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All that fuss and bother about Mendax
by Steve Kinney 21 Apr '19

21 Apr '19

Our comrade Mendax has a way with the ladies, including accomplished professionals like Argentine Ambassador to the UK (2006-2011) Alicia Castro: "Then we succeeded that he would be allowed to have a kitten, whose company he greatly enjoyed, and whose presence at the embassy has generated one of the most odd and obtuse amongst the complaints raised by the current president of Ecuador." http://theindicter.com/my-friend-julian-assange-alicia-castro-ex-ambassador… In my opinion, the whole current mess is not fair to James. Does anyone know who's looking after him now? Meanwhile, here's a rare find: Sensible commentary on the state of play on the legal front: http://johnhelmer.net/the-julian-assange-case-now-puts-the-us-on-trial-in-a… For the new kids: The theory behind the practice of Wikileaks in a brief and seemingly unfinished essay from Himself, courtesy of JYA: https://cryptome.org/0002/ja-conspiracies.pdf Wikileaks was originally presented as a community project, a "Wikipedia of" leaked documents, vetted and analyzed by a distributed network of volunteers. But when the Manning files showed up, Assange hijacked the project and put it on lockdown, presumably due to security concerns when presented with what may stand as The Leak Of The Century. Our Mendax pissed a lot of people off, yrs. truly included - but when Collateral Murder, War Diaries and Cablegate hit the nables, I forgave all. He surely knows the definition of "humility" but to him it must forever remain an abstract concept. Considering his impact on public affairs, I must endorse his tendency to do whatever the fuck he thinks will work. :o)

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My second Facebook thoughtcrime in two weeks!
by Steve Kinney 21 Apr '19

21 Apr '19

Me so proud: Just got locked out of The Facebook for the second time in two weeks, this time thanks to a MegaChurch Xtian bitch I happen to know IRL, who recognized herself "all to clearly" in this post and falsely reported it as a TOS violation: http://pilobilus.net/good.little.nazis.html Don't y'all hate on me 'cause I have an account at The Facebook. I set it up when I needed to verify the promotional gimmicks I was building into a couple of commercial websites - the effectiveness of "share on Facebook" buttons (home made, non-tracking unless the sucker clicks on them), positive control of the preview images and text presented, etc. Once it was there, I started using the Facebook account to pump out propaganda. If nothing else, the local activist community noticed and I got yanked into the scene and 'made use of.' My kind of fun! I encourage CPunks readers who also maintain accounts at The Facebook - no need to confess that sin here - to share the above link. Since it's hosted on my website vs. presenting as your very own thoughtcrime, this should not lead to any sanctions. I will, of course, make the said link my own first post once "allowed" to access The Facebook again. Have you annoyed a polite, respectable Nazi Pig today? :o)

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Re: Julian Assange LiveStream
by John Young 21 Apr '19

21 Apr '19

Yep, if he's extradited, this is how it will go. Unless choked to death in a paddy wagon, poisoned, knifed, shot, dropped from a chopper, droned, electrocuted, chemo'd, infected with fatal disease, or converted to a high value undercover (deeper than since 2006). Meanwhile, El Papa Frank is working a quickie sainthood with eternal asylum in St. Pete's Squat coutured in finery with Yahweh's holy sexual predators. At 03:19 AM 4/19/2019, you wrote: >https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47874728 > >"Almost 300 years ago, the foundations for American protections of >the free press were laid in the trial of John Peter Zenger. Despite >using every means to punish Zenger for what Cosby called "scandalous, >virulent, false and seditious reflections", the colonial jurors >balked and acquitted him." Where reporters once arranged for drop >spots, there are now digital equivalents for such exchanges.

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China's Global Spy Ops, SatCom Spies Your Errands Keeps Your Profits
by grarpamp 20 Apr '19

20 Apr '19

China's Global Spy Ops https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/04/china_spying_on.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19665495 SatCom Spies Your Errands Keeps Your Profits https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/stock-value-satellite-…

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Don Quixote by Terry Gilliam ref Brazil
by grarpamp 20 Apr '19

20 Apr '19

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/04/terry-gilliams-don-quixote-film-fina… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19662312 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Killed_Don_Quixote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_La_Mancha https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(1985_film) https://youtube.com/watch?v=bR6dfqUpADw

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Guantanamo's Darkest Secret
by grarpamp 20 Apr '19

20 Apr '19

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/22/guantanamos-darkest-secret https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19664395 "Excellent piece. It's positively shocking to see in such minute detail just how quickly, easily, and completely the entire executive branch was able to normalize such obviously illegal and inhumane acts."

