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I'm marketing my newly-patent-applied-for invention, isotppically-modified dielectrics for IC's.
by jim bell 22 May '19

22 May '19

MUCH Better than Hafnium, MUCH Better than Zirconium. Higher dielectric constant. From Daltonium Isotopics - Published on May 19, 2019 For years, your company has been making ICs using materials including an element, Hafnium, as a replacement for the silicon dioxide (SiO2) previously used. You did this because the SiO2 layer was getting too thin (1.2 nanometers), which led to manufacturability problems and quantum tunnelling problems. 1.2 nanometers is only six diameters of a silicon atom. And if the insulator gets too thin, the electons go right through it. Not good if you are trying to minimize a chip's power consumption. And that's what the customers want, because they are often running memory and microprocessors using limited-capacity batteries. Some smart guy figured out that if the dielectric was made employing compounds made with Hafnium, the dielectric constant (also called the "relative permittivity") could be increased from SiO2's 3.9 to about 24, a major improvement. This allowed you to increase the thickness of the gate insulator, reducing the quantum tunnelling. It also allowed you to maintain, and even increase gate authority over the current in the semiconductor channel: This means that changes in voltage of the gate have a bigger effect, changing the current through the semiconductor channel. That might allow a lower supply voltage, too. Might this drop power consumption even further? It worked very well. Over time, minimum feature sizes went from about 60 nanometers to today's 10 nanometers. But you want to go further. Yet, you are wondering where the next big material breakthrough is going to come from. Will you be able to maintain a semiconductor process down to 3 nanometers? How are you going to be able to "out-Hafnium" Hafnium? All the chemical elements that nature provides are shown in a Periodic Table of the Elements. There are 92 elements up to Uranium, and only 81 of them are stable. (The rest are radioactive, so we don't use them.) You might imagine that each and every one of them has been considered, at one time or another, for use in semiconductor and dielectric devices. And probably that's true. If an element existed that would help, somebody would have found it by now. You think. But they haven't. I believe you will succeed, but will do so with my help. I have just patented an improvement to dielectrics based on an easy-to-do substitution to the atoms within a Hafnium-containing dielectric, and quite possibility others as well. One that I believe will greatly increase the possible dielectric constant. It requires a simple, easy to describe change in the makeup of the chemicals used in a deposition machine. And a bit of redesign of your IC process, to take advantage of the better characteristics of the Hafnium-containing dielectric layer. I found something that your best scientists and engineers didn't even consider. Nobody expected to find an improvement, so nobody looked. The material I found was always there, but just well-hidden. Hidden in plain sight, you might say. Like a few trees, hidden in a forest. And your people didn't think they needed to enter that forest. Isotopes. By and large, your people didn't consider isotopes. Well, neither did the rest of the semiconductor industry. Most engineers and even scientists usually think of isotopes as being atoms with different numbers of particles called "neutrons", and that is quite true. But that's not the only difference there is with some isotopes. A few special ones. I would like to discuss this matter with some of your Semiconductor Process Scientists and Engineers, under an NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement). Please talk to them, and have them contact us. daltoniumisotopics[at]geemail [dotcom] They, and you, need the improvements this invention can provide. Because if you don't use it, maybe your competitors will. Jim Bell

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CryptoAnarchy: 3D Gun Community Moves to the Distributed Underground
by grarpamp 21 May '19

