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Brazil's Top Election Court Catches Google Manipulating Search Results to Point to Negative Entries on Bolsonaro ...Just Like They Do with Conservatives in America
by jim bell 01 Apr '19

01 Apr '19

Brazil's Top Election Court Catches Google Manipulating Search Results to Point to Negative Entries on Bolsonaro ...Just Like They Do with Conservatives in America. https://tiny.iavian.net/s25s

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GoldBug Messenger, SpotOn Crypto, etc (Re: Syncing bookmarks)
by grarpamp 01 Apr '19

01 Apr '19

On 4/1/19, Tom A. <thomasasta(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Syncing bookmarks > Message-ID: CAPHRpdXQnYY_FoBVx9ojsp=szvr6aenDu2B1p8yR2FmGKCUBhA(a)mail.gmail.com > ISBN-10: 3749435065 , ISBN-13: 978-3749435067 > Spot-On Encryption Suite: Democratization of Multiple & Exponential Encryption > Scott Edwards > Hi Anan, there is a p2p URL storage and sharing tool, which is based on > either a SQLite or PostgreSQL DB; > the function is to save your URLs (by RSS or crawler or manual entry), > inkluding the website text and a search engine, which is searching within > your encrypted content of your database: the database is encrypted and so > are the URL transfers from node to another node or DB. Ideal to create an > index of Onion Urls and Websites. Even with revisions for the webesite, in > case two times spidered. See the manual for further details_ > https://www.amazon.com/Spot-Encryption-Suite-Democratization-Exponential/dp… > The database is symmetrical encrypted, that means with a path DB->Python > (because it has AES encryption) -> Apache -> php/Javascript eith > encryption, one can even bring the URLs to a web interface. That way Tor > URLs can be brought to a web search engine even with content - to refresh > the Website one then need of course to have Tor. This might be part of your > evaluation to store your URLs in a Database, as it is encrypted and > provides options to be searched and brought to your website. > Regards Tom Still at it aren't you Tom? Ever get those reproducible builds of your binaries done? Ever stop censoring and closing your Sourceforge forums when people critique your work? Ever quit the shill press releases out to trashy tech link farms trying to game credibility engines? How about claiming working with or the EFF endorsed you, that didn't work so well did it? Ever submit any legit papers to legit crypto and network forums for open peer review... ever do any of that beyond spamming them with gibberish announcements and dubious follow on's like the above? Ever provide any direct and real answers to any of the above people have asked you since inception years ago? No? But hey, you got yourselves a link on Amazon, that's impressive. It must be April Fools Day. Maybe you'll make the NYT Bestseller List and pay your way into a legit audit. Or not. Lol. Bitcoin was anon too, but they did it right, none of the above games, and it passed. Unfortunately your methods are still preceding your products regardless of whether they're any good or not. Could be, but who is going to bother given that to date, April's Fools? Seems like that's your goal. Prove differently.

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All cybersecurity is really consumer protection
by Ryan Carboni 01 Apr '19

01 Apr '19

All cybersecurity is really consumer protection. What is going on is atrocious, banks and telecoms are subject to more regulation than major tech companies. Slot machines are subject to better regulations than voting machines. If you are deliberately negligent, you’d be liable. A Chinese electronics manufacturer was sued under the FTC Act by the US government. A recent check of haveibeenpwned is just depressing to me. What is the NSA good for anyway, are they just watching American websites get hacked? Sent from ProtonMail Mobile

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CNBC: Zuckerberg backs stronger Internet privacy and election laws: 'We need a more active role for governments'
by jim bell 01 Apr '19

01 Apr '19

CNBC: Zuckerberg backs stronger Internet privacy and election laws: 'We need a more active role for governments'. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/30/mark-zuckerberg-calls-for-tighter-internet-…

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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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laundering tax-theft shekels for your coaxial Ru-chopper job - “NASA's Mars Helicopter makes maiden flight in JPL simulator”
by Zenaan Harkness 01 Apr '19

01 Apr '19

Classic laundering of tax dollars on so-called "research". As private USA corporate interests want to get back in the coaxial helicopter game, what better way than fund your novo "catchup with the Russkies" project than funnelling some tax theft shekels through a something something something "NASA Mars helicopter" something... Quadcopter or hexacopter provide greater flying redundancy and power balancing flight modes (particularly important in extreme remote environment as Mars), so coaxial autonomous chopper is just a fancy way to spend (thieve) millions of sheckels. And you prolly want a light weight fixed wing craft with variable axis props (lift + rotate to pusher/puller) to maximise solar powered flight time for such remote autonomous micro flying craft blah blah blah ... Cest la (((vie)))... NASA's Mars Helicopter makes maiden flight in JPL simulator https://newatlas.com/nasa-mars-helicopter-maiden-flight/59071/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaxial_rotor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Coaxial_rotor_helicopters

