April 2021 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

AP News: Myanmar junta limits internet, seizes satellite TV dishes
by jim bell 08 Apr '21

08 Apr '21

https://apnews.com/article/technology-aung-san-suu-kyi-myanmar-yangon-asia-… Jim Bell's comment: This is one reason I have hopes for SpaceX's Starlink Internet data link system. The Myanmar military can control terrestrial Internet, but they would have much more difficulty blocking Internet from space, and where there is no inherent reason that the Starlink management must obtain the approval of the government of that region. This may be ineffective in a very few cases, such as North Korea or perhaps Cuba, but in the large majority of nations, the governments want the luxury of being 'authoritarian-lite', yet want to have a mostly-functioning Internet. But merely having Starlink doesn't solve the whole problem. What I think Cypherpunk-oriented people could usefully do is to figure out how to. 1 Protect the Starlink ground terminals from detection by RDF (radio direction finding) means. One partial method would be to designate some of these stations as "receive-only", so that they don't give away their locations. 2. An even bigger problem:. How does the information downloaded by a ground station get, usably, to people in that nation, without risking tracing such links? Presumably this will include networks of anonymization sites, if somehow that remains allowed.

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Top Biden cyber official: SolarWinds breach could turn from spying to destruction 'in a moment'
by jim bell 08 Apr '21

08 Apr '21

https://news.yahoo.com/top-biden-cyber-official-solar-winds-breach-could-tu… Anne Neuberger, deputy national security adviser on cyber and emerging technology, said Wednesday that hackers could use their access to U.S. networks for dest...

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Hackaday: Review: What On Earth Is An Electromagnetic Radiation Tester And Why Would I Need One?
by jim bell 08 Apr '21

08 Apr '21

Hackaday: Review: What On Earth Is An Electromagnetic Radiation Tester And Why Would I Need One?. https://hackaday.com/2021/04/07/review-what-on-earth-is-an-electromagnetic-…

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Hackaday: Fun While It Lasted, Falcon 9 Telemetry Now Encrypted
by jim bell 08 Apr '21

08 Apr '21

Hackaday: Fun While It Lasted, Falcon 9 Telemetry Now Encrypted. https://hackaday.com/2021/04/07/fun-while-it-lasted-falcon-9-telemetry-now-…

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ADAM Back considered harmful
by professor rat 07 Apr '21

07 Apr '21

https://www.coindesk.com/miners-front-running-service-theft Blockstream's move into mining already looked bad - now it stinks to high Heaven Adam Back is not a cypherpunks asshole. Fuck him and all who sail in him.

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signal, the pentagon's "chat app" adopts fascist shitcoin
by Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 07 Apr '21

07 Apr '21

infinite self parody here : https://www.mobilecoin.foundation/about "At MobileCoin, we believe governments have a legitimate interest in regulating the economic lives of their citizens. Good monetary policies help keep economies healthy and currency controls help fight criminals and terrorists."

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Re: [liberationtech] The bitcoin terrorists of Idlib are learning new tricks
by grarpamp 07 Apr '21

07 Apr '21

> https://www.wired.co.uk/article/bitcoin-crypto-terrorism-syria Anti-crypto FUD. Go look at all what kind of murder crime fraud etc the govts and everyone else does with many billions of dollars, rubles, yuan, etc. While both have similar crime ratios, fiat is still much larger net usage thus it carries magnitudes more crime. But fake news media wouldn't get any propaganda jobs, money, or influence in honestly reporting that fiat story. > learning ... crypto Yes learn and adopt distributed crypto, move past all your colosally obese growing governments that are starting shit, stomping around the world murdering thousand and thousands, torturing, prisoning, starving, stealing money from you under threat of death to stuff their own crony wallets, spyveillancing and passporting you entire life forever, FUD program on 24x7 in your fake news, plotting more ways for GovCorp power to keep sucking your life. Soon you won't even have the cash they keep printing to intentionally devalue your wealth and living ability with, saddling you with more and more of their wasted debt load... since they are now officially rolling out their worthless cashless society fake crypto fiat called Central Bank Digital Currencies CBDC's, MMT and UBI to screw and spy and control you even more, turn you off and forfeit you in a second, and cancel your activism, freespeech, dissent, freedom... totalitarian control in the extreme. Govt lately saying you cant secede to have bit of independence and freedom (catalan, hong kong, taiwan, etc...), locking you down fining you shutting down your business all 2020 corona, politicians baldly lying being idiots on your news, social scoring gone insane. Yet not a peep of effective resistance. Wake up sheeple, to what in the world is happening. GovCorp trying to end your monetary freedom, cashless, etc is no joke... you will lose remaining freedom. You are free beautiful people. You don't need them or their crap anymore. You have crypto, can organize and do and build and teach and roads and charity and health and live as you wish locally and wider, voluntarily, together. Go create freedom. Here are some surrounding subjects hinted in article, with two of them exposing a big underlying problem... http://monzer.kahf.com/fatawa/FATAWA_CURRENCIES_GOLD_COMMODITIES.pdf https://decrypt.co/37286/is-bitcoin-halal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rqw4krMOug https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXsEZeNE288 https://soundcloud.com/radioislam/is-bitcoin-halal-or-haram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyZIoOZj46E ps: Govts about to start WWIII. If you adopted crypto like crypto libertarians told you, you could easily leave funding their wars, and them, off the list of things you choose to pay for. Your old "voting" obviously didn't get you any more freedom, maybe the new distributed privacy crypto hotness will.

