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War on Crypto: EARN-IT Act - Sink the Clipper Chip
by grarpamp 09 Mar '20

09 Mar '20

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/clipper/ny-debate-j… http://www.erik.co.uk/hackerpix/sinkclip.gif https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/97690/MIT-CSAIL-TR-2015-026.… Abelson, Harold; Anderson, Ross; Bellovin, Steven M.; Benaloh, Josh; Blaze, Matt; Diffie, Whitfield; Gilmore, John; Green, Matthew; Landau, Susan; Neumann, Peter G.; Rivest, Ronald L.; Schiller, Jeffrey I.; Schneier, Bruce; Specter, Michael; Weitzner, Daniel J. 2015-07-06: Twenty years ago, law enforcement organizations lobbied to require data and communication services to engineer their products to guarantee law enforcement access to all data. After lengthy debate and vigorous predictions of enforcement channels going dark, these attempts to regulate the emerging Internet were abandoned. In the intervening years, innovation on the Internet flourished, and law enforcement agencies found new and more effective means of accessing vastly larger quantities of data. Today we are again hearing calls for regulation to mandate the provision of exceptional access mechanisms. In this report, a group of computer scientists and security experts, many of whom participated in a 1997 study of these same topics, has convened to explore the likely effects of imposing extraordinary access mandates. We have found that the damage that could be caused by law enforcement exceptional access requirements would be even greater today than it would have been 20 years ago. In the wake of the growing economic and social cost of the fundamental insecurity of today's Internet environment, any proposals that alter the security dynamics online should be approached with caution. Exceptional access would force Internet system developers to reverse forward secrecy design practices that seek to minimize the impact on user privacy when systems are breached. The complexity of today's Internet environment, with millions of apps and globally connected services, means that new law enforcement requirements are likely to introduce unanticipated, hard to detect security flaws. Beyond these and other technical vulnerabilities, the prospect of globally deployed exceptional access systems raises difficult problems about how such an environment would be governed and how to ensure that such systems would respect human rights and the rule of law.

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BBS: 316-794-3559 CyberPunk System
by grarpamp 09 Mar '20

09 Mar '20

http://www.erik.co.uk/hackerpix/pir8at_t.gif http://www.usbbs.org/timewarp.htm http://bbslist.textfiles.com/ http://timeline.textfiles.com/ https://www.synchro.net/sbbslist.html https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/ http://bbs.guide/ http://cbbsoutpost.servebbs.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system infohash:964FFB5C773C4BBE0AE9A1F83D7F8EF096170C41

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Happy 8 March
by Georgi Guninski 09 Mar '20

09 Mar '20

Happy 8 March to the chicks. @->->-

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UEFA Bans Pre-Match Sex in All Competitions Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
by Zig the N.g 08 Mar '20

08 Mar '20

Actually, just handshakes, but same diff. UEFA Bans Pre-Match Handshakes in All Competitions Amid Coronavirus Outbreak https://sputniknews.com/world/202003081078514571-uefa-bans-pre-match-handsh… And from the "I did not have incidental relations with those politicians" department: ACU Chairman Says He Only Had ‘Incidental’ Contact With Coronavirus-Infected CPAC Attendee https://sputniknews.com/us/202003081078514527-acu-chairman-says-he-only-had… Johnny Depp's ex gets handy swinging a pot in Mexico: Women March Against Violence in Mexico City Ahead of 24-Hour Strike on Monday - Video https://sputniknews.com/latam/202003081078514037-women-march-against-violen… Hillary Clinton tries to convince DNCNNPC candidates that if she runs with them as Vice President, they will still be alive at the end of even 1 term in office as President: 2020 US Election: Hillary Clinton Would 'Love' to See 'Someone Becoming First Woman Vice President' https://sputniknews.com/us/202003081078513572-2020-us-election-hillary-clin… Coronavirus world tour continues: Coronavirus World Tour: Stock Up on Toilet Paper, Because Everyone is Going to Die http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/coronavirus-world-tour-stock-up-on-toilet-pap… Australians Go to War for Toilet Paper as Stocks Run Low http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/australians-go-to-war-for-toilet-paper-as-sto… White House finally doing the right thing by Palestinians: Jared Kushner Says White House Will Approve Annexation of Entire West Bank No Matter What http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/jared-kushner-says-white-house-will-approve-a… Roger Waters makes it to Tucker Carlson: Tucker Interviews Roger Waters on Julian Assange Persecution http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/tucker-interviews-roger-waters-on-julian-assa… And finally, Paris mosques are becoming safe spaces: At Least One Injured After Man Opens Fire in Mosque in Paris - Reports https://sputniknews.com/europe/202003081078514290-at-least-one-injured-afte…

