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Comrade Willem broke through an invisible border
by professor rat 14 Jul '22

14 Jul '22

National borders are not even road-humps on the information superhighway Old cypherpunk proverb Comrade Willem broke through an invisible border https://anarchistnews.org/content/willem-van-spronsen-always-offensive-bord… Tell them Willy boy is here.

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Obstruction Charges Added Against Ex-Pilgrim's Pride Exec
by Gunnar Larson 14 Jul '22

14 Jul '22

A former Pilgrim's Pride executive facing criminal price-fixing charges has been hit with additional charges for allegedly intimidating a witness during the investigation and destroying evidence. https://www.law360.com/competition/articles/1511335/obstruction-charges-add…

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Where's the money coming from?
by professor rat 14 Jul '22

14 Jul '22

In the cryptoanarchist justice system there are two main groups. These two form a political economic spacetime continuum. These are their stories. #DumDum Where's the money coming from? The Mikhail Bakunin estate tax. The Robin Leech luxury goods and services tax Leasehold tax ( Georgian ) Confiscation of all anti-social criminals assets ( Dent Act _ Escalating Fossil Fuels tax ( Away with you ) Interest on all multi-sig accounts over 512 wallets ( the Skim ) Increasing share of increasing global GDP ( Growing the pie ) Details to follow. Have your people call my people. Ciao.

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Re: confirm e886f01a21e952d59d6e967cb64a7156b9af9188
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 14 Jul '22

14 Jul '22

Ohhh I guess the mailbomb list was updated. This was the first one and they are still coming. I hadn't scrolled down to notice. On Tue, Jul 12, 2022, 3:32 AM <cypherpunks-request(a)lists.cpunks.org> wrote: > Mailing list removal confirmation notice for mailing list cypherpunks > > We have received a request from 198.98.60.90 for the removal of your > email address, "gmkarl+cpunks0001(a)gmail.com" from the > cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org mailing list. To confirm that you want > to be removed from this mailing list, simply reply to this message, > keeping the Subject: header intact. Or visit this web page: > > > https://lists.cpunks.org/mailman/confirm/cypherpunks/e886f01a21e952d59d6e96… > > > Or include the following line -- and only the following line -- in a > message to cypherpunks-request(a)lists.cpunks.org: > > confirm e886f01a21e952d59d6e967cb64a7156b9af9188 > > Note that simply sending a `reply' to this message should work from > most mail readers, since that usually leaves the Subject: line in the > right form (additional "Re:" text in the Subject: is okay). > > If you do not wish to be removed from this list, please simply > disregard this message. If you think you are being maliciously > removed from the list, or have any other questions, send them to > cypherpunks-owner(a)lists.cpunks.org. >

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Re: confirm 7bba5b54c3665af60744513e5ce5cb064b965206
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 14 Jul '22

14 Jul '22

Just two of these atm starting with this one. On Wed, Jul 13, 2022, 1:43 PM <cypherpunks-request(a)lists.cpunks.org> wrote: > Mailing list removal confirmation notice for mailing list cypherpunks > > We have received a request from 185.220.103.113 for the removal of > your email address, "gmkarl+cpunks0002+evenements(a)gmail.com" from the > cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org mailing list. To confirm that you want > to be removed from this mailing list, simply reply to this message, > keeping the Subject: header intact. Or visit this web page: > > > https://lists.cpunks.org/mailman/confirm/cypherpunks/7bba5b54c3665af6074451… > > > Or include the following line -- and only the following line -- in a > message to cypherpunks-request(a)lists.cpunks.org: > > confirm 7bba5b54c3665af60744513e5ce5cb064b965206 > > Note that simply sending a `reply' to this message should work from > most mail readers, since that usually leaves the Subject: line in the > right form (additional "Re:" text in the Subject: is okay). > > If you do not wish to be removed from this list, please simply > disregard this message. If you think you are being maliciously > removed from the list, or have any other questions, send them to > cypherpunks-owner(a)lists.cpunks.org. >

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Re: confirm 2398b42594f1e533483e7aedc8ef66d6d6af6d33
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 14 Jul '22

