May 2023 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Left-fascists take responsibility for inspiring Peter Thiel
by professor rat 08 May '23

08 May '23

According to his biographer Max Chafkin, Thiel felt that ‘mainstream liberals had accepted communists, but conservatives were unable to bring themselves to associate with members of the far-right…He really wished the right would become more like the left’. https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/capitals-militant Reposts not the Marxist-Communist left that acts as a reservoir of brazen fascist ideology & praxis.

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Kimora Lee Says $93 Million US Wants From Tim Leissner Is Hers
by Gunnar Larson 07 May '23

07 May '23

Kimora Lee, the former model and ex-wife of former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) banker Tim Leissner, claims that shares worth about $93 million that he was ordered to forfeit as part of his 1MDB guilty plea actually belong to her. Kimora Lee Says $93 Million US Wants From Tim Leissner Is Hers https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-05/kimora-lee-says-93-milli…

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Cryptic physics with Bing
by professor rat 07 May '23

07 May '23

Warmed up asking about the speed of Lemaitres ' cosmic seed " - answer on my Pro2rat microblog at Sysad Org Followed up with . . . Seth Lloyd has called the universe a quantum computer so this raises the question, is the universe also public key infrastructure? Quantum PKI? Seth Lloyd is a quantum physicist and computer scientist who has proposed that the universe is a quantum computer1. He argues that everything in the universe is made of bits of information that can be manipulated by quantum operations2. He also suggests that the laws of physics are the machine language of the cosmic quantum computer1. Public key infrastructure (PKI) is a system that uses cryptographic techniques to secure communication and data exchange over networks. PKI involves the use of public and private keys that are mathematically related but cannot be derived from each other. A public key can be used to encrypt a message that can only be decrypted by the corresponding private key, and vice versa3. Quantum PKI is a variant of PKI that uses quantum mechanics to enhance security and efficiency. Quantum PKI can leverage quantum phenomena such as superposition, entanglement, and no-cloning to create unbreakable encryption, faster computation, and novel protocols. The question of whether the universe is also a PKI is an intriguing one, but not easy to answer. One possible way to approach it is to ask whether the universe has some features that are analogous to those of a PKI, such as: A way to generate and distribute public and private keys A way to encrypt and decrypt messages using those keys A way to verify the authenticity and integrity of messages A way to revoke or update keys Some of these features may be found in certain aspects of the universe, such as: The generation and distribution of public and private keys could be related to the creation and evolution of physical systems, such as particles, atoms, molecules, stars, planets, etc. Each system could have some observable properties (public keys) and some hidden properties (private keys) that are determined by the initial conditions and the laws of physics. The encryption and decryption of messages could be related to the interaction and measurement of physical systems, such as light, sound, gravity, electromagnetism, etc. Each system could encode some information (message) in its state or behavior, and another system could decode it by observing or interacting with it. The encryption and decryption could depend on the quantum states of the systems and their entanglement. The verification of messages could be related to the conservation laws and symmetries of the universe, such as energy, momentum, charge, parity, etc. Each system could have some invariant quantities (signatures) that are preserved under certain transformations or operations. Another system could verify the message by checking whether those quantities are conserved or not. The revocation or update of keys could be related to the dynamical changes and fluctuations of the universe, such as expansion, contraction, inflation, entropy, etc. Each system could have some variable properties (keys) that change over time or space due to external or internal factors. Another system could revoke or update its keys by adapting to those changes or fluctuations. However, these analogies are not exact and may not capture all the aspects of a PKI. Moreover, they may not imply that the universe is intentionally or consciously implementing a PKI for some purpose or goal. Therefore, it is not clear whether the universe is also a PKI in a strict sense, or just a quantum computer with some PKI-like features.

