August 2019 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

My note to a quantum researcher
by jim bell 30 Aug '19

30 Aug '19

James Bell You don't know me, but with your quantum work you could benefit from an optical waveguide with a loss of less than 0.01 db/kilometer. and possibly as low as 0.001 db/kilometer. I know you'll think that's impossible, but I know how to design it using low-Si-29 silica, and low-Ge-73 germania. I believe that the typical residual loss of about 0.16 db/km is due almost entirely to Si-29 and Ge-73. Silicon-28 of isotopic purity of 99.995 is already available ("Silicon Kilogram Project"), and Germanium with much less than 0.1% Ge-73 could be made using a gas centrifuge. How would you like to do quantum communications over 5000 kilometers, from New York to London, for instance? You could... Edit or delete this

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Cryptocurrency: Censorship and History Deletion Across Bitcoin Channels
by grarpamp 29 Aug '19

29 Aug '19

Bitcointalk, /r/bitcoin, @bitcoin, etc... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ3x0mhUdYc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU7343Ji8GI Hard to find a news source and talk channel independant from any coin interests. Economics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt infohash:5FF9D21AEDB1D8812B0136DFD1D0B1B20B2CCE8D

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Fwd: Re: PCR: “It's open season on ZenNazi”
by jamesd＠echeque.com 29 Aug '19

29 Aug '19

> jamesd(a)echeque.com wrote: >> Merchants never rule. On 2019-08-18 12:52 pm, Punk wrote: > Of course they do. Merchants tell politicians to manufacture laws to enrich them both and steal from the consumers. Again, A of the ABC of political economy. The theory that capitalists are the ruling class is your spin on the anarchism of Spooner, Bastiat, and Gustav de Molinari. It is not what they say. You are commie telling anarcho capitalists that communism is the real anarcho capitalism, similar to the large supply of shills explaining that progressivism is the real antisemitism, the real reaction, and the real Christianity. "Hail fellow Christian, I love God and Jesus, and by the way God demands gay marriage and you need to transition your boys at age nine to attend drag queen story hour" "Hail fellow white male heterosexual, I hate Jews, and, by the way, Trump is an orange crypto Jew who fails at everything, so you should vote for a brown commie Democrat." And you are telling us "Hail fellow anarcho capitalist. I totally oppose the state, and, by the way capital is actually the state" Here is how one can tell a paid shill from someone who actually believes what he is saying: A paid shill can never commit a thought crime, because he is posting from an FBI office or university office on an FBI or university computer, and Human Resources would black list him if he committed thought crime. So, to prove you are not yet another paid shill working from a shill office, commit a thought crime. Here is a selection of questions with potential thought crime answers. To prove you are not a paid shill working from a shill office, answer whichever question has the most unthinkable thought crime answer. What caused the great minority mortgage meltdown? (This question should be as easy as "what color is a black hole", but describe the mechanism and process)? Why do a larger proportion of women in female majority workplaces report sexual harassment than women in workplaces that have only a small female minority? Why are women extremely steamed about entirely imaginary fraternity rape, and totally relaxed about massive and widespread Muslim rape? What proportion of new ventures headed by women, or with mixed male and female heads, fail, and why do almost all off them fail? What is the cause of the high imprisonment rate of blacks, and the particularly high imprisonment rate of American blacks? hint, it might have something to do with your relative safety in certain streets. What is the origin of Ashkenazim Jews, what is the connection between Ashkenazim and the crusades? What is Darwin's big idea, and what is the role of races in Darwin's big idea? Answer one of the above, where the answer will prove that HR is not watching your posting. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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If full evidence on Epstein was released
by Ryan Carboni 29 Aug '19

29 Aug '19

If full evidence on Epstein was released, 90% of the US population would believe the government is run by pedophiles. This would be more than the poll numbers to remove Nixon. When you have physical evidence, corroborated by multiple witnesses, by transactions with third parties (mostly flight logs), etc, the evidence becomes overwhelming, to the extent one must wonder what kind of person wouldn’t be convinced by it. Sent from ProtonMail Mobile

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Victoria Australia: amendments re children's photos of themselves which could be considered "pornography"
by Zenaan Harkness 28 Aug '19

