April 2019 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Guantanamo's Darkest Secret
by grarpamp 20 Apr '19

20 Apr '19

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/22/guantanamos-darkest-secret https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19664395 "Excellent piece. It's positively shocking to see in such minute detail just how quickly, easily, and completely the entire executive branch was able to normalize such obviously illegal and inhumane acts."

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Google Sensorvault Geofence General Warrants, 230 CDA Exempt Death, Social Scores, Spies, Repairs
by grarpamp 19 Apr '19

19 Apr '19

Google Sensorvault Giving 10y of Geofence General Warrants https://gizmodo.com/the-feds-police-are-using-googles-location-history-fea-… https://gizmodo.com/black-market-for-your-location-data-apparently-thriving… https://www.cnet.com/news/law-enforcement-taps-googles-sensorvault-for-loca… https://www.cnet.com/news/google-clarifies-how-it-tracks-you-even-if-locati… US ISP and Corp 230 CDA Exemption Under Threat https://www.recode.net/podcasts/2019/4/11/18306834/nancy-pelosi-speaker-hou… Internet companies are not responsible for what is posted on their platforms. "230 is a gift to them, and I don't think they are treating it with the respect that they should," she said. "And so I think that that could be a question mark and in jeopardy.... For the privilege of 230, there has to be a bigger sense of responsibility on it, and it is not out of the question that that could be removed." --Pelosi Your Social Score Sifted https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-secret-trust-scores-companies-use-to-judge… https://support.sift.com/hc/en-us/articles/207522687-How-are-Sift-Scores-ca… Nearly everything we buy, how we buy, and where we're buying from is secretly fed into AI-powered verification services Google Amazon Microsoft Spy Your Microphones https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywyzm5/big-tech-lobbying-gutted-… https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/04/illinois-bill-banning-eavesdrop… Illinois State Senate passed the Keep Internet Devices Safe Act, a bill that would ban manufacturers of devices that can record audio from doing so remotely without disclosing it to the customer. But after lobbying from trade associations that represent the interests of Google, Amazon -- makers of the microphone-enabled Google Home and Alexa smart speakers, respectively -- and Microsoft, among other companies, the interests of big tech won out... In its current, neutered form, the bill provides exclusive authority to the Attorney General to enforce the Act, which means regular citizens won't be able to bring forward a case regarding tech giants recording them in their homes. Ars Technica notes the move comes after Amazon admitted thousands of their employees listen to Alexa recordings -- "something not mentioned in Echo's terms of service or FAQ pages." Vice points out that sometimes those recordings are shared "even after users opt out of having their data used in the program." Microsoft Lobby Kills Right to Repair https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-has-been-quietly-lobbying-against-right-t… https://youtu.be/i51YOXCAXJ0?t=1262 https://medium.com/u-s-pirg/microsoft-named-as-stopping-right-to-repair-in-… Microsoft "has been quietly lobbying against Right to Repair legislation, which would prevent Microsoft from penalizing customers when they open up their devices," claims MSPoweruser: Jeff Morris, Democratic member of the [Washington state] House of Representatives claims Microsoft has blocked legislation from being passed despite strong bipartisan support. In an interview on iFixit's Repair Radio [YouTube], Rep. Jeff Morris said that "word on the street" was that Microsoft, "marshalled forces to keep the bill from moving out of the House Rules committee." He claimed "there was a tax proposal here ... to pay for STEM education," and that "in exchange for Microsoft support[ing that tax,] having Right to Repair die..." was a condition, as well as another privacy policy Microsoft wanted to advance. The state representative hedged that "I can't confirm or deny this, because I have not seen a smoking gun." But he also told his interviewer that to paint a discouraging picture of the landscape after passage of the bill, "Microsoft was going around telling our members that they wouldn't sell Surface Tablets in Washington any longer."

