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ZDNet: These ransomware criminals lost millions of dollars in payments when researchers secretly found mistakes in...
by jim bell 27 Oct '21

27 Oct '21

ZDNet: These ransomware criminals lost millions of dollars in payments when researchers secretly found mistakes in.... https://www.zdnet.com/article/cybersecurity-researchers-secretly-cost-ranso…

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Physics: Physics - Quantum Leap for Quantum Primacy
by jim bell 27 Oct '21

27 Oct '21

Physics: Physics - Quantum Leap for Quantum Primacy. https://physics.aps.org/articles/v14/147

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The Independent: ‘I was taken aback by how thin he was’: Julian Assange ‘sick and very unwell’ as he fights extradition to US
by jim bell 27 Oct '21

27 Oct '21

The Independent: ‘I was taken aback by how thin he was’: Julian Assange ‘sick and very unwell’ as he fights extradition to US. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/julian-assange-extraditio…

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Cryptocurrency: Two can keep a secret
by professor rat 27 Oct '21

27 Oct '21

Gramps wants us to dump Cryptome and Bitcoin like hot rocks. All the more reason to appreciate their good points as we cut off Gramps nuts. Fuck him and all who sail on his garbage scow of disinformation. Batshit, Karl and him - they are all dead.

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Re: Cypherpunk counter-revolutionary
by professor rat 27 Oct '21

27 Oct '21

Gramps gibbered . . . " It is posited by some that Cryptome has resented not getting the chosen scoop[s], and noticed by others that Cryptome has deleted some infos that it has previously posted. This is not to discredit the reasonable thought held by many that Cryptome is interesting and meritable in its own right, but to denote the many possible elements of the nature of the overall game at large, of which one should surely devote at least some study to become aware of. "Truth", as they say, is derived from the "leaks" at hand. To discern it, leak onward. . . . " There should be zero controversy now that Gramps is a counter-revolutionary. A capital crime. Please join my deadpool on this scum and his BFF's Batshit & Semich. Tia.

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Daily Beast: Opioids, Guns, and Millions in Cash: 150 Arrested in Darknet Bust
by jim bell 27 Oct '21

27 Oct '21

Daily Beast: Opioids, Guns, and Millions in Cash: 150 Arrested in Darknet Bust. https://www.thedailybeast.com/europol-and-doj-arrest-150-in-global-bust-of-…

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Cryptocurrency: Two can keep a secret
by grarpamp 27 Oct '21

27 Oct '21

On 10/26/21, professor rat <pro2rat(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote: > If one of them is dead. > > An altcoin project focused squarely on secrecy just shot into the top 100 > crypto assets by market cap. > > https://dailyhodl.com/2021/10/26/secret-crypto-asset-far-outperforms-bitcoi… "Cash" (excepting the now currently well in place serial number tracking paradigm), metals, etc... are private. "Bitcoin" (the abject regression against privacy) is not. If you're not tracking and hodling the privacy coin space, you're an idiot. It is for you do decide whether or not BTC was a deep bow and head suck for the State. Questions abound, yet why bother, to be sure, to nuke it from above, adopt privacy instead.

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Cypherpunk counter-revolutionary
by professor rat 27 Oct '21

27 Oct '21

Julian Assange recognised that the language of what amounted to the WikiLeaks Manifesto might appear a little “overblown”. He recognised that it had about it too much the flavour of “anarchy”. But in general when it was written he was pleased. John Young was not. In early January 2007 he decided that WikiLeaks was a CIA-backed fraud. “Fuck your cute hustle and disinformation campaign. Same old shit, working for the enemy … Fuck ’em all.” https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2011/february/1324596189/robert-manne/c…

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Re: [tor-talk] Dishonest tor relay attack math question
by grarpamp 27 Oct '21

27 Oct '21

On 9/28/21, PrivacyArms via tor-talk <tor-talk(a)lists.torproject.org> wrote: > Dear Tor community, > > I came across a post on the Whonix forum recently. Since I am also > interested in this question I copied it here: > https://forums.whonix.org/t/math-behind-honest-tor-nodes/12464 > http://forums.dds6qkxpwdeubwucdiaord2xgbbeyds25rbsgr73tbfpqpt4a6vjwsyd.onio… > The question (edited): > How can I calculate how much impact X honest Tor relays have? > Is it better to calculate with bandwidth consumed (250Gbps), despite the > number of relays (~7000)? > > Basically, I want to get the mathematical equation to this statement: > I run X Tor relays at Y Mb/s each and by doing so I secure Z % of the Tor > network! > Starting thoughts: > - Each “normal” route has three nodes involved: Guard, Middle, Exit > - I am aware of guard pinning and vanguard protection for middle relay > pinning > - Maybe it is easier to assume an infinite usage time of the network to > eliminate guard and vanguard pinning > - I guess the best is to assume a scenario with 1%, 5%, 10%, etc. dishonest > relays > > I would love to hear your thoughts about it and a concrete math equation > would be amazing. Too many approach reality from the wrong direction. Instead, try calculating how much impact X dishonest tor relays have.... And try to understand reasons why the NSA says "Tor Stinks" some of the time, and that was over 10 years ago, attack methods and actors are improved and more prevalent since then, tor is still same since 20+ years... Then consider what "adding more relays" under that design really does, and or cannot do... Security product advertisements tend to be quite polished affairs, yet those products often as full of holes as any other.

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Death of Cypherpunks Two - This time its personal
by professor rat 27 Oct '21

27 Oct '21

Like an inverse Marxist, Tim May tended to believe that the inexorable expansion of private cryptography made the victory of crypto-anarchism inevitable. A new “balance of power between individuals and larger entities” was already emerging. He predicted with some confidence “the end of governments as we know them”. Another even more extreme cypherpunk of the libertarian Right, Jim Bell, like an inverse Leninist, thought that history might need a push. . . " In this reading we might assign a Victor Chernov role to Eric Hughes and Julius Martov one to John Gilmore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Martov

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