April 2022 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

China’s Social Justice Approach to Litigation Finance
by Gunnar Larson 24 Apr '22

24 Apr '22

https://litigationfinancejournal.com/chinas-social-justice-approach-to-liti… China’s Social Justice Approach to Litigation Finance Former Communist China has not been known for access to justice. In fact, recent protests in Hong Kong sprung up due to China’s Fugitive Offenders and Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Legislation. Yet Communist China is experiencing a Social Spring (a transformation from Communism to Socialism). What role will China’s Communist roots play in future access to justice? Recently the Bank of International Settlements <https://www.bis.org/review/r211229f.htm> (BIS) discussed financial inclusion. For litigation finance to reach peak ‘high quality’ development, robust international standards are required. The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UNDHR) is an example where 192 countries agreed on the common standards of achievement for all people and nations. There is no ‘regulatory arbitrage’ when dealing with human rights. BIS is pioneering the social etiquette around litigation finance, according to Mr. Liu Guiping, Deputy Governor of the People’s Bank of China. Mr. Guiping’s startling approach marks a historic milestone for access to justice in China. Guiping says China aims to pioneer social justice, and that litigation finance’s ultimate potential logically requires coordinated development of regulation innovation. *China’s Social Spring Key Takeaways: * - Guiping remarks on China’s potential to harmonize the now clunky relationship between attorneys, third-party investors and claimants. - China is a very large country with 31 provinces. The Social Spring in China must ethically address claimants in certain jurisdictions, while in others champion access to justice, reasonable disclosures and a standard for litigation finance regulatory innovation. - The notion of a common cross-border regulatory standard for litigation finance is considered absurd by many. International funders have boosted litigation finance revenues by leveraging regulatory arbitrage structures. How will China play into all of this? Only time will tell… As an added bonus, we collated 39 highlights <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fej8pVCi3DEfSTSxt297RP1fLx4ruc2s/view?usp=…> from Guiping’s speech, for reference.

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[spam] Language learning: Julia
by Karl Semich 24 Apr '22

24 Apr '22

https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/ Notes Chapter 1: getting started - install and run Chapter 2: variables for T in [Int8,Int16,Int32,Int64,Int128,UInt8,UInt16,UInt32,UInt64,UInt128] println("$(lpad(T,7)): [$(typemin(T)),$(typemax(T))]") end lpad() appears to be a built-in function that extends a string with spaces on the left typemin() and typemax() return the extreme-most values for a type types appear to be values, which is great multiplication by prefixing a variable with an expression: julia> x = 3 3 julia> 2x^2 - 3x + 1 10 further types: Float16, Float32, Float64, BigInt, BigFloat further functions: eps(): smallest representable delta for a type at 1.0 nextfloat(), prevfloat(): adjacent floats bitstring(): shows raw bits zero(), one(): return identity literals of passed type big"1.3": arbitrary-precision literals parse(T, str): number parsing setprecision(digits): change BigFloat precision

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Moldova protests to Russia over comments by top military commander
by professor rat 24 Apr '22

24 Apr '22

Moldova expresses "deep concern" over Russian general's Transnistria comments Axios Moldova protests to Russia over comments by top military commander Reuters

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French accuse Russian mercenaries of staging burials in Mali
by professor rat 24 Apr '22

24 Apr '22

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — The French military has released videos appearing to show Russian mercenaries burying bodies near an army base in northern Mali, which it says is part of a smear campaign against the French who handed the base to Malian forces earlier this week. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-ouagadougou-burkina-faso-europe-a…

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Turkey closes airspace to Russian planes flying to Syria
by professor rat 24 Apr '22

24 Apr '22

Turkey Closes Its Airspace to Russian Jets Flying to Syria's War Bloomberg 1 hour ago Turkey closes airspace to Russian planes flying to Syria: FM Al Jazeera English 15 hours ago

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[spam] language learning: rust
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 24 Apr '22

