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Latest flip-assassinphones include drone capability
by professor rat 08 Aug '22

08 Aug '22

Snap open your new APster phone. Check your targets location, range and price. Detach micro-drone of death and . . .well . . .you know the rest. Feel the power - live the dream - kill the target. You know it all makes sense. And what's the best time to launch this exciting new toy? Why the heat-wave summers of course! The hits will just keep coming. Trust me on this. 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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Cryptocurrency: Tests Monetary Order to Destruction, Anti-Orthodox Research, P2P NonState Money
by grarpamp 08 Aug '22

08 Aug '22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94lW6Y4tBXs Devalued Government w Daniel Hannan https://v.redd.it/oyzb7tbd58f91 Steven Baker short https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXOkmD8Eozs Steven Baker long This video delivered in Parliament 8 years ago symbolizes that Bitcoin is inevitable. Portuguese banks announce plans to ban all accounts of crypto exchanges as the country reverses its pro-crypto policies. Crypto market cap jumps in response. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink 2017: BTC = an Index of Money Laundering 2021: Bullish on Blockchain, not BTC 2022: Joins Coinbase to Sell BTC to Clients Jamie Dimon the Fraud and his convicted Bank bashed Bitcoin for years, now... JPMorgan Says It 'Appears Crypto Markets Have Found a Floor' as Bitcoin Crosses $24k Coin Center statement on Tornado Cash: U.S. Treasury sanction of privacy tools places sweeping restrictions on all Americans. Sanctioned Tornado Cash smart contract is a tool, not a person. Hodlnaut CEO in June: "we WILL NOT be halting withdrawals." Guess who just halted withdrawals? Bitcoin Island: The Isle of Man is Turning Orange It took like 10 centuries for banknotes to outperform bartering. When Bitcoin is gonna become a major currency? 10 years. Bitcoin Cash can now be used as a payment method at 1000’s of stores...

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Fwd: Incident# 807315 [EXTERNAL] Re: MIA Coin and POX Kleptocracy: CORRUPTION FIN-2022-A001 - SAR 38(m).
by Gunnar Larson 08 Aug '22

08 Aug '22

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: <FRC(a)fincen.gov> Date: Mon, Aug 8, 2022, 12:16 PM Subject: RE: Incident# 807315 [EXTERNAL] Re: MIA Coin and POX Kleptocracy: CORRUPTION FIN-2022-A001 - SAR 38(m). To: <g(a)xny.io> Good day, Although Money Services Businesses (MSBs) are required to register with FinCEN, doing so is not an acknowledgement, confirmation, or endorsement of the legitimacy of the business, and FinCEN is unable to provide verification of the legitimacy of any business. The MSB Registrant Search Web page, which is updated on a weekly basis, contains entities that have registered as Money Services Businesses (MSBs) pursuant to the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) regulations at 31 CFR 1022.380(a)-(f), administered by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). Information contained on this site has been provided by the MSB registrant. FinCEN does not verify information submitted by the MSB. Information provided on this site reflects only what was provided directly to FinCEN. If an error or incomplete information is detected on this site, the registrant should follow the appropriate instructions for correcting a Registration of Money Services Business (RMSB) form. Those who believe that they have been a victim of a financial scam or fraud should report this information to local, state, or federal law enforcement authorities. FinCEN is not an agency that can investigate such matters or impose criminal penalties. For additional information, please visit the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau website, which contains resources for detecting, preventing, and reporting fraud and scams. https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ Regards, FinCEN’s Resource Center ------------------------------ Dear Treasury Department: xNY.io - Bank.org is concerned about our reasonable loss recovery from the City of Miami on MIA Coin. STX's use of POX has manipulated the Bitcoin Blockchain to produce MIA Coin fraud endorsed by the Mayor of Miami. We seek your esteemed assessment of our concern. Furthermore, we have contacted NY-DFS (attached) who has denied records access and appeal to the STX fraud. Sending you warm regards, Gunnar Larson xNY.io - Bank.org 646-454-9107 On Thu, Jul 7, 2022, 1:08 PM Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io> wrote: > Hello: > > We are kindly following up on this claim. > > Thank you very much. > > Gunnar Larson > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2022, 4:38 PM Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io> wrote: > >> Dear Department of the Treasury: >> >> From the prompt of FinCEN's Resource Center, the details below are kindly >> submitted to your esteemed attention. >> >> Please let me know if I can be of any assistance. >> >> Sending you the very best regards. >> >> Thank you, >> >> Gunnar Larson >> -- >> *Gunnar Larson - xNY.io >> <https://hyperlink.services.treasury.gov/agency.fincen?origin=http://www.xny…> - Bank.org >> <https://hyperlink.services.treasury.gov/agency.fincen?origin=http://bank.or…>* >> MSc >> <https://hyperlink.services.treasury.gov/agency.fincen?origin=https://www.un…> - >> Digital Currency >> MBA >> <https://hyperlink.services.treasury.gov/agency.fincen?origin=https://www.un…> - Entrepreneurship >> and Innovation (ip) >> >> G(a)xNY.io >> +1-646-454-9107 >> New York, New York 10001 >> >> ---------- Forwarded message --------- >> From: Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io> >> Date: Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 1:17 PM >> Subject: MIA Coin and POX Kleptocracy: CORRUPTION FIN-2022-A001 - SAR >> 38(m). >> To: <FRC(a)fincen.gov> >> Cc: cypherpunks <cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org> >> >> >> Dear FinCEN: >> >> xNY.io - Bank.org, PBC thanks you for sending yesterday's advisory on >> kleptocracy and foreign public corruption. We have made 30 highlights to >> the FIN-2022-A001 >> <https://hyperlink.services.treasury.gov/agency.fincen?origin=https://drive.…> >> advisory for reference. >> >> *The aim of today's memo is to learn FinCEN's insights into MIA Coin and >> the consensus algorithm Proof of Transfer (POX). xNY.io - Bank.org, PBC is >> concerned about potential MIA Coin and City Coin kleptocracy that may be >> affecting our global enterprise. * >> >> *FinCEN may note that NYCCoin is illegal in New York State, given the >> BitLicense mandate. As such, we are not concerned with NYCCoin's legality >> given the clear BitLicense mandate. * >> >> - On February 4, 2022 we submitted a City of Miami records request >> for any and all correspondence between the City of Miami concerning >> CityCoins, MIA Coin and Stacks (STX). Additionally, any and all related >> correspondence concerning CityCoins, MIA Coin, Stacks (STX), Digital World >> Acquisition Corp and Harvard Management Company. >> - Today, April 15, 2022 >> <https://hyperlink.services.treasury.gov/agency.fincen?origin=https://drive.…> >> we have yet to receive the 13, 092 records. Attached you will find our >> latest correspondence with Miami, notifying them of our intention to >> contact FinCEN concerning MIA Coin and POX. >> - Conducting independent marketplace research, xNY.io - Bank.org, PBC >> established a premise to potential kleptocracy between the City of Miami >> and City Coins, of Iceland >> <https://hyperlink.services.treasury.gov/agency.fincen?origin=https://who.is…> >> international registration. Furthermore, MineMiamiCoin.com is registered >> in Germany >> <https://hyperlink.services.treasury.gov/agency.fincen?origin=https://who.is…> >> . >> - Please find the City of Miami's resolution >> <https://hyperlink.services.treasury.gov/agency.fincen?origin=https://drive.…>approving >> gifts from City Coins ... Furthermore, City Coins suggests a $25,000 >> "reward" >> <https://hyperlink.services.treasury.gov/agency.fincen?origin=https://drive.…> >> (that may be confused as bribery) for Mayors who participate. >> >> MIA Coin is powered by POX >> <https://hyperlink.services.treasury.gov/agency.fincen?origin=https://drive.…>, >> a computer protocol that may exploit the U.S. and international financial >> systems to launder illicit gains, including through the use of shell >> companies, offshore financial centers, and professional service providers >> who enable the movement and laundering. >> >> MIA Coin' POX protocol is a wealth extraction tool that unfairly rewards >> an inside group of miners, rewarding patronage networks that benefit his >> inner circle and regime. These practices harm the competitive landscape of >> financial markets and often have long-term corrosive effects on good >> governance, democratic institutions, and human rights standards. >> >> FinCEN, we are concerned Miami's City Coin >> <https://hyperlink.services.treasury.gov/agency.fincen?origin=https://drive.…> >> resolution potentially confirms Miami leaders as kleptocrats, using their >> position and influence to enrich themselves and their networks of corrupt >> actors. >> >> Finally, we understand that MIA Coin and POX operations are powered by >> international data warehouses, located in Iceland, Germany and Hong Kong. >> For these reasons, given FinCEN's alert on kleptocracy and foreign public >> corruption we kindly seek guidance. >> >> Sending you the very best regards. >> >> Thank you, >> >> Gunnar Larson >> -- >> *Gunnar Larson - xNY.io >> <https://hyperlink.services.treasury.gov/agency.fincen?origin=http://www.xNY…> - Bank.org >> <https://hyperlink.services.treasury.gov/agency.fincen?origin=http://Bank.org>, >> PBC* >> MSc >> <https://hyperlink.services.treasury.gov/agency.fincen?origin=https://www.un…> >> - Digital Currency >> MBA >> <https://hyperlink.services.treasury.gov/agency.fincen?origin=https://www.un…> >> - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip) >> >> G(a)xNY.io >> +1-646-454-9107 >> New York, New York 10001 >> >> ---------- Forwarded message --------- >> From: Financial Crimes Enforcement Network < >> fincenupdates(a)public.govdelivery.com> >> Date: Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 2:46 PM >> Subject: FinCEN Updates: FinCEN Issues Advisory on Kleptocracy and >> Foreign Public Corruption >> To: <g(a)xny.io> >> >> >> *You are subscribed to FinCEN Updates. The information below is available >> at Fincen.gov.* >> *FinCEN Issues Advisory on Kleptocracy and Foreign Public Corruption* >> The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today issued an >> advisory on kleptocracy and foreign public corruption, urging financial >> institutions to focus their efforts on detecting the proceeds of foreign >> public corruption — a priority for the U.S. Government as it continues to >> implement the U.S. Strategy on Countering Corruption >> <https://hyperlink.services.treasury.gov/agency.fincen?origin=https://lnks.g…>. >> The advisory provides typologies and potential indicators of kleptocracy >> and other forms of foreign public corruption, namely bribery, embezzlement, >> extortion, and the misappropriation of public assets. >> *News Release:* >> >> https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-issues-advisory-kleptocrac… >> <https://hyperlink.services.treasury.gov/agency.fincen?origin=https://lnks.g…> >> *Advisory: * >> https://www.fincen.gov/resources/advisories/fincen-advisory-fin-2022-a001 >> <https://hyperlink.services.treasury.gov/agency.fincen?origin=https://lnks.g…> >> >

