May 2022 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Quantum computers/hacking/encryption
by jim bell 08 May '22

08 May '22

https://www.science.org/content/article/worried-quantum-computers-will-supe… MATEJMO/ISTOCKSHARE: - Twitter - Linked In - Facebook - Reddit - Wechat - Email Quantum computers—exotic machines that can solve practical problems that would stymie any conventional supercomputer—remain years or decades away. However, yesterday President Joe Biden’s administration took a step to anticipate the eventual deployment of such machines. In a new national security memorandum, the White House instructs federal agencies to prepare to shift from the encryption algorithms used today to secure communications on the internet and other networks to new algorithms resistant to attack by a quantum computer. The memo envisions the shift beginning in 2024, when the first standard for such “post-quantum cryptography” should emerge, and being complete before 2035. Fortunately for internet companies, such postquantum cryptography will involve changes mostly in software. “You don’t need a quantum computer to implement these postquantum solutions,” says Dustin Moody, a mathematician with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Still, he says, “The transition should be quite challenging, as with any crypto transition that we’ve done.” Whereas a conventional computer processes information by flipping bits that can be set to 0 or 1, a quantum computer manipulates quantum bits or qubits that can be set to 0, 1, or, thanks to the weird rules of quantum mechanics, 0 and 1 at the same time. Such two-ways-at-once states enable a quantum computer to encode all possible solutions to certain problems as abstract quantum waves. Set things up right and, in the guts of the machine, the waves will interfere so that the incorrect solutions cancel one another, and the right solution pops out.

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God-Emperor of the MIT Library
by professor rat 08 May '22

08 May '22

I met a traveler from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Daltonite, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

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FIDO log-in details clash with crypto-anarchy
by professor rat 07 May '22

07 May '22

By presenting a facial scan or fingerprint to the device, I’ll be able to log in without having to type a password . . ." https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/05/how-apple-google-and… I was under the impression cypherpunks opposed the use of biometrics for ID purposes. Was I wrong?

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[ot][spam][fiction][draft][notes] returning to reality
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 07 May '22

07 May '22

the characters of the mcboss comic have temporarily left reality, it looks kind of like a joke. i'm thinking on bringing them back to their reality quickly. maybe with more poignant spinoffs.

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Apple, Google, and Microsoft team up for new password-free technology
by jim bell 07 May '22

07 May '22

Apple, Google, and Microsoft team up for new password-free technology https://share.newsbreak.com/10sbij1c

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Jan6: Patriot Purge (Documentary, Censored, Banned, Free Speech)
by grarpamp 07 May '22

07 May '22

https://www.bitchute.com/video/Ac4pyM37tJnb Patriot Purge - Full Docu 1:09:59 https://tuckercarlson.com/show/tucker-carlson-originals/ https://www.bitchute.com/search/?query=patriot+purge Panicked Democrats Call for Tucker Carlson to be Banned >From Television for Patriot Purge Documentary

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Mark Zuckerberg concerned people are losing faith in Silicon Valley Institutions
by professor rat 07 May '22

07 May '22

Or was that Justice Thomas? I get them mixed-up. "... over three-quarters of the global search market is under the control of the Google search engine and over 3.6 billion individual users across four social media platforms owned by Meta. FROM https://cointelegraph.com/news/digital-sovereignty-reclaiming-your-private-… Never mind. They're like the USG - they don't have the balls for overt fascism.

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Audio Eavesdropping Exploit Might Make That Clicky Keyboard Less Cool | Hackaday
by jim bell 07 May '22

07 May '22

https://hackaday.com/2022/05/06/audio-eavesdropping-exploit-might-make-that…

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[ot][spam][personal] uhhh should I understand the exploits my new phone is vulnerable to
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 07 May '22

07 May '22

oh ha this new unihertz titan is based on a mediatek chipset line that has been thoroughly exploited in multiple ways to bypass its security. the exploits appear to be open source. they are made by human beings who can be talked with. mediatek chips are apparently arm. the author of mtkclient has an exploitation playground repository at https://github.com/bkerler/exploit_me . i'm not sure what it is, but maybe a vulnerable binary so that people can learn how to build exploits to phones by reading their firmware? I'm actually not sure. the most prominent exploit for these devices is called kamakiri, the source code for which is at https://github.com/amonet-kamakiri/kamakiri . I don't know whether it's relevent for my phone or not. bkerler's mediatek client at https://github.com/bkerler/mtkclient has a number of additional command codes in it, many copied from the work of preceding developers, showing how to do useful things like reading and writing ram and emmc without the download agent (I think, not certain). this developer also has a qualcomm client they have made. i'd like to try to figure out what kamakiri does, and basically if any of these exploits are relevent for my phone. ideally i'd like to learn what is necessary or if it is possible to lock down my phone to prevent mutation of it or of firmware dumps I download from it.

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Nvidia fined $5.5 million over crypto mining GPU disclosures
by jim bell 07 May '22

07 May '22

https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/6/23059930/nvidia-sec-charges-fine-settleme…

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