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Crypto: IBM Pushes Fully Homomorphic Crypto
by grarpamp 06 Apr '21

06 Apr '21

https://venturebeat.com/2021/04/03/ibm-bets-homomorphic-encryption-is-ready… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption https://github.com/ibm/fhe-toolkit-linux https://github.com/zcash/zcash https://therecord.media/github-investigating-crypto-mining-campaign-abusing… https://therecord.media/amd-zen-3-cpus-vulnerable-to-spectre-like-attacks-v… https://www.amd.com/system/files/documents/security-analysis-predictive-sto… US chipmaker AMD advised customers last week to disable a new performance feature if they plan to use CPUs for sensitive operations, as this feature is vulnerable to Spectre-like side-channel attacks. Called Predictive Store Forwarding (PSF), this feature was added to AMD CPUs part of the company's Zen 3 core architecture, a processor series dedicated to gaming and high-performance computing, which launched in November 2020. The feature implements a technique called speculative execution, which works by running multiple alternative CPU operations in advance to make results available faster, and then discarding "predicted" data once deemed unneeded.

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Privacy: LexisNexis Sells You Out to US-ICE for $17B
by grarpamp 06 Apr '21

06 Apr '21

https://theintercept.com/2021/04/02/ice-database-surveillance-lexisnexis/ The deal is already drawing fire from critics and comes less than two years after the company downplayed its ties to ICE, claiming it was "not working with them to build data infrastructure to assist their efforts." caters to the immensely lucrative "risk" industry, providing, it says, 10,000 different data points on hundreds of millions of people to companies like financial institutions and insurance companies who want to, say, flag individuals The contract shows LexisNexis will provide Homeland Security investigators access to billions of different records containing personal data aggregated from a wide array of public and private sources, including credit history, bankruptcy records, license plate images, and cellular subscriber information. The company will also provide analytical tools that can help police connect these vast stores of data to the right person.

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Cryptocurrency: EO6102 - Crypto Banned like Gold and Cash
by grarpamp 06 Apr '21

06 Apr '21

https://mises.org/power-market/88-years-ago-fdr-banned-gold-will-bitcoin-ba… https://mises.org/library/great-gold-robbery-1933 https://mises.org/library/how-fdr-made-depression-worse https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gold_Repeal_Joint_Resolution https://mises.org/library/why-government-hates-cash-0 https://fortune.com/2018/06/12/bank-of-america-gun-sales/ https://nypost.com/2021/02/06/bank-of-america-under-fire-for-helping-feds-i… https://markets.businessinsider.com/currencies/news/janet-yellen-bitcoin-mi… https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2021/01/171386-ecb-president-christine-lag… https://mises.org/wire/marvin-goodfriend-worst-fed-nominee-all-time https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2018/06/central-bank-monetary-po… https://mises.org/wire/next-generation-currency-wars-private-vs-state-backe… https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-is-banned-in-morocco-but-bitcoin-purchases-… https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-12/russia-s-583-billion-res… Today is the 88th anniversary of Executive Order 6102, signed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, "forbidding the hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States." It would be a crime for Americans to hold gold for over forty years when President Gerald Ford reversed the order in 1974. This episode has several lessons for the current financial environment, particularly given the acceleration of tyranny-by-expert rule that has taken over much of the worst this past year. The same playbook is being increasingly used to target Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies that are beyond the reach of the state.

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