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FBI compared to KGB in the NYT
by professor rat 02 Jan '23

02 Jan '23

Republicans Step Up Attacks on F.B.I. https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1609645889915686912/photo/1 Could have used a little RINO back-up in 2003 Denver Post Online threats target Denver investigators - Anarchist says e-mails harmless; feds disagree By Jim Hughes - Denver Post Staff Writer Monday, July 07, 2003 - An anarchist using the online moniker “Professor Rat” has threatened the lives of two federal terrorism investigators in Denver, advocating that they “need killing.” The threats name an FBI agent assigned to the local multiagency Joint Terrorism Task Force and the government’s lead prosecutor of terrorism cases in Colorado. Although those who travel in the same online circles as Professor Rat say his provocations are not to be taken seriously, 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.

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Bitcoin improvement proposals proffer path forward to new world order
by professor rat 02 Jan '23

02 Jan '23

BIP number X ( Polynomial time 'one' in the Julio calendar ) Proposal presents a path for global Btc hegemony through a soft-fork hack/ kludge that pivots and resets the dominant Maxi narrative based on Austro-libertarian ideology. A consortium is formed to steal all Satoshi’s billions utilizing quantum computing technology. This consortium then forms a blind trust to faucet those coins to the submerged tenth. More ’ Robin Hood " than Von Mises, Btc hegemony can then pass basic utilitarian small tests. All hail planetary ecologist Keynes! BIP number X ( where x is next in line ) Proposal suggests a hack/ kludge be found to utilize homomorphic and/or ZKP techniques in order to ’ nationalize ’ dormant Btc. Starting with coins known to be lost to death of keyholder, land-fill, accident, etc then moving on to stagnant coins starting with the oldest first. This may be presented as an incentive to mixmaster/ coinjoin as much as possible and negate chainanalysis. " Everyone a remailer " - it also slots in alongside my first BIP that pivots the entire old Austro-Ferengi narrative. Free money for the people - power to the node.

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JULIAN is a PRO-STATE corpse-media apparatchik who has long earned killing ( My 200 sats )
by professor rat 02 Jan '23

02 Jan '23

[ State intelligence agencies ] "... when they fail they need to be punished and when they succeed they need to be praised..." Assange 2016 "... 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 Jul 20, 2015 - Julian Assange: To be honest, I don't like the word transparency; cold dead glass is transparent..." JULIAN " “People with strong principles don’t survive for long ” ASSANGE quoted in " Risk" released in 2017. I think ex-cypherpunk Assmange made an excellent career choice becoming a journalist. Its suits on him.

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To describe P and NP as "fast" and "slow," then use the practical example of cryptography
by professor rat 02 Jan '23

02 Jan '23

>>> problem spaces like P and NP are defined by asymptotic behavior as some number n goes to infinity. There are no layman situations where going to infinity is useful, and the precision needed to define it that way is brutal. As such, I find its easiest to describe P and NP as "fast" and "slow," and then use the practical example of cryptography because it's interesting to people. I start with NP (because there are fast and slow P algorithms, so I want to anchor their concept of "slow" to that of exponential time before bringing in P). Everyone has dealt with some sort of geometric growth somewhere, even if its just compound interest, so there's something to start from. Once I think they have some idea of exponential time, I introduce the cryptography link. One of the goals of cryptography is that adding 1 bit to a key doubles how long it takes someone to break it. The essential part is to connect the idea that adding work to the sender/receiver multiplies the amount of work needed by the attacker. With that, I can then bring up Moore's law, which very roughly says computing power doubles every 18 months. That means my attacker is able to do twice as much work if he can wait for the hardware to catch up. When his attacking capability doubles, I have to add a bit. Then he doubles again, and I add a bit. Then I can show just how asymmetric this game is -- every time they do a massive amount of extra work, I have to do just a little extra work to keep things even. Now I can teach polynomial time as algorithms that run faster than exponential time. This is a bit of a simplification, but for a layman I think it's okay. If my crypto algorithm were polynomial time, as my attacker's computational speed got better, I'd have to be adding bits quicker and quicker, bogging down the system. Everyone knows what it means when a computer runs slow! << https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/81556/simple-non-mathematical-defini… Reposts not non-stop, mad rants about orthogonal issues of historical abuse

