May 2020 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

US Congress: EARN IT Act Set to Fuck Over Crypto and Privacy Against Everyone
by grarpamp 02 May '20

02 May '20

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/3398/text "But if we look at how companies would apply the "best practices," it becomes clear that the government is intending to make these features difficult to provide, that the government is looking to discourage companies from offering -- and increasing the use of -- these features. By accepting EARN IT, we will give up our ability -- and our children's future abilities -- to enjoy online, social, connected and private lives. Four of the "best practices" relate to requiring companies to have the ability to "identify" child sexual abuse material. Unfortunately, it's not possible to identify this material without also having the ability to identify any and all other types of material -- like a journalist communicating with a source, an activist sharing a controversial opinion or a doctor trying to raise the alarm about the coronavirus. Nothing prevents the government from later expanding the bill to cover other illegal acts, such as violence or drugs. And what happens when foreign governments want to have a say in what is "legal" and what is not?"

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Crypto: Two Face Anti-Crypto FBI Dir Christopher Wray was ex WhatsApp Crypto Advocate Lawyer
by grarpamp 02 May '20

02 May '20

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/30/fbi-head-christopher-wray-o… https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/12/encryption-safe-hilla… Documents reveal FBI head defended encryption for WhatsApp before becoming fierce critic Christopher Wray defended encryption in 2015 as a lawyer, contradicting his current opposition to the practice The documents, which were released late on Wednesday night as part of an unrelated matter, show Wray worked for WhatsApp in 2015 while he was an attorney for the Washington law firm of King & Spalding. While there are sparse details about the precise nature of the work, the filings indicate that Wray strongly defended the need for end-to-end encryption in his previous representation of WhatsApp, the popular messaging application owned by Facebook. Wray's earlier work -- which has not previously been public -- contradicts his current position on encryption, which protects users' communications and other data from being read by outsiders. The Trump administration and major technology companies like Facebook have been at odds over the need to offer customers encryption services, with the White House and law enforcement officials arguing the technology represents a security risk by protecting the communication of terrorists and criminals.

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The Ministry, 'voluntary' fascism, and Fundamental Human Rights antidotes; - Australia will launch tracing app as voluntary 'and see how it goes', deputy medical officer says
by Zenaan Harkness 02 May '20

02 May '20

This is important, folks - the below outlines the front line of human tracking or "the mark of the beast", as well as some antidotes to that. In this case, "The Ministry of Truth" attempts to achieve sufficient tacit consent for ubiquitous monitoring via "smart"phones. This is a highly slippery slope, and potentially catastrophic for our individual and collective freedoms, so let's get a handle on this one... Be warned: :: ----- crunch time is close - do everything you can to educate people, because if insufficient people are educated on this issue, the tracking that is coming ("mark of the beast") will be extraordinarily difficult to undo. Coronavirus Australia live news: Government urges Australians to use tracing app despite privacy fears By Dan Colasimone Updated April 17, 2020 15:43:40 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-17/coronavirus-australia-live-updates-c… Deputy Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly has not ruled out making a coronavirus tracing app compulsory if not enough people install it voluntarily. "We start with voluntary and then we see how it goes," Professor Kelly told an afternoon press conference. http://livenews.abc.net.au/Event/Coronavirus_Australia_live_news : Some more details on the government's coronavirus-tracking app The app uses Bluetooth technology to track coronavirus victims and the people they come in contact with. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-14/coronavirus-app-government-wants-aus… .. The Federal Government believes restrictions on the community could be eased in the months ahead if there's more testing, greater surveillance of those infected by the coronavirus and much faster tracing of those they've had contact with. The government’s given us some more detail, confirming data collected from the app would be uploaded to a server in the event someone tests positive to COVID-19. This is significant, because some experts argue if the data is stored on a server it would attract privacy threats from hackers, and would also act as a disincentive for people to sign-up to the app. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-15/challenge-to-convince-australians-to… The government believes it needs at least 40 per cent of Australians to opt-in in order for the app to be effective. The minister responsible, Stuart Robert, has told Channel 7 the information gathered will be transferred to a database, if the person who tests positive to COVID-19 agrees. "If you tested positive, the authorities would ask you to consent and that will be uploaded to a secure server," he said. "That's it, no one is tracking you, there is no surveillance." In the above article, these words: > The government believes it needs at least 40 per cent of Australians to opt-in in order for the app to be effective. -really- mean "we need about 40% of Australians to opt in to voluntary fascist tracking, in order to establish "legal persuasion" (sufficient numbers of people, required to compel the courts to make orders against the interests of the remainder of the people) and also political influence ("40% of people agree with this already, we HAVE to enforce this upon everyone, to SAVE LIVES - so please, THINK OF THE CHILDREN!"). This is the heart of why the above propaganda is so insidious - it is an attempt to covertly introduce and impose a fascist human tracking regime, "by the consent of the governed" - and to do this, all they need is about 40% of the entire population to opt in. Very fine Ministry propaganda, and opt-in fascism at its finest... Whoever wrote up the above ABC article gets a Fascism 'Badge Of Covert Fascism' badge award for "covert fascism". --------------------------- Antidotes, when in times of viral or similar medical pandemic crisis: - We each have the fundamental human right to isolate or quarantine ourselves and our family, in order to protect ourselves and others. - We do have a duty of care to one another, and we have the right to satisfy this duty of care by isolating, if we contract a virus, in order to not spread the disease to other humans. - We have the fundamental human right to make informed decisions in regards to our health, excepting that if we have a known contageous condition, that we satisfy our duty of care to other humans in our community, for example by quarantining or isolating ourselves. - If we become infected, or if we are at risk of becoming infeced, we have the right to make our own informed decisions about each and every medical procedure (such as vaccination, intravenous vitamin C, etc) that we choose to receive, or choose to not receive. - Parents have the fundamental right to make informed decisions in relation to their children, which right overrides (i.e. which is superior to) the state's authority to impose any medical treatment, so long as the parent satisfies their duty of care to other people within our community. - Fundamentally, we each have the right to educate ourselves, to read and otherwise to learn about the pros and cons of any and every medical treatment which is suggested, recommended or otherwise "ordered" by the state, and we have the right to choose to receive, and the right to choose to not receive, such medical treatment.

