August 2021 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Before gutless-chickenshit Julian, there was gutless, chickenshit Tim May
by professor rat 29 Aug '21

29 Aug '21

And I will ask again to all readers in the universe: do not send > me private e-mail about Jim Bell, CJ, or anybody likely to be a > target of the SOBs working cybercrime-rich territory. ..." https://www.mail-archive.com/cypherpunks@minder.net/msg07152.html

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Using the Internet to access the "Cypherpunk" website?
by professor rat 29 Aug '21

29 Aug '21

Using the Internet to access the "Cypherpunk" website after being specifically instructed not to use the Internet for this purpose ..." https://www.mail-archive.com/cypherpunks@minder.net/msg12943.html

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Change the subject, - talk about the nurturing & children-friendly aspects of crypto
by professor rat 29 Aug '21

29 Aug '21

Re: Wuss-ninnies object to discussions on the list 2001-08-30 Thread Tim May On Thursday, August 30, 2001, at 08:50 AM, Batman Svejk wrote: Next, we started seeing sissies like Ray Dillinger, er, Bear, some sort of polyamoristic wuss-ninny from northern California, urging us to change the subject, to talk about the nurturing and children-friendly aspects of crypto https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=cypherpunks%40minder.net&q=August+2001

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From a hotel across from the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001
by professor rat 29 Aug '21

29 Aug '21

USA v. Abdallah Higazy 2002-08-30 Thread John Young in a hotel across from the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Higazy was also allegedly coerced by an FBI agent during a polygraph examination to admit possessing the device, and an investigation of this coercion is underway. http://cryptome.org/usa-v-higazy.htm (440KB

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Cryptoanarchist infrastructure rising
by professor rat 29 Aug '21

29 Aug '21

Or Technofascist Govcorp conspiracy rising if you're a Nazi-Fag-Moron like Batshit, Gramps and co. CryptoPunks Hit $1 Billion in Total Sales while the Global Crypto Market Surges to $2.3 Trillion. Not all of this qualifies as anarchist by any means - but its certainly catalyzing more global anarchism. The future keeps happening - welcome to the revolution - and the nightmare keeps happening for no-coiner, Nazbol nitwits. Like Batshit, Gramps and their hanging turds ( Hi Karl )

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There’s something extraordinarily wrong with Batshit Crazy
by professor rat 28 Aug '21

28 Aug '21

There’s something extraordinarily wrong with Donald Trump Jr, sorry; my bat. https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/theres-something-extraordinarily-wron… ( Posting selected sites news not necessarily endorsement of site's politics )

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More American soldiers need killing - along with their commander-in-chief
by professor rat 28 Aug '21

28 Aug '21

https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=99912352518285&w=1 Call your favorite OP book search person and get him to find you a copy of: Eissler, M. "A Handbook on Modern Explosives: A Practical Treatise, with Chapters on Explosives in Practical Applications" London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1897. 2nd, Enlarged, fair, illus., appendices, index.

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Gramps welcome to Erewhon Prison
by professor rat 28 Aug '21

28 Aug '21

You are now the property of Erewhon Prison. A citizen of nowhere. The Geneva Convention is void here; Amnesty International doesn't know we exist. When I say your ass belongs to Mises, I mean exactly that.

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Time all Nazi-Fag-Morons left Mongostan
by professor rat 28 Aug '21

28 Aug '21

Seems the last deadenders for Mongo's ' fork-in-the-road ' - the one where some hugely powerful entity somehow takes over the net - also cling to his discredited Austro-libertarian, douchebag-bowtie-anarchist form of fascism. Mongo was a fascist, donchaknow - just ask Jacob Appelbaum, if you don't believe me. And Mongostan is poorly defended these days - its been a ' Crypto Winter ' for these losers ever since 2001. Otherwise the web would be over-run with Randite, Paultard, Nazi-Fag-Moron, " Peaceful-Agorist ' sites by now. They're 20 years late and 20 Btc short. Nocoins - no balls - no-brains - no-tactics - no-strategy - and no-hope - give it up faggots and let a real man handle this. Cryptoanarchism is for the intelligent, good-looking and virile. Bitches leave - your contract is out - your lime-pit is dug. Scram. And don't let the door hit yr butt on the way out.