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Netizens for cryptoanarchism Vs SKYNET
by professor rat 08 Aug '22

08 Aug '22

>>> Already in China, the consequences of this story are clear. The country's Skynet project has more than 400 million surveillance cameras in place, with a growing number of these automatically hooked into facial recognition and other artificial intelligence programs. <<< https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220803-citizen-future-why-we-need-a-ne… Reposts not endorsed

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Raids: Anonymous Safety Deposit Box US Private Vaults, FBI Illegal General Warrants
by professor rat 08 Aug '22

08 Aug '22

When are you going to stop playing around with these Fucking Bullying Incels? >>> Denver Post Online threats target Denver investigators - Anarchist says e-mails harmless; feds disagree By Jim Hughes - Denver Post Staff Writer Monday, July 07, 2003 - An anarchist using the online moniker “Professor Rat” has threatened the lives of two federal terrorism investigators in Denver, advocating that they “need killing.” The threats name an FBI agent assigned to the local multiagency Joint Terrorism Task Force and the government’s lead prosecutor of terrorism cases in Colorado. <<< Cryptoanarchists kill govt agents - like Thomas Wales - or they do nothing. Come ON! CUT OFF THE HEAD OF THE SNAKE! ( My 200 sats ) https://stiffs.com/celebrity/joebiden Don't be whiny-little-bitch - like Gramps -all your pathetic eunuch life - Ante UP!

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Pastor Craig Wright hates anarchism
by professor rat 08 Aug '22

08 Aug '22

Lets you and him fight https://finbold.com/vitalik-buterin-calls-craig-wright-a-scammer-dares-self… Reposts etc

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Are we clear?
by professor rat 08 Aug '22

08 Aug '22

Don't make me invoke Sentient, Y-axis, Kinetic net protocols on your parent corporations. https://www.certik.com/ecosystems/avalanche Avalanche Smart Contract Audits CertiK draws on the vanguard of computer science and AI technology to create cutting-edge web3 security tools, from our best-in-the-field smart contract audit to our growing list of innovative blockchain analytics tools such as Skynet and SkyTrace.

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A fearsome new botnet is rapidly gaining momentum
by jim bell 08 Aug '22

08 Aug '22

A fearsome new botnet is rapidly gaining momentum https://share.newsbreak.com/1juxwgz5 An old, infamous trojan has been forked, with the new variant being used to attack Linux SSH servers, experts have warned. However, unlike the original malware, whose purpose was quite clear, researchers are not yet sure what the operators are up to this time around. Cybersecurity researchers from Fortinet detected IoT malware with unusual SSH-related strings, and after digging a bit deeper, discovered RapperBot, a variant of the dreaded Mirai trojan. Access for sale? RapperBot was first deployed in mid-June 2022, and is being used to brute-force into Linux SSH servers and gain persistence on the endpoints. RapperBot borrows quite a lot from Mirai, but it does have its own command and control (C2) protocol, as well as certain unique features. But unlike Mirai, whose goal was to spread to as many devices as possible, and then use those devices to mount devastating Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, RapperBot is spreading with more control, and has limited (sometimes even completely disabled) DDoS capabilities. The researchers’ first impression is that the malware might be used for lateral movement within a target network, and as the first stage in a multi-stage attack. It could be also used simply to gain access to the target devices, access which could later be sold on the black market. The researchers came to this conclusion, among other things, due to the fact that the trojan sits idly, once it compromises a device.

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Family Shocked by Ford Focus Electric Battery Replacement Costing More Than the Car
by jim bell 08 Aug '22

08 Aug '22

Family Shocked by Ford Focus Electric Battery Replacement Costing More Than the Car https://share.newsbreak.com/1jzjzwot

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Anarcho-feminism threatens Argentinian patriarchy
by professor rat 08 Aug '22

08 Aug '22

This document was produced by the Brazilian Anarchist Coordinator [Coordenação Anarquista Brasileira] (CAB), a group of anarchist organizations working collaboratively across Brazil https://anarchistnews.org/content/feminism-and-organized-anarchism Reposts etc JUAN GAROFALO type anarchists GO KILL YOURSELF!

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This is like a synagogue
by professor rat 08 Aug '22

08 Aug '22

>>> Synagogues aren’t the only legacy institutions with attempts at secular reboots: We’re on to nation-states as well. Noted entrepreneur and online provocateur Balaji Srinivasan recently published his intriguing tome, The Network State (available online in very readable format here). The first sections are an introduction to the World According to Balaji, which will seem familiar to anyone who’s followed the very opinionated poaster for any length of time. <<< https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/live-die-network-state-ant… Reposts not etc

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Dumb-bell biometrics
by professor rat 07 Aug '22

07 Aug '22

WHY I LOVE BIOMETRICS BY DOROTHY E. DENNING https://marc.info/?l=cryptography&m=101151006927549&w=2 Aside from their dangerous " True Names " aspect biometrics patently discriminates against human-flesh over metal-endoskeleton, cybernetic organism's. So the onus remains on any biometric ID booster here to justify themselves under torture. This is not just a matter of life and death - its far more important than that. I'll be back.

