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Cryptocurrency: Trust Machine - The Story of Blockchain (2018 Documentary)
by grarpamp 22 Sep '18

22 Sep '18

https://www.facebook.com/trustmachinefilm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWtoiOgtOu4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMlqIoUVnLo See also: Trust Machine - The Story of Bitcoin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXB_j-_jPmU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKwqNgG-Sv4 https://www.youtube.com/user/ArtOfTheProblem/videos

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Strong Flow Correlation Attacks on Tor Using Deep Learning
by grarpamp 22 Sep '18

22 Sep '18

On 9/21/18, procmem <procmem(a)riseup.net> wrote: > https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.07285.pdf > >> DeepCorr can correlate Tor connections (and therefore break its anonymity) >> DeepCorr provides a flow correlation accuracy of 96% compared to 4% by the >> state-of-the-art system of RAPTOR using the same exact setting. >> >> We hope that our work demonstrates the escalating threat of flow >> correlation attacks on [overlay networks] given recent advances in >> learning algorithms, > The two main suggested countermeasures are > padding, [ie: tor may be working on this] Tor has some work towards added padding, but it might be insufficient against GPA's and GAA's on the wire, which are ultimately the more general form of these analysis. And it might not be network wide yet, nor regulated, accounted for under negotiated parameters, depeered upon unexpected behaviour, saturated, reclocked, jittered, etc. Sprinkling a little noise around might not hide the greater elephant crashing about the room that is your traffic. Today, if an analyst can pick any node, and characterize / learn / AI its traffic, even generate and be its traffic... all they have to do to discover the other end is to search any other node with the same parameters in their traffic DB. That's doable, and fatal. The only defense seems to be having random / rigorous traffic that users ride within, and are mutually interested in maintaining and enforcing that traffic layer for their own defense, accepting that they'll need to supply and dedicate a portion of their network link to it, etc. > AS-aware path selection. This seems more suited to somewhat reducing ease / odds of analysis by Sybil, aka: Trust in Nodes, Good:Bad Node Ratio / Odds, etc. Both GPA / GAA and Sybil can use similar analysis and attacks, as well as their own unique ones. However, if Sybil has knowledge and access to internal layers, which is the case with most networks that try to be more smart / efficient than broadcast, Node Trust won't likely be solved by inband solutions like GPA / GAA above might, you'll have to jump out to human solutions for that... Know Your Nodes... ... who and hardware, where physically / logically including jurisdiction, funding, OS, public inspection verification, subscriptions to node sets that meet whatever desired parameters, or exclude / include unknowns, realworld P2P PKI structures, anal probing, etc. For example, while a 1000 node, just download launch and play, network might easily be secured against external traffic analysis, it would miserably fail at Sybil resistance without Know Your Nodes. There's also combination of Know Your Nodes with node count odds, or just node count odds alone, such that adversaries deployment count of Sybil costs so much that they can't reach but say 10-100 per 100M users. Regarding those concepts of protection from Sybil, no network today comes anywhere close to KYN or, and or with, those node count odds. >> calling for the timely deployment of effective countermeasures by the Tor >> community. The *entire space* of Overlay / Messaging / P2P networks needs to seriously consider anew the conceivable and operational correlation, timing, statistical, etc attacks up to and including complete GPA analysis, even GAA and Sybil, being deployed by Agencies and Entities against them. And the space needs to make clear to [prospective] end users what classes of attacks they're aware of, and what they're claiming to mitigate or not. In part because, unlike being just those in the space before, post-Snowden, a world's worth of average users are becoming more aware and seeking solutions. And older tech and thinking that doesn't really address today needs cannibalized to allow for new efforts. We're not in 1999 with CARNIVORE and Napster P2P anymore. We're in 2025 with the All Seeing All Acting Eye... and without much in the way of networks going toe to toe with that. Those have yet to be created and widely deployed... happy hacking :)

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Documentary: Downloaded - Filesharing... The Music, Battle, and Revolution
by grarpamp 22 Sep '18

22 Sep '18

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Downloaded_(film) http://downloadedthemovie.com/ infohash: 372F89EE27BB57EED2EAE49AF7D95F8EFE5687EB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKrY2rrb4ks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxKcHTmbJZA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OIqtHBbDWA By Alex Winter: This documentary film addresses the evolution of digital media sharing on the Internet. It features exclusive interviews with software developers and musicians about controversial filesharing software, and particularly Napster. It follows Napster from its rise in 1999, through the swarm of lawsuits that ensued and to its acquisition by Rhapsody in 2011. Some of those interviewed include Henry Rollins, Billy Corgan, former record producer and Island Records founder Chris Blackwell, former Sony Music Chairman Don Ienner, former CEO of the RIAA Hilary Rosen, Beastie Boys’ Mike D, Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor and Noel Gallagher. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oMmaAkxJF0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWh2Ryw06i0

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Cryptocurrency: Money For Nothing - Inside The Federal Reserve (2013)
by grarpamp 22 Sep '18

22 Sep '18

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_for_Nothing:_Inside_the_Federal_Reserve https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maC7phpUVno infohash: B7D954E84AC0869F0E697EF998C75397F008E453 Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve is an independent feature-length American documentary about the Federal Reserve written and directed by Jim Bruce, and narrated by Liev Schreiber. It examines 100 years of the Federal Reserve's history, and discusses its actions and repercussions the US economy leading to the late-2000s financial crisis. Bruce believes "a more fully and accurately informed public will promote greater accountability and more effective policies from our central bank". The film features interviews with Paul Volcker and Janet Yellen as well as current and former Federal Reserve officials, top economists, financial historians, famous investors, and traders who provide insight on the Federal Reserve System. The film was released in US theaters on September 6, 2013.

