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Box for simple Tor node.
by jim bell 05 Jun '20

05 Jun '20

Somebody asked me a question, but because I am far from being an expert, I couldn't answer. Suppose a person wanted to implement a TOR node, simply by buying some box, and plugging it into his modem, and power. And NOT needing to become an expert on TOR, or even on computers in general. And NOT having to follow pages and pages of instructions. I did a few minutes of searching, and even the 'simple' explanations seemed 'clear as mud'. Don't bother with long explanations challenging the usefulness, or trustworthiness of TOR. Yes, we've discussed them to death. That's a different subject. Jim Bell

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alt.cypherpunks
by Faux Dameron 31 May '20

31 May '20

Hello all, This is my first time posting, but I've been subscribed for months and I even occasionally read some of the mails. I've been reading the really old Usenet messages from people like Tim May (RIP) and while I think a lot of it is inane BS, a lot of it is very interesting especially in the pre-bitcoin speculation about what a digital currency would be like. I have two questions, why did the group die and what needs to happen to bring it back? Afterall, you can still get usenet access for free if you look for it and as long as you know how to create filters/killfiles, the spam problem really isn't that bad. FD

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Effort to renew FISA bill fizzles.
by jim bell 30 May '20

30 May '20

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/28/pelosi-pulls-fisa-bill-amid-object… This COULD be excellent news. Partial quote follows: By JOHN BRESNAHAN, KYLE CHENEY, SARAH FERRIS and MARTIN MATISHAK 05/28/2020 09:42 AM EDT Updated: 05/28/2020 03:49 PM EDT - Facebook - Twitter - Link - More House Democrats have pulled a bill to reauthorize parts of the federal surveillance program known as FISA, a setback for Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s legislative machine that followed a veto threat from President Donald Trump. Pelosi announced Thursday that she would seek negotiations with Senate Republicans, a move that sends both parties back to the drafting table to resolve differences — which appeared to be minimal until Trump's threat sent Republicans dropping their support en masse. Advertisement House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell both supported the decision to begin formal negotiations between the chambers, with a McConnell spokesperson calling it "regular order." Democrats had initially resisted because it could slow down the process of passing a bill. The reversal, a rarity for Pelosi, leaves behind a political mess for both parties, with limited options unless Trump, again, changes course. Speaking to reporters Thursday, the California Democrat blasted Republicans — at the urging of Trump — for “abandoning their commitment" to national security. "This has always been bipartisan," Pelosi said at a press conference. "All of the sudden, [Republican] commitment to national security disappeared by a tweet, the twinkle of a tweet." By Thursday afternoon, the House overwhelmingly voted to go to conference with the Senate. Lawmakers also agreed on who should represent the chamber in the negotiations: Democratic Reps. Jerry Nadler (N.Y.), Adam Schiff (Calif.) and Zoe Lofgren (Calif.) and GOP Reps. Jim Jordan (Ohio) and Devin Nunes (Calif.). Negotiations between the House and Senate on the FISA bill are expected to begin quickly, though it’s unclear how long before a final bill is ready. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) announced Thursday afternoon that the chamber would not return to Washington next week. Lawmakers would receive 72-hours notice before they will need to vote, Hoyer said. The House had been expected to easily approve the FISA bill this week, with an unusual alliance of Republicans and Democrats who carried a similar version across the floor in March. The Senate passed the measure with than 80 votes in favor, including 45 Republicans. But that fragile coalition collapsed this week as Trump suddenly intervened, issuing a veto threat that seemed to contradict his own administration’s efforts to renew the law. [end of partial quote]

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Houston -- Fwd: Downtown Services Suspended Due to Protest
by Shawn K. Quinn 30 May '20

30 May '20

Meanwhile, in Houston (George Floyd had significant Houston ties)... Video and other news reports when I find them. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Downtown Services Suspended Due to Protest Date: Fri, 29 May 2020 22:47:00 -0500 From: METRO <ridemetro(a)public.govdelivery.com> Reply-To: ridemetro(a)public.govdelivery.com Downtown Services Suspended Due to Protest You have subscribed to Service Alerts from METRO. Below is a change in the route you selected for updates. *Downtown Services Suspended Due to Protest* We will not be providing METRO services in downtown due to the protest and police activity. We appreciate your patience. ^S /Notice: Service interruption start and end times are approximate. Please plan extra time in your trip to allow for delays./ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [links snipped] -- Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn(a)rushpost.com> http://www.rantroulette.com http://www.skqrecordquest.com

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Resistance - Mum keeps salon open, in face of court order, gets 7 days jail - [PEACE]
by Zig the N.g 30 May '20

