July 2023 - cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

Feds Back Ex-UBS Worker In High Court Whistleblower Case
by Gunnar Larson 10 Jul '23

10 Jul '23

Feds Back Ex-UBS Worker In High Court Whistleblower Case By Sarah Jarvis A former UBS employee's whistleblower suit, which was taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court, has garnered formal support from the U.S. government and various advocacy groups, which have filed amicus briefs to help the ex-employee to reverse a Second Circuit decision voiding a nearly $1 million retaliation award. 4 documents attached https://www.law360.com/compliance/articles/1696918?nl_pk=e8718aa1-2adc-4c2d…

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Ski Operator Says NY Enforcers Only Got Docs From 1 Rival
by Gunnar Larson 10 Jul '23

10 Jul '23

Ski Operator Says NY Enforcers Only Got Docs From 1 Rival By Matthew Perlman A ski operator accused of creating a monopoly over resorts in the Syracuse, New York, area told a state court that it needs more time for discovery in the case because enforcers obtained documents from only one other operator during their two-year investigation. Letter attached https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1697142?nl_pk=00e0f28d-575b-4889-8d…

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NYC Woman Wants Time Served In CEO Stalker Case
by Gunnar Larson 10 Jul '23

10 Jul '23

NYC Woman Wants Time Served In CEO Stalker Case By Ali Sullivan A woman who pled guilty in March to harassing an unnamed chief executive officer with texts threatening the release of sexually explicit material is asking a New York federal judge to impose a sentence of time served. Memorandum attached https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1696525?nl_pk=00e0f28d-575b-4889-8d…

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Ex-Vitol Trader Can't Suppress Emails In Bribery Case
by Gunnar Larson 10 Jul '23

10 Jul '23

Ex-Vitol Trader Can't Suppress Emails In Bribery Case By Ivan Moreno A former Vitol Group oil trader accused of funneling bribes to officials of state-backed Petroecuador to secure a $300 million fuel contract has lost his bid to suppress tens of thousands of emails seized by the federal government after a Brooklyn federal judge concluded investigators acted reasonably in executing the search warrant. Order attached https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1697248?nl_pk=00e0f28d-575b-4889-8d…

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NYC Mayor's Supporters Ran Straw Donor Scam, DA Says
by Gunnar Larson 10 Jul '23

10 Jul '23

NYC Mayor's Supporters Ran Straw Donor Scam, DA Says By Rachel Scharf Six people, including construction company managers and an accountant, were charged in Manhattan state court Friday with using straw donors to inflate public funding of Mayor Eric Adams' 2021 campaign in the hopes of obtaining city contracts once Adams took office. Indictment attached https://www.law360.com/newyork/articles/1697062?nl_pk=00e0f28d-575b-4889-8d…

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Reed Smith Hires Ex-SFO Bribery Chief Patrick Rappo
by Gunnar Larson 10 Jul '23

10 Jul '23

Reed Smith Hires Ex-SFO Bribery Chief Patrick Rappo By Richard Crump Reed Smith LLP said on Monday it has hired Patrick Rappo, a former joint head of the Serious Fraud Office's bribery and corruption team, as a partner in its global regulatory investigation and enforcement practice in London. Read full article » https://www.law360.co.uk/financial-services-uk/articles/1697240?nl_pk=4fb41…

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Credit Union Can't Stop Ex-Director's Whistleblowing Claim
by Gunnar Larson 10 Jul '23

10 Jul '23

Credit Union Can't Stop Ex-Director's Whistleblowing Claim By William Janes A tribunal has rejected a bid by a Scottish credit union to toss out a claim by a former director that it sacked him after he went to the financial watchdog to blow the whistle on alleged rule-breaking and mismanagement by its board. Read full article » https://www.law360.co.uk/financial-services-uk/articles/1696479?nl_pk=4fb41…

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[spam][crazy][spam] imaginary code resembling trained dissociation
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 09 Jul '23

09 Jul '23

sometimes when i’m trying really hard to use part of my brain i write little smidges of code similar to my brain issue. it’s honestly nice to just use my faculties in any way at all at those times. this often looks like two object classes with method names that talk about or simplistically roleplay one attacking or stopping the other. i was thinking recently of q viewpoint around that near learning and skill, and the idea that systems that adapt or pursue goals have “sweet spots” of adaptation. i could see myself as avoiding these areas of effective behavior and learning, instead engaging the ineffective ones. other parts too …. i don’t remember well … anyway i experience these things for years, and one of the things going on is my brain is always modeling optimal skill improvement by focusing on the areas that avoid this most strongly.

