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Fwd: HOPE 2020 *Revised* Call for Speakers
by Greg Newby 28 May '20

28 May '20

Perhaps of interest to some cypherpunks. The whole event will be streamed live online. Info at www.hope.net ----- Forwarded message from Hackers On Planet Earth <hope(a)2600.com> ----- Greetings, HOPE 2020 will take place online from July 25 through August 2, 2020. Hackers from all corners of the world will convene virtually for nine days of online presentations from a wide variety of sources. You can be one of them! We want as many elements of the hacker community as possible to be a part of this historic event. You too can give a talk or be part of a panel. While we all would prefer to be there in person, this provides an opportunity for anyone to share their ideas from wherever they happen to be. Simply email your talk proposal to speakers(a)hope.net. You should include a proposed title, an abstract, and a short bio for each speaker. Provide enough information so it is clear why HOPE attendees would find your topic interesting, new, and relevant. Make it clear why YOU are the right person or people to give this presentation. Most speaker/panel sessions will be allotted 40 minutes for the session, and then 10 minutes for live Q&A. If your talk is accepted, we will provide full assistance in getting it ready for your timeslot, whether you choose to pre-record or present your talk live. All types of presentations are encouraged, from solo talks to panels, debates, demonstrations, and interactive discussions. Presenters must consider the viability of their session for an entirely online presentation method. Your presentation can be made in ANY language or dialect. Please submit the abstract and biography in English, though, since that is the language that HOPE uses to communicate with presenters and attendees. If you intend to give your presentation in a language other than English, please mention this in your talk proposal. Submissions should highlight their relevance to hacking. They should be original, and not previously presented. We encourage presenters from all age groups and backgrounds. HOPE is an inclusive event, seeking civil discourse and education on all topics related to the hacker world. HOPE encourages all approaches and interpretations to hacking, presented by hackers, makers, developers, teachers, learners, and experimenters. If you have a passion for discovering how things work and sharing that knowledge, you have the hacker spirit. Some topics from past HOPE events, and new topics of interest, include: - Hacker approaches to fighting 2020's massive health and social challenges - Information, disinformation, and information literacy - Technologies, along with their benefits and risks - Social engineering - Education - Hacker culture and lifestyles - Effecting social change - Industry, government, commerce, and multinationals - Science, engineering, and math - Body modification, hacking, and enhancement - Phones, networks, and telecommunication - Hardware and software - Secrets and disclosures - Data, privacy, encryption, and policy - Outer space and beyond - How-to's / DIY (for beginners or any level) ...and much, much more All submissions will receive an automated response. (You won't get multiple responses if you email us more than once in a short period of time, but we will still get your email.) Notices of acceptance will be mailed out in the weeks ahead. Send all submissions to speakers(a)hope.net. All speakers will be given full access to the conference, which includes Q&A sessions with each presenter, a commemorative conference t-shirt that will only be given to conference attendees, and a special HOPE 2020 badge. If you want to help with coordinating this historic event, send an email to volunteers(a)hope.net. *** HOPE 2020 - July 25 to August 2, 2020 - Everywhere *** ----- End forwarded message -----

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Re: [Cryptography] Zoom publishes draft cryptographic design for end-to-end encryption
by other.arkitech 28 May '20

28 May '20

Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Thursday, May 28, 2020 1:18 PM, Salz, Rich <rsalz(a)akamai.com> wrote: > > There is a good bounty if you can break it. That should be enough to think the suite is being challenged all the time, without success so far. > > That's naïve. > > If you can break P256 there are better targets than bitcon. Well, it is money, the number 1 motivator. Please, can you mention some of these other targets?

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US Libertarian Party Presidential Debates 2020
by grarpamp 28 May '20

28 May '20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osxwtgodHdg Democrat -> LP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5aDwdRmVBY Republican -> LP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP5anJkuMys 2020 LP Presidential Debate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu3X5lmVnEM 2020 LP Vice Presidential Debate https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=2020+libertarian+debates https://www.youtube.com/user/LibertarianParty/videos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_Party_(United_States) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Libertarian_Party_presidential_primaries US Libertarian Party Website... https://lp.org/ Liberation is hardly composed of tech, but liberation of mind. Today's political parties in office around the globe are not that. In many places around the globe, beginning options toward liberation exist for those not yet ready to free themselves from their self imposed chains of governments and parties... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_libertarian_political_parties

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Papers Please! Airline Virus-Immunity Digital ID Passport
by grarpamp 28 May '20

28 May '20

https://www.activistpost.com/2020/05/your-immunity-passport-future-begins-t… https://papersplease.org/wp/2020/05/19/tsa-tries-again-to-impose-an-id-requ… The only thing stopping the roll out of this State is the people of the world coming together, informing those who are in the dark, and unplugging from this control grid.

