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Victoria Australia: amendments re children's photos of themselves which could be considered "pornography"
by Zenaan Harkness 28 Aug '19

28 Aug '19

On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 08:48:25PM +1000, Gil May wrote: > Subject: : Victoria Legalizes Child Porn, check it out. > Time for decent people to take a serious stand. > > https://www.facebook.com/AnthonyJC1983/videos/229304717949739/ > > I am speechless. Have a look at what is shown as the Parliamentary Act put > before the Parliament. Interesting. The de-criminalisation of natural/normal child activities (e.g. taking pictures of themselves and others) is of course a good thing, and appears to be the intent of these laws/ amendments that the OP Subject line is referring to in a sensationalist way. In fact the broad sweeping laws that were in place were broad and sweeping, and failed to consider this situation of children doing things children can be expeted to (and do) actually do - take photos of themselves and friends. Somewhat humorously and completely "non ironically" the narrator in the linked video begins "Did you know, that the production, possession and distribution of child pornography has been legalized in Australia?" thus implicitly asserting (and inserting) himself into the very same (and rightfully) dreaded 'censor' role or decider of what is, and is not, pornography, that he later on highlights as problematic (when he asks "who gets to decide what's reasonable"). As is usual with wanna be censors, those who would willingly make such decisions for others, usually (as is the case here) don't want others to make censorship decisions for themselves ("I would make great censorship decisions!" "MY Marxist utopio would -really- be a utopia, unlike all those other failed experiements in history!") Unfortunately the narrator does not see this very irony of him calling out the legislative trap ("Whom will make the decisions of a reasonable man"), and completely falling into the same trap throughout his entire video ("Child pornography of those images taken by say 12 year olds of their own bodies, is still pornography and the law must make no exception for this, and I'll decide what is and is not pornographic"). Every "allegation" of "pornography" (or in this case the alleged "legalization of child pornography") is necessarily a judgement call founded on what is and what is not pornography, which of course cannot be made except that the one making the allegation is defining, or is willing to define and believes they are capable of defining, "pornography" or in this case "child pornography" - which in any case is essentially impossible to define other than "I know it when I see it" which falls back to the arrogantly self implied "great moral standing" of the one deigning to make such decisions on behalf of others/ the rest of us. The trap is self referential, and subtle, thus circuitous and repetitive in most attempts to unravel it. This subtlety is the reason cries of "please, won't someone think of the children and save them (from themselves)" is both so appealing yet so deceptive to many and simultaneously alluring to the virtue- signalling SJW wanna bes, and thus also difficult for many to counter (or rather "to straighten out the underlying assumptions which don't quite make sense but I just can't quite figure out why"). Put another way, one Soul's personal childhood explorations and memories, are another Soul's "pornography". As in, literally. Perhaps does the one brandishing the accusation stick of "your image is pornographic, you must suffer the law" tell us more about the one making this accusation, than the target of his accusation? Matthew 7:5: “Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and only then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.” https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Matthew-7-5/ Many humans project their own sin (incorrect direction, of action, attention etc), fears, and painful personal past events, upon others, naturally (but mostly incorrectly) assuming others have a similar lense to themselves - the age old projectionism trap. Something constructive? May be require that every legislated crime name an actual victim, as well as the actual harm that victim has actually suffered. And perhaps leave it to parents, rather than police and the courts, to educate their children on the dangers of sharing with others, images they take of themselves. (And while we're at it, work hard to reduce or eliminate all victimless crimes, putting humans first and corporations last in our scheme of values.) For an absolute classic (and very recent) example of projectionism in action, see Lana Lockteff on Suzanne Harper (the so called "Jessie Daniels") Feminist Professor: White Nuclear Families Are Racist & Supremacist Red Ice TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yR1BBlGI1M Jessie/ Suzanne is virulently anti-White, speaks of "dismantling white supremacy", the evils of the "white nuclear family" being "one of the most powerful forces supporting white supremacy" etc etc etc ... ... and according to her own story (IF true), Suzanne was molested by her grandfather and he'd had a stint in the KKK, yet this "professor" Suzanne cannot see her projection of her (if true) painful past, upon all white people and all "white nuclear families" and "the patriarchy". Go figure :D - perhaps she ought take a university course on psychology. Those with genuine unresolved issues arising from their childhood ought seek the help they need to find healing, resolution, closure and peace within themselves before one-sidely branding as evil an entire race or people (in Suzanne Harper's case, all "white" people and especially "white nuclear families"). A far greater problem which we actually appear to have and which actually affects most of us, is the blackmailing of our politicians, which since "the legalization" of those of the same gender who would "get a room" and otherwise carry out their intimate business in private, is these days limited to cuckoldry and pedophilia blackmail. Perhaps those eager to decry legislation without even a word to the problems inherent in the position they boldly oppose, ought ponder this question of our blackmailed politicians. Assuming of course they don't melt before hearing a position other than their own... Create your world. Perhaps first "clean up your room" which metaphorically speaking could include seeking closure on any painful events from your own childhood if that's something you need, and after this you might even find that some of those you love to hate are actually interesting, caring, deeply thoughtful, and possibly even loving, creative and wonderful fellow human beings.

