July 2022 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Who controls the present controls the past
by professor rat 11 Jul '22

11 Jul '22

And who controls our past controls our future " . . . Cypherpunks, like John Gilmore, Julian Assange, Eric Hughes, Hal Finney, and Timothy C. May, held libertarian-esque ideas about privacy, limited government, and freedom of speech, and some eventually became involved in the growth of Bitcoin itself. . . .' https://fee.org/articles/the-ideological-origins-of-bitcoin/ Why its called ' Cyber-liberty ' donchaknow

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Cryptocurrency: Sri Lanka Collapsed... People Desperate For Usable Currency, Run On Chinese Banks
by grarpamp 11 Jul '22

11 Jul '22

Which cryptos will they adopt? "Sri Lanka has collapsed. The results of socialism + MMT + eco fanaticism + ESG approved policies. -- dossier.substack.com" Are you prepared? Chinese Banks experience massive bank run, violent protests ensue. Chinese Bank Run Turns Violent After Angry Crowd Storms Bank of China Branch Over Frozen Deposits While the world of high, and not so high finance, is obsessing over the volatility of cryptos and recent painful losses for overlevered players who - much to the amazement of plain vanilla equity investors - were not bailed out by a magnanimous Fed (which however only rescues stock markets, not cryptos), things in China with its $54 trillion financial system, or more than double the size of assets across US commercial banks, are once again getting heated. As Reuters reports, a large crowd of angry Chinese bank depositors faced off with police Sunday in the city of Zhengzhou, and many were injured as they were taken away, amid the freezing of their deposits by some rural-based banks. The banks froze millions of dollars worth of deposits in April, telling customers they were upgrading their internal systems. The banks have not issued any communication on the matter since, depositors said. According to Chinese media the frozen deposits across the various local banks could be worth up to $1.5 billion and authorities are investigating the three banks. On Sunday, about 1,000 people gathered outside the Zhengzhou branch of China's central bank on Sunday to demand action; they held up banners and chanted slogans on the wide steps of the entrance to a branch of China’s central bank in the city of Zhengzhou in Henan province, about 620 kilometers (380 miles) southwest of Beijing. People hold banners and chant slogans during a protest at the entrance to a branch of China’s central bank in Zhengzhou in central China’s Henan Province. A large crowd of angry Chinese bank depositors faced off with police Sunday, some reportedly injured as they were roughly taken away The protesters are among thousands of customers who opened accounts at six rural banks in Henan and neighboring Anhui province that offered higher interest rates. They later found they could not withdraw their funds after media reports that the head of the banks’ parent company was on the run and wanted for financial crimes. Videos and photographs on social media showed depositors waving banners and throwing plastic bottles at approaching security guards who then roughly dragged some of the protesters away. Citizens storm the Bank of China in Zhengzhou over bank account freezes. Banks froze millions of dollars in deposits last April, simply explaining to savers that they need to upgrade their internal systems. Since then, customers have not received any kind of communication. pic.twitter.com/XS9zuXRuEK — RadioGenova (@RadioGenova) July 10, 2022 Besides uniformed police, there were the teams of men in plain T-shirts. A banking regulator and a local government official arrived, but their attempts to talk to the crowd were shouted down. “We came today and wanted to get our savings back, because I have elderly people and children at home, and the inability to withdraw savings has seriously affected my life,” said a woman from Shandong province, who only gave her last name, Zhang, out of fear of retribution. Zhang and another protester, a man from Beijing surnamed Yang, told the AP the protesters had heard from the officials before and don’t believe what they say. The police then announced to the protesters from a vehicle with a megaphone that they were an illegal assembly and would be detained and fined if they didn’t leave. Around 10 a.m., the men in T-shirts rushed the crowd and dispersed them. Zhang said she saw women dragged down the stairs of the bank entrance. Zhang herself was hit, and said she asked the officer, “Why did you hit me?” According to her, he responded: “What’s wrong with beating you?” Yang said he was hit by two security officers including one who had fallen off the stairs and mistakenly thought in the chaos that Yang had hit or pushed him. 中国女性储户勇敢冲塔，对面虽然不是坦克，但是比坦克还要厉害 pic.twitter.com/dqR4OUm9Wr — 河南村镇银行维权 (@Qwaszx179730654) July 10, 2022 “Although repeated protests and demonstrations don’t necessarily have a big impact, I think it is still helpful if more people get to know about us, and understand or sympathize with us,” Yang said. “Each time you do it, you might make a difference. Although you will get hit, they can’t really do anything to you, right?” "I feel so aggrieved I can't even explain it to you," Zhang, 40, told Reuters. Zhang said he had been hoping to retrieve about 170,000 yuan ($25,000) deposited with one of the banks, the Zhecheng Huanghuai Community Bank. Zhang said he had suffered injuries to his foot and thumb, and was taken away by four unidentified security personnel at around midday. Security personnel outnumbered protesters by around three to one, he said. "They did not say they would beat us if we refused to leave. They just used the loudspeaker to say that we were breaking the law by petitioning. That's ridiculous. It's the banks that are breaking the law." This is huge. Don't know how this will end. Henan bank is NOT the only one that is having problems with liquidity. All four Chinese banks are having the same issue. Some depositors found they can save and can NOT withdraw money with their bank cards. #bankrun #China #CCP pic.twitter.com/5WYYgpmIWP — Jennifer Zeng 曾錚 (@jenniferatntd) July 10, 2022 The banks, which include the Yuzhou Xinminsheng Village Bank and the Shangcai Huimin Country Bank, are under investigation by the authorities for illegal fundraising, the state-run Global Times reported. The protesters were eventually bused to various sites where Zhang said they were forced to sign a letter guaranteeing they would not gather anymore. Late Sunday, Henan banking regulators posted a short notice on their website saying that authorities are speeding up the verification of customer funds in four of the banks and the formulation of a plan to resolve the situation to protect the rights and interests of the public. More than 1,000 depositors from across the country had planned to gather in Zhengzhou last month to try to withdraw their money but they were unable to when their COVID-19 health codes, which determine if one can travel, switched to a "no travel" status.

