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David Chaum's spectacular wallow in bullshit
by professor rat 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

No way to talk about Prof Gun-Sirer " . . . It’s a nice cocktail-party line for academics to say they want to change the world. They’re not trying to save anything. In the blockchain space, we’re sort of clear on what the incentives are. It isn’t so clear in academia. . . " A poor workman blames his tools " . . . In those days, we were working on these distributed and decentralized systems. We converted our beautiful conference room into a “decentralized cash” lab, and worked on into the evenings. It was a passion – but you know, in those days computers weren’t really up to it. . . " ( Chaum ) Jesus Fucking Christ - make it stop!

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CHAUM's ugly ignorance and arrogance again
by professor rat 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

Another howler . . . " . . . before Snowden, I never made a personal decision whether the government was really spying on everything or not. I just left it as unknown because it was just unclear, but still focused on countermeasures. Anyway, I can say objectively that none of these academics – it's mainly academics and some industry people who attend these events – the real people who know about cryptography are very concerned about this. . . ." Before Snowden it was becoming clearer every year a huge amount of state-surveillance was going on. You had " Homeland Defense - a Modest Proposal ' in C-net as far back as 2002. Then delayed revelations in the NYT - deliberately delayed by the NYT. 2005. So its negligent ( or criminally negligent! ) to say this mass spying was 'unclear.' TSTBAALAA again! The ' real ' people in his audience were almost certainly as aware as any normie might have been and probably concerned enough in a way not familiar to a borderline imbecile ( idiot-savant type ) or psychopath like Chaum. The Amash-Conyers bill was almost passed by such laymen. ' Real ' members of Congress. Look if Chaum has any 'real' friends they might want to stage an intervention now because the way he's going he's certifiable already. Really.

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David Chaum's turned into a Vinay Gupta type Blowhole
by professor rat 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

Chaum shared that he was confronted point-blank by federal agents because of his work with encryption. https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/06/08/i-jumped-in-with-all-4-legendary… And remember, we really tangled with these guys in the 90’s. Public key cryptography was regarded a weapon of war back then. The American government was really friggin’ pissed off at us, and did as much damage as they could within the law. Constant harassment, legal pressure, people lost their jobs… the whole thing was constantly on the verge of everybody ending up in jail as far as we could tell. https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-is-teaching-realism-to-libertar…

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Re: " . . . possible use of monkeypox as a biological weapon instead of smallpox."
by professor rat 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

Since its possible, if not probable, COVID-19 was a biowarfare attack from a CHEKIST dictatorship that raises suspicions about the rogue terror CHEKIST state of Russia. The Jerusalem Post Monkeypox might be a new kind of STD, Israeli doctors say A reminder that Vladimir Lenin suffered from STD symptoms. TL/DR Marxist-Communism represents a clear and present and dangerously acute threat. Similar to the AXIS in WW2. BTW - All Marxists are racists. If you are not political you are not paying attention. Capital, vol. 3, chapter 47: “ The possibility is here presented for definite economic development taking place, depending, of course, upon favourable circumstances, inborn racial characteristics, etc…” Engels: (Marx and Engels, Selected Works, Vol. 3, p. 502.): “We regard economic conditions as the factor which ultimately determines historical development. But race is itself an economic factor … ”

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DONALD J. TRUMP, vs. HILLARY R. CLINTON
by Gunnar Larson 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

Hey guys: Just sharing this with you, 185 highlights to DONALD J. TRUMP, vs. HILLARY R. CLINTON: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zggK7lgptlZ6Qn11EndzbDloqqVxRifv/view?usp=… These same tactics are happening here in Chelsea. Strange sometimes. I am not political at all, but the scenario is something. Hope you had a good weekend. Thank you, Gunnar

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" . . . possible use of monkeypox as a biological weapon instead of smallpox."
by professor rat 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

In 1998, Alibek reported that "there was significant discussion of the possible use of monkeypox as a biological weapon instead of smallpox." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_biological_weapons_program#:~:text=A%2…. In the 1980s, the Soviet Ministry of Agriculture successfully developed variants of foot-and-mouth disease and rinderpest against cows, African swine fever for pigs, and psittacosis to kill chicken. These agents were prepared to be sprayed down on enemy fields from tanks attached to airplanes over hundreds of miles. The secret program was code-named “Ecology”.

