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National Cryptologic Museum Library Catalog
by John Young 19 Jun '19

19 Jun '19

https://www.nsa.gov/Portals/70/documents/about/cryptologic-heritage/museum/… Astonishing crypto bibliography, 726 pages, about 30 entries per page.

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Youtube Demonetizing Law Auditors? Channels Tracking Social Corp Actions?
by grarpamp 19 Jun '19

19 Jun '19

News Now Patrick claims demonetization https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjum47qWLDE Would seem a bit of a new stretch for youtube to go after this category of youtubers but who knows what these companies and their bosses are up to. Here is another potential case in the same category... Granite State Transparency interviews Ian Mcguire's SOTHEYCALLITFREEDOM channel about it being deleted by youtube, kangaroo court, ACLU, etc... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF7iaEMEA-0 In some deplatform categories and cases, not all sides of the situations are represented for people to evaluate... companies rarely speak, nor is the opposing opinion present, unless like speakers corner where everyone's filming covering everything realtime no edits... https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=speakers+corner Are there more new categories of youtubers being banned by youtube? Are there channels dedicated to trying to objectively review each category and case from all sides? Any sites tracking court cases against companies involved in arbitrary censorship? All the different categories of censored, demonetized youtubers should know about things like DTube, IPFS, youtube-dl, I2P torrent, crypto messaging, support via cryptocurrency, all sorts of alternatives, redundancy and backup options, etc. Not exactly fast, live, easy, or popular, but basically impossible to censor. Are there any channels filming in public journalising about the obvious filming that public can generally see know understand and respond to, compared to unseen cable taps, datamining, surveillance, marketing, etc? In "interviewing the public" format? Though those taking things to being harassing assholish to the public... versus genuine conversation, as educators covering printed [case] law in hand, etc... tend to defeat their own point, turn viewers off, get in trouble for erring outside scope, etc. Some reference links to this category... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-aC4Ped50Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hYCTZwkRdk News Now by Patrick Roth https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHlw81Fx-4KVng3Oq-VP8ow/videos Selena Carol https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnOgBuJDh9Sz2sz7kVB_Srg/videos Nomad News by Josh Russell https://www.youtube.com/nomadnews/videos Granite State Transparency https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvbnpo8LU-FORE_dqSPAF8g/videos Hate The State by Ian McGuire https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCigIy-NOjCbEhBlb14udUSg/videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utBZW50Bl28 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v0hPqgTZfw https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=fake+auditor

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The US government has no interest in prosecuting me
by Ryan Carboni 19 Jun '19

19 Jun '19

There is no doubt a list (metaphorical if not physical) of law enforcement techniques that are legal but would either be widely questioned, or potentially adjudicated against. Through various means, the US government likely wishes those techniques not to be public. The US government is making me obviously aware of those techniques. The US government is run by morons. Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.

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Stay in the game!
by Zenaan Harkness 19 Jun '19

19 Jun '19

Posted without comment. Stay In The Game! https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-18/stay-game

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Rushdie is still with us, but not Theo van Gogh - [PEACE] [FREE SPEECH] [BOWING IN SUBMISSION TO ISLAM] - Zerowedgie
by Zenaan Harkness 18 Jun '19

18 Jun '19

Fundamental, folks. The West is falling, in submission to Islam. BTW, "Islam" means "submission". Covering Up Our Culture To Avoid Giving Offense https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-17/covering-our-culture-avoid-giving… … Rushdie is still with us, but the murder in 2004 of Theo van Gogh https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/nov/03/film.filmnews for producing and directing a film, "Submission", about Islamic violence toward women; the death https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-27-mn-5134-story.html of so many Arab-Islamic intellectuals https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-tahar-djaout-1490353.html guilty of writing freely, the Danish cartoon riots and the many trials (for instance, here https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9885/france-bensoussan-trial and here https://pjmedia.com/blog/free-speech-on-trial-in-austria-and-europe/ ) and attempted murders (such as here https://www1.cbn.com/hurdontheweb-1 and here https://www.france24.com/en/20100309-seven-arrested-alleged-plot-assassinat… ), the slaughter https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30708237 at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, the attacks https://www.ncronline.org/news/world/benedict-xvi-s-2006-regensburg-address… after Pope's Benedict speech in Regensburg, the books http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2008/08/extra-leading-new-york-publisher-sp… and scripts https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3199118/Theatre-accused-self-censo… cancelled, the depictions of Muhammad closeted https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/security-threats-force-londons-va-to-re… in the warehouses of museums, and the increasing threats and punishments, including flogging, to countless journalists https://abcnews.go.com/International/3rd-straight-year-turkey-jailed-journa… and writers such as Saudi Arabia's Raif Badawi https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5916/raif-badawi-saudi-justice , should alarm us -- not bring us to our knees. …

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Lee Camp: “homomorphic encryption will not turn our elections into an impenetrable wall of democracy, renowned the world over”
by Zenaan Harkness 18 Jun '19

