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War on Crypto: EARN-IT Act to Destroy End-to-End Crypto, Establish Internet Overlords, Kill Free and Private Speech
by grarpamp 06 Mar '20

06 Mar '20

https://act.eff.org/action/protect-our-speech-and-security-online-reject-th… https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/congress-must-stop-graham-blumenthal-… https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2020/02/the-earn-it-act-is-the-l… https://www.wired.com/story/earn-it-act-sneak-attack-on-encryption/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/03/proposed-us-law-is-trojan-horse… https://reason.com/2020/01/31/lindsey-graham-wants-to-use-mistrust-of-big-t… https://libertarianhub.com/2020/01/31/congress-must-stop-the-graham-blument… https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/02/08/encr-f08.html https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2020/01/earn-it-act-how-ban-end-end-encr… https://gizmodo.com/lindsey-graham-is-quietly-preparing-a-mess-of-a-bill-tr… https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2020/01/earn-it-act-how-ban-end-end-encr… https://www.lawfareblog.com/earn-it-act-raises-good-questions-about-end-end… https://www.missingkids.org/blog/2019/post-update/end-to-end-encryption https://www.missingkids.org/blog/2020/earn-it-act-2020 https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/graham-blumenthal-hawle… https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-hold-workshop-section-230… https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2019/07/10/531688.htm https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2020/02/the-earn-it-act-is-another-te… https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2020/03/06/earn-it-is-an-attack-on… https://netchoice.org/netchoice-announces-opposition-to-sen-grahams-earn-it… https://www.newamerica.org/oti/press-releases/oti-strongly-opposes-earn-it-… https://old.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/f015qn/holding_section_230_ho… https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/f0g6g9/holding_section_230_hos… https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/12/reforming_cda_2.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/01/alex_stamos_on_.html https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/12/scaring_people_.html https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/31/21116788/earn-it-act-section-230-lindsey… https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/5/21162983/congress-senate-earn-it-act-lind… https://www.cato.org/blog/holding-230-hostage-sen-graham-demands-platforms-… https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200131/11252343832/lindsey-grahams-snea… https://www.engadget.com/2020/01/31/earn-it-act-bill-would-limit-encryption/ https://cdt.org/insights/privacy-free-expression-and-security-threatened-by… https://cdt.org/press/earn-it-act-threatens-encryption-free-expression-and-… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22505302 "The argument from those in power against encryption is mind-bogglingly stupid, and I don't know if it is due to an extreme ignorance, or because of a lust for the power and leverage that mass surveillance grants a governing entity, I suppose it could be both" "Sounds more like an end-run on the US Constitution. There isn't any difference in my mind between the government executing unconstitutional searches and the government requiring companies to conduct searches that if conducted by the government would be unconstitutional. Warrant-less searches by the federal government are unconstitutional; getting a warrant requires having probable cause. Without probable cause and a warrant, requiring a company to conduct searches on behalf of the government is unconstitutional as well." "Yes. That's what end-to-end encryption is, a new language that only those two systems know how to speak. I'll be the asshat marked troll for saying this too, but sorry kids. Child exploitation is a scourge on our society, but stopping isn't isn't worth the price of losing our rights to privacy to talk amongst each other. It's just not. There. Said it. The ends don't justify the means in this case. We can't end every freedom we've fought for in the name of ending child exploitation." "This is about controlling the rest of us. Criminals, as we and the government know, are perfectly capable of using strong encryption. I've seen over and over these weak excuses, these pathetic fig leaves Congress-critters use. They don't provide them because they believe them or because the goats will accept them. They provide them for the purposes of the propaganda, the fodder they and they owned media put out for the sheep." "It's the same nonsense you hear over here in Europe when it comes to surveillance. No matter how many liberties they take away and how much they spy on people by putting everyone under the blanket of suspicioun, it's never seems to be enough. Shit still happens and even appears to be getting worse if we look at the current racist extremism in Germany for example. Now there's an entirely new thing to be afraid of - a large dark figure of far-right extremism that has somehow gone unnoticed and is growing despite all the domestic spying that is already done. So what's to be done about that? Their answer appears to be always along the same lines: we're not spying enough. More will fix this. Hence I'd expect that would be a dangerous step to satisfy one's curiosity as things are not likely to change that much except that the erosion of freedoms progressed one step further to widespread acceptance." "Personally if it comes down to a choice between weaker security for everyone or letting bad guys go free (be they someone who wants to rob the local liquor store and steal a few bucks and a bottle of Jack Daniels, someone who wants to shoot up the local church because the church doesn't believe in the right god, someone who jacks off to photos of 5 year old kids or someone who wants to fly a plane full of people into the side of a building, I will take the strong security over catching the bad guys." "If we ask tech companies to fix ancient societal ills that are now reflected online with moderation, then we will end up with huge, democratically-unaccountable organizations controlling our lives in ways we never intended. And those ills will still exist below the surface."

