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Communication Channels [PEACE]
by Karl 21 Jul '20

21 Jul '20

We may or may not incidentally represent major influential figures and for one thing our devices are hacked to control our world decisions. We need help securing our devices and understanding what is true about device security, and what is needed to improve it. Is there a communication channel that resists censorship better than e-mail and provides for possible anonymity, to talk with people who have the knowledge to relate around establishing secure systems and improving device security? Thanks, Krazy Karl There is proof inside many peoples' electronics. Proof that a marketing group would contract development of a frightening virus. A virus that responds to peoples' keystrokes and browsing habits, and changes what people see on their devices. A virus that alters political behavior en masse, for profit.

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ZDNet: Microsoft Double Key Encryption enters public preview
by jim bell 21 Jul '20

21 Jul '20

ZDNet: Microsoft Double Key Encryption enters public preview. https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-double-key-encryption-enters-public…

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Re: tmpfs is not a ramdisk (was: delimiters with more than one character? ...)
by Zenaan Harkness 21 Jul '20

21 Jul '20

On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 02:25:22PM -0400, rhkramer(a)gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, July 17, 2020 12:09:05 PM David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 17 Jul 2020 at 13:22:12 (+0200), Nicolas George wrote: > > > rhkramer(a)gmail.com (12020-07-17): > > […] > > > > > > Among other things, should I be worried that it won't disappear on > > > > power loss / reboot? > > > > > > Depends on what kind of disappear you want. If all you want is not to > > > have to worry about cleaning up, then you are good with tmpfs. > > > > > > If you are worried that sensitive data may end up on disk, then encrypt > > > your swap with an ephemeral key. > > > > In the absence of encryption, bear in mind that cleaning up only takes > > place while the system boots up. Until then, everything remains on the > > disk and can be examined merely by booting from, say, a USB stick instead. > > Just to make sure I understand, you're talking about clean up of swap on an > HDD partition, right? > > As far as the tmpfs stuff in RAM, it basically disappears when the power decays > (after a not too long delay) and barring some kind of NSA techniques to > capture it? > > (But, I guess I should think about encrypting swap :-( PC snow-nerf: "You don't need encrytion if you've got nothing to hide, and unless you're visiting friends during the lock down which you must not do because it's like totally illegal, you've got nothing to hide." Alpha nagger: "I don't have to be doing anything wrong, to want my privacy!" (Hush now, you're only s'posed to talk about human rights, not actually live them .. right?) If you're current RAM+swap is say 8GiB+8GiB, one alternative is to consider upgrading RAM to 16GiB and ditching swap entirely. That could save your lazy butt from having to learn how to encrypt swap - and just so you know I do in fact want you to feel good about your choice, it will also mean a faster overall user experience ;D

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Black Revival - Jesse Lee Peterson, interviewed by Jimmy Chang and overlord Azzmador - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 21 Jul '20

21 Jul '20

News. Firstly to warm the cockles and trigger the fuzzies, a Jesse Lee Peterson interview at everybody's favourite chan :) Funny tho, whilst the Groyper crowd are opening the floor, passing the mic, and generally having a lot of discussions and questions, the so-called "con"servatives are Shutting It Down! The Krypto Report Live: Azzmador and Jimmy Chang Interview Jesse Lee Peterson! http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/the-krypto-report-live-azzmador-and-jimmy-cha… Not so fluffy: ISIS Bride Who Called for Drive-By Shootings Wants to Return to the US Because Life is Hard in Refugee Camp http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/isis-bride-who-called-for-drive-by-shootings-… A little more fluffy: Angry Twitter Mob Complains About Target Only Putting Anti-Theft Stickers on Darker Shades of Makeup http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/angry-twitter-mob-complains-about-target-only… Ilhan Omar accused of "Anti-Semitism" for daring to declare that some US politicians receive cash donations from the Israel lobby. OMG, like, how dare she? Antisemitism Accusations Launched Against Ilhan Omar After Anti-Bloomberg Tweet https://sputniknews.com/us/201911111077274546-antisemitism-accusations-laun… Harpies gone wild! The View, not - Gabbard and Don Jr rock the View, have a blast: Gabbard And Trump Jr. Change America's View Of 'The View' https://www.zerohedge.com/political/gabbard-and-trump-jr-change-americas-vi… https://tomluongo.me/2019/11/10/gabbard-and-trump-jr-change-americas-view-o… ... By confronting her accusers directly Gabbard showed everyone watching the difference between the caricature created by Clinton and her cronies on The View and the reality of her character. And that is the kind of narrative-breaking moment that sinks careers for some and defines them for others. Speaking of careers, like it or not, Donald Trump Jr. has a future in politics. He came onto The View, like Gabbard the day before, armed to the teeth and ready use everything at his disposal. He knows walking into that arena they aren’t going to fight fair, that they’ll fall back on the laziest of arguments, like Meghan McCain virtue signaling her false eyelashes off over “Gold Star Families” who are disrespected by President Trump’s private locker room conversation, while disgustingly wrapping herself in her dead father’s flag. And his comebacks and arguments were so strong that he had The View’s audience cheering for him. It forced Joy Behar to publicly scold her audience that her show wasn’t a MAGA rally. ... Trump Jr. in less than one seven-minute television segment ripped off their masks revealing the true depth of The View’s ugliness.

