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[crazy] a short summary of was Re: My new article - Georgia hasn't, and can't, certify crucial vote software update
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 07 Jul '23

07 Jul '23

I have trouble reading long sentences on topics like this. If you do too, here's an even shorter summary of dal's email! [an attempt] Inline below. On 7/5/23, Douglas Lucas <dal(a)riseup.net> wrote: > > > 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: Douglas wrote another article for bradblog! > _Exclusive: Georgia Secretary of State Has Failed to Certify Urgent, > CISA-Recommended Voting Software Update_ Georgia Secretary Ignores Voting Software Hotfixes > and subtitled ... > > _Critics charge state laws block him from doing so, even if he wanted > to..._ Upgrading Voting Software Is Illegal [it seems funny to me when stated like that] > 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 https://bradblog.com/?p=14711 > 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. The voting software site password and content was shared in a partisan manner. Can grarpamp get access?? Dominion Democracy Suite 5.5-A > 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 Brad Raffensperger is responsible for contracting state auditing for version 5.17 and is ignoring this. > 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 CS Prof J. Alex Halderman found flaws in 5.5-A and says 5.17 resolves them. > 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 says he will not update until after election day 2024. > 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 5.5-A vulnerabilities are likely widespread by now [see also Coffee County]. > Raffensperger's office switches to, say, hand-marked paper ballots > tabulated by > scanners checked through mandatory, robust Prof. Philip Stark-style > risk-limiting audits. As a swing state, Georgia is a prime vote cracking target [whitehats?] unless Raffensperger switches to paper ballots. > 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... Cypherpunks?: - There's a lying spokesperson for the state secretary who is also a closed-doors higher-up - The voting software is closed source, making analysis poor quality - The building was broken into physically and the software exfiltrated to private groups (Coffee County) - Voters are acting like media-sheep for everything other than the moment of presidential ballot filling > > Thanks, and curious for any meaningful feedback, Reading through it, as/roleplaying a hobby hacker, the most interesting point is how to find access to the source code. The Coffee County article (which I'm not sure what is) sounds quite interesting, after reading this. Hackers read code easier than language. An old whitehat solution to this problem was to hack every machine to ensure its correct operation. Kind of a bigger situation than that. More likely they all get hacked to disable them, much clearer then. Regarding politics, it seems like some kind of direct pressure on it being illegal to run voting machines with a known compromise, or Raffensperger's responsibilities in office here, or if somebody demonstrating more competence or responsibilities needs power. I wonder what a lawyer would say about this situation? Slightly curious if there's a counterstory that could explain how the situation has continued, or if it's just a lot of handwaving. > > Douglas

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Calls for new CIVIL WAR in the USA!
by professor rat 07 Jul '23

07 Jul '23

Indicted Trump Aide Caught on Tape Moving Boxes Ahead of DOJ Visit SURVEILLANCE FOOTAGE Trump Extremists Demand Civil War, Mass Murder After New Indictment At the online forum The Donald, Trump fans are suggesting lynching, civil war, and violence in response to new Trump indictment. To launch attacks under favorable circumstances is not only every anarchist revolutionary’s right, but their plain duty. The killing of spies, policemen, commissars, the blowing up of police stations, the liberation of prisoners, the seizure of government funds for the needs of the uprising—such operations are already being carried out wherever insurrection is rife. TIMOTHY " An anonymous computerized market will even make possible abhorrent markets for assassinations and extortion " C. MAY 1992 TIM " I guess now that the Pentagon is setting up a murder pool it can't be illegal for us to do it " MAY. 2003 What forbids us translating the freedom afforded by the Internet to ordinary life? I think that blockchains will replace armies for national defense, because a blockchain-based assassination market will be created…" Zach. CryptoGo Cypherpunks collapse governments. Subject: Everyone a remailer: Everyone a Mint: Everyone an assassin https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=100872510706876&w=2 Strong-crypto, digital money, anonymous networks, pseudonyms, zero- knowledge proofs, reputations, information-markets, netwar, collapse-of-governments. http://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/cyphernomicon.txt Marc responded, “indeed, free and open source software seems non-negotiable here: no backdoors, no skeleton key. National security establishment would balk at this though?” Rohan responds, “yes, fuck them. I don’t think we should be taking policy advice about how to design our money for the people who think the Patriot Act was a good thing ..." https://www.coindesk.com/podcasts/coindesk-podcast-network/us-digital-dolla… WHO wants to join the *LAST* revolution? The one to take down *ALL* the governments! Anarchism is not lack of orders …its lack of *ORDERS*

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NCIS Assassination Bureau
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 06 Jul '23

06 Jul '23

NCIS Assassination Bureau https://twitter.com/TomDreisbach/status/1677002117880623105 Like Ricky Shiffer, a veteran and Jan6er whom Trump incited to attempt violence..." Blowback in any large Military-Entertainment-Complex is a terrible thing

