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[MINISTRY] Juan's ZeroHedge article - “Not All Teens are Begging for their Rights to be Taken”
by Zenaan Harkness 05 Apr '18

05 Apr '18

Well duh! Much that folks round here could agree with. (links in original) Not All Teens are Begging for their Rights to be Taken https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-04/not-all-teens-are-begging-their-r… Via The Daily Bell Authoritarianism creeps in from seemingly unlikely places. Government officials will start with a premise that seems pretty legit. “Kids need to be protected. In order for parents and officials to protect them, kids can’t have full rights like adults.” As child labor, compulsory schooling, and other “protective” laws have accelerated over the last 100 years, the definition of “child” has gone from something like under 14-years-old to 16, 18, and 21 in many cases. But don’t worry, it’s just “kids” that don’t have rights. It’s just that American society considers people in their early twenties “kids.” In fact, you can’t even run for the House of Representatives until age 25. According to what America fought its war of independence over–“No taxation without representation”–people under 25 should be exempt from federal taxes. And yet the media has manipulated teens into marching not to have their human rights restored, but to take more of their rights away. They want to make sure no one under 21 can protect themselves. This again is one of those things that sounds like a reasonable idea. “Teenagers are unstable, we don’t want them having guns!” Of course, 15-year-old gang members already seem quite capable of getting guns. And basically any 15-year-old in America can get cigarettes, alcohol, and illegal drugs. So instead of protecting “kids,” and protecting society from “kids,” these rules serve only to infantilize teens. It is a spiral–as teens are more restricted, they lash out in protest, which is used as further evidence of the need to restrict them. “Disturbing Schools” and “Disorderly Conduct” Teens are deprived of their liberty by being forced to attend public schools. And while forced to attend, they are subject to arbitrary and vague laws. In South Carolina, almost 10,000 students under 16 have entered the criminal justice system due to laws against “disturbing schools,” and “disorderly conduct.” Ironically, students over 16 were not included in the statistics because they were charged as adults. So they don’t have the rights that adults have, but they can still be treated like an adult by the criminal justice system. Students were charged for things like recording a school resource officer pulling a girl from her desk, throwing her to the ground, and handcuffing her. Students sued with the help of the ACLU. The court found that the laws chill freedom of expression and present a credible threat that students will be prosecuted for exercising their rights in the future. [The Court] determined [PDF] multiple students arrested and charged with violating the state’s “disturbing schools” law and “disorderly conduct” statute made sufficient arguments that the statutes are too vague for students to know what conduct will be interpreted as violating the law. The appeals court found the claims that they chill students’ exercise of free expression, “forcing them to refrain from exercising their constitutional rights or to do so at the risk of arrest and prosecution,” were valid. It vacated a district court decision and remanded the case. Some people think schools need to be tough on teens to teach them discipline. The problem is that this only teaches obedience to arbitrary authority, and filters the resistance into the prison system. Hardening schools is not the way to go. School is alleged to prepare kids for jobs. The key difference is that jobs are not compulsory. You can choose a job based on a number of factors. There are countless options if you don’t like the rules or atmosphere of one workplace. But school is forced on kids. Without their consent, they are placed in a building where they have to obey orders, ask permission to use the bathroom, eat at specific times, and study what they are told to study. They have no choice in the matter. But cracking down on the dissidents with more and more authoritarianism, unfortunately, does prepare them for real life. Hardening schools shape students to live in a hardened society. They may not learn math and reading, but they learn how to interact with the state: obey or meet violence. Schools are starting to look more like jails. What do you think will be the result on society, when generations of children have been brought up indoctrinated to think that it is normal for the government to search them, monitor them, question them, and dictate every second of their day? Removing arbitrary laws like the ones in South Carolina is a great start, but it doesn’t get at the deeper problem. But there are other positive signs that solutions are brewing to cure the underlying disease. Free Range Parenting Utah passed a law to clarify that parents cannot get in legal trouble for allowing their otherwise well cared for children some autonomy. For instance, if a child is not otherwise neglected, allowing them to walk to school and play alone at the playground at an appropriate age cannot be considered child abuse or neglact. This cuts to the core of the problem because parenting styles that are not as mainstream cannot be considered illegal. But the theory behind free-range parenting has merit. It is based on the science that says coercion leads to psychological problems. A sponsor of the law had it right when he said: Kids need to wonder about the world, explore and play in it, and by doing so learn the skills of self-reliance and problem-solving they’ll need as adults. As a society, we’ve become too hyper about ‘protecting’ kids and then end up sheltering them from the experiences that we took for granted as we were kids. The structure of public school is so bad that it really should be thrown out. There is really no reason in the modern era to have compulsory public schools. The state cannot properly design a society from the top down. It has been tried and always fails. But allowing schools to control kids in public schools is allowing them to design society. The reason free-range parenting works is because it admits that even parents, with the best interests of their children in mind, cannot always know how to dictate the best course for their children. So instead of helicoptering, they let go of a little control and allow their children autonomy. Five Ways Schools Destroy Children’s Freedom (and what to do about it). 7 Reasons to Shut Down Public Schools Immediately and Permanently. You don’t have to play by the rules of the corrupt politicians, manipulative media, and brainwashed peers.