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“caricatures of movie villains” - as black (humour) as it gets - [PEACE] [YOU KNOW YOU SHOULDN'T LOVE IT]
by Zenaan Harkness 20 Sep '18

20 Sep '18

Black humour is black, yet compellingly humorous. Notwithstanding, we ought not chuckel folks - doing so is beneath us... Spain: Patriotic Dog Bites Off Migrant’s Dick https://dailystormer.name/spain-patriotic-dog-bites-off-migrants-dick/

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Re: latest false flag attack?
by juan 20 Sep '18

20 Sep '18

On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 17:40:18 -0700 taxer <g2s(a)riseup.net> wrote: > 3 > Scumbag opined: > > 2) you are not here for honest intellectual discussion > you are just an anti-libertarian piece of shit tazer, and a fidel castro cocksucker. So there's no reason for you to be subscribed to the list, except for trolling. And posting US military propaganda, which is all you do. > > Actually the inbred "House of Saud" is of Persian descent. yes, tazer - and your evidence for that claim is?

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Krugman: “[white people] are…in the end…are not the future [in America]” - [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 20 Sep '18

20 Sep '18

Live your rights or let others live them for you. Good luck, https://dailystormer.name/jews-and-white-genocide-i-may-have-found-a-tell/ At some point you must ask yourself when you've been kicked out of 109 countries in many cases multiple times over the centuries, is it me/ my tribe that is doing something wrong?

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just around the corner for the rest of us - China: real life Big Brother ("1984") digital dictatorship - [MINISTRY]
by Zenaan Harkness 20 Sep '18

20 Sep '18

Folks, this is getting down to the wire. I am not aware of any silver bullets to forestall or stop 1984 - quite likely Google's spearhead in China shall be transplanted at "an appropriate moment" into 'the West' - forewarned is as close to forearmed perhaps, yet civil disobedience - i.e. conscientious objection - is going to be required big time from the sounds of the following China reality today: Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:56:14 +1000 (AEST) Subject: China - real life Big Brother ("1984") digital dictatorship http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-18/china-social-credit-a-model-citize… Naive "good" citizen Dandan says “If, as our government says, every corner of public space is installed with cameras, I’ll feel safe.” OMG! Meanwhile, Liu Hu, who is "an investigative journalist who has uncovered corruption at the top levels of the Party and solved serial murder cases", has "lost his social credit when he was charged with a speech crime and now finds himself locked out of society due to his low score. It’s destroyed his career and isolated him, and he now fears for his family’s future. The social credit system has closed down his travel options and kept him under effective house arrest in his hometown of Chongqing. In an apartment above the streets of Chongqing city, Hu tries to use a phone app to book train tickets to Xi’an. The attempt is rejected. '[The app] says it fails to make a booking and my access to high-speed rail is legally restricted,' he explains. Hu’s social media accounts, where he published much of his investigative journalism, have also been shut down. Hu claims his combined Wechat and Weibo accounts had two million followers at their peak but are now censored." ...and of course the rest of our world is gradually heading the same way.

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European values to be "applied" to Hungary - [MINISTRY] [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 20 Sep '18

20 Sep '18

So the legacy media pouts "European Values" to everyone it wishes to dominate and a few actual Europeans agree with the Dalai Llama that Europe ought not be turned into the United States of Niggerica. This of courses poses the question "what, exactly, these so called haloed 'European Values'?" Something to do with Lybia I guess... A sad yet mildly humorous look at what are the European Values: ** Disobedient Hungary: From the Soviet to the European Union https://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413… ------------------------------------------------------------ by Diane Johnstone The Unz Review (705 views) on Wed, Sep 19, 2018 CNN recently discovered a paradox. How was it possible, they asked, that in 1989, Viktor Orban, at the time a Western-acclaimed liberal opposition leader, was calling for Soviet troops to leave Hungary, and now that he is Prime Minister, he is cozying up to Vladimir Putin? For the same reason, dummy. Orban wanted his country to be independent then, and he wants it to be independent now. In 1989, Hungary was a satellite of the Soviet Union. Whatever Hungarians wanted, they had to follow directives from Moscow and adhere to Soviet communist ideology. Today, Hungary is ordered to follow directives from Brussels and adhere to the EU ideology, a k a “our common values”. But what exactly are those “common values”? ** Norway Didn’t Know Much About Libya, Helped Bomb It Into Chaos Anyway, State Report Finds https://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413… ------------------------------------------------------------ by RT (344 views) on Wed, Sep 19, 2018 A Norwegian state report says the officials “had very limited knowledge” of what was going on in Libya, but promptly decided to join the US-led intervention, turning the once thriving North African nation into a terrorist hotbed.

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Re: latest false flag attack?
by juan 20 Sep '18

20 Sep '18

On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 06:25:24 -0700 Razer <g2s(a)riseup.net> wrote: > So I'm a commie fed. tazer, 1) you are a commie piece of shit. Not even you would deny that fact. 2) you are not here for honest intellectual discussion about your totalitarian, piece of shit, commie 'theory' - you are here as a dishonest, anti-libertarian troll. 3) last but not least, you parrot the worst kind of US military propaganda, exactly like your far right, white supremacist pal, james donald. Whether your are a professional government agent, or an amateur government agent isn't too relevant. You are a government propaganda agent because you spout propaganda, whether directly paid or not. > U sik in da hed. They have Good Pills waiting for u troll. They give u gubmint checks if you swallow. > Rr > null

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