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Cypherpunk counter-revolutionary
by professor rat 27 Oct '21

27 Oct '21

Julian Assange recognised that the language of what amounted to the WikiLeaks Manifesto might appear a little “overblown”. He recognised that it had about it too much the flavour of “anarchy”. But in general when it was written he was pleased. John Young was not. In early January 2007 he decided that WikiLeaks was a CIA-backed fraud. “Fuck your cute hustle and disinformation campaign. Same old shit, working for the enemy … Fuck ’em all.” https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2011/february/1324596189/robert-manne/c…

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Re: [tor-talk] Dishonest tor relay attack math question
by grarpamp 27 Oct '21

27 Oct '21

On 9/28/21, PrivacyArms via tor-talk <tor-talk(a)lists.torproject.org> wrote: > Dear Tor community, > > I came across a post on the Whonix forum recently. Since I am also > interested in this question I copied it here: > https://forums.whonix.org/t/math-behind-honest-tor-nodes/12464 > http://forums.dds6qkxpwdeubwucdiaord2xgbbeyds25rbsgr73tbfpqpt4a6vjwsyd.onio… > The question (edited): > How can I calculate how much impact X honest Tor relays have? > Is it better to calculate with bandwidth consumed (250Gbps), despite the > number of relays (~7000)? > > Basically, I want to get the mathematical equation to this statement: > I run X Tor relays at Y Mb/s each and by doing so I secure Z % of the Tor > network! > Starting thoughts: > - Each “normal” route has three nodes involved: Guard, Middle, Exit > - I am aware of guard pinning and vanguard protection for middle relay > pinning > - Maybe it is easier to assume an infinite usage time of the network to > eliminate guard and vanguard pinning > - I guess the best is to assume a scenario with 1%, 5%, 10%, etc. dishonest > relays > > I would love to hear your thoughts about it and a concrete math equation > would be amazing. Too many approach reality from the wrong direction. Instead, try calculating how much impact X dishonest tor relays have.... And try to understand reasons why the NSA says "Tor Stinks" some of the time, and that was over 10 years ago, attack methods and actors are improved and more prevalent since then, tor is still same since 20+ years... Then consider what "adding more relays" under that design really does, and or cannot do... Security product advertisements tend to be quite polished affairs, yet those products often as full of holes as any other.

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Death of Cypherpunks Two - This time its personal
by professor rat 27 Oct '21

27 Oct '21

Like an inverse Marxist, Tim May tended to believe that the inexorable expansion of private cryptography made the victory of crypto-anarchism inevitable. A new “balance of power between individuals and larger entities” was already emerging. He predicted with some confidence “the end of governments as we know them”. Another even more extreme cypherpunk of the libertarian Right, Jim Bell, like an inverse Leninist, thought that history might need a push. . . " In this reading we might assign a Victor Chernov role to Eric Hughes and Julius Martov one to John Gilmore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Martov

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Re: Hey We have a New Harasser!
by professor rat 27 Oct '21

27 Oct '21

Did someone say ' rapist '? Julian Assange arrested in London on rape charges https://www.csmonitor.com/World/terrorism-security/2010/1207/WikiLeaks-Juli… GEOFFREY "sexual offence for a man to deliberately deceive a partner whose consent has been conditional upon his use of a condom" ROBERTSON JULIAN " Being guilty of aggravated rape has nothing to do with our party" A. Broinowski. Wikileaks Party NSW candidate for au Senate. 2013.

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Batshit Crazy pivots from Govt-Agent Truthin'
by professor rat 27 Oct '21

27 Oct '21

Our resident coprophage is now sniffing out rapists. cody wilson, stallman, assange and appelbaum are all rapists according to this Batshit-Crazy, antisemitic nutcase COINTELPRO specialist. Never heard of ' The Batshit Crazy who cried Wolf " obviously. Feh

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Twitch along with Mitch
by professor rat 27 Oct '21

27 Oct '21

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Kapor Some posts in the archives mention ' The Lotus Position ' and appear to allege deliberate backdooring of LOTUS 1 2 3 & / or notes. John Perry Barlow - a good ie dead US republican. Clearly no self-respecting cypherpunk would want to associate with rotten creeps like these two.