24 Apr '22

https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ rustup doc --book # https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup/issues/2980 Notes: 1 getting started cargo is optional for using rust. it provides for reproducible builds from versioned dependencies using Cargo.lock . hello_cargo: # or write the other two files by hand cargo new hello_cargo cd hello_cargo Cargo.toml: [package] name = "hello_cargo" version = "0.1.0" edition = "2021" [dependencies] src/main.rs: fn main() { println!("Hello, world!"); } rustc src/main.rs # compile by hand cargo check # verify syntax cargo build # compile with cargo cargo run # executes target/debug/hello_cargo cargo run will automatically build cargo build will automatically pass --release to build to target/release Most rust projects out there will build with "cargo build". 2 guessing game src/main.rs: use std::io; fn main() { println!("Guess the number!"); println!("Please input your guess."); let mut guess = String::new(); io::stdin() .read_line(&mut guess) .expect("Failed to read line"); println!("You guessed: {}", guess); } global things like println! and String are listed at https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/prelude/index.html std::io provides io::stdin and its read_line member locally. These are always accessible globally with std::io::stdin. constants and mutables: let apples = 5; // immutable let mut bananas = 5; // mutable String::new is a static or associated function of the string type. It creates a new String. in read_line(&mut guess), & specifies to pass guess by reference rather than value, and mut specifies to let read_line mutate it functions in rust often return Results, enums of either Ok or Err that can have type members and associated data. io::Result has a .expect member function that either raises the passed error text for Err, or returns the associated data for Ok. rust emits warnings for unhandled Results. Cargo.toml: [package] name = "guessing_game" version = "0.1.0" edition = "2021" # See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html [dependencies] rand = "0.8.3" diff -u main.rs.old main.rs: --- main.rs.old 2022-04-24 04:40:47.371994619 -0400 +++ main.rs 2022-04-24 04:40:01.011994637 -0400 @@ -1,8 +1,13 @@ use std::io; +use rand::Rng; fn main() { println!("Guess the number!"); + let secret_number = rand::thread_rng().gen_range(1..101); + + println!("The secret number is: {}", secret_number); + println!("Please input your guess."); let mut guess = String::new(); rand::Rng adds random number generator traits. without it, gen_range() does not appear on thread_rng(). rand::thread_rng() is a thread local OS-seeded prng. 1..101 is a range expression of [1,101). it is equivalent here to 1..100 which is [1,100]. cargo doc --open will show documentation of the rand and all other project crates. use rand::Rng; use std::cmp::Ordering; use std::io; fn main() { println!("Guess the number!"); let secret_number = rand::thread_rng().gen_range(1..101); loop { println!("Please input your guess."); let mut guess = String::new(); io::stdin() .read_line(&mut guess) .expect("Failed to read line"); let guess: u32 = match guess.trim().parse() { Ok(num) => num, Err(_) => continue, }; println!("You guessed: {}", guess); match guess.cmp(&secret_number) { Ordering::Less => println!("Too small!"), Ordering::Greater => println!("Too big!"), Ordering::Equal => { println!("You win!"); break; } } } } rust lets you shadow variables in the same scope, retyping them, optionally based on their previous values String::trim removes the enter character read_line preserved String::parse returns a number match {} is a switch or select statement that provides for patterns and use as an expression rust infers the type of secret_number from the type of guess std::cmp::Ordering is an enum type return by the .cmp method. Homework: 1. Implement and run the guessing example. 2. Make a rust project that uses std::io to generate a .jl julia script that performs and outputs the result of an arithmetic calculation. file output: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/io/ julia: see other thread with similar name

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Momentum is growing across Australia for tougher action against sexual offenders
by professor rat 24 Apr '22

24 Apr '22

So yeah, Julio - come back home asap. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-24/silent-treatment-of-sex-assault-vict… widespread concerns about a lack of convictions. Ms Yates said only 16 per cent of reported sexual assaults in Lismore, sorry, Canberra resulted in a charge. And only 50 per cent of cases that went to court ended in a guilty verdict. Change, however, may finally be approaching. Next month, ACT Policing will begin a landmark review of sexual assault cases to try to answer a question many have asked: why are so few alleged offenders taken to court?