30 May '20

Ho ho muh n.ggers, this all-American mom's a legend - she publicly tore up the order served on her to close her salon, politely stood up to the judge, saying "So, sir, if you think the law’s more important than kids getting fed, then please go ahead with your decision. But I am not going to shut the salon", and got 7 days in jail for the privilege! A GoFundMe has raised $265k for her. Live your truth, peeps! If you ain't livin' it, you ain't got it. Human rights are lived. But doing so may result in jail, so advise yourself accordingly. So, sir, if you think the law’s more important than kids getting fed, then please go ahead with your decision. But I am not going to shut the salon. https://www.zerohedge.com/health/thousands-donate-gofundme-jailed-salon-own… ... While criminals are being released into the streets, Shelley was sentenced to 7 days in jail. — Sara Gonzales (@SaraGonzalesTX) May 5, 2020

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WarGames Continue Sea/Sky/Land
by grarpamp 29 May '20

29 May '20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh-bCHgnzg8 oh hai ;)

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Cryptocurrency: Exploits, Austrian Libertarian, Privacy Coins Needed, Scaling Bloat, JPMorgan Flex, more...
by grarpamp 29 May '20

29 May '20

https://cointelegraph.com/news/digital-currencies-could-threaten-us-geopoli… “There is no country with more to lose from the disruptive potential of digital currency than the United States,” say analysts at JPMorgan Chase & Co. Two faced Banks, Banksters and Govts giving accounts to crypto exchanges, while buying cryptos to their pockets, shilling CBDC's, FUD dissing on OG distributed unstoppable cryptocurrencies. search: YouTube censored and deleted livestreams of the blockchain halving event parties. Early attempt at periodic table of cryptos... https://i.redd.it/cpp9nt6cjuz41.jpg https://jes.al/crypto-table/ https://www.wired.com/story/harry-pottery-cryptocurrency-privacy-zcash-mone… https://twitter.com/IvanBogatyy/status/1196441051814223880 https://medium.com/dragonfly-research/breaking-mimblewimble-privacy-model-8… $60/week of AWS spend, By running a rogue node tweaked to save all intermediary transaction gossiping data. That's it! I was able to uncover the exact addresses of senders and recipients for 96% Grin transactions in real time. Hardly any cryptocurrencies using TLS or interfacing well with privacy/location/anonymous overlay networks either. Consider also deploying satellite and GnuRadio integration. Still no good distributed DEX's in operation with open APIs for wide range of coins to plug into for cross-chain atomic swaps. https://crypto.stanford.edu/timings/ https://crypto.stanford.edu/timings/paper.pdf https://crypto.stanford.edu/timings/pingreject.pdf We describe remote side-channel attacks on the privacy guarantees of anonymous cryptocurrencies. Our attacks, which we validate on Zcash and Monero, enable a remote attacker to identify the P2P node of the payee of any anonymous transaction being sent into the network. This enables the adversary to link all transactions sent to a user, to recover a user's IP address from their anonymous payment address, and to link a user's diversified addresses. In addition, for Zcash, we show that an attacker can remotely crash any Zcash node for which the attacker knows a payment address, and set up a remote timing attack on an ECDH key exchange involving a victim's private viewing key. In principle, this attack can fully recover the victim's private viewing key, thereby completely breaking receiver privacy. https://www.wired.com/story/dark-web-welcome-to-video-takedown-bitcoin/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/gofd6b/i_think_its_remarkable_that… https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1263218326282612736 'I think it’s remarkable that we’ve built a cryptocurrency where some poor schmuck can’t spend their money without everyone on Twitter knowing all the details and commenting about it.' -- Matthew Green https://decrypt.co/29799/this-is-why-xrps-price-has-been-crushed-and-is-str… Centralized wannabee cryptos are all inflating, premining, founder taxing, censoring, patenting, and governing your values down to zero... just like Fiat. External privacy tech like JoinMarket, CashShuffle, CashFusion while handy fun... and spies in SPV and similar upstream thin client node protocols... all risky for cryptos lacking native privacy in protocol, and scalability. Evergrowing blockchains of UTXO transaction logs are unneeded bloat and a standing privacy risk. ZEC, XMR, BTC, BCH, ETH, pick any toplist... these are all old legacy first generation coins regarding storage. They cannot survive the dead weight of their own tx chainlogs growing and clogging their infrastructure, clients, and bandwidth... and that tx block history carried will be repeatedly raped by mass and targeted privacy exploits. Coinspace must move lots of designthink toward researching tech based on agreeing consensus over the much smaller (and negligible growth) database that is their respective UTXO sets. 8B humans * 512bit/8/2^40 ECC/PQC crypto = 0.5TiB of UTXO db state, add generous 10x extra for consensus and distribution state ops, cryptoprivacy overhead, etc... = max of say 5TiB, forever (grows per human not per tx... 10M humans now = 6GiB, 100M = 60GiB, 1B = 600GiB ...). Global max fits on commodity flashdrive in 10 years. Network and processing bandwidth remains only limit. https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/gmhuon/in_the_last_24_hour… Watching the mining pool charts... the large pools are slowly killing off the smaller pools. BTC.com and AntPool are both Bitmain, Nakamoto Coefficient (a measure of decentralization) has dropped to 2, they control 62% of the hashrate. https://btc.com/stats/pool?pool_mode=day Welcome to joint problem of ASICs... central sole source ASIC Corps presale mining out with their own HW first, then dictating preferred bulk sales channels and destinations... and lack of personal responsibility to your own nominal values held by running and adopting global commodity CPU/GPU mined ASIC-hard coins, abandoning large pools for smaller pools. Avoiding your responsibilities in these ways will get you censored and wiped out... just like Fiat. If it's free no effort you take, you become the victim. Random youtubes... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXqc-yyoVKg Hayek on Friedman and Keynes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leqjwiQidlk Friedman on Cryptocurrency "I don't believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government, that is, we can't take it violently out of the hands of government, all we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something that they can't stop." -- F.A.Hayek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6S5c6xhXTY "Every destruction is a loss" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkQfK8hn0ds Mises on Friedman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtDM7VF3_Rc Friedman on Mises, Rand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymQoIt5k2AI Hoppe vs Friedman and Hayek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXGQDqN67YI Henry Hazlitt: Economics in one lesson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cle9IWPrBBs Mises on Money https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfyp_i7y1t0 Murray Rothbard: Gold Standard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z8u7Sz8n1c Frederic Bastiat: The Law https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vo7FOFpJYs Hazlitt: The Task Ahead Happy Cryptocurrency Pizza Day.