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Hey We have a New Harasser!
by zeynepaydogan 27 Oct '21

27 Oct '21

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/10/john-gilmore-leaves-eff-board-becomes… Since he helped found EFF 31 years ago, John Gilmore has provided leadership and guidance on many of the most important digital rights issues we advocate for today. But in recent years, we have not seen eye-to-eye on how to best communicate and work together, and we have been unable to agree on a way forward with Gilmore in a governance role. That is why the EFF Board of Directors has recently made the difficult decision to vote to remove Gilmore from the Board. We are deeply grateful for the many years Gilmore gave to EFF as a leader and advocate, and the Board has elected him to the role of Board Member Emeritus moving forward. "I am so proud of the impact that EFF has had in retaining and expanding individual rights and freedoms as the world has adapted to major technological changes,” Gilmore said. “My departure will leave a strong board and an even stronger staff who care deeply about these issues." John Gilmore co-founded EFF in 1990 alongside John Perry Barlow, Steve Wozniak and Mitch Kapor, and provided significant financial support critical to the organization's survival and growth over many years. Since then, Gilmore has worked closely with EFF’s staff, board, and lawyers on privacy, free speech, security, encryption, and more. In the 1990s, Gilmore found the government documents that confirmed the First Amendment problem with the government’s export controls over encryption, and helped initiate the filing of [Bernstein v DOJ](https://www.eff.org/cases/bernstein-v-us-dept-justice), which resulted in a court ruling that software source code was speech protected by the First Amendment and the government's regulations preventing its publication were unconstitutional. The decision made it legal in 1999 for web browsers, websites, and software like PGP and Signal to use the encryption of their choice. Gilmore also led EFF’s effort to design and build the [DES Cracker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFF_DES_cracker), which was regarded as a fundamental breakthrough in how we evaluate computer security and the public policies that control its use. At the time, the 1970s Data Encryption Standard (DES) was embedded in ATM machines and banking networks, as well as in popular software around the world. U.S. government officials proclaimed that DES was secure, while secretly being able to wiretap it themselves. The EFF DES Cracker publicly showed that DES was in fact so weak that it could be broken in one week with an investment of less than $350,000. This catalyzed the international creation and adoption of the much stronger Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), now widely used to secure information worldwide. Among Gilmore’s most important contributions to EFF and to the movement for digital rights has been recruiting key people to the organization, such as former Executive Director Shari Steele, current Executive Director Cindy Cohn, and Senior Staff Attorney and Adams Chair for Internet Rights Lee Tien. EFF has always valued and appreciated Gilmore’s opinions, even when we disagree. It is no overstatement to say that EFF would not exist without him. We look forward to continuing to benefit from his institutional knowledge and guidance in his new role of Board Member Emeritus. Sent from ProtonMail for iOS

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[spam][crazy][wrong] Why You Are Beautiful
by Karl 27 Oct '21

27 Oct '21

When you goad my community to bomb your palace with you, when you introduce incredibly skilled friends who leave human feces in our meeting rooms, all we can think of is how perfect the destruction is. Why, when a fifth of my friends are dead, another fifth newly homeless, another fifth in psychiatric institutions, another fifth working for you to destroy other groups, and at least another fifth spending time in prison for things that you did, I tally the bodies and shape the tally into the beautiful rose that it is. The sweet, deep crimsonly sanguine, scent of this most beautiful of offerings, is too terrifying to do anything but hug closely. To walk up to and offer one's appreciation of. But how? How to tell you how beautiful and wonderful you are? How to make clear to you, that there is care and value for you as strongly as you gift the rest of the world with yours? What are the secrets of this strange language that seems the only one you speak to us?

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Re: Low class fool Another One exposed Blood Error
by professor rat 26 Oct '21

26 Oct '21

You do know Israel Shamir is the most active Nazi propagandist since the Third Reich, don't you? https://reason.com/2011/02/03/julian-assange-and-israel-sham/

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Re: Low class fool Another One exposed Blood Error
by zeynepaydogan 26 Oct '21

26 Oct '21

Yeah, he already had blood on his face. He's got people he's ruined his life with. Destroy himself,for all these peoples life, he has destroyed. BLOOD ERROR https://i.hizliresim.com/jkfsdpi.jpeg Sent from ProtonMail for iOS Açık Pzt, Eki 25, 2021 04:19, professor rat <pro2rat(a)yahoo.com.au> yazdı: > Stefan sez he's from Germany and was into punk decades ago. > > https://i.pinimg.com/736x/71/6f/a9/716fa9838bce44315b22d17a7a70b773--images… > > Its clear he also hates Jews with a passion. > > What a fucking moron.

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