July 2022 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Comms: Session App Claims Encrypted Comms
by grarpamp 18 Jul '22

18 Jul '22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLswL34hM-s Session Crypto Communicator All apps make claims, but which of them will stand true...

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Cryptocurrency: Bolivia's Evo Morales Speaks Out - Alt-Econ Models to West Are Valid
by grarpamp 18 Jul '22

18 Jul '22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdfOX_BnBMg Morales Speaks US Coup for Lithium On Julian Assange, Empire, Media, Corporations... "The 2019 coup was a blow against our economic model. An economic model that belongs to the people, not Empire." https://declassifieduk.org/

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Re: “Team Crazy” at home
by professor rat 18 Jul '22

18 Jul '22

Karl Semich continues to attack this list with his endless noise and deliberately obtuse lollygagging, timewasting, gasbagging non-responses. Why I group him along with Gramps and the Skunk as harmful trolls here that need eliminating by DOX, DdoS, SWAT &/or any memes necessary especially APster bounty-law, dead-pools. And such is the esteem I hold these three creepy spamming morons, I will throw in a bottle of Chivas to who ever puts the kibosh on any one of these losers. " When cypherpunks are called terrorists we will be doing our job " - old crypto-anarchist proverb

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Unicode: Emoji's - Humans Reverting to Hieroglyphic Language Due to Tech
by grarpamp 18 Jul '22

18 Jul '22

https://www.statista.com/chart/17275/number-of-emojis-from-1995-bis-2019/ https://emojipedia.org/emoji-15.0/ https://www.statista.com/study/12327/mobile-communications-industry-statist… https://stories.moma.org/the-original-emoji-set-has-been-added-to-the-museu… In 2023, Global Emoji Count Could Grow To 3,491 Just in time for today's World Emoji Day, new pictograms coming to phones in 2023 have been announced. As Statista's Katharina Buchholz details below, next year will likely see the release of 31 new emojis including the pink heart, the hair pick and the Khanda, the symbol of Sikh faith. The update would grow the number of emojis to nearly 3,500 next year. The Unicode consortium has recommended the emojis for release, but a final decision is still outstanding. Infographic: In 2023, Global Emoji Count Could Grow to 3,491 | Statista You will find more infographics at Statista While 2021 saw the release of 217 new emojis, that number was lowered to just more than 100 in 2022 and now finally to the double digits for next year. While emojis that allow users to pick different skin colors or genders drive up the size of releases as they are counted individually, the number of non-customizable emojis has also decreased with each release. 2023 will also see the addition of the moose head, the donkey, the goose, the handheld fan, the jelly fish and the maracas, among others, with the high-five hands - both left and right-facing - being the only customizable emoji in the new batch. The pink heart is reportedly the most anticipated of the release as social media users have griped for some time about the availability of the simple heart icon in white, orange and even brown, but not pink. What emojis appear on people’s phones and on their social media platforms is not arbitrary but has been coordinated by the Unicode Consortium since 1995, when the first 76 pictograms were adapted by the U.S. nonprofit. The Consortium has been overseeing the character inventory of electronic text processing since 1991 and sets a standard for symbols, characters in different scripts and – last but not least – emojis, which are encoded uniformly across different platforms even though illustration styles may vary between providers. Even though the first Unicode listings predate them, a 1999 set of 176 simple pictograms invented by interface designer Shigetaka Kurita for a Japanese phone operator is considered to be the precursor of modern-day emojis. The concept gained popularity in Japan and by 2010, Unicode rolled out a massive release of more than 1,000 emojis to get with the burgeoning trend - the rest is history. Different skin colors have been available for emojis since 2015. 2014 saw the release of the anti-bullying emoji "eye in speech bubble" in cooperation with The Ad Council, which produces public service announcements in the United States. Regional flags came to the service in 2017. Same-sex couples and same-sex families have been available since the first major emoji-release in 2010. The 2021 release also included the rollout of non-binary options and interracial couples.

