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[RUS] "Inosmi" website, translating Western news Eng→Ru, inoculating Russkies against parochial nationalism and conservative Russian claptrap since many a yearski
by Zenaan Harkness 27 Sep '17

27 Sep '17

Yep, you guessed it ... "or something" :D Anyone who still has pride in "the Western MSM press" is surely rather shamed at this point in time, since even those paid to "spread the great Western propaganda machine" to our Russkie patriots have had to acknowledge that their efforts have had the opposite effect ... the typical non-English/ only-Russian reading Russkie, is absolutely convinced that "The West" is out to get them. Yep, "we"'re definitely spreading the Western "message"... One can quite rationally and seriously say that (from the cynical Western perspective), the Western MSM is literally doing the Kremlin's job for them. And of course, that warm hearted, peace loving movie star, Morgan Freeman, has only added to Russkie "trust" of the West, just as the Western MSM has been doing for years. You could barely script such satyrically improbable humour - except this is all -actually- happening, in real time, year after year, before our very eyes!! <mumbles under his embarrassed breath>Damn I wish I was Russian, this is so bloody embarrassing it's just, not, funny!<‼> ** Morgan Freeman's Russia-Hating Video Has Gone Viral - But Not the Way He Hoped http://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413c… ------------------------------------------------------------ by Paul Robinson on Tue, Sep 26, 2017 I once read that the founders of the website Inosmi.ru, which translates articles from the Western mass media into Russia, had hoped that by giving Russians access to Western journalism they would be able to convince them of the rightness of Western ways and of the values of liberal-democracy more generally, and thus rid them of their nationalist and anti-democratic urges. Unfortunately, said the article, Inosmi had had the opposite effect. Once non-English speaking Russians finally got the opportunity to read the over-the-top nonsense about Russia that passes for journalism in the Western press, they became more convinced than ever that the Western world was out to get them. Given such "comedy" if one can even call it that, it's just as well "The West's" "leading corporate lights" continue upholding "Western values" for the rest of the world to learn from - especially those "uneducated Russkies": ** Land of the Free? - Amazon Bans Book Critical of Hyper-Russophobe Bill Browder in US http://russia-insider.us9.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413… ------------------------------------------------------------ by Alex Krainer on Tue, Sep 26, 2017 Update: the book is still available on Amazon.fr (The Killing of William Browder) It is ironic that just today I posted an article about the paramount importance of free speech, which numerous government bureaucracies and large corporations in the West seek to suppress in their purported endeavor to police “hate speech.” (I assure you there’s not even a trace of hate speech in my book). Tick tock ... ** What Saudi King Salman’s Visit Means for Russia http://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413c… ------------------------------------------------------------ by M K Bhadrakumar on Tue, Sep 26, 2017 The forthcoming visit by Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz to Russia(October 4-7) carries great symbolism. Such poignancy is for several reasons – not merely because this is the first-ever visit by a Saudi monarch to Russia. The Soviet Union was the first country in 1926 to establish diplomatic relations with the Kingdom (which was known at that time as the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd) but under heavy western influence, the Saudi side froze the relationship a decade later, and it remained so till the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Thankfully, looks like we might just not be all about to die: ** US and Russian Generals Met in Unprecedented Face-To-Face Syria Deconfliction Meeting http://russia-insider.us9.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413… ------------------------------------------------------------ by Marko Marjanović on Tue, Sep 26, 2017 The US military has disclosed it has held the first ever meeting with Russian generals directing Russia’s military intervention in Syria last week. The meeting was held to try and ease the US-Russian rivalry in eastern Syria which threatens to turn into a military confrontation. “They had a face-to-face discussion, laid down maps and graphics,” in the first meeting of its kind, U.S. Army Colonel Ryan Dillon, a spokesman in Baghdad for the U.S.-led coalition fighting the IS extremist group, told a Pentagon briefing.

