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Facebook is deleting the name of the potential whistleblower
by jim bell 13 Nov '19

13 Nov '19

https://apnews.com/ad8f2a9b6e424138afcc97fcf2eb29bf I wonder what they mean by "deleting the name"? Do they mean deleting any posting or comment containing the name 'Eric Ciaramella'? Or just that name? Or any posting that says that "Eric Ciaramella is the whistleblower"? This sure sounds like Facebook is adopting the policies of Red China, "The Great Firewall of China". I've got a solution to that problem: The people who work for Facebook are identifiable, and mortal. Notice that the news source this story came from is "apnews". How appropriate. Jim Bell

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Ayn Rand... A 3rd Rate Writer Desired By Disturbed Sexually Frustrated Young Men
by Razer 13 Nov '19

13 Nov '19

"It's not rape if you like it..." "When Donald Trump was running for the GOP nomination, he told USA Today’s Kirsten Powers that Ayn Rand’s raped-girl-decides-she-likes-it novel, "The Fountainhead," was his favorite book." [...] "Welfare and other social safety net programs were, as Rand saw it, “the glorification of mediocrity” in society. Providing a social safety net for the poor, disabled, or unemployed, she believed, were part of a way of thinking that promoted, “satisfaction instead of joy, contentment instead of happiness… a glow-worm instead of a fire.” She, like Trump, lived a largely joyless life. She mercilessly manipulated people, particularly her husband, and, like Trump, surrounded herself with cult-like followers who were only on the inside so long as they gave her total, unhesitating loyalty. Like Trump and his billionaire backers, she believed that a government promoting working-class “looters” instead of solely looking out for capitalist “producers” was throwing its “best people” under the bus. In Rand’s universe, the producers had no obligations to the looters. Providing welfare or sacrificing one nickel of your own money to help a “looter” on welfare, unemployment, or Social Security—particularly if it was “taken at the barrel of a gun” (taxes)—was morally reprehensible. Like Trump saying, “My whole life I’ve been greedy,” for Rand looking out for numero uno was the singular name of the game—selfishness is next to godliness. Later in Rand’s life, in 1959, as she gained more notoriety for the moral philosophy of selfishness that she named “Objectivism” and that is today at the core of libertarianism..." https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/08/13/right-wing-american-love-affa… Rand died in poverty and on welfare. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Most libertards will too. I'll PISS ON YOUR POTTERS FIELD HOLE-IN-THE-GROUND UNTIL I RUN OUT OF PISS! Rr Sent from my Androgyne dee-vice with K-9 Mail

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Public police misconduct leads to public condemnation
by Ryan Carboni 13 Nov '19

13 Nov '19

Public police misconduct leads to public condemnation. By the usual suspects, you know the ACLU, Amnesty International, etc. The major liberal press.

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Some people have unbelievable lives
by Ryan Carboni 13 Nov '19

13 Nov '19

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43799281 A man suspected of masterminding the theft of 600 computers that were being used to mine virtual currencies has escaped custody in Iceland, police say. ... The computers were stolen during four raids on data centres around Iceland, a popular location for such centres because almost 100% of the power generated in Iceland comes from renewable sources and because of the cool climate. ... Prime minister on same flight https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/business/iceland-bitcoin-heist.html Once in Stockholm, he traveled via train, taxi and ferry to Germany through Denmark. There he met “individuals” who drove him to Amsterdam. He enjoyed just three hours of freedom in the Dutch capital. Unbeknown to him, the local authorities had been quickly tipped off by two pedestrians with a cellphone photograph of a person they believed was the much-publicized wanted man. Soon after, an officer approached Mr. Stefansson and demanded identification. Moving on to a different character This guy has two prison escapes: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45729071 Rédoine Faïd: French helicopter jailbreak gangster captured In 2013, he escaped from a prison near Lille, using explosives to blast his way through five prison doors while holding guards hostage as human shields. ... Interpol stated that he had been trying to obtain forged documents to reach Israel. Someone who escaped a French prison by helicopter three times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_Payet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Novel Gordon Michael Dwayne Novel was a private investigator and electronics expert, who was known for several controversial investigations. He was most notable for his conflict with District Attorney Jim Garrison and his work as investigator for automobile industry executive John DeLorean and U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark. ... Gus Russo has written about the existence of a letter of marque, signed by Robert F. Kennedy, who was U.S. Attorney General at the time, which supposedly gave Banister the go-ahead to "liberate" the weaponry. I'm under the impression that these unbelievable lives are the product of faulty systems, somehow. Mysterious forces indeed. But it is possible to hire anybody, convince them of anything, and set things in motion on that basis. One of the advantages of due process is that the smartest people who operate the system can evaluate if their participation is worth it.

