September 2020 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

New York Times publishes Donald Trump's tax returns in election bombshell
by jim bell 28 Sep '20

28 Sep '20

The Guardian: New York Times publishes Donald Trump's tax returns in election bombshell. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/27/new-york-times-publishes-do… Jim Bell's comments: We should remember that the NY Times presumably obtained this tax return material illegally, just as the US government accuses Julian Assange of having obtained material illegally. NY Times should be held to account for failing to defend Assange for supposedly doing what the NYT also does. And, why doesn't the Federal Govt break down NY Times' doors and drag a few editors off to the same Federal jail where Jeffrey Epstein supposedly killed himself? Jim Bell

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one for Juan: CDC finally publishes by-age Covid-19 death rates
by Zenaan Harkness 28 Sep '20

28 Sep '20

Better late than never as they say :) New CDC Estimates: Fatality Rate For COVID-19 Drops Again And May Surprise You Mark Glennon of Wirepoints https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/new-cdc-estimates-fatality-rate-covid-19-… ...Here’s another way to look at the same numbers. If you get infected, your chances of surviving are as follows: Age Group Probability of Survival 0-19: 99.997% 20-49: 99.98% 50-69: 99.5% 70+: 94.6% ...

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Overton Window: Scott Adams: “most charitable explanation …@tedlieu experiencing temporary TDS hysteria, owes @RealCandaceO world's biggest apology” - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 27 Sep '20

27 Sep '20

Goys and Hoys, le overton window nicely banged open for now, in this instance Scott Adams backs USA Republican Candace Owens after she rips into lying Democrats Ted Lieu and Jerry Nadler: The most charitable explanation of this situation is that @tedlieu is experiencing temporary TDS hysteria and owes @RealCandaceO the world's biggest apology. The less charitable explanation is almost beyond comprehension. https://t.co/u9GrjCYZB0 — Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) April 9, 2019 Interesting times :) Candace Owens in EPIC clash with Ted Lieu at congressional ‘white nationalism’ hearing https://www.rt.com/usa/456065-candance-owens-ted-lieu-hitler/

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Re: Cryptocurrency: Costs of Fiat are Unsustainable Not Crypto, Privacy, Freedom
by grarpamp 27 Sep '20

27 Sep '20

On 9/27/20, Stefan Claas <sac(a)300baud.de> wrote: > grarpamp wrote: > >> > 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? > > Please do a Google search with this string: > 'crypto currency global energy waste' and you will > find various articles. Please provide a link to even one such result that gives a fair whitepaper (or even a good Joe napkin) estimate of the ALL-IN comparative costs between Fiat vs Crypto, as described in the post to which you have replied. > Not to mention that Bitcoin mining is nowadays for the > average joe user absolutely not profitable. > > https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/calculator/btc?HashingPower=40&Hashing… That link person could buy mining contract in better $/watt location, or invest in own long term solar ROI, or build better efficient power plant, or terminate or route around local GovCorp pricing interference... many options. There is some function on the Joes ability to equalize against centralization coming from millions of Joes being willing to contribute small amounts in extra cost to ensure their their own holdings and network utility. Those smalls can aggregate much larger than central miners and put them out of business. Did you watch "Larken Rose - The Tiny Dot". The Joes have not yet realized they could mobilize that. They've hardly yet considered shifting adoption back to ASIC hard, thus gaining more universal access to distributed CPU mineability of CPU based coins. Or contracting among all themselves to outbid, soak up, contract out, and evenly distribute ASIC production. Or build their own #OpenFAB's on which to print #OpenHW. So many options no one has even taken much step to become free. And just like all Fiats, coins that fall into centralization will eventually die a worthless death. Coins, even Kings, that want to remain relavant will naturally avoid that. That and many other possible future stages of cryptocurency dynamics hasn't even begun to play out, let alone be fully cataloged and recognized as possible outcomes. Nor will there ever be a just one single coin. Nor will any of todays leadeing coins likely to be around 10-20 years from now. > Check the prices, for example, for those Bitmain Antminer's > and compare that when all began and when mining Bitcoin was > profitable. Good cryptocurrency is highly dynamic and self balancing systems. It was always known that margins would decrease over time. And that other factors would come in and out of play as time goes by. But the good systems would remain balanced resilient and decentral. Still very early days, not even second gen technology adoption yet. So go make second gen coin technology that kills off the first and BOOM, there is your "like when all began" profitability for you again :) Go start a services business that people like, BOOM, profits :) Your suggested was about "energy" not "profitability", though they are related in some aspects. > And regarding privacy, I do not like the fact that on a > Bitcoin Blockchain Explorer everybody can see your account > balance and what transactions you have made. That is a very valid point, tell that to the Bitcoin-BTC people. No one does like that, except spies, especially nasty Govt spies, and people who vote for that to try to force you to do what they want from you. You can coinjoin, coinswap, coinshuffle, coinfusion, swap, mix, and DEX some non privacy coins like Bitcoin-BTC. Some of other coin families can too. Strong cryptographic levels of privacy is important and valuable, that's why some protocol based privacy coins now exist, and why newer ones will be coming forth in the future. For that matter, what many believe to be the "wrong" kind of "everyones" and "untrustworthies" can already see, get access to, steal, partner give away, censor, lockdown your central GovCorp bank account balances, paypals transactions, install more counting machine tracking points for paper bill serial numbers, etc too. So which spy poison source do you want, non-private Fiat forever (chosen on false energy claims), same poison in today's non-private crypto... or potential better future 2x win with privacy crypto? Gold is pretty private, but has storage and transmissiblity tradeoffs to consider. Chickens, tradegoods, etc their own tradeoffs as well. Use crypto and all those and trade between all as needed. You can also securely and privately hawala chickens if you have a strong private crypto comms system. And if you have a strong private crypto comms system for that, then you already have many parts of a strong private cryptocurrency system. Crypto is here... best push Libertarian Voluntary Anarchy Freedom now in more than just crypto area of life, else it be a very bad slavery trap to escape, CBDC's will be much worse than Fiat System already is, "Energy" and "Environment" will be the least of your concerns at that point. Have fun and best success in the freedom fight :) ps: Did you know you cannot speak of actual freedom on the censored Liberation-Tech mailing list? That is hypocritically sad as well.

