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VHIQ vs UHIQ
by Zenaan Harkness 29 Dec '16

29 Dec '16

Rank yourself, perhaps understand some limitations, grab a talking point. Except you discover a significant insight you wish to share, why care about others caring about your own egotistical analysis of how you roll? Suck it up biatch! VHIQ, very high IQ, as compared with UHIQ, ultra high IQ: - VHIQ inclines towards binary either/or thinking and taking sides. UHIQ inclines towards probabilistic thinking and balancing between contradictory possibilities. - VHIQ seeks understanding towards application or justification, UHIQ seeks understanding towards holistic understanding. - VHIQ refines the original thought of others, UHIQ synthesizes multiple original thoughts. - VHIQ rationalizes logical conclusions, UHIQ accepts logical conclusions. This is ironic because VHIQ considers itself to be highly logical, UHIQ considers itself to be investigative. - VHIQ recognizes the truths in the works of the great thinkers of the past and applies them. UHIQ recognizes the flaws in the thinking of the great thinkers of the past and explores them. - VHIQ usually spots logical flaws in an argument. UHIQ usually senses them. - VHIQ enjoys pedantry. UHIQ hates it. Both are capable of utilizing it at will. - VHIQ is uncomfortable with chaos and seeks to impose order on it, even if none exists. UHIQ is comfortable with chaos and seeks to recognize patterns in it. - VHIQ is spergey and egocentric. UHIQ is holistic and solipsistic. - VHIQ will die on a conceptual hill. UHIQ surrenders at the first reasonable show of force. - VHIQ attempts to rationalize its errors. UHIQ sees no point in hesitating to admit them. - VHIQ seeks to prove the correctness of its case. UHIQ doesn't believe in the legitimacy of the jury. - VHIQ believes in the unique power of SCIENCE. UHIQ sees science as a conceptual framework of limited utility. - VHIQ seeks to rank and order things. UHIQ seeks to recognize and articulate concepts. - VHIQ is competitive. UHIQ doesn't keep score. - VHIQ asks "how can this be used?" UHIQ asks "what does this mean?" Found here: http://voxday.blogspot.com.au/2016/12/the-iq-delta.html

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Bitcoin In 2017: Fixin Ta Blow Up
by grarpamp 29 Dec '16

29 Dec '16

http://qz.com/873525/safaricoms-m-pesa-has-kenyas-government-worried-what-h… http://qz.com/873828/bitcoins-nearing-its-all-time-high-again-and-this-time… https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5kte87/its_that_easy_never_sell_b…

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Grugq: Tor No Panacea
by The Cuckq 28 Dec '16

28 Dec '16

> the.grugq at gmail.com: > panacea No shit. Prevention is the point of Tor, not damage mitigation, i.e., "healing" > privacy activist cult TIL: privacy = cult > I got triggered What a fagq > strong security posture It is only posturing, isn't it > security (and/or privacy) Without security there is no privacy; isn't this guy a philosopher king; wtf > VPN provides the same protections Bullshit, VPNs are guaranteed to fail Tor is at least a gamble, until trust-aware path selection enables a better experience > Tor has only one use case to evade the authorities This fuckq with the pro-LEA false narratives > VPNs are (typically) not actively malicious Neither are "whites" > and you have no good reason to use it > except as an evasion tool against state authorities Again with the false narratives > Tor Browser Bundle is the worst browser possible I guess he never used IE/Edge or Chrome What a newb > Anonymity is essentially a property of a system that ensures any user > is equally likely to be the source of an event This guy is fucking retarded Not knowing who dun it doesn't mean it could be anybody > Diversity is obviously less good for anonymity Seeing a user as a regular Chrome, FF, or Safari user does more for anonymity than Tor homogeneity > Global Passive Adversary It is clear that they are actively attacking people, why use inaccurate labels

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Signs of the Totalitarian Times: National Security Archive @GWU Vanishes
by Rayzer 28 Dec '16