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Freedom of Speech: Islam Goes Apeshit over Charlie Hebdo Muhammad Cartoons Repub, Quran Eating, and Successful Critical Analysis grarpamp
by professor rat 01 Jan '23

01 Jan '23

JULIAN " All that threatening to ‘destroy’ states does is to make them want nuclear weapons to make sure they don’t end up like Iraq & Libya " ASSANGE JulianAssange ( April 2017 ) Follow Follow @JulianAssange More CIA head Pompeo: "This [WikiLeaks] Ends Now" We & partners published the next day. Quality stuff from the folks who gave us Iraq & al-Qaeda <<< Fuck Islam. Fuck Muslim. Fuck Sharia. Fuck Halal. Fuck Mecca. Fuck Korans. Fuck Hijab. Fuck Female-circumcision. Fuck Allah. Fuck Mohamed. The character of Islam involves violence, corruption, tyranny, poverty, and illiteracy. Fuck Islam. Fuck Muslim. Fuck Sharia. Fuck Halal. Fuck Mecca. Fuck Korans. Fuck Hijab. Fuck Female-circumcision. Fuck Allah. Fuck Mohamed.

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The spirit of 1996
by professor rat 01 Jan '23

01 Jan '23

That our new years resolution not be abridged https://stiffs.com/celebrity/joebiden Attempting to kill US presidents a cypherpunk tradition since 1996 - continuously every year since 2000 " . . . traders in a market have no incentive other than making the right prediction—that is, there are no bureaucratic or political factors influencing their decisions—so they eliminate many of the hurdles that limit the flow of information within organizations. That’s especially important in the case of the intelligence community because we know that, for example, in the case of 9/11 there was lots of valuable and relevant information available before the attack took place. . . . " Cypherpunk revolutionary, Jim Bell, suggested replacing traditional intelligence-gathering with a market as early as 1995. " Anarchy is not lack of order - its lack of ORDERS "

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Call for international anarchist gatherings in St-Imier, Switzerland, in July 2023
by professor rat 01 Jan '23

01 Jan '23

Call for international anarchist gatherings in St-Imier, Switzerland, in July 2023. Appeal to clarify the concrete motivations and how we wish to organize them. Read the full call here: https://anarchy2023.org/en/international-anarchist-gatherings-in-st-imier-s… #anarchism https://twitter.com/anarchy2023/status/1601979237795241984?cxt=HHwWgICx5aHo… Repost in leisure suit repent in Haston

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Wasabi glom onto c-punks
by professor rat 01 Jan '23

01 Jan '23

Coinjoin and other anonymization strategies implemented by Wasabi are paving the way towards a landscape in which it’s possible for all Bitcoin users to be cypherpunks https://blog.wasabiwallet.io/modern-day-cypherpunks/ Reposts not royalties over plundered landscapes

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Gramps Blockchain Systems
by professor rat 01 Jan '23

01 Jan '23

Sorry - Government Blockchain Systems >> Armes’ connections, via his crypto advocacy, to figures associated with Jan. 6 don’t end there. He also developed an association with a member of the Oath Keepers now facing obstruction charges. And he co-founded a Florida-based cryptocurrency LLC — Government Blockchain Systems — with former Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg, an associate of Trump adviser Roger Stone and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.). Greenberg would later face a slew of federal felony charges related to sex trafficking and financial crimes, including using Government Blockchain Systems as part of a scheme to embezzle $400,000 from local taxpayers << https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/27/jan-6-committee-interview-sheds-li… Reposts not Gramps garbage scow adrift in the wide Sargasso

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David Molnar on Twitter
by professor rat 01 Jan '23

01 Jan '23

Satoshi suspect sighted on suss platform zkSNACKs/WalletWasabi Public Open-source, non-custodial, privacy preserving Bitcoin wallet for Windows, Linux, and Mac. https://github.com/molnard?tab=overview&from=2020-12-01&to=2020-12-31 Repost in haste etc

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