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Google Sensorvault Geofence General Warrants, 230 CDA Exempt Death, Social Scores, Spies, Repairs
by grarpamp 19 Apr '19

19 Apr '19

Google Sensorvault Giving 10y of Geofence General Warrants https://gizmodo.com/the-feds-police-are-using-googles-location-history-fea-… https://gizmodo.com/black-market-for-your-location-data-apparently-thriving… https://www.cnet.com/news/law-enforcement-taps-googles-sensorvault-for-loca… https://www.cnet.com/news/google-clarifies-how-it-tracks-you-even-if-locati… US ISP and Corp 230 CDA Exemption Under Threat https://www.recode.net/podcasts/2019/4/11/18306834/nancy-pelosi-speaker-hou… Internet companies are not responsible for what is posted on their platforms. "230 is a gift to them, and I don't think they are treating it with the respect that they should," she said. "And so I think that that could be a question mark and in jeopardy.... For the privilege of 230, there has to be a bigger sense of responsibility on it, and it is not out of the question that that could be removed." --Pelosi Your Social Score Sifted https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-secret-trust-scores-companies-use-to-judge… https://support.sift.com/hc/en-us/articles/207522687-How-are-Sift-Scores-ca… Nearly everything we buy, how we buy, and where we're buying from is secretly fed into AI-powered verification services Google Amazon Microsoft Spy Your Microphones https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywyzm5/big-tech-lobbying-gutted-… https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/04/illinois-bill-banning-eavesdrop… Illinois State Senate passed the Keep Internet Devices Safe Act, a bill that would ban manufacturers of devices that can record audio from doing so remotely without disclosing it to the customer. But after lobbying from trade associations that represent the interests of Google, Amazon -- makers of the microphone-enabled Google Home and Alexa smart speakers, respectively -- and Microsoft, among other companies, the interests of big tech won out... In its current, neutered form, the bill provides exclusive authority to the Attorney General to enforce the Act, which means regular citizens won't be able to bring forward a case regarding tech giants recording them in their homes. Ars Technica notes the move comes after Amazon admitted thousands of their employees listen to Alexa recordings -- "something not mentioned in Echo's terms of service or FAQ pages." Vice points out that sometimes those recordings are shared "even after users opt out of having their data used in the program." Microsoft Lobby Kills Right to Repair https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-has-been-quietly-lobbying-against-right-t… https://youtu.be/i51YOXCAXJ0?t=1262 https://medium.com/u-s-pirg/microsoft-named-as-stopping-right-to-repair-in-… Microsoft "has been quietly lobbying against Right to Repair legislation, which would prevent Microsoft from penalizing customers when they open up their devices," claims MSPoweruser: Jeff Morris, Democratic member of the [Washington state] House of Representatives claims Microsoft has blocked legislation from being passed despite strong bipartisan support. In an interview on iFixit's Repair Radio [YouTube], Rep. Jeff Morris said that "word on the street" was that Microsoft, "marshalled forces to keep the bill from moving out of the House Rules committee." He claimed "there was a tax proposal here ... to pay for STEM education," and that "in exchange for Microsoft support[ing that tax,] having Right to Repair die..." was a condition, as well as another privacy policy Microsoft wanted to advance. The state representative hedged that "I can't confirm or deny this, because I have not seen a smoking gun." But he also told his interviewer that to paint a discouraging picture of the landscape after passage of the bill, "Microsoft was going around telling our members that they wouldn't sell Surface Tablets in Washington any longer."

