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Keyboard junkies and hackers from the literal Triassic :)
by Zenaan Harkness 22 Jun '20

22 Jun '20

For those who enjoy a little reminiscence of bygone digital eras, the Triassic is worthy of investigation. If you missed it before now, wonder at the magnitude of a simpler yet still blazing era: export TERM=aaa-60 https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/10/export-termaaa-60/ .. This is an Ann Arbor Ambassador 60, manufactured in 1982 or 1983. It is a terminal. You probably think that word means "a GUI window that runs a command line shell in it". You think this thing must be a computer because it looks like what computers used to look like. But it is not a computer, it is a peripheral. This object consists of a keyboard, a serial port, and a CRT screen, and that's about it. ... Found on Xah Lee's glorious cite: Ann Arbor Ambassador 60 Terminal http://xahlee.info/kbd/Ann_Arbor_Ambassador_60_terminal.html

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cypherpunks mailing list archive...
by Punk-Stasi 2.0 22 Jun '20

22 Jun '20

...so what happened in the end to the missing data? Looks like 'technology' royally failed again, and no one has a backup...except the US govt, of course? It's amusing to see that no 'cypherpunk' managed to use his Amazin Technology to keep a working backup. Cue Jim Bell in with some rant about the wonders of floppy disk 'technology'.

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Industrial society and its present
by Punk-Stasi 2.0 22 Jun '20

22 Jun '20

" 173. If the machines are permitted to make all their own decisions we can’t make any conjecture as to the results, because it is impossible to guess how such machines might behave [cut] 174. On the other hand it is possible that human control over the machines may be retained. In that case the average man may have control over certain private machines of his own, such as his car or his personal computer, but control over large systems of machines will be in the hands of a tiny elite—just as it is today, but with two differences. Due to improved techniques the elite will have greater control over the masses; and because human work will no longer be necessary the masses will be superfluous, a useless burden on the system.[cut] " So at what stage are we now, my dear technology-worshipping techo-retards? "the average man may have control over certain private machines of his own, such as his car or his personal computer," Oh yes, the 'average man' has already lost control over 'his' 'private' machines such as cars and 'personal' computers. As a matter of fact, computers are especially toxic and they are now 'embedded' in all kinds of 'machines'. like, you know, in smart toilets! https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jge377/stanford-smart-toilet-uses-buttho…

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Re: Personal Black Box? Vuze+ Camera MAY do much of the work?
by jim bell 21 Jun '20

21 Jun '20

I've done some more research, and it seems that existing components could do a substantial part of this project. Consider the Vuze camera, specifically the Vuze+. https://vuze.camera/ It has 8 cameras, in four pairs, aiming in the horizontal plane, and is able to use them to record stereoscopic views. https://vuze.camera/camera/vuze-plus-camera This MIGHT be even better than I anticipated. This device refers to recording data on SD cards. Great, unless the device is smashed or stolen. I consider it to be an essential part of this device that it port a substantial fraction of the data away from the cameraman, perhaps many tens of meters away. But it mentions WiFi: Does that mean that the entire data stream can be transmitted? Even if the data can be only transmitted 'nearby', say 30-100 meters away, by WiFi, that would be a great feature. The specification sheet https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91Hcr5ModJL.pdf mentions a data rate of 120 MB/second or 80MB/second. Note that it's MB, meaning megaBYTE per second, not merely megabit/second. The specs say that the data is written to a SD card. Can this be expanded using a 1 terabyte (or larger) SSD? Unclear. The data is compressed to MP4. It also mentions: WiFi IEEE 802.11b/g/n 2.4 GHZ I can tell, from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi that WiFi4, 802.11n can do a link from: "72-600 million bits per second". Already, I see a hitch: Does this mean that this device can transmit 80MB x 8 bits, or 640 megabits/second, since the link can only go to "600 million bits per second". While it would be nice to be able to transmit the entire data stream locally, as long as all that stream goes into a local SSD, I suppose it would be okay if "only" half the data, say 320 megabits/second, were transmitted by WiFi to another portable system carried by a different person a few tens of meters away. But one question I have is this: Can the data stream be readily 'split up', so that only a portion of it is transmitted? Or is it an 'all or nothing' sort of thing? And I think it's important that a smaller fraction of the data be transmitted by 4G or 5G cell data. Jim Bell

