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Hackaday: This Week In Security: Pwn2own, Zoom Zero Day, Clubhouse Data, And An FBI Hacking Spree
by jim bell 17 Apr '21

17 Apr '21

Hackaday: This Week In Security: Pwn2own, Zoom Zero Day, Clubhouse Data, And An FBI Hacking Spree. https://hackaday.com/2021/04/16/this-week-in-security-pwn2own-zoom-zero-day…

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The FBI is remotely hacking hundreds of computers to protect them from Hafnium
by jim bell 14 Apr '21

14 Apr '21

https://share.smartnews.com/dGvD

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Israel May Have Destroyed Iranian Centrifuges Simply by Cutting Power
by jim bell 14 Apr '21

14 Apr '21

https://share.smartnews.com/JDfp

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Btc new ATH separates cypherpunk sheep from goats
by professor rat 13 Apr '21

13 Apr '21

Second Bull Run chugs along printing new ATH over 63K This really shows up who the total bullshit 'cypherpunks ' are since they don't have any skin in the game. BITCHES LEAVE.

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Re: GNU FSF: Richard Stallman Returns
by John Young 13 Apr '21

13 Apr '21

Stallman came by to vacate his recently died mother's condo when a neighbor offered condolences in the lobby. The total shit handed her his business card, growled give me a call, sweetheart. At 04:59 PM 4/2/2021, you wrote: > > https://rms-support-letter.github.io/ > > https://github.com/rms-support-letter/rms-support-letter.github.io/ > > > > Petition for freespeech, against cancel culture... > >The support for RMS campaign currently now has 67% more sigs >than the cancel culture campaign does, jumping 48% since last. >Cancel culture losing. > > >More sordid from land of virtual signallers... >https://debian.community/molly-de-blanc-arrest-and-prosecution-for-cyberbul… >https://debian.community/paul-tagliamonte-debian-usds-white-house-mob-ringl… > >https://uncensored.debian.community/ >https://danielpocock.com/positive-alternatives-to-codes-of-conduct/

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Cryptocurrency: Battle Stations!!! - The Global War Against Real Crypto Is Ramping Up
by grarpamp 13 Apr '21

