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Google goes offline after fibre cables cut - BBC News
by jim bell 20 Dec '19

20 Dec '19

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50851420

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SDR Intro with LuaRadio, Linux RNG, Cox $1B Filesharing Tort Jury Nullification
by grarpamp 20 Dec '19

20 Dec '19

https://luaradio.io/new-to-sdr.html https://github.com/vsergeev/luaradio Lightweight signal processing libraries are gaining traction, modern open source SDR applications are cropping up, and the developer communities surrounding SDR are growing. The rest of this guide covers the details of getting started with SDR receivers, including hardware, software, a tour of the frequency bands, next steps, and additional resources. Most of this introduction focuses on SDR receivers, but SDR transmitters are touched on briefly in the next steps section. https://research.nccgroup.com/2019/12/19/on-linuxs-random-number-generation/ https://torrentfreak.com/cox-is-liable-for-pirating-subscribers-hit-with-1-… https://yro.slashdot.org/story/19/12/20/1646223/cox-owes-1-billion-to-recor… http://www3.ce9.uscourts.gov/jury-instructions/sites/default/files/WPD/Civi… https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/legal-and-management/8546842/co… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tort "music and making a living through making music existed for many centuries before "recording" existed. The vast industry creating and selling physical recording media was a brief blip in history. It'll be interesting seeing how the next century shakes this out."

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Fwd: Re: Facebook scraping?
by Razer 20 Dec '19

20 Dec '19

jim bell wrote: > On Thursday, December 19, 2019, 07:36:59 PM PST, Razer > <g2s(a)riseup.net> wrote: > > jim bell wrote: > > Data of more than 267 million Facebook users has been exposed online > https://mol.im/a/7811595 <https://mol.im/a/7811595%20>via > http://dailym.ai/android > > > > Jim Bell's comment: > > Article refers to "an illegal process called scraping...". > > I am not aware that "scraping" is illegal, or even wrong. > > Jim Bell > > > >FCC says passing it on or using the information for personal gain is, > and there's no reason to scrape pages unless one of those two are > operational. > > > Document that. Somewhat to the contrary > is: https://blog.zwillgen.com/2019/09/11/ninth-circuit-rules-scraping-public-we… > > > [partial quote follows] > > It depends on what you DO with the information. Just scraping it may not a crime, USING IT constitutes the crime and always has and it's the same on Amateur Radio as well so lookitup. I'm not your research assistant. PS. Prelim Injunctions are pretty much summarily granted until a court hearing. Rr [Html and image redacted]

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Prostitution Sex Drugs Guns Onions Dating
by grarpamp 20 Dec '19

20 Dec '19

Stamping Out Online Sex Trafficking May Have Pushed It Underground https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/technology/fosta-sex-trafficking-law.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21830744 Pink: Combining Sex and the Sharing Economy https://old.reddit.com/r/icocrypto/comments/75k620/ico_ann_pink_escort_star… https://old.reddit.com/user/Sarah_PinkApp https://old.reddit.com/r/pinkdate/ https://old.reddit.com/r/pinkdate/comments/a3rvfr/all_operations_paused/ http://darknetq7skv7hgo.onion/ https://old.reddit.com/r/onions/

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Sheer Stupidity
by Ryan Carboni 20 Dec '19

20 Dec '19

Elites are worried if they'll be next. Morons are curious if sticking a fork in a socket will yield the same results. The confusion from stupidity is going to get worse, not better.

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Fw: Using my isotope-modified silica single-mode optical fiber to communicate longer distances using quantum principles.
by jim bell 20 Dec '19

