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Majority of bitcoin trading is a hoax, new study finds
by Razer 24 Mar '19

24 Mar '19

"The analysis showed that "substantially all of the volume" reported on 71 out of the 81 exchanges was wash trading, a term that describes a person simultaneously selling and buying the same stock, or bitcoin in this case, to create the appearance of activity in the market. In other words, it's not real. Those exchanges report an aggregated $6 billion in average daily bitcoin volume. The study finds that only $273 million of that is legitimate." https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/22/majority-of-bitcoin-trading-is-a-hoax-new-s… Rr Sent from my Androgyne dee-vice with K-9 Mail

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A Simple, Easy-to-Understand Guide to Quantum Computing | Inc.com
by jim bell 24 Mar '19

24 Mar '19

https://www.inc.com/greg-satell/a-simple-easy-to-understand-guide-to-quantu…

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Censorship PermaBans In Full Effect AU NZ US, Papers Please
by grarpamp 24 Mar '19

24 Mar '19

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2019/03/isps-in-au-and-nz-start-… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19472855 All firearms banned, plus... voat.co 4chan.org 8ch.net liveleak.com archive.is bitchute.com zerohedge.com kiwifarms.net eztv.is dissenter.com documentingreality.com bestgore.com archive.fo You're censored off public ways too... https://papersplease.org/wp/2019/03/11/us-government-strategy-for-surveilla… https://papersplease.org/wp/2019/02/08/government-permission-to-travel-auth…

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IEEE Spectrum: An Optimist’s View of the 4 Challenges to Quantum Computing
by jim bell 23 Mar '19

23 Mar '19

IEEE Spectrum: An Optimist’s View of the 4 Challenges to Quantum Computing. https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/an-optimists-view-of…

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Cryptocurrency: Majority of bitcoin trading is a hoax, new study finds
by grarpamp 23 Mar '19

23 Mar '19

On 3/23/19, Razer <g2s(a)riseup.net> wrote: > "The analysis showed that "substantially all of the volume" reported on 71 > out of the 81 exchanges was wash trading, a term that describes a person > simultaneously selling and buying the same stock, or bitcoin in this case, > to create the appearance of activity in the market. In other words, it's not > real. > > Those exchanges report an aggregated $6 billion in average daily bitcoin > volume. The study finds that only $273 million of that is legitimate." There's much more moving out there than just $273M. > https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/22/majority-of-bitcoin-trading-is-a-hoax-new-s… Now with better links... https://www.wsj.com/articles/most-bitcoin-trading-faked-by-unregulated-exch… https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/b45v6j/wsj_post_article_on… https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/b46b73/nearly_95_of_bitcoi… https://www.blockchaintransparency.org/ https://www.sec.gov/comments/sr-nysearca-2019-01/srnysearca201901-5164833-1… Don't expect random exchanges, especially fee free ones, to be publishing, or subject to, any sort of holistic truths. Only the blockchains themselves contain truth, seek it from them. Everything else is n-tier nth-party non disinterested data and lies. Expect that, as it certainly will be. And make of it what you will. Trust and use the ones you find worthy. Calling for State regulation will only result in yet another pointless corrupt Fiat by another name. Other... https://reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/a1iq0z/an_open_letter_to_the_c… https://reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/abymq7/dash_scam_continues_wit… https://reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/a6132p/fake_trading_still_makes_up_m…

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[Extended Deadline-April 01] CFP SpaCCS 2019 (12+SIs): The 12th International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage
by Jun Feng 23 Mar '19

