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Cybersecurity professor shares tips on how to protect yourself from hackers
by professor rat 01 Aug '22

01 Aug '22

Professor Paul Haskell-Dowland says cyber threats come from organised operations that are "incredibly well-resourced" but there are steps you can take to protect yourself. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-01/cyber-crime-how-to-keep-safe-protect… Reposts etc

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Cryptocurrency: Israel Implements Brutal Ban and War On Cash
by grarpamp 31 Jul '22

31 Jul '22

Gimp countries of the WEF Bilderburg Davos and US are rapidly rolling out criminal charges for using cash, up to and including firm plans to completely kill and end cash... You fools were warned about this coming of 1984, and to fight it, and you ignored it. Very soon the big G-5/7/8/10 countries including the US will do this, and you will be fucked. Israel's War On Cash Gets Drastic https://themedialine.org/by-region/israel-bans-use-of-large-sums-of-cash/ https://y-tax.co.il/en/cash-reduction-law/ https://www.pymnts.com/cash/2022/israels-lower-threshold-on-cash-transactio… https://schiffgold.com/key-gold-news/creepy-imf-paper-teaches-governments-w… https://www.ledgerinsights.com/israel-cbdc-blockchain-privacy/ https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-middle-east-health-jerusale… https://www.biometricupdate.com/202201/israeli-interior-ministry-asks-to-ex… https://www.zdnet.com/article/eight-countries-jointly-propose-digital-id-pr… https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20211110-how-israel-uses-facial-rec… https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1457799945344339977 Starting Monday, it will be a criminal offense in Israel to pay more than the equivalent of $1,700 in cash to a business or $4,360 in cash to individual, as the government intensifies its ongoing war on tangible money. It's a war that began in earnest with the 2018 passage of the Law for the Reduction in the Use of Cash. Israeli businesses and individuals began facing limits on cash transactions in January 2019. However, on Aug 1, those limits are being slashed nearly in half. “We want the public to reduce the use of cash money,” Tamar Bracha, who's responsible for carrying out the law for Israel’s Tax Authority, told The Media Line. “The goal is to reduce cash fluidity in the market, mainly because crime organizations tend to rely on cash. By limiting the use of it, criminal activity is much harder to carry out.” Israel also limits the extent to which cash is used in transactions involving multiple payment methods. If the total transaction value is more than the above thresholds, cash may only be used for 10% of the purchase. Car purchases are given a higher, 50,000 NIS (New Israeli Shekels) limit -- about $14,700. Violators are subject to penalties that can reach 25% of the transaction for individuals and 30% for businesses. According to Israel National News, the government has amassed the equivalent of $5 billion in fines since restrictions began in 2019. Not all transactions are affected, as The Media Line explains: There are some exemptions to the new law: charitable institutions, which are most common in ultra-Orthodox society; and trade with Palestinians from the West Bank, who are not citizens of Israel. In the case of the latter, deals including large amounts of cash will be allowed, yet they will require a detailed report to Israel’s Tax Authority. However, in Israel's phased approach to eliminating cash from society, those exceptions are destined to expire. Next, Israel's finance ministry plans to deliver a proposal to parliament to criminalize the mere possession of cash exceeding a certain sum. One version of the proposal set the possession cap at the shekel equivalent of just $14,700. Limits like Israel's are just one way to work toward "de-cashing" a population. A 2017 International Monetary Fund paper outlined other tactics, including abolishing large-denomination bills, imposing reporting requirements on cash transactions over a certain threshold, requiring the declaration of cash when entering or leaving a country, or applying an additional tax when cash is used. Various countries and economic blocs have already started implementing measures from this menu. A war on cash isn't the only way Israel is leading the way to an authoritarian future; it has also: Started technical trials for a central bank digital currency, which could help eradicate cash and maximize control Implemented digital vaccination passports that helped bar the unvaxxed -- including those who were unboosted -- from participating in various aspects of life. Maintained a controversial database storing the biometric data of millions of citizens. Joined a group of eight countries working toward development of "digital identities." Aggressively implemented facial recognition programs. I once warned that the architecture of oppression was near. It has arrived.https://t.co/Ph9s3qhlwH — Edward Snowden (@Snowden) November 8, 2021