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Schulte Trial Update
by John Young 06 Mar '20

06 Mar '20

Joshua Schulte trial jury "aligned on two counts," impasse on remaining eight counts, may be considered a loss for the prosecution, to continue on Monday. Via http://www.innercitypress.com/sdnylive26schulte030620.html

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Sorry for calling you old Jim
by rooty 06 Mar '20

06 Mar '20

Hi Jim I wanted to apologise for calling you old. At 81 years young Viagra has given new life - Your friend rooty

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Trump tells Republicans he wont' extend surveillance law without significant reform.
by jim bell 06 Mar '20

06 Mar '20

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/trump-tells-republicans-he-wont-extend-… Good if it happens, but.... Jim Bell

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"Earn it" act is sneak attack on encryption.
by jim bell 06 Mar '20

06 Mar '20

https://www.wired.com/story/earn-it-act-sneak-attack-on-encryption/

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Mali GPU open source drivers
by Zenaan Harkness 05 Mar '20

05 Mar '20

Noting this: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2019/12/20/opening-up-mali-t72… brings to mind the following thoughts: - open source gets to parity, it just take s a while when reverse engineering is required - once parity is met, superiority in performance, cross platform support and stability, are all close on the heels - once this is achieved, closed source drivers are no longer competitive - at this point, corporations have various incentives/motives to use the floss drivers, rather than the old, deficient proprietary drivers (no more development/test/etc cost per se) and finally: - so those who cock blocked release of specs (thereby requiring said reverse engineering) ought be publicly named and shamed, for the great cost they effectively imposed upon the community of floss developers

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"There are FIVE variants of coronavirus. Only ONE showed up in China..." and...
by Razer 05 Mar '20

05 Mar '20

Wait for it... "There are FIVE variants of coronavirus. Only ONE showed up in China..." and the deadliest variety seems to have landed in... wait for it... Iran. Pepe Escobar: "I had already referenced the crucial Global Times report - but this brings it to a whole new level, incorporating Chinese, Japanese and Taiwanese scientific analysis. The killer paragraphs are these: "The geographical location with the greatest diversity of virus strains must be the original source because a single strain cannot emerge from nothing. He demonstrated that only the US has all the five known strains of the virus (while Wuhan and most of China have only one, as do Taiwan and South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam, Singapore, and England, Belgium and Germany), constituting a thesis that the haplotypes in other nations may have originated in the US. Korea and Taiwan have a different haplotype of the virus than China, perhaps more infective but much less deadly, which would account for a death rate only 1/3 that of China. Neither Iran nor Italy were included in the above tests, but both countries have now deciphered the locally prevalent genome and have declared them of different varieties from those in China, which means they did not originate in China but were of necessity introduced from another source. It is worth noting that the variety in Italy has approximately the same fatality rate as that of China, three times as great as other nations, while the haplotype in Iran appears to be the deadliest with a fatality rate of between 10% and 25%. (7) (8) (9)" So to recap: there are FIVE variants of coronavirus. Only ONE showed up in China - as well as in South Korea and Taiwan. Less deadly variant in S. Korea than in China. Variants in Italy and Iran DID NOT originate in China. Deadliest variant is in Iran. If all that is confirmed beyond a shadow of a doubt, imagine the repercussions." https://www.globalresearch.ca/china-coronavirus-shocking-update/5705196 Rr

