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Nasty stench at MIT
by professor rat 04 Dec '21

04 Dec '21

Who pays the piper oft calls the tune. NOAM “There are things that we want to keep secret like the characteristics of your latest fighter plane or something like that ” CHOMSKY

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NSO Group spyware used to hack at least nine US officials’ phones – report
by jim bell 03 Dec '21

03 Dec '21

https://news.yahoo.com/nso-group-spyware-used-hack-183658078.html Revelation comes just weeks after the Biden administration placed NSO on a US blacklist A logo adorns a wall on a branch of the Israeli NSO Group company, near...

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[ot][spam][crazy][wrong] Making a Watertower That's Similar To a Bomb Design
by Karl 03 Dec '21

03 Dec '21

I'm imagining if we took a large round steel container, we could raise it high in the air and fill it with water, and if it were large enough, a community with water could have running pressurised water from the contents. This sounds like a cool idea! I found plans on a crypto-anarchist list, at https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2021-December/093065.html , in a thread entitled "build a bomb", for just such a round container. The rest of the title after "build a bomb", is "out of … [View More]

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Fuck Square / Block and fuck Bitcoin
by professor rat 03 Dec '21

03 Dec '21

Jack Dorsey is a one-man Jackass dialogue full of shilling and bs signifying nothing. " . . . Bitcoin maximalists predict that bitcoin will become a sort of universal unit of account; and this is not the kind of prediction that can be disproved, because it will come true if enough people believe it. But I can imagine another future in which units of account dramatically pluralize, instead of becoming universal. Emergent associative communities could measure value in their way, on their own … [View More]

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Here's one really good way to fight ubiquitous surveillance
by professor rat 03 Dec '21

03 Dec '21

Get off the internet. I suppose any self-described punk could start or join a deadpool on surveillance freaks like the POTUS, head of CHEKA, Fedbook and the CCP. But their balls would have to descend a little first for that to ever happen.

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Nasty stench at MIT
by professor rat 03 Dec '21

03 Dec '21

Oh Captain! Mercaptan! Larry, Frank and Seth might need to get out ahead of this businessinsider.com The FAA accidentally disclosed more than 2,000 flight records associated with Jeffrey Epstein’s… Domestic flight records associated with Jeffrey Epstein’s private jets Epstein’s actions have reverberated throughout the US scientific community over the past month after investigations revealed that he supported many top research universities and labs by offering their scientists … [View More]

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Really stupid “smart contract” bug let hackers steal $31 million in digital coin – Ars Technica
by jim bell 03 Dec '21

03 Dec '21

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/12/hackers-drain-31-mil… Blockchain startup MonoX Finance said on Wednesday that a hacker stole $31 million by exploiting a bug in software the service uses to draft smart contracts. The company uses a decentralized finance protocol known as MonoX that lets users trade digital currency tokens without some of the requirements of traditional exchanges. “Project owners can list their tokens without the burden of capital requirements and focus … [View More]

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Russia issues threat to GPS satellites - GPS World
by jim bell 03 Dec '21

03 Dec '21

https://www.gpsworld.com/russia-issues-threat-to-gps-satellites/

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Russia issues threat to GPS satellites - GPS World
by professor rat 03 Dec '21

03 Dec '21

JULIAN " the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The internet is a threat to human civilization " ASSANGE 2012 JULIAN "of course Russia understands this game and Putin understands this game for a long time now" ASSANGE 2013

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[spam][crazy][wrong][ot] ramblings
by Karl 03 Dec '21

03 Dec '21

whooo! it's 16:15 on 2021-11-24 and i know that well because i just typed a spamlogtiny where i found the broadcast rpc call for libretchingandvomiting and ... then my xorg began misbehaving such that only the menu bar would respond to keyboard and mouse input, no matter what window was focused, and then i wrote a script to dump the memory of my chrome processes, and the visible email content didn't seem to be in the memory i dumped, and then my system ran out of space, and my body froze up … [View More]and started spasming ... basically when my computer gets a corruption i start thinking aliens are hacking my brain and everything goes wrong. but then i rebooted the system! the email was apparently lost, _but_ i have part of a script started for dumping process ram, so that's progress for future situations. in my imaginary world where i can do free makery stuff, i use a field probe to read the ram directly from its refresh emissions using an sdr. but we are not in this imaginary world so i use /proc/[pid]/mem and /proc/[pid]/maps . it would be good to set the kernel settings that let me use /dev/mem, be super helpful. anyway ! libtotallygrossdestroyedwaste is still seeming fun to pursue. there's also a thing in an hour i'd kinda like to try going to. my new scared habits know to hit 'save draft' over and over and over again to make life make more sense. it's 16:55 and i'm hitting 'save draft'. 16:57 i hit 'save draft' again. and here i go again. i like hitting it. in electrumx, transaction_broadcast() expects a hexadecimal string passed, and it's called in response to 'blockchain.transaction.broadcast' yay! it's 16:58 and i'm hitting 'save draft'. it's 17:00 and ................ the rpc call source reads like it would return the transaction hash after broadcast. i'm hitting save draft! it's 1701 ! 1703. omigod i wrote a broadcast wrapper! it's a 1-line function and it's so hard. i know it won't work yet (because my error density is so high) but here it is: async def broadcast(self, txbytes) -> str: return await self.request(str, 'blockchain.transaction.broadcast', txbytes.hex()) woohoo ! saving draft. and code. ok ummmm i'll use the op_return code to test it. i'll use my mobile phone to send money to a private address. the hardest part will be making the private key because th eop return code uses a local node. maybe i'll just focus on that. it's 1718. hitting 'save draft'. what a nice, friendly button. now it's 1719. anyway i've made a possible opreturn output, pending bugs. the biggest concern around craftin ga transaction is estimating a fee. maybe i'll make a quick fee estimation wrapper. 1719. i better wrap other useful things too like getting utxos. and that will mean identifying an address by its 'hashx', an electrum-specific thing. 1726 how to get a hashx is at https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/8d7370d897314d8542906aecc6a45cc94… def address_to_scripthash(addr: str) -> str: script = address_to_script(addr) return script_to_scripthash(script) or in electrumx in coin.py class Coin def address_to_hashX(cls, address): '''Return a hashX given a coin address.''' return cls.hashX_from_script(cls.pay_to_address_script(address)) 1728 1732. i guess i'll be going to my event to stay more stable. maybe switchin' gears. [View Less]

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