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VICE: Darknet Drug Markets Continued Their March to Dominance in 2020
by jim bell 02 Feb '21

02 Feb '21

VICE: Darknet Drug Markets Continued Their March to Dominance in 2020. https://www.vice.com/en/article/88ae74/darknet-drug-markets-continued-their…

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facestab legal requests
by coderman 02 Feb '21

02 Feb '21

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 got a fun email from facestab, which i was locked out of years ago as discussed before on this list. presumably "accompanied by an order that prohibited us from disclosing information" has now been long enough ago they've got to come clean. awaiting further information... don't use facestab ;) best regards, - --- Return-Path: <records(a)records.facebook.com> X-Original-To: coderman(a)protonmail.com Delivered-To: coderman(a)protonmail.com Received: from 69-171-232-181.mail-mxout.facebook.com (69-171-232-181.mail-mxout.facebook.com [69.171.232.181]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mailin013.protonmail.ch (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 114143000273 for <coderman(a)protonmail.com>; Sat, 30 Jan 2021 08:01:23 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mailin013.protonmail.ch; dmarc=pass (p=reject dis=none) header.from=records.facebook.com Authentication-Results: mailin013.protonmail.ch; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=records(a)records.facebook.com Authentication-Results: mailin013.protonmail.ch; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=records.facebook.com header.i=(a)records.facebook.com header.b="0cpyTq2Q" Dkim-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=records.facebook.com; s=s1024-2014-q3; t=1611993667; bh=hrStWmzOBW+c5IOd71X/MqDlXFLvnJdXdBXAvHRpnaI=; h=Date:To:Subject:From:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=0cpyTq2QWHvryHueJdDRcDUDKYDZ6Mdodla240FKtx/lOWieS+1SeGhD+cmUpQuTU kU++GFbj4BKXVe0Jpfp90JQ8E6zQqY6VCb/NyKp6Kfhzgzv4XU6TYvnJ+8Hnb0R5WG Tbxs2fd4Q+UKvMjzo2wJNIyIM0P0Q3yMgeEGUBf8= X-Facebook: from zuckmail ([MTI3LjAuMC4x]) by localhost.localdomain with local (ZuckMail); Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2021 00:01:07 -0800 To: coderman(a)protonmail.com Subject: [Facebook Case #5795081] X-Mailer: ZuckMail [version 1.00] From: Records <records(a)records.facebook.com> - --- Hello, This notice is to inform you that we received legal process from law enforcement seeking information about your account, and produced data as required by law. The legal process was accompanied by an order that prohibited us from disclosing information about the case until a specific time had expired and we were legally required to produce the records specified in the demand. If you would like additional information about the legal process, please let us know as soon as possible by responding to this email. Thank you, Law Enforcement Response Team - --- NOTICE: This email (including any attachments) may contain information that is private, confidential, or protected by attorney-client or other privilege. Unless you are the intended recipient, you may not use, copy, or retransmit the email or its contents. For information please visit: https://www.facebook.com/safety/groups/law/guidelines/ and http://help.instagram.com/494561080557017/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iNUEAREKAH0WIQRBwSuMMH1+IZiqV4FlqEfnwrk4DAUCYBWlPF8UgAAAAAAuAChp c3N1ZXItZnByQG5vdGF0aW9ucy5vcGVucGdwLmZpZnRoaG9yc2VtYW4ubmV0NDFD MTJCOEMzMDdEN0UyMTk4QUE1NzgxNjVBODQ3RTdDMkI5MzgwQwAKCRBlqEfnwrk4 DHqqAP0WdL4IWH6R06qLijvWqmH9UYKA+cMKKutoB7UBOBfKZwEAgvPsb3s0TEra TUflNSsSa/ZHfAwQRO1CBC1kRZboyeM= =k57C -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Loony-tune lies and conspiracy theories are a cancer on this list
by professor rat 02 Feb '21

02 Feb '21

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/mitch-mcconnell-just-hit-the-panic-bu… This isn't a matter of left or right - its a matter of right and wrong. Toxic waste like Harkness and Batshit have been wrong for too long. Help me - and help yourself - by driving this vermin off from this list. Surf Nazi's should all die.

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Crypto-anarchy rising
by professor rat 02 Feb '21

02 Feb '21

I usually refer to the present internet as ' anarchic ' and ubiquitous anarchist networking as a desirable goal so long as the ' anarchy ' is trad anarchist and not Lunar Right aryan rants. Its victory is certainly going to bring problems with it as a huge change affecting almost everyone. However, they are a second-order issue and we have increasingly strong AI to help us through this phase transition. ' Democracy' and ' democrat' were political swear-words for centuries - now it the turn of ' anarchy' and ' anarchist ' - no biggie. The idea of cypherpunks selling encryption is as risible as Las Vegas selling gambling. Encryption sells itself - why all c-punks should have some skin-in-the-crypto-currencies game. So our victory is assured and there's no doubt about that. The only question is 'when?' Why I promote Cypherpunk 2027 - six years at full warp!

