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Secrets
by grarpamp 21 Apr '18

21 Apr '18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozGWTe2HKnw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqQ0zqyp6_g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPb3lG2-cZk

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Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future
by Sandeep Kamboj 21 Apr '18

21 Apr '18

https://medium.com/@kaistinchcombe/decentralized-and-trustless-crypto-parad…

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Cypherpunks, Drivin By Bluffdale, In Their 64's...
by grarpamp 20 Apr '18

20 Apr '18

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/loud-sound-from-fire-alarm… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1_He5boinY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl1hgXfX5-U https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=CAM%253D&search_query=funny+bass+demo HAARP / LRAD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsgrRmHW8ro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSMyY3_dmrM https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sonic+weapons Because Friday... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhk9yDA3lIc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3BpZV1YEzM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWRvko4vvk4

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Guerilla Networking: Punks to Capitalize on Firesales and Unmaintained Wirelines for P2P / Longhaul
by grarpamp 20 Apr '18

20 Apr '18

https://www.siliconrepublic.com/comms/bt-telephone-network-voip https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/04/20/1623255/end-of-the-landline-bt-aim…

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Crypto scheme idea
by Douglas Lucas 20 Apr '18

20 Apr '18

Hello cryptocurrency hoarders, aspiring cryptocurrency hoarders, and others, In English the system for accenting English words is binary. If one were to say aloud, "crypto", each syllable is either stressed or unstressed, yes no, on off, CRYPT-o. 1, 0. Similarly, Morse code is binary. Dash or dot. CRYPTO in Morse code is: -.-. .-. -.-- .--. - --- or, assuming arbitrarily that dash is 1: 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1. This, I don't know the fancypants word, homomorphism, across the two systems -- that both are suspectible to binary rendition -- means that in theory one could say X and non X simultaneously with one string. I guess the most obvious difficult is that the Morse stuff takes up way many more characters than the verbal scansion. For example, cat (as in feline, not concatenate) is just a single syllable stressed. So it's a single character: 1.But in Morse code, "cat" is -.-. .- - which takes 7 characters not counting spaces. One thing I like about this system is that the attacker Chuck could know exactly what the algorithm is and neveretheless fail to decrypt it becasue the whole system is so ridiculous that only an Alice and Bob with a lot of time on their hands and/or eccentricity would be able to actually bother to encipher and decrpt these kind of strings. Is there a way to make this work without using Morse (becasue too many characters) but while keeping the defense of eccentricity, i.e., the time/weird investment required in order to encipher and decrypt? Thanks, Douglas

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Cryptocurrency: Permissionless, Market Nonsense, and Mads Palsvig
by grarpamp 20 Apr '18

20 Apr '18

Permission https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_zrChc7b3o Market https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_irzBK5P0U Palsvig https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcL-j4YNT4U Also, bulls fixin to run...

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Re: Request to mailing list cryptography rejected
by grarpamp 20 Apr '18

20 Apr '18

On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 7:33 PM, <cryptography-owner(a)metzdowd.com> wrote: > "This thread is dead as it was an admitted fake news article." The OP posted snippets of junk journalism. Another poster corrected it with links to source docs and much better journalism. Then another poster posted yet more flaky content. For which a proper counter / alternative is warranted. There's lots of other material relavant to "technical, social, political, security, privacy, legal, multinational aspects of cryptosystems' in that to be completed thread for which the list could ponder lively, and should given cryptocurrency is the newest mass critical cryptosystem out there. Also, "Will We Ever Learn", "The Bob Morris Worm", "Unicode", "Speculation" and many other threads over time questionably met charter as barely mentioning any applied / underlying cryptographic / topical element in them. It's being reposted, witnesseth cypherpunks. Do what you want with it.

