February 2022 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

An informational & social services organization for gay men with AIDS & their loved ones.
by professor rat 12 Feb '22

12 Feb '22

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/23/996272737/skepticism-of-science-in-a-pandemi… In 1987, Duesberg's denialism went semi-mainstream. The journal Perspectives In Cancer Research published his theory: HIV does not cause AIDS.

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Its Okay to be Gay, Gramps
by professor rat 12 Feb '22

12 Feb '22

https://twitter.com/bornmiserable/status/1492323083767541763/photo/1 Ram on.

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True Names again
by professor rat 12 Feb '22

12 Feb '22

" . . . Many in the crypto community who defend pseudonymity at all costs fail to acknowledge that there must be a line beyond which a public “right-to-know” exists. . . " https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/02/11/cryptos-challenge-right-to-priva… Why I said, years ago now , " Cypherpunks are all about privacy for the poor and transparency for the powerful ". And anarchists have always said the right to associate ( mutual aid ) includes the right to disassociate ( propaganda of the deed )

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Snowden slams Assmange
by professor rat 12 Feb '22

12 Feb '22

Snowden · 15h There is nothing more grotesque than a media pushing for war. May 20, 2017 - Julian Assange announced “the proper war is just commencing...”

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Former POTUS Donald Dumbfuck claims to be searching for papers
by professor rat 12 Feb '22

12 Feb '22

Russia? If you're listening, Trump wants those missing documents. https://www.google.com/search?q=Trump+paper+airforce+one&client=opera&hs=fp…

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The Verge: SSD prices could spike after Western Digital loses 6.5 billion gigabytes of NAND chips
by jim bell 12 Feb '22

12 Feb '22

The Verge: SSD prices could spike after Western Digital loses 6.5 billion gigabytes of NAND chips. https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/11/22928867/brainstorming "Western Digital says it has lost at least 6.5 exabytes (6.5 billion gigabytes) of flash storage due to contamination issues at its NAND production facilities. The contamination could see the price of NAND — the main component of SSDs — spike up to 10 percent, according to market research firm TrendForce. Any potential NAND shortages or price fluctuations could affect the PC market over the next few months, which had another big year in 2021 despite global chip shortages and demand for GPUs." "The contamination of materials used in the manufacturing processes appears to have been detected in late January at two plants in Japan, with Western Digital’s joint venture partner, Kioxia (previously Toshiba), revealing it has affected BiCS 3D NAND flash memory. "Western Digital and Kioxia’s partnership amounts to around 30 percent of the NAND flash market, according to TrendForce. Both Western Digital and Kioxia primarily supply SSD and eMMC storage drives for PCs, and Western Digital is one of the leading suppliers in the industry." "It’s not clear what caused the contamination, whether products on the market will need to be recalled, or when production will resume. Western Digital says it’s “working closely with its joint venture partner, Kioxia, to implement necessary measures that will restore the facilities to normal operational status as quickly as possible.”

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Targeted Assassinations' Coming if Civil War Breaks Out: Adam Kinzinger
by jim bell 12 Feb '22

