March 2019 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Cryptocurrency: Falkvinge Wrecks Bitcoin-BTC Again, 12 Months Later...
by grarpamp 01 Apr '19

01 Apr '19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzaEd2RQuRw https://twitter.com/LukeDashjr/status/1109145111248752642 "If people are too poor for a full node, then they just can't use bitcoin." A collection of evidence regarding Bitcoin-BTC's takeover and problems https://old.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/83vgdm/a_collection_of_evidence_regar… The Real Enemies https://i.redd.it/d233nko2ska11.png Quantity capped fully distributed p2p transaction mineable privacy coins... FTW.

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Re: [tor-talk] tor project website change
by grarpamp 01 Apr '19

01 Apr '19

" torproject.org frontpage " " DEFEND AGAINST SURVEILLANCE Tor Browser prevents someone watching your connection from knowing what websites you visit. All anyone monitoring your browsing habits can see is that you're using Tor. " This is false [1], and intentionally preloaded with [use case and definitional] weasel words [2]. [1] See whitepapers, discussion, G and NGO Sybil, and NSA's own statements. [2] See Tor Project Incorporated's PR and Legal departments. " The network is comprised of thousands of volunteer-run servers known as Tor relays. " And of endless numbers of more funded adversaries. Yet there is still no social or other analysis project of node meta information, providing subscribable trust options, years after routinely posting on need for same to help reduce that. " Your traffic is ... encrypted three times " Straight into lucky Sybil's decrypTOR and logfiles. Sue me for [ab]use of trademarked substrings. " Tor aims to make all users look the same " s/Tor/Tor Browser/ " cookies automatically clear " Was TLS clearing ever implemented (to be fair, perhaps yes by now)? Etc for other state machines between restarts. " BROWSE FREELY " Except services which block tor, most of which are embarrasingly braindead and/or cheap and/or drinking their own said departmental, or anti-freedom geopolitical, coolaid. " a 501(c)3 US nonprofit. " With rather curious amounts of potentially highly user adversarial funding sources. "technologies" Singular: tor. But purple onions on phones are more cute and fun than word parsing disclaimers, right? Happy browsing ;)

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admits the networking site should be regulated
by jim bell 31 Mar '19

31 Mar '19

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admits the networking site should be regulated. https://tiny.iavian.net/s2m8

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The Libertarian As Conservative
by Punk 30 Mar '19

30 Mar '19

The Libertarian As Conservative - Bob Black https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bob-black-the-libertarian-as-conser… ------- I think Black's views are mostly accurate. Vast majority of people who pretend to be 'libertarians' are in reality rabid supporters of industrial fascism.

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JusticeLeague
by \0xDynamite 30 Mar '19

30 Mar '19

Adding order to the anarchy: http://github.com/thePastor/JusticeLeague Enjoy!

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Intel's VISA ME Debugging Architecture Exploit
by grarpamp 29 Mar '19

29 Mar '19

https://www.zdnet.com/article/researchers-discover-and-abuse-new-undocument… https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000025619/software… https://www.blackhat.com/asia-19/briefings/schedule/#intel-visa-through-the… At the Black Hat Asia 2019 security conference, security researchers from Positive Technologies disclosed the existence of a previously unknown and undocumented feature in Intel chipsets. Called Intel Visualization of Internal Signals Architecture (Intel VISA), Positive Technologies researchers Maxim Goryachy and Mark Ermolov said this is a new utility included in modern Intel chipsets to help with testing and debugging on manufacturing lines. VISA is included with Platform Controller Hub (PCH) chipsets part of modern Intel CPUs and works like a full-fledged logic signal analyzer. According to the two researchers, VISA intercepts electronic signals sent from internal buses and peripherals (display, keyboard, and webcam) to the PCH -- and later the main CPU. Unauthorized access to the VISA feature would allow a threat actor to intercept data from the computer memory and create spyware that works at the lowest possible level. But despite its extremely intrusive nature, very little is known about this new technology.

