July 2022 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

We came across a Ledger HW.1 with millions of $ worth of Bitcoin that could not have been retrieved
by professor rat 09 Jul '22

09 Jul '22

We found a way to help retrieve the funds and thought to share the story with others. https://twitter.com/invlpgtbl/status/1544696830231035904 Reposts etc

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End-to-end encryption’s central role in modern self-defense – Ars Technica
by jim bell 08 Jul '22

08 Jul '22

https://www.wired.com/story/end-to-end-encryption-abortion-privacy/ A number of course-altering US Supreme Court decisions last month—including the reversal of a constitutional right to abortion and the overturning of a century-old limit on certain firearms permits—have activists and average Americans around the country anticipating the fallout for rights and privacy as abortion “trigger laws,” expanded access to concealed carry permits, and other regulations are expected to take effect in some states. And as people seeking abortions scramble to protect their digital privacy and researchers plumb the relationship between abortion speech and tech regulations, encryption proponents have a clear message: Access to end-to-end encrypted services in the US is more important than ever. Studies, including those commissioned by tech giants like Meta, have repeatedly and definitively shown that access to encrypted communications is a human rights issue in the digital age. End-to-end encryption makes your messages, phone calls, and video chats unintelligible everywhere except on the devices involved in the conversations, so snoops and interlopers can’t access what you’re saying—and neither can the company that offers the platform. As the legal climate in the US evolves, people who once thought they had nothing to hide may realize that era is now over.

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[ot][spam][crazy] digital and cognitive misbehaviors
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 08 Jul '22

08 Jul '22

a couple nights ago, i woke up and the ipad near me, which was still in airplane mode, had a webpage open that i had no memory of opening nor interest in. last night and today, a 12v power supply i have keeps running its fan. the only thing plugged into it is a usb hub and a device charger with nothing conencted to the device charger. the usb hub has an rtl-sdr connected to it, and a disconnected micro usb cable. the usb hub is connected to this laptop. i unplugged power from the usb hub, and the fan on the power supply stopped running. the rtl sdr is a little bit warm, but not as warm as i believe they get when running constantly at high rate. oops: the usb hub is actually connected tyo a raspberry pi that is on with no keyboard plugged in, not this laptop. its attached lcd shows some usb errors regarding 1-1.3 and 1-1.1-port1 after the power cut.

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Light field - Wikipedia
by Gunnar Larson 08 Jul '22

08 Jul '22

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_field#:~:text=The%20light%20field%20is%… . The *light field* is a vector function <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector-valued_function> that describes the amount of light <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light> flowing in every direction through every point in space. The space of all possible *light rays <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_rays>* is given by the five-dimensional <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-dimensional_space> *plenoptic function*, and the magnitude of each ray is given by its radiance <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiance>. Michael Faraday <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Faraday> was the first to propose that light should be interpreted as a field, much like the magnetic fields on which he had been working.[1] <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_field#cite_note-1> The phrase *light field* was coined by Andrey Gershun <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrey_Aleksandrovich_Gershun> in a classic 1936 paper on the radiometric properties of light in three-dimensional space.

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Re: confirm d9531b23754d07b88b1ff5ecb1aecd380fb5b3d7
by Karl Semich 08 Jul '22

08 Jul '22

I spent a little time attempting filtering these but did not succeed. Plan is paused atm. On Fri, Jul 8, 2022, 10:50 AM Karl Semich <0xloem(a)gmail.com> wrote: > These are taxing my ability to stay as minimally rational as I have been. > I worry that sharing this could increase my problems. > > I'll be filtering them myself now. > > > On Fri, Jul 8, 2022, 10:47 AM <cypherpunks-request(a)lists.cpunks.org> > wrote: > >> Mailing list removal confirmation notice for mailing list cypherpunks >> >> We have received a request from 23.154.177.4 for the removal of your >> email address, "gmkarl(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/d9531b23754d07b88b1ff5… >> >> >> Or include the following line -- and only the following line -- in a >> message to cypherpunks-request(a)lists.cpunks.org: >> >> confirm d9531b23754d07b88b1ff5ecb1aecd380fb5b3d7 >> >> 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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[ot][spam][crazy] log: imap script to manage removals? was: hobby chart of removal requests
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 08 Jul '22

08 Jul '22

import imap_tools with imap_tools.MailBox('host').login('email', 'pwd') as mailbox: for msg in mailbox.fetch(criteria):

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Shulte trial snapshot
by professor rat 08 Jul '22

08 Jul '22

Judge Furman seems very skeptical of the obstruction charge against Schulte, quite persuaded by the government’s CFAA charges, but very impressed by Schulte’s closing argument. https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/07/08/the-josh-schulte-trial-moves-to-delib…

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Re: confirm d789f4cde70d5ccc0279c1eba9947363f137f3d0
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 08 Jul '22

08 Jul '22

I understand that this is helping me get off gmail. This is hard and we can do it. It looks to me like the thing for me to do is to write a script that compresses these removals a little, and forwards them back to the list when they are received. That's hard for me to do, and basically I need to be able to do it. On 7/8/22, 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 185.220.101.59 for the removal of your > email address, "gmkarl(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/d789f4cde70d5ccc0279c1… > > > Or include the following line -- and only the following line -- in a > message to cypherpunks-request(a)lists.cpunks.org: > > confirm d789f4cde70d5ccc0279c1eba9947363f137f3d0 > > 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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Drug smuggling: Underwater drones seized by Spanish police
by jim bell 08 Jul '22

08 Jul '22

Drug smuggling: Underwater drones seized by Spanish police - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62040790 Jim Bell's comment:I actually thought of this 30+ years ago, unmanned, underwater smuggling drones, but I made no attempt to implement this. At that time, GPS was very new, solar cells were weak and relatively ineffective. I also figured that it could be an interesting hobby, minus the drugs of course. Whether this could get through the plastic trash, and 'ghost nets' I don't know.

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Ryan Lackey's excellent adventure
by professor rat 08 Jul '22

08 Jul '22

Murray Rothbard—“cockamamie stunts,” exit strategies were tried out from the southwest Pacific to the Caribbean, from the North Sea to the high seas . . . " https://history.cornell.edu/raymond-b-craib Reposts etc

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