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North Korean gang still accessing its $600 million crypto haul
by jim bell 24 Apr '22

24 Apr '22

https://news.yahoo.com/north-korean-gang-still-accessing-154600606.html "WASHINGTON - North Korean hackers who last month carried out one of the largest cryptocurrency thefts ever are still laundering their haul more than a week after they were identified as the thieves." "The cybercriminals' continued access to the money, more than $600 million stolen from the Axie Infinity video game, underscores the limits of law enforcement's ability to stop the flow of illicit cryptocurrency across the globe. The hackers are still moving their loot, most recently about $4.5 million worth of the Ethereum currency on Friday, according to data from cryptocurrency tracking site Etherscan - eight days after the Treasury Department attempted to freeze those assets by sanctioning the digital wallet the group used in its attack." "The gang, which the Treasury Department identified as the Lazarus Group, also known for the 2014 hacking of Sony Pictures, so far has laundered nearly $100 million - about 17 percent - of the stolen crypto, according to blockchain analytics firm Elliptic. They moved their haul beyond the immediate reach of U.S. authorities by converting it into the cryptocurrency Ethereum, which unlike the cryptocurrency they stole cannot be hobbled remotely. Since then, the gang has worked to obscure the crypto's origins primarily by sending installments of it through a program called Tornado Cash, a service known as a mixer that pools digital assets to hide their owners." "Authorities and major crypto industry players are scrambling to keep up. Treasury sanctioned three more addresses associated with the gang on Friday, as Binance, a large international crypto exchange, announced it had frozen $5.8 million worth of crypto the hackers had transferred onto its platform."

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[LEAK] Ex-CIA Agent (Jeremy Kent)
by zeynepaydogan 24 Apr '22

24 Apr '22

https://ufile.io/bgrsyg8y There are still interesting docs and materials

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The developer of "OnionShare" called cyberattacks on Russia "Fair Game"
by zeynepaydogan 23 Apr '22

23 Apr '22

Micah Lee, computer security engineer and developer of "OnionShare" (an open source tool for secure file sharing over the Tor network), author of the "Danger zone" and "semi ephemeral" projects, gave birth to a high-profile Twitter post on the topic of the fact that, finally, for the first time in the history of the Internet, Russia is faced with a "fair game" in the form of cyber attacks. Micah Lee said: I don't think people fully appreciate just how much, after invading Ukraine, people are hacking Russia. There are multiple hacks a week and it's only increasing. For first time in internet history Russia is fair game for cyber attacks, and this is what it looks like" Micah Lee is an active member of DDoSecrets (where leaks of Russian companies are illegally published) and does not hide his anti-Russian sentiments. An adherent of open-source software does not disdain to actively repost anonymous and other hacker groups that are engaged in outright sabotage, cyber attacks, DDoS attacks, phishing and spam against Russian organizations. Even after the DDoSecret account was deleted by Twitter moderation, Micah continues to maliciously share information about leaks on her pages in an attempt to bypass Twitter's moderation mechanisms. No wonder the Whonix Project disowned journalist Mick Lee and slammed a comrade from the main page (which depicts Snowden) for trying to hype by labeling the founders of the project as "fascists". For attempting false accusations, Lee snatched more than one kind comment from his own followers on his blog at the end of the post: "Micah, Like many other journalists you're focused on vanity metrics and what serves you and your ego. Many people never saw evidence of Whonix supporting any form of fascism. This is one of those flamebait posts which holds about as much water as a sieve. Many of us read your blog because it was useful and fairly neutral. But this sort of tripe is just as bad if not worse than the drama and crap you are trying to virtue-signal about. Please learn how to objectively write. For a journalist professional you have a long way to go"

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