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[OT] Old humour "Purity" test for programmers Preface: 06.16.89
by Georgi Guninski 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

OT, in case the young generation missed this. http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/89q4nb/hacktest.909.html "Purity" test for programmers Preface: 06.16.89 some snippets: 0015 Ever change the value of 4? 0016 ... Unintentionally? 0017 ... In a language other than Fortran? 0007 Have you ever missed a class while programming? 0008 ... Missed an examination? 0009 ... Missed a wedding? 0010 ... Missed your own wedding? 0045 Have you ever patched binary code? 0046 ... While the program was running? 0011 Have you ever programmed while intoxicated? 0012 ... Did it make sense the next day?

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Re: [WAR] Hillary Clinton, an MK Ultra drone, struggles with her programming
by Zenaan Harkness 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 02:38:35PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 11:56:06AM -0500, Michael Haney wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 8:06 PM, Zenaan Harkness <zen(a)freedbms.net> wrote: > > > > > Classic bar room conspiracy theory FTW, YEAHHHHH !!! > > > > > > This would have been a much sexier title than "Hillary health problems" > > > - "Hillary Clinton an MK Ultra drone, reaches untimely end to her > > > programming." > > > > > > Pick or write your own heading and enjoy the show. Let's hope whoever > > > gets to lead the USA war machine is sane enough to not push the World > > > War 3 button against China, Russia or Iran. > > > > > > > > > She also puts pressure on Ecuador re Julian Assange, see further below. > > > > > > > > The truth is far stranger and more disturbing than fiction. Events the > > media aren't talking about have been set in motion to expose some pretty > > damning secrets. So, Wikileaks is the least of the Establishment's > > concerns. Besides, it's in their best interest to keep him where he is. If > > he falls into US custody safeguards were put into place to dump everything > > he knows all at once. All the Establishment's dirty laundry will be exposed > > for the world to see in one massive data dump. Snowden would dump > > everything he knows too. It would be too much for the US to brush off or > > sweep under the rug. > > Snowden tweeted very enigmatically a few days back (someone posted an > email saying this anyway), something like "It's time." which some in the > media were interpreting as a call to action on those he had previous > agreements with or something... but that's the thing with enigmatic > statements, you just cannot be sure. > > Also re Assange I remember a few years back, possibly around the time of > the US helicopter gunship footage where they blew up some reporters in > Iraq, that an "insurance" cache was put up for torrenting - plenty, > perhaps 10s of thousands of folks grabbed a copy, and we await any hint > of a password to unlock it. > > THAT would be the quick way to "release the most damning shit in an > extremely short period of time" - just tweet the password to "the > insurance volume". > > So yes, I'm confident Julian Assange has played his cards well enough to > ensure the continuance of his physical life. > > Exciting times... (PS: For those with any leads, now seems the time to ride this train:) (Obligatory WARNING: TheRightStuff.biz, DailyStormer.com and YouTube are filthy commie nazi fascist Russian propaganda outlets and should be summarily ignored! Your gramma told you so.) Now we see, perhaps, why "Fake News" is being pumped so vigorously by the NYT, WaPo, Guardian, CNN and the rest of the beastly Fake News Inc establishment. The New York Times, strenuously yet vacuously defends a lone pizza shop owner - so they're telling us there's nothing to see here folks, move along now please! PizzaGate may well be the straw that break's the deep state's satanic cultists: http://therightstuff.biz/2016/11/27/pizzagate-2/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIBZXzOp-mc We can only hope.. And for those who really enjoy masochistic, hard core rightist propaganda or any old likely cause for trigger happy reaction emotions, the following is your cuppa tea :D :-} http://www.dailystormer.com/memetic-monday-keep-on-trolling/ -- == Certified (R) Deplorable (TM) Fake News (TM) Which Hunter (C) == -- Executive Secretary of Vice -- The Ministry -- of Winning -- __ Shilling for buxom Russian swastika clad minxes since 1988 __

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Ding Dong the Wicked Witch is DEAD!!!
by xorcist at sigaint.org 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

> John Newman: > Most pot heads I know Instead of thinking for yourself, you subscribe to a predetermined pattern of behavior, citing "what pothead's think" as a foundation for your truth Eat it In a sensory deprevation tank > it's like me telling you "drink 2l of vodka" It is not, why keep trying to conflate the effects of canabiz and alkahil Afff...

