December 2020 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Judging Jacob Appelbaum
by professor rat 28 Dec '20

28 Dec '20

"... I make the error of blaming people. It is always an error, whoever makes it..." This your version of original sin? Jesus Fucking Christ. An alien federation of intelligent species may decide we can be blamed for runaway population-growth and that would be an error...how, exactly? If they judge us all on Elon Musk then we're doomed.

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The origin and philosophy of Cypherpunks
by professor rat 28 Dec '20

28 Dec '20

The fact these were tainted by an inverse-Marxist economic obsession that economics trumps politics ( ' We are not a society " - M. Thatcher ) doesn't entirely invalidate the entire project. We don't dispense with the unquestioned benefits of democracy and science simply because ancient Athens tolerated slavery, pedophilia and superstition. Mong chose ' anarchy ' over ' liberty ' and that is enough to be going on with. Anarchism is a great tradition to try and glom onto - even if kills you. Mong was also broadly correct on the vital importance of the combination of networked computing and encryption. That is obviously a sore point for the USG which hated him and tried to shut down PKI for years. We honor Mong at his best by getting rich off technology, by annoying and destroying the powers-that-be and by working hard for the virtual realization of anarchism for everyone, for all time.

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Judging Jacob Appelbaum
by professor rat 28 Dec '20

28 Dec '20

Karl Since you have it in your head I'm the fascist here then you might stop dignifying my posts with your replies. Only a fascist does that; yes? Just a reminder for youse that KNOWN fascists - like the Nazbol, Batshit Stasi and Zendy Darkness - once sentenced people with Schizophrenia to death and mass-murdered them in Germany. They could do that again. Use sites like ' The Daily Stormer' and Channer/ Nazbol ones. Like Wikileaks. https://www.unz.com/ishamir/the-long-captivity-of-julian-assange/

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Jacob Appelbaum and I agree Tim May is a fascist
by professor rat 28 Dec '20

28 Dec '20

The case Tim " Mongo " May is a fascist began to emerge in the mid 90's when he failed to defend Jim Bell. By late 2001 May was being called a phony anarchist on his own list. His bum-buddy, Eric Hughes, defected - not even a list bet on the death of Paul Wolfowitz could salvage the Mongs street cred. So then he blew his whole wad calling for the deaths of 20 million mud-people ( a post, shamefully reproduced for a while at CRYPTOME by that Marxist moron, John Young ) And since this Nazi pig embodied the Randite economic approach that also died along with him. Unless you think REASON can give it some more mouth-to-arse resuscitation. Not even Murray Rothbard thought anyone could do that. https://mises.org/library/are-libertarians-anarchists

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A series on the origin and philosophy of the Cypherpunks
by Steven Schear 27 Dec '20

27 Dec '20

Part 1 of the 4 part series: https://reason.com/video/2020/10/07/before-the-web-the-1980s-dream-of-a-fre…

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Aljazeera news is a tainted source only trusted by complete morons
by professor rat 27 Dec '20

27 Dec '20

Fake news specialists - reliably unreliable - like a certain ex ' revolutionary cypherpunk ', now journalist. Against all the evidence of a massive Tahir demonstration, the tainted news source, Al Jazeera, kept describing the ousting of those Rightwing Muslim Hoods in Egypt as a ' coup'. This went on for years! It was as if they would have happily colluded in all those bigoted and sectarian murders encouraged by the Brotherhood and tried to whitewash any huge manifestation of democracy in favor of lies. The scum of the earth. Fuck Al Jazeera and all who sail in her.

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Judging Jacob Appelbaum
by professor rat 27 Dec '20

27 Dec '20

Judging Jacob Appelbaum, not everybody, Karl. Batshit Crazy is an enemy of everybody, not me. You don't debate fascists like that. You smash their faces in with a brick. And the more you try to misrepresent me the more you resemble him. Won't you stop Karl?

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Judging Jacob Appelbaum
by professor rat 27 Dec '20

27 Dec '20

Assuming he's a good-faith comrade only gets us so far since the generally-regarded, good-works, soon start getting buried under the bad-faith bullshit and even outright anti-social crimes. Main case in point being his solidarity and support for Assmange whose busy acting like a guilty rapist every year since 2009. Applecheeks also had no problem going on Russia Toady and selling Snowden material to the Corpse Media. Fuck that noise. To call himself a cypherpunk while carrying on like this is to drag us all through the mud. I'm proud I worked for over a year to get him sacked at Tor. I will do the same for any of our enemies. Smert Spion. Death to spies.

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Aljazeera news is a tainted source only trusted by complete morons
by professor rat 27 Dec '20

27 Dec '20

KARL scribbled "... the REAL fake news is the PHYSICAL WORLD. TOTALLY FUCKING FAKE. Have you ever asked an atom why it binds into a molecule? They just keep on doing it to put us on. It's all like a big game to them! ..." Quantum cryptanalysis belongs on coderpunks. This is cypherpunks. We discuss cryptoanarchism here ( when we're able ) Please take your tedious, geeky, nerd obsessions over to Perry's list where they belong. TIA.

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List administrivia: some emails are not getting through to subscribers
by Greg Newby 27 Dec '20

27 Dec '20

Hi, folks. Here is FYI concerning email delivery failures for cypherpunks: Since the afternoon (PST) of December 23, an issue with the upstream network provider's DNS has evidently caused some list recipients to not get messages. The issue is that the recipient's email provider rejects messages from lists.cpunks.org (a.k.a., pglaf.org) due to there being no PTR record in the DNS. PTR is also known as reverse DNS, and is one of the ways that network providers try to mitigate spam. In fact there is a valid PTR. A command like "dig -x 65.50.255.19" shows this. But some providers are getting NXDOMAIN when they look up the PTR, which means the query is rejected from the network provider that holds the IPv4 address space. This issue is now escalated with our hosting provider, and they need to bring it to their network provider. I hope it will be addressed soon. Meanwhile, some subscribers will not be getting messages. Or, perhaps, only getting some messages. The list archives, at https://lists.cpunks.org, are where you can find all the messages to the list. This does not seem to impact incoming messages: any subscriber may post, as usual. But list messages going *to* subscribers might not be received (including this one). Some messages might eventually be delivered if the issue is fixed soon, but many will bounce and will not be delivered. So far, mailman has not automatically unsubscribed anyone due to these delivery failures, and I've twiddled the server setting to try to prevent any auto-unsubscriptions. Apologies for this problem. If you receive this message, and seem to be receiving all messages, then the issue is probably not impacting your email service provider. If you didn't get this message but see it in the archive, I hope this explanation is helpful. I would be interested to hear from anyone who is getting some, but not all messages - that might help to narrow in on what part of the upstream network provider's systems are failing. Best regards to all, Greg (your current cypherpunks list maintainer)

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