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Michael Bloomberg as Alfred E. Neuman
by professor rat 31 Dec '20

31 Dec '20

emptywheel - 2h Bloomberg makes the objectively false claim that a Trump pardon for Assange "first gained traction" early last year. Trump has been considering a pardon since at least November 15, 2016, and it's part of his own criminal involvement in 2016. https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-31/possible-trump-pardon-oversh…

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A bad year for anarcho-capitalism
by professor rat 31 Dec '20

31 Dec '20

Jim Bell's ' Assassination Politics " idea ( APster ) soon placed Mongo under increasing pressure to back up all his pseudo-revolutionary bs he almost called ' Cyber Liberty '. The pressure ratcheted up through 1996 - 7 - 8 -9 and the year 2000 as Jim was attacked by the police and CJ tried to help him. It became apparent Mongo wouldn't risk his own skin and didn't even want his theory sullied with any actual collapse-of-govts, especially in the US. Never mind this made anarcho-capitalism look weak-as-piss and a dilettante's pastime fit only for eunuchs. "... Like an inverse Marxist, Tim May tended to believe that the inexorable expansion of private cryptography made the victory of crypto-anarchism inevitable. A new “balance of power between individuals and larger entities” was already emerging. He predicted with some confidence “the end of governments as we know them”. Another even more extreme cypherpunk of the libertarian Right, Jim Bell, like an inverse Leninist, thought that history might need a push..." https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2011/february/1324596189/robert-manne/c…

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Re: [liberationtech] Intentional Big Tech Leftist Bias in Social and News Media Corrupts Elections and Defrauds Peoples
by grarpamp 31 Dec '20

31 Dec '20

> one (nameless) political party Censorship games are unnecessary. The reference is 'Republican Party'. And quite clearly there are various elements, including all of those mentioned, within both Left and Right, worldwide. > anti-intellectualism Especially that element and messaging, widely present across Government, .Edu-cation and Media, that all three must serve as the only fonts of knowledge and awarders of paper and rights, as the self-accredited self-perpetuators of selves, and with hardly any mention made by them that independent tooling and seeking for knowledge, including explicitly without them, is an available, encouraged, and valid option. In fact, they steal from and imprison you for peacefully routing around them on your journey. Fortunately education is going both opensource and distributed, thus destroying those old pay to play cabals, and liberating minds to think freely, before being de-intellected by 0~20 years of channeled indoctrination. This will open up a great and needed breadth, from new science to philosophy to enterprise and peace. Also highly unapproved Biased against de-ranked and censored by all those above is "Libertarian Party" which itself seemingly could also have an interest in, or be foundational to, a proper understanding, and deployments of, "liberation-tech"... but is effectively never mentioned here... instead being drowned out by Leftist "scholars", Keynesian "economists", such Socialism clearly forced by them upon threat of death upon harmless peoples, etc. Homework: List some random forms of liberation and technology... https://lp.org/ https://mises.org/ https://anarchapulco.com/ https://bitcoin.com/ https://tox.chat/ https://github.com/openbazaar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism Hundreds of very popular conversation channels have been censored and nuked by the Entities in Subject and text above. Most here would find difficult to name two, let alone ten, nor any followed at times, even as self learning survey... a sad state for supposed liberation. Hardly few convos considering much beyond full support of Left-Social-Democracy-Force-Murder. Preferring to "Zoom" "Vote Dem" and Censor rather than airdrop USB's full of opensource tools and say anarcho libertarian voluntary freedom multimedia around the world. Freedom is the most powerful liberating-technology, and they clearly don't want you to see, think, discuss, speak, develop, have, or use it... freedom *is* the "information" they fear most, as with it, they become irrelevant, thus they "disinfo" de-rank de-monetize and delete it, and propagandize you with their faux authority instead. Freedom is, and needs no fact-check. > change Those legacy models use force, a history of failure. Change that comes from freely understanding, a culture steeping some education and charity... as they say "peace love and anarchy"... hardly needs such force. Expect those trying to continue using those permeated former models of force... to become irrelevant, extinct, and faster than you think.