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Fwd: NY-DFS Proposed Guidance on Character and Fitness (Extension Appeal)
by Gunnar Larson 06 Jul '23

06 Jul '23

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Scott, Kathleen (DFS) <Kathleen.Scott(a)dfs.ny.gov> Date: Wed, Jul 5, 2023, 11:32 AM Subject: RE: NY-DFS Proposed Guidance on Character and Fitness (Extension Appeal) To: Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io> Cc: cypherpunks(a)cpunks.org <cypherpunks(a)cpunks.org>, Tomczak, Christine (DFS) <christine.tomczak(a)dfs.ny.gov>, dfs.sm.BankingComments < BankingComments(a)dfs.ny.gov>, Dean, Peter C (DFS) <Peter.Dean(a)dfs.ny.gov> Dear Mr. Larson The Department has not extended the deadline on comments on the proposed Character and Fitness guidance. Very truly yours Kathleen Scott *From:* Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io> *Sent:* Sunday, July 2, 2023 6:38 AM *To:* Scott, Kathleen (DFS) <Kathleen.Scott(a)dfs.ny.gov> *Cc:* cypherpunks(a)cpunks.org; Tomczak, Christine (DFS) < christine.tomczak(a)dfs.ny.gov>; Harris, Adrienne A (DFS) < Adrienne.Harris(a)dfs.ny.gov>; letitia.james(a)ag.ny.gov; dfs.sm.BankingComments <BankingComments(a)dfs.ny.gov> *Subject:* Re: NY-DFS Proposed Guidance on Character and Fitness (Extension Appeal) You don't often get email from g(a)xny.io. Learn why this is important <https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification> *ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails.* Dear Ms. Scott: Today xNY.io - Bank.org asks NY-DFS to please reconsider deadline for public comment concerning "Proposed Guidance on Assessment of the Character and Fitness of Directors, Senior Officers, and Managers" mentioned here: https://www.dfs.ny.gov/industry_guidance/industry_letters/il20230509_guidan… . xNY.io - Bank.org asks if the NY-DFS will extend deadline for public comment to August 5, 2023 from June 30, 2023. As requested by NY-DFS, today we provide evidence of any documented exceptions to compliance with the "Suggested Questions to Facilitate Initial and Ongoing Assessment of Designated Persons’ Character and Fitness." As Ms. Tomczak can confirm, xNY.io - Bank.org has a FOIL Request No. 2022-090560 - Larson (NY-DFS Apple Card Investigation) appeal pending since October 13, 2022. This last Friday, Bloomberg reported, "Goldman Sachs Is in Talks to Exit Apple Partnership, WSJ Says" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-30/goldman-sachs-is-in-talk… . xNY.io - Bank.org is seeking NY-DFS' extension for public comment to August 5, 2023 so that the New York Banking community has time to complete Q2-23 earnings call disclosures. Furthermore, xNY.io - Bank.org has collated 19 references comprising 205 highlights that touch on the five key areas below: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FTRRFFhQHDxf-oR9WOZz0a2gRtC9ZWVO. -Harassment and Discrimination Policies -Conflict of Interest Policy -Insider Trading Policy -Records Management Policy -Corporate Opportunity Policy As documented in the above 19 references, we feel extra time for public comment is warranted to ensure that xNY.io - Bank.org did not play a significant role or otherwise contribute in a meaningful way to the conduct that led to regulatory action or proceeding without ample notice. Per point one of NY-DFS' "Suggested Questions to Facilitate Initial and Ongoing Assessment of Designated Persons’ Character and Fitness," can you kindly acknowledge that you have reviewed and understand our 'third' appeal seeking extension for public comment to August 5, 2023? Sending you the very best from Chelsea. Thank you, Gunnar -- Gunnar Larson xNY.io | Bank.org MSc - Digital Currency MBA - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip) G(a)xNY.io +1-917-580-8053 New York, New York 10001 On Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 7:02 PM Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io> wrote: Dear Ms. Scott: Thank you for your response. Wishing you a great weekend ahead. Gunnar Gunnar Larson xNY.io - Bank.org 917-580-8053 On Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 4:59 PM Scott, Kathleen (DFS) < Kathleen.Scott(a)dfs.ny.gov> wrote: Dear Mr. Larson, The Department has reviewed your request and at this time is not extending the deadline for comment on the proposed guidance. For the avoidance of doubt, please note that the proposed guidance is not asking anyone to complete the sample questionnaire. The sample questionnaire is merely provided for review and comment by entities regulated by the Department. Very truly yours, Kathleen Scott *From:* Gunnar Larson <g(a)xny.io> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 28, 2023 12:05 AM *To:* Scott, Kathleen (DFS) <Kathleen.Scott(a)dfs.ny.gov> *Cc:* dfs.sm.BankingComments <BankingComments(a)dfs.ny.gov>; cypherpunks(a)cpunks.org *Subject:* NY-DFS Proposed Guidance on Character and Fitness (Extension Appeal) You don't often get email from g(a)xny.io. Learn why this is important <https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification> *ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails.* Ms. Scott: NY-DFS recently asked for public comment concerning "Proposed Guidance on Assessment of the Character and Fitness of Directors, Senior Officers, and Managers" mentioned here: https://www.dfs.ny.gov/industry_guidance/industry_letters/il20230509_guidan… . xNY.io - Bank.org asks if the NY-DFS will extend deadline for public comment to August 5, 2023 from June 30, 2023. As requested by NY-DFS, today we provide (in a separate attachment) evidence of any documented exceptions to compliance with the "Suggested Questions to Facilitate Initial and Ongoing Assessment of Designated Persons’ Character and Fitness." We have collated 19 references comprising 205 highlights that touch on the five key areas below: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FTRRFFhQHDxf-oR9WOZz0a2gRtC9ZWVO. -Harassment and Discrimination Policies -Conflict of Interest Policy -Insider Trading Policy -Records Management Policy -Corporate Opportunity Policy xNY.io - Bank.org is seeking NY-DFS' extension for public comment to August 5, 2023 so that the New York Banking community has time to complete Q2-23 earnings call disclosures. As documented in the above 19 references, we feel extra time for public comment is warranted to ensure that xNY.io - Bank.org did not play a significant role or otherwise contribute in a meaningful way to the conduct that led to regulatory action or proceeding without ample notice. Per point one of NY-DFS' "Suggested Questions to Facilitate Initial and Ongoing Assessment of Designated Persons’ Character and Fitness," can you kindly acknowledge that you have reviewed and understand our appeal seeking extension for public comment to August 5, 2023? We hope to hear from you before June 30, 2023 given obvious factors. Sending you the very best regards. Thank you, Gunnar -- Gunnar Larson xNY.io | Bank.org MSc - Digital Currency MBA - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip) G(a)xNY.io +1-917-580-8053 New York, New York 10001