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[spam][crazy][anxiety][spam] imaginary proofs regarding annihilation of all life in universe was imaginary halting
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 09 Jul '23

09 Jul '23

this idea of protecting the universe from anihhilation by a human-constructed paperclip factory (i.e. runaway borg) by using the speed of light boundary to show the danger in advance has a serious problem if you can predict general universal patterns about the universe, i think you can maybe send information faster than light by assuming some of it is already there

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My new article - Georgia hasn't, and can't, certify crucial vote software update
by Douglas Lucas 09 Jul '23

09 Jul '23

Howdy Cypherpunks, Today BradBlog.com, run for two decades and counting by journalist Brad Friedman -- host of the AM/FM radio show the BradCast, syndicated across the U.S. -- published my new investigative article titled: _Exclusive: Georgia Secretary of State Has Failed to Certify Urgent, CISA-Recommended Voting Software Update_ and subtitled ... _Critics charge state laws block him from doing so, even if he wanted to..._ Here's the hyperlink direct to my article: https://bradblog.com/?p=14711 and my newly pinned tweet for it: https://twitter.com/DouglasLucas/status/1676695595774509057 I included a sentence just for grarpamp: "Following the breach, the intruders uploaded Dominion's 5.5-A software suite to a secret site on the Internet, allowing access to selected individuals and organizations who, themselves, may have further disseminated the swiped software." More precisely, it was a password-protected site; the intruders were partisan, and 'allowing access to selected' should have been 'restricting access to only selected individuals' ... more Leak Keeper behavior. Summary: In short, Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has not contracted with a certification agent (typically a VSTL or voting system test laboratory) to get a state-level examination done for Dominion Democracy Suite 5.17. Other evidence similarly shows Raffensperger isn't moving, and cannot move, on the 5.17 software version. According to Univ Michigan computer science professor J. Alex Halderman -- whose report on the matter was unsealed by a federal judge last month -- 5.17 purportedly addresses the flaws he uncovered in version 5.5-A. That older 5.5-A version is presumably what we'd find in place if we wheeled out the voting computers presently locked away in Georgia warehouses and closets and booted them up. It's the same defective version currently slated for use on Election Day 2024, since Raffensperger says he won't update till at least 2025. With how long these issues have been raised, Raffensperger is taking longer to patch than the U.S.'s whole official involvement in World War II. Given the Coffee County breach (see my previous article, also posted to this list by me) and Halderman's report, the vulnerabilities and code of 5.5-A are probably widespread by now, putting a November 2024 bullseye on the swing state's back unless Raffensperger's office switches to, say, hand-marked paper ballots tabulated by scanners checked through mandatory, robust Prof. Philip Stark-style risk-limiting audits. Some points of interest to the Cypherpunks email list in my article: A lying State Secretary spokesperson who's a higher-up at an opaque department; proprietary software (no way to really know if 5.17 actually does mend 5.5-A to any impressive degree), physical breaches leading to exact copies being uploaded to secret sites for restricted audiences seeking partisan and/or pecuniary gain (Coffee County); and many voters who typically only care about earning their I Voted stickers on Election Day -- with gale-force screeching about patriotism for a few days -- yet who ignore electoral mechanics the 36-plus other months of each presidential cycle, because, it is said, thinking too hard, caring too much, is uncool, especially when there's so much good TV lately and we work so we deserve to just be happy... Thanks, and curious for any meaningful feedback, Douglas

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