April 2020 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Cryptocurrency: Distributed Oracles
by grarpamp 07 Apr '20

07 Apr '20

https://medium.com/witnet/why-do-we-need-a-decentralized-oracle-network-91b… https://witnet.io/ https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7nwis4/why_i_believe_chain… https://chain.link/

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Soul cookie -- Fw: Sleepy cat gets a bit crowded by his buddies
by Zig the N.g 07 Apr '20

07 Apr '20

The -most- important thing to remember here is that there is only ONE breed of animal - The Animal - there are no birds (that's birdist) and there are no cats (that's catism). There are just animals and making any distinction is absolute patriarchal dominance at its worst! It's 2020 already! Tube cat direct: https://t.co/LHbenCk1se ----- Forwarded message ----- Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 08:07:23 +1300 Subject: Re: Sleepy cat gets a bit crowded by his buddies Unreal! Beautiful. Cannot look at them without bursting into smiles :) :) :) On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 2:35 AM Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> wrote: > Sleepy cat is happy with his buddies crowding in on him :) > > > https://sputniknews.com/videoclub/202002211078371191-my-precious-cat-sleeps… > > ----- End forwarded message -----

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HK: Coronavirus fallout - toilet paper runs - snatch n grab at knifepoint - what humans do
by Zig the N.g 06 Apr '20

06 Apr '20

And from the "one death, bat soup and panic buying, to 'grab your toilet paper at knifepoint'" dept. - understanding human psychology when tshtf: Gold is the most important thing, so the most important things, like toilet paper, must be wrapped in golden wrapping [pic of actual goden wrapped toilet papers being carried by the dozens outside a store, from article not attached]. And of course, as everybody knows, when tshtf the most important things end up in short supply - so what do you do? Grab the golden loot at any cost, even knifepoint, that's what you do: Coronavirus: Hong Kong police on a roll as third suspect in toilet paper heist flushed out https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/3051231/coronavir… Christy Leung Published: 11:00pm, 18 Feb, 2020 - Man was picked up during raid at guest house on Sai Yee Street a day after supermarket staff were robbed at knifepoint early on Monday morning - Hong Kong has been gripped by panic buying since the coronavirus outbreak, as spooked residents snap up essentials such as rice and tissue paper Another man has been arrested in Hong Kong for his role in a bizarre toilet paper heist outside a Mong Kok supermarket, as a gang aimed to clean up during a run of panic buying in the city, sparked by the deadly coronavirus. The man, 26, was picked up during a raid at a guest house on Sai Yee Street, not far from the scene of the robbery – in which 600 toilet rolls worth HK$1,640 (US$211) were stolen. “We believe the trio thought the rolls would have [market] value and that they could profit by reselling them,” Chief Inspector Chow Ka-man said. “They knew each other and one of them has a triad background.” Chow added the gangs moved the toilet rolls in a trolley after the crime and that he believed there would be more arrests. At about 6am on Monday, three masked men stole 50 packets of toilet roll from a delivery man outside a Wellcome supermarket in Mong Kok. Police said one of the men was armed with two knives. Two people, aged 50 and 55, were arrested on Monday, and the force said at the time they were seeking three others, thought to be aged between 20 and 30. Two of the arrested were guest house employees while the third was unemployed. Wellcome earlier said its staff were threatened and robbed while they were unloading a delivery from a truck at the store. No one was injured. The incident followed weeks of panic buying at supermarkets across the city after online rumours sparked fears of a shortage of essential goods, such as rice and tissue paper, caused by the outbreak of the virus, which originated in mainland China. The government repeatedly reassured the public that supplies remain unaffected by the outbreak, yet residents continued to empty grocery stores. Hong Kong recorded its 62nd confirmed case of infection on Tuesday evening, and there has been one death.

