October 2021 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

v2 Onions, IPv6 BiDir P2P Capability Regression... [re: Relays running unsupported EOL ver]
by grarpamp 12 Oct '21

12 Oct '21

On that, and regardless of what TPO Inc says re... tor is a bit decentralized, and freely licensed, as such... DirAuths, HSDirs, Relays are all free to choose to continue signing over and running older versions in order to support the community of tor clients that are happily using useful features that the Tor Project on its high horse demands with its blanket fiat fist and refusing to consider and support users... to remove from such users, herein as noted before, v2 onions and simple OnionCat IPv6 /48+80 UDP transport P2P E2E BiDir addressing and thus all current IPv6 capable apps incl VOIP Bittorrent comms status chat game coins etc and future apps that needing such tech to operate across onionland. That's bad, and a big regression in service, both active now, and preventing potential development on interesting new uses and applications in the future. These users, these features, apps, and their recognized tradeoffs, their free choices made therein, are of merit and import. And Tor Project is choosing to censor and ban v2 and them without regard. Perhaps some v2 users will likewise email all the relays seeking not their censorship, but instead their support. But perhaps due to any needs they may have to remain unknown they may not be able to voice out to lists etc, as such the surfaceweb cannot make dis-use assumptions and must indeed hold v2 in their stead for them. Kudos to those distributed DirAuths, HSDirs, and Relays who refuse to comply with Tor Project Inc demands to crush all v2 onion users and their legitimate use cases. The better path is for TPO to either recognize and continue, or to modularize v2 onion support out to community stewardship such that the features that it provides may continue until a future vN or a seamless scalable externally attached solution for the same features and uses is found. And to make v3 the default choice "advertised" in docs and configs, with v2 a lesser noted option yet for just providing above capabilities. Tor Project still doesn't have a version feature matrix table, nor an honest open balanced and free to all authors wiki education page detailing use case and tradeoff notes for users about the v2+OnionCat vs v3 tech capabilities, thereby allowing tor users to freely make educated choices therein on their own. Instead it has a bricked up and censored prop blog and lists. Like TPO's censorship, that's unfair, unwarranted, questionable, and needs to end. ps: Yes, upgrade, if merely behind on versions sake, lots of good fixes, improvements, performance, features, security, etc come with those. But when it comes to a big and permanent regression of overall network capability issue such as this, that's different, and needs consideration beyond the vague handwavy universal whitewash "reason" being uttered by TPO such as "v2 insecure"... which is false re educated tradeoffs and uses that users are free to evaluate and choose on their own. In fact, users are in better more intelligent aware position having learned a bit of something and made that themselves. Users are also free to eval by bring forward to today sense of the NSA's 10+ year old slides that noted "Tor Stinks". What conditions, designs, capabilities, etc have changed since then. Cheers all. On 10/5/21, Georg Koppen <gk(a)torproject.org> wrote: > Relays running unsupported Tor versions is a problem we have never > really dealt with in a systematic way in the way. Some of you might > recall that we (with the help of volunteers) tried back in 2019/2020 to > get operators, running an unsupported Tor version, to upgrade[1] but > then we dropped the ball. Alas. > > We just started that process again by contacting every relay operator > running an outdated Tor version (any version not 0.3.5.x or 0.4.5.x or > 0.4.6.x or 0.4.7.x) by email where possible. Additionally, we created a > wiki page outlining the current process and things we still need to > figure out.[2] On that page we plan to make statistics related to the > EOL relay removal available as well, including the final list of relays > we'll reject. Thus, stay tuned. Feedback, as always, is very much welcome! > > We plan to keep this topic on our radar this time while refining the > process as we go. Meanwhile, if you are running a relay with an > unsupported Tor version, please upgrade for the sake of our users' safety. > > If you need help, join us on #tor-relays or #tor-relays:matrix.org if > you use Element. > > [1] https://blog.torproject.org/removing-end-life-relays-network > [2] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/team/-/wikis/Relay-EOL-pol…

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Cryptocurrency: Today's Coins Are Hardly The Ultimate [re: Monero]
by grarpamp 12 Oct '21

