September 2017 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Help me test something
by jim bell 26 Sep '17

26 Sep '17

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Outreachy - Internerships for Underrrepresented People in Tech
by He's a dude, She's a dude, We're all dudes 26 Sep '17

26 Sep '17

> Cecilia Tanaka cecilia.tanaka at gmail.com > Sat Sep 23 17:35:09 PDT 2017 > > internships are open internationally > to women (cis and trans), trans men > Please do not send your hateful, sexist, and racist (((news))) to this list. > Interns are paid a stipend of $5,500 [for three-months] > $11.45hr is shit. Interns need at least $20hr. Apple, Intel, and Microsoft all pay $40+hr. How is this a good thing ? > no "whites" allowed > And "whites" are less than 10% of the global population, yet they are not a "minority" to you shitbags. > underrepresented backgrounds > If you want to increase the representation of women and the likes in certain industries, I hear they are underrepresented in coal mining, garbage collecting, and workplace deaths, to name a few. Why is this not a gap you seek to fill ? > "Don't let anyone rob you of [anything]." > Yet you do exactly that with shit like this. You have been reported for hate crime.

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Let's try again...Buy Bitcoin NOW.
by jim bell 26 Sep '17

26 Sep '17

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Buy Bitcoin NOW.
by jim bell 26 Sep '17

26 Sep '17

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Fwd: [Cryptography] Zerocash: Addressing Bitcoin's Privacy Problem GoogleTechTalks
by grarpamp 26 Sep '17

26 Sep '17

Fine talk for those doing comparisons of Monero vs the Zcash family regarding privacy etc... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tom Mitchell <mitch(a)niftyegg.com> Date: Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 7:29 PM Subject: [Cryptography] Zerocash: Addressing Bitcoin's Privacy Problem GoogleTechTalks To: cryptography <cryptography(a)metzdowd.com> A google tech talk on YouTube. https://youtu.be/uEdx-pqJg4I "...Google TechTalk, 8/28/17, presented by Alessandro Chiesa Abstract: In Bitcoin, a payment's details are broadcast in the clear, so that anyone can verify its validity. Unfortunately, this violates user privacy and sacrifices coin fungibility. I will describe the Zerocash protocol, which uses zero knowledge proofs to achieve privacy-preserving payments in a Bitcoin-like system. This protocol was recently deployed in the wild, as part of the cryptocurrency Zcash. "About the Speaker: Alessandro Chiesa is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley. His research spans the areas of complexity theory, cryptography, and security, and focuses on the theoretical foundations and practical implementations of cryptographic proof systems such as zero knowledge proofs. He is a co-inventor of Zerocash and co-founder of Zcash. He is an author of libsnark, the leading open-source library for succinct zero knowledge proofs. He has received a Ph.D. in computer science from MIT in 2014, and B.S. degrees in computer science and in mathematics from MIT in 2009." ========== Zerocash is not the only one looking at this. Laws that apply to banks protect a lot from all except governments. Will governments balk if this gets too good? -- T o m M i t c h e l l _______________________________________________ The cryptography mailing list cryptography(a)metzdowd.com http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography

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[WAR] [RUS] -- correction, Russia failed to invade Europe ... again
by Zenaan Harkness 26 Sep '17

26 Sep '17

Sorry folks, strangely, this one seems like just a false alarm it seems - sadly for the war porn enthusiasts, but thankfully for the EU, the Baltics and especially Poland (‼¡‼), Russia has once again failed to attack Europe under the guise of a military exercise. Oh well, another day, another possibility for Russia to invade Europe ... ** NATO Slitting Wrists After Russian Exercise Ends Without Anticipated Invasion of Europe http://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413c… ------------------------------------------------------------ by RI Staff on Thu, Sep 21, 2017 After conclusion of the Zapad 2017 military exercises the Russian units participating are packing up and returning to their barracks: Russian troops have started to routinely return to their home bases after the end of the joint Russia-Belarus Zapad 2017 exercises that earlier provoked large-scale hysteria in the West over their nature, numbers and purpose. Units of the Russian Air Force were first to set off for home following the end of the drills, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. BBC, CNN and the Jew York Times all covering this fantastic day for the USA secret services in Syria (... <ahem> ... not) - NO gloating now folks, it's very unbecoming and just not nice!: ** ‘US Secret Services' Tried to Nab 29 Russian Troops in Syria ... and Got Their Butts Kicked - Russian Military http://russia-insider.us9.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413… ------------------------------------------------------------ by Justin Huebner on Wed, Sep 20, 2017 Now this is something you won't see on NBC nightly news. The Russian military spokesman in this briefing, General Sergei Rudskoi, in a matter-of-fact deadpan, explains that 'US Secret Services’, and their Al Qaeda proxies, had a very, very bad day yesterday. Americans love bombing small, defenseless countries into the stone age, it’s part of their culture like baseball, apple pie, and morbid obesity. One of the things they never do, however, is pick on a country that can fight back. <echoes of James Clapper mumbling "but but, I was told Russians are --easy-- targets"> <"That's where you're wrong, kiddo‼">

