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Bittorrent, P2P Filesharing Protocols: PLAGUEd by DIRTY RATs eating off a GRIMPLATE
by grarpamp 25 Sep '17

25 Sep '17

https://theintercept.com/2017/09/13/nsa-broke-the-encryption-on-file-sharin… https://theintercept.com/snowden-sidtoday/3991308-the-answer-is-peer-to-pee… https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4002226/SEBACIUM-GCWiki-Redacted… https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4002227/Readfiles-102-Redacted.p… By 2010, the British electronic eavesdropping agency Government Communications Headquarters was also interested in “active P2P exploitation research,” web application used by analysts NSA’s File-Sharing Analysis and Vulnerability Assessment Pod that at the time had “the capability to identify users sharing/downloading files of interest program called GRIMPLATE was developed to study how employees used BitTorrent The wiki article also hints at information sharing with law enforcement. “DIRTY RAT will soon be delivered to the [London] Metropolitan Police and we are in the early stages of relationships with [U.K. child protection agency] CEOP and the FBI, PLAGUE RAT has the capability to alter the search results and deliver tailored content to a target,”

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EU Pirate Reda: EU Commision Piracy Study Unearthed
by grarpamp 25 Sep '17

25 Sep '17

https://juliareda.eu/2017/09/secret-copyright-infringement-study/ https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/displacement_study.pdf The European Commission paid €360,000 (about $428,000) for a study on how piracy impacts the sales of copyrighted music, books, video games, and movies. But the EU never shared the report—possibly because it determined that there is no evidence that piracy is a major problem.

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Fuck The Facts: Riders on the Shitstorm - A Music Theater Hybrid
by grarpamp 25 Sep '17

25 Sep '17

https://www.neukoellneroper.de/en/play/fuck-the-facts/ https://www.neukoellneroper.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/more.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z173J3oV_sE https://medium.com/@CandySBlack1/fuck-the-facts-torgate-opera-promo-text-an… Fuck the facts A MusicTheaterHybrid by Anna Catherin Loll, Georg Friedrich Händel, Mario Simon, Bijan Azadian, Yuko Matsuyama and Christian Römer World Premiere 13 September 2017 Riders on the Shitstorm Welcome to the age of self-empowerment. Just switch on your computer and twitter, post, troll, and hate away. Boss is base. Self-entitlement worldwide: that has been the credo of the virtual space riders of the artichoke cult since day one. Their enemies are evil dictators and inhuman regimes; their friends are the artichoke community and supporters. Their motto: make the internet great again. But what happens if the artichokes start attacking one another? If their compass is no longer calibrated? To make a pile of ashes from a forest, it only takes only a cigarette. To make the internet burn it takes only a tweet. No matter if fake, if fact, or fiction? Irrelevant, out in the open it goes! Hugh, I spoke. I don’t require counter arguments. I am already a democrat. Fuck the facts, you’re not my dad! May the enemy scorch in the purgatory of my projections. Burn, baby, burn! As an artist collective we contemplate the value of facts within our society. Our fictional narrative is (also) set in the middle of Berlin. Informed by a true incident of messianic hope for salvation and tribal justice inside the global village. We ask: who speaks out there for the privatized court of the internet. Who are the self-proclaimed cyber sheriffs? And why have they brought a giant wooden horse? Concept/Stage Direction: Christian Römer | Text: Anna Catherin Loll | Video: Mario Simon | Choreography: Yuko Matsuyama | Set/Costume Design: Grit Wendicke Featuring: Allen Boxer, Hrund Ósk Árnadóttir, Angela Braun, Mario Klischies und Bijan Azadian

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Re: new idea for random number generation
by Ryan Carboni 24 Sep '17

