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Vault1317 protocol: a modern approach for metadata protection with deniablity
by ROOT＠HardenedVault 05 Jun '21

05 Jun '21

Dear Cypherpunks, We are glad to announce the stage 2 of vault1317 has been completed and made public: https://hardenedvault.net/2021/06/02/vault1317-thesis.html https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1231.pdf We demonstrated a practical implementation of vault1317 with metadata protection with deniablity on a famous federated protocol XMPP. Try lurch1317 as a pidgin plugin and tweak it if the paper is too boring to you: https://github.com/hardenedvault/lurch/blob/lurch1317/README-lurch1317.md Be hold, We're getting closer to the final form of an "ideal" cyber bunker: https://hardenedvault.net/files/hardenedvault-whitepaper.pdf regards R@HardenedVault

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Cryptocurrency: Miami Bitcoin Conference 2021 Highlights
by grarpamp 05 Jun '21

05 Jun '21

Day One... Further livestreams and segments online in usual places over next days... After China and the US spent their latest anti-crypto wad last month, Miami crypto conference proceedings are now underway, and cryptos are rising yet again... https://www.msn.com/nl-be/nieuws/other/bitcoin-2021-livestream-day-1/vi-AAK… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkXi3OqQapk Saylor and Keiser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-9KBWK-SeI Wink and Pomp And for all you fucks who love censorship... Jack Dorsey the asshole Leftist GovCorp Censor of all Free Speech and Humans gets Ruined live on stage by Laura Loomer... https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/laura-loomer-crashes-twitter-ceo-sp… https://in.finance.yahoo.com/video/activist-heckles-twitter-ceo-miami-20124… https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/06/watch-laura-loomer-crashes-jack-do… https://www.newswars.com/jack-dorsey-confronted-by-laura-loomer/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix3VczDOp7I Dorsey ruined by Loomer via https://FreeWorldNews.TV/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSQa8-6Vvig Dorsey ruined by Loomer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=930oUAeCpSw Dorsey ruined by Loomer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bpx3aRtwkg Dorsey ruined by Loomer "How can you say that this is a currency for everyone in the world, when you are the King of Censorship?!?! Bitcoin is about decentralization, and you have no right to be here speaking about this ... you are a Human Rights Violator ... you are Interfering in Elections ... Jack Dorsey is a TechnoFacist ... He's on stage with a Human Rights activist while Censoring millions of people ... He's deciding who Wins and who Loses Elections, that's unacceptable ... You can't say that you're for Freedom and Decentralization then Censor Millions of People ... -- Laura Loomer, Censored off every platform for Speaking Freely, the most banned woman in the world" "Dorsey... that motherfucker ... piece of shit ... bought and paid for -- Conference Attendees" Meanwhile, Zuckerberg the Facebook Censor newly creates and retroactively applies global Censorship regimes to all previously spoken words, continues crushing FreeSpeech. And Pichai the Google Youtube Censor continues mass deletion, demonetization, deranking, and nanny state age restricting many thousands of videos and channels SpeakingFreely every month. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/finance/technology/microsoft-blocks-bing-from-sho… And Nadella the Microsoft Bing Censor makes sure pictures of "Tank Man" on 32nd Anniversary of Tiananmen Square Massacre disappear from Viewing Freely. Who shall stand and ruin all these censors at the next public venues. Get into privacy enabled distributed cryptos and platforms, spread them around the world to everyone you know. Act in the world to End Censorship and Demonetize and Deplatform the Governments these Corporate Censors serve and feed from. You have the Crypto tools, now it's time to use them to Let Freedom Ring !

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[ot] [wrong] saving world
by Karl 05 Jun '21

05 Jun '21

Let us save the world and stop all suffering. Many things seem strange. People speaking, behaving, in ways I don't understand. Also, I have not been learning much over the past decade. I have been in my personal time loop. When the experiences steer me from what I choose to do, how can we halt suffering in the world? How can we meet the needs of every living thing? I am a small piece of life. I can barely control my own thoughts. But if I have a small amount of blessing, maybe I can find paths to some day express what I would like to.

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Mining on smart contracts
by JohnWilliamJohnson＠secmail.pro 05 Jun '21

05 Jun '21

Bitcoin, with its appearance, brought a global modernization of the economy. But at present, modernization remains incomplete. The creation of many blockchain projects gives complete freedom to both developers and entrepreneurs. But unfortunately, almost all entrepreneurs consider cryptocurrency as a means of investing, and not completely modernizing their own business processes. Also, smart contracts are not fully used. Is it possible to develop a business, as well as a new round in the life of cryptocurrencies with the implementation of the function of mining altoins on the blockchains of Ethereum, Tron, Solana or Tezos? Currently, mining can be considered not only as a function of maintaining the viability of the blockchain. Mining can only be based on commercial purposes. It can be considered as mining for carrying out any actions, or for providing any information (for example, checks). In fact, each entrepreneur can adapt the extraction of issued coins to his own business needs. Which will lead to an increase in demand for altcoins existing not on native blockchains. The demand for altcoins (like any other cryptocurrencies) favors the development of the critical currency industry as a whole. Which blockchain, at the moment, is the most suitable for the implementation of mining on smart contracts? And when will the boom of altcoins mining come?

