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WIRED: The Age of Mass Surveillance Will Not Last Forever
by jim bell 30 Jul '20

30 Jul '20

WIRED: The Age of Mass Surveillance Will Not Last Forever. https://www.wired.com/story/the-age-of-mass-surveillance-will-not-last-fore…

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The Government Wants Your Crypto Data. And Lots of It.
by jim bell 30 Jul '20

30 Jul '20

https://mises.org/wire/government-wants-your-crypto-data-and-lots-it The Government Wants Your Crypto Data. And Lots of It. 10 COMMENTS TAGS Big GovernmentBitcoinThe Police State 07/29/2020Allan Stevo The Venezuelan government recently announced that its Administrative Service for Identification, Migration and Foreigners (SAIME) is now accepting bitcoin as a payment method for passports. The problem with that is that bitcoin is not anonymous but pseudonymous. To interact with any government using bitcoin is to reveal to them the wallet you are paying from. The blockchain is public. When commentators like Caitlin Johnstone and Stefan Molyneux or organizations such as the Mises Institute or TOR Foundation ask for bitcoin contributions, one can follow the money with a blockchain explorer to see how much comes in and how it is spent. One can also see who gave it to them if a donor hasn't exercised some caution in protecting their privacy. [end of partial quote]

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[dos@dosowisko.net: Re: [Tinkerphones] "We don't control our lives" - smartphones - tinkerphones - debian on smartphones]
by Zenaan Harkness 30 Jul '20

30 Jul '20

fyi ----- Forwarded message from Sebastian Krzyszkowiak <dos(a)dosowisko.net> ----- From: Sebastian Krzyszkowiak <dos(a)dosowisko.net> To: Tinkerphones Community <community(a)tinkerphones.org> Cc: CypherPunks <cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org> Reply-To: Tinkerphones Community <community(a)tinkerphones.org> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 18:46:09 +0200 Subject: Re: [Tinkerphones] "We don't control our lives" - smartphones - tinkerphones - debian on smartphones List-Id: Tinkerphones Community <community.tinkerphones.org> Hi, just for the record - the Debian wiki pages you have linked to are rather outdated and not really relevant anymore. Current efforts around running Debian on mobile phones (such as Librem 5 and PinePhone) are concentrated around DebianOnMobile team, which includes people working on PureOS and Mobian pushing their stuff to Debian upstream. Recent weeks brought massive progress and Purism's Phosh environment is now on its way to Debian Testing. See: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/internet/2020/MiniDebConfOnline?action… https://salsa.debian.org/DebianOnMobile-team https://lists.debian.org/debian-mobile/2020/05/msg00000.html https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=debian-on-mobile-maintainers@alio… https://matrix.to/#/#mobile-debian:matrix.org Cheers, dos On 7/29/20, Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> wrote: > With respect to "smart" phones, it can be reasonably claimed that we don't > control our lives. > > At the hardware level, the baseband (radio) computer in almost all cases has > access to RAM, thus access to your passwords and keys for any open wallet or > encrypted filesystem, etc. > > Notwithstanding, we owe it to ourselves to run an operating system which at > least does not deny to us, our right to install and run any software of our > choosing. > > The average Android and iOS Apple phone, is a strict walled garden into > which only authorised software may be installed. > > Software "Apps" which are not authorised (or have been banned) by either > Google or Apple respectively, are not available in the respective "Play > Store". > > This is abhorrent, a centralisation of power, a blatant censorship vector, > financially burdensome to those of meagre means, and fundamentally unethical > in principle wrt the suppression of the basic rights of the end user (refer > to Richard Stallman's GNU General Public License for details of fundamental > human rights in relation to software/ apps/ computing). > > > Totally random scenario/ example: > > Some rando punk decides Tor needs improvement, and works diligently for zero > pay and little gratitude to bring say (random examples) chaff and UDP > transport layer features to Tor. > > After horrific bugs and even worse security problems in the code are > identified / repaired by tragically paranoid other punks, NeoTor takes off, > thwarting the deep state's end to end onion route monitoring network, and so > an urgent order is made upon Google to cease and decist from distributing > such nefarious software. > > Google of course complies immediately, and almost all users go back to using > old Tor. > > > The stranglehold Google and Apple have on not only limiting the average user > to approved software only, but to enforce total transparency upon all > developers to idetify themselves with 100 points of ID just to TEST their > software, and to pay some fiats for the priviledge whilst they're at it, is > ... a little less than satisfactory. > > Having experienced the pain of an Android phone, even after unlocking still > being locked into the garden and offered only "Google" or "XiaoMi" when > saving every contact (and never "local storage only"), and the pain of > finding and installing a rooted OS (_how_ many dozen options? I _still_ have > to choose Google or XiaoMi if I want to backup my contact list? there's > really _no_ easy option to just dump it to my laptop with an ad hoc > wireless?) > > ... it is evident I would be MORE than happy to pay $50 to make this pain go > away by having someone at my local computer club back up my address book and > install Debian on my phone. > > What we need is Debian on the phone. > > And we need this to be super easy for the average geek to install, and > thousands of average geeks need to start getting these donations to install > Debian on Android phones. Given how painful it is for someone supposedly > "technically literate", this ought be a fantastic business opportunity. > > > So Debian on mobile phones? It's possible. > > What is needed is a geek-able process whereby the "CyanogenMod" mobile phone > operating systems are split into an absolute minimal "bootloader + kernel + > drivers etc" for a specific device, and the operating system is a separate > install on top of that, and for those who care, Debian as the OS. > > > https://wiki.debian.org/Mobile > > http://www.tinkerphones.org/ > > https://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/community > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-mobile/ > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-embedded/ > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/ > > https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/android-tools-devel > > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianOnHandhelds > > _______________________________________________ > Community mailing list > Community(a)tinkerphones.org > http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/community > http://www.tinkerphones.org > -- Sebastian Krzyszkowiak dos _______________________________________________ Community mailing list Community(a)tinkerphones.org http://lists.goldelico.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/community http://www.tinkerphones.org ----- End forwarded message -----

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The Tech Giants Are Dangerous, and Congress Knows It
by jim bell 30 Jul '20

30 Jul '20

The Tech Giants Are Dangerous, and Congress Knows It https://a.msn.com/r/2/BB17lkPH?m=en-us&referrerID=InAppShare Jim Bell's comment:I detest both Congress AND "The Tech Giants".

