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Crypto scheme idea
by Douglas Lucas 20 Apr '18

20 Apr '18

Hello cryptocurrency hoarders, aspiring cryptocurrency hoarders, and others, In English the system for accenting English words is binary. If one were to say aloud, "crypto", each syllable is either stressed or unstressed, yes no, on off, CRYPT-o. 1, 0. Similarly, Morse code is binary. Dash or dot. CRYPTO in Morse code is: -.-. .-. -.-- .--. - --- or, assuming arbitrarily that dash is 1: 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1. This, I don't know the fancypants word, homomorphism, across the two systems -- that both are suspectible to binary rendition -- means that in theory one could say X and non X simultaneously with one string. I guess the most obvious difficult is that the Morse stuff takes up way many more characters than the verbal scansion. For example, cat (as in feline, not concatenate) is just a single syllable stressed. So it's a single character: 1.But in Morse code, "cat" is -.-. .- - which takes 7 characters not counting spaces. One thing I like about this system is that the attacker Chuck could know exactly what the algorithm is and neveretheless fail to decrypt it becasue the whole system is so ridiculous that only an Alice and Bob with a lot of time on their hands and/or eccentricity would be able to actually bother to encipher and decrpt these kind of strings. Is there a way to make this work without using Morse (becasue too many characters) but while keeping the defense of eccentricity, i.e., the time/weird investment required in order to encipher and decrypt? Thanks, Douglas

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Cryptocurrency: Permissionless, Market Nonsense, and Mads Palsvig
by grarpamp 20 Apr '18

20 Apr '18

Permission https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_zrChc7b3o Market https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_irzBK5P0U Palsvig https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcL-j4YNT4U Also, bulls fixin to run...

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Re: Request to mailing list cryptography rejected
by grarpamp 20 Apr '18

20 Apr '18

On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 7:33 PM, <cryptography-owner(a)metzdowd.com> wrote: > "This thread is dead as it was an admitted fake news article." The OP posted snippets of junk journalism. Another poster corrected it with links to source docs and much better journalism. Then another poster posted yet more flaky content. For which a proper counter / alternative is warranted. There's lots of other material relavant to "technical, social, political, security, privacy, legal, multinational aspects of cryptosystems' in that to be completed thread for which the list could ponder lively, and should given cryptocurrency is the newest mass critical cryptosystem out there. Also, "Will We Ever Learn", "The Bob Morris Worm", "Unicode", "Speculation" and many other threads over time questionably met charter as barely mentioning any applied / underlying cryptographic / topical element in them. It's being reposted, witnesseth cypherpunks. Do what you want with it.

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Re: [Cryptography] India Crypto Currency Ban
by grarpamp 20 Apr '18

