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Two cheers for biometrics
by professor rat 08 May '22

08 May '22

Biometric hashes stored in a blockchain certainly make life easier for UBI ( via the Orb ) and for ease-of-use - ( if the latest trusted module system from a Silicon Valley consortium works as advertised ) Advances like this that are utilitarian and wildly popular help advance c-punk goals in broad brushstroke terms. They make everyday use of the anarchic web deserving of essential human-and-civil right status. ( Except for Nazi-Punks ) But we're still a ways short of full cryptoanarchy and the long-time, hot-button " True Names ' issue remains non-trivial and NP hard. Unlike the blockchain we can't get enough ( strong AI and ubiquitous quantum ) tech off-the-shelf, economically, overnight. We're getting there. I'm insanely confident we'll even get there by CYPHERPUNK 2027. But this won't be brute-forced - and we really need the strong AI now like we needed decentralized digital-cash 20 years ago. " Help us strong AI - you're our last, best hope "

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Replace the term "Trusted computing" with "Treacherous computing"
by professor rat 08 May '22

08 May '22

In 2015, Richard Stallman suggested to replace the term "Trusted computing" with the term "Treacherous computing" due to the danger that the computer can be made to systematically disobey its owner if the cryptographical keys are kept secret from him. He also considers that TPMs available for PCs are not currently dangerous and that there is no reason not to include one in a computer or support it in software due to failed attempts from the industry to use that technology for DRM. ( Wikipedia )

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Cut-And-Paste Error Destroys $36M in Crypto, Eroding Trust in Blockchain
by jim bell 08 May '22

08 May '22

Cut-And-Paste Error Destroys $36M in Crypto, Eroding Trust in Blockchain https://share.newsbreak.com/114t3sc4

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Krebs in the doghouse
by professor rat 08 May '22

08 May '22

Down FIDO https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/05/your-phone-may-soon-replace-many-of-you… Reposts etc

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Argentina pays IMF Danegeld
by professor rat 08 May '22

08 May '22

But the not-so-great Danes appear to looking over their shoulder . . . https://finance.yahoo.com/news/argentina-imf-bailout-deal-includes-19074878… el33th4xor This is how we know that the powers that be are afraid. Argentina’s IMF bailout deal includes a wild clause that rips cryptocurrencies . . . "

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Cryptome :CIA
by zeynepaydogan 08 May '22

08 May '22

I'm literally about to throw up.John, if you were going to make CIA propaganda, why did you deny being a spy for years?You're making anti-Russian propaganda like a typical CIA agent. LOL Congratulations, by the way, you're very good at Russian.I've been trying to learn for years, I don't know as well as you do. https://twitter.com/cryptome_org/status/1521601710715715584?s=21&t=s53zd-it… What I'm most surprised at is that you don't have the courage to stand by what you write.Sorry forget this : typical cia agent’s behavior

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Google's right to be forgotten
by professor rat 08 May '22

08 May '22

Google said this week it is expanding the types of data people can ask to have removed from search results, to include personal contact information like your phone number, email address or physical address. FROM https://twitter.com/briankrebs/status/1520190194716188672 If you can't not-be-evil then at least don't get caught.

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Quantum computers/hacking/encryption
by jim bell 08 May '22

08 May '22

https://www.science.org/content/article/worried-quantum-computers-will-supe… MATEJMO/ISTOCKSHARE: - Twitter - Linked In - Facebook - Reddit - Wechat - Email Quantum computers—exotic machines that can solve practical problems that would stymie any conventional supercomputer—remain years or decades away. However, yesterday President Joe Biden’s administration took a step to anticipate the eventual deployment of such machines. In a new national security memorandum, the White House instructs federal agencies to prepare to shift from the encryption algorithms used today to secure communications on the internet and other networks to new algorithms resistant to attack by a quantum computer. The memo envisions the shift beginning in 2024, when the first standard for such “post-quantum cryptography” should emerge, and being complete before 2035. Fortunately for internet companies, such postquantum cryptography will involve changes mostly in software. “You don’t need a quantum computer to implement these postquantum solutions,” says Dustin Moody, a mathematician with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Still, he says, “The transition should be quite challenging, as with any crypto transition that we’ve done.” Whereas a conventional computer processes information by flipping bits that can be set to 0 or 1, a quantum computer manipulates quantum bits or qubits that can be set to 0, 1, or, thanks to the weird rules of quantum mechanics, 0 and 1 at the same time. Such two-ways-at-once states enable a quantum computer to encode all possible solutions to certain problems as abstract quantum waves. Set things up right and, in the guts of the machine, the waves will interfere so that the incorrect solutions cancel one another, and the right solution pops out.

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God-Emperor of the MIT Library
by professor rat 08 May '22

08 May '22

I met a traveler from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Daltonite, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

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FIDO log-in details clash with crypto-anarchy
by professor rat 07 May '22

07 May '22

By presenting a facial scan or fingerprint to the device, I’ll be able to log in without having to type a password . . ." https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/05/how-apple-google-and… I was under the impression cypherpunks opposed the use of biometrics for ID purposes. Was I wrong?

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