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All advice is bad
by professor rat 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

Good advice is fatal https://libcom.org/article/revolutionary-organisations-and-individual-commi… If it helps, think of it this way: you are an agent from the future; you must live a normal life in the circumstances in which you find yourself. Maybe you never talk to anyone about all of what you think but that doesn’t matter because when the situation arises you will be in place to tell everything that is appropriate because that precisely is your (and nobody else’s) role. All the time you are getting ready to make your contribution, one day you will do something, and you have no idea what it is, but it will be important. . . . "

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Sometimes we all need a good laugh
by professor rat 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

DouglasLucas ·Jul 17 ( 2022! ) Part of the solution is reading rewarding stuff. I want to learn about international law, the European Union, and how concepts like dignity differ across cultures (for example Confucian ren). But I don't have people to talk about such things with. Knowledge makes me a freakshow.. . . " https://twitter.com/douglaslucas And there's MORE!

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Si Giuseppe
by professor rat 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

Fanelli was a tall man with a kind and grave expression, a thick black beard and large black expressive eyes which flashed like lightning or took on the appearance of kindly compassion according to the sentiments which dominated him. His voice had a metallic tone and was susceptible to all the inflexions appropriate to what he was saying, passing rapidly from accents of anger and menace against tyrants and exploiters to take on those of suffering, regret and consolation when he spoke of the pains of the exploited, either as one who without suffering them himself understands them, or as one who through his altruistic feelings delights in presenting the ultra-revolutionary ideas of peace and fraternity. He spoke in French and Italian, but we could understand his expressive mimicry and follow his speech. — Anselmo Lorenzo, Spanish Anarchist

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CNN Exclusive: FBI investigation determined Chinese-made Huawei equipment could disrupt US nuclear arsenal communications
by jim bell 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

CNN Exclusive: FBI investigation determined Chinese-made Huawei equipment could disrupt US nuclear arsenal communications https://share.newsbreak.com/1hlpc2u2 On paper, it looked like a fantastic deal. In 2017, the Chinese government was offering to spend $100 million to build an ornate Chinese garden at the National Arboretum in Washington DC. Complete with temples, pavilions and a 70-foot white pagoda, the project thrilled local officials, who hoped it would attract thousands of tourists every year. But when US counterintelligence officials began digging into the details, they found numerous red flags. The pagoda, they noted, would have been strategically placed on one of the highest points in Washington DC, just two miles from the US Capitol, a perfect spot for signals intelligence collection, multiple sources familiar with the episode told CNN. Also alarming was that Chinese officials wanted to build the pagoda with materials shipped to the US in diplomatic pouches, which US Customs officials are barred from examining, the sources said. Federal officials quietly killed the project before construction was underway. The canceled garden is part of a frenzy of counterintelligence activity by the FBI and other federal agencies focused on what career US security officials say has been a dramatic escalation of Chinese espionage on US soil over the past decade. Since at least 2017, federal officials have investigated Chinese land purchases near critical infrastructure, shut down a high-profile regional consulate believed by the US government to be a hotbed of Chinese spies and stonewalled what they saw as clear efforts to plant listening devices near sensitive military and government facilities. Among the most alarming things the FBI uncovered pertains to Chinese-made Huawei equipment atop cell towers near US military bases in the rural Midwest. According to multiple sources familiar with the matter, the FBI determined the equipment was capable of capturing and disrupting highly restricted Defense Department communications, including those used by US Strategic Command, which oversees the country’s nuclear weapons.

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