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1984: Utah Pimps All its Feeds to Banjo Secret AI Surveillance Corp
by grarpamp 08 Mar '20

08 Mar '20

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/k7exem/banjo-ai-company-utah-surveillanc… https://utah-das-contract-searchsp.s3.amazonaws.com/full_contract_AR3205_AR… https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5dmkyq/heres-the-file-clearview-ai-has-b… https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/clearview-ai-fbi-ice-global-la… https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/google-geofence-location-data-avondale… https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/google-tracked-his-bike-ride-past-burg… The state of Utah has given an artificial intelligence company real-time access to state traffic cameras, CCTV and "public safety" cameras, 911 emergency systems, location data for state-owned vehicles, and other sensitive data. The company, called Banjo, says that it's combining this data with information collected from social media, satellites, and other apps. In its pitches to prospective clients, Banjo promises its technology, called "Live Time Intelligence," can identify, and potentially help police solve, an incredible variety of crimes in real-time. "include but may not be limited to speech recognition and natural language processing" as well as automatic scene detection, object recognition, and vehicle detection on real-time video footage pulled in. Banjo's pitch to state and local agencies is that the more data that's fed into it, the better its product will work... Privacy experts are unsure how Banjo can be doing anything other than applying machine learning to a terrifying amount of data to create a persistent panopticon pointed at everyone who lives in Utah.

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Encrypted Git Remote, Undoc Opcodes, Clone Car Keys Digital Lockpicking, PDF Sec, Heist
by grarpamp 08 Mar '20

08 Mar '20

http://ptspts.blogspot.com/2017/10/comparison-of-encrypted-git-remote.html https://github.com/cattius/opcodetester https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22505256 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22516496 https://www.gq.com/story/the-great-buenos-aires-bank-heist

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Volcker (the Fed): “The American standard of living must decline” - End the Fed - [MONEY] [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 08 Mar '20