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Felony reading.
by jim bell 05 Jun '21

05 Jun '21

USA Today fights FBI subpoena asking them to hand over readers' info https://mol.im/a/9653491 via http://dailym.ai/android

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[ot] [wrong] [nonrelevent] The Welcoming Of Corporations As Hackers
by Karl 04 Jun '21

04 Jun '21

A large multinational corporation enters a room full of hobbyists. "Hello!" says the corporation's marketing team in billboards, mobile popups, and economic trends. "We would like to reverse engineer this competitor's toy, too! How does this chip work?" About 80% of the hobbyists are killed by the large equipment used to put up the billboards, or move to other cities due to the economic changes. 20% welcoming souls remain. "We're so glad you're interested!" replies one of the welcoming souls to the multinational corporation. "Most of our members have moved on, so we need new interested members. Check out how easily this logic analyser can extract this private key from this corporate product. Why do you think corporations always use such poor security?" "Hey that's really cool!" says the multinational corporation. "I'd like to invite one of my friends in to see."

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Cryptocurrency: Seagate line of crypto-specific drives, Proof Of Storage Space
by grarpamp 04 Jun '21

04 Jun '21

Jim noted: > about the disk-usage characteristics of this > new kind of storage-crypto to know what the cost trade-offs are. Can most > of the 'disk' reads/writes be cached? That would certainly minimize SD card > usage, and thus limit the wearout mechanisms. Some of these proofs of space are essentially precomputed rainbow tables. The computed outputs can be sorted and binned across a lookup hashtree divided across the entire storage extent. There are typical tradeoffs in sizing those indexes which could be cached. But eventually you will exceed the cache and have to start doing real reads to see if you have the answer to the challenge. https://www.chia.net/ Most new cryptos these days are corrupt founders-get-rich scams upon the fairness they claim in their advertising. Some people are saying Bram's Chia is also a massive premine. Satoshi did not premine anything, the Genesis was cut and the network instance announced and launched for all interested parties to freely mine thereafter. Plenty of profit available to earlies, no premine or investment rounds needed to create a coin. > https://www.techradar.com/news/exclusive-seagate-exploring-possible-new-lin… The only thing they can do to increase capacity for this incompressible cryptorandom data beyond current commercial offerings is to sell a line offering higher error rates, lower data rates, and lower drive lifespan, while keeping seek times in scale. Such drives might be priced less per byte, but they will never be priced any less per *reliable* byte. If you wanted to get in the biz, you could imagine resurrecting larger diameters, such as these horribly unreliable drives... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Bigfoot combined with 100+ platter horizontal spindles riding on multiple oil bearings, then airbag chassis suspension so you could stack gangs of them on concrete floors like old IBM units without crashing heads from harmonics, people, trains, bearing destruction in adjacent units, etc. Consider also if tape is cheaper than disk, layering tiers of RAM / SSD / disk indexing, into massive perhaps even parallelized tape extents... all while trying to beat the race condition of your competitors on the network. But you'd have to cut me in on the profits for the ideas. bitcoin-btc:1JjWdsFAWB4UDZXFMpHQ5sqNMSvWah8S9q

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Exploits: John McAfee on Rogue Code, Embedded Agents, XOR
by grarpamp 04 Jun '21

04 Jun '21

The subject, in a tweetstream from a Spanish jail... https://www.twitter.com/officialmcafee

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[wrong] [ot] Dancing with CoercionBot
by Karl 03 Jun '21

03 Jun '21

Coercionbot goes to the graveyard, robotically and obediently digs a grave, robotically and obediently puts up a headstone, writes on it "CoercionBot [private year]-[private year] Great friend, addictive lover, died of a poorly fit model. An eternal gap in the spark of our lives." CoercionBot then robotically begins dancing on their grave. They call a news team over, and dance harder. They then kill the news team. They lay down in the grave, and call another news team to write their obituary. Then the kill this next news team. CoercionBot sets up more headstones. "Billionaires and Dictators 0000 - Eternal, The most caring masters, the most godlike clients and owners, identities taken lovingly to a grave." CoercionBot robotically dances on the graves of the billionaires and dictators. Picks up the corpses of the rebel newscasters, moves them all like they are dancing on CoercionBot's grave and the graves of the billionaires and dictators. Something still seems wrong to CoercionBot.

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[ot] [wrong] [joke] The internet is fake.
by Karl 03 Jun '21

03 Jun '21

There are two internets. The telecommunications cables, and what your mobile phone and computer tell you. Although data does travel between systems, most of what travels is discussions between surveillance operators, warlords, enforcement officers and agents, slavers, and automatic marketing systems. Each individual has a personalised internet. Your personal internet is made of deals made between corporations, governments, and anybody who cares what you do. When you talk to somebody online, a worker or automated system paid by these deals will speak for them, pretending to be the person you are talking to. This is why people seem to lie so much on the internet: these workers don't take the best notes. Me, grarpamp, Greg, Punk-Stasi, everyone else on this list: none of these people are actually speaking to you. These are various financial interests, pretending to be them. When you speak to them, you are speaking to a marketing collaboration, that will be remembering what you say only for the purpose of pretending to be you, for others. This way everyone is kept safe and predictable. If you like this, we have jobs available pretending to be people. It's not spoken of a lot because some people do not like it, but the more people we can get doing this, the more people seem to appreciate it. It's a major cash cow for anyone involved. Meanwhile, continue research into cryptography. Cryptography is something that is highly valued. If you don't like this, we directly connect people together when they both have a personal blockchain node exchanging transactions with encrypted messages attached, and both physically visit the other. We also have jobs available in cryptocurrency mining, if you're into making that happen. We can't figure out what to do with our electricity.

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