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15 Oct '20

Guys, thank you so much for your connection on this list, handling with politeness my psychotic expressions. On 10/15/20, jamesd(a)echeque.com <jamesd(a)echeque.com> wrote: > My fisking of your reply gets misclassified as spam email lists should be mirrors of anything else that can't be filtered so easily - git with public commit access (git-annex.branchable.com does forums this way using ikiwiki) - scuttlebutt (has many tools) - memo.cash or any other blockchain messaging system, can use a community fund for free access (has simple api if whole blockchain is downloaded, uncensored) - bitmessage (has existing email proxy, not sure if it's still online though) - secushare (dev needed) It seems the biggest thing missing is a proxy between any of these and e-mail. There must be some existing similar open source program that the api of one of the above could be patched onto.

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Barf, Mind Controlled Politics
by Karl 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

Let the figureheads elect themselves. I can't handle this. I'm in a state of mind where I don't know how to stop engaging the list, and my whole family is democratic. I hear stories of people suffering from Trump, most of my family has looked into citizenship in other countries out of fear of him. I don't want to fight you, and I don't want to be responsible for more suffering if I don't.

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Gems in the 2020-09 windows source leak?
by Georgi Guninski 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

Are there gems in the 2020-09 windows source leak? Like juicy comments/var names/function names? Reference to existing real world figures? https://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-secret-file-could-allow-access-to-web-s… Jan. 2, 2002 Microsoft secret file could allow access to Web sites The software giant says its engineers included a secret back door including the phrase "Netscape engineers are weenies!" in Web site authoring software that could allow hackers to gain unauthorized access to potentially thousands of Web sites.

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[back for only 1 thing] Algorithms for Cheap Shielding
by Karl 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

Hi, Please ask me to stop in whatever words you like, with a reference to this request, if I talk about anything other than this. I'd like to make a cheap device for taking ongoing measurements of the effectiveness of a shielded enclosure. Would you be willing to briefly review my first prototype theory, and _concisely_ offer any _concise_ problems or _concise_ better ideas you can think of? > Noise source emits EM signal noise function, which at the receiver is present > as Rn(t). This signal oscillates in what is roughly a square wave, for example > with a relay. > > During inactive time, receiver receives only Rb(t) the background signal. > > During active time, receiver receives Rb(t) + Rn(t) = Rr(t). > > When the signal is weak, heuristics can't differentiate between active and > inactive time periods. So, we separate the problem of keeping the receiver in > sync with the emitter from that of measuring the signal, and compare the > probability distributions of the active and inactive timeperiods to discern the > strength of Rn(t). Now, summation over time can be used to increase sensitivity > if the signal is very weak. > > First, estimate the probability distribution of Rn(t) from our observations of > the probability distributions of Rr(t) and Rb(t), possibly using e.g. the > convolution theorem for the sum of two independent random variables, which is > not complex. > > Then, discern mean electromagnetic properties such as relative power by solving > from the distribution of Rn(t). I've started pursuing this algorithm and goal a couple times over the years, and I'd like to try again. Step 1 is to identify in software the precise oscillation period of such a waveform, similar to implementing a van eck phreaking attack. I imagine while exploring step 1, plotting the accumulated shape of a single cycle visually, as if an oscilloscope had a trigger set for it. Each time point in the plot would be a fully colored column, like in a spectrogram, but of the frequency of occurrences of different signal powers, rather than spectral decomposition. I think such a plot would be worthwhile because it would help move towards both this goal, and other goals in electromagnetic security, of quickly reviewing the details of a repeating signal. Such signals are common in clocked digital electronic systems.

