July 2018 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

[MINISTRY] IQ: Jordan Peterson: high IQ + can use computers = different species
by Zenaan Harkness 27 Jul '18

27 Jul '18

A little trite, but Jordan Peterson's insistence on the science of IQ (and clearly explaining it) is fun when interspersed with such colourful descriptions as "if you're really smart, -and- you know how to use a computer, you are so far ahead of people that it's like you're a member of a different species" (at around 22 minutes). Fact based discussion FTW :) Douglas Murray in conversation with Jordan Peterson-NLrFEbXKFh0.webm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLrFEbXKFh0 ~47mins

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DDR4 PHY training binary-blob reverse engineering/ libre reimplementation call to action - Librem 5
by Zenaan Harkness 27 Jul '18

27 Jul '18

For those with knowledge, capacity, and will, here is a task for the TODO list, if it's not beyond your ability: Apparently all DDR PHY manifestations require DDR4 "training" to work with DDR4 RAM. Training firmware blobs are currently all proprietary, binary only. The Librem 5 phone folks are not currently with someone who can reverse engineer and/ or reimplement such training firmware, and so are using an i.MX8 secondary CPU to perform this function, using the existing binary blobs. The ideal situation would be someone with enough knowledge etc solving this particular problem with a libre “training firmware” implementation. (Also, TPM-free Purism laptop models currently available on runout sale at ~$300 off - a very rare Purism sale (the TPM chip was so popular, all new models have it included by default).) Solving the first FSF RYF hurdle for the Librem 5 https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-solving-the-first-fsf-ryf-hurdle/ … In U-Boot there are a number of firmware blobs that need to be loaded into the DDR PHY so that it can be trained to work with DDR4. This training is done on every boot. The normal boot sequence for the i.MX 8 is that the internal ROM loader loads the Secondary Program Loader (SPL) which, in this case, is a small version of U-Boot that can initialize the DDR and load the full U-Boot into DDR to finish the boot process. Very early in the SPL, the training blobs get loaded into the DDR PHY and the training sequence is run. The DDR training procedure is completely un-documented so re-writing the firmware blobs with free/libre or open source versions would be an arduous process. We can’t ignore the DDR PHY because it is interface between the i.MX 8 internal buses and the DDR4 chips outside of the SOC. The DDR PHY is also part of the i.MX 8 silicon so we can’t just replace the DDR PHY with a different one. It also appears that all DDR PHY’s required this training to work with DDR4, so going to a different SOC wouldn’t solve it either. ...

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[MONEY] New Rules of the Bond Game - Zerowedgie
by Zenaan Harkness 27 Jul '18

27 Jul '18

Clearly put, and with a quote that must be quoted: Perhaps the words of Josiah Stamp, the director of the Bank of England in 1928, are worth revisiting: “Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin. … Bankers own the Earth. Take it away from them but leave them the power to create money, and, with the flick of a pen, they will create enough money to buy it back again. “Take this great power away from them and all the great fortunes like mine will disappear and they ought to disappear, for then this would be a better and happier world to live in. “But, if you want to continue to be a slave of the bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let the bankers continue to create money and control credit.” The 'Hidden' Rules Of The Bond Game https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-26/new-rules-bond-game

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NSA Watchdog: Surveillance Giant Still Isn’t Securing Its Networks
by Steven Schear 27 Jul '18

27 Jul '18

https://www.thedailybeast.com/nsa-watchdog-surveillance-giant-still-isnt-se…

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[MINISTRY] fringe Marxist bloggers admit hitting big time at TDS
by Zenaan Harkness 27 Jul '18

27 Jul '18

So some fringe bloggers at a fringe deep state lame stream media blog have come clean, admitting to finally hitting the big time as they are covered by your favourite truth site, TDS. Read it and rejoice: Washington Post Jewess Ruth Marcus Confirms That the Daily Stormer is “Big Time” Media https://dailystormer.name/washington-post-jewess-ruth-marcus-confirms-that-…

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[MINISTRY] Unz Review: Gommunist Bolshevik's revolution financing
by Zenaan Harkness 27 Jul '18

27 Jul '18

A little more history comes to light - who woulda thought that J bankers financed the J-Bolshevik revolution in Russia? 1. Your Schoolbooks Lied to You: What Happened After the Bolshevik Revolution (#120th) by Ron Unz The Unz Review https://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413… ------------------------------------------------------------ by Ron Unz The Unz Review (1,679 views) on Thu, Jul 26, 2018 The author is the founder and editor of the Unz Review, a conservative American political website, an entrepreneur, and a one-time candidate for the governor of California. This article was originally published in October 2016 at the Unz Review. Although I always had a great interest in history, I naively believed what I read in my textbooks, and therefore regarded American history as just too bland and boring to study.

