December 2020 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Fighting crony capitalism, via this blockchain project
by Mr. Aaron Nonimously 25 Dec '20

25 Dec '20

This is about a project that will launch soon to: Fight the specific crony capitalism layer on the economy (and leave the healthy economy). I’m looking for 2 people in the USA and 2 people outside of the USA. They would run blockchain “mining nodes” software on a server. This is needed to start the blockchain mining node. Here is how it works: 1. It works by outputting a RIGGED ECONOMY THEFT REPORT. This is calculated to OUT every part of the economy that is rigged by crony capitalism. 2. This works by citizen investigators doing a ~3 page text file write-up on one part of the economy being rigged. 3. Examples: a) 2008 mortgage crisis, savings and loan bail outs, LTCM bailouts, etc. b) Panama papers, offshore tax evasion by the wealthy c) USA mega corps pay near zero in taxes, while having huge profits. d) pharma is rigged e) 20+ have been found in Wall Street / Finance / Banking that “maybe” have been rigged at some point i) AIG, rating agencies ii) LIBOR iii) Eliot Spitzer found a list iv) far more… f) Many more industries... 4. Any citizen can act like a “citizen investigator”. On our open source software, they submit a text file (YAML) that gives justification for rigged/crony capitalism in one specific part of the economy. Different versions by different people for each area. Voting by citizen picks the best in each area. 5. An economic model approximates the amount “stolen” in each area (rigged means NOT free market rates with full competition). 6. A strong system to validate citizen voter registration to make sure only one-vote per citizen. Votes are confirmed by citizens to only count for the country they are citizens of. 7. A report is outputted for each part of the economy. Pharma, Wall Street / Finance, etc. 8. The amount ripped off/stolen for each part of the economy is generated from citizen votes. Pharma, Wall Street / Finance, etc. 9. A full economy rigged report is created for each country. Total amount stolen. 3 page summaries on each part of the economy. 10. This creates direct democracy to show where lobbyists create a rigged economy from crony capitalism. This project isn’t complaining about a normal economy of free-market rates with competition. This will be: a) Open source software b) Data is stored on the blockchain with smart contracts. We will have our own “mining nodes” that are open-source software. We are looking for 2 people outside of the USA to run a node each. And 2 more in the USA to run nodes. Please reply directly to me if you would be willing to help. It can run on a $30/mo server (hostgator, digital ocean, etc.). Donations will come in overtime to pay you back for running a server. It will only take about 4 hours per year to maintain it. It just runs without requiring labor. Please reply if you could be open to running one of these mining nodes. Thanks. Sincerely, We are anonymous.

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Password generation for our childrens children
by professor rat 25 Dec '20

25 Dec '20

Its expensive now - but prices will fall https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.5.029409/full/?TRACK=RSS&u… Btw - correlation is not causation but in July 2015 I blogged about the universe as PKI. " Split-Key-Cosmology ". And, previously, Charles K. Rhodes had worked on some cosmology using some cryptographic math. 2003, 2010 and 2012. https://academictree.org/physics/publications.php?pid=415152

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Don't hate crony capitalism - kill crony capitalists
by professor rat 25 Dec '20

25 Dec '20

Cypherpunks been after this guy for nearly a quarter century https://stiffs.com/celebrity/billgates Before Belling Cat there was smelling rat... https://www.mail-archive.com/cypherpunks@minder.net/msg30780.html

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CRYING and depressed Julian Assmange, a bright spot of 2020
by professor rat 25 Dec '20

25 Dec '20

Wouldn't you be depressed if you sold all your crypto in 2017? Those who make cypherpunk revolution halfway simply dig their own graves. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

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GRAMPS true identity?
by professor rat 25 Dec '20

25 Dec '20

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Posobiec

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Two postdoc positions in Meta-data Privacy Systems and Networks at University of Edinburgh
by grarpamp 24 Dec '20