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"NSA, NIST, and post-quantum cryptography: Announcing my second lawsuit against the U.S."
by zeynep＠keemail.me 07 Aug '22

07 Aug '22

2022.08.05: NSA, NIST, and post-quantum cryptography: Announcing my second lawsuit against the U.S. government. #nsa #nist #des #dsa #dualec #sigintenablingproject #nistpqc #foia https://blog.cr.yp.to/20220805-nsa.html The Black Chamber was founded by the U.S. Army and the U.S. State Department in 1919. The Secretary of State terminated funding in 1929, famously writing that "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail." The Black Chamber was succeeded by the Signal Intelligence Service in 1930, the Armed Forces Security Agency in 1949, and the National Security Agency (NSA) in 1952. NSA's Project Minaret began spying on anti-war protesters in 1967. NSA's targets under this project included Martin Luther King, New York Times journalist Tom Wicker, U.S. senator Frank Church, and many more. NSA's policy decision to sabotage public cryptographic standards. In 1968, the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) "went to NSA for help", in the words of an internal NSA history book. Work by journalists over several years forced NSA to release the relevant portions of the book in 2013, and before that smaller portions in 2008 and 2009. NBS was an agency inside the U.S. Department of Commerce, another part of the U.S. government. Later NBS was renamed the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The reason NBS went to NSA is that NBS had decided to develop a U.S. government encryption standard. According to the same history book, this triggered an internal debate within NSA, culminating in NSA deciding to manipulate public standards to make sure they were "weak enough" for NSA to break them: Narrowing the encryption problem to a single, influential algorithm might drive out competitors, and that would reduce the field that NSA had to be concerned about. Could a public encryption standard be made secure enough to protect against everything but a massive brute force attack, but weak enough to still permit an attack of some nature using very sophisticated (and expensive) techniques? NSA then worked with NBS and IBM's Walter Tuchman on the design of what later became the Data Encryption Standard (DES): NSA gave Tuchman a clearance and brought him in to work jointly with the Agency on his Lucifer modification ... The relationship between NSA and NBS was very close. NSA scientists working the problem crossed back and forth between the two agencies, and NSA unquestionably exercised an influential role in the algorithm.Back in the 1970s, Tuchman and NSA told a completely different story to the public. For example, regarding accusations that IBM and NSA had "conspired", Tuchman told an interviewer "We developed the DES algorithm entirely within IBM using IBMers. The NSA did not dictate a single wire!" As another example, here's a 1979 statement from NSA director Bobby Inman: NSA has been accused of intervening in the development of the DES and of tampering with the standard so as to weaken it cryptographically. This allegation is totally false.See Section 3.6 of my paper Cryptographic competitions for further quotes and references. The breakability of DES. The cryptographic core of NSA's sabotage of DES was remarkably blunt: NSA simply convinced Tuchman to limit the key size to 56 bits, a glaring weakness. Whit Diffie and Marty Hellman wrote a paper explaining in considerable detail how to build a machine for $20 million that would break each DES key with an amortized cost of just $5000/key using mid-1970s technology. They predicted that the cost of such a brute-force attack would drop "in about 10 years time" to about $50/key, simply from chip technology improving. Diffie and Hellman already distributed drafts of their paper before DES was standardized. Did NSA say, oh, oops, you caught us, this isn't secure? Of course not. NSA claimed that, according to their own estimates, the attack was 30000 times more expensive: "instead of one day he gets something like 91 years". Meanwhile NSA claimed that "for the next n years, up to 10, we stand by the statement that this is more than adequate", as if DES were going to be replaced soon. In fact, DES remained an official U.S. government standard until 2005. Remember that, internally, NSA had observed that "narrowing the encryption problem to a single, influential algorithm might drive out competitors, and that would reduce the field that NSA had to be concerned about". Externally, NSA was playing dumb.) Diffie and Hellman proposed a low-cost modification to DES to use longer keys. Questionable performance arguments were raised in response. For example, various government contractors claimed at a 1976 NBS workshop that DES was "close to the maximum that could be implemented on a chip with present technology" and that a manufacturing delay "of one to two years might be encountered if a longer key were required". Even if this was true, how could it possibly justify establishing a breakable standard for the next 10 years, never mind the next three decades? In 1980, Hellman published "A cryptanalytic time-memory tradeoff". This was an algorithmic improvement showing that, compared to a brute-force machine, a more sophisticated machine could be constructed with an even smaller cost of breaking each key. In 1993, Mike Wiener wrote a paper "Efficient DES key search" giving an even more detailed description of a brute-force DES attack machine, not including Hellman's time-memory tradeoff. In a 1997 update, Wiener estimated that it would cost about $1 million to build a machine that would break each key in 35 minutes. Wiener's estimate corresponded to an amortized cost of $13/key, assuming a 5-year hardware lifetime, or perhaps twice as much if one includes the costs of electricity. Extrapolating from the 1970s brute-force estimates by Diffie and Hellman, one might instead guess $1/key. Extrapolating from the 1970s brute-force estimates by NSA, one might instead guess $30000/key, an indefensible and dangerous overestimate. DES was so cheap to break in 1997 that one could throw away orders of magnitude of efficiency, using off-the-shelf computers instead of optimized attack circuits, and still break DES. This was demonstrated by DESCHALL in 1997 Did NSA admit that optimized hardware was much more efficient? Of course not. It was taking the inefficiency of off-the-shelf computers and misrepresenting this as security of DES. In 1998, the Electronic Frontier Foundation assembled a $250000 machine, the DES Cracker, to publicly break DES in a few days. This was, obviously, much cheaper and faster than 96 days on 78000 computers. sponse to DESCHALL, Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Louis Freeh testified as follows in a 1997 hearing: If we hooked together thousands of computers and worked together over 4 months we might, as was recently demonstrated decrypt one message bit. That is not going to make a difference in a kidnapping case, it is not going to make a difference in a national security case. We don't have the technology or the brute force capability to get to this information.NSA Deputy Director William Crowell testified at the same hearing that "There is no brute force solution for law enforcement," again highlighting that "It took 78,000 computers 96 days to break one message, and the headline was, DES has weak encryption." Did NSA admit that its public estimates of the cost of breaking DES (1) were wild overestimates even for a brute-force attack machine and (2) were ignoring algorithmic improvements such as Hellman's time-memory tradeoff? Of course not. The Digital Signature Algorithm. NIST was busy in the meantime issuing more cryptographic standards. One of these was an influential standard for a Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA). NSA had proposed DSA in 1991. The DSA proposal had an obvious, glaring flaw: a 512-bit key size. This sounds much larger than the 56-bit DES key size. But DSA is a different type of cryptographic system, using a type of mathematical structure that was already publicly known in 1991 to require much larger key sizes for security. With attack algorithms publicly known in 1991, 512 bits for DSA seemed somewhat stronger than 56 bits for DES. But chips were faster in 1991 than they were in the 1970s. The DSA attack algorithms known in 1991 were also much more complicated than the DES attack algorithms. Many aspects of the DSA attacks hadn't been thoroughly studied. The attacks were publicly superseded by even faster, even more complicated attacks. Beyond this glaring flaw, DSA had further flaws that weren't as obvious. For example, DSA had interesting possibilities for back doors. It also had pitfalls that would trap implementors. Ron Rivest wrote in 1992 that "the poor user is given enough rope with which to hang himself". At the beginning, NIST presented DSA as a NIST proposal, making no mention of NSA. A FOIA lawsuit by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) revealed, however, that DSA had been secretly designed by NSA. (FOIA is the Freedom of Information Act, a law generally requiring the U.S. government to promptly provide records to the public upon request. Sometimes agencies disobey the law, and one has to go to court to have the law enforced. That's what CPSR did.) Public backlash forced NIST to allow larger keys in the DSA standard in 1994. But the keys were still limited to 1024 bits; 1024 bits for DSA are much less secure than, e.g., 128 bits for AES. The DSA standard also did nothing to address DSA's further flaws. The specific "hang himself" problem that Rivest had highlighted was publicly exploited in a 2010 break of the Sony PlayStation security system, which used ECDSA, a variant of DSA. Presumably the same problem was secretly exploited by large-scale attackers against higher-value targets. The scale of attacks. What do I mean by "large-scale attackers?" Let's take the Chinese government as an example. Here's a 2012 quote from an "Investigative report on the U.S. national security issues posed by Chinese telecommunications companies Huawei and ZTE": Chinese intelligence collection efforts against the U.S. government are growing in "scale, intensity and sophistication." Chinese actors are also the world's most active and persistent perpetrators of economic espionage. U.S. private sector firms and cyber-security specialists report an ongoing onslaught of sophisticated computer network intrusions that originate in China, and are almost certainly the work of, or have the backing of, the Chinese government. Further, Chinese intelligence services, as well as private companies and other entities, often recruit those with direct access to corporate networks to steal trade secrets and other sensitive proprietary data.The large-scale attacker whose behavior seems most comprehensively documented is the U.S. government. The European Parliament already issued a 194-page "Report on the existence of a global system for the interception of private and commercial communications (ECHELON interception system)" in 2001: The existence of a global system for intercepting communications, operating by means of cooperation proportionate to their capabilities among the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand under the UKUSA Agreement, is no longer in doubt ... The US authorities have repeatedly tried to justify the interception of telecommunications by accusing the European