24 Sep '17

I am reminded of an anecdote (of which, our entire history books are made up of): https://unicornjelly.com/urulesmystories.html I have played a lot of Dungeons and Dragons, and related, games in my life. Rolling dice are an intrinsic part of such games, because they allow unusual things to happen, unusual results that surprise and amaze. Dice also give people the illusion of control over Fate...dice are random, yet people often feel like they are able to 'control' the probabilities, in a kind of real magick, some unexplained ability. When highly improbable events with dice occur, it is easy to believe such nonsense. Or perhaps we humans can affect probability...I will let you be the judge, for yourself. One time, during my days as a paid, professional DM, I had been running a free game for some people I was involved with at the time, and the brother of the person I was most involved with at the time came up to me and made a rather incredible statement. His friend was visiting, had heard of what fame I had back in those days, and wanted to meet me...and by the way, this friend could ALWAYS roll within one number of any target on a 20 sided die. Without fail. On any die. Any time. Sheah, my ass! Still, since the fellow was visiting, and since it really would not take any time to see for myself, and since he was a big fan of mine, I agreed to put up with whatever farce would be tossed to me. The first five or six rolls, each on a different die from my personal collection were all perfect and exact. The value '20', time after time. Then I borrowed the dice collection of an observing friend, doubting my own dice, despite the fact that I had painted them myself (you had to in those days) and knew my own dice inside and out (I have an enormous collection of polyhedral dice). The next five or six rolled I called at random....just picking numbers out of the blue. Whether it was an 18, or a 3, or a 12, or 20 again....this young man always, and without fail, on any die I gave him, (so long as it was a twenty-sided die, he could not do it on any other die) he could roll within one number. When I called 18, as I remember, he rolled 17, for instance. He never missed, not even once, and I must have tested him several dozen times. I wanted more, but he was getting bored, besides, I had run out of fresh, new d20's to use. We used every d20 anyone had. I would not repeat using the same die, trying to see if somehow the dice were rigged. He did not know how he did this trick. He just noticed, one day, that he could do it. He was not that amazed by it anymore. He had been doing it for several years. Adults could not care less, or refused to even bother to look. I was almost so skeptical myself, that I nearly shunned him as well. I am glad I did not, in retrospect. To this day I have no explanation whatsoever for what I saw. I tested the lads claim as carefully as I could, given the situation, and there was no shortage of witnesses from every angle. He did not palm the die, or do anything odd....several times I asked him to simply hold out his hand, palm up, where I deposited a d20, and had him just roll the die off of his palm, without closing his fingers. Just let the die fall off and hit the table. It made no difference. I have no idea what ever became of the boy, but I will always remember whatever it was that he could do.

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new idea for random number generation
by \0xDynamite 24 Sep '17

24 Sep '17

Speaking of cryptography (harhar), I was contemplating an idea to generate random streams of random numbers using chaos theory (not the first), specifically the logistic equation [3.5x(1-x)], when I came across the argument (http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~wagner/laws/chaos.html) that such generators are "psuedo-random", but I don't think is true. The equation is capable of producing an infinite stream of numbers that get more random as you continue to use the equation. The amount of true randomness approaches the depth of your word size, but in theory you can create an implementation with arbitrary depth (say 10000 bits). Is this interesting to anyone? Marxos

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More #$%& from #$%&#$ %&#$%&#$ Re: [ PFIR ] Netanyahu's son removes anti-Semitic meme from Facebook following outcry
by Hollow Domer 24 Sep '17

24 Sep '17

> grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com > Fri Sep 22 22:52:18 PDT 2017 > > Just wrong. > Yes you are: The computer industry has historically used the units kilobyte, megabyte, and gigabyte, and the corresponding symbols KB, MB, and GB, in at least two slightly different measurement systems."" This usage is referred to as a binary measurement."" wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_Prefix > lern > In addition to not being able to read, you can't into logic or reasoning. Pic related is the table from your (((link))). In addition to being a decimal prefix and not a binary one, there is no 'International System of Units' use of 'K' but 'k' is acceptable to you. where K = 1024"" wikipedia.org/wiki/JEDEC_memory_standards#Unit_prefixes_for_semiconductor_s… In other words: K = Killo = Thousand /thread Some cypherpunk =) Lol.

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I'm doing some signing.
by jim bell 24 Sep '17

24 Sep '17

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 I am Jim Bell, author of the Assassination Politics essay, at jdb10987(a)yahoo.com. I'm trying to implement public-key message signing with Mailvelope software, not with much success so far. I haven't really done signficant amounts of encryption since the 1990's, not much even then, and then I used PGP, and not with an email client. I realize that I don't have a public key available; I'd like to publish it, but there probably haven't been any key-signings nearby. I'm trying to (re-) learn the bare bones of this. This is my second attempt. The first attempt at signing simply lost my message, for reasons entirely unknown. I'd like to prove who I am. At least initially, I though of using a Skype call, jimbell887, to talk to a few of the more credible people around here. That will, at least, reduce the level of doubt until I can get up to speed on this very irritating software. I will put this message, and then have a signed copy of this message. I'd like to somehow include a copy of my public key, but as I said, I cannot yet figure out how do to that. Jim Bell -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: Mailvelope v1.8.0 Comment: https://www.mailvelope.com wsFcBAEBCAAQBQJZxfNlCRBZjK9onG2ZjwAAceQQAJ+Mwax0MTNYfqfx2qzC veQqzKZIr60jYkldNPK+bwkA/5EEN1fimEbqlIAIKONUsbGeUL6MrusmR0LZ y8t2QZVTe9CUH+hSHp2ibnUPWdEkOk8j2xfM2BacY+Dter2fUmgpyYPAExjE oWwLXDM9TS+UPRm3mPErbqtuCI9ZmhMJPPFiFwPTjcOJJ8eM10s/0XzVVmGo oZP+nSSWfVJLufVgHcKIA7Cuu9VTbxk5eQBfX+tkbNtNkFxeG5bK+CpHmqpW v3HWxBnk6NV4L3Uz3G1szMgcaTuYp/C1+QQ3sV1MWf1/3AGY0taFqSaio6P/ sKEFmIWCgBbiakKi8hIQtDl/baYRZGstgNKt2Fkz+K4m56fDPV/6nYLWJmv/ v1etiLgsHc7GrOEzfwjkKct00FjJYsyZRbe3x42HZ5ixXCBbNxfMaV3UUFBi euIh1jaIMglqGNrLRvQ0WHZL9KoBhXoMUM+AqKBmo1AgwpSEqvMuzMvneJsD 0xppxvVeWkp5bZ8L8hJmONoRsaua5YCJgjRXQiEH/gXknBrD0C0CTOPPd77d akIfuPpJGExW395HEmDq3mnTuP8p3DX75/dN7CvudeB8zs/oGD1K5qp5rroc XX4LbEuZ+HWlAGbgzSkdKAY437SJ67T2q/IkQHmVuSFLyvvtW+5s4k/vICpZ dk9g =mY4x -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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More #$%& from #$%&#$ %&#$%&#$ Re: [ PFIR ] Netanyahu's son removes anti-Semitic meme from Facebook following outcry
by Hollow Domer 24 Sep '17