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CNN - asking the right questions
by xorcist at sigaint.org 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

> Steve Kinney: > Hitler; Trump WTF Hitler; the loser calling for a redo, fam Guezz you support the rekount Nobody still wins, lol .

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minimizing "comms platform change" friction - "world’s most bloodthirsty killer award" - modern Western warfare
by Zenaan Harkness 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

* As we saw yesterday, president-elect of the USA, Donald Trump refuses "traditional" media "presidential monitoring, milking, shaming and all around manipulating", and instead launched his own Youtube channel! This is a defining moment in history. In what ways can we help speed, support and otherwise ride, this process of democratization of communications? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking_service * Blatantly counter factual news is de rigueur for the modern Western lame stream media. As we saw yesterday, Trump continues his royal middle finger to the establishment liars (sorry, media) by starting his own Youtube channel to make his public announcements - so not only has the game changed irrevocably, but at least one "leader" is on the page for shifting power away from the lying "main stream" media. Regarding censorship, the main limitation of Trump's unilateral communication using Youtube over the lamestream media, is that YouTube, like Twitter and Facebook, is just another central point of failure. "They're just a private company, they can censor all they like" does NOT cut it! Go to hell you fascist idiots, or rather, do the world a favour and go live in North Korea! * Since these corporations (who are supposedly allow to "censor all they like, since they're just their to make profit") are a virus against our rights of free speech and rights to communicate with one another, EVIDENTLY we must route around this virus! And Donald Trump is doing the best he can (it seems) to so route around said virii. * The next step of democratization of our collective public / "community" communications, is full peer to peer / P2P networked communications platform. The traditional establishment media is not getting their way, and of course the kickback is to be expected see for eample the lame excuses from Twitter here ("we didn't mean to, it was someone else - yet they completely disable dozens of "hate speech" accounts that go too far against their establishment propaganda dictate): https://heatst.com/tech/twitter-bans-all-mentions-of-twitter-alternative/ http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/twitter-try-one-long-running-alternatives/ * Full commoditization/ democratization of our comms platforms/ tools, implies end-user control, individual capacity to "launch" or "speak" publicly, and that those who want to listen can listen to those they want to listen to, without a single point of failure of a Twitter Inc, a Facebook Inc or a Google / Alphabet Inc to shut down their streams of comms between speakers and listeners, choosing freely to so speak and to so listen! - We have the right to speak to those who want to listen to us. - We have a right to listen to those we want to listen to speaking. ( apropos s/speak/write|type|read|view|etc/ ) Now is about a good an opportunity as we will ever see, to maximize impact from deployment of "new" tech, to solve a real problem of censorship, in the public eye. Let's get tools in the hands of Team Trump, Milo Yianoppoulos, Breitbart, and every other so-called "alternative" media source, left or right, "extreme" left or right or otherwise, which tools reduce platform change friction to as close to zero as possible. * The foundation of such tech is stable public identification. An "identification regime" that folks are already familiar with is probably the best start, backed by funky fully decentralised DHT type tech. For on purely random e.g. (never used Twitter sorry, so this is not in any way technically accurate!): - start with say Twitter handle syntax, [.]@... - add something small to this regime, say [.]@@... or [.]@UID... - back this with gnunet or something similar - build tools / GUIs to seamlessly transition folks from Twitter, Facebook etc Imagine this: - "your account got banned? Just use Gwitter!" - "your tweets aren't getting out? Just add a second '@' symbol!" - "you're not seeing Milo's tweets? Just use Gwitter!" We can imagine gateways between say Gwitter and Twitter, where every individual who uses Gwitter and Twitter, becomes a gateway (if they so choose), and a war where Twitter Inc shuts down more and more gateway accounts, which would only highlight (to normies/ regular folk) the foundational problem of the centralization and censorship inherent in corporate fascist centralised "platforms" - this highlighting and raising of awareness can only be a great thing! * Additional things like privacy, anonymity, secrecy etc, are not even on the scale at the moment - the foundations must be handled first. Can we solve "freedom of speech, as in I'm free to communicate with whom I choose to communicate with, which may involve nothing more than listening to those I wish to listen to"? * And here's just another example that triggered my snowlflakey self into launching this tirade about why we need to get this done :) Syria: Theater of the Absurd Gets Crazier http://journal-neo.org/2016/11/25/theater-of-the-absurd-gets-crazier/ $ akw gnunet Package: gnunet Description-en: secure, trust-based peer-to-peer framework (meta) GNUnet is a peer-to-peer framework which focuses on providing security. All link-to-link messages in the network are confidential and authenticated. The framework provides a transport abstraction layer and can currently encapsulate the peer-to-peer traffic in UDP, TCP, or SMTP messages.

