December 2021 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

20 years ago today - Sgt Pepper told the band to play
by professor rat 15 Dec '21

15 Dec '21

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. http://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/cyphernomicon.txt What forbids us translating the freedom afforded by the Internet to ordinary life?

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Cypherpunk Guild
by Steven Schear 15 Dec '21

15 Dec '21

My friends at the NEAR <https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/near-protocol/> Cypherpunk Guild <https://cypherpunkguild.org/> are keenly looking for cypherpunk-oriented development that, ideally, also promotes NEAR. Both grants and investments are possible. If you are a developer and have a cypherpunk project in mind or are already working on one, I recommend you join the discussion and introduce yourself via one of the methods recommended on their website. Steve

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USE of AP against car-thieves documented
by professor rat 15 Dec '21

15 Dec '21

" . . . human and dog feces smeared across sidewalks, home and vehicle break-ins, overflowing trash cans, and a laissez-faire approach by officials to brazen drug dealing. Parents despaired as public schools stayed closed for most of last year https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-sports-business-health-life…

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2002's cypherpunk assassinphone 14 years later
by professor rat 15 Dec '21

15 Dec '21

A Minnesota company has invented a handgun that folds up to look just like a smartphone. The .380-caliber pistol, called Ideal Conceal, will be available later this year and "will be virtually undetectable because it hides in plain sight," Ideal Conceal says on its website. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/company-invents-gun-folds-look-cellpho…

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Ingraham and Hannity the new Judith Miller and Michael Gordon
by professor rat 15 Dec '21

15 Dec '21

And so as NYT liars rot down FOX liars lurch up https://twitter.com/EricBoehlert/with_replies

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Hackers’ Wars
by zeynepaydogan 15 Dec '21

15 Dec '21

How the FBI, Pentagon, NATO and technologists staged the Arab Spring and resulting coups and wars

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Funeral in Berlin
by professor rat 15 Dec '21

15 Dec '21

nakashimae ·3h German court convicts Russian in brazen Berlin assassination, hands down life sentence for Vadim Krasikov, said to be a former FSB colonel. Federal prosecutors called it a political murder ordered by Russia.

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Re: [spam][crazy] bomb malware
by Karl 15 Dec '21

15 Dec '21

making sure to share these relations On Tue, Dec 14, 2021, 9:16 AM Karl <gmkarl(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/14/21, wrote: > > > >> What brought you to message me? have you received other posts i've > made? > > > > I am getting your messages through the cypherpunk email list. I think > > they are pretty entertaining to read so I thought I would message you. > > Huh :-) > > >> Exploits were a closekept secret found by experienced in-depth > >> analysis of systems and specific-purpose tools that can be hard to > >> share and find. > >> > >> I'm guessing that pentesting and anti- intrusion systems are pretty > >> helpful, covering similar ground. > >> > >> It's important work, especially in this day and age. > > Yeah. It's also fascinating that companies leave back doors open to give > > governments and agencies the possibility for hacking civilians and other > > governments... I read about it recently. > > Below two paragraphs could be inaccurate, i'm pretty confused. > > It's unfortunate to learn that goes down to the chip level, for me. > In AOL Instant Messenger, AOL was found to be using a bug in their own > code to access people's systems. > > I heard it was kind of a fun thing system engineer-administrators > could do long ago. Nobody understood anything but them, and > technology wasn't used for anything important, and leaving a way to > access systems made it much easier to fix bugs. > > Seems there's a scary element I never learned about. >

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Re: [spam][crazy] bomb malware
by Karl 15 Dec '21

15 Dec '21

making sure to share these relations On Tue, Dec 14, 2021, 9:12 AM wrote: > > > What brought you to message me? have you received other posts i've made? > > I am getting your messages through the cypherpunk email list. I think > they are pretty entertaining to read so I thought I would message you. > > > > Exploits were a closekept secret found by experienced in-depth > > analysis of systems and specific-purpose tools that can be hard to > > share and find. > > > > I'm guessing that pentesting and anti- intrusion systems are pretty > > helpful, covering similar ground. > > > > It's important work, especially in this day and age. > Yeah. It's also fascinating that companies leave back doors open to give > governments and agencies the possibility for hacking civilians and other > governments... I read about it recently. >

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Re: [spam][crazy] bomb malware
by Karl 15 Dec '21

15 Dec '21

making sure I share these relations On Tue, Dec 14, 2021, 8:59 AM Karl <gmkarl(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Sorry to hear that. I'm sure you're gonna make it nonetheless! > > What brought you to message me? have you received other posts i've made? > > >> Long ago, security was all about reverse engineering. > > > > That's true. Which was a way of finding back doors... > > Exploits were a closekept secret found by experienced in-depth > analysis of systems and specific-purpose tools that can be hard to > share and find. > > I'm guessing that pentesting and anti- intrusion systems are pretty > helpful, covering similar ground. > > It's important work, especially in this day and age. >

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