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Cryptocurrency: Markets - Facemasks on the Darknets
by grarpamp 18 Mar '20

18 Mar '20

https://i.redd.it/cb3hqtxn0um41.jpg https://i.redd.it/27p7xaw07gm41.jpg https://old.reddit.com/r/deepweb/comments/fj0rce/face_masks/ https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/covid-19-indonesia-illegal-masks-… https://www.digitalshadows.com/blog-and-research/how-cybercriminals-are-tak… Is Price Gouging Immoral? Should It Be Illegal? via LearnLiberty / StudentsForLiberty / InstituteForHumaneStudies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9QEkw6_O6w

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Re: [tor-relays] Port Forwarding Question
by grarpamp 17 Mar '20

17 Mar '20

On 3/6/20, William Pate <willpate(a)pm.me> wrote: > This constantly trips me up. In my modem settings, I'm offered these options > for port forwarding. I know I need to open 9001, but what do I enter into > the external port fields? > https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/attachments/20200306/19f4… Tor advertises its ORPort to tor network via descriptor mechanism, the port is in the log output. For default tor config and simple forwarding firewall, enter the same port, typically 9001. Sorry you had to potentially sit idle on your project for almost three days waiting for it to even post to begin get any reply from others. The Tor Project censors running these lists... in part to placate snowbunnies and warriors, to manage image, to demur from some differing pov's and even some facts, to avoid journalist and open critique, etc... seem maybe have some issue with say letting people freely read and information freely timely flow. For example... Were your post to have been noting an attack or security exploit involving tor relays, a whole lot of tor users around the world could have got hurt in the intervening time below. That's really bad. And is the result of such needless "moderation" program Tor Project over everyone, instead of say only over the very rare incorrigible verbally abusive asshole repeatedly going directly into other people. Whereas a few spams now and then, other normal and typical fare, some fire, noise, convo, good args, parts above, etc all lists have from time to time, no big deal, silly to censor them. Tor has big budget to fund that program to click post approve 24x7, they did not even implement that. So relays might need consider non-tpo-list comms to be timely safe. " X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 09 Mar 2020 07:39:43 +0000 ... Received: from protonmail by torproject for tor-relays Fri 6 Mar 2020 16:25:18 +0000 Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2020 16:25:08 +0000 Subject: [tor-relays] Port Forwarding Question From: William Pate <willpate(a)pm.me> " Have fun with your tor project :)

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The Whole of the Moon
by Peter Fairbrother 17 Mar '20

