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Re: [Cryptography] Cryptokitties: When you've still got money to burn after investing in all those ICOs
by grarpamp 26 Jul '18

26 Jul '18

On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 1:47 AM, Rui Paulo via cryptography <cryptography(a)metzdowd.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2018-07-23 at 08:17 +0000, Peter Gutmann wrote: >> Dammit, why didn't I think of that? Just as the bottom is falling >> out of >> ICOs, someone comes up with a new way to extract money out of the >> gullible. >> >> https://www.cryptokitties.co/ >> >> tl;dr: >> >> 1. Use actual real money to buy Ethereum. >> 2. Use Ethereum to buy a cryptokitty. >> 3. ?? >> 4. ?? >> 5. No, not profit, just more ?? >> > > http://cryptopuppies.org/ Funny how this list will approve, 1up, and talk about the above [1], yet censor actual discussion of more serious areas of cryptocurrency, (note such with BTC being early on this list), which are in fact material relavant to the "technical, social, political, security, privacy, legal, and multinational aspects of cryptosystems' of its charter. [1] which are btw old way news now having been out for ten months, for which people are still rightfully free to evaluate investing in, using them as currency, or collect / trade / dispose on whim as deemed fit. bcc cypherpunks, to witness esteemed lolcat and cute puppy posters approved into the censorship / irony / fud log... and where you're actually free to cover relavant 'crypto' currency material, and even trade cryptokitties :)

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Signal on the Desktop, Plays FBI Subpoena
by grarpamp 26 Jul '18

26 Jul '18

https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop https://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/10/04/2144202/encryption-app-signal-wins… http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/signal-subpoena-privacy-gag-order/ https://apnews.com/2bed090d3ec042cab375278b636ff5e5/US-subpoena-tests-priva… http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/05/technology/subpoenas-and-gag-orders-show-… https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/open_whisper_docume… Signal, widely considered the gold standard of encrypted messaging apps, was put to the test earlier this year when a FBI subpoena and gag order that demanded a wide range of information on two users resulted in a federal grand jury investigation in Virginia. The makers of Signal, Open Whisper Systems, profoundly disappointed law enforcement. The app collects as little data as possible and therefore was unable to hand anything useful over to agents. "That's not because Signal chose not to provide logs of information," ACLU lawyer Brett Kaufman told the Associated Press. "It's just that it couldn't." "The Signal service was designed to minimize the data we retain," Moxie Marlinspike, the founder of Open Whisper Systems, told the New York Times. The subpoena came with a yearlong gag order that was successfully challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union. Signal's creators challenged the gag order as unconstitutional, "because it is not narrowly tailored to a compelling government interest." The challenge was successful. In addition to being popularly considered the best consumer encrypted messaging app available, Signal's technology is used by Facebook for Secret Conversations, WhatsApp for encrypted messages, and Google's Allo. Confronted with the subpoena, Marlinspike went to the ACLU for legal counsel. The ACLU responded with a letter saying that even though Signal did not have data the FBI sought, it still strenuously objected (PDF) to the fact the FBI wanted so much information.

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Monopolies are made by government and they can easily be broken by them too
by Steven Schear 26 Jul '18

26 Jul '18

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/18/eu-fine-google-android-a… Instead of fining Google, if the EU really wants to set and example of how to reign in monopolies, they should recind the IP privilege they granted Google by stripping them of their copyrights (and perhaps patents).

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[MINISTRY] Sexual Utopia in Power - bust a myth already!
by Zenaan Harkness 25 Jul '18

25 Jul '18

Sometimes stating the obvious comes with a "well duh!" and other times a "about bloody time someone said it!" This could perhaps be useful for many a young (or not so young) wanna be man in the age of sexual "liberation". Cute 'toon: https://dailystormer.name/its-a-true-story/ ~30 page PDF: https://www.toqonline.com/archives/v6n2/DevlinTOQV6N2.pdf May sanity rein,

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Re: [tor-talk] torjail - run programs in tor network namespace
by grarpamp 25 Jul '18