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[MINISTRY] [CENSORSHIP] - GoFundMe defunds black woman for criticising black man (Floyd)
by Zig the N.g 21 Jun '20

21 Jun '20

Straight from one Jewish faction of social subversion and perpetual undermine comes one of the greatest "straight faced Jewish ironies" the likes of which we see quite regularly these days, as a black woman (the conservative, Candace Owens) is de-funded by the classically anti-goy GoFundMe, for criticising a black man (George Floyd): 'NoFundThem' - Conservative Commentator's Fundraising Blocked Over Floyd Criticism Jonathan Turley, https://jonathanturley.org/2020/06/10/nofundthem-conservative-commentators-… https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nofundthem-conservative-commentators-fu… I previously wrote a column about the rising calls by Democratic leaders and activists for different forms of public and private censorship. Indeed, the recent extreme demands and controversy at the New York Times shows how speech controls have been a virtual article of faith for many. Twitter’s actions against Trump tweets are another example of the inconsistent use of such controls. https://jonathanturley.org/2020/06/08/welcome-to-french-revolution-2-0-how-… https://jonathanturley.org/2020/06/05/mea-culpa-new-york-times-caves-to-pro… https://jonathanturley.org/2020/05/31/get-the-facts-how-twitter-is-making-t… Now GoFundMe has taken it upon itself to censor causes that it views as offensive in closing down a fundraiser by conservative political commentator Candace Owens in support of an Alabama cafe whose co-owner criticized the George Floyd protests. https://variety.com/t/candace-owens/ https://variety.com/t/george-floyd/ The question again is not whether we agree with such sentiments but the free speech implications of these forms of private censorship. Rather than respond to such controversial statements, critics today focus on silencing the speakers or barring their views or causes to be heard by others. What is interesting is that, by abandoning neutrality, GoFundMe is now affirming that it does regulate content and will face demands for more such action. That could undermine the position of these companies against the loss of immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. https://jonathanturley.org/2020/06/01/little-brother-or-big-brother-the-pub… Birmingham’s Parkside Cafe, whose co-owner Michael Dykes said Floyd was a “thug” and protesters were “idiots” in a text message to a co-worker that was posted online. The comments in my view were offensive and inflammatory but they are not my views. Dykes was expressing his personal view and the result is that he was given death threats and the cafe boycotted. Owens, who is African American, shared the views of Dykes. She has also been criticized for statement like this one: “The fact that he has been held up as a martyr sickens me. George Floyd was not a good person, I don’t care who wants to spin that. I don’t care how CNN wants to make you think he changed his life around, He was just after his sixth or fifth stint in prison.” On Sunday, Owens disclosed that her campaign to support Dykes’ cafe was suspended by GoFundMe after the company found her fundraiser “to be in support of hate, violence, harassment, bullying, discrimination, terrorism, or intolerance of any kind.” After raising $205,000 in a few hours @gofundme decided to halt my campaign for the Parkside Cafe in Alabama. At their discretion, they deemed that funds raised for a conservative business constitutes “intolerance” They WILL however give the funds raised thus far to the cafe... pic.twitter.com/Mfw88iDKRi — Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) June 7, 2020 https://t.co/Mfw88iDKRi Owens ironically on Twitter: “Guess my message to little kids would be for them not to idolize men that: Get high on fentanyl, get high on meth, use counterfeit bills, shove guns into the stomaches of pregnant women while robbing them, go to prison 5 times. What a truly horrible message I carry.” — Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) June 7, 2020 https://t.co/uupLBd2Ab6 Again, my interest is not in the content of these comments but the role of previously neutral forums to engage in content based private censorship. Both the owner and Owens were expressing their views of Floyd. Many other have expressed equally controversial opinions about police officers, Trump, and others. Will they all be now banned from raising charitable donations? The immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is based on the theory that these sites are not responsible for content. Courts have interpreted the provision to give sweeping immunity for companies like Twitter and Facebook because they simply supply a forum for others to express themselves. These cites are now actively engaged in forms of private censorship. As many on this blog will attest, I take a simple approach to free speech. The solution to any bad speech is good speech, not silencing of those with whom you disagree. I would take the same position with shutting down voices on the left as with the right. GoFundMe is a forum for people to express themselves through fundraising. It, like Twitter, is an important place for people to engage in free speech and association. I do not see why that mission is not enough. GoFundMe does not have to endorse such causes to allow people to gather at its site. Now however there will be additional claims made by those who want to silence people with opposing views. GoFundMe has invited such demands by engaging in content-based regulation.