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Cryptocurrency: Loki-network LLARP I2Pd Torrent AnonDev
by grarpamp 01 Apr '19

01 Apr '19

On 3/31/19, furrier <furrier(a)protonmail.ch> wrote: > Monero fork with Probably the typical non fundamentally meaningful diffs that so many hundreds of pointless metoo and infight forks have. Same for all the Linux distros... it's still just Linux inside... just different tweaks and bling. Nothing to see move along. Until one of them hits, if ever. > premine Nothing but scams. Don't use if don't like it. > governance tax Paid version of BDFL's, dubiously decentral, evaluate and use it or not. It's not inconceivable that an AI could pay on all sorts of election systems. Or users just pay directly for what's good. Completely anonymous darknet ongoing development teams are also still very much an untried thing. > 50% funds lockup for > "market-based sybil resistance" In a distributed system, Sybil's capabilities go down as the number of self aware participants actiing together in resistance goes up thus raising the cost to prohibitive in an otherwise secure system. A lockup / tax for early expenditure could make sense, tapering over adoption to payout remainder to UTXO's, but there's no Automaton Program released and executing in any network to perform such defenses as buying good or disabling bad nodes on its own. So keyholding and whatever other human driven schemes get scammy or pointless and the coins fail when the users realize it. Some old Satoshi theory... Longest chains resolve all questions over time, right? > do they utilize I2P at the > networking layer or did they roll out they own custom solution like Kovri? I2P, I2Pd, Kovri, Phantom, Loopix, Tor, NNTP, ROFLcopters, whatever... just tech to see and play with.

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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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Cryptocurrency: Still A Hopeful Wreck 10 Years Later... (re: Falkvinge BTC)
by grarpamp 01 Apr '19

01 Apr '19

On 3/31/19, Punk <punks(a)tfwno.gf> wrote: > altcoin(bcash) There's unlikely such thing on the markets by that string, nor did you bother to pair it with any symbol or site as a complete reference. "Bitcoin_Cash - BCH - https://www.bitcoincash.org/" is a well known thing. Grow the fuck up. Unfortunately neither native BTC (txrate too low) or LN (tech problems and well noted meta issues trending toward control, liability, etc) inspire much long term confidence. Nor do most distributed coins right now either. It's still early days. There might even be no solution until everyone trying to make one decides to get together and remove their biggest competition... Govts and Banks. And clearly all controlled coins (Bank, Gov, Corp Consortia) are Fiat garbage. Given Gov and Gov Bank ineptitude, Gov endorsed Corp and Private Bank Consortia Coins are probably the biggest fake news the clueless masses will end up adopting. That's scary and sad... for that they'd probably be better off sticking with what remaining Fiat Cash and Metals options they have today to avoid that Great BeastMarking Event. > huge blocks will lead to the system being centralized > and controlled by a few players at best. Seems too many people still believe in the first solution as, or can be, the only one. It's likely the blockchain on disk model will be mooted in favor of a tx stream updating a UTXO set db, mined checkpoints, various P2P means to bootstrap the db off the network itself, splitting up work areas, magical DHTs, storage networks, compute grids... so much more possible... don't read this stupid shit, go look at what all the coins are dreaming up and mashing together... and that's just today. The fundamental question for a minimally acceptable and successful crypto "currency" function might be can you throw 5-10x credit card level tps rates into say the same amount of globally distributed nodes that can provide a solution to the UTXO db that people trust more than central / Fiat, for a respectively moot fee, in tolerable time. Most probably yes. Cryptocurrency is barely 10 years old, and the levels of research being thrown at it make the Moon Landing look just as quaint as the morons wasting time arguing over stupid shit like blocksize as if it were going to be the sole solution to anything. There are other factors... social and political change towards voluntary, self-capable, personal responsibility, ethics, economic knowledge, etc necessary to make distributed trust happen. For example, picking just the OG BTC model... most people still go blank trying to understand why it is *their* responsibility to never allow more than 21M BTC to go past their client, or to throw just 10 watts 24*365 at a spread of small local indie mining pools to bring their numbers up into the hundreds and each of them into being regular block producers on par. Or have a clue how their favorite Banks and Govs really work. Whatever will be, it's early, help them cypherpunk, and enjoy the ride :)

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