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Cryptocurrency: Still A Hopeful Wreck 10 Years Later... (re: Falkvinge BTC)
by grarpamp 01 Apr '19

01 Apr '19

On 3/31/19, Punk <punks(a)tfwno.gf> wrote: > altcoin(bcash) There's unlikely such thing on the markets by that string, nor did you bother to pair it with any symbol or site as a complete reference. "Bitcoin_Cash - BCH - https://www.bitcoincash.org/" is a well known thing. Grow the fuck up. Unfortunately neither native BTC (txrate too low) or LN (tech problems and well noted meta issues trending toward control, liability, etc) inspire much long term confidence. Nor do most distributed coins right now either. It's still early days. There might even be no solution until everyone trying to make one decides to get together and remove their biggest competition... Govts and Banks. And clearly all controlled coins (Bank, Gov, Corp Consortia) are Fiat garbage. Given Gov and Gov Bank ineptitude, Gov endorsed Corp and Private Bank Consortia Coins are probably the biggest fake news the clueless masses will end up adopting. That's scary and sad... for that they'd probably be better off sticking with what remaining Fiat Cash and Metals options they have today to avoid that Great BeastMarking Event. > huge blocks will lead to the system being centralized > and controlled by a few players at best. Seems too many people still believe in the first solution as, or can be, the only one. It's likely the blockchain on disk model will be mooted in favor of a tx stream updating a UTXO set db, mined checkpoints, various P2P means to bootstrap the db off the network itself, splitting up work areas, magical DHTs, storage networks, compute grids... so much more possible... don't read this stupid shit, go look at what all the coins are dreaming up and mashing together... and that's just today. The fundamental question for a minimally acceptable and successful crypto "currency" function might be can you throw 5-10x credit card level tps rates into say the same amount of globally distributed nodes that can provide a solution to the UTXO db that people trust more than central / Fiat, for a respectively moot fee, in tolerable time. Most probably yes. Cryptocurrency is barely 10 years old, and the levels of research being thrown at it make the Moon Landing look just as quaint as the morons wasting time arguing over stupid shit like blocksize as if it were going to be the sole solution to anything. There are other factors... social and political change towards voluntary, self-capable, personal responsibility, ethics, economic knowledge, etc necessary to make distributed trust happen. For example, picking just the OG BTC model... most people still go blank trying to understand why it is *their* responsibility to never allow more than 21M BTC to go past their client, or to throw just 10 watts 24*365 at a spread of small local indie mining pools to bring their numbers up into the hundreds and each of them into being regular block producers on par. Or have a clue how their favorite Banks and Govs really work. Whatever will be, it's early, help them cypherpunk, and enjoy the ride :)

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admits the networking site should be regulated
by jim bell 31 Mar '19

31 Mar '19

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg admits the networking site should be regulated. https://tiny.iavian.net/s2m8

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The Libertarian As Conservative
by Punk 30 Mar '19

30 Mar '19

The Libertarian As Conservative - Bob Black https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bob-black-the-libertarian-as-conser… ------- I think Black's views are mostly accurate. Vast majority of people who pretend to be 'libertarians' are in reality rabid supporters of industrial fascism.

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JusticeLeague
by \0xDynamite 30 Mar '19

30 Mar '19

Adding order to the anarchy: http://github.com/thePastor/JusticeLeague Enjoy!

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Intel's VISA ME Debugging Architecture Exploit
by grarpamp 29 Mar '19

29 Mar '19

https://www.zdnet.com/article/researchers-discover-and-abuse-new-undocument… https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000025619/software… https://www.blackhat.com/asia-19/briefings/schedule/#intel-visa-through-the… At the Black Hat Asia 2019 security conference, security researchers from Positive Technologies disclosed the existence of a previously unknown and undocumented feature in Intel chipsets. Called Intel Visualization of Internal Signals Architecture (Intel VISA), Positive Technologies researchers Maxim Goryachy and Mark Ermolov said this is a new utility included in modern Intel chipsets to help with testing and debugging on manufacturing lines. VISA is included with Platform Controller Hub (PCH) chipsets part of modern Intel CPUs and works like a full-fledged logic signal analyzer. According to the two researchers, VISA intercepts electronic signals sent from internal buses and peripherals (display, keyboard, and webcam) to the PCH -- and later the main CPU. Unauthorized access to the VISA feature would allow a threat actor to intercept data from the computer memory and create spyware that works at the lowest possible level. But despite its extremely intrusive nature, very little is known about this new technology.

