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WarGames Continue Sea/Sky/Land
by grarpamp 29 May '20

29 May '20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh-bCHgnzg8 oh hai ;)

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Cryptocurrency: Exploits, Austrian Libertarian, Privacy Coins Needed, Scaling Bloat, JPMorgan Flex, more...
by grarpamp 29 May '20

29 May '20

https://cointelegraph.com/news/digital-currencies-could-threaten-us-geopoli… “There is no country with more to lose from the disruptive potential of digital currency than the United States,” say analysts at JPMorgan Chase & Co. Two faced Banks, Banksters and Govts giving accounts to crypto exchanges, while buying cryptos to their pockets, shilling CBDC's, FUD dissing on OG distributed unstoppable cryptocurrencies. search: YouTube censored and deleted livestreams of the blockchain halving event parties. Early attempt at periodic table of cryptos... https://i.redd.it/cpp9nt6cjuz41.jpg https://jes.al/crypto-table/ https://www.wired.com/story/harry-pottery-cryptocurrency-privacy-zcash-mone… https://twitter.com/IvanBogatyy/status/1196441051814223880 https://medium.com/dragonfly-research/breaking-mimblewimble-privacy-model-8… $60/week of AWS spend, By running a rogue node tweaked to save all intermediary transaction gossiping data. That's it! I was able to uncover the exact addresses of senders and recipients for 96% Grin transactions in real time. Hardly any cryptocurrencies using TLS or interfacing well with privacy/location/anonymous overlay networks either. Consider also deploying satellite and GnuRadio integration. Still no good distributed DEX's in operation with open APIs for wide range of coins to plug into for cross-chain atomic swaps. https://crypto.stanford.edu/timings/ https://crypto.stanford.edu/timings/paper.pdf https://crypto.stanford.edu/timings/pingreject.pdf We describe remote side-channel attacks on the privacy guarantees of anonymous cryptocurrencies. Our attacks, which we validate on Zcash and Monero, enable a remote attacker to identify the P2P node of the payee of any anonymous transaction being sent into the network. This enables the adversary to link all transactions sent to a user, to recover a user's IP address from their anonymous payment address, and to link a user's diversified addresses. In addition, for Zcash, we show that an attacker can remotely crash any Zcash node for which the attacker knows a payment address, and set up a remote timing attack on an ECDH key exchange involving a victim's private viewing key. In principle, this attack can fully recover the victim's private viewing key, thereby completely breaking receiver privacy. https://www.wired.com/story/dark-web-welcome-to-video-takedown-bitcoin/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/gofd6b/i_think_its_remarkable_that… https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/1263218326282612736 'I think it’s remarkable that we’ve built a cryptocurrency where some poor schmuck can’t spend their money without everyone on Twitter knowing all the details and commenting about it.' -- Matthew Green https://decrypt.co/29799/this-is-why-xrps-price-has-been-crushed-and-is-str… Centralized wannabee cryptos are all inflating, premining, founder taxing, censoring, patenting, and governing your values down to zero... just like Fiat. External privacy tech like JoinMarket, CashShuffle, CashFusion while handy fun... and spies in SPV and similar upstream thin client node protocols... all risky for cryptos lacking native privacy in protocol, and scalability. Evergrowing blockchains of UTXO transaction logs are unneeded bloat and a standing privacy risk. ZEC, XMR, BTC, BCH, ETH, pick any toplist... these are all old legacy first generation coins regarding storage. They cannot survive the dead weight of their own tx chainlogs growing and clogging their infrastructure, clients, and bandwidth... and that tx block history carried will be repeatedly raped by mass and targeted privacy exploits. Coinspace must move lots of designthink toward researching tech based on agreeing consensus over the much smaller (and negligible growth) database that is their respective UTXO sets. 8B humans * 512bit/8/2^40 ECC/PQC crypto = 0.5TiB of UTXO db state, add generous 10x extra for consensus and distribution state ops, cryptoprivacy overhead, etc... = max of say 5TiB, forever (grows per human not per tx... 10M humans now = 6GiB, 100M = 60GiB, 1B = 600GiB ...). Global max fits on commodity flashdrive in 10 years. Network and processing bandwidth remains only limit. https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/gmhuon/in_the_last_24_hour… Watching the mining pool charts... the large pools are slowly killing off the smaller pools. BTC.com and AntPool are both Bitmain, Nakamoto Coefficient (a measure of decentralization) has dropped to 2, they control 62% of the hashrate. https://btc.com/stats/pool?pool_mode=day Welcome to joint problem of ASICs... central sole source ASIC Corps presale mining out with their own HW first, then dictating preferred bulk sales channels and destinations... and lack of personal responsibility to your own nominal values held by running and adopting global commodity CPU/GPU mined ASIC-hard coins, abandoning large pools for smaller pools. Avoiding your responsibilities in these ways will get you censored and wiped out... just like Fiat. If it's free no effort you take, you become the victim. Random youtubes... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXqc-yyoVKg Hayek on Friedman and Keynes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leqjwiQidlk Friedman on Cryptocurrency "I don't believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government, that is, we can't take it violently out of the hands of government, all we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something that they can't stop." -- F.A.Hayek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6S5c6xhXTY "Every destruction is a loss" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkQfK8hn0ds Mises on Friedman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtDM7VF3_Rc Friedman on Mises, Rand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymQoIt5k2AI Hoppe vs Friedman and Hayek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXGQDqN67YI Henry Hazlitt: Economics in one lesson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cle9IWPrBBs Mises on Money https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfyp_i7y1t0 Murray Rothbard: Gold Standard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z8u7Sz8n1c Frederic Bastiat: The Law https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vo7FOFpJYs Hazlitt: The Task Ahead Happy Cryptocurrency Pizza Day.