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Re: www.Tesmanian.com: FCC approves the operation of 'Starlink Router' for SpaceX's internet
by Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 30 Jul '20

30 Jul '20

On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 11:51:29 +1000 jamesd(a)echeque.com wrote: > On 2020-07-17 05:37, Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 wrote: > > wow - infinitely hilarious. Hey Jim are you posting that as an example of infinitely idiotic US nazi propaganda? Or do you happen to believe, like a good randroid, that musk is a poor oppressed capitalist fighting for 'freedom'? > > Nah, he is fighting for freedom for smart, wealthy people to get away to > mars. mwahaha! Thanks James. I knew you could outdo your namesake Mr. Bell. This 'mars colonization' thing is infinitely idiotic raised to the cube. Of course, musk's purpose here is to get as much subsidies as possible so 'mars colonization' might be an excuse as good as any other. But in the minds of your typical techno-fascist retards, the heroic cunts are going to waste trillions in 'colonizing' a completely dead desert...in another planet! Yeah, right. Idiocy can't get any more idiotic. > China will be able to censor starlink connections inside China, and > Russia will be able to censor starlink connections inside Russia, but > they are going to have to cut a deal with Musk, and Egypt, Iran, and > probably India are not going to be able to censor. so what does that mean in libertarian terms? Oh wait, libertarianism is something completely beyond your understanding. Disregard my question.

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Asaange
by таракан 29 Jul '20

29 Jul '20

Just watched 10 secs of the interview with Assange's .. Partner The former 'partner' is her lawyer and in front of what? Even if *she* makes him going out of jail it's just female understanding each others... Not like a helicopter extraction and shoot ... shoot .. Shoot like men do :-) oooo that fucking female world... sometimes I think Dombass not good enough, I get asylum in chechenya ... if you think I just kidding... I really mean it and I really live there we LIVE a FUCKIN**** FE MALE DOMinATED WORLD ---------- CRYPTOANALYZER ---------- Sent from [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.ch), encrypted email based in Switzerland. Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.

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Decrypt: US government is getting serious about tracking crypto
by jim bell 29 Jul '20

29 Jul '20

Decrypt: US government is getting serious about tracking crypto. https://decrypt.co/?p=35585

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F**ck ALL the non-Cypherpunks
by таракан 29 Jul '20

29 Jul '20

So far only Mr Jim bell is cypherpunk, the rest you are just … punks right ?

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POWERFUL GROUPS SUCH AS GOVERNMENTS AND CORPORATIONS MUST NEVER HARM ANYONE AT ALL
by Karl 29 Jul '20

29 Jul '20

Businesses, governments, militaries, and secretly- or centrally- managed societies MUST refocus around nurturing caring, gentle wisdom within all communities, _over_profit_, _over_power_, _over_order_, _over_victory_, _over_secrecy_, _in_all_possible_ways_. _These_groups_must_never_harm_at_all_, neither directly nor indirectly, nor provide nor allow for any other such groups to. These groups have exerted genocide on most of the people of this planet, violently mutilating us, cripplingly poisoning us, even intentionally exerting destruction of our minds, hearts, brains, bodies, all the while saying that they are aiding or helping us, when in actuality they are planning to and have been actively and rapidly enslaving us to their systems. HARM MUST END, HARM OF INDIVIDUAL "HARMERS" EQUALLY SO. We are one body, our species, on this planet. We will not break apart.

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Fuck the set of all...
by Douglas Lucas 29 Jul '20

29 Jul '20

A symphony in 4 parts Part the First, angry and intentionally provocative) Fuck the set of all cypherpunks who fluff Assadnge endlessly. Part the Second, deliberate and careful) Fuck the set of all cypherpunks who, like looking at the one-way direction of prime numbers, want all ExploitativeQuidProQuos/IdentityPoliticsImpermeableBoundaries to continue forever because they want victory for able bodied and for hoarders. Part the Third, deliberate but with a touch of scherzo suggesting erroneous grep -v and grep not piping across &&s correctly) Reward the set of all cypherpunks who in their verily verily souls, want the unpaid invoices of the lifegiving to flow back to the great-grandmothers, etc., while still understanding all humans are one, and an injustice to any single human is an injustice to all humans, so on, so forth. Part the Fourth, presto vivace, scherzo increasing ad infinitum) Can someone recommend which LaTeX will work with which prices for dedicated hardware RAM drives combined with annual and monthly commodity prices for centuries and World Banks and Galactic crop sections and old science fiction models as my eyes spin like economic cycles flowing around unchanging charts of households and firms? If a browser-based Jitsi Meet goes up the butt of a client-installed Zoom client even with zoombombing patched as the passports divide and recombine, exploding with combinations far beyon the Cambrian era of Pantera's Vulgar Display of Power out Phil Anselmo's psychopharmaceutical prescriber's other nyms making fun of the set of all possible heavy metal maniacs who need lorazepam like a threesome in the South China Sea as turmeric and ginger fall from the sky? Have fun, and happy rioting, self defense, and fucking up shit!

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