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Streissand strikes: UCali sheds $800,000 of "liberal" legal tears - so sad :D - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

The Streissand effect strikes again, this time in North America's liberal shirt-hole, Califor-ni-a (where else..), to the tune of over $800,000 in liberal UCali tears :D The irony is that there's nothing "liberal" about stopping free speech or warring against free speech. Enjoy, California University Spends $800,000 Trying To Shut Down Satirical Student Newspaper, Fails https://www.theepochtimes.com/university-of-california-spends-800000-trying… https://www.zerohedge.com/political/california-university-spends-800000-try… The University of California’s failed attempt to shut down a student-run publication satirizing “safe spaces” and “trigger warnings” has resulted in over $800,000 in legal fees. https://www.theepochtimes.com/t-university-of-california At the center of the legal dispute was a November 2015 article from The Koala, https://thekoala.org/2015/11/16/ucsd-unveils-new-dangerous-space-on-campus/ [WARNING: NSFW words in that link] a satirical student newspaper at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), known for publishing articles with crude humor and racial slurs. The article, entitled “UCSD Unveils New Dangerous Space on Campus,” mocked the idea that students needed a “safe space” on campus by suggesting that the university should equally respect certain students’ needs to have “dangerous space.” In the aftermath, the UCSD student government denounced The Koala for “the offensive and hurtful language it chooses to publish” and in retaliation, denied funding to all student media outlets. The Koala then filed a First Amendment lawsuit in 2016, arguing that the university was withholding funds to censor their speech. A federal judge tossed the lawsuit in 2017, but the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the decision in 2019, acknowledging the change in UCSD’s funding policy as a means to prevent The Koala from excising its freedom of speech. The Koala and UCSD settled the case last month, with the university paying the newspaper $12,000 and $150,000 more to cover attorneys’ fees. According to a public records request by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a First Amendment advocacy group, the University of California had spent an additional $662,317 on its own lawyers. https://www.thefire.org/university-of-california-invoices-re-the-koala/ Throughout the 4-year legal battle, the university hired different law firms that usually charged five figures for their services. The records suggest that the first invoice came from Chicago’s Schiff Hardin, which would submit 30 more invoices from 2016 to October 2020, ranging from less than $100 to $110,000. There was also an invoice from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in November 2019 for more than $150,000. By contrast, the funding originally allocated for The Koala was only $450. “For those keeping track at home, that’s just north of 1,820 times the amount of money The Koala was denied under the unconstitutional funding change,” FIRE’s Adam Steinbaugh wrote. “If speech ain’t free, it’ll cost the taxpayers and tuition-paying students a pretty penny.” Since 2015, many colleges and universities have designated safe spaces where students could go to escape from the stress of controversial ideas. Some others, notably the University of Chicago, rejected the concept, holding that college students should learn to navigate though controversial topics rather than avoid them. “Our commitment to academic freedom means that we do not support so-called ‘trigger warnings,’ we do not cancel invited speakers because their topics might prove controversial, and we do not condone the creation of intellectual ‘safe spaces’ where individuals can retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own,” a letter to UChicago’s Class of 2020 read (pdf). https://news.uchicago.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/Dear_Class_of_202…

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Cypherpunks
by grarpamp 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

> technofascism looks kinda 'on topic' for the list. > >> As an anarchoprimitivist, I "secretly" hate technology (but as a >> software developer use it for most of my tasks), and I hang out >> sometimes with people who see anybody who develops or develops with >> technology as a harmful authority. But I don't really expect to hear >> that opinion here. >> >> Is this a view you hold? Are you aware of there being others here who >> hold that view? > > I'm not against technical developments per se. I'm certainly against the > 'progressives' who only care about the latest stupid gadget and think that > 'better technology' is better for people...while hiding/lying about all the > negative aspects of technical development. Well Perry's list bans bitcoin cryptoanarchy, libtech list only allows promotion of gadget-democracies and anti-liberation leftist force, and Tor Inc list censors truths from its users. So to extent any rejected's from those are here... could do quite well, should the moment come for people to get down to cypherpunk business. There is certainly lot of tech permutations quietly running in mental space, integration of topical news, idle time talking random political shit and such for fun, small exploratory tech convos, while waiting for the next big cypherpunk ideas to take shape from the ether. > Hey I was distracted by being silly. > You propose projects a lot. I am really passionate about distributed uncensorable platforms, I'm aware of some needing dev work, and interested in making new ones. Do you have any interest in dev work? The US elections on TV may be distracting many people from around the world from such projects. Benefit of govt / party spectacles shows sillyness of govt itself. From that we may see various old and new peoples and randoms getting in touch coming together on various projects after the US elections settle out. Some people here or soon to be here, are certainly working on any number of project drafts... And being from cypherpunks, they probably won't be projects that Centralized GovCorp TechnoFacists would take much liking to, lol :)