20 Apr '18

On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 10:59 AM, John Levine <johnl(a)iecc.com> wrote: >>No such jurisdiction beyond themselves. > > The RBI regulates all the banks in India Only their banks, not biz or people. Maybe their govt too, lol. > this will shut down any > cryptocurrency exchanges in India Both exchanges and citizens can still open foreign account. And local exchanges can still reasonably operate using cash or all that Indian gold, or cows, contracts, etc. > the banks, who do not want to > annoy their regulator The banks, who are in business to make money, should throw out their regulators so they can try to do that, subject to the free market. Then again, one of cryptocurrency's messages... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWAwK2fHArc > if Indians want to buy or sell cryptocurrencies, they're back to the > pre-Mt.Gox situation of trying to find someone local who'll trade them > for cash. Indian markets are diverse and interconnected as any other, this is not a problem. And cryptocurrency is used in both directions. > Keep in mind that there are only about 10 million Bitcoin wallets in > the world There are 55 Million UTXO's, down from the 67M that were uneconomical to consolidate no thanks to BTC's issues. That's just for BTC, not all the other coins and tokens. Wallet estimates are harder to pinpoint. Feel free to link to some good papers on that. > and I doubt as many as a million of them are in India. > There are over a billion people in India so we're talking about under > 0.1% of the Indian population... a poor country, where rural phone ladies > rent mobile phones Even if that, not a bad adoption rate so far, and the guerrilla networking, love the ingenuity from necessity, ftw. > 15c for a few minutes of data. Transactions are relayed in under that time. Probably quite the deal for larger / distant transactions compared to other forms, including shipping gold and Rupees around. > Even if cryptocurrencies were a good idea, which they aren't Unsubstantiated FUD. Sad to see on one of the lists where cryptocurrencies were born. At least cryptography is still agnostic, at least until cryptographers start taking the knee and advertising the fake backdoored crypto they can concoct as "strong crypto" to serve their masters. > India doesn't have the infrastructure to use them other than > by rich people in cities. FUD. Cities have the infrastructure, anyone in a city is at least enough to be alive there, internet cafes and p2p relations work fine and more efficiently there as well, for rich and poor. > Since the badly handled withdrawal of high value banknotes in November > 2016 (I was there, same week as the US election) Indian banks have > pushed hard to provide conventional electronic payments with credit > and debit cards. I was impresssed how many of the stalls at markets > had handheld card terminals. Paying the mandatory extra card tax and high interest to middlemen pockets regardless of network operation costs for nothing in return that cryptocurrency can't provide for less, and freely. Unless you count the chargeback and tx censorship babysitting that keeps people and systems down from independance, and the "free money" advertising that keeps from choosing ownership. Yes they have to 'push hard' because the people smartly resist back against it.... >>RBI stock price drops on news as competitors move in. > > The RBI is run by the Indian government, does not issue stock, and > since it is the central bank, has no competitors. ...ahh yes, yet another monopoly artificially propped up upon force of death at gunpoint, how delightful. They offer you no choice. Cryptocurrency does. > Were we saying something about fake news? "Stock in faith" has a price too, the worldwide adoption of cryptocurrency to date says fiat [itself / systems / entities] been dropping quite a bit, both in faith and into cryptocurrency forex. Nothing fake there.

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#DeleteFacebook, Surveillance, Bans
by grarpamp 20 Apr '18

20 Apr '18

#DeleteFacebook https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/27/palantir-worked-with-cambridge-analytica-on… https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/03/27/1728202/its-possible-that-the-face… https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/facebook-scraped-cal… https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-advertising-discrimination-hous… https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/my-cow-game-extracte… https://qz.com/1236322/apples-steve-jobs-tried-to-warn-facebooks-mark-zucke… https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/03/23/1713253/whats-facebook-elon-musk-a… https://www.buzzfeed.com/emilydugan/this-mans-gun-loving-friends-were-kicke… Surveillance https://www.cnet.com/news/city-surveillance-worldwide-spent-over-3-billion-… http://www.scmp.com/tech/china-tech/article/2138960/jaywalkers-under-survei… https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2018/03/22/yes-cops-are-now-ope… https://www.smh.com.au/technology/police-commissioner-defends-access-to-opa… http://www.wbur.org/news/2018/03/22/school-threats-suicide-prevention-tech Bans https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/26/twitter-moves-to-ban-crypto-ads/ http://thehill.com/policy/technology/380014-tumblr-takes-down-84-russia-lin… https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-media/no-laughing-matter-china-reg… https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kgwnp/porn-on-google-drive-error https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/24/us/politics/unlock-phones-encryption.html https://www.cnet.com/news/how-i-went-dark-in-australian-surveillance-state-…

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something to take note of
by someone_who_cares_127 20 Apr '18

20 Apr '18

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Ayn Rand - First Interview 1959 (Full)
by grarpamp 18 Apr '18

18 Apr '18

with Mike Wallace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ooKsv_SX4Y 1966 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdp4qiPY08s Last Public Lecture: The Sanction of the Victims 1981 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XiBU8geK08 Interview - Phil Donohue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZqKpfVW0i0 https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ayn+rand

