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Crypto: IBM Pushes Fully Homomorphic Crypto
by grarpamp 06 Apr '21

06 Apr '21

https://venturebeat.com/2021/04/03/ibm-bets-homomorphic-encryption-is-ready… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption https://github.com/ibm/fhe-toolkit-linux https://github.com/zcash/zcash https://therecord.media/github-investigating-crypto-mining-campaign-abusing… https://therecord.media/amd-zen-3-cpus-vulnerable-to-spectre-like-attacks-v… https://www.amd.com/system/files/documents/security-analysis-predictive-sto… US chipmaker AMD advised customers last week to disable a new performance feature if they plan to use CPUs for sensitive operations, as this feature is vulnerable to Spectre-like side-channel attacks. Called Predictive Store Forwarding (PSF), this feature was added to AMD CPUs part of the company's Zen 3 core architecture, a processor series dedicated to gaming and high-performance computing, which launched in November 2020. The feature implements a technique called speculative execution, which works by running multiple alternative CPU operations in advance to make results available faster, and then discarding "predicted" data once deemed unneeded.

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Privacy: LexisNexis Sells You Out to US-ICE for $17B
by grarpamp 06 Apr '21

06 Apr '21

https://theintercept.com/2021/04/02/ice-database-surveillance-lexisnexis/ The deal is already drawing fire from critics and comes less than two years after the company downplayed its ties to ICE, claiming it was "not working with them to build data infrastructure to assist their efforts." caters to the immensely lucrative "risk" industry, providing, it says, 10,000 different data points on hundreds of millions of people to companies like financial institutions and insurance companies who want to, say, flag individuals The contract shows LexisNexis will provide Homeland Security investigators access to billions of different records containing personal data aggregated from a wide array of public and private sources, including credit history, bankruptcy records, license plate images, and cellular subscriber information. The company will also provide analytical tools that can help police connect these vast stores of data to the right person.

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Cryptocurrency: EO6102 - Crypto Banned like Gold and Cash
by grarpamp 06 Apr '21

06 Apr '21

https://mises.org/power-market/88-years-ago-fdr-banned-gold-will-bitcoin-ba… https://mises.org/library/great-gold-robbery-1933 https://mises.org/library/how-fdr-made-depression-worse https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gold_Repeal_Joint_Resolution https://mises.org/library/why-government-hates-cash-0 https://fortune.com/2018/06/12/bank-of-america-gun-sales/ https://nypost.com/2021/02/06/bank-of-america-under-fire-for-helping-feds-i… https://markets.businessinsider.com/currencies/news/janet-yellen-bitcoin-mi… https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2021/01/171386-ecb-president-christine-lag… https://mises.org/wire/marvin-goodfriend-worst-fed-nominee-all-time https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2018/06/central-bank-monetary-po… https://mises.org/wire/next-generation-currency-wars-private-vs-state-backe… https://www.coindesk.com/crypto-is-banned-in-morocco-but-bitcoin-purchases-… https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-12/russia-s-583-billion-res… Today is the 88th anniversary of Executive Order 6102, signed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, "forbidding the hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States." It would be a crime for Americans to hold gold for over forty years when President Gerald Ford reversed the order in 1974. This episode has several lessons for the current financial environment, particularly given the acceleration of tyranny-by-expert rule that has taken over much of the worst this past year. The same playbook is being increasingly used to target Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies that are beyond the reach of the state.

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Cryptocurrency: Miners Capturing Wasted Natural Gas
by grarpamp 06 Apr '21

06 Apr '21

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Could-Bitcoin-Solve-The-Oil-Flar… https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-06/why-bitcoin-mining-is-be… https://qz.com/1988503/bitcoin-miners-and-fracking-companies-are-working-to… https://jpt.spe.org/gazprom-neft-mines-bitcoin-as-an-alternative-to-flaring… As governments aim to curb carbon emissions from gas flaring, Bitcoin data centers offer a way to use this energy instead of letting it go to waste, in return for the digital currency....

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Gramps and his son, Batshit as Qanon chickenshits
by professor rat 06 Apr '21

06 Apr '21

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YhQdCuU-kegJ:https://w… Fuck off 8-chan morons.

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Leaks: Daniel Hale Persecuted by US for Leaking Drone Assassination Program
by grarpamp 06 Apr '21

