October 2021 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

How can I sign up for Worldcoin without being shot by Alec Baldwin?
by professor rat 23 Oct '21

23 Oct '21

https://www.somagnews.com/startup-wants-to-distribute-1-billion-cryptocurre… To sign up for Worldcoin you don’t need to have any money, but you can say that it costs an arm and a leg. That’s because the startup validates that the person is really real, before earning their cryptocurrency, scanning their iris using custom hardware Palantir , sorry, orbs. Once your health is assured you may donate a pint of blood to Peter Thiel and receive 30 pieces of silver Worldcoin.

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Stefan Claas on Turkey
by professor rat 23 Oct '21

23 Oct '21

Marx, "British Politics" (April 7, 1853), Collected Works, Vol. 112, p.7: " . . The real point at issue always is, Turkey in Europe--the great peninsula to the south of the Save and Danube. This splendid territory has the misfortune to be inhabited by a conglomerate of different races and nationalities, of which it is hard to say which is the least fit for progress and civilization.. ." Sorry - that was Karl, not Stefan. I get them confused. My bat.

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There can only be men here
by professor rat 22 Oct '21

22 Oct '21

JULIAN " Capitalism+atheism+feminism = sterility " ASSANGE. 2017

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Re: I hate this NFT hype ...
by Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 22 Oct '21

22 Oct '21

On Fri, 22 Oct 2021 22:22:55 +0200 Stefan Claas <spam.trap.mailing.lists(a)gmail.com> wrote: > BTW. Did you know that they once paid a ransom and later they were > attacked again so that a team from Israel helped them to fix their > issue? > I didn't know that. Thanks for the pointer.

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Re: Assange's Case
by professor rat 22 Oct '21

22 Oct '21

JULIAN " Being guilty of aggravated rape has nothing to do with our party" A. Broinowski. Wikileaks Party NSW candidate for au Senate. 2013. "... 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 Julian Assange · LRB 6 March 2014 http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n05/andrew-ohagan/ghosting … Mar 6, 2014 - I wouldn't say this publicly, but Hitler wrote Mein Kampf in prison..." Jul 20, 2015 - Julian Assange: To be honest, I don't like the word transparency; cold dead glass is transparent..." JULIAN " “People with strong principles don’t survive for long ” ASSANGE quoted in " Risk" released in 2017. May 20, 2017 - Julian Assange announced “the proper war is just commencing...”

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I hate this NFT hype ...
by Stefan Claas 22 Oct '21

22 Oct '21

Hi all, I am currently noodling around with an idea, how to link a (digital) item to, for example, a Bitcoin address and would like to hear your thoughts. I would appreciate it if you read my thread. https://groups.google.com/g/sci.crypt/c/SYeA5AuonSg Regards Stefan

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Defend Jews against hateful bigotry
by professor rat 22 Oct '21

22 Oct '21

" . . . the best safeguard for Jews against discrimination lies in strong alliances with other targeted groups in a push for strengthened federal and state legislation and enforcement against hate crimes and all forms of bigotry. . . " https://www.smh.com.au/national/fighting-anti-semitism-needs-solidarity-not… So long as the state exists not everything it does need be opposed

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Hacks: Dutch Lab Decrypts Tesla Vehicle Data Storage
by grarpamp 22 Oct '21