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Re: [Cryptography] Use of RDRAND in Haskell's TLS RNG?
by grarpamp 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

Any recent processor from Intel has between 1B and 8B transistors. Not a single modern processor from them has been publicly decapped and audited. Both Intel and the fabs they are built in are closed source. And the NSA and others intercept your deliveries and backdoor your microcode. Audits... there, really? Trying to start with and prove out that mess? LOL, you're fucked. Instead of pouring yet another hundred messages into the quarterly circle jerk about 'random', why not try figuring out how to create something that might be worthy of some level of objective trust. #OpenFabs On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Ray Dillinger <bear(a)sonic.net> wrote: > > > On 11/23/2016 02:23 AM, Darren Moffat wrote: >> What is a "proper audit" and why do you think that Intel hasn't done that >> already ? What more find they (or any chip designer/builder) do to convince >> you? >> >> Darren >> > > A proper audit is one that's sufficient for anybody with a copy of the > audit to notice if there's a mistake in the claimed implementation. > Therefore, it would include a discussion of the exact design specs, the > design process, and why the design is expected to meet those specs. > Then it would show both images of the relevant parts of the chip die and > the source code that resulted in that layout, so that people can check > those things against the claimed implementation. And it would be > publicly available so security researchers and random grad students > anywhere in the world can inspect it, publish papers about it, freely > quote it, etc. without need of an NDA and without worrying about getting > sued. > > If this document existed we'd know about it because researchers and grad > students in Shanghainese and Russian universities, and everybody else > whose governments or sponsors are suspicious of American companies and > would budget a whole lot of university research, would be publishing a > firehose stream of papers about it. > > Lite Verification means making the pre-whitening random-process output > available from the chip and letting people verify that that the RDRAND > output does indeed correspond to those bits and the whitening process > claimed in the audit. Likewise, we'd know about it, and there'd be > another firehose stream of papers coming out. > > Full Verification involves decapping randomly selected chips that have > been sold to the general public, and inspecting them under an electron > microscope to make sure the implementation claimed in the audit is > what's actually there. And to make sure that it's actually hooked up so > people can tell that it is the part of the die which is used to handle > that particular instruction. Full verification could *in principle* be > repeated by as many people, in as many different countries, as there are > chips sold, with notice to or participation by the manufacturer neither > required nor given nor expected. > > Publishing the audit would be simple and easy. We assume that document > already exists, it just hasn't been published. Lite verification would > require additional chip design, possibly additional output pins, and > would raise the cost of the chip, but designing to make it possible > would have been well within Intel's capabilities. Full Verification > would be an absolute bugger for anybody to do, very expensive, and IMO > is unlikely to be done by anyone save nation-states who will never > publish their findings. Nor, indeed, even admit they've done it. > > Bear > > > _______________________________________________ > The cryptography mailing list > cryptography(a)metzdowd.com > http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography

