December 2022 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

[ot][spam][crazy] posting about cryptography without knowledge
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 08 Dec '22

08 Dec '22

everything I know about cryptography is probably obsolete nowadays it seems like stuff has kept on developing though: for example, somebody had mentioned upgrades to TLS where there was a system for tracking signing certificates. it's nice to have improvements as things like GPG shift. one of the things i've certainly observed is that cryptography has a political component that you don't always learn about directly

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SERBIAN Prince at centre of alleged coup plot, advocated for worldwide royal rule
by professor rat 07 Dec '22

07 Dec '22

Berlin: Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss is one of the last descendents of a dynasty that once ruled over swathes of eastern Germany. He is suspected of hoping to become the country’s new leader in a violent coup to overthrow the democratic order. The 71-year-old was one of 25 members and supporters of a far-right group planning the alleged putsch who were arrested early on Wednesday in nationwide raids . . . " https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/heinrich-xiii-the-prince-at-centre-of-a… Reposts not Btc Maxi bs

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[ot][crazy][personal] nature references
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 07 Dec '22

07 Dec '22

hi i like nature /wilderness here is an ascii tree: 8 | it's deciduous, round leafy top. here's an ascii evergreen tree: ^ | evergreen trees have pointier tops

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Ibrahim Khan: Republicans call for investigation into NY attorney general's handling of misconduct allegations against chief of staff - CNNPolitics
by Gunnar Larson 07 Dec '22