17 Mar '20

Last one, for now. Please redistribute freely. Peter Fairbrother 4- The Whole of the Moon 17 March 2020 The good news: the worst-hit (or first hit) countries are now stopping their coronavirus epidemics. China has done pretty much stopped their epidemic spreading [1], in South Korea it is dying out [2], in Iran [3] and perhaps Italy [4] it is getting less of a hold, though it is a bit early to say in Italy's case. How can we be sure of that? Simple. The daily numbers of new cases are falling in all those countries, reaching very low levels in China and South Korea. They have all implemented strong isolation, and it is working for them. In none of them have even one thousandth of the population become, or are likely to become, infected (though Italy may come close). There is no known case where strong isolation is failing to stop the infection. China and South Korea are considering restrictions on people entering their countries in order to prevent infected people bringing the disease in, as that is now their major source of new infections. The bad news: the UK's present policy is still to delay the epidemic rather than try to stop it, allowing over 60% of the population to catch the disease at a projected cost of 400,000 UK deaths (UK Government figures). - So why does the UK government still insist strong isolation will not work for us? It doesn't have to be very onerous. Something like this: schools close, as do universities, pubs, public gatgerings. Most people stay at home for perhaps 4 weeks. During that four weeks we make a lot of masks, respirators and other protective gear. We prepare a very large number of tests. We prepare ventilators and people to operate them, and hospital and hospital beds in case the confinement does not work, though it should. We plan. We research the virus. During the fourth week we test anyone who might have the virus. After the four weeks that number should be about one thousand. It is estimated that there are a few tens of thousands of active virus cases now, at the end of the four weeks that should be around five thousand, many of whom will be in hospital and most of the rest will be isolated. After the first isolation period we implement mandatory testing if a doctor or trained nurse or a policy requires it, and mandatory quarantine if infected people do not self-isolate. Medium-term we limit personal contact, wear masks, wash hands, bump elbows, supply handrub. We monitor all suspected infections and contacts. Schools stay closed until we know more, but people mostly go back to work. Until we find a vaccine or cure or the disease dies out, we implement long-term restrictions on entry to the country - perhaps five days quarantine, with a test on the fifth day. That will not catch everybody, but it will probably catch enough people. I suggest UK people already abroad should not have to pay for this, but for UK people leaving then re-entering and foreigners the cost should be included in the ticket price, a bit like airport taxes. That will not be enough to stop the virus completely, but it will be a good start. We will by then have a better idea of which measures are necessary and which are not. Perhaps one or two thousand people will die. We may have to repeat this, or bring in other measures - but like China, South Korea, Iran and Italy, if we persevere we will stop the virus. - But we have to implement strong isolation now - any delay will cost lives. The Government's alternative is to let the virus infect 40 million people or so, just slowing it down a little. On the Government's own figures that will involve four hundred thousand deaths. This delay policy must stop, now. We want to kil the disease, not delay it. - Suppose we try hard to stop the virus and it fails. We will have had time to prepare for the peak, time to build ventilators, time to train staff to use them, time to make masks, time to expand testing, time to provide more hospital beds - time to research the virus, maybe even time to develop a vaccine or cure. But then suppose we try hard and succeed. It seems most other countries will succeed too, and the disease will wither away or remain at a very low level until a vaccine or cure can be found. We know how to do strong isolation for infection prevention, and all the examples in other countries show where it has been tried it is working - we need to do it now. We also need to drop SAGE, the UK Scientific Advisory Committee on Emergencies. Preferably from a great height. [1] Daily New Cases https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/china/ [2] Daily New Cases https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/south-korea/ [3] Daily New Cases https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/iran/ [4] Daily New Cases https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/ Peter Fairbrother Slogans for today: Don't delay the epidemic, kill it. Don't delay, kill the coronavirus. Kill the epidemic, not the people.

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Cryptocurrency: Darkweb Drugs - Australia's Busiest Mail Room
by grarpamp 17 Mar '20

17 Mar '20

Australia's Busiest Mail Room https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYlnpn4b9SY Users shed light on dark internet drug trade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riluf_4giXg James Martin - How Cryptomarkets are Transforming the Global Trade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv-E7naLBq8 Anna Explores https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCefyVSlUNg Ex Story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-svmMR4ubhY Ethic Dynamics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JC7Nwo5T0M https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLATM1IusYesdFjPIQJ8msHUEAV8g83ct-

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Harvard Professor Indited in January for Biological Connections with Wuhan
by Se7en 17 Mar '20

17 Mar '20

Snopes attempts to debunk this as "Mixed". When I first saw this video, I thought it was some kind of hoax because it's that weird recording of a video on a cell phone. It isn't. The links below prove the video. <https://invidio.us/watch?v=RkvV75elFLM> <https://invidio.us/watch?v=4JxM7lauNj8> <https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/28/politics/harvard-professor-chinese-nationals…> <https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/charles-lieber-arrested-coronavirus/> <https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/harvard-university-professor-and-two-chinese… tionals-charged-three-separate-china-related> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_M._Lieber> It is perhaps interesting to note that the majority of his group is Chinese <http://cml.harvard.edu/people/charles-m-lieber> <https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/why-did-chinese-university-hire-cha… s-lieber-do-battery-research> (Article snippit below): Lieber was arrested on 28 January on charges of making false statements to U.S. law enforcement officials and federal funding agencies about a collaboration he forged with researchers in China. He was released two days later on a $1 million bond. An affidavit outlining the charges against Lieber notes that in January 2013, he signed an agreement between Harvard and Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in China. According to the affidavit, “The stated purpose of the agreement, which had a five-year effective term, was to ‘carry out advanced research and development of nanowire-based lithium ion batteries with high performance for electric vehicles.’” Officials at WUT have not responded to requests for comment on their agreement with Lieber. But it outlines just the kind of high-tech work that U.S. prosecutors involved in efforts to investigate Chinese attempts to acquire advanced technology from U.S.-based researchers say they are concerned about. They allege that the Chinese government has used such collaborations to improperly take advantage of the federally funded research enterprise, and gain an edge in economic and military advances. In Lieber’s case, however, the battery angle poses a puzzle. That’s because a search of the titles of Lieber’s more than 400 papers and more than 75 U.S. and Chinese patents reveals no mentions of “battery,” “batteries,” “vehicle,” or “vehicles.” (According to Lieber’s CV, through 2019 he has co-authored 412 research papers and has 65 awarded and pending U.S. patents. The website of the Chinese National Intellectual Property Administration indicates that Lieber has been awarded 11 Chinese patents.) In fact, one U.S. nanoscientist and former student of Lieber’s says: “I have never seen Charlie working on batteries or nanowire batteries.” (The scientist asked that their name not be used because of the sensitivity surrounding Lieber’s case.) -- |-----/ | Se7en / The One and Only! | se7en(a)cock.email / | 0x73518A15BA3C1476 / | https://se7en-site.neocities.org