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Censorship: France Says Goodbye to Free Speech
by grarpamp 29 May '20

29 May '20

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16057/france-free-speech

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Leaks: Mercedes FitBit Xiomi MTK IPTV MSFT WM OPPO etc Source Codez, ExConfidential Crew, Mirrors
by grarpamp 29 May '20

29 May '20

https://t.me/exconfidential tg://resolve?domain=exconfidential https://t.me/s/exconfidential https://t.me/joinchat/GmSbZRNJpLmmbX07KNfRhw https://git.rip/exconfidential <- cypherpunks:writecode https://t.me/deletescape "This was the easiest leak ever as the code was literally in a zip inside the apk." https://git.rip/exconfidential/daimler https://mega.nz/file/G1M3AKwJ#C4N6p0pg3GWYketCysvHFGDq-LTeEAJUN9j8lqRSjo4 https://archive.org/details/daimler-olu https://archive.org/download/daimler-olu/daimler-olu_archive.torrent "it's a hardware platform for a very specific usecase, but this leak should allow recreating it with low cost hardware." Leaks and dumps... become IPFS and Bittorrent mirrors and archivers, index hash reposters... for the fun. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/05/zfs-versus-raid-eight-ironwolf-disk… lizardfs, ceph, storj, etc

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Suggest large non-US tech/news outlets in English?
by Douglas Lucas 28 May '20

28 May '20

Hi cypherpunks, I sent out a bunch of queries today to news outlets, namely Slate, Salon, Vice, The Atlantic, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, Wired US, Wired UK, and Al Jazeera. To give you the general idea of the article I aim to publish, the subject line is "Freelance pitch: Open science helps Seattle activists overcome pandemic, Twitter exec order" and the open science systems are Sci-Hub and GetGee, and the Seattle activists are rentstrike, anarchist soup kitchen, etc. Can the list please recommend for pitching any non-United States tech/news outlets publishing in English that have medium to large audiences? I will check dw.com and other Germany in a few. The goal is to lodge an article into one of these venues to promote Sci-Hub and GetGee by explaining to the public how public data systems would help with coronavirus, with practical relatable examples like rentstrike, Food Not Bombs, etc. Thanks, Doug P.S. Yes, I know corporate media is bad, good job Chomsky, tell me something I don't know. P.P.S. Yes, I know you think I should use more encryption, good job incel boomer, have you considered the downsides of broadcasting for wide dissemination nothing but pure ciphertext? Last I checked, number stations have yet to convince members of the public of much of anything.