06 Apr '21

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/04/02/drone-whistleblower-daniel-hal… https://dissenter.substack.com/p/daniel-hale-whistleblower-guilty-plea https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/daniel-hale-guilty-plea-e… https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/10/02/unbelievable-snowden-calls-out… https://theintercept.com/2014/08/05/watch-commander/ Drone Whistleblower Case Will Be First Espionage Act Conviction Of Biden Presidency Authored by Brett Wilkins via via CommonDreams.org, Press freedom, peace, and human rights advocates are rallying behind Daniel Hale, the former intelligence analyst who blew the whistle on the US government's drone assassination program, and who pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to violating the Espionage Act. The Washington Post reports Hale, who was set to go on trial next week, pleaded guilty to a single count of violating the 1917 law that has been used to target whistleblowers including Julian Assange, John Kiriakou, Chelsea Manning, Edward Snowden, Jeffrey Sterling, Reality Winner, and others. Daniel Hale Hale was charged in 2019 during the Trump administration after he leaked classified information on the US government's targeted assassination program to a reporter, who according to court documents, matches the description of The Intercept founding editor Jeremy Scahill. He is the first person to face sentencing for an Espionage Act offense during the admnistration of President Joe Biden. As vice president under President Barack Obama, Biden contributed to the creation of whistleblower protections in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, while simultaneously serving in an administration that, while promising "a new era of open government," relentlessly targeted individuals who revealed US war crimes and other classified information. Kiriakou—a former CIA agent who under Obama was sentenced to 30 months' imprisonment for exposing US torture—told Kevin Gosztola that he is "dissappointed that Daniel Hale's case was continued in the Biden Justice Department." "I had hopes that Biden's Justice Department appointee would recognize the public service that Daniel Hale provided when he revealed illegality and abuse in the drone program," said Kiriakou. Hale, who was an intelligence analyst for the US Air Force before moving on to the National Security Agency and then the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, "knowingly took highly classified documents and disclosed them without authorization, thereby violating his solemn obligations to our country," according to a statement from Raj Parekh, the acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. US Air Force image According to Gosztola, Hale's whistleblowing led to the revelation by The Intercept that "nearly half of the people on the U.S. government's widely shared database of terrorist suspects are not connected to any known terrorist group," details on how the Obama administration approved targeted assassinations, and information about Bilal el-Berjawi, a Briton "who was stripped of his citizenship before being killed in a U.S. drone strike in 2012." The Post reports that Hale admitted in court to writing an anonymous chapter in Scahill's 2016 book, The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program, which divulged information taken from top-secret documents about drone strike protocols, civilian casualties, and Pentagon officials' debate about the accuracy of intelligence. "These documents detailed a secret, unaccountable process for targeting and killing people around the world, including US citizens, through drone strikes," Betsy Reed, editor-in-chief of The Intercept, said after Hale's indictment. "They are of vital public importance, and activity related to their disclosure is protected by the First Amendment." Hale had initially centered his defense on First Amendment grounds, and his numerous defenders condemned his prosecution as a violation of press freedom and freedom of speech. His lawyer, Jesselyn Radack, issued a statement saying "the U.S. government's policy of punishing people who provide journalists with information in the public interest is a profound threat to free speech, free press, and a healthy democracy." Daniel Hale was my roommate when we were in the Air Force. A kind and caring person who promised his life in defense of this nation and its values. The people conducting secret illegal killings in other countries are criminals. Standing up for human rights makes Daniel a hero. https://t.co/8tBN4uA7oP — Jon Ivy （艾森） (@jonivy) April 2, 2021 "Classified information is published in the press every day; in fact, the biggest leaker of classified information is the US government," wrote Radack. "However, the Espionage Act is used uniquely to punish those sources who give journalists information that embarrasses the government or exposes its lies." "Every whistleblower jailed under the Espionage Act is a threat to the work of national security journalists and the sources they rely upon to hold the government accountable," she added. Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the women-led peace group CodePink, tweeted that it's "outrageous that drone whistleblower Daniel Hale will be going to prison for exposing the drone murders by the U.S. military. Why don't the murderers go to jail? Or the ones who ok the murders? Or the ones who make the killer drones and profit from murder?" Hale's sentencing is scheduled for July 13. He faces up to 10 years behind bars. Kiriakou told Gosztola that he hopes the judge "recognizes the good in what Daniel Hale has done and gives him the lightest possible sentence."

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Re: [tor-relays] ISP
by grarpamp 05 Apr '21

05 Apr '21

> Which ISP is better? They all suck. Go start your own ISPs and meshnets that actually gives a shit about people, privacy, transparency, censorship, servers, speech, freedom, crypto, and actually fights back against government largesse, intrusion, regulation, power, etc. Demand is high, you will profit. -- This message has been targeted by censors, oppressors, etc.

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Supreme Court sides with Google in Oracle’s API copyright case
by jim bell 05 Apr '21

05 Apr '21

https://share.smartnews.com/VLJT

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Details from 500 million Facebook users found on website for hackers | Facebook | The Guardian
by professor rat 04 Apr '21

04 Apr '21

Hey, there's an APP for THAT! https://stiffs.com/celebrity/markzuckerberg

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Pentagon linked to RMS, Jacob Appelbaum plots through Debian Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0
by professor rat 04 Apr '21

04 Apr '21

Pentagon linked to RMS, Jacob Appelbaum plots through Debian "... Just like in the case of tor, the show is run by the pentagon. Shocking !!! Hey Karl, what's your take on that? See, those people are the same sort of government criminals as the criminals who run your 'anti trafficking' propaganda outlets. ..." So Batshit was for Jacob Applecheeks before he was against him.

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