- cypherpunks - lists.cpunks.org

The powerful cannot be condemned
by Dr. Thomas Light 07 May '17

07 May '17

> Ryan Carboni ryacko at gmail.com > Sat May 6 14:56:12 PDT 2017 > > John Young lied... Ever heard of snitchtome? >> media controls reality, not you or I Fucking lies. The (((media))) don't own nothing. Pic related.

1 0

[CypherPunks] Event Invitation (May 23, 2017 - New York, New York)
by Dr. Thomas Light 07 May '17

07 May '17

> Joshua joshua2014 at protonmail.ch > Wed May 3 08:57:02 PDT 2017 > > building out > artificial intelligence Logic not a strength, seems. > eventbrite You must go back >>>/linkedin/

1 0

My piece on Barrett Brown's release yesterday
by Dr. Thomas Light 07 May '17

07 May '17

> Douglas Lucas dal at riseup.net > Tue May 2 19:15:53 PDT 2017 > > Hey, faglord. At least paste the article text in the OP. Sage for low effort.

1 0

"France" successfully stops Macron leaks on Internet
by Zenaan Harkness 07 May '17

07 May '17

The Subject: "France" successfully stops Macron leaks on Internet Well, umm ... Nope. Actually, because, well, you know how it really goes, where threatening the entire world with criminal charges for "publishing" something just tends to .. I dunno .. generate respect for those countries that make such global threats? "Of course, but of course!" I hear you mumble. "France" is learning about the Streissand effect of course... ** Emmanuel Macron email and document leaks spreading across the internet http://theduran.com/emmanuel-macron-email-and-document-leaks-spreading-acro… ------------------------------------------------------------ France is trying to stop what the internet does best...spread information. ** Wikileaks decides to examine the authenticity of Macron leaks http://theduran.com/wikileaks-decides-to-examine-the-authenticity-of-macron… ------------------------------------------------------------ France's presidential election commission warns that publishing Macron leaks may lead to criminal charges. ** France on the verge of a nervous breakdown http://theduran.com/france-verge-nervous-breakdown/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Macron will win, but Le Pen has time to re-build and re-brand her important movement. ** BREAKING: Macron email hacking shows that free speech is dead in France http://theduran.com/breaking-macron-email-hacking-shows-that-free-speech-is… ------------------------------------------------------------ Campaign leaflets for former French Economy Minister and candidate for the next presidential election Emmanuel Macron are seen at his campaign headquarters, in Paris, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus) A non-judicial state body has threatened publishers with criminal prosecution.

1 0

The powerful cannot be condemned
by Ryan Carboni 07 May '17

07 May '17

The powerful cannot be condemned. The weak get crushed. Who gets crushed and who cannot be condemned? https://archive.is/ylBz9 Muckrock is clearly intimidated by John Young in this interview. They don't seem to be asking many follow up questions, it appears as if it is half scripted, with John Young free to troll them how they please. In fact it appears as if John Young lied... Recently Cryptome has become a non profit. Look at the Wau Holland Foundation. John Young is one of the most powerful men alive. Assange and anyone who genuinely supports him get crushed. Recently the media has condemned Trump's condemnation of the Deep State, but that hasn't occurred. What has occurred is several media personalities and a member of the opposing party confirming a conspiracy theory to appeal to the hopes of millions of overthrowing Trump. Strong responses to imaginary events because it is media that controls reality, not you or I. The ACLU protects the powerful by warping the definitions of power and weakness, thereby allowing the powerful to crush the weak. The obvious is right in front of you, if you dare look. If you dare listen. If you simply dared to defy the interests of the powerful. For the ACLU to think a certain kind of harassment is find is a pretty high bar to meet. I mean afterall, they think you should be wiretapped by the NSA, unless I have missed some repudiation of Jamal Jaffar's statements.... The ACLU is largely a criminal fraudulent organization, and the evidence is quite strong to support it. Speak out of both sides of their mouths if you will. The powerful have declared war on me, and I can, and will, single handedly destroy them all.

2 1

Fixed-state ciphers vulnerable to side channel analysis attacks
by Ryan Carboni 07 May '17

07 May '17

The simplest error correction code is a repetition code. This has escaped many peoples attention. https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/382 " The frequency at which a key should be changed in order to maintain an minimum level of protection depending on the number of unrolled rounds computed per cycle is explored." Here some attacks were made against Simon and Speck. In my lay opinion, RC4 is more secure for the internet of things. The greatest vulnerability for computers is memory bound errors, not... uh. Malicious javascript sending a DDOS on an 100 megabit uplink to a server so a passive adversary can collect ciphertexts and do statistical analysis. Naturally everyone says that no one was fired for using AES, but who was fired for not putting a password on a database? I think if the RC4 round function was applied key length bytes more times (128-bit key, 16 more key schedule rounds), the first few bytes will have less bias, and the only related key recovery attacks apply to the first few bytes. An additional xor to mask the output or input of a byte lookup may improve things. Or use an ARX cipher as a NLFSR, like the Lex cipher. In any case, don't use error correction codes in cryptography. This is some kinda multidimensional chess.

