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Entrapment
by Gunnar Larson 16 Jan '23

16 Jan '23

Hello: Most of the day I have been under entrapment. I have asked for decorum, yet it seems to be a serious issue. Gunnar Larson

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Practical anarchy
by professor rat 16 Jan '23

16 Jan '23

Talking up freely federating producer and consumer cooperatives offends all the right people and as a practical matter builds on an already substantial databank of anarchist economic experience - primarily in anarchist Ukraine and Spain. https://anarchistnews.org/content/radical-croissants Reposts stoop to conquer the raging rivers of fevered debate

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[ot][crazy][spam] Hybrid Video Game[s]
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 16 Jan '23

16 Jan '23

Everybody on the planet has lost a foot. This is a tragedy too large for our doctors to handle it. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to distribute a replacement foot to everybody on earth. Bonus points if you can facilitate them sending information back with regard to e.g. needing something else more than a foot. Extra bonus points if you can facilitate everybody collaborating together on the problem. The most serious area is the people who live at what is now our replacement foot factory. They didn’t want to turn into a factory, so they have further issues, and they’re all missing a foot too. Also, we’re only your boss because we used to be, so you might want to sort out if this emergency warrants a better power dynamic.

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Former SEC Chairman Joins Fireblocks Advisory Board - Fireblocks
by Gunnar Larson 15 Jan '23

15 Jan '23

https://www.fireblocks.com/blog/us-sec-chairman-joins-fireblocks-advisory-b… Jay Clayton was the Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from May 2017 to December 2020. Clayton focused on modernizing the regulation and oversight of our equity and fixed income markets, concentrating on the interests of long-term investors. In addition, under his leadership, the women and men of the SEC addressed various market developments and emerging risks, including the 2020 COVID-19 economic shock, the digitization of securities and other assets, the Brexit and LIBOR transitions, and various cybersecurity matters. Clayton was an active member of the Financial Stability Board, the International Organization of Securities Commissions, the Financial Stability Oversight Council and the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets. Prior to Clayton’s government service, he spent over 20 years at Sullivan & Cromwell where he was a member of the management committee, co-managing partner of the General Practice Group and co-head of the Cybersecurity Group. He was a lead lawyer in an array of complex M&A and capital markets transactions, as well as regulatory and governance matters, in the financial, telecoms, energy, transportation and e-commerce sectors. Clayton also advised a number of individuals in connection with their public and private investments as well as transition matters.

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Data from Cellebrite & MSAB
by zeynep＠keemail.me 15 Jan '23

15 Jan '23

Data from Cellebrite & MSAB, two companies that provide phone hacking tools to governments, has just been published online.The leak includes actual software as well as documentation. https://cpj.org/2021/07/botswana-cellebrite-search-journalists-phone/ Cellebrite:magnet:?xt=urn:btih:f881291ab69fff48393ede2e36a4f8fcb4b5bf7a&dn=cellebrite&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=https%3A%2F%2Fopentracker.i2p.rocks%3A443%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.stealth.si%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexodus.desync.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexodus.desync.com%3A6969%2Fannounce MSAB: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:0e7d11a34f71887aca3a388795e0b019cca44858&dn=msab.tar.zst&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=https%3A%2F%2Fopentracker.i2p.rocks%3A443%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.stealth.si%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexodus.desync.com%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexodus.desync.com%3A6969%2Fannounce

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Two Former eBay Executives Sentenced to Prison for Cyberstalking | United States Department of Justice
by Gunnar Larson 15 Jan '23

15 Jan '23

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/two-former-ebay-executives-sentenced-pri… Harville and Baugh were arrested and charged in June 2020. Co-conspirators and former eBay employees Philip Cooke, Brian Gilbert, Stephanie Popp, Veronica Zea and Stephanie Stockwell previously pleaded guilty for their roles in a conspiracy to cyberstalk the victims. Cooke was sentenced in July 2021 to 18 months in prison. Gilbert, Popp, Zea and Stockwell are awaiting sentencing. Between approximately Aug. 5, 2019 and Sept. 6, 2019, Harville, Baugh and their co-conspirators at eBay agreed to engage in a harassment campaign targeting a husband and wife in Natick, Mass. for their roles in publishing a newsletter that reported on issues of interest to eBay sellers. Senior executives at eBay were frustrated with the newsletter’s tone and content as well as the substance of comments posted beneath the newsletter’s articles. The harassment campaign arose from communications between those senior executives and Baugh, who was eBay’s senior security employee. The defendants and their co-conspirators executed a three-part harassment campaign intended to intimidate the victims and to influence their reporting about eBay. The campaign included sending anonymous and disturbing deliveries to the victims’ home; sending private Twitter messages and public tweets criticizing the newsletter’s content; threats to visit the victims in Natick; and traveling to Natick to surveil the victims and installing a GPS tracking device on their car. The deliveries ordered to the victims’ home included a book on surviving the death of a spouse, a bloody pig mask, a fetal pig, a funeral wreath and live insects. The harassment also featured Craigslist posts inviting members of the public to experience sexual encounters at the victims’ home. The threatening Twitter messages were written as if they had been sent by eBay sellers who were unhappy with the victims’ coverage in the newsletter. Some of these messages posted the victims’ home address and threatened to show up at their home. On Aug. 15, 2019, Baugh, Harville and a co-conspirator traveled from California to Natick to surveil the victims and install a GPS tracking device on the victims’ car. The victims spotted the surveillance team and contacted local police. Harville also purchased tools intending to break into the victims’ garage and lied to an eBay investigator who was responding to the Natick Police’s request for assistance. After learning of the police’s investigation, Harville and Baugh deleted digital evidence related to the cyberstalking campaign. Additionally, Baugh made false statements to police and internal investigators and falsified records intended to throw the police off the trail. U.S. Attorney Rollins, FBI SAC Bonavolonta and Natick Police Chief James G. Hicks made the announcement today. eBay provided valuable assistance and cooperation with the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Seth B. Kosto, Deputy Chief of Rollins’ Securities, Financial & Cyber Fraud Unit prosecuted the case.

