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Fun Hardware :)
by grarpamp 16 Sep '17

16 Sep '17

On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 10:15 PM, Cecilia Tanaka <cecilia.tanaka(a)gmail.com> wrote: > PS for grarpamp: - "Despacito" played on two calculators, hihi! > Pretty cute and will make you smile a bit! <3 > > # https://youtu.be/gBT5lmikXrs Unboxing the "Clariton" AR-7778 Electronic Musical Calculator Complete with catchy music track https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBGXlxUIxuI Various models available https://world.taobao.com/item/521983057248 https://www.englishtaobao.net/Product/521983057248 https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B01N7GT3S2 Some tablatures for them are starting to show up. Needs a line level sub output so you can bump it. And of course, more tunes... https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbvQHCZJHHS4PJpatQGH-0w/videos Casio and Sharp rivalry used to make similar things decades ago when pocket calculators and Japan first hit big... https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=musical+calculator Related... https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=nintendo+game+watch > ------- > "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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Forget populism – crypto-anarchists are the new masters
by grarpamp 15 Sep '17

15 Sep '17

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/04/forget-far-right-populis… Many are concerned about the internet’s role in politics. But more worrying is the digital tsunami poised to engulf us, as machine intelligence and a rising tech elite radically restructure life as we know it ......... Consider for a moment how your life has changed thanks to digital technology. You can become friends with 2 billion connected people, chose your own news, and watch/date/order whatever you want, on demand. Infinite choice and control is now the norm, and yet formal politics has barely evolved since the days of Robert Peel. Our modern political system came of age in the industrial revolution, which was a time of massive organisations and centralised control. We are now, however, firmly in a new industrial revolution, characterised by endless choice, digital technology, data, automation and artificial intelligence. The economy, identity, political allegiances, perhaps even the essence of what it is to be human, are all starting to change, and our politics will have to change with it. The current set-up, including the populist right, will cling on for a while, like a legacy IT system that’s too pricey to update, but it will shortly become redundant. Crypto-anarchy is taking over the world – millions now unwittingly rely on it for online security So what else might follow? In October last year, while researching my new book, Radicals, I was invited by a Slovenian hacker in his late 20s called Pavol to a place called Parallel Polis, a three-storey building in Prague that includes a 3D printer workshop and the “Institute of Crypto-Anarchy”. Crypto-anarchists are mostly computer-hacking, anti-state libertarians who have been kicking around the political fringes for two decades, trying to warn a mostly uninterested public about the dangers of a world where everything is connected and online. They also believe that digital technology, provided citizens are able to use encryption themselves, is the route to a stateless paradise, since it undermines government’s ability to monitor, control and tax its people. Crypto-anarchists build software – think of it as political computer code – that can protect us online. Julian Assange is a crypto-anarchist (before WikiLeaks he was an active member of the movement’s most important mailing list), and so perhaps is Edward Snowden. Once the obsessive and nerdy kids in school, they are now the ones who fix your ransomware blunder or start up unicorn tech firms. They are the sort of people who run the technology that runs the world. ..... A representative from something called “Bitnation” explained to Parallel Polis how an entire nation could one day be provided online via an uncontrollable, uncensorable digital network, where groups of citizens could club together to privately commission public services. ........... At some point, and probably sooner than we think, the current left and right offerings of the major parties, including (perhaps especially) the populist, will start to appear ludicrous and unworkable. New political movements and ideas will arrive before long for this industrial revolution, especially once the majority of the population will soon have grown up online. It will be a politics that offers solutions to the challenges society will face, and be bold enough to steer technology rather than be led by it, to harness it rather than dismiss it, to see it as a motor of social change, not just a job maker. Perhaps there will be some back-to-the-earth, off-grid thinking reminiscent of the 1970s. (There are already small hints of it if you look in the right places: bricks through Google bus windows and digital detox days). I’m not sure. More likely is that groups like the Prague crypto-anarchists, who will embrace the changes and experiment with entirely new forms of governance and society, will emerge. After all, they were right about digital technology, about surveillance and bitcoin and most of us ignored them. And for better of worse, I think they’re probably right about this too.

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Re: [tor-talk] $1,000,000 for tor zerodays
by grarpamp 15 Sep '17

15 Sep '17

On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 5:33 AM, eric gisse <jowr.pi(a)gmail.com> wrote: > https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wnjgxb/russia-has-put-a-bounty-o… > > On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 5:17 PM, flipchan <flipchan(a)riseup.net> wrote: >> Where does the cash come from? Governments, Intel, LE, some corporate types, dark secrets and money. The ones, and compartmented parts of them, that need more exploits than their current, often parallel, capabilities and efforts already have. And a likely lesser set of users / devs that simply need to know [sooner]. Perhaps $1M worth bought on markets globally every month. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_for_zero-day_exploits

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Barrett Brown Pursuance Project AMA and AltGov Manifesto
by grarpamp 15 Sep '17