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Re: [Cryptography] Cryptokitties: When you've still got money to burn after investing in all those ICOs
by grarpamp 27 Jul '18

27 Jul '18

On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 1:47 AM, Rui Paulo via cryptography <cryptography(a)metzdowd.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2018-07-23 at 08:17 +0000, Peter Gutmann wrote: >> Dammit, why didn't I think of that? Just as the bottom is falling >> out of >> ICOs, someone comes up with a new way to extract money out of the >> gullible. >> >> https://www.cryptokitties.co/ >> >> tl;dr: >> >> 1. Use actual real money to buy Ethereum. >> 2. Use Ethereum to buy a cryptokitty. >> 3. ?? >> 4. ?? >> 5. No, not profit, just more ?? >> > > http://cryptopuppies.org/ Funny how this list will approve, 1up, and talk about the above [1], yet censor actual discussion of more serious areas of cryptocurrency, (note such with BTC being early on this list), which are in fact material relavant to the "technical, social, political, security, privacy, legal, and multinational aspects of cryptosystems' of its charter. [1] which are btw old way news now having been out for ten months, for which people are still rightfully free to evaluate investing in, using them as currency, or collect / trade / dispose on whim as deemed fit. bcc cypherpunks, to witness esteemed lolcat and cute puppy posters approved into the censorship / irony / fud log... and where you're actually free to cover relavant 'crypto' currency material, and even trade cryptokitties :)

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Signal on the Desktop, Plays FBI Subpoena
by grarpamp 26 Jul '18

26 Jul '18

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop https://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/10/04/2144202/encryption-app-signal-wins… http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/signal-subpoena-privacy-gag-order/ https://apnews.com/2bed090d3ec042cab375278b636ff5e5/US-subpoena-tests-priva… http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/05/technology/subpoenas-and-gag-orders-show-… https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/open_whisper_docume… Signal, widely considered the gold standard of encrypted messaging apps, was put to the test earlier this year when a FBI subpoena and gag order that demanded a wide range of information on two users resulted in a federal grand jury investigation in Virginia. The makers of Signal, Open Whisper Systems, profoundly disappointed law enforcement. The app collects as little data as possible and therefore was unable to hand anything useful over to agents. "That's not because Signal chose not to provide logs of information," ACLU lawyer Brett Kaufman told the Associated Press. "It's just that it couldn't." "The Signal service was designed to minimize the data we retain," Moxie Marlinspike, the founder of Open Whisper Systems, told the New York Times. The subpoena came with a yearlong gag order that was successfully challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union. Signal's creators challenged the gag order as unconstitutional, "because it is not narrowly tailored to a compelling government interest." The challenge was successful. In addition to being popularly considered the best consumer encrypted messaging app available, Signal's technology is used by Facebook for Secret Conversations, WhatsApp for encrypted messages, and Google's Allo. Confronted with the subpoena, Marlinspike went to the ACLU for legal counsel. The ACLU responded with a letter saying that even though Signal did not have data the FBI sought, it still strenuously objected (PDF) to the fact the FBI wanted so much information.

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Monopolies are made by government and they can easily be broken by them too
by Steven Schear 26 Jul '18

26 Jul '18

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/18/eu-fine-google-android-a… Instead of fining Google, if the EU really wants to set and example of how to reign in monopolies, they should recind the IP privilege they granted Google by stripping them of their copyrights (and perhaps patents).

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[MINISTRY] Sexual Utopia in Power - bust a myth already!
by Zenaan Harkness 26 Jul '18

26 Jul '18

Sometimes stating the obvious comes with a "well duh!" and other times a "about bloody time someone said it!" This could perhaps be useful for many a young (or not so young) wanna be man in the age of sexual "liberation". Cute 'toon: https://dailystormer.name/its-a-true-story/ ~30 page PDF: https://www.toqonline.com/archives/v6n2/DevlinTOQV6N2.pdf May sanity rein,

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