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Nth American bison genetic diversity to be preserved, finally
by Zenaan Harkness 12 Jun '17

12 Jun '17

Genetic distinction is verboten in 'human' conversations, whilst in the animal world, it's not only politically correct, but a species preservation imperative. Humans of course are all equal and, as this brief article highlights, societies arising from genetic heritage and the holding thereto, is nothing but a social construct. Glad we got that cleared up. http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/ Animal Conservation or Bison Supremacism?

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This Appelbaum had spread bad memes
by Ryan Carboni 12 Jun '17

12 Jun '17

The meme that journalism is a holy profession, and everything else is not, is a little ludicrous. Of course Jacob Appelbaum at one point said to call him an activist instead of a journalist is to call him a terrorist. Of course the First Amendment was poorly worded, it really should be freedom to express and carry any opinion, but maybe due to advancements in education, people with high school educations could be smarter than the founding fathers. Right now if the journalists have their way, the only way to have special privileges is to get a large following or to show up to be hired at a media outlet, and have everything you write to be pre-approved by an editor. In the long run ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH-PfuIz-Do Jacob Appelbaum: If Everything is Under Surveillance, How Can We Have a Democracy? ) I question how people can read some pretty significant things and forget about them. Completely. It's not impossible that foreign intelligence could co-opt local dissident movements, all the evidence points to that being true during the Cold War, and they would have motive to do so. This is despite many journalists insisting that many US excesses were unwarranted. "A blackthrow is a small computer that can be hidden inside government agencies or corporations. It connects to the Tor or I2P networks and publishes its SSH server as a hidden service in any of these networks. The TCMB field agent can then connect to the blackthrow anonymously and remote control it to deliver any type of packets to any location at the internets, that the host organization can connect to." There would be significant value for foreign intelligence agencies to plant anonymizing routers into government agencies and corporations. Afterall, Clinton's email server had a Tor exit node log into it. Hurm. (But it wasn't hacked) Anyway, our legal system has false documents within it. https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-rigmaiden Rigmaiden's legal case do not seem to be legally possible, and it is rather obvious that it is so. The idea that a massive bureaucracy does not document what it does, and that you have to get federal agents to testify because they maintain all records orally is a bit ludicrous. The case was a massive lost opportunity or a massive lie. Anyway, it's not like a large part of US history is excluded from US history textbooks. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Masonic_Party ) I mean, if anyone knew that, they would act on that information right? A good (not best) way to know what someone knows is to examine what information they operate on, right? If the history books are unreliable, than no one would expect the history books to be reliable, right? In the end, everyone is well aware of regulatory capture. Who regulates whom?

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Re: bitcoin incorporated
by juan 12 Jun '17

12 Jun '17

here's some more stuff Roger Ver (BU) vs Tone Vays (SegWit) - Bitcoin Scaling Debate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdyIJ-BUPaU and ~30 pages of Fuck: SegWit, LN, Blockstream, Core, Adam Back, and GMazwell https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1842146.0 Anyway, there seems to be a couple of big red flags regarding blockstream, perhaps the biggest one being their funding sources.

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Supreme Court accepts major cellphone privacy case.
by TrumpJizz44 11 Jun '17

11 Jun '17

> jim bell jdb10987 at yahoo.com > Thu Jun 8 10:44:43 PDT 2017 > > telephony surveillance Hahahahahahahaha How The Fuck Is Cellphone Surveillance Real Hahahaha Nigga Just Walk Away From The Phone Like Nigga Hang Up Haha

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bitcoin incorporated
by TrumpJizz44 11 Jun '17

11 Jun '17

> juan juan.g71 at gmail.com > Tue Jun 6 14:09:22 PDT 2017 > > maybe there's some hope for bitcoin Falling for the bitcoin meme. Lol. You are smarter than this, Juan.

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TheIntercept Compromises Courageous Leaker Reality Winner
by TrumpJizz44 11 Jun '17

11 Jun '17

> John Young jya at pipeline.com > Wed Jun 7 02:32:54 PDT 2017 > > """journalists""" inevitably betray sources Thanks for your honesty. > Privileged like lawyers and priests. Don't fukc kids, John.