23 Mar '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] Call For Papers ============================================================================= The 12th International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage (SpaCCS 2019) July 14-July 17, 2019, Atlanta, USA http://cse.stfx.ca/~cybermatics/2019/spaccs/ All accepted papers will be published by Springer LNCS (EI Indexed). Best Paper Awards will be presented to high quality papers. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be be published in 12+ SCI & EI indexed special issues (confirmed). 1. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology Special Issue on Decentralized Blockchain Applications and Infrastructures for Next Generation Cyber-Physical Systems https://toit.acm.org/pdf/ACM-ToIT-CfP-Decentralized_Blockchain_Applications… Publisher: ACM, IF = 1.727 2. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering Special Issue: Blockchain in Future Networks and Vertical Industries Publisher: IEEE 3. IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications Special Issue: Advanced Technologies for Cyber Physical Systems Publisher: IET 4. IEEE Access Special Section on Deep Learning: Security and Forensics Research Advances and Challenges https://ieeeaccess.ieee.org/special-sections/deep-learning-security-and-for… Publisher: IEEE, IF = 3.557 5. Transactions on Blockchain Technology and Applications http://vdlt.io/tIndex.html Special Issue: Advances in Blockchain and Internet-of-Things 6. Digital Communications and Networks Special Issue: TBD Publisher: Elsevier, SCI indexed in 2019 7. Sensors Special Issue: IoT-Enabled Sensor Networks: Vision and Challenges https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/IoT_SensorNet Publisher: MDPI, IF = 2.475 8. Remote Sensing Special Issue: Intelligence Computing Paradigms with Remote Sensing Networks in Water Hydrology https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/water_Computation… Publisher: MDPI, IF = 3.406 9. Journal of Systems Architecture Special Issue: Dependable Cyber Physical Systems (SI: DCPS19) https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/call-for-… Publisher: Elsevier, IF = 0.913 10. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Special Issue: Human-centered Computing in Cloud / Edge / Fog https://jwcn-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/human-centered-computing Publisher: Springer, IF = 2.407 11. EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Special Issue: Multi-modal Sensor Data Fusion in Internet of Things https://jwcn-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/multi-modal-sensor Publisher: Springer, IF = 2.407 12. CCF Transactions on Pervasive Computing and Interaction Special Issue: Pervasive Intelligence: State-of-the- Art, Challenges and Perspectives * More special issues will be added later. ============================================================================= The 2019 International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage (SpaCCS 2019) is the 12th event in the series of conferences which are devoted to security, privacy and anonymity in computation, communication and storage. SpaCCS is now recognized as the main regular event of the world that is covering many dimensions including security algorithms and architectures, privacy-aware policies, regulations and techniques, anonymous computation and communication, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial application systems for computation, communication and storage. As applications of computer systems and networks have permeated in every aspect of our daily life, the issues of security, privacy, and anonymity have become increasingly critical. The conference will provide a forum for the world-class researchers to gather and share their research achievements, emerging ideas and trends in the highly challenging research fields. ================== Important Dates ================== Submission Deadline (Extended): April 01, 2019 Authors Notification Date: May 01, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: June 01, 2019 Conference Date: July 14 - July 17, 2019 ================== Topics of interest include, but are not limited to ================== Track 1: Security 1.1 Computation -Security Model and Architecture - Software and System Security - Secure computation - Security in Cloud/Fog/Edge Computing and Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing - Artificial Intelligence - Secure Network Computing - Risk Analysis and Management 1.2 Communication - Network Security - Malware and Botnets - Intrusion Detection - Security in Web Services - Security in Mobile Social Networks - Security in Mobile and Wireless Communications - Fraud and Cyber-Crime 1.3 Storage - Access Control - Accounting and Audit - Applied Cryptography - Database Security - Authentication - Computer forensics - Data Protection and Data Integrity - Digital Content Protection and Digital Forensics - Information Hiding - Security in Big Data and its Applications Track 2: Privacy 2.1 Computation - Measuring and Quantifying Privacy - Privacy Modelling and Analysis - Software and System Privacy - Privacy-preserving Computing - Differential Privacy - Blockchain-based Computation - Privacy-enhanced Network Computing - Obfuscation-based Privacy - Cryptographic Tools - Building and Deploying Privacy-enhancing