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Ghacks: Facebook has started to encrypt links to counter privacy-improving URL Stripping
by jim bell 18 Jul '22

18 Jul '22

Ghacks: Facebook has started to encrypt links to counter privacy-improving URL Stripping. https://www.ghacks.net/2022/07/17/facebook-has-started-to-encrypt-links-to-… Facebook has started to encrypt links to counter privacy-improving URL Stripping MARTIN BRINKMANN Jul 17, 2022Facebook | 10 Facebook has started to use a different URL scheme for site links to combat URL stripping technologies that browsers such as Firefox or Brave use to improve privacy and prevent user tracking. Some sites, including Facebook, add parameters to the web address for tracking purposes. These parameters have no functionality that is relevant to the user, but sites rely on them to track users across pages and properties.Mozilla introduced support for URL stripping in Firefox 102, which it launched in June 2022. Firefox removes tracking parameters from web addresses automatically, but only in private browsing mode or when the browser's Tracking Protection feature is set to strict. Firefox users may enable URL stripping in all Firefox modes, but this requires manual configuration. Brave Browser strips known tracking parameters from web addresses as well.

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“Team Crazy” and Co-Conspirators that Marshaled the Mob at the Capitol to be Key Focus of Tuesday’s January 6 Hearing
by professor rat 18 Jul '22

18 Jul '22

No way to talk about the Honky Kraken! Ruprecht Moloch could soon be having another ' End of the World ' moment. I note his loss of the quantum Gerry Hall effect. But enough of these affairs of gnats - this Giants list remains polluted by some carpetbagger crazies Our own domestic Team Crazy consisting of Semich, Gramps and the last Nazi of the Pampas, Juan Peron. Crypto-anarchists revolutionaries can hardly lay claim to world governance if they can't clean up their own back-yard now - can they. For all those who value freedom, justice and world peace I suggest youse get behind APster and help us take out the trash. There are dead-pools on these three stooges but feel free to start your own. Every small pledge also adds up to help provide bounty law and bounty justice. One small step for a free human - one giant leap for united humanity yrs in anarchist revolution - pr

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JPMorgan Chase & Co are supplying cryptoanarchists with enough fiber-optic
by professor rat 18 Jul '22

18 Jul '22

Wu said companies like JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Société Générale-Forge, a subsidiary of one of France’s largest investment banks, are examples of how financial institutions are still innovating during crypto winter and paving the way for broader crypto adoption. <<< https://decrypt.co/105284/john-wu-tradfi-interest-in-crypto-has-absolutely-… Reposts etc

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Dutch Revolt: Spreads Manure On Govt Buildings, Govt Shoots People
by grarpamp 18 Jul '22

18 Jul '22

Netherlands: The Dutch farmers have had enough. They are spreading manure on government buildings and blocking the highways with tractors. https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1543837782677880832

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Cryptocurrency: Steel and Nuclear Energy
by grarpamp 17 Jul '22

17 Jul '22

"This is why we need to get rid of the dinosaurs in charge. Steel is just another boring 4,000-year-old technology controlled by the 1%. Steel has no more intrinsic value than fiat does, and is hardly as scarce as Bitcoin — anyone can make an infinite amount of steel by simply mining ore, extracting the iron, and mixing it with carbon at 2600°F, while on the other hand only 21 million bitcoin can ever be minted. Steel molecules are all exactly identical, whereas each Bitcoin key has a unique 256-bit string. Steel eventually corrodes into useless rust, whereas crypto is digital and cannot be destroyed due to unique principles of the blockchain. The steel industry generates about 8% of global CO2 emissions, whereas Bitcoin only generates about 0.08%. The price of steel has only roughly doubled since 2010, whereas the price of Bitcoin, even factoring in the current crypto-winter, is 219,533 times higher. Do you seriously think the future is built on ancient metal, or on blockchain? Educate yourself." "PoW will be building their own nuclear power plants. The incentives are heavily aligned. The money will flow. Expect this."