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HRNG/ TRNG, acronym-funded, buzzword-sourced, entropy compliant USB device
by Zenaan Harkness 18 Apr '18

18 Apr '18

For those who, for totally random reasons have established within themselves a pseudo-random mental construct mandating the random collection of such random data collection and production devices. I'm confident these folks shall succeed - 'tis a simple device. And completely useless to anyone overly paranoid since you must personally screen the board and components, individually solder everything, and pray, whilst crossing your fingers and hoping Intel (or ARM, AMD) have not put a CPU into your back door. Oh, wait... Well, may be useful for some random one: https://www.crowdsupply.com/13-37/infinite-noise-trng Cheers, Z

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Fake News - Re: A Reason for Bed Wetting – Australia has less than 30 day’s supply of fuel and oil. [MINISTRY]
by Zenaan Harkness 17 Apr '18

17 Apr '18

There is a repeated and concerted effort in Australia to spread the meme that "if there was a problem with oil purchases, Australian society would grind to a halt", which is propaganda for "we need to create fear, so a enough folks complain to the government, so as to justify the government buying high-priced oil company stocks just before the world goes predominantly electric". ----- Forwarded message from Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> ----- From: Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> To: Jim <jim.sovereign(a)optusnet.com.au> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 21:25:49 +1000 Subject: Re: A Reason for Bed Wetting – Australia has less than 30 day’s supply of fuel and oil. Jim, this was my answer the last time this rubbish was trotted out, this is my answer again. Australia has something like 300 years of gas, and gas conversion kits for trucks are only a year away from manufacture - if the will (or necessity) is there to build them - gas or dual-fuel cars and utes are not uncommon, in Australia. So we, in Australia, will be JUST FINE. Please re-read the below. We do NOT want the Australian government paying a premium for oil company stocks, just before the world's cars go electric, as some sort of bullshit NON-insurance for "they'll stop selling us oil". Seriously - this one's total bullshit, Jim. Kind regards, Zen On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 06:38:42PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Jim, Roger Crook is evidently a propagandist for the oil industry - > e.g. the implication arises from his writings that Australia "is > woefully behind the EU in goverment-mandated oil industry stocks to > be owned by government", which is total hogwash of course - cars are > going electric, and the oil industry giants (and hedge funds) are > simply looking to make some massive, premium-priced, share sales to > the Australian government, since our government, SENSIBLY, does not > own oil stocks at this point in history - that's a bloody good thing! > > Roger Crook is however, a great fear monger and yarn teller, and > propagandist. Evidently! > > :) > Zenaan > > > On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 06:24:48PM +1000, Jim wrote: > > This article is essential reading for all Australians and politicians. The author Roger Crook should be an advisor to the federal and state governments on this vital issue of national interest and security. The problem is why have such gross idiocy, incompetence and negligence in Australian politics, I’m surprised anything of importance gets accomplished. > > > > Jim > > > > > > > > <http://globalfarmer.com.au/2017/06/reason-bed-wetting-australia-less-30-day…> A Reason for Bed Wetting – Australia has less than 30 day’s supply of fuel and oil. > > > > Roger Crook <http://globalfarmer.com.au/author/roger/> / June 5, 2017 <http://globalfarmer.com.au/2017/06/reason-bed-wetting-australia-less-30-day…> > > If anything serious happens in world affairs, like a little war, > > which interrupts for a couple of weeks the flow of fuel tankers > > reaching Australia, life as we know it will very quickly grind to a > > halt. Australia has less than 30 days supply of fuel and oil in the > > country. Farmers will unable to sow or harvest their crops. They > > will be unable to get their produce to market whether it be grain, > > livestock or fresh food. It is said that everything at some time in > > its life is moved by truck. Take a long look at Fig 3 below and > > calculate how long you can manage without your medicines at home > > and in the hospital and how long you can manage for food if there > > isn’t any in the supermarket. The freight trains will stop. The > > power stations that rely on coal will have to dig into their > > reserves and then what? No fuel for the