21 May '19

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/3d-printed-guns-blueprints 3D-printed guns are back, and this time they are unstoppable A decentralised network of gun-printing advocates is mobilising online, they're anonymously sharing blueprints, advice and building a community. There's no easy way they can be halted A new network of 3D-printed gun advocates is growing in America – and this time things are different. Unlike previous attempts to popularise 3D-printed guns, this operation is entirely decentralised. There’s no headquarters, no trademarks, and no real leader. The people behind it reckon that this means they can’t be stopped by governments. “If they [the government] were to come after me, they’d first have to find my identity,” says Ivan the Troll, a member of the group. “I’m one of many, many like-minded individuals who’re doing this sort of work.” Known only by his online moniker, Ivan the Troll is the de facto spokesman of an underground wave of 3D-printing gunsmiths. Ivan says he knows of at least 100 people who are actively developing 3D-printed gun technology, and he claims there are thousands taking part in the network. This loose-knit community spans across the whole world. They communicate across several digital platforms, including Signal, Twitter, IRC, and Discord. They critique each other's work, exchange 3D gun CAD files, offer advice, talk theory, and collaborate on future blueprints. These 3D-printed gun enthusiasts – who share similar ideas and political viewpoints on gun control – mostly found each other online via gun control subreddits and forums. Ivan is just one small part of this network. He says he is from Illinois, and is of “college age”, but otherwise he remains mostly anonymous, to lie low. At the same time though, he’s launched bombastic PR videos demonstrating the new 3D-printed gun parts he’s created in his garage, including a Glock 17 handgun frame. One of his most recent videos shows the polymer Glock 17 frame in various stages of production in his workshop. The footage is set to fast-paced synthwave music and is run through a trendy VHS filter – the aesthetics are important. Toward the end, Ivan fires several rounds with the fully built handgun, as text flashes up saying “ANYONE CAN MAKE IT”, “LIVE FREE OR DIE”, and “GO AHEAD TRY TO STOP THIS YOU FILTHY STATISTS”. He’s also uploaded the complete CAD reference model designs for a 3D-printed AR-15 assault rifle to his file-sharing space online. It’s clear Ivan is trying to provoke his detractors as much as possible. In February of this year, Ivan and his group decided to name themselves “Deterrence Dispensed”, which is a tongue-in-cheek nod to the notorious Defence Distributed – a 3D-printing gun company formerly run by Texan crypto-anarchist Cody Wilson. They’re uploading these files individually on services such as Spee.ch, a media-hosting site underpinned by the LBRY blockchain, and they aren’t waiting for anyone to give them permission. They’ve made their own 3D-printed gun designs, modified old ones, and are keeping all the Defence Distributed ones available for free too. “Even if there was no government telling me I couldn’t do this, I think that I would still do it,” Ivan says. “Some people get a kick out of video games, I like spending hours and hours drawing stuff on CAD.” Ivan isn’t just “drawing stuff on CAD” though. He’s providing free files to help anyone with a half-decent FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling) 3D printer and some hand tools to make a workable handgun. Once the CAD file is downloaded, it’s opened in a “slicer” program that translates the CAD files into instructions that the 3D printer can understand. Once the 3D-printed gun parts are ready, they can be assembled into a fully workable gun. The CAD gun designs put out by Deterrence Dispensed are so well-made, according to Ivan, that they’re not just “workable”, but superior. “Our AR15 CAD model is the best in the public domain without a doubt,” says Ivan. Despite being overtly antagonistic Ivan has had no real run-ins with the authorities so far. His Twitter account was permanently suspended after New Jersey state senator Bob Menendez lobbied for it to be taken down, but as far as the government and law enforcement goes, things have been mostly quiet. Ivan sees himself, and other radical 3D-printing gun groups such as FOSSCAD (another decentralised group of 3D-printing enthusiasts who focus on firearms), simply as hobbyists who’ve chosen the “wrong” thing to build. He sees 3D-printed guns as somewhat of a paper tiger. He points out that while 3D-printed gun parts can be built to kill people, zip guns (homemade firearms built from crude materials) have been around for decades and are arguably more deadly. The hysteria and backlash, to Ivan at least, is completely misplaced. “Take it from me as someone who’s printed a gun. Making a slam-fire shotgun is 100 times easier, 100 times quicker, and about 100 times cheaper than printing a [regular] gun. For eight dollars I can pop down to Home Depot and build a shotgun.” “The cops killed more people alone last year than all active shooter incidents in the last ten years,” he says. “We live in a society, in America, where you run the risk of a cop blowing your ass up for no specific reason. You don’t even have to present a threat to them. A cop can kill you and get away with it just because he really wanted to do it.” He then went on to cite the many police shootings of unarmed black men in American, specifically mentioning Stephon Clark. Clark, 22, was shot to death by police in his own back garden while holding nothing but a mobile phone. “I believe it is inherently important that … you should be able to own a gun,” Ivan continued. “You should be able to own the same legal force that the cops are using to control you.” A mix of a libertarian attitude and the rewarding hobby aspect of designing and creating something is often what drives members of these decentralised 3D-printed gun networks to do what they do – that is, uploading schematics, sharing them, improving designs, and making 3D-printed gun work more easily accessible while remaining largely under the radar. Ivan claims he does this for a love of freedom and “radical” belief in the US first and second amendment: free speech and the right to bear arms. He takes this to such a radical degree though, that he even theorises he should technically be able to have his own Tomahawk Missiles, saying that they would be safer in his hands than in those of the US Military and its allies – given the country's track record for accidentally targeting civilians, including a wedding party in Afghanistan and a school bus in Yemen. Referring to the mounting list of civilian killings carried about by US forces in foreign wars, Ivan sounds at times more like a radical leftist than the right wing “gun nut” many in America label him as. He claims not to have any specific ideology though, saying: “I get to be my own special snowflake.” As of now, Ivan the Troll, Deterrence Dispensed, and the thousands many more 3D-printed gun enthusiasts connected to each other worldwide, have essentially let the cat out the bag. There is no way to stop the anonymous file sharing of 3D-printed guns online. Whether they’re just pretending to be doing this for reasons of liberty or otherwise, their message is clear: it’s already too late to stop.