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#CensorshipKills
by grarpamp 05 Apr '18

05 Apr '18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGkRAMSoGJU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Dgt6bUw80M https://twitter.com/search?q=%23censorshipkills

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Elliptic curves: point at infinity revisited
by Jan Dušátko 05 Apr '18

05 Apr '18

Another step in the Elliptic Curve Cryptography https://trustica.cz/en/2018/04/05/elliptic-curves-point-at-infinity-revisit… https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6387547111046594561 -- Jan Dušátko Phone: +420 602 427 840 e-mail: jan(a)dusatko.org SkypeID: darmodej GPG: http://www.dusatko.org/downloads/jdusatko.asc

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Cryptocurrency: AMA with Mt Gox / Karpeles
by grarpamp 05 Apr '18

05 Apr '18

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/89o16y/im_mark_karpel%C3%A8s_exce… https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/89o171/im_mark_karpel%C3%A8s_exceo_of… https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/89k4gh/mike_hearn_will_be_returning_b… https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin+CryptoCurrency+btc/top/?sort=top&t=month https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/89mwk0/why_i_personally_be…

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Re: Fwd: Pursuance's Progress: Updates Galore! 💥
by Razer 04 Apr '18

04 Apr '18

Actually, BB's immersed in video games and twitter. Maybe these other guis are doing something and barrett's donating his irl persona? Rr null

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They Said "If You Want Anarchy, Go To Somalia" — So I Did
by grarpamp 04 Apr '18

04 Apr '18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UooepLs3Fqs https://www.youtube.com/user/wearechange/videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygi310QdDcw https://wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Study_Memorandum_200 https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/89i790/carnage_as_airstrike_hit…

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Cryptocurrency: Deconomy 2018
by grarpamp 03 Apr '18

03 Apr '18

https://deconomy.com/ https://deconomy.com/agenda/ https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=CAI%253D&search_query=deconomy All these crypto conferences really need to do proper talk / panel videos and upload. Audience cam, while decentral, are shit and incomplete coverage thus world misses out.

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Re: 1.1.1.1 Fast Privacy-Last DNS Service
by grarpamp 03 Apr '18

03 Apr '18

On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 1:57 PM, Razer <g2s(a)riseup.net> wrote: > I wonder if Clownflare is still hosting those AQ honeypot "chatrooms" to > find useul idiots for the CIA? Why bother with those retarded idiots who can hardly manage to blow themselves up... when they've got you, the oh so smart ones, the revolutionaries, to out yourselves to them for free with your webtv's smartphone's facebook's... in your own damn livingroom's... the formerly most secure chatrooms of all. You fucktards.