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Juan, you have a lot of women on your side! - [PEACE]
by Zig the N.g 21 Jul '20

21 Jul '20

So chaos is wanted by some, and in the face of despotism, it is sometimes hard to argue against the karmic value of chaos. And our resident friendly BatSoup n.gger certainly has Seattle City Councilman (man) Lisa Herbold on his side in the "bring on chaos" department of bringing on chaos. Seattle City Council Member Suggests Firing White Officers In Massive Reduction Of Police Department Jonathan Turley, https://jonathanturley.org/2020/07/17/seattle-city-council-member-suggests-… https://www.zerohedge.com/political/seattle-city-council-member-suggests-fi… [incredibly smug image of Lisa Herbold in original article] The Seattle City Council is facing something of a dilemma in its popular pledge of the Seattle City Council to cut the police budget by 50 percent. To do so would require firing a significant number of police officers, which is also popular. The problem is that the firing would be done by seniority and many of the less senior officers are black. The solution according to City Council member Lisa Herbold is simple: fire officers based on their race. https://www.seattle.gov/council/herbold While that would be the definition of racial discrimination, Herbold clearly believes that it is discrimination for a good cause. The federal courts are likely to disagree. Most notably, Herbold’s call for racial discrimination against white officers would seek to undue the work of Justice Thurgood Marshall who insisted that racial discrimination unlawful and evil regardless of the race you want to disenfranchise or discriminate against. Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best released a video calling the plan of Herbold and others “completely reckless.” She also sent a letter to Mayor Jenny Durkan warning that dramatic cuts would require the layoff of hundreds of officers. The Police Department also warned that the firings would include many minority officers. https://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2020/07/10/chief-bests-message-to-officers-m… ... The Demon.rat n.ggers march ever onward to black utopia...

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ZeroWedgie vindicated ... again :D - [WHIMSICAL] [MONEY] [MINISCULE FINANCIAL FINES]
by Zig the N.g 21 Jul '20

21 Jul '20

> The West has some serious cleaning up to do. Things can be argued to be going relatively quickly - such huge shifts take time, and months is "short" tbh, so let's be grateful to those who are pulling their weight - thank you to you, weight pullers, bloody great weekend down under, sunshine an all :) Speaking of threats and intimidation, ZeroWedgie is vindicated once again after being legally threatened for their (accurate) free speech reporting of Citadel frontrunning their clients, on multiple occasions. As Citadel presciently pointed out in a number of intimidating legal "take down your tweet" letters, "'Frontrunning' is an industry term of art that refers to an illegal form of trading." Seems they know a lot about front running, snigger snort (but no gloating now): Citadel Fined For Frontrunning Of Client Orders After Threatening To Sue Zerohedge https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/citadel-fined-frontrunning-client-orders-… .. "ZeroHedge's statement obviously disparages the lawfulness and integrity of Mr. Griffin and Citadel Securites's business practices, and thus is defamatory per se.[sic]" "As you well know, "frontrunning" is an unethical and illegal trading practice." Needless to say, instead of engaging in a legal battle with the world's richest and most powerful trader and his army of lawyers, we decided to simply comply with their demand. That said, dear gentlemen from ClareLocke - we do know very well that frontrunning is an unethical and illegal trading practice. But we wonder: does your client know that? The reason why we ask is very simple. According to a Letter of Acceptance (No. 2014041859401), Waiver and Consent published by financial regulator FINRA, none other than Citadel Securities was censured and fined for engaging in - drumroll - "trading ahead of customer orders." https://www.finra.org/sites/default/files/fda_documents/2014041859401%20Cit… Now we admit that our financial jargon is a bit rusty these days, but "trading ahead of customer orders" sounds awfully similar to another far more popular "term of art", one which we know very well: frontrunning! Jargon aside, some of the other highlighted words we are very familiar with, such as "hundreds of thousands"... and "559 instances" in which Citadel traded ahead of customer orders. Now, we may be getting a little ahead of ourselves here, but it was Citadel's own lawyers that informed us on more than one occasion that: "frontrunning" is an unethical and illegal trading practice." ... <snigger snigger, no more n.gger> [Of course citadel laughs all the way to the bank, with the fine equivalent to 0.7% of a painting Citadel's Ken Griffin recently bought ...] In any case: .. it appears that Citadel may indeed have engaged in some of what its own lawyers called "unethical and illegal" trading practice, especially since Citadel Securities' own General Counsel, Steve Luparello signed the Finra AWC: .. Well that's... awkward. .. In fact the only confusion we have at this moment is who is more ironically named: Citadel or Robinhood? For those who missed the memo, this is a good time to 'clean up your back yard' ...