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Are you also a Soviet Spy
by TrumpJizz44 11 Jun '17

11 Jun '17

> John Young jya at pipeline.com > Sat Jun 3 06:12:37 PDT 2017 > > To associate only with people you agree with, > pillory those you don't, is a surefire way > to remain ignorant You MAGA now ? > cowardly dictators who promise greatness to > propaganda-addled weaklings. Hope = propaganda. > Crypto the early opioid, Architect. Can't into metaphors. > Trump's MAGA-methadone dispensary Ibogaine, MDMA, Psilocybin are much more effective at reversing severe addictions. Even to (((alcohol))), John. cen.acs.org/articles/94/i13/Psychedelic-compounds-like-ecstasy-just.html > those incapable of remaining sober President Trump is sober.

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Crypto tunes...
by grarpamp 10 Jun '17

10 Jun '17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZNUMcOGbq4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gfBP8kPzRA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hlN2nel5HI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWAwK2fHArc :)

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Advocate for Digital Currencies, Call Now :)
by grarpamp 10 Jun '17

10 Jun '17

http://www.article78againstnydfs.com/advocacy.php Ignore location, call and social engineer anyways. https://cointelegraph.com/news/state-of-new-hampshire-governor-signs-bitcoi… Big. http://governor.mt.gov/Newsroom/governor-bullock-announces-11-million-to-he… $400k for a mining op

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Re: [Cryptography] Fwd: stego mechanism used in real life (presumably), then outed
by Zenaan Harkness 10 Jun '17