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Cryptocurrency: WarOnCrypto: 1600 GovCorp and LegFin's FUD Themselves as Sham, List Their Reasons for Endorsing Crypto
by grarpamp 17 Jul '22

17 Jul '22

Legacy's War On Crypto heating up and blowing bigger wads, soon they'll run out and start shooting blanks... Over 1,600 of the Brightest Scientific Minds in Technology Have Signed a Letter Calling Both Crypto and Blockchain a Sham The letter is a punch in the gut to the Wall Street underwriters who have brought billions of dollars of crypto related companies to the public markets, most of which have now collapsed in price. It makes the billionaire venture capitalists who have invested billions in crypto startups look like fools. And it renders the big-name celebrities who have promoted this garbage in TV commercials look like the shills that they are. The letter was sent to key members of Congress and to the Chairs of the Senate Banking and House Financial Services Committees. It is signed by more than 1,600 computer scientists, software engineers and technologists from around the world. There are 45 signatories who currently work at Google; 19 who work at Microsoft; 11 employed at Apple. (Those three companies currently have a collective market capitalization of more than $5.75 trillion; they can afford to hire the best and the brightest.) There are signatories that are Ph.Ds from the most prestigious universities in the world, including the University of Oxford and MIT. And all 1,600 have signed a letter that says this about crypto and blockchain: “We strongly disagree with the narrative—peddled by those with a financial stake in the crypto-asset industry—that these technologies represent a positive financial innovation and are in any way suited to solving the financial problems facing ordinary Americans… “As software engineers and technologists with deep expertise in our fields, we dispute the claims made in recent years about the novelty and potential of blockchain technology. Blockchain technology cannot, and will not, have transaction reversal or data privacy mechanisms because they are antithetical to its base design. Financial technologies that serve the public must always have mechanisms for fraud mitigation and allow a human-in-the-loop to reverse transactions; blockchain permits neither.” The letter links to an article from Bruce Schneier, a Security Technologist who teaches at the Harvard Kennedy School. The article appeared at Wired on February 6, 2019 under the headline: “There's No Good Reason to Trust Blockchain Technology.” The article makes the following salient points: “What blockchain does is shift some of the trust in people and institutions to trust in technology. You need to trust the cryptography, the protocols, the software, the computers and the network. And you need to trust them absolutely, because they’re often single points of failure. “When that trust turns out to be misplaced, there is no recourse. If your bitcoin exchange gets hacked, you lose all of your money. If your bitcoin wallet gets hacked, you lose all of your money. If you forget your login credentials, you lose all of your money. If there’s a bug in the code of your smart contract, you lose all of your money. If someone successfully hacks the blockchain security, you lose all of your money. In many ways, trusting technology is harder than trusting people. Would you rather trust a human legal system or the details of some computer code you don’t have the expertise to audit?” Losing your money is mostly what has been going on this year in crypto. In addition to crypto itself being a dubious “investment,” the Federal Trade Commission reported in June that “since the start of 2021, more than 46,000 people have reported losing over $1 billion in crypto to scams. That’s about one out of every four dollars reportedly lost to fraud during that period.” (For more on the perils of crypto investing, see our report on how customers on the Coinbase crypto exchange are being victimized.) Given this factual background, the speech delivered by Fed Vice Chair Lael Brainard at the Bank of England in London last Friday is an embarrassment to the U.S. central bank. In the speech, Brainard repeatedly makes reference to the “crypto financial system” as if it's a real thing. Crypto is a “financial system” like Bernie Madoff’s illusory split-strike conversion was delivering consistent 13 percent returns each year. In both cases, there’s no “there” there. Brainard’s idea is to regulate crypto. China had a better idea. It outlawed it, as have eight other countries with dozens more countries severely restricting its use. The U.S. Congress appears to be too beholden to crypto money to take a stand. That needs to change and the way it can change is for corporate CEOs at top technology companies in the U.S., like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Cisco, Intel, IBM and others, to start writing OpEds about the sham of crypto and blockchain in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and other newspapers with wide circulations. If their own tech workers are willing to put their reputations and careers on the line by signing this letter, surely a CEO or two could find his voice before more Americans are defrauded and before the U.S. loses its competitive edge relentlessly pursuing a sham technology.

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