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China's "legal diplomacy" in the face of decades of preferential treatment
by Zenaan Harkness 21 Jul '20

21 Jul '20

Chine has had WTO "developing nation" status for decades, has had the bulk of Western manufacturing literally shipped to China, and even under Obama spat in the face of the world: The Hague's 2016 Verdict Exposed Communist China's Predatory War On World Order https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hagues-2016-verdict-exposed-communis… Austin Bay via The Epoch Times, https://www.theepochtimes.com/the-hagues-2016-verdict-exposed-communist-chi… ..On July 12, 2016, The Hague’s international arbitral tribunal, relying on the 1982 U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea treaty (UNCLOS), issued a ruling supporting the Philippines’ claims that China had violated Filipino territory in the South China Sea by seizing islets and “sea features.” China had also plundered resources in the Philippines’ maritime Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Despite having signed the sea treaty (which meant accepting the arbitration process), the Chinese government callously ignored the verdict and disdained the court’s authority. UNCLOS codified the geophysical conditions and legal precedents establishing sovereign control of territorial waters and sovereign rights in the EEZ. It is an example of practical, peace-promoting diplomacy. China’s blunt rejection of the decision stunned the Filipino government and alerted other nations on the Pacific Rim. The Beijing regime not only broke a major treaty it had ratified but also openly maligned legal procedures created to promote peaceful resolution of international disputes. Beijing’s thuggish rebuke sent the message that Chinese whim backed by China’s enormous military and economic power determined sovereignty in the South China Sea. Chinese communist predatory behavior long predates 2016, but in retrospect, Beijing’s appalling reaction to the ruling clearly demonstrated the CCP could not be trusted to abide by even the most meticulously negotiated treaty. The CCP’s June 2020 decision to break the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984 and impose its authoritarian laws on Hong Kong reinforced the ugly lesson that treaties with communist China do not protect smaller nations and territories from Chinese theft and absorption. ... The WTO still considers China a 'developing nation.' Here's the big problem with that https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/25/what-trump-gets-right-about-china-and-trade… ..China is still considered a developing nation by the WTO a status it received when it joined decades ago. ..There is no official WTO classification as to which countries are "developing." This status is self-selected, based on politics more than law or economics, and can be contested. It is a controversial point that usually stays buried beneath the surface, but occasionally flares up into minor controversy. Most Favored Nation Status: Pros and Cons https://www.thebalance.com/most-favored-nation-status-3305840 How It Lowers Your Shopping Bill Most-favored-nation (MFN) status is an economic position in which a country enjoys the best trade terms given by its trading partner. That means it receives the lowest tariffs, the fewest trade barriers, and the highest import quotas (or none at all). In other words, all MFN trade partners must be treated equally. .. In the U.S., it's more common to hear the term "permanent normal trade relations." This is simply another way to refer to a country with MFN status. .. All 164 members of the WTO receive most-favored-nation status. That means they all receive the same trade benefits as all other members. The only exceptions are developing countries, regional trade areas, and customs unions. Developing countries receive preferential treatment without having to return it, so their economies can grow. .. China's MFN Status The United States gave China permanent MFN status in 2001, the same year that China became a WTO member. U.S. companies wanted to sell to the largest population in the world. As China's GDP grew, they thought, so would its consumer spending. ...