08 Mar '20

Paul Volcker, chairman of the Fed, August 1979 to August 1987: “The American standard of living must decline” And indeed it has, just as the Aussie dollar has been gutted, so too has the US fiat. Paul Adolph Volcker Jr. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Volcker Rabobank: "The Key Reason We Are In This Mess Is Due To Volcker" https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/rabobank-key-reason-we-are-mess-due-volck… John Maynard Keynes: "There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose." https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-12-09/end-epoch-report-8-dec The End of an Epoch, Report 8 Dec A fundamental change: "The Fed has gone from the financial bubble’s hostage to its guardian." https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/trapped-when-will-we-know-they-lost-contr… Trapped (When Will We Know 'They' Lost Control?) "As asset markets have become so large, relative to the real economy, their turbulence determines the economic outlook and not, as is normally the case, the other way around. This is why the Fed has cut interest rates during the trade war, even with unemployment at historic lows. It views the ensuing market turbulence as a threat to the economy. The Fed has gone from the financial bubble’s hostage to its guardian." ... So why would the Fed worry about any "threat to the economy"? Could it be that about half a quintillion fiats of debt, ultimately "owed" to the BIS, via the Fed, is the control mechanism upon the world, used to dictate to parliaments, militaries and the people generally, what systems we are to have - what systems of government, which "regimes" must be overthrown by "our" militaries, and which financial instruments (e.g. debt vs credit paper issuance or "fiat printing") we are allowed to use ('member JFK briefly, just prior to his death, fired up the Greenback 'credit paper' printing press)? Why would the BIS insist that the entire world (minus NK, Iran and Venezuela, surprise surprise) is only allowed to print debt based fiats, and not credit based fiats? Could it be that the BIS and its (((owners))) want to pretend they own the world, and all of us too, and don't want us to have liberty, freedom, all those sorts of good things? If the BIS/Fed had actually managed to subdue NK, Iran and Venezuela, along with Iraq and Libya (remember Saddam and Qaddhafi), then the global hegemonic order might have been considered done, and the USD reset, and issuance of a New World Order debt based fiat, could have proceeded aplan. But Putin was not Saddam'ed, Qadhafi'ed or JFK'ed, and he stood by Syria, and effectively Iran, and has very publicly stated that nations have a right to their sovereignty, and that Russia values her own sovereignty very highly. So now it's a multi polar world and TPTB are jostling for power and control in the aftermath of their epic "all chips on the table" NWO failure. Perhaps this is the underlying economic/power reason that we remain in a kind of limbo? Perhaps TPTB cannot bear to reset the USD fiat system thus hastening the multi polar world, and are just zombie-ing along pitifully? ------ Imagine for moment, entirely hypothetically mind you, that you yourself are Monti Burns gleefully rubbing his hands together about a half a quintillion USD fiats "owed" to you, or rather, to the BIS. Now imagine that instead of real and substantial relationships built up over decades, you'd merely enslaved, bombed into submission, and indebted those 99% of nations that ARE a part of the BIS Federal Reserve system, and so all thinkers / observers in the world, are fundamentally pissed off with the way things are, and are just waiting for the bell to toll on the USD as they issue national currencies and finally shake off the cobwebs of the BIS? Would you not, in this entirely ficticious hypothetical, be a little annoyed that you 500 trillion fiats of debt owed to you, were about to "go up in smoke" the minute this debt based fiat system collapses under its exponential thus mathematically pre-ordained weight? Wouldn't this all be just, slightly annoying? And so perhaps you'd even consider lowering interest rates to less than zero and printing the firetruck out of those USD fiats, just to keep the bubble inflated while you try, vainly and pathetically, to figure out a better exit strategy? Not an enviable position to be in - from a purely "strategic problem space" perspective of course, since you still own all the relevant banks, media houses, corporations, militaries and governments. But still. Half a f@#king quintillion fiat dollars about to go up in smoke! Damn dude! What a decision to have to make?! What would Jesus do? What would you do? -- Seven day challenge muffas :D Put your dignity first, heh? ;)

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Bruce Schneier Whores For CoronaVirus Hysteria
by Razer 08 Mar '20

08 Mar '20

This article is full of independently unverified information and lies about Russian disinformation campaigns. Considering Schneier is a known US intelligence agency asset that's not surprising. The US government is sowing panic and hysteria to cripple China's ability to do business globally, based on vaporware statistics and conjecture regarding the outcome of what basically amounts to a COLD. I mean... You don't REALLY want to have to take out a loan to buy your next pair of sweatpants, or mortgage you house to afford an iPhone, do you? That's what would happen (ok, so it's a bit exaggerated) if the US actually was stupid enough to try standard trade war tactics, so instead it's Hybrid Economic war by that old tried and true INSTITUTIONAL SLANDER, and the US media, seeing a FORTUNE to be made sensationalizing it, followed along like the WHORES they are. How Hackers and Spies Could Sabotage the Coronavirus Fight Intelligence services have a long history of manipulating information on health issues, and an epidemic is especially tempting for interference. Why aren’t we better prepared? https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/02/28/hackers-spies-coronavirus-espionage/

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Coronavirus Fears Are The Crisis
by Razer 08 Mar '20

08 Mar '20

"Here’s how to arm yourself for the health catastrophe caused by public anxiety." "First, you should recognize that media is overwhelmingly incentivized to produce negative and alarmist headlines, without the accompanying historical context and analytical expertise needed for the average person to evaluate the severity of those headlines. This is especially problematic for the new coronavirus, because Americans have significantly poor health literacy relative to their knowledge of other public policy issues. And while some news publications may be responsible and balanced, most are operated on business models that privilege sensationalism and deem positive news and positive trends to be not newsworthy. Meanwhile, as several studies of the Ebola crisis demonstrated, it’s best to stay off of social media unless you want to be misinformed or terrified." Micah Zenko: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/03/04/coronavirus-fears-national-security-cr…

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An Unfixable Flaw Threatens 5 Years of Intel Chips
by jim bell 08 Mar '20

08 Mar '20

https://www.wired.com/story/unfixable-intel-flaw-j-crew-breach-virgin-media… Jim Bell's comment:. Lovely.

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