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Accessing Usenet for Dummies
by Karl 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

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Trump’s Deficits Are Racing Past Obomba’s
by Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

Trump Will Create More Debt Than obomba https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2020/09/27/trump-will-create-more-d… Trump poised to add more debt than Obama in first term https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-poised-to-add-more-debt-than-obama-i… Trump’s Deficits Are Racing Past Obama’s https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2020/02/01/trumps-deficits-are-raci… Isn't that hilarious? The monkey wants negative interest rates and is more of a spending thief than obomba. No doubt he's a shining 'conservative' 'libertarian' 'populist'. I can already hear the screeching lies and excuses coming from this fine list's trumpofascists trying to replace reality with their fantasies and pathetic lies.

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Unsubscribing
by Karl 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

You guys are cool! If you ever get overtly mind controlled, email me. Don't let people talk you out of doing obvious stuff. Just do it and tell them they talk too much. Goodbye!

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Re: Tor, the pentagon's cyberweapon
by Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 15:01:03 -0400 Karl <gmkarl(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Yay, anonymity networks. > > On 10/13/20, Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 <punks(a)tfwno.gf> wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 14:32:53 -0400 > > Karl <gmkarl(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> We were, actually, looking at the ABCs of Tor, or what do you mean? > > > > > > I mean the facts that 1) tor is pretty useless for actual anonimity 2) tor > > 1) welllll it makes you completely invisible to your neighbors and > your isp, and very identifiable to federal agents as having something > to hide you are always invisible to your neighbors unless your neighbors own your ISP. And you're not 'invisible' to your ISP anyway, see the 'fingerprinting' attacks on tor. So even at that level tor doesn't work as advertised. > > is a cyberweapon created and controlled by the pentagon. That's the ABC of > > the mobile phone is a way bigger cyberweapon than tor. agree? disagree? agreed. Although retardphones are not advertised as 'anonymous', so somehow there's less fraud involved. > > > tor and you certainly WON'T learn that looking at the source code. > > So, below you say > > > if you want to know how good tor is 'technically' wise then listen to the > > criminals who write the code > > > > https://github.com/mikeperry-tor/vanguards/blob/master/README_SECURITY.md > > > > "Tor has only basic defenses against traffic analysis at the moment." > > Really, we're possibly getting at the same things. Tor froze after > mike perry wrote that. It was never addressed, and they now have a > policy against addressing it. right, and that 'policy' has been in place since the day tor was created. > We could just address it. It seems like obviously the thing to do, if > you're a bored computer programmer, is to steal the good parts of the > tor code, remove all the parts designed to make the naive governments > trackable by the sneaky governments or whatever, and replace them with > something transparent that welcomes improvement, no? and interestingly nobody has done it so far. Granted, it's not that easy. > > > signed mike perry - uh oh. > > The information in the quote you posted is incredibly well known by > tor users, as far as I understand. The information is unknown to the vast majority of tor users, including all the tor users who use tor in 'dark markets' and end up in jail. Since day 0 tor has been fraudulently pushed as an 'anonymous' network while the tor developer mafia admited in their inner circles that their 'product' was shit. And when somebody like appelbaum stopped fully toeing the party line he became a 'rapist'. Yes, that's how crass these people are.

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Setting up PGP
by Karl 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