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PaperDump: Mirai, Tor, Darknet, TLA, I2P Censorship, PETs in Sidechains, and more
by grarpamp 28 Aug '19

28 Aug '19

https://news.softpedia.com/news/mozilla-firefox-could-soon-get-a-tor-mode-a… https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-mirai-botnet-lurks-in-the-tor-network-to-… OSINT Analysis of the TOR Foundation https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.05201.pdf Tempest: Temporal Dynamics in Anonymity Systems https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.01932.pdf Adversaries monitoring Tor traffic crossing their jurisdictional border and reconstructing Tor circuits https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.09237.pdf DeepCorr: Strong Flow Correlation Attacks on Tor Using Deep Learning https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.07285.pdf Onions in the Crosshairs: When The Man really is out to get you https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.10292.pdf Shedding Light on the Dark Corners of the Internet: A Survey of Tor Research https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.02816.pdf Adaptive Traffic Fingerprinting for Darknet Threat Intelligence https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.01155.pdf Counter-RAPTOR: Safeguarding Tor Against Active Routing Attacks https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.00843.pdf Peel the onion: Recognition of Android apps behind the Tor Network https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.04434.pdf Tik-Tok: The Utility of Packet Timing in Website Fingerprinting Attacks https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.06421.pdf Mockingbird: Defending Against Deep-Learning-Based Website Fingerprinting Attacks with Adversarial Traces https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.06626.pdf A Forensic Audit of the Tor Browser Bundle https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.10279.pdf Anomalous keys in Tor relays https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.00792.pdf Mitigating Censorship with Multi-Circuit Tor and Linear Network Coding https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.03473.pdf DNS-Morph: UDP-Based Bootstrapping Protocol For Tor https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.01240.pdf Towards Predicting Efficient and Anonymous Tor Circuits https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.01977.pdf TorPolice: Towards Enforcing Service-Defined Access Policies in Anonymous Systems https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.08162.pdf DROPWAT: an Invisible Network Flow Watermark for Data Exfiltration Traceback https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.09460.pdf Deanonymizing Tor hidden service users through Bitcoin transactions analysis https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.07501.pdf Tor Users Contributing to Wikipedia: Just Like Everybody Else? https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.04324.pdf Open Dataset of Phishing and Tor Hidden Services Screen-captures https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.02449.pdf A Broad Evaluation of the Tor English Content Ecosystem https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.06680.pdf Structure and Content of the Visible Darknet https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.01348.pdf On the Complexity of Anonymous Communication Through Public Networks https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.06306.pdf A Survey of Privacy Infrastructures and Their Vulnerabilities https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.06226.pdf The Effectiveness of Privacy Enhancing Technologies against Fingerprinting https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.03920.pdf Where The Light Gets In: Analyzing Web Censorship Mechanisms in India https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.01708.pdf An Extensive Evaluation of the Internet's Open Proxies https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.10258.pdf Measuring I2P Censorship at a Global Scale https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.07120.pdf An Empirical Study of the I2P Anonymity Network and its Censorship Resistance https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.09086.pdf Integrating Privacy Enhancing Techniques into Blockchains Using Sidechains https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.04953.pdf BlockTag: Design and applications of a tagging system for blockchain analysis https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.06044.pdf Interesting that many attacks on overlay networks seem to depend on lack of fulltime 100% capacity fill and reclocking, and that no overlay [or underlying physical] networks currently deploy it, nor do many nets of other design seem to make extensive impact upon that class of GPA. Even 14.4-56k rates could could have interesting uses at secure levels.

