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Purism Librem 5: Opensource Crypto Phone
by grarpamp 24 Aug '17

24 Aug '17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUiYmtGL1EE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwFjWDAyG38 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15090156 https://matrix.org/blog/2017/08/24/the-librem-5-from-purism-a-matrix-native… https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/

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On BSD
by grarpamp 24 Aug '17

24 Aug '17

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.1R/announce.html https://dist.ipfs.io/#go-ipfs https://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/blob_plain/HEAD:/sys/vfs/hamm… https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/zfs.html https://geti2p.net/

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Right To Privacy Ruled a Fundamental Right by Supreme Court (Real-ID)
by grarpamp 24 Aug '17

24 Aug '17

https://thewire.in/170303/supreme-court-aadhaar-right-to-privacy/ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/right-to-privacy-is-a-fundamental-… https://www.scribd.com/document/357098939/SC-Right-to-Privacy-Judgment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15087831 487 points 187 comments Right to Privacy a Fundamental Right, Says Supreme Court in Unanimous Verdict On Thursday, the bench, led by Chief Justice J.S. Khehar, pronounced a unanimous judgement even if the judges had slightly different arguments as to how privacy is intrinsic to right to life and liberty. The bench comprised Chief Justice Khehar and Justices J. Chelameswar, S.A. Bobde, R.K. Agrawal, Rohinton Nariman, A.M. Sapre, D.Y. Chandrachud, Sanjay Kishan Kaul and S. Abdul Nazeer. In its 547-page judgment that declares privacy to be a fundamental right, the Supreme Court has overruled verdicts given in the M.P. Sharma case in 1958 and the Kharak Singh case in 1961, both of which said that the right to privacy is not protected under the Indian constitution. The judgment includes within it six separate judgments from different judges, though the conclusion is unanimous. The Wire has broken the main judgment into its constituent parts to make it easier to see what the different judges said. (see below) The judgment also included a two-page final order, which states that MP Sharma and Kharak Singh are overruled, and the right to privacy is fundamental. The lead judgment of 265 pages, authored by Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and co-signed by Chief Justice Khehar and Justices Nazeer and Agrawal states the following clear conclusions: ... NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday ruled that privacy is a fundamental right because it is intrinsic to the right to life. "Right to Privacy is an integral part of Right to Life and Personal Liberty guaranteed in Article 21 of the Constitution," the SC's nine-judge bench+ ruled unanimously. It added that the right to privacy is intrinsic to the entire fundamental rights chapter of the Constitution. This judgement is a blow to Aadhaar as the Centre now has to convince SC that forcing citizens to give a sample of their fingerprints and their iris scan does not violate privacy. The SC bench's judgment will touch the lives of 134 crore Indians. It was not meant to decide on the fate of Aadhaar, just on whether privacy of an individual was a part of their inviolable fundamental rights. What this means is a five-judge bench of the SC will test the validity of Aadhaar on the touchstone of privacy as a fundamental right.

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Exploit Signal / WhatsApp / Everything for $500k (Keep Ur Privates FTW)
by grarpamp 24 Aug '17

24 Aug '17

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15084413 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_for_zero-day_exploits https://zerodium.com/program.html ZERODIUM pays premium bounties and rewards to security researchers to acquire their original and previously unreported zero-day research affecting major operating systems, software, and devices. While the majority of existing bug bounty programs accept almost any kind of vulnerabilities and PoCs but pay very low rewards, at ZERODIUM we focus on high-risk vulnerabilities with fully functional exploits, and we pay the highest rewards on the market. Payments can also be made using Bitcoins.

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Technological innovations and society: Expectation vs Reality
by Razer 24 Aug '17

24 Aug '17

In a screenshot: https://twitter.com/xxxdretentacion/status/899076829855830016

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https://www.opennic.org/
by juan 23 Aug '17

23 Aug '17

may be useful to deal with DNS censorship?

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Cryptocurrency Payment API's: Needed FTW
by grarpamp 23 Aug '17

23 Aug '17

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6uo8oo/bitpay_if_you_are_reading/ Maybe its time you guys added support for other coins (ETH,BCH,LTC?) on payment checkout pages, right now any clients of mine who want to pay are being [forced into btc] your core business is not bitcoin (whatever that means nowadays with what 3 forks?) its making it easy for companies/people to get paid in Cryptocurrencies. Maybe its time to diversify...