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[ot][spam][personal] status
by Undiscussed Past Horrific Abuse, One Victim Of Many 31 Jul '22

31 Jul '22

I'm on my trebled hot pepper serrano phone with k-9 mail. I'm having some trouble using k-9 mail. In addition to the interface being unfamiliar to me, different sets of emails show up in the search results and in the folders than on Gmail. This may be mostly due to me not configuring it to behave like Gmail, not sure. I'd like to get off closed source mail clients where reasonable, so I'd like to stick to k-9 mail unless there's something better (like mutt ;p) but these difficulties will be slowing me for a bit. I've been using my mail client to influence my life, by spamming stuff. The name of k-9 mail is unpleasant to me. During my psychotic political targetting experience, I developed the belief that the phrases "dogs" and "cats" referred to men and women respectively who had their lives taken by organized crime or similar in some way. I'd ideally like an email client that resisted these labels. I wonder if there is something I could debug without access to a desktop system.

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Cryptocurrency: BTC Maxi's Begin to Admit BCH Was Right re Blocksize, Lightning, Cash, Adoption
by grarpamp 31 Jul '22

31 Jul '22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7Js1tBoTOI P2P Cash Onboarding In a recent Twitter Space with Udiverse, Eric Wall looks back at the bitcoin blocksize war and asks, "Were we the bad guys?" https://twitter.com/udiWertheimer/status/1532723681293737984 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMjaUks5id0?t=3758 If you don't have a usable private p2p cash, all you have is a pile of the same old useless serialized datamined gold bricks fraught with lightning problems, adoption time lost, and an unaccomplished mission. "A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" That definition applies to the ones that succeed as such, and in 20 years that might not be any of today's coins. Thus hidden exchanges, swaps, DEX, etc are much in need to enable users adoption via cross-layer1 coin agility. In the races that matter, only less than 1% of cryptos are doing anything that matters, let alone anything that will win, either the short or long game. That is precious time wasted. 99.9% of coins are not doing cash, they're doing unusable insecure censorable centralized profiteering premined taxed datamined permissioned gatekept middlemanned governed unscalable policied compute smart... bloatware. https://bitcoincashpodcast.com/faqs/BCH-vs-BTC/what-if-btc-raises-block-size https://www.nngroup.com/articles/law-of-bandwidth/ https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-June/008412.ht… https://old.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/v9ddb3/in_a_recent_twitter_space_with…

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[ot][spam][crazy] MCBoss spinoffs3
by Undiscussed Past Horrific Abuse, One Victim Of Many 31 Jul '22

31 Jul '22

Not sure where the old 3 thread was. ---- MCBoss was happily jaunting down the street, riding a unicycle, while leashed to a grumpy intern. Intern: "Juggle some bowling pins, MCBoss!" Boss pulled some bowling pins out of his belt and began juggling them. His unicycle swayed back and forth as he juggled. They passed a little old lady walking her lapdog. MCBoss lifted his hat at the old lady, shifting the bowling pins to the other hand as he did so, still juggling and swaying. Intern: "Good morning, ma'am!" Little Old Lady: "Good morning! And where are you fine young fellows off to?" MCBoss smiled at the little old lady while juggling. Intern: "I was taking my mind control boss on a walk to the park!" Boss grinned at the little old lady. Boss: "I control all the global militaries! Is the park nice this time of year?"