24 Sep '17

> Hollow Domer shediedfrombeingtoof at redchan.it > Sun Sep 24 12:28:00 PDT 2017 > > K = Killo = Thousand > To modanon's credit, the 'International System of Units', abbreviated (SI) because it is clearly French, 'Système International', lol, assigned 'K' to the thermodynamic temperature measurement of 'Kelvin' (later renamed kelvin). However, I am arguing that the poor organizational form and use of 'kilo' vs 'Kilo' and 'k' vs 'K', is shit. Do not use shit logic just because some (((authority))) says so and call yourself a cypherpunk.

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Re: [Cryptography] After Equifax pwning, what is the best means for replacing the SSN?
by grarpamp 24 Sep '17

24 Sep '17

Various wrote: > You forgot the part about moving to Kiribati. Those investing in cryptocurrency might actually find that a rather interesting and easily affordable option as their assets continue to increase in value. Buying, building, maintaining their own crypto islands, private nations, directed by DAO's, crypto-anarchy relocation to influence, etc... all sorts of new models, all possible thanks to crypto. There are a number of books and active projects in these "island" fields one could read and participate in.. > Finally! Some crypto-anarchy on the mailing list! :P Indeed, because... > FWIW, just a vote against approving this kind of pre-2K-era cypherpunks manifesto’s on the cryptography mailing list ...too many pre-crypto-awakening government / corporate / banker types here continuing to make life and solutions forcibly dull and tilted in their favor. There are now lots of hungry crypto mosquitos out there that consider them, and that type of thing, prime blood for the biting. Too bad this time they can't just go out and spray the local backwater with DDT to get rid of them... they're everywhere now, hidden in crypto... some of the very same crypto rolled out and globally entrenched by the phase1 pre-2k-era cypherpunks. Here's another cypherpunk manifesto that all began right here on this list (ahem, complainant)... http://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/emails/cryptography/ Welcome to phase2 ;)

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[RUS] [POLITICS] Russia - the father of Patriotism/ Nationalism
by Zenaan Harkness 24 Sep '17

24 Sep '17

For those disillusioned with any or all of: - the profligate "Liberal West" (capital L and scare quotes absolutely intended), - the reactionary will-destroying national guilt complex ever burdening the Germans, - the tall poppy syndrome "all intellectual competency is a threat" so rife here in Australia and elsewhere, - the cotton wool, safe space, "let's have a cry-in at Juan's" feminine domination of society, - the denial of facts to the decrying of facts to the absolute assertions that "some facts are literally not to be talked about", at least (((according to some self-proclaimed "punks"))) or any of the many other psychological ills and woes we witness daily in this connected era, is it any wonder that those of a conservative nature might get a little tired of the Illuminaughty's endless chaos, wars, destruction and Jewish debt-based cyclical boom and bust cycles? And further that said humans of a conservative nature might tend to gravitate to "nationalistically rational strong-men" 'leaders'? The following is a labour of love in the careful translation from Russian which we witness, giving an insight into some history, some pscyhological analysis, and wrapped in little to no hype for us "mere English speakers" - even some "Translator's notes" adorn the end". Worth the time for those who have it. Enjoy, Original (in Russian): https://um.plus/2016/04/09/rossiya-rodina-mamontov-i-patriotov/ English links: http://www.unz.com/akarlin/mammoths-and-patriots/ http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/russia-has-been-fighting-european-nat… “Sometimes I hear that saying “patriotism as a national idea” is akin to saying that water is wet. However, this argument comes from people with a very superficial understanding of how difficult it is to be patriot given that, unlike a comfortable cosmopolitanism, patriotism is the path of struggle. Also, they fail to realize how important the contribution of Russia and Russian culture is to shaping the very phenomenon of a patriotic consciousness in the modern world. The Russians developed patriotism as a national idea far earlier than most European nations. And it is Russia that keeps its faith in a “Europe of Fatherlands” or a “World of Fatherlands” in today’s age of identity erasure.”

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