28 Dec '16

Maintenance over the holidays... or harbinger? Went to look up "Litetempo" this morning in their docs to show a Mexican friend that during the 68 Olympics, when students were being massacred in the streets of Mexico City, the CIA aided and abetted the government and the secretary to the president was actually an on-payroll CIA operative. The nsarchive.gwu.edu page now redirects to GWU's home page. Google still indexes the page so I used their cache as link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LE-k1M5lRe8J:nsarchive… Their twitter account is still up, with a last tweet with link on Dec 23 that redirects to, again, GWU's home page. Rr

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A complement to open source
by juan 28 Dec '16

28 Dec '16

http://underhanded-c.org/

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Grugq: Tor No Panacea
by grarpamp 28 Dec '16

28 Dec '16

https://medium.com/@thegrugq/tor-and-its-discontents-ef5164845908 Tor and its Discontents Problems with Tor usage as panacea This post deals with problems related to Tor usage that are not technical. I try to look at the human side of things, and I’m quite concerned by the meme of Tor as “panacea solution to arbitrary infosec problems.” I don’t particularly want to fight the privacy activist cult that has developed around Tor, but I feel compelled to state my concerns. (Also, I got triggered by Dan Guido who is writing on the same topic.) ...

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[OT] [LOL] "Anything Related to Cryptography and Privacy"
by Xyrs 28 Dec '16

28 Dec '16

> > On Tue Dec 27 05:54:43 PST 2016 > Cecilia Tanaka cecilia.tanaka at gmail.com wrote: > I know I should cry and feel bad for the Cypherpunks list > why, cause it's bloated with stupid messages about your feelings, lol

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[OT] [LOL] "Anything Related to Cryptography and Privacy"
by Cecilia Tanaka 27 Dec '16

27 Dec '16

http://www.infosyssec.org/infosyssec/cryptfaqs.html "Cypherpunks -Informal discussion about anything related to cryptography and privacy. The requestaddress is cypherpunks-request(a)toad.com. Volume on the list is pretty high." Sorry, I know I should cry and feel bad for the Cypherpunks list, but it made me laugh a lot, haha!! ;D Warm wishes and hugs! <3 Ceci

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Hawking Says: We're Fucked, And It's Our Fault
by grarpamp 27 Dec '16

27 Dec '16

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/nation-now/2016/11/17/stephen-hawking-we… http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35344664 In January, during a BBC Reith lecture, Hawking said humankind is inching closer to demise, and it’s our fault.

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Criticism of a recent Ninth Circuit Court case regarding email searches.
by jim bell 27 Dec '16

27 Dec '16

https://www.lawfareblog.com/surprisingly-weak-reasoning-mohamud [Partial quote follows}By Orin Kerr Friday, December 23, 2016, 7:30 AMIn a recent post here at Lawfare, April Doss argues that the Ninth Circuit’s decision in United States v. Mohamud “got it right.” In her view, the critics of the decision—myself included—are just wrong. I disagree. Here’s why I think the reasoning of the decision is hard to defend. First, an important caveat: My argument is about reasoning and not result. A lot of discussion on Mohamud focuses on the bottom line of which side won. That’s understandable, but it’s not my concern. My concern is whether the reasoning of the case makes sense as a matter of Fourth Amendment law.When viewed from that perspective, Mohamud strikes me as awkward and unconvincing. Its core holding is weak and hard to square with Supreme Court doctrine. Other parts of it border on the incoherent. And it could have reached its result much more easily without the conceptual wrong turns. I. There Is No “Targeting” Doctrine in Fourth Amendment LawIn Mohamud, the government obtained e-mails from a monitoring point inside the United States that collected e-mails between Mohamud inside the United States and another person who was a foreigner outside the United States. Mohamud had Fourth Amendment rights; the other person didn’t. How does the Fourth Amendment apply to a communication in transit between them? Here’s the Ninth Circuit’s first key Fourth Amendment holding:[end of partial quote]

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