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Crypto-anarchy is also used by hostile nation-states, criminals, and terrorist actors
by professor rat 02 Feb '21

02 Feb '21

http://www.circleid.com/posts/20210103-new-nails-in-the-crypto-anarchism-co… Another Batshit crazy cop-type provides a few laughs.

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What advantage does Signal protocol have over basic public key encryption?
by David Barrett 02 Feb '21

02 Feb '21

Hi all, I'm the CEO a company called Expensify, developing a new open source chat application at https://Expensify.cash. I was pretty prolific on the p2p-hackers mailing list back in the day, but this is my first post to Cypherpunk, so... hi! I'm writing because I've read a bunch of overviews of *how* the protocol is designed, but I haven't really seen good sources explaining (in a dumbed-down enough manner for me to follow) *why* it was designed that way. In general, I'm trying to understand the reasoning behind the Signal protocol in terms of what real world attacks each of its features defends against, because on the surface it seems _really_ complicated in order to protect against only a very narrow range of attacks. However, I imagine every bit of that complexity has a purpose, and thus I figured this was the right place to try to get to the bottom of that purpose. If you have some other link that you think does a great job breaking it down, I'm all ears! Until then, here are some questions I'd love your help with: 1) This is perhaps an obvious question (I've got to start somewhere, after all), but what is the downside of the simplest possible solution, which I think would be for all participants to publish a public key to some common key server, and then for each participant in the chat to simply re-encrypt the message N-1 times -- once for each participant in the chat (minus themselves) using each recipient's public key? 2) I would think the most significant problem with this ultra-simple design is just performance: asymmetric encryption is just too expensive in practice to use for every single message, especially given the O(n) cost of re-encrypting for every single recipient. Accordingly, the vast majority of the complexity of the Signal protocol is really just a performance optimization exercise to securely create (and rotate) a shared symmetric key that enables high-performance encryption/decryption. Is that right? Said another way, if asymmetric encryption had adequate performance for a given use case, would that obviate most of the advantage of the Signal protocol? 3) The other problem with the ultra-simple design would be a lack of forward secrecy: if anyone's private key were compromised, all historical messages sent to them could be decrypted (assuming the attacker had stored them). But even with the Signal protocol, if someone's local device were compromised (the most likely way for an attacker to get the private key), they're screwed anyway, in two different ways: a. The act of compromising the private key would likely ALSO compromise nearly all past communications. So all that hard work to rotate historical keys is kind of pointless if the messages themselves are compromised on device. b. If the private key itself (which is *only* stored on the device) were compromised *without* also revealing the messages stored on that same device (though how this would happen I'm struggling to understand), then an attacker could still decrypt all past communications if they had a perfect record going back to the start. 4) So in summary, is it safe to say that the primary real-world advantages of the Signal protocol over the super-basic solution are: a. achieve high performance encryption using frequently rotated symmetric keys, and b. prevent an attacker who has compromised the device AND has a partial record of communications from decrypting messages that are no longer stored on that device. Is that the gist of it? Again, these are real high level questions, so I appreciate your patience with me! -david Founder and CEO of Expensify

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What advantage does Signal protocol have over basic public key encryption?
by professor rat 02 Feb '21

02 Feb '21

Black-box solutions Vs P2P people power is a boring old conundrum. https://cryptome.org/jdb/ap.htm By "classical" thinking, "Assassination Politics" would have to be the best, tightest-security, more protected organization that has ever existed on the face of this planet. Just about EVERY powerful person would want to kill anybody who had anything to do with such a system. The codes would have to be unbreakable, the remailers would have to be certain, but most importantly, each and every participant would have to be perfectly anonymous to even have a prayer of pulling it off. Especially the operators of such a system. Especially them

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ZENAAN HARKNESS sought in FELONY CONSPIRACY INVESTIGATION
by professor rat 01 Feb '21

01 Feb '21

Please tell us your military indentification code number. .." Dear Batshit-crazy We are busy right now. Please call your bum-buddy, Jacob Appelbaum at the pentagon and he should be able to help you wank. Yrs etc - pr

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ZENAAN HARKNESS sought in FELONY CONSPIRACY INVESTIGATION
by professor rat 01 Feb '21

01 Feb '21

Call au white-supremacists terror hotline at FREECALL 1800 123 400 Tell them I sent youse. Reminder ARSE-KISSERS to the Military spell " Burma " as " Myanmar " to show how much they love the taste of Military ARSEHOLES. One language fits all - anarchy means anarchy and " we mean it MA-AAAN! " https://anarchistnews.org/content/eduardo-vivancos-has-died

