February 2019 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

World’s first dual-frequency GNSS smartphone hits the market
by jim bell 23 Feb '19

23 Feb '19

Cell phone which uses Broadcom BCM47755 dual-frequency (L1, L5) GPS chip, with 30 centimeter accuracy. https://www.gsa.europa.eu/newsroom/news/world-s-first-dual-frequency-gnss-s…

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The Londoner: Julian Assange closer to a journey home
by jim bell 23 Feb '19

23 Feb '19

The Londoner: Julian Assange closer to a journey home. https://tiny.iavian.net/rfze

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IEEE Spectrum: Circuit Secures the IoT Against Quantum Attack
by jim bell 22 Feb '19

22 Feb '19

IEEE Spectrum: Circuit Secures the IoT Against Quantum Attack. https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/embedded-systems/circuit-secu… Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android

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Permission and Papers Now Required To Travel For All Earth's Peoples
by grarpamp 21 Feb '19

21 Feb '19

https://papersplease.org/wp/2019/02/08/government-permission-to-travel-auth… A white paper on the use of PNR and API data (airline reservations), published by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in January 2019, lays out more starkly than ever before the goal of governments around the world: a permission-based system of government control and prior restraint in which a common carrier must receive “Authority to Carry” (authority to transport) with respect to each passenger, before allowing them to board any flight. We’ve talked about this sort of permission-based travel control before, including in this 2013 overview of the system of US government surveillance and control of travel. (See our slides from that presentation). But we’ve rarely seen governments spell out so explicitly their intent to convert travel from a right to a privilege which can be exercise only by permission of the police: An iAPI system allows for a two-way communication in near real-time. The airlines transmit the API message on a per-person basis to the requesting authorities at the time of check-in, while law enforcement agencies have the opportunity to decide whether a certain person is allowed or not to board a plane by issuing a board/no-board message. The OSCE document, brought to our attention by Statewatch and NoPNR, is the latest revision of a white paper on “the use of Advance Passenger Information (API) and Passenger Name Record (PNR)” data, revised following an OSCE seminar on “Passenger Data Exchange” with governments held in November 2018. The diagram and description of the iAPI permission system and the mention of “Authority to Carry” — transforming the use of API and PNR from passive surveillance to active government control and prior restraint — have been added since the previous version of the white paper posted by OSCE in March 2018, less than a year ago. Why the new openness about this government agenda? As the white paper and other recent international initiatives for surveillance and control of travel make clear, governments have been emboldened by their largely successful (to date) policy laundering efforts to get travel surveillance and control mandated by the UN Security Council in the name of the War On Terror and/or “aviation security” mandate. This purported authority is of questionable validity, given that it contravenes rights to freedom of movement recognized by international treaties and the US Constitution. And the actual basis, if any, for declining to give “Authority to Carry” a particular disfavored individual often has nothing to do with terrorism, aviation security, or any crime. But the willingness of governments such as the members of OSCE to talk openly about their travel control agenda reflects their belief that they have obtained all the legal authority they need, and no longer have to worry about public outrage at the idea that they think freedom of movement is a special privilege, not a right. The OSCE white paper also includes this chilling map of the countries where governments already obtain copies of commercial information about air travelers, before their flights: These travel surveillance and control systems rely on systems for identification of travelers, which are being developed and mandated in parallel. Those efforts will be the focus of the next annual symposium and exhibition on ICAO’s Traveller Identification Programme (TRIP) at ICAO headquarters in Montreal from June 25-28, 2019. Only public expressions of outrage, and public acts of resistance, will get governments that want to control our movements to back down before this sort of permission-based control of our movements becomes, as they intend, the global norm.

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DNA Submissions Now Mandatory For USA Civilians, You Are Next
by grarpamp 21 Feb '19

21 Feb '19

https://gizmodo.com/disturbing-bill-would-force-arizonans-to-pay-250-to-ha-… https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/54leg/1R/bills/SB1475P.pdf One by one, thresholds are being crossed where the collection and storage of personal data is accepted as routine. Being recorded by cameras at business locations, in public transportation, in schools, churches, and every other place imaginable. Recent headlines include "Singapore Airlines having cameras built into the seat back of personal entertainment systems," and "Arizona considering a bill to force some public workers to give up DNA samples (and even pay for it)." It seems to be a daily occurrence where we have crossed another line in how far we will go to accept massive surveillance as normal. Do we even have a line the sand that we would defend? Do we even see anything wrong with it? Absolute power corrupts absolutely and we continue to give knowledge of our personal lives (power) to others. If we continue down the same path, I suppose we deserve what we get? I want to shout "Stop the train, I want off!" but I fear my plea would be ignored. So who out there is more optimistic than I and can recommend some reading that will give me hope? Bill 1475 was introduced by Republican State Senator David Livingston and would require teachers, police officers, child day care workers, and many others to submit their DNA samples along with fingerprints to be stored in a database maintained by the Department of Public Safety. "While the database would be prohibited from storing criminal or medical records alongside the DNA samples, it would require the samples be accompanied by the person's name, Social Security number, date of birth and last known address," reports Gizmodo. "The living will be required to pay a $250 processing fee for this invasion of their privacy, but any dead body that comes through a county medical examiner's office would also be fair game to be entered into the database."

