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VICE: Hacked Surveillance Camera Firm Shows Staggering Scale of Facial Recognition
by jim bell 14 Mar '21

14 Mar '21

VICE: Hacked Surveillance Camera Firm Shows Staggering Scale of Facial Recognition. https://www.vice.com/en/article/wx83bz/verkada-hacked-facial-recognition-cu…

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Phys.org: Breaking the warp barrier for faster-than-light travel
by professor rat 14 Mar '21

14 Mar '21

I'd like to test a basic " Ansible " device outside our solar-system. The problem is NASA and Musk keep talking up rape of the wilderness planet, Mars. Once any other sentient alien species find out about that they'll probably have us wiped out as a threat to the entire Galaxy. SAD!

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Fwd: [tor] I was banned from PayPal
by grarpamp 13 Mar '21

13 Mar '21

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: potlatch(a)protonmail.com Am 3/13/21 um 4:33 AM schrieb potlatch: > To put a little meat on the bone of this situation, I did not receive an email from PayPal--I was informed that I was banned when I tried to make a payment for VPS hosting. During the week before this ban, I had sent funds to both Flokinet for an exit relay in Finland and to ITLDC.com for VPS hosting in Poland--both exit relays. I used the PayPal support email to ask for the reason I was banned and to ask for re-instatement. I have heard nothing back. > > I had surmised that someone was monitoring payments to off-shore hosting companies and maybe they assumed I was supporting a news agency--I don't know really. If that is the case, why haven't the hosting sites been banned as well? > > The message in my PayPal account referred to a violation of the user agreement. Here is the full text of the message: > > -We're unable to continue offering our services > -Thank you for using PayPal as your payment partner. > > -Unfortunately, we are unable to continue offering our services -to you at this time due to the nature of your business and/or -activity in your account and the risk it poses to PayPal. This -decision can't be overturned. > > -If you owe refunds to any of your buyers, you can use the money -in your PayPal account to refund them. > > -Money in your PayPal account will be held for 180 days. After -180 days, we'll email you information on how to withdraw your -money. > > > The only transactions on this account over the past 3-months were VPS lease payments off-shore. I looked up the user agreement to determine where I had violated the rules and found only a single reference to operating servers: > > -Service Requiring Pre-Approval: > -Providing file sharing services or access to newsgroups; or -selling alcoholic beverages, non-cigarette tobacco products, --e-cigarettes or prescription drugs/devices. > > I have a zoom meeting with two attorneys from EFF.org on March 18. Stay tuned....and maybe ban PayPal. > > --potlatch > >> Am 3/11/21 um 12:42 AM schrieb potlatch: >> >>> Today I received a message from PayPal that paying for Tor relay server leases was a direct violation of my usage agreement. I have been paying off-shore VPS hosts for my Tor server leases with PayPal for at least ten years. Very interesting that they act now. >>> They specifically state the ban was for: >>> Providing file sharing services or access to newsgroups; or selling alcoholic beverages, non-cigarette tobacco products, e-cigarettes or prescription drugs/devices. >>> They further state that the ban is permanent and not reversible. >>> I liked using PayPal because it was a safe way to pay and didn't expose my credit card information. Before PayPal I used a prepaid card which I will probably go back too. >>> --Potlatch >>> >>> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

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Cryptocurrency: Bear'B'Gone Brand Bear Spray Sold Out at $60k+
by grarpamp 13 Mar '21

13 Mar '21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fxzaTg0vMQ bears be dead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz9iCgiSZrM btc's back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGPY4dxAhZA halvening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMmcu8RzM2M tsla atw up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIy9TER8Qwo osr remix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zuAbAD5Bac get buff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfjQiyU5Uvc dr jackson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c7UuIKNTB8 save me from zero $60k barrier solidly broken through at $61750, cruise mode to $74.5k, $100k clearly in range on hodler induced illiquidty, stops be trailing up. Gold?, lol, don't be such a stiff Schiff... bitcoin-btc:1JjWdsFAWB4UDZXFMpHQ5sqNMSvWah8S9q Muh bags, fill them, you silly crypto bitchez... ;)

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Sky Global Indictment, March 12, 2021
by John Young 13 Mar '21

13 Mar '21

Sky Global Indictment, March 12, 2021 https://cryptome.org/2021/03/sky-indictment.pdf (2MB) Via Vice/Joseph Cox: "Only second time DoJ has charged operators of an encrypted phone firm."

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New ATH for the Big Dog
by professor rat 13 Mar '21

13 Mar '21

Bitcoin Spikes to New Record High Over $60K The top cryptocurrency by market cap rose to $60,065.15 in a matter of minutes on Saturday morning. WHO wants to join the LAST revolution? The one to take down ALL the governments! Cypherpunks collapse governments. 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. No question we’re still in the old Mongo, Szabo, Back inception of crypto-anarchy. But also no question things keep moving the Bell, Johnson, Taylor way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtkJ7vxGn4c

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Silk Road’s Ross Ulbricht Shares Vision for Decentralized Hitman Contracts on Social Media
by professor rat 12 Mar '21

12 Mar '21

Silk Road’s Ross Ulbricht Shares Vision for Decentralized Hitman Contracts on Social Media https://decrypt.co/61174/silk-roads-ross-ulbricht-shares-vision-for-decentr…

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GeekWire: Critics take aim at SpaceX’s Starlink, Amazon’s Project Kuiper and other satellite constellations
by jim bell 12 Mar '21

12 Mar '21

GeekWire: Critics take aim at SpaceX’s Starlink, Amazon’s Project Kuiper and other satellite constellations. https://www.geekwire.com/2021/critics-take-aim-spacex-starlink-amazon-kuipe…

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US lawmakers introduce bill to make high-speed internet available to all
by jim bell 12 Mar '21

12 Mar '21

https://www.engadget.com/accessible-affordable-internet-for-all-act-introdu…

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Privacy concerns raised after massive surveillance camera breach
by jim bell 12 Mar '21

12 Mar '21

https://www.scmagazine.com/home/security-news/iot/camera-tricks-privacy-con…

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