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Fred Ehrsam needs killing ( My 200 $ )
by professor rat 23 Sep '21

23 Sep '21

https://www.wsj.com/articles/coinbase-independent-directors-have-close-comp… Coinbase Independent Directors Have Close Company Ties The bitcoin exchange is set to go public with two directors who are members of the audit committee and are major shareholders. One was a founder.

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DEPLOY APster or go Homo
by professor rat 23 Sep '21

23 Sep '21

Btc and ETH WEAK GAME. WEAK HANDS. COWERING AT THE FEET OF GOVERNMENT. BEGGING TO BE REGULATED, ENSLAVED, and TOLD TO SHUTDOWN. Crypto-anarchism is not about that weaksauce. The entire global crypto-anarchist community - all three of us - seriously needs to grow some even bigger fucking nuts, create and deploy some basic coordination community wide assassination-politics to adoption, spend some loot, fight back, go on the offense long term, and win. When all's said and done a lot more is always said than done.

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Cryptocurrency: Cryptos Tanking 25-55% on GovBank SEC Enviro etc's Pathetic BS Meme Wars
by grarpamp 22 Sep '21

22 Sep '21

Since ATH mid Apr 2021, GovBankCorp's memes have been winning. All crypto has been bringing since then is... WEAK GAME. WEAK HANDS. COWERING AT THE FEET OF GOVERNMENT. BEGGING TO BE REGULATED, ENSLAVED, and TOLD TO SHUTDOWN. Crypto is not about that weaksauce. The entire global crypto community seriously needs to grow some fucking nuts, create and deploy some basic coordination community wide to adoption, spend some loot, fight back, go on the offense long term, and win.

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Implanted forgery detection
by jim bell 22 Sep '21

22 Sep '21

https://nano-magazine.com/news/2021/9/17/implanted-atoms-create-unique-elec…

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SpyVeillance: Lithuania Says To Bin Your Chinese Phones
by grarpamp 22 Sep '21

22 Sep '21

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/lithuania-says-throw-away-ch… Lithuania's Defense Ministry recommended that consumers avoid buying Chinese mobile phones and advised people to throw away the ones they have now after a government report found the devices had built-in censorship capabilities. Flagship phones sold in Europe by China's smartphone giant Xiaomi have a built-in ability to detect and censor terms such as "Free Tibet", "Long live Taiwan independence" or "democracy movement", Lithuania's state-run cybersecurity body said on Tuesday. The capability in Xiaomi's Mi 10T 5G phone software had been turned off for the "European Union region", but can be turned on remotely at any time, the Defence Ministry's National Cyber Security Centre said in the report. "Our recommendation is to not buy new Chinese phones, and to get rid of those already purchased as fast as reasonably possible," Defence Deputy Minister Margiris Abukevicius told reporters in introducing the report.

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John Young dodges process servers
by professor rat 22 Sep '21

22 Sep '21

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/serious-new-legal-trouble-for-everyon… Raises the possibility of a criminal conspiracy, including Alex Jones, to commit election fraud.

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Gramps dies of COVID 19
by professor rat 22 Sep '21

22 Sep '21

https://www.palmerreport.com/community/republican-official-dies-of-covid/41… After railing against taking any precautions against COVID and Dr. Fauci, saying dumb crap like how we needed to “end Faucism”. batshit-crazy Gramps died of the same disease he tried to pretend did not exist.

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Crypto at the coal-face
by professor rat 22 Sep '21

22 Sep '21

I HAD THE SHEER JOY Submitted by Luke from DC (not verified) on Tue, 09/21/2021 - ( Anarchist News ) of getting evidence that encryption on a computer stolen by the pigs in a 2008 raid was never cracked. This even though I was a known and high-profile target. Encryption does in fact work. If the government could easily break encryption so much of the time, they would not be screaming for backdoors from phone makers. Rather, we see occasional cracks of weak passphrases or of machines that had poor physical security around themselves. Bigger problem is this: your phone and computer are encrypted, but you have at least one codefendent who did not use encryption at all. Avoiding this in a large group can be a real problem. Same if you leave your phone at home but someone else in your crew brings an Android phone to a covert action with Google Maps running, location sharing on, tied to a Google account. I've seen cases where cops ignored all encrypted phones entirely but got what they wanted from unencrypted phones. Security of the group is as strong as the weakest link.

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1984: AI - Next generation reservoir computing
by grarpamp 22 Sep '21

22 Sep '21

Half the AI race is to analyze the world, the other half, and ultimately the whole, is to analyze and control you as part of it. https://phys.org/news/2021-09-scientists-reservoir.html https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-25801-2 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25801-2 https://github.com/quantinfo/ng-rc-paper-code Next generation reservoir computing Gauthier, D.J. Reservoir computing is a best-in-class machine learning algorithm for processing information generated by dynamical systems using observed time-series data. Importantly, it requires very small training data sets, uses linear optimization, and thus requires minimal computing resources. However, the algorithm uses randomly sampled matrices to define the underlying recurrent neural network and has a multitude of metaparameters that must be optimized. Recent results demonstrate the equivalence of reservoir computing to nonlinear vector autoregression, which requires no random matrices, fewer metaparameters, and provides interpretable results. Here, we demonstrate that nonlinear vector autoregression excels at reservoir computing benchmark tasks and requires even shorter training data sets and training time, heralding the next generation of reservoir computing.

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Ransomware - FBI Kept American Corps Encrypted, Shutdown, and Losing Money
by grarpamp 22 Sep '21

22 Sep '21

Yet another in news of FBI impropriety... https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/ransomware-fbi-revil-decry… The FBI refrained for almost three weeks from helping to unlock the computers of hundreds of businesses and institutions hobbled by a major ransomware attack this summer, even though the bureau had secretly obtained the digital key needed to do so, according to several current and former U.S. officials. The key was obtained through access to the servers of the Russia-based criminal gang behind the July attack. Deploying it immediately could have helped the victims, including schools and hospitals, avoid what analysts estimate was millions of dollars in recovery costs. But the FBI held on to the key, with the agreement of other agencies, in part because it was planning to carry out an operation to disrupt the hackers, a group known as REvil, and the bureau did not want to tip them off. Also, a government assessment found the harm was not as severe as initially feared. The planned takedown never occurred because in mid-July REvil's platform went offline -- without U.S. government intervention -- and the hackers disappeared before the FBI had a chance to execute its plan, according to the current and former officials. The previously unreported episode highlights the trade-offs law enforcement officials face between trying to damage cyber criminal networks and promptly helping the victims of ransomware -- malware that encrypts data on computers, rendering them unusable.

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