January 2020 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Governor Northan of Virginia plans to violate Constitutional rights.
by jim bell 17 Jan '20

17 Jan '20

https://www.yahoo.com/news/virginia-plans-emergency-gun-ban-135403362.html Virginia plans emergency gun ban at Capitol ahead of protest: AP January 15, 2020, 5:54 AM PST FILE PHOTO: Virginia Governor Northam speaks to an gun control rally in Richmond (Reuters) - Virginia Governor Ralph Northam on Wednesday plans to declare a temporary emergency banning all guns and weapons from the area around the Capitol in Richmond ahead of a major gun rights demonstration set for Monday, the Associated Press reported. Northam feared a repetition of the violence that broke out in August 2017 amid a white supremacist rally and counterdemonstration in which anti-racist protester Heather Heyer was killed in a car attack, the AP reported, citing two unnamed state officials who were briefed on the plans but not authorized to speak publicly about them. The governor's office did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for confirmation. Gun-rights advocates including militia groups and ultraconservative activists are planning a "Lobby Day" rally on Monday, seeking to block gun control legislation backed by Northam, a Democrat, and the Democratic-controlled state legislature in both the General Assembly and Senate. Last week Virginia lawmakers approved a new gun policy prohibiting firearms inside the Capitol and a nearby office building, but did not extend the ban to Capitol Square, the public space outside that includes monuments to prominent Virginians and the Virginia Civil Rights Memorial. The governor saw credible threats of potential violence and extremism after a series of provocative online postings from out-of-state pro-gun and militia groups that plan to attend, one official cited by the AP said. One posting included a photo of an AR-15 and said there were "great sight angles from certain buildings" near Capitol Square, the official said. (Reporting by Daniel Trotta; Editing by Scott Malone and Chizu Nomiyama) [end of quote] Jim Bell's comments: How can people exercising their constitutional rights EVER be considered an "emergency"? And worse, one which is used to 'justify' violation of exactly those rights? I think this Governor Northam needs to FEAR doing what he's planning to do. If he fears that some people are going to violate others' constitutional rights to assembly and to bear arms, he should prepare his government to arrest those who will be doing that violation, not those excertising those rights. And he should never prohibit people from exercising their right to self-defense and to the defense of others, including using guns to do so. Jim Bell

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How Dropgangs and Dead Drops Are Transforming Darknet Practices - Bitcoin News
by jim bell 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

https://news.bitcoin.com/how-dropgangs-and-dead-drops-are-transforming-dark…

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Polly seeks a spankin' - [PEACE]
by Zig the N.g 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

What for? you ask? For ... poking a little fun times at the N.g's favourite <ahem> princess. Such satyrical comedy calls ... desperately ... for my new patented suede coated and feather rimmed paddling paddle - it's on offer, anyway :) Be ... inspired ... and spank away with some ... internal discussions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s44LgvGNdxo ... whoopsie, that must be FenceSitter, and Polly would be over here :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsmCkcOc0s8 "If you like what you spank, then spank Polly's Spank button now."

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Ars Technica: Most lidars today have between 1 and 128 lasers—this one has 11,000
by jim bell 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

Ars Technica: Most lidars today have between 1 and 128 lasers—this one has 11,000. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/01/most-lidars-today-has-between-1-and-12…

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The Hill: Breaking the encryption impasse | TheHill
by jim bell 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

The Hill: Breaking the encryption impasse | TheHill. https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/478573-breaking-the-encryption-impas…

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HOPE 2020 Call For Speakers Now Open!
by Greg Newby 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

Perhaps this is of interest to some cypherpunks subscribers: ----- Forwarded message from Hackers On Planet Earth <hope(a)2600.com> ----- Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 14:12:44 -0500 From: Hackers On Planet Earth <hope(a)2600.com> Subject: [hope-announce] HOPE 2020 Call For Speakers Now Open! The HOPE 2020 Call for Speakers is now open! You can now submit your ideas for talk/panel submissions for our 13th HOPE conference, to be held at St. John's University, Queens, New York City from July 31st to August 2nd, 2020. You can email your talk proposal to speakers(a)hope.net. Include a proposed title and abstract. Provide enough information so it is clear why HOPE attendees would find your topic interesting, new, and relevant. Also include a brief biography. Most speaker/panel sessions are allotted 50 minutes, including time for Q&A. All types of presentations are encouraged, from solo talks to panels, debates, demonstrations, and interactive discussions. Submissions should highlight their relevance to hacking. They should be original, and not previously presented. We encourage speakers from all age groups and backgrounds. The conference venue promises more space than ever before, including a theater, a huge indoor pavilion, seminar rooms, and acres of outdoor space. Other features include affordable on-site housing and food, easy accessibility from New York airports and public transportation, free onsite parking, and 30Gb of network bandwidth. HOPE is an inclusive event, seeking civil discourse and education on all topics related to the hacker world. HOPE encourages all approaches and interpretations to hacking, presented by hackers, makers, developers, teachers, learners, and experimenters. If you have a passion for discovering how things work and sharing that knowledge, you have the hacker spirit. Some topics from past HOPE events have included: * Technologies, along with their benefits and risks * Social engineering * Education * Hacker culture and lifestyles * Effecting social change * Industry, government, commerce, and multinationals * Science, engineering and math * Body modification, hacking and enhancement * Phones, networks, and telecommunication * Hardware and software * Secrets and disclosures * Data, privacy, encryption, and policy * Outer space and beyond * and much, much more All submissions will receive an automated response. (You won't get multiple responses if you email us more than once in a short period of time, but we will still get your email.) Notices of acceptance will begin to be mailed out in the weeks ahead. You can also find some handy tips for your talk/panel submission on our website at www.hope.net/speakers_tips.html . HOPE 2020, July 31-August 2, 2020, St. John's University, Queens, New York City https://www.hope.net https://twitter.com/hopeconf ----- End forwarded message -----

