October 2020 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Former US intel analyst arrested for leaking DroneWar dox
by Razer 02 Dec '20

02 Dec '20

A former US intel analyst was arrested Thursday under the Espionage Act. He allegedly leaked dox about the US Drone War program. Daniel Hale faces up to 50 yrs in prison, accused of disclosing 11 top secret/secret documents to a reporter. "...unnamed government sources have told media outlets that the reporter is investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill of The Intercept..." https://www.democracynow.org/2019/5/10/trump_steps_up_war_on_whistleblowers Rr Sent from my Androgyne dee-vice with K-9 Mail

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Eyeball Series: World's Most Important Tower... HFT's AOptix @ Mawah
by grarpamp 29 Nov '20

29 Nov '20

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-01/meanwhile-over-new-york-stock-exc… http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/176551-new-laser-network-between-nyse-an… http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303947904579340711424615716 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yME8jGdInr4

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"total breakdown of fabric of society"
by Zenaan Harkness 26 Nov '20

26 Nov '20

"The Alt-Right is simply Zionism for White Europeans. Jews have an ethnostate with a wall and Jew-only immigration. If you hate the Alt-Right you must be an anti-semite." “We’ve never seen Richard Spencers like this before. We are witnessing the rise of a new breed of Spencer.” -New York Times “There’s a feeling in the air, as if Spencerism is going to unleash a hellish inferno of rebranded white supremacy on Texas.” -USA Today WaPo: “Texas is reaching a type of ‘Maximum Richard Spencer Overdrive,’ which at best will result in a national existential crisis. At worst, we could be facing a total breakdown of fabric of society, inducing a Walking Dead type scenario.” -Washington Post http://www.dailystormer.com/live-at-texas-am-the-dawn-of-richard-spencer/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlbLNWIFEY0 ~800MiB ("best") -- * Certified Deplorable Neo-Nazi Fake News Hunter (TM)(C)(R) * Executive Director of Triggers, Ministry of Winning * Weapons against traditional European values: http://davidduke.com/jewish-professor-boasts-of-jewish-pornography-used-as-…

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Cryptocurrency: Rothschild holds GBTC
by grarpamp 21 Nov '20

21 Nov '20

https://investors.morningstar.com/ownership/shareholders-overview.html?t=GB… Name SharesHeld %TotalSharesHeld SharesChange %ChgfromPriorPort %TotalAssets DateofPortfolio Rothschild Investment Corp 11,500 0 11,500 New 0.02 06/30/2019 Banks and other interesting "traditional players" and parties have been showing up in worldwide crypto securities markets for years.

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vault1317/signal-dakez: An authenticated key exchange protocol with a public key concealing and a participation deniability designed for secure messaging
by ROOT＠HardenedVault 18 Nov '20

18 Nov '20

http://4o7umzlwx7unb64vgnqj4yhwtlqmlnyx3gawayfni623hqqw5buy5pid.onion/vault… https://github.com/hardenedvault/vault1317/raw/master/vault1317.pdf regards ROOT@HardenedVault

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of elephants and men
by Zenaan Harkness 17 Nov '20

17 Nov '20

The younger generations today need rescuing, frankly. In the Absence of Fathers: A Story of Elephants and Men http://thesestonewalls.com/gordon-macrae/in-the-absence-of-fathers-a-story-… The Delinquents - CBS News https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-delinquents/ [PDF] The effect of mature elephant bull introductions on ranging patterns ... https://koedoe.co.za/index.php/koedoe/article/download/115/117 … this abnormal behaviour was corrected by introducing older bulls and culling certain problem elephants… Elephants Run To Greeting A New Rescued Baby Elephant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_D4qqciraI Blind elephant dances to the music of Bach on the piano https://scroll.in/video/887112/watch-this-video-of-a-blind-elephant-swaying… Cheers Zen

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Automatic email encryption w/ pretty Easy privacy (p≡p): Android/iOS/Outlook/Thunderbird (so far)
by Hernâni Marques 14 Nov '20

14 Nov '20

Dear Cypherpunks! We just released beta installers for macOS and Windows to engage in automatic email encryption with Thunderbird (v68 and v78), with in-band key exchange and a mechanism to synchronize own devices [0][1], using the same email address. => https://pep.software/thunderbird (You also find software for Android, iOS and Outlook.) Feedback is very much appreciated, a bug tracker is here: https://gitea.pep.foundation/pEp.foundation/pEp4Thunderbird_PublicBugTracki… A user forum you find here: https://pep.community/ Greets --hernani [0] https://www.pep.security/docs/general_information.html#pp-sync [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pep-keysync-02 -- https://vecirex.net

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Crypto: Zoom and Apple T2... Trusted Crypto That Isn't
by grarpamp 12 Nov '20

12 Nov '20

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-t2-chip-unfixable-flaw-jailbreak-mac/ https://github.com/windknown/presentations/blob/master/Attack_Secure_Boot_o… https://duckduckgo.com/?q="checkra1n" Apple's T2 Security Chip Has an Unfixable Flaw The Checkm8 vulnerability that exposed years of iPhones to jailbreaking has finally been exploited in Macs as well, called Checkra1n. "This chip, which was supposed to provide all this extra security, is now pretty much moot." https://www.zdnet.com/article/zoom-to-roll-out-end-to-end-encrypted-e2ee-ca… Not logically possible that Zoom claimed to have secure p2p, but now adds secure p2p, thus lied again. Of course it is all closed source and account based, making it trivial for Zoom / Rogue Staff, Govts, etc to exploit users at will. Video conferencing platform Zoom announced today plans to roll out end-to-end encryption (E2EE) capabilities starting next week. From a report: E2EE will allow Zoom users to generate individual encryption keys that will be used to encrypt voice or video calls between them and other conference participants. These keys will be stored locally and will not be shared with Zoom servers, meaning the software company won't be able to access or intercept any ongoing E2EE meetings. Support for E2EE calls will first be part of Zoom clients to be released next week. To use the new feature, users must update theri clients next week and enable support for E2EE calls at the account level. This green shield will contain a lock if E2EE is active. If the lock is absent, Zoom will use its default AES 256-bit GCM encryption scheme, which the company uses to secure current communications, but which the company can also intercept.

