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Re: List Status
by Karl 30 May '21

30 May '21

[spam] just forwarding my messages with Greg during downtime to the list. When confused, share and preserve, that's my motto. On Thu, May 27, 2021, 4:10 PM Greg Newby <gbnewby(a)pglaf.org> wrote: > Here are the 900+ logfile messages for your email address, in case you > find anything informative. > > As noted, I've made a few changes. These include: > - turning off outbound spamassassin for cypherpunks list traffic, via > whitelist > - adding a bad spamc.cf setting, then fixing it (pertains to maximum > message length of messages, which isn't a factor in the cpunks list) > - removing blacklist checking, as mentioned on the list > > The bounce score in Mailman isn't much of an issue: if you get > unsubscribed, I can easily add you back. But I don't know where those > bounces came from - Mailman doesn't provide an easy way, even for a list > admin, to recover specific bounce details. > > I'm not paranoid about surveillance on the cypherpunks list, since it's an > open list with open archives. The subscriber list is kept confidential > within Mailman (so only I can see it), but anyone that could tap the > network would know who messages were going to. So, it's confidential, but > barely secure. > > The standard techniques like John linked to are much more likely to be > damaging, or potentially damaging, to the cypherpunks list: > https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm > > Meanwhile, though, it's distressing that gmail seems to be filtering. I > indeed confirmed that a list message went to the spam folder, but it was > visible there (i.e., it didn't simply disappear, for me). > > Best, > Greg > > On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 01:23:10PM -0400, Karl wrote: > > >> Maybe some day a cronjob that filters logs for only people who post, > > >> or only who have an option set, could make for public logs eventually > > >> ... > > > > > > Yes, that would be aligned with the transparency that is the > philosophy of > > > the list. > > > Best, > > > Greg > > > > > > > grep --fixed-strings --file=one_email_address_per_line.txt > > /var/log/mailman/bounce.log > public_logfile > > > > mailman is written in python; i'm thinking of how hackable it might be. > > > > sorry to be bugging you, it's sad the bounces don't show up in the > > logs =S really some malicious sotware could be messing with us. > > cleaning logfiles is such a basic part of malicious software. >

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Spin-Isotope/Spin-Isotope interactions detected
by jim bell 29 May '21

29 May '21

Gizmodo: Physicists Caught Two Atoms 'Talking' to Each Other. https://gizmodo.com/physicists-caught-two-atoms-talking-to-each-other-18469… Jim Bell's comment follows "Eureka!!!"This is EXACTLY the effect that I've long anticipated would exist! It is the very basis of many (most?) of my isotopic inventions. Two close atoms, each with 'spin', INTERACT due to their (physically close) magnetic fields. Eventually, after this is fully accepted, this will be seen as obvious:. Why shouldn't two nearby magnetic dipoles interact by their magnetic fields? This will be seen to be the basis for most of my isotope-modified alloy inventions. In time, this will be recognized to explain why there are 'eutectics', as I've long recognized. Here is the lead/tin phase-diagram, the basis for the long-used "63 tin/37 lead" "eutectic solder" that is now out of favor due to its toxic lead content. https://images.app.goo.gl/ctFNAyL4BCRs4Muh8 Notice that the melting point of this alloy is at a minimum at the point where the tin content is 63% by weight, and the lead content is 37% by weight. This, I've long believed since early 2009, is caused by the contents of lead-isotope Pb-207, the only stable lead isotope with 'spin', making up 22.1% of natural lead atoms.https://www.webelements.com/lead/isotopes.html Similarly, tin in nature consists of ten (!) stable isotopes, of which three contain nuclei with 'spin'. Sn-115, Sn-117, and Sn-119. https://www.webelements.com/tin/isotopes.html Note:. This coupled-'spin' effect is presumably NOT the basis for my isotope-modified optical-fiber invention. In that, passing infrared photons 'kick' 'spin'-containing atoms, losing a tiny amount of energy with each interaction. That loss leads to the tiny residual of 0.1419 dB/kilometer of optical loss that Sumitomo Electric found in 2017.https://global-sei.com/company/press/2017/03/prs029.html

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Nukes: Launch Codes Still Set To All Zeroes
by grarpamp 29 May '21

