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Re: [Cryptography] Security model of blockchains ?
by grarpamp 03 Jun '18

03 Jun '18

On Sat, Jun 2, 2018 at 4:27 PM, John Levine <johnl(a)iecc.com> wrote: > In article <b7b2bffa-47ae-3f50-fbf5-08a248c79680(a)agner.io> you write: >>"Hijacking Bitcoin: Routing Attacks on Cryptocurrencies" -> >>https://btc-hijack.ethz.ch/ >>https://www.marcoagner.org/ > > Thanks, that was the sort of thing I was looking for, assumptions in > the security model that may not be true, and bad things happen if they > are indeed not true. > > It is my impression that blockchains generally assume a flat mostly > reliable connection among nodes. This paper says that 13 ISPs host > 30% of the whole Bitcoin network, and 60% of connections cross three > ISPs. I wonder who and where those three are. Bitcoin Core BTC... and most all other cryptocurrencies... head in sand. If you're not encrypting end to end over the wire you're just opening yourself up to so many bad things. Only a few out of 1000+ among them had a clue to implement mandatory TLS with operational mode options including Accept All for the Stupid, fingerprint pinning, TOFU, etc, all with cert logging capabilities for change debugging, and handy management tools as needed. There's maybe five decent privacy coins that are using fully encrypted end to end transports natively, even if not yet offering a full matrix of possible usage modes therein. And a similar number known to be additionally supporting interop with anonymous overlay networks. And a growing number actually taking privacy tech inside the coin itself as a necessary fundamental property of the promise of cryptocurrency. Kudos to them. The first part of cryptocurrency... is "crypto". Don't launch without it. [bcc cpunks because cryptocurrency is banned at metz, lol]

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Re: Razer gets a call from the fedz about a ZuckerBook 'post you made in April'
by juan 02 Jun '18

02 Jun '18

On Fri, 01 Jun 2018 15:05:22 -0700 Razer <g2s(a)riseup.net> wrote: > > -------- Original message --------From: juan <juan.g71(a)gmail.com> Date: 6/1/18 1:41 AM (GMT-08:00) To: cypherpunks(a)lists.cpunks.org Subject: Re: Razer gets a call from the fedz about a ZuckerBook 'post you > made in April' > On Thu, 31 May 2018 11:51:46 -0700 > Razer <g2s(a)riseup.net> wrote: > > > > > I just got a voicemail from one special agent Delligan > > and how did the turd get your phone number? > > Facebook DOES NOT have my phone number. Someone did a search on my name and info while doing the pre-call threat assessment. Note i was called at the end of May about an event at the end of April, so they probably ran my NCIC or whatever, sae no indication whatsoever that I'd be doing that, and called me last... or something like that. yeah no doubt they have some 'state of the art' stamdard bureaucratic procedure. > But I KNOW they backgrounded me before they called because that's how they work. They know the answers before they ask questions, and if you lie... gotcha! the 'interesting' thing is (sort of, I guess), that you would get a call at all for something as trivial as a facebook comment, even if the comment was, perhaps, slightly non trivial. Then again, that's exactly what one would expect from a surveillance police state so... > I'm extrapolating from something he said in convo that leads me to believe FB flagged it to them without notifying me or removing the post. My guess is SELECTOR words AI did that, and I suspect the armor use of the words Bedded in, range, congress, triggered it. > Rr

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VISA down, crypto probably up
by Georgi Guninski 02 Jun '18

02 Jun '18

https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/6430640/visa-down-network-crashes-uk-europe-… CARD CHAOS Visa apologises for network crash which sparked card payment chaos but insist there was no hack More than 95 per cent of debit cards in the UK are run on Visa's network. The outage affected other networks

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Google Project MAVEN: We're Evil and Support Murder with AI
by grarpamp 02 Jun '18

02 Jun '18

https://theintercept.com/2018/05/31/google-leaked-emails-drone-ai-pentagon-… https://gizmodo.com/google-is-helping-the-pentagon-build-ai-for-drones-1823… https://gizmodo.com/google-employees-resign-in-protest-against-pentagon-con… https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/30/17408446/google-ai-guidelines-weaponry-m… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17202179 https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-dont-be-evil-from… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17105411 In March, Google secretly signed an agreement with the Pentagon to provide cutting edge AI technology for drone warfare, causing about a dozen Google employees to resign in protest and thousands to sign a petition calling for an end to the contract. Google has since tried to quash the dissent, claiming that the contract was "only" for $9 million, according to the New York Times. Internal company emails obtained by The Intercept tell a different story: The September emails show that Google's business development arm expected the military drone artificial intelligence revenue to ramp up from an initial $15 million to an eventual $250 million per year. In fact, one month after news of the contract broke, the Pentagon allocated an additional $100 million to Project Maven [the endeavor designed to help drone operators recognize images captured on the battlefield]. The internal Google email chain also notes that several big tech players competed to win the Project Maven contract. Other tech firms such as Amazon were in the running, one Google executive involved in negotiations wrote. (Amazon did not respond to a request for comment.) Rather than serving solely as a minor experiment for the military, Google executives on the thread stated that Project Maven was "directly related" to a major cloud computing contract worth billions of dollars that other Silicon Valley firms are competing to win. The emails further note that Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing arm of Amazon, "has some work loads" related to Project Maven.