Let's enumerate a few steps for setting up PGP. What's PGP? PGP is an old tool that makes it really irritating for government agents to change messages in transit. [s/Nobody uses pgp anymore because we've all either been beat up by corporate goonies for using it or had our networks and systems hacked to remove its use, and we can fix that./Everybody uses pgp in every message they send on the internet!/] I generally use gpg, gnupg, and pgp as interchangeable terms. PGP is irritating to set up, because to do it really right you need an airgapped computer to store your personal identifier on. Airgapped means it is disconnected from the normal internet. Otherwise your key is stolen when somebody breaks into the computer using it. Believe it or not, and this is pretty wellknown, systems are regularly broken into in massive worldwide droves as new vulnerabilities are discovered and revealed: these new vulnerabilities are called "0-days", and you can be pretty sure that anybody who doesn't use that term isn't a hacker. There's another issue: some people take new devices out of the mail, and break into them in advance, possibly even adding new communication hardware, then stealthily put them back in the mail before they are received. [s/Kind and caring corrupt federal people are well known to be forced to do this and have even leaked this to victims of it./Obviously if anybody actually did this they would feel so bad they would stop, but we still want to respect our use of pgp enough to consider it./] The risk seems small, but when you use PGP the integrity of the messages you exchange with everyone else is at stake, so it's good to take proper precautions. So, it's best to acquire your device for airgapping from a local reservoir of them, like a popular store that [s/<it's hard for me to talk about or encourage cash purchases because i've been tortured by enforcement goonies>/takes friendly cash that keeps everyone's identity more safe/]. This way you get the same set of system compromises and vulnerabilities that everybody else at the store gets, which means those compromises are not going to be placed specifically against your use as an airgapped security device. A lot of people will say worrying about this is paranoid. This is a way to tell that they are not hackers, either. Hackers who can actually reliably communicate with their peers consider paranoia to be good, and make it their business to act on it. When considering a device, you'll ideally want one that doesn't have any wireless networking hardware in it. Otherwise you'll ideally want to remove or disable all the wireless networking hardware, which [s/is pretty much impossible if your hands shake all day from being tortured for being an anarchist/is lots of fun to learn to do at a local urban makerspace where you can get lots of help on the kinds of things I'm posting about from people passionate about helping/]. If you happen to live in the usa near randall munroe, one of the many areas where a lot of open source hackers used to live, you could probably buy a small board without a wifi chip called a "pi zero" from a store called "microcenter". Another approach could be to repurpose something like an OLPC XO and remove the wifi board, which is very easy to do. After finding a good candidate airgapped device, you'll want to be careful with how you use it. Remember, whenever a new vulnerability is found, trojans cover the world taking advantage of it, and then try to find a way to hide inside the corners of all the systems they find. So, any drive you put in your new device, anything you plug into it, any update you apply, could be filled with computer-measles that would find a way to trick it into giving remote control to them. Keep it isolated until you have things set up for use. The next step after getting a reasonable airgapped device, maybe a pi zero, and ideally keeping it isolated, would be to install gnupg on it. Maybe in a forthcoming email!

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Cryptocurrency: John McAfee Arrested in Spain per US Extradition
by grarpamp 14 Oct '20

14 Oct '20

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sec-mcafee/u-s-indicts-anti-virus-softwa… https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sec-mcafee/u-s-sec-sues-john-mcafee-over… https://mobile.twitter.com/officialmcafee https://mobile.twitter.com/theemrsmcafee

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Re: [tor-relays] BadExit: Rerouting exit relays detected (1) 45.63.11.98
by grarpamp 14 Oct '20

14 Oct '20

On 10/12/20, Dr Gerard Bulger <gerard(a)bulger.co.uk> wrote: > Torrc allows you to exit from a different IP. I thought it a good idea to > stop arbitrary blocking of the advertised Tor exit IP, the captchas and > blacklists that tor users suffer. Relay operators are free to do that for those reasons. Any overlay network that has an exit function should have some percentage of its exits unpublished, else there is zero chance for its users to route around that form of censorship. NAT, VPN, tunnels, etc also allow to do the same thing without torrc. > When IPv6 implemented fully we have a wide > range of IPs to send from on each server. > > Perhaps it is not considered good form to do so as the internet should know > who is using Tor. The internet should not know who is using tor. Nor should Tor particularly subjugate itself to the random wishes of the internet, much of which and the global powers that be, would love to have tor (and all the other overlay networks, cryptocurrency, encryption) simply comply themselves off the internet according to such wishes. The internet already has ability to enumerate all the exit nodes. Whether internet does so to satisfy its own wishes or not is not tor's problem. Making tor easy to block only makes the censors job easier. > So what is the problems for TOR security when exits set up to send from a > different IP? Is it that we do not know what the second IP is up to in > dealing with the IP4 traffic from the exit? There is no tech "security" problem herein, only a "political" problem. Paths to actual freedom always see political spin and action against them. Fight back, more in the political they use, less in falling to complying the tech. -- The Tor lists, blog, etc are all actively censored. Your messages for people to read may not be permitted by the Tor Project censors, and Tor Project censors may prevent you from reading peoples messages.

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Police Raided German Spyware Company FinFisher Offices
by Stefan Claas 14 Oct '20

14 Oct '20

https://thehackernews.com/2020/10/finfisher-spyware-raid.html Regards Stefan -- NaClbox: cc5c5f846c661343745772156a7751a5eb34d3e83d84b7d6884e507e105fd675 The computer helps us to solve problems, we did not have without him.

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