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Satcom: Space Weapons to soon turn Earth into Inescapeable Prison
by grarpamp 28 Aug '21

28 Aug '21

These warmongering idiots are going to blast a debris dome overhead so dense and random that humanity will never be able to safely push rockets through to the stars. Only in Spaceballs is there such a thing as an orbital vacuum cleaner. In real life, even your vacuums get destroyed by all the chunks grinding themselves into dust. Everything in orbit is already getting shredded to bits... https://duckduckgo.com/?iax=images&ia=images&q=orbital+debris+impact https://duckduckgo.com/?iax=images&ia=images&q=space+debris+impact https://duckduckgo.com/?iax=images&ia=images&q=space+junk+impact https://illumin.usc.edu/impact-of-orbital-debris/ https://sma.nasa.gov/sma-disciplines/orbital-debris https://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/space-debris/kessler-syndrome/subject-o… https://oig.nasa.gov/docs/IG-21-011.pdf https://www.witpress.com/Secure/elibrary/papers/SUSI96/SUSI96025FU.pdf https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/National-Or… https://blogs.esa.int/cleanspace/2018/03/27/how-to-evaluate-the-environment… https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/37361/space-force-has-a-unit-dedicate… https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/chinas-anti-satellite-test https://www.theepochtimes.com/us-military-gps-satellites-threatened-by-chin… https://www.theepochtimes.com/new-chinese-weapons-threaten-every-satellite-… https://www.theepochtimes.com/china-and-russia-will-soon-be-able-to-destroy… https://www.theepochtimes.com/russia-tests-nesting-doll-anti-satellite-weap… https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/39277/heres-our-best-look-yet-at-russ… https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a33405774/russia-anti-sat… https://www.theepochtimes.com/as-china-talks-peace-in-space-researcher-show… https://www.theepochtimes.com/china-developing-space-weapons-that-can-take-… https://www.theepochtimes.com/china-is-branding-anti-satellite-weapons-as-s… https://www.theepochtimes.com/ccp-space-program-is-direct-military-threat-e… https://www.theepochtimes.com/ccps-anti-satellite-weapons-present-complex-c… CCP's Anti-Satellite Weapons Present Complex Challenge For US: Experts The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has continued to develop an array of anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons designed to overwhelm U.S. assets in space, even as advisers to the Biden administration issued calls for cooperation between the two nations. Military vehicles carrying cruise missiles are displayed in a military parade at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Sept. 3, 2015. (Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images) The CCP’s growing arsenal of space weapons now includes missiles, cyberweapons, satellite jamming devices, space robots with grabbing arms, and high-powered lasers designed to blind satellites from the ground as they pass overhead. Development of these capabilities has been ongoing since at least 2007, when the CCP successfully exploded a satellite with a missile in low-earth orbit. And earlier this year, the chief of operations for the U.S. Space Force testified that both Russia and China were continuing the development of electronic warfare packages, signal jammers, and directed energy weapons. Underscoring the centrality of space in modern military doctrine, the CCP has continued ASAT launches disguised as rocket tests, increased Sino-Russian cooperation in space, and developed new technologies, including so-called inspector satellites capable of grabbing other objects in space, and “nesting doll” systems consisting of seemingly harmless satellites that then release other, smaller satellites of unknown capabilities. Experts say that China’s emerging ASAT technologies present an immediate threat to U.S. and international security, but disagree on the exact nature of that threat and the United States’ ability to effectively deter and counter it. A Persistent Threat Bill Woolf, the president and founder of the Space Force Association, told The Epoch Times that space-based capabilities were vital to contemporary security strategy, but warned that the proliferation of new technologies likely meant that the CCP and other actors had the ability to attack U.S. space infrastructure. “Space is such a critical capability to all of our military operations in the U.S., and with our allies and partners,” Woolf said. “So, talking about the technology, it’s safe to presume that there’s technology out there that can disrupt, degrade, or deny our space capabilities.” With that in mind, however, Woolf stressed that the military-centric development of ASAT technologies in space was not novel and presented merely one more layer of complexity to the international security space. “People get pretty animated when they say that space has become a military domain,” Woolf said. “[But] space has been a military domain since we deployed military capabilities into space.” The militarization of space has been ongoing from the Cold War up through the present. In the 1970s, for example, the Soviet Union successfully mounted a bomber-defense gun to a satellite and performed the only publicly known test fire of a ballistic weapon in space. Similarly, Russia was caught last year testing a new space-based ASAT weapon. Gen. Jay Raymond (R), Chief of Space Operations, and CMSgt Roger Towberman (L), with Secretary of the Air Force Barbara Barrett present President Donald Trump with the official flag of the United States Space Force in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on May 15, 2020. (Samuel Corum-Pool/Getty Images) Likewise, the CCP has repeatedly been observed developing classified ASAT technologies since its