July 2019 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Alan Turing New Face of 50 Pound Note
by John Young 18 Jul '19

18 Jul '19

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-48962557#share-tools

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Microsoft's Krysta Svore says people can learn quantum computing now
by jim bell 16 Jul '19

16 Jul '19

Business Insider: Microsoft's Krysta Svore says people can learn quantum computing now. https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-krysta-svore-quantum-computing-fo…

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Either the government controls every aspect of my life
by Ryan Carboni 16 Jul '19

16 Jul '19

Or they are all complete dipshits. Regardless, it is obviously not legal to reenact what you yourself believes to be illegal or at least immoral. So dipshits, really. Sent from ProtonMail Mobile

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CNN: Europe's version of GPS suffers major outage
by jim bell 15 Jul '19

15 Jul '19

CNN: Europe's version of GPS suffers major outage. https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/15/tech/galileo-gnss-outage-intl/index.html

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CNBC: Mnuchin: US has 'very serious concerns' that Facebook's Libra could be misused by terrorists
by jim bell 15 Jul '19

15 Jul '19

CNBC: Mnuchin: US has 'very serious concerns' that Facebook's Libra could be misused by terrorists. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/15/treasury-secretary-mnuchin-will-hold-a-news… Jim Bell's comment:I believed in 1995 that digital cash would bring down all governments, only now Mnuchin is catching up?

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TweakTown: China #1 in quantum entanglement, teleports object 300 miles
by jim bell 15 Jul '19

15 Jul '19

TweakTown: China #1 in quantum entanglement, teleports object 300 miles. https://www.tweaktown.com/news/66601/china-1-quantum-entanglement-teleports… "Beam me up Scotty !!!!!"

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TimMay looks down from heaven (or up from unowwhere) and LOLs
by Razer 15 Jul '19

15 Jul '19

"Irradiate is a program for messing up your files. It does so in a manner reminiscent of how high-energy charged particle damage to the data storage medium might manifest - flipped bits inserted in a random fashion." From the readme.md: "Can this program actually damage my computer, or hurt me, the way real ionizing radiation could? This program does not produce ionizing radiation. It may seem like it goes without saying, but we will clarify it anyway. irradiate cannot directly cause harm to your body. As for your computer, well… We do not recommend you run this as root, especially against targets like: Your kernel Your initramfs Your computer’s EFI firmware Important block devices, such as your system’s boot medium /dev/mem Treat this program like you would rm or shred. The files it acts on should be considered lost, and any resemblance they bear to the originals considered as a happy accident. All this being said: if you ever do run Irradiate on some important system of device file and something funny or cool happens… let us know, yeah?" Git: https://tildegit.org/diodelass/irradiate Rr Sent from my Androgyne dee-vice with K-9 Mail

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New York Post : It’s time for a federal civil rights intervention in Portland
by jim bell 14 Jul '19

14 Jul '19

New York Post : It’s time for a federal civil rights intervention in Portland. https://nypost.com/2019/07/05/its-time-for-a-federal-civil-rights-intervent… Jim Bell's comment:. Are the "right wingers" actually the ones causing the problem in Portland???

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Facebook Libra currency.
by jim bell 14 Jul '19

14 Jul '19

Facebook's Libra currency under fire https://news.yahoo.com/facebooks-libra-currency-under-fire-041151586.html

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Cryptocurrency: Quisquis - A New Design for Anonymous Cryptocurrencies
by grarpamp 14 Jul '19

14 Jul '19

Another random cryptocurrency privacy research paper... Quisquis: A New Design for Anonymous Cryptocurrencies https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/990.pdf You can search for more here, among other places... https://eprint.iacr.org/search.html https://arxiv.org/ Bonus... Improved Forecasting of Cryptocurrency Price using Social Signals https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.00558

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