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‘Magic Mushroom’ Chemical Harvested From Bacteria For the First Time
by jim bell 02 Oct '19

02 Oct '19

https://www.newsbreakapp.com/n/0MyWdjuf?s=a3&pd=02h1yVjC ‘Magic Mushroom’ Chemical Harvested From Bacteria For the First Time Gizmodo New research shows that psilocybin—the psychoactive compound that puts the magic in magic mushrooms—can be made by bioengineered bacteria, highlighting a potential new way of mass-producing the valued chemical. Shared from News Break Jim Bell's comment: No point in making psilocybin. The unphosphorylated stuff is psilocin, and that's all you need.

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"the biggest and fastest computers" - Fwd: What They Haven't Told You about Climate Change - Patrick More - Trump was right again
by Zenaan Harkness 02 Oct '19

02 Oct '19

OK I fess up, the subject takes a quote directly from the 'tube - but this monologue by Greenpeace co-founder Patrick More is mostly about that dreaded of all dreadeds <spooky musak please> Climate ... Change This one, despite its references to big computers, is worth forwarding to yer ma. ----- Forwarded message from Gil May <gilmay97(a)gmail.com> ----- From: Gil May <gilmay97(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2019 18:00:19 +1000 Subject: Fwd: What They Haven't Told You about Climate Change *What They Haven't Told You about Climate Change* Patrick More co-founder of Greenpeace for Prager University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkdbSxyXftc&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR0C7… ----- End forwarded message -----

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The Daily Beast: Elizabeth Warren Tears Into Facebook Over Leaked Mark Zuckerberg Audio
by jim bell 02 Oct '19

02 Oct '19

The Daily Beast: Elizabeth Warren Tears Into Facebook Over Leaked Mark Zuckerberg Audio. https://www.thedailybeast.com/elizabeth-warren-tears-into-facebook-over-lea… I suppose I should be happy to see Zuckerberg and Warren fighting. "Yay !!!!!" Jim Bell

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How LRAD Went From a Pirate Deterrent to a Police Crowd-Control Tool
by jim bell 01 Oct '19

01 Oct '19

It's possible this could be fought by building a fairly large corner-cube retroreflector and aiming it at the source of the sound. While that might not be precise, it would send a lot of sound back to the area around the emitter. Jim Bell https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-lrad-went-from-a-pirate-deterrent-to-…

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The Tragedy of Groupthink
by Ryan Carboni 30 Sep '19

30 Sep '19

Few realizes this, but narcissists think themselves to be a group of one. This makes their defect more apparent as there is no such thing. Normal groups are large, they seek to accrue more resources, they are never at fault. To point out something for which they'd be at fault for (it can't be true because I would have noticed it) is impossible, possibly because it mean the group would have to split. How do groups get convinced? The Nazis got convinced when guns were shoved in their faces. No doubt just one year before the end of WWII, they would neither believe defeat could occur or that the Holocaust was ongoing. It does reveal a toothlessness when facing any sizeable group that is completely incorrect.

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Rob Braxman Privacy Guy on Librem
by grarpamp 30 Sep '19

30 Sep '19

https://twitter.com/robbraxmantech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEMKeJ5zfow I'm the Internet Privacy Guy. Our privacy is being invaded on the Internet. Soon it will be non-existent. Soon the singularity will control you. Your threats include doxxing, hacking, mass surveillance, profiling, cybersecurity threats, weaponized data mining and AI. Hear the TRUTH! And not the FAKE NEWS from shills and supporters of Corporate and Government data mining. I also discuss alternative communication modes especially with a prepper focus. I have a prepper communications playlist where I discuss HAM radio, SDR, QRP modes, Digital modes when running portable. I am a General Class licensed HAM radio operator. Are you ready for when the Internet or the entire grid is down? Join me on my LIVE STREAM every Friday-Monday 8-10pm Pacific Time. I release videos on the days when I'm not live streaming. Contact me on http://rob.brax.me https://brax.me/home/rob Contact Me Directly (Secure) https://bytzvpn.com/ Premium VPN with Cloud-Based TOR Routing https://whatthezuck.net/

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MS Bitlocker Diss SSD Crypto, ISPs Diss DNS Crypto, Sidewalk U1 Spies, CheckM8 Jailbreak
by grarpamp 30 Sep '19