authorities of corruption and taking bribes. It should be pointed out to the Americans that all EU Member States have properly functioning criminal justice systems. If there is evidence that crimes have been committed, the USA must leave the task of law enforcement to the host countries. If there is no such evidence, surveillance must be regarded as unproportional, a violation of human rights and thus inadmissible.Some Americans trust their government and happily swallow whatever the government's latest excuse is for spying on billions of people around the world. "U.S. kills al Qaeda leader Zawahiri in Kabul drone missile strike", of course with the help of the espionage system? Sounds great! Last year the same system murdered 10 innocent civilians without a trial? Isolated mistake! Also, doesn't the Constitution say that the only people entitled to a trial are rich white male normal-looking Americans? The same people tend to have trouble grasping that most of the vulnerabilities exploited and encouraged by NSA are also exploitable by the Chinese government. These people start with the assumption that Americans are the best at everything; ergo, we're also the best at espionage. If the Chinese government stole millions of personnel records from the U.S. government, records easily usable as a springboard for further attacks, this can't possibly be because the U.S. government made a policy decision to keep our computer systems "weak enough to still permit an attack of some nature using very sophisticated (and expensive) techniques". New directions in cryptographic sabotage. Cryptographic weaknesses aren't always exploitable by everybody. Sometimes it's possible to design a cryptographic system with a back door that can be opened only by someone who has a secret key. A spectacular example is the Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator (Dual EC). The Dual EC standard includes two random-looking constants P and Q, points on an "elliptic curve". Dual EC uses P, Q, and some initial randomness provided by the user to generate a long sequence of random-looking numbers. Cryptography often needs many random numbers. The secret key to the Dual EC back door is the "discrete logarithm" of Q base P. It's easy to generate this secret key while generating P and Q. An attacker who knows this secret key can exploit secret patterns in the Dual EC output, even without being told the initial randomness from the user. This is a severe weakness in Dual EC, but it's exploitable only if you know the secret key. A 2013 New York Times report said that internal NSA documents provided by Ed Snowden "appear to confirm that the fatal weakness ... was engineered by the agency". The same report gave an idea of the magnitude of NSA's sabotage efforts: According to an intelligence budget document leaked by Mr. Snowden, the N.S.A. spends more than $250 million a year on its Sigint Enabling Project, which "actively engages the U.S. and foreign IT industries to covertly influence and/or overtly leverage their commercial products’ designs" to make them "exploitable." ... One goal in the agency’s 2013 budget request was to “influence policies, standards and specifications for commercial public key technologies,” the most common encryption method.Did NSA admit that, okay, you caught us, we designed Dual EC to be exploitable? Of course not. NSA's Dickie George gave a talk in 2014 making the following claims (minutes 32-33 and 57-61): NSA couldn't use cryptography that wasn't standardized by NIST. (In fact, NSA has its own classified suite of algorithms, Suite A.)"So I had to go down to my friends at NIST, and I know 'em well, cause I work with them on other things ..." (This part is true: NSA does work with NIST.)"We're gonna use the Dual Elliptic Curve randomizer. And I said, if you can put this in your standard, nobody else is gonna use it, because it looks ugly, it's really slow, it makes no sense for anybody to go there, but I'll be able to use it. And so they stuck it in." (In fact, NSA paid the RSA company $10 million to make Dual EC "the preferred, or default, method for number generation in the BSafe software".)"And I said, by the way, these parameters that we have here, as long as they're in there so we can use them, you can let anybody else put any parameters in that they want." (In fact, the Dual EC standard specifically discouraged implementors from switching away from NSA's P and Q. NIST also set up validation procedures specifically requiring NSA's P and Q.)"Sticking a bunch of digits of pi in the middle or something like that, so you can show it's not some kind of hoked-up thing, we just don't do that." (In fact, NSA did something like that to generate the NIST P-256 elliptic curve a few years earlier, first publishing supposedly random numbers but then feeding the random numbers through a hash function to generate the curve parameters, so the public could check the hash. If NSA had similarly used a hash function for both P and Q in Dual EC then it would have been throwing away the key for the Dual EC back door.)"We don't care what the parameters are for anybody else as long as the government ones are there for government use." (In fact, FOIA requests to NIST showed Don Johnson telling NIST that P and Q "could also be generated like a(nother) canonical G, but NSA kyboshed this idea, and I was not allowed to publicly discuss it, just in case you may think of going there.") George also challenged researchers "to actually generate their own parameters and show me that in real life they can recover that." He offered dinner. Did he pay up after a paper "On the practical exploitability of Dual EC in TLS implementations" appeared at the USENIX Security Symposium? Of course not. Typical cryptographic weaknesses are algorithms that, if discovered by the public, can be demonstrated to work. The weakness in Dual EC is different. Shumow and Ferguson announced in 2007 that there mathematically exists a back door with a secret key, and that anyone generating P and Q can easily generate a secret key at the same time; but this still doesn't demonstrate that NSA did generate a secret key along with P and Q. We have no way to prove that NSA's P and Q are weak. For the same reason, if someone changes P and/or Q, a code reviewer can't tell whether this is being done safely or is stealthily opening up a back door. In the Juniper Dual EC incident, Juniper chose its own Q for its NetScreen VPN routers, but then an attacker managed to modify the code to substitute a new choice of Q. So much for the idea that this weakness could be exploited only by NSA. Technical interlude: bamboozling people with fake mathematics. Internally, Dual EC generates more elliptic-curve points. Each point has an x-coordinate and a y-coordinate. The numbers that Dual EC releases as output are truncated versions of the x-coordinate of each point. The truncation removes 16 bits. An attacker exploiting the back door has to try 216 possibilities for the missing bits. This has low cost, since 16 is so small. If, however, 16 were replaced by a much larger number, such as 128, then the back door would become so expensive as to be worthless. Why did NSA include truncation in the first place? Answer: Releasing the full x-coordinates, with no truncation, would have shown glaring statistical biases, and this would have been too embarrassing for NIST to standardize. Attack papers in 2006 by Kristian Gjøsteen and then Berry Schoenmakers and Andrey Sidorenko showed that Dual EC was still detectably biased: it wasn't removing enough bits to meet the standard definition of security for random-number generators. Did NSA admit that, oops, Dual EC was broken? Of course not. Let's look at what NSA wrote instead, specifically pages 88–91 of NIST's Dual EC standard (2012 version), SP 800-90A. NSA didn't even acknowledge the standard security goal of being indistinguishable from truly random numbers. NSA spent two pages on calculations related to a weaker security goal, having nearly full "entropy". NSA concluded that the entropy loss with 16 bits of truncation "has been demonstrated to be minimal (see the above chart)". This still wouldn't stop people from removing more bits (and thus making the back door harder to exploit). So NSA also played the performance card: "One might wonder if it would be desirable to truncate more than this amount. The obvious drawback to such an approach is that increasing the truncation amount hinders the performance." But, hmmm, random-number generation usually isn't the most important bottleneck in cryptography. That's why something as slow as Dual EC could be deployed in the first place. So NSA pulled out another argument: However, there is an additional reason that argues against increasing the truncation. Consider the case where the low s bits of each x-coordinate are kept. Given some subinterval I of length 2s contained in [0, p), and letting N(I) denote the number of x-coordinates in I, recent results on the distribution of x-coordinates in [0, p) provide the following bound: |N(I)/(p/2)-2s/p| < (k*log2 p)/sqrt(p) where k is some constant derived from the asymptotic estimates given in [Shparlinski]. For the case of P-521, this is roughly equivalent to: |N(I)-2(s-1)| < k*2277, where the constant k is independent of the value of s. For s < 2277, this inequality is weak and provides very little support for the notion that these truncated x-coordinates are uniformly distributed. On the other hand, the larger the value of s, the sharper this inequality becomes, providing stronger evidence that the associated truncated x-coordinates are uniformly distributed. Therefore, by keeping truncation to an acceptable minimum, the performance is increased, and certain guarantees can be made about the uniform distribution of the resulting truncated quantities. Further discussion of the uniformity of the truncated x-coordinates is found in [Gurel], where the form of the prime defining the field is also taken into account.Any mathematician who checks this sees how ludicrously inaccurate it is. The central error is already visible in the third sentence, which counts the number of integers in an interval of length 2s. That's the number of integers that produce a given output when one throws away the bottom s bits, not when one keeps the bottom s bits. Correcting this error and following through the rest of the argument leads to the conclusion that, for guarantees regarding the distribution, one should truncate more than half of the bits. But NIST never checked. NIST's friends at NSA were providing text and references arguing against increasing the truncation; so NIST accepted this, redistributed it, and didn't increase the truncation. Dual EC fallout. After Shumow and Ferguson announced the vulnerability in Dual EC, Bruce Schneier wrote an article "Did NSA put a secret backdoor in new encryption standard?" ending as follows: My recommendation, if you're in need of a random-number generator, is not to use Dual_EC_DRBG under any circumstances. If you have to use something in SP 800-90, use CTR_DRBG or Hash_DRBG. In the meantime, both NIST and the NSA have some explaining to do.But most cryptographers didn't take the threat seriously. Consider, for example, Shumow's 2008 talk with the title "Shumow and Schneier escape from Guantanamo Bay". Shumow mocked "conspiracy theories", accused Schneier of omitting facts "in a way to make the NSA (as well as Microsoft) look far worse than they otherwise would", and argued that Dual EC exploits were "possible but improbable": I found