October 2019 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Snowden on Rogan
by grarpamp 24 Oct '19

24 Oct '19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efs3QRr8LWw https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21333063

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Computer Business Review: EXCLUSIVE – Last Punched Tape Crypto Key Rolls off the NSA’s Machines
by jim bell 23 Oct '19

23 Oct '19

Computer Business Review: EXCLUSIVE – Last Punched Tape Crypto Key Rolls off the NSA’s Machines. https://www.cbronline.com/news/nsa-punched-tape-keys

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Website listing donors to TOR system: We should contact them and ask for sponsorship, just like they did for TOR.
by jim bell 23 Oct '19

23 Oct '19

The following is a list of current sponsors, and a list of past sponsors, for the TOR project. I think it would be a good idea if we contact them, stating we are aware of their current (or past) sponsorship of the TOR project, and tell them we intend to provide some long-needed friendly 'competition' to the TOR project. And say that we would appreciate having the same per-node donations that they donated to the TOR project. I am probably not the best one to make this pitch, since my 'reputation' seems to be a bit 'tarnished'. Okay, who here is the LEAST scandalous and outrageous? Jim Bell https://www.torproject.org/about/sponsors/ Sponsors:DARPA via University of Pennsylvania https://www.darpa.mil/program/extreme-ddos-defense Institute of Museum and Library Services via New York University https://www.imls.gov/ Team Cymruhttps://www.team-cymru.org/ Google Season of Docshttps://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/ Craig Newmark Philanthropieshttps://craignewmarkphilanthropies.org/ Digital Impact Alliancehttps://digitalimpactalliance.org/ DARPA via Georgetown Universityhttps://www.darpa.mil/ Past Sponsors - Torfox - 2009 - SRI International - 2011-2017 - Shinjiru Technology - 2009 - 2011 - Reddit - 2015 - Omidyar Network Enzyme Grant - 2006 - National Science Foundation via Rice University - 2006 - 2007 - National Science Foundation joint with Princeton University - 2012 - 2018 - National Science Foundation joint with University of Illinois at Chicago - 2016 - 2018 - National Science Foundation via Drexel University - 2009 - 2011 - Naval Research Laboratory - 2006 - 2010 - NLnet Foundation - 2008 - 2009 - National Christian Foundation - 2010-2012, 2014 - Internews Europe - 2006 - 2008 - Human Rights Watch - 2007 - Federal Foreign Office of Germany - 2015 - Google - 2008 - 2009 - Google Summer of Code - 2007-2014 and 2016-2017 - Freedom of the Press Foundation - 2014 - The Ford Foundation - 2013 - 2014 - Hivos/The Digital Defenders Partnership - 2014 - 2015 - Electronic Frontier Foundation - 2004 - 2005 - Disconnect - 2014 - Cyber-TA project - 2006 - 2008 - Bell Security Solutions Inc - 2006 - Broadcasting Board of Governors - 2006 - 2013 - Access Now - 2012 - Internews - 2008-2013 - DARPA and ONR via Naval Research Laboratory - 2001 - 2006 - Rose Foundation for Communities and the Environment - 2018 - National Science Foundation via University of Minnesota - 2013 - 2018 - National Science Foundation joint with Georgetown - 2015 - 2019 - National Science Foundation joint with Rochester Institute of Technology - 2016 - 2019 - U.S. Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor via Harvard - 2017 - 2019

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Test Your Worldview, Disassembling Statist Dictionary
by grarpamp 23 Oct '19

23 Oct '19

Worldview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofNMBqrnDDc Dictionary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG7f5IFXRK0

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Planning for a project to implement 1000-node anonymization network
by jim bell 23 Oct '19

23 Oct '19

I am emailing as an interested party on behalf of some people on the cypherpunks email list. We are considering a project implementing a large anonymization network, hopefully in excess of 1000 nodes. One possibility is that the hardware for a node will be a Raspberry Pi 4 computer, nodes which could be placed in residences. We hope to get subsidies to buy the hardware, and possibly partly-subsidized Internet service as well. We want to amount to competition to the TOR system. Can you direct us to literature, or any information that would help us planning this project? I am copying this email to the Cypherpunks email list. Jim Bell

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Joseph Nacchio Qwest NSA Spying Insider Trading Prison
by grarpamp 23 Oct '19

23 Oct '19

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwest#Refusal_of_NSA_surveillance_requests https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8um6lImuWQ https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=joseph+nacchio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_Information_Procedures_Act https://www.dhs.gov/cisa/national-security-telecommunications-advisory-comm… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graymail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_witness_rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Secrets_Protection_Act "That's what Governments do" --JN Where is Joseph Nacchio now?

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Battery Tech Allows Moar OffGrid Crypto Radio
by grarpamp 23 Oct '19