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Re: cpunks list relocation imminent (was: Re: moving on)
by Zenaan Harkness 26 Sep '17

26 Sep '17

Hi Greg, as of this morning, I am no longer receiving any emails from the list - neither my own, nor those of others. Do you know why this might be? Thanks, Zenaan On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 09:35:04AM -0700, Greg Newby wrote: > Dear cpunks subscribers, > > As discussed on the list last week, Riad S. Wahby is exiting gracefully from hosting the Cypherpunks list at https://cpunks.org > > We have coordinated a transfer of the list to a server I manage, and the configuration appears to be fairly functional. We have put this at cpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org (versus cpunks(a)cpunks.org) > > I will send a test message to the NEW list momentarily, so subscribers will knoow they are getting both. > > Please write back to this list, or directly to me, if you notice any problems or anomalies. The mailman list settings, subscribership, etc. should be the same, except that subscribers since around August 25 are not yet on the new list. > > You can check your list settings and view the archives at the new location: https://lists.cpunks.org/ > > Once everything is confirmed to be functional, we will change from the old list to the new list, and update DNS and server records so the old email address and list URL work on the new location. We've set DNS TTL to expire quickly, once the changeover happens. > > Best, > Greg >

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Cryptome: 20 Years Of Cryptome - The Interviews
by grarpamp 25 Sep '17

25 Sep '17

http://cryptome.org/ Cryptome Interview by Pit Schultz 16-0205 https://youtu.be/ETnv_NkLKHQ The Whistleblower Architects: surveillance, infrastructure, and freedom of information according to Cryptome (part 1) http://archinect.com/features/article/149955321/the-whistleblower-architect… The Whistleblower Architects: surveillance, infrastructure, and freedom of information according to Cryptome (part 2) http://archinect.com/features/article/149956364/the-whistleblower-architect… Tecno|Grafia[s] Interviews Cryptome 1996-2016 http://www.tecno-grafias.com/cryptome1/interview_cryptome_1996_2016 Text Only Version http://www.tecno-grafias.com/cryptome.html

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Bittorrent, P2P Filesharing Protocols: PLAGUEd by DIRTY RATs eating off a GRIMPLATE
by grarpamp 25 Sep '17

25 Sep '17

https://theintercept.com/2017/09/13/nsa-broke-the-encryption-on-file-sharin… https://theintercept.com/snowden-sidtoday/3991308-the-answer-is-peer-to-pee… https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4002226/SEBACIUM-GCWiki-Redacted… https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4002227/Readfiles-102-Redacted.p… By 2010, the British electronic eavesdropping agency Government Communications Headquarters was also interested in “active P2P exploitation research,” web application used by analysts NSA’s File-Sharing Analysis and Vulnerability Assessment Pod that at the time had “the capability to identify users sharing/downloading files of interest program called GRIMPLATE was developed to study how employees used BitTorrent The wiki article also hints at information sharing with law enforcement. “DIRTY RAT will soon be delivered to the [London] Metropolitan Police and we are in the early stages of relationships with [U.K. child protection agency] CEOP and the FBI, PLAGUE RAT has the capability to alter the search results and deliver tailored content to a target,”

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EU Pirate Reda: EU Commision Piracy Study Unearthed
by grarpamp 25 Sep '17

25 Sep '17

https://juliareda.eu/2017/09/secret-copyright-infringement-study/ https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/displacement_study.pdf The European Commission paid €360,000 (about $428,000) for a study on how piracy impacts the sales of copyrighted music, books, video games, and movies. But the EU never shared the report—possibly because it determined that there is no evidence that piracy is a major problem.

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