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Cryptocurrency: Amir Taaki on the DarkTech Renaissance
by grarpamp 29 Sep '19

29 Sep '19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD5htYPcVqE Published on Sep 26, 2019 00:41:24 The original dream of cryptocurrency exposing power, replacing finance and ushering new forms of social organization is yet to materialize. Faced with this failure, instead of reorientating their strategy, crypto orgs keep throwing ever huger amounts of capital, leading to massive corruption and misallocation of capital. It is unsustainable. What possibilities exist in the market today? How can we leverage black markets such as Venezuela or Syria for spreading cryptocurrency? What can we do differently? The crypto orgs today are simply doing random things. They lack any coherent strategy. They cannot connect the dots, and are purely focused on mechanisms and techniques. This talk will also explore anonymization techniques to create anonymous crypto-systems and solve scalability. These systems can create markets which empower humans to work together at scale and solve the centralizing problems of corporations and the state. The paradigm of computing has not changed in over 50 years. Devices have become faster and smaller, but are stuck on a linear path. The paradigm has become stagnant and is desperate for reinvention. We need to create a modern paradigm of technology as more than consumer products, but as integral social infrastructure. For this we must create the idea of the renaissance hacker and spread our philosophy through a system of academies which train people in sports, philosophy and technology. These centers serve as generative centers of thought and invention. And the concepts we create, must then be turned into practical products which serve a market need and bring income to expand our mission. Our goal is to develop the platform that will deliver the dark economy by leveraging emerging anonymous techniques for innovative decentralized & dark financial products. We are firmly committed to transitioning humanity to the non-state ethical-philosophical paradigm through markets and technology. Speaker: Amir Taaki Amir has spent 15 years as an open source developer and systems dev specializing in async and crypto algorithms. He currently works on anonymous mix nets and crypto wallets. He created the first alt implementation of Bitcoin with the fastest blockchain, was the lead for Electrum in 2011, created Dark Wallet, started the Bitcoin BIP process and founded a UK Bitcoin exchange which had the 2nd biggest market by volume in 2012 before it was forcibly closed by the banks. Thursday, September 26, 2019 Amir Taaki on the DarkTech Renaissance Hosted by Leonhard Weese and Clement Ip >From Bitcoin HK Public group

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FOIPA: Redact! (Don't view it ;)
by grarpamp 29 Sep '19

29 Sep '19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQHGTcChiMg redact

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Cryptocurrency: Treasure Hunt - Oldest Youtube Videos
by grarpamp 29 Sep '19

29 Sep '19

Looking for oldest crypto (Bitcoin-BTC) videos on youtube. Youtube does not seem to have reverse age sort for searches. Please post your oldest finds... Interviews Documentaries Community Events / Talks / Speeches Network TV News Clips

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Study Proves The FCC's Core Justification for Killing Net Neutrality Was False - VICE
by jim bell 29 Sep '19

29 Sep '19

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kz4g9x/study-proves-the-fccs-core-justif…

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Assange Wikileaks: Held for USA after Bail Sentence Ends
by grarpamp 28 Sep '19

