January 2020 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Roman Yushkov (Russia) awarded damages in persecution suit - dozens jailed in Germany
by Zenaan Harkness 28 Jan '20

28 Jan '20

Speak, or lose the right to speak. Defend the right of others to speak, or lose your own right to speak. Peace. Russian Holocaust Denier Wins Damages in Persecution Suit While German Truth-Tellers Rot in Jail https://russia-insider.com/en/russian-holocaust-denier-wins-damages-persecu… https://russia-insider.com/en/tales-holohoax There is consternation that the outcome of high court litigation in Russia has supported the right of holocaust critics and investigators (holocaust deniers) the right to publish their findings and beliefs. Investigation of the holocaust narrative is illegal in much of Europe. On January 21, the Leninsky District Court of Perm decided to award Perm civil activist Roman Yushkov 50 thousand rubles in compensation for non-pecuniary damage for his being persecuted in connection with his right to publicly claim that the holocaust is a scam sponsored by politicians dependent upon Jewish patronage. ... >From the "great news from Russia" department of the right to speak.

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Radio: SDR... Amp Your Rig to 500kW and Beyond
by grarpamp 28 Jan '20

28 Jan '20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbHjcwIoTiY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9UO9tn4MpI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo9nGzIzSPw https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22158976 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Creek_Naval_Radio_Station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roumoules_radio_transmitter USB for plugging RTL-SDR and gadgets... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22152736 https://www.usb-hubs.org/

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Facialized: London Pigs to Pimp-Your-Steps like DMVs and AU Traffic Your Sexy Self
by grarpamp 28 Jan '20

28 Jan '20

More news about the slavery you signed up for... https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51237665 The Metropolitan Police has announced it will use live facial recognition cameras operationally for the first time on London streets. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjdkq7/avast-antivirus-sells-user-browsi… Program used by hundreds of millions of people around the world is selling highly sensitive web browsing data to many of the world's biggest companies. Clients include Google, Yelp, Microsoft, McKinsey, Pepsi, Sephora, Home Depot, Conde Nast, Intuit, and many others. Some clients paid millions of dollars for products that include a so-called "All Clicks Feed," which can track user behavior, clicks, and movement across websites in highly precise detail. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evjekz/the-california-dmv-is-making-doll… https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/43kxzq/dmvs-selling-data-private-investi… The California Department of Motor Vehicles is generating revenue of $50,000,000 a year through selling drivers' personal information, according to a DMV document obtained by Motherboard. DMVs across the country are selling data that drivers are required to provide to the organization in order to obtain a license. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/australia-wants-to-use-face-rec… https://www.cnet.com/news/australian-government-biometric-face-verification… "Home Affairs is developing a Face Verification Service which matches a person's photo against images used on one of their evidence of identity documents to help verify their identity," "the first phase of its new biometric Face Verification Service (FVS) is up and running, giving a number of government departments and the Australian Federal Police the ability to share and match digital photos of faces." Initially, the system was fairly limited. It only included photos of people who had applied to become Australian citizens. And use of the database was supposed to be limited to a handful of government agencies with a compelling need for it. But since then, the government has steadily expanded the system. Photos from other sources were added to the database. And Australia has been trying to develop a more sophisticated Face Identification Service that can identify unknown persons. "The Face Verification Service is not yet fully operational," the government acknowledges. "Whilst it is intended to be made available to private sector organizations in future, this will be subject to the passage of the Identity-matching Services Bill 2019 which is currently before Parliament."

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The Next Political System
by Ryan Carboni 28 Jan '20

28 Jan '20

To understand the next political system requires understanding why the previous one has failed. https://nitter.net/AndrewHClark/status/1221824515740708866 NEW POLL: On virtually every big indicator Americans say things are better today than they were at the end of the Obama-Biden presidency. Economy is better (+22 points), country is more secure (+18 points), the military is stronger (+15 points), streets are safer (+9 points)... . I leave you with this quote: “Only three people have ever really understood the Schleswig-Holstein business—the Prince Consort, who is dead—a German professor, who has gone mad—and I, who have forgotten all about it."