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Cryptocurrency: The Crypto Travelogues
by grarpamp 19 Apr '19

19 Apr '19

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWiaP3A1ErwY982IsSlnSkQ/videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN0VrAFP_qY46RsUenqjVxQ/videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsGr-Pr6YZM Travel currency basics

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Seasteading: Ocean Platformers Bug Out Thailand Death Penalty, Charter Regions
by grarpamp 19 Apr '19

19 Apr '19

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43jy5w/seasteading-bitcoin-fans-… https://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/1661300/seastead-couple-in-crossha… https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/18/us-bitcoin-trader-may-face-de… https://www.thedailybeast.com/bitcoin-couple-nadia-thepdet-and-chad-elwarto… https://eu.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/04/18/seastead-chad-elw… https://reason.com/blog/2019/03/01/first-seastead-in-international-waters-n https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bceePdFruU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSbG4LH-QOE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2ayJ5KAMus https://www.facebook.com/RoyalThaiNavyFanpage/videos/2202651353107317/ https://ocean.builders/blog/ http://seasteadtalk.org/ https://www.youtube.com/user/seasteading/videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5syIuMiCsVyfSpFD-DtjEA/videos http://bitcoingirlthailand.com/ https://www.instagram.com/bitcoingirlthailand https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyEI9O75gpYbtbnXQdEMn0w/videos https://www.facebook.com/chad.elwartowski https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=elwartowski+thepdet "Hunting us down to our death is just plain stupid and highlights exactly the reason someone would be willing to go out in middle of the ocean to get away from governments" "To all those out there who want to control people's lives through force, here's my big finger to you, you know where you can stick this." "We hardly saw any fish out there. Now it like a fish sanctuary. We see dolphins and tuna around our seastead all the time. It is my theory that this small place is the only place the vast amount of Thai fishing boats cannot go to so they thrive here as opposed to in the open water where the fishing nets may sweep them up." "Freedom loving people, come join us out on the open ocean". "We have to count from zero to one to the hundred. You cannot jump from zero to the hundred to be a big seastead. Start with us now to get bigger. Create history." -- Supranee "Nadia" Thepdet and Chad Elwartowski https://old.reddit.com/r/seasteading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/02/seasteading-peter-thiel-… http://reason.com/archives/2009/06/08/20000-nations-above-the-sea https://www.blue-frontiers.com/ Charter Cities, Special Development Regions https://chartercities.org/ http://www.freecities.org/ http://www.futurecitiesdev.com/ https://marroninstitute.nyu.edu/ https://www.fastcompany.com/1678720/former-seasteaders-come-ashore-to-start… http://www.fastcoexist.com/1678751/paul-romer-on-hondurass-charter-cities http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704775604576119931268333632.h… https://thebaffler.com/latest/mouthbreathing-machiavellis

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Fwd: [Cryptography] [ADMIN] Too many fake "Satoshis"
by grarpamp 19 Apr '19

19 Apr '19

Self described "libertarian", thinking freely as usual... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry(a)piermont.com> Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 16:00:32 -0400 Subject: [Cryptography] [ADMIN] Too many fake "Satoshis" To: cryptography(a)metzdowd.com We've got a bunch of people currently subscribed to the Cryptography list with various permutations of the name "Satoshi Nakomoto", which is sort of harmless if a bit bizarre. However, at intervals, someone tries to post messages under that name, usually promoting some scam. Naturally, the moderators reject all such posts; we're not morons. Unfortunately, I think the time has come to be a bit more formal about this because I'm sick of wasting time on it. So, I'm instituting a new rule. No one is even going to be allowed to subscribe to the list under that name any longer (let alone post!) unless they are capable of signing a reasonable demonstration message under a public key known to be controlled by the "Satoshi Nakomoto" pseudonym. The real "Satoshi" would have no problem doing that. For the rest of you, don't even bother; as I said, we're not idiots. I will also be unsubscribing all of the current fake "Satoshi" addresses in a little bit. (If you're actually "Satoshi" and want to subscribe under that pseudonym, feel free to get in touch with appropriate public key signed evidence, though I suspect that the real "Satoshi" has no such desire. If you get in touch without such evidence, your message is getting thrown away without a reply.) Perry -- Perry E. Metzger perry(a)piermont.com _______________________________________________ The cryptography mailing list cryptography(a)metzdowd.com http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography

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