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The Red Pill Expo: Because Something Is Wrong
by grarpamp 27 Jun '17

27 Jun '17

https://redpillexpo.org/ https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=red+pill+expo The Red-Pill Expo is a gathering event for truth seekers who undertand the relevance of the allegorical sci-fi movie, The Matrix. The film’s message is that most humans are connected to a matrix of illusion that prevents them from realizing they merely are tools and energy sources that serve unseen controllers. At a critical point in the plot, the hero, whose name is Neo, is given a choice. If he wishes to return to the illusion, he can take a blue pill. If he chooses to see reality and break free of the controllers, he must take the red pill – which he does. That, however, is just the beginning. The controllers must destroy Neo before he can awaken enough humans to dismantle the matrix and set everyone free. The parallel to real life is chilling. In today’s world, there are untold legions of people who have taken the red pill and now are free of the grand illusion as it relates to wars, terrorism, politics, education, money and banking, the judicial system, elections, health care, and everything in between. The Red-Pill Expo gives them a chance to meet each other, to realize they are not alone, to develop ways to network and help each other, to form a freedom coalition, to discover exactly who their controllers are and, finally, to participate in activities that will dismantle the matrix.

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[WAR] Trump emotionally impulsive (if not psychotic) even in war
by Zenaan Harkness 27 Jun '17

27 Jun '17

This is an intriguing insight into perhaps one of the significant foundations of Germany's (thus the EU's) quite public and recent split from the USA - for example with the EU declaring they shall become their own military bloc sooner or later. Throw in the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline between Russia and Germany (and the USA trying to block it and insert their own high priced gas to prop up the US$ a little longer) and it's no wonder Germany and the EU are doing the runner, France leading the pack publicly. The article only really grabs about half way through, but somewhere there it becomes a WTF moment, notwithstanding the "military", "advisers" and "sources" on which it is allegedly written. The inescapable irony is the POTUS who coined "the very fake news network" only to inescapably conduct himself (quite recklessly) based on the "main stream media fake news networks", if indeed this is not just German propaganda to jab a thumb in the USA's eye - however, the quotes and assertions are compelling, coming across as factual. What a world .. Sy Hersh Bombshell: US Knew No Sarin in Syria 'Gas Attack', Trump Bombed Anyway https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article165905578/Trump-s-Red-Line.html (Alt: http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/sy-hersh-bombshell-us-knew-no-sarin-s… )

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lists.cpunks.org giving TLS ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID
by Ben Mezger 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

This *only* happens on Google Chrome and Chromium. Any idea why this might happen? - seds

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OpenFabs
by grarpamp 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Coming soon, 700mm X 7nm of closed and secretly backdoored goodness... http://www.anandtech.com/show/11558/globalfoundries-details-7-nm-plans-thre… At 10% gate density, that's over 200B gates / cm^2. But hey, "You can trust us". 500 chips = Brain, at least as to simple gate count.

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outlawing alcohol - reverse-psyching the world into drunkenness and lowliness
by Zenaan Harkness 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

The dark forboding Russian FSB are at it again with Putin leading this despotic charge - undermining the world with their heathen subtleties and deceptive lies. And literally targetting children no less! My God, who could believe it in this enlightened age? Don't believe it - drink! Drink till your soul is liberated from your body, your body from your soul, and your sanity from your humanity, as this is the only way to enjoy life. Just as well narcotics have not been outlawed either ... we could have a real problem on our hands. http://www.fort-russ.com/2017/06/secret-fsb-lecture-why-putin-doesnt.html SECRET FSB LECTURE: Why Putin doesn't drink alcohol

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Remember: Bitcoin is NSA
by A Satoshi Nakamoto 25 Jun '17

25 Jun '17

Do not forget: NSA Created Bitcoin and the Blockchain: groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/money/nsamint/nsamint.htm - - - - HOW TO MAKE A MINT: THE CRYPTOGRAPHY OF ANONYMOUS ELECTRONIC CASH Laurie Law, Susan Sabett, Jerry Solinas National Security Agency Office of Information Security Research and Technology Cryptology Division 18 June 1996 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1.WHAT IS ELECTRONIC CASH? 1.1 Electronic Payment 1.2 Security of Electronic Payments 1.3 Electronic Cash 1.4 Multiple Spending 2.A CRYPTOGRAPHIC DESCRIPTION 2.1 Public-Key Cryptographic Tools 2.2 A Simplified Electronic Cash Protocol 2.3 Untraceable Electronic Payments 2.4 A Basic Electronic Cash Protocol 3.PROPOSED OFF-LINE IMPLEMENTATIONS 3.1 Including Identifying Information 3.2 Authentication and Signature Techniques 3.3 Summary of Proposed Implementations 4.OPTIONAL FEATURES OF OFF-LINE CASH 4.1 Transferability 4.2 Divisibility 5.SECURITY ISSUES 5.1 Multiple Spending Prevention 5.2 Wallet Observers 5.3 Security Failures 5.4 Restoring Traceability CONCLUSION REFERENCES Electronic payment systems come in many forms including digital checks, debit cards, credit cards, and stored value cards. The usual security features for such systems are privacy (protection from eavesdropping), authenticity (provides user identification and message integrity), and nonrepudiation (prevention of later denying having performed a transaction) . The type of electronic payment system focused on in this paper is electronic cash. As the name implies, electronic cash is an attempt to construct an electronic payment system modelled after our paper cash system. Paper cash has such features as being: portable (easily carried), recognizable (as legal tender) hence readily acceptable, transferable (without involvement of the financial network), untraceable (no record of where money is spent), anonymous (no record of who spent the money) and has the ability to make "change." The designers of electronic cash focused on preserving the features of untraceability and anonymity. Thus, electronic cash is defined to be an electronic payment system that provides, in addition to the above security features, the properties of user anonymity and payment untraceability.. - - - -