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Unix: Insane Chown Posse :)
by grarpamp 27 Sep '20

27 Sep '20

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BMBjuzWCMAAKf1p.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTfOnGZUZDk Grepping for Publius https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ed

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One Way to Prevent Police From Surveilling Your Phone
by jim bell 27 Sep '20

27 Sep '20

https://theintercept.com/2020/09/25/surveillance-sim-cloning-protests-prote…

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Books: 1M Random Digits, Busting Numbers Stations Agents, VENONA, Censorship [re: Quside random]
by grarpamp 27 Sep '20

27 Sep '20

> On 9/17/20, jim bell <jdb10987(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> Jim Bell's comment:I remember in 1976, in my first semester at MIT, >> visiting the Engineering Library inside the Big Dome, searching the book >> stacks, and finding a book printed with about one million random numbers. > > The NSA has a digital copy of that book in its dictionary ;) Now cpunks can have their very own digital printout, surely guaranteed to be unadulterated from the original 1955, surely random, print copy in order to... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Million_Random_Digits_with_100,000_Normal_D… https://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1418.html https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/2008/P113.pdf https://www.wsj.com/articles/rand-million-random-digits-numbers-book-error-… ‘A Million Random Digits’ Was a Number-Cruncher’s Bible. Now One Has Exposed Flaws in the Disorder. A 1955 Rand Corp. book had a reputation as the go-to source for figures used by pollsters, analysts, researchers; engineer Gary Briggs has ruined it. For 65 years, Rand Corp.’s reference book “A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates” has enjoyed a reputation as the go-to source for random numbers. Until, on a random whim, Gary Briggs came along and ruined it all. Mr. Briggs, a Rand software engineer, spent his spring rifling through the million digits and discovered that while... [a paywall had been erected in front of his eyes, his story will be freed in time ;] ... cite page numbers from and feed into their own one-time comms pads over GNURadio SDR RF. Just don't get caught... https://www.numbers-stations.com/how-to-catch-a-spy-who-uses-numbers-statio… Today we release second part of the research from the KGB archive documents in Latvian National Archive. This article features direct translation from KGB top secret training manual where one part of it was dedicated on instructions on how to apprehend and capture foreign intelligence operative who is using numbers station or one sided broadcast. The instruction is based on actual historic case of Anatoly Filatov a CIA spy, who was caught by KGB counter intelligence in 1977 and was receiving instructions from the CIA radio center in Frankfurt, West Germany. This manual shows practical methods of counter inteligence and how its possible to disrupt a intelligence operation that is using numbers stations broadcasts for communication. https://www.nsa.gov/news-features/declassified-documents/venona/ https://www.mattblaze.org/blog/neinnines/ Did a broken random number generator in Cuba help expose a Russian espionage network? I picked up the new book Compromised last week and was intrigued to discover that it may have shed some light on a small (and rather esoteric) cryptologic and espionage mystery that I've been puzzling over for about 15 years. Compromised is primarily a memoir of former FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok's investigation into Russian operations in the lead up to the 2016 presidential election, but this post is not a review of the book or concerned with that aspect of it. ... Ironically, this was not the first time that Russian/Soviet intelligence has been burned by sloppy OTP practices. The first was, more famously, the disastrous re-use of OTPs discovered and exploited in the Venona intercepts. ... ps: Matt Blaze is on the Board of Directors of the Tor Project Inc, which hypocritically for a free-speech anti-censorship project, actively censors its lists, blog, etc against this truth, and other risk-to-users-threat-model, funding-embarassing things. ps: Dont let Perry Metzger's censored cryptography(a)metzdowd.com list see this post, it'll spark another 100 post RNG thread flooding out fair refutation of their own anti-cryptocurrency bankers and statists. Have a fun and random day :)