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Border Device Searches Unconstitutional US District Court
by grarpamp 13 Nov '19

13 Nov '19

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/federal-court-rules-suspicionless-searc… https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/alasaad_opinion_sum… In positive news... yet unfortunately perhaps only that district. 48 pages of fun... US citizens, fake court denies them data expungement and injunction, defendants spin arguments, etc. BOSTON — In a major victory for privacy rights, a federal court in Boston today ruled that the government’s suspicionless searches of international travelers’ smartphones and laptops at airports and other U.S. ports of entry violate the Fourth Amendment. The ruling came in a lawsuit, Alasaad v. McAleenan, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and ACLU of Massachusetts, on behalf of 11 travelers whose smartphones and laptops were searched without individualized suspicion at U.S. ports of entry.

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Forbes: Windows 10 Security Alert: Hidden Backdoor Found By Kaspersky Researchers
by jim bell 13 Nov '19

13 Nov '19

Forbes: Windows 10 Security Alert: Hidden Backdoor Found By Kaspersky Researchers. https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2019/11/12/windows-10-security-ale…

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Re: Bolivia coup led by Christian fascist paramilitary leader and millionaire – with foreign support
by Ryan Carboni 13 Nov '19

13 Nov '19

I don't know how appalled one should be when fascist gangs are directly overthrowing the Bolivian government and denouncing a valid election, but maybe this mailing list conversation would be different if the names of Bolivian politicians were substituted for American politicians. Also, Re: Jim Bell's direct reply to me, Gmail autosuggestions offer: "Good point." "I agree with you." "Absolutely." This reminds me of when Alex Jones attempted to interrogate Siri. The AI endorses fascism, we should have known with Tay.

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Two Historical Events that will explain the News
by Ryan Carboni 12 Nov '19

12 Nov '19

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susurluk_scandal "The scandal surfaced with a car-truck collision on 3 November 1996, near Susurluk, in the province of Balıkesir. The victims included the deputy chief of the Istanbul Police Department, a Member of Parliament, and Abdullah Çatlı, the leader of the Grey Wolves (who was a contract killer on Interpol's red list). "Intelligence expert Mahir Kaynak described the police camp as 'pro-European', and the MİT camp as 'pro-American'. The authorities pocketed billions of dollars in profits from the drug smuggling." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Bolivia_(1964%E2%80%9382) [The coup was] "...financed by cocaine traffickers and supported by European mercenaries recruited by Klaus Barbie, former Gestapo chief in Lyon, the coup began the rule of the first Junta of Commanders of the Armed Forces, one of the darkest periods in Bolivian history." Remember, any time some expert in "intelligence" praises Mossad, point out their only public success against the Nazis is capturing a bookkeeper. It is all incredible BS and only half of everything can be attributed to incredible stupidity.

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Guerilla Open Access Manifesto
by grarpamp 12 Nov '19

12 Nov '19

Guerilla Open Access Manifesto Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? You'll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier. There are those struggling to change this. The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it. But even under the best scenarios, their work will only apply to things published in the future. Everything up until now will have been lost. That is too high a price to pay. Forcing academics to pay money to read the work of their colleagues? Scanning entire libraries but only allowing the folks at Google to read them? Providing scientific articles to those at elite universities in the First World, but not to children in the Global South? It's outrageous and unacceptable. "I agree," many say, "but what can we do? The companies hold the copyrights, they make enormous amounts of money by charging for access, and it's perfectly legal — there's nothing we can do to stop them." But there is something we can, something that's already being done: we can fight back. Those with access to these resources — students, librarians, scientists — you have been given a privilege. You get to feed at this banquet of knowledge while the rest of the world is locked out. But you need not — indeed, morally, you cannot — keep this privilege for yourselves. You have a duty to share it with the world. And you have: trading passwords with colleagues, filling download requests for friends. Meanwhile, those who have been locked out are not standing idly by. You have been sneaking through holes and climbing over fences, liberating the information locked up by the publishers and sharing them with your friends. But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It's called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn't immoral — it's a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy. Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it — their shareholders would revolt at anything less. And the politicians they have bought off back them, passing laws giving them the exclusive power to decide who can make copies. There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture. We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that's out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks. We need to fight for Guerilla Open Access. With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge — we'll make it a thing of the past. Will you join us? Aaron Swartz July 2008, Eremo, Italy https://openlibrary.org/

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Could somebody list names/emails of 1996 people?
by jim bell 12 Nov '19

12 Nov '19

I want to do an email alerting 1995/96 users of the Cypherpunks list to the forgery of the 1995 docket. Could somebody make a list of the email addresses of people sending/receiving emails in 1996? Just a list of unique emails addresses, of course. Then, could somebody check those names and email addresses against the early 2000's Cypherpunks archives, perhaps to catch email changes? This is important. Thank you. Jim Bell

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