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Accessing Usenet for Dummies
by Karl 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

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Trump’s Deficits Are Racing Past Obomba’s
by Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

Trump Will Create More Debt Than obomba https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2020/09/27/trump-will-create-more-d… Trump poised to add more debt than Obama in first term https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-poised-to-add-more-debt-than-obama-i… Trump’s Deficits Are Racing Past Obama’s https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2020/02/01/trumps-deficits-are-raci… Isn't that hilarious? The monkey wants negative interest rates and is more of a spending thief than obomba. No doubt he's a shining 'conservative' 'libertarian' 'populist'. I can already hear the screeching lies and excuses coming from this fine list's trumpofascists trying to replace reality with their fantasies and pathetic lies.

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Unsubscribing
by Karl 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

You guys are cool! If you ever get overtly mind controlled, email me. Don't let people talk you out of doing obvious stuff. Just do it and tell them they talk too much. Goodbye!

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Re: Tor, the pentagon's cyberweapon
by Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 15:01:03 -0400 Karl <gmkarl(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Yay, anonymity networks. > > On 10/13/20, Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 <punks(a)tfwno.gf> wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 14:32:53 -0400 > > Karl <gmkarl(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> We were, actually, looking at the ABCs of Tor, or what do you mean? > > > > > > I mean the facts that 1) tor is pretty useless for actual anonimity 2) tor > > 1) welllll it makes you completely invisible to your neighbors and > your isp, and very identifiable to federal agents as having something > to hide you are always invisible to your neighbors unless your neighbors own your ISP. And you're not 'invisible' to your ISP anyway, see the 'fingerprinting' attacks on tor. So even at that level tor doesn't work as advertised. > > is a cyberweapon created and controlled by the pentagon. That's the ABC of > > the mobile phone is a way bigger cyberweapon than tor. agree? disagree? agreed. Although retardphones are not advertised as 'anonymous', so somehow there's less fraud involved. > > > tor and you certainly WON'T learn that looking at the source code. > > So, below you say > > > if you want to know how good tor is 'technically' wise then listen to the > > criminals who write the code > > > > https://github.com/mikeperry-tor/vanguards/blob/master/README_SECURITY.md > > > > "Tor has only basic defenses against traffic analysis at the moment." > > Really, we're possibly getting at the same things. Tor froze after > mike perry wrote that. It was never addressed, and they now have a > policy against addressing it. right, and that 'policy' has been in place since the day tor was created. > We could just address it. It seems like obviously the thing to do, if > you're a bored computer programmer, is to steal the good parts of the > tor code, remove all the parts designed to make the naive governments > trackable by the sneaky governments or whatever, and replace them with > something transparent that welcomes improvement, no? and interestingly nobody has done it so far. Granted, it's not that easy. > > > signed mike perry - uh oh. > > The information in the quote you posted is incredibly well known by > tor users, as far as I understand. The information is unknown to the vast majority of tor users, including all the tor users who use tor in 'dark markets' and end up in jail. Since day 0 tor has been fraudulently pushed as an 'anonymous' network while the tor developer mafia admited in their inner circles that their 'product' was shit. And when somebody like appelbaum stopped fully toeing the party line he became a 'rapist'. Yes, that's how crass these people are.

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Setting up PGP
by Karl 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