07 Dec '22

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/06/politics/ibrahim-khan-letitia-james/index.ht… <https://www.cnn.com/>Live TV <https://cnn.it/go2> Republicans call for investigation into NY attorney general's handling of misconduct allegations against chief of staff By Mark Morales, CNN Updated 3:17 PM EST, Tue December 06, 2022 [image: New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks at a news conference in New York on September 8, 2022.] New York(CNN)Republican lawmakers in New York state are calling for an investigation into Democratic Attorney General Letitia James days after her chief of staff resigned amid allegations of sexual harassment <https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/02/us/ibrahim-khan-new-york-misconduct-resigns/…> . The call comes as newly released documents reveal the timeline behind when her office became aware of the misconduct allegations against Ibrahim Khan and the steps James' office took to hire outside counsel to conduct an independent investigation. Khan resigned last month after he was accused of "inappropriate touching and unwanted kissing by at least one woman," according to The New York Times <https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/nyregion/ibrahim-khan-james-harassment.h…> . Details on the allegations and the investigation's findings have not been publicly released. According to the Times, the woman's allegations were substantiated. Khan said in a statement Friday that the investigation into him "found no official workplace misconduct." "The State Assembly Judiciary Committee must convene a formal investigation at once into what Attorney General James knew, when she knew it and why that information was withheld," State Assemblyman Colin Schmitt, a Republican, tweeted. GOP State Sen. Tom O'Mara echoed the sentiments on Twitter and Facebook as well. "There must be an immediate, independent investigation about what she knew about these allegations, when she knew it, and if they were properly addressed," O'Mara said in the posts. Serena Longley, deputy counsel for the attorney general's office, said that policies are in place to protect the confidentiality of the witnesses and their allegations. The office, Longley said, "has policies in place to protect the privacy and confidentiality of cooperating witnesses, including policies against releasing names of witnesses or information about their allegations." Timeline of events James' office first became aware of the allegations on October 2, according to a timeline provided by Longley. The next day, Khan was told to work remotely and not to socialize with staff or anyone affiliated with the attorney general's office until an internal investigation had been completed, according to an internal email provided by the attorney general's office. A day later, the law firm of Littler Mendelson agreed to investigate the allegations, according to documents released from the AG's office. "That was done because of the specific circumstances and position of the employee," Longley stated in the timeline shared with CNN. "The OAG took extra precautions to ensure a fair, impartial, and thorough review by hiring an outside firm." See more The investigative team did not include any former members of the New York attorney general's office, according to Longley. Then, on November 22, Khan issued his resignation letter and transitioned out of his position, with his final day on official office matters being December 2, according to records provided by the AG's office When reached for comment into her handling of the investigation, the AG's office referred to a Friday statement. "The Office of Attorney General has protocols in place to thoroughly investigate any allegation of misconduct. The office takes these matters with the utmost seriousness and this situation is no different. An independent, impartial investigation was conducted, and the employee has since resigned." The AG's Sexual Harassment Prevention policy provided by the office states that when warranted "the (Equal Employment Opportunity) Officer will promptly and thoroughly investigate reports of sexual harassment, whether received in writing or orally. The confidentiality and privacy of those involved will be preserved to the extent possible, consistent with a full and fair investigation and appropriate remedial or disciplinary action." Khan issued a statement after news of the allegations and his resignation on Friday. "After a successful four-year term, I've been slated to leave the office for the private sector at the end of this year," Khan said in the statement. "This is unrelated to an investigation which, nevertheless, found no official workplace misconduct. I'm proud of all we have achieved over these past four years in serving New Yorkers." Khan declined to comment to CNN when reached Tuesday morning. NY AG's office says Cuomo probe was different James led the investigation into former Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, which concluded he had "sexually harassed multiple women and violated state law," in August 2021. Cuomo announced he'd resign in August 2021, but has continued to deny any wrongdoing. The attorney general's office said the circumstances surrounding the Cuomo investigation, and that of the chief of staff, were different, noting that when the AG was investigating the former governor it was in a law enforcement capacity. The investigation into her chief of staff was subject to federal and state Equal Employment Opportunity laws. According to the attorney general's office, the investigation into the former governor resulted from a referral under executive law that required the OAG to hire an outside law firm and "specifically required the release of a public report." According to the office, an internal investigation conducted by an employer is different than any statutory investigation into an allegation of misconduct by an elected official, and there are legal obligations as an employer to conduct "a prompt, fair, and impartial review that protects the privacy of those making allegations and any other witnesses." "This is more proof that Tish James has corrupted the AG's office, abusing power to further her own political ambitions through a sham report, while actively lying to the public to cover up what, by her own definition, are serious allegations of serial sexual misconduct by her closest aide," said Rich Azzopardi, a spokesman for Cuomo. "She 'believes all women' when it's in her political interest — otherwise, she attacks the accuser or covers up the complaint," Azzopardi said. CNN's Kristina Sgueglia, Athena Jones and Celina Tebor contributed to this report. 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Bitcoin’s crypto-anarchist past.
by professor rat 07 Dec '22

07 Dec '22

Post anarchist for years, Big God is now going post crypto - good dog! https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/12/07/early-bitcoin-pioneer-ian-freema… Reposts not deadpools on Karl Semich of Vermont and Mass

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JPMorgan Chase, the Largest Federally-Insured Bank in the U.S. with Five Felony Counts, Says 10 Percent of its New Hires Last Year Had Criminal Histories
by Gunnar Larson 07 Dec '22

