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Predictions 2020
by grarpamp 31 Dec '19

31 Dec '19

Less than three hours left for some of you to get your predictions lodged in this thread before 2020 starts proving them true or false...

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Re: 'Shattered': Inside the secret battle to save America's undercover spies in the digital age
by Ryan Carboni 31 Dec '19

31 Dec '19

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust Punch card tabulation machines caused the holocaust. We don't even have accurate numbers on Nazi loot and murders, I think if the tabulation machines were running things, we'd have precise figures. Has any technology ever made anything more efficient? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox

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Re: 'Shattered': Inside the secret battle to save America's undercover spies in the digital age
by Ryan Carboni 31 Dec '19

31 Dec '19

To be more serious, that article just rehashes what was said before. People keep saying it, and somehow... nothing happens. Isn't espionage supposed to be some kind of shell game, not a numbers racket? https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/02/the-top-secret-nunes-memo-illus… Robin Raphel—a former U.S. ambassador to Pakistan—had her career destroyed because the FBI suspected she was spilling secrets to the Pakistanis. One of the claims made against her was that she was speaking with Pakistani officials about speculation that there may be a coup, information that the intelligence community deemed classified. But speculation of a coup was prevalent in the Pakistani media and within cross-government channels; all Raphel was doing was discussing the issues of the day with her foreign counterparts. Classification can also be abused to avoid oversight and wield power over Congress. If you are a senator, unless you work on the Intelligence Committee, are part of the leadership, or are the chair or ranking member of the Foreign Relations or Armed Services committees, your staff does not have the highest level of clearance. Many executive branch briefings to members of Congress are at this highest classification level, partially to protect information but also to keep staff out. So, even if a member gains access to key information that should be further investigated, she cannot share it with anyone who works for her, making it nearly impossible to follow up and exercise proper oversight. This paucity of clearances stands in sharp contrast to the executive branch, where thousands of people hold the highest level of clearance and have easy access to facilities and computers that enable their review of classified materials, and where millions of dollars are invested annually in protecting and expanding these resources. On Capitol Hill, there are few such facilities where classified information can be discussed or worked on. And yet, for all these security measures, major breaches via Edward Snowden, Russian spying, or a Chinese heist of thousands of personnel records continue.

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Google Old leak
by o 0 31 Dec '19

31 Dec '19

Google AdSense Leak https://pastebin.com/qh6Tta3h

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Can't say it can't happen if you're doing something similar right now
by Ryan Carboni 31 Dec '19

31 Dec '19

Can't say it can't happen if you're doing something similar right now On the other hand, the US is hypocritical about a lot of things, but at least when it comes to torturing servants, that's an issue the US will never touch.

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Re: 'Shattered': Inside the secret battle to save America's undercover spies in the digital age
by Ryan Carboni 31 Dec '19

31 Dec '19

"We aren't incompetent, we're just being ironic!" "We aren't corrupt, we're just being ironic!" "We aren't satanists, we're just being ironic!" *several years later* As it turns out... Someone is going to claim that Hunter Biden was pretending to be peddling influence to US policies, but that doesn't actually happen, in order to ingratiate with foreign dictators and divert bribes to the black budget.

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Happy new year
by other.arkitech 31 Dec '19

31 Dec '19

Dear Cypherpunks, Other.Arkitech wish you a happy (and distributed) 2020 : ) Now some rehearsing content... Excerpts from https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and since we can't get privacy unless we all do, we're going to write it. We publish our code so that our fellow Cypherpunks may practice and play with it. Our code is free for all to use, worldwide. We don't much care if you don't approve of the software we write. We know that software can't be destroyed and that a widely dispersed system can't be shut down. The Cypherpunks are actively engaged in making the networks safer for privacy. Let us proceed together apace.

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Re: Ghaddafi and sons were highly moral in their personal and private lives
by Ryan Carboni 31 Dec '19

31 Dec '19

Remember, you will not get cancelled if you rub shoulders with men who beat and murder their servants on a Carribean island. I have no idea how the money was donated to Haiti... was it to a non-profit or directly to the Haitian government? https://www.huffpost.com/entry/beyonce-gaddafi-concert-money-haiti_n_830456 Beyonce says she donated to Haiti relief the money she was given to perform at a 2009 New Year’s Eve party in St. Barts thrown by the son of embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/10TRIPOLI95_a.html The widening contrast between the respectable, cultured image that Saif has taken on and the spoiled, boorish image his siblings project has local audiences rallying behind Saif as the next heir to the Qadhafi throne.

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Ghaddafi and sons were highly moral in their personal and private lives
by Ryan Carboni 31 Dec '19

31 Dec '19

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/libya-maid-of-colonel-gaddafis-daught… THE disfigured nanny of Colonel Gaddafi’s son Hannibal has revealed she was tortured with boiling water. The Ethiopian maid, Shweyga Mullah, 30, said that Hannibal’s wife, 29-year-old model Aline Skaf, tied up her hands and legs before pouring boiling water over her head. Shweyga had cared for Hannibal’s son and daughter at their luxury home in western Tripoli. Six months into her employment, she said she was burned by Skaf. Three months later, she said the same thing happened again, only this time much more seriously. Skaf lost her temper when her daughter would not stop crying and Shweyga refused to beat the child. The nanny said: “She took me to a bathroom. She tied my hands behind my back and tied my feet. “She taped my mouth and she started pouring the boiling water on my head.”

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[HISTORY] - Jews are Doing Nothing to Prevent Crown Heights Pogrom 2.0 - [PEACE]
by Zigger the N.gger 30 Dec '19

30 Dec '19

Some history for ya buffs: Jews are Doing Nothing to Prevent Crown Heights Pogrom 2.0 http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/jews-are-doing-nothing-to-prevent-crown-heigh…

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