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Shut Down list Trolls
by professor rat 11 Jul '22

11 Jul '22

ShutDownDC, a liberal advocacy group in Washington, D.C., said on Friday that it will offer up to $250 to service industry workers in the district for every sighting of the justices who overturned Roe v. Wade. Similar to my offer to pay a similar amount to Dox, DdoS and Destroy list pests, Gramps, Skunk and Semich. Plenty of time before CYPHERPUNK 2027 to take out the trash!

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Looking for Proactive Kill-Switch company
by professor rat 11 Jul '22

11 Jul '22

Sooner, rather than later we should see some ultrawoke corporado start actively promoting APster dead-pools This will send ' Bounty Law ' viral and help that grayzone company get a toehold in the cryptoanarchist Matrix. I'm so old I remember a respected Judge call Microsoft a bunch of gangsters. I don't know exactly when this paradigm shift in global governance will occur. I'm hoping just before - or around - CYPHERPUNK 2027 " Everyone a remailer " and "Everyone a Mint " ideas are already totally uncontroversial and unregulated Everyone an assassin is the next step - the next level up from " crypto ' meaning economics to ' crypto ' meaning political economy. The sleepers will awake Cypherpunks collapse governments. Subject: Everyone a remailer: Everyone a Mint: Everyone an assassin https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=100872510706876&w=2 Strong-crypto, digital money, anonymous networks, pseudonyms, zero- knowledge proofs, reputations, information-markets, netwar, collapse-of-governments.

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Hackaday: Lift The Veil On RSA With This RSA Calculator
by jim bell 10 Jul '22

10 Jul '22

Hackaday: Lift The Veil On RSA With This RSA Calculator. https://hackaday.com/2022/07/08/lift-the-veil-on-rsa-with-this-rsa-calculat… Encryption algorithms can be intimidating to approach, what’s with all the math involved. However, once you start digging into them, you can break the math apart into smaller steps, and get a feel of what goes into encryption being the modern-day magic we take for granted. Today, [Henry Schmale] writes to us about his small contribution to making cryptography easier to understand – lifting the veil on the RSA asymmetric encryption technique through an RSA calculator. With [Henry]’s calculator, you can only encrypt and decrypt a single integer, but you’re able to view each individual step of an RSA calculation as you do so. If you want to understand what makes RSA and other similar algorithms tick, this site is an excellent starting point. Now, this is not something you should use when roll your crypto implementations – as cryptographers say in unison, writing your own crypto from scratch is extremely inadvisable. [Henry] does say that this calculator could be useful for CTF players, for instance, but it’s also undeniably an accessible learning tool for any hacker out there wishing to understand what goes on under the wraps of the libraries we use. In modern day, cryptography is instrumental to protecting our freedoms, and it’s a joy to see people work towards explaining the algorithms used. The cryptography tools we use day-to-day are also highly valuable targets for governments and intelligence agencies, willing to go to great lengths to subvert our communication security – so it’s even more important that we get acquianted with the tools that protect us. After all, it only takes a piece of paper to encrypt your communications with someone.