07 Dec '22

https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/12/jpmorgan-chase-the-largest-federally… Pam Martens and Russ Martens: December 7, 2022 ~ Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase If you’re the Chairman and CEO of a trucking company or air conditioner installer or a computer manufacturer (or thousands of other companies that don’t handle cash and have access to personal and financial data on millions of Americans) announcing to the world that 10 percent of your company’s new hires last year had criminal backgrounds might make you look like a social justice advocate. If you’re Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of the largest bank in the U.S. with 5,023 bank branches across the country taking in cash each day that represents the life savings of moms and pops and pension funds, announcing that 10 percent of last year’s new hires had criminal backgrounds is not exactly a confidence builder – especially since Dimon’s bank has been charged by the U.S. Department of Justice with an unprecedented five criminal felony counts since 2014. All of the felony counts occurred during Dimon’s tenure as Chairman and CEO, and while his Board of Directors made him a billionaire with stock grants and bonuses. In addition, the bank has a broader rap sheet that likely draws the envy of the Gambino crime family. On May 4, Dimon penned a guest opinion piece for The Columbus Dispatch. (The bank has a large operating center in Columbus.) The article includes this: “JPMorgan Chase has a meaningful portion of colleagues who have a criminal background — in 2021, 10% of our new hires in our company had a criminal record — and retention rates for this population are very high.” JPMorgan Chase was so proud of that article that it placed it on its corporate website. Our skepticism about Dimon’s real agenda is fueled not just by those five felony counts and former lawyers at the bank telling regulators that fraud is condoned at the bank, but also by revelations that came out of a hearing of the U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations on November 21, 2014. Those revelations were as follows: On April 29, 2010 at 7:47 in the evening, Francis Dunleavy, the head of Principal Investing within the JPMorgan Commodities Group sent an email to a colleague, Rob Cauthen. The email read: “Please get him in ASAP.” The man that Dunleavy wanted to be interviewed “ASAP” was John Howard Bartholomew, a graduate of George Washington University Law School two years earlier. But it wasn’t his law degree that Bartholomew featured at the very top of the resume he sent to JPMorgan; it was the fact that while working at Southern California Edison in Power Procurement, he had “identified a flaw in the market mechanism Bid Cost Recovery that is causing the CAISO [the California grid operator] to misallocate millions of dollars.” Bartholomew bragged in his resume that he had “showed how units in reliability areas can increase profits by 400%.” These internal emails from JPMorgan and Bartholomew’s resume became Exhibit 76 in a two-year investigation conducted by the U.S. Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations into Wall Street’s vast ownership of physical commodities and rigging of commodity markets. The late Senator Carl Levin, the Chair of the Subcommittee at the time, had this to say about the resume at the hearing: “There’s two things that I find incredible about this. First, that anyone would advertise in a resume that they know about a flaw in the system — signaling that they’re ready and willing to exploit that flaw. And, second, that somebody would hire the person sending that signal.” JPMorgan not only hired Bartholomew, according to the Senate’s findings, but within three months from the date of the email to Dunleavy, “Bartholomew began to develop manipulative bidding strategies focused on CAISO’s make-whole mechanism, called Bid Cost Recovery or BCR payments.” By early September, the strategy to game the system was put into play. By October, the JPMorgan unit was estimating that the strategy “could produce profits of between $1.5 and $2 billion through 2018.” The strategy of gaming the Bid Cost Recovery payments, or BCR, was producing such windfall profits that another JPMorgan employee sent an email on October 22, 2010 to his colleagues, joking about the success by featuring a photograph of Oliver Twist holding out an empty bowl with the subject line: “Please sir! mor BCR!!!!” During the Senate hearing, Senator Levin commented on the email and the reference to Oliver Twist, stating: “Now the BCR refers to the make-whole payments that JPMorgan was using to unfairly profit from the system. And I gotta tell you it’s mighty offensive to me that JPMorgan portrays its actions as a joke, comparing itself to a poor orphan needing charity when it was ripping off consumers.” We’re also skeptical of Dimon’s genuine commitment to workers’ welfare because of exchanges that occurred between Dimon and members of the House Financial Services Committee at a hearing on April 10, 2019. Dimon was questioned by Congressman Al Green of Texas on whether it was true that JPMorgan Chase had released information in 2005 “indicating that it directly benefited from slavery” and had made loans using slaves as collateral. Dimon said he believed this was true. In fact, according to a 2005 report in The Guardian, it was actually worse than that – the bank’s predecessor institutions had actually owned slaves. Two banks that are now part of JPMorgan Chase made loans to plantation owners of slaves in the 1800s, accepted 13,000 slaves as collateral, and “ended up owning about 1250 slaves” when the plantation owners defaulted on the loans, according to The Guardian report. As if that disclosure wasn’t bad enough in one hearing, Congresswoman Katie Porter also revealed the paucity of wages Dimon was paying his bank tellers. Porter asked Dimon for help with a math problem. Porter explained how Jamie Dimon’s $31 million in compensation in 2018 compared to what the bank is paying one of its bank tellers who is a single mother with a 6-year old daughter. Porter explained that she went to Monster.com and found a job in her hometown of Irvine, California for a bank teller at JPMorgan Chase. She said the job pays $16.50 per hour or $35,070 per year or an after-tax amount of $29,100 for a single mother with a six-year old child. After deducting for rent on a 1-bedroom apartment, utilities, car payment on a 2008 car, gas, food, the cheapest cell phone, and after-school child care, the woman would be $567 in the hole each month. Porter asked Dimon how this woman should manage her budget short-fall while she’s working full time at his bank. Dimon said: “I don’t know that all of your numbers are accurate” (which prompted Porter to post the photo below on her Twitter page after the hearing). Congresswoman Katie Porter Explains the Brutal Reality of a Single Mom Attempting to Live on What Jamie Dimon Pays His Bank Tellers Dimon also said he doesn’t know what he would advise the woman to do but he’d like to have a conversation with the woman and try to be helpful. Porter responded: “What I’d like you to do is provide a way for families to make ends meet, so that little kids who are six years old living in a one-bedroom apartment with their mother aren’t going hungry at night because they’re $567 short…”

