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A complement to open source
by juan 28 Dec '16

28 Dec '16

http://underhanded-c.org/

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Grugq: Tor No Panacea
by grarpamp 28 Dec '16

28 Dec '16

https://medium.com/@thegrugq/tor-and-its-discontents-ef5164845908 Tor and its Discontents Problems with Tor usage as panacea This post deals with problems related to Tor usage that are not technical. I try to look at the human side of things, and I’m quite concerned by the meme of Tor as “panacea solution to arbitrary infosec problems.” I don’t particularly want to fight the privacy activist cult that has developed around Tor, but I feel compelled to state my concerns. (Also, I got triggered by Dan Guido who is writing on the same topic.) ...

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[OT] [LOL] "Anything Related to Cryptography and Privacy"
by Xyrs 28 Dec '16

28 Dec '16

> > On Tue Dec 27 05:54:43 PST 2016 > Cecilia Tanaka cecilia.tanaka at gmail.com wrote: > I know I should cry and feel bad for the Cypherpunks list > why, cause it's bloated with stupid messages about your feelings, lol

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[OT] [LOL] "Anything Related to Cryptography and Privacy"
by Cecilia Tanaka 27 Dec '16

27 Dec '16

http://www.infosyssec.org/infosyssec/cryptfaqs.html "Cypherpunks -Informal discussion about anything related to cryptography and privacy. The requestaddress is cypherpunks-request(a)toad.com. Volume on the list is pretty high." Sorry, I know I should cry and feel bad for the Cypherpunks list, but it made me laugh a lot, haha!! ;D Warm wishes and hugs! <3 Ceci

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Hawking Says: We're Fucked, And It's Our Fault
by grarpamp 27 Dec '16

27 Dec '16

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nation-now/2016/11/17/stephen-hawking-we… http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35344664 In January, during a BBC Reith lecture, Hawking said humankind is inching closer to demise, and it’s our fault.

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Criticism of a recent Ninth Circuit Court case regarding email searches.
by jim bell 27 Dec '16

27 Dec '16

https://www.lawfareblog.com/surprisingly-weak-reasoning-mohamud [Partial quote follows}By Orin Kerr Friday, December 23, 2016, 7:30 AMIn a recent post here at Lawfare, April Doss argues that the Ninth Circuit’s decision in United States v. Mohamud “got it right.” In her view, the critics of the decision—myself included—are just wrong. I disagree. Here’s why I think the reasoning of the decision is hard to defend. First, an important caveat: My argument is about reasoning and not result. A lot of discussion on Mohamud focuses on the bottom line of which side won. That’s understandable, but it’s not my concern. My concern is whether the reasoning of the case makes sense as a matter of Fourth Amendment law.When viewed from that perspective, Mohamud strikes me as awkward and unconvincing. Its core holding is weak and hard to square with Supreme Court doctrine. Other parts of it border on the incoherent. And it could have reached its result much more easily without the conceptual wrong turns. I. There Is No “Targeting” Doctrine in Fourth Amendment LawIn Mohamud, the government obtained e-mails from a monitoring point inside the United States that collected e-mails between Mohamud inside the United States and another person who was a foreigner outside the United States. Mohamud had Fourth Amendment rights; the other person didn’t. How does the Fourth Amendment apply to a communication in transit between them? Here’s the Ninth Circuit’s first key Fourth Amendment holding:[end of partial quote]

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New low for the intercept : censorship.
by juan 26 Dec '16

26 Dec '16

Now pay-pal-ebay-greenewald's "The Intercept" features Censored Comments.

