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SHA-1: Died In Collision
by grarpamp 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

https://shattered.io/ 38762cf7f55934b34d179ae6a4c80cadccbb7f0a shattered-1.pdf 38762cf7f55934b34d179ae6a4c80cadccbb7f0a shattered-2.pdf 2bb787a73e37352f92383abe7e2902936d1059ad9f1ba6daaa9c1e58ee6970d0 shattered-1.pdf d4488775d29bdef7993367d541064dbdda50d383f89f0aa13a6ff2e0894ba5ff shattered-2.pdf

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The Only Thing, Historically, That's Curbed Inequality: Catastrophe
by grarpamp 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/02/scheidel-great-leveler… https://politics.slashdot.org/story/17/02/21/2114240/the-only-thing-histori… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Compression The Atlantic has an interesting article on how societies have decreased economic equality. From the report: "Calls to make America great again hark back to a time when income inequality receded even as the economy boomed and the middle class expanded. Yet it is all too easy to forget just how deeply this newfound equality was rooted in the cataclysm of the world wars. The pressures of total war became a uniquely powerful catalyst of equalizing reform, spurring unionization, extensions of voting rights, and the creation of the welfare state. During and after wartime, aggressive government intervention in the private sector and disruptions to capital holdings wiped out upper-class wealth and funneled resources to workers; even in countries that escaped physical devastation and crippling inflation, marginal tax rates surged upward. Concentrated for the most part between 1914 and 1945, this 'Great Compression' (as economists call it) of inequality took several more decades to fully run its course across the developed world until the 1970s and 1980s, when it stalled and began to go into reverse. This equalizing was a rare outcome in modern times but by no means unique over the long run of history. Inequality has been written into the DNA of civilization ever since humans first settled down to farm the land. Throughout history, only massive, violent shocks that upended the established order proved powerful enough to flatten disparities in income and wealth. They appeared in four different guises: mass-mobilization warfare, violent and transformative revolutions, state collapse, and catastrophic epidemics. Hundreds of millions perished in their wake, and by the time these crises had passed, the gap between rich and poor had shrunk."

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Covert Totalitarianism
by Ryan Carboni 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

Martin Armstrong was unjustly jailed for 7 years. Michael Hastings was assassinated. Roland Carnaby was assassinated. Edmond Safra was assassinated. Despite being guarded by ex-Israeli special forces. If anyone tells you the government is incompetent, that's only because they only use incompetent people to deal with the average citizen. If you wonder why they are so many thinkpieces normalizing the deep state... well, the deep state needs to exceed the threshold of being noticeable these things are obvious and self evident the government is not impotent, Ken White likes to give a good talk about how they can find all sorts of ways to screw a person over, even convict him on trumped up charges. the government can only be impotent if you're blackmailing the government itself it's at this point that I tell you because your spouse is so unfaithful, you have every drug resistant venereal disease known to man, plus one.

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Fwd: announcing: txmix, a twisted python mixnet library
by Moritz Bartl 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: announcing: txmix, a twisted python mixnet library Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2017 21:52:17 +0000 From: dawuud <dawuud(a)riseup.net> Hi. I'd like to announce txmix, a library for writing mixnets in python. https://github.com/applied-mixnetworks/txmix txmix is GPL3 licensed and currently depends on: sphinxmixcrypto, Twisted, txtorcon, attrs, eliot and Tor Project's chutney (for integration tests). txmix allows you to write mixnets with reduced code complexity and transport agnosticism... however I've choosen to focus my development efforts on the Tor onion transport for several reasons, the onion transport has some properties which the UDP transport does not: - reliability - forward secrecy - NAT penetration Additionally the Tor anonymity properties are a welcome bonus since they aren't really overlapping with those of the mixnet, they are vulnerable to different types of attacks and accomodate for totally different threat models. Currently txmix has some integration tests that use chutney to spin up a local 25 relay tor network; builds a mixnet using onion services as the transport and then tests functionality by sending and receiving messages on the mixnet. future development ------------------ - txmix could certainly be used to write various kinds of mixnets, however, we are missing a PKI. Without some kind of public key infrastructure how will mix clients learn about mix public keys? - sphixmixcrypto library needs improvements that would allow us to specify more message types such as dummy/cover traffic message and heartbeat messages. These of course are essential for the defense against certain known active attacks against some mix types. questions, code review and pull requests welcome. David Stainton

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Dachau data point - 41K detainees died
by Zenaan Harkness 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

Dastardly December deed of deep shock detainee death disrespect diligently deciphered by decisive unidentified data dissemination. Desecrated dignity definitely destigmatized for deathless educement. Of note, and take note, 41,000 deaths at Dachau. In toto! As in, of all races. Yes this is a lone datapoint, but it do hint at certain numerical bullshittery. DACHAU (GERMANY) (AFP) – An iron gate with the infamous slogan “Arbeit macht frei” (“Work will set you free”), stolen from the former Nazi concentration camp of Dachau in Germany two years ago, was returned to the site Wednesday. http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2017/02/22/stolen-work-will-set-free-gat…

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Re: AMD: Back in da Biz!
by Zenaan Harkness 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

Subject: Re: AMD: Back in da Biz! On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 01:17:32AM -0500, grarpamp wrote: > https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd > https://www.google.com/search?q=amd+zen+ryzen > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_(microarchitecture) > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-A5 > http://wccftech.com/amd-zen-naples-server-cpu-vega-gpu-platform/ > > Includes ARM Cortex-A5 (security core), ECC, crypto, ... > Beats Intel without the name or the price. Hope so. Competition is good in this instance, albeit proprietary cores all around ... > Shipping early March from $130 to $500. > Naples server and Raven Ridge APU's (Vega cores) coming thereafter. > > More fun... > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_K12

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Re: Standup Comedy it was! Audio of 9th Circuit oral arguments in re Donald Trump's attempt to revive #MuslimBan
by Zenaan Harkness 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

Subject: Re: Standup Comedy it was! Audio of 9th Circuit oral arguments in re Donald Trump's attempt to revive #MuslimBan Ann Coulter kicks standard butt: Ann Coulter: American Gigolos (GOP Watch List, Part 2) http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/22/ann-coulter-american-gig… " There are lots of constitutional questions that reasonable people can disagree about. Whether the president can exclude foreigners from seven terror-prone countries is not one of them. "

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Banned from FaceBook? have Breitbart cover your "free speech" story === reinstatement
by Zenaan Harkness 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

Transgender Anti-SJW YouTuber Blaire White’s Facebook Ban Lifted Following Breitbart Inquiry http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/02/22/transgender-anti-sjw-youtuber-blai… A fair number of examples of accounts suspended on FaceBook, including "permanent deletions" which have been "undeleted", after Breitbart coverage. No denying Breitbart has some weight in the free speech industry...

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AMD: Back in da Biz!
by grarpamp 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd https://www.google.com/search?q=amd+zen+ryzen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_(microarchitecture) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-A5 http://wccftech.com/amd-zen-naples-server-cpu-vega-gpu-platform/ Includes ARM Cortex-A5 (security core), ECC, crypto, ... Beats Intel without the name or the price. Shipping early March from $130 to $500. Naples server and Raven Ridge APU's (Vega cores) coming thereafter. More fun... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_K12

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Wyden Bill To Prevent Border Phone Searches
by grarpamp 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

https://www.onthewire.io/wyden-to-introduce-bill-to-prohibit-warrantless-ph… https://www.wyden.senate.gov/download/?id=B947731A-2394-484B-81E3-FDD49530E…

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