18 Jun '19

Not sure that Lee Camp is entirely correct here, as I am agitatedly awaiting Microsoft's conversion of American "elections into an impenetrable wall of democracy, renowned the world over". Microsoft & Pentagon are quietly hijacking US elections (by Lee Camp) https://www.rt.com/op-ed/462041-microsoft-pentagon-hijacking-elections/ … Did you catch that? Galois claims to be a private company, but its only investor is the f**king Pentagon. To rephrase something you already understood in another way so that you get mildly annoyed with me: Microsoft and our war machine are taking over the American election system. Honestly, who would put election software in the hands of DARPA? DARPA’s the department that tries to put microchips in soldiers’ brains to create Terminators or Robocops or other dystopian hounds of hell. If your first response upon hearing about an invention is, “That’s f**king awful!” – DARPA came up with that. I wouldn’t even let someone from DARPA look after my cat for the weekend. We all know I’d come home, the cat would have half a head and a Game Boy duct-taped to its ass. “F**k you, DARPA! I don’t care if the Mario Kart theme song plays when it s**ts. Get out of my apartment!” Now, imagine that scenario but replace the cat with our entire election system. MintPress further revealed Galois has a spin-off company called “Free & Fair” that creates technology for elections and worked with Microsoft to make ElectionGuard™. Unfortunately, Free & Fair is connected to every form of neocon think tank, government agency and large corporation. They’re especially in bed with the Department of Homeland Security. So what’s wrong with that, you might ask. As Webb details, “before, during and after the 2016 election, the Department of Homeland Security was caught attempting to hack into state electoral systems in at least three states – Georgia, Indiana, and Idaho – with similar accusations also made by Kentucky and West Virginia… DHS, which initially denied it, later responded that the attempted breach was ‘legitimate business.’” Legitimate business? Anytime someone from DHS says they’re involved in legitimate business, immediately duck and put your head between your knees. … In this world free does not mean no ulterior motive. One motive could be to control or rig our entire government. But who would want that? A tiny little country like America? Please. Our country is so inconsequential that we have a third-rate game show host as president. MintPress may have found another ulterior motive. “Microsoft President Brad Smith announced that the company ‘is going to provide the US military with access to the best technology… all the technology we create. Full stop.’” A month prior to that, “Microsoft secured a $480 million contract with the Pentagon to provide the military with its HoloLens technology.” … Election forensics analyst Jonathan Simon said, “The great irony, and tragedy, here… is that we could easily go the opposite direction and quickly solve all the problems of election security if we got the computers out of the process and were willing to invest the modicum of effort needed for humans to count votes observably in public as they once did.” Jonathan Simon, God bless him, has used 55 words to say 11: We could easily fix our fraudulent election system, but we won’t. The answer is not to hand it over to Microsoft and the Pentagon and the ass clowns who make robotic death machines. The Pentagon can’t keep track of $21 TRILLION DOLLARS over the past 20 years – what makes us think they can keep track of hundreds of millions of votes? … ...

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Cynerattack by americunt scum against argentina's power grid.
by Punk 18 Jun '19

18 Jun '19

Yesterday (sunday 16), There was in argentina a power failure covering ALL the fucking country and some small parts of uruguay chile and brazil. The blackout affected some 50 million people. According to the criminals who call themselves the argentine govt, a power plant went out of sync, so the whole distribution system 'automatically' shut itself down. A 'bug' in a system created and run by useless engineers...is the official lie. https://www.clarin.com/politica/apagon-alerta-falla-gobierno-admite-noto_0_…

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Re: [Cryptography] F*ck Facebook
by grarpamp 17 Jun '19

17 Jun '19

On 6/17/19, Eternal October via cryptography <cryptography(a)metzdowd.com> wrote: > Machine gun this at your leisure until it's deemed viable or trash can > fodder. Facebook is proposing something similar tomorrow. I suspect that > they will only basket fiats and miss the entire point of this grand > experiment. Facebook Consortium Coin is all over the news sites for a week. It is being rightly and utterly trashed by just about everyone in cryptocurrency space who is not a complete self serving proponent and partner of total State Corp Spy Control Censor Marketing Datamining etc over you and everyone. You do not want that shit in your money. There's thousand of shitcoins out there that need machine gunned to death, for many reasons, including the above. > I've only just now, quickly, written an abstract and am not an academic > writer. And I'm clearly not SN. Not even close. Guy spooks me, whoever he > is. > > ~ > > Owl: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System > > Eternal October > eternaloctober(a)protonmail.ch > > WORKING DRAFT > JUNE 17, 2019 > > Abstract. Programmable money[1] pegged to a variety of assets weighed > dynamically by their moving impact on the global economy would act as a > hedge against failure in legacy assets. We propose a solution to the > centralization of speed-focused blockchains with a variant of Delegated > Proof-of-Stake[2] utilizing Quadratic Voting[3] as a consensus mechanism > rather than plutocratic systems prone to cartel formation. This combats the > consolidation of influence by resourceful actors. Owl deploys a system of > APIs both publicly available and managed by elected custodians working in > tandem with decentralized oracles[4] in multi-asset price discovery. > Authenticating the median price of these assets through Byzantine fault > tolerance checks creates a steadycoin that shields itself from volatility. > > [1] https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf > [2] https://bitshares.org/technology/delegated-proof-of-stake-consensus > [3] https://eosauthority.com/producers_rank_quadratic > [4] https://link.smartcontract.com/whitepaper

