June 2023 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Cryptocurrency: Musk Launches Global Tax Protest
by grarpamp 05 Jun '23

05 Jun '23

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1664941886040076288 "I've paid taxes for things you people wouldn't believe. -- Elon Musk (deadpan memeposted)" Jun 3 17,557 27,540 2,139 337,463

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John McAfee: Crypto Libertarian Privacy and Love Evangelist, Dead at 75
by grarpamp 05 Jun '23

05 Jun '23

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Karl Semichs hate-filled revisionism
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 04 Jun '23

04 Jun '23

" . . . nobody is accepting crypto for death here, and saying you are offering additionally does not provide it . . ." That is not what happened in the trials of CJ, Jim and myself. And you know better than the US FBI about this? " . . . officials say they are concerned about the threats, which were sent to an e-mail listserv and posted on the Internet in April. “The recipients of the threats have no way to discern their validity,” said Jeff Dorschner, spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office. "They cause fear and they disrupt lives, and it’s for that reason that they’re taken very seriously. “It’s more than the individual targets. It’s the families and those associated with them,” he said. That is the purpose of the postings, an Australian man who admits to using the Professor Rat name and to posting these kinds of threats said in a telephone interview and a series of e-mails: To scare people out of working for the government. He refused to admit to any specific threat, to avoid prosecution, he said. He already is charged with making similar threats against police in Australia, according to the Victoria Police in Melbourne. Saying that his real name was Matt Taylor and that he was 48 years old, Professor Rat said he promotes a theory called Assassination Politics that emerged at the periphery of cyberanarchist circles in 1997. The concept is that of an online lottery in which people bet on a date that public figures will die. The implication is that the lottery “winner” likely helped arrange the death. Winnings would be paid in untraceable digital cash, which does not yet exist. The development of digital money, and encryption software restricting government’s ability to monitor Internet activity, are common goals among the online anarchists and libertarians known as “cypherpunks.” The ultimate purpose of Assassination Politics is to deter people from working for government agencies, corporate media outlets or institutions “beholden to the violence of the state,” Taylor said. Professor Rat also has threatened a University of Ottawa law professor, a columnist for The Boston Globe and a Cincinnati police officer. Many of those threats were posted to a listserv called Cypherpunks. The e-mail distribution network allows libertarians and anarchists interested in the tension between government oversight and individual liberty on the Internet to discuss those issues via e-mails that when sent to the listserv are distributed to all members. Dorschner would not say whether there was an investigation into Professor Rat, calling the matter an issue of “internal security.” The columnist for The Boston Globe, whose sin, in the eyes of Professor Rat, was to criticize civil libertarians for objecting to the Patriot Act of 2001, said he did not take the threat at all seriously. He learned of the threat only last week, when told of it by The Denver Post, he said. The Post is withholding the names of the subjects of posts by Professor Rat to avoid promoting any specific threats. “The way I see it, this kind of talk is pretty cheap on the Internet,” the columnist said. “This is something I would consider casual hate speech. This person didn’t send me an e-mail saying 'I’m going to kill you.”’ But officials in Denver see nothing casual about the statements, Dorschner said. In an interview, Taylor taunted the Denver officials named in the April 8 statement. “They’re welcome to come and get me extradited,” he said. “Here I am. Come and get me.” The Cypherpunks listserv is also where Jim Bell, an MIT-trained chemist and Washington anarchist who now is in prison for interstate stalking of federal agents, unveiled his Assassination Politics. He was convicted in 2001. Federal prosecutors in Seattle that year also won a conviction against Carl Johnson, a Canadian man accused of threatening federal judges and Microsoft founder Bill Gates by e-mail. Later in 2001, Thomas Wales, a federal prosecutor in Seattle, was shot to death. Though his death was noted on the Cypherpunks listserv, no connection to Assassination Politics has ever been made. The case remains unsolved. John Hartingh, spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Seattle, declined to comment on Wales’ death. Taylor said his threats are intended solely as a rhetorical deterrent. “No one has to die,” he said. “All that has to happen is for people to accept the system.” If anyone Taylor threatened ever was assassinated, “I would totally reassess my involvement in it,” he said. “It would totally change the whole situation. Basically, I’m a nonviolent person.” The posts made by Professor Rat fall under a relatively new category of crime known as “cyberstalking,” said Jim Doyle, a retired New York City police sergeant who now works as a cybercrimes consultant for a Connecticut company called Internet Crimes. The statements made by Professor Rat constitute prosecutable offenses, he said. “The bottom line is what the victim feels,” he said. “Is the victim threatened? Is the victim alarmed? Hey, that’s a crime.” Eugene Volokh, a law professor at the University of California-Los Angeles and a First Amendment specialist, said the threats were probably criminal, given Taylor’s description of the purpose of Assassination Politics. But “in order to (prosecute), you have to get your hands on the guy,” he said.. . . ." Fuck off Karl

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We have an absolute expectation of anarchy
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 04 Jun '23

04 Jun '23

Sorry - I'm still acclimatizing to tablet life after two decades of keyboards and windows. So where was I? Oh yeah. . . . https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/02/crypto-anarchist-coders-evade-law-… Reposts with excess sodium in this case. Going dark means death to all Duginites.