23 Oct '19

https://cleantechnica.com/2019/10/20/uk-man-invents-aluminum-air-battery-in… https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7592485/Father-eight-invents-elect… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_commercial_battery_types https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel-iron_battery Ni-Fe the original indestructible UK engineer and former Royal Navy officer Trevor Jackson began experimenting with aluminum air batteries at his workshop in the Cornish town of Callington in 2001. At that time, the electrolyte used was extremely caustic and poisonous. After years of experimentation, Jackson devised a new electrolyte -- whose composition is a closely guarded secret -- he says make it possible for his invention to power an electric car for up to 1,500 miles. What happens when it runs out of juice? You replace it with a new one while the old one gets recycled. At the beginning of the electric car era when charging infrastructure was nonexistent, the idea of swapping spent batteries for fully charged new ones was considered feasible. Jackson says such a thing could be the future, with his batteries/fuel cells sold at grocery stores and retail outlets. He says the process of disconnecting the old one and connecting the new one will take about 90 seconds. [A]n independent evaluation by the UK Trade and Investment agency in 2017 said Jackson's invention was a "very attractive battery" based on "well established'" technology, and that it produced much more energy per kilogram than standard electric vehicle types, according to a report in the Daily Mail. A Tesla Model S can drive up to 370 miles on a single charge. Jackson says if you drove the same car with an aluminum-air cell that weighed the same as the Tesla's lithium-ion battery, it would have a range of 2,700 miles. Aluminum-air cells also take up less space. If that same Tesla were fitted with an aluminum-air fuel cell the same size as its current battery, it could run non-stop for 1,500 miles. The report goes on to say that Jackson just signed a multi-million dollar deal with Austin Electric, which will begin putting thousands of the batteries into electric vehicles next year. "Austin Electric has three targets for the new batteries -- the three-wheeled tuk-tuks used for transportation in many countries such as Pakistan, electric bicycles with far more range than current models, and a program that will convert front wheel drive cars with internal combustion engines into hybrids by fitting aluminum-air batteries and motors to drive the rear wheels," reports CleanTechnica. "Jackson expects the conversion operation to start next year. He says the cost of each conversion will be [...] about $4,000."

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Area51: DeLonge UFO Stars Academy Gets Free Govt Collab Funds
by grarpamp 23 Oct '19

23 Oct '19

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qvgnqq/tom-delonges-ufo-research-group-s… Tom DeLonge's UFO research organization has signed an agreement with the U.S. Army in which it will help the military study and develop advanced materials for the purposes of develpoing "active camouflage, beamed energy propulsion, and quantum communication" for use on military vehicles. Motherboard reports: On October 17th, To the Stars joined forces with the Army's Combat Capabilities Development Command, a research and development body. While To the Stars has made recent headlines with its UFO themed content, such as its acquisition of "exotic" materials which it claims are not from Earth, and videos acquired from the Navy purporting to show unidentified anomalous phenomena, this recent deal with the military portrays a different side of To the Stars: as a potential technology company. In recent months, DeLonge's organization has made a big deal out of obtaining those "exotic" metals that it believes may come from UFOs. Though the contract doesn't specifically mention the origin of any of those metals, it does say that To the Stars and the U.S. Army will use government labs to study "meta materials," which could refer to these alloys. "Government shall: Perform assessments, testing, and characterization of Collaborator-provided technologies. The Government is interested in a variety of the Collaborator's technologies, such as, but not limited to inertial mass reduction, mechanical/structural meta materials, electromagnetic meta material wave guides, quantum physics, quantum communications, and beamed energy propulsion," the contract states. The contract lasts for five years. The government isn't paying TTSA anything, rather, it is agreeing to collaborate with TTSA on researching new technologies and has committed to spend at least $750,000 on the research.

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Facialized: Face Now Required To Get Employed
by grarpamp 23 Oct '19

23 Oct '19

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/22/ai-hiring-face-scannin… Designed by the recruiting-technology firm HireVue, the system uses candidates' computer or cellphone cameras to analyze their facial movements, word choice and speaking voice before ranking them against other applicants based on an automatically generated "employability" score. HireVue's "AI-driven assessments" have become so pervasive in some industries, including hospitality and finance, that universities make special efforts to train students on how to look and speak for best results. More than 100 employers now use the system, including Hilton, Unilever and Goldman Sachs, and more than a million job seekers have been analyzed. "It's a profoundly disturbing development that we have proprietary technology that claims to differentiate between a productive worker and a worker who isn't fit, based on their facial movements, their tone of voice, their mannerisms," said Meredith Whittaker, a co-founder of the AI Now Institute, a research center in New York. "It's pseudoscience. It's a license to discriminate," she added. "And the people whose lives and opportunities are literally being shaped by these systems don't have any chance to weigh in."

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Spain to Catalonia: voting is illegal
by Zenaan Harkness 22 Oct '19

22 Oct '19

OK, ok, slight exaggeration - voting in a secession referendum is illegal, says Spain to Catalonia. Since only States are sovereign, and not people (say the States), secessionist referenda are illegal. And besides, it's for your safety. Crimea is a case in point - with a few million bullets fired, blood on the streets and carnage the world has rarely seen, Crimeans paid a high price for the reuniting with Russia. Oh, it didn't quite go like that? Oh well, you know, voting is illegal and all... and the State of Ukraine murdering it's own people in a genocidal attempt to cause them to "reunite" with the other land, we have a prime example of why the State must, at all times, be granted ultimate sovereignty, and the people must be dominated with bullets. And missiles. And land mines, shelling, RPGs and everything else the state can muster, to establish order in the world. "Democracy" loving Westerners both decry the Crimean's zero bullet referendum (what a concept), whilst demanding the USA's "God" given right to impose "democracy" by missile upon any unsuspecting nation State that has some excess oil. Or lots of non-excess oil that the USA wants. Or other resources... And on and on the Western "moral high ground" hypocrisy goes... Cue another ridiculous jnn rant in 3 ... 2 ... What a world we live in. Catalonia sets date for landmark vote on independence from Spain https://www.rt.com/news/391627-catalonia-independence-vote-date/ The autonomous region of Catalonia will have the decisive referendum on secession from Spain on October 1, the regional government announced on Friday. The move comes after a months-long standoff with Madrid, which decries the vote as illegal.

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