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Cryptocurrency: Who Changed The Narrative? From Fuck GovBankCorp to Bow And Kiss Their Ass
by grarpamp 31 Jul '22

31 Jul '22

BCH: "We've been sounding the alarm bells for a while, no?..." The narrative went from "Fuck the Banks" to "Banks welcome to crypto" https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/tn90ge/the_narrative_went_… " I mean, I get it. Mass adoption. The Hyperbitcoinization theory. Metcalfe's law and what not. Besides, who doesn't like a bit of green on their portfolio. However, don't forget that banks are not here for you. They aren't here as a benevolent force of good. They just want to front run their own creative destruction. Remember what early Bitcoiners had to face to reach this stage of adoption, they had to fight off constant criticisms from all sides, especially the banks and their stooges. By all means celebrate the adoption, but also remember the roots of this entire revolution. Rant over. Peace out. " " > Just keep Bitcoin focused on the most important objective, > the separation of money and state. Unfortunately the introduction of banking and other systems that require funds-routing middlemen opens the door to state interference. That is why the primary use-case has to be cash. Only cash transactions directly from sender to recipient are purely voluntary and sovereign, with no middlemen who will be required to report or prevent the transaction, and who have an incentive to fractionally reserve. "

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USB Drive Keeps Your Secrets… As Long As Your Fingers Are Wet? | Hackaday
by jim bell 31 Jul '22

31 Jul '22

https://hackaday.com/2022/07/30/usb-drive-keeps-your-secrets-as-long-as-you… Walker] has a very interesting new project: a completely different take on a self-destructing USB drive. Instead of relying on encryption or other “visible” security features, this device looks and works like an utterly normal USB drive. The only difference is this: if an unauthorized person plugs it in, there’s no data. What separates authorized access from unauthorized? Wet fingers. It sounds weird, but let’s walk through the thinking behind the concept. First, encryption is of course the technologically sound and correct solution to data security. But in some environments, the mere presence of encryption technology can be considered incriminating. In such environments, it is better for the drive to appear completely normal. Toggling the chip enable (CE) pin will hide the drive’s contents. The second part is the access control; the “wet fingers” part. [Walker] plans to have hidden electrodes surreptitiously measure the resistance of a user’s finger when it’s being plugged in. He says a dry finger should be around 1.5 MΩ, but wet fingers are more like 500 kΩ. But why detect a wet finger as part of access control? Well, what’s something no normal person would do right before plugging in a USB drive? Lick their finger. And what’s something a microcontroller should be able to detect easily without a lot of extra parts? A freshly-licked finger. Of course, detecting wet skin is only half the equation. You still need to implement a USB Mass Storage device, and that’s where things get particularly interesting. Even if you aren’t into the covert aspect of this device, the research [Walker] has done into USB storage controllers and flash chips, combined with the KiCad footprints he’s already put together means this open source project will be a great example for anyone looking to roll their own USB flash drives. Regular readers may recall that [Walker] was previously working on a very impressive Linux “wall wart” intended for penetration testers, but the chip shortage has put that ambitious project on hold for the time being. As this build looks to utilize less exotic components, hopefully it can avoid a similar fate.

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How a Sextortion Victim Hacked Back and Put Her Attacker in Jail
by Gunnar Larson 31 Jul '22

31 Jul '22

How a Sextortion Victim Hacked Back and Put Her Attacker in Jail https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-26/sextortion-victim-turns-…

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I think you will find this job interesting.
by Gunnar Larson 31 Jul '22

31 Jul '22

Check out this job at Kiva: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2982437232 Kiva.org is looking for a CTO ...

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Defaming Pastor Craig is like wrestling with a pig
by professor rat 31 Jul '22

31 Jul '22

You both get dirty and the pig enjoys it. So 1996 Craig Wright lies about having to pay for cancer treatment and Julian Assange calls out his amateurism. So? >>> It is way more believable that Craig Wright is just a scammer who’s been lying all these years, than him suddenly going from a fucked up fascist to an open minded Satoshi Nakamoto who understands game theory and human behavior enough to have invented Bitcoin, and back to the fucked up self who claims to “not understand people” because he’s “autistic”. <<< https://www.reddit.com/r/bsv/comments/wc6w08/csw_30_years_ago_i_protect_the… Sensing a pattern here. How can the same thing happen to very similar au Proffs twice? Peter McCormick is not autistic asfaik but he is definitely a statist fool who deserves to lose everything he has - especially his life.

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