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Fwd: [tor-relays] Estimation of bridge traffic / Bridge or relay needed?
by grarpamp 03 Apr '18

03 Apr '18

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <jackoreamnos(a)tutanota.com> Date: Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 4:38 AM Subject: Re: [tor-relays] Estimation of bridge traffic / Bridge or relay needed? To: tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org Cc: tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org Want to follow up the discussion on encouraging people to run relays. The powers that be where I live now heavily frowns upon VPN and Tor. And a fair number in our community is sensing further tightening in the air. Today we had a discussion, we had a lot of questions. I try to summarize below and see if we can fact-check and learn more. (1) Advocacy: Background - Someone raised the idea that we should each run a Tor relay in each of our house. Someone said the powers that be cannot put all of us in jail if we get enough people to host Tor. A parent among us said, "I never before had an urge to run a VPN or Tor. But when running encryption and sharing a VPN tunnel with a criminal on the next packet is required to ensure your freedom to read BBC, you feel queasy and you worry what your underage kids might stumble on, things they are too young to deal with on the dark web. But loosing the freedom to read BBC makes me feel beyond queasy, beyond nauseated, and bilious, and sick..." He used a few more adjectives that I cannot spell. There were non technical users who expressed interest to run a non-exit relay, but only if they will be able to run an installer and click the next button and only use default options. And only if they can feel assured they understand the risks. (1.a) Their underage kids will not stumble on the dark web before they are old enough to know they are doing. Underage kids should not be able to stumble on the dark web on the computer the Tor relay is run (and what must be done to assure that). And underage kids should not be able to stumble on the dark web by being on the same WIFI network in the house. (1.b) There are different degrees of fear of risks. Some are brave enough to run a non-relay in the house where they live. We think they need to assume they can be detected. Some were only willing to consider if the non-exit Tor cannot be easily detected. The definition of not easily varies: - as difficult to detect as the obfs4 bridge protocol (but someone said the bridge protocol only works between a Tor client and a Tor relay, but not between a Tor relay and another Tor relay; we have not been able to confirm this by our own efforts) - as difficult as the meek protocol (someone said the idea of meek is to encrypt Tor packets and send it to a unblocked IP/domain, where the traffic is decrypted and copied to a proper Tor network); someone said he is willing to run a meek server to accept incoming connections, but only if the outgoing connections are at least obfs4. Someone said if we have many thousands of these tiny meek nodes hosted at our home address, we offload the official meek proxies run on amazon and azure. And even if we contribute only 1kb/s each, it is going to be more than sharing the cost - the idea is we want a high level of household penetration so that the powers that be find it hard to clamp us down. - as difficult to detect as protected by a VPN. Someone said he would pay for a VPN package, run a relay on a machine which only talks to the world through the VPN. But someone said that works for a Tor client, but not for a relay because a relay would need to have its own IP and listen on certain ports on that IP, and so because you VPN exit point will not let you listen on any port numbers, even if he is willing to pay for a commercial VPN that exits in another country, his tor relay cannot accepts incoming connections. Some people would give up running a non-exit if this cannot be done. The only IP they can access is where they sleep, and they want to be able to sleep well. Not just them, but their wife and their children needs to sleep well too. Is the ability to accept incoming connections a requirement to running a non-exit relay? (2) There is a sentiment that we should get "every household to run a Tor" so that the powers that be will find it much harder to clamp down. Someone said he would install a Tor relay on every single computer he controls, to support journalism and news reporting, if what he contributes ONLY goes towards beating censorship against the media. He said he feels it is a much easier sell if the sole function of that node is to allow people living under censorship to read newspaper. He said if there is a funding campaign to deploy the onion enterprise toolkit for news media, he will want to direct his donation specifically to those. Or if he can run an exit relay ONLY for for the BBC news domain. He said, then running Tor is a much easier sell to his family and friends. If the police brings him in, the back and forth will not be "we observed spams and hacks and viruses and copyright infringements on your IP", but the back and forth will just be "you are reading something you should not read on the web" and we can have a much better chance of advocating for "Tor relay in every home". We know in general Tor supports more network access than reading the news. But compared to countries where the freedom to run Tor exits are protected by law, living where we live we want to make it a much easier sell, and eventually to get a higher penetration so that the penetration itself becomes a barrier for the powers that be to clamp us down. And as we are not experts, and as we run real risks, and as we want our family to sleep well, we have framed our "requirements" or "prerequisites" to run Tor relays almost beyond the reasonable. You might want to call us paranoid. If there is a way for us paranoid people to run relays and to advocate, please help us. Jack 2. Apr 2018 07:36 by arma(a)mit.edu: On Mon, Apr 02, 2018 at 03:32:00AM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#RelayOrBridge > > "If you have lots of bandwidth, you should definitely run a normal relay. > If you're willing to be an exit, you should definitely run a normal > relay, since we need more exits. If you can't be an exit and only have a > little bit of bandwidth, be a bridge. Thanks for volunteering!" The 'normal's above are ambiguous and conflicting. Replace them with 'non-exit' and 'exit'. Ah, actually no, replace them with "relay" and "relay". In that text, "normal relay" is as opposed to "bridge relay". The FAQ text sure needs some updating. --Roger _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list tor-relays(a)lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays