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No Internet, No Problem. Venezuela Gets Bitcoin Satellite Node - Decrypt
by jim bell 26 Sep '20

26 Sep '20

https://decrypt.co/43000/no-internet-no-problem-venezuela-gets-bitcoin-sate…

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Martyanov: "NO US serviceman even fought in defense of his country, town, family" - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 26 Sep '20

26 Sep '20

As the US empire declines and the danger of it's flailing whip tail is handled, let's hope that come November 4th, that the USA is finally permitted to actually talk and negotiate with Russia. There is a qualitative difference between the US and Russian militaries, which is firmly in the nature of the difference between fighting for empire vs. fighting for your family. There is a righteousness with Russians, inextricable in fact, which is cultural but more importantly a spiritual advantage which today sadly many Westerners struggle to even comprehend, though thanks to Soros' home grown "all American" color revolution now in full swing, there are signs, some peripheral flickers of hope that some folks are experiencing a dawning awareness of such things... continue to pray, muffas… Russia Steals Everything. Andrei Martyanov, Sunday, September 20, 2020 https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2020/09/russia-steals-everything.html ... US is desperate to stop advanced weapons' development in Russia, and, in his interview to Russia's ultra-liberal Kommersant (in Russian), Marshall Billingslea wasted 10 minutes of my valuable life time bloviating on the matters of START treaty extension, threatening Russia with new....whatever, and speaking in pseudo-strategic platitudes, which Russia, most likely, will ignore. Why shouldn't she, especially knowing that no discussion on serious matters is possible with the US. Non-agreement-capable, period. BTW, one of the funny features about Billingslea--his original Bachelor's Degree is in...History of Arts. Get it, boys and girls? His formative humanly and academically years he spent studying useless crap, which provides zero background for any productive activity. ... NO US serviceman even fought in defense of his country, town, family. This is the main, metaphysical, reason why US top brass, once a generation which saw serious war departed, could never grasp an essence of the warfare, because they have no grasp what would happen if they lose not just the war, the US has a great record of that, but what they treasure in life. This is the obstacle which cannot be overcome by inventing some new fighting doctrine or by regurgitating same ol' and beaten to death strategic and operational truisms. One has to start thinking differently but that is precisely what is lacking in the decision-making circles in the US today, where reality and fantasy long ago lost a clear demarcation line between the two. Well, it is inevitable in the country where one of the main voices in defining military policy include such people as a graduate of a History of Arts program or a comic and con-artist. I guess, in the world of fantasy and fakes those skills are sufficient.

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1984: Amazon Ring In-Home Cam Drone Pushes Spying
by grarpamp 26 Sep '20

26 Sep '20

On 9/25/20, jim bell <jdb10987(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > The Washington Post: Amazon’s new security drone pushes the boundaries of > surveillance, again. > https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/09/24/amazon-ring-security-d… https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/24/21453709/ring-always-home-cam-indoor-dro… https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/24/heres-everything-amazon-announced-at-its-… Worth noting that this is a closed source remotely controlled always on network connected cloud uploading datamining data partner sharing agency giving... flying camera and microphone... in your fucking home. People have to be BatShit fucking insane and retarded to buy this thing. Ring's latest home security camera is an autonomous drone, called the Always Home Cam, that can fly around inside your home to give you a perspective of any room you want when you're not home. "Once it's done flying, the Always Home Cam returns to its dock to charge its battery," reports The Verge. "It is expected to cost $249.99 when it starts shipping next year." From the report: Jamie Siminoff, Ring's founder and "chief inventor," says the idea behind the Always Home Cam is to provide multiple viewpoints throughout the home without requiring the use of multiple cameras. In an interview ahead of the announcement, he said the company has spent the past two years on focused development of the device, and that it is an "obvious product that is very hard to build." Thanks to advancements in drone technology, the company is able to make a product like this and have it work as desired. The Always Home Cam is fully autonomous, but owners can tell it what path it can take and where it can go. When you first get the device, you build a map of your home for it to follow, which allows you to ask it for specific viewpoints such as the kitchen or bedroom. The drone can be commanded to fly on demand or programmed to fly when a disturbance is detected by a linked Ring Alarm system. The charging dock blocks the camera's view, and the camera only records when it is in flight. Ring says the drone makes an audible noise when flying so it is obvious when footage is being recorded. Ring also rolled out new hardware for the automotive market with three different devices focused on car owners: Ring Car Alarm, Car Cam, and Car Connect. The company also said they've added opt-in end-to-end video encryption, as well as the option to completely disable the "Neighbors" feed, which allows users to view local crime in real time and discuss it with people nearby.

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