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Fwd: FOIL Request Confirmation from Open FOIL NY
by Gunnar Larson 15 Jan '23

15 Jan '23

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: <noreply(a)its.ny.gov> Date: Sat, Jan 14, 2023, 3:26 PM Subject: FOIL Request Confirmation from Open FOIL NY To: <G(a)xny.io> Thank you for submitting your FOIL request through Open FOIL NY. Here is your Open FOIL NY confirmation information for future reference: LARSON_DFS_20230114152649702 LARSON_DOB_20230114152649702 LARSON_DTF_20230114152649702 *INFORMATION SUBMITTED:* *Records Requested From* Department of Financial Services Division of the Budget Department of Taxation and Finance *Short Title* Coinbase $100M Settlement Investigation Records *Description* Dear Madam or Sir: xNY.io - Bank.org kindly seeks access to any and all records concerning New York State's investigation of Coinbase, comprising the $100M settlement mentioned here: https://www.dfs.ny.gov/reports_and_publications/press_releases/pr202301041. We are requesting all public records from 2018 to 2022 concerning New York's aforementioned Coinbase investigation. Moreover, xNY.io - Bank.org seeks access to any and all records concerning New York's regulatory scrutiny (and/or approval) of Goldman Sachs' partnership with Coinbase, issuing the bank's first Bitcoin loan mentioned here: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/goldman-sachs-partners-with-coinbase-for-ba…. In addition, xNY.io - Bank.org seeks any and all records concerning New York's approach to Coinbase and Goldman Sachs compliance programs mandated by the United States Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Fraud Section and Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section mentioned here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Yx88RMoeLyyfbNK0RtPl4r-m8N21_1Sp/view?usp=…. Finally, xNY.io - Bank.org seeks records concerning New York's regulatory approval of Coinbase engaging a fine of $50M to implement heightened controls and additional procedures and policies relating to electronic surveillance and investigation, due diligence on transactions or clients and the use of third-party intermediaries across business units; and enhancing anti-corruption training for all management and relevant employees. Warm regards, Gunnar Larson Gunnar Larson xNY.io - Bank.org 646-454-9107 *Uploaded Files* *FOIL Response Format* Email *If fees apply, please contact me if costs will be greater than* $10000 Your FOIL request has been forwarded to the organization(s) you selected, and the respective Records Access Officer will contact you directly for further processing of your request. Please allow up to five business days for such communication(s). For your convenience, here is additional contact information: Department of Financial Services One State Street 20th Floor New York, NY 10004 Division of the Budget State Capitol Room 128 Albany, NY 12224 Department of Taxation and Finance W.A. Harriman Campus Bldg 9, Room 100, Albany, NY 12227

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The worker has no country - especially Turkey
by professor rat 15 Jan '23

15 Jan '23

Marx sometimes struck an internationalist pose - it was just another one of his frauds on the public. Marx, "British Politics" (April 7, 1853), Collected Works, Vol. 112, p.7: " . . . The real point at issue always is, Turkey in Europe - the great peninsula to the south of the Save and Danube. This splendid territory has the misfortune to be inhabited by a conglomerate of different races and nationalities, of which it is hard to say which is the least fit for progress and civilization. . . . " http://marxwords.blogspot.com/2005_04_01_marxwords_archive.html Reposted in the interests of post-national-socialist harmony

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Turkey pushes back vote on Sweden and Finland’s Nato accession | Nato | The Guardian
by Gunnar Larson 15 Jan '23

15 Jan '23

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/14/turkey-pushes-back-vote-on-sw… “We are not in a rush here, they are in a rush to join Nato,” İbrahim Kalın, chief adviser to Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, told journalists. ------ Why is Turkey calling NATO shots while being in a Cyprus war, with United Nations peacekeeping mission?

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Intelligent xenomorphs vow to exterminate all humans based on Matt Damon movie
by professor rat 15 Jan '23

15 Jan '23

Apparently mistaking ' The Martian ' for a documentary, intelligent aliens are moving together in their Galactic ' UN " to nip a potential planet-destroying species in the bud. To lose one planet might be considered unfortunate. To lose two is beginning to look like proactive genocide. Sorry no link is available right now since so many died to bring us this information. TL/DR use of a so-called " Death Star " has been authorized against us. Such is intelligent life. And a great lesson for all of us. The strong AI do what they like - the weak-minded conservative suffer what they must.

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