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Streissand strikes: UCali sheds $800,000 of "liberal" legal tears - so sad :D - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

The Streissand effect strikes again, this time in North America's liberal shirt-hole, Califor-ni-a (where else..), to the tune of over $800,000 in liberal UCali tears :D The irony is that there's nothing "liberal" about stopping free speech or warring against free speech. Enjoy, California University Spends $800,000 Trying To Shut Down Satirical Student Newspaper, Fails https://www.theepochtimes.com/university-of-california-spends-800000-trying… https://www.zerohedge.com/political/california-university-spends-800000-try… The University of California’s failed attempt to shut down a student-run publication satirizing “safe spaces” and “trigger warnings” has resulted in over $800,000 in legal fees. https://www.theepochtimes.com/t-university-of-california At the center of the legal dispute was a November 2015 article from The Koala, https://thekoala.org/2015/11/16/ucsd-unveils-new-dangerous-space-on-campus/ [WARNING: NSFW words in that link] a satirical student newspaper at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), known for publishing articles with crude humor and racial slurs. The article, entitled “UCSD Unveils New Dangerous Space on Campus,” mocked the idea that students needed a “safe space” on campus by suggesting that the university should equally respect certain students’ needs to have “dangerous space.” In the aftermath, the UCSD student government denounced The Koala for “the offensive and hurtful language it chooses to publish” and in retaliation, denied funding to all student media outlets. The Koala then filed a First Amendment lawsuit in 2016, arguing that the university was withholding funds to censor their speech. A federal judge tossed the lawsuit in 2017, but the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the decision in 2019, acknowledging the change in UCSD’s funding policy as a means to prevent The Koala from excising its freedom of speech. The Koala and UCSD settled the case last month, with the university paying the newspaper $12,000 and $150,000 more to cover attorneys’ fees. According to a public records request by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a First Amendment advocacy group, the University of California had spent an additional $662,317 on its own lawyers. https://www.thefire.org/university-of-california-invoices-re-the-koala/ Throughout the 4-year legal battle, the university hired different law firms that usually charged five figures for their services. The records suggest that the first invoice came from Chicago’s Schiff Hardin, which would submit 30 more invoices from 2016 to October 2020, ranging from less than $100 to $110,000. There was also an invoice from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in November 2019 for more than $150,000. By contrast, the funding originally allocated for The Koala was only $450. “For those keeping track at home, that’s just north of 1,820 times the amount of money The Koala was denied under the unconstitutional funding change,” FIRE’s Adam Steinbaugh wrote. “If speech ain’t free, it’ll cost the taxpayers and tuition-paying students a pretty penny.” Since 2015, many colleges and universities have designated safe spaces where students could go to escape from the stress of controversial ideas. Some others, notably the University of Chicago, rejected the concept, holding that college students should learn to navigate though controversial topics rather than avoid them. “Our commitment to academic freedom means that we do not support so-called ‘trigger warnings,’ we do not cancel invited speakers because their topics might prove controversial, and we do not condone the creation of intellectual ‘safe spaces’ where individuals can retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own,” a letter to UChicago’s Class of 2020 read (pdf). https://news.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/Dear_Class_of_202…

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Cypherpunks
by grarpamp 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

> technofascism looks kinda 'on topic' for the list. > >> As an anarchoprimitivist, I "secretly" hate technology (but as a >> software developer use it for most of my tasks), and I hang out >> sometimes with people who see anybody who develops or develops with >> technology as a harmful authority. But I don't really expect to hear >> that opinion here. >> >> Is this a view you hold? Are you aware of there being others here who >> hold that view? > > I'm not against technical developments per se. I'm certainly against the > 'progressives' who only care about the latest stupid gadget and think that > 'better technology' is better for people...while hiding/lying about all the > negative aspects of technical development. Well Perry's list bans bitcoin cryptoanarchy, libtech list only allows promotion of gadget-democracies and anti-liberation leftist force, and Tor Inc list censors truths from its users. So to extent any rejected's from those are here... could do quite well, should the moment come for people to get down to cypherpunk business. There is certainly lot of tech permutations quietly running in mental space, integration of topical news, idle time talking random political shit and such for fun, small exploratory tech convos, while waiting for the next big cypherpunk ideas to take shape from the ether. > Hey I was distracted by being silly. > You propose projects a lot. I am really passionate about distributed uncensorable platforms, I'm aware of some needing dev work, and interested in making new ones. Do you have any interest in dev work? The US elections on TV may be distracting many people from around the world from such projects. Benefit of govt / party spectacles shows sillyness of govt itself. From that we may see various old and new peoples and randoms getting in touch coming together on various projects after the US elections settle out. Some people here or soon to be here, are certainly working on any number of project drafts... And being from cypherpunks, they probably won't be projects that Centralized GovCorp TechnoFacists would take much liking to, lol :)

