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The Hill: WikiLeaks: Assange will be expelled from Ecuadorian embassy within 'hours
by jim bell 04 Apr '19

04 Apr '19

The Hill: WikiLeaks: Assange will be expelled from Ecuadorian embassy within 'hours to days'. https://thehill-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/thehill.com/policy/national-secu…

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Schneier in Wired: There's No Good Reason to Trust Blockchain Technology
by grarpamp 04 Apr '19

04 Apr '19

jl: > https://www.wired.com/story/theres-no-good-reason-to-trust-blockchain-techn… https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https://www.netzwoche.… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Schneier For such a supposedly lofty and respected analyst to be so completely dismissive and closed minded regarding blockchain and more specifically of distributed cryptocurrencies... sounds more like: "Who would ever need or use electricity, more RAM, mobile phones, Internet, etc..." They were all proven wrong. Just like Jamie Dimon and countless other Big Kahuna's, he's drawn his position and fired his load. Expect many to be wrong with this thing too. After all, evolution will continue. phb: > I don't believe BitCoin is worth $3,500. You're right. It's currently worth $4,500+. See ya at $9,000 ;)

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Facebook demands email passwords.
by jim bell 04 Apr '19

04 Apr '19

Facebook demands new users hand over their email passwords https://mol.im/a/6882649 via http://dailym.ai/android

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To emphasize my last post
by Ryan Carboni 03 Apr '19

03 Apr '19

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3923261/Thomas-Lesnak-Deposition… “You couldn’t go to H&R Block and say, hey these 23 operations are federal...” Well sheeit, this stuff is more secret than top secret, blacker than black, got to have absolute secrecy. I don’t know where the government finds their contractors, but none of them are trustworthy, trust me. You know, I don’t know what investigators he worked with, but I say keep Lesnak, fire the rest of them, at least Lesnak is worth something. And the funny thing is that Lesnak was involved in international cigarette smuggling with the future President of Paraguay. Did the ATF work with Trump? Maybe ATF is deep state. The ATF selects world leaders. The US Government and the media is illegitimate and impotent. I just can’t take the US government seriously. If they say they are going to do something, I wouldn’t even rely on them to do it. Sent from ProtonMail Mobile

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Corrupt governments are inherently inept
by Ryan Carboni 03 Apr '19

03 Apr '19

Corrupt governments are inherently inept, or at least appear so. There is a decisional overhead in maintaining the illusion of corruption or maintaining a certain level of BS that would avoid outraging people enough to take action. The complexity in decision making was partially what destroyed the Soviet Union, virtually all sectors of society was lying to each other to maintain an illusion and the ability of the central government to enforce their plans rapidly eroded. The US government is extremely corrupt. Take Trump for instance, why would the media keep mentioning he is corrupt, and yet Congress does nothing about it? Congress is the most powerful branch of government, ignoring Congress’s capability to censure or remove their own members, a 2/3 vote would allow Congress to take any action for any reason, exemplified by the Supreme Court decision in Nixon vs. United States (a different Nixon oddly enough). Congress can impeach the entire Supreme Court on a whim, impeach the entire Executive Branch even. So what does it say? Maybe Trump really is corrupt, he got rich from money laundering or so the media says. Where did the profits from Operation Fast and Furious go, to the ATF or to the gun runners themselves? ( https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/us/atf-tobacco-cigarettes.html ) I suppose only Congress has oversight over that matter. But the United States is rapidly crumbling, and US politics have become a circus. The whole thing is a distraction, clearly. Every major city has rising unemployment, with homeless people looking more and more able to work, even the city I live in is in debate about adding maybe several dozen units for housing the homeless (which says a lot about everyone’s sanity or the size of the local homeless population). So. The US government can’t do anything about Trump? Just a bunch of leaks and exaggerated statements condemning Trump with no evidence? Even if the evidence had to be secret, Congress can’t be trusted with it? Or if Congress can be trusted with it, do they lack the spine to maintain a functioning and free society? I wonder what happened to the ATF agents involved with violating federal law and smuggling cigarettes. Maybe they pulled a John Connolly, forged informant reports and accepted bribes. Or they used fake informants and forged the paperwork to pay off other officials. It certainly seems outrageous, it sounds like the whole ATF could be potentially corrupt, or just a few bad apples. But what does it say about the “good” people if they don’t notice what is happening around them when they are practically in the thick of it? Sent from ProtonMail Mobile

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[OT] It's a good day to... :D
by Cecilia Tanaka 03 Apr '19