28 Aug '19

On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 08:48:25PM +1000, Gil May wrote: > Subject: : Victoria Legalizes Child Porn, check it out. > Time for decent people to take a serious stand. > > https://www.facebook.com/AnthonyJC1983/videos/229304717949739/ > > I am speechless. Have a look at what is shown as the Parliamentary Act put > before the Parliament. Interesting. The de-criminalisation of natural/normal child activities (e.g. taking pictures of themselves and others) is of course a good thing, and appears to be the intent of these laws/ amendments that the OP Subject line is referring to in a sensationalist way. In fact the broad sweeping laws that were in place were broad and sweeping, and failed to consider this situation of children doing things children can be expeted to (and do) actually do - take photos of themselves and friends. Somewhat humorously and completely "non ironically" the narrator in the linked video begins "Did you know, that the production, possession and distribution of child pornography has been legalized in Australia?" thus implicitly asserting (and inserting) himself into the very same (and rightfully) dreaded 'censor' role or decider of what is, and is not, pornography, that he later on highlights as problematic (when he asks "who gets to decide what's reasonable"). As is usual with wanna be censors, those who would willingly make such decisions for others, usually (as is the case here) don't want others to make censorship decisions for themselves ("I would make great censorship decisions!" "MY Marxist utopio would -really- be a utopia, unlike all those other failed experiements in history!") Unfortunately the narrator does not see this very irony of him calling out the legislative trap ("Whom will make the decisions of a reasonable man"), and completely falling into the same trap throughout his entire video ("Child pornography of those images taken by say 12 year olds of their own bodies, is still pornography and the law must make no exception for this, and I'll decide what is and is not pornographic"). Every "allegation" of "pornography" (or in this case the alleged "legalization of child pornography") is necessarily a judgement call founded on what is and what is not pornography, which of course cannot be made except that the one making the allegation is defining, or is willing to define and believes they are capable of defining, "pornography" or in this case "child pornography" - which in any case is essentially impossible to define other than "I know it when I see it" which falls back to the arrogantly self implied "great moral standing" of the one deigning to make such decisions on behalf of others/ the rest of us. The trap is self referential, and subtle, thus circuitous and repetitive in most attempts to unravel it. This subtlety is the reason cries of "please, won't someone think of the children and save them (from themselves)" is both so appealing yet so deceptive to many and simultaneously alluring to the virtue- signalling SJW wanna bes, and thus also difficult for many to counter (or rather "to straighten out the underlying assumptions which don't quite make sense but I just can't quite figure out why"). Put another way, one Soul's personal childhood explorations and memories, are another Soul's "pornography". As in, literally. Perhaps does the one brandishing the accusation stick of "your image is pornographic, you must suffer the law" tell us more about the one making this accusation, than the target of his accusation? Matthew 7:5: “Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and only then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.” https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Matthew-7-5/ Many humans project their own sin (incorrect direction, of action, attention etc), fears, and painful personal past events, upon others, naturally (but mostly incorrectly) assuming others have a similar lense to themselves - the age old projectionism trap. Something constructive? May be require that every legislated crime name an actual victim, as well as the actual harm that victim has actually suffered. And perhaps leave it to parents, rather than police and the courts, to educate their children on the dangers of sharing with others, images they take of themselves. (And while we're at it, work hard to reduce or eliminate all victimless crimes, putting humans first and corporations last in our scheme of values.) For an absolute classic (and very recent) example of projectionism in action, see Lana Lockteff on Suzanne Harper (the so called "Jessie Daniels") Feminist Professor: White Nuclear Families Are Racist & Supremacist Red Ice TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yR1BBlGI1M Jessie/ Suzanne is virulently anti-White, speaks of "dismantling white supremacy", the evils of the "white nuclear family" being "one of the most powerful forces supporting white supremacy" etc etc etc ... ... and according to her own story (IF true), Suzanne was molested by her grandfather and he'd had a stint in the KKK, yet this "professor" Suzanne cannot see her projection of her (if true) painful past, upon all white people and all "white nuclear families" and "the patriarchy". Go figure :D - perhaps she ought take a university course on psychology. Those with genuine unresolved issues arising from their childhood ought seek the help they need to find healing, resolution, closure and peace within themselves before one-sidely branding as evil an entire race or people (in Suzanne Harper's case, all "white" people and especially "white nuclear families"). A far greater problem which we actually appear to have and which actually affects most of us, is the blackmailing of our politicians, which since "the legalization" of those of the same gender who would "get a room" and otherwise carry out their intimate business in private, is these days limited to cuckoldry and pedophilia blackmail. Perhaps those eager to decry legislation without even a word to the problems inherent in the position they boldly oppose, ought ponder this question of our blackmailed politicians. Assuming of course they don't melt before hearing a position other than their own... Create your world. Perhaps first "clean up your room" which metaphorically speaking could include seeking closure on any painful events from your own childhood if that's something you need, and after this you might even find that some of those you love to hate are actually interesting, caring, deeply thoughtful, and possibly even loving, creative and wonderful fellow human beings.