Systems - Reliability, Robustness, and Abuse Prevention in Privacy Systems 2.2 Communication - Privacy in Web Services - Privacy Metrics and Policies - Crowdsourcing for Privacy - Location and Mobility Privacy - Privacy in Cloud and Big Data Applications - Blockchain-based Communication - Quantum Communications - Privacy in Ubiquitous Computing and Mobile Devices - Privacy in Social Networks and Microblogging Systems - Privacy-enhanced Access Control, Authentication, and Identity Management 2.3 Storage - Data Protection Technologies - Privacy in Big Data and its Applications - Policy Languages and Tools for Privacy - Privacy and Human Rights - Blockchain-based Storage - Interdisciplinary Research Connecting Privacy to Other Fields - Privacy in Cloud Computing and Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing - Information Leakage, Data Correlation and Generic Attacks to Privacy - Privacy-Preserving Data Mining, Data Release and Publishing Track 3: Anonymity 3.1 Computation - Anonymous Data Mining and Data Sharing - Parallelism Exploitation Techniques for Anonymity - Anonymity in Big Data Analytics - Anonymous Management in Trust Relationships - Anonymous Video Analytics Technology - Anonymity Metrics, Measures and Evaluations - Anonymity Models, Hardware/Device of Anonymity 3.2 Communication - Anonymity in Wireless Communication Systems - Anonymous Communication Protocols - Anonymity in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Sensor Networks - Anonymous Proxy Software - Anonymous Communication and Internet - Anonymous Social Networks, Structural k-Anonymity in Social Networks - Authentication Protocol Providing User Anonymity 3.3 Storage - Anonymous Information Storage and Management - Private and Anonymous Data Storage - Forensics - Anonymity-Preserving Data Collection and Database - Anonymity, Pseudonymity & Identity Management - Anonymity in Big Data and Cloud Scenarios - Anonymity in Health and Medical Databases ================== Paper Submission ================== All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference website (https://edas.info/N25666) with PDF format. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 14 pages (or up to 20 pages with the pages over length charge) in Springer LNCS format ( https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…) including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least three reviewers. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. ================== Organizing Committee ================== General Chairs - Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA - Mark Last, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel - Yanqing Zhang, Georgia State University, USA Program Chairs - Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA - Jun Feng, St Francis Xavier University, Canada - Rongxing Lu, University of New Brunswick, Canada Workshop Chair - Wm. Bradley Glisson, Sam Houston State University, USA Publicity Chairs - Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland - Reza M. Parizi, Kennesaw State University, USA - Yogachandran Rahulamathavan, Loughborough University London, UK Local Chair - Yubao Wu, Georgia State University, USA Web Chairs - Zihao Jiang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada - Xin Nie, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Steering Committee - Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China (Chair) - Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain (Chair) - Jemal H. Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia - Jose M. Alcaraz Calero, University of the West of Scotland, UK - Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong - Hsiao-Hwa Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan - Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia - Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA - Robert Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore - Mario Freire, The University of Beira Interior, Portuga - Minyi Guo, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China - Weijia Jia, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China - Wei Jie, University of West London, UK - Georgios Kambourakis, University of the Aegean, Greece - Ryan Ko, University of Waikato, New Zealand - Constantinos Kolias, George Mason University, USA - Jianbin Li, Central South University, China - Jie Li, University of Tsukuba, Japan - Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan - Felix Gomez Marmol, University of Murcia, Spain - Geyong Min, University of Exeter, UK - Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland - Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University, USA - Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan - Juan E. Tapiador, The University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain - Sabu M. Thampi, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, India - Jie Wu, Temple University, USA - Yang Xiao, The University of Alabama, USA - Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia - Zheng Yan, Aalto University, Finland - Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada - Wanlei Zhou, University of Technology Sydney, Australia -- Dr. Jun Feng St. Francis Xavier University Huazhong University of Science and Technology Mobile: +86-18827365073 E-Mails: junfeng989(a)gmail.com, 512675288(a)qq.com WeChat: junfeng10001000