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Re: [tor-dev] Cryptocurrency: Total Energy Analysis - Crypto Uses Less Than Fiat
by grarpamp 17 Jun '19

17 Jun '19

Expanding from... https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2019-June/013890.html On 6/17/19, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans(a)guardianproject.info> wrote: > I was an early proponent of crypto currencies, but now it is clear to me > that they do more harm than good by a long shot. Lacks specifics. > And this is really off topic for this list. Energy hardly off topic for Tor in general though... If people suggest PoW to solve some Tor thing, and others then claim something or some generic about its applicability, others are free to further qualify what they introduced. Cryptocurrency is actually quite green, renewable, clean and efficient.. it must be in order to compete long term, it is also naturally incentivized to do so, Fiat has no such care at all. Media is well known to spew biased FUD and anti about energy, and they link to non-comparative non-visionary research as the whole gospel when it's clearly not. DYOR: Even the crudest of Fermi Estimates, and lowest of effort searches will start to turn up info therein leading to searching out a more complete picture... https://twitter.com/C_Bendiksen/status/1136641061298876417 PoW can take many forms, from mechanical turk captcha brainwork, to protein folding and other research computing, to serving dual role as heating etc, yes even to simplistic brute force where needed. There are many potential PoW choices and libraries out there and coming in the future. Some hardly "damaging" or rendering of all land, sea, and civilization to dust. To just say "PoW bad for Tor" is a bit off, though yes if it could be a solve, then indeed survey the choices therein. BTW, you know there are now [PoW] cryptocurrencies and blockchains that use operate and transport over Tor in various modes... some exclusively within onions, others split horizon, others well documented on how to use exits. Same with I2P and other overlay networks. Is Tor to censor block the "non green" uses? What about the "illicit" "harmful" uses that are in fact less volume and incidence than even Fiat sees? One must also know that Tor nodes and all its infrastructures from physical to human... consumes many tanker loads of power too. Yet who has given any open redpill non hypocritical or at least equal finger pointing thought to analysis on any solar renewable green or even nextgen nuke sensibility therein? Where is the Tor relay node selection screen that lets users select their personal choice to path only through "green" nodes? How do users even identify and fund those nodes? Where are the "I run / support green relay" t-shirts for those wishing to virtue signal? The onions used to be green, now they're purple, purple is a strange color in nature, some hesitate on it. Green pathing would fit right in with the overall "Anti-Sybil relay metadata, operator WoT, badexit, and DA" research projects, choice and subscription tool for users that has yet to be explored. What about Tor declining money from non green, non brutal force, and even non Proof of Bad Stake... sources and forms? Such as those from Governments and Banks creating their Fiats for their tax inflation theft murder war lies ops corruption and manipulation. Given tor nodes splay across global DC's, biz, and home instead of some of the more focused, even intentionally green, placement of cryptocurrency nodes... an actual net analysis of an averaged 1MW of tor versus 1MW of cryptocurrency, is likely to show Tor as "worse"... such that betting some cyptocurrency on that would be a win. Things, ways to create solve and live, all use energy. Tor uses energy... watts... buildings, cars, food, services, money. One really needs to start breaking it down to understand it all. Thankfully cryptocurrency is forcing humanity to break it down, and to think about and change many of the hardest walls, forces and energies ever built and expended against them... from physical to monetary to philosophical to political to mind control and more. And distributed strong privacy cryptocurrency coins and privacy networks are helping to make that happen. Don't be afraid to burn a few watts therein. And to design out, save, and recycle some where you can.

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Cryptocurrency: Total Energy Analysis - Crypto Uses Less Than Fiat
by grarpamp 17 Jun '19

17 Jun '19

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/05/energy-cost-of-mining-bi… https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-018-0152-7.epdf https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art:10.1038/s41893-018-0152-7/Media… https://www.qwant.com/?q=Quantification%20of%20energy%20and%20carbon%20cost… http://www.maxjkrause.com/ Link to actual paper above. Renewables below. https://twitter.com/C_Bendiksen/status/1136641061298876417 https://medium.com/coinshares/surprise-majority-of-btc-energy-sourced-from-… https://coinshares.co.uk/bitcoin-mining-cost-june-2019/ Expect miners to explore private enviro friendly safe and efficent nuke plants as well. PoW projects also adapting to solving useful research problems, protein folding, radio astronomy, etc. All in, net, it's just sand and electrons, a simpler long term looking much greener than Fiat's chaos, inefficiency, and silly whims against freedom and markets. DYOR. $10k soon.

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