July 2022 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Pushing deeper into this idea of natural rights
by professor rat 26 Jul '22

26 Jul '22

“How on Earth does Eastman get to this point of being ready to jettison the Constitution?” said one former fellow, speaking on the condition of anonymity to avoid alienating friends at the institute. “It’s by pushing deeper into this idea of natural rights, which justify any means necessary to preserve the republic. … That’s how Claremont goes from this quirky intellectual outfit to one of the main intellectual architects of trying to overthrow the republic.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07/24/claremont-john-eastman-tru… Reposts not etc

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Most Journalists are the scum of the earth ( Hi Julian )
by professor rat 26 Jul '22

26 Jul '22

@jayrosen_nyu ·Jul 25 A BBC story about "The audacious PR plot that seeded doubt about climate change" includes this description of how easy it was to get journalists to help. https://bbc.com/news/science-environment-62225696… via @wblau https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1551221968258895873?cxt=HHwWgsDUnaq… How we burned journalists in the camps later on.

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CIA - if you're listening
by professor rat 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

Don't mourn all those missing Ames strain agents - don't miss any station-chief or staff. ORGANIZE! There is a threat to kill the POTUS here that you are obliged by law to pass on to the DHS. https://stiffs.com/celebrity/joebiden Any prediction market on a person is also an assassination market so LETS GO BRANDON! Do your fucking job ( Losers )

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Re: A lot of cypherpunk airbrushing going on
by professor rat 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

In the eternal sunshine of an idiots mind, there's no 1984, no Doublethink and no " MEMORY HOLE " How sweet to be an idiot. Then there's the best trick the mortal enemies of anarchism - Marxists and inverse-Marxist Libertarians - ever pulled. Telling us they don't exist and life is but a peaceful dream. " The Gulf War never happened "

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Tor protect I mean CIA
by zeynep＠keemail.me 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

Ohh big surprise! hahahahahahahahahahaha "Someone who sent a form to russian intelligence via tor saw the ip address routed by the cia relay"

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A lot of cypherpunk airbrushing going on
by professor rat 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

These revisionist cypherpunk histories keep popping up and being shot down. And the longer they go on ( from Mange through Gupta to Wright & Backstabber ) the more OG's need to be airbrushed out. This actually befits an inverse-Marxist approach where the Austro-Hungarian, Lunar Right have about as much respect for empirical fact as the average member of a Communist Party. But its not something we anarchists could ever countenance.

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David is now dead - thank fuck
by professor rat 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

David Graeber towards the end of his life. Graeber – a figurehead of Occupy Wall Street and, prior to that, a participant in the alter-globalisation movement – apparently saw no contradiction between his professed (neo-)anarchism and his efforts to join the British Labour Party in support of Jeremy Corbyn . . . " https://anarchistnews.org/content/anarchists-and-neo-anarchists One of Corbyn's election planks was 10k more police and Corbyn's pick for Treasury was a fan of Lenin and Trotsky. JFC .

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CHAUM as mental cripple
by professor rat 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

'Chaum is also building into PrivaTegrity another feature that's sure to be far more controversial: a carefully controlled backdoor > that allows anyone doing something "generally recognized as evil" to have their anonymity and privacy stripped altogether.' [...] Those of us who have been in the field for a while will (hazily) remember that back in the 80's, Chaum invented the first practical cryptocurrency. However, he patented his 'blind signature' algorithms, which were the heart of the system, and he and the DigiCash corporation (which was created to exploit the patents) were extremely restrictive in their licensing. Reportedly, this was because Chaum was concerned that Bad People might use it for money laundering.The system saw very little use. Much more detail can be found in the cypherpunks mailing list archives. ....which is a long way of saying that for Chaum to cripple his system with a back door seems consistent with his earlier reported behavior. Peter Trei https://marc.info/?l=cryptography&m=145223202406590&w=1

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HAL, do you read me?
by professor rat 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

A lot of our discussion is influenced by the ideas of David Chaum. He pioneered technology which could protect individual privacy while allowing very flexible sorts of credentials and guarantees. He has also played a big role in the various proposals for digital cash. But I think that Chaum has gone off in the wrong direction in the last few years. . . " https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=85281390301195&w=1

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Chaum in Time: untraceable cash "root of all evil"
by professor rat 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

'Paper money is, I hate to say it, the root of all evil', says DigiCash Founde Chaum, who argues that the traceability of electronic cash will mean the end of some tiypes of crime. 'What kidnapper would take a ransom payment by check? Once you build the infrastructure for electroni cash, the incremental cost of replacing paper cash is small. And the social benefits could be amazing." Who was it that said "A liberal statist with a privacy fetish?" https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=95279369520812&w=1

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