September 2020 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

The New Yorker: How Vulnerable Is G.P.S.?
by jim bell 24 May '22

24 May '22

The New Yorker: How Vulnerable Is G.P.S.?. https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/how-vulnerable-is-gps

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DropGangs: Post and Parcel Delivery Services Fully Monitored [re: WikiLeaks was: FreeAssange.net]
by grarpamp 17 Apr '22

17 Apr '22

> Guess who had a PO Box next to Wikileaks > > https://www.theage.com.au/national/world-leaders-would-love-the-key-to-this… > > They avoided a drone strike on the university by demolishing the > Melbourne Uni post office voluntarily: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABWuKVaT13s > > After they destroyed that, they took out the local pub too: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yCKYW5YUWw The USA USPS takes automated pictures of all items passing through its facilities, OCR them, stores them forever, and gives them away to whoever they like that comes asking. Mail and delivery services worldwide are now doing similar, including requiring and recording government photo ID to send parcels and letters, storing all camera footage, facial, and ALPR logs, of the facilities forever, etc.

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"Hearty people only found freedom inside a testimony of structured monuments" - Chinese pidgin analysis of recent Kenosha events - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 18 Nov '21

18 Nov '21

This comes across as quite philosophical, though it's hard to parse being heavy pidgin. In any case, nice to see an attempt at a philosophical analysis: Kenosha: A Pale Cleansing or Fiddle with It to Realize? http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/kenosha-a-pale-cleansing-or-fiddle-with-it-to…

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Tor Stinks: Stealthy Traffic Analysis
by grarpamp 26 Aug '21

26 Aug '21

Stealthy Traffic Analysis of Low-Latency Anonymous Communication Using Throughput Fingerprinting Prateek Mittal et al. ACM CCS 2011 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/2046707.2046732 https://www.cryptolux.org/images/b/bc/Tor_Issues_Thesis_Thill_Fabrice.pdf https://ohmygodel.com/publications/peerflow-popets2017.pdf

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Torsocks Errors
by Se7en 11 Aug '21

11 Aug '21

I am unable to torify my fetchmail anymore, because Torsocks prevents setguid programs from running, which does not interfeer with fetchmail but does interfeer with procmail. Does anyone know a solution? I am still able to send torified, but am unable to recieve torified via pop3 and I do not want to continue this behavior. -- |-----/ | Se7en / The One and Only! | se7en(a)cock.email / | 0x0F83F93882CF6116 / | https://se7en-site.neocities.org

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Cryptocurrency: Costs of Fiat are Unsustainable Not Crypto, VZ Bitcoin Satellite, CloudFlare
by grarpamp 03 May '21

