May 2016 - cypherpunks@lists.ogf.org

Re: [tor-talk] OT: Bitmessage
by grarpamp 13 May '16

13 May '16

On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 6:14 AM, Tom A. <thomasasta(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > Yes take care and look yourself or believe so called experts or > multiplicators. Fine example of the classic passive shilling for GoldBug / BitMail, etc. > I agree that all closed source crypto is obsolete. Yeah, so is all the non-reproducible binaries of opensource code above, deleting critiques off your own forums, etc... ahem. >> Also, since Tom spammed a link to BitMail, it's worth noting that >> BitMail appears to be developed by the same people who made GoldBug. >> For those of you keeping score at home, GoldBug falsely claimed to be >> a project of EFF and CCC. It would be wise to assume that BitMail is >> malware or backdoored unless proven otherwise. Tom's long been associated with their little game. Search the whole scam out on tor-talk, cpunks, google, etc. Till y'all step up to the plate... hasta Asta.

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Re: Proof-of-Satoshi fails Proof-of-Proof.
by Robert Hettinga 12 May '16

12 May '16

> On May 4, 2016, at 6:44 PM, ianG <iang(a)iang.org> wrote: > > Keys can be lost. So, the dog ate his homework. Right. Pics or it didn’t happen. Cheers, RAH

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What happened to Pond?
by mrnobody＠mail-on.us 12 May '16

12 May '16

First of all I'd like to say hello, since it's the first time I write in this mailing list. Now to the matter at hand. Do you remember the project Pond? https://github.com/agl/pond I actually never used it, but when back in the day I read the design it seemed like a new approach to mail, encrypted and careful with metadata. Now the project sees unmaintained, and it seems Adam Langley deleted the webpage of the project (pond.imperialviolet.org) from its personal webpage (imperialviolet.org) An old post about the project for those who doesn't know it. https://www.imperialviolet.org/2013/11/10/pond.html ------------------------------------------------- ONLY AT VFEmail! - Use our Metadata Mitigator to keep your email out of the NSA's hands! $24.95 ONETIME Lifetime accounts with Privacy Features! 15GB disk! No bandwidth quotas! Commercial and Bulk Mail Options!

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Re: [tor-talk] Music para Anarchists
by grarpamp 11 May '16

11 May '16

On 5/9/16, Thomas Iwan Bösewitsch <structuraldamage(a)yandex.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2016-04-25 at 00:36 +0200, Far Enuf wrote: >> Ça va!, >> >> Sole just released his new project Nihillismo [1], a critique of the >> société esclavagiste we all live in. >> >> Please support his work if you dig it; he supports us. >> >> If you choose only one track to listen to, Capitalism [2] es una >> wunderbar choice. >> >> -- >> >> Farenuf >> >> [1]: https://sole.bandcamp.com/album/sole-dj-pain-1-nihilismo >> >> [2]: https://sole.bandcamp.com/track/capitalism-is-tearing-us-apart-w >> -decomposure > > > Does not work without me allowing a host of untrusted sites to execute > scripts in my browser - and you (or your "anti-capitalist" bandcamp > buddies) want $25 for a two-track release? Really? > Nice try - but most likely in the wrong place. https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=EgIQAw%253D%253D&q=anarchist+music Not purely subject, yet related... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzzfxmKBz2g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHb6ppxoFcE https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=EgIQAw%253D%253D&q=bitcoin+music

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Florida -is- part of USA right? - Lee County jailed an election fraud whistleblower
by Zenaan Harkness 11 May '16

11 May '16

https://it.slashdot.org/story/16/05/09/1811210/security-expert-jailed-for-r… Information Security Professional David Levin was arrested 3 months after reporting un-patched SQL injection vulnerabilities ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05/09/researcher_arrested_after_reporting… ) in the Lee County, Florida Elections Office run by Sharon Harrington, the Lee County Supervisor of Elections. Harrington's office has been in the news before for voting systems problems (for example in during the 2012 election, 35 districts in Lee County had to remain open 3 hours past the closing of polls due to long lines and equipment issues ( http://fcir.org/2013/12/11/center-for-american-progress-action-fund-electio… ), wasting $800,000 to $1.6 million of taxpayer money on incompatible iPads for which her office is facing an audit ( http://editions.lib.umn.edu/electionacademy/2015/06/18/floridas-lee-county-… ). Rather than fixing the issues in their systems, they chose to charge the whistleblower with three third-degree felonies. The News Press also has several related interviews ( http://www.news-press.com/story/news/crime/2016/05/04/estero-man-arrested-h… ). --- Seems corruption and mal intent is systemic in America.