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PaperDump: Mirai, Tor, Darknet, TLA, I2P Censorship, PETs in Sidechains, and more
by grarpamp 28 Aug '19

28 Aug '19

https://news.softpedia.com/news/mozilla-firefox-could-soon-get-a-tor-mode-a… https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-mirai-botnet-lurks-in-the-tor-network-to-… OSINT Analysis of the TOR Foundation https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.05201.pdf Tempest: Temporal Dynamics in Anonymity Systems https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.01932.pdf Adversaries monitoring Tor traffic crossing their jurisdictional border and reconstructing Tor circuits https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.09237.pdf DeepCorr: Strong Flow Correlation Attacks on Tor Using Deep Learning https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.07285.pdf Onions in the Crosshairs: When The Man really is out to get you https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.10292.pdf Shedding Light on the Dark Corners of the Internet: A Survey of Tor Research https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.02816.pdf Adaptive Traffic Fingerprinting for Darknet Threat Intelligence https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.01155.pdf Counter-RAPTOR: Safeguarding Tor Against Active Routing Attacks https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.00843.pdf Peel the onion: Recognition of Android apps behind the Tor Network https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.04434.pdf Tik-Tok: The Utility of Packet Timing in Website Fingerprinting Attacks https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.06421.pdf Mockingbird: Defending Against Deep-Learning-Based Website Fingerprinting Attacks with Adversarial Traces https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.06626.pdf A Forensic Audit of the Tor Browser Bundle https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.10279.pdf Anomalous keys in Tor relays https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.00792.pdf Mitigating Censorship with Multi-Circuit Tor and Linear Network Coding https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.03473.pdf DNS-Morph: UDP-Based Bootstrapping Protocol For Tor https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.01240.pdf Towards Predicting Efficient and Anonymous Tor Circuits https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.01977.pdf TorPolice: Towards Enforcing Service-Defined Access Policies in Anonymous Systems https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.08162.pdf DROPWAT: an Invisible Network Flow Watermark for Data Exfiltration Traceback https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.09460.pdf Deanonymizing Tor hidden service users through Bitcoin transactions analysis https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.07501.pdf Tor Users Contributing to Wikipedia: Just Like Everybody Else? https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.04324.pdf Open Dataset of Phishing and Tor Hidden Services Screen-captures https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.02449.pdf A Broad Evaluation of the Tor English Content Ecosystem https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.06680.pdf Structure and Content of the Visible Darknet https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.01348.pdf On the Complexity of Anonymous Communication Through Public Networks https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.06306.pdf A Survey of Privacy Infrastructures and Their Vulnerabilities https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.06226.pdf The Effectiveness of Privacy Enhancing Technologies against Fingerprinting https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.03920.pdf Where The Light Gets In: Analyzing Web Censorship Mechanisms in India https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.01708.pdf An Extensive Evaluation of the Internet's Open Proxies https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.10258.pdf Measuring I2P Censorship at a Global Scale https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.07120.pdf An Empirical Study of the I2P Anonymity Network and its Censorship Resistance https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.09086.pdf Integrating Privacy Enhancing Techniques into Blockchains Using Sidechains https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.04953.pdf BlockTag: Design and applications of a tagging system for blockchain analysis https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.06044.pdf Interesting that many attacks on overlay networks seem to depend on lack of fulltime 100% capacity fill and reclocking, and that no overlay [or underlying physical] networks currently deploy it, nor do many nets of other design seem to make extensive impact upon that class of GPA. Even 14.4-56k rates could could have interesting uses at secure levels.