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Egypt missiles: from provoking all its neighbours, soon to directly provoke Iran - what could possibly go wrong?
by Zig the N.g 05 Mar '20

05 Mar '20

Did I say Egypt? I meant the Chinese ^B^B actually Israel. Israel kitting up with (US Pegasus) refueling air tanker jets, so as to be able to actively drop bombs on Iran, rather than just "all immediate neighbours". Antagonising all your neighbours with literal bomb drops and assassinations - what could possibly go wrong? US to Sell Pegasus Tanker Jets to Israel, Allowing Its Fighters to Reach Iran's Territory https://sputniknews.com/military/202003051078486176-us-to-sell-pegasus-tank…

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Cryptocurrency: Is Bitcoin Mixing a Crime?
by grarpamp 05 Mar '20

05 Mar '20

> https://news.bitcoin.com/criminalize-onchain-privacy-mixer/ https://news.bitcoin.com/how-to-mix-your-bitcoins-using-coinjoin/ Privacy is not crime, it's a fundamental innate action of human nature, thus by necessity and nature, it's rightly translating itself from the physical world of human interaction, to the digital... wherever humans go, so too does privacy keeping efforts among them. And as any search for distributed non-custodial mix join shuffle fusion DEX market privacy coin tech all running over anonymous overly networks would show, the first generation centralized custodial mixing swap services are being rapidly abandoned, as they should be.

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Re: In Surprise Move, Pope Francis Shills For Renewed Connection With God
by Cecilia Tanaka 05 Mar '20

05 Mar '20

Juan really, really Loves Jesus. Tee hee. On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 08:57:53PM +1100, Zig the N.g wrote: > In a surprise move today, the beloved [by Juan] Pope Francis made an international call for renewed devotion to God and prayer to Christ. > > The Pope has repeatedly ... hey wait, it looks like there's a new sin, literary: > > Pope Francis The Taxman > https://www.zerohedge.com/political/pope-francis-taxman > https://antoniusaquinas.com/2020/02/18/pope-francis-the-taxman/ > > On the heels of calling for a Marxist economic conference this coming March (“Economy of Francesco”), Jorge Bergoglio (a.k.a. “Pope Francis”) has once again opined on financial matters. The purported head of the Catholic Church has now designated “tax cuts” as sinful behavior on a par, apparently, with stealing, lying, and adultery: > > Today’s structures of sin include repeated tax cuts for the richest people, often justified in the name of investment and development. > > Bergoglio did not mention what category of sin advocacy for tax cuts falls under – venial or mortal. > > Maybe the details of how such a policy ranks in offending Divine Justice will be hammered out at the upcoming Economy of Francesco Commie confab! > > In Bergoglio’s collectivist mind, those who try and keep their wealth from the ravenous demands of the State are somehow denying the poor their just due: > > Every year hundreds of billions of dollars, which should be paid in taxes to fund health care and education, accumulate in tax haven accounts, thus impeding the possibility of the dignified and sustained development of all social agents. > ... > > > Glad we cleared that up. > > Ahem ... in a surprise move today, the beloved [by Juan] Pope Francis made an international declaration that repeated tax cuts for the rich is a sin, either mortal or venal (as yet undetermined - Not Sure (TM)(C)(R)). > > This literal papal declaration is considered by many as an indirect declaration of support for Bernie Sanders' presidency run. > > Undisclosed sources from the Vatican assured Bernie campaign staffers that Indulgences may be sold until the conclusion of the primaries, with all proceeds going to the Bernie campaign.

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