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Cryptocurrency: Sad Truth of Fiat
by grarpamp 21 Jun '20

21 Jun '20

https://blog.picks.co/bitcoins-distribution-was-fair-e2ef7bbbc892 https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2020/06/bitcoin-is-not-a-new-… https://decrypt.co/32940/new-york-fed-bitcoin-fiat-money https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham's_Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seigniorage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation http://bitcoinsperperson.com/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/havq7c/no_generation_has_a_right_… "No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence." https://medium.com/@johnblocke/a-brief-and-incomplete-history-of-censorship… https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/bolton-trump-told-treasury-secretar…

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BlackHoleCloud: Another Hardware VPN/Tor Box
by grarpamp 21 Jun '20

21 Jun '20

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Raided: Facebook Deputizes Self, Pays For Tails Exploit, FBI Vans Sextortionist
by grarpamp 21 Jun '20

21 Jun '20

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7gd9b/facebook-helped-fbi-hack-child-pr… https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gyyxb3/the-fbi-booby-trapped-a-video-to-… https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdin/pr/buster-hernandez-aka-brian-kil-and-pur… https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/7383596/united-states-v-hernandez/ See also: Alex Stamos in Zoom's no E2E crypto policy https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xdayg/iphone-zero-days-inside-azimuth-s… https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dyzzdj/senator-wyden-congress-investigat… Facebook’s security team, then headed by Alex Stamos, realized they had to do more, and concluded that the FBI needed their help to unmask Brian Kil. Facebook hired a cybersecurity consulting firm to develop a hacking tool, which cost six figures. Our sources described the tool as a zero-day exploit, which refers to a vulnerability in software that is unknown to the software developers. The firm worked with a Facebook engineer and wrote a program that would attach an exploit taking advantage of a flaw in Tails’ video player to reveal the real IP address of the person viewing the video. Finally, Facebook gave it to an intermediary who handed the tool to the feds, according to three current and former employees who have knowledge of the events. Facebook routinely investigates suspected criminals on its platform, from run-of-the-mill cybercriminals, to stalkers, extortionists, and people engaging in child exploitation. Several teams at Menlo Park and other company offices collect user reports and proactively hunt these criminals. These teams are composed of security specialists, some of whom used to work in the government, including the FBI and the New York Police Department, according to employees’ LinkedIn profiles. These employees are so proud of this work that they used to have a meeting room where they’d hang pictures of people who ended up being arrested, as well as newspaper clippings of cases they investigated "The precedent of a private company buying a zero-day to go after a criminal ... that entire concept is fucked up ... sketchy as hell.” Amie Stepanovich, the executive director of the Silicon Flatirons Center at the University of Colorado Law School, said that it’s important to remember that whoever these hacking tools are used against, they leverage vulnerabilities in software that may be used against innocent people.

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Raided: $3k EncroPhone EncroChat Network Cracked by Govt, Dozens Arrested
by grarpamp 21 Jun '20

21 Jun '20

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/sold-liverpool-3k-year-… https://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2020/06/20/news/wave-of-… https://encrophone.com/ "You are advised to power off and physically dispose of your device immediately". -- Encrochat

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Spying: Telcos and Venntel... Selling Your Location Out To GovCorp's
by grarpamp 21 Jun '20

21 Jun '20

https://www.wsj.com/articles/irs-used-cellphone-location-data-to-try-to-fin…

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