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Accessing Usenet for Dummies
by Karl 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

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Trump’s Deficits Are Racing Past Obomba’s
by Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

Trump Will Create More Debt Than obomba https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2020/09/27/trump-will-create-more-d… Trump poised to add more debt than Obama in first term https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-poised-to-add-more-debt-than-obama-i… Trump’s Deficits Are Racing Past Obama’s https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2020/02/01/trumps-deficits-are-raci… Isn't that hilarious? The monkey wants negative interest rates and is more of a spending thief than obomba. No doubt he's a shining 'conservative' 'libertarian' 'populist'. I can already hear the screeching lies and excuses coming from this fine list's trumpofascists trying to replace reality with their fantasies and pathetic lies.

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Unsubscribing
by Karl 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

You guys are cool! If you ever get overtly mind controlled, email me. Don't let people talk you out of doing obvious stuff. Just do it and tell them they talk too much. Goodbye!

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Re: Tor, the pentagon's cyberweapon
by Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 14 Oct '20

14 Oct '20

On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 15:01:03 -0400 Karl <gmkarl(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Yay, anonymity networks. > > On 10/13/20, Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 <punks(a)tfwno.gf> wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 14:32:53 -0400 > > Karl <gmkarl(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> We were, actually, looking at the ABCs of Tor, or what do you mean? > > > > > > I mean the facts that 1) tor is pretty useless for actual anonimity 2) tor > > 1) welllll it makes you completely invisible to your neighbors and > your isp, and very identifiable to federal agents as having something > to hide you are always invisible to your neighbors unless your neighbors own your ISP. And you're not 'invisible' to your ISP anyway, see the 'fingerprinting' attacks on tor. So even at that level tor doesn't work as advertised. > > is a cyberweapon created and controlled by the pentagon. That's the ABC of > > the mobile phone is a way bigger cyberweapon than tor. agree? disagree? agreed. Although retardphones are not advertised as 'anonymous', so somehow there's less fraud involved. > > > tor and you certainly WON'T learn that looking at the source code. > > So, below you say > > > if you want to know how good tor is 'technically' wise then listen to the > > criminals who write the code > > > > https://github.com/mikeperry-tor/vanguards/blob/master/README_SECURITY.md > > > > "Tor has only basic defenses against traffic analysis at the moment." > > Really, we're possibly getting at the same things. Tor froze after > mike perry wrote that. It was never addressed, and they now have a > policy against addressing it. right, and that 'policy' has been in place since the day tor was created. > We could just address it. It seems like obviously the thing to do, if > you're a bored computer programmer, is to steal the good parts of the > tor code, remove all the parts designed to make the naive governments > trackable by the sneaky governments or whatever, and replace them with > something transparent that welcomes improvement, no? and interestingly nobody has done it so far. Granted, it's not that easy. > > > signed mike perry - uh oh. > > The information in the quote you posted is incredibly well known by > tor users, as far as I understand. The information is unknown to the vast majority of tor users, including all the tor users who use tor in 'dark markets' and end up in jail. Since day 0 tor has been fraudulently pushed as an 'anonymous' network while the tor developer mafia admited in their inner circles that their 'product' was shit. And when somebody like appelbaum stopped fully toeing the party line he became a 'rapist'. Yes, that's how crass these people are.

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