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PermitsCensorsBans of Free Speech/Association/Travel Exposes Authority/Force/Censors
by grarpamp 23 Aug '17

23 Aug '17

What Happened To Chris Cantwell and How Government Causes Racism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbBzJDvc7nY Cantwell, Stormer, Tor Project, Cloudflare, etc https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cantwell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVmFHoHutdQ https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cantwell+banned https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cantwell+tor https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cantwell+darkweb https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cloudflare+stormer http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/ https://papersplease.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_debates#Debate_spo… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_on_Presidential_Debates#Criticism Regardless of whether or not you like what's on any given channel, any inability to change it to another due to Authority/Force/Censors, to speak, to associate, to travel, to debate... is a very serious matter.

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Anarchast: Ron Paul on Anarchy, Running for President, the Federal Reserve and Bitcoin
by grarpamp 23 Aug '17

23 Aug '17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34m4eUVFDT4 Jeff interviews Dr. Ron Paul! (aka: Dr. NO) Topics include: Anarchism is our natural condition, going to Washington, changing attitudes about the federal reserve, criticizing foreign policy, the moral defence of liberty, on the campaign trail, Rand Paul's philosophy and politics, attempts to audit the fed, Republicans and Democrats both support big government and fiscal deficits, government rationalization of massive unsustainable debt, crashing the dollar vs the globalists, what will replace the dollar, Ron Paul's comments on Bitcoin, what keeps Ron Paul going? The Ron Paul Liberty Report, Anarchapulco 2018! The Ron Paul Liberty Report website: http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/ Anarchapulco February 2018: https://anarchapulco.com/ Anarchast on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Anarchast Anarchast: http://anarchast.com/ BackWordz Music https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=CANQFA%253D%253D&q=backwordz

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Governance vs Decentralised Systems, Gold, Cash, Cryptocurrency
by grarpamp 23 Aug '17

23 Aug '17

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6rr6uo/just_a_quick_reminder_why_bitc… 231 comments People used to pay each other in gold and silver. Difficult to transport. Difficult to divide. Paper money was invented. A claim to gold in a bank vault. Easier to transport and divide. Banks gave out more paper money than they had gold in the vault. They ran “fractional reserves”. A real money maker. But every now and then, banks collapsed because of runs on the bank. Central banking was invented. Central banks would be lenders of last resort. Runs on the bank were thus mitigated by banks guaranteeing each other’s deposits through a central bank. The risk of a bank run was not lowered. Its frequency was diminished and its impact was increased. After all, banks remained basically insolvent in this fractional reserve scheme. Banks would still get in trouble. But now, if one bank got in sufficient trouble, they would all be in trouble at the same time. Governments would have to step in to save them. All ties between the financial system and gold were severed in 1971 when Nixon decided that the USD would no longer be exchangeable for a fixed amount of gold. This exacerbated the problem, because there was now effectively no limit anymore on the amount of paper money that banks could create. >From this moment on, all money was created as credit. Money ceased to be supported by an asset. When you take out a loan, money is created and lent to you. Banks expect this freshly minted money to be returned to them with interest. Sure, banks need to keep adequate reserves. But these reserves basically consist of the same credit-based money. And reserves are much lower than the loans they make. This led to an explosion in the money supply. The Federal Reserve stopped reporting M3 in 2006. But the ECB currently reports a yearly increase in the supply of the euro of about 5%. This leads to a yearly increase in prices. The price increase is somewhat lower than the increase in the money supply. This is because of increased productivity. Society gets better at producing stuff cheaper all the time. So, in absence of money creation you would expect prices to drop every year. That they don’t is the effect of money creation. What remains is an inflation rate in the 2% range. Banks have discovered that they can siphon off all the productivity increase + 2% every year, without people complaining too much. They accomplish this currently by increasing the money supply by 5% per year, getting this money returned to them at an interest. Apart from this insidious tax on society, banks take society hostage every couple of years. In case of a financial crisis, banks need bailouts or the system will collapse. Apart from these problems, banks and governments are now striving to do away with cash. This would mean that no two free men would be able to exchange money without intermediation by a bank. If you believe that to transact with others is a fundamental right, this should scare you. The absence of sound money was at the root of the problem. We were force-fed paper money because there were no good alternatives. Gold and silver remain difficult to use. When it was tried to launch a private currency backed by precious metals (Liberty dollar), this initiative was shut down because it undermined the U.S. currency system. Apparently, a currency alternative could only thrive if “nobody” launched it and if they was no central point of failure. What was needed was a peer-to-peer electronic cash system. This was what Satoshi Nakamoto described in 2009. It was a response to all the problems described above. That is why he labeled the genesis block with the text: “03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.”. Bitcoin was meant to be an alternative to our current financial system. So, if you find yourself religiously checking some cryptocurrency’s price, or bogged down in discussions about the “one true bitcoin”, or constantly asking what currency to buy, please at least remember that we have bigger fish to fry. We are here to fix the financial system.

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