24 Dec '20

While at your new $job, fix the TA problem of ACN's... because some whitepapers, analysts, researchers, and NSA are saying all current ones stink like tor. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ELAHI Tariq <t.elahi(a)ed.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 Subject: Two postdoc positions in Meta-data Privacy Systems and Networks at University of Edinburgh Hello all, I am looking for two post-docs to join two projects in the theme of Meta-data Privacy Systems and Networks. The post-docs are homed in the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh where, under my supervision, we will investigate meta-data and data privacy techniques as building blocks/primitives to realize an “engineered privacy layer” that can be embedded into the Internet and communications networks in general. The post-docs will be a part of---and have the opportunity to interact and potentially collaborate with---the Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Trust group with over 15 core faculty members and 40+ Post-docs, PhD students, and affiliated faculty spanning a broad range of theoretical and applied topics in security, privacy, and trust. For more about the group please see: edin.ac/3mIDdqN. If you would like to have a casual chat to find out more before applying or have any questions please get in touch with me (t.elahi(a)ed.ac.uk) To learn more about my research interests please see: edin.ac/2KUmT93. Early applications will be considered as they arrive. The deadline for both positions is 15/1/2021 17:00 GMT. Some brief information about the two projects with links to further details follow: 1) "Integrating Meta-data Privacy into Networked Applications through ‘Add-On’ Anonymous Communication Networks" The aim of this project is to investigate how effectively and efficiently anonymous communication networks (ACN) primitives (at the network and applications layers) can act as “add-ons” between applications that do not have privacy built-in by design (non-PbD apps) and the Internet at large. This project will rigorously develop and extend on the current folk wisdom that to add anonymity or privacy properties to a non-PbD system, the addition of sending all traffic through an ACN is sufficient. It will provide a nuanced and technical approach to integrating anonymous networks, and the primitives they are built on, to systems that are not originally privacy-aware. The approach will be to investigate and extend privacy primitives that enable routing, path selection, and traffic shaping and compose the result into an “engineered privacy-layer”. Duration: 18 Months Start: March 1st, 2021 (flexible) More Information: edin.ac/3rnDdAb (apply by 15/1/2021) 2) "Well-behaved Anonymous Communication Networks" Mass surveillance of email and web browsing traffic is a critical and growing threat to individual and at-risk groups' online security and privacy. In response, Anonymous Communication Networks (ACNs) like Tor and Mix networks secure communications on the Internet against even the most sophisticated and powerful adversaries. However, it is a challenge to optimally tune ACNs by the security non-expert system administrator in real world settings. Misconfiguration may lead to catastrophic failures of privacy and performance degradation that will erode trust in ACNs and hamper their adoption. This project will investigate novel approaches combining engineering principles and PETS techniques to designing, tuning, and operating ACNs at scale. The resulting systems and techniques will contribute towards our “engineered privacy-layer” vision. Duration 24 Months Start: March 1st (flexible) More Information: edin.ac/34AKDpZ (apply by 15/1/2021) Stay safe and be healthy, Tariq Elahi Assistant Professor School of Informatics University of Edinburgh UK The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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Encryption Lava Lamps – San Francisco, California - Atlas Obscura
by jim bell 24 Dec '20

24 Dec '20

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/encryption-lava-lamps Sounds like a PR stunt. Very slow data rate. Mix this with output from a modern chip-based RNG, and you won't be doing any harm. Just an example:https://www.idquantique.com/random-number-generation/products/quant…

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Chaos Monkeys book on SV
by professor rat 23 Dec '20

23 Dec '20

Chaos Monkeys lays bare the hijinks, trade secrets, and power plays of the visionaries, grunts, sociopaths, opportunists, accidental tourists, and money cowboys who are revolutionizing our world. The question is, how will we survive? https://www.amazon.com.au/Chaos-Monkeys-Antonio-Garcia-Martinez/dp/00624581…

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Intentional Big Tech Leftist Bias in Social and News Media Corrupts Elections and Defrauds Peoples
by grarpamp 23 Dec '20

23 Dec '20

The Invisible Influence of Big Tech on Politics & Elections - Allum Bokhari #Deleted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFJfGphZBmQ #Deleted: Big Tech's battle to erase the trump movement and steal the election https://deletedbook.com/

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Cryptocurrency: The Long Term [re: Stir Fried Drones]
by grarpamp 23 Dec '20

23 Dec '20

>> <Make cool toys> > WE NEED OPEN SOURCE PLANS TO DO THAT. Even the smallest of crypto hodlers and traders will over time see their value increase to where they will have more free time to spend on making such plans. Even the author of old anarchist cookbook needed free time from work to write the book, now we have many Anarchapulco's spreading. Now we have millions small crypto people slowly generating and approaching more free time. Some who will honor and always work to bring crypto voluntary ways... And to publish plans for toys.

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