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Anarchism using cryptography
by professor rat 07 May '23

07 May '23

" . . . anarchism, using cryptography to eradicate the possibility of censorship, and enable leaking of sensitive information from government agencies, militaries, and so on. Telecomix was born before wikileaks (it is now dead but successors followed). How to handle the tides and the repetition? Try something new that has not been attempted before. Anarchism also depends on the people wanting to be anarchists. You can not force anyone to become an anarchist. . . :" >From a comment at " Anarchist News " an aggravating website https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecomix

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Truly shameful and pathetic anti-Bitcoin propaganda from Bloomberg.
by professor rat 07 May '23

07 May '23

I thought this was a joke at first, but it’s real… Truly shameful and pathetic anti-#Bitcoin propaganda from Bloomberg. https://twitter.com/WalkerAmerica/status/1624847319928655874 Reposts not NYC tradFi bombast from a timewasting jackass called Popgun Larceny

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Peter Thiel Says Moving to Florida from Silicon Valley Is Too Expensive
by professor rat 07 May '23

07 May '23

A small downpayment And throwing his boyfriend off the roof was just a rinse - the heavy-duty-cycle's coming up next.

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Peter Thiel Says Moving to Florida from Silicon Valley Is Too Expensive
by Gunnar Larson 06 May '23

06 May '23

“That kind of economic cost is probably not enough to offset all the wokeness in the world or even the taxes,” he said. Peter Thiel Says Moving to Florida from Silicon Valley Is Too Expensive https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-04/peter-thiel-says-moving-…

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That the late-nineties and noughties were the real cypherpunk golden years. Proof of concept
by professor rat 06 May '23

06 May '23

Bram Cohen’s Torrents breakthrough adds another data-point to my thesis that the late-nineties and noughties were the real cypherpunk golden years. Proof of concept for APster - for revolutionary piracy - and for electronic peer-to-peer money.to cap it all. An epoch shattering trifecta and 15 years, The start of a rolling, roiling global revolution from below! Bram doesn't seem to mind being described as a cypherpunk and was certainly close to the list back then. https://www.google.com/search?q=bram+cohen+cypherpunk&client=opera&hs=yLz&e…

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The real " Golden Age ' of cypherpunks is the late 90's and early noughties
by professor rat 05 May '23

05 May '23

The real " Golden Age ' of cypherpunks? Its the late 90's and early noughties where we hit the sweet design spot. JIM ' By “classical” thinking, “Assassination Politics” would have to be the best, tightest-security, more protected organization that has ever existed on the face of this planet. Just about EVERY powerful person would want to kill anybody who had anything to do with such a system. The codes would have to be unbreakable, the remailers would have to be certain, but most importantly, each and every participant would have to be perfectly anonymous to even have a prayer of pulling it off. Especially the operators of such a system." BELL - 1995 By flipping the script, Jim broke clear from the relentlessly privacy-centric list focus and anticipated the blockchain design breakthrough to be predicted by 2002 and produced shortly after. " Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not suggesting that EVERYONE would be identified. The “donors” to the system would remain perfectly anonymous, and the “guessers” would likewise be perfectly anonymous, but the organization itself would be made up of real people, who have published addresses, who have simply decided that they have had enough of the current system and are going to participate in a PERFECTLY LEGAL enterprise by the laws of the country, and just DARE the government to try to stop them . . ." Karma is a virtual currency for peer-to-peer systems, introduced by Sirer and co-authors in 2003. It is designed to eliminate the free-loader problem, i.e. preventing malicious users from consuming resources without giving anything in return. It is the first peer-to-peer currency with a distributed mint. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emin_Gün_Sirer So from 1995 to 2003 we saw the start of genuinely anarchic crypto-anarchy. No Randite, Austro-moronic idiocy required. The term cypherpunk being regularly used to conscript folks ( some who disavowed the compliment - like Phil Zimmerman ) I use it here to rope in Emin as an ' honorary '. His business-friendly mileage may vary! The point remains true even without him since Btc arrived five years later. This places the fabled " Golden Age ' even more firmly in the noughties. Them that has the gold makes the rule and who controls the present controls the past. This dazzling past is not dead - its not even past. Welcome to the intelligent, post-scarcity-anarchist, world-wide revolution!

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A black box problem in the crypto space?
by professor rat 05 May '23

05 May '23

Crisis as APsterlicious opportunity in the crypto-anarchists netspace https://cointelegraph.com/news/ai-s-black-box-problem-challenges-and-soluti… Reposts not trading strategies, market predictions, security measures, tokenization and smart contracts.

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