August 2021 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

DefCon 29
by grarpamp 11 Aug '21

11 Aug '21

https://defcon.org/ https://twitter.com/defcon Post-con multimedia and codes going up in all the usual places...

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Crypto: Roll Your Own Crypto?: Study of Vulns in Crypto Libs
by grarpamp 11 Aug '21

11 Aug '21

https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.04940 You Really Shouldn't Roll Your Own Crypto: An Empirical Study of Vulnerabilities in Cryptographic Libraries The security of the Internet rests on a small number of open-source cryptographic libraries: a vulnerability in any one of them threatens to compromise a significant percentage of web traffic. Despite this potential for security impact, the characteristics and causes of vulnerabilities in cryptographic software are not well understood. In this work, we conduct the first comprehensive analysis of cryptographic libraries and the vulnerabilities affecting them. We collect data from the National Vulnerability Database, individual project repositories and mailing lists, and other relevant sources for eight widely used cryptographic libraries. Among our most interesting findings is that only 27.2% of vulnerabilities in cryptographic libraries are cryptographic issues while 37.2% of vulnerabilities are memory safety issues, indicating that systems-level bugs are a greater security concern than the actual cryptographic procedures. In our investigation of the causes of these vulnerabilities, we find evidence of a strong correlation between the complexity of these libraries and their (in)security, empirically demonstrating the potential risks of bloated cryptographic codebases. We further compare our findings with non-cryptographic systems, observing that these systems are, indeed, more complex than similar counterparts, and that this excess complexity appears to produce significantly more vulnerabilities in cryptographic libraries than in non-cryptographic software.

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Not all journalists are our enemies
by professor rat 11 Aug '21

11 Aug '21

But most journalists are our enemies. "...if the effect of a crime committed by person who is outside america is against eg a computer or other thing or person inside america, then in american law that crime was committed within the bounds of the unitedstates, notwithstanding that the criminal was not in america. So issues of extraterritoriality do not apply..." Its been a half-century since Woodward and Bernstein. So what have journo's done for us lately? Mongo was opposed to any special journalists privileges - for once he was right.

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The tactical case for Mange support
by professor rat 11 Aug '21

11 Aug '21

Putting aside all the well-grounded charges of anti-social, crime, KGB and Nazi propagandizing, etc, the tactical case for Mange hinges on his world-historical importance. What has he done to justify our support? As it turns nothing - even by his own 2013 July estimation - except MAYBE having something to do with the defeat of Nurse Ratched in 2016. There are serious problems with attribution here though. Its hard to say if WL tipped the scales decisively enough to make a difference. If you can rationalize this you might decide to tactically support Mange temporarily. And along with that comes a lot of lying-by-omission so...I hope you're the Journalist type. Or maybe you're the Manson-Family-type. But do I repeat myself? Break-a-leg.

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Journalists and APster - All lies - all the time
by professor rat 11 Aug '21

11 Aug '21

Having closely followed the APster saga from mid-90's on I can safely say I've read most of the corpse-media reports on it. They invariably lied about it. When you omit the concluding part of a ten-part essay then that's lying. Lying-by-omission. Amid this quarter-century of bad-faith and bullshit from servants of the state, it becomes more apparent that - in any large military-entertainment-complex - the corpse-media is precisely half the problem. To see the author of the APster essay defend journalism and journalists here is a spectacular exhibition of masochism. Jim Bell may as well hang a large " KICK ME " sign on his stomach. Strategically, I think lying is not something any revolutionary cypherpunk should support. The enemy ramps up its lying-by-omission so long as most people think they run things. People stop believing that - they stop running things.

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Torsocks Errors
by Se7en 11 Aug '21

11 Aug '21

I am unable to torify my fetchmail anymore, because Torsocks prevents setguid programs from running, which does not interfeer with fetchmail but does interfeer with procmail. Does anyone know a solution? I am still able to send torified, but am unable to recieve torified via pop3 and I do not want to continue this behavior. -- |-----/ | Se7en / The One and Only! | se7en(a)cock.email / | 0x0F83F93882CF6116 / | https://se7en-site.neocities.org

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BOUNTY for deaths of Gramps, Batshit, Dumbell and Semitch
by professor rat 11 Aug '21

11 Aug '21

Not being numbnut nocoiner - like all the Nazi-Fag-Morons clusterfucking here - I should soon be in a strong position to proffer substantial rewards for all actionable intelligence on the DOXXING, DDoDDING and Destruction of some serial pests on this list. These Nazi-Fag-Moron scumbags clearly hate anarchism and love Lunar-Rightwingnut fascism. No jury will convict anyone who hunts these turds down and flushes them away forever. I will already offer 200 USD$ for each today - that number will rise as cryptoanarchism takes over the global economy. Large revolutions famously guillotine a few renegades and this one will be no exception. Welcome to the revolution.

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Anarchapulco: Anarchovid - August 25~28 2021
by professor rat 11 Aug '21

11 Aug '21

Come for the Gramps-style-garbage https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=john+galton+acapulco&sourceid=… Stay for the bow-tie-anarchy / local-cartel bullets

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This entire list...
by Se7en 11 Aug '21

11 Aug '21

...has devolved from any merit it once had, and now is nothing but schizopposting and random anarchokiddies yelling about public figures and other denziens, falsely calling them "nazis". Give me a reason to remain subscribed. -- |-----/ | Se7en / The One and Only! | se7en(a)cock.email / | 0x0F83F93882CF6116 / | https://se7en-site.neocities.org

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Re: Assange's Case
by professor rat 11 Aug '21

11 Aug '21

In the real world sometimes anti-social criminals get charged for different things than they may be notorious for. The canonical example here being getting Al Capone for tax-evasion. And in the real crypto-anarchist cypherpunk world there's a laundry-list of reasons to sentence Julian Rand Paul Nazbol Assmange to death for spitting on the sidewalk. I won't list them again here since they're amply documented in the archives going back to the 90's. TL/DR - BRING BACK HANGING.

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