22 Oct '21

All vehicles should destroy data after every few drive cycles or trips, let users choose. Otherwise vehicle refits will and should appear on free market to provide that, just raw motor and battery, no computer storage or anything else needed. Dutch Government Lab Decrypts Tesla's Data Storage System, Finds "Far More Data Than Previously Aware Of" https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/dutch-forensic-lab-sa… We may soon find out whether or not Tesla has been deceptive in presenting its driver data. According to Reuters, a Dutch government's forensic lab says it has decrypted the car's data-storage system, which has uncovered "a wealth of information that could be used to investigate serious accidents." But the best part: the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) says it has found "far more data than investigators had previously been aware of". How unexpected. The NFI said that the decrypted data proved that Tesla stores information about Autopilot usage, speed, accelerator pedal position, steering wheel angle and brake usage. Some of the data can be available for over a year, the report says. Francis Hoogendijk, a digital investigator at the NFI, said: “These data contain a wealth of information for forensic investigators and traffic accident analysts and can help with a criminal investigation after a fatal traffic accident or an accident with injury." For example, one investigation took place when the NFI looked into a collision involving a Tesla using Autopilot behind a car that braked hard. The investigation showed that the driver of the Tesla reacted with the expected response time, but the collision happened because the Tesla was too close. Aart Spek, NFI investigator, told Reuters: "That makes it interesting, because who is responsible for the following distance: the car or the driver?" The lab said it decided to forego seeking the data from Tesla in favor of reverse engineering data logs for it. The NFI said it was “in order to objectively investigate them," which we're guessing is a kind way to say "side-step Elon Musk's bullshit". Data storage has been in question since Tesla announced earlier this year it had established a site in China to help store data. Tesla provides data in the Netherlands when a court orders it to do so, but now the NFI knows exactly what kind of data the carmaker is storing and for how long. “You cannot claim what you do not know, so it’s helpful that we now know what else is being stored,” the NFI said. "Tesla however only supplies a specific subset of signals, only the ones requested, for a specific timeframe, whereas the log files contain all the recorded signals," the institute added. We're sure this revelation will catch the ear of the NHTSA, who is in the midst of a broad 700,000+ vehicle investigation into Tesla's Autopilot and its potential involvement in accidents involving emergency vehicles.

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Re: Assange's Case
by zeynepaydogan 22 Oct '21

