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Anonymity Networks and Developer Determination
by Karl 06 Oct '20

06 Oct '20

This email is shared from a place of forthrightness (and hope). https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/37 Just to add, I suspect the reason that the state of public anonymity tools is not stronger is that the existing international powerholders, whose power could be reduced by widespread accessible anonymity, take diverse action to slow the release and hinder the effective use of the research. The way to make things change would be for people like us to agree to work together on forging one right thing in a development community, and use tools of both interpersonal mediation and software development to bring the result to happen by force of collective determination. It might help if everyone kept themselves more anonymous, collaborated in private as well as in public, and supported people who ran into personal issues so as to resist disruption and keep the work moving forward. On Fri, Sep 4, 2020, 5:49 PM David Stainton <notifications(a)github.com> wrote: > It's too late for this discussion. IPFS has failed to embrace the concept > of free Tor integration from volunteer developers. > > That having been said, anonymity is a synonym for traffic analysis > resistance; that is to say, even encrypted traffic can be analyzed for the > metadata it leaks. Tor is the very weakest of the existing designs for > anonymous communication networks however it is the most widely used whereas > the other designs from academia have not had much field testing; such as: > mix networks, dcnets, verified shuffles and other things can be used to > form anonymous communication networks such as private information > retrieval, oblivious ram, multi party computation etc. > > Tor is trivially broken by any sufficient global adversary by means of > timing correlation whereas mixnets are not. There are many other ways to > break Tor. > > Anonymity aka traffic analysis resistance is not yet a popular security > feature because these designs are in some respects ahead of their time... > just like not every software project embraces deterministic builds. Just > because your white middle class platitude doesn't allow you to understand > why people in high risk situations might need these things doesn't mean > they are not needed. In fact, in dealing with such folks I find the easiest > way to impart the importance to them is to describe military scenarios, > e.g. if you were in the military, overseas, you might actually be > interested in traffic analysis resistance. > > Think about a future brighter than Tor! Think about mixnets, hybrid > networks, dcnets and so on. Monoculture is death. Why is Tor the only > successful anonymity network? And to a lesser degree I2p? Although the I2p > observation is less valid because it's design is so similar to Tor in that > it can easily be broken by timing correlation from a sufficiently global > adversary. > > — > You are receiving this because you commented. > Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub > <https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/37#issuecomment-687407153>, or > unsubscribe > <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AACEIIKJAJVQXDV267SEBU3SE…> > . >

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IRS buying smartphone location data
by jim bell 06 Oct '20

06 Oct '20

https://www.quora.com/q/techinsider/The-IRS-is-under-investigation-for-buyi…

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Thorium Nuclear Clock coming up?
by jim bell 06 Oct '20

06 Oct '20

https://phys.org/news/2020-10-nucleus-thorium-scientists-closer-nuclear.htm… This is NOT going to be just another "atomic clock". It will be a NUCLEAR clock! Based on the thorium nucleus. Much more accurate! Jim Bell

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New measurement of nucleus of thorium-229 moves scientists step closer to a nuclear ...
by jim bell 06 Oct '20

06 Oct '20

jim bell <jdb10987(a)yahoo.com> recommends the following story from Science X: New measurement of nucleus of thorium-229 moves scientists step closer to a nuclear clock https://phys.org/news/2020-10-nucleus-thorium-scientists-closer-nuclear.html jim bell's comment: No, this is not an "atomic clock". This is a NUCLEAR clock! -------------------------------------------------- NOTE: This e-mail was sent by jim bell <jdb10987(a)yahoo.com> by filling e-mail form at https://sciencex.com/. If you do not know this person you may choose to disregard this e-mail or report it to info(a)sciencex.com

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"Suprise crude build" - "Suprise crude draw" - repeat, ad infinitum - [PEACE] [AND] [RIGGED] [MARKETS]
by Zenaan Harkness 06 Oct '20

06 Oct '20

There is so much cynicism in certain rigged markets, for example the oil cartels, that their media don't even -try- to contain the crap The WTI, West Texas Intermediate, is a primary benchmark used by financial and trader types for the price of black gold: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Texas_Intermediate can refer to a grade or a mix of crude oil, and/or the spot price, the futures price, or the assessed price for that oil; colloquially WTI usually refers to the price of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) WTI Crude Oil futures contract or the contract itself. The WTI oil grade is also known as Texas light sweet, although oil produced from any location can be considered WTI if the oil meets required qualifications.[1] Spot and futures prices of WTI are used as a benchmark in oil pricing. This grade is described as light crude oil because of its relatively low density, and sweet because of its low sulfur content. And so, year in, year out, week in, week out, we get around 2 news articles per week, one which is titled something like today's: WTI Slides Back Below $40 After Surprise Crude Build https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/wti-slides-back-below-40-after-surprise-cr… and the other which is its inverse, something like "WTI Now Above $45 After Suprise Crude Draw". These tick tock is like clockwork - a literal "surprise crude build" followed by a "surprise crude draw". Every week. Week in, week out. Always both, build and draw, and each is always a "surprise". It's pretty funny actually, and although it's been going on for years, the headlines literally never change, always the same (bar the actual numbers), with around 2 "surprises" a week. Oddly, even after years of seeing these two headlines each week as "new" news articles on Zerohedge, it always brings a wry smile, which is almost certainly due to a sleepy neurone rattling around my head wondering why it's so alone "and surely there's another neurone in here somewhere" - as they say, "simple minds". But I'll have you know -right- now, I experience absolutely NO shame in finding these recurring headlines humorous ;)

