May 2022 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Google goes along to get along
by professor rat 07 May '22

07 May '22

“Crypto is something we pay a lot of attention to,” Google President of Commerce Bill Ready told Bloomberg in January. “As user demand and merchant demand evolves, we’ll evolve with it.” https://decrypt.co/99645/google-web3-team-tap-market-tremendous-potential They're like the POUM during the Spanish Revolution.

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The ID mountain is coming to Mohammad
by professor rat 07 May '22

07 May '22

https://www.1kosmos.com/identity-management/self-sovereign-identity/ DIDs are becoming more and more popular as an open and flexible standard. The European Union (where GDPR is the law) developed a schema for decentralized identifiers as the base of the European Self-Sovereign Identity Framework. . . " Presuming ID management compatible with cryptoanarchy is becoming the standard then it only remains for us to enforce our core tenet that ' cypherpunks are all about privacy for the poor and transparency for the powerful ". Strong AI, and a suitably tuned, distributed and calibrated TRANSLUCENT system will make this, formerly non-trivial and NP hard problem, a snack.

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What are Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs)?
by professor rat 07 May '22

07 May '22

These are a type of unique identifiers (URI) that enable entities to generate and control their identifiers in the digital world. https://academy.affinidi.com/faqs-on-verifiable-credentials-and-self-sovere… Reposts are not endorsements

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U.S. sanctions North Korean cryptocurrency mixing firm
by jim bell 07 May '22

07 May '22

https://news.yahoo.com/u-sanctions-north-korean-cryptocurrency-150918047.ht… The U.S. announced Friday it is sanctioning North Korean digital currency mixing firm Blender.io, which the country allegedly uses to launder stolen virtual cu...

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Ninefingers
by professor rat 07 May '22

07 May '22

" . . . You don't have to kill or maim some to induce cooperation, and biometric devices can be designed to pretty much require that the subject be living. Extortion or seduction are both quite viable, and work with any security system. Biometrics don't really add anything. Your point is just as meaningful for cryptography. All strong crypto does is move the weak spot around. Incidentally, I have heard (from a probably reliable source) that the best biometric is a retina scan -- very reliable, hard to spoof, *very* few false negatives. . . " FROM https://mailing-list-archive.cryptoanarchy.wiki/archive/1997/05/f9ca111554f…

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Antisemites need to be driven out with heavy blows
by professor rat 07 May '22

07 May '22

This is Antisemitism defined as criticizing Jews in the style of Karl Marx, Adolph Hitler and Israel Shamir. You can have cryptoanarchism or antisemitism - not both.

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[LEAK] FBI+DHS EMPLOYEE DATABASE
by zeynepaydogan 06 May '22

06 May '22

On March 1, 2003, the Secret Service was transferred from the Department of the Treasury to the new Department of Homeland Security.

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[ot][spam][crazy] uploading stuff to blockchains
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 06 May '22

06 May '22

i'm poking at arweave a little https://github.com/xloem/gitlakepy has an arweave backend that provides for free uploads but it has bugs. i'm trying to work on those bugs now! i'm holdin' the intention! note: the free backend goes through a single remote server without reason to trust this server nor the connection with it.

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Govt agents entrapping poor widdle cypherpunks?
by professor rat 06 May '22

06 May '22

Great moron minds think alike emptywheel · 2h In Brad Geyer's latest conspiracy mongering, he has taken the #SeditionHunters work and flipped it, suggesting the people they IDed (he focuses on Loehrke, Haffner, and Ligas) must be govt agents entrapping the poor Oath Keepers.

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Two KGB warmonger propagandists sunk
by professor rat 06 May '22

06 May '22

Russia’s Zeynep A-hole, sorry, Admiral Makarov, warship has been hit by Ukrainian missiles and burst into flames, according to Ukrainian officials. The frigate would be Russia’s latest naval loss in a troubled campaign, coming after reports that US intelligence helped Ukraine locate and sink the Russian warship Nazi-Punk Moskva weeks ago.

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