this, and I am neither a talented mathematician nor a talented cryptographer. I was just the first person to commercially implement the algorithm. The probability of getting caught trying to sneak this in is too high. Neither NIST nor the NSA told anyone to use this (it is not the Clipper Chip.) ... The NSA is not the cryptographic research power house it once was.In 2013, the Snowden documents finally forced NIST to do some soul-searching. NIST's Dual EC post-mortem drew the following conclusion: It is of paramount importance that NIST's process for developing cryptographic standards is open and transparent and has the trust and support of the cryptographic community. Post-quantum cryptography. A 2014 Washington Post article "NSA seeks to build quantum computer that could crack most types of encryption" said that NSA had an $80 million/year research program called "Penetrating hard targets", including research aimed at building a "cryptologically useful quantum computer". This is only part of the U.S. government budget for breaking pre-quantum cryptography. My 2012 talk "Cryptography for the paranoid" pointed to a $2.2 million grant for defense contractor Raytheon as "one of many publicly announced quantum-computing grants from government agencies". Put yourself in NSA's shoes for a moment. You have a budget to build a quantum computer to break pre-quantum cryptography. You are, of course, aware of public efforts to design and deploy post-quantum cryptography. You also have a quarter-billion-dollar-a-year budget to "covertly influence and/or overtly leverage" deployed cryptography to make it "exploitable". What do you do? Some people seem to be unable to rationally consider the possibility that NSA is sabotaging post-quantum cryptography. I've heard people saying, for example, that submissions to the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Project (NISTPQC) were publicly designed and evaluated by top experts, and that NSA can't have bribed the submission teams. Let's look at the facts. Almost all of the submissions to NISTPQC have less security against the best attacks publicly known today than they had against the best attacks publicly known when they were submitted in 2017. I'm not talking about chips getting faster: I'm talking about new attack algorithms. For many of the submissions, the attack improvements have been so dramatic that the submissions have been publicly demonstrated to be rapidly breakable on a laptop. Last month a new attack broke SIKE, one of just eight submissions that was still under consideration by NIST, one of just two submissions that had been selected for a high-profile Cloudflare–Google TLS experiment in 2019. As for "top experts", here's a quote from a document "Risks of lattice KEMs" by the NTRU Prime Risk-Management Team: Consider the fact that the Institute for Defense Analyses, an NSA consulting company, many years ago hired Buhler, one of the original developers of the number-field sieve [94] for integer factorization; Gordon, the first developer of a discrete-logarithm version [166] of the number-field sieve; Miller, who as part of introducing ECC [261] was one of the first authors to probe the limits of discrete-logarithm algorithms; and Coppersmith. Much less data is available regarding the cryptanalytic capabilities of, e.g., the Chinese government. Surely large-scale attackers know many more attacks than this public does.At the risk of belaboring the obvious: An attacker won't have to say "Oops, researcher X is working in public and has just found an attack; can we suppress this somehow?" if the attacker had the common sense to hire X years earlier, meaning that X isn't working in public. People arguing that there can't be sabotage because submission teams can't be bribed are completely missing the point. I coined the phrase "post-quantum cryptography" in 2003. It's not hard to imagine that the NSA/IDA post-quantum attack team was already hard at work before that, that they're years ahead of the public in finding attacks, and that NSA has been pushing NISTPQC to select algorithms that NSA secretly knows how to break. Could such a weakness also be exploited by other large-scale attackers? Best bet is that the answer is yes. Would this possibility stop NSA from pushing for the weakness? Of course not. Hybrids. When Google rolled out its first post-quantum experiment in 2016, it didn't switch from encrypting with a well-established pre-quantum system to encrypting with a post-quantum system. Instead it encrypted with a well-established pre-quantum system and encrypted with a post-quantum system, so that at least it wouldn't be losing security if the post-quantum system turned out to be breakable. The 2019 Cloudflare–Google experiment worked the same way. The general view today is that of course post-quantum cryptography should be an extra layer on top of well-established pre-quantum cryptography. As the French government cybersecurity agency (Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d'information, ANSSI) put it at the end of 2021: Acknowledging the immaturity of PQC is important: ANSSI will not endorse any direct drop-in replacement of currently used algorithms in the short/medium term. However, this immaturity should not serve as an argument for postponing the first deployments. ANSSI encourages all industries to progress towards an initiation of a gradual overlap transition in order to progressively increase trust on the post-quantum algorithms and their implementations while ensuring no security regression as far as classical (pre-quantum) security is concerned. ... Given that most post-quantum algorithms involve message sizes much larger than the current pre-quantum schemes, the extra performance cost of an hybrid scheme remains low in comparison with the cost of the underlying post-quantum scheme. ANSSI believes that this is a reasonable price to pay for guaranteeing an additional pre-quantum security at least equivalent to the one provided by current pre-quantum standardized algorithms.But NSA has a different position: it says that it "does not expect to approve" hybrids. Publicly, NSA justifies this by pointing to a fringe case where a careless effort to add an extra security layer damaged security, andexpressing "confidence in the NIST PQC process".Does that mean the original NISTPQC process, or the current NISTPQC process in which NIST, evidently surprised by attacks, announced plans to call for new submissions? Of course, if NSA/IDA have secretly developed an attack that works for a particular type of post-quantum cryptosystem, then it makes sense that they'd want people to start using that type of cryptosystem and turn off the existing pre-quantum cryptosystem. Transparency for NISTPQC. NIST issued final "Submission requirements and evaluation criteria for the post-quantum cryptography standardization process" in December 2016, including a promise that NIST would "perform a thorough analysis of the submitted algorithms in a manner that is open and transparent to the public". It became clear to me in 2020 that, despite this promise, most of NIST's evaluation process was happening behind closed doors. I tweeted the following at 13:01 GMT on 22 July 2020: After NIST's Dual EC standard was revealed in 2013 to be an actual (rather than just potential) NSA back door, NIST promised more transparency. Why does NIST keep soliciting private #NISTPQC input? (The submissions I'm involved in seem well positioned; that's not the point.)Coincidentally, at 13:02 GMT on 22 July 2020, NSA suddenly made its first public appearance in NISTPQC. Slides from NIST in September 2020 admitted that before this there was already "feedback" from NSA to NIST (slide 20). The public still hasn't seen the contents of NIST's communications with NSA, defense contractors, etc., let alone the records of how NIST processed the input it received. The same September 2020 NIST slides tried to downplay NSA's influence: "NIST alone makes the PQC standardization decisions, based on publicly available information, and stands by those decisions." One is reminded of Tuchman saying "We developed the DES algorithm entirely within IBM using IBMers. The NSA did not dictate a single wire!" In 2021, NIST claimed that "We operate transparently. We've shown all our work". In fact, most of the information on NIST's web site for this project is simply copies of submissions. NIST has posted some extra information, but the total volume of information in NIST's reports, web pages, and mailing-list messages obviously falls far short of "all our work". Anyone trying to obtain more than a superficial understanding of what has happened in NISTPQC rapidly discovers that critical information is missing. See my paper "A discretization attack", specifically Section 5, for various concrete examples of mysteries regarding the NIST process. I've filed seven FOIA requests with NIST since mid-2020. NIST has released a few dribbles of information, but in general NIST's responses have been very slow and obviously not complete. For example, I filed a FOIA request in June 2021 asking for "copies of all NIST records of communication between NSA and NIST regarding the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Project". This request has, so far, produced zero records. NIST has stonewalled, ignoring the FOIA deadlines. My seventh FOIA request, in March 2022, said the following: Analyzing NSA's impact on this project will require not just seeing NSA's communication with NIST, but also tracing how NIST's decisions were made and analyzing the influence of the information that NIST received from NSA. If each step of this analysis requires dealing with another round of stonewalling from NIST then the analysis will obviously not be done in time to help the public make safe decisions regarding post-quantum cryptography. NSA's documented history of sabotage, along with its evident sway over NIST, makes NSA's influence on NIST a high priority to review, but it also seems likely that other entities have also been trying to sabotage NIST's process. As far as I can tell, NIST has no procedures in place to prevent attackers from influencing the project through pseudonyms, proxies, etc. Anything short of a full review of project records could easily miss evidence of attacks. Even without sabotage, getting cryptography right is challenging. Public review has identified security flaws in dozens of submissions and has identified many errors in the limited additional information released by NIST. Having NIST keep most of its analysis secret is a recipe for disaster. Given that NIST promised to be "open and transparent", and recently claimed to have "shown all our work", it's hard to understand why the full project records aren't already available to the public.I asked for the full NISTPQC records, and for "all records of NIST/NSA meetings mentioning the word 'quantum', whether or not NIST views those meetings as part of this project". I asked for the full NISTPQC records, and for "all records of NIST/NSA meetings mentioning the word 'quantum', whether or not NIST views those meetings as part of this project". NIST has produced zero records in response to this FOIA request. Civil-rights firm Loevy & Loevy has now filed suit on my behalf in federal court, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, to force NIST to comply with the law. [2022.08.06 edits: Fixed "requests since" -> "requests with". Added the "At the risk of belaboring the obvious" paragraph. Added various further links under existing text.]