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Re: New low for the intercept : censorship.
by juan 26 Dec '16

26 Dec '16

On Mon, 26 Dec 2016 05:28:33 -0500 Digitalfolklore <digitalfolklore(a)protonmail.ch> wrote: > why surprised? Good question. I thought Mr. paypal-greenwald would pretend a bit harder to be different from the 'main stream media' he pretends to criticize. Silly me =) > > > VH > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: New low for the intercept : censorship. > Local Time: 26 December 2016 7:56 AM > UTC Time: 25 December 2016 8:56 PM > From: juan.g71(a)gmail.com > To: cp <cypherpunks(a)cpunks.org> > > > > Now pay-pal-ebay-greenewald's "The Intercept" features Censored > Comments.

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Suggestion for reading (was Fwd: [liberationtech] Fake News)
by Cecilia Tanaka 26 Dec '16

26 Dec '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Yosem Companys" Date: Dec 9, 2016 1:51 AM Subject: [liberationtech] Fake News To: "Liberation Technologies" <liberationtech(a)lists.stanford.edu>, Anyone know of any academic studies showing that fake (social media) news influenced the 2016 presidential election outcome? Thanks, Yosem -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at companys(a)stanford.edu. ======= Hi again, shiny happy people! :D I strongly recommend the reading of this amazing thread on the Liberation Technologies list. It's gorgeous, pretty interesting, with 70 or more messages until the moment! I loved it, Yosem! Thank you very much! <3 Hey, Rr, ask to Luiz Moncau, one of the cute Stanford guys who wrote a message on this thread, about my existence! :D He knows me in person and will tell you I do exist and I seem a happy dumb puppy, pretty cute, but terribly clumsy and crazy, hahaha!! ;D I do love cats, but unhappily I never had feline elegance and charm. Hmm... Maybe only when flirting... Meow, baby! ;) - PS for Mirimir, the person: - Mirimir, the ugliest cat that I already saw in my whole life, is being brave, but he is dying faster than I expected, my love. He will probably not see 2017 arrives, but I promise his last days will be full of love, care and food, my dear. Like you, he is a great explorer, pretty curious and loves eating fish and strange music. He likes to meow when my neighbour listens to bizarre songs (Brazilian funk 'pancadão', with vulgar bad words and explicit sexual content). I was very proud until yesterday, thinking he also detested them like me and was complaining in cat's language, but noticed he was purring while meowing, hahaha!!! Traitor of the good music, haha!! ;D He wants attention and when I try to sleep, he simply sits on my face and I can't breath... Now Zzz will tell everybody I am 'lesbian' because I had a 'bald pussy' on my face in the last days, aff... Mirimir has lost his fur and is so bald as Zzz. Hope this guy leaves the closet soon to stop annoying LGBT people. He needs lots of love (and anal sex!) for being a better person! :-/ OK, I will try to sleep a bit and stop writing so much. (-_-)* zzzzz Mirimir, the cat, and his pet, Ceci, wish you all a great life! Meow meow meow!!! <3 <3 <3 - PS's PS: - "Dear Santa, I am writing to tell you that I have been naughty, but -- wow! -- it was worth it! With love, Ceci. :D"

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Assange still alive and kickin'...
by Rayzer 26 Dec '16

26 Dec '16

> Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has offered guarded praise of > Donald Trump, arguing the president-elect “is not a DC insider” and > could mean an opportunity for positive as well as negative change in the > US. > > Assange described his feelings about the US election results in an > interview as “mixed” before going on to sharply criticize Democratic > nominee Hillary Clinton and providing a more ambivalent assessment of > Trump’s ascent to the White House. > > “Hillary Clinton’s election would have been a consolidation of power in > the existing ruling class of the United States,” Assange told the > Italian newspaper la Repubblica. > > “Donald Trump is not a DC insider, he is part of the wealthy ruling > elite of the United States, and he is gathering around him a spectrum of > other rich people and several idiosyncratic personalities.” > > He added: “They do not by themselves form an existing structure, so it > is a weak structure which is displacing and destabilising the > pre-existing central power network within DC. It is a new patronage > structure which will evolve rapidly, but at the moment its looseness > means there are opportunities for change in the United States: change > for the worse and change for the better. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/dec/24/julian-assange-donald-trump-h…

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