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Censorship: France Says Goodbye to Free Speech
by grarpamp 29 May '20

29 May '20

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16057/france-free-speech

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Leaks: Mercedes FitBit Xiomi MTK IPTV MSFT WM OPPO etc Source Codez, ExConfidential Crew, Mirrors
by grarpamp 29 May '20

29 May '20

https://t.me/exconfidential tg://resolve?domain=exconfidential https://t.me/s/exconfidential https://t.me/joinchat/GmSbZRNJpLmmbX07KNfRhw https://git.rip/exconfidential <- cypherpunks:writecode https://t.me/deletescape "This was the easiest leak ever as the code was literally in a zip inside the apk." https://git.rip/exconfidential/daimler https://mega.nz/file/G1M3AKwJ#C4N6p0pg3GWYketCysvHFGDq-LTeEAJUN9j8lqRSjo4 https://archive.org/details/daimler-olu https://archive.org/download/daimler-olu/daimler-olu_archive.torrent "it's a hardware platform for a very specific usecase, but this leak should allow recreating it with low cost hardware." Leaks and dumps... become IPFS and Bittorrent mirrors and archivers, index hash reposters... for the fun. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/05/zfs-versus-raid-eight-ironwolf-disk… lizardfs, ceph, storj, etc

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Suggest large non-US tech/news outlets in English?
by Douglas Lucas 28 May '20

28 May '20

Hi cypherpunks, I sent out a bunch of queries today to news outlets, namely Slate, Salon, Vice, The Atlantic, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, Wired US, Wired UK, and Al Jazeera. To give you the general idea of the article I aim to publish, the subject line is "Freelance pitch: Open science helps Seattle activists overcome pandemic, Twitter exec order" and the open science systems are Sci-Hub and GetGee, and the Seattle activists are rentstrike, anarchist soup kitchen, etc. Can the list please recommend for pitching any non-United States tech/news outlets publishing in English that have medium to large audiences? I will check dw.com and other Germany in a few. The goal is to lodge an article into one of these venues to promote Sci-Hub and GetGee by explaining to the public how public data systems would help with coronavirus, with practical relatable examples like rentstrike, Food Not Bombs, etc. Thanks, Doug P.S. Yes, I know corporate media is bad, good job Chomsky, tell me something I don't know. P.P.S. Yes, I know you think I should use more encryption, good job incel boomer, have you considered the downsides of broadcasting for wide dissemination nothing but pure ciphertext? Last I checked, number stations have yet to convince members of the public of much of anything.

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