May 2021 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Re: List Status
by John Young 25 May '21

25 May '21

Greg, these complaints seem to fit the disruptive practices of attackers described here: https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm Maybe coincidental but not the first to aim at messing with the list. Other lists have been wiped out with endless bitches, accusations, demand for attention. Good job you're doing, amazing patience. -----Original Message----- >From: Greg Newby <gbnewby(a)pglaf.org> >Sent: May 25, 2021 5:35 PM >To: Karl <gmkarl(a)gmail.com> >Cc: cypherpunks <cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org> >Subject: Re: List Status > >On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 01:10:50PM -0400, Karl wrote: >> On 5/25/21, Greg Newby <gbnewby(a)pglaf.org> wrote: >> > Hi, Karl. The list was a bit quiet yesterday. Perhaps cpunks were outside in >> > the Big Blue, or otherwise engaged. I sent a note that you should have >> > received. >> >> I found it (but never received it): >> https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2021-May/087696.html >> >> Guess it's an issue with me receiving things via gmail. > >The Gmail filter that Tom suggested might help. > >As mentioned, I can try to diagnose messages that don't go through, but it's tough to do unless I know the specific message in question, and when it's sent. This is because we get around 1M lines/day in the mail log, invariably including multiple similar messages to the cypherpunks subscriber list. > >Yes, I realize it's hard to know when a message does NOT arrive, unless you are watching the archive at the same time as you are watching your inbox. > >More: > >> > On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 12:11:26PM -0400, Karl wrote: >> >> Hey Greg, >> >> >> >> Can you confirm that people _subscribed_ to the list experience a spam >> >> filter now? I thought my emails were getting spammed due to not being >> >> subscribed, but it turns out this address is, actually, subscribed; I >> >> was told this when I attempted subscribing. >> > >> > Yes, there are a few standard spam filters and related mechanisms on the >> > server. This includes Spamassassin, DKIM, SPF, and DMARC. These have been in >> > place since the list moved to pglaf.org a few years ago. >> >> When you said "Any subscriber email address can post anything" at >> https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2021-May/087482.html I >> thought you meant that there as no spam filtering of subscribed posts. >> I infer I misunderstood. > >I over-generalized. It's true if the spam filtering doesn't reject it, or another failure condition, like temporary network outages. Or exceeding the max message size (I think it's 20M). > >What I really meant not "can post" but "is permitted to post." Or, "is not restricted from posting based on topic etc." More simply stated, there's no moderation of list traffic, other than the types of automation that Mailman (the list manager software), Postfix (the message transfer agent) or related elements of the email stack apply. > >> My perception of cypherpunks has been of a list where no posts are >> censored, it being up to the users to filter their mails. Do you have >> a memory of this? > >Sure (I've been on the list since the year 2000 or so). One way this used to be handled was with remailers. Some remailers were completely unfiltered - for example, they would accept random SMTP connections to port 25 and not do any checks that the email headers were valid or accurate. > >John Gilmore's toad.com was canonical for this, but not the only member of the remailer circle. Subscribers would choose a remailer to subscribe to. In addition to choosing a level of comfort for spam and some noisier subscribers, the remailer system made cypherpunks more resistant to state-level shutdowns. (It didn't make it less susceptible to surveillance, particullarly, and it also made the whole system more prone to various problems like delivery failure and message loops.) > >There were other remailers that had different procedures (i.e., stricter), which translated into less spam (in the "unsolicited commercial email" sense). For awhile, there was at least one moderated remailer where a human tried to only let the "good" stuff through. > >Today, the cypherpunks list doesn't have anyone doing censorship. However, it does use a set of standard mechanisms for limiting abuse. I already mentioned Spamassassin (one of many, many spam filters), and the trio of standards: DMARC, DKIM and SPF. > >In addition, the server enables TLS and a few other things to make it more difficult to spoof someone else's email address (i.e., to send email as bill.gates(a)microsoft.com or somesuch; or email the cypherpunks list claiming to be a subscriber -- a common way, in olden times, of sending spam or of impersonating someone else). > >A less restricted remailer is definitely still possible, and could interoperate alongside the current system, just like remailers used to interoperate. Someone (not me) would need to set that up. > >> > I have not observed any messages from you that were flagged as spam or >> > rejected. >> >> Do you receive this link to a message of mine that was rejected? >> https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2021-May/087594.html > >Dunno - I don't keep copies of most individual messages to the list. > >> > If you are seeing other people's messages in the list archive, but not >> > getting them in your inbox, the first thing to check is your Gmail Spam >> > folder. If messages still don't arrive within a few minutes, send me details >> > and I can check the server logs to see whether delivery was attempted and >> > what happened. >> >> I have my spam filter configured to prevent all cpunks list messages >> from being spammed, so it's something else. Maybe routing delay. > >Cool. > Greg >