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Re: [Cryptography] India Crypto Currency Ban
by grarpamp 20 Apr '18

20 Apr '18

On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 10:59 AM, John Levine <johnl(a)iecc.com> wrote: >>No such jurisdiction beyond themselves. > > The RBI regulates all the banks in India Only their banks, not biz or people. Maybe their govt too, lol. > this will shut down any > cryptocurrency exchanges in India Both exchanges and citizens can still open foreign account. And local exchanges can still reasonably operate using cash or all that Indian gold, or cows, contracts, etc. > the banks, who do not want to > annoy their regulator The banks, who are in business to make money, should throw out their regulators so they can try to do that, subject to the free market. Then again, one of cryptocurrency's messages... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWAwK2fHArc > if Indians want to buy or sell cryptocurrencies, they're back to the > pre-Mt.Gox situation of trying to find someone local who'll trade them > for cash. Indian markets are diverse and interconnected as any other, this is not a problem. And cryptocurrency is used in both directions. > Keep in mind that there are only about 10 million Bitcoin wallets in > the world There are 55 Million UTXO's, down from the 67M that were uneconomical to consolidate no thanks to BTC's issues. That's just for BTC, not all the other coins and tokens. Wallet estimates are harder to pinpoint. Feel free to link to some good papers on that. > and I doubt as many as a million of them are in India. > There are over a billion people in India so we're talking about under > 0.1% of the Indian population... a poor country, where rural phone ladies > rent mobile phones Even if that, not a bad adoption rate so far, and the guerrilla networking, love the ingenuity from necessity, ftw. > 15c for a few minutes of data. Transactions are relayed in under that time. Probably quite the deal for larger / distant transactions compared to other forms, including shipping gold and Rupees around. > Even if cryptocurrencies were a good idea, which they aren't Unsubstantiated FUD. Sad to see on one of the lists where cryptocurrencies were born. At least cryptography is still agnostic, at least until cryptographers start taking the knee and advertising the fake backdoored crypto they can concoct as "strong crypto" to serve their masters. > India doesn't have the infrastructure to use them other than > by rich people in cities. FUD. Cities have the infrastructure, anyone in a city is at least enough to be alive there, internet cafes and p2p relations work fine and more efficiently there as well, for rich and poor. > Since the badly handled withdrawal of high value banknotes in November > 2016 (I was there, same week as the US election) Indian banks have > pushed hard to provide conventional electronic payments with credit > and debit cards. I was impresssed how many of the stalls at markets > had handheld card terminals. Paying the mandatory extra card tax and high interest to middlemen pockets regardless of network operation costs for nothing in return that cryptocurrency can't provide for less, and freely. Unless you count the chargeback and tx censorship babysitting that keeps people and systems down from independance, and the "free money" advertising that keeps from choosing ownership. Yes they have to 'push hard' because the people smartly resist back against it.... >>RBI stock price drops on news as competitors move in. > > The RBI is run by the Indian government, does not issue stock, and > since it is the central bank, has no competitors. ...ahh yes, yet another monopoly artificially propped up upon force of death at gunpoint, how delightful. They offer you no choice. Cryptocurrency does. > Were we saying something about fake news? "Stock in faith" has a price too, the worldwide adoption of cryptocurrency to date says fiat [itself / systems / entities] been dropping quite a bit, both in faith and into cryptocurrency forex. Nothing fake there.

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#DeleteFacebook, Surveillance, Bans
by grarpamp 20 Apr '18

20 Apr '18

#DeleteFacebook https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/27/palantir-worked-with-cambridge-analytica-on… https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/03/27/1728202/its-possible-that-the-face… https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/03/facebook-scraped-cal… https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-advertising-discrimination-hous… https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/my-cow-game-extracte… https://qz.com/1236322/apples-steve-jobs-tried-to-warn-facebooks-mark-zucke… https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/03/23/1713253/whats-facebook-elon-musk-a… https://www.buzzfeed.com/emilydugan/this-mans-gun-loving-friends-were-kicke… Surveillance https://www.cnet.com/news/city-surveillance-worldwide-spent-over-3-billion-… http://www.scmp.com/tech/china-tech/article/2138960/jaywalkers-under-survei… https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2018/03/22/yes-cops-are-now-ope… https://www.smh.com.au/technology/police-commissioner-defends-access-to-opa… http://www.wbur.org/news/2018/03/22/school-threats-suicide-prevention-tech Bans https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/26/twitter-moves-to-ban-crypto-ads/ http://thehill.com/policy/technology/380014-tumblr-takes-down-84-russia-lin… https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-media/no-laughing-matter-china-reg… https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kgwnp/porn-on-google-drive-error https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/24/us/politics/unlock-phones-encryption.html https://www.cnet.com/news/how-i-went-dark-in-australian-surveillance-state-…

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something to take note of
by someone_who_cares_127 20 Apr '18

20 Apr '18

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