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Sanity in a Mad World
by Ryan Carboni 22 Mar '19

22 Mar '19

It is hard being sane in a mad world. *post a bug discovered because the government hacks my computer just like Sharyl Attkisson* *everyone walks around the problem, Google releases a Chrome hotfix for an issue where the user is able to instantly doubleclick, not even clear if immediately exploitable* People are spending more resources to do what exactly? But it is nice that multi billion dollar corporations have to work to ignore me while cooperating in something manifestly wrong. As far as I can tell the US government is directly attempting to humiliate itself. Sent from ProtonMail

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Pluripotent stem cells from adult skin cells
by Zenaan Harkness 22 Mar '19

22 Mar '19

The incredible potential of induced pluripotent stem cells https://newatlas.com/induced-pluripotent-stem-cells/58965/ [JS site] … "At that moment, I thought, 'This must be some kind of mistake'," Yamanaka said, according to an account of the discovery in Nature. https://www.nature.com/news/how-ips-cells-changed-the-world-1.20079 But repeat experiments proved it to be anything but and the breakthrough would serve as a springboard for all kinds of medical research pursuits. Suddenly the thick, morality-lined clouds that hovered over embryonic stem cell research were parting to make way brighter, happier times. And stem cells harvested from adult cells rather than embryos would not only be a lot less controversial, but promise some practical benefits too, including lower risks of rejection by the immune system because they can be created from a patients own cells. … Taking the fight to Parkinson's Putting a spinal cord back together again? Giving diabetics their insulin production back Regrowing damaged hearts Baldness … In this case "this one wierd trick" is this one wierd bit of science.

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Annexing Venezuela 'insufficient', Trump declares annexation of Syria's Golan Heights, hints at "naughty words" "20 years ago" - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 22 Mar '19

22 Mar '19

How to bring peace and prosperity to the world, ah sorry, I mean Israel, Trump-nam style? : Trump's Mideast Bombshell: US Must Back Israeli Sovereignty Over Golan Heights https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-21/trump-tweets-mideast-bombshell-us… Muffaluggerah‼ MIGA in full swing, folksies... Come on Trump, man up, grow a pair and take the consequences - seriously, who the hell cares if there's a compromising pic (or old emails/ texts) around with you and "nobody younger than your daughter" when a world war is at stake? You have a responsibility to ~300 million North Americans (not to mention those bloody Aussies, Noo Zealanders and the rest), and not "to defend muh damned ego"! Is your pride -that- fragile, Mr Trump? Man the firetruck up already and don't be such a muffaluggerin pussy! God! Seriously take a leaf outta Tucker Carlson's book “I said something naughty 10 years ago”, which is anyways only needed if the (((deep state))) actually burns their blackmail card on you - because they can only play it once - so, Trump, embrace your inner Aussie already and man the fruck up!

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Re: [tor-talk] [OT] Smartphone purchase advice?
by grarpamp 21 Mar '19

21 Mar '19

> Secure laptop advice? / Smartphone purchase advice ? Obviously buy only unlocked carrier independant phones cash upfront no financing, fuck the carriers. Bonus is they won't come preloaded with carrier blingware, only manufacturer blingware. Most of the manufacturer warez can be avoided with... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_One http://www.android.com/one/ You can also customise, compile and emulate test Android OS. Strip out the entire Google app suite, search, play, tunes, all the useless apps, spy, network and battery eaters, background daemons, all gone. Set your own security defaults in ROM, etc... https://source.android.com/ https://www.xda-developers.com/ GPS chip / antenna / pwb traces can be physically disabled, same for camera, microphone. Learn on freebie recycled phones before hacking on your Librem, Purisim, or whatever. Still doesn't solve the baseband HW backdoor issue. For that today you'd need VOIP number provider via WiFi via cellular hotspot, or an OpenBTS etc SDR setup. Intel is a top secret behemoth, so AMD should be preferred by default just for competition sake while #OpenHW rolls. There's somewhat more open Power9 platforms... https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/ Plus all the ARM and random *boards HW out there, most of which isn't truly open. At least don't buy WinTel systems. Today you can also easily startup and adopt... #OpenFabs , #OpenHW , #OpenSW , #OpenDev , #OpenBiz , #OpenAudits , etc #CryptoCurrency So far it seems no one's minds are deprogrammed redpilled and free enough to actually imagine and come together to initiate that FTW, so all we still see for decades is same dumbass questions... - What untrusted CPU / Laptop / Phone / Gear to buy? - Give me Fiat Which is nothing more than kissing your master's ass. They love that. The first to market with verifiable trustworthy #OpenHW made in #OpenFabs will make immense profits from sectors that need that assurance.

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