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Ari Juels: Your paper on criminal contracts
by jim bell 09 Dec '18

09 Dec '18

Fw: Your paper on criminal contracts I notice that you have a recent paper published at: The Ring of Gyges: Investigating the Future of Criminal Smart Contracts | Request PDFSee the Abstract below.https://www.researchgate.net/publication/310821111_The_Ring_of_Gyges_… https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/358 https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/358.pdf Google: ' "Juels" "kosba" shi ' Also see: https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2015-September/024894.html It isn't clear that you distinguish between victimless crimes (malum prohibitum) and crimes-with-victims (malum in se.) As you may recall, I am the author of the Assassination Politics essay, https://cryptome.org/ap.htm I have advocated the implementation of that system, primarily (initially) for the purpose of eliminating all governments. Naturally, such governments would likely want to label any such system as being "criminal". How else would they hope to prevent it from destroying them? You may be aware that in July of 2018, a death-prediction market was implemented on Ethereum/Augur, see the Forecast Foundation. https://www.augur.net/faq/ Google: ' "ethereum" "augur" "assassination" ' While that new system has current characteristics which make it unlikely that there will be any assassinations associated with it under its current practices, nevertheless, that does not mean that modifications won't be done to achieve the goals that my AP essay. Have you addressed this matter? I am posting this on the Cypherpunks mail list. Jim Bell × AbstractThanks to their anonymity (pseudonymity) and elimination of trusted intermediaries, cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin have created or stimulated growth in many businesses and communities. Unfortunately, some of these are criminal, e.g., money laundering, illicit marketplaces, and ransomware. Next-generation cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum will include rich scripting languages in support of smart contracts, programs that autonomously intermediate transactions. In this paper, we explore the risk of smart contracts fueling new criminal ecosystems. Specifically, we show how what we call criminal smart contracts (CSCs) can facilitate leakage of confidential information, theft of cryptographic keys, and various real-world crimes (murder, arson, terrorism). We show that CSCs for leakage of secrets (a la Wikileaks) are efficiently realizable in existing scripting languages such as that in Ethereum. We show that CSCs for theft of cryptographic keys can be achieved using primitives, such as Succinct Non-interactive ARguments of Knowledge (SNARKs), that are already expressible in these languages and for which efficient supporting language extensions are anticipated. We show similarly that authenticated data feeds, an emerging feature of smart contract systems, can facilitate CSCs for real-world crimes (e.g., property crimes). Our results highlight the urgency of creating policy and technical safeguards against CSCs in order to realize the promise of smart contracts for beneficial goals. [end of Abstract] ×

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Assistance and Access Bill 2018 FAQ (Australia)
by Alfie John 09 Dec '18

09 Dec '18

Hi everyone, I've been asked to compile a list of questions that will hopefully be answered by lawyers, in order to assist IT workers within Australia due to the recent Assistance and Access Bill 2018 (aka encryption-busting bill): https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/legislation/bills/r6195_aspas… While compiling this list, I thought to turn it into an FAQ. Any questions (or even answers) would be most appreciated: https://github.com/alfiedotwtf/AABillFAQ There are many ways to contribute (outlined in the above link), but if the moderators allow, questions here would be great so they can create group discussion not thought of elsewhere (then I'll sweep them up into the FAQ). Thanks everyone. Alfie -- Alfie John https://www.alfie.wtf

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Assange Journalism
by John Young 09 Dec '18

09 Dec '18

Matt Taibbi reports on Assange in Rolling Stone in a one of the more salient grasps of what journalism has missed about WikiLeaks feeding its maw. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/taibbi-julian-assange-c… A noteworthy observation is how all the risk is taken by leakers not by publishers and journalists -- nor by WikiLeaks and Assange. Nearly every major leak to WikiLeaks (and the media) has led to the leaker being hammered while the publishers are awarded prizes, as with WikiLeaks. That is evident from the number of leakers who have been severly punished while WikiLeaks and Assange is showered with glory.and repetitive news coverage. Wikipedia's WikiLeaks entry is grotesque. That's asymmetric racketeering side of leakage, to the benefit of journalists, publishers, lawyers and public interest organizations, all of whom are granted special privileges by authorities and in many cases handsome donations from fat cats through tax benefits. Its as if by overdoing lauding Assange and WikiLeaks those who have taken the highest risk can be slighted with impunity. Only fools would leak if they knew what is in store for them, not just the brief attention dispensed by outlets. Anonymity, non-tracability and comsec, always, if leak you must. Before proceeding, think twice, thrice, avoid believing the glory stories. Else you're cannon fodder for information generals.