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[ot][spam][crazy] inhibition efforts: setting up a muse for use
by Undiscussed Groomed for Male Slavery, One Victim of Many 07 Aug '22

07 Aug '22

Yay muse! Muse is fun cause I looked into the protocol and second time and retain a little ;p The new Muse S's are also more comfortable, resulting in fewer psychoticish internal complaints. I'm connected with at least 3 projects around this: a software called brainflow, a short thing of my own, and a quick research hack to connect it to labstreaminglayer. I'm planning to engage the third. The lsl python backend for muse has classes I could call manually. I plan to do this and archive data. This will take a small amount of code. I don't know whether this current system has bluetooth.

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1984: The Uncrackable Car: PQC Overlords to Invade, Own, and Control All Your Things, and You
by grarpamp 07 Aug '22

07 Aug '22

Comes with a cute jingle too... "Part of your life. Part of tomorrow. ..." PQC: Standardization and an Automotive Case Study https://www.asrg.io/wp-content/uploads/20210204_Thomas_Poeppelmann_Infineon… Quantum Safe Authenticated Key Exchange Protocol for Automotive Application https://hss-opus.ub.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/opus4/files/7549/08_escar_Europe_202… Hermelink, Poppelmann, Stottinger, Wang, Wan Institute CODE, Uni d Bundeswehr Munchen, Infineon, Continental ESCAR 2020 https://papersplease.org/ Rev13:17 And he decrees that no one will be able to travel, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name. The time is nigh, heed the warnings, rise up, become free, or perish.

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Asymmetric cryptosystem based on optical scanning cryptography and elliptic curve algorithm
by jim bell 07 Aug '22

07 Aug '22

Asymmetric cryptosystem based on optical scanning cryptography and elliptic curve algorithm https://share.newsbreak.com/1jyqtw88 - Open Access - Published: 11 May 2022 Asymmetric cryptosystem based on optical scanning cryptography and elliptic curve algorithm - Xiangyu Chang, - Wei Li, - … - Ting-Chung Poon Show authors Scientific Reports volume 12, Article number: 7722 (2022) Cite this article - 359 Accesses - Metricsdetails Abstract We propose an asymmetric cryptosystem based on optical scanning cryptography (OSC) and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) algorithm. In the encryption stage of OSC, an object is encrypted to cosine and sine holograms by two pupil functions calculated via ECC algorithm from sender’s biometric image, which is sender’s private key. With the ECC algorithm, these holograms are encrypted to ciphertext, which is sent to the receiver. In the stage of decryption, the encrypted holograms can be decrypted by receiver’s biometric private key which is different from the sender’s private key. The approach is an asymmetric cryptosystem which solves the problem of the management and dispatch of keys in OSC and has more security strength than the conventional OSC. The feasibility of the proposed method has been convincingly verified by numerical and experiment results. Introduction Optical image encryption has attracted much attention in recent years because of its inherent capability of high parallelism and multidimensional freedoms (amplitude, phase and polarization). Since Refrégiér and Javidi first proposed the double random phase encoding (DRPE) technique1, researchers have introduced many extended optical encryption methods such as a series of optical transforms2,3,4,5, digital holography6,7,8, joint transform correlator9,10,11 and ghost imaging12,13,14, etc. Furthermore, optical scanning cryptography (OSC)15,16,17,18,19 envisioned by Poon has become a prospective technology. Different from that of other CCD-based hologram acquisition systems, it can capture the hologram of a physical object with a fast scanning mechanism along with single-pixel recording. Indeed, some encryption systems have been proposed based on OSC. Yan et al. obtained experimental results of encryption using fingerprint keys18. Furthermore, they first demonstrated optical cryptography of 3-D object images in an incoherent optical system with biometric keys19

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Internet 1 USA 0 ( again )
by professor rat 07 Aug '22

07 Aug '22

I'm sensing a pattern here - the internet century apparently overtook ' The American Century " as far back as 2005! https://twitter.com/adam_tooze/status/1556241241490132994 TL/DR computer chips are a global concern and Japan and Germany prop up USG power. Caveat reposts etc

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[spam][crazy][log] gdb, thread local, libgit, instruction pointet
by Undiscussed Past Horrific Abuse, One Victim Of Many 07 Aug '22

07 Aug '22

I'm debugging a slowdown in my data generator for the adapters for semibalanced trees stuff. I have a lightweight c++ iterator to loop through repository references and to find which branch a random commit came from. The hang is happening inside the function that uses this iterator. I have a breakpoint set when a match is found. It extracts the name of the branch and stores it in a static thread local variable, a quick way to reuse heap allocation for dynamic strings. gdb is presently looping on this breakpoint, despite it being followed by a return statement.

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[ot][spam][crazy] inhibition efforts: standing up
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 07 Aug '22

07 Aug '22

it takes me hours to reconnect to my body and stand up in the morning after sleeping. some years ago I searched for a device that would push me out of bed. somebody had made an "ejector bed" but they weren't selling it. I bought a cheap high-torque motor more recently. I don't know if it's strong enough to raise plywood with a person on it, but it seems to make sense to try. the motor also has a bracket to help with mounting, but more parts may be needed.

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[personal] [random notes] [eeg etc]
by Undiscussed Groomed for Male Slavery, One Victim of Many 07 Aug '22

07 Aug '22

I am wearing an EEG headband, a Muse S. This is a very low quality consumer EEG device with 4 channels. I used to use two OpenBCI Cytons, with daisies, for a total of 8-32 channels. A cyton+daisy costs $2000 . I do not have income. I bought more than two. They break, for some reason. The software is designed with poor standards and the company has not been able to find a lead dev to hire. OpenBCI used to sell a direct current stimulator, too. When I began purchasing, they took it off the shelves, citing a research study that it was unhealthy or dangerous. I believe direct current stimulation is a way to entrain channels in the brain to observe areas not near the surface, and was very sad to not have access to the open source equipment once I had saved enough money to buy it.