coal trains. There is just > > three days supply of petrol in the petrol stations. When that runs > > out how do the kids get to school and how do the majority get to > > work? ----- End forwarded message ----- ----- Forwarded message from Jim <jim.sovereign(a)optusnet.com.au> ----- From: Jim <jim.sovereign(a)optusnet.com.au> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 19:40:46 +1000 Subject: Low fuel reserves: Australia’s 43 days before ‘real trouble’ If you need any more evidence of gross government negligence, incompetence and borderline treason, then consider the news article below and the fact Australia has a strategic fuel reserve of only 43 days, instead of the international standard of 90 days. A major conflict in the Middle East or with China could effectively cuts supplies of refined fuel to Australia within 20 days, resulting in our economy and social cohesion disintegrating swiftly. Everything in our economy depends on fuel: private and commercial transport of people, food and products, social services, manufacturing, mining, agriculture etc. Neither of the major parties appears to have a national energy policy that properly addresses our energy security seriously. Successive Liberal and Labor governments have eroded and compromised our national security by allowing most of our oil refineries and heavy manufacturing industries to close down, forcing us to source the majority our fuel from Singapore and other countries. Australia no longer has the capability to be a self-sufficient producer of refined oil and manufactured products during a world crisis that affects oil supplies. Jim ____________ This is borderline treason. The government is assigned the security for this great country of ours and must be held accountable, under no circumstance should any of our abilities to defend this nation be eroded. As a first class democratic nation the public should be demanding our security be assured. With the current climate of war and violence in this world we should be almost mobilizing. Waiting until the war breaks out before trying to increase reserves and supplies is tantamount to treason and should be treated as such. Jeff Dunne Low fuel reserves: Australia’s 43 days before ‘real trouble’ AUSTRALIA is set for “real trouble” with supply of one of its major commodities expected to run out in a matter of days, experts warn. news.com.au <http://www.news.com.au/> Megan Palin <http://www.news.com.au/the-team/megan-palin> April 16, 2018 AUSTRALIA is in “real trouble” of running out of fuel by the end of next month in the wake of the Syria strikes, according to experts. The International Energy Agency mandates that countries hold a stock in reserve “equivalent to 90 days of net imports” but Australia only has 43 days worth of supply, The Australian <https://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/molan-issues-warning-over…> reports. Liberal Senator Jim Molan, a former major general in the Australian Army, this morning told 2GB that “we stand in real trouble and this is a single point of failure for Australia, very similar to what could happen in a cyber situation”. He said the government had taken a “business as usual approach” and that it was now time to “see action”. “It happens because for too long we have taken a business as usual approach,” Mr Molan said. “It’s like saying we can determine the size and shape of the Australian Defence Force based on commercial factors and making the market decide. “The way that we seem to get around this is that we buy credits overseas which ignores the entire problem. “Those credits say that if things go wrong we can buy from overseas but hang on our supply lines of communication by ship are likely to be either threatened or because of insurers nothing will come to us at all.” According to Mr Molan, Australia has just three weeks’ of motor fuel stocks and an eruption of tension in our region could immobilise civilian and military vehicles. “I can’t imagine that armoured vehicles in the forces in the near future are going to work off renewables or off electricity or off whatever,” Mr Molan told Sky News today. It would be difficult to keep Australian vehicles going should there be conflict in the Middle East, Korea, or elsewhere in our neighbourhood, he said. This will be a prominent problem for the next Chief of the Defence Force Angus Campbell Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull today announced General Campbell would take over from the retiring Air Chief Marshal Mark Binskin in June. Liberal Senator Jim Molan at Parliament House in Canberra. Liberal Senator Jim Molan at Parliament House in Canberra. Source: News Corp Australia Mr Molan, whose military career includes serving as Chief of Operations in 2004 at the headquarters of the Multinational Force in Iraq, today outlined the risks he