June 2020 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Cryptocurrency: Sad Truth of Fiat
by grarpamp 21 Jun '20

21 Jun '20

https://blog.picks.co/bitcoins-distribution-was-fair-e2ef7bbbc892 https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2020/06/bitcoin-is-not-a-new-… https://decrypt.co/32940/new-york-fed-bitcoin-fiat-money https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham's_Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seigniorage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation http://bitcoinsperperson.com/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/havq7c/no_generation_has_a_right_… "No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence." https://medium.com/@johnblocke/a-brief-and-incomplete-history-of-censorship… https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/bolton-trump-told-treasury-secretar…

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BlackHoleCloud: Another Hardware VPN/Tor Box
by grarpamp 21 Jun '20

21 Jun '20

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Raided: Facebook Deputizes Self, Pays For Tails Exploit, FBI Vans Sextortionist
by grarpamp 21 Jun '20

21 Jun '20

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7gd9b/facebook-helped-fbi-hack-child-pr… https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gyyxb3/the-fbi-booby-trapped-a-video-to-… https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdin/pr/buster-hernandez-aka-brian-kil-and-pur… https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7383596/united-states-v-hernandez/ See also: Alex Stamos in Zoom's no E2E crypto policy https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xdayg/iphone-zero-days-inside-azimuth-s… https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dyzzdj/senator-wyden-congress-investigat… Facebook’s security team, then headed by Alex Stamos, realized they had to do more, and concluded that the FBI needed their help to unmask Brian Kil. Facebook hired a cybersecurity consulting firm to develop a hacking tool, which cost six figures. Our sources described the tool as a zero-day exploit, which refers to a vulnerability in software that is unknown to the software developers. The firm worked with a Facebook engineer and wrote a program that would attach an exploit taking advantage of a flaw in Tails’ video player to reveal the real IP address of the person viewing the video. Finally, Facebook gave it to an intermediary who handed the tool to the feds, according to three current and former employees who have knowledge of the events. Facebook routinely investigates suspected criminals on its platform, from run-of-the-mill cybercriminals, to stalkers, extortionists, and people engaging in child exploitation. Several teams at Menlo Park and other company offices collect user reports and proactively hunt these criminals. These teams are composed of security specialists, some of whom used to work in the government, including the FBI and the New York Police Department, according to employees’ LinkedIn profiles. These employees are so proud of this work that they used to have a meeting room where they’d hang pictures of people who ended up being arrested, as well as newspaper clippings of cases they investigated "The precedent of a private company buying a zero-day to go after a criminal ... that entire concept is fucked up ... sketchy as hell.” Amie Stepanovich, the executive director of the Silicon Flatirons Center at the University of Colorado Law School, said that it’s important to remember that whoever these hacking tools are used against, they leverage vulnerabilities in software that may be used against innocent people.

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Raided: $3k EncroPhone EncroChat Network Cracked by Govt, Dozens Arrested
by grarpamp 21 Jun '20

21 Jun '20

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/sold-liverpool-3k-year-… https://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2020/06/20/news/wave-of-… https://encrophone.com/ "You are advised to power off and physically dispose of your device immediately". -- Encrochat

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Spying: Telcos and Venntel... Selling Your Location Out To GovCorp's
by grarpamp 21 Jun '20

21 Jun '20

https://www.wsj.com/articles/irs-used-cellphone-location-data-to-try-to-fin…

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Re: Test list [gmail.com]
by GTI .H 20 Jun '20

20 Jun '20

Everything is cool here, Everything is back to normal, now I'm receiving Emails from the list on my gmail.com. To anyone interested, gmail.com is not the only email I have and I don't use Google for anonymous matters and I think my country is much more abusive, invasive authoritarian than Russia or the USA and maybe worse than China, only in the guise of Democratic and aligned with the world press that is LEFTIST, nobody says that. -- Regards Em sáb., 20 de jun. de 2020 às 12:09, Georgi Guninski <guninski(a)guninski.com> escreveu: > On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 10:31:11AM -0400, GTI .H wrote: > > Thank you, > > > > I think gmail.com intentionally blocks the cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org > > list, right? > > > > I'm thinking of changing my email in the list. > > > According to the list archives on the web other mail servers have the > same problem, so it could be a bug in the list, don't know. > > -- Regards GTI

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Cryptocurrency: Court News - Frauds, Defamists, other Speshuls... Cricket Economics, Applied Tech
by grarpamp 20 Jun '20

20 Jun '20

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Forbes: Have Apple And Google Suddenly Uploaded A COVID-19 Tracking App To Your Phone? The Facts Behind The Furore
by jim bell 20 Jun '20

20 Jun '20

Forbes: Have Apple And Google Suddenly Uploaded A COVID-19 Tracking App To Your Phone? The Facts Behind The Furore. https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2020/06/20/have-apple-and-google-s…

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Re: Test list [gmail.com]
by GTI .H 20 Jun '20

20 Jun '20

Thank you, I think gmail.com intentionally blocks the cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org list, right? I'm thinking of changing my email in the list. -- Regards Em sex., 19 de jun. de 2020 às 11:45, Georgi Guninski <guninski(a)guninski.com> escreveu: > On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 10:27:15AM -0400, GTI .H wrote: > > I received it because you sent it directly to me with a copy to the list, > > but I do not receive it from the list. > > > > You may consider reading the CP list archive on the web, there is > discussion about the problems. > > -- Regards GTI

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ping
by Mirimir 20 Jun '20

20 Jun '20

Is this thing on?

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