June 2022 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Young Thug Case Shows RICO's Shift From Mobs To Gangs
by Gunnar Larson 18 Jun '22

18 Jun '22

The 88-page indictment charging the rappers Young Thug and Gunna along with 26 others with racketeering made headlines last month, but it was hardly surprising to legal experts familiar with these increasingly common prosecutions. https://www.law360.com/access-to-justice/articles/1504067/young-thug-case-s…

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Re: [crazy][hobby][spam] Automated Reverse Engineering
by k 18 Jun '22

18 Jun '22

i posted but my email disappeared for me, here's another. my continuing on this is waning atm, maybe will change. the first model was lost after a day or two when the notebook closed itself. reusing the token ids of the T5 tokenizer really speeds training from the T5 model. i spent some time hacking a tokenizer that both engages byte data and toikenizes embedded strings, but it seems it would be better if the token ids of the previous tokenizer were used, to reuse more of the model. there's a very early model at https://huggingface.co/baffo32/pyc2py_alpha that could maybe seed the .ipynb or its associated .py file in https://github.com/xloem/techsketball . the model doesn't succeed yet, just gets more likely to. thinking of the intensity of this task, how [indescribably] hard it can be to continue: my example here was with pyc files, for which the source is almost always already available. this example gave me more ease when starting the project. however, more useful example data can give bigger return when projects struggle.

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Robert Hettinga RIP
by professor rat 18 Jun '22

18 Jun '22

A fool and his reputation-capital are soon parted ( old proverb ) >>>> ProgressiveTex ·11h Sidney Powell has been disbarred by the State of Texas. The Kraken has been released. <<<< Reposts etc

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New Hertzbleed Side-Channel Attack Affects All Modern AMD and Intel CPUs
by jim bell 18 Jun '22

18 Jun '22

https://thehackernews.com/2022/06/new-hertzbleed-side-channel-attack.html "A newly discovered security vulnerability in modern Intel and AMD processors could let remote attackers steal encryption keys via a power side channel attack. "Dubbed Hertzbleed by a group of researchers from the University of Texas, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Washington, the issue is rooted in dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS), power and thermal management feature employed to conserve power and reduce the amount of heat generated by a chip. "The cause is that, under certain circumstances, periodic CPU frequency adjustments depend on the current CPU power consumption, and these adjustments directly translate to execution time differences (as 1 hertz = 1 cycle per second)," the researchers said.

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Chinese hackers attack sophos
by jim bell 18 Jun '22

18 Jun '22

https://thehackernews.com/2022/06/chinese-hackers-exploited-sophos.html " sophisticated Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) actor exploited a critical security vulnerability in Sophos' firewall product that came to light earlier this year to infiltrate an unnamed South Asian target as part of a highly-targeted attack. "The attacker implement[ed] an interesting web shell backdoor, create[d] a secondary form of persistence, and ultimately launch[ed] attacks against the customer's staff," Volexity said in a report. "These attacks aimed to further breach cloud-hosted web servers hosting the organization's public-facing websites." The zero-day flaw in question is tracked as CVE-2022-1040 (CVSS score: 9.8), and concerns an authentication bypass vulnerability that can be weaponized to execute arbitrary code remotely. It affects Sophos Firewall versions 18.5 MR3 (18.5.3) and earlier."

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Tesla, SpaceX, and Musk sued by dogecoin investor for $258 billion
by professor rat 18 Jun '22

18 Jun '22

And in related news . . . Elon Musk's SpaceX fires employees following critical letter outlining Musk's public behaviour https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-18/spacex-elon-musk-fires-small-group-b… Reposts etc

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Vladimir Putin last night heralded a “new world order” - this phrase was also used by Karl Marx in his 1844 Manuscripts.
by professor rat 18 Jun '22

18 Jun '22

https://www.news.com.au/world/europe/vladimir-putin-heralds-new-world-order… Reposts not endorsements

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CIA plans to assassinate registered journalist
by professor rat 18 Jun '22

18 Jun '22

London hasn't seen anything like this since, well . . . the killing of Simon Ross https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/crime/assassination-bid-part-of-assange-ap… Reposts not cleared for NSA Blackfriar

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Tesla, SpaceX, and Musk sued by dogecoin investor for $258 billion
by Gunnar Larson 17 Jun '22

17 Jun '22

https://finance.yahoo.com/video/tesla-spacex-musk-sued-dogecoin-205916838.h…

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Blockchain & Metaverse: Why All the Hype? Event Follow-Up
by Gunnar Larson 17 Jun '22

17 Jun '22

https://inatba.org/news/blockchain-metaverse-why-all-the-hype-event-follow-…

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