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The nomad-war-machine is exterior to the state apparatus
by professor rat 31 Dec '20

31 Dec '20

Hold the Mayo Power concedes nothing without the demand backed by force. Those eunuchs who won't fight want crops without rain and roar of mighty waters. A full year put aside to settle outstanding accounts with all local-bullies and bad-gentry ( Scum like Batshit-crazy, jamesd, Gramps and creeping-Jesus, Zendy Darkness ) sounds fair-enough to me. Even if a Marxist-communist, left-fascist thought of it first. Roll on the global revolution.

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Hacks: Smashing SHA-1 to Shambles for less than 1BTC
by grarpamp 31 Dec '20

31 Dec '20

https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/014 SHA-1 is a Shambles - First Chosen-Prefix Collision on SHA-1 and Application to the PGP Web of Trust Gaëtan Leurent and Thomas Peyrin Abstract: The SHA-1 hash function was designed in 1995 and has been widely used during two decades. A theoretical collision attack was first proposed in 2004 [WYY05], but due to its high complexity it was only implemented in practice in 2017, using a large GPU cluster [SBK+17]. More recently, an almost practical chosen-prefix collision attack against SHA-1 has been proposed [LP19]. This more powerful attack allows to build colliding messages with two arbitrary prefixes, which is much more threatening for real protocols. In this paper, we report the first practical implementation of this attack, and its impact on real-world security with a PGP/GnuPG impersonation attack. We managed to significantly reduce the complexity of collisions attack against SHA-1: on an Nvidia GTX 970, identical-prefix collisions can now be computed with a complexity of 261.2 rather than 264.7, and chosen-prefix collisions with a complexity of 263.4 rather than 267.1. When renting cheap GPUs, this translates to a cost of 11k US\$ for a collision, and 45k US\$ for a chosen-prefix collision, within the means of academic researchers. Our actual attack required two months of computations using 900 Nvidia GTX 1060 GPUs (we paid 75k US\$ because GPU prices were higher, and we wasted some time preparing the attack). Therefore, the same attacks that have been practical on MD5 since 2009 are now practical on SHA-1. In particular, chosen-prefix collisions can break signature schemes and handshake security in secure channel protocols (TLS, SSH). We strongly advise to remove SHA-1 from those type of applications as soon as possible. We exemplify our cryptanalysis by creating a pair of PGP/GnuPG keys with different identities, but colliding SHA-1 certificates. A SHA-1 certification of the first key can therefore be transferred to the second key, leading to a forgery. This proves that SHA-1 signatures now offers virtually no security in practice. The legacy branch of GnuPG still uses SHA-1 by default for identity certifications, but after notifying the authors, the modern branch now rejects SHA-1 signatures (the issue is tracked as CVE-2019-14855).

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Re: The nomad-war-machine is exterior to the state apparatus
by Zenaan Harkness 31 Dec '20

31 Dec '20

> Citizens in the United Kingdom must, upon request, give keys for decryption of personal systems to authorities. Failing to do this can result in imprisonment for up to two years, without evidence of other criminal activity. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto-anarchism > > Collapse of the UK is therefore as high a priority as collapse of the ' Big Three "- USA, CCP and Russia. Later for the EU and UN. Cryptoanarchist munitions are similar to a Neutron Bomb, only they leave welfare state structures standing while destroying all the other govt buildings. > > Anarchist victory is already here - its just not evenly distributed yet. Can that system providing no opportunity to truly stand, to actually make a sacrifice for the greater good, be worthy of Soul's journey? (Not that any high aspiration can ever justify the evil of men and politicians...) The opportunity to stand in truth, to put a principle before self, to live a higher ethic no matter the personal cost, is a rare opportunity for most. To be able to do so outside of a years long Bolchevik slaughter festival or the rivers of blood from international trench warfare, is relatively rare. The prisoner's dilemma is to some real degree a false dichotomy, since the stand of one speaks loudly to realms beyond mere physical - even Lot negotiated with Gabriel, from many to merely one (besides Lot and his family of course). The city shall be saved for but one. Do you fight? Or can you stand true, free from spite and anger? Will you be the one?

