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assassinating Assad :. Political assassination
by jim bell 16 Sep '20

16 Sep '20

Political assassination:. What a novel concept !!! https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/15/trump-confirms-he-wanted…

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Cryptocurrency: Quantum Timekeeping and Gravimetry to Locate All Gold Reserves
by grarpamp 15 Sep '20

15 Sep '20

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.01585.pdf Atomic Clocks for Geodesy https://www.sciencenews.org/article/quantum-timekeeping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_geodesy#Gravity_anomalies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravimetry Gravimetric Geodesy "We're not even close to the limits of what people are imagining. By combining multiple ultra-precise orbiting clocks with quantum teleportation networks linking them for time transfer one could gravimetrically map the planet in 3D at millimeter resolutions. You’d be able to see someone digging a tunnel under the border from space. Whoever possessed it would also be able to locate every single significant concentration of dense matter." Your dense stashes of Gold lose to scattered Bitcoin paper wallets ;) https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/keeping-time-nist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_redefinition_of_the_SI_base_units https://www.darpa.mil/program/micro-technology-for-positioning-navigation-a… https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/andp.201800364 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/first-u-s-small-nuclear-reactor-… Crypto miners first to adopt nextgen mini nuke plants...

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PQC: IBM Roadmaps towards 56 Logical Qubits in 3 Years
by grarpamp 15 Sep '20

15 Sep '20

https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/15/ibm-publishes-its-quantum-roadmap-says-it… IBM today, for the first time, published its road map for the future of its quantum computing hardware. There is a lot to digest here, but the most important news in the short term is that the company believes it is on its way to building a quantum processor with more than 1,000 qubits -- and somewhere between 10 and 50 logical qubits -- by the end of 2023. From a report: Currently, the company's quantum processors top out at 65 qubits. It plans to launch a 127-qubit processor next year and a 433-qubit machine in 2022. To get to this point, IBM is also building a completely new dilution refrigerator to house these larger chips, as well as the technology to connect multiple of these units to build a system akin to today's multi-core architectures in classical chips. IBM's Dario Gil tells me that the company made a deliberate choice in announcing this road map and he likened it to the birth of the semiconductor industry. "If you look at the difference of what it takes to build an industry as opposed to doing a project or doing scientific experiments and moving a field forward, we have had a philosophy that what we needed to do is to build a team that did three things well, in terms of cultures that have to come together. And that was a culture of science, a culture of the road map, and a culture of agile," Gil said. He argues that to reach the ultimate goal of the quantum industry, that is, to build a large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer, the company could've taken two different paths. The first would be more like the Apollo program, where everybody comes together, works on a problem for a decade and then all the different pieces come together for this one breakthrough moment.

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Secure Comms: Op VENETIC - EncroChat Secure Phones Subverted by Govts
by grarpamp 15 Sep '20

15 Sep '20

On 7/3/20, jim bell <jdb10987(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/02/uk/encrochat-crime-messaging-cracked-intl-gb… https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/k7qjkn/encrochat-hack-gps-messages-passw… https://www.lincs.police.uk/news-campaigns/news/2020/operation-venetic-mult… https://telecoms.com/505343/encrochat-hack-shows-theres-no-such-thing-as-se… https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8486915/Royals-politicians-celebri… https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa73dz/fbi-tried-to-plant-backdoor-in-en… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-Pv9CU1mjE Myntex Encro Phone is not secure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUdugZjTPho EncroChat Phone Hacked https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/ Both Linux and BSD are developing to run on these phones. Many other Unix phones coming in next few years. https://amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2020/08/25/comparing-linux-phones/ https://forums.puri.sm/t/comparing-specs-of-upcoming-linux-phones/6827 " The malware that French law enforcement deployed en masse onto Encrochat devices, a large encrypted phone network using Android phones, had the capability to harvest "all data stored within the device," and was expected to include chat messages, geolocation data, usernames, passwords, and more, according to a document obtained by Motherboard. From the report: The document adds more specifics around the law enforcement hack and subsequent takedown of Encrochat earlier this year. Organized crime groups across Europe and the rest of the world heavily used the network before its seizure, in many cases to facilitate large scale drug trafficking. The operation is one of, if not the, largest law enforcement mass hacking operation to date, with investigators obtaining more than a hundred million encrypted messages. "The NCA has been collaborating with the Gendarmerie on Encrochat for over 18 months, as the servers are hosted in France. The ultimate objective of this collaboration has been to identify and exploit any vulnerability in the service to obtain content," the document reads, referring to both the UK's National Crime Agency and one of the national police forces of France. As well as the geolocation, chat messages, and passwords, the law enforcement malware also told infected Encrochat devices to provide a list of WiFi access points near the device, the document reads. "