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[MINISTRY] word of the day⦂ “pettifoggery” - Muller scrambles to limit evidence as indicted Russians actually appear in "electshun interference" case
by Zenaan Harkness 17 Mar '20

17 Mar '20

Ministry - pettifoggery - USA government's bullshit being called ... ... by Mueller-charged actual Russian company "Concord". (I was just -so- sure that was meant to be Concordski, but hey, what do I know?) Ironic winning has never seen such levels — seriously off the chartski: Mueller Scrambles To Limit Evidence After Indicted Russians Actually Show Up In Court https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-12/mueller-scrambles-limit-evidence-… So at least some of these wicked nasty interfering Russians decided to have a little fun with Mueller, Russkie style. ‼ dang ‼ yeah baby, bring it on :D They wants their evidence of course (this -is- an axshual case in an actual court with a looming actual trial after all) and Mueller is now scrambling to hide his sorry arse from an embarrassing "in Soviet Russia, evidence charge you, Mr Mueller" :) Read it but do NOT chuckle, for in Russia, joke laugh you, da¿ The indictment accuses the firm of producing propaganda, pretending to be U.S. activists online and posting political content on social media in order to sow discord among American voters. … Mueller also accused Concord of "knowingly and intentionally" conspiring to interfere with the election by using social media to disparage Hillary Clinton and support Donald Trump. And Concord Management decided to fight it... Mueller probably didn't see that coming [no shirt, Shirlock] And the judge: In a mad scramble to [now] put the brakes on the case, Mueller's team tried to delay the trial - saying that Concord never formally accepted the court summons related to the case… The Judge, Dabney Friedrich - a Trump appointee, didn't buy it - denying Mueller a delay in the high-profile trial. So sad... so many salty, salty red tears for Mueller.

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Re: list of people censored on lists.debian.org
by Zenaan Harkness 17 Mar '20

17 Mar '20

On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 11:21:58PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been looking through debian-private and I found messages from > Alexander Wirt (formorer) about censoring various people from > lists.debian.org. Some of those messages appear to be defamatory. You > are in BCC because your name appears in debian-private. > > I've written a blog to help people work around censorship and other > dishonest practices, please tell me if this is helpful for you: > > https://danielpocock.com/freedom-and-censorship-on-mailing-lists/ > > Does anybody know any other victims of censorship in Debian or any other > free software community? > > Stay free, > > Daniel Hi Daniel, Thank you very much for the time and care you've taken to write up your above blog. It's always reassuring to see someone notice, let alone take action, in relation to one or another of our freedoms - be that the freedom to communicate, the freedom to move and travel anonymously within our communities, or the freedom to engage in a vigorous and vicious verbal stoush with a "sworn arch enemy" for a few days, and turn around afterwards and still continue communicating with them - or not - as we so freely choose. When the screaming banshee snowflakes do all in their power to drown out discussion of rights, principles and freedoms because "muh safe space" and "how dare you f*ck with my safe comfy space, I'll have you censored, hounded out of the community, and have you lose your job to boot, because you said something I don't like", unfrotunately there are some list admins who happily ban the one exercising the free speech, and not the one wanting to "shut it all down, muh safe space!" And so the bannings, kickings, or worse even the shadow bannings are imposed and dissent is met with more bannings and finally a massive swinging CoC dangled in front "the community" - a set of rules or most often just a statement or 3 about how we having to be good to one another, which CoC is thereafter used as the justification for more bannings and censorship. If there is to be any line in the sand, what ought that line be? >From a mailing list administrator's point of view, expecting them to oppose "the statute law" is too much - many would simply close up shop altogether. So in our present world, that is perhaps, perhaps, the only reasonably acceptable line for "you've crossed the line on free speech", and even then bannings or removal probably should not happen unless a court order is served on the list administrator. That's called presumption of innocence and assuming we do in fact have the right to live our rights. I appreciate your blog, and perhaps a few on the CypherPunks list may also appreciate it - CyphePunks is one of the few mailing lists that still strives to be staunch in standing for free speech - including the right of those who want to say "shut it down". Not the easiest journey apparently... Re RMS, I emailed him and encouraged him to withdraw his respective resignations (from FSF and MIT) - I don't know what the current status is. The email may be found here: reaching out -- was Re: Richard Stallman Gets SJW'd https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2019-September/076425.html And there's a whole (17 email) thread earlier, starting here: https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2019-September/076395.html Although a Google (Jewgle) search for "stallman site:lists.cpunks.org": https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=stallman+site%3Alists.cp… Brings up as at 20191009 11:15, only the following FOUR results: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks… https://www.google.com/url?q=https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks… https://www.google.com/url?q=https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks… https://www.google.com/url?q=https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks… And do NOTE, I have disabled google's "safe search" and anything similar I could find. This campaign/war against our basic rights, goes incredibly deep, right into the heart of "Silicon Valley" in bed with the NSA, CIA etc. See also: on the necessity of a @snowflake codedoc annotation https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2018-November/043880.html