explosive demonstration in 2007 and, in 2019, the Pentagon issued a report acknowledging that the CCP’s primary goal was to target the United States and allied satellite capabilities. Woolf explained that the CCP was specifically pursuing a course of action aimed at undermining the United States and allied space assets, but that this militarization of outer space was a natural evolution of the domain given the technologies there. “In their doctrine they discuss that they will attempt to degrade or deny all of our space capabilities,” Woolf said of the CCP. For Woolf, the primary challenge facing the United States and its allies in space is determining which threats present the most immediate danger, and how to deter and counter them. “Regardless of the threat, because the threat’s out there,” Woolf said, “the key becomes what are the warnings?” Deterrence Difficult in ‘Most Obscure Battlefield’ The problem of determining what constitutes a reliable warning is something that Paul Szymanski has often thought about. Szymanski is an author and researcher specializing in space strategy, and has spent the last 43 years studying space warfare, during which time he helped to develop intelligence indicators to signal possible enemy actions in space. According to Szymanski, notable risks facing the United States in space are the relative difficulty of determining who is doing what in space and why. Particularly in the era of cyberwarfare and false flag attacks, or those designed to look like they are perpetrated by someone other than the actual culprit, Szymanski worries that current technologies simply do not have sufficiently accurate sensors and algorithms to effectively determine what is happening to space infrastructure in real time. “It’s the most obscure battlefield,” he said. Further, there is great difficulty in conceptualizing space conflict, Szymanki noted, because assets in orbit can be physically distant but mathematically close for the purposes of carrying out attacks. And once a vital system goes down, it may be too late for a nation to recover. “That’s the big thing about space,” Szymanski said, “it’s always worldwide.” “I don’t think you can defend in space,” he added. “It might just be whoever shoots first wins.” A Long March-2F carrier rocket, carrying the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft and a crew of three astronauts, lifts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi desert, in northwest China on June 17, 2021, the first crewed mission to China’s new space station. (Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images) Concerning the CCP’s expanding arsenal of ASAT technologies, Szymanski said that “inspector” satellites equipped with arms likely presented a more serious threat than laser technologies, as the use of ASAT lasers would take time to correctly target satellites on orbit, while human-controlled inspectors could easily be used to knock rival satellites out of orbit. “I was surprised that [the U.S. is] already admitting that China has these inspector satellites with manipulator arms,” Szymanski said. “If you’ve got something like that, you can do just about anything.” “I can say that [the CCP is] certainly going for it,” Szymanski said. “Certainly, this manipulator satellite is an ASAT, though they can conveniently call it a ‘maintenance satellite.’” The CCP has disguised the military applications of such technologies for years by developing dual-purpose technologies that offer an innocuous research function that conceals military functionality. Experts have previously called such dual-use technologies and programs a direct threat to the United States. Szymanski also noted that there are immense political difficulties concerning decisions about which space systems should be funded first, as most space systems provide information rather than hard assets and it is difficult to define a specific monetary or strategic value to them. “The trouble with space is it’s all information,” Szymanski said. “How do you measure the value of communications versus imagery?” Many Threats, Few Ripostes Ultimately, Woolf and Szymanski offered competing views on the status quo of the new space race, and what it might mean for the future of U.S. strategy. For Woolf, the answer lies primarily in developing, supporting, and enforcing a rules-based order in outer space that complements the order commonly recognized throughout the international community. “Just like every other domain, there needs to be identified norms of behavior, clearly articulated, that say this is how folks behave in space,” Woolf said. Szymanski, meanwhile, expressed weariness with the idea that the United States should continue to seek a rules-based order with a rival apparently set on violating rules-based norms. He felt that the United States’ dedication to deterring the CCP rather than confronting it might only result in buying the CCP more time to prepare a first and, perhaps, fatal blow. “I get the impression that we’re going to self-deter and the space war is going to be over before we can do anything about it,” Szymanski said. “The only purpose of the Space Force is to support terrestrial forces,” Szymanski added. “If you lose a war in space, you may as well not even start the war on the ground.” “They want to say, ‘we have the technologies, we’ll win,’ but we had the technologies in Afghanistan. Why aren’t we winning?” To that end, Woolf noted that persistent threats have always been a reality of politics and that it is the job of the military and government to uphold the rules by doing the best they can based on knowledge of extant and emerging threats. “There is a threat,” Woolf said. “We just have to be prepared for that eventuality and have the systems in place to mitigate the impact of that potential threat.”

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