29 May '21

Still, effectively, probably, yes. Other news... https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2021/05/28/us-soldiers-expose-nuclear-weapo…

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Futurism: Police Raid Suspected Weed Growery, Find Bitcoin Mine Instead
by jim bell 29 May '21

29 May '21

Futurism: Police Raid Suspected Weed Growery, Find Bitcoin Mine Instead. https://futurism.com/the-byte/police-raid-weed-bitcoin-mine-instead

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List Status
by grarpamp 29 May '21

29 May '21

I'm not receiving messages from the listserv to gmail. People post them since they appear in archives, but after that the listserv to gmail function appears broken. I don't think any of the 'List Status' thread, made it to my gmail box. Same for a bunch more posts that I now discovered in the archives. However, unsubscribe and subscribe works, so that part of the queue/delivery is still ok, even those those management messages all got spamfoldered by gmail. There are no user defined filters here. I don't know if anyone is seeing my messages to the list. I would generally check the listservs outbound mail queues for excess spooling to gmail, and specifically verify that some of the message-ids got 'accepted' by gmail service from cpunks, such as... 1105930251.4796.1621985406875(a)wamui-dingo.atl.sa.earthlink.net 732012978.354083.1622093972987(a)mail.yahoo.com

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TheHill: Russian hackers seized email system used by State Department aid agency, human rights groups
by jim bell 29 May '21

29 May '21

TheHill: Russian hackers seized email system used by State Department aid agency, human rights groups. https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/555893-russian-hackers-seized-emai…

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Hilarious pentagon site
by Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 29 May '21

29 May '21

https://www.anarchistfederation.net/anarchy-lockdown-and-crypto-eugenics/ "Covid-19’s threat is not a conspiracy, any more than Covid-19 itself. It is not the result of media hype any more than it is the product of Bill Gates’ brain or transmitted from 5G towers. It is the direct consequence of severe ecological destruction and capitalism’s toxic living conditions" 'anarchisturds'.net wants to run JS malware from googletagmanager.com google.com cloudflare.com

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re: Tor
by Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 28 May '21

28 May '21

On Fri, 28 May 2021 10:10:29 -0400 Karl <gmkarl(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I'm looking at orbot and seeing it has "circuit padding" now. I don't know > whether this meets the requirements of chaff, and would like to know. according to their docs that padding is supposedly a defense against 'netflow' based analysis. I think 'netflow' is the name of the packet counting system on routers or something like that. there is no reason to believe that such padding achieves much.

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[old] Apertus Protocol
by Karl 28 May '21

28 May '21

Apertus is one of the very first blockchain social network implementations, from around 2014. I found their websites by scanning old block content after I was first targeted and isolated. It's surprising that their git repository has so few contributers, given they are visible in early block content. Apertus has a functional client written in C# for windows machines, and a public web portal to view and share content on. The web portal recently went down for a few years with sketchy surroundings, for me. It is up now at http://bitfossil.com/ . SSL is not working for me, not sure whether that's specific to me. (and of course memo.cash's primary compromised portal is at https://memo.cash/ ) Apertus's logo of the hand with the eye is similar to the Jainism symbol of Ahimsa. It means to prevent all harm and all suffering. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jain_symbols#Symbol_of_Ahimsa https://github.com/HugPuddle/Apertus/wiki/Technical-Details Apertus Apertus forms a network of authenticated immutable data storage and social networking on top of existing blockchains. It supports any network which uses the the bitcoin core rpc protocol, and comes with configurations for the following networks: Bitcoin Testnet Litecoin Litecoin Testnet Dogecoin Mazacoin Anoncoin Devcoin Potcoin Florincoin Curecoi Namecoin Primecoin Primecoin Testnet Dash Testnet I (xloem) glanced a little through the source code and started composing this page. Improvements are welcome. Transaction format Data is stored in a hierarchy of transactions, built bottom-up. The first layer is the archive data itself. This data is then indexed via ledger transactions, which are themselves indexed in ledgers, ending in a single root ledger transaction which represents the entire archive. Archive transactions Data is split into chunks of size equivalent to the maximum address payload size of the coin in question. Transactions contain these sequential chunks as dummy recipients. If a recipient would be duplicated, or transaction size is exceeded, the transaction is sent and a new one is begun. Transactions which would be entirely duplicate are skipped. Data is terminated by a set of actual transactions sending tips to real recipients, representing in order: keywords (#) recipients (@) vault profile / folder signature Ledger transactions Ledger transactions are archive transactions which store a text file indexing archives. The data content consists of one transaction id per line, in text. The root ledger contains only one transaction. Data Format Example File Format THIS IS A LONG TEST..TXT>00000000000022?THIS IS FILE CONTENTS.################## Example Message Format >000000000000000009*thnk you.########### Current Delimiters \/:*?"><|