28 Sep '19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya6YZE91DE8 https://twitter.com/pamfoundation https://twitter.com/xychelsea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1z6k3maPNc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZH4pfs6Lh8 https://arena.org.au/assange-behind-bars-by-felicity-ruby/ https://twitter.com/defendassange Julian Assange is in solitary confinement in conditions that obstruct his ability to prepare his US extradition case. He finished serving a 50-week sentence for seeking & receiving asylum on 22 September 2019 and is now in jail solely on behalf of the Trump administration Assange, who has been held in solitary confinement in HMP Belmarsh, will continue to be imprisoned for at least five more months, until his extradition hearing currently scheduled for February 2020. UN Special Rapporteur on torture: “In 20 years..I have never seen a group of democratic States ganging up to deliberately isolate, demonise and abuse a single individual for such a long time and with so little regard for human dignity and the rule of law” https://defend.wikileaks.org/2019/09/23/bail-sentence-ends-uk-now-holding-a… Bail sentence ends: UK now holding Assange solely on US’ behalf On 22 September 2019, Julian Assange’s sentence for a bail violation conviction ended, but he was not released from HMP Belmarsh. Beginning today, 23 September, the United Kingdom is detaining Julian solely on behalf of the United States, which requests his extradition and has charged him with 18 counts carrying 175 years in prison for publishing information in the public interest. Before Assange’s lawyers even had the opportunity to file a bail application, and without giving notice that she would do so, District Judge Vanessa Baraitser preemptively announced that when his sentence ended, she would deny bail and continue to detain him. Judge Baraitser told Assange, who appeared by video-link, “You have been produced today because your sentence of imprisonment is about to come to an end. When that happens your remand status changes from a serving prisoner to a person facing extradition.” This means the UK is now holding Julian only on the basis of the US’ extradition request, and there can be no pretense of UK or Sweden issues keeping him in prison. As former British ambassador Craig Murray wrote, now that Assange’s sentence has ended, “The sole reason for his incarceration [is now] the publishing of the Afghan and Iraq war logs leaked by Chelsea Manning, with their evidence of wrongdoing and multiple war crimes.” This also means Assange will continue to be imprisoned for at least five more months, until his extradition hearing currently scheduled for February 2020. Assange has been held in solitary confinement in HMP Belmarsh’s health ward, as his health has deteriorated. After UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer visited Assange in May (before he was moved to the health ward), he wrote that Assange—who had spent the previous seven years without sunlight in the limited space of Ecuador’s Embassy in London—had suffered psychological torture. Assange has been so isolated that he can lose track of the date and the day of the week. On his birthday, 3 July, Julian could hear that people had congregated outside of Belmarsh, but he couldn’t make out what they were saying. Assange didn’t know that it was his birthday and only found out the next day, and then he realized that supporters had come to wish him a happy birthday. Assange extradition would set terrifying precedent Judge Baraitser will also preside over Julian Assange’s extradition hearing, scheduled for five days in February. In that trial, the United Kingdom will rule whether or not to send Assange into the hands of Donald Trump, whose Justice Department has charged him with 17 counts under the 1917 Espionage Act (and 1 count of conspiracy to commit a computer crime) for publishing documents detailing the US’ wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and its diplomatic activity in 2010. The charges, the first such charges for a journalist in US history, constitute a grave assault on press freedom around the world. Furthermore, the proposed extradition poses a serious threat to European sovereignty. If the UK sends an Australian journalist in Europe to the United States for the “crime” of publishing truthful information in the public interest—information which virtually every major news outlets around the world has since published as well, and information which the UK Supreme Court has deemed admissible evidence—it will set a dangerous precedent for the global application of US state secrecy laws. Such an extradition would effectively grant permission for the Trump Administration to dictate what can and cannot be published outside of its borders. The charges against Assange have been condemned by virtually all press freedom groups, human rights organisations, major news outlets, and leading US and EU politicians, in recognition of the glaring threat they pose to global journalistic freedoms. These unprecedented and manifestly political charges are the basis of the US’ extradition request, which is now the sole reason for which the United Kingdom is imprisoning Assange.

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Assange Wikileaks: CIA spy - David Morales UC Global S.L.
by grarpamp 28 Sep '19

28 Sep '19

https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/09/25/inenglish/1569384196_652151.html Spanish security company spied on Julian Assange in London for the United States Spain’s High Court is investigating the director of UC Global S. L. and the activities of his company, which had been hired to protect the Ecuadorian embassy in the English capital David Morales, the owner of the company, supposedly handed over audio and video to the CIA of the meetings Assange held with his lawyers and collaborators. Morales is being investigated for this activity by Spain’s High Court, the Audiencia Nacional. Cameras and external access for the US After the installation of new video cameras at the beginning of December 2017, Morales requested that his technicians install an external streaming access point in the same area so that all of the recordings could be accessed instantly by the United States. To do this, he requested three channels for access: “one for Ecuador, another for us and another for X,” according to mails sent at the time to his colleagues. When one of the technicians asked to contact “the Americans” to explain the way that they should access some of the spying systems installed in the embassy, Morales would always be evasive with his answers. Morales ordered his workers to install microphones in the embassy’s fire extinguishers and also in the women’s bathroom, where Assange’s lawyers, including the Spaniard Aitor Martínez and his closest collaborators, would meet for fear of being spied on. The cyberactivist’s meetings with his lawyers, Melynda Taylor, Jennifer Robinson and Baltasar Garzón, were also monitored. The UC Global S. L. team was also ordered by its boss to install stickers that prevented the windows of the rooms that the WikiLeaks founder used from vibrating, allegedly to make it easier for the CIA to record conversations with their laser microphones. ...