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Re: Kalaidzhi Tradition, Witches Politics, and Bizarre Creations
by Ryan Carboni 28 Aug '19

28 Aug '19

Oh, yes, Broadly. >Broadly attended the extravagant wedding to capture the rituals and ceremonies that go into planning a traditional occult wedding. ... > and give Beatrice power, fame, and recognition https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwpvj4/romania-witch-wedding-arranged-ma… Or watch The Family on Netflix, a documentary series about billionaires recruiting the vulnerable into a cult where they clean the toilets of senators. Or watch Yellowstone, where in a subplot one kid joins a secret society for a billionaire and gets branded? Or read about the former President of South Korea, who was the pawn of a feminist cult? (Allegedly the cult was behind widespread media reporting on fan death) I can imagine some spook watching some nut job in an important position do something horrific, and say to himself, “Oh yeah, I’m in control of this situation.” The people who run the United States need to be locked up for various reasons, and they certainly shouldn’t be deciding anything important. Sent from ProtonMail Mobile

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Cryptocurrency: John McAfee On Point recap
by grarpamp 28 Aug '19

28 Aug '19

For publication... Great conversations with John in good form... Currency's Role, Unregulatable, History Books, Quit Fueling the Car, Ode to Woman, Obligation, Carry Forth the Message of Real Freedom P2P... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDffZ7PwbBY http://bitcoinradio.libsyn.com/eps009-john-mcafee-presidential-candidate-fu… https://chtbl.com/track/94G89/traffic.libsyn.com/preview/bitcoinradio/eps.0… https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1166315091253506049 "Transparency or Privacy/Anonymity in Crypto? Which is it ? It's a simple answer that you need to understand and understand now." https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1166468748326424578 "I was raised in the U.S. I went to school, kissed my first girl, got my first job, raised a family, hoped for our future. I love America with all of my heart. But I am at war with the government of my country, which, I fear, bears little love for anything but itself." Math, Privacy, DEX, Conspiracy, Campaigning, Greenland, Learn, Make your Monday's about Love... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTTW8aST85Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqHv36X4eOs https://mcafeemagic.com/ Good to see privacy now finally making it into the wider cryptocurrency convo arena as being a critical and required element to its ultimate success. Stay sharp my friend. Published on Aug 26, 2019 John McAfee is a man who need no introduction. Even so, I'll give a brief one: Computers, Money, Advocating Freedom, Running for President, Government Targeting, Traveling the World (Fleeing Persecution), Social Media Messenger John has been advocating for personal sovereignty, an end to wars of aggression, ceasing the financial fuckery of centralized fiat currencies and the banks that control them, deconstructing the failed institutions of government and enjoying your life for many years now. This is a message that has cost him no small amount of money, time, conflict, stress and more. It's made all the more remarkable because he could have just sat back on the beach with more money than he knew what to do with, and enjoyed the twilight of his life with the love of his life, Mrs. Janice McAfee, sipping drinks and tripping balls. Instead, he chose to be a messenger for freedom and personal sovereignty. Because he was not some fringe hippie with no means or connections, the powers that be saw an actual threat in the man, and have to this very day run a campaign to bring McAfee down. When a plantation owner with no slaves, but plenty of resources, announces to the unwitting slaves of the other plantation owners that they are slaves and don't need to be, is it any wonder they turn their eyes, along with their proclivity for lynching, to the man with the bullhorn? Tune in and listen to the man as he seeks to enlighten you to the mess you're in, and suggest to you the ways in which you might remove yourself from it. Want more from John McAfee? https://twitter.com/officialmcafee http://mcafee2020.com/

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Privacy, Censorship, Freedom
by grarpamp 28 Aug '19