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Cryptocurrency: The Crypto Travelogues
by grarpamp 19 Apr '19

19 Apr '19

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWiaP3A1ErwY982IsSlnSkQ/videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN0VrAFP_qY46RsUenqjVxQ/videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsGr-Pr6YZM Travel currency basics

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Seasteading: Ocean Platformers Bug Out Thailand Death Penalty, Charter Regions
by grarpamp 19 Apr '19

19 Apr '19

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43jy5w/seasteading-bitcoin-fans-… https://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/1661300/seastead-couple-in-crossha… https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/18/us-bitcoin-trader-may-face-de… https://www.thedailybeast.com/bitcoin-couple-nadia-thepdet-and-chad-elwarto… https://eu.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/04/18/seastead-chad-elw… https://reason.com/blog/2019/03/01/first-seastead-in-international-waters-n https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bceePdFruU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSbG4LH-QOE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2ayJ5KAMus https://www.facebook.com/RoyalThaiNavyFanpage/videos/2202651353107317/ https://ocean.builders/blog/ http://seasteadtalk.org/ https://www.youtube.com/user/seasteading/videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5syIuMiCsVyfSpFD-DtjEA/videos http://bitcoingirlthailand.com/ https://www.instagram.com/bitcoingirlthailand https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyEI9O75gpYbtbnXQdEMn0w/videos https://www.facebook.com/chad.elwartowski https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=elwartowski+thepdet "Hunting us down to our death is just plain stupid and highlights exactly the reason someone would be willing to go out in middle of the ocean to get away from governments" "To all those out there who want to control people's lives through force, here's my big finger to you, you know where you can stick this." "We hardly saw any fish out there. Now it like a fish sanctuary. We see dolphins and tuna around our seastead all the time. It is my theory that this small place is the only place the vast amount of Thai fishing boats cannot go to so they thrive here as opposed to in the open water where the fishing nets may sweep them up." "Freedom loving people, come join us out on the open ocean". "We have to count from zero to one to the hundred. You cannot jump from zero to the hundred to be a big seastead. Start with us now to get bigger. Create history." -- Supranee "Nadia" Thepdet and Chad Elwartowski https://old.reddit.com/r/seasteading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/02/seasteading-peter-thiel-… http://reason.com/archives/2009/06/08/20000-nations-above-the-sea https://www.blue-frontiers.com/ Charter Cities, Special Development Regions https://chartercities.org/ http://www.freecities.org/ http://www.futurecitiesdev.com/ https://marroninstitute.nyu.edu/ https://www.fastcompany.com/1678720/former-seasteaders-come-ashore-to-start… http://www.fastcoexist.com/1678751/paul-romer-on-hondurass-charter-cities http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704775604576119931268333632.h… https://thebaffler.com/latest/mouthbreathing-machiavellis

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Fwd: [Cryptography] [ADMIN] Too many fake "Satoshis"
by grarpamp 19 Apr '19

19 Apr '19

Self described "libertarian", thinking freely as usual... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry(a)piermont.com> Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 16:00:32 -0400 Subject: [Cryptography] [ADMIN] Too many fake "Satoshis" To: cryptography(a)metzdowd.com We've got a bunch of people currently subscribed to the Cryptography list with various permutations of the name "Satoshi Nakomoto", which is sort of harmless if a bit bizarre. However, at intervals, someone tries to post messages under that name, usually promoting some scam. Naturally, the moderators reject all such posts; we're not morons. Unfortunately, I think the time has come to be a bit more formal about this because I'm sick of wasting time on it. So, I'm instituting a new rule. No one is even going to be allowed to subscribe to the list under that name any longer (let alone post!) unless they are capable of signing a reasonable demonstration message under a public key known to be controlled by the "Satoshi Nakomoto" pseudonym. The real "Satoshi" would have no problem doing that. For the rest of you, don't even bother; as I said, we're not idiots. I will also be unsubscribing all of the current fake "Satoshi" addresses in a little bit. (If you're actually "Satoshi" and want to subscribe under that pseudonym, feel free to get in touch with appropriate public key signed evidence, though I suspect that the real "Satoshi" has no such desire. If you get in touch without such evidence, your message is getting thrown away without a reply.) Perry -- Perry E. Metzger perry(a)piermont.com _______________________________________________ The cryptography mailing list cryptography(a)metzdowd.com http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography

