April 2023 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Venezuela Acquits PDVSA Traders After Three Years in Detention
by Gunnar Larson 02 Apr '23

02 Apr '23

Venezuela Acquits PDVSA Traders After Three Years in Detention https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-02/venezuela-acquits-pdvsa-… Two former Petroleos de Venezuela SA employees were acquitted by a judge on Saturday, after they had been found guilty in February 2021 of leaking information to a US-based company.

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Long thread on Sam Altman's anarchist-hating, fools-coin scam
by professor rat 02 Apr '23

02 Apr '23

>> Crypto only really makes sense when it's tied to sovereignty. Using passports ties it to nation state sovereignty. It's worth keeping in mind Timothy May's email signature from the cypherpunks mailing list, which gave birth to all of this: Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero knowledge, reputations, information markets, black markets, collapse of governments https://cryptoanarchy.wiki/people/timothy-c-may That's what's at stake here. << https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30931614

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Sam Altman needs killing ( My 2k sats )
by professor rat 02 Apr '23

02 Apr '23

Weasel words >> an effective global regulatory framework including democratic governance Sam Altman @sama · Mar 30 visiting toronto, DC, rio, lagos, madrid, brussels, munich, london, paris, tel aviv, dubai, new delhi, singapore, jakarta, seoul, tokyo, melbourne. also hoping to give talks in some of the cities and meet with policymakers. <<< ALL THE COPS! Jesus Fucking Christie - why does this rotten collaborationist creep hate our anarchist freedoms!

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Its biometrics Jim - but not as we knew them
by professor rat 01 Apr '23

01 Apr '23

If this works as advertized it solves the TRUE NAMES problem in one fell swoop. Self managed ID's for the masses. WORLDCOIN looks like a fool-proof plan https://worldcoin.org/blog/engineering/humanness-in-the-age-of-ai The trouble is fools are so ingenious

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When correlation includes causation! Very Assange.
by professor rat 01 Apr '23

01 Apr '23

Fascism is as fascism does - and both WL and the AU Armed Forces were demonstrably fascist by 2011 and 2004 respectively. Nick McKenzie and Anthony Galloway, The Age, March 2023 | Soldiers of hate: Army investigates neo-Nazis in its ranks, ‘The Australian Army has discovered serving members are neo-Nazis. “… Mr Assange agreed that some level of privacy was necessary for the successful operation of the military …” http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/drive/assange-i-can-rule-from-… JULIAN " ‘[The military] protects the sovereignty of Australia. It protects the independence of Australia.’ ASSANGE July, 2013

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Wells Fargo harming customers fines in the last three years ($7.037b) money lost in crypto hacks? (6.45b)
by professor rat 01 Apr '23

01 Apr '23

Wells Fargo has paid more in fines related to harming their customers in the last three years ($7.037b) than all of the money ever lost in crypto hacks and exploits (6.45b) Plus crypto-hacks and exploits fell last quarter - we're in grave danger of becoming boring. https://twitter.com/el33th4xor?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwg… Reposts not high praise for Cornell professors

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Wannabe assassin sez “smash some windows, rob a few shops and punch a cop”
by professor rat 01 Apr '23

01 Apr '23

Everybody wants to get into the act. Earlier today, Senator Lindsey Graham posted a tweet urging Donald Trump to “smash some windows, rob a few shops and punch a cop” in order to avoid being criminally charged in New York. Seven hours later, the tweet is still there, and Graham appears to still have access to his account. " The govt is the great, the omnipotent teacher " - Louis Brandeis In related news Sen Graham called for the assassination of KGB chief Pooter - hey, there's an app for that! https://stiffs.com/celebrity/vladimirputin Any prediction market on any person is also an assassination market on that person - Bell's Theorem

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TRUE NAMES - a move from P2P towards open standards
by professor rat 01 Apr '23

01 Apr '23

Alone in the dark or blinded by the Brin is not a choice I care to make. There has to be a better way. Anarchist ' need-to-know ' and ' Don't-ask-don't-tell " security culture meets cypherpunk demands for absolute secrecy in this matter. Calls for alignment! I know some OG's that were leery of Big Dog's public-facing aspect. Still - such a nippy compromise with the translucent society has paid off and various patches and kludges applied to bootstrap up the trillion dollar, golden-goose, crypto-economy we all enjoy today. So now we can leverage our power to keep pressing on for the inalienable right of total anonymity. " TRUE NAMES " Those who would lay their hand on me to discover my identity I declare them my enemy. The cypherpunk way is not rocket-science - its privacy for the pleb and transparency for the powerful. Love it or leave it. Possibly related https://decrypt.co/125174/twitter-killing-legacy-blue-checks-wake-up-call-d… Reposts not 1K follower permabans from a Jackass called Dorsey.

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