Let's enumerate a few steps for setting up PGP. What's PGP? PGP is an old tool that makes it really irritating for government agents to change messages in transit. [s/Nobody uses pgp anymore because we've all either been beat up by corporate goonies for using it or had our networks and systems hacked to remove its use, and we can fix that./Everybody uses pgp in every message they send on the internet!/] I generally use gpg, gnupg, and pgp as interchangeable terms. PGP is irritating to set up, because to do it really right you need an airgapped computer to store your personal identifier on. Airgapped means it is disconnected from the normal internet. Otherwise your key is stolen when somebody breaks into the computer using it. Believe it or not, and this is pretty wellknown, systems are regularly broken into in massive worldwide droves as new vulnerabilities are discovered and revealed: these new vulnerabilities are called "0-days", and you can be pretty sure that anybody who doesn't use that term isn't a hacker. There's another issue: some people take new devices out of the mail, and break into them in advance, possibly even adding new communication hardware, then stealthily put them back in the mail before they are received. [s/Kind and caring corrupt federal people are well known to be forced to do this and have even leaked this to victims of it./Obviously if anybody actually did this they would feel so bad they would stop, but we still want to respect our use of pgp enough to consider it./] The risk seems small, but when you use PGP the integrity of the messages you exchange with everyone else is at stake, so it's good to take proper precautions. So, it's best to acquire your device for airgapping from a local reservoir of them, like a popular store that [s/<it's hard for me to talk about or encourage cash purchases because i've been tortured by enforcement goonies>/takes friendly cash that keeps everyone's identity more safe/]. This way you get the same set of system compromises and vulnerabilities that everybody else at the store gets, which means those compromises are not going to be placed specifically against your use as an airgapped security device. A lot of people will say worrying about this is paranoid. This is a way to tell that they are not hackers, either. Hackers who can actually reliably communicate with their peers consider paranoia to be good, and make it their business to act on it. When considering a device, you'll ideally want one that doesn't have any wireless networking hardware in it. Otherwise you'll ideally want to remove or disable all the wireless networking hardware, which [s/is pretty much impossible if your hands shake all day from being tortured for being an anarchist/is lots of fun to learn to do at a local urban makerspace where you can get lots of help on the kinds of things I'm posting about from people passionate about helping/]. If you happen to live in the usa near randall munroe, one of the many areas where a lot of open source hackers used to live, you could probably buy a small board without a wifi chip called a "pi zero" from a store called "microcenter". Another approach could be to repurpose something like an OLPC XO and remove the wifi board, which is very easy to do. After finding a good candidate airgapped device, you'll want to be careful with how you use it. Remember, whenever a new vulnerability is found, trojans cover the world taking advantage of it, and then try to find a way to hide inside the corners of all the systems they find. So, any drive you put in your new device, anything you plug into it, any update you apply, could be filled with computer-measles that would find a way to trick it into giving remote control to them. Keep it isolated until you have things set up for use. The next step after getting a reasonable airgapped device, maybe a pi zero, and ideally keeping it isolated, would be to install gnupg on it. Maybe in a forthcoming email!

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Cryptocurrency: John McAfee Arrested in Spain per US Extradition
by grarpamp 14 Oct '20

14 Oct '20

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sec-mcafee/u-s-indicts-anti-virus-softwa… https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sec-mcafee/u-s-sec-sues-john-mcafee-over… https://mobile.twitter.com/officialmcafee https://mobile.twitter.com/theemrsmcafee

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Re: [tor-relays] BadExit: Rerouting exit relays detected (1) 45.63.11.98
by grarpamp 14 Oct '20

14 Oct '20

On 10/12/20, Dr Gerard Bulger <gerard(a)bulger.co.uk> wrote: > Torrc allows you to exit from a different IP. I thought it a good idea to > stop arbitrary blocking of the advertised Tor exit IP, the captchas and > blacklists that tor users suffer. Relay operators are free to do that for those reasons. Any overlay network that has an exit function should have some percentage of its exits unpublished, else there is zero chance for its users to route around that form of censorship. NAT, VPN, tunnels, etc also allow to do the same thing without torrc. > When IPv6 implemented fully we have a wide > range of IPs to send from on each server. > > Perhaps it is not considered good form to do so as the internet should know > who is using Tor. The internet should not know who is using tor. Nor should Tor particularly subjugate itself to the random wishes of the internet, much of which and the global powers that be, would love to have tor (and all the other overlay networks, cryptocurrency, encryption) simply comply themselves off the internet according to such wishes. The internet already has ability to enumerate all the exit nodes. Whether internet does so to satisfy its own wishes or not is not tor's problem. Making tor easy to block only makes the censors job easier. > So what is the problems for TOR security when exits set up to send from a > different IP? Is it that we do not know what the second IP is up to in > dealing with the IP4 traffic from the exit? There is no tech "security" problem herein, only a "political" problem. Paths to actual freedom always see political spin and action against them. Fight back, more in the political they use, less in falling to complying the tech. -- The Tor lists, blog, etc are all actively censored. Your messages for people to read may not be permitted by the Tor Project censors, and Tor Project censors may prevent you from reading peoples messages.

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Police Raided German Spyware Company FinFisher Offices
by Stefan Claas 14 Oct '20

14 Oct '20

https://thehackernews.com/2020/10/finfisher-spyware-raid.html Regards Stefan -- NaClbox: cc5c5f846c661343745772156a7751a5eb34d3e83d84b7d6884e507e105fd675 The computer helps us to solve problems, we did not have without him.