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Fwd: Pursuance's Progress: Updates Galore! 💥
by grarpamp 03 Apr '18

03 Apr '18

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pursuance <team(a)pursuanceproject.org> Date: Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 4:01 AM Subject: Pursuance's Progress: Updates Galore! 💥 Upcoming RightsCon talks, Kickstarter campaign, Aaron Swartz Day video, Live AMA recording, and more! Pursuance *Democracy bites back* After a stint of radio silence, we're back! For the past few months we've been fully immersed in building Pursuance -- secure, open source software that amplifies the efforts of activists, journalists, and nonprofits, leading ultimately to a vast and formidable ecosystem of opposition to institutionalized injustice. We've made a lot of progress on the platform, we're excited about the future, and we want you to get involved. Here's the rundown. *WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING* (aka "the haps") 1. Pursuance software development and alpha testing Pursuance Project staff and volunteers have been hard at work on building the Pursuance System. It's reached the stage in its development where the Pursuance team has begun using it to coordinate ourselves internally -- that's right, using Pursuance (the software) to coordinate Pursuance (the nonprofit)! -- helping us to ensure the software is developed to meet real-world needs by using it ourselves and sorting out the kinks as we go. *Want to play around with the platform yourself and help shape its direction?* Schedule a session with our technical lead and project manager Steve Phillips by emailing team(a)pursuanceproject.org with the subject line "Pursuance testing: let's do this" <team(a)pursuanceproject.org?subject=Pursuance%20testing%3A%20let's%20do%20this&body=Hi%20Steve%20and%20the%20rest%20of%20the%20Pursuance%20team%2C%0A%0AWhat%20I'm%20excited%20about%20Pursuance%2Fwhat%20I%20want%20to%20use%20it%20for%3A%20> . (And if you're a Linux-y/sys admin/command line person or developer, check out github.com/PursuanceProject/pursuance <https://pursuanceproject.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0bc58cfb12bee1a…> ("check out", git it?). We've written a deploy script and some documentation that will make it easier for you to spin up your own instance. Oh, and send us feedback! <team@pursuanceproject.org?subject=Feedback&body=%23%23%20What%20I%20liked%0A%0A%0A%23%23%20What%20I'd%20like%20to%20see%20improved%0A%0A%0A%23%23%20What%20I'd%20like%20to%20see%20added> ) 2. Spreading the message The Pursuance team has traveled far and wide over the past few months, recruiting developers and communicating the greater vision. We performed the first public, live demo of Pursuance <https://pursuanceproject.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0bc58cfb12bee1a…> at Aaron Swartz Day in San Francisco, right after attending re:publica in Dublin, where we spoke to nonprofits about their software needs, especially related to managing and amplifying the effectiveness of volunteers. In December, project lead Steve Phillips conducted a session on Pursuance at Chaos Communication Congress in Germany, working alongside our Director of Operations Annalise Burkhart and security/programming volunteer AJ Bahnken. We enjoyed showcasing Pursuance and the associated vision, learned a lot from the international crowd, and got some great ideas and feedback during a couple epic brainstorming sessions. (Image: AJ, Steve, and Annalise in Germany at CCC.) 3. Explaining the platform (videos) Just last week, Barrett Brown busted out the ol' whiteboard and his brand-spankin'-new web cam to describe the organizational structures the Pursuance System will support; you can watch that video here <https://pursuanceproject.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0bc58cfb12bee1a…> . *In case you missed it:* here's the recording of the Live AMA that Barrett and Steve did in September, answering your questions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOoPyovqk2Q <https://pursuanceproject.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0bc58cfb12bee1a…> . *WHAT'S COMING UP* 1. We're putting together a Kickstarter campaign! To rapidly accelerate the development of Pursuance, we're designing a Kickstarter campaign that will cover costs for two of our core developers to work on the system full-time! And it's going to include some *killer* (though non-violent) rewards. Be on the lookout for more information about this, and tell all your friends! We'll alert you when it goes live *near the end of May*. 