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Human Rights misnomers - Marxist communists - agreements/ contracts
by Zenaan Harkness 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

So the looney "liberal" lefties (commies) want everyone to -have- everything, including "free": - education - medical care - insurance - food - housing - legal aid - etc Labour's Richard Burgon Slams UK Government Cuts to Legal Aid as 'Depriving Human Rights' https://sputniknews.com/uk/202001141078037104-labours-richard-burgon-slams-… Sadly this communist neo-Marxism is now being sold under the deceptive lie of such gibs being "human rights". Now listen up snowflakes (and all who missed the memo), human rights are sanctions, not gibs. And more particularly, a human right is a sanction which does not infringe the human rights of other humans. Resist being deceived. What is a sanction? A sanction is that action (arising from a power or ability) which you can exercise independent of the authority, will or power of any other human. So a human right is one of those things arising from your own latent (or natural) capacity and ability. For example: - the right to move, walk, travel - the right to communicate - the right to survive - to do those things necessary for the continuance of my physical body - grow food and plants for medicine, farm animals, collect and use water - the right to breathe - the right to think and believe what one wills - the right to build a dwelling to protect you and your family from the elements of nature The reason gibs are not human rights, is that they are not sanctions - instead, gibs is the imposition of your will (effectively, usually by force of the state to "collect" tax) upon another human being. Which is fundamentally evil. Imposing your will on others, is to deny the other the right to choose to do as he pleases in his own life, with his own body and his own time. The despotic "right" to free shit - free gibs - is a consent to despotism. Once we agree to one despotism, we have effectively agreed to all despotisms. "Free" gibs, imposed by the force of the state upon productive individuals, is: - the surrender of individual responsibility (for one's own actions and choices in life) - the consent to all despotisms of the state - the consent to the financial enslavement of your people, your community, your councils and governments If "free shit" is to be couched as a "human right", then at best it is nothing other than a predatorial right of the ignorant and of the predatorial, upon the productive and the responsible. The primary challenge to the fable of the grasshopper and the ant, is "charity". Imposed charity, tends strongly to despotism and descent into madness. https://www.yandex.com/search/?text=grasshopper%20and%20the%20ant&lr=21265 The Ant and the Grasshopper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ant_and_the_Grasshopper The Ant and the Grasshopper, alternatively titled The Grasshopper and the Ant (or Ants), is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 373 in the Perry Index.[1] The fable describes how a hungry grasshopper begs for food from an ant when winter comes and is refused. The situation sums up moral lessons about the virtues of hard work and planning for the future.[2] Even in Classical times, however, the advice was mistrusted and an alternative story represented the ant's industry as mean and self-serving. Jean de la Fontaine's delicately ironical retelling in French later widened the debate to cover the themes of compassion and charity. Since the 18th century the grasshopper has been seen as the type of the artist and the question of the place of culture in society has also been included. Argument over the fable's ambivalent meaning has generally been conducted through adaptation or reinterpretation of the fable in literature, arts, and music. ...

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Re: Only one possible solution
by Ryan Carboni 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

As I was saying earlier... >I may only have a passing familiarity with the concept of American >democracy limited to what I've read in my school textbooks and >wikipedia, but I'm pretty sure having sex with the right people does >not mean you get a get out of jail free card for ... well https://www.vox.com/2020/1/14/21063591/modest-proposal-to-save-american-dem… An unsigned note, entitled “Pack the Union: A Proposal to Admit New States for the Purpose of Amending the Constitution to Ensure Equal Representation” and published in the Harvard Law Review, offers an entirely constitutional way out of this dilemma: Add new states — a lot of new states — then use this bloc of states to rewrite the Constitution so that the United States has an election system “where every vote counts equally.”

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NSA: Windows 10 flaw threatens the foundations on which the Internet operates | BetaNews
by jim bell 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

https://betanews.com/2020/01/14/nsa-windows-10-flaw/

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Facialized: US Builds Long Range Facializers that Work in Dark, Biometric Census 2020
by grarpamp 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

https://onezero.medium.com/the-military-is-building-long-range-facial-recog… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22056194 https://papersplease.org/wp/2020/01/02/drivers-license-data-sold-to-busines… https://papersplease.org/wp/2019/12/12/port-of-seattle-to-develop-policies-…

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