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Re: Server infrastructure talk for Extinction Rebellion
by Ryan Carboni 27 Jan '20

27 Jan '20

Extinction Rebellion is clearly a CIA-Russian operation. Beyond that, all organizations that offer membership to the public has a leadership comprised of informants. https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/08/03/delingpole-exposed-soros-on-lis… Major donors are said to include — inevitably — George Soros; Vivienne Westwood’s son Joe Corre (the saucy underwear and dildo tycoon, worth $48 million); the European Climate Foundation (which funnels money from far-left American philanthropic foundations to European climate projects); Greenpeace; the far-left Tides Foundation; and a little known Swiss asset management company, called Furka Holdings, founded by a banker with Russian links, which gave £50,000.

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Server infrastructure talk for Extinction Rebellion
by Greg Newby 27 Jan '20

27 Jan '20

I just watched an informative talk from 36C3 by Julian Oliver: https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-11008-server_infrastructure_for_global_rebellion At around minute 28 he begins talking about the specific server software, datacenter hosting, and other aspects of their operational security implementation. This description goes to around minute 44, and then there is some Q&A that is also quite informative. Nobody asked him why they didn't use TOR -- presumably it wasn't even a contender. For sysadmin activity they use VPNs to countries with strict data protection laws (Switzerland and Iceland are mentioned). Data partitions are encrypted, and they have various contingency plans in the event a server is seized. At around minute 34, there is a list of the different software choices they made to support Extinction Rebellion. They chose alternatives to Slack, Google, Mailchimp, Zoom, etc. Some were found to be better than the better-known alternatives, and some were worse, for performance, scalability and usability. He mentioned that modern users are looking for something like a Google-based single sign-on, which is anathema to the anti-surveillance infrastructure they are focusing on. The software and configuration choices are today's best-of-breed for making surveillance and seizure more difficult. This naturally includes not utilizing commercial solutions, and also naturally includes self-hosting the infrastructure. ER is a global movement that is highly decentralized and, according to the first 28 minutes of the talk, is having an impact. This is primarily through non-violent actions. They mainly seek progress on combating climate change. https://rebellion.global or https://organize.earth for more info.

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Re: There are videos...
by Ryan Carboni 27 Jan '20

27 Jan '20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A9LAxhi68I Clearly 3D muppet versions of world leaders is equivalent to ... something?

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Censorship: 21 States Sue to Shutdown 3D-CAD Files, FreeSpeech, SelfDefense, and Makers... again
by grarpamp 27 Jan '20

27 Jan '20

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/479817-21-states-file-lawsuit-agai… https://nypost.com/2020/01/24/20-states-sue-over-federal-regulations-govern… https://crweworld.com/ny/trendingnow/news/1390817/attorney-general-james-su… This will be about as successful every other attempted ban: Alcohol, Drugs, Guns, Music, Movies, Cryptography, Books, Travel, Cryptocurrency, CommsTech, Websites, Cash, Gold, Internet, Printing Presses, Speech, Thought, Freedom... Obviously the correct solution to such sillyness is to ban Government. Nerd out... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0og_KLSzCI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7AulNqdigM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk-sXFWtX7Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-CgK8Yi4Y0 Come and Make It! Pew Pew :)

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Cryptocurrency: US-FED DigitalDollarProject CentralBankDC WarOnCash via CFTC Accenture Giancarlo Davos WEF2020
by grarpamp 27 Jan '20