12 Feb '22

https://www.newsweek.com/targeted-assassinations-coming-if-civil-war-breaks… "If a civil war breaks out in the United States, Representative Adam Kinzinger believes it won't be reminiscent of the 19th century Civil War because it'll take the form of "targeted assassinations" and not state against state. "Once an unthinkable theory, growing political divisions have fueled speculation that a civil war could be looming. While some see it as inevitable, others have pushed for people to resist the possibility, and Kinzinger told The View on February 10 that it's not "too far of a bridge" to believe another civil war could happen in the United States. "However, if it does occur, he warned that it wouldn't take the same shape as it did in 1861. Instead of the traditional form of war the Civil War took, where it was "blue against gray," this time around, it would be "armed groups against armed groups," according to Kinzinger. "Targeted assassinations, violence–that's what a 21st and 20th century civil war is," Kinzinger said. "We're identifying now by our race, by our ethnic group, we're separating ourselves and we live in different realities." "Kinzinger, a vocal critic of the GOP's loyalty to former President Donald Trump, was censured by the GOP alongside his colleague Representative Liz Cheney. During his interview on The View, he criticized the GOP for being a "once great party" that no longer stands for principles. Instead, he said the GOP stands for "loyalty to one man" and that it makes him "sad." "Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has advocated for Republican states to break off from Democratic states and Civil War experts believe there are "indicators" the United States could see another conflict." "Timothy Snyder, a history professor at Yale University, told Business Insider America "doesn't look good right now." He pointed to the high degree of polarization, people believing in alternate realities and the praise of violence. During an interview with CNN, Kinzinger cited Trump as one of the leading factors in whether America sees another civil war. If Trump and his allies convince enough people that the election was stolen from the former president, it's not a "far off thought" that a militia and counter militia clash, sparking a civil war." "I never would say that we would ever have ended in that position, but I now believe it is a real possibility that we have to be wide-eyed as we walk into so we don't have that happen again," Kinzinger told CNN." "Although Kinzinger believes civil war could be on the horizon, he urged people to fight hard "against it" and put the country over political parties. He acknowledged that he used to resist talking about civil war but said it's necessary to issue warnings and discuss the possibility so that the potential for it is "recognized" and we can alter course." (End of quote) Jim Bell's comment: On Feb 14, 1995, Part 1 of my Assassination Politics essay was cross-posted from Bill Frezza's Digitaliberty mailing list to Cypherpunks list. For about about the next 6 months, nearly every comment on Cypherpunks involved Assassination Politics. It is hard to tell that, today, because a few years ago I discovered that the Cypherpunks archive for 1995 had been extensively forged to remove virtually all references to 'Jim Bell', 'Assassination Politics', AP (except in the context of "Associated Press"). Even today, this now-obvious example of censorship can be identified by noting how few messages remain during a multi-month period. There are perhaps 5 references to AP in November and December 1995. That's it. Adam Kinzinger is right, for once. There is no reason to believe that Civil War 2.0 should have as many as 1% of the perhaps 700,000 1861-1865 Civil War dead.

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Senators: CIA has secret program that collects American data
by jim bell 12 Feb '22

12 Feb '22

https://news.yahoo.com/senators-cia-secret-program-collects-011409001.html The CIA has a secret, undisclosed data repository that includes information collected about Americans, two Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee said ... Thursday. While neither the agency nor lawmakers would disclose specifics about the data, the senators alleged the CIA had long hidden details about the program from the public and Congress. Sens. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico sent a letter to top intelligence officials calling for details about the program to be declassified. Large parts of the letter and documents released by the CIA were blacked out. Wyden and Heinrich said the program operated “outside the statutory framework that Congress and the public believe govern this collection.” There have long been concerns about what information the intelligence community collects about Americans. The CIA and National Security Agency have a foreign mission and are generally barred from investigating Americans or U.S. businesses. But the spy agencies’ sprawling collection of foreign communications often snares Americans' messages and data incidentally.

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"CIA is not your friend"
by jim bell 12 Feb '22

12 Feb '22

Open SmartNews and read "CIA slammed as ‘criminal organization’ after Snowden tweets agency ‘is not your friend’" here: https://share.smartnews.com/oWYJi

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Re: [tor-dev] Relay "Ping" Functionality
by grarpamp 12 Feb '22

12 Feb '22

> Right now we're exploring latency-based attacks but are having trouble > achieving a particular goal: a way to “ping” an arbitrary node in a > client’s already-built (“live”) circuit. One-way timing is ideal but round > trip time would suffice. We can glean this information during circuit > construction, but what about a “live” circuit? Ideally, this would be a > periodic thing Tor already keeps track of, but as an on-demand or as a > byproduct/side-effect of a different function would also work. We have not > been able to find a way to do this within the Tor (sub)protocol specs or > the control port spec. Use OnionCat and ping6, it is exactly what you want. https://www.onioncat.org/ Such "timing" attacks are in the scope of "Tor Stinks -- NSA" document. Users should become familiar with them, and that slide deck, and other attacks from over a decade ago. And with how tor does not address them.

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