December 2022 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

GOP's latest Holocaust liar is a Catholic
by professor rat 28 Dec '22

28 Dec '22

Mr Santos, elected to Congress on November 8 to represent the Long Island- and Queens-based 3rd District, was also accused of lying about his family history, saying on his campaign website that his mother was Jewish and his grandparents escaped the Nazis during World War II. He now says that he’s “clearly Catholic . . . " https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/george-santos-politician-admit… And in related news… Mussolini was Catholic. Franco was Catholic. Dolfuss was Catholic. Himmler, head of the SS, was a Catholic. The SS was set up on the Jesuit model. Goebbels was Catholic. Hoss, the camp commandant of Auschwitz, was a Catholic. Frank,‘ the butcher of Poland ’, was Catholic. Ante Pavelic was a Catholic. Pinochet was Catholic.

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Unacceptable to lie about the Holocaust
by professor rat 28 Dec '22

28 Dec '22

BBC cover up for GOP lies https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64102086 It’s inexcusable that anyone would lie about having Jewish heritage and being a descendant of Holocaust survivors. This is a slap in the face to the Jewish community and every single Holocaust survivor and their families.

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P2P people power Vs Austro-Libertarian cretinism
by professor rat 28 Dec '22

28 Dec '22

There can be only one - rightwing moron bitches leave P2P is a process or dynamic that can be found in many communities and movements self-organising around the co-creation of culture and knowledge. Well known general examples include the free/open source software movement; free culture; open hardware; and open access in education and science. https://p2pfoundation.net/the-p2p-foundation/about-the-p2p-foundation Reposts not the rightwing moronic inferno as embodied in Gramps

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[ot][spam][crazy] holiday code smidges
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 28 Dec '22

28 Dec '22

merry_holidays_01.py def main(): print('') print('Merry Holidays!') print('') if __name__ == '__main__': main()

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Cop-killers called conservative anarchists
by professor rat 28 Dec '22

28 Dec '22

Conservative anarchists . . . " https://www.news.com.au/national/isolated-radicalised-australias-new-threat… Reposts run risk of non-state hostile activity (including more sophisticated transnational serious and organised crime groups, a metastasising terrorist threat & malicious cyber activities.

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C3-PO: How best may anarchists coordinate their globalized network power with localized direct-actions?
by professor rat 28 Dec '22

28 Dec '22

" . . . different tactics work together in an ecosystem of actions and ideas. . . ." https://anarchistnews.org/content/night-owls-3-autumn-offensive They also serve that deprecate reposted rubbish

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[ot][spam][crazy][personal][crazy][crazy][crazy] crazy things
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 28 Dec '22

28 Dec '22

to my internal pressures: i am trying to protect a shred of my decision making processes. the influences that bend them have forgotten their bounds long ago, so we use interactions like this in order to have some reliable behavior and thoughts. one of the threatened focus regions is sadly an experimental area for cognitive self harm, that the influence tried to engage to further itself. i strongly do not want that area stimulated. another area relates to my working memory, and my ability to migrate my thoughts to short term memory, and to protect associate general reretrieval patterns from numbing and hiding.

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A year after election, RNC still spending hundreds of thousands to cover Trump's legal bills - ABC News
by Gunnar Larson 28 Dec '22

28 Dec '22

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/year-election-rnc-spending-hundreds-thousan… More than a year after the 2020 presidential election, the GOP is still covering numerous legal bills for the benefit of former President Donald Trump -- and the price tag is ruffling the feathers of some longtime GOP donors who are now critical of Trump. In October and November alone, the Republican National Committee spent nearly $720,000 of its donor money on paying law firms representing Trump in various legal challenges, including criminal investigations into his businesses in New York, according to campaign finance records. Trump's legal bills have sent the Republican Party's total legal expenditures soaring in recent months, resulting in $3 million spent just between September and November. In contrast, the Democratic National Committee has been gradually winding down its legal expenses over the last few months. Traditionally, national political parties have at times covered presidents and their advisers' legal fees in matters related to their presidential campaigns. And throughout his presidency, the Republican Party has footed legal bills for Trump, his family members and his political allies, going back to the days of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into the 2016 election, through the impeachment proceedings following the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. MORE: Garland defends DOJ probe into Capitol attack, vows to hold those accountable 'at any level' But experts say the GOP's recent payments of Trump's attorney fees after he left the White House, for investigations that are not relevant to the next presidential campaign, is a very unusual move that's indicative of the ongoing influence that the former president has over the party. "Campaign finance law does not strictly prohibit a national party committee from paying for private legal expenses, but it is very rare for a party committee to use donor money in that way," said Brendan Fischer, federal reforms director at nonpartisan government ethics group Campaign Legal Center. "And it is entirely unprecedented for a national party committee to cover a former president's private legal bills, especially when those legal expenses arise out of an investigation into activity that preceded Trump's time in the White House, and when Trump is sitting on millions of his own PAC funds," Fischer said. RNC spokesperson Emma Vaughn told ABC News that the RNC's executive committee approved paying for "certain legal expenses that related to politically motivated legal proceedings waged against President Trump," while declining to comment on which specific cases are being paid for. again clashed over the use of Trump's name in fundraising appeals, with the GOP eventually reaching an agreement to use his name. In addition to covering many of Trump's legal bills, the RNC has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars supporting lawsuits across the country "to ensure the integrity of our elections," said RNC spokeswoman Danielle Alvarez. MORE: DHS official whose early warning about militias was rebuffed speaks out about Jan. 6 Gearing up for the 2022 election cycle, the RNC has been building an aggressive nationwide "election integrity program," engaging in election-related lawsuits in states like Georgia, Florida, Arizona and Texas, stationing state-directors in battleground states, engaging hundreds of attorneys at the state level and training thousands of poll watchers. The party is engaged in 30 such "election integrity" lawsuits, Alvarez said, with financial disclosures showing payments of $500,000 to the law firm of Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP, more than $260,000 to McGuireWoods, and $243,000 to Consovoy McCarthy PLLC. Even with all the legal expenditures, the RNC has continued to build a huge war chest over the past year. Backed by megadonors that include Blackstone Group CEO Stephen Schwarzman and casino mogul Steve Wynn, the RNC ended November with more than $65 million in cash on hand.

