March 2018 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Re: Attn: Image Posting...
by grarpamp 15 Mar '18

15 Mar '18

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 12:31 PM, g2s <g2s(a)riseup.net> TOP POSTED HTML JUNK (-: > The last full size image I posted Never said referring that, it can refer any image retardation. Were referring to that... the content could simply be the twat link [1]. Or cut / paste from twat as plaintext to fill readers with efficient context [1], as image does not convey additional info than text original (beyond exposing posters imaging metadata), wastes posters / readers time to capture and handle, and bloats thousands of readers spools. > Ps. <fuck_you> This is why we shall win a glorius action together someday, Qapla! [1] Any image / text is fakeable by the poster, and rarely signed against by the original, absent that, any preservation / authenticity claim is more properly a level of trust assigned by the reader to the poster, exclusively in that direction only.

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Accidental Warrior: The Life and Time of Barrett Brown
by grarpamp 15 Mar '18

15 Mar '18

Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t13B_jCQzFM Film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt3aidwogck Pursuance Project https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPOCibJUeuKRJT-sdc9t9Ew/videos

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Maker: Build your own UPS with UPSide
by grarpamp 15 Mar '18

15 Mar '18

https://gitlab.com/esr/upside http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7839 upside: Design and implementation of an open-hardware, open-software Uninterruptible Power Supply unit. On 2018-02-08 I published a blog rant titled UPSes suck and need to be disrupted complaining about the deficiencies of crappy Uninterruptible Power Supply designs that perform poorly and pile hidden costs on their users in order to minimize vendors' NRE and BOM costs. I suggested that this whole product category needs to be disrupted by an open-hardware design that addresses the many deficiencies of existing hardware. UPSes are not complicated devices; there is no good excuse for the state of the commmercial art to be as inadequate as it is. The response on my blog and G+ was intense, almost overwhelming. It seems many UPS users are unhappy with what the vendors are pushing. This project is an attempt to do something about that. Our goal is to define a set of requirements and develop a specification for a high-quality UPS that can be built from off-the-shelf parts in any reasonably well-equipped makerspace or home electronics shop. Our final deliverable should be PCB designs, a full parts list, assembly instructions, and full manuals for the hardware and software. We welcome contributors: people with interest in UPSes who have expertise in battery technology, power-switching electronics, writing device-control firmware, relevant standards such as USB and the DMTF battery-management profile. We also welcome participation from established UPS and electronics vendors. We know that consumer electronics is a cutthroat low-margin business in which it's tough to support a real R&D team or make possibly-risky product bets. Help us, and then let us help you! To get a handle on the state of the project it is probably best to begin by browsing the wiki that hosts our design documents. You should also read the process document to learn how to contribute effectively.

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Intel SGX Spectre and Pectre Exploits
by grarpamp 14 Mar '18

14 Mar '18

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/sgxspectre-attack-can-extrac… https://github.com/osusecLab/SgxPectre https://github.com/lsds/spectre-attack-sgx https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3026888/intel-has-been-hit-by-32-…

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Time-Nuts
by grarpamp 14 Mar '18

14 Mar '18

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/03/11/0146216/are-the-alternatives-even-w… http://www.leapsecond.com/time-nuts.htm

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UFOs: US Defense Dept Videos and Black Money, Alien Tech, To The Stars
by grarpamp 14 Mar '18

14 Mar '18

https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/18/03/13/2124200/ufo-disclosure-gr… https://tothestarsacademy.com/ Third video posted, same even though.

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Govt News
by grarpamp 14 Mar '18

14 Mar '18

Torture Gets A Promotion and Pay Raise https://politics.slashdot.org/story/18/03/13/1343235/trumps-pick-for-new-ci… France 6VEY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGUlNZLwtRk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwpGgck7pyU https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes Warrantless Searches https://www.aclunc.org/news/aclu-northern-california-lawsuit-demands-inform… Piracy https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/03/13/0441206/us-navy-under-fire-in-mass-… https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacktivismo_Enhanced-Source_Software_License_Agr… Chipping People https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/12/17109224/university-of-arizona-tracking-… Malware https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/web-sas-2018-apt-announcement-2/21514/ Nuclear EPA https://science.slashdot.org/story/18/03/11/1754232/epas-science-advisory-b… https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/03/11/0825244/report-says-radioactive-mo… Crypto Illegal https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/03/11/0820217/feds-bust-ceo-allegedly-sel… Facials Now Come With Glasses https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/03/11/0028241/chinese-police-begin-tracki…

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Fwd: [tor-talk] Google's Captchas - Not just annoying but deadly
by grarpamp 14 Mar '18

14 Mar '18

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=opensource+captcha ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: procmem <procmem(a)riseup.net> Date: Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 6:32 PM Subject: [tor-talk] Google's Captchas - Not just annoying but deadly To: tor-talk(a)lists.torproject.org Every Google reCaptcha feeds their neural network used by the DoD to enhance drone strikes. Switching your code to the AGPL makes it radioactive to Google. https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/prove_you_are_not_an_Evil_corporate_person/

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Re: [Cryptography] You guys do realize the first crypto war was lost, right?
by grarpamp 14 Mar '18

14 Mar '18

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 12:09 PM, Ryan Carboni <ryacko(a)gmail.com> wrote: > There is evidence that since 1997, we have been buying chips with secret > features that would make our computers more secure, but have been denied to > us as a de facto backdoor right? > > There is the reverse of the clipper chip. Except the silicon and the API to > access it is secret, as opposed to only the API. Here's the latest expose of secret features... https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2018-March/041639.html > It is hard to come to any other conclusion that pro-cryptography civil > libertarians are anything other than clowns when Zerodium pays up to $10,000 > for router exploits. You know. Routers, the ones with 128-bit WPA encryption > with shared secrets for multiple devices? I suppose people won't "wittingly" > buy backdoored products. Many people, even here, seem to "wantonly" deny the solutions described within, even as one of many solutions. So instead of starting up those entirely new open models, they continue game supporting / buying closed with Zerodium like startup... aka: govts / etc. No reduction of root problem there. > The good news is that bruteforcing 128-bit encryption with a classical > computer is that it would cost 2^56 times as much as gross bitcoin mining > expenditures. Somehow estimated bitcoin mining expenditures don't seem to > add up though, shouldn't intelligence agencies be able to crack 2^80 > encryption with ASICs? Currently costs several billion to preimage at 2^73 > complexity. research: govt electricity bills

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Stephen Hawking
by grarpamp 14 Mar '18

14 Mar '18

Dead at 76... https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=stephen+hawking

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