September 2021 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Tor Stinks: TorrentFreak: Movie Companies Want VPNs to Log User Data and Disconnect Pirates
by grarpamp 02 Sep '21

02 Sep '21

On 8/31/21, jim bell <jdb10987(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > TorrentFreak: Movie Companies Want VPNs to Log User Data and Disconnect Pirates. > https://torrentfreak.com/movie-companies-want-vpns-to-log-user-data-and-dis… Hollywood US movies suck ass, downhill quality since decades. China etc also owning more of Hollywood. Stupid pirate scene hasn't evolved much since days of FTP... some crews are still using it, lol. They advanced to decrypt Blu-Ray and DVD, screencap, etc... but still hardly taking distribution seriously. All they, and all other data distributors and users in general... news, books, code, video conversations, etc... need to do is use tor+onioncat+bittorrent and the entire planet full of all those needing to distribute all sorts of data securely anonymously (to a certain level of tradeoff, as is everything in security) will benefit from the anonymous availablity. Including totally and permanently avoiding and ending the Govt Statist Queens Patent License Granted etc copyright MAFIAA through futility once and for all, like it or not, it will happen. Unfortunately, Tor Project is fixated on disallowing its users any freedom to make their own tradeoff choices as to how to use and deploy its [formerly] flexible overlay software as such... with that Tor Project is destroying users ability to share freely as they see fit. That is quite bad for enabling of freedom, the very thing Tor Project claims to be about. The Tor Project is arbitrarily censoring its own protocols, revoking features, against the needs of its users, pontificating and claiming ultimate authority over "security" vs users right to make knowledgeable use case tradeoffs, and censoring users who make that case. Hypocrites. tor should be forked, and v2 onions maintained therein, until other mass distribution solutions are developed. Now you're left with things that don't speak or plugin to the very popular bittorrent... IPFS, I2P, etc. That's fine, newer is fine and the future, and both TPO and tor will rightly be deprecated therein, but the full next gen future isn't here yet, nor is a diversity of well scoped newer operational protocols to choose from. Cypherpunks.Write.Code.

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[ot][spam][wrong] karl's attempt to go outdoors or change his name
by Karl 02 Sep '21

02 Sep '21

I'm currently sitting in an area outdoors with mosquitos. I don't know how to stay outdoors reliably without either (a) a break from the mosquitos or (b) willpower to influence my psychological and behavioral histamine response. If I light a fire or candles that are smoky enough, the mosquitos will go away. I'm not sure how to do that at this time. They are also less prevalent in sunny, windy, or dry areas. But they can still be around a little bit.

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Cryptoanarchy will dominate the world by CYPHERPUNK 2027
by professor rat 02 Sep '21

02 Sep '21

Or as the Corpse Media put it... https://www.news.com.au/finance/money/investing/experts-predict-cryptocurre…

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Airplane surveiling a person
by jim bell 02 Sep '21

02 Sep '21

"FBI Spy Planes Monitored a Single Suspect for Nearly 429 Hours" here: https://share.smartnews.com/v4Yvw "The FBI’s secretive spy plane program targeted a man in Florida last year with nearly constant surveillance, logging more than 400 hours in the air with a fleet of Cessna aircraft registered to what appear to be front companies." "This aerial surveillance, described in a filing made Monday in federal court, reveals for the first time the FBI’s enormous capacity to target a single individual inside the United States for prolonged monitoring using aircraft. The fleet of FBI planes, often small aircraft, are outfitted with high-tech video cameras and tracking devices known as “cell-site simulators” that trick mobile phones into connecting to the FBI’s device rather than to a legitimate cellphone tower." (End of quote)

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threatpost.com: LockFile Ransomware Uses Never-Before Seen Encryption to Avoid Detection
by jim bell 02 Sep '21

02 Sep '21

threatpost.com: LockFile Ransomware Uses Never-Before Seen Encryption to Avoid Detection. https://threatpost.com/lockfile-ransomware-avoid-detection/169042/

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CNBC: FTC bars alleged 'stalkerware' company and its CEO from the surveillance business
by jim bell 02 Sep '21

02 Sep '21

CNBC: FTC bars alleged 'stalkerware' company and its CEO from the surveillance business. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/01/ftc-bars-alleged-stalkerware-exec-from-the-…

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State Terrorism in Val Verde
by professor rat 01 Sep '21

01 Sep '21

Anti-Bitcoin Law Activist Arrested in El Salvador El Salvador police have arrested activist Mario Gomez, a vocal critic of President Nayib Bukele's recently passed Bitcoin Law, which makes BTC legal tender. https://decrypt.co/79979/anti-bitcoin-law-activist-arrested-el-salvador Bitcoins ' Plebian liberation from feudal Citadels ' model is now looking more like Von Mises in Vienna or Pinochet in Santiago. Feh.

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OG Cypherpunk Vinny Gupta needs killing ( My 20 yuan )
by professor rat 01 Sep '21

01 Sep '21

ZDNet this week Facebook is the AOL of 2021 OG Cypherpunk, Vinny Gupta, recently suggested FB handle the entire nets identity handling non-issue.

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A project to decentralize the net - this concept predates Bitcoin (BTC) by seven years
by professor rat 01 Sep '21

01 Sep '21

Cypherpunks 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.

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The SAFE network works similarly to the TOR network
by professor rat 01 Sep '21

01 Sep '21

MaidSafeCoin (MAID) was launched in February 2006. It is a project that aims to decentralize the Internet. According to the developers, its concept predates Bitcoin (BTC) by several years. The SAFE network works similarly to the TOR network, meaning that all online content is distributed and accessed through a peer-to-peer (P2P) mesh network. MaidSafeCoin is a token for SafeCoin, a decentralized currency for the decentralized SAFE network, which is maintained by the users’ extra hard disk space, processing power and data connectivity level..." https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/maidsafecoin/ Just bought some of these.

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