14 Jul '22

two of these in quick succession, this was the first On 7/14/22, cypherpunks-request(a)lists.cpunks.org <cypherpunks-request(a)lists.cpunks.org> wrote: > Mailing list removal confirmation notice for mailing list cypherpunks > > We have received a request from 199.249.230.70 for the removal of your > email address, "gmkarl+cpunks0003+satiates(a)gmail.com" from the > cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org mailing list. To confirm that you want > to be removed from this mailing list, simply reply to this message, > keeping the Subject: header intact. Or visit this web page: > > > https://lists.cpunks.org/mailman/confirm/cypherpunks/2398b42594f1e533483e7a… > > > Or include the following line -- and only the following line -- in a > message to cypherpunks-request(a)lists.cpunks.org: > > confirm 2398b42594f1e533483e7aedc8ef66d6d6af6d33 > > Note that simply sending a `reply' to this message should work from > most mail readers, since that usually leaves the Subject: line in the > right form (additional "Re:" text in the Subject: is okay). > > If you do not wish to be removed from this list, please simply > disregard this message. If you think you are being maliciously > removed from the list, or have any other questions, send them to > cypherpunks-owner(a)lists.cpunks.org. >

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The only networked governance worth spit is anarchist
by professor rat 14 Jul '22

14 Jul '22

The coming cryptoanarchy is already emerging with crypto-currencies and, although I can't be too prescriptive about whats next - no anarchist can - here are some benchmarks I'll be looking to hit before this decade is out. Like collapse of all ancien regime governments including all large religions and all large corporates - the center cannot hold - more anarchy is loosed - you know. The minimum program. No extended ' dual power ' situation. Not now. Not after 30 net years. Also a global UBI starting at 5K and floating in line with global GDP. Also a replacement of freehold with native and leasehold land titles. A global move towards jury trials. Globalized healthcare as a basic human and civil right. This is what rapid-evolution looks like. Accept no substitutes. Tar and Feather all carpet-baggers. See on the other side.

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Yuri Bezmenov: How To Brainwash And Poison A Nation With Bullshit Wokeism
by grarpamp 14 Jul '22

14 Jul '22

Putin Using Western Wokeness As A Weapon: WSJ Op-Ed https://www.wsj.com/articles/wokeness-is-putins-weapon-ukraine-western-valu… Left-wing wokeism is one of America's greatest weaknesses, which both Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are using as a weapon against the West, according to a Monday Wall Street Journal Op-Ed by Hudson Institute Fellow Walter Russell Mead. After suggesting that Ukraine is giving Russia more than they bargained for on the battlefield thanks to "Western high-tech arms" among other things, Mead notes that Putin has had the most success in the domains of economics and politics, giving the West a run for its money. Fears that a Russian gas embargo could cripple European economies and leave comfortable German burghers freezing in the dark next winter have replaced hopes that Western sanctions would bring Moscow to its knees. Thoroughly intimidated by the consequences of an economic war with Russia, Germany is beginning to weasel out of its pledges to increase defense spending. -WSJ According to Mead, hopes that the world would unite against Russian aggression has "fizzled," adding: "Led by China and joined by India and Brazil, countries around the world are choosing trade with Russia over solidarity with the Group of Seven." The author suggests that in order to prevent "another major setback" such as those in Georgia, Crimea, the South China Sea and the Middle East, the West must "recalibrate" against the "revisionist powers" (China, Russia and Iran), and "rethink assumptions and conventional doctrines that have demonstrably failed." The West also needs to understand that the revisionist powers "seek the destruction of what they see as an American-led, West-dominated global hegemony," which is "decadent and vulnerable." Specifically, there are several vulnerabilities the West needs to protect against; including protectionism ("which reduces the economic attraction of the WWestern system for developing countries"), and self-righteous "values-based" entitlements "with its origins in the age of European imperialism." Why else, people ask, are Britain and France permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, while there is only one permanent member from Asia, and none from Africa, the Islamic world or Latin America? What possible justification is there for including Italy and Canada in the exclusive G-7? Conventional defenders of the Western world order respond by touting its commitment to universal values such as human rights and the fight against climate change. The current world order may, they acknowledge, be historically rooted in Western imperial power, but as an “empire of values,” the Western world order deserves the support of everyone who cares about humanity’s future. -WSJ Wokeness as a weakness After laying out the current situation, Mead writes that "the West's increasingly "woke" values agenda is not as credible or popular as liberals hope," noting that President Biden's visit to Saudi Arabia this week puts America's leftist hypocrisy on full display - reminding the world "of the limits on Western commitments to human rights." Many values dear to the hearts of Western cultural leaders (LGBTQ rights, abortion on demand, freedom of speech understood as allowing unchecked Internet pornography) puzzle and offend billions of people around the world who haven’t kept up with the latest hot trends on American campuses. -WSJ Mead also notes that woke Western banks are pissing off 'elites and the public at large' in developing countries over blocking financing for fossil-fuel extraction as part of their virtue-signaling ESG agenda. What's more, liberal West's "new, post-Judeo-Christian values agenda divides the West," as culture wars at home "don't promote unity overseas." Also, Western leftists have totally lost their shit in front of the world. Completely unhinged pic.twitter.com/7H2Z8E5vLh — Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 1, 2022 Bringing it home, Mead writes: The moral and political confusion of the contemporary West is the secret weapon that the leaders of Russia and China believe will bring the American world order to its knees. Messrs. Putin and Xi might be wrong; one certainly hopes that they are. But their bet on Western decadence has been paying off handsomely for more than a decade. Western survival and global flourishing require more thought and deeper change than the Biden administration and its European allies can currently imagine. -WSJ As we've noted many times, Americans were explicitly warned about weakening the West by KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov. How do we cure wokeism and actors who peddle it to score points?