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Donation of one ticket to bitcoin conference this weekend
by kryptotrayder＠airmail.cc 15 Sep '20

15 Sep '20

h t t ps:// gunsnbitcoin [dot] com / bear-arms-2020/ I have pre-paid admittance to the guns and bitcoin conference that is in Austin Texas this weekend on September 19 and 20. The talks and main event is the 19th and a optional day at the range is on the 20th. The topics are on bitcoin. privacy. 3D printable guns. Agorism. A gathering of cypherpunks. Welcome to anyone interested but serious in going. Does not matter if you are a complete noob or very technical. The purpose is to learn and have fun. I was going to this event but I had to cancel because of an unexpected reason. I am sad I cannot go. But I want to extend this forward to someone who can and wants to. I am donating FOR FREE my admission to this conference to the first serious person who is interested in going. If you are interested please reply to me directly. Serious replies only. I will reply to lists when offer is ended. This is a great opportunity if you are in that area or nearby. You are responsible for any lodging or travel. I am only donating admission to the conference which covers I only ask that if someone takes my donation. That if you are able to while there, that you attend two bitcoin talks of my choice and provide me detailed notes or information on the content from them afterwards. But NO photography or audio recording permitted is the rules of the conference. I have a gpg public key for this offer I created. Attached to this email. So you can reply to me with encryption if you want to. Peace KT

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Censorship: AIER - We need decentralized solutions now!
by grarpamp 15 Sep '20

15 Sep '20

https://www.aier.org/article/youtube-censors-white-house-health-advisor/ https://lbry.tv/$/embed/The-Doctor-is-in/ffdd1622296a17d2b01a7982c348921388… Amid Rampant Censorship by All Major Social and Media Steering Narratives Hiding Truths Preventing Conversations... AIER calls for decentralized uncensorable platforms now! " In late August, the Hoover Institution filmed an in-depth interview with Dr. Scott Atlas who serves as a top health advisor to the White House, more or less replacing Anthony Fauci in that role. Atlas is an advocate for opening up the economy and allowing natural immunities to control the virus. In this, he has many colleagues in the public-health profession who agree with him, including many epidemiologists, virologists, immunologists, and medical doctors, all names frequently covered at AIER. This interview conducted by Hoover allows him to explain his views in depth. Incredibly, YouTube has taken down the video interview of Scott Atlas for the usual vague reasons about community standards. Alex Berenson is right: “As censorship goes, this is both terrifying and idiotic. Like him or hate him, Scott Atlas is ADVISING THE PRESIDENT ON COVID – no one gains when YouTube denies everyone the chance to hear what he thinks. People who oppose him should want to know even more.” Two aspects of this are fortunate. LBRY has retained a copy and that copy is embedded below. In addition, Hoover retains a complete transcript of the interview. If this can happen to a world-class and highly credentialed expert like Atlas, it can happen to anyone. We need decentralized solutions like LBRY now, in the interest of openness, freedom, and truth. " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmxqlSevtkQ

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Cryptocurrency: AnarchoCapitalist AriaDiMezzo Runs for Chesire, NH Sheriff
by grarpamp 14 Sep '20