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Re: Kalaidzhi Tradition, Witches Politics, and Bizarre Creations
by Ryan Carboni 28 Aug '19

28 Aug '19

Oh, yes, Broadly. >Broadly attended the extravagant wedding to capture the rituals and ceremonies that go into planning a traditional occult wedding. ... > and give Beatrice power, fame, and recognition https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwpvj4/romania-witch-wedding-arranged-ma… Or watch The Family on Netflix, a documentary series about billionaires recruiting the vulnerable into a cult where they clean the toilets of senators. Or watch Yellowstone, where in a subplot one kid joins a secret society for a billionaire and gets branded? Or read about the former President of South Korea, who was the pawn of a feminist cult? (Allegedly the cult was behind widespread media reporting on fan death) I can imagine some spook watching some nut job in an important position do something horrific, and say to himself, “Oh yeah, I’m in control of this situation.” The people who run the United States need to be locked up for various reasons, and they certainly shouldn’t be deciding anything important. Sent from ProtonMail Mobile

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Cryptocurrency: John McAfee On Point recap
by grarpamp 28 Aug '19

28 Aug '19

For publication... Great conversations with John in good form... Currency's Role, Unregulatable, History Books, Quit Fueling the Car, Ode to Woman, Obligation, Carry Forth the Message of Real Freedom P2P... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDffZ7PwbBY http://bitcoinradio.libsyn.com/eps009-john-mcafee-presidential-candidate-fu… https://chtbl.com/track/94G89/traffic.libsyn.com/preview/bitcoinradio/eps.0… https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1166315091253506049 "Transparency or Privacy/Anonymity in Crypto? Which is it ? It's a simple answer that you need to understand and understand now." https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1166468748326424578 "I was raised in the U.S. I went to school, kissed my first girl, got my first job, raised a family, hoped for our future. I love America with all of my heart. But I am at war with the government of my country, which, I fear, bears little love for anything but itself." Math, Privacy, DEX, Conspiracy, Campaigning, Greenland, Learn, Make your Monday's about Love... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTTW8aST85Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqHv36X4eOs https://mcafeemagic.com/ Good to see privacy now finally making it into the wider cryptocurrency convo arena as being a critical and required element to its ultimate success. Stay sharp my friend. Published on Aug 26, 2019 John McAfee is a man who need no introduction. Even so, I'll give a brief one: Computers, Money, Advocating Freedom, Running for President, Government Targeting, Traveling the World (Fleeing Persecution), Social Media Messenger John has been advocating for personal sovereignty, an end to wars of aggression, ceasing the financial fuckery of centralized fiat currencies and the banks that control them, deconstructing the failed institutions of government and enjoying your life for many years now. This is a message that has cost him no small amount of money, time, conflict, stress and more. It's made all the more remarkable because he could have just sat back on the beach with more money than he knew what to do with, and enjoyed the twilight of his life with the love of his life, Mrs. Janice McAfee, sipping drinks and tripping balls. Instead, he chose to be a messenger for freedom and personal sovereignty. Because he was not some fringe hippie with no means or connections, the powers that be saw an actual threat in the man, and have to this very day run a campaign to bring McAfee down. When a plantation owner with no slaves, but plenty of resources, announces to the unwitting slaves of the other plantation owners that they are slaves and don't need to be, is it any wonder they turn their eyes, along with their proclivity for lynching, to the man with the bullhorn? Tune in and listen to the man as he seeks to enlighten you to the mess you're in, and suggest to you the ways in which you might remove yourself from it. Want more from John McAfee? https://twitter.com/officialmcafee http://mcafee2020.com/

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Privacy, Censorship, Freedom
by grarpamp 28 Aug '19

28 Aug '19

Lot of talk on tor tech itself, but little on tech as enabling a range of potential futures for history that encrypted censorship resistant overlay communication, social and transaction networks as a whole can help liberate in conversation... without those spanning from Zimmerman to overlays to now Satoshi, all sorts of discussion on new models, regardless of what any may favor or take up among them or may create of their own, these free exchanges around the world would not be happening in real time today without such tools serving both sci-fi like inspiration, as iterative building blocks, and now in use in the world. That such new crypto things and convo are now in politics, that one can even find any uncurated uncensored convo, or create or take part in any, globally, in a few keystrokes, is testament to the good of such agnostic tools re the subject. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDffZ7PwbBY Those interested in tor as applied technology should definitely take time not only with tor itself, but to survey and try all the new overlay tech, many now exist... from transports, to distributed storage, messaging, cryptocurrency, text, audio, video, and social comms platforms... but perhaps even more importantly, the range of new conversations occuring over them, and what convo and tools you might add out there in the new decentralized world. World is changing fast, have fun :)

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advertising - open (sort of) hardware
by Punk 27 Aug '19

27 Aug '19

https://www.raptorcs.com/content/BK1B01/intro.html A single Blackbird™ µATX mainboard One 4-core IBM POWER9 CPU seems like the IBM processors don't have explicit hardware malware (aka intel ME, amd PSP) in them.

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