May 2022 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Sampo the Seer
by professor rat 25 May '22

25 May '22

I'd say in the longer term micropayments are what counts, and not perhaps anonymity. https://www.mail-archive.com/cypherpunks-moderated@minder.net/msg01676.html

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C-punk history revisionists are getting more credentialed - So?
by professor rat 25 May '22

25 May '22

Starting around 2012 right-revisionist history efforts have been tried by Assmange ( " Cypherpunks " ) Vinay Gupta ( 2014 " Teaching libertarians " ) and Reason magazine’s more recent effort. They all tried. They all died. Now here come statist academics attacking us from the Left. They will fare no better since we ask no quarter and we grant no quarter.

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Cryptoanarchy transcended its right-libertarian roots by 2002 ( Crypto Winter )
by professor rat 25 May '22

25 May '22

So Btc ( 2008 ) was post-right-wing and this showed in its ' Millicent Ghetto " P2P approach as well as its public facing aspect. Hal Finney also said publicly " I am not a libertarian " https://twitter.com/resistancemoney/status/1527427312912076801 As for being anti-authoritarian without being opposed to the nation-state. Well I wish you luck with a capital " F ", Andy.

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Cryptocurrency shares history & agenda with radical, pro-privacy & civil rights cryptographers called “cypherpunks.”
by professor rat 25 May '22

25 May '22

cryptocurrency shares a history and agenda with the radical, pro-privacy and civil rights cryptographers called the “cypherpunks.” https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/05/24/bitcoin-is-apolitical-but-wont-b… "… bitcoin belongs to the right, politically. That’s why we keep seeing politicians like Cruz calling for crypto “oases” and Warren for the industry to be tamped down . . . " Dunny Kahn Murtaza Hussain, a reporter at left-leaning publication The Intercept, recently wrote about “Liz Warren’s bitcoin blind spot,” noting that crypto could be a tool for financial inclusion to counter corporate power and mitigate governmental overreach. So Coindesk’s Dunny Khan conflates Btc with crypto in either a criminally negligent way or just a criminal way. Meh.

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Risk to Financial Stability in ‘Present Trajectory’
by professor rat 25 May '22

25 May '22

They say that like its a bad thing https://decrypt.co/101247/crypto-poses-risk-financial-stability-present-tra… Welcome to the revolution

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Attaturk's crackpot language theory
by professor rat 25 May '22

25 May '22

No power-drunk despot is complete without some ludicrous theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Language_Theory " . . . transforming their meaningless blabbering into a coherent set of ritual utterings . . ."

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Shulte is worth more tactical support than Assmange
by professor rat 25 May '22

25 May '22

One thing Joshua Shulte never did was preen, pose and posture as some sort of ' Cypherpunk Revolutionary ". This alone makes it easier for us to pool our collective intelligence on his behalf in the short term and in the tactical , not long-term strategic, sense. Shultes negatives include, but are not limited to, his secreted covert work and alleged pedophile activity. If you work for a govt and are proved to collect child porn there are limits to what we can do to you, sorry, for you. There's no limits on what we can do to you.

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Registered journalist-publishers don't start overt information wars
by professor rat 25 May '22

25 May '22

And that makes them orthogonal to cypherpunk-revolution, especially crypto-anarchist, cypherpunk revolution. " . . . That said, the Court concludes that the information Defendant seeks to admit — or some version thereof — may be relevant and admissible for another purpose: to rebut the Government’s argument that he intended to start an “information war.” Gov.’s Mem. 38. That is, although Defendant’s motive and intent are not elements of the offense with which he is charged, the Government may open the door to evidence of the sort that Defendant seeks to offer if it argues that Defendant was motivated by a desire to start an “information war” with the United States. If it does, the fact that Defendant was privy to other highly classified information — or even more highly classified information — and did not leak it would tend to rebut the Case . . . " FROM https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22036134-220524-schulte-cipa-ruling

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How Josh Shulte's Graymail is shaping-up
by professor rat 25 May '22

25 May '22

Catch 22 - previously public information may also be classified under USG law https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22036134-220524-schulte-cipa-ruling . In sum, the fact that information was previously public does not mean, as a matter of law, that it is not NDI. By the same token, the fact that the information was previously public is relevant to whether it is NDI, even if it was made public by someone other than the Government. Accordingly, the Government’s motion to preclude Defendant from offering evidence that the information he is charged with leaking from the MCC was already public is DENIED. That is not to say that Defendant can offer the specific evidence that he has noticed, let alone in its current form. But that is a CIPA Section 6(c) question and a question for another day. 2. Evidence of Classified Information Defendant Knows Next, Defendant provides notice that, should he take the stand, he intends to testify that, by virtue of his employment at the CIA, he was privy to specific, highly sensitive classified information. Third Notice 3-4. Defendant argues that such information is relevant and admissible to show that he did not intend to harm the United States through the conduct charged . . . "

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On 19 May the Turks launched a major attack on the whole of the Anzac position
by zeynep＠keemail.me 25 May '22

25 May '22

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallipoli_campaign In Turkey, it is regarded as a defining moment in the history of the state, a final surge in the defence of the motherland as the Ottoman Empire retreated. The struggle formed the basis for the Turkish War of Independence and the declaration of the Republic of Turkey eight years later, with Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who rose to prominence as a commander at Gallipoli, as founder and president. The campaign is often considered to be the beginning of Australian and New Zealand national consciousness; 25 April, the anniversary of the landings, is known as Anzac Day, the most significant commemoration of military casualties and veterans in the two countries, surpassing Remembrance Day (Armistice Day).

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