Nobody But Us: The Rise and Fall of the Golden Age of Signals Intelligence
by Razer 08 Sep '17

08 Sep '17

Lawfare Ben Buchanan Thursday, September 7, 2017 "Traditionally, signals intelligence is neatly bifurcated into offense and defense: intercept adversaries’ communication technology and protect one’s own. In the modern era, however, there is great convergence in the technologies used by friendly nations and by hostile ones. I’ve tried to tackle some of this in a new paper, “Nobody But Us: The Rise and Fall of the Golden Age of Signals Intelligence.” It’s published as part of the Hoover Institution's Aegis Paper Series. My animating idea is that signals intelligence agencies find themselves in a dilemma: they must penetrate the very same technologies that they also at times must protect. The United States perhaps feels this tension most acutely, for a variety of reasons. To resolve it, the United States and its partners have relied on an approach sometimes called Nobody But Us, or NOBUS: target communications mechanisms using unique methods accessible only to the United States. This approach, which calls for advanced methods, aims to protect communications from American adversaries, yet also ensure American access when needed. But the NOBUS approach depends as well on a number of American advantages that are under serious threat. These advantages for a time enabled what many have called “the golden age of signals intelligence.” The decline of these advantages renews the tension between offense and defense once more. My paper examines how the NOBUS approach works, its limits, and the challenging matter of what comes next." 32 pg PDF: Hoover: http://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/research/docs/buchanan_webreadypd… Scribd: https://www.scribd.com/document/357640922/Nobody-But-Us-The-Rise-and-Fall-o… Or embedded on Lawfare's page: https://lawfareblog.com/nobody-us-rise-and-fall-golden-age-signals-intellig…

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Mailing List: bitcoin-ml
by grarpamp 08 Sep '17

08 Sep '17

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-ml This list provides an open forum for discussing Bitcoin network protocol improvements and maintenance, including the governance, economic and technical attributes of network upgrades.

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[from offlist] Re: Juan-fap go bye-bye now...
by Big Fatty 07 Sep '17

07 Sep '17

> James A. Donald jamesd at echeque.com > Fri Sep 1 05:36:19 PDT 2017 > > Jewish texts cannot be reliably dated > to earlier than about 600AD. > No archaeological evidence from before ~300AD.

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