03 Apr '19

Learn LOLCode, yay!!! ;D https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-lolcode Love you, dear all. Hope everyone is doing pretty good and feeling gorgeous! Be well, be happy, and take care, please. <3 <3 <3 (Nah, this wish isn't a April's Fool prank. Really love you all and miss your fun comments on this list. Being sincere, I love you all *less* ZH, but I do still *not* wish his death or something similar, what is a good thing, hahahaha!! Live and let live! ;) Ceci <3 ---------- Loving. Caring. Sharing. Being Excellent To Each Other And To Our Hackerspace. <3 ---------- "Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live." - Mae Jemison

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Bill Binney - NSA Govs Collect All You Do
by grarpamp 03 Apr '19

03 Apr '19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjHs-E2e2V4 Another good interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_5e-ymbRF4 Kirk Wiebe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuET0kpHoyM Bill Binney https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMIrmt9sZyY Diane Roark https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thomas+drake

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The Rise of History's Biggest Empire with Base Nation and Ben Griffin
by grarpamp 03 Apr '19

03 Apr '19

The Rise of History's Biggest Empire with Base Nation and Ben Griffin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs4PxkVUxKs This one's for Juan. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=david+vine+base+nation https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ben+griffin+sas

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Re: [tor-talk] tor project website change
by grarpamp 03 Apr '19

03 Apr '19

> why adversaries should finance tor project and publicly it if they have > a malicious intent? Why do adversaries do that to their opponents? Because it's a simple and effective diversion operation. Nor is it dependant upon whether any "malicious intent". Adversaries often fund their opponents to keep them busy and happy even if opponent only a few steps tangent behind the race to actually being able to kill the adversary. It can work actively... "Here's a pile and stream of money to develop some useless or thing we want in an RFP / contract / grant / employee", or passively... "Hey, those guys seem to be going down useless paths, ok here's a bunch of money to keep them happily digging in those holes, LOL." Usually delivered by false fronts. See also "regulatory capture" type of concept. Also how nice salaries and simple weight of self reinforcing mass inertia and groupthink over time can keep any one or group settled into the same thing, less dynamism, up to even not abandoning and starting out elsewhere due to simple risk aversion... "job food friends lifestyle." Is an entity, product, or network subject to whatever to some degree or other? Maybe, maybe not, others decide. Yet without talking about and analysing harder questions once in a while, especially as generations come and go, people might have less sense therein. If a site looks sexy it must be good, right? That's what at least marketers think, and it's perhaps good enough for browsing mundane TV news sites. Yet there's no frontpage splash disclaimer for others with more sensitive, vulnerable, or different use cases. Nor mention of Tor people hypocritically trying to censor ban nodes out of the consensus for, ironically, nothing more than excercising their right to free speech. Instead of say punting that out to meta analysis projects that users can choose to subscribe to as suits their own likes, support, and thinking therein. To be fair, no different than any other business (say ibm.com) or opensource project... finding much suitability disclaimer on anyone's pages, surely not without a good number of clicks, it's of less interest or natural to cover some potentially questionable areas, adversarial weaknesses, etc... it doesn't sell. Anyhow... The last actual use case warning or disclaimer on torproject.org was removed by or on October 10 2010. Some historical bisects.. Site v1 first, domain 1998-01-29 http://web.archive.org/web/19981212031609/http://www.onion-router.net/ same content actually to "circa" 2006 http://web.archive.org/web/20061023145713/http://www.onion-router.net/ http://web.archive.org/web/20130120133213/http://www.onion-router.net/ except for the gov diff http://web.archive.org/web/20130420093515/http://www.onion-router.net/ curr http://web.archive.org/web/20190228035625/http://www.onion-router.net/ Site v2 first, domain 2006-10-17 http://web.archive.org/web/20071011223019/http://www.torproject.org/ last http://web.archive.org/web/20101003133226/http://www.torproject.org/ Site v3 first http://web.archive.org/web/20101010191937/http://www.torproject.org/ last http://web.archive.org/web/20190326100059/https://www.torproject.org/ Site v4 first http://web.archive.org/web/20190327033924/https://www.torproject.org/ Misc... http://web.archive.org/web/20041108031017/http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/T… http://web.archive.org/web/20070104070427/http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/T… http://web.archive.org/web/20100416102850/http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/T… http://web.archive.org/web/20110728115309/https://trac.torproject.org/proje… > what you said It's really all junk lately, just delete it.

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Pirates: Sci-Hub and LibGen Take Broadside by French Armada
by grarpamp 03 Apr '19

03 Apr '19

https://torrentfreak.com/court-orders-french-isps-to-block-sci-hub-and-libg… https://torrentfreak.com/images/scihuborder.pdf https://www.nextinpact.com/news/107689-les-principaux-fai-francais-doivent-… https://engineuring.wordpress.com/ http://www.facebook.com/alexandra.elbakyan https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19558118 https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/

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