20 Dec '19

Dear Sirs: I am Jim Bell, the inventor and businessperson of daltonium.com. I have a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry. I was alerted to your recent article https://phys.org/news/2019-12-entanglement-long-distance-free-space-quantum… . DECEMBER 16, 2019 How to use entanglement for long-distance or free-space quantum communication by Austrian Academy of Sciences I have invented a very new kind of silica single-mode silica optical fiber (waveguide) that is isotope-modified. Specifically, the silicon-29 isotope is removed from the core and cladding, and the germanium-73 isotope is removed from the doped core. I explain the reason for this invention at: daltonium.com/optical-fiber/ My hypothesis is that the Si-29 and Ge-73 isotopes, as well as the O-17 isotope atoms (the ones that have electromagnetic 'spin'), react to the passage of the infrared photons, and convert some of their energy into phonons, and thus cause what appears to be optical loss. If I am correct, the loss can be reduced from the record held by Sumitomo Electric of about 0.141 dB/kilometers. https://global-sei.com/company/press/2017/03/prs029.html My understanding is that the maximum distance that can be exploited for purposes of quantum entanglement is inversely related to the value of optical loss. I believe that the current record is about 50 kilometers. https://phys.org/news/2019-08-entanglement-km-optical-fiber.html I expect that the eventual loss for my fiber, made with 99.99% Si-28, and perhaps 99.95% Ge (non-Ge-73) could be as low as 0.001 dB/kilometer. (Although, achievement of this value might require use of O-17-free oxygen, created by the multiplate cryogenic distillation of liquid oxygen.) This would be about 140 times lower than the best existing fiber. This might allow quantum entanglement to effectively occur over a distance of 50 km x 140, or about 7000 kilometers. (Perhaps, the distance between New York City and Eastern Europe.) My understanding is that a group of the Russian Academy of Sciences, headed by Andrey Bulanov, is proceeding with the prototyping of my fiber. Are you interested in this fiber? It should also allow optical fiber links over long distances with no or very few optical repeaters. Jim Bell I am in Vancouver, Washington USA, in the Pacific Time Zone. See below for some of my 'advertising'. A message that I have sent to a couple thousand participants in the fiber optics industry: I am looking for a company to make an optical preform and draw it into optical fibers. It's a patented innovation, a silica single-mode optical waveguide with a loss of 0.001 dB/kilometer. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/optical-waveguide-0001-dbkm-loss-even-10x-le…'s the US Patent for Daltonium.com's isotope-modified optical waveguide.http://www.freepatentsonline.com/9459401.html orIsotopically altered optical fiberForecast silica single-mode waveguide specifications:Optical loss 0.001 dB/kilometer at 1550 nmTransmission bandwidth: 400 nm-2000 nm (loss will be about 100x lower, at any given wavelength, than current single-mode silica fiber)Signal velocity: Optical signals will travel 5.6% faster than current silica optical waveguide.Chromatic Dispersion: If made to minimize loss, 'material dispersion' should disappear. What would be left would be 'waveguide dispersion.Can be made with EITHER a germania-doped silica core, OR a pure-silica core, fluorine-doped cladding.

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Cryptocurrency: The Four Horsemen, Papers, Empire, Resistance, and other Stories
by grarpamp 20 Dec '19

20 Dec '19

Four Horsemen - Docu - Renegade Economist 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fbvquHSPJU Princes of the Yen: Central Bank Truth - Docu - Independant POV 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5Ac7ap_MAY 97% Owned - Economic Truth How is Money Created - Independant POV 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcGh1Dex4Yo Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire - Independant POV 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np_ylvc8Zj8 Panic: The Untold Story of the 2008 Financial Crisis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QozGSS7QY_U Panama Papers – The Shady World of Offshore Companies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtvaNIQN0DY How The Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0 Generation OS13: The new culture of resistance - Independant POV 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY4VZr8Ox94 Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - Biblical https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH35yzmM2oU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lofMWbUmBVY Four Horseman - Hitchens, Dawkins, Dennet, Harris 2007 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7IHU28aR2E Metallica https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4nCy5CITc8

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PsyOps: The Man Who Knew Too Much - Colin Wallace (Documentary 2020)
by grarpamp 20 Dec '19

20 Dec '19

The Man Who Knew Too Much - Colin Wallace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sYFACY1E9s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_D2l7kDtVKY A psychological operations (psyops) operative refuses to engage in dirty tricks and is framed for a murder. The Man Who Knew Too Much is a documentary film about Colin Wallace a former Military Intelligence Officer involved in psychological operations in Northern Ireland. The film explores in depth what psychological operations involved. This was not just spreading propaganda, but also creating conflict between target groups and individuals, and influencing and manipulating politics and politicians, religious office holders and community groups of all shapes and sizes. Colin Wallace fell out with sections of the Intelligence community and was framed for the murder of a friend. POV accepts Bitcoin for its work.

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censorship, sorry, I mean, 'moderation'
by Punk-Stasi 2.0 20 Dec '19