28 Aug '19

Lot of talk on tor tech itself, but little on tech as enabling a range of potential futures for history that encrypted censorship resistant overlay communication, social and transaction networks as a whole can help liberate in conversation... without those spanning from Zimmerman to overlays to now Satoshi, all sorts of discussion on new models, regardless of what any may favor or take up among them or may create of their own, these free exchanges around the world would not be happening in real time today without such tools serving both sci-fi like inspiration, as iterative building blocks, and now in use in the world. That such new crypto things and convo are now in politics, that one can even find any uncurated uncensored convo, or create or take part in any, globally, in a few keystrokes, is testament to the good of such agnostic tools re the subject. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDffZ7PwbBY Those interested in tor as applied technology should definitely take time not only with tor itself, but to survey and try all the new overlay tech, many now exist... from transports, to distributed storage, messaging, cryptocurrency, text, audio, video, and social comms platforms... but perhaps even more importantly, the range of new conversations occuring over them, and what convo and tools you might add out there in the new decentralized world. World is changing fast, have fun :)

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advertising - open (sort of) hardware
by Punk 27 Aug '19

27 Aug '19

https://www.raptorcs.com/content/BK1B01/intro.html A single Blackbird™ µATX mainboard One 4-core IBM POWER9 CPU seems like the IBM processors don't have explicit hardware malware (aka intel ME, amd PSP) in them.

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Bitmessage - Anonymous, Encrypted, Secure Messaging, Chans, and Broadcasts
by cypherpunk＠danwin1210.me 27 Aug '19

27 Aug '19

Bitmessage - Anonymous, Encrypted, Secure Messaging, Chans, and Broadcasts -------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is a uncensorable messaging and discussion network, Bitmessage. It is a decentralized and trustless peer-to-peer protocol. It sports a slick graphical interface that works like a mail client. The UX is snappy and easy even for Grandma. Management of cryptography keys and signing is automatic under the hood and is never exposed to the end user. It is an order of magnitude easier to use than PGP or GnuPG. https://bitmessage.org https://github.com/Bitmessage/PyBitmessage Bitmessage works like the old mixnets or remailers but much more securely. It is highly resistant to eavesdropping and censorship. The lead developer is from the old cypherpunk culture. Bitmessage has several useful features: * Connect via Tor * Anonymous chans * Anonymous broadcasts * Anonymous distributed mailing list repeaters * Private messaging addresses * Automatic management of all cryptography keys You can run bitmessage in a firejail on Linux for extra extra security. We've found only one security hole in over six years of development, and we're pretty confident that it is very secure "out of the box" at this time. If you want to help the network please configure a node to accept incoming connections to increase the speed and security of the network against traffic analysis. The more peers that accept incoming connections the more resilient the network becomes. Please share this resource with all the mailing lists to which you are subscribed, with your friends, and on bulletin boards. I hope to see you on the Bitmessage channel, [chan] cypherpunks. To subscribe to this chan in Bitmessage, click on the 'Chans' tab, then click the 'Add chan' button, then enter the passphrase 'cypherpunks' and click OK. The crypto community has been hijacked by shills who try to control the discussion and keep people in the dark about the sad state of privacy. There are a lot of pro-law-enforcement shills who are trying to move us into back-doored crypto. The "leaders" have hidden agendas. They keep rolling out broken cryptography full of security holes (how convenient), then tell the rest of us to never roll our own crypto (how inconvenient for them), that we should put all our eggs in their leaky basket. a old cypherpunk

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Cryptocurrency: Craig Wright Loses In Court, Issues Liquidation Warning
by grarpamp 27 Aug '19

27 Aug '19

On 8/27/19, jim bell <jdb10987(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-27/bitcoin-investors-downpl… https://news.bitcoin.com/court-instructs-craig-wright-to-distribute-billion… https://twitter.com/KatieAnanina/status/1166083984830410759 https://beincrypto.com/breaking-craig-wright-branded-liar-as-judge-sides-wi… https://twitter.com/PeterMcCormack/status/1166086602441068544 This is the douchebag that just got his fake ass beat in court. Go ahead, sell your bags, lol... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4v8rLEI4Pg

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kaspersky.com: A honeytrap for malware
by jim bell 27 Aug '19

27 Aug '19

kaspersky.com: A honeytrap for malware. https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/kaspersky-sandbox-patent/28110/

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Bloomberg: Investors Downplay Self-Proclaimed Bitcoin Inventor’s Liquidation Warning
by jim bell 27 Aug '19

27 Aug '19

Bloomberg: Investors Downplay Self-Proclaimed Bitcoin Inventor’s Liquidation Warning. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-27/bitcoin-investors-downpl…

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