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Cryptographic Unification of Mass and Space
by professor rat 04 Oct '21

04 Oct '21

Charles Rhodes work marks a clear link between cryptography and cosmology - there are three key papers in the last two decades. https://www.google.com/search?q=Charles+Rhodes+cryptographic&rlz=1C1GCEU_en… I think this ' cryptographic turn ' is of immense importance - not just to all cypherpunks - but all intelligent beings. Dr Rhodes shouldn't be a voice in the wilderness.

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White House plans 30-country meeting on cyber crime and ransomware -official
by jim bell 04 Oct '21

04 Oct '21

https://news.yahoo.com/white-house-plans-30-country-170947977.html Top U.S. national security advisers will gather officials from 30 countries this month with plans to combat the growing threat of ransomware and other cyber cr...

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Cryptocurrency: Pandora Papers - Proves Global Demand Is High for Personal Financial Freedom from the State
by grarpamp 04 Oct '21

04 Oct '21

Crypto Up 15% Since Midweek... See also... Global Corporate Minimum Tax Bail-In's UBI "Tax The Rich" "Property" Tax CBDC's, GovCoin, CorpCoin, BankCoin, StableCoin, CentralCoin $600 Tx Limit Financial SpyVeillance Reporting to Taxers PrintFlation... No Vacation Upon Savings For You Own Nothing, Be Happy... aka: Be Life Slave To and Worship The Owners GovCorp Contract Bloat When Government Subsidies Price the Majority of Humanity Out Of Housing, Education, Food, Etc When Your Nouveau Woke Ideas For Outright Theft... Eventually Runs Out Of Other People's Money To Steal Perfectly Legal Maneuvers That Everyone Can Do, But They Complain Instead Leaked records open a ‘Pandora’ box of financial secrets https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-business-religion-media-jordan-67b… Hundreds of world leaders, powerful politicians, billionaires, celebrities, religious leaders and drug dealers have been stashing away their investments in mansions, exclusive beachfront property, yachts and other assets for the past quarter century, according to a review of nearly 12 million files obtained from 14 different firms located around the world. The report released Sunday, Oct. 3, 2021, by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists involved 600 journalists from 150 media outlets in 117 countries. Jordan's King Abdullah II is one of 330 current and former politicians identified as beneficiaries of the secret accounts. The report released Sunday by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists involved 600 journalists from 150 media outlets in 117 countries. It’s being dubbed the “Pandora Papers” because the findings shed light on the previously hidden dealings of the elite and the corrupt, and how they have used offshore accounts to shield assets collectively worth trillions of dollars. The more than 330 current and former politicians identified as beneficiaries of the secret accounts include Jordan’s King Abdullah II, former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair, Czech Republic Prime Minister Andrej Babis, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso, and associates of both Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The billionaires called out in the report include Turkish construction mogul Erman Ilicak and Robert T. Brockman, the former CEO of software maker Reynolds & Reynolds. Many of the accounts were designed to evade taxes and conceal assets for other shady reasons, according to the report. “The new data leak must be a wake-up call,” said Sven Giegold, a Green party lawmaker in the European Parliament. “Global tax evasion fuels global inequality. We need to expand and sharpen the countermeasures now.” Oxfam International, a British consortium of charities, applauded the Pandora Papers for exposing brazen examples of greed that deprived countries of tax revenue that could be used to finance programs and projects for the greater good. “This is where our missing hospitals are,” Oxfam said in a statement. “This is where the pay-packets sit of all the extra teachers and firefighters and public servants we need. Whenever a politician or business leader claims there is ‘no money’ to pay for climate damage and innovation, for more and better jobs, for a fair post-COVID recovery, for more overseas aid, they know where to look.” The Pandora Papers are a follow-up to a similar project released in 2016 called the “Panama Papers” compiled by the same journalistic group. The latest bombshell is even more expansive, porting through nearly 3 terabytes of data — the equivalent of roughly 750,000 photos on a smartphone — leaked from 14 different service providers doing business in 38 different jurisdictions in the world. The records date back to the 1970s, but most of the