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1984: Philippines Enters Homes to Force All Residents Into National Tracking, Permission, Social Scoring, Biometric ID Database
by grarpamp 14 Oct '20

14 Oct '20

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Philippines-starts-registering-millions-fo… You are next. The Philippines began Monday registering millions of citizens for its national identification system, hoping to promote electronic payments and make it easier for low-income earners without bank accounts to access financial services. From a report: All Philippine citizens and resident foreigners are required to register such information as name, sex, date of birth, place of birth, blood type, address and nationality. Biometric data -- fingerprints, facial photos and iris scans -- also will be stored. The country's current system, in which different agencies issue their own numbers, has been criticized as inconvenient. The new system will grant each person a unique number that can be used across agencies. The government hopes to make financial services more accessible to low-income workers who lack bank accounts as well as facilitate delivery of government services. Officials from the Philippine statistics agency will visit homes to collect the personal information, completing the process before President Rodrigo Duterte's term ends in June 2022. The system is scheduled to begin operation in the second half of 2021 for services such as visa issuances. A survey found 73% public support for the new ID system, suggesting that little concern exists over the collection of personal information by the government. Karl Kendrick Chua, acting secretary of the National Economic and Development Authority, said the ID system will accelerate growth of the digital economy. He expressed hope that the national system will spark widespread use of electronic payments. Partnerships with the private sector also appear to be on the table. https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-drone-camera-go-palm-data-privacy/

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Cryptocurrency: Central Interest Rates Toward Zero, Poisons, Distastes, #DrainTheSwamp
by grarpamp 14 Oct '20

14 Oct '20

> You know, it really appears that the Fed was very much on the side of Obama, and later it was very much against Trump. Almost as if it was trying to SABOTAGE the economic recovery. The Fed doesn't like parties (say the Republican Tea Party) and people (Ron Paul, Cryptos) that might go against it. Playing Sabotage and Saviour are self preservation tools. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement Media, Democrats, and Deep State all trying to sabotage Trump too. Could it be because Trump's campaign promise to... #DrainTheSwamp ... tends to go against all four of their existance... https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DrWCnAOVsAANqPh.jpg #MAGA RWR Kinda need to drain the worst systems of pervasive breadth and depth entrenchment (Democrat Socialists Communists) out the way before anyone could hope to come fill the new space with say Libertarian Voluntary Anarchy. And/or develop an AP poison pill that might encourage space to free up more quickly across the board instead of slow progress along the authority-freedom number line. Cryptocurrency pill already started up. Consider... that Trump as a business may also harbor decades of quiet distaste for all the above, regulations, non-free markets, etc. Multiple fronts of action toward more freedom. > "President Donald Trump now wants the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates to zero or below." > https://www.barrons.com/articles/trump-ignores-the-downsides-of-negative-in… Year old article though still relevant. Excluding all other factors and mechanisms which are still unfortunately very much in effect therein, such as plain old money printing... A forever zero interest rate would mean neither side profits, nor the middleman known as the Fed, thus Fed eventually bankrupts itself from costs of being a pointless passthrough operation. Won't happen. Sweet spot for American economy has been around 2-5% or so over recent decades. That may not remain true going forward, and can be hard to reach smoothly. Admins should be careful since markets tend to dissent against application of extreme external conditions and rates of change. Keynes is a rather extreme propostion. Not the sweet spot data, but a chart on history... https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-history-of-interest-rates-over-670-yea… Were the "recovery" talking heads to think... Much of worlds economy is still intact re Corona, immediate issue there is people forcefully unemployed by retarded government lockdowns. Easily addressible for a few more carryover months by world shaving some billions off its military budgets and distributing based on need. Thus no new debt, and smaller war machine. It's policy, thus not really Libertarian, but probably faster in interim than refunding tax theft till treasuries depleted, and teaching humanity to give directly to local charity, roads, etc instead. Debt seems to remain the chosen way, not least until spectacular implosion sometime, somewhere, as usual. Cryptocurrency pill has been predicted by cryptos to nullify debt policy in favor of humanity... so could gold, and chickens... were humans to adopt any suitable mix of them over Fiat, and see about avoiding implosions.

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