25 Jul '18

>> > "Tor", and not "TOR". >> >> Is this list for capital punishment? >> Or is this a community for freedom? > > This is a list for empowering each other and building a community and > technology for helping those who are in need around the world. Please > refer to our social contract [0], if there's any confusion. Please do > not confuse spelling Tor, as requested, with someone who is very excited > and yelling "TOR!" or maybe a heading on a slideshow saying "TOR > BROWSER". > > This isn't about punishment, we're simply asking people follow the > request of the community and people who build this community/technology > and put their time, energy, and life into it. Don't confuse community... extents of vagueness being group / individually / un defined, bidirectionally voluntary, dynamic and of infinite global breadth depth, etc... with the exact legal corporate holder of trademark, its lawyers on retainer filing "requests" for force, and its staff with paychecks in hand. Most opensource projects have no trademark and don't much bother or care what collection of symbols others refer to them as, nor which ones others include in their own projects and names. TOR TOr ToR tOR Tor tOr toR tor This is a list of permutation... ;) > [0] > https://gitweb.torproject.org/community/policies.git/tree/

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Cryptocurrency: $100k Bounty For Hacking The BitFi Unhackable Wallet
by grarpamp 25 Jul '18

25 Jul '18

https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1021805449681817600 https://bitfi.com/ Embassy Cat vs Crypto Kitties vs Mcafee's Dogs https://www.cryptokitties.co/ https://twitter.com/EmbassyCat/media http://www.whoismcafee.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/tiger2.jpg

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[TOUGH QUESTIONS] State or individual - which should be master? - Zerowedgie
by Zenaan Harkness 25 Jul '18

25 Jul '18

So this is perhaps a tough question for folks round here :D Well, at least for the statists. This question - which should be master, individual or state, is posed as a dichotomy, as though it's one or the other. Any anarchist worth his salt is firmly on the side of the individual, and so in these quarters a statist stands out like Brennan photographing Hillary giving Obama a golden shower. (Ugh, damn! Strike that thought already‼) Thankfully Zerowedgie firmly observes the third aspect of the trinity in this realm - the middle ground: STATE MIDDLE INDIVIDUAL ∙ Plato Alexander Aristotle Republic “The Great” ∙ Maoists Confucian Taoists In the face of this thought, that which arose for me personally a few years ago as "an alternative noun/label for anarchy" namely "direct democracy" appears now to be the middle ground - that balance between: ∙ the very real potential chaos of anarchy, and ∙ the very real potential crystalline death of most of that which makes life worth living, in the extreme conformity and death of the individual, when the state is taken to its limit. Notwithstanding the (correct as it is) appearance of direct democracy as a form of individualism, direct democracy also be a recognition of both the tribal nature of individuals and the consequent inherent need for us to communicate in respect of our apparent disagreements and possibly find resolutions, thus: ∙ the state direct democracy anarchy/ism Perhaps it might be useful to consider the 'problems' at the extreme: - Can we say that the particular absolute authority and power which is inherent and existent within the individual, ought or must NOT EVER be (involuntarily or voluntarily for that matter) surrendered to the authority and power of the family, tribe or "state" etc? - Can we say that the particular absolute authority and power which is inherent and existent within the individual, ought or must ALWAYS be (involuntarily or voluntarily for that matter) surrendered to the authority and power of the family, tribe or "state" etc? Dichotomies eh? Perhaps the middle ground, the third principle forming the reality of this particular trinity, could be useful after all? State Or Individual? https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-22/state-or-individual

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Tampering Evil Maid Attacks / HOPE Conf NYC 2018
by grarpamp 24 Jul '18

24 Jul '18

https://theintercept.com/2018/04/28/computer-malware-tampering/ https://twitter.com/micahflee/status/1019601862272671744 Many ease of hack articles out there. https://hope.net/speakers.html Session videos starting to appear.

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Antifa: Gets 15 Years For A Mask (US HR 6054)
by grarpamp 24 Jul '18

24 Jul '18

US H.R. 6054: Unmasking Antifa Act of 2018 https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr6054 https://congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/6054 And facist thugs wearing disguises masks boots while performing said acts... excluded of course. Help help I'm being injured, oppressed, threatened, or intimidated... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtYU87QNjPw And when the opposing party gains that Congress, expect the opposite law to be put up. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-mask_laws https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_mask Happy Halloween in the USA.

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Deconstructing Tesla
by grarpamp 24 Jul '18

24 Jul '18

http://leandesign.com/pdf/Tesla-3-Analysis-Sales-Information.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAS-yjWj9DY https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-16/tesla-model-3-critic-fli… https://www.wiwo.de/technologie/mobilitaet/elektroauto-zerlegt-tesla-model-… https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/8nhodw/model_3_teardown_in_ge…

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