March 2020 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Cryptocurrency: CBDC's Racing to Backdoor Distributed Cryptos
by grarpamp 02 Mar '20

02 Mar '20

https://qz.com/1810727/central-banks-are-researching-digital-currencies-to-… https://slashdot.org/story/20/02/20/1735215/sweden-starts-testing-worlds-fi… http://www.bis.org/publ/qtrpdf/r_qt2003.htm "Officials at central banks are considering how and whether to create a digital form of cash," reports Qz: As money gets swept up by tech innovation, government authorities are taking a closer look at old fashioned notes and coins. More than a dozen countries are either researching, piloting, or, like China, have ongoing work in place for central bank digital currencies, according to a Bank for International Settlements report published today. "Central banks around the world are investigating a rich set of prototypes," the BIS wrote... While physical cash isn't yet endangered in most places, the experience of a few countries, notably Sweden, China, and even to some extent the UK, shows that a world with much less cash usage is increasingly possible. That's why the BIS, sometimes called the central bank for central banks, published a report sketching out possible designs for a peer-to-peer central bank digital currency. Denounce and avoid these Fiat Spying and Censorship coins.

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Did Appelbaum Meet Snowden in Hawaii Before Leak?
by John Young 02 Mar '20

02 Mar '20

March 1, 2020<https://twitter.com/ageis> <https://twitter.com/ageis>Kevin Gallagher @ageis "According to <https://twitter.com/laurapoitras>@laurapoitras Berlin Journal from Astro Noise, <https://twitter.com/ioerror>@ioerror was keyed into forthcoming <https://twitter.com/Snowden>@Snowden leak from March 2013 at the latest. Both interviewed "C4" via e-mail. Jake travels Hawaii in April 2013, supposedly for 30th birthday. People are curious if they met then." Also, a Crypto Party was conducted in Honolulu by Runa Sandvik and Snowden in January 2013.

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Joshua Schulte (WikiLeaks Vault 7) Cell Mates
by John Young 01 Mar '20

01 Mar '20

Carlos Betances Luna Mera, indicted twice for illegal entry, is the Schulte cell mate who arranged for his wife to bring into prison a contraband cellphone used by Schulte, then recorded and ratted Schulte to the FBI. He testified as a witness in Schulte's trial. https://cryptome.org/2020/03/betances-complaint-2018.pdf Omar Amanat, a financial entrepreneur indicted for wire fraud, is the Schulte cell mate who befriended and advised Schulte. Shared use of contraband cellphones. His trial is still underway. He was not a witness in Schulte's trial, so far. https://cryptome.org/2020/03/amanat-indictment-2016.pdf

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Nike sweatshop labor softens the shoes
by Ryan Carboni 01 Mar '20

01 Mar '20

I find Nike sweatshop labor softens shoes, likely from the sweat, makes it more comfortable than the other brands. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/china-compels-uighurs-to-…

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Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech
by jim bell 01 Mar '20

01 Mar '20

>From Discover on Google https://newatlas.com/energy/hb11-hydrogen-boron-fusion-clean-energy/

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USA: 41 Democrats Travel Overseas to One Country at Once?
by grarpamp 01 Mar '20

01 Mar '20

https://mondoweiss.net/2019/08/democrats-affiliated-violates/ https://theintercept.com/2019/06/20/steny-hoyer-aipac-j-street-israel/ https://jewishinsider.com/2019/06/aipacs-congressional-trip-to-israel-leave… House Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) landed today in Israel with 41 other Democratic Representatives for a week-long, all-expenses-paid junket sponsored by the American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF), the educational branch of the lobbying organization American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)... Ignoring the source links... 41 US elected reps in office traveling at once to one country? That's 10% of that body, not including support and associated political elements... How rare is that, whether to, or even from any other country in the world, under any international situation? Shit these days is beyond bizarre. https://reddit.com/r/Israel_Palestine/comments/cmhc6c/afraid_to_say_their_n… https://reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/cmq2gj/israel_buys_owns_the_us_con… https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/To-protect-Israel-… https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/ACLU-files-complai… https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/371/832/1e3.jpg

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Dirtbag Left Hates
by John Young 01 Mar '20

01 Mar '20

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/us/politics/bernie-sanders-chapo-trap-ho… "The people in the crowd were angry, and Chapo Trap House wanted them to stay that way. The five hosts of the popular socialist podcast wanted everyone to know they had all been lied to. About everything. The media they consumed was fake news aimed to distract them from the only war worth fighting: the class war. Politesse, civility, even pleasure those were tools of the neoliberal oppressor. The right answer is rage." Let the hate feed you.

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Re: Wikileaks: Julian Assange
by John Young 01 Mar '20

01 Mar '20

FWIW, Assange's counsel mistated that Cryptome hosted, and still hosts, the State Department cables. Cryptome posted, and still hosts, the torrents for accessing the cable files after decrypting the torrents with the book-published password. But did not publish the very large files themselves. Of the three encrypted files only one, the y-file, could be decrypted with the password, not x and z. Still don't know what is in x and z. https://cryptome.org/xyz/x.gpg.torrent https://cryptome.org/xyz/y-docs.gpg.torrent https://cryptome.org/xyz/y-gpg.torrent https://cryptome.org/xyz/z-gpg.torrent Cryptome archived the decrypted y file, cables.csv (1.7GB), but did not publish it. Not aware of where or who hosted the files accessed by the torrents. Don't know if the others who downloaded the torrents then decrypted and published all of them. If not, it is possible WikiLeaks first published the unredacted files, maybe all of them, thinking that others had already done so.

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