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Cryptocurrency: Cockroach Protocols, End NYDFS Bitlicense, CSW Behavior Slammed Delist BSV
by grarpamp 19 Apr '19

19 Apr '19

https://twitter.com/AriDavidPaul/status/878958948589678593 In the "nuclear war" between governments and blockchains, only the cockroach protocols will survive. "The key measures are censorship resistance, resiliency of the network and community, and anonymity. I have often thought this as well and wondered why anonymity features aren't prioritized with Bitcoin. It is beginning. The crackdown. The European Union introduced harsh legislation against crypto currencies recently aswell. They can't take that everything is becoming decentralized and out of their reach. Once a decentralized system succeeds they can't do anything about it, there is no organisation, no nothing they could attack. Their only advantage now is the gateway to crypto currencies - FIAT. They will loose this in the foreseeable future. If trading is made decentralized even for fiat they can't do anything. They are loosing control on all fronts and they are panicking. Decentralized marketplaces like open Bazar is the next thing. On all fronts cryptos are offer decentralized solutions and the government is watching live how things get out of their hand. " http://www.article78againstnydfs.com/ https://abolishthebitlicense.org/ Community Slams Craig Wright Behavior, BSV Gets Delisted search news: CSW BSV Many community voices transitioned on path similiar to below... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygv-2YXrxxA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFU1o-0oU7A https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/bdn8am/let_us_not_forget_this_oth… https://streamable.com/mhtox

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DARPA: Resilient Anonymous Communication for Everyone (RACE)
by grarpamp 19 Apr '19

19 Apr '19

https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/darpa-wants-make-better-secure-version-… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19667569 https://www.darpa.mil/program/resilient-anonymous-communication-for-everyone https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=c244cde44f811d49db4df4… The Resilient Anonymous Communication for Everyone (RACE) program will research technologies for a distributed messaging system that can: a) exist completely within a given network, b) provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability of messaging, and c) preserve privacy to any participant in the system. Compromised system data and associated networked communications should not be helpful for compromising any additional parts of the system. RACE advances will be based on rigorous security arguments, such as those found in the academic cryptography community or statistical arguments based on realistic simulations. RACE will seek to create advances in communication protocol encapsulation methods as well as efficient, oblivious, distributed system tasking to build a system that is resistant to attack, even with limited participant compromises and largescale, real-time deep packet inspection. The program will further seek to explore approaches to preserving privacy, such as secure multiparty computation and obfuscated communication protocols. The goal of the RACE program is to create a system capable of avoiding large-scale compromise. As such, RACE research efforts will explore: 1) preventing compromised information from being useful for identifying any of the system nodes because all such information is encrypted on the nodes at all times, even during computation; and 2) preventing communications compromise by virtue of obfuscating communication protocols. >From Siri to Tor to NIST and so much more... DARPA, NSA, In-q-tel... deep in the game.

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Re: More nwes on assange's glorification.
by rooty 19 Apr '19

19 Apr '19

Attention seeking scumbag trafficking in US gov't stolen property and whatever else they can pin on him. He done -------- Original Message -------- On Apr 18, 2019, 6:59 PM, Punk wrote: > On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 21:15:33 +0000 > rooty <arpspoof(a)protonmail.com> wrote: > >> LMAO - can you actually believe that sock-puppets on this news group idolize him? > > what do you mean, you stupid little piece of shit?

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More nwes on assange's glorification.
by Punk 19 Apr '19

19 Apr '19

https://consortiumnews.com/2019/04/15/julian-assanges-nightmarish-future/ "Assange being held in a maximum-security prison in London that has been called the “UK’s Guantanamo Bay” and has been used to detain alleged terrorists, sometimes indefinitely. "

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Typical Yahoo nonsense.
by jim bell 19 Apr '19

19 Apr '19

Jim Bell's note:. I am posting this article, but I consider it nonsense. Mueller Report: Assange Smeared Seth Rich to Cover for Russians https://news.yahoo.com/mueller-report-assange-smeared-seth-005723239.html

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