03 May '21

On 9/26/20, Stefan Claas <sac(a)300baud.de> wrote: >> https://decrypt.co/43000/no-internet-no-problem-venezuela-gets-bitcoin-sate… It's also uplifting to see the speed that some of the crypto food, charity, and monetary networks are able to help provide options and solutions to troubled regions. The libertarian sort of nature of cryptocurrency will continue making larger impacts as time goes on. And thanks to decrypt.co for not using CloudFlare to block Tor users from reading their site. Too many crypto news aggregators and crypto services sites seem perhaps not aware of what their CloudFlare settings are doing in that regard. That's the whole point with satellite, privacy coins, etc... to route around silly censorship blocking. If people like decrypt.co, send them some satoshi for bandwidth, and get them setup with their own .onion / .i2p. > I must say congrats to Venezuela for the idea to > communicate via a satellite in space, > when Internet connectivity sucks. Yes, the leading distributed permissionless uncensorable privacy cryptos are all making cool progress in Venezuela, and in satcom and other comms, as posted in various fora... https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin+Bitcoincash+CryptoCurrencies+CryptoCurrenc… https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2020-September/082278.html > While I must admit that I am no longer a fan of crypto > currencies (huge global energy resources waste IMHO) And what analysis are people basing that on? It is clear that people are forgetting to add up ALL of the global resources wasted on supporting Fiat Currencies. That is an understandable oversight given that all of the major media and fraudulent anti-crypto "research" reporting on "energy resource waste"... (their analysis is funded by obsolete Banks Governments Corporations all dependant on each other to exist in Fiat)... typically only adds up the mining costs, and fails to do a comparison to Fiat at all, let alone a high quality honest comparison that strives to include... ALL of the... Electricity used by paper bill printing and coin stamping machines globally. All their shredders and smelters and mining and tree sawing and paper making chemical processes deforestation, the distribution channels, and gasoline, diesel, coal, oil, lubrication, maintenance. Pollution costs, lung cancer costs, physical waste costs. Safe storage and transport costs for "money". Printing employee costs, wasted closed market government dictated health care costs. Cash register, security cam, alarm systems electricity. And all that and *much* more is just for physicality of producing and handling with it. Then they did also forget to add up ALL the Bank building costs, maintenance, daily commute costs, wear on and pollution from their tires. The cost fees they steal from you to "hold" your money and move it around for you, 2 and 20 management, and the costs to get it back when they censor and lock your flow. All their computers on their desks, all their lights, all the electricity and chems used to process their feces that flow down their toilet sewers before it hits the river, oopsie. They forgot ALL the existence of Government "laws" around money... all the "law" editors, publishers, glitzy marble government buildings, $170k/year salary that Government "representatives" steal from you to waste hours debating Fiat on their floors, and dabbling in politically immune corruption. Cost of all the Fiat Bank lobbyists, their air travel, and so much more. Cost of prisons and loss of all your assets and property for using it to buy and sell harmless plants, or to exchange cryptocurrencies with each other without a "license". Then add up the entirely Government "leader" initiated WARS over monetary trade imbalances, to take out other "leaders" and easy centralized Fiat targets. Their epic initiations of murderous immoral force to steal more resources and trap up people to fund the "growth" needed to offset the crippling debt inherent with how Fiat is created by Central Banks and Govt without imploding. Go ahead... add it all up, ALL OF IT, all that wasted energy in the entire Global System of Fiat that is rapidly becoming obsolete by cryptocurrency. Fiat currency is so wasteful that it makes even a world based only on Gold and Silver, sans Govt involvement, look resource cheap in comparison to Fiat's all-in costs. Nor do people realize that in the long term, cryptocurrency can, does, and will run on little more, relatively speaking in comparison, than sand (silicon) and solar power. In fact, solar's free clean renewable input will be among few competitive ways remaining, with wind, and nuclear a bit more. And without Government in the way propping up energy legacies, and with open markets and self and other unsystem schooling options, uncensored peer to peer comms around the world, allowing people to see through GovCorp secrets and lies, and make new enlightened choices for their own Earth environment... crypto continues to look very good. Anyone trying to step to cryptocurrency talking the typical dishonest limited scope "energy waste" weaksauce will get destroyed by even armchair estimates of all-in costs.

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RedPill: Crypto Speech re 2ndA, Black Community Flips to Support Trump, Kyle Rittenhouse Defends from Thugs
by grarpamp 23 Apr '21

23 Apr '21

Cryptography depends on the 1st Amendment, Freedom of Speech depends on the 2nd, history shows all four of the above are under constant risk of being banned, and most of the world has already succeeded at it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbeBSp6KEDU 2ndA is Ending Exclusion of Minorities from Their Rights, Racist Biden Exposed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFo59MOxN-8 Bryson Gray on Why I Left the Left https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4bFl0SLKQQ Kamala Harris Mission to Destroy Freedom, Supports Theft and Violent Force https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgC1yrWRNo0 Gun Control Doesn't Work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3rzyqr4cbw Colion Noir: Nuanced Perspectives... BLM Marxists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5D5cyS0Xzg Chicago Lightfoot is Incompetent Lying Two-Faced https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQhsxgx-h2M Ava Flanell on How She Got In https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpzl9IQHc9s Gun Totin Patriot by Bryson Gray "If ya wanna come and get my rifle... good luck." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKus9Euv7UI Kyle Rittenhouse Defends Self 1x https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iryQSpxSlrg Kyle Rittenhouse Defends Self 2x 3x https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKlmbM03IQI Trump Remarks on Kyle Case https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_4r_3D5TVI Internet Summary via ClownWorld https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twSYsZfL5QY Kyle Speaks From Jail via @CaliKidJMP Rittenhouse Defense https://fightback.law/ https://mobile.twitter.com/LLinWood https://mobile.twitter.com/CaliKidJMP https://mobile.twitter.com/michellemalkin https://mobile.twitter.com/MarinaMedvin https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/kyle-rittenhouse-working-lifeguard… https://i.imgur.com/C9vfdvK.jpg On Amendments 2 and 1 https://old.reddit.com/r/DIYGuns+Firearms+gunpolitics+progun+secondamendmen… Meanwhile, co geriatric and cognitive declinee partner to Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi whines about her hair and plots how to force you to wear masks... https://www.zerohedge.com/political/it-was-setup-pelosi-blames-salon-covert… Same as with guns, Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats definitely DO NOT want you to own, use, and develop any cryptography munitions privacy, or 3-D printing technology, either. More Crypto munitions coming soon...