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Fwd: cypherpunks post acknowledgement
by Greg Newby 25 May '21

25 May '21

Karl, others: You can change your list settings to get a message like the following, any time you post to the list. If you are concerned your messages are not going through, this is an easy way to get confirmation per-message. You just need to turn on "Receive acknowledgement mail when you send mail to the list" via your settings screen at https://lists.cpunks.org/ If you don't know your list password, you can reset it there. ~ Greg

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Facial recognition, fake identities and digital surveillance tools: Inside the post office's covert internet operations program
by jim bell 25 May '21

25 May '21

https://news.yahoo.com/facial-recognition-fake-identities-and-digital-surve… The post office’s law enforcement arm has faced intense scrutiny in recent weeks over its Internet Covert Operations Program, which tracks social media posts o...

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Inverse: HBO Max’s best sci-fi series reveals the dangers of a controversial new technology
by jim bell 25 May '21

25 May '21

Inverse: HBO Max’s best sci-fi series reveals the dangers of a controversial new technology. https://www.inverse.com/science/made-for-love-hbo-max-brain-chips-real-or-f… -------------------------- The President's Analyst 1967 https://youtu.be/s2NNZdigSXg

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New Atlas: Morphing computer chip repels hundreds of professional DARPA hackers
by jim bell 25 May '21

25 May '21

New Atlas: Morphing computer chip repels hundreds of professional DARPA hackers. https://newatlas.com/computers/morpheus-processor-secure-darpa-hackers/

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WIRED: The Full Story of the Stunning RSA Hack Can Finally Be Told
by jim bell 25 May '21

25 May '21

WIRED: The Full Story of the Stunning RSA Hack Can Finally Be Told. https://www.wired.com/story/the-full-story-of-the-stunning-rsa-hack-can-fin…

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Cryptocurrency: Its Energy/Carbon Far Less Than Costs of Legacy Financial System
by grarpamp 25 May '21

25 May '21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWAwK2fHArc Crypto: No Regulators The entire Legacy Global Financial System, all the surrounding elements it consumes, including all the buildings, vehicles, shipping, legal system, markets, all its insane regulation, spyveillance, data storage selling, politic, etc... the whole ENTIRE system that Crypto will displace, all of it, all its elements, ALL IN NET TOTAL. Did you somehow think the Anti Cryptocurrency pro Bankster and authoritarian Govt regimes, that crypto will eventually deprecate, would actually calculate and tell you the truth about their all in net waste? Telling the truth is not in their survival and ruling interests. The truth will only hasten their demise. And once the green movement learns the truth they will jump in and help dismantle the wasteful Legacy Financial System even faster. Did you somehow think cryptos would never evolve more efficient algorithms, that eco-power would never cost less than pollution, that crypto capital would not move and grow and evolve and even deploy its own eco power generation, that once Legacy systems die off crypto's cost needed to displace them shrinks to maintenance mode, that the crypto sphere is not made up of highly moral people who care even more about the environment than the corrupt wasteful Legacy systems that crypto will replace? Think again. See the other threads, do the work to add up all the gigawatts, carbon tons, hectares, liters, etc that Legacy systems wastes and uses up. Look at the human costs, the wars, the misallocated resources that these Legacies have hands in perpetuating. The honest "all-in" analysts are right, the anti-crypto FUDsters are wrong. Even ARK, whose ETF structure will be DeFi'd, is among those getting the analysis right. Lots of honest all-in whitepapers on the Energy/Carbon topic are out there, with many more coming this year. Oppressing, taxing, regulating, middlemanning, defrauding, censoring, ruling people, corrupting, wars, and jailing freedom... costs $Trillions globally annually, and that you are forced to pay for, not only by their outright theft under threat of jail and death, but in the growing non-freedom outcomes. Liberation, voluntary societies, free markets, charity, and freedom, are far more efficient. A net win for all :) Crypto will win, and humanity will be freed from the legacy financial system (and its newly minted fraudulent nightmare, CBDC's). Don't ever let the FUDsters fade or stop your development, use, and adoption of distributed privacy enabled cryptocurrencies.