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Cryptocurrency: SEC Seeks Your Input On ETF's
by grarpamp 21 May '19

21 May '19

https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro/cboebzx/2019/34-85896.pdf Variety of ETF's, Trusts, Futures in the pipeline. US SEC and other agencies seek and accept input from users. Responses are also published. III. Procedure: Request for Written Comments The Commission requests that interested persons provide written submissions of their views, data, and arguments with respect to the issues identified above, as well as any other Use the Commission's Internet comment form http://www.sec.gov/rules/sro.shtml Send an e-mail to rule-comments(a)sec.gov. Please include File Number SR-CboeBZX- 2019-004 on the subject line. Send paper comments in triplicate to Secretary, Securities and Exchange Commission, 100 F Street, NE, Washington, DC 20549-1090. Comments on the proposed rule change can be found at: https://www.sec.gov/comments/sr-cboebzx-2019-004/srcboebzx2019004.htm Interested persons are invited to submit written data, views, and arguments regarding whether the proposal should be approved or disapproved [by 20 days from today]. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION (Release No. 34-85896; File No. SR-CboeBZX-2019-004) May 20, 2019 Self-Regulatory Organizations; Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc.; Order Instituting Proceedings to Determine Whether to Approve or Disapprove a Proposed Rule Change to List and Trade Shares of the VanEck SolidX Bitcoin Trust On January 30, 2019, Cboe BZX Exchange, Inc. ("BZX" or "Exchange") filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission"), pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Act")1 and Rule 19b-4 thereunder,2 a proposed rule change to list and trade shares of SolidX Bitcoin Shares ("Shares") issued by the VanEck SolidX Bitcoin Trust ("Trust") under BZX Rule 14.11(e)(4), Commodity-Based Trust Shares. The proposed rule change was published for comment in the Federal Register on February 20, 2019.3

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Goro Shimura, 89, Mathematician RIP
by John Young 21 May '19

21 May '19

Goro Shimura, 89, Mathematician With Broad Impact, Is Dead https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/obituaries/goro-shimura-dead.html "His insights led to tools widely used in modern cryptography." "A proof of a form of the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture would also prove Fermat's Last Theorem. In the 1990s, Andrew Wiles, then also at Princeton, figured out how to do just that, and Fermat's Last Theorem had finally been proved true. Dr. Wiles, now at the University of Oxford in England, wrote in an email that the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture was "a fundamental pivot in the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem." The proof also employed other key results of Dr. Shimura's research, he said."