15 Sep '17

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gyynwm/barrett-brown-what-is-to-… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOoPyovqk2Q https://pursuanceproject.org/ It is time to consider alternate systems of governance. Impactful, agile, secure civic collaboration The Barrett Brown Review of Arts & Letters & Civil Strife is written monthly by Barrett Brown, winner of the 2016 National Magazine Award for columns and commentary. Selections... The pursuance system is the world's first comprehensive framework for process democracy. That is, it allows individuals with no prior relationship to self-organize into robust, agile entities governed via a "proceduralism of agreement." These entities, called pursuances, in turn engage and collaborate among themselves to whatever extent they choose, leading ultimately to a vast and formidable ecosystem of opposition to institutionalized injustice. Over 40 years ago, a vastly criminalized presidential administration was brought down through a combination of leaks, reporting, and Congressional action. Twenty-five years later, two former Nixon administration officials, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney, managed to take firm control of yet another presidential administration. This one, too, was marked by revelations of unconstitutional and criminal acts, including torture, mass surveillance, the unprecedented negligence of emergency preparedness functions, the politically motivated firings of U.S. attorneys, and the most disastrous military engagements since Vietnam. Ten years later, many now regard the Bush Administration with actual nostalgia. It has become more and more difficult, as the years proceed, to maintain the fiction that the American republic is fundamentally sound. An associated myth—that the great majority of the American electorate are decent people who are entirely capable of overseeing the single most powerful apparatus in history—has also become less viable. The "establishment," as we may as well join in terming it, has likewise lost credibility, for reasons ranging from nonsensical to inarguable. The end result is a crisis of moral authority, and even of amoral authority; this is a society that cannot even produce a proper strongman. But it can certainly produce a disaster, for ourselves and for the world. Recall that the baseline of 21st century America involves a sort of constitutional police state with unprecedented incarceration rates, increasingly militarized law enforcement, an unaccountable intelligence community with a long history of unconstitutional behavior, and a judicial and legislative culture that, all told, has officially rendered tens of millions of Americans criminals Rumsfeld understood the real lesson of Watergate: the risks of violating our Constitution are vastly eclipsed by the rewards. The consequences of a morally failed American republic, continuing on its present course for even just another decade, would be irreparable. No competent observer of our current trajectory can today disregard this scenario, or others far worse. Years ago, I created a group called Project PM, billed as a "distributed think tank" and intended to build a platform for vastly improved civic collaboration and media analysis. The most important fact of the 21st century is that any individual can now collaborate with any other individual on the planet. It is an absolute certainty that, with sufficient thought, a new mechanism may someday be designed, capable of integrating thousands of talented individuals and existing organizations into a sort of parallel civic ecosystem Since my release from prison eight months ago, the Pursuance System has been explained in broad terms via outlets like Wired; it will be detailed further in broadcasts by NPR, PBS, and VICE, as well as the upcoming documentary Sensational. This media push will culminate next year with the publication of my upcoming book, a "memoir-manifesto" that will make the larger case for why the Pursuance System is not only necessary, but inevitable.

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Govts Feds Sponsor $1M for Tor Zerodays
by grarpamp 15 Sep '17

15 Sep '17

> On Sep 13, 2017, at 8:41 AM, I <beatthebastards(a)inbox.com> wrote: > https://zerodium.com/tor.html For more information about our tailored cybersecurity capabilities for governments or our protective solutions for corporations, please contact us. Access to ZERODIUM solutions and capabilities is highly restricted and is only available to a very limited number of eligible customers. jackieam2003 This is one of the reasons why we need tor browser to be sandboxed, it would make it much harder for an attacker to find two separate zero days, to get past both Firefox and the sandbox. That is generally Qubes+Whonix. On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Jim Carter <rudrajohn.rs(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Someone please take down that website. > > On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 10:38 AM, Lara <lara.tor(a)emails.veryspeedy.net> > wrote: > >> On Thu, 14 Sep 2017, at 04:35, krishna e bera wrote: >> > Anyone caught selling Tor bugs and exploits to anyone but TorProject >> > should be subject to some kind of severe penalty. It is an offence >> > against the right to privacy, in other words a crime against humanity. >> >> You have spoken so well, comrade! The People's Tribunals should judge >> harshly this sort of crime against our fellow comrades. And the Chief >> Administration of Corrective Labor Camps should make sure they are doing >> steady jobs to repay the public for their crimes. >> >> Than the people will need internal Passports. And should identify so the >> government will know who the criminals are. And finally everyone should >> be monitored by qualified agents to make sure nobody violates this >> sacred right to privacy. >> >> Once one single country starts doing that, more will follow. I am sure.