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Ryacko
by rooty 16 Mar '20

16 Mar '20

Anyone heard from ryacko. He went dark and just wondering what happened

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Sweden Fines Google for Telling Website Owners About Censorship of Content - [MINISTRY]
by Zenaan Harkness 16 Mar '20

16 Mar '20

The Ministry in force. Sweden Fines Google for Telling Website Owners About Censorship of Content https://sputniknews.com/europe/202003161078580947-sweden-fines-google-for-t… According to Sweden’s Data Protection Authority (the Datainspektionen), the fine is punishment for the search engine giant’s failure to remove search results ordered to be blocked three years ago. Sweden’s Datainspektionen has fined google 75 million Swedish kronor (equivalent to about €7 million or $7.74 million) for failure to comply with the data protection watchdog’s instructions, the government agency has said in a statement. https://www.datainspektionen.se/nyheter/the-swedish-data-protection-authori… According to the regulator, which is affiliated with Sweden’s Ministry of Justice, Google violated the terms of the ‘right-to-be-forgotten rule’, a EU-mandated regulation introduced in 2014 allowing individuals to request the removal of potentially harmful private information from popping up in internet searches and directories. Datainspektionen says an internal audit has shown that Google has failed to “properly remove” two search results which were ordered to be delisted back in 2017, making either “too narrow” an interpretation of what content needed to be removed, or failing to remove a link to content “without undue delay.” The watchdog has also slapped Google with a cease-and-desist order for its practice of notifying website owners of a delisting request, arguing that this practice defeats the purpose of link removal in the first place. “In its delisting request form Google states that the site-owner will be notified of the request in a way that might result in individuals refraining from exercising their right to request delisting, thereby undermining the effectiveness of this right,” Olle Pettersson, legal advisor to the watchdog, said in a statement. Effectively, if Google complies, website owners will no longer be informed if URLs to certain web pages are delinked upon a user’s request. Google has promised to appeal the fine, with a spokesperson for the company saying that the tech giant “disagree[s] with this decision on principle and plan[s] to appeal.” Google has three weeks to appeal. https://www.androidcentral.com/sweden-fines-google-8-million-violating-righ…

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Matt Blaze is an idiot
by Ryan Carboni 16 Mar '20

16 Mar '20

You act in accordance for the plans you have and prepared for. This idea that moving people to a safe and sanitary location to continue working wouldn't be viable is idiotic if that was the only option available. Clearly no one prepared for anything, all attempts at planning were just fantasizing, and I wonder how he even manages function on a day to day basis. https://nitter.net/mattblaze/status/1239599508545310722 It occurs to me that most of the cold war emergency "continuity of government" planning was focused on the logistics of getting people together at a "safe" (but probably cramped) alternate workplace, and almost none of it on facilitating people working from home in isolation.

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