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While China Bans Bitcoin Exchanges, Japanese Government Embraces Them
by Cecilia Tanaka 27 Sep '17

27 Sep '17

"While China Bans Bitcoin Exchanges, Japanese Government Embraces Them" https://cointelegraph.com/news/while-china-bans-bitcoin-exchanges-japanese-… ---------- "Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live." - Mae Jemison

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Re: [tor-talk] Is there any societal use in Bitcoin?
by grarpamp 27 Sep '17

27 Sep '17

On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 12:31 PM, Aymeric Vitte <vitteaymeric(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Le 04/09/2017 à 18:04, grarpamp a écrit : >> Instead of whining about volatility, understand that >> cryptos are not centrally manipulated like fiat > > Unfortunately I think they are for now, for reasons already explained > and I believe that prices are manipulated too I mean not in the traditional way, such as literally printing or burning money... if a central government and banks were buying up 10's of $Billions of coin and sending them to the digital bitbucket, that (futile due to divisibility) expense would hit the news before long. Disruptive whaling has similar identifiability, and later diminishing returns under greater adoption. And they can't economically print it. They might be able to hold or bond it out as investment, but that's normal expectation and not innately evil. They could attack the networks and protocols, but at least so far maybe there is not much news there. They could regulate, but eventually if the coin is private anonymous overlay and so forth, it will overpower regulations. > maybe this is linked to > http://www.peersm.com/fractals/ > "Then we can now easily forecast the > price of Bitcoin and become rich", this if for fun right now and I > should continue it but the answer at the end is that the very same thing > did reproduce again, and does reproduce whatever external event occurs, > always the same thing... Yes pattern has been seen often. Maybe the network is actually more or less free running and the pattern is simply the human response curve to external events.

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Re: new idea for random number generation
by \0xDynamite 27 Sep '17

27 Sep '17

On 8/4/17, Randydandy <randydandy(a)randydandy.de> wrote: >> Would not a coin flip with the exact same initial parameters (height, >> force, deterministic air currents, and striking surface) have the same >> result? >[...] > The problem with your algorithm is that there are no parameters that > would be unknown. Only if you get randomness from another source as > parameters which makes this pseudo random. Okay, I should know this, but who came up with the idea of using random-number generators for ciphers anyway? Most XOR ciphers (which is unbreakable if, for example, you use a key as long as the text) use a key as a source, AFAIK. Anyone have a reference? Now, chaotic functions are known mathematically to be "topologically complete" (I believe that's the term I learned) -- that means they will cover every number in the range. An amazing feat: consider if you're using 2^63 (which will fit in ONE world) to express your real number in the logistic function. Your chance of landing on a already visited number is 9.22^308 -- beyond the scale of indexing every atom in the universe. So, in theory you have both an UNBREAKABLE and PRACTICAL cipher method: use the logistic function to make a pseudo-random number generator, think of unique words that you can transform into your seed values, and communicate those "humane" keys to your recipient. How can you possibly break this (apart from psychological tactics of guessing the words used to create the seed values)? Marxos

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Re: [Cryptography] Crypto basic income
by grarpamp 27 Sep '17

27 Sep '17

> https://medium.com/@guilhermepcampos/universal-crypto-basic-income-460fc462… > http://github.com/the-laughing-monkey/cicada-platform > https://blockchainhub.net/blockchain-oracles/ Cryptocurrency UBI effect already happens to holders during adoption phase, "it keeps going up" vs others on forex, but thereafter upon steady state it appears - they have to invest it to earn as with any fiat into stock / bond / biz - mechanical coin deflation could also effect an apparent UBI of purchase power up relative to other forex coins And since "growth" is a bit critically closed loop concerning Earth, one needs to think about time horizon in which present day UBI thinking would remain valid vs asymptotic average circular subsistance. > Do you think it will be possible, at some point, to have some sort of biometric public key infrastructure, where public and private keys are directly pegged to a persons biometric details? DNA has enough bits to create a unique / dependant key, DNA authentication is still slow, reprogramming is possible but as yet undeveloped nonproduction tech. > Could biometrics completely replace the need for passwords? Passwords are supposed to be held in secret mind, and rubberhose is supposed to be forbidden crime. Biometrics are dusted along your path to the point of easy failure. > If compromise of biometric details occurs, how would one go around to solve this, since it's not possible to, for example, create a new fingerprint for a person? See in mind above. If you want more bits there, then you have to legally expand to allow extension of mind into devices, whether carried droids, injected hw sec modules, or neural implant arduinos. > users might well be effectively forced to provide > DNA samples in various places. (E.g., if a government were to require > a DNA sample before issuing a driver's license or passport.) This in > itself might be ok *if* one were to trust an elected government -- and > all future governments -- not to misuse or mission-creep-use the sample > for unrelated things. > > But once that database exists, history shows that mission creep is very > likely, including nonconsentual or forced-"consentual" commercial uses. > The classic example is an insurance company buying (enough of a government > to allow) access to the database and then using it to deny life insurance > coverage to anyone with a high-risk-of-disease DNA profile. (This is > already an issue with medical records, where it's essentially impossible > to buy individual life insurance in the US or Canada without "consenting" > to the Medical Information Bureau > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIB_Group > searching one's medical records.) > Who out there can't wait until AFIS gets pwn'd? Keeping in mind such entities are extremely likely to be keeping civilian background biometrics forever too. Beware what you create.