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A snitch in time save nein - NZ gov "snitch" website crashes due to overload - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 20 Jul '20

20 Jul '20

Abhorrent, ingorant, dotile, self righteous, and self centred humans are on full display here, as they rush in a great clamour to snitch on their neighbours, crashing the New Zealand government website in a frenzy of "rule breaker" reporting: New Zealand Site Crashes as Locals Rush to Report Rule-Breaking Neighbors Amid Lockdown https://sputniknews.com/society/202003301078767438-new-zealand-site-crashes… New Zealanders are so eager to report others for breaking COVID-19 lockdown rules that the police website for reporting such cases crashed shortly after going live, local law enforcement officials revealed Monday. With New Zealand currently under a coronavirus lockdown, strict measures such as maintaining a distance of 2 meters from others have been imposed by authorities. Other restrictions include only allowing residents to leave their homes for essential reasons, i.e. for groceries or medical care. .. "We've had 4,200 reports of people believing others weren't complying," New Zealand Police Commissioner Mike Bush is quoted as saying by AFP. "It shows how determined Kiwis [a nickname used to refer to people from New Zealand] are that everyone complies with us,” Bush added. .. “Not every one of these over 4,000 reports will result in a visit from police. For example, some are reports of people jogging or walking past. People are of course allowed to do this within their own neighbourhoods. We have been attending where there are large groups of people congregating,” an unidentified police spokesperson told the Guardian. According to Bush, at least three people in New Zealand have been detained for breaking the lockdown rules, one of whom remains in police custody. He also noted that campervans carrying tourists traveling throughout the country have been a sustained issue. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has also urged the public to report cases of people breaking lockdown measures. "Now is not the time to bend the rules. This is a time to stay at home and save lives," Ardern recently told reporters, according to AFP. .. The greatest problem the anarchist faces is his lack of will (or occasionally lack of ability) to handle the humans in front of him. The epic truth of sheeple's' true nature is often avoided in a self delusion of techno utopian/fascist "solutions". It is -not- more technology we need. How to inculcate sanity?

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PPP Loans and Solving America's Pathetic Commercial Banks Problem - [MONEY] [PEACE] [NATIONALISM]
by Zenaan Harkness 20 Jul '20