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Hidden service persistent connections (Traffic Analysis)
by grarpamp 21 May '19

21 May '19

On 5/17/19, Memory Vandal <memvandal(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Are client connections to a hidden service .onion address that do not > disconnect for hours safe? > > It may be a big file download or multiple keep-alive transactions that uses > the established connection over and over for lets say few hours. > > If its not safe then what should be the max time a connection to .onion > service should get disconnected so that it uses a new circuit when it > reconnects? GPA and big global and regional network operators can pull out traffic patterns. NSA's own slide decks and papers, as well as academic researchers whitepapers in tor bib and elsewhere have confirmed this. Here are some degenerate traffic pattern... while : ; do wget onion ; sleep 5 ; done ping6 -w 5 <onioncat_peer> Who thinks those is or is not observable? Now receive or send your real N-GiB file, plot the packet timings and bandwidth variations going aross your nic. Do not forget the circuit creation wavefront either. Who thinks those are or are not observable at the other end (and even throughout in some cases)? Now add in targeted DoS blinking out nodes. And add in Sybil. Who disbelieves those tools effective? Who disbelieves "Op Ivy Bells" "641a" "Bumblehive" and "parallel construction"? Tor and many other overlay networks fail to deploy traffic fill and regulation, or try traffic mix and other various means to lessen or defeat such analysis. There are a few papers and overlays and hardware hopefully trying such and other things for the near future. You can list all the ones you can find here if you want, and see about creating, running and supporting them too. Maybe if you adopt true distributed privacy cryptocurrency instead of central fiat shitcoins you can start put them spyings and so many other bad things against humanity into "max defund time" too. Wake up.

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yet another false flag attack courtesy of the anglo american fascists.
by Punk 20 May '19

20 May '19

https://consortiumnews.com/2019/05/17/confirmed-chemical-weapons-assessment…

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Re: [Cryptography] What are the privacy implications of bitpay
by grarpamp 20 May '19

20 May '19

On 5/19/19, jamesd(a)echeque.com <jamesd(a)echeque.com> wrote: > With the designed method of bitcoin, you can pay someone quite > anonymously. They issue payment address, which is actually a public > key, and then value mysteriously appears in the blockchain for that > public key, with no indication of how it got into the blockchain. > > Bitpay, however, initiates a direct conversation between the payee and > the wallet, and it looks to me that entities cosy with the state are > pushing bitpay onto us, demanding payment by bitpay. > > Bitpay initiates a conversation between the website and the wallet, and > thus, and thus, modulo vpns and all that, locates the physical location > of the wallet. But that in itself is pretty harmless, because you have > to interact with their website anyway, so you already leak that information. > > What additional information goes into a bitpay payment? Seems to me > that it is being pushed for ulterior and unrevealed reasons. The underlying problem is that most coins are not privacy coins at the protocol level, and hardly that with most mix, but moreso with better coinjoin etc. Or you can push out from privacy coins per tx / day / week, with lots of cost and headaches, or just adopt and use them natively... Zcash, Monero, many more before long, as the better overall solution. The point of opensource cryptocurrency is to evolve and survival of fittest past the genesis... nonprivacy coins are early legacy tech and hardly fit and cannot survive privacy and other attacks... you know much more now, so go and evolve past those early designs. No, you're talking to the chain, bitpay reads the chain. Of course bitpay is a third party seeing both sides, so they're still vomit compared to direct onchain to payee wallet. And governments love that middle siphon op. Expect them to require a checkout ID swipe for that soon... so you have about 30 minutes to adopt and entrench faster than they can fuck you over with that too... thanks to you wasting your time with blocksize and price, instead of adoption and advancing designs. If using the complete garbage Gemini backed Flexa SPEDN app then yes, that's even more severe exploitation of privacy and so many other things on a whole other level beyond even Bitpay. So now brick and mortar retail is trending poorly in regard true adoption of true distributed cryptocurrency. Coins without privacy are worse than fiat cash, no one wants worse, it leads straight to your life controlled and enslaved hell. You need to educate payees on wallet ops, conversions, holdback profits as investment, promise of true distributed cryptocurrency. And everyone on privacy coins. It's not that hard. "Money" is ultimately backed by nothing but belief. And now there's a much more agnostic, fair and less murderous choice than Fiat. So don't let the BankGovCorp FUD propaganda brigade and puppet masters sway you. Distributed scalable private cryptocurrency is solveable tech, and you know it's power for you. So go solve and adopt it.

