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Brilliant and idiosyncratic cryptographers, including Ern Malley
by professor rat 08 May '23

08 May '23

At the height of World War II in the Pacific, two secret organisations existed in Australia to break Japan's military codes. They were peopled by brilliant and idiosyncratic cryptographers, including some with achievements in mathematics and the Classics and others who had lived or grown up in Japan https://www.amazon.com.au/Code-Breakers-Intelligence-Australias-Bletchley/d… Reposts not crazed poetics splitting the infinite

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Create new money - ambition should be made of Stirner stuff
by professor rat 08 May '23

08 May '23

MAX ’ But why shouldn’t you create new money? Do you abolish the product by taking away its hereditary stamp? Now, money is a product, and an essential means or capability, because it protects against the ossification of wealth,[338] keeps it in flux, and brings about its turnover. If you know a better medium of exchange, well, all right; but it will again be a “money.” It’s not the money that does you harm, but your inability to take it." STIRNER https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/max-stirner-the-unique-and-its-prop… Take power when its given you by a dying BIG DOG

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Left-fascists take responsibility for inspiring Peter Thiel
by professor rat 08 May '23

08 May '23

According to his biographer Max Chafkin, Thiel felt that ‘mainstream liberals had accepted communists, but conservatives were unable to bring themselves to associate with members of the far-right…He really wished the right would become more like the left’. https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/capitals-militant Reposts not the Marxist-Communist left that acts as a reservoir of brazen fascist ideology & praxis.

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Kimora Lee Says $93 Million US Wants From Tim Leissner Is Hers
by Gunnar Larson 07 May '23

07 May '23

Kimora Lee, the former model and ex-wife of former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) banker Tim Leissner, claims that shares worth about $93 million that he was ordered to forfeit as part of his 1MDB guilty plea actually belong to her. Kimora Lee Says $93 Million US Wants From Tim Leissner Is Hers https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-05/kimora-lee-says-93-milli…

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Cryptic physics with Bing
by professor rat 07 May '23

07 May '23

Warmed up asking about the speed of Lemaitres ' cosmic seed " - answer on my Pro2rat microblog at Sysad Org Followed up with . . . Seth Lloyd has called the universe a quantum computer so this raises the question, is the universe also public key infrastructure? Quantum PKI? Seth Lloyd is a quantum physicist and computer scientist who has proposed that the universe is a quantum computer1. He argues that everything in the universe is made of bits of information that can be manipulated by quantum operations2. He also suggests that the laws of physics are the machine language of the cosmic quantum computer1. Public key infrastructure (PKI) is a system that uses cryptographic techniques to secure communication and data exchange over networks. PKI involves the use of public and private keys that are mathematically related but cannot be derived from each other. A public key can be used to encrypt a message that can only be decrypted by the corresponding private key, and vice versa3. Quantum PKI is a variant of PKI that uses quantum mechanics to enhance security and efficiency. Quantum PKI can leverage quantum phenomena such as superposition, entanglement, and no-cloning to create unbreakable encryption, faster computation, and novel protocols. The question of whether the universe is also a PKI is an intriguing one, but not easy to answer. One possible way to approach it is to ask whether the universe has some features that are analogous to those of a PKI, such as: A way to generate and distribute public and private keys A way to encrypt and decrypt messages using those keys A way to verify the authenticity and integrity of messages A way to revoke or update keys Some of these features may be found in certain aspects of the universe, such as: The generation and distribution of public and private keys could be related to the creation and evolution of physical systems, such as particles, atoms, molecules, stars, planets, etc. Each system could have some observable properties (public keys) and some hidden properties (private keys) that are determined by the initial conditions and the laws of physics. The encryption and decryption of messages could be related to the interaction and measurement of physical systems, such as light, sound, gravity, electromagnetism, etc. Each system could encode some information (message) in its state or behavior, and another system could decode it by observing or interacting with it. The encryption and decryption could depend on the quantum states of the systems and their entanglement. The verification of messages could be related to the conservation laws and symmetries of the universe, such as energy, momentum, charge, parity, etc. Each system could have some invariant quantities (signatures) that are preserved under certain transformations or operations. Another system could verify the message by checking whether those quantities are conserved or not. The revocation or update of keys could be related to the dynamical changes and fluctuations of the universe, such as expansion, contraction, inflation, entropy, etc. Each system could have some variable properties (keys) that change over time or space due to external or internal factors. Another system could revoke or update its keys by adapting to those changes or fluctuations. However, these analogies are not exact and may not capture all the aspects of a PKI. Moreover, they may not imply that the universe is intentionally or consciously implementing a PKI for some purpose or goal. Therefore, it is not clear whether the universe is also a PKI in a strict sense, or just a quantum computer with some PKI-like features.

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Anarchism using cryptography
by professor rat 07 May '23

07 May '23

" . . . anarchism, using cryptography to eradicate the possibility of censorship, and enable leaking of sensitive information from government agencies, militaries, and so on. Telecomix was born before wikileaks (it is now dead but successors followed). How to handle the tides and the repetition? Try something new that has not been attempted before. Anarchism also depends on the people wanting to be anarchists. You can not force anyone to become an anarchist. . . :" >From a comment at " Anarchist News " an aggravating website https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecomix

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Truly shameful and pathetic anti-Bitcoin propaganda from Bloomberg.
by professor rat 07 May '23

07 May '23

I thought this was a joke at first, but it’s real… Truly shameful and pathetic anti-#Bitcoin propaganda from Bloomberg. https://twitter.com/WalkerAmerica/status/1624847319928655874 Reposts not NYC tradFi bombast from a timewasting jackass called Popgun Larceny

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Peter Thiel Says Moving to Florida from Silicon Valley Is Too Expensive
by professor rat 07 May '23

07 May '23

A small downpayment And throwing his boyfriend off the roof was just a rinse - the heavy-duty-cycle's coming up next.

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Peter Thiel Says Moving to Florida from Silicon Valley Is Too Expensive
by Gunnar Larson 06 May '23

06 May '23

“That kind of economic cost is probably not enough to offset all the wokeness in the world or even the taxes,” he said. Peter Thiel Says Moving to Florida from Silicon Valley Is Too Expensive https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-04/peter-thiel-says-moving-…

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That the late-nineties and noughties were the real cypherpunk golden years. Proof of concept
by professor rat 06 May '23

06 May '23

Bram Cohen’s Torrents breakthrough adds another data-point to my thesis that the late-nineties and noughties were the real cypherpunk golden years. Proof of concept for APster - for revolutionary piracy - and for electronic peer-to-peer money.to cap it all. An epoch shattering trifecta and 15 years, The start of a rolling, roiling global revolution from below! Bram doesn't seem to mind being described as a cypherpunk and was certainly close to the list back then. https://www.google.com/search?q=bram+cohen+cypherpunk&client=opera&hs=yLz&e…

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