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Govt News
by grarpamp 15 Mar '18

15 Mar '18

Torture Gets A Promotion and Pay Raise https://politics.slashdot.org/story/18/03/13/1343235/trumps-pick-for-new-ci… France 6VEY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGUlNZLwtRk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwpGgck7pyU https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes Warrantless Searches https://www.aclunc.org/news/aclu-northern-california-lawsuit-demands-inform… Piracy https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/03/13/0441206/us-navy-under-fire-in-mass-… https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacktivismo_Enhanced-Source_Software_License_Agr… Chipping People https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/12/17109224/university-of-arizona-tracking-… Malware https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/web-sas-2018-apt-announcement-2/21514/ Nuclear EPA https://science.slashdot.org/story/18/03/11/1754232/epas-science-advisory-b… https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/03/11/0825244/report-says-radioactive-mo… Crypto Illegal https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/03/11/0820217/feds-bust-ceo-allegedly-sel… Facials Now Come With Glasses https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/03/11/0028241/chinese-police-begin-tracki…

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Fwd: [tor-talk] Google's Captchas - Not just annoying but deadly
by grarpamp 14 Mar '18

14 Mar '18

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=opensource+captcha ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: procmem <procmem(a)riseup.net> Date: Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 6:32 PM Subject: [tor-talk] Google's Captchas - Not just annoying but deadly To: tor-talk(a)lists.torproject.org Every Google reCaptcha feeds their neural network used by the DoD to enhance drone strikes. Switching your code to the AGPL makes it radioactive to Google. https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/prove_you_are_not_an_Evil_corporate_person/

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Re: [Cryptography] You guys do realize the first crypto war was lost, right?
by grarpamp 14 Mar '18

14 Mar '18

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 12:09 PM, Ryan Carboni <ryacko(a)gmail.com> wrote: > There is evidence that since 1997, we have been buying chips with secret > features that would make our computers more secure, but have been denied to > us as a de facto backdoor right? > > There is the reverse of the clipper chip. Except the silicon and the API to > access it is secret, as opposed to only the API. Here's the latest expose of secret features... https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2018-March/041639.html > It is hard to come to any other conclusion that pro-cryptography civil > libertarians are anything other than clowns when Zerodium pays up to $10,000 > for router exploits. You know. Routers, the ones with 128-bit WPA encryption > with shared secrets for multiple devices? I suppose people won't "wittingly" > buy backdoored products. Many people, even here, seem to "wantonly" deny the solutions described within, even as one of many solutions. So instead of starting up those entirely new open models, they continue game supporting / buying closed with Zerodium like startup... aka: govts / etc. No reduction of root problem there. > The good news is that bruteforcing 128-bit encryption with a classical > computer is that it would cost 2^56 times as much as gross bitcoin mining > expenditures. Somehow estimated bitcoin mining expenditures don't seem to > add up though, shouldn't intelligence agencies be able to crack 2^80 > encryption with ASICs? Currently costs several billion to preimage at 2^73 > complexity. research: govt electricity bills

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Stephen Hawking
by grarpamp 14 Mar '18

14 Mar '18

Dead at 76... https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=stephen+hawking

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Dying from alcohol or car accident, probabilities
by Georgi Guninski 14 Mar '18

14 Mar '18

Some non-drinking crowd was rather critical about using alcohol. I am not sure alcohol is more dangerous than car accident. What are the (local) probabilities of dying from: 1. alcohol 2. car accident Since the intersection is not empty, possibly add 0. car accident caused by drunk driver According the interwebs the probability for 2 in california in 2013 is about 1/13K.

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Cryptocurrency Dump
by grarpamp 14 Mar '18

14 Mar '18

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Fermi Problem: Where Might Valuations Go... / Economics
by grarpamp 13 Mar '18

13 Mar '18

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_problem https://www.darkwebguide.net/bitcoin-predictions-how-to-estimate-bitcoins/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoincash/comments/83uxf1/finally_we_priced_cryp… https://twitter.com/miniposcash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caUDXLqpdYc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTOWluc8Zrw https://wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Selgin https://www.hillsdale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/FMF-2014-Bitcoin-Probl… https://twitter.com/GeorgeSelgin https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham's_law http://www.bittsanalytics.com/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin+Bitcoincash+CryptoCurrency+bch+btc/

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1997 japanese tv program on the cpunks
by juan 13 Mar '18

13 Mar '18

Crypto Wars - NHK Documentary 1997 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcC0RNsallc a couple of interesting highlights : tim may prediction at minute 42 and there's a guy from sun microsystems, eric something, pretending to be one of the good guys haha.

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alex jones
by juan 13 Mar '18

13 Mar '18

I never paid much attention to the guy - he seemed mostly a fake libertarian clown (americunt nationalist, jew-christian nutcase) but lately I caught a couple of interesting bits from him. He comments on the idea that technical 'progress' will allow the oligarchy to become some sort of cyborg-like entities with let's say undefined life spans. Jones even mentioned clarke's "childhood's end", which is a rather impressive display of literary knowledge for jew-christian white-trash like him. now, of course, the possibility of technical cyber totalitarianism isn't exactly new. It is well documented in works like Brave New World and 1984. So what role does alex jones play then? well listen to this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAh0r4C6Q2Q it seems that jones' job is to turn reality into a nutcase 'conspiracy theory'. What's really going on is that indeed the oligarchy wants to become 'immortal' and possibly get rid of 90.99999% of the human race. But if that very real possibility is discussed by a nutcase like jones babbling about 'aliens' and 'pedophiles' and '12 dimensions' 'interdimensional stuff' etc then the very real threat of a world government with the ability to track all the microchiped, tax cattle in realtime becomes the 'stuff' that ignorant morons who watch alex jones believe. in short, motherfucking retard alex jones is just controlled opposition.

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Milgram "experiment" IRL - Judge repeatedly electroshocks live defendant (for failing to answer a question)
by Zenaan Harkness 13 Mar '18

13 Mar '18

This is hard to believe, yet true. Milgram would be shaking his head. Unsurprisingly, the defendant in this court case is now appealing. Judge Uses Electroshock in Court on Suspect, like a live Milgram experiment https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-12/judge-uses-electroshock-court-sus… Let's keep in mind Steve Kinney's poignant reference last time this conversation (and my sadly ascerbic and vehement dialogue last reared its ugly head): http://www.rachelcorrie.org/march16.htm Rachel Corrie’s 12th Anniversary of Death Rachel Corrie was crushed to death in the southern area of the Gaza Strip on Mach 16, 2003. Rachel expired due to being demolished, and while putting herself in the course of the military bulldozer to shield their house and your family… We can hope that Ms Corrie receives some reparations, although the Israeli "infestigation" was of course cooked before it began...

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