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Censorship: Facebook Exposed by Veritas Again, Mass Mind Control Documents
by grarpamp 25 May '21

25 May '21

Facebook and Twitter and Youtube have been censoring and deleting Project Veritas and hundreds of other embarassing truthtellers accounts, faster and more than ever before. Facebook and Twitter and Google Youtube are obviously afraid their and GovCorp censorship and Mass Mind Control and Propaganda Programming Regimes being exposed, Libertarian concepts, cryptocurrency, even freedom itself being adopted are being deleted from you. Thousands of evidences in plain sight. And people are losing their jobs to bring you the truth. Wake up! Here we have the very basic human rights concept that no one can force you to inject ingest anything... being canceled. Today... Facebook Whistleblowers Reveal Campaign To Censor Vaccine Hesitancy Whistleblower organization Project Veritas has obtained internal documents from Facebook insiders detailing the company's efforts to censor concerns over the COVID-19 vaccine. https://www.projectveritas.com/news/breaking-facebook-whistleblowers-expose… https://assets.ctfassets.net/syq3snmxclc9/7zG8FPh0cBk3qh28dY90iB/10771f24b2… https://assets.ctfassets.net/syq3snmxclc9/5m5WDtHyHDYsB7D6qu6Qg3/3a2a12c32e… https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-project-veritas-releases-internal-fa… https://thepostmillennial.com/exposed-project-veritas-reveals-facebook-empl… https://thepostmillennial.com/watch-facebook-vp-flees-when-confronted-by-pr… https://twitter.com/EricSpracklen/status/1396979327078703104 BREAKING: @Facebook Whistleblowers Expose LEAKED INTERNAL DOCS Detailing New Effort to Secretly Censor Vaccine Concerns on a Global Scale#ExposeFacebook pic.twitter.com/8VBYQSdxlz — veritastips(a)protonmail.xn--com-v392bja (@EricSpracklen) May 25, 2021 Leaked company documents provided by two whistleblowers detail Facebook's plan to combat "vaccine hesitancy" (VH) worldwide via "comment demotion". "They're trying to control this content before it even makes it onto your page before you even see it," one insider told Project Veritas. "If I lose my job, it’s like, what do I do? But that’s less of a concern to me." The social media giant's goal is to "reduce user exposure" to those with VH, while also reducing the ability to engage with said posts. More from Mia Cathell via The Post Millennial: One of the Facebook whistleblowers said the company uses a tier system to rank and determine how comments should be censored or buried. This is all based on how much the statements question or caution against the COVID-19 vaccination. Tier 2, for instance, represents "Indirect Discouragement" of getting vaccinated. User comments such as these would be "suppressed," Project Veritas reported. Comments that include "shocking stories" that describe what could be true events or facts that can raise safety concerns are demoted. Any of the such that raises concern about coronavirus vaccinations are fair game to be demoted and hidden, according to the source, despite authenticity or capacity to contribute to the public good. "I have to do something," one of the Facebook insiders said. It doesn't matter if the comments are true, factual, or represent reality. The comment is demoted, buried, and hidden from public view if it clashes with the system. "It doesn't match the narrative," one source explained. "The narrative being, get the vaccine, the vaccine is good for you. Everyone should get it. And if you don't, you will be singled out." One of the insiders, a data center technician, showed documentation detailing an algorithm test being run on 1.5 percent of Facebook and Instagram's almost 3.8 billion users worldwide. "They're trying to control this content before it even makes it onto your page before you even see it," one insider said. Project Veritas uploaded the entire "Facebook Vaccine Hesitancy Comment Demotion" document and the entire "Facebook Global Operations Primer - Health Misinformation" document on the investigative news outlet's website. A top Facebook spokesperson was reached about these documents and sent "a brief and broad" statement in reply to Project Veritas that "failed to address" the investigative outlet's biggest questions regarding transparency. "I really wonder how Mark Zuckerberg will be able to defend this," stated Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe ahead of the press release Monday. "His own employees are coming to Project Veritas because they can't stand the wrongdoing they are witnessing at their workplace," he told Project Veritas followers. As part of the #ExposeFacebook series in June 2020, Project Veritas revealed how Facebook employees were ordered to monitor, shadow ban, and delete pro-Trump content on the site. At the beginning of May, the Facebook Oversight Board announced that the company ruled to uphold the platform's ban on former President Donald Trump who was booted offline in the wake of the Jan. 6 riot. A leaked Facebook conference call from July 2020 caught CEO Mark Zuckerberg violating the tech giant's own rules, stating that he didn't understand the long-term effects of "modifying people's DNA and RNA," in reference to the COVID-19 vaccine. The footage was published in February of this year, juxtaposing Facebook's policy to remove material that "claims that the COVID-19 vaccine changes people's DNA" with Zuckerberg's alleged violation. Facebook's vice president for Global Affairs and Communications was seen on video in February fleeing from a Project Veritas journalist over a previous statement he had made. The former Liberal Democrats party leader Nick Clegg had argued on-camera at the time that Facebook has "too much power."