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Uber bosses told staff to use ‘kill switch’ during raids to stop police seeing data
by jim bell 10 Jul '22

10 Jul '22

Uber bosses told staff to use ‘kill switch’ during raids to stop police seeing data https://share.newsbreak.com/1f0rpzek Uber bosses told staff to use ‘kill switch’ during raids to stop police seeing data By Rob Davies and Simon Goodley, 5 hrs agoThe GuardianFollow Senior executives at Uber ordered the use of a “kill switch” to prevent police and regulators from accessing sensitive data during raids on its offices in at least six countries, leaked files reveal. The instructions to block authorities from accessing its IT systems were part of a sophisticated global operation by the Silicon Valley company to thwart law enforcement. The Uber files, a cache of confidential company data leaked to the Guardian, reveal how the company deployed its kill switch at least 12 times in France, the Netherlands, Belgium, India, Hungary and Romania. The Uber files is a global investigation based on a trove of 124,000 documents that were leaked to the Guardian. The data consist of emails, iMessages and WhatsApp exchanges between the Silicon Valley giant's most senior executives, as well as memos, presentations, notebooks, briefing papers and invoices. The leaked records cover 40 countries and span 2013 to 2017, the period in which Uber was aggressively expanding across the world. They reveal how the company broke the law, duped police and regulators, exploited violence against drivers and secretly lobbied governments across the world. To facilitate a global investigation in the public interest, the Guardian shared the data with 180 journalists in 29 countries via the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). The investigation was managed and led by the Guardian with the ICIJ. In a statement , Uber said: "We have not and will not make excuses for past behaviour that is clearly not in line with our present values. Instead, we ask the public to judge us by what we’ve done over the last five years and what we will do in the years to come."

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APster without anonymity & digital cash
by professor rat 10 Jul '22

10 Jul '22

The worlds most powerful govt was stronger in 2003 than it is now. But it didn't take action against APster being used against it then - APster without anonymity & electronic cash - and then being used against it every year since ( " Kill the president " year in, year out for Shrub, Bambi, Dumbfuck and Biden ) That's my test-pattern. Its all on disc. We won the crypto wars, remember! Of course its only prudent to utilize anonymity in many places still ( KGB Russia, Marxist DPRK, etc ) And here - once again - we have list members with empirical knowledge in that area. Gramps, Skunk and Semich remain anonymized to this day. This list is the great, the almost omnipotent teacher. Those three may never be doxxed. Now there may be some power disparities opening up - especially in the Russia and red-fascist China regions - but don't forget we also have crypto-currencies since 2008, more people online all the time and more reinforcements are expected. ( Q-crypto and strong AI ) The real power trend is very since 2005 - why its ' the Internet Century ' and not ' the American century '. Nothings going to stop us now. Our ' Killer App ' is just one viral tweet away. But youse knew all that. Didn't youse?

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APster politics controversy related to Btc ocean boiling controversy
by professor rat 10 Jul '22

10 Jul '22

People must think APster will add to an already violent world. This is a logical fallacy that doesn't take into account all the violent people APster will eliminate on day one. A similar fallacy appears to be at work with Btc. Clearly it uses a lot of energy. But its a logical fallacy to highlight that at the expense of potentially huge savings with the elimination of so much expensive ( and energy intensive ) banking security. TL/DR cryptoanarchy will minimize violence of all kinds and save the planet from runaway greenhouse. We have a good news story to sell, sorry, tell. Thank youse for listening.

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Not a cypherpunk revolutionary
by professor rat 10 Jul '22

10 Jul '22

Terrorist - hostage. Hostage- terrorist In November 2011, Pool told On the Media, “I don’t consider myself a journalist.” “I consider myself an activist 100%.” there “to support the movement.” In October 2012, he told El País that “I’m not an activist” and described himself as a journalist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Pool Very Assange

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The networked AI will detect you
by professor rat 10 Jul '22

10 Jul '22

"So: in the 1800s you wouldn’t steal because God would smite you, in the 1900s you didn’t steal because the State would punish you, but in the 2000s you can’t steal because the Network won’t let you. Either the social network will mob you, or the cryptocurrency network won’t let you steal because you lack the private key, or (eventually) the networked AI will detect you, or all of the above." https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/07/balaji-srinivasan… Repent ye, repent for the end is nigh

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