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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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Re: Hey We have a New Harasser!
by professor rat 27 Oct '21

27 Oct '21

Did someone say ' rapist '? Julian Assange arrested in London on rape charges https://www.csmonitor.com/World/terrorism-security/2010/1207/WikiLeaks-Juli… GEOFFREY "sexual offence for a man to deliberately deceive a partner whose consent has been conditional upon his use of a condom" ROBERTSON JULIAN " Being guilty of aggravated rape has nothing to do with our party" A. Broinowski. Wikileaks Party NSW candidate for au Senate. 2013.

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Batshit Crazy pivots from Govt-Agent Truthin'
by professor rat 27 Oct '21

27 Oct '21

Our resident coprophage is now sniffing out rapists. cody wilson, stallman, assange and appelbaum are all rapists according to this Batshit-Crazy, antisemitic nutcase COINTELPRO specialist. Never heard of ' The Batshit Crazy who cried Wolf " obviously. Feh

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Twitch along with Mitch
by professor rat 27 Oct '21

27 Oct '21

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Kapor Some posts in the archives mention ' The Lotus Position ' and appear to allege deliberate backdooring of LOTUS 1 2 3 & / or notes. John Perry Barlow - a good ie dead US republican. Clearly no self-respecting cypherpunk would want to associate with rotten creeps like these two.

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Hey We have a New Harasser!
by zeynepaydogan 27 Oct '21

27 Oct '21

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/10/john-gilmore-leaves-eff-board-becomes… Since he helped found EFF 31 years ago, John Gilmore has provided leadership and guidance on many of the most important digital rights issues we advocate for today. But in recent years, we have not seen eye-to-eye on how to best communicate and work together, and we have been unable to agree on a way forward with Gilmore in a governance role. That is why the EFF Board of Directors has recently made the difficult decision to vote to remove Gilmore from the Board. We are deeply grateful for the many years Gilmore gave to EFF as a leader and advocate, and the Board has elected him to the role of Board Member Emeritus moving forward. "I am so proud of the impact that EFF has had in retaining and expanding individual rights and freedoms as the world has adapted to major technological changes,” Gilmore said. “My departure will leave a strong board and an even stronger staff who care deeply about these issues." John Gilmore co-founded EFF in 1990 alongside John Perry Barlow, Steve Wozniak and Mitch Kapor, and provided significant financial support critical to the organization's survival and growth over many years. Since then, Gilmore has worked closely with EFF’s staff, board, and lawyers on privacy, free speech, security, encryption, and more. In the 1990s, Gilmore found the government documents that confirmed the First Amendment problem with the government’s export controls over encryption, and helped initiate the filing of [Bernstein v DOJ](https://www.eff.org/cases/bernstein-v-us-dept-justice), which resulted in a court ruling that software source code was speech protected by the First Amendment and the government's regulations preventing its publication were unconstitutional. The decision made it legal in 1999 for web browsers, websites, and software like PGP and Signal to use the encryption of their choice. Gilmore also led EFF’s effort to design and build the [DES Cracker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFF_DES_cracker), which was regarded as a fundamental breakthrough in how we evaluate computer security and the public policies that control its use. At the time, the 1970s Data Encryption Standard (DES) was embedded in ATM machines and banking networks, as well as in popular software around the world. U.S. government officials proclaimed that DES was secure, while secretly being able to wiretap it themselves. The EFF DES Cracker publicly showed that DES was in fact so weak that it could be broken in one week with an investment of less than $350,000. This catalyzed the international creation and adoption of the much stronger Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), now widely used to secure information worldwide. Among Gilmore’s most important contributions to EFF and to the movement for digital rights has been recruiting key people to the organization, such as former Executive Director Shari Steele, current Executive Director Cindy Cohn, and Senior Staff Attorney and Adams Chair for Internet Rights Lee Tien. EFF has always valued and appreciated Gilmore’s opinions, even when we disagree. It is no overstatement to say that EFF would not exist without him. We look forward to continuing to benefit from his institutional knowledge and guidance in his new role of Board Member Emeritus. Sent from ProtonMail for iOS

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