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Email addresses leaked ! Oh my !
by jim bell 29 Mar '19

29 Mar '19

Email addresses of almost a BILLION people are leaked https://mol.im/a/6864029 via http://dailym.ai/android

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Re: [tor-talk] Is there a way to use internet in a sandbox environment? (Linux)
by grarpamp 29 Mar '19

29 Mar '19

On 3/29/19, npdflr <npdflr(a)zoho.com> wrote: > I am giving a scenario: (Devices: PC Hard Disk having important files for > offline use, USB Device for data transfer and Mobile Device which has > internet connection) > > 1. I have a hard disk that is offline (Linux OS). > 2. I use a mobile device for internet, gather some data and transfer that to > a usb device (via OTG). > 3. I have to mount the usb device to the hard disk since I need the gathered > data. > 4. Give read and write permission to the usb. > 5. I copy the gathered data from usb to the hard disk. Use/process the data > as per needs. > 6. I write some data back to the usb if needed. > 7. Connect usb to the mobile device if needed. > > Data from mobile --> usb --> Hard disk > Data from Hard disk --> usb --> Mobile > > How do I make sure that only the hard disk can read and write to the usb > device and prevent the usb to read/write any hard disk data so that the > files on the hard disk are always safe? Search "BasUSB", "HDDHack", etc. Excepting the direct hardware to hardware hacks that bypass the OS entirely, such as read write address space via hardware interfaces (firewire, pci-usb, etc), the latest memory and cache exploits etc, perhaps put or left in the HW by spies since there are no... #OpenFabs , #OpenHW , #OpenSW , #OpenDev , #OpenBiz , #OpenAudits , etc to help improve and defeat that... Today's kernels still don't provide any sort of storage block device command firmware update opcode filtering that could help prevent implantation of firmware exploits. Many OS still allow unpriviledged users raw access to portable devices. Then filesystem hierarchy access control schemes, and install and boot infrastructures, are also cumbersome or impossible to protect from user, root, or physical level access. To the extent CD-R, DVD-R, and tape "specifications" are just blocks with no firmware being plugged across the gap, and if no "media updates firmware" capabilities, those, or even serial and parallel port transfers, could be more secure than USB. But since it's not open, you never really know. People need to start doing those #Open* things above before they can start to have even the slightest bit of trust in systems.

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Facebook Instagram Bans Group Self Advocacy in FreeSpeech Hypocrisy Move
by grarpamp 29 Mar '19

29 Mar '19

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nexpbx/facebook-bans-white-natio… Facebook will begin banning posts, photos and other content that reference white nationalism and white separatism, revising its rules in response to criticism that a loophole had allowed racism to thrive on its platform. Previously, Facebook only had prohibited users from sharing messages that glorified white supremacy -- a rhetorical discrepancy, in the eyes of civil rights advocates, who argued that white nationalism, supremacy and separatism are indistinguishable and that the policy undermined the tech giant's stepped-up efforts to combat hate speech online. Facebook now agrees with that analysis, according to people who've been briefed on the decision. The new policy also applies to Instagram. The rise and spread of white nationalism on Facebook were thrown into sharp relief in the wake of the deadly neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, when self-avowed white nationalists used the social networking site as an organizing tool. "Facebook is now fighting the Belgian court's decision to stop tracking Belgian internet users and delete the data it's already gathered on them, or face fines of about $280,000 a day." Your group is next to be silenced.

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Decentralization as Imperatice [was: The Libertarian As Conservative]
by coderman 29 Mar '19

29 Mar '19

> When I first realized that I was already a libertarian, and always had been, in about 1975, it was always quite clear that Liberals, Leftists, and fellow-travellers hated (or at least strongly disliked) libertarianism. For reasons that are clear studying the Nolan Chart https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Chart and the World's Smallest Political Quiz. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Smallest_Political_Quiz > > The Right opposed libertarianism because libertarians promoted both personal and economic freedom, while the Right seemed to like only the latter. > The Left opposed libertarianism because libertarians promoted both personal and economic freedom, while the Left seemed to like only the former. > > That made 'sense', so to speak. Not that the liberals and conservatives actually made sense. it is actually more fundamental! consider that both Right and Left promote the idea of an infallible strong center, which conveys the laws upon mankind. Libertarianism is by definition decentralized; delegating decisions to the edge. given that power corrupts; and absolute centralized power corrupts absolutely, it is clear that both Right and Left are deceptions by Centralized Power to maintain itself. the political question at core is this: centralization? (and abuse of power) - or - decentralization (and individual responsibility) the absurdity of humanity is that our cognitive bias sees only the direct cost of personal responsibility, yet ignores the global cost of centralized abuses. best regards,

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