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Video Audio Conferencing: Codecs, Crypto, Peer Modes, RF, CU-SeeMe History... [re: Zoom’s crypto]
by grarpamp 06 Apr '20

06 Apr '20

Various wrote: > https://jitsi.org/ >> And this represents a very big sacrifice of resources in the connection? >> My problem with jitsi so far has been that it does not work very well if >> either end has a bad internet connection, which is more or less common in >> Latin America. >>> We hope to be layering on end-to-end encryption features, and would >>> happily take community contributions. > I don’t believe the encryption/decryption is all that resource intensive in > comparison to the encoding and decoding of the video and audio streams > themselves. > > We have a few features to try to deal with this, including audio-only mode > and the ability to send lower-quality video (Low bandwidth mode) One thing many voice and video apps get wrong is shipping with defaults set to what in bandwidth terms effectively amounts to 4kHDR 60fps video + CDDA audio. It cannot be made any more clear that this is completely unnecessary for servicable comms, and does not establish good thinking or expectations. Even just a fraction of 160x120 4-bit video and 8k audio works fine. Wannabe conferencers today are brainwashed by BluRay and Gaming out of what is actually possible within a 56kbps channel or less... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CU-SeeMe All you need is just enough to lip and ear sync to the video and audio. Cranking your codecs way down also saves you much needed bandwidth for more peers, file transfers, messaging, signaling, integration, crypto, other applications, etc... making world a happier place. With as little as 1Mbps you could be conferencing 8 fully meshed (no hub) independently encrypted peers. If sensible defaults, and crazy minimums, aren't offered, the promising freedoms of non-third-party-in-the-middle P2P conferencing are that much harder to meet. > I do know we suffer from poor performance on connections for which packet > loss/packet drops are common. It is nature of beasts, of time, of being confined to intermediate MAC+PHY layers, choose your evil... TCP imparts pauses, UDP zaps the gap... physics deny a general solution. Explore random encrypted ultra wideband spread spectrum guerrilla RF via SDR if you want to make use of some interesting and alternative channel physics. Also consider routes over I2P, Phantom, Tor, and other overlay networks. CU-SeeMe... "The predominant objective here was to devise algorithms that would be fast enough for real time videoconferencing on the typical Macintosh platforms that were available in mid-1992, which mainly consisted of 68020 and 68030 based machines." -- Tim Dorcey, Cornell University. >From Connexions, Volume 9, No.3, March 1995 "Milazzo, Paul. Informal demonstration of dvc at the December 1991 meeting of the IETF in Santa Fe." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4h6oElcOtI https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL96B30F6A04A29427 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz-YHbQ2dA4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDBOIdmkdEw

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OpenWatch History
by Karl 06 Apr '20

06 Apr '20

Has anybody heard of the cell phone app OpenWatch? It used to run at https://www.openwatch.net/ and let anybody upload video recordings live and secretly from their mobile phone, and publicized them. Page archives show it came out of Boston and San Francisco. Since it was focused on monitoring of authorities, it makes sense it would have struggled as this could spread power in ways that are harder for authorities to control, making their various tasks more difficult, and possibly pitting the urgent engine of control of crime against the project. I don't see any evidence of OpenWatch having planned to discontinue, or notifying the public they were. There is nobody on their irc channel, and their twitter account has been deleted. Their github has an open improvement branch that is unmerged, and no following developer activity since. Nowadays there are services like https://siasky.net/ and https://bico.media/ and some others, that can connect with reliable decentralized storage backed by the strength of a blockchain. As blockchains rise it is becoming easier to support apps like OpenWatch in ways that won't disappear very readily. bico.media may go down some day, but the data uploaded is still stored permanently on the blockchain behind it, and the app that stores that data could be stored on that blockchain as well. I was wondering if anybody knew the story of what happened to OpenWatch, or if anybody was interested in resurrecting OpenWatch's work with a little motion towards migrating onto a blockchain. https://github.com/OpenWatch/OpenWatch-Android Maybe planning for disruption a little could make project development ideas that last longer. Like clear instructions for newcomers to rebuild after developers disperse.

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Inspector General Report & FISA: Reform Needed | National Review
by jim bell 05 Apr '20

05 Apr '20

https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/fbi-inspector-general-report-fisa-re…

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Are you a man, or a pouty little bitch? - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 05 Apr '20

05 Apr '20

A 6 minute true story for y'all (and just a couple mentions o' God). tl;dr - "Am I a man . . . or a pouty little bitch?" Fell Back Into the Fallen State ... All For a Girl! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpWnAdhv3J8 ~5:54 "I'm going to get myself out of this hole, because I put myself in this hole." JLP - "Rebuilding the family by rebuilding the man." -- 5 day challenge muffas :) Do not wake the snake for 5 days.