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Cryptocurrency: "Auditablity [of the Coinbase]" Is Moot Arg Against Coin Privacy, Formal Verification, Risk, ZK, BTC Is Not Fungible
by grarpamp 05 Jul '23

05 Jul '23

If a privacy coin protocol works in its formally verified and audited design, software, and operational protocols, then you do NOT need to count coins in the coinbase, you do NOT need "transparency" into the blockchain or the database ledger, you simply know through exhaustive formal audit, rigorous design and testing, simulation, opensource, etc that it works, you don't need to "see" it. In fact, Bitcoin and all other cryptos have never been subjected to such high audits. You have foolishly elevated the meme of "transparency" that you see into making assurances and trust that it cannot provide. Assured protocols eliminate the need to put such exclusionary weight and arguments upon "transparency", thereby enabling coin privacy. If you are "trusting" the software, instead of validating the software protocols, then you absolutely cannot rationally be placing $Trillions of money into it. Given that nothing's properly validated today anyways, there's no reason left not to do privacy coins, and every reason to begin doing them well. Expect that Zero Knowledge systems will become much bigger component elements in the space, and that "transparency" aka non-privacy will fall out of favor, not least due to its obvious risk and plan of severe detriment, and very current harm, upon Human Freedom. Got DEX yet? You're going to need it to shift out of all that Bitcoin-BTC into the coming privacy coins that will soon overtake it... Bitcoin-BTC is NOT fungible. Why Satoshi made Bitcoin transparent and not privacy oriented? (self.Bitcoin) submitted 9 hours ago by Advanced_Code1443 Hello, been in the space for a coulple years now, I probably know the answer to the question but wanted to talk with you guys about it. Was pondering the recent BlackRock's ETF filing and its conseguences for the future of the industry and I stumbled upon this problem. Why did Satoshi make Bitcoin transaparent? Was it because he wanted the protocol to be actually adoptable and not only a nieche currency? Let me know what you guys think and, most important, if some one actually knows or remeber the reason behind this feature, since I believe it is expressed somewhere... maybe in the original forum... 12 comments share save hide report [–]NervousNorbert 9 points10 points11 points 9 hours ago (0 children) Why did Satoshi make Bitcoin transaparent? It's not clear what you mean by "transparent". If you mean why he didn't make transactions harder to trace, the simple answer is that he invented the whole tech and there were no techniques to conceal money flows properly back then. So Satoshi didn't sit and think "I can choose to make it traceable or untraceable. I think I'll go for traceable." He understood that traceability is a problem and suggested various measures against it in the whitepaper. 14 years later we have a few techniques to conceal transaction sender, recipient and amount, but they all come with significant trade-offs that may include much larger transaction byte size, and more difficult to audit money supply. These things are hard and involve cryptographic innovation that takes years – you couldn't expect Satoshi to just code it up in a few years on his own before Bitcoin was even public. Those 14 years since inception has given Bitcoin many improvements in privacy, however, and it's still a major focus for many developers. permalink embed save report give award reply [–]iconoclast63[🍰] 6 points7 points8 points 9 hours ago (1 child) Unless the blockchain is open source and public the system would require trust. Unless Bitcoin is trustless and open it's not really an innovation. permalink embed save report give award reply [–]Umpire_State_Bldg 1 point2 points3 points 9 hours ago (0 children) Bob logged into a KYC exchange and bought some Bitcoin. Then Bob sent the Bitcoin to a receive address which had never been used before. To whom did Bob send those Bitcoin? * Alice * Himself * Illinois Nazis * His brother * Marcellus Wallace, who don't like to be fucked by anybody except Mrs Wallace * The babysitter * Lance, the heroin dealer * A terrorist organization * A woman who sells very nice socks from