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Forced Sterilization, Creepy Govt Eugenics, MKULTRA
by grarpamp 25 May '21

25 May '21

The U.S. Is Still Forcibly Sterilizing Prisoners AP/Rich Pedroncelli https://www.auditor.ca.gov/pdfs/reports/2013-120.pdf https://shadowproof.com/2021/05/12/survivors-of-forced-sterilizations-in-ca… http://cironline.org/reports/female-inmates-sterilized-california-prisons-w… https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/08/california-female-pri… https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/cia-mkultra-collection/ https://ufo.fandom.com/wiki/MKUltra Last month, news broke that a Tennessee judge issued a standing order offering inmates a 30-day sentence reduction if they underwent a permanent birth control procedure: vasectomies for men, or a 4-year birth control implant (Nexplanon) for women. Though the program is technically voluntary, media pointed to it as a form of coercion that forces inmates into sterilization. The American Civil Liberties Union agreed, arguing that the program “violates the fundamental constitutional right to reproductive autonomy.” But the media missed a key piece of context in its outcry: Programs like this aren’t actually unusual. The United States has a long history of forcibly sterilizing people, and it never really stopped. Starting in 1907, state governments sanctioned sterilization as a form of eugenics, to prevent anyone with undesirable traits—disabilities, poverty, a criminal record, specific racial backgrounds—from procreating. This type of legislation justified the sterilization of approximately 60,000 Americans until the laws were phased out in the late 1970s. But that doesn’t mean the practice actually ended: In 2013, the Center for Investigative Reporting found that at least 148 female inmates in California received tubal ligations without their consent between 2006 and 2010. Just one year later, the Associated Press reported on at least four instances of prosecutors in Nashville including birth control requirements in plea deals. Other recent examples of court-required sterilization throughout the country include a 21-year-old West Virginia mother who had her tubes tied as part of her probation for marijuana possession (2009), and a man in Virginia who traded a vasectomy for a lighter child endangerment sentence (2014). “We’re starting to reach a point where the courts are responsible for anyone,” explained one prosecutor involved in a Florida plea deal. “It’s one final step to have to supervise teenagers in sexual relationships they aren’t ready to handle.”

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SpyVeillance PapersPlease: GCHQ Hardly Spanked, Nothing Will Change Without Mass Demand
by grarpamp 25 May '21

25 May '21

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/25/gchqs-mass-data-sharing-vio… http://www.amadeus.com/ir/documents/aco/ir/en/Quick6.pdf https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-7964-where_in_the_world_is_carmen_sandiego https://archive.org/details/JacquesEllulTheTechnologicalSociety https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_name_record https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE97409R20130805 https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Investigatory_Powers_Commissioner%27s… https://www.npr.org/2016/05/16/478272695/retired-cia-agent-confirms-u-s-rol… https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-24279394 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/26/nsa-surveillance-anti-vietnam… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Information_Awareness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-tvs-person-of-in… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarceration_rate

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