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Re: [tor-relays] Individual Operator Exit Probability Threshold
by grarpamp 26 Sep '17

26 Sep '17

>> :> what the current value of "global" is but I should hope it's well above 5%... >> :I'm curious about what you mean by "global" here, and how it relates to >> :[potentially] malicious operators (suspicious relays of which are >> :frequently thrown off the Tor network). >> >> "global" as in a global passive adversary Global is relative, it can mean at a scale having wide enough coverage physical or logical, to achieve your goals, against from 1 to all users, in sufficient time. It probably doesn't mean 1 node or tap, or quite 10, but up towards 100 / 500 / 1000 becomes interesting to think about. Similarly probably not for $5000, yet $50000 to $10M becomes a project. Physical may mean literally distributed about the Earth. Logical may mean piled in one datacenter taking part in the random functions of a target network, such as DHT abuse. >> though I suppose running nodes is an active adversary. Depends on what's being done with those Sybil nodes. Listening, traffic analysis, recording, decryption... that's passive. Modification, inject / drop, perturb, exploit... that's active. There are successful attacks in both modes of operation. > If an adversary is a global passive adversary, surely that would mean > that they are for all intents and purposes seeing pretty much all of the > traffic? > > I think it is worth remembering that there isn't evidence there is a > global passive adversary at the moment, even if certain agencies and > organizations clearly aspire to be one. If anyone seriously thinks that GPA / GAA scale adversaries do not exist, or are not actively in effect and growing with intent, they need to get their head out of their ass and digest the news dating back to at least Snowden. Even simple University level research groups have published effective production low cost small scale Sybil attacks on tor. (Sybil may also include infiltration of global code repositories.) Learn about how internet backbones work, lack of per link level encryption and fill traffic, Tier-1 vantage points, dozens of suspect hops in a traceroute, etc. How entities and people bend over backwards to give data away under the legal or $dollar table with wink and nod. Read up what NSA, GCHQ, FVEY, DEA, et al are doing with $Billions, PATRIOT partnerships, manganese nodules, etc. In a sense, "global" may sometimes distill down to meaning the same "global amounts of money" spread at a problem via various vectors to achieve similar results. Threats involving large scale deployment of $money, nodes, and actors against tor and other networks are real and secretive. Secrecy requires gauging their effectiveness by analysis of leaks, court cases, parallel construction, whispers and canaries, whitepapers, human resources, code and deltas, and news media. The fun part beyond that is in figuring out how to defeat them and then doing exactly that :)

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Help me test something
by jim bell 26 Sep '17

26 Sep '17

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Outreachy - Internerships for Underrrepresented People in Tech
by He's a dude, She's a dude, We're all dudes 26 Sep '17

26 Sep '17

> Cecilia Tanaka cecilia.tanaka at gmail.com > Sat Sep 23 17:35:09 PDT 2017 > > internships are open internationally > to women (cis and trans), trans men > Please do not send your hateful, sexist, and racist (((news))) to this list. > Interns are paid a stipend of $5,500 [for three-months] > $11.45hr is shit. Interns need at least $20hr. Apple, Intel, and Microsoft all pay $40+hr. How is this a good thing ? > no "whites" allowed > And "whites" are less than 10% of the global population, yet they are not a "minority" to you shitbags. > underrepresented backgrounds > If you want to increase the representation of women and the likes in certain industries, I hear they are underrepresented in coal mining, garbage collecting, and workplace deaths, to name a few. Why is this not a gap you seek to fill ? > "Don't let anyone rob you of [anything]." > Yet you do exactly that with shit like this. You have been reported for hate crime.

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Let's try again...Buy Bitcoin NOW.
by jim bell 26 Sep '17

26 Sep '17

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Buy Bitcoin NOW.
by jim bell 26 Sep '17

26 Sep '17

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