10 Jun '17

On Fri, Jun 09, 2017 at 07:24:01AM +0200, iang wrote: > On 09/06/2017 03:12, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > >What "iang" is perhaps trying to come to grips with here is the > >concept of tacit consent. > > I prefer to think about what's really going on rather than layers > of deception. This way we can design a system that meets needs, > not strike hidden icebergs. > > Western society does not tacitly consent to spying on self. > What they do is trust the spies to follow the rules. And the spies change the rules to suit them, and yes, even break their own changed rules. Actions like these university counter-spy studies/ analysis etc, is active opposition, and breaks the cycle that has been named as tacit consent. Although technically correct when you say "people expect their spies to follow the rules, this is not tacit consent", you might find it hard to deny that most humans are entirely blasé about their security and privacy in communications (to pick a random example) - click every doc file, open every zip attachment, go to every website with full scripting and the rest to enjoy a bouncing unicorn. Here's the summary: Humans, in general, are taken to be affirmative in their non-action or non-support of their own privacy. This affirmative non-action is witnessed in voting, lack of self discovery of salient current problems, and lack of support for the few who make a stand. But, thankfully, this is now changing, as you highlight in a way which is quite refreshing. "The entitled (university) class has become active in their research of pathways to opposition of the spying against society as a whole. And this is being done publicly." This is succinctly put, and a breath of fresh air. I hope it continues and builds momentum. Technical/ procedural analysis and technical tools for opposition, is a great start. "Political" activity requires, in our current "democratic" states, vast numbers and so is hard to achieve it seems. Legal actions in this direction may also bear fruit, though not when there are blatant conflicts of interest of course, such as the hopelessly and cynically agenda driven (((SPLC))). > But there is a flaw with that arrangement - secrecy. The spies > have to do all in secrecy, and in such level of secrecy they don't > know themselves what they are doing. Yes, compartmentalisation is used very effectively to "absolve" the majority (those with weak personal ethics foundation) from personal "guilt". > This makes it easy to capture > - by themselves, by outside elements, sometimes by the enemy. > > It also makes it easy for them to cross the line without informing > the public. To cross the line and put up window dressing or > emperor's new clothing. > > As we've now seen countless times, accelerated with Snowden but by > no means unique, the western intel agencies (and others) have > frequently crossed the line of the law, and have dressed it up > somehow. When that dressing is ripped off, and the public sees > what is really going on, changes are made. It is a good thing we have seen a bit of this in the last few years. "Even Comey leaked." :D > For example, to drag the cyberpolitik back to *crypto*: when we > discovered that NSA was collecting all the Internet with watchers > in every node, that was clearly illegal. (We desperately need e2e > and tcpinc, where is it?) The "dress" they put on the emperor at > the time was that they weren't collecting because they weren't > looking. Once the lie was exposed to the public it was clearly > illegal. There are I hear court cases advancing. There are two main views of this: 1) Decades of violation is really bad (violation of rights). 2) The depth of the wrong/evil is is the only thing with a chance to jolt some of 'the majority' into awareness, and therefore is a really good thing. > That is not tacit consent. That's illegal behaviour, and society > failing to see it isn't in any way tacit consent. Those who are active in their opposition to wrongs, are evidently not consenting. I agree with that. And that's good to see. But look at things this way: 9/11 "anti-terror" legislation (in reality, anti-rights), has been 'on the books' now for 15 years. CIA has been violating fundamental laws now for how many decades? What about the NSA? Is the FISA court even lawful in the "righteous" sense of lawful, or is it a modern day star chamber? The fact of the time frames involved for even the beginnings of a correction, means that the majority in society are indeed tacitly consenting to bad laws, illegal laws, illegal actions. When one individual "leaves it up to others", that individual is tacitly consenting, since they are failing to actively oppose. OK, if they actually have no knowledge whatsoever, they can be argued to be ignorant. But as soon as someone becomes aware of a wrong, they are tacitly consenting for as long as they fail to act in opposition. The wrong-doers in power, get away with their wrongs for really long periods of time, due primarily to the failure of the majority to actively oppose said wrongs in a way which is effective (e.g. "leaving it up to others - someone will fix it" is not active opposition), and is almost the definition of tacit consent. > As a further thing: what the agencies do *all the time* is > manipulate the victim into believing that the victim somehow > allowed this to happen. It's your fault! Tacit consent is > something the agencies will sell to the public. "Yes, but > terrorism, danger, fear.... you know we have to do this, and you > agree." I agree with the principle you are expressing here. Tacit consent, if it be tacit consent, is still tacit consent, regardless of who calls it. Perhaps a better way to express this particular "don't blame the victim" sentiment is that tacit consent does not make an illegal or wrong act either legal nor righteous, and does not make the victim of spying directly responsible for the spying done against him. Of course I completely agree - any decent human who is both aware of and in alignment with right and opposed to wrong, would of course agree. And to the extent we can provide support, and awareness, and facilities to those who live in an abusive relationship, to act to get out of that abusive relationship, we should do so. But at some point in time, the victim of a crime has a duty to act in respect of the crime done to him - when he becomes aware, and knows that he ought do something about the crime, then at that point, if he does nothing, he is thereafter tacitly consenting to the continuation of the crime. Prior to this point in time, the victim is not responsible in any way. After this point in time, the victim is not directly responsible, yet is to some degree, tacitly consenting. Again, this is the definition of tacit consent - we must not take objectivity the wrong way (as a blame upon the victim) but merely as an analysis of that which is actually occurring, and consequently as guidance for further positive actions; this should go without saying. > So, no - don't be fooled. The agencies tell you to tacitly > consent. Say no. I agree, do not tacitly consent. Once you become aware, act in opposition to the wrongs, the crimes, the evils perpetrated upon you and others you hopefully care about in this world. > What is of interest is, once we figure it out, why don't we fix the > problem? This is pure power. Absolutely yes, fix the problem. Totally agree (of course). And different folk have different skillsets they can bring to bear to help fix the problem. Great to see "the entitled class" stepping in to help :) > The government fights fiercely to defend itself, as all cornered > animals do. Now, if the government fights and wins, e.g. quotes > "state secret" doctrine so we can't enforce society's values, we > lose. The government winning one battle, is not the failure of the way, just a temporary setback. The war only ends when the participants stop fighting. And whilst the aggressors and perpetrators of evils continue to oppress, spy, suppress, and predate upon the rest of us, it is in our interests to work for something better. > Again, what's that? We lost. But, the agencies will then come > back around and say "look, see, the courts said it was OK, you've > agreed, you've given tacit consent." Let's not conflate concepts. Authority of legal ruling, is quite different to implied authority assumed as and consequent to, tacit consent. Great to hear a certain passion for rights, freedom and individual sovereignty, which must be the foundation for any collective sanity. Regards, Zenaan

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