2. We're going to RightsCon! RightsCon is an international tech and human rights conference, organized by the digital rights NGO Access Now. RightsCon 2018 will take place May 16-18 in Toronto, Canada. Members of the Pursuance team have been invited to speak at not one, but *two* sessions! Technical lead and project manager Steve Phillips will be presenting a live demo of the Pursuance platform, and Barrett Brown will speak as part of a truly all-star panel covering lessons learned from past activism, plus their visions for 21st century activism. The other panelists include Naomi Colvin (Courage Foundation), Birgitta Jónsdóttir (poetician, spokesperson for the International Modern Media Institute (IMMI), and prominent member of the Pirate Party in Iceland), Jesselyn Radack (whistleblower, attorney representing many whistleblowers, and heads the Whistleblower and Source Protection Program (WHISPeR) at ExposeFacts), Diani Barreto (journalist and researcher on whistleblowing at ExposeFacts and Courage Foundation), and Thomas Drake (NSA whistleblower). Our team will be at RightsCon the entire weekend, so if you'd like to chat, let us know! <team(a)pursuanceproject.org> *HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED* 1. Volunteer for user testing As mentioned above, if you’re interested in testing out Pursuance, email us <team(a)pursuanceproject.org>! This is a great way to help us tailor the software to your needs; that, or you just really want to dole out some criticism. Either way, we'd love your feedback. 2. Lend your design/UX skills! With all these recent developments, we’re looking for a lead product designer to join our growing team. Ideally, you would be able to contribute 15 hours/week to perfecting Pursuance's app UX on both desktop and mobile (web). You'll be actively engaged with the rest of the team, and play a critical role. It's helpful if you're located in the Bay Area, but not a requirement; a number of us work remotely. Pursuance is a labor of love; nobody is getting paid to do this (yet). We are looking for an individual who, just like everyone else involved, is willing to volunteer their time and energy for a future they believe in. We have a Kickstarter campaign going live in the near future; if it’s successful, we’ll be able to compensate you for your hard work. Until then, we offer camaraderie and bottomless gratitude. Help us make this great! All interested parties should contact team(a)pursuanceproject.org with "Pursuance UX" in the subject line <team(a)pursuanceproject.org?subject=Pursuance%20UX>. 3. Contribute code Calling all (React) coders! Here's what you need to get started: Tech stack: React, Redux, Bootstrap; Go, Postgres, PostgREST; WebSockets; NaCl and miniLock <https://pursuanceproject.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0bc58cfb12bee1a…> for crypto. Will later use React Native to build Android and iOS apps, and Electron for the cross-platform desktop app, once the web app and backend APIs have further stabilized. GitHub gist getting you up to speed ASAP: gist.github.com/elimisteve/ 452f68191295362d76cbdfc09543fc01 <https://pursuanceproject.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0bc58cfb12bee1a…> . Primary GitHub repo: github.com/PursuanceProject/pursuance <https://pursuanceproject.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0bc58cfb12bee1a…> . See README.md for dev environment setup instructions. Link to our developer chat server (join the "pursuance" channel): bit.ly/cwc-mminvite <https://pursuanceproject.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0bc58cfb12bee1a…> . 4. Contribute $$$ The funds you donate will enable our programmers to devote more of their time to developing the Pursuance System. We accept various cryptocurrencies <https://pursuanceproject.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0bc58cfb12bee1a…> and PayPal <https://pursuanceproject.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0bc58cfb12bee1a…>. Every bit helps! *GET IN TOUCH* Do you have a question or would like to get involved somehow, but don't know where to start? Just send an email to Annalise Burkhart <annalisejb(a)protonmail.com>, Director of Operations. She has been coordinating outreach, and would love to hear from you. We'll keep you updated on Pursuance's developments and the team's activities in the coming weeks and months. Thanks again for your support! 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