13 Apr '21

$Trillions in market cap are making Governments and Banks very nervous. You've followed all the news articles for years... the bans, the creeping regulations, the taxation, the prisons, the tracking and controls, the war on cash, the rise of corporate shitcoins and government CBDC's... and you knew the global war against real distributed crypto was coming. Now, in as many ways and more, the war is here... and it is a dire threat. This Government, Bank, and Shitcoin war is winnable, the outcome is in your hands... you have the philosophy, speed, and numbers on your side. Yet if you are not *IN* the war, you are not going to *WIN* the war, on the contrary, you, and freedom, will *LOSE* the war, badly! Adopt, Keep, Use, and Fight for real Cryptocurrency!! Get Active, get in Public, and get in the Crypto Political War... NOW!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6b70TUbdfs The Tiny Dot http://voluntaryist.com/articles/we-are-many-they-are-few/ https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/08/bitcoin-coinbase-rival-kraken-may-go-public… https://cointelegraph.com/news/kraken-reiterates-tentative-plans-for-direct… https://u.today/coinbase-ceo-brian-armstrong-breaks-his-silence-on-cooperat… https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/12/bitcoin-kraken-ceo-jesse-powell-warns-of-cr… "I think there could be some crackdown," Jesse Powell, CEO of Kraken, told CNBC in an interview. A recent anti-money laundering rule proposed by the U.S. government would require people who hold their crypto in a private digital wallet to undergo identity checks if they make transactions of $3,000 or more. "Something like that could really hurt crypto and kind of kill the original use case, which was to just make financial services accessible to everyone," Powell said. Illicit activity accounted for just 0.34% of all crypto transaction volume last year, according to blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis. That was down from roughly 2% a year earlier. "I hope that the U.S. and international regulators don't take too much of a narrow view on this," Powell said. "Some other countries, China especially, are taking crypto very seriously and taking a very long-term view." Kraken's CEO said he feels the U.S. is more "shortsighted" than other nations and "susceptible" to the pressures of incumbent legacy businesses — in other words, the banks — that "stand to lose from crypto becoming a big deal." "I also think it might be too late," Powell added. "Maybe the genie's out of the bottle and just trying to ban it at this point would make it more attractive. It would certainly send a message that the government sees this as a superior alternative to their own currency." The U.S. isn't the only country considering strict new rules on crypto. In India, for example, the government is considering a law that would ban cryptocurrencies and penalize anyone holding or trading them. https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-hsbc-cryptocurrency-idUSKBN2BZ225 HSBC has banned customers of its online share-trading platform from buying or moving into their accounts MicroStrategy stock, calling it a "virtual currency product." The bank will not facilitate the buying or exchange of products related to or referencing the performance of virtual currencies, the message to an HSBC InvestDirect client said. MicroStrategy declined to comment. The U.S. business software firm is led by bitcoin proponent Michael Saylor and owns bitcoin worth billions of dollars. While HSBC will allow the holding, sale and outgoing transfer of MicroStrategy shares, it will forbid new purchases or incoming transfers, said the message dated March 29. "HSBC has no appetite for direct exposure to virtual currencies and limited appetite to facilitate products or securities that derive their value from VCs (virtual currencies)," HSBC said in a statement. The bank said its policy towards cryptocurrencies had been in place since 2018 and is kept under review. JPMorgan Chase, RBC Royal Bank Canada, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, and many other bank based investing platforms actively block customer purchases of cryptocurrency stocks, ETF's, miners, futures, derivatives, holding funds, crypto servicing companies, coin protocol development companies, etc. These banks also refuse to open accounts for cryptocurrency exchanges, and they will cancel customers bank accounts found sending funds to and from exchanges. These are not prohibitions at law, the banks are acting arbitrarily. Powell remains generally skeptical of banking regulators who’ve created an atmosphere where banks can deny legal crypto firms and their customers basic banking services, while being allowed to make risky investments. “The problem with most banks is that they’re allowed to gamble while most people just need basic access to payment rails,” Powell said. “I think there’s still things governments can do to shut it down if they really get scared,” he said. “I’m a bit pessimistic about this. But I think that politicians in the long run are just self-serving. To the extent that we can put crypto in the pocket of every politician, they’ll likely work to benefit themselves.” Powell added that he’d feel more comfortable once U.S. politicians begin accepting and keeping campaign donations that are denominated in crypto. “I think there will always be a compulsion to go back to a human-managed currency because of the great power it has,” he said. “We’re still fighting against governments and [Internet Service Providers] for our rights on the internet.”

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The Guardian: Britain is damaging its reputation by keeping Julian Assange in jail, says partner
by jim bell 13 Apr '21

13 Apr '21

The Guardian: Britain is damaging its reputation by keeping Julian Assange in jail, says partner. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/apr/11/britain-risks-damaging-reputa…

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TIME: Clarence Thomas' Tech Opinion May Signal a Free Speech Shift | Time
by jim bell 12 Apr '21

12 Apr '21

TIME: Clarence Thomas' Tech Opinion May Signal a Free Speech Shift | Time. https://time.com/5953715/clarence-thomas-tech-free-speech/

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Tech Xplore: Neuralink developing brain-machine interface technology to help people with paralysis operate computers
by jim bell 12 Apr '21

12 Apr '21

Tech Xplore: Neuralink developing brain-machine interface technology to help people with paralysis operate computers. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-04-neuralink-brain-machine-interface-techn… Jim Bell's comment:I still recommend the 1967 movie, The President's Analyst.

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Cryptocurrency: John McAfee, Global Laws, Signal MOB, Jami, Element
by grarpamp 12 Apr '21

12 Apr '21

https://twitter.com/officialmcafee https://twitter.com/theemrsmcafee https://twitter.com/gordonlawltd https://twitter.com/search?q=#FreeJohnMcAfee John McAfee, grand high purveyor of the fine CryptoLibertarian message, still being held in Spanish prison fighting US extradition for over six months. Where to relocate... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_bitcoin_by_country_or_territory https://www.loc.gov/law/help/cryptocurrency/world-survey.php https://www.loc.gov/law/help/cryptocurrency/cryptocurrency-world-survey.pdf https://www.coindesk.com/signal-founder-may-have-been-more-than-tech-advise… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jami_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Element_(software)

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