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"crime think" reporting apps exploding, guns, our new dystopia, reparations, [MINISTRY]
by Zenaan Harkness 05 Apr '20

05 Apr '20

Humans are finally comprehending that things are changing, and most leap into reporting their neighbours, putting cordon tape to keep customers away from the purchase desk, and generally overreacting. Tucker: https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/tucker-carlson-faucis-national-quaranti… .. “We’ve interviewed Dr. Fauci respectfully on this program, and we’d gladly do that again if he came back, and he will come back. He’s an impressive person. But that does not mean that he’s never wrong,” Carlson said. “On the question of this pandemic, Fauci has been wrong repeatedly.” .. Dr. Fauci: “I know it’s difficult, but we’re having a lot of suffering, a lot of death. This is inconvenient from an economic and a personal standpoint, but we just have to do it.” .. Tucker: “Inconvenient? 10 million Americans out of work and staring at poverty. That is not inconvenient, as you just heard Dr. Fauci put it. It’s horrifying. In fact, it’s a far bigger disaster than the virus itself by any measure. Tony Fauci, decent as he may be, can’t see that because he doesn’t think it’s his job to see it. But even a doctor should be able to think beyond the models. Our response to coronavirus could turn this into a far poorer nation. Poor countries are unhealthy countries, always and everywhere. In poor countries, people die of treatable diseases. In poor countries people are far more vulnerable to obscure viruses, like the one we are fighting now. You want to keep Americans from dying before their time? Then don’t impoverish them. For all his credentials, his experience, his apparent personal decency, Dr. Anthony Fauci does not seem to understand any of this and we should never let someone like that run this country.” .. The Five Things You Absolutely Cannot Say About COVID-19 https://off-guardian.org/2020/04/03/the-things-you-cannot-say-about-coronav… https://www.zerohedge.com/health/five-things-you-absolutely-cannot-say-abou… .. People imagine that when the boots-on-the-ground tyranny arrives, it will be enforced by the police or the military. Newsflash: the boots-on-the-ground tyranny is here, and it is being enforced by your neighbors, Joe Sixpack and Jane Soccermom. Need proof? How about all the new “snitch lines” that are opening up in city after city and state after state all around the globe to help good citizens tattle on neighbors who aren’t practicing proper social distancing? https://patch.com/new-york/huntington/lupinacci-urges-public-report-social-… https://news.yahoo.com/bellevue-police-ask-neighbors-report-232053544.html https://wkuherald.com/coronavirus/beshear-announces-new-hotline-to-report-s… https://www.kdrv.com/content/news/Governor-Brown-gives-method-for-reporting… https://www.blogto.com/city/2020/03/heres-where-you-can-report-people-who-d… .. You may have noticed the interesting phenomenon making its way around the world. I call it “The Totally Spontaneous Balcony Applause Phenomenon.” Yes, completely out of the blue, all the people under lockdown have decided to show their appreciation for the valiant doctors and nurses in this heroic struggle by going to their balcony at a pre-appointed time and applauding. And no, this totally spontaneous phenomenon is not just occurring in one or two countries. Or three or four countries. But in seemingly every country around the globe. .. This time, we are being asked to glorify doctors and nurses because these are the same trusted experts whose authority cannot be questioned who are going to be giving you the vaccine. You know, The Vaccine. The one that will bring an end to the then 18-month long psychological siege that we are being placed under. What?? You still question the vaccines? You still dare to defy the authority of these brave doctors and nurses who risked their lives for us? You can’t say that, you disgusting conspiracy mongering throughtcriminal, you! Be honest, you know that this push is coming. And they are getting the public to sign on with all these “spontaneous” balcony applause sessions. So perhaps you’ll forgive me for not joining in. .. 4. THE DEATH OF A 91 YEAR-OLD IS A FAMILY TRAGEDY, NOT AN EVENT OF INTERNATIONAL CONCERN .. 5. THE IDEA THAT DISEASE AND DEATH ARE UNNATURAL OR AVOIDABLE IS ANTI-HUMAN .. So what’s your thoughtcrime? -Almost- entire world reporting to the WHO/Chinese Health Organisation: Want To Escape? These Are The Countries That Have Escaped COVID-19 So Far? https://www.zerohedge.com/health/want-escape-these-are-countries-have-escap… China Floods Europe With Defective COVID-19-Fighting Medical Equipment https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15840/china-defective-medical-equipment https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-floods-europe-defective-covid-… World's best funded socialist state, Finland's welfare system collapsing: https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/finns-warned-worlds-best-funded-welfare-s… Federal reserve nuclear "rescue" bomb dropped: They Fought The Fed And Lost: How Powell Triggered A "Spectacular" Short Squeeze In LQD https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/they-fought-fed-and-lost-how-powell-trigg… .. By the following Monday, the Fed was trapped - either it unleashes not a bazooka but a "nuclear bomb" (as Paul Tudor Jones called it) and stabilizes the unprecedented panic gripping traders, or the market was about to close. It picked the former, and before the open on Monday, March 23, the Fed announced not only unlimited QE, but in an unprecedented move, Powell said he would also start buying loans and bonds in the secondary market, as well as the LQD. What happened next was also unprecedented: as JPM puts it, "looking at credit ETFs, the short base collapsed in spectacular fashion from LQD, the biggest HG ETF after the Fed’s credit backstop programs." As shown in the chart below, all those traders who naively expected that the Fed would not nationalize virtually every market and - at least implicitly fought the Fed - were carted out following the biggest, most "spectacular" short squeeze in history: that of LQD on March 23. The chart below shows that between March 23 and April 2, the % of LQD shares loaned out - a proxy for shorting - had dropped from an all time high to a record low... .. We point this out because the pain for markets is hardly over, and with shorts now having an even more limited arsenal of instruments, they will inevitably focus on HYG and SPY during the next crash. Which also means that now that the Fed has effectively gone all in, the only question is how low will it allow first junk bonds and then stocks to drop, before Powell goes full Haruhiko "Peter Pan" Kuroda and announces that the Fed will buy both junk bonds and stocks going forward, in the process nationalizing the entire market. .. Spainish town keeping China virus at -zero-: Zahara de la Sierra https://sputniknews.com/europe/202004041078834459-you-shall-not-pass-how-a-… .. The settlement of around 1,400 is clinging to a hilltop halfway between Sevilla and the Gibraltar in Andalucia. A popular tourist destination, founded in the Medieval Age as a Moorish outpost, it has reported zero coronavirus cases so far. The answer: complete self-isolation. .. Kennedy's continue to be "kept in their place": Kennedy Curse: JFK’s Grand-Niece, Her Son Presumed Dead After Boating Accident https://sputniknews.com/us/202004041078833271-kennedy-curse-jfks-grand-niec…

