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Anarchists are in a ferment over preparations for the future
by professor rat 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

And, now that the anarchists are in a ferment over preparations for the future, it is worthwhile to re-examine the question calmly and without preconceptions. I shall do so briefly from my point of view as a communist or associationist; others will do so, should they wish, from the individualist point of view. (I use the word ‘associationist’ as an alternative to the word ‘communist,’ not because I like pointless new jargon, but because I forsee the possibility that the communist anarchists will gradually abandon the term ‘communist’; it is growing in ambivalence and falling into disrepute as a result of Russian ‘communist’ despotism. If the term is eventually abandoned this will be a repetition of what happened with the word ‘socialist.’ We who, in Italy at least, were the first champions of socialism and maintained and still maintain that we are the true socialists in the broad and human sense of the word, ended by abandoning the term to avoid confusion with the many and various authoritarian and bourgeois deviations of socialism. Thus too we may have to abandon the term ‘communist’ for fear that our ideal of free human solidarity will be confused with the avaricious despotism which has for some while triumphed in Russia and which one party, inspired by the Russian example, seeks to impose worldwide. Then perhaps we would need another adjective to distinguish us from the rest — and this could well be associationist or societist or such like, although it seems to me that simply to use the term ‘anarchist’ would suffice.

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Researchers Demonstrate New Side-Channel Attack on Homomorphic Encryption
by jim bell 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

https://thehackernews.com/2022/03/researchers-demonstrate-new-side.html "A group of academics from the North Carolina State University and Dokuz Eylul University have demonstrated what they say is the "first side-channel attack" on homomorphic encryption that could be exploited to leak data as the encryption process is underway." "Basically, by monitoring power consumption in a device that is encoding data for homomorphic encryption, we are able to read the data as it is being encrypted," Aydin Aysu, one of the authors of the study, said. "This demonstrates that even next generation encryption technologies need protection against side-channel attacks." "Homomorphic Encryption is a form of encryption that allows certain types of computation to be performed directly on encrypted data without having to decrypt it in the first place."

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Woman reveals she added hidden watermarks to presentations after she caught manager taking credit for work
by jim bell 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

: Woman reveals she added hidden watermarks to presentations after she caught manager taking credit for work https://share.newsbreak.com/mmjjmnm1

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Encryption meant to protect against quantum hackers is easily cracked | New Scientist
by jim bell 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2310369-encryption-meant-to-protect-ag… ONE of three cryptography algorithms vying to become a global standard against the looming security threat posed by quantum computers has been cracked in a weekend using a standard laptop. The algorithm is now widely believed to be unfit for purpose. A range of algorithms for encryption – the process of bundling data up into impenetrable files for safe transmission – are currently verified and approved as secure by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and consequently they are used around the …

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Taming Toxic People
by professor rat 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

Taming Toxic People: The Science of Identifying and Dealing with Psychopaths at Work & at Home https://www.amazon.com.au/Taming-Toxic-People-Identifying-Psychopaths-ebook…

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Batshit-crazy gets Dugin
by professor rat 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

In the West, a philosopher like Dugin expressing admiration for both Satanism and the Waffen-SS would be dismissed as a crank https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/182605

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Spilling the blood of billionaires in memory of CJ
by professor rat 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

Spilling the blood of the billionaires will not magically renew soil already scorched to ash by climate change and industrial pesticide, but it will at least upset the status quo, providing us non-billionaires a fighting chance. https://stiffs.com/celebrity/billgates Ante up or quit / double-stakes or split / I know you've got to see me/ Read em and weep

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Calls for the assassination of Putin are fun
by professor rat 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham’s recent calls for the assassination of Putin are fun. Graham’s right– it would fix a lot of problems, including likely concluding the war in Ukraine. So, I’m not saying Putin is not a dangerous madman who should be stopped, only that when one looks at it objectively, most presidents and prime ministers are dangerous madmen, as are most C.E.O.s and most landlords. All of these power-hungry freaks cause problems, and the same simple fix would address every case as cleanly. Graham’s logic can, in fact, be fairly applied to himself. https://stiffs.com/celebrity/vladimirputin

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Long live anarcho-feminism
by professor rat 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

https://anarchistnews.org/content/chiara-bottici-anarchafeminism Reposts etc

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Feminist uprising has transformed the Mexican capital
by professor rat 08 Mar '22

08 Mar '22

https://twitter.com/i/events/1501254285765615627 CityLab - 5h Protesters against gender violence have left their imprint on Mexico City's streets and monuments. On #InternationalWomensDay, they are expected to do it again. @riostlorena reports: https://trib.al/9GobLCW REPOSTS not necessarily endorsements

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