20 Jul '20

(tl;dr: expand Fannie May and Freddie Mac to get this simple job done!) --- Education ---------------------------------- Nationalism - re-industrialization - rebuilding America - MAGA "Sane greed": the ultra wealthy collect, and often covet, wealth. Spending one's attention, energy and time collecting wealth, seems a little pointless if the store of that wealth (money, bonds, real estate, businesses, the entire economy) is unstable. A stable wealth pyramid absolutely requires stability on each layer: - The bottom layer, or real economy: small to medium businesses, households, food and basic survival for the majority. UBI can provide this to a limited extent, but overall stability of each layer of the pyramid, requires self sufficiency at each layer of the pyramid. Part analogy and part reality, we can say this is "vertical integration at the local level", but of course, vertical integration can apply all the way down to the family level (grow your own food, collect your own rainwater, build your own car if you're so inclined, etc). - The middle layer, also (mostly) the real economy, medium to large businesses, industry, manufacturing etc, the middle to upper middle class. Stability at this layer absolutely requires stability of businesses - from food and processing, to building, all types of manufacturing, and transport and energy of course. Stability in this context means nationalisation - tarriffs to financially protect local (/national) industry/manufacturing etc. Engineering the middle class lifestyle on a national level, means middle class self sufficiency - incomes, objects for purchase such as luxury transport, things to do such as travel, and supporting all this with commensurate incomes. This is vertical integration at the state and/or national level. And before you jump on "think of the starving brown children somewhere in Africa" shitwagon: EVERY country/nation that wants to do this, can do this, modulo the capacity, will and intention of their own people. "It is my job first to survive/thrive as an individual, then to care for my family, then community; I share with those further away from my immediate reality, according to my abundance and according to my will arising out of my personal choices." EVERY human has these same rights. Just not everyone has the same ability, nor intentions, nor aspirations - and that is nobodies fault, and no ones responsibility other than the individual himself. - The upper layer, hedge funds, banks, nation states, oligarchs. Stability at this layer is not possible over the long term without stability in the lower layers, since the financialized "economy" is inherently built on the real economy. --- Problem --------------------------------- So in the face of the financial/economic apocalypse arising from the global virus shut down, the North American government decided to issue a few hundred billion dollars in low interest loans, specifically to small and medium businesses, to help them weather this extended and extraordinarily financially challenging time. In the context of a purportedly democratic nation state government, so far so good. However, public companies (those that raise money on the stock exchange), who via trillions of dollars in "large business" loans (not to mention further trillions in Federal Reserve Bank financialization bailout funds) immediately gouged right into these funds: 13 Public Companies Agree To Return $170 Million In Small Business Coronavirus Stimulus; Others Are Keeping It https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/13-public-companies-agree-return-170-mi… At least 13 public companies have agreed to return coronavirus funds meant for small businesses after controversy erupted when the $349 billion Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) ran out of funds, leaving many struggling business owners unable to make ends meet. .. The funds returned could provide roughly 825 loans, at the average loan size of $206,000 reported by the Small Business Administration. -Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-dozen-public-companies-give-back-160-million… .. Another public company has applied for roughly $123 million in loans, Ashford Inc., says they'll keep whatever they receive. To avoid a repeat, the Small Business Administration (SBA) and Treasury have revised the rules to restrict hedge funds and private-equity firms from accessing funds, though small casinos may still apply. ... and more to the point, banks have been shafting small businesses bigly, funding only about 6% of the small business "paycheck protection program" applications made: Of All The Banks That Shafted Small Businesses Out Of Coronavirus Relief, JPMorgan Takes The Cake https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/all-banks-shafted-small-businesses-out-… While JPMorgan provided loans to virtually all of their commercial banking customers who applied for coronavirus relief through the small business program, their business banking unit - which serves smaller firms - only funded around 6% of applications for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), according to Bloomberg. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-22/jpmorgan-commercial-clie… Of t he bank's more than 300,000 small business customers who applied, only around 18,000 were funded according to the report. Meanwhile, around 5,500 of the bank's commercial banking customers - nearly all of them, received loans through the small business lending program. In total, JPMorgan originated a total of $14 billion in loans through the program. The data reveal that, in the race to get a loan in the first-come, first-served program, larger businesses had a leg up over smaller ones -- even when applying through the same bank. ... and some will remember the big banks balking at the 0.5% interest rate that Trump was asking to be given through this program to these small businesses, and by political pushing, got this rate DOUBLED to 1.0%: Wall Street Wins Again: Banks Force Treasury To Double Rate On Small Business Rescue Loan https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/hours-its-start-treasurys-small-busines… After we warned earlier that the SBA's $350BN Paycheck Protection Program, which is expected to be launched at midnight tonight and is meant to bailout America's small and medium business (<500 employees), may never even get off the ground because the proposed interest rate on the loan of 0.5% is too low lender banks (alongside with various other considerations as listed below) with JPM saying it “will most likely not be able to start accepting applications on Friday, April 3rd as we had hoped", in a press conference late on Thursday, Steven Mnuchin said that he will double the interest rate on the SBA loan from 0.50% to 1.00% in order to appease banks seeking higher interest rates to participate in the Treasury's bailout program and lend money to the same taxpayers who bailed them out 12 years ago. These are same banks, mind you, that just sold all $1.6 trillion in securities to the Fed to expand their balance sheets capacity in the past three weeks, and which also just benefited from the Fed's decision to remove Treasurys and deposits from the Fed's SLR test, freeing up another $1.6 trillion in liquidity. Furthermore, these loans are guaranteed by the federal government and don’t require collateral, and will be forgiven if funds are used for payroll costs, mortgage interest, rent and utility payments for two months and if businesses retain and rehire employees. So bank don't take any risk - why are they charging any interest at all, or rather why do they have any say in what the rate should be? ... So, the firetrucking American banks in the face of boatloads of cash, cringe at even providing small business loans at a low interest rate WHEN THE LOANS ARE 100% GOVERNMENT BACKED! There's plenty moral turpitude where that came from: Banks To Make Billions On Small Business Bailout https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/banks-make-billions-small-business-bail… .. Yet some may be "shocked" to learn that like in any government bailout package, the biggest winners here will not be America's vibrant small and medium business sector, which at best will get the bare minimum cash to fund 2.5 months of payroll (this assume the pandemic will be resolved by mid-June) but - drumroll - America's banks. As the FT reports overnight, banks stand to make billions by overseeing the distribution of these loans as they receive processing fees, paid by the federal government, for making the loans. The fees will vary with loan size: 5% for loans under $350,000, 3% for loans under $2MM, and 1% for loans greater than $2MM. The loans will not incur a capital charge. ... So at least some American commercial banks are f___ing disgraceful! --- Solution --------------------------------------------- Simple winning solution: Bypass the leeches! Expand the ambit/charter of Freddie Mac and Fannie May, that they be authorised to process and issue these loans! These two federal banks already have the retail outlets, loan application processing facilities, and most importantly, they have the history with many Americans - their customers - and so are able to readily issue such loans to many people. Problem solved, and JPM et al can go to hell for being such greedy and obstreperous banks!

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Cybersecurity is a Ponzi racket
by John Young 19 Jul '20

19 Jul '20

Wonder how long it will take to reveal cybersecurity is a Ponzi racket. Profits from commercial harvesting data of online users now exceeds the total funding of all the global spy agencies, with a healthy chunk of the steal bought by official spies and law enforcement which ignore the violation. Edu, orgs and NGOs part of the rotten racket.

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