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How much does it cost to make an elaborately fake pisstape?
by Ryan Carboni 27 Sep '19

27 Sep '19

https://gizmodo.com/ok-so-who-went-to-all-this-trouble-making-this-eerily-1… How much does it cost to make an elaborately fake pisstape? How much does it cost to scale it to thousands of hours of footage? Anyway, handling live animals is expensive. And to put it in the perspective of a common meme: "Help, I'm sending all my artists to make disinformation, why is my country awash with foreign movies?"

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John McAfee: State of the Union Address
by grarpamp 27 Sep '19

27 Sep '19

https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1177559781315436544 tweets 42.6k following 14.3k followers 1.06m likes 60.2k https://www.facebook.com/officialmcafee 85,338 people like this 91,499 people follow this Libra, Satoshi, Binance, and more... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxN7mitKD9I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6rG60Kd-a4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDS6euQ43ms Wake up.

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CyberBunker Raided
by grarpamp 27 Sep '19

27 Sep '19

https://www.apnews.com/be9947471fb74360b6cf9d1d2b535927 https://www.sueddeutsche.de/digital/darknet-razzia-trabach-trabern-drogen-1… https://www.rheinpfalz.de/lokal/artikel/mit-650-einsatzkraeften-cyberbunker… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CashAq5RToM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberBunker http://www.cb3rob.org/ https://web.archive.org/web/20190427013216/https://cyberbunker.com/web/swat… http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-04-04/cyberbunker-hacking-as-perf… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4ZLqayQ-04 https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cyberbunker https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cb3rob

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Google's biases exposed. (Was: Re: Troops Could Have Night Vision Injected Into Their Eyes)
by jim bell 27 Sep '19

27 Sep '19

We were discussing Greta Thunberg, who recently spoke at the United Nations, and I said that something was wrong with her, mentally. Well, after looking at some articles, one of them referred to Asperger's. So, I decided to do a Google search for 'greta thunberg aspergers'. After typing her name and adding a single 'a', or 'greta thunberg a', Google search offered me a few selections: "age", "actress", article", "and jane goodall, "at UN", "turns Trump's Attack". So, I decided to add a another character: 'greta thunberg as'. Then, Google search offered me new selections: "as", "astrology", "asiA", "astrology chart", "assemblee nationale", "as a child". Hmmm. No "Aspergers". So, I decided to add another character. Guess which one: 'greta thunberg asp'. Google search offered...NOTHING. Nothing at all. Not a single suggestion. If she had been fond of "asparagus", Google wouldn't volunteer that information. If she had been bitten by an "asp", we wouldn't have learned it. If she was suffering from an infection of "aspergillus fungus", that would have remain a deep, dark secret. If she had an allergy to "aspartame", we wouldn't have discovered that, either. If she had visited "Aspen Dental", no one would be the wiser. As I continued to add characters, Google search continued to offer...nothing. Nothing at all. Not a single suggestion...until I had put in the final character: "greta thunberg aspergers". Even then, it didn't include this as a suggestion. What's really interesting is that, especially how Politically Correct Google is, presumably it genuinely believes that having "Aspergers" isn't something for anybody to be ashamed of. So, that being the case, you'd think that they wouldn't re-program Google search AS IF "Aspergers" WAS something to be ashamed of. Or a negative, in general. Or something that should be concealed. Because it sure looks like that's what they did. Something needs to be done about Google. What REALLY needs to be done is for governments, in general, to stop doing whatever they are doing to keep Google in a virtually monopolistic (or, at least oligopolistic) state. I mean, change things so that instead of there being a single Google, there are a few dozen companies that cannot behave as if they owned the networking market. Because one alternative would be to sue Google using America's anti-trust laws, and break it up like was done to Standard Oil around 1900, or AT&T by Judge Greene, in 1983. Jim Bell

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