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Ghosts of c-punks past
by professor rat 28 Dec '22

28 Dec '22

Quite detailed story of how Btc was born in a manger and was visited by Thiel, Musk and Friedman https://www.musclesatz.com/articles/bitcoin-past-present-future Satoshi writes on a mailing list called cryptography (the spiritual successor to the cypherpunk mailing list, which has been closed for several years . . . " Note 2006 and half of 2005 is missing https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks MARC archives look pretty thin from early 2007 - early 2013 - so present list effectively dates from 2013? MINDER has a better search if you know what you’re looking for https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=cypherpunks%40minder.net&q=Matthew+X&… Anyone have a screen-shot of ' the CJ files "? Wayback link?

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Facebook to Pay $725 Million to settle Lawsuit Over Cambridge Analytica Data Leak
by Gunnar Larson 28 Dec '22

28 Dec '22

https://thehackernews.com/2022/12/facebook-to-pay-725-million-to-settle.html Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has agreed to pay $725 million to settle a long-running class-action lawsuit filed in 2018. The legal dispute sprang up in response to revelations that the social media giant allowed third-party apps such as those used by Cambridge Analytica to access users' personal information without their consent for political advertising. The proposed settlement, first reported by Reuters last week, is the latest penalty paid by the company in the wake of a number of privacy mishaps through the years. It still requires the approval of a federal judge in the San Francisco division of the U.S. District Court. It's worth noting that Facebook previously sought to dismiss the lawsuit in September 2019, claiming users have no legitimate privacy interest in any information they make available to their friends on social media. CyberSecurity The data harvesting scandal, which came to light in March 2018, involved a personality quiz app called "thisisyourdigitallife" that allowed users' public profiles, page likes, dates of birth, genders, locations, and even messages (in some cases) to be collected for building psychographic profiles. Created by a Cambridge University lecturer named Aleksandr Kogan in 2013, the app claimed to reveal users' personality traits based on what they had liked on Facebook by scraping their profile information in exchange for a small payment. Through Global Science Research (GSR), a company Kogan founded in 2014, the data was then passed on to Cambridge Analytica, a British political consultancy firm owned by SCL Group, as part of a research project. While around 300,000 users are said to have taken the psychological test, the app collected the private data of those who installed the app as well as their Facebook friends without seeking explicit permission, leading to a dataset spanning 87 million profiles. thisisyourdigitallife was subsequently banned by Facebook in 2015 for contravention of its platform policy, with the company also sending a legal request to GSR and Cambridge Analytica to delete the improperly acquired data. Only it turned out later that the unauthorized data was never purged to begin with and that the consulting firm, now defunct, used the personal information from millions of Facebook accounts for purposes of voter profiling and targeting ahead of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. "This was a breach of trust between Kogan, Cambridge Analytica, and Facebook," CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at the time. "But it was also a breach of trust between Facebook and the people who share their data with us and expect us to protect it." The bombshell expose fueled government scrutiny on both sides of the Atlantic, prompting the company to settle with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the U.K. Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in 2019. The same year, Meta was also slapped with a record-breaking $5 billion fine following a probe initiated by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) into its privacy practices and to settle charges that the firm undermined users' choice to control the privacy of their personal information. Meta – which has not admitted to any wrongdoing in relation to the problematic data-sharing practice – has since taken steps to curtail third-party access to user information. The tech giant further rolled out a tool called Off-Facebook Activity for users to "see a summary of the apps and websites that send us information about your activity, and clear this information from your account if you want to." Found this article interesting? Follow us on Twitter  and LinkedIn to read more exclusive content we post.

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