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From Fox News - DOJ urges Trump veto on FISA legislation, vote in limbo
by jim bell 28 May '20

28 May '20

DOJ urges Trump veto on FISA legislation, vote in limbo https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-urges-trump-veto-on-fisa-legislation-v…

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Michael Flynn discovers 1st in America: lawyers "betrayed" him (SHAWK!)
by Zig the N.g 28 May '20

28 May '20

>From the "Consequences for literally failing to lie for the USA public prosecution" dept. Imagine our SHAWK, SHAWK I tell ya! Flynn's Defense Files Motion Saying His Former Legal Team "Betrayed Him" https://www.zerohedge.com/political/flynns-defense-files-motion-saying-his-… Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn ... denied that he lied to the FBI during the White House meeting with then FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok and FBI Special Agent Joe Pientka. The meeting was set up by now fired FBI Director James Comey and then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who was also fired for lying to Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s investigators. Strzok was fired by the FBI for his actions during the Russia investigation. “... nor do I remember if we discussed the details of a UN vote on Israel.” ... Powell said prosecutors reversed course on their decision to not push for jail time for Flynn in early January because she said, her client “refused to lie for the prosecution” in the Rafiekian case.

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Surveillance: US NSA Exploits Entire US and Most World Population Content and Metadata
by grarpamp 28 May '20

28 May '20

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-nsas-secret-tool-for-mapping-your-so… Inside the NSA’s Secret Tool for Mapping Your Social Network Barton Gellman 05.24.2020 07:00 AM Edward Snowden revealed the agency’s phone-record tracking program. But thanks to “precomputed contact chaining,” that database was much more powerful than anyone knew. An integrated map, presented graphically, would eventually allow the NSA to display nearly anyone’s movements and communications on a global scale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center https://www.google.com/maps/place/40°25'19.0"N 111°56'07.0"W https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bamford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_data_centers https://www.qwant.com/?q=amazon+data+centers https://www.qwant.com/?q=facebook+data+centers https://www.qwant.com/?q=microsoft+data+centers The data center is able to process "all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Internet searches, as well as all types of personal data trails — parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital 'pocket litter'." "What if a small group of citizens had secret access to the telephone logs and social networks of government officials? How might that privileged knowledge affect their power to shape events? How might their interactions change if they possessed the means to humiliate and destroy the careers of the persons in power? Capability matters." https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/homefront/preemption/nsa.html https://mil-embedded.com/4755-how-nsa-processes-all-that-intelligence-data/ https://wikimapia.org/680144/Tordella-Supercomputer-Facility https://www.google.com/maps/place/39°07'03.0"N+76°46'07.0"W https://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/secure-national-security-agency-nsa-si… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH8X8w8a4f4 https://web.archive.org/web/20091122112949/http://74.39.182.56/Portals/0/Fo… https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-public… https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-amazons-collaboration_b_4824854 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7TZ_CNBZD0 GovCorp

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China Issues Stay-At-Home Order To Hong Kong To Prevent Spread Of Democracy - [PEACE]
by Zig the N.g 27 May '20

27 May '20

For the n.ggers among us :D Black Man Votes Republican, Immediately Turns White https://babylonbee.com/news/black-man-votes-republican-immediately-turns-wh… .. There are now signs up at the voting location warning black voters that if they vote Republican they may also suddenly turn white. 'I Can't Believe Christians Think It's Safe To Go Back To Church,' Says Woman In Line At Walmart https://babylonbee.com/news/im-glad-were-closing-churches-for-public-safety… .. "Close proximity with all those people, singing and stuff? Man, those people are really anti-science," she said as she waited in line with 57 other people, pushing a cart that hadn't been cleaned in days. "It's like, read one of those sciency books, you know? Or watch that science guy on TV." China Issues Stay-At-Home Order To Hong Kong To Prevent Spread Of Democracy https://babylonbee.com/news/china-issues-stay-at-home-order-to-hong-kong-to… .. Reaction by the American media was swift. “Wow, China is so great! I wish we could be like China!” exclaimed numerous journalists. “Why can’t Trump be China?” American politicians also spoke up on the order. “Hopefully the people in Hong Kong will be more compliant than Americans,” said Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer. “We issued our stay-at-home order far too late to stop the spread of the idea that people have liberty and can do whatever they want.” Other Babylon Bee headlines found here: To Save Time, The Babylon Bee Will Now Just Republish Everything Biden Says Verbatim https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-offered-position-as-staff-writer-at-the-b… ... We're tired of trying to out-parody things like "I got hairy legs that turn blonde in the sun and the kids used to reach in the pool and rub my leg down and watch the hair come back up again" and "Corn Pop was a bad dude." Like, what do you do with that? Seriously. Go ahead. Try to satirize it. Anything you do just doesn't have that perfect mix of absurdity and reality that makes satire work so effective at communicating truth. So we're throwing in the towel. ... ... Finally, laugh at these hilarious Babylon Bee headlines from our new best satirist, Joe Biden: - Biden: 'Poor Kids Are Just As Bright As White Kids' - Joe Biden Says All Men And Women Are Created By You Know The Thing - Presidential Candidate Nibbles On His Wife's Fingers - Joe Biden: 'I'm Going To Beat Joe Biden' - 'Go To Joe 30330' Says Joe - Biden Tells Campaign Rally 'We Choose Truth Over Facts' - Joe Biden Calls Iowa Man 'Fat' And A '[FLOWERBED] Liar'