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[old] Silk Guardian is an anti-forensic LKM kill-switch
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 04 Jun '23

04 Jun '23

Jul 31, 2022 https://github.com/NateBrune/silk-guardian # silk-guardian Silk Guardian is an anti-forensic LKM kill-switch that waits for a change on your usb ports then deletes precious files and turns off your computer. Inspired by [usbkill](https://github.com/hephaest0s/usbkill). I remade this project as a Linux kernel driver for fun and to learn. Many people have contributed since, and I thank them. To run: ```shell make sudo insmod silk.ko ``` You will need to have the `linux-headers` package installed. If you haven't: ```shell sudo apt-get install linux-headers ``` ### Why? There are 3 reasons (maybe more?) to use this tool: - In case the police or other thugs come busting in. The police commonly uses a « [mouse jiggler](http://www.amazon.com/Cru-dataport-Jiggler-Automatic-keyboard-Acti… » to keep the screensaver and sleep mode from activating. - You don't want someone retrieve documents from your computer via USB or install malware or backdoors. - You want to improve the security of your (Full Disk Encrypted) home or corporate server (e.g. Your Raspberry). > **[!] Important**: Make sure to use (partial) disk encryption ! Otherwise intruders will be able to access your harddrive. > **Tip**: Additionally, you may use a cord to attach a USB key to your wrist. Then insert the key into your computer and insert the kernel module. If they steal your computer, the USB will be removed and the computer shuts down immediately. ### Feature List - Shutdown the computer when there is USB activity - Secure deletion of incriminating files before shutdown - No dependencies - Difficult to detect ### To Do - Ability to whitelist USB devices ![](http://www.gia.edu/img/sprites/icon-green-check.png) - Remove files before shutdown ![](http://www.gia.edu/img/sprites/icon-green-check.png) - Remove userspace dependancy upon shutdown ![](http://www.gia.edu/img/sprites/icon-green-check.png) More like... to-done. Way to go community you did it! ### Change Log 2.0 - Updated to use notifier interface. 1.5 - Updated to use shred and remove files on shutdown 1.0 - Initial release. ### Contact [natebrune@gmail.com](mailto:natebrune@gmail.com) https://keybase.io/natebrune

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We have an absolute expectation of anarchy
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 04 Jun '23

04 Jun '23

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Hey Karl...
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 04 Jun '23

04 Jun '23

Much as I have to agree with Gramps about anything he is quite right to complain about you. I endorse and echo his complaint and remind all hateful spammers that attack this list they risk being kidnapped and slowly tortured to death. SEAR the affair of the barbarians. We already know a lot about you, Semich You have already earned killing ( my 2k sats ) Get off this list

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Bitcoin maximalists have distorted Finney’s vision
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 04 Jun '23

04 Jun '23

Veteran Crypto Investor Adam Cochran Sheds Light on Hal Finney’s Progressive Vision for Bitcoin cryptoglobe.com ·4 days ago Hal wrote on his homepage that I AM NOT A LIBERTARIAN And reality continues to betray a left-liberal bias.

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Still more evidence for Hercules than Jesus
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 04 Jun '23

04 Jun '23

Much as I hate to agree with Gramps about anything he is quite right to complain . . Correction! More evidence for Hercules than Jesus https://en.muktomona.com/posts/2008/12-25-did-a-historical-jesus-exist Reposts never gospel truth asserted by holy innocents

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83 Highlights to UNITED NATIONS TREATIES AND PRINCIPLES ON OUTER SPACE
by Gunnar Larson 04 Jun '23

04 Jun '23

83 Highlights to UNITED NATIONS TREATIES AND PRINCIPLES ON OUTER SPACE: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bA8bzSqYZ5YlZWdgsvyrXWSufZIl_k7b/view?usp=… Text of treaties and principles governing the activities of States in the exploration and use of outer space, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly. Contents Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v Part one. United Nations treaties A. Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 B. Agreement on the Rescue of Astronauts, the Return of Astronauts and the Return of Objects Launched into Outer Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 C. Convention on International Liability for Damage Caused by Space Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 D. Convention on Registration of Objects Launched into Outer Space . . . 22 E. Agreement Governing the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Part two. Principles adopted by the General Assembly A. Declaration of Legal Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 B. Principles Governing the Use by States of Artificial Earth Satellites for International Direct Television Broadcasting . . . . . . . . . . . 41 C. Principles Relating to Remote Sensing of the Earth from Outer Space. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 D. Principles Relevant to the Use of Nuclear Power Sources in Outer Space. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 E. Declaration on International Cooperation in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space for the Benefit and in the Interest of All States, Taking into Particular Account the Needs of Developing Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

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