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Turkey chickens out of crypto-repression - goes running to Mummy Russia
by professor rat 07 Aug '22

07 Aug '22

Even in Turkey, where the democratic process does not function as intended, a strong government that controls all branches of the state decided not to pass a top-down bill to regulate cryptocurrencies due to community objections. https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/08/03/lessons-from-the-turkish-governm… Reposts etc

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Communist organizations in Turkey
by professor rat 07 Aug '22

07 Aug '22

Revolutionary Youth Federation of Turkey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Youth_Federation_of_Turkey Info supplied as is

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DONALD J. TRUMP, vs. HILLARY R. CLINTON
by Gunnar Larson 07 Aug '22

07 Aug '22

158 highlights to DONALD J. TRUMP, vs. HILLARY R. CLINTON. Honestly, I understand the FBI's scenario here. Why on god's green Earth would New York be used and abused while at the expense of innovation.

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A CPU world record has been broken by dousing a $6,000+ AMD chip in liquid nitrogen
by jim bell 07 Aug '22

07 Aug '22

A CPU world record has been broken by dousing a $6,000+ AMD chip in liquid nitrogen https://share.newsbreak.com/1juy5ego It's a shame that AMD's Threadripper processors are no longer in the reach of most enthusiast gamers because the AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5995WX just crushed a Cinebench run to net itself the world record. Proving once again that AMD's mammoth chip is not to be trifled with. With a multithreaded score of 116,142 in Cinebench R23, overclocker TSAIK has net themselves the world number one spot (spotted by 9550pro on Twitter ), beating out user blueleader with two AMD Epyc 7763 server chips at 113,566.

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How to avoid non-human garbage on this list
by professor rat 07 Aug '22

07 Aug '22

Here is one really easy way to avoid all non-human-garbage on this fine list. GET OFF the INTERNET.

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Re: ASSANGE is not dead - he just smells that way
by professor rat 07 Aug '22

07 Aug '22

" Julio " means Julian ( I sometimes call him Julio Assangista ) Z That UK prison inmate recently reported at deaths door. I'm not trying to make fun of your name, second language skills &/or learning disability. THAT WOULD BE WRONG. And I'm overjoyed to see how much we agree on that total scumbag, John ' Cryptome ' Young. Lets hodl on to that; evet?

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Jewish people are not an object for jokes
by professor rat 07 Aug '22

07 Aug '22

Reposts supplied ' as is " https://groups.io/g/marxmail/topic/the_big_bang_theory_is/92861144?p=,,,20,… Unless you're a Marxist-Communist! Karl Marx, Capital, Volume One, Part II: The Transformation of Money and Capital CHAPTER FOUR: THE GENERAL FORMULA FOR CAPITAL: "The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in truth money, inwardly circumcised Jews . . . "

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Zawahiri represented an imminent threat to all women everywhere
by professor rat 07 Aug '22

07 Aug '22

Targeted, or political, assassinations are extrajudicial executions https://groups.io/g/marxmail/topic/marjorie_cohn_biden_s/92865418?p=,,,20,0… Reposts not etc

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Re: [spam][crazy][fiction][random] Non-Canon MCBoss Spinoffs
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 07 Aug '22

07 Aug '22

> > What happens if you rename the workers, experimentees, gnomes, etc to > offline people of not greatly low, but a little low, brand equity? Also > That's for the second draft I guess. I guess we could try it! what do these tasked people do for fun when Boss isn't looking, and how > does Boss know or not know? Just ideas. I've been struggling a little to convey that it is all sorts of things. Many people work for Boss 24/7 both for-pay and without-pay. Some people, like the experimentees, have been automatically encouraged to work so strongly that they are mostly doing random things to meet details of the automated productivity and political protocols, rather than anything actually productive. Other people do basically nothing for Boss, and have relations with the control patterns so as to do and cause arbitrary things they prefer themselves. Some people aren't mind controlled any more than most people, and live roughly normal lives. But in the story, people go to the rebel cafe of spies, rescue workers, etc, for fun, and make fun of Boss or plan to cause great good in the world. It's probably an analogy for internet lists like this one used to be. And maybe write it in a style > that isn't simply experimentation with cliches. Even some rigid and arbitrary formal constraint, e.g., only use two syllable words. > I don't totally follow you here. I think it might take me some slow practice to do this. It's hard for me to summarise the idea as a short phrase to move it through my amnesia. Which parts are cliches? >

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The Anarchist is the inaugural winner of the Woven Voices prize for migrant writers.
by professor rat 07 Aug '22

07 Aug '22

>>> Written by Karina Wiedman, who was born in Kazakhstan and has lived in Russia, Belarus and now the UK, The Anarchist is the inaugural winner of the Woven Voices prize for migrant writers <<< https://anarchistnews.org/content/anarchist-review-–-innocent-sense-humour-… Reposts etc

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Break in anarchists murder case
by professor rat 07 Aug '22

07 Aug '22

We'll take a break when the perps neck breaks. >>> Portland police announced on Thursday that they arrested 47-year-old Christopher Knipe on second-degree murder charges, for the 2019 murder of a 23-year old anarchist, Sean “Armenio” Kealiher. <<< https://anarchistnews.org/content/year-after-he-was-identified-antifascists… Reposts not etc

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ASSANGE is not dead - he just smells that way
by professor rat 06 Aug '22

06 Aug '22

Tim May, lacking the cosmopolitan sensibilities of Assange, “the idea of trying to be Julian Assange gives me the creeps.” “I’m not concerned about things like that. Let the Africans kill each other,” May insists. “I don’t have those kinds of political interests” Thankfully Tim May is dead - he's as dead as Julius Caesar. And isn't a great year when John Young and Julio look like joining him!? Welcome to the Black-Flagged revolution.

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Re: "NSA, NIST, and post-quantum cryptography: Announcing my second lawsuit against the U.S."
by professor rat 06 Aug '22

06 Aug '22

" . . . It is, of course the right decision to request a FOIA to review the impact of the NSA on NIST. NIST, have a responsibility to be open and transparent about how they manage the process. . . .' Fair enough - but lets not get carried away here. Jul 20, 2015 - Julian Assange: To be honest, I don't like the word transparency; cold dead glass is transparent..." JULIAN " “People with strong principles don’t survive for long ” ASSANGE quoted in " Risk" released in 2017.

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With regards to list Nazis like Juan Garofalo from Argentina
by professor rat 06 Aug '22

06 Aug '22

>>> I am very hostile to this ideology. Being Danish, German Nazis invaded my country, killed our policemen in concentration camps and so on. My own paternal grandfather was forced to flee to Sweden due to his anti-Nazi activism. To be fair, he also has some Jewish ancestry which I share. So when Woke activists label me a Neo-Nazi it is pretty offensive considering my country's history, my family history, my Jewish ancestry, and my Jewish friends and coauthors. Denmark is famous for saving the Jews after all (99% survived World War 2) <<< https://kirkegaard.substack.com/p/will-the-real-emil-please-stand-up Reposts etc

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All Marxists are racists- which means John Pilger and Tariq Ali are racists
by professor rat 06 Aug '22

06 Aug '22

Capital, vol. 3, chapter 47: “ The possibility is here presented for definite economic development taking place, depending, of course, upon favourable circumstances, inborn racial characteristics, etc…” Engels: (Marx and Engels, Selected Works, Vol. 3, p. 502.): “We regard economic conditions as the factor which ultimately determines historical development. But race is itself an economic factor … ” " But Tariq can't be racist? " Tell that to Ali Alexander , Enrique Tarrio and Israel Shamir When did Julian Assange stop hanging out with ' scientific racists " and beating his wife? Inquiring minds wanna know.

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Calls for a quantum computing " Manhattan Project "
by professor rat 06 Aug '22

06 Aug '22

In order to manage the constant flow of clickbait and disinformation peddled here by the likes of Jeff Berwick's bum-buddy, I'm calling for a massive effort to save the West from a devastating first-strike launched against our strongest encryption protecting trillions ( beat ) Full-spectrum quantum computers means more quantum networking means more state-of-the-art encryption means crypto-anarchism gets turbocharged like a Kawasaki GPZ, sorry, H2R. Now we all know what a priceless asset the net is - post Pelosi - its time to get real about extending and defending it against all enemies - foreign and domestic - Marxist and inverse-Marxist. Theocratic and Obscurantist. Investing in cryptoanarchist technologies has already paid off with the crypto-currencies bonanza. The future keeps happening. Let's ROCK IT!