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"Greta Thunberg" begs Kamala Harris to "not arrest us" - [PEACE] [SUCCESSFUL PRANK PHONE CALL]
by Zenaan Harkness 07 Nov '20

07 Nov '20

And the Top-KeK Top-Troll award of the year goes to ... Vovan & Lexus ... <YEAH, and the crowds go wild!!!> Fake "Greta" literally begs Kamala Harris to not arrest her and her father: The phone call then ends with the pranksters enthusing about the prospect of meeting Harris soon and begging her to “not arrest us” – a joke whose double meaning would’ve completely escaped her. “No, no, no!” Harris assures them. “I don’t want to go to jail!” ‘Greta’ responds. “I look forward to seeing you. Be well, and I’ll see you soon,” the senator promises. Kamala Harris, ‘pranked’ by Russian comedians posing as Greta Thunberg, ‘accepts’ hoax kompromat on Trump https://www.rt.com/news/498748-kamala-harris-greta-thunberg-prank-call/ It seems pranksters Vovan and Lexus have successfully duped another politician, with audio suggesting Democrat VP nominee Kamala Harris was eager to accept a fake recording of Donald Trump, believing the caller was Greta Thunberg. Vovan and Lexus, whose real names are Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov, posed as the teenage climate activist and her father Svante to make a phone call in January to Harris, just months before she became Joe Biden’s running mate. “Congratulations on all your leadership. I’m so inspired by your courage and your voice,” Sen. Harris (D-California) tells the pranksters, in the audio clip obtained by The Sun. The duo then claim they have “dirt” on Trump that could prove helpful to Harris, in the form of a recording of the president telling Thunberg “you will never achieve your goal.” “I’m so terrified of what Trump is doing, I even cannot eat or sleep when I see him on TV. That terrible meeting in the UN building in September – I have nightmares. I saw him in the corridor and shouted to him to sign the Paris climate agreement. He came over and he said softly to me, ‘You will never achieve the goal,’” the fake ‘Greta’ says. After Greta offers her support to Harris’s campaign, ‘Svante’ tells the senator that the conversation between Trump and his daughter was recorded and asks if the recording would be helpful to her. Harris appears to accept the offer. “That would be wonderful,” she says. She also accepts an offer from ‘Greta’ to testify against Trump. The phone call then ends with the pranksters enthusing about the prospect of meeting Harris soon and begging her to “not arrest us” – a joke whose double meaning would’ve completely escaped her. “No, no, no!” Harris assures them. “I don’t want to go to jail!” ‘Greta’ responds. “I look forward to seeing you. Be well, and I’ll see you soon,” the senator promises. ...

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"I chew gum, and I blow up missile shipments to Venezuela" - [ENJOY] [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 04 Nov '20

04 Nov '20

Folks 2020 ist going to be ze funny-est year of zis millenium. Fer sure muffaducka :D So!: "I chew gum, and I blow up missile shipments to Venezuela. Oh ... und I am all outta gum!" HA! Did not expect this headline folks. Movie coming up no doubt, but whether it's 2 years or 22 years is anyone's guess at this point :) US Vows To Blow Up Any Iranian Missile Shipments To Venezuela https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-vows-blow-any-iranian-missile-shi… You know how it SHOULD go down - movie called "Tommy Strikes": US navy steams into position from Sat intel prep, considers lives on board Iranian missile shipment, literally by ship, to Venezuela, presently still on the high seas. Cut to submarine shot 'cause subs are cool, especially in a Navy special ops movie :) Rivetting moment as camera pans very serious faces, all immaculately dressed on bridge of the USS Teddy. It's dusk (better light effects for the fireworks to come). Captain is serious, very serious. CIA suits are laser dotting a big paper plan of Eye-ranian ship on cap'ns table as flippered navy seals maintain piercing gaze and ears on every word dropped. "'K lads, this how we goin down to day: the Eye-ranians are back on comms in 7 minutes. They got a light crew - 17 Souls on board. But they missiles are gunna make the evening sky look like midday when Tommy strikes. [laughter all around]" A flipper lad speaks up: "Sir!?" Suit: "Yes son?" Flipper lad: "What the hell's this preacher fo?! Sir!" Suit: "Conscience, lad! But more 'n that, we're shootin over 3 powered lifeboats - 10 Eye-ranians in each, if they wanna [more chuckles], and one fo spare, just in case they under reeportin dey numbers - happens all the time. [mo chuckels] They'll have 20 minutes to avoid the fireworks." Flipper lad again: "" Suit: "I probably shouldnta say 'shootin' just yet. COME on son, y'all know what I mean - life boats are GOIN over there!" [mo chuckels] Suit: "Any more questions? And NONE outta YOU!" [points to smart arse] Chuckles, nods and grunts. ... Did I mention "Tommy Strikes" is a little bit trollish? Welp, it's a little bit trollish ;)

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