14 Sep '20

https://freekeene.com/2020/09/11/she-male-defeats-longtime-republican-candi… https://www.insidesources.com/transsexual-satanist-anarchist-is-gop-sheriff… https://www.foxnews.com/politics/transexual-satanist-anarchist-picks-up-gop… https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12655347/transsexual-satanist-anarchist-wins-… https://twitter.com/Aria_DiMezzo https://keybase.io/ariadimezzo https://liberdon.com/@AriaDiMezzo https://bit.ly/ElectAriaChat https://aria4sheriff.com/ https://www.youtube.com/ariadimezzo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X1uOoQ2mIk Aria Files for Cheshire Sheriff 2020 https://www.gofundme.com/f/aria-dimezzo039s-car-vandalized https://theanarchistshemale.com/ "September 13, 2020: I accept only cryptocurrency donations at ariadimezzo@edge" Earlier work... https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5VrgT9bejUVuQYle8_fEMw https://www.patreon.com/aria_dimezzo https://shemalediary.wordpress.com/ https://ariadimezzo.podbean.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHlkFEnA8CM Aria from 2018 runs "Be Free From Fear" https://freekeene.com/2018/09/15/first-in-history-transgender-candidate-ent… https://dimezzo4sheriff.wordpress.com/ Cool AnCap's... gaming the system and totally winning it! Bring Liberty in your Lifetime... run and flood them out... "[Tim Pool] Aria DiMezzo ran for Sheriff with the slogan "Fuck The Police" People just voted (R) for the GOP nomination and didnt realize they had just voted for a 'Trans-Satanist-Anarchist' Now they are pissed” https://freekeene.com/2020/07/06/selling-bitcoin-the-ultimate-how-to/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep0oV2J8ay4 Selling Bitcoin: The Ultimate How To - by Aria DiMezzo " There are rumors that I do not intend to campaign against Eli Rivera. These rumors are not true, and I will be campaigning to win in November. ... Aria DiMezzo is one of two candidates for Sheriff of Cheshire County. She has had many encounters with police in her life, and very few of them have been positive. She is the High Priestess of the Reformed Satanic Church, a trans woman, and an anarchist Republican. She is definitely not a socially progress libertarian hijacking the Republican Party. ... Cheshire County is already a sanctuary county for immigrants. Aria stands firmly in support of this, yet it doesn’t go far enough. Why only immigration? If Cheshire County is going to ignore one victimless crime harmless choice, then it should go ahead and ignore them all." ... Anarchist. Shemale. Tranny. Libertarian. Fuck the police. Free Talk Live. Bitcoin. Reformed Satanic Church. Black Lives Matter. It’s all there. None of it is a secret. I couldn’t possibly have been more upfront about who I am, or my position on things. -- ADM " " Keene’s Aria DiMezzo is the first transgender person to win the GOP’s nomination for Cheshire County sheriff after running unopposed in Tuesday’s primary. DiMezzo, associated with the Free Keene movement of libertarian activists, said Friday she is looking forward to debating incumbent Sheriff Eli Rivera, the popular Democrat who is running for his fifth term. “I’m hoping he will debate me; that would be the highlight of this,” she said. DiMezzo first ran in 2018 as a libertarian against Rivera and longtime Republican candidate Earl Nelson, though she ran under her previous male name because she did not have her name legally changed in time for the 2018 ballot. Nelson didn’t run this year and DiMezzo seized the opportunity to run unopposed as a Republican. DiMezzo said she would like to run as a libertarian but that’s not a realistic option in the current political environment. “There’s a lot of really strong libertarian candidates, and they do a really good job. Ultimately, the U.S. is a country with two parties and that isn’t changing anytime soon.” DiMezzo might not fit conventional notions of a Republican candidate for county sheriff. She’s opposed to the war on drugs, and does not want to enforce any crimes she claims are victimless, which include drug crimes, sex work, immigration violations, and even speeding violations. “If there’s no victim, there isn’t a crime,” she said. DiMezzo, founder of the Reformed Satanic Church, describes herself as an anarchist. She hosts an internet radio program where she is referred to as “She-Male.” Her campaign slogan is “F--- the Police.” New Hampshire GOP Chairman Chris Ager declined comment on DiMezzo’s candidacy when contacted on Friday. Holly Shulman, a Democratic Party spokeswoman, said Rivera is the best candidate for the job. “Sheriff Rivera is doing an outstanding job and we fully expect that the voters of Cheshire County will continue to support him,” Shulman said. Free Keene started as an offshoot of the Libertarian Free State movement, whose original goal was to get 20,000 libertarian-leaning people from other parts of the country to move to New Hampshire. The Free State Project has since distanced itself from Free Keene. Free Keene has spawned other candidates, like Nobody. Nobody, a convicted felon, changed his name from Rich Paul and ran unsuccessfully for governor in the Republican primary this year. " " Aria DiMezzo, the self-described “she-male” anarchist running for Cheshire County Sheriff as a republican has soundly defeated longtime candidate-for-sheriff Earl Nelson 10-to-1 and now moves on to face democrat incumbent Sheriff Eli Rivera in the general election on November 3rd! Nelson has been the challenger against Rivera for the last several election cycles, but has never been able to defeat him. This year during the filing window for candidates, Nelson hadn’t filed as of two days prior to the deadline, so Aria decided to run for Cheshire County Sheriff– again. She previously ran for Cheshire Sheriff as a Libertarian candidate in 2018, back when the Libertarians had major party ballot access status in New Hampshire. Unfortunately, the transsexual anarchist founder of the Reformed Satanic Church only received just over 2.3% of the vote in the three-way race. However, at that point she had not yet legally changed her name, which she now has. Since the two major parties make it so hard for Libertarians and other parties to run for office, we might as well run in the two parties. This time around DiMezzo’s campaign attracted some attention from some haters in Rindge who mounted a sizable write-in campaign on behalf of Nelson. It is not known whether they got Nelson’s approval for this and the official republican primary results from the state show their campaign had near-zero effect outside of Rindge. However the attacks against her had a reverse effect and actually brought her new supporters who excitedly put dozens of yard signs out around Cheshire County’s roads. Yard Signs Available via Aria4Sheriff.com When I asked her to comment for this story, she said, “It is with great joy that I receive this nomination from the Republicans of Cheshire County, who, in an era of Donald Trump, showed their tolerance and dedication to the principles of small-government by nominating the trans anarchic High Priestess of the Reformed Satanic Church to be sheriff.” With the ongoing nationwide protests demanding police accountability for attacking peaceful people of all colors, there’s no better time for DiMezzo’s candidacy. Given Rivera’s violent past, DiMezzo may actually have a chance to unseat him. As a trans person originally from the South, Aria can definitely relate to the problems plaguing government’s monopoly police. She addressed the issue in her introduction piece on her campaign website, saying she’s seen, “first-hand the dangers of bigotry, overt and subtle. These biases inform the actions of police in terrifying ways, since they are allowed to “exercise discretion” in which “crimes” to pursue and which to ignore. This leads to a disproportionate targeting of black people and LGBTQ+ people by police, who, like all predators, seek out the weakest prey they can find.” A key campaign issue, according to her website, is making Cheshire County a sanctuary for all peaceful acts now prohibited by the state – a total end to enforcement of “victimless crimes”. When not running for Sheriff, DiMezzo is a nationally syndicated talk show host on “Free Talk Live“, which is heard on over 190 radio stations across the United States. She also teaches people how to sell Bitcoin and has extensive experience in helping connect people with cryptocurrency. It’s going to be a very interesting election. Stay tuned here to Free Keene for the latest on DiMezzo’s epic campaign. "