27 Jan '20

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/former-regulator-known-as-crypto-dad-to-la… https://www.coindesk.com/ex-cftc-chair-christopher-giancarlo-on-why-he-laun… https://www.coindesk.com/former-cftc-officials-ramp-up-push-for-digital-dol… https://cointelegraph.com/news/davos-giancarlos-digital-dollar-project-will… https://dailyalts.com/digital-assets-the-digital-dollar-foundation-and-acce… https://www.computerworld.com/article/3514564/former-us-regulator-leads-eff… https://www.digitaldollarproject.org/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edgnSCvJLcM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU7knIXFIPU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npu0NKsDfP4 " The 1000 crypto projects (currencies, tokens, assets, periphery, etc), of which few are actually decentralized distributed privacy scaling and generally of any note, promise, or future... they all still have one common and grave mortal enemy they must band together to defeat... Central Government Bank and Corporate Fiat Control Shitcoins. This isn't Facebook's Libra for Lols, this is Government and Banks, the very thing OG cryptocurrency philosophy is rightly against... it's told right there in the Genesis Block. If CBDC's are allowed to weasel their way into this space, this last new frontier, to wrap their digital tentacles around you, and win... you will lose, forever. This latest US Government CBDC rumbling... for "individuals and business to use for payments", to "protect the dollar as the world's reserve currency"... is a trick upon the world and must be fought. The new world is about distributed, privacy, scaling, mineable, fungible, permissionless, uncensorable, unstoppable, etc, and much more... freedom... for all. Make it so. " " Digital Dollar Project Leading the discussion on a U.S. Central Bank Digital Currency 2020-01-08 The Digital Dollar Project is a partnership between Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and the Digital Dollar Foundation to advance exploration of a United States Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). The purpose of the Project is to encourage research and public discussion on the potential advantages of a digital dollar, convene private sector thought leaders and actors, and propose possible models to support the public sector. The Project will develop a framework for potential, practical steps that can be taken to establish a dollar CBDC. Digital Dollar Project Announcement The Digital Dollar Foundation and Accenture Announce the Launch Of The Digital Dollar Project Image_Hero_1_top.jpg Washington, D.C., Jan. 16, 2020 – “The digital 21st century is underserved by an analog reserve currency,” said Chris Giancarlo. “A digital dollar would help future-proof the greenback and allow individuals and global enterprises to make payments in dollars irrespective of space and time. We are launching the Digital Dollar Project to catalyze a digital, tokenized U.S. currency that would coexist with other Federal Reserve liabilities and serve as a settlement medium to meet the demands of the new digital world and a cheaper, faster and more inclusive global financial system.” The purpose of the Project is to encourage research and public discussion on the potential advantages of a digital dollar, convene private sector thought leaders and actors, and propose possible models to support the public sector. The Project will develop a framework for potential, practical steps that can be taken to establish a dollar CBDC. Press Release Image_break_2_Davos.jpg Digital Dollar Project Issue Briefing The time has come to explore options for a digital dollar, and the principal members of the Digital Dollar Foundation (The Foundation) have sounded the call for this needed dollar innovation. Together with Accenture, a global leader in CBDC advancement, the Foundation has formed the “Digital Dollar Project” (the Project) to study potential avenues to utilize U.S. digital dollar tokenization and its implications on the U.S. and global economic and financial systems. The Project will seek to facilitate a public debate about a U.S. dollar CBDC adoption. To ensure the dollar can serve the broadest possible range of uses in a increasingly digital global economy and thereby maintain its privileged position and support orderly adjustment in international monetary relations, consideration needs to be given to plans to adopt a digital dollar issued by the Federal Reserve System (Fed). Project Brief Image_break_3.jpg Project Directors The Digital Dollar Project has been created to formally lead the initiative of educating policy makers, organizing key industry stakeholders, and proposing a U.S. CBDC strategy. The Project’s directors are renowned industry experts and blockchain advocates who have been leading global discourse on cryptocurrencies and digital assets. Christoper_Giancarlo.jpg Chris Giancarlo | DDF J. Christopher Giancarlo is Senior Counsel to the law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher and the former Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Mr. Giancarlo also served as a member of the Financial Stability Oversight Committee (FSOC), the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets, and the Executive Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). Mr. Giancarlo serves on the Advisory Board of the Chamber of Digital Commerce and as an independent director of the American Financial Exchange. He is also Chairman of the Board of Common Securitization Solutions, Inc. Under his leadership, the CFTC published primers on virtual currencies and smart contracts, oversaw the launch of the first bitcoin futures contracts and created LabCFTC as the agency’s stakeholder in the digital evolution of derivatives trading markets. @giancarloMKTS | Wikipedia Charles_Giancarlo.jpg Charles Giancarlo | DDF Charles (“Charlie”) H. Giancarlo is an entrepreneur, investor, and executive. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG). He formerly served in senior executive roles at Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO) and Silver Lake Partners, the private equity firm. Giancarlo earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Brown University in 1979. He also earned master's degrees in electrical engineering and business administration from UC Berkeley and Harvard University respectively. WIkipedia Daniel_Gorfine.jpg Daniel Gorfine | DDF Daniel Gorfine is Founder and CEO of Gattaca Horizons LLC and Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center teaching FinTech Law & Policy. He previously served as the CFTC’s first Chief Innovation Officer and Director of LabCFTC. Prior to the CFTC, Gorfine was Vice President, External Affairs & Associate General Counsel at OnDeck. A graduate of Brown University (A.B.), Gorfine holds a J.D. from the George Washington University Law School and an M.A. from the Paul H. Nitze School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University. @DGorfine | LinkedIn David_Treat.jpg David Treat | Accenture Dave Treat is a Senior Managing Director, co-Lead of Accenture’s Blockchain Business and Accenture Lead of the NY Fintech Innovation Lab. Dave has over 20 years of experience in Financial Services roles spanning Capital Markets, Retail Banking, and Cards. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Linux Hyperledger Project, Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, Global Blockchain Business Council and the ID2020 Alliance, is a member of the World Economic Forum C4IR Global Blockchain Council and is a program advisor for the Chamber of Digital Commerce. David also serves as the Program Advisor for the World Economic Forum’s Digital Identity Initiative and the Known Traveller Digital Identity project. @DBTreat | LinkedIn Image_break_4.jpg Project Partners The Digital Dollar Project is a partnership between Accenture and the Digital Dollar Foundation to advance exploration of a United States Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). Accenture_logo.jpg Accenture Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions — underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network — Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With 505,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com. DDFoundation_FTI_Logo.jpg Digital Dollar Foundation + FTI Consulting The Digital Dollar Foundation is a not-for-profit organization created to support the Digital Dollar Project’s efforts to advance exploration of a United States Central Bank Digital Currency in order to advance the needs of global financial systems and consumers. The Foundation is led by the Honorable J. Christopher Giancarlo, Charles H. Giancarlo and Daniel Gorfine. FTI Consulting is proving strategic counsel to the Digital Dollar Foundation by developing, managing, and executing the Foundation’s global communications. FTI Consulting, Inc. is a global business advisory firm dedicated to helping organizations manage change, mitigate risk and resolve disputes: financial, legal, operational, political & regulatory, reputational and transactional. Visit ut at www.fticonsulting.com. Image_break_5.jpg Information & Resources Accenture and the Foundation have written in detail about the importance of modernizing the current state of money and its implications for central banks and global finance. The following materials are foundational to the strategy and goals of the project. WSJ_content.jpg We Sent a Man to the Moon. We Can Send the Dollar to Cyberspace Chris Giancarlo & Daniel Gorfine A Wall Street Journal op-ed by the Digital Dollar Foundation that calls for Washington to modernize the U.S. dollar with a regulated platform for trading greenbacks via blockchain in order to protect the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. Read Article Accenture_content.jpg The (R)Evolution of Money I Blockchain Empowered Cryptocurrencies Accenture The (R)Evolution of Money addresses how central banks can help shape the role that cryptocurrencies will play in the economy. A central bank-issued cryptocurrency can support the bank’s mandate of maintaining economic stability, protecting the consumer and controlling money supply. A central bank can issue fiat currency on the blockchain in the same way it issues fiat currency as physical cash. Read Article Accenture_content.jpg The (R)Evolution of Money II Blockchain Empowered CBDC Accenture The (R)Evolution of Money addresses the considerations of what money should do next. It is not about a mere substitution of money but to broaden the functionality and utility of money. Read Article Frequently Asked Questions An introduction to the Digital Dollar Project and the nature of a U.S. Central Bank Digital Currency. Learn more Image_break_5.jpg Interested in learning more? Sign up to receive updates on the work of the Digital Dollar Project Name * First Name Last Name Email * Data Privacy * I agree to my personal data being stored and used to receive occasional updates and news. Or contact us at INFO(a)DIGITALDOLLARPROJECT.ORG © 2020 Digital Dollar Project Privacy Policy "

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"Hypothetical" Coronavirus pandemic literally gamed by Johns Hopkins and Bill+Melinda Gates Foundation, 18 Oct 2019 - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 26 Jan '20

26 Jan '20

Event 201 - Securing the World - 18 Oct 2019 http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/scenario.html John Hopkins Center for Health Security and the World Economic Forum, With the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ... The scenario ends at the 18-month point, with 65 million deaths. The pandemic is beginning to slow due to the decreasing number of susceptible people. The pandemic will continue at some rate until there is an effective vaccine or until 80-90 % of the global population has been exposed. From that point on, it is likely to be an endemic childhood disease. Soap, coronavirus pandemic (in October 2019 just a "hypothetical") was literally gamed by Johns Hopkins and Bill+Melinda Gates Foundation, on 18th October 2019. Pure cohencidence muh grits! Who Released the Coronavirus? http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/who-released-the-coronavirus/ [mildly funny bat soup meme not attached] 'Member the Georgian Guidestones muh grits - 500 million target global population / 7 billion currently = ~93% world population reduction.

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