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Cryptocurrency: Craig Wright BlackNet BSV AntiChrist
by grarpamp 21 Feb '19

21 Feb '19

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/apc9c1/craig_wright_caught_lying_agai… https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/apbrzt/something_seems_fam… https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/arjt0v/craig_wright_has_announced_he_… https://comments.cftc.gov/PublicComments/ViewComment.aspx?id=61969 https://comments.cftc.gov/PublicComments/CommentList.aspx?id=2941 http://ohmysatoshi.com/blacknet https://www.reddit.com/r/bitcoincashSV/comments/afgu0i/sticky_for_newbs_or_… https://medium.com/@craig_10243/proof-of-work-1a323e82fd9 "The “crypto” community is not seeking Satoshi, they want a constructed myth that allows them to believe they can have an anonymous system of money and those things parliaments seek to stop, they can allow. They would not want me, as the system I created is not anonymous and it cannot be made to be anonymous. The nature of a “blockchain” is a system that acts as an immutable and admissible evidence stop that binds both the individual and the system they exist within. Everyone in the space seems to have wanted an anonymous system. The issues created with an anonymous system is exactly what Bitcoin solves. I didn’t create an anonymous system. I created a system that works with logs and within the legal frameworks... the antichrist, the bringer of the end. I am not what people want. I am not an anarchist, I do not believe in a world without government, and I do not have thoughts of a world without banking. I seek nothing less than creating a commercial replacement for the entire Internet. I will teach governments and institutions about the future." Fiat = Of and by Tyrants Kings Overlords Bosses Puppetmasters Rulers Profiteers... Evidence, non Private non Anonymous, Logs, Datamining, Surveillance, Censorship, Control, Permission, Inflation, Collapse, Theft Taxation Slavery for War Murder Torture in your name from your wallet at Force of Gunpoint and Death. The World is sick of thousands years of [and now having become even more Powerful by Digital] Fiat Systems... No one wants Fiat anymore. They want Freedom Peace AnonPrivacy... and through the Internet they're just beginning to learn they can do that, and indeed learn and do all good things, themselves, together, Voluntarily. In all, it does not matter who was who, or what was what, most being centralized thus subject anyways. Blockchain and Cryptocurrency are out of the bag, competition is on, a rapid mashup towards new, prior art rightly canceled. Only the future knows which models will be among the ones that succeed. One thing is certain, Fiat and all its elements, including mandated transparency (always yours not theirs), have been well tried and failed in history, in the end Fiat fails at doing what it says. This time around, try something radically different, adopt a different philosophy.

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Re: [tor-relays] [tor-exit] good node providers
by grarpamp 20 Feb '19

20 Feb '19

On 2/17/19, dns1983(a)riseup.net <dns1983(a)riseup.net> wrote: > It wasn't clear to me if those operating systems > would install any kind of firmware automatically. Firmware / Microcode / BIOS blobs are related to the specific hardware you have installed... if the hw requires having the blob loaded into it after each boot to even function, then some OS will support and can do that, some manually, some automatically. Driver blobs are similar but are vendors secrets running as part of the OS kernel that are used to talk to the hw. Many OS offer both closed and opensource versions of each. If you don't have hw that needs them, then while the blobs may still be on disk or in source and package repos or in the kernel and userland until compiled out, it's not much issue, other than the philosophical stance of the OS on them. Some OS essentially disavow blobs altogether... OpenBSD which is a bit famous in its own way, and maybe a few Linux distros. Most OS do have some variations in blob policy and implementation that may affect a users particular choice of OS... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_blob https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9671025 https://web.archive.org/web/20130424125958/http://kerneltrap.org/node/6550 https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/songs/song39.ogg https://www.openbsd.org/papers/brhard2007/mgp00027.html > I want to try openbsd, maybe recompiling the kernel if I can. That is documented for users here... https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html And even comes with music for while you work ... :) https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html Ultimately, if you don't want blobs, don't use them, don't buy them, hack them out, or be first to market with an auditable thus very profitable Open HW chain... #OpenFabs , #OpenHW , #OpenSW , #OpenDev , #OpenBiz

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$10K fusion reactor at home - exaggerated? - presumably 'momentary' fusion
by Zenaan Harkness 20 Feb '19

20 Feb '19

Sounds like tabloid, yet this is Fox News and apparently a true story - at the least it seems that a 13 year old Huwaite boy with $10K from his parents and a couple years of focus, achieved a momentary fusion reaction "in the spare room", with photos of impressive stainless steel vacuum pump machinery and attached electronic whizzbangery to boot... May be not "free energy" as a result, but an impressive "stunt" nonetheless. 14-Year-Old Boy Builds Working Nuclear Fusion Reactor in his Home https://dailystormer.name/14-year-old-boy-builds-working-nuclear-fusion-rea… https://www.foxnews.com/science/teen-builds-working-nuclear-fusion-reactor-…

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Scientific perfection and Scientific debates
by Punk 20 Feb '19

20 Feb '19

This is quite remarkable, IBM (an american corporation and thus morally perfect - see ayn rand philosophy) created an Artificial Intelligence Debater and the Artificial Intelligence Debater scientifically proved that "children who do not attend high quality preschool are far more likely to commit violent crimes" (no I am not making that shit up - that's a literal quote) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3u-1yttrVw

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[WAR] Venezuela - another bloody CIA coup
by Zenaan Harkness 19 Feb '19

19 Feb '19

Bloody indictments all around, the usual CIA dish served on disunited people the world over. Now waiting on the USA's chief Hissing Weazel to scream in the UN about Venezuelan democracy in 3 .. 2 .. This is a succinct, link packed (and well referenced) article on the "democracy" situation in south America's Venezuela. Sad world continues. Exorcising the ‘Popular Will’: How Venezuela can reclaim its democracy http://theduran.com/venezuela-reshape-democracy/

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