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Hijack your brains away from authoritative centralized networks [re: Stanford info-sec]
by grarpamp 02 May '20

02 May '20

> https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3355369.3355581 > Profiling BGP Serial Hijackers: Capturing Persistent Misbehavior in the Global Routing Table > BGP hijacks remain an acute problem in today's Internet, with widespread > consequences. ... We analyze and categorize these networks, > finding a wide range of indicators of malicious activity, misconfiguration... > Our work ... aid network operators in taking proactive measures to > defend themselves Liberators and the liberated should find some philosophical conflict of interest in, or wish to avoid, same old [re]establishing or fixing or operating, of such old legacy models of centrally repressive physically controlled, paytracked, biometrically ID'd, access passed, recorded, socially scored and lightswitch de-righted de-existed, no alternative or negotiation permitted, authoritatively administered networks. Seek more to establish a diversity of new distributed encrypted point-to-point and p2p networks over uncensorable spread spectrum random noise, build out anarchically joined cooperatives of multipath p2p fiber laying and guerrilla meshnets around the globe. Cooperative fiber, shovels, radios, opensource, and any old PC router cost less than few years worth of corp internet bills they extract from you, pays back your freedom investment in spades. One tool: https://www.gnuradio.org/ Papers all calling to liberate from whatever to democracy, this not really being to any more enlightened state of liberation and freedom than the whatever before. You still get same retardedly brutal coronavirus lockdowns, and everything else, no matter form. Same as there is no "fix" to democracy, one cannot "fix" a centralized system of govcorp internet pipes whose only real interest is control over you, your money stream to them, and now rampant censorship of your voices. Helping make their pipes or democracy "stronger" does nothing but leave you no room for the freedom to live freely. Their pipes, BGP, and measures are theirs for them, hardly yours for you. Stop building and using their centralized tools for your own control and demise. Build and run something new, yours, distributively, anarchically.

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MIT Researchers Designed a Congestion-Control Scheme to Reduce Delays in Wireless Networks
by jim bell 02 May '20

02 May '20

https://scitechdaily.com/mit-researchers-designed-a-congestion-control-sche…

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corona
by \0xDynamite 02 May '20

02 May '20

Does anyone else feel like America has become the weakest society in history? How does anyone know that the virus isn't giving a chance to evolve? That it's lethality comes from having some bit of wisdom from the biosphere that humans either need to learn or die from? marcos

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Photographer Takes Pics Of People In Public From 2 Perspectives And It Shows How Easily The Media Can Manipulate Reality
by Cecilia Tanaka 02 May '20

02 May '20

Photographer Takes Pics Of People In Public From 2 Perspectives And It Shows How Easily The Media Can Manipulate Reality: < https://www.boredpanda.com/different-perspective-telephoto-lens-vs-wide-ang… >

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Get Russian
by Zenaan Harkness 02 May '20

02 May '20

Caitlin Johnstone nails it again :) Get Russian https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/get-russian-a6a822006da6 ... Get so Russian that Rachel Maddow spits your name like it’s poison. tl;dr: it's short and sweet ;)

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Interesting Engineering: Scientists Discover New Way to Get Quantum Computing to Work at Room Temperature
by jim bell 01 May '20

01 May '20

Interesting Engineering: Scientists Discover New Way to Get Quantum Computing to Work at Room Temperature. https://interestingengineering.com/scientists-discover-new-way-to-get-quant…

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.org
by rnblvfcguhube＠420blaze.it 01 May '20

01 May '20

Looks like we made it!!! https://savedotorg.org/

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