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Cryptocurrency Dark Side, Voting, Anarchism, Government with McAfee, Rose, Passio and more
by grarpamp 25 Nov '18

25 Nov '18

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making Assange the example
by Zenaan Harkness 25 Nov '18

25 Nov '18

The USA under Trump/Pence appears entirely intent on making Assange an example to the rest of the alternative media/ fact publishing truthers and the rest: Trump Quietly Orders Elimination of Assange http://theduran.com/trump-quietly-orders-elimination-of-assange/?mc_cid=482… The question is what can we do about freeing Assange? Rather than Assange becoming a martyr by death, perhaps there's a less life ending solution which we the people can do? What could possibly work? When there is a single general for a particular war, that general is vulnerable to being personally attacked. When there are dozens, then there is no individual general... can we roll out dozens of Wikileaks? Or can we expand Wikileaks "generals"? How can we measure the trust/ staunch stand of any particular individual proclaiming to assist?

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Russia's Roscosmos head vows "USA moon landing" verification - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 25 Nov '18

25 Nov '18

Russia, that most maligned group of 144 million people, keeping the ISS in the air and bring in a slightly less insane multi-polar world order, riding bears in the wilderness, meddling in literally all the world's elections oh my god I'm like so literally shaking like! Well, one of the world's greatest conspiracy theories is set to soon be debunked as Roscosmos vows to put the pedal to the metal and check the landing site for realz! Oh yeah - what's not to love? Russia To Verify Whether USA Actually Landed On The Moon https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-24/russia-verify-whether-usa-actuall… https://www.apnews.com/1966a07c5a63419fb825ed7a92cec8de Dmitry Rogozin: "I answer questions of the President of Moldova: whether there were Americans on the moon... We have set this objective to fly and verify whether they've been there or not." … While Rogozin's comments may have been made in jest, in 2015 a former spokesman for the Russian Investigative Committee called for a probe into the American moon landings. Until Russia can "verify" the moon landing, we anticipate a lively discussin on Van Allen belt radiation and laser reflectors to ensue...

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BBC News: NovaSAR: UK radar satellite returns first images
by jim bell 25 Nov '18

25 Nov '18

NovaSAR:. First all-UK SAR (synthetic aperture radar) satellite sends back images. NovaSAR: UK radar satellite returns first images - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-46312874

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Alternative Comms Channels: Torrenting the OpenPGP, Blockchains, and DarkNets
by grarpamp 24 Nov '18

24 Nov '18

https://torrentfreak.com/openpgp-keyservers-now-store-irremovable-torrent-m… https://medium.com/@mdrahony/sks-keyservers-being-used-as-piracy-sites-59ce… Now if the bittorrent communities would simply move onto the encrypted p2p overlay networks, they could operate freely with relative impunity [1]. Data and metadata are published on the blockchains too. [1] Up to some level of interest by antis, at least until more secure networks are developed. Still the bar for antis is reasonably high today for some use cases and networks. Massive global torrenting and filestores would be a good test of that. Have fun :) https://7layers.semperen.com/content/pgp-keyserver-dumps-now-available https://www.gpg4win.org/ https://macgpg.sourceforge.io/ , https://gpgtools.org/ https://gnupg.org/ https://keybase.io/

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Katzenpost: Traffic analysis resistant messaging
by grarpamp 24 Nov '18

24 Nov '18

https://katzenpost.mixnetworks.org/ https://github.com/katzenpost/ Katzenpost “An especially problematic excision of the political is the marginalization within the cryptographic community of the secure-messaging problem, an instance of which was the problem addressed by David Chaum. Secure-messaging is the most fundamental privacy problem in cryptography: how can parties communicate in such a way that nobody knows who said what. More than a decade after the problem was introduced, Rackoff and Simon would comment on the near-absence of attention being paid to the it.” (Phillip Rogaway, The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work) Goals to prevent a sufficiently global passive adversary from learning who is communicating with whom to detect active attacks against the network infrastructure hide message content from participating providers, hide recipient identity from the sender’s provider, and the sender identity from the recipient’s provider reliable out of order delivery support for various “message based” use cases like ‘instant messaging’, ‘e-mail’, and ‘crypto currency’ anonymization