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While India begins to protect her own, Australian traitors jam the knife in - China Is Its Own Worst Enemy - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 27 May '20

27 May '20

India has a "new rule requiring prior government approval of any investment from China is the first of its kind": China Is Its Own Worst Enemy https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-its-own-worst-enemy https://www.bloombergquint.com/coronavirus-outbreak/coronavirus-response-ha… , Australian traitors like Victoria's premier the purportedly "honourable" Daniel Andrews, jam the knife in the back of our national sovereignty in fealty to China: Meet the glamorous Chinese businesswoman, 33, who played a key role in Victoria signing a controversial deal with Beijing - as she boasts about her 'influence' on top politicians 26 May 2020 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8355735/Glamorous-Chinese-business… - Daniel Andrews signed Victoria up to controversial Belt and Road Initiative - Chinese scheme gives infrastructure loans and investment as a soft power play - Jean Dong, 33, is emerging as a key player in the unfolding political stoush - She is the chief executive of Australia-China Belt and Road Initiative company Daniel Andrews signs new infrastructure, trade agreement with China https://www.9news.com.au/national/daniel-andrews-china-deal-ndrc-victoria-p… With "leaders" like Daniel Andrews, we have no need of enemies, since the clandestine column is within, right near the top!

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grounds for censorship - Morticians are never compromised, autopsies are always perfectly true
by Zig the N.g 27 May '20

27 May '20

[From the Streissand department of always ignoring what someone you don't like says.] So it's really, really important to know that morticians never ever compromise their ethics (I mean, dead people are the most important people in the world, so no one would EVER consider, let alone actually do, a dodgy autopsy report) and, so, absolutely ALL autopsies are bonafide, +1 thumbs up, absolutely correct in every detail! Do NOT forget this truth - autopsies are always always true and correct and are never ever faked or doctored. The motivation and money bribes available by the rich and powerful to bribe a mortician has simply never made in through the squeaky clean doors of simply ALL morticians ever, so do not even consider the possibility that such abominable practices could ever happen! Squeakity squeak ... Trump Doubles Down As Widower, Media Demand "Inhumane" Scarborough Murder Tweets Be Deleted https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-doubles-down-media-demands-inhuma… .. Klausutis's cause was taken up by Recode editor and New York Times opinion writer Kara Swisher, once considered "the dean of tech journalism". Swisher has long been a proponent of increasing censorship across social media platforms, and her latest piece urging twitter to finally 'do something' about its most 'problematic' user' reads like just another hypersensitive, overblown piece of clickbait trash, with Swisher describing Trump's tweets as "inhumane" - yes, she used that word - as if he had signed off on the napalming of a small village in Vietnam, instead of firing off a handful of tweets, which would have only been seen by a small fraction of his 80 million users if 'reporters' like Swisher hadn't chosen to write about it. Trump offered a defense of his tweets Tuesday morning. ....about whether or not Joe could have done such a horrible thing? Maybe or maybe not, but I find Joe to be a total Nut Job, and I knew him well, far better than most. So many unanswered & obvious questions, but I won’t bring them up now! Law enforcement eventually will? — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 26, 2020 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1265271286789558273?ref_src=twsr… .. Update (1120ET): Less than an hour after we posted our previous update to this post, Swisher popped up on CNBC, wearing her trademark dark sunglasses .. Then she launched into her argument, .. Twitter is a private, not a public, platform, therefore, it has an obligation to remove "offensive" content. Responding to the argument that Trump's tweets are inherently newsworthy, Swisher argued that there was nothing 'newsworthy' about Trump's tweets (they took one of Bolsonaro's tweets down, she protested). .. As a potential solution, Swisher said Twitter should consider adopting a "content board" to review controversial tweets.

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