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Backstab lands
by professor rat 31 Dec '20

31 Dec '20

@adam3us , @amizi and @lopp on Jan 5th for Origins of the Cypherpunk. https://twitter.com/CasaHODL/status/1344312539698622466

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BITCOIN - This machine kills govts
by professor rat 30 Dec '20

30 Dec '20

Price is not how the revolutionary cypherpunk judges Btc value- collapse of govts is. Btc works for anarchism above all else. Btc rocks. Btc cuts through, clarifies and captures the rapid-evolutionary teen spirit. Btc - mark my words - will not only progress cypherpunk, crypto-anarchism but also save that other moribund institution known as the coderpunks list.

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Re: referendum to "reset" Trump's right to re-run in 2024 and 2028 -- DECRYPT - becoming human
by Zenaan Harkness 30 Dec '20

30 Dec '20

It is unlikely that a presidential executive order, ordering any referendum (to ascertain the will of the people) would be successfully opposed in say a legal challenge. There are other paths as well. The people are the ultimate sovereigns. On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 08:37:33PM +0000, wrote: > That method is called a constitutional convention. It would require, AFAIK, > all states (their legislatures I assume) to call for this, not just a > majority or plurality. Even the Southern Insurrection did not evoke such a > reaction. > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 8:32 PM Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> wrote: > > > Interesting. > > > > Well then, the procedure is implicit - the same procedure followed by > > those who first formed it and/or the amendments. > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 02:14:26PM +0000, wrote: > > > AFAIK, there is no provision in the Constitution for a federal > > referendum. > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 3:49 AM Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> wrote: > > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 08:45:59PM -0600, \0xDynamite wrote: > > > > > > > There is no government that is so perfect as to not allow some > > > > portion > > > > > > > of monies and holdings to be petitionable and used by the People. > > > > > > > > > > > > Quite an interesting concept. > > > > > > > > > > > > Here and there, many utopian community attempts have been gifted > > land > > > > by a wealthy or land-holding benefactor, and such experiment in > > community > > > > begins again. > > > > > > > > > > > > They have (almost?) always failed - and from internal reasons, not > > > > "external govt clamp down", notwithstanding the Wacos... > > > > > > > > > > It's true, because none of them had as sophisticated set of > > principles > > > > > and balance of power as the Constitution already. I've adapted, in > > > > > fact, the Constitution to this end at appropedia.org, which > > hopefully > > > > > you can find, if interested. Things like doubling the term if a > > > > > person gets re-elected and reverting to the original term if they > > > > > don't > > > > > > > > Interesting. > > > > > > > > The USA could get/give a reset to Trump (same as Putin), with a > > > > referendum, since Trump's first term was basically cock blocked the > > whole > > > > way. > > > > > > > > Trump's right to run for presidency could simply be "reset" with a > > > > referendum. > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- a self-organizing government that requires no oversight from > > > > > above. > > > > > > > > > > marxos > > > > > >

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Schlicter: "attack the enemy in a manner the enemy can neither limit nor control" - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 30 Dec '20

30 Dec '20

Kurt Schlicter on the war path, oh it's on muh gritty muffaduckas :D It’s Time for Us Conservatives to Riot https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2020/09/28/its-time-for-us-c… ... It’s a lie. They have nothing real. They have no combat power, no tactical control of anything besides a few square blocks, and they only have that because the cops are held back by liberal city leaders. They have no more than the power we give them by fearing them and reacting to them. So, civilians kicking their sissy tails is a meaningless exercise. For us, a riotous riot gets us nothing. Plus, we own the stuff that would get burned down. That means a traditional riotous riot is a dumb strategy for us, a counterproductive move that would play into the left’s nearly-nonexistent strengths while exposing our weaknesses. Instead, we should riot our way. That is, attack the enemy in a manner the enemy can neither limit nor control and both cause real damage to its forces while demonstrating, as part of our own information operation, that we are in control. There are two components to our riot. The first is a riot at the ballot box. We need to ruthlessly eliminate all opposing candidates of either party. That means mobilizing to turn out votes and to vote viciously. Your nice city councilman who is kind and gentle and sort of squishy? He cut the ribbon at the petting zoo and send you emails about a library book drive? Yeah, he needs to go in favor of the bomb-thrower who wants to buy the cops a new armored personnel carrier. No Democrats, not ever. No soft Republicans, not ever. Only harsh conservatives who loudly live the dogma. Elect conservawoke candidates who understand the threat, and who savor the opportunity to use their political power to harm the left in every way they can. ...

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