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Cryptocurrency: RTL-SDR and LTE
by grarpamp 02 Jun '18

02 Jun '18

https://github.com/iminehard/gpunoise/wiki

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UFOs, Black Projects, Secret Bases, Govt Docs
by grarpamp 01 Jun '18

01 Jun '18

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Razer gets a call from the fedz about a ZuckerBook 'post you made in April'
by Razer 01 Jun '18

01 Jun '18

I just got a voicemail from one special agent Delligan (sp? And why are they almost always Irish?) in DC about a 'post you made in April', and he wanted a callback. On calling I got a voicemail box that sounded legit but I still suspected a FB phishing expedition. So I dialed the same number but instead of the last 2 digits I dialed 00... Fast busy. So I dial 01, and get a senator's office. Not a Phishing trip... I left a rather rude voicemail at the phone number and got a callback about 10 minutes later. The post in question, from April was in regard to the Congressional Baseball game, which had a shooter drop in if you'll recall. My post was just before they tried have their ballgame again and RollCall was commenting on the security. In the post I basically suggested that there's no foolproof way to protect a congressman on an open air ballfield from a sniper at 300 yard with a bolt action rifle. Apparently the Capitol Police ARE worried about such a possibility and were 'assessing' all possible threat scenarios made on social media. After a five minute chat he assumed I wasn't intending to be a 'shooter' nor instructing anyone how to be one, or even suggesting anyone should be one, and here is the post: > "Tight security. Use a good high power Bolt Action > legal-in-all-50-states hunting rifle... Bedded in and checked at the > range any ol' bolt action ought to be good for 300 yards anyway. > > "Republicans’ First Congressional Baseball Practice After Shooting Set > for April 25" > > https://www.rollcall.com/news/hoh/republicans-congressional-baseball/ " Rr. Ps. "I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad!"

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BlockChain TechnoDemocratic Candidate 2018... Universal ID Registration For All The TD Things
by grarpamp 01 Jun '18

01 Jun '18

https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/8nnum8/san_franciscan_runn… https://www.jasonhanania.com/ https://www.evoteamerica.org/ https://twitter.com/evoteamerica Re-Engineering Democracy Ending the U.S. political party system... In 2016 I ran for the U.S. Senate as the first technodemocratic candidate. A technodemocratic candidate preferably has no political party affiliation, does not accept campaign donations, and (if elected) agrees to use a decentralized Evoting Service. My New Book: Architecture of a Technodemocracy Download free the 1st of each month... https://www.amazon.com/Architecture-Technodemocracy-Technology-Revolutioniz… On bittorrent yet? 1999 - Graduate of the University of California Santa Barbara College of Engineering (B.S.M.E.). 2002 - Graduate of the University of San Diego School of Law (J.D.). 2003 - Registered as a United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) attorney #52,987. 2004 to 2006 - Intelligence analyst and agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 2006 to present - Independent contractor for legal matters requiring engineering consulting. 2010 to 2011 - Issued U.S. patents 7,760,092 and 8,035,520 (USPTO Filing Date 2003-12-23). 2016 - Founded evoteAmerica. 2018 - Published Architecture of a Technodemocracy: How Technology and Democracy Can Revolutionize Governments, Empower the 100%, and End the 1% System.

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Cryptocurrency: A Decentralization Definition, Sharing Platforms, Economics, More
by grarpamp 01 Jun '18

01 Jun '18

https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/the-meaning-of-decentralization-a0c92b76… https://old.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/8n90qx/debunked_we_dont_know_what_sat… https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/8n6ouk/why_blockchainbased… https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/8n5f2g/collapsing_economie… https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/8n6tn5/one_month_ago_i_inv… Dude forgot to adopt 10 of his friends into the active economy and philosophy, thus lost 27% of his value. https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/8i222k/new_york_times_fron… https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/8i222k/new_york_times_fron… https://cryptopotato.com/morgan-stanley-says-banks-could-use-cryptocurrenci… https://www.trustnodes.com/2018/05/16/germanys-second-biggest-stock-exchang… https://www.ccn.com/almost-irresponsible-to-not-invest-in-bitcoin-billionai… https://youtu.be/q_aqaxtAMbs?t=328 https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@ftlian/mike-judge-s-hbo-show-silicon-va… https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/8gz9wc/heads_up_boys_were_…

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Cryptocurrency: Future of Indy Media, Census, and US Election 2020
by grarpamp 31 May '18

31 May '18

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