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FISA court orders DOJ to review flawed surveillance applications and provide names of targets
by jim bell 04 Apr '20

04 Apr '20

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fisa-court-orders-doj-to-review-fla…

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Fwd: [gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 202004-07 ] Mozilla Firefox: Multiple vulnerabilities
by destroyer 04 Apr '20

04 Apr '20

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 202004-07 ] Mozilla Firefox: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2020 13:04:33 +0200 From: Thomas Deutschmann <whissi(a)gentoo.org> Reply-To: Gentoo Security <security(a)gentoo.org> Organization: Gentoo Foundation, Inc To: gentoo-announce(a)lists.gentoo.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 202004-07 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - https://security.gentoo.org/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Severity: Normal Title: Mozilla Firefox: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: April 04, 2020 Bugs: #716098 ID: 202004-07 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Synopsis ======== Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Mozilla Firefox, the worst of which could result in the arbitrary execution of code. Background ========== Mozilla Firefox is a popular open-source web browser from the Mozilla Project. Affected packages ================= ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-client/firefox < 74.0.1 *>= 68.6.1 *>= 74.0.1 Description =========== Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla Firefox. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact ====== A remote attacker could entice a user to view a specially crafted web page, possibly resulting in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or a Denial of Service condition. Workaround ========== There is no known workaround at this time. Resolution ========== All Mozilla Firefox ESR users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/firefox-68.6.1" All Mozilla Firefox users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-client/firefox-74.0.1" References ========== [ 1 ] CVE-2020-6819 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-6819 [ 2 ] CVE-2020-6820 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-6820 [ 3 ] MFSA-2020-11 https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-11/ Availability ============ This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-07 Concerns? ========= Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security(a)gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org. License ======= Copyright 2020 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text belongs to its owner(s). The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5

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