saw. He said 60 per cent of the engine fuel used by Asia came from the Gulf. “So we see streams of ships coming round from the Gulf, coming across the Indian Ocean, going through the straits through the South China Sea to where it’s refined for us,” he told Sky News. “It’s refined in Singapore, yes, but it’s also refined in Japan, in Korea and in China. It then is turned into diesel, aviation fuel and petrol and comes down in ships to Australia’s ports.” Earlier this year, Mr Molan said Australia was one of the few places in the world that didn’t have a government-mandated strategic reserve of fuel. According to him, if Australia’s current stockpiles of petrol, diesel and aviation fuel ran dry then the military would effectively be grounded in that time. How is an island country like Australia "secure" in the military sense if we don't refine oil & have no, substantial strategic fuel reserve? — Prof. Peter Doherty (@ProfPCDoherty) <https://twitter.com/ProfPCDoherty/status/631972844205793280?ref_src=twsrc%5…> August 13, 2015 Defence Strategy and Capability at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute senior analyst Dr Malcolm Davis backed Mr <http://www.news.com.au/technology/new-senator-and-retired-military-chief-ji…> Molan’s comments, saying Australia’s fuel reserves would last “20 days at best” if supplies were cut off. He said Australia was “one of the few countries in the world that does not take our energy security seriously”. “It would be a Mad Max world. Our society and our economy would begin to fall apart very quickly,” Dr Davis told news.com.au. “It’s like electricity — everything depends on fuel to make an economy run. It is very serious. “We’ve left ourselves in a perilous situation and governments on both sides have been negligent in this regard. “Military analysts have been warning consistently for years and they just ignore it.” Dr Davis explained most of Australia’s fuel is transported through narrow straights by tanker ships. “Instead of investing in refinement facilities here for refining fuel, the government has decided it’s cheaper to do it overseas.” One of the key facilities is in Singapore. “The price they pay for that in a crisis is that China can interrupt flow to Australia relatively easy and our economy falls apart. “It’s very negligent of the government to let this situation happen. It’s even more appalling we’ve been warning both political parties for years about this.” Dr Davis warned the US military had become severely depleted since the Bush administration and said China, Iran, North Korea and Russia had become “direct threats”. US President Donald Trump hailed Saturday’s strike targeting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapons capabilities as mission accomplished. The strikes were in response to a suspected poison gas attack by Assad in the Damascus suburb of Douma last weekend. Australia has backed the mission, with Mr Turnbull calling it “a calibrated, proportionate and targeted response”. Mr Molan expects Russia to retaliate. “There’s no way in the world this is the end of the activity because that’s up to the Russians,” Senator Molan told the Nine network. “(There’s) been threats made by the Russians, by the Iranians, they are mixed up in the Syrian activity.” He expected Russian President Vladimir Putin to counter, possibly with a cyber attack, and release a lot of disinformation. “The limited nature of what the Americans have done removes a lot of options from him,” Senator Molan said. Senator Wong said the opposition, like the Australian government, disagreed with many of the actions taken by Russia. “We continue to be critical of them, in a great many respects, including in their actions in relation to Syria.” Mr Ciobo told the ABC that Russia had a choice to make. “Do they want to be alongside murderous regimes that use chemical weapons against their own people?” he said. “Or would they rather be aligned with those countries that are motivated to protect the innocent and to try to bring a successful peaceful resolution.” Overnight, the UN Security Council rejected a Russian resolution calling for condemnation of the “aggression” by the US and its allies against Syria. Russia got support from only two other countries on the 15-member council — China and Bolivia. megan.palin(a)news.com.au | @ <https://twitter.com/Megan_Palin> Megan_Palin http://www.news.com.au/national/politics/low-fuel-reserves-australias-43-da… ----- End forwarded message -----

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“glass half full” perception memes ftw
by Zenaan Harkness 17 Apr '18

17 Apr '18

Trigger flake warning: politically incorrect assessment of the half glass ahead... Glass Perception Memes https://dailystormer.name/are-glass-perception-memes-hot-right-now/

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