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Hacking History
by coderman 19 May '19

19 May '19

https://www.muckrock.com/project/hacking-history-419/ Hacking History A look at government investigations of hackers and their works. The government has hundreds of thousands of pages of documents on hackers, hacking groups and high profile hacks, some of that the government investigated and some that the government infiltrated. From the FBI, to the Secret Service and the many government agencies that’ve been hacked. These files are important pieces of history for the evolution of the cyber domain, government investigations, and hacktivism. All costs go towards the release of the files, which will be made publicly available. Backed by Kelly Shortridge, Thomas Dullien, Brian Mcinnis, Joe Hamelin, and 14 others. $2,083.37 raised out of $9,500.01. 4 days, 5 hours remaining So far, just under three million pages of FBI records identified, funds have been raised for 25,000. [Legion of Doom](https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/legion-of-do… – 46,250 pages ($1,598.50 – funded separately!) [LulzSec](https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/lulzsec-3… – 7,500 pages ($220 – funded!) [OurMine](https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/ourmine-6… – 25,173 pages ($760) [GoatSec](https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/goatsec-6… – 15,374 pages ($460) [David Kernell](https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/david-ker… – 2,871,253 pages ($15 for every 500 pages) [WANK worm](https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/wank-worm-in… – 3 pages ($0 – [released](https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2019/may/14/nasa-wank-worm…!) [FBI International Cyber Sweep for DDoS Attackers](https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/ddos-sw… – 32,000 pages ($955) Lots more to come, including the FBI file on the [Cult of the Dead Cow](https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/cult-of-the-d…. You can see the full list of the requests [here](https://www.muckrock.com/foi/list/?page=1&per_page=100&projects=419). Read more about the project [here](https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vb9bjj/hacking-history-foia-projec….

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[OT] [MS-DOS] [Music] System Bits (2019) - Full Album
by Cecilia Tanaka 19 May '19

19 May '19

It's a rainy Sunday here and a dear friend of mine provided some musical fun for us... ;) https://youtu.be/tUy1MEpqbvk Warm hugs and tender kisses! Take care everyone, please! <3 Ceci ---------- Loving. Caring. Sharing. Being Excellent To Each Other And To Our Hackerspace. <3 ---------- "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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>20, 000 Linksys routers leak historic record of every device ever connected
by Steven Schear 19 May '19

19 May '19

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/05/33-linksys-router-mo… Independent researcher Troy Mursch said the leak is the result of a flaw in almost three dozen models of Linksys routers. It took about 25 minutes for the Binary Edge search engine of Internet-connected devices to find 21,401 vulnerable devices on Friday. A scan earlier in the week found 25,617. They were leaking a total of 756,565 unique MAC addresses. Exploiting the flaw requires only a few lines of code that harvest every MAC address, device name, and operating system that has ever connected to each of them. The flaw allows snoops or hackers to assemble disparate pieces of information that most people assume aren’t public. By combining a historical record of devices that have connected to a public IP addresses, marketers, abusive spouses, and investigators can track the movements of people they want to track. The disclosure can also be useful to hackers. The Shadowhammer group, for instance, recently infected as many as 1 million people after hacking the software update mechanism of computer maker ASUS. The hackers then used a list of about 600 MAC addresses of specific targets that, if infected, would receive advanced stages of the malware.

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