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Cryptocurrency: Paypal (the Central GovCorp Shitcoin) Censors Cute Tardigrades
by grarpamp 14 Sep '20

14 Sep '20

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7wg3w/paypal-tardigrade-error You're next. Earlier this week, Archie McPhee, a Seattle-based gift seller (and home of the Rubber Chicken Museum) launched a glittery, green tardigrade ornament. It was a fitting addition to their squishy micro-animal themed products: tardigrade mints, glow-in-the-dark fingers, stress balls. But when customers tried to buy the ornament using PayPal, some received an error message: "This transaction cannot be completed because it violates the PayPal User Agreement." It was happening to enough tardigrade merchandise fans and sellers that several spoke out on Twitter this week. Archie McPhee tweeted on Friday that PayPal is blocking transactions containing the word "tardigrade." Others are experiencing the same—frustrations and stalled purchases on their water bear merch. Other businesses have also reported tardigrade-related PayPal issues. Two Photon Art, a small business that sells STEM-themed art, tweeted in July that it had to rename its tardigrade enamel pin to "water bear," because PayPal was holding its payments. "We've contacted them and they told us we should just stop using the word tardigrade," Archie McPhee tweeted. But if they have to change all of their tardigrade merch descriptions, URLs, and names on their tardigrade stuff to "water bear," that could limit how people looking for niche, nerdy water bear decorations find them. This isn't only an algorithmic fluke or extreme prejudice against indestructible moss-piglets

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Re: [tor-relays] non-encrypted connections from Tor exit relays
by grarpamp 14 Sep '20

14 Sep '20

>> do some exit relay operators have a policy to prevent connections >> leaving their exit node via non-encrypted ports (e.g. port 25)? >> >> not even wanting to be in a >> position to observe users' data passing through the exit node in clear >> text. >> hoping that encrypted connections >> provide some level (even very weak) of plausible deniability in the >> event that a connection attracts the attention of law enforcement. The other side... Do not fool yourselves that exit relays not advertising any "encrypted" ports are in any way "secure" for users and IoT, or that the operator is "not in a position", or has default "deniability". MITM tools and attacks happen over such exits ALL THE TIME. And since approximately zero users validate oob and pin down TLS/SSH etc fingerprints, and most just click through warnings, they get jacked all the time. There's plenty of Sybil and TA running out there too. -- This message moderated and censored by torproject for your "protection".

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Exploits: BlindSide SpecEx Attacks
by grarpamp 14 Sep '20

14 Sep '20

https://www.vusec.net/projects/blindside/ https://download.vusec.net/papers/blindside_ccs20.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-FUIZiRN5o BlindSide allows attackers to “hack blind” in the Spectre era. That is, given a simple buffer overflow in the kernel and no additional info leak vulnerability, BlindSide can mount BROP-style attacks in the speculative execution domain to repeatedly probe and derandomize the kernel address space, craft arbitrary memory read gadgets, and enable reliable exploitation. This works even in face of strong randomization schemes, e.g., the recent FGKASLR or fine-grained schemes based on execute-only memory, and state-of-the-art mitigations against Spectre and other transient execution attacks.

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