30 Sep '19

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/bitlocker-encrypts-self-encrypting-ssds,4… https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/crypto-failure-cripp… Microsoft gives up on SSD manufacturers: Windows will no longer trust drives that say they can encrypt themselves, BitLocker will default to CPU-accelerated AES encryption instead. This is after an exposé on broad issues with firmware-powered encryption Of course it has never been safe to trust any closed source hardware encryption, or Microsoft's closed source Bitlocker NSA_KEY. https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-draws-house-antitrust-scrutiny-of-inter… https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/democrats.judiciary.house.gov/files/docum… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_over_HTTPS While Google says it's pushing for adoption of the technology to prevent spying and spoofing, House investigators are worried this would give the internet giant an unfair advantage by denying access to users' data. The House sent a letter on September 13th asking if Google would use data handled through the process for commercial purposes... Internet service providers are worried that they may be shut out of the data and won't know as much about their customers' traffic patterns. This could "foreclose competition in advertising and other industries," an alliance of ISPs told Congress in a September 19th letter... Mozilla also wants to use the format to secure DNS in Firefox, and the company's Marshall Erwin told the WSJ that the antitrust gripes are "fundamentally misleading." ISPs are trying to undermine the standard simply because they want continued access to users' data, Erwin said. Unencrypted DNS helps them target ads by tracking your web habits, and it's harder to thwart DNS tracking than cookies and other typical approaches. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/amazon-sidewalk-apple-u1-networks Sidewalk, Amazon's new low-bandwidth long-range wireless networking protocol, and Apple's new position- and distance-measuring U1 chip (mentioned in a recent keynote). Apple's U1 chip -- which allows precise, indoor positional tracking via the latest iPhones and will power, at the very least, directional AirDrop file-sharing -- popped up on screen but was never even mentioned. The interest-piquing phrase "GPS at the scale of your living room" was saved for the online iPhone product pages rather than the bombast of the Steve Jobs Theater... Both Amazon and Apple have the hardware scale to build up the base of access points needed to create a useful network before reaching out to, most likely, iOS developers in Apple's case, and hardware makers already on board with Alexa in Amazon's case. For Amazon, in fact, that work has already begun as Sidewalk originally came out of the Ring team's ambition to extend its connected security devices out into gardens. "Ring lighting was the first time we ran into it as a company, because we wanted to extend out onto the sidewalk," says Daniel Rausch, VP of smart home at Amazon (which owns Ring). The smart outoor Ring lights are already out. Products like the Smart Floodlight and Pathlight list a "wireless connection to the Ring Bridge" in the tech specs but eagle-eyed Ring owners had already started to figure out what band Amazon was playing with for this connection, before the Sidewalk announcement. "They've been using an internal version of the protocol on the freely available and unlicensed 900MHz part of the spectrum already," explains Rausch. "What we realised was 'woah, we can actually do something special'. We can make a version of this protocol which is secure and have this unbelievably ubiquitous coverage if we bring it all together, neighbours and neighbours and neighbours...." An innocent smart dog tracker like Ring Fetch fits perfectly into this model of Amazon-networked communities sharing video, alerts and location tracking. https://github.com/axi0mX/ipwndfu http://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/09/27/tethered-jailbreaks-are-back/ EPIC JAILBREAK: Introducing checkm8 (read "checkmate"), a permanent unpatchable bootrom exploit for hundreds of millions of iOS devices. Most generations of iPhones and iPads are vulnerable: from iPhone 4S (A5 chip) to iPhone 8 and iPhone X (A11 chip).

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Decrypted: FB Whatsapp Give Decrypted Encrypted Msgs to UK US Circular SpyOps
by grarpamp 30 Sep '19

30 Sep '19

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/facebook-whatsapp-will-have-to-share-messages-w… Social media platforms based in the U.S. including Facebook and WhatsApp will be forced to share users’ encrypted messages with British police under a new treaty between the two countries, according to a person familiar with the matter. The accord, which is set to be signed by next month, will compel social media firms to share information to support investigations Priti Patel, the U.K.’s home secretary, has previously warned that Facebook’s plan to enable users to send end-to-end encrypted messages would benefit criminals, and called on social media firms to develop “back doors” to give intelligence agencies access to their messaging platforms.

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Encryption and anonymity as top tools for images of child sexual abuse
by John Young 29 Sep '19

29 Sep '19

NYTimes lengthy report on out of control growth of images of child sexual abuse highlights encryption and anonymity as premier tools for avoiding discovery, prosecution and shutdown. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/28/us/child-sex-abuse.html Silicon Valley giants are pilloried for failing to bar abusers.

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This New Chip Could Bridge The Gap Between Classical And Quantum Computing
by jim bell 29 Sep '19

29 Sep '19

https://www.newsbreakapp.com/n/0MxjlMVw?s=a3&pd=02h1yVjC This New Chip Could Bridge The Gap Between Classical And Quantum Computing sciencealert.com Quantum computers exist today, although they're limited, cut-down versions of what we hope fully blown quantum computers are going to be able to do in the future. Shared from News Break

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