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Fwd: HOPE 2020 *Revised* Call for Speakers
by Greg Newby 28 May '20

28 May '20

Perhaps of interest to some cypherpunks. The whole event will be streamed live online. Info at www.hope.net ----- Forwarded message from Hackers On Planet Earth <hope(a)2600.com> ----- Greetings, HOPE 2020 will take place online from July 25 through August 2, 2020. Hackers from all corners of the world will convene virtually for nine days of online presentations from a wide variety of sources. You can be one of them! We want as many elements of the hacker community as possible to be a part of this historic event. You too can give a talk or be part of a panel. While we all would prefer to be there in person, this provides an opportunity for anyone to share their ideas from wherever they happen to be. Simply email your talk proposal to speakers(a)hope.net. You should include a proposed title, an abstract, and a short bio for each speaker. Provide enough information so it is clear why HOPE attendees would find your topic interesting, new, and relevant. Make it clear why YOU are the right person or people to give this presentation. Most speaker/panel sessions will be allotted 40 minutes for the session, and then 10 minutes for live Q&A. If your talk is accepted, we will provide full assistance in getting it ready for your timeslot, whether you choose to pre-record or present your talk live. All types of presentations are encouraged, from solo talks to panels, debates, demonstrations, and interactive discussions. Presenters must consider the viability of their session for an entirely online presentation method. Your presentation can be made in ANY language or dialect. Please submit the abstract and biography in English, though, since that is the language that HOPE uses to communicate with presenters and attendees. If you intend to give your presentation in a language other than English, please mention this in your talk proposal. Submissions should highlight their relevance to hacking. They should be original, and not previously presented. We encourage presenters from all age groups and backgrounds. HOPE is an inclusive event, seeking civil discourse and education on all topics related to the hacker world. HOPE encourages all approaches and interpretations to hacking, presented by hackers, makers, developers, teachers, learners, and experimenters. If you have a passion for discovering how things work and sharing that knowledge, you have the hacker spirit. Some topics from past HOPE events, and new topics of interest, include: - Hacker approaches to fighting 2020's massive health and social challenges - Information, disinformation, and information literacy - Technologies, along with their benefits and risks - Social engineering - Education - Hacker culture and lifestyles - Effecting social change - Industry, government, commerce, and multinationals - Science, engineering, and math - Body modification, hacking, and enhancement - Phones, networks, and telecommunication - Hardware and software - Secrets and disclosures - Data, privacy, encryption, and policy - Outer space and beyond - How-to's / DIY (for beginners or any level) ...and much, much more All submissions will receive an automated response. (You won't get multiple responses if you email us more than once in a short period of time, but we will still get your email.) Notices of acceptance will be mailed out in the weeks ahead. Send all submissions to speakers(a)hope.net. All speakers will be given full access to the conference, which includes Q&A sessions with each presenter, a commemorative conference t-shirt that will only be given to conference attendees, and a special HOPE 2020 badge. If you want to help with coordinating this historic event, send an email to volunteers(a)hope.net. *** HOPE 2020 - July 25 to August 2, 2020 - Everywhere *** ----- End forwarded message -----

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Re: [Cryptography] Zoom publishes draft cryptographic design for end-to-end encryption
by other.arkitech 28 May '20

28 May '20

Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Thursday, May 28, 2020 1:18 PM, Salz, Rich <rsalz(a)akamai.com> wrote: > > There is a good bounty if you can break it. That should be enough to think the suite is being challenged all the time, without success so far. > > That's naïve. > > If you can break P256 there are better targets than bitcon. Well, it is money, the number 1 motivator. Please, can you mention some of these other targets?

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US Libertarian Party Presidential Debates 2020
by grarpamp 28 May '20

28 May '20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osxwtgodHdg Democrat -> LP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5aDwdRmVBY Republican -> LP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP5anJkuMys 2020 LP Presidential Debate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu3X5lmVnEM 2020 LP Vice Presidential Debate https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=2020+libertarian+debates https://www.youtube.com/user/LibertarianParty/videos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_Party_(United_States) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Libertarian_Party_presidential_primaries US Libertarian Party Website... https://lp.org/ Liberation is hardly composed of tech, but liberation of mind. Today's political parties in office around the globe are not that. In many places around the globe, beginning options toward liberation exist for those not yet ready to free themselves from their self imposed chains of governments and parties... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_libertarian_political_parties

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Papers Please! Airline Virus-Immunity Digital ID Passport
by grarpamp 28 May '20

28 May '20

https://www.activistpost.com/2020/05/your-immunity-passport-future-begins-t… https://papersplease.org/wp/2020/05/19/tsa-tries-again-to-impose-an-id-requ… The only thing stopping the roll out of this State is the people of the world coming together, informing those who are in the dark, and unplugging from this control grid.

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From Fox News - DOJ urges Trump veto on FISA legislation, vote in limbo
by jim bell 28 May '20

28 May '20

DOJ urges Trump veto on FISA legislation, vote in limbo https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-urges-trump-veto-on-fisa-legislation-v…

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