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Scientists say they've debunked Google’s quantum supremacy claims once and for all
by professor rat 06 Aug '22

06 Aug '22

" . . . As reported by Science magazine, the scientists used a system comprised of 512 GPUs to complete the same calculation developed by Google to demonstrate it had passed the quantum supremacy milestone back in 2019. . . " 512 has long seemed to me to place a neat upper-bound on how many folks that can function as an anarchist polity while knowing each other ( with the help of ubiquitous modern technology) " It takes a village " For example, with a global UBI scheme seeking to cover 5 billion or so people, you could start off with 512 sized nodes, each node then deciding its own rules under overall Metcalfes supervision. Then as Moores carries on you could halve each node at regular periods from 256 to 128 and so on. As you approach 8 and less we're presumably close to uploading by then. Quantum cryptoanarchy for every individual and Gym Dumbell's endless FUD being ancient history.

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NIST laundered a shitcoiners standard supplied by the NSA
by professor rat 06 Aug '22

06 Aug '22

" . . . a bad standard was identified early and kept out of products. NIST may not have caught the problem . . . " https://www.theverge.com/2013/9/11/4718694/how-far-did-the-nsa-go-to-weaken… NIST was criminally negligent, or just corruptly criminal, or both, in cahoots with the NSA Just ask list member Peter Trei >>> Now, a Reuters exclusive report is showing the other side of the story. The report details a secret deal between the NSA and respected encryption company RSA, in which the agency paid $10 million for RSA to incorporate the weaker algorithm into an encryption product called BSafe. Because of the earlier work, the algorithm had been approved by NIST, so RSA could claim their encryption used only nationally certified protocols. <<< https://www.theverge.com/2013/12/20/5231006/nsa-paid-10-million-for-a-back-… Some list members from 2001 - 4 may have taken my advice to DUMP RSA STOCK. The least I could do.

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NIST is part of the US government and so is the NSA
by professor rat 06 Aug '22

06 Aug '22

" . . . NIST, have a responsibility to be open and transparent about how they manage the process. . ." Yeah, right. The NSA are so forthcoming I got reams of █████ from them. >>> Smid recalls. "NIST is part of the government and so is the NSA. The NSA has submitted candidate algorithms in the past, and NIST treats them like any other submissions. <<< https://www.theverge.com/2013/9/11/4718694/how-far-did-the-nsa-go-to-weaken… Reposts etc

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"NSA, NIST, and post-quantum cryptography: Announcing my second lawsuit against the U.S."
by professor rat 06 Aug '22

06 Aug '22

You say " quantum cryptographers are stealing a quarter of a billion Euros from the European Commission " like that’s a bad thing. https://blog.cr.yp.to/index.html Reposts etc

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Invitation to a treasonous terrorist conspiracy
by professor rat 06 Aug '22

06 Aug '22

" I advocate the overthrow of all government ( beat ) through peace and quiet " Gary Snyder So who wants to join the LAST revolution on earth, the one that’ll take down ALL the governments? Before Jim Bell went to prison, he suspected that most government officials were corrupt. Three years behind bars later, the self-proclaimed Internet anarchist is sure of it. After Bell, a cypherpunk who the United States government dubbed a techno-terrorist, is released Friday at 10 a.m. PDT, he plans to exact revenge on the system that imprisoned him. "If they continue to work for the government, they deserve it. My suggestion to these people is to quit now and hope for mercy "

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HAZMAT suits mandatory
by professor rat 06 Aug '22

06 Aug '22

Marjorie Taylor Greene cheered on Alex Jones after Sandy Hook verdict A forensic economist testified that Alex Jones began funneling $11,000 per day into an alleged shell company around the time he was found liable by default in defamation suits https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZjbmt0TXpZd1NoRUt… Suits like this how we killed the KKK

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Innovative computer visualizations of hyperspace,
by professor rat 06 Aug '22

06 Aug '22

>>> an exposition of the projection model in the most creative ideas about space in contemporary mathematics such as twisters, quasicrystals, and quantum topology. Robbin clarifies these esoteric concepts with understandable drawings and diagrams. Robbin proposes that the powerful role of projective geometry in the development of current mathematical ideas has been long overlooked and that our attachment to the slicing model is essentially a conceptual block that hinders progress in understanding contemporary models of spacetime. He offers a fascinating review of how projective ideas are the source of some of today’s most exciting developments in art, math, physics, and computer visualization. <<< https://www.amazon.com.au/Shadows-Reality-Dimension-Relativity-Thought-eboo…

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[ot][spam][crazy] crazylog: append-only random-access data
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 06 Aug '22

06 Aug '22

it's nice to think about this algorithm part i'm indoors right now and where i was working on it was outdoors. i'll just open up an unsync'd copy here that system is offline; i wonder how in the world i got my code onto it O_O maybe i copied it over by hand? maybe i started dev on it? i dont' think ihave the camera sorted out for qr codes, or a ready usb key

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[ot][spam][crazy] semibalanced trees?
by Undiscussed Past Horrific Abuse, One Victim Of Many 06 Aug '22

06 Aug '22

I'm thinking of working a little on the algorithm for random access append only data again, but I'm not sure where it is.

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Scientists say they've debunked Google’s quantum supremacy claims once and for all
by jim bell 06 Aug '22

06 Aug '22

Scientists say they've debunked Google’s quantum supremacy claims once and for all https://share.newsbreak.com/1joxv01w A team of scientists in China claim to have replicated the performance of Google’s Sycamore quantum computer using traditional hardware, thereby undermining the suggestion the company has achieved quantum supremacy. As reported by Science magazine, the scientists used a system comprised of 512 GPUs to complete the same calculation developed by Google to demonstrate it had passed the quantum supremacy milestone back in 2019. The endeavor was led by statistical physicist Pan Zhang, who said his team’s supercomputer performed the calculation 10 billion times faster than Google had thought possible. Quest for quantum supremacy Quantum supremacy (or quantum advantage) can be defined as the point at which quantum computers can outstrip the maximum potential performance of classical supercomputers in a particular discipline. Three years ago, Google announced it had achieved this feat with Sycamore, which it said took just 200 seconds to complete a statistical mathematics problem that would take a supercomputer 10,000 years to solve. The problem was architected in such a way as to accentuate both the attributes of quantum computers, which exploit a phenomenon known as superposition to speed up calculations, and the limitations of traditional systems.

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Jonestown 2 - This time its Personal
by professor rat 06 Aug '22

06 Aug '22

Swallowing Jones’ Kool-Aid for 500, please Alex. https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-edit-alex-jones-20220804-cjqsggh73vh… Alex Jones is one of the worst humans on the planet, a pathological liar who exploits others’ agony for attention and profit. We dare him to sue us for defamation. <<< Reposts etc

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Müller-Maguhn was a courier between the GRU and Assange!
by professor rat 06 Aug '22

06 Aug '22

You've got nearly five pages in the Senate report in which everything is redacted. This occurs when Andrew Müller-Maguhn, a German hacker affiliated with the Chaos Computer Club (he visited Assange repeatedly at the Ecuador embassy) enters the story. Look at this: https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss/status/1295807843099119617 The wicked flee where none pursue - old proverb

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Jacob Appelbaum's dealings with GRU
by professor rat 06 Aug '22

06 Aug '22

When did Jake stop dealing with GRU? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Müller-Maguhn And when did he stop beating his common-law wife?

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Conservatives make a weak case against Govt Shitcoins
by professor rat 06 Aug '22

06 Aug '22

It is not obvious that monetary policy needs additional flexibility, and any benefits from eliminating physical currency must be balanced against the costs of digital surveillance and the loss of privacy.” https://dailyhodl.com/2022/08/05/us-conservative-political-organization-mak… This sort of argument is true as far as it goes but I don't see how these cons respond to govts airdropping their shit and promising to turn a blind eye on smaller transaction surveillance. The fascist Chinese are already making the running on this! Practical money-laundering tactics and a huge regulatory-arbitrage PR campaign look like a better response from this self-described, progressive, leftist anarchist. And the notion cons care about consumers is completely risible. Most of their stink-tanks revolve around screwing consumers wholesale. When in power this type of con is as bad as Marxist-Communists. ( Sear Dolfuss 34 and Pinochet 73 ) Consumers beware the walking brain-dead.

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