1 0

Re: [WAR] Duterte backs down "war on drugs" as "UN Special Rapporteur" Agnes Callamard surprise visits
by 'Zenaan Harkness' 07 May '17

07 May '17

Probably shoulda CCed the list. Our middle "Western" ground of "The War on Drugs" is an absolute, utter failure, if your intention is to reduce drug use and remove the incentives from the drug market. If your intention is to maximise profits, and create as many problems in society as possible so that people stay focused on shit, and don't have time nor energy to unite behind real problems, like almost completely undemocractic governments, extensive corporate violations of our humans rights, and the private banks, then The War on Drugs is the greatest invention since sliced bread. >From this narrow perspective, almost ANYthing is better than the War On Drugs - whether the extreme of Duterte, or the liberal "sanity" as some view it of treating adults as adults, rather than treating all of society as children, and allowing individual humans to do as they choose, with regards to their own bodies (more below). Of course I do not condone extra judicial killing but as I mentioned below, the illegality of something rarely stopped those in power from abusing their ability to do illegal things. I don't expect nuance from TLA shills, but I'm greatful for the nuance and insight from others on the list. Regards, Zenaan ----- Forwarded message from 'Zenaan Harkness' <zen(a)freedbms.net> ----- From: 'Zenaan Harkness' <zen(a)freedbms.net> To: Jim <jim.sovereign(a)optusnet.com.au> Date: Sat, 6 May 2017 20:32:25 +1000 Subject: Re: [WAR] Duterte backs down "war on drugs" as "UN Special Rapporteur" Agnes Callamard surprise visits On Sat, May 06, 2017 at 06:57:12PM +1000, Jim wrote: > Zen, > > Do you consider Duterte to be a good and honourable president > because I view him as an egotistical, self-righteous mass murderer > with warped moral values. He ignores his own country's constitution > and legal due process because it interferes with his murderous > crusade against drug addicts and dealers. We don't know what he has faced, nor why he has made the decisions/ followed the pathway he has chosen. It's very easy from our Western Ivory Castles ("main stream media and "democracy is king" programming), to think that others are simply wrong, immoral or even evil. Perhaps Duterte is an evil man. But I don't know whether he is or not. I won't say he is evil at this point. Although I am not a drug taker except for a cider at Christmas time, I believe that any "war on drugs" is merely a pretext for state control of what should be individual decisions - my body is mine, and it is my right to choose what I put in it. So, on principle, I think any "war on drugs" is against human rights. But I would balance that with some serious education too... Duterte? I hope he writes a book before he dies, to tell his side of his story, as I am very interested in it. If he is "evil like we imagine Adolf Hitler" was evil, then any book would be nothing but a whitewash. But we in the West very much think (and communicate) in dichotomies - black and white, good vs evil. What I do wonder is why Duterte has such stratospheric popularity in his own country. If he has handled "the drug problem", perhaps this has something to do with it. I think liberalisation/ individual personal autonomy is the preferred route to "solving the drug problem", and that's about as much as I can say, as I do not know any significant facts around Duterte except for the headlines. Fundamentally, any extra-judicial killing process is highly problematic - but that never stopped the Rothschilds or Hillary Clinton now did it? Also, glorifying extra-judicial killing would be highly problematic - we should certainly not do that. But Duterte? I think there's a lot more to the story that we get to hear. Perhaps. Hopefully one day we learn more of his story. > I hope Duterte is eventually prosecuted and imprisoned for his > appalling crimes and human rights violations. Drug dealers deserve > to be punished with long prison sentences instead of summary > executions, and how can he justify murdering drug addicts who need > help with their addiction and associated mental health issues? The Western approach, at least as we see it in Australia, is really messed up - just enough punishment to cause untold follow-on crime, mostly theft to fund addiction, with punishments which, evidently, do not stop people from becoming addicts, or from using at parties and dying from overdoses (so many teenage lives cut short), or clogging the courts, consuming incredible amounts of public resources ... the list of problems does not end. So, our "war on drugs" in Australia is absolutely, damned appalling! Frankly, I am utterly convicted of the opinion that the 'war on drugs' fuels the black market, maximises profits, disenchants the youth (late teens - we don't treat them like adults capable of making their own decisions, and neither do we treat adults like adults) and keeps the bulk of society focused on "the drug problem" without realising that most of that problem is created by the very rules of the game ... arbitrary rules which try to treat adults like children, and thus create a society of many fucked up humans. WE are doing something wrong, here in Australia. By keeping us all focused on problems which are totally artificial, which don't have the energy or collective resources to unify behind REAL problems, like road tolls, our right to travel, and the banks. Get rid of the war on drugs, make all drugs purchasable through prescription for almost cost price from pharmacies, and addicts then have absolutely no need to go theiving, cars or houses or corner stores. But the problem is wanted, so The War On Drugs is maintained. > I wonder if Duterte would have any member of his family killed if > they were drug addicts or drug dealers? I doubt it. We don't know Jim, we don't know. We don't know Duterte, and we don't know the facts of his life - only the headlines. Regards, Zen > -----Original Message----- > From: Zenaan Harkness [mailto:zen@freedbms.net] > Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2017 12:34 PM > To: CypherPunks > Subject: [WAR] Duterte backs down "war on drugs" as "UN Special Rapporteur" Agnes Callamard surprise visits > > Well, actually, we're getting to know Duterte, and we know he doesn't back down against something he believes in. In fact, he's the kind of guy who, when ambushed by a fancy French word like "rapporteur", doubles down instead. > > And despite what we might believe about his policies, he enjoys stratospheric popularity numbers the likes of which even Putin could be envious of if Putin were the envious type, which of course he's not :) > > Now try saying this fancy French word "rapporteur" in a truly French accent and tell me you don't want to smack yourself in the face for sounding so pompous . . that word alone inspires me to high-five Duterte for his doubling down. > > > > > ** Duterte to drug dealers: ‘I will kill you. I will really kill you’ > http://theduran.com/duterte-to-drug-dealers-i-will-kill-you-i-will-really-k… > ------------------------------------------------------------ > duterte fist > > The remarks came as a UN envoy known for her opposition to Duterte's policies paid a surprise visit to the country. > ----- End forwarded message -----