files span from 1996 to 2020. In contrast, the Panama Papers culled through 2.6 terabytes of data leaked by one now-defunct law firm called Mossack Fonseca that was located in the country that inspired that project’s nickname. The latest investigation dug into accounts registered in familiar offshore havens, including the British Virgin Islands, Seychelles, Hong Kong and Belize. But some of the secret accounts were also scattered around in trusts set up in the U.S., including 81 in South Dakota and 37 in Florida. Some of the initial findings released Sunday painted a sordid picture of the prominent people involved. For instance, the investigation found advisers helped King Abdullah II of Jordan set up at least three dozen shell companies from 1995 to 2017, helping the monarch buy 14 homes worth more than $106 million in the U.S. and the U.K. One was a $23 million California ocean-view property bought in 2017 through a British Virgin Islands company. The advisers were identified as an English accountant in Switzerland and lawyers in the British Virgin Islands. There was no immediate comment from Jordan’s Royal Palace. The details are an embarrassing blow to Abdullah, whose government was engulfed in scandal this year when his half brother, former Crown Prince Hamzah, accused the “ruling system” of corruption and incompetence. The king claimed he was the victim of a “malicious plot,” placed his half brother under house arrest and put two former close aides on trial. U.K attorneys for Abdullah said he isn’t required to pay taxes under his country’s law and hasn’t misused public funds, adding that there are security and privacy reasons for him to have holdings through offshore companies, according to the report. The attorneys also said most of the companies and properties are not connected to the king or no longer exist, though they declined to provide details. Blair, U.K. prime minister from 1997 to 2007, became the owner of an $8.8 million Victorian building in 2017 by buying a British Virgin Islands company that held the property, and the building now hosts the law firm of his wife, Cherie Blair, according to the the investigation. The two bought the company from the family of Bahrain’s industry and tourism minister, Zayed bin Rashid al-Zayani. Buying the company shares instead of the London building saved the Blairs more than $400,000 in property taxes, the investigation found. The Blairs and the al-Zayanis both said they didn’t initially know the other party was involved in the deal, the probe found. Cherie Blair said her husband wasn’t involved in the purchase, which she said was meant to bring “the company and the building back into the U.K. tax and regulatory regime.” She also said she did not want to own a British Virgin Islands company and that the “seller for their own purposes only wanted to sell the company,” which is now closed. A lawyer for the al-Zayanis said they complied with U.K. laws. Khan, the Pakistani prime minister, is not accused of any wrongdoing. But members of his inner circle, including Finance Minister Shaukat Fayaz Ahmed Tarin, are accused of hiding millions of dollars in wealth in secret companies or trusts, according to the journalists’ findings. In a tweet, Khan vowed to recover the “ill-gotten gains” and said his government will look into all citizens mentioned in the documents and take action, if needed. The consortium of journalists revealed Putin’s image-maker and chief executive of Russia’s leading TV station, Konstantin Ernst, got a discount to buy and develop Soviet-era cinemas and surrounding property in Moscow after he directed the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Ernst told the organization the deal wasn’t secret and denied suggestions he was given special treatment. In 2009, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis put $22 million into shell companies to buy a chateau property in a hilltop village in Mougins, France, near Cannes, the investigation found. The shell companies and the chateau were not disclosed in Babis’ required asset declarations, according to documents obtained by the journalism group’s Czech partner, Investigace.cz. A real estate group owned indirectly by Babis bought the Monaco company that owned the chateau in 2018, the probe found. “I was waiting for them to bring something right before the election to harm me and influence the Czech election,” Babis tweeted in his first reaction to the report. The Czech Republic parliamentary election is being held on Friday and Saturday. “I’ve never done anything illegal or wrong,” Babis added.

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Tony Guoga Cypherpunk's Chief Executive Officer needs killing ( My 200$ )
by professor rat 04 Oct '21

04 Oct '21

I'm tired of carpetbaggers leeching off our good name. Please join this dead-pool with me and stamp out the parasites.