20 Dec '19

From: Adam Back <aba(a)dcs.ex.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 00:36:21 +0800 Subject: repost: potted history of moderation experiment Dimitri's discussion of the moderation experiment prompted me to dig up this history of the event I wrote shortly after the distributed lists were setup. I did promise around this time to repost this later after the moderation experiment to ensure that it wouldn't be itself censored. If Attila and Dimitri's suspicions are correct, in addition to the below, cypherpunks-unedited may actually have been hand edited, and have had filters placed on it which rejected certain postsers articles out of hand, or auto-forwarding them to cypherpunks-flames. Other list members may be able to verify some the uncertainty surrounding these aspects of the censorship experiment. Enjoy, Adam ==============================8<============================== Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 23:49:09 GMT From: Adam Back <aba(a)dcs.ex.ac.uk> To: cypherpunks(a)toad.com Subject: Moderation experiment and moderator liability There appears to be a bit of a hush up surrounding the circumstances of the pause in the moderation experiment and subsequent change of moderation policy. To clear the air, I think it would be kind of nice if the full story were told, so I'll gather here a history as I understand it. Information from my archives (those I have), and from asking around in email. I realise that some of the actions that I am claiming of participants in this sequence of events seem hard to believe given their high reputation capital. I was myself initially dubious on the strength of the reputation capital of those being critisized. However the below is the sequence of events as close as I can determine. I welcome being proven wrong on any points. Events: 1. Dimitri Vulis posted a lot of off topic posts over a period of time 2. Dimitri reposted a couple of 50k Serdar Argic revisionist articles 3. Dimitri challenged John Gilmore to shut him up 4. John unsubscribed Dimitri, and modified majordomo(a)toad.com to siltently ignore Dimitri's attempts to resubscribe. Dimitri could still post, and presumably read cypherpunks with a different email address or via an archive. It was a token unsubscription only. 5. When Dimitri figured out what John had done, he made many posts denigrating John as a censor 6. Much discussion ensued critisizing John for blocking Dimitri 7. Over Christmas some joker subscribed cypherpunks(a)toad.com to a load of sports mailing lists, Hugh Daniels and John cleaned up the mess 8. Followed a long thread on hardening lists against spam attacks 9. John made a post to the list announcing that the list would be moderated for one month from Jan 11 as an experiment, and included Sandy Sandfort's proposed moderatation policy and offer to act as moderator. It appeared that the moderation experiment was Sandy's suggestion, and that John had agreed to go along with it. 10. Some discussion both pro and con of moderation, and the technical , free speech, and legal aspects followed 11. Moderation started Jan 19, the main list became the moderated list 12. Lots of people complained about the moderation, some defended it Tim May quietly unsubscribed 13. Some people complained about inconsistency in moderation -- some articles which went to flames were not flamish, but made by posters with low reputation capital, or were following up to posts which were flamish. 14. After a while some people commented on Tim's absence, and sent him mail asking what happened. Tim posted an article explaining that he had left because of the imposed moderation without discussion. 15. John followed up with a post defending the moderation experiment, and arguing for it's popularity (he claimed as evidence the number of posters who had not taken the trouble to move to the unedited list). 16. Dimitri posted an article where he claimed that there was a security flaw in Stronghold. Stronghold is C2Nets commercial version of the freeware Apache SSL web server. Sandy is employed by C2Net. 17. Sandy dropped the posting entirely -- it went to neither cypherpunks (edited), nor cypherpunks-flames. He considered that forwarding the posting would have made him legally liable. Sandy is a lawyer by profession. He did not explain this situation on the list. 18. Tim May had by now subscribed to cypherpunks-flames, and posted several follow-ups to Dimitri's posting, discussing the issue of Dimitri's post being dropped, and stated that Dimitri's posting was not flamish, and should not have been dropped in his opinion. Tim's postings were also silently dropped, going to neither of cypherpunks (edited), and cypherpunks-flames. 19. Sandy made an announcement that he was ending his participation in the moderation experiment. Still no explanation of why posts were dropped, or even admission that they were. 20. The two moderated cypherpunks lists (cypherpunks and cypherpunks-flames) went dead for some time. 21. Tim received a warning from C2Net's lawyers that if he did not desist from mentioning that Dimitri had posted an article criticising a C2Net product that he would be sued! 22. John posted a statement where he explained Sandy's sudden announcement of ending his particpation. John explained that Sandy had "hit a pothole in the moderation experiment when Mr. Nemesis submitted a posting containing nothing but libelous statements about Sandy's employer". Sandy did not drop Johns posting even though it covered the same topics that had resulted in Tim's posts being dropped, and resulted in Tim receiving legal threats from C2Net. In the same post John said that he had come to the conclusion that he was no longer willing to host the cypherpunks list. In this post John announced that Sandy had been persuaded to continue to moderate for the remainder of the moderation period, and gave the new policy. The changes were that anything other than crypto discussion and discussion of forming a new cypherpunks list would go to flames, and anything that Sandy thought was libelous would be dropped silently. 23. Sandy posted a statement affirming that he would continue to moderate, and that if any cypherpunks wished to discuss his prior moderation policy and performance as a moderator that they do it on new lists which they create themselves. (If Sandy's current moderation criteria mean that he feels obliged to forward this post to cypherpunks-flames as off-topic, or even to silently drop it from both moderated lists, so be it. I will simply repost it later, when the moderation experiment is over on one of the new lists. In the event of myself receiving legal threats, I shall simply post it via a remailer, or rely on someone else to do so. C2 does not appear to be running any remailers at the moment, otherwise I would use a remailer hosted at c2.net as the exit node in the remailer chain.) The positive outcome of all this has been to make the cypherpunks list more resilient to legal attack. The new distributed list seems to be progressing well, and will be less liable to attack. Filtering services continue, as they should. And alt.cypherpunks has been created as a forum ultimately resistant to legal attack. Also I should say that I would hope that no one holds any long term animosity towards any of the players in this episode, many of the people have been very prolific in their work to further online privacy and freedom, and I hope that we can all put this chapter behind us. Now more fun things... Anyone checked out the DES breaking project? Over on http://fh28.fa.umist.ac.uk/des/ are details of mailing lists where people are organising breaking RSADSIs DES challenge. For the RC5/32/12/6 (48 bit RC5) break which took 13 days, it seems there were a peak of 5000 machines involved. At this rate it will take 8 months to break DES. Adam -- print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`

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Facebook scraping?
by jim bell 20 Dec '19

20 Dec '19

Data of more than 267 million Facebook users has been exposed online https://mol.im/a/7811595 via http://dailym.ai/android Jim Bell's comment:Article refers to "an illegal process called scraping...".I am not aware that "scraping" is illegal, or even wrong. Jim Bell

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