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Email addresses leaked ! Oh my !
by jim bell 29 Mar '19

29 Mar '19

Email addresses of almost a BILLION people are leaked https://mol.im/a/6864029 via http://dailym.ai/android

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Re: [tor-talk] Is there a way to use internet in a sandbox environment? (Linux)
by grarpamp 29 Mar '19

29 Mar '19

On 3/29/19, npdflr <npdflr(a)zoho.com> wrote: > I am giving a scenario: (Devices: PC Hard Disk having important files for > offline use, USB Device for data transfer and Mobile Device which has > internet connection) > > 1. I have a hard disk that is offline (Linux OS). > 2. I use a mobile device for internet, gather some data and transfer that to > a usb device (via OTG). > 3. I have to mount the usb device to the hard disk since I need the gathered > data. > 4. Give read and write permission to the usb. > 5. I copy the gathered data from usb to the hard disk. Use/process the data > as per needs. > 6. I write some data back to the usb if needed. > 7. Connect usb to the mobile device if needed. > > Data from mobile --> usb --> Hard disk > Data from Hard disk --> usb --> Mobile > > How do I make sure that only the hard disk can read and write to the usb > device and prevent the usb to read/write any hard disk data so that the > files on the hard disk are always safe? Search "BasUSB", "HDDHack", etc. Excepting the direct hardware to hardware hacks that bypass the OS entirely, such as read write address space via hardware interfaces (firewire, pci-usb, etc), the latest memory and cache exploits etc, perhaps put or left in the HW by spies since there are no... #OpenFabs , #OpenHW , #OpenSW , #OpenDev , #OpenBiz , #OpenAudits , etc to help improve and defeat that... Today's kernels still don't provide any sort of storage block device command firmware update opcode filtering that could help prevent implantation of firmware exploits. Many OS still allow unpriviledged users raw access to portable devices. Then filesystem hierarchy access control schemes, and install and boot infrastructures, are also cumbersome or impossible to protect from user, root, or physical level access. To the extent CD-R, DVD-R, and tape "specifications" are just blocks with no firmware being plugged across the gap, and if no "media updates firmware" capabilities, those, or even serial and parallel port transfers, could be more secure than USB. But since it's not open, you never really know. People need to start doing those #Open* things above before they can start to have even the slightest bit of trust in systems.

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Facebook Instagram Bans Group Self Advocacy in FreeSpeech Hypocrisy Move
by grarpamp 29 Mar '19

29 Mar '19

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nexpbx/facebook-bans-white-natio… Facebook will begin banning posts, photos and other content that reference white nationalism and white separatism, revising its rules in response to criticism that a loophole had allowed racism to thrive on its platform. Previously, Facebook only had prohibited users from sharing messages that glorified white supremacy -- a rhetorical discrepancy, in the eyes of civil rights advocates, who argued that white nationalism, supremacy and separatism are indistinguishable and that the policy undermined the tech giant's stepped-up efforts to combat hate speech online. Facebook now agrees with that analysis, according to people who've been briefed on the decision. The new policy also applies to Instagram. The rise and spread of white nationalism on Facebook were thrown into sharp relief in the wake of the deadly neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, when self-avowed white nationalists used the social networking site as an organizing tool. "Facebook is now fighting the Belgian court's decision to stop tracking Belgian internet users and delete the data it's already gathered on them, or face fines of about $280,000 a day." Your group is next to be silenced.

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Decentralization as Imperatice [was: The Libertarian As Conservative]
by coderman 29 Mar '19

29 Mar '19

> When I first realized that I was already a libertarian, and always had been, in about 1975, it was always quite clear that Liberals, Leftists, and fellow-travellers hated (or at least strongly disliked) libertarianism. For reasons that are clear studying the Nolan Chart https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolan_Chart and the World's Smallest Political Quiz. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Smallest_Political_Quiz > > The Right opposed libertarianism because libertarians promoted both personal and economic freedom, while the Right seemed to like only the latter. > The Left opposed libertarianism because libertarians promoted both personal and economic freedom, while the Left seemed to like only the former. > > That made 'sense', so to speak. Not that the liberals and conservatives actually made sense. it is actually more fundamental! consider that both Right and Left promote the idea of an infallible strong center, which conveys the laws upon mankind. Libertarianism is by definition decentralized; delegating decisions to the edge. given that power corrupts; and absolute centralized power corrupts absolutely, it is clear that both Right and Left are deceptions by Centralized Power to maintain itself. the political question at core is this: centralization? (and abuse of power) - or - decentralization (and individual responsibility) the absurdity of humanity is that our cognitive bias sees only the direct cost of personal responsibility, yet ignores the global cost of centralized abuses. best regards,

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Salvini: “My main goal is to save Europe … We are committed to love, not to war” - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 28 Mar '19

28 Mar '19

'Tis hard not to love this beach going squirt-gun wielding European love magnet... EXCLUSIVE: 'My Only Purpose Is to Save Europe' – Salvini to Sputnik https://sputniknews.com/interviews/201903281073590696-salvini-europe-interv… Italian Wikipedia Shuts Down to Protest Upcoming Vote on EU Copyright Law https://sputniknews.com/europe/201903251073518030-italy-wikipedia-eu-legisl…

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