22 Oct '21

#FreeOlaBini Ola Bini’s trial this week. Ola Bini’s trial is set for Thursday and Friday this week, despite a series of recognized due process violations in the free software developer criminal’s prosecution and flimsy evidences presented to support the charges. Ola Bini’s pretrial hearing was suspended at least five times during 2020 and again in 2021 until its conclusion in June. Now, there’s a risk the trial keep on the same slow-motion tragedy. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/10/after-years-delays-and-alarmingly-fli… After Years of Delays and Alarmingly Flimsy Evidence, Security Expert Ola Bini’s Trial Set for This Week For over two years EFF has been following the case of Swedish computer security expert Ola Bini, who was arrested in April, 2019, in Ecuador, following Julian Assange's ejection from that country’s London Embassy. Bini’s pre-trial hearing, which was suspended and rescheduled at least five times during 2020, was concluded on June 29, 2021. Despite the cloud that has hung over the case—political ramifications [have seemed to drive the allegations](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/ecuador-political-actors…, and Bini has been subjected to [numerous due process and human rights violations](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/slow-motion-tragedy-trial… are hopeful that the security expert will be afforded a transparent and fair trial and that due process will prevail. Ola Bini is known globally as a computer security expert; he is someone who builds secure tools and contributes to free software projects. Ola’s team at ThoughtWorks contributed to Certbot, the EFF-managed tool that has provided strong encryption for millions of websites around the world, and in 2018, Ola co-founded a non-profit organization devoted to creating user-friendly security tools. From the very outset of Bini’s arrest at the Quito airport there have been significant concerns about the legitimacy of the allegations against him. In our visit to Ecuador in July, 2019, shortly after his arrest, it became clear that the political consequences of Bini’s arrest overshadowed the prosecution’s actual evidence. In brief, based on the interviews that we conducted, our conclusion was that Bini's prosecution is a political case, not a criminal one. His arrest occurred shortly after Maria Paula Romo, then Ecuador’s Interior Minister, held a press conference to claim (without evidence) that a group of Russians and Wikileaks-connected hackers were in the country, planning a cyber-attack in retaliation for the government's eviction of Assange; a recent investigation by [La Posta revealed](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch3sd6-Hbq4&feature=youtu.be) that the former Minister knew that Ola Bini was not the "Russian hacker" the government was looking for when Bini was detained in Quito's airport. (Romo [was dismissed](https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/ecuador-s-interior-minister-dismissed/2054980) as minister in 2020 for ordering the use of tear gas against anti-government protestors). A so-called piece of evidence against Bini was leaked to the press and taken to court: a photo of a screenshot, supposedly taken by Bini himself and sent to a colleague, showing the telnet login screen of a router. The image is consistent with someone who connects to an open telnet service, receives a warning not to log on without authorization, and does not proceed—respecting the warning. As for the portion of a message exchange attributed to Bini and a colleague, leaked with the photo, it shows their concern with the router being insecurely open to telnet access on the wider Internet, with no firewall. Bini’s arrest and detention were fraught with due process violations. Bini faced 70 days of imprisonment until a Habeas Corpus decision considered his detention illegal (a decision that confirmed the weakness of the initial detention). He was released from jail, but the investigation continued, seeking evidence to back the alleged accusations against him. After his release the problems continued, and as the delays dragged on, the Office of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression included its concern with the delay in Bini’s trial in its 2020's annual report. At the time of our visit, Bini's lawyers told us that they counted 65 violations of due process, and journalists told us that no one was able to provide them with concrete descriptions of what he had done. In April 2021, Ola Bini’s Habeas Data recourse, filed in October 2020 against the National Police, the Ministry of Government, and the Strategic Intelligence Center (CIES), was partially granted by the Judge. According to Bini's defense, he had been facing continuous monitoring by members of the National Police and unidentified persons. The decision requested CIES to provide information related to whether the agency has conducted surveillance activities against the security expert. The ruling concluded that CIES unduly denied such information to Ola Bini, failing to offer a timely response to his previous information request. Though the judge decided in June’s pre-trial hearing to proceed with the criminal prosecution against Bini, observers indicated [a lack of a solid motivation](https://www.alainet.org/en/articulo/213067) in the judge's decision. The judge was later "[separated](https://inredh.org/la-jueza-yadira-proano-fue-separada-del-caso-…" from the case in a ruling that admitted the wrongdoing of successive pretrial suspensions and the violation of due process. It is alarming, but perhaps not surprising, that the case will proceed after all these well-documented irregularities. While Ola Bini’s behavior and contacts in the security world may look strange to authorities, his computer security expertise is not a crime. Since EFF's founding in 1990, we have become all-too familiar with overly politicized "hacker panic" cases, which encourage unjust prosecutions when the political and social atmosphere demands it. EFF was founded in part due to a notorious, and similar, case pursued in the United States by the Secret Service. Our Coder’s Rights Project has [worked for decades](https://www.eff.org/issues/coders) to protect the security and encryption researchers that help build a safer future for all of us using digital technologies, and who far too often face serious legal challenges that prevent or inhibit their work. This case is, unfortunately, part of a longstanding history of countering the unfair criminal persecution of security experts, who have unfortunately been the subject of the same types of harassment as those they work to protect, such as human rights defenders and activists. In June of this year, EFF called upon Ecuadors’ Human Rights Secretariat to give special attention to Ola Bini’s upcoming hearing and prosecution. As we stressed [in our letter](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/06/eff-ecuadors-human-rights-sec…, > Mr. Bini's case has profound implications for, and sits at the center of, the application of human rights and due process, a landmark case in the context of arbitrarily applying overbroad criminal laws to security experts. Mr. Bini's case represents a unique opportunity for the Human Rights Secretariat Cabinet to consider and guard the rights of security experts in the digital age. Security experts protect the computers upon which we all depend and protect the people who have integrated electronic devices into their daily lives, such as human rights defenders, journalists, activists, dissidents, among many others. To conduct security research, we need to protect the security experts, and ensure they have the tools to do their work. The circumstances around Ola Bini's detention have sparked [international attention](https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/03/ecuador-authoriti… and indicate the growing seriousness of [security experts' harassment in Latin America](https://www.accessnow.org/latin-america-information-security-resea…. The flimsy allegations against Ola Bini, the series of irregularities and human rights violations in his case, as well as its international resonance, situate it squarely among other cases we have seen of [politicized and misguided allegations](https://www.eff.org/pt-br/deeplinks/2018/10/canada-chile-secur… technologists and security researchers. We hope that justice will prevail during Ola Bini’s trial this week, and that he will finally be given the fair treatment and due process that the proper respect of his fundamental rights requires. > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Wednesday, August 11th, 2021 at 8:09 AM, zeynepaydogan <zeynepaydogan(a)protonmail.com> wrote: > >> He has a case tomorrow.Amnesty issued this statement >> >> https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/08/usa-uk-president-biden-must-… >> >> ProtonMail mobil ile gönderildi

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Its free and always will be
by professor rat 22 Oct '21

22 Oct '21

https://www.coinspeaker.com/worldcoin-free-coin-scanning-eye/ “We designed the whole system to be fundamentally privacy-preserving. The iris code itself is the only thing leaving the orb. There’s no big database of biometric data. It’s the most secure and privacy-preserving way we found to prove everyone in the world is unique.”

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