4 3

Paul Carr leaves PandoDaily a note on the dresser and no cab fare...
by Razer 06 May '17

06 May '17

"For years, I've “called out” Silicon Valley's “bad apples”, but by the start of 2017 it was impossible to distinguish maggot from apple from the rotting barrel itself. My workdays were an endless perp walk of sociopaths, psychopaths and criminals with names like (Pando investor) Peter Thiel, Travis Kalanick, Emil Michael, Palmer Luckey, and Gurbaksh Chahal – not to mention their enablers and co-conspirators like Paul Graham and Sam Altman, Rachel Whetstone and Steve Hilton, Joe Lonsdale, Arianna Huffington, Shervin Pishevar, and a thousand more like them. Never mind that actually writing about these clammy-palmed monsters frequently made me want to punch a wall. Sometimes merely glancing at tech headlines was enough to make me feel physically unwell. (As I was writing that last sentence, Sarah called over to me: “Hey, did you hear about this Memphis tech exec accused of multiple rapes?” I had not.) Please understand I'm not being hyperbolic when I say “physically unwell.” Around the time America's tech royalty made its pilgrimage to Trump Tower, I suddenly stopped sleeping through the night..." In full with lottsa links: https://pando.com/2017/04/28/quitting-swamp/

1 1

99% of PGP-encrypted security reports to security@golang.org are bogus
by Zenaan Harkness 06 May '17

06 May '17

Some sanity comedy for the bored: "99% of the PGP-encrypted emails we get to security(a)golang.org are bogus security reports. Whereas "cleartext" security reports are only about 5-10% bogus. Getting a PGP-encrypted email to security(a)golang.org has basically become a reliable signal that the report is going to be bogus, so I stopped caring about spending the 5 minutes decrypting the damn thing (logging in to the key server to get the key, remembering how to use gpg)." — Brad Fitzpatrick Quote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14123388 courtesy this week's LWN briefs https://lwn.net/Articles/721184/

1 0

[WAR] Duterte backs down "war on drugs" as "UN Special Rapporteur" Agnes Callamard surprise visits
by Zenaan Harkness 06 May '17

06 May '17

Well, actually, we're getting to know Duterte, and we know he doesn't back down against something he believes in. In fact, he's the kind of guy who, when ambushed by a fancy French word like "rapporteur", doubles down instead. And despite what we might believe about his policies, he enjoys stratospheric popularity numbers the likes of which even Putin could be envious of if Putin were the envious type, which of course he's not :) Now try saying this fancy French word "rapporteur" in a truly French accent and tell me you don't want to smack yourself in the face for sounding so pompous . . that word alone inspires me to high-five Duterte for his doubling down. ** Duterte to drug dealers: ‘I will kill you. I will really kill you’ http://theduran.com/duterte-to-drug-dealers-i-will-kill-you-i-will-really-k… ------------------------------------------------------------ duterte fist The remarks came as a UN envoy known for her opposition to Duterte's policies paid a surprise visit to the country.

2 1