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The Verge: Congress releases blockbuster tech antitrust report
by jim bell 06 Oct '20

06 Oct '20

The Verge: Congress releases blockbuster tech antitrust report. https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/6/21504814/congress-antitrust-report-house…

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Kaspersky discovers a China virus, of the UEFI type - :O
by Zenaan Harkness 06 Oct '20

06 Oct '20

Another China virus ("read my lips: Chai-nah vai-russ"), this time going all the way down to the mobo's UEFI: Kaspersky Finds Sophisticated UEFI Malware in the Wild https://www.extremetech.com/computing/315860-kaspersky-finds-sophisticated-… ... MosaicRegressor .. The infection was discovered on just two computers, both belonging to diplomatic officials in Asia. The full exploit chain is long and varied, allowing the attackers to load multiple modules to control the target system and steal data. However, it all starts with the UEFI loader. On each boot, MosaicRegressor checks to see if its malicious “IntelUpdate.exe” file is in the Windows startup folder. If not, it adds the file. ...

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Encrypted postcards ...
by Stefan Claas 06 Oct '20

06 Oct '20

Hi all, while encrypted postcards (if you google for this topic) were popular among couples many decades ago, I thought of a modern way to do that. https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2020-October/064170.html Regards Stefan -- NaClbox: cc5c5f846c661343745772156a7751a5eb34d3e83d84b7d6884e507e105fd675 The computer helps us to solve problems, we did not have without him.

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From the history of Microsoft (part 1)
by Georgi Guninski 06 Oct '20

06 Oct '20

From my blog: https://j.ludost.net/blog/archives/2020/10/03/from_the_history_of_microsoft… Markdown source follows. >From the history of Microsoft (part 1) by Georgi Guninski Sat 03 Oct 2020 08:51:30 AM UTC, version 1.0 History is written by the winners, so here we write: --- * [Microsoft accidentally distributes virus July 28, 2002](https://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-accidentally-distributes-virus/) The software giant's Korean-language version of Visual Studio .Net carries the virulent Nimda computer virus to Asia. --- * [Ballmer: 'Linux is a cancer' Sat 2 Jun 2001](https://www.theregister.com/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_cancer/) Contaminates all other software with Hippie GPL rubbish. Microsoft CEO and incontinent over-stater of facts Steve Ballmer said that "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches," during a commercial spot masquerading as a interview with the Chicago Sun-Times on June 1, 2001. --- * [Halloween documents: August 1998 - March 2004](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Halloween_documents&oldid=…. The Halloween documents comprise a series of confidential Microsoft memoranda on potential strategies relating to free software, open-source software, and to Linux in particular, and a series of media responses to these memoranda. Both the leaked documents and the responses were published by Eric S. Raymond in 1998. --- * [Bill Gates is an android user: 26 Sep 2017](https://www.theregister.com/2017/09/26/bill_gates_android_user/) **%**RIP Windows Phone, we are not crying much. --- * [Weird garbled Windows 7 update baffles world – now Microsoft reveals the truth: 30 Sep 2015](https://www.theregister.com/2015/09/30/windows_update_glitch/) Its description mostly contained garbled text. Links for more information, help, and support were filled in with gibberish URLs with ".gov," ".mil," and ".edu" domains. --- * [m$ is linux vendor: 27 Jun 2019](https://www.theregister.com/2019/06/27/microsoft_linux_distro_list/) 2001: Linux is cancer, says Microsoft. 2019: Hey friends, ah, can we join the official linux-distros mailing list, plz? We tried to [speak up](https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2019/q3/8), the oss vendor crowd liked m$. --- * Closed source, source leaked and widely open. Possibly to fit Microsoft better in the so called open source community, unknown forces [leaked m$' sources](https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=windows%20source%20leaked). [MS hacked! Russian mafia swipes WinME source? 27 Oct 2000](https://www.theregister.com/2000/10/27/ms_hacked_russian_mafia_swipes…

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FOIA oppo on Bill Clinton convo with Putin re Yugoslavia & Milosevic - [PEACE] [POLITICS]
by Zenaan Harkness 06 Oct '20

06 Oct '20

FOIA opportunity here for USAians re Bill Clinton's 6th September 2000 conversation with Putin re Yugoslavia & Milosevic - large trove of docs released by Russia, almost entirely unredacted except where it might embarrass (in this specific case) Bill Clinton: Trove of Declassified Docs Reveals What Putin Told Clinton About Kursk Sinking, Yugoslavia, Terror https://sputniknews.com/world/202010051080674054-trove-of-declassified-docs…

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