August 2022 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Kaspersky lost business after a sustained attack by major American newspapers
by professor rat 14 Aug '22

14 Aug '22

Not all journalists are scumbags - but most journalists are scumbags >>> Kaspersky lost its business with the US public sector a few years ago after a sustained attack by major American newspapers, claiming it was leaking data to Russian intelligence services, a claim the company strongly denied. Since then the firm has cut back operations in that country and set up so-called transparency centres where companies can sign up to look at the source code of its products. <<< https://itwire.com/business-it-news/security/german-call-for-replacement-of… Reposts etc

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No evidence exists to show Kaspersky supports any government's military or political objectives
by professor rat 14 Aug '22

14 Aug '22

>>> Rob Rosenberger @vmyths This is an open tweet to @Kaspersky who may quote me: No evidence exists to show Kaspersky supports any government's military or political objectives. I have documented how McAfee, Symantec, and Trend Micro each did this, but not Kaspersky. . . . <<< https://twitter.com/vmyths/status/1503482703454388230 Reposts etc

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Kaspersky AV provided a way to identify a computer storing known NSA hacking tools?
by professor rat 14 Aug '22

14 Aug '22

>>> WSJ reported in 2017 that the Kaspersky Anti-Virus software Pho was running on his home computer led the Russian security firm to discover that Pho had the NSA’s hacking tools on the machine. Somehow (the implication is that Kaspersky alerted the Russian government) that discovery led Russian hackers to subsequently target Pho’s computer and steal the files. In response to the WSJ report, Kaspersky issued their own report (here’s a summary from Kim Zetter). It acknowledged that Kaspersky AV had pulled in NSA tools after triggering on a known indicator of NSA compromise (the report claimed, and you can choose to believe that or not, that Kaspersky had deleted the most interesting parts of the files obtained). But it also revealed that in that same period, Pho had briefly disabled his Kaspersky AV and downloaded a pirated copy of Microsoft Office, which led to at least one backdoor being loaded onto his computer via which hostile actors would have been able to steal the NSA’s crown jewels <<< https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/08/14/18-usc-793e-in-the-time-of-shadow-bro… Reposts etc

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A . onion domain is a website that can only be accessed through the Tor anonymity browser.
by professor rat 14 Aug '22

14 Aug '22

>>> octal · 4h Lol a .onion address on a big electronic billboard on the strip outside Caesar’s forum shops <<< https://nordvpn.com/blog/how-to-register-onion-domain/#:~:text=does%20it%20…. Reposts etc

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[ot][disrespectful][spam][spam][spam] difficult mcboss
by Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many 14 Aug '22

14 Aug '22

hihi i amhaving the mcboss webcomicish coping urge but my system is an ipad, the touch keyboard responds poorly, and i am having difficulty guiding my hands and fingers so i started this thread to jst put keyboard mess in

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Adam Back backstabbing cypherpunks
by professor rat 14 Aug '22

14 Aug '22

Adam Back has earned killfiling For scumbag weasels, like Adam Backstabber, cypherpunks are all about transparency for the poor and privacy for the powerful. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/02/el-salvador-human-rights-viol… THERE HE GOES! GET HIM!

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Cryptocurrency: Lightning Not Talking About It's Own Real Problems
by grarpamp 14 Aug '22

14 Aug '22

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=problems+with+lightning+network https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjFjK-f9ts0 Imagine if Tor Project Incorporated was open and honest about its "limitations". "Tor Stinks -- NSA" "99% of all coins stink -- Internet" "Bitcoin - A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" https://whybitcoincash.com/ ... and at most 10 or so other coins.

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Google Program to Free Chips Boosts University Semiconductor Design
by jim bell 13 Aug '22

13 Aug '22

https://www.hpcwire.com/2022/08/11/google-program-to-free-chips-boosts-univ… August 11, 2022 A Google-led program to design and manufacture chips for free is becoming popular among researchers and computer enthusiasts. The search giant’s open silicon program is providing the tools for anyone to design chips, which then get manufactured. Google foots the entire bill, from a chip’s conception to delivery of the final product in a user’s hand. Google’s Open MPW program includes an open-source design toolkit from a company called EFabless, which also manages the program. Enthusiasts and researchers have to submit their chip design, which then gets manufactured in the factories of SkyWater on the 130nm process. The submission deadline for the latest Open MPW program is September 12. Open MPW’s popularity can be measured by the number of projects using Efabless’ EDA tools. Chips from about 240 open-source silicon projects via Efabless’ tools will be manufactured in Skywater’s factories, Mike Wishart, CEO of Efabless. “The total projects posted on our site are like 570. That has gone extremely well. It’s diverse, from 25 countries,” Wishart said. Efabless had about 160 tapeouts in 2021, and had no tapeouts in 2020. Efabless provides a simple design EDA tool to make chips, which is mostly about dragging and dropping the core elements inside a chip. An open-source PDK (process design kit) prepares the chip for fabrication in factories. The Open MPW program added recent partners, including the U.S. Department of Defense, which last month poured $15 million into the project to get open-source chips made on SkyWater’s 90nm process. GlobalFoundries also joined the alliance and will also manufacture chips on the 180nm node. The manufacturing technology provided through the project is very old, but it is cost-effective. Intel, Apple and others make expensive chips on the more advanced processes such as 5nm, which uses cutting-edge technology and provides the fastest computing in devices. Open MPW is popular in academia and research, and for those experimenting or testing chips and need small batches, Wishart said. “Our incentive is to make it simple for more and more people and grow a community around those executing designs… [on] nodes that are more accessible to them and therefore lower costs,” Wishart said. Typically, chips can be expensive to manufacture, and factories are open to corporations. But Open MPW makes factories available to researchers and students. “There was an unmet need in academia, that was overwhelming and not appreciated because they didn’t know what they could get,” Wishart said. The open-source toolkits cover the full concept of chip development, from conceptualization to delivery of parts. Some universities may have deals with chip factories, but students at the undergraduate, master’s and PhD programs still have poor awareness of chip fabrication.

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Only Anarchism believes in abolition of the Police
by professor rat 13 Aug '22

13 Aug '22

Only Anarchism believes in abolition of the Police, and this is the most hotly-disputed argument of Anarchism. Yet the police force as we know it is a comparatively modern phenomenon, fiercely resisted when introduced for reasons which have since been proved up to the hilt, such as the ability of the Police to introduce or bolster up a dictatorship, known indeed as a police state. Most political reformers have some part of the unfree system they wish to abolish Republicans would abolish the monarchy, Secularists would abolish or disestablish the Church, Socialists would (or used to) wish to abolish the apparatus of exploitation; pacifists would abolish the Army. Anarchism is unique in wishing to abolish all.

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Paul Sztorc was on McCormack's discredited podcast this week
by professor rat 13 Aug '22

13 Aug '22

" . . . time will show Truthcoin outperforming their fork of my project." https://www.coingecko.com/learn/augur-conceptual-godfather-thinks-project-w… Truthcoin is not listed at CoinGecko today but Augur Rep is up slightly today https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/augur Amir Taaki , Peter McCormack and Elon Musk - oh my! https://twitter.com/Truthcoin Gramps-types-garbage - feh

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