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" Btc not Crypto " idiot-wind is still blowing
by professor rat 07 Dec '22

07 Dec '22

And Adman Backstabber is still worth kidnapping and torturing to death for his fiat lux. https://cointelegraph.com/news/blockstream-raising-funds-for-mining-at-70-l… Reposts not real news for fake-cypherpunks

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[ot][spam][crazy] coding therapy: maybe a bugfix?
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 07 Dec '22

07 Dec '22

i've gotten conscious that some coding projects can be relaxing to me again i was thinking of looking on savannah for something i could implement

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[ot][coding-therapy?] Moronism And The Thorough Code Review
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 07 Dec '22

07 Dec '22

One of the huge changes I've experienced was strong inhibition around thoroughly reviewing things. Before all this, I would read an entire chip spec from from to end, every word on every page, before coding for that chip, and I wouldn't have to read it again: not because I had any kind of eidetic memory, but because I noted each thing that seemed useful somehow, with similar useful things I had already been exposed to. Nowadays, I so fervently want to quickly dip through something, and have an AI or a bunch of enslaved social network users do most of it for me. "If you want something done right, do it yourself," goes right out the window. Trying to be thorough now gives me chest contractions, amnesia, etc etc . The moronism seems too strong for me. This is a huge part of why I make so many bugs when coding, and it gives my other personality, the one planning what bugs to make, so much space to act in. Security reviews are ridiculous now: I add and hide more vulnerabilities than I address. But I'll be sure to address one, because I'm trying to! And then you trust me! It's so bad it's hilarious, like everything else. Another thing that gets much harder with this issue is things like optimization and creative hacks. I used to read all my APIs just like those chip specs, from front to back, and pick the very best solutions for every problem I encountered. Similarly language specifications. Now, like any good influenced person, I only easily see tiny things that engage my influence, and everything else takes great effort and raises my triggers. Often I call this blindness, because I literally do not see physical visual things right in front of my face. I've been dealing with that for years. But suddenly it occurred to me that _calling it out_ in this way could give me an avenue to work on it. And then I see how it describes so many of my issues. It's a really basic one, that I can engage almost anywhere. What tasks, I wonder, are really conducive to practicing thoroughness? Simply the act of methodically engaging and including every part of something, maybe in a software context, and maybe sidestepping things like working memory challenges a little.

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TRUE NAME NFT's? Cypherpunk NFT's? Cryptoanarchist NFT's?
by professor rat 07 Dec '22

07 Dec '22

Yes - yes - maybe >>> Bringing Privacy to Non Fungible Tokens https://medium.com/centrifuge/bringing-privacy-to-non-fungible-tokens-a-rec… Reposts provided as CHAT fodder only

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