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Leaks: Joshua Schulte CIA Vault 7 Convicted
by grarpamp 14 Jul '22

14 Jul '22

Ex-CIA Engineer Who Leaked "Vault 7" Tools Convicted Of Biggest Theft In Agency History https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/07/13/ex-cia-engineer-convicted-ma… https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/09/nyregion/cia-wikileaks-joshua-schulte-ve… https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/322936-fbi-and-cia-to-mull-how-wik… https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/502945-newly-unclassified-report-f… https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/space_753668.html https://wikileaks.org/vault7/?marble#Marble%20Framework https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/space_753667.html https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_20251151.html https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_2064514.html https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_13762910.html https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_7995642.html https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_2621845.html https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_5341269.html https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_5341272.html A former CIA software engineer who leaked the so-called "Vault 7" tools was convicted Wednesday of causing the largest theft of classified information in the history of the agency. Joshua Schulte, who has been sitting behind bars without bail since 2018 and chose to defend himself at trial, told the jury that the CIA and FBI made him a scapegoat for the 2017 WikiLeaks release of up to 34 terabytes of information. Separately, Schulte awaits trial on possession of child ponography and transport charges, which he has pleaded not guilty to, according to Military.com. As part of his defense, Schulte claimed he was singled out because "hundreds of people had access to (the information)," adding "Hundreds of people could have stolen it." "The government’s case is riddled with reasonable doubt," he said. "There's simply no motive here." Assistant U.S. Attorney David Denton countered that there was plenty of proof that Schulte pilfered a sensitive backup computer file. “He’s the one who broke into that system,” Denton said. “He’s the one who took that backup, the backup he sent to WikiLeaks.” The prosecutor also encouraged jurors to consider evidence of an attempted cover-up, including a list of chores Schulte drew up that had an entry reading, “Delete suspicious emails.” “This is someone who’s hiding the things that he’s done wrong,” Denton said. Once the jury got the case, Furman complimented Schulte on his closing argument. -Military.com The judge complimented Schulte on his defense, saying "that was impressively done." "Depending on what happens here, you may have a future as a defense lawyer." In March of 2020, the trial of former CIA computer engineer Joshua Schulte ended in a hung jury on eight counts, including illegal gathering and transmission of national defense information, according to the New York Times. As we noted two years ago, according to a 2017 report created by the CIA's WikiLeaks Task Force and released in June 2020, there were major security lapses at the CIA's Center for Cyber Intelligence (CCI), which made cyber weapons - including tools to crack into smartphones, hijack smart TVs, or make it look like a foreign adversary hacked someone. "In a press to meet growing and critical mission needs, CCI had prioritized building cyber weapons at the expense of securing their own systems," reads the report. "Day-to-day security practices had become woefully lax." "CCI focused on building cyber weapons and neglected to also prepare mitigation packages if those tools were exposed. These shortcomings were emblematic of a culture that evolved over years that too often prioritized creativity and collaboration at the expense of security," the report continues. The leak marked the largest data breach in the CIA’s history and included information on hacking tools used by the agency to break into smartphones and other internet-connected devices. The task force noted that due to failures to address vulnerabilities in IT systems, if WikiLeaks had not published the stolen information, the