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[old] memo.cash protocol
by Karl 28 May '21

28 May '21

I imagine people are using other chains now, but this protocol is well-known due to a compromised web interface that exists. It works and is in use on the bitcoin variants. I am not presently using it. OP_RETURN is a bitcoin opcode for storing data politely. Older protocols use UTXO outputs for data storage, which is more robust but makes every node keep the data in a live database rather than the transaction archive. These transactions can be generated programmatically the same way any bitcoin transaction is generated. This protocol specification has not changed since 2018 and is still in use. Posting to a public blockchain should be done anonymously. https://memo.cash/protocol <h2>Protocol</h2> <p> Protocol uses P2PKH addresses. Actions are saved using <b>OP_RETURN</b>. </p> <p> Message data is UTF-8 encoded. For example, this action would set your name to "memo": </p> <pre style="font-family:monospace">OP_RETURN 6d01 6d656d6f</pre> <h3>Action Codes</h3> <table class="table"> <thead> <tr> <th>Action</th> <th>Prefix</th> <th>Values</th> <th>Status</th> <th>Example</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>Set name</td> <td>0x6d01</td> <td>name(76)</td> <td>Implemented</td> <td> <a class="btn btn-leave" target="_blank" href="https://explorer.bitcoin.com/bch/tx/753e29e81cdea12dc5fa30ca89049ca7d538d40…"> Block Explorer </a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Post memo</td> <td>0x6d02</td> <td>message(76)</td> <td>Implemented</td> <td> <a class="btn btn-leave" target="_blank" href="https://explorer.bitcoin.com/bch/tx/c7e91099923a28cf86685c9683c74c8c029c896…"> Block Explorer </a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Reply to memo</td> <td>0x6d03</td> <td>txhash(20), message(53)</td> <td>Planned</td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Like / tip memo</td> <td>0x6d04</td> <td>txhash(20)</td> <td>Implemented</td> <td> <a class="btn btn-leave" target="_blank" href="https://explorer.bitcoin.com/bch/tx/b7b9376659920ecbaad794bfb1cd0a5da095f92…"> Block Explorer </a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Set profile text</td> <td>0x6d05</td> <td>message(76)</td> <td>Planned</td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Follow user</td> <td>0x6d06</td> <td>address(35)</td> <td>Implemented</td> <td> <a class="btn btn-leave" target="_blank" href="https://explorer.bitcoin.com/bch/tx/7958e54680a4ed01316ce99489f54c26234060c…"> Block Explorer </a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Unfollow user</td> <td>0x6d07</td> <td>address(35)</td> <td>Implemented</td> <td> <a class="btn btn-leave" target="_blank" href="https://explorer.bitcoin.com/bch/tx/a9987c7643a3d5a033b2630cf7e3603385b7ab6…"> Block Explorer </a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Set image base url</td> <td>0x6d08</td> <td>url(76)</td> <td>Planned</td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Attach picture</td> <td>0x6d09</td> <td>txhash(20), imghash(20), url(34)</td> <td>Planned</td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Set profile picture</td> <td>0x6d10</td> <td>imghash(16), url(61)</td> <td>Planned</td> <td></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Repost memo</td> <td>0x6d11</td> <td>txhash(20), message(63)</td> <td>Planned</td> <td></td> </tr>  </tbody> </table> <p> Additional actions being considered: </p> <ul> <li>Tagging users in posts</li> <li>Voting</li> <li>Issue and revoke delegated addresses</li> <li>Dislike and/or flag posts/users</li> </ul>

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