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Cypherpunks: There Are None Here (ex: Privacy 1984: Predictive Policing on the Rise)
by grarpamp 19 Apr '21

19 Apr '21

> grarpamp, your posts are awesome work! Thank you. My posts, while noting obvious news for those without insight, are otherwise complete garbage, and are rightly offtopic filtered straight to trash by most. Further, hardly any discussions ever ensue from anyone's post, quite a very sad state of affairs given the variety of relatively charter relavant topics posted by whoever, for which 90% of your posts are completely offtopic and should be shitcanned by readers as such. Anyway, it is quite reasonably doubtful that any so called "Cypherpunks" or "Crypto Anarchists" or even any lesser Libertarians even exist here, at least effectively none who are remotely capable of bringing that game out to the public speaking activism sphere on how, among other things, that Peace Love and Crypto-Anarchism could work to bring a better world regarding any number of charter related topics, perhaps starting with simple AnCap Voluntaryism, or even just basic An-*. No, the list is more full of disgustingly silent Leeches, Journos searching for their next story, harvesting bots, sadistic Agents looking for their next entrapped life ruining and pointless bust, and GovCorp surveillance to preempt game and get 1-up headoff lead on future developments in history. > prayer, or more prayer Prayer is for the meek who shall not inherit anything in this Earth but their own sheepledom. Cypherpunks are not sheep, they write code and execute [on] program. Stop being fucking sheep.

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Why could this list be a target for (paid) trolls?
by Georgi Guninski 07 Mar '21

07 Mar '21

Why could this list be a target for (paid) trolls? I hear that this list is target of (paid) trolls and browsing it appears to support this. Why so? I don't see enough "value" in the list for such attack, short of just propaganda playground.

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Chloroquine is "highly effective" at inhibiting reproduction of Novel Coronavirus nCov in cell culture.
by jim bell 31 Jan '21