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Decentralized Code Repositories [was: Windows source code leak]
by grarpamp 25 Jun '17

25 Jun '17

>> >> Would would be very amusing is to see Microsoft cry once someone >> >> creates librendows (Libre Windows) and puts this source code on >> >> github or something to make open source version of Windows and >> >> Windows software. >> > >> > Github would immediately shut it down once Microsoft sent them a DMCA >> > takedown notice. *Maybe* it might last a while on BitTorrent, if >> > anywhere. >> >> >> Github is too centralized anyways. What is the best decentralized git like >> system? > > It's not exactly what you're after, but given that the options for actual > decentralized backends seem few and far between (there was also GitChain > https://github.com/gitchain/gitchain There needs to be something... decentral, no admins / keyholders / bdfl's / corps, no power, anon... imagine the blocksize debate being determined therein without blockstream or anyone else... "longest chain" of code is "the code"... sidechains for branches, dao's for various things, the possibilities... > It's fairly trivial to set up a central repo that you push to, and have a > post-receive hook on it to forward any commits onto Github, Bitbucket and a > variety of other git-as-a-service providers. Spread across enough providers, > it makes take-downs harder (and you can easily just add a new provider - > there are plenty of github wannabe's out there, after all). > > You'd need to be fairly careful about making sure that central repo isn't > taken down, but again, it'd be trivial to replace if it were. > > You'd need to make sure discovery wasn't too hard, but that could be as > simple as providing links to the various providers in the repo's README so > that anyone with a copy of the README (or the internet archive) know where > else to look. :: GitTorrent (https://github.com/cjb/GitTorrent) :: Mango (https://github.com/axic/mango) There are some open repos: git usually on onion, monotone usually on i2p. As well as the usual file distribution, IPFS, [self]hosting services, etc therein. All would last much longer than anything involving clearnet... the various "scenes" would benefit to expand beyond clearnet whack a mole.

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Fwd: [liberationtech] Addressing Imbalances in Communications via Cryptographic Redaction
by Cecilia Tanaka 25 Jun '17

25 Jun '17

Forwarding Brian's message with much love and migraine. The love is for you and the migraine, unfortunately, is mine. :(( The pain is being so annoying, strong and constant I was remembering a movie named "Scanners": # https://youtu.be/d6GNs6MthtU # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanners Have a great weekend, dear all! <3 Ceci, feeling like Psyduck, but without the powers... Meh! :(( PS: - https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Psyduck_(Pok%C3%A9mon) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Brian Dickens <brian(a)hostilefork.com> Date: Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 3:58 PM Subject: [liberationtech] Addressing Imbalances in Communications via Cryptographic Redaction To: liberationtech(a)lists.stanford.edu Hello Liberation Tech, I've made something which I think is a "liberation" kind of technology... a way of communicating that is (in my mind) a game-changer. It's more a shift in a way of thinking than so much a specific piece of software, kind of like "wiki" is. Nevertheless, there is an implementation, and I think a pretty good one. The concept is a HTML5 "jQuery" widget you can put on web forms (any number of them) which gives the author a redaction pen, to mark out sensitive portions. The sensitive portions are never sent to the server, but the rest of it can be. Then a certificate is generated allowing selective revelation to which parties you wish. There's explanation and a video on my site: http://blackhighlighter.hostilefork.com And a live demo hosted by Heroku: http://blackhighlighter.org I've written quite a bit about it already. But to sum it up, the idea is to "flip the inbox"...so that when you send a message the buck doesn't necessarily stop with the recipient. It sits--publicly searchable--with as much information in it protected as you wanted. You can't change what's in the protected portions after-the-fact, but you can give it to parties that you want; and the message can be repeated on as many servers as necessary, with no requirement to trust the server in order to verify missing portions if you have a certificate. Despite these different "views" on the information, it's a single trackable unit of communication with the same ID throughout its lifetime. I'm not generally a web developer (I used to write compilers for Microsoft Research) so learning enough JavaScript and Node.JS to do this was not my idea of "fun". But I am pretty serious about this. The more I look at how many potential failures there are in communication--whether it be spam filtering, or "ghosting"/"hellbanning", or just the recipient being unaccountable such that the right person to read your message doesn't have the chance to find it even if they wanted to... the more I feel Blackhighlighter is needed. Please feel free to write me or call me (# on my site)...or forward this to any potentially interested parties. If I don't get back to you, publish your message on Blackhighlighter and maybe someone else will ask who you are and seek out how to contact you to get any information you marked out. :-) Best, Brian

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Heaps of Windows 10 internal builds, private source code leak online
by Georgi Guninski 25 Jun '17

25 Jun '17

| https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/23/windows_10_leak/ | The data - some 32TB of official and non-public installation images and | software blueprints that compress down to 8TB - were uploaded to | betaarchive.com, the latest load of files provided just earlier this | week. It is believed the confidential data in this dump was exfiltrated | from Microsoft's in-house systems around March this year. | It is being described by some as a bigger leak than the Windows 2000 | source code blab in 2004.

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[RUS] [WAR] Saudi king-to-be bin-Salman: "our military capabilities will be enough to destruct Russian forces in Syria in 3 days"
by Zenaan Harkness 25 Jun '17

25 Jun '17

I guess this might bring the Syrian war to a close sooner than later. Wonders never cease. http://theduran.com/saudi-arabia-wont-go-soft-on-putin-anymore-vows-to-dest… Saudi Arabia won’t “go soft” on Putin anymore, vows to destroy “Russian forces in Syria in 3 days”

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