October 2021 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Morons won't settle for cryptoanarchy
by professor rat 24 Oct '21

24 Oct '21

Now when, in a few decades, there could effectively be a global crypto-neocameralism built atop the increasingly irrelevant foundations of nation states! https://erikhoel.substack.com/p/bitcoin-as-a-hyperobject

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Low class fool
by professor rat 24 Oct '21

24 Oct '21

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/drive/assange-i-can-rule-from… Mr Assange also railed against the opposition's plan to appoint a three star general to lead its charge against people smugglers. ‘[The military] protects the sovereignty of Australia. It protects the independence of Australia.' ‘It must not be diverted to create some cartoon movie that Tony Abbott wants to use, some kind of Platoon 3 where a failed priest is a leader of the navy going out and patrolling the seas.’ But despite having leaked large amounts of military secrets through his WikiLeaks project, Mr Assange agreed that some level of privacy was necessary for the successful operation of the military. ‘[The military] must operate with as much transparency as is possible—that does not put those important operations at risk,’ he said. ‘WikiLeaks is an organisation that specialises in transparency. On the other hand, we are an organisation also that protects the identity of our forces. We specialise, in fact, also in privacy.' ‘It's this balance between secrecy and privacy that can draw out the best in different groups.’

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Jack Dorsey shaping up as an Ed-Snowden-grade nutcase
by professor rat 24 Oct '21

24 Oct '21

First he pisses off all the lefties for not holding Donald Dumbfuck to house rules. Then he pisses off Camp Trump/ Qanon for turfing the criminal garbage out. Now he's growing a Taliban style beard and ranting about financial End Times. Way to go Moron.

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Edward Snowball considered harmful
by professor rat 24 Oct '21

24 Oct '21

Rolling the tape backwards, Snowjob offended most Americans by going to Russia with help from Wikileaks, a KGB Russian front since 2011. Then he offended his hosts and every anarchist by wrapping himself in an American flag. This, after all his pitiful antics never changed anything important. Here is self-described ' journalist ' Julian Embed Assmange one month after Snowman came out. "... Mr Assange agreed that some level of privacy was necessary for the successful operation of the military ..." http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/drive/assange-i-can-rule-from-… JULIAN " ‘[The military] protects the sovereignty of Australia. It protects the independence of Australia.' ASSANGE July, 2013

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John Young links Wikileaks to CIA
by professor rat 24 Oct '21

24 Oct '21

“Fuck your cute hustle and disinformation campaign against legitimate dissent. Same old shit, working for the enemy.” https://observer.com/2010/12/the-original-wikileaker/ “His work is very important,” said Alex Jones, the radio host and founder of infowars.com. You have to say that he is the granddaddy of the WikiLeaks-type phenomenon.” John Young BFF, Jones exposed Wikileaks as a CIA front on YouTube before being cut-off.

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Anarchism is distributed - bullshit is decentralized
by professor rat 24 Oct '21

24 Oct '21

https://cointelegraph.com/explained/which-blockchain-is-the-most-decentrali… Why bullshit artists have to constantly re-define their decentralized bullshit

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Blockchain still has no "killer app "
by professor rat 24 Oct '21

24 Oct '21

No " Everyone an assassin " means no full-blown-anarchism means revolutions-made-half-way grave danger. Cypherpunks Subject: Everyone a remailer: Everyone a Mint: Everyone an assassin https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=100872510706876&w=2 Strong-crypto, digital money, anonymous networks, pseudonyms, zero- knowledge proofs, reputations, information-markets, netwar, collapse-of-governments.

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Former NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden warns: Governments are trying to weaken the encryption systems to get access to people’s personal messages
by jim bell 23 Oct '21

23 Oct '21

Former NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden warns: Governments are trying to weaken the encryption systems to get access to people’s personal messages https://share.newsbreak.com/3888d80t techstartups.com Former NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is back in the news. In September, Snowden warned people not to use ExpressVPN. “If you’re an ExpressVPN customer, you shouldn’t be,” Snowden said. The warning came after it was revealed that Daniel Gericke, CIO of ExpressVPN, is one of the three former U.S. intelligence operatives who agreed today not to fight charges they illegally helped UAE hack people. Two months later, Snowden is sounding another alarm bell about governments around the world are trying to weaken the encryption systems to get access to people’s personal messages. Speaking from Russia via video link at a press conference Thursday marking the first “Global Encryption Day,” Snowden said that governments are piling pressure on tech giants like Facebook and Apple to grant authorities access to encrypted messages. Privacy “was meant to be the individuals’ power,” Snowden said. “It was meant to protect us, to shelter us from the institutional behemoths that sort of marched in the cities of our day, whether it’s the modern time or the time before.” He continued, “It was an insulating layer that allowed those of us who wield very little power in society, because we are individuals, to think and act and associate freely.” During the conference, Snowden also called out Facebook and other tech giants. He said: “The same companies that have worked so hard to spread encryption over the years are now beginning to fear the next step. “Groups like Facebook want to have as much information as possible. So now they’re limiting where they’ll use end-to-end encryption. They’ll say, for things that we don’t want to have a business liability for, we’ll adopt end-to-end encryption.” Snowden later added, “They’re not socially-minded. They don’t care. They care about their interests.” For over eight years, Snowden has been warning about how ‘the most powerful institutions in society have become the least accountable.’ Snowden’s name first made the headlines in 2013 after he leaked classified documents with journalists that detailed surveillance programs run by the NSA that tapped people’s cell phone and internet communications. Since then, Snowden has been warning about how the U.S. government agencies are using military-grade spyware to spy on citizens. Snowden warned in September about how smartphones have become the most “the most dangerous item” we possess. In a blog post, Snowden showed three hidden microphones embedded in his smartphone. In 2019, Snowden said the thing that “chilled” him the most in his discovery of the spying operations was that “intelligence collection and surveillance more broadly was happening in an entirely different way,” and was “no longer the targeted surveillance of the past.” Below is a video of the first event of the Global Encryption Day press conference. Shared from NewsBreak

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The future doesn't need journalists
by professor rat 23 Oct '21

23 Oct '21

an even deeper consideration of the nature of “truth” and who gets to define it. Have a listen as Srinivasan breaks down his arguments for why the future lies in trusting distributed “cryptographic truth” rather than the values of centralized news organizations. https://www.coindesk.com/podcasts/coindesks-money-reimagined/balaji-sriniva…

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Financial information wants to run wild, naked & free over the sundappled uplands of cryptoanarchy
by professor rat 23 Oct '21

23 Oct '21

Financial information wants to run wild, naked and free over the sundappled uplands of crypto-anarchy https://cointelegraph.com/news/how-a-single-strategy-crypto-algorithm-turne…

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