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Cryptocurrency: OWS2 - The Great GameStop Short Squeeze, Trading Censorship, Free Speech, Markets
by grarpamp 01 Feb '21

01 Feb '21

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/you-can-not-purchase-additional-shares-ro… Protestors... "Fuck Suits, Buy Bitcoin" "We like this stock" "Screw you, Bought more" "Free GME" "people > profit" "RobinHood Lied" "DO NOT SELL, HOLD THE LINE!!!" ... Wall Street, banksters, brokers, cronies, hedges, big tech, all aka pathetic protectionist manipulative extortionist racketeers... incl Google and others Censoring Free Speech... just censored and closed out smart nimble small investors, Leftist Congress et al is pissed, lawsuits and investigations are flying, same situation applies to active crypto etfs via bank based brokerages too, accreditation, etc... all banned by them against you. https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k9mw9/robinhood-gamestop-class-action-laws… https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/28/gamestop-robinhood-aoc-ted-cruz-tlaib-kha… https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/28/22255245/google-deleting-bad-robinhood-r… https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/01/26/2238203/gamestop-jumps-after-hours… https://phzoe.com/2021/01/27/white-house-youtube-dislike-manipulation/ "They're blocking the ability to trade to protect Wall St. hedge funds, stealing millions of dollars from their users to protect people who've used the stock market as a casino for decades," https://www.schwab.com/resource-center/insights/content/stock-settlement-wh… RH re GSE... from "to protect our customers from risk" to "to protect ourselves from risk" https://twitter.com/uhabash/status/1354813360844357640 https://twitter.com/backlon/status/1354582143981166592 "Robinhood and others weren't even allowing cash purchases. If you don't allow people to buy things with cash, that's not a "risk management" decision for your brokerage; that's an attempt to achieve a specific outcome against the will of your customers. In this case, that specific outcome being to kill this campaign against the shortsellers of GameStop, AMC, and others. They caused huge material losses to their customers who were long GME and others" "What is manipulation is these brokerages limiting a segment of investors from increasing the price further, resulting in the price being artificially held lower (to save some hedge funds that shorted it)." "Literally Robinhood just told the world that you can play until someone bigger than you doesn't like the game anymore. Brand suicide." "You gotta fuck up pretty hard to get AOC and Cruz to agree on something." "Today, we decided to remove the server and its owner from Discord for continuing to allow hateful and discriminatory content after repeated warnings." "CNBC anchors paid by Hedge funds to run the forum down kept saying where are the fundamentals which justify the price of Gamestop. The fundamentals at play are not those of Gamestop, the fundamentals at play are how much money Citadel has and is willing to lose backing this short . The fundamental analysis was done that Citadel would not lose more than 2 billion or resort to calling in favors from the Biden administration (whose campaign they donated to generously). Bsed on this fundamentals analysis a decision was made to squeeze this over shorted stock and bring back sanity to the market. However it seems the fundamentals analysis was wrong. Citadel is willing to lose upto 10 billion dollars and call in CNBC, Discord,Reddit , SEC, NASDAQ and all the other people they have on their payroll to break this short squeeze and set it in stone once and for all - only big guys can make money in the stock market. (And Pelosi . Dont forget Pelosi's TSLA calls)" "Best entertainment for the buck since Covid, and all thanks to "free" govt stimmies, thx Mnuchin and Powell, ur my heroes." "Musk (A) enjoys memes, and (B) dislikes short sellers." "We don't have billionaires to bail us out when we mess up our portfolio risk and a position goes against us. We can't go on TV and make attempts to manipulate millions to take our side of the trade. If we mess up as bad as they did, we're wiped out, have to start from scratch and are back to giving handjobs behind the dumpster at Wendy's. Seriously. Motherfuck these people. I sincerely hope they suffer. We want to see the loss porn." ""This is unacceptable. We now need to know more about @RobinhoodApp's decision to block retail investors from purchasing stock while hedge funds are freely able to trade the stock as they see fit. As a member of the Financial Services Cmte, I'd support a hearing if necessary," AOC tweeted." "The firm bragged they shorted more shares than exist and others rightfully called them out on it and sank their hedgefund. Tough shit." Fuck em all... Adopt and use crypto... Gamers FTW! "hey mom i can't come up for dinner, i'm bankrupting a 10 figure hedge fund with the boys." "we are just taking back our fair share." .72, d1c, citron, melvin... rekt. sdny 21-cv-777 https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=47099 https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=47097 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Thursday https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntax-Brillian_Corporation https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=47075 Pelosi and Ag next... Stay tuned... lol. Book value $5. Trads beware... 2020 bubble longs gonna get liq to cover. "it is now RACIST to fight against domination and immoral trade practices by hedge fonds, banks, billion-dollar bailouts by the taxpayers to the ultra-rich." See also re OWS... Google Trends - "racism" You're being lied to by a 7 person cabal, divide and conquer, oldest game in the book.

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