CIA “might still be unaware of the loss — as would be true for the vast majority of data on Agency mission systems.” In a letter to Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe on Tuesday, Wyden criticized the intelligence community for its “widespread cybersecurity problems.” -The Hill The Vault 7 release - a series of 24 documents which began to publish on March 7, 2017 - reveal that the CIA has a giant arsenal of tools to use against adversaries, including the ability to "spoof" its malware to appear as though it was created by a foreign intelligence agency, as well as the ability to take control of Samsung Smart TV's and surveil a target using a "Fake Off" mode in which they appear to be powered down while eavesdropping. The CIA's toy chest also includes: Tools code named "Marble" - which can misdirect forensic investigators from attributing viruses, trojans and hacking attacks to their agency by inserted code fragments in foreign languages. The tool was in use as recently as 2016. Per the WikiLeaks release: "The source code shows that Marble has test examples not just in English but also in Chinese, Russian, Korean, Arabic and Farsi. This would permit a forensic attribution double game, for example by pretending that the spoken language of the malware creator was not American English, but Chinese, but then showing attempts to conceal the use of Chinese, drawing forensic investigators even more strongly to the wrong conclusion, --- but there are other possibilities, such as hiding fake error messages." CIA's "Marble Framework" shows its hackers use potential decoy languages https://t.co/Hm3pTPSXIS Background: https://t.co/GsoN4BuyTz pic.twitter.com/ZT66doCnfY — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) March 31, 2017 iPads / iPhones / Android devices and Smart TV’s are all susceptible to hacks and malware. The agency's "Dark Matter" project reveals that the CIA has been bugging “factory fresh” iPhones since at least 2008 through suppliers. Another, "Sonic Screwdriver" allows the CIA to execute code on a Mac laptop or desktop while it's booting up. RELEASE: CIA #Vault7 "Dark Matter" https://t.co/pgnfeODXVB pic.twitter.com/vkI16f3vMD — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) March 23, 2017 RELEASE: CIA #Vault7 "Sonic Screwdriver" https://t.co/pgnfeODXVB pic.twitter.com/18BcVdqkqd — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) March 23, 2017 The increasing sophistication of surveillance techniques has drawn comparisons with George Orwell’s 1984, but “Weeping Angel”, developed by the CIA’s Embedded Devices Branch (EDB), which infests smart TVs, transforming them into covert microphones, is surely its most emblematic realization. The Obama administration promised to disclose all serious vulnerabilities they found to Apple, Google, Microsoft, and other US-based manufacturers. The US Government broke that commitment. "Year Zero" documents show that the CIA breached the Obama administration's commitments. Many of the vulnerabilities used in the CIA's cyber arsenal are pervasive and some may already have been found by rival intelligence agencies or cyber criminals. The Frankfurt consulate is (or was) a major CIA hacking base of operations. In addition to its operations in Langley, Virginia the CIA also uses the U.S. consulate in Frankfurt as a covert base for its hackers covering Europe, the Middle East and Africa. CIA hackers operating out of the Frankfurt consulate ( "Center for Cyber Intelligence Europe" or CCIE) are given diplomatic ("black") passports and State Department cover. The CIA laughs at Anti-Virus / Anti-Malware programs. CIA hackers developed successful attacks against most well known anti-virus programs. These are documented in AV defeats, Personal Security Products, Detecting and defeating PSPs and PSP/Debugger/RE Avoidance. For example, Comodo was defeated by CIA malware placing itself in the Window's "Recycle Bin". While Comodo 6.x has a "Gaping Hole of DOOM". Quite the suite of toys, no?

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Vitalik and Balaji don't know anarchism from a hole in the ground
by professor rat 14 Jul '22

14 Jul '22

Vitalik & Balaji - the abyss calling the abyss https://vitalik.ca/general/2022/07/13/networkstates.html Reposts etc

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