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China Social Scoring Coming to Your Country in 2021
by grarpamp 23 Nov '18

23 Nov '18

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/11/23/0137237/beijing-to-judge-every-res… https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-21/beijing-to-judge-every-r… China's plan to judge each of its 1.3 billion people based on their social behavior is moving a step closer to reality, with Beijing set to adopt a lifelong points program by 2021 that assigns personalized ratings for each resident. From a report: The capital city will pool data from several departments to reward and punish some 22 million citizens based on their actions and reputations by the end of 2020, according to a plan posted on the Beijing municipal government's website this week. Those with better so-called social credit will get "green channel" benefits while those who violate laws will find life more difficult. The Beijing project will improve blacklist systems so that those deemed untrustworthy will be "unable to move even a single step," according to the government's plan. Xinhua reported on the proposal Tuesday, while the report posted on the municipal government's website is dated July 18. Slashdot lets you post anon, fire away.

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gratitude on being alive and aware - [PEACE] yo!
by Zenaan Harkness 23 Nov '18

23 Nov '18

Awareness of self awareness, and the wonderousness of it all abounds for some. Many have sung gratitude for the reality of being and the abundance of existence itself, which is hereby echoed. Thank you one and all. Gratitude. Our passions, our Soul cries, our eternal search for fulfillment, meaning, love and connection. May your life be abundant and rich in experiences and may you find that which your Soul seeks for you. Peace y'all :) Be Thankful. At Least You’re Alive. Andrew Anglin Daily Stormer November 22, 2018 https://dailystormer.name/be-thankful-at-least-youre-alive/ It’s Thanksgiving. As always, I’m thankful for the honor of running this website, and thankful for all of the people who read it. I’m most thankful when I hear stories of how I’ve helped people. With women, with health, with motivation, with confidence, with whatever. I’m here to help. It’s more than I ever could have asked for, and I will be forever humbled by it. Beyond that, I am as always thankful for my family. This year, I’m especially thankful for Tucker Carlson. …

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Retpolines unnecessary
by Ryan Carboni 22 Nov '18

22 Nov '18

It is likely triggering one branch misprediction will avoid future branch predictions and instead cause a stall. Even if it isn’t, taking the opposite branch once before taking the desired one would leave many alterations to the local cache, unless in a thread on the same core is making some effort to measure which branch was used first. Simply flushing and using an lfence should prevent many issues and just cause a stall. It is funny on stackexchange that L1 and L2 caches (SRAM less vulnerable to radiation) is often disabled due to radiation, according to various askers. It is still bizarre that “AEX” masks registers before context switching out. It seems as if Intel is aware of an issue that they would be liable for. Side channel attacks obtaining information measured in the bits per millisecond or less is unimportant. There are still several “reserved” bits in CPUID, and buffer overreads or underreads, or non-linear overreads would negate many defenses. Possible that C++ could use a time consuming extension preventing parsers reading more than a kilobyte of data, although this would require extensive reprogramming to include it. Although a code review of parsers wouldn’t be bad either. “Mitigate spectre” Well, that solves one bug we’re aware of. What’s the zero day market for browsers again? Oh, right, RCE. RCE is a bit worse than... Spectre. The 1-day market could be impaired by delaying the inclusion of diffs of crash-causing or security bugs in the public code by waiting a day after releasing the binaries. (Although this might encourage monopolies so it should be socially fair to allow access to major downstream distributions) The GPL doesn’t say how timely everyone has to be, and I imagine doing things faster than it would take to make a request for the source code and responding would be legally sufficient. Anyway, the Grsec theory that because someone used an outdated version that it has to be restricted to paying customers is bonkers. I think you can legally call the Grsecurity Firm bonkers.

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A third of "dark-web" taken down by hack...
by John Newman 22 Nov '18

22 Nov '18

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/11/21/hacker-erases-6500-sites-from-t… I don't know if the numbers are accurate, but it shows remarkable centralization of hidden services, which seems to (obviously) be a bad idea....

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