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politically incorrect black gold! - Black TV Host Takes on David Duke with Incredible Interview
by Zenaan Harkness 09 Dec '18

09 Dec '18

Black TV Host Takes on David Duke with Incredible Interview http://davidduke.com/black-tv-host-takes-on-david-duke-with-incredible-inte… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki4izqElwaM August 3, 2016 ~1 GiB ("best") Times are changin people ... -- Certified Deplorable Fake News Nazi (TM)(C)(R) Executive Director of Vice, Ministry of Winning Shilling for buxom Russian swastika clad minxes since 1488

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Are You Ready for the 'Inevitable' Clampdown on Tech and the Media? - shared from Reason.com
by jim bell 08 Dec '18

08 Dec '18

https://reason.com/r/1wOM When Apple's CEO Tim Cook says "the free market is not working," bad things are coming.

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Saker; Stephen Cohen: USA ←→ Russia, what can be done? (book spruke) - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 08 Dec '18

08 Dec '18

Stephen Cohen lays out the bullet points of the possibility of war with Russia, spruking his newly released book War With Russia? Despite being relatively concise, it takes Cohen a good few pages to summarize the state of things - useful for those who want a regroup, not particularly new to anyone following the "elite's" ratbaggery over the last few years. ** War With Russia? http://theduran.com/war-with-russia/?mc_cid=05957c06ba&mc_eid=[UNIQID] ** By Stephen Cohen on Dec 08, 2018 01:10 pm ** Why Russia won’t invade the Ukraine, the Baltic statelets or anybody else https://thesaker.is/why-russia-wont-invade-the-ukraine-the-baltic-statelets…

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Economics: USA Racking Up $490 Billion Debt Every Quarter
by grarpamp 08 Dec '18

08 Dec '18

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-30/treasury-s-488-billion-i… https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/8g7izp/the_us_treasury_department… https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/8g26mb/the_us_just_borrowed_488_… https://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/8g2oa0/the_us_just_borrowed_4… https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/8g4g76/the_us_just_borrowed_488_…

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Cypherpunk University by JW Weatherman
by grarpamp 08 Dec '18

08 Dec '18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbIPKm3inWU https://jwweatherman.com/class http://www.cypherpunku.com/index.php?threads/so-what-is-cypherpunk-universi… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9OML5D8RMo https://archive.org/details/youtube-wrAtsQrs7dY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa87kudAVFs

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ROTF! Cloudflare CEO: “I woke up this morning in a bad mood and decided to kick them (DailyStr0mer) off the Internet.”
by Razer 08 Dec '18

08 Dec '18

Quote source: http://nymag.com/selectall/2017/08/cloudflare-and-the-debate-over-content-n… What cut it? Making shit up. Nazis do that... A LOT. AAMOF most of what they spew is complete utter ahistorical nonsense (holocaust denial for instance) targeting desperate people who have no analysis and are looking to blame "someone". In this case, because Nazis have no friends they needed to create invisible secret ones. > > "Earlier today, Cloudflare terminated the account of the Daily > Stormer. We've stopped proxying their traffic and stopped answering > DNS requests for their sites. We've taken measures to ensure that they > cannot sign up for Cloudflare's services ever again. > > Our terms of service reserve the right for us to terminate users of > our network at our sole discretion. The tipping point for us making > this decision was that the team behind Daily Stormer made the claim > that we were secretly supporters of their ideology. > > Our team has been thorough and have had thoughtful discussions for > years about what the right policy was on censoring. Like a lot of > people, we’ve felt angry at these hateful people for a long time but > we have followed the law and remained content neutral as a network. We > could not remain neutral after these claims of secret support by > Cloudflare. > > Now, having made that decision, let me explain why it's so dangerous..." > Cloudflare CEO's blog posting on the topic of scumbag removal: https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/ Note many people are making reference in the post's comments to Cloudflare's hosting of ISIS chatrooms, which came to public knowledge in this Congressional hearing: http://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA18/20150127/102855/HHRG-114-FA18-Transc… CCloudflare is undoubtely running honeypots allowing the feds to monitor ISIS chats, and potentially find Useful Idiots for the FBI to set up in the latest and greatest islamo-terror plot they create lock, stock, and explosives. Rr

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Cryptocurrency: Who created it, #PeakStatism
by grarpamp 08 Dec '18

08 Dec '18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yjrmIIpgo0 #CreatedByGovt https://www.zdnet.com/article/dhs-looking-into-tracking-monero-and-zcash-tr… https://www.fbo.gov/utils/view?id=f0e31ab37561cac3cc4a4ab88d9059b0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9EdzrBxUAo #TheLastChance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF1hVkK_9Aw #PeakStatism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdwpKKOAR6o #PeakStatism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4ybfIdefT8 #PeakStatism

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