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Re: [Cryptography] Gaslighting ~= power droop == side channel attack
by grarpamp 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Henry Baker <hbaker1(a)pipeline.com> wrote: > I (finally) saw the 1944 movie Gaslight yesterday, and a prominent plot element was the dimming of the gas lights in a house when someone turned on the gas lights in another room. In particular, the dimming of the gas lights indicated that someone else was in the house, and the brightening of the gas light indicated when that person left. Ingrid Bergman's character eventually correlates the gas light dimming precisely with the absence of her husband -- supposedly to his rented office to compose music, but in reality, he's rummaging around in the attic. > > The sudden prurient interest of our utility companies (and Google) in precisely monitoring our electrical power and our gas usage possibly be called "gaslighting surveillance". What worries me is that our state PUC's (Public Utility Commissions) force us all to pay for this surveillance as part of our utility bills. > > What's worse is that these utilities want to insert the camel's nose further into our tents by asking us to install "smart" -- aka more precise surveillance -- thermostats in our homes, so we (and, of course, they and the NSA/FBI/DHS via the 3rd party doctrine) can access this information via our smart phones. Of course, having a perch on our home networks, they can monitor a heck of a lot more than our power consumption and our home temperature. > > God forbid we ever get another Gerald Ford or Jimmy Carter in the White House; our "smart" thermostats will turn us into the secret energy police for pushing our thermostats above the "recommended" temperature. > > And don't even start talking about Amazon's Echo/Alexa and Google's Home and Apple's Siri. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslight_%281944_film%29 > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting No reason you cannot, or should not, install a battery buffer between you and the snoops, solar / wind power, share and tap.

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There is no greater school than a revolution. "Ten Days That Shook the World" John Reed
by Zenaan Harkness 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

Enjoy :) http://isreview.org/issue/82/education-literacy-and-russian-revolution "THERE IS no greater school than a revolution. It is therefore not surprising that some of the most innovative, radical, and successful literacy campaigns are those that are born out of revolutions—when, on a mass scale, people fight for a better society. In revolutionary periods, ideas matter as never before, and literacy needs no motivation as it becomes a truly liberatory endeavor. Thus, from the trenches of the US Civil War and the Russian front to the battle lines of El Salvador, there are innumerable stories of soldiers teaching each other to read newspapers in the midst of war and famine. One of the most inspiring examples of the revolutionary transformation of literacy and education is the Russian Revolution of 1917."

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#StandingRock Forced Evacuation order! Army Corp plays it's Trump(sic) Card
by Razer 28 Nov '16

28 Nov '16

They mention the violence in passing then wham bam: 'to prevent death illness or serious injury due to winter conditions' https://www.rt.com/usa/368213-standing-rock-camp-closing/ December 5th.

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Technocracy: "...all of us went along with it, because the simplicity was reassuring."
by Razer 28 Nov '16

28 Nov '16

Adam Curtis @BBC: "We live in a strange time. Extraordinary events keep happening that undermine the stability of our world. Suicide bombs, waves of refugees, Donald Drumpf, Vladimir Putin, even Brexit. Yet those in control seem unable to deal with them, and no-one has any vision of a different or a better kind of future. This film will tell the story of how we got to this strange place. It is about how, over the past 40 years, politicians, financiers and technological utopians, rather than face up to the real complexities of the world, retreated. Instead, they constructed a simpler version of the world in order to hang on to power. And as this fake world grew, all of us went along with it, because the simplicity was reassuring..." HyperNormalisation 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fny99f8amM (2h, 40m, 28s) Rr Ps: A prologue to the film by Adam Curtis, who also brought us "The Power of Nightmares" BBC documentary defining the roots of modern terrorism, which originated in the lecture halls of a certain well-known philosopher influential with the American Neocons, and the article "The Baby and the Baathwater", regarding the US government's assisting the Baath Party to power in the Middle East at the end of World War Twice... Living in an Unreal World, a Short Film Adam Curtis Made for VICE About Your Life. http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/adam-curtis-living-unreal-world-short-film

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