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Godaddy survey answers
by Zenaan Harkness 15 Sep '17

15 Sep '17

Godaddy's in-house survey monkey just hit me up. Thought it was a good time to express their lack of advising themselves in regard to the impact to their public image when they took a stand against TDS: - Why did you rate Godaddy the way you just did (low)? Godaddy took a stand against freedom of speech in rejecting TheDailyStormer.com's (TDS) domain registration, and GoDaddy did so in a way which failed to uphold one of our community's foundational freedoms. When undermining a fundamental human right, as Godaddy did to TDS, even if your target is speaking objectionably, Godaddy as an "information carrier" (of sorts) has a significantly higher duty of care to its customers (e.g. TDS) than other entities. Godaddy, in cancelling TDS' domain, failed to conduct itself in a way compatible with its duty of care obligations to our community to treat every body fairly and in a way which preserves due process. Godaddy should advise itself to inform itself of the requirements for conduct in relation to those of its customers who say things on their websites which Godaddy may object to. - What is the single most important thing we could do to improve your experience? Advise yourself that when you take a public stand against freedom of speech (even objectionable speech), you are affecting your reputation negatively, in a big way. Due to the TDS episode, my plans are to transition completely off of Godaddy in the coming 2 years.

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Scholarships for Security Certification
by Yush Bhardwaj 15 Sep '17

15 Sep '17

Ethical Hackers League, a nonprofit organization is offering 100% scholarships for their Certification Programs in the cyber security domain. EHL identified that there is a huge skill gap in the IT security industry and there is huge potential for aggressive expansion. With the imminent rise in cyber crime and related attacks, the need of skilled cyber security professionals is on the rise as well. This is a war one cannot fight alone and EHL is trying to solve this problem with their initiative. On its 6 year anniversary, EHL is offering 6 certifications for free every day of the year which is 365 candidates for each of the 6 programs. Even high-end advanced certifications in the domain of digital forensics are part of this scholarship program. This is a huge opportunity for those who wish to excel or build their career in IT security. To apply or for more information, please visit http://ethicalhackersleague. org or revert on this email or mail us on scholarship(a)ethicalhackersleague.org

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NSA Releases Declassified CLArion, Crypto-Linguistic Association, 41 Issues, 2008-2010
by John Young 14 Sep '17

14 Sep '17

NSA Releases Declassified CLArion, Crypto-Linguistic Association, 41 Issues, 2008-2010, 280 Pages (168MB) https://cryptome.org/2017/09/nsa-clarion.zip

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#OpenFabs Ground Up Rebuild [re: secure computer]
by grarpamp 14 Sep '17

14 Sep '17

On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 1:53 AM, Ryan Carboni <ryacko(a)gmail.com> wrote: > In the end, you can only trust something you can understand, otherwise you > are trusting the word of someone else. While ultimately true, it is certainly possible to create a far more trustable model than the totally blind "We are the corp / gov (or any other closed source single point opaque authority, trade secret IPR, NDA), *You can trust us*" that idiots happily accept today. > the original computers used relays, switches, and wires to be programmed. There can be parallel lines of open inspection and cross certification of fully open ground up rebuilds all the way to current HW and SW products... ie: Processor, OS. The rebuild path, both of tooling itself and product, from relays to vacuum tubes to silicon to gigagate masks is already known form history, thus requires zero research. The research is in how to do the rebuild under a model that imparts explicit open reliable reviewable documented n-man rule realtime operating and historical chain of reasonably bulletproof trust. #OpenFabs, #OpenHW, #OpenSW Such a project could be seeded and continuously funded by #CryptoCurrencies, #DAOs, #EarlyAdopters, #CypherPunks, and eventually, sales of product runs None of today's opaque HW gates are remotely trustworthy, any attempts to impart trust to them are no more than foolish speculation.

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Noam Chomsky again shows his fascist chops - [ PFKR ] SciAmerican: Google Engineer Fired for Sexist Memo Isn't a Hero
by Zenaan Harkness 14 Sep '17

14 Sep '17

Noam, Noam, Noam! Whatever are we to think of (((you)))? Yes, some comprehensive intellectual spinnability you have, yet your commitment to science is ... astonishing, to say the least :) ----- Forwarded message from "PFKR (People For Kangz Responsibility) Announcement List" <pfkr(a)pfkr.org> ----- SciAmerican: Google Engineer Fired for Sexist Memo Isn't a Hero https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/google-engineer-fired-for-… He presents himself as a courageous defender of truth. Google, in contrast, is an "echo chamber" that is "intolerant of scientific debate and reasoned argument." Damore notes that Noam Chomsky, the linguist and social critic, once wrote: "The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." But Chomsky has expressed abhorrence for research into cognitive differences between different groups. In his 1987 book Language and Problems of Knowledge Chomsky wrote: "Surely people differ in their biologically determined qualities. The world would be too horrible to contemplate if they did not. But discovery of a correlation between some of these qualities is of no scientific interest and of no social significance, except to racists, sexists and the like." - - - --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren(a)kangz.com) https://www.kangz.com/lauren Lauren's Blog: https://lauren.kangz.com Google Issues Mailing List: https://kangz.com/google-issues Founder: Network Neutrality Squad: https://www.nnsquad.org PRIVACY Forum: https://www.kangz.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: https://www.kangz.org/pfkr-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Google+: https://google.com/+LaurenKangztein Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenkangztein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 --- Impeach Trump coz """DUMocracy""" was better wid Kangz --- _______________________________________________ pfkr mailing list https://lists.kangz.org/mailman/listinfo/pfkr ----- End forwarded message -----

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