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Re:
by John Young 10 May '16

10 May '16

Great, "Greg." Log on to the IP address, click on journal. Prepare to buy new hard disk, hopelessly try to clean out back-ups, avoid for life the suckers you infected. Then try to get out of jail from the phishing gangsters who entrapped you by getting into your TEMPEST-hardened computer setup and threatening to send to your relatives and customers their implanted vile kiddie porn collection as if yours and report to the FBI "Greg's" vast cache of stolen celebrity accounts and hundreds of nyms, Tor logs, USG break-ins, counterfeit Bitcoins, comsec dirty work, rattings to LE, and, listen, hear what's buzzing over your bunker. battering your steel gate. At 10:20 AM 5/10/2016, you wrote: >Most interested in the Journal file. Could someone have a look? >On May 10, 2016 3:53 AM, "John Young" ><<mailto:jya@pipeline.com>jya(a)pipeline.com> wrote: >At 02:13 AM 5/10/2016, Greg Moss imposter phished: ><http://219.234.6.206:8080/>http://219.234.6.206:8080/ > > >Which produces: > >Web attack: Microsoft OleAut32 RCE CVE-2014-6332 > >

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Conscientious ISP "process servers" - charge RIAA mafia for service on customer
by Zenaan Harkness 10 May '16

10 May '16

>From this slashdot article: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/05/08/0030230/the-pirate-bay-now-blocked-… (which subject title is deceptive, what's new on slashdot eh) comes this little comment conversation: https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9079015&cid=52068815 1) " I'd like to elaborate on your good advice: Downloading torrents isn't a crime. It's a civil matter, there is no reason you can't contact police, however the precautions that make a site immune to civil action happen to make them difficult to pursue in criminal cases as well. The argument could be made that their advertising revenues discourage them from displaying malvertisements, however the short lifecycle of a modern torrent site results in little incentive to do anything but maximize revenues before the guillotine drops. So in practice: turn off your javascript and assuming they are using l337 zero-day hacks on your browser's incognito mode... " 2) " Felderal law says you're wrong. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/506 And https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2319 I gotta love the "what I do is not illegal!!!" downloaders who can't be bothered to actually check the laws before giving bad, bad, rationalizations for their behavior. " 3) " They send tons of emails to us. We contact them to pay to be their process server and they hang up the phone. Piracy is when someone makes copies and sells them. So far no bottom dwelling copyright spammer has agreed to pay for us to deliver their letter. We have never received a single subpoena. They think we have to do it for free here in the land of the fee. Even if one finally did buck up and pay for us to deliver them they would still be handled as a civil suit. Feel free to shill away how wrong I am but I have real world knowledge about how cheap these bottom feeders are. "

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Trump vs. 21 Million
by grarpamp 10 May '16

10 May '16

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4ik3of/donald_trump_us_will_never… http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/09/politics/donald-trump-national-debt-strategy/…

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What happened to Pond?
by mrnobody＠mail-on.us 08 May '16

08 May '16

First of all I'd like to say hello, since it's the first time I write in this mailing list. Now to the matter at hand. Do you remember the project Pond? https://github.com/agl/pond I actually never used it, but when back in the day I read the design it seemed like a new approach to mail, encrypted and careful with metadata. Now the project sees unmaintained, and it seems Adam Langley deleted the webpage of the project (pond.imperialviolet.org) from its personal webpage (imperialviolet.org) An old post about the project for those who doesn't know it. https://www.imperialviolet.org/2013/11/10/pond.html ------------------------------------------------- ONLY AT VFEmail! - Use our Metadata Mitigator to keep your email out of the NSA's hands! $24.95 ONETIME Lifetime accounts with Privacy Features! 15GB disk! No bandwidth quotas! Commercial and Bulk Mail Options!

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Re: [Cryptography] Proof-of-Satoshi fails Proof-of-Proof.
by Tony Arcieri 07 May '16

07 May '16

On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Ron Garret <ron(a)flownet.com> wrote: > > But with all forms of DH based signatures, a random number is generated > and that affects the signature value. In effect, every signature has a salt > value. Interesting sidebar: ECDSA nonces were one of the sources of Bitcoin's transaction malleability. The (massive pile of hacks that is) segregated witness feature being added to Bitcoin has an added side effect of removing signatures from the hash of a transaction, and with it the associated malleability. All that said, if you're designing a new system today, pick Ed25519. -- Tony Arcieri

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