12 Oct '21

> Monero has the third largest developer community among cryptocurrencies, behind bitcoin and Ethereum. Its privacy features have attracted cypherpunks and users desiring privacy measures not provided in other cryptocurrencies. It is increasingly used in illicit activities such as money laundering, darknet markets, ransomware, and cryptojacking. > The United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has posted bounties for contractors that can develop monero tracing technologies. Monero is hardly the sole exclusive and ultimate choice for all cases in privacy coin technology, neither today, nor tomorrow. There are now many privacy coins in prod beyond the early Zcash-ZEC and Monero-XMR and even Bitcoin_Cash-BCH+CashFusion forms and their progenitors and derivatives, and many more in devel, and more beyond that to come in 3rd, 4th, Nth generations beyond the 2nd gen phase being produced today. The same for the various cross-coin anonymous DEX, the shifters, mixes, swaps, joinmarket, etc. For that matter, most coins carrying any serious amount of value today have dire first generation problems with some aspect of scalability, privacy, disk space, txrate, etc. The more adoption they get, the less they can change, the closer they grow to point of maxed out unusability. And when that approaches, and without having developed real cross-coin anonymous DEX, you're value is stuck and fucked. Coin tech is still very early days, anyone claiming otherwise or parading around just one coin, is a shill.

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The govt is the great, the omnipotent teacher ( Brandeis )
by professor rat 12 Oct '21

12 Oct '21

Monero has the third largest developer community among cryptocurrencies, behind bitcoin and Ethereum. Its privacy features have attracted cypherpunks and users desiring privacy measures not provided in other cryptocurrencies. It is increasingly used in illicit activities such as money laundering, darknet markets, ransomware, and cryptojacking. The United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has posted bounties for contractors that can develop monero tracing technologies.

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KARL Semich is dead
by professor rat 12 Oct '21

12 Oct '21

...wrong. Flanked by Batshit-Crazy missiles, the Marxist-Communist type, list-dictator brays that others threaten peace. Fuck Karl Semich - he is dead wrong.

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Character Assassination politics continues to do well, year after year
by professor rat 12 Oct '21

12 Oct '21

Despite no one I know following on from CJ and my efforts to get APster up and running there is still hope it could go viral. Especially now Bill Gates has been divorced. I say this based on evidence that "Character Assassination" Politics remains extremely popular - or at least simply tolerated - as for example - on this list, where a " Govt Agent Truther " operates without serious challenge to supply the slightest evidence to back up his ( Batshit Crazies ) COINTELPRO-style bullshit. So lets not lose our nerve now - one more effort if youse wanna be free! https://stiffs.com/celebrity/billgates And once he's dead we can get rid of that coprophagic robocop called Batshit Crazy!

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Cryptocurrency: Energy and E-Waste Memes Are FUD Propaganda Spread by Dying GovBankCorp
by professor rat 12 Oct '21

12 Oct '21

Ah, yes. But then why are leading crypto-currency corporates - like Adam Backs, Blockstream - investing heavily in Co2 offsets? Then your " Dying GovBankCorp " assertion assumes facts not in evidence that you yourself dump here almost daily asserting almost total ' Govcorp ' control of almost everything. Can't you keep your stupid fucking lies straight anymore?

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Legal group demands probe into Garland’s school parents memo
by jim bell 12 Oct '21

12 Oct '21

https://share.newsbreak.com/26vxldrd Legal group demands probe into Garland’s school parents memo New York Post Former Trump White House adviser Stephen Miller’s legal organization is asking the Justice Department’s independent watchdog to investigate Attorney General Merrick Garland’s controversial memo mobilizing the FBI against parents protesting their local school boards –calling the move “corruption” and “undue politicization” of the Justice Department’s authority.

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JIM Bell is stupid piece of Nazbol shit - like " Natural Rights ' anarchist Batshit-Crazy
by professor rat 12 Oct '21

12 Oct '21

JIM Bell is stupid piece of Nazbol shit - like " Natural Rights ' anarchist Batshit-Crazy

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Fw: The Jim Bell Deadpool
by professor rat 12 Oct '21

12 Oct '21

The Jim Bell Deadpool > > I'm sorry Mr Nazi-Fag-Moron Semitch. Could you repeat ALL your intelligent > and informed stream-of-consciousness musings so we can keep this thread > going as long as possible for our bounty billing purposes? https://peakd.com/assassinationpolitics/@dollarvigilante/world-exclusive-fi…

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The Semich, Gramps, Batshit Deadpools are at 2K each
by professor rat 12 Oct '21

12 Oct '21

SEMICH - You are part of an undesirable crypto-fascist grouping and - believe it or > not - could be even worse than the Gramps criminal garbage and Batshit > Crazies criminal insanity. Do you think I could help guide the grouping to be less undesireable? It sounds like this grouping is concerning somehow? Yes Karl - as I said - Kill Gramps - Kill Batshit then Kill yourself. Put this in a translator if you can't understand it.

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