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GNU FSF: JShelter Privacy Extension to Block JavaScript Fingerprinting, Tracking, and Malware
by grarpamp 04 Oct '21

04 Oct '21

https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-announces-jshelter-browser-add-on-to-combat-th… https://jshelter.org/ https://github.com/polcak/jsrestrictor https://addons.mozilla.org/cs/firefox/addon/javascript-restrictor/ https://graz.pure.elsevier.com/de/publications/javascript-zero-real-javascr… https://arxiv.org/pdf/1905.01051 https://www.forcepoint.com/sites/default/files/resources/files/report-attac… https://research.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/self-censorship-on-faceb… https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/GeolocationCoordinates/acc… https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/gnu-librejs-new-and-improved https://www.gnu.org/licenses/javascript-labels.html What is JShelter? JShelter is a browser extension to give back control over what your browser is doing. A JavaScript-enabled web page can access much of the browser's functionality, with little control over this process available to the user: malicious websites can uniquely identify you through fingerprinting and use other tactics for tracking your activity. JShelter aims to improve the privacy and security of your web browsing. How does it work? Like a firewall that controls network connections, JShelter controls the APIs provided by the browser, restricting the data that they gather and send out to websites. JShelter adds a safety layer that allows the user to choose if a certain action should be forbidden on a site, or if it should be allowed with restrictions, such as reducing the precision of geolocation to the city area. This layer can also aid as a countermeasure against attacks targeting the browser, operating system or hardware. The development of this extension is influenced by the paper JavaScript Zero: Real JavaScript and Zero Side-Channel Attacks

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Leaked money info
by jim bell 03 Oct '21

03 Oct '21

Leaked files open “Pandora” box, show how ultra-wealthy hide billions, escape taxes in shadowy global web https://share.newsbreak.com/1kf3o4xw

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Re: neuromorphic processing
by professor rat 03 Oct '21

03 Oct '21

I don't want to encourage blathering no-coiner nitwits - like Coderman and Semich - but this particular development could get very relevant for anarchist revolutionists, very quickly. I'll let Jon Fearless explain . . . Another scenario (Ross 1992: 16) involves injecting nanomachines into the bloodstream that would replace each brain and sensory neuron with a functionally equivalent, artificial structure. The nanomachine would contain a program that would emulate the neuron, while at the same time interacting with neighboring cells as though the replaced neuron were still in place. The cells surrounding the neuron would be unaware of any change. Gradually, each synapse in the brain would become information in a computer program, retaining functionality but dispensing with its former physical structure. When the process is complete, what is thought to be the individual would awaken to a new life in cyberspace. .." https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/john-filiss-uploading

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Downside of going up
by professor rat 03 Oct '21

03 Oct '21

The thought of uploading themselves may not appeal to many people and they will have to be left-behind as the rest of us depart for the stars. In order that Mother Nature be given a fair chance to recover I suggest all those remaining be sterilized - even the most remote indigenous tribespeople since they could be so easily corrupted by unscrupulous left-overs. This is a distasteful job - but part of growing-up . . .and out. It could dog our career's as space explorer's to have any blot on our record.

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A guarantee of safe haven for individuals who implement assassination policies.
by professor rat 03 Oct '21

03 Oct '21

At its best, the acceptance of war by assassination is a powerful check on the growth and depredations of governments. At its worst, it is a sometimes useful tool to avoiding the needless deaths of innocents, i.e., “collateral damage,” when nations clash. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/john-filiss-war-by-assassination Though Jim Bell gained a little notoriety for stealing anarchist ' propaganda-of-the-deed' and dragging and dropping it online, cheats never prosper. Some version of John's idea combines better with networked anarchism since it doesn't drag and drop a bunch of Freudian bullshit over to cryptoanarchy. Hasta luego, Jimmy Its been real.

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letsencrypt.org NSA fucktards.
by Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 03 Oct '21

03 Oct '21

OK, these fucking 'letsencrypt' idiots don't even know how to issue certificates and so have fucked the 'secure' connection to millions of services. But, I thought, I can go to their arpanet website, get some kind of patch 'certificate' and add it to piece of shit firefox-NSA. But, no, there's no such thing as a fixed certificate. As a matter of fact the useless pieces of shit from 'letsencrypt' DON'T EVEN SAY A WORD about their worldwide scale fuck up. letsencrypt.org But maybe they are doing exactly what the NSA told them to do.

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