Peru * The St. Helen of the Blessed Shroud Orphanage * Joe Walsh Answer: * Nobody knows (except Bob) permalink embed save report give award reply [–]Relai_Alexredditor for 3 months 1 point2 points3 points 9 hours ago (0 children) Why did Satoshi make Bitcoin transaparent? The network being open to everyone check anything means, no trust is necessary. Was it because he wanted the protocol to be actually adoptable and not only a nieche currency? Bitcoin is still a niche currency. permalink embed save report give award reply [–]pablo_in_blood 1 point2 points3 points 8 hours ago (0 children) The form of digital trust that was essentially invented with bitcoin requires transparency. It’s a public ledger. That’s the whole point. Privacy mechanisms can be (and have been) built on top of that but they aren’t the core innovation that made bitcoin what it is. permalink embed save report give award reply [–]bitusher 1 point2 points3 points 7 hours ago (0 children) Bitcoin transactions onchain are not "transparent" but pseudonymous. This essentially means you can choose between degrees of transparency or privacy. Being able to audit the supply and give people the choice is essential. Day to day transactions were never meant to happen onchain regardless. These are supposed to occur on other layers like lightning payment channels which is very private by default. permalink embed save report give award reply [–]BellSouthUY 1 point2 points3 points 9 hours ago (0 children) LOL but that can be said about any invention. "Why didn't they think about this in the original draft". There was no perceived need for privacy coins in a world where coins didn't exist. The problem had to be created before the solution. permalink embed save report give award reply [–]looneytones8 0 points1 point2 points 8 hours ago (0 children) auditability permalink embed save report give award reply [–]StrawGreeter 0 points1 point2 points 6 hours ago (0 children) Why Satoshi made Bitcoin transparent Bitcoin's transparency is limited to a single link from a transaction input back to the transaction output being spent. This link provides proof that a transaction output is either unspent, or spent only once permalink embed save report give award reply [–]BusinessBreakfast3 0 points1 point2 points 3 hours ago (0 children) So that we can practice "don't trust, verify"

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THE ARCH-typical Marxist-Commie anticapitalist - KNOW your ENEMY!
by professor rat 05 Jul '23

05 Jul '23

https://www.counterpunch.org/author/3abre/ Reposts not invitations down screaming brainrot avenue

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Fewer Retirees Taking Crucial Pension Advice, Insurer Says
by Gunnar Larson 04 Jul '23

04 Jul '23

Fewer Retirees Taking Crucial Pension Advice, Insurer Says By Martin Croucher More and more workers have cashed out their pensions without seeking financial advice in the past five years, an insurer said Monday. Read full article » https://www.law360.co.uk/financial-services-uk/articles/1695465?nl_pk=4fb41…

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Most Whistleblowers To FCA Don't Report Anonymously
by Gunnar Larson 04 Jul '23

04 Jul '23

Most Whistleblowers To FCA Don't Report Anonymously By Joel Poultney The majority of whistleblowers who filed reports to Britain's finance watchdog in the first quarter of 2023 did not make allegations of misconduct anonymously, according to statistics from the Financial Conduct Authority. Read full article » https://www.law360.co.uk/financial-services-uk/articles/1695400?nl_pk=4fb41…

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Porter needs killing ( my 2k sats )
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 04 Jul '23

04 Jul '23

https://a16z.com/author/porter-smith/ There he goes! GET HIM!

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Happy Birthday Julian Assange
by pro2rat＠yahoo.com.au 04 Jul '23

04 Jul '23

Many happy returns to prison. With the wisdom of hindsight Julio's break from the Pooter now reveals a tragedy preceding his comrade-chefs, Asylum-seeking in Minsk. If only the Czar of Nazi propaganda knew! https://reason.com/2011/02/03/julian-assange-and-israel-sham/ Reposts since the course of true KGB love never did run smoothly.

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