31 Jan '21

[chloroquine is an old-line drug typically used against malaria] [partial quote follows] https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/science/020620/could-an-old-malaria-drug-… ASBMB Today Science Could an old malaria drug help fight the new coronavirus? Could an old malaria drug help fight the new coronavirus? By John Arnst February 06, 2020 Chloroquine might be getting new life as an antiviral treatment for the novel coronavirus that emerged in Wuhan, China in late 2019 and has infected some 25,000 people in more than 25 countries. For decades, the drug was a front-line treatment and prophylactic for malaria. In a three-page paper published Tuesday in Cell Research, scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s State Key Laboratory of Virology write that both chloroquine and the antiviral remdesivir were, individually, “highly effective” at inhibiting replication of the novel coronavirus in cell culture. Their drug screen evaluated five other drugs that were not effective. The authors could not be reached for comment. Though the paper is brief, John Lednicky, a professor at the University of Florida’s Emerging Pathogens Institute, found its results intriguing. “It’s interesting in that it really lacks a lot of details but, nevertheless, if you look at the data as presented, at least in vitro, it seems like chloroquine can be used as an early-stage drug,” he said. “It would be very good if these types of experiments were repeated by more laboratories to see whether the same results occur across the board.” Chloroquine is a synthetic form of quinine, a compound found in the bark of cinchona trees native to Peru and used for centuries to treat malaria. Chloroquine was an essential element of mass drug administration campaigns to combat malaria throughout the second half of the 20th century, and remains one of the World Health Organization’s essential medicines. However, after the malaria parasites Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax began exhibiting resistance to the drug in the 1960s and 1980s, respectively, it was replaced by similar antimalarial compounds and combination therapies. Chloroquine is still widely used against the three other species of plasmodium and to treat autoimmune disorders and some cases of amebiasis, an intestinal infection caused by the amoeba Entamoeba histolytica. Chloroquine’s antiviral properties were explored in the mid-1990s against HIV and in the following decade against severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, which is closely related to the novel coronavirus. In 2004, researchers in Belgium found that chloroquine inhibited replication of SARS in cell culture. The following year, however, another team at Utah State University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong evaluated a gamut of compounds against SARS replication in mice infected with the virus, finding that chloroquine was only effective as an anti-inflammatory agent. They recommended that it could be used in combination with compounds that prevent replication. Nevertheless, in 2009, the Belgian group found that lethal infections of human coronavirus OC43, a relative of SARS, could be averted in newborn mice by administering chloroquine through the mother’s milk. [end of partial quote] Also: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41422-020-0282-0 Remdesivir and chloroquine effectively inhibit the recently emerged novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in vitro Manli Wang, Ruiyuan Cao, Leike Zhang, Xinglou Yang, Jia Liu, Mingyue Xu, Zhengli Shi, Zhihong Hu, Wu Zhong & Gengfu Xiao Cell Research (2020)Cite this article 171k Accesses 1108 Altmetric Metrics details Dear Editor, In December 2019, a novel pneumonia caused by a previously unknown pathogen emerged in Wuhan, a city of 11 million people in central China. The initial cases were linked to exposures in a seafood market in Wuhan.1 As of January 27, 2020, the Chinese authorities reported 2835 confirmed cases in mainland China, including 81 deaths. Additionally, 19 confirmed cases were identified in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and 39 imported cases were identified in Thailand, Japan, South Korea, United States, Vietnam, Singapore, Nepal, France, Australia and Canada. The pathogen was soon identified as a novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), which is closely related to sever acute respiratory syndrome CoV (SARS-CoV).2 Currently, there is no specific treatment against the new virus. Therefore, identifying effective antiviral agents to combat the disease is urgently needed. An efficient approach to drug discovery is to test whether the existing antiviral drugs are effective in treating related viral infections. The 2019-nCoV belongs to Betacoronavirus which also contains SARS-CoV and Middle East respiratory syndrome CoV (MERS-CoV). Several drugs, such as ribavirin, interferon, lopinavir-ritonavir, corticosteroids, have been used in patients with SARS or MERS, although the efficacy of some drugs remains controversial.3 In this study, we evaluated the antiviral efficiency of five FAD-approved drugs including ribavirin, penciclovir, nitazoxanide, nafamostat, chloroquine and two well-known broad-spectrum antiviral drugs remdesivir (GS-5734) and favipiravir (T-705) against a clinical isolate of 2019-nCoV in vitro. Standard assays were carried out to measure the effects of these compounds on the cytotoxicity, virus yield and infection rates of 2019-nCoVs. Firstly, the cytotoxicity of the candidate compounds in Vero E6 cells (ATCC-1586) was determined by the CCK8 assay. Then, Vero E6 cells were infected with nCoV-2019BetaCoV/Wuhan/WIV04/20192 at a multiplicity of infection (MOI) of 0.05 in the presence of varying concentrations of the test drugs. DMSO was used in the controls. Efficacies were evaluated by quantification of viral copy numbers in the cell supernatant via quantitative real-time RT-PCR (qRT-PCR) and confirmed with visualization of virus nucleoprotein (NP) expression through immunofluorescence microscopy at 48 h post infection (p.i.) (cytopathic effect was not obvious at this time point of infection). Among the seven tested drugs, high concentrations of three nucleoside analogs including ribavirin (half-maximal effective concentration (EC50) = 109.50 μM, half-cytotoxic concentration (CC50) > 400 μM, selectivity index (SI) > 3.65), penciclovir (EC50 = 95.96 μM, CC50 > 400 μM, SI > 4.17) and favipiravir (EC50 = 61.88 μM, CC50 > 400 μM, SI > 6.46) were required to reduce the viral infection (Fig. 1a and Supplementary information, Fig. S1). However, favipiravir has been shown to be 100% effective in protecting mice against Ebola virus challenge, although its EC50 value in Vero E6 cells was as high as 67 μM,4 suggesting further in vivo studies are recommended to evaluate this antiviral nucleoside. Nafamostat, a potent inhibitor of MERS-CoV, which prevents membrane fusion, was inhibitive against the 2019-nCoV infection (EC50 = 22.50 μM, CC50 > 100 μM, SI > 4.44). Nitazoxanide, a commercial antiprotozoal agent with an antiviral potential against a broad range of viruses including human and animal coronaviruses, inhibited the 2019-nCoV at a low-micromolar concentration (EC50 = 2.12 μM; CC50 > 35.53 μM; SI > 16.76). Further in vivo evaluation of this drug against 2019-nCoV infection is recommended. Notably, two compounds remdesivir (EC50 = 0.77 μM; CC50 > 100 μM; SI > 129.87) and chloroquine (EC50 = 1.13 μM; CC50 > 100 μM, SI > 88.50) potently blocked virus infection at low-micromolar concentration and showed high SI (Fig. 1a, b).

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