May 2018 - cypherpunks@lists.ogf.org

Razer gets a call from the fedz about a ZuckerBook 'post you made in April'
by Razer 01 Jun '18

01 Jun '18

I just got a voicemail from one special agent Delligan (sp? And why are they almost always Irish?) in DC about a 'post you made in April', and he wanted a callback. On calling I got a voicemail box that sounded legit but I still suspected a FB phishing expedition. So I dialed the same number but instead of the last 2 digits I dialed 00... Fast busy. So I dial 01, and get a senator's office. Not a Phishing trip... I left a rather rude voicemail at the phone number and got a callback about 10 minutes later. The post in question, from April was in regard to the Congressional Baseball game, which had a shooter drop in if you'll recall. My post was just before they tried have their ballgame again and RollCall was commenting on the security. In the post I basically suggested that there's no foolproof way to protect a congressman on an open air ballfield from a sniper at 300 yard with a bolt action rifle. Apparently the Capitol Police ARE worried about such a possibility and were 'assessing' all possible threat scenarios made on social media. After a five minute chat he assumed I wasn't intending to be a 'shooter' nor instructing anyone how to be one, or even suggesting anyone should be one, and here is the post: > "Tight security. Use a good high power Bolt Action > legal-in-all-50-states hunting rifle... Bedded in and checked at the > range any ol' bolt action ought to be good for 300 yards anyway. > > "Republicans’ First Congressional Baseball Practice After Shooting Set > for April 25" > > https://www.rollcall.com/news/hoh/republicans-congressional-baseball/ " Rr. Ps. "I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad!"

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Cryptocurrency: A Decentralization Definition, Sharing Platforms, Economics, More
by grarpamp 01 Jun '18

01 Jun '18

https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/the-meaning-of-decentralization-a0c92b76… https://old.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/8n90qx/debunked_we_dont_know_what_sat… https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/8n6ouk/why_blockchainbased… https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/8n5f2g/collapsing_economie… https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/8n6tn5/one_month_ago_i_inv… Dude forgot to adopt 10 of his friends into the active economy and philosophy, thus lost 27% of his value. https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/8i222k/new_york_times_fron… https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/8i222k/new_york_times_fron… https://cryptopotato.com/morgan-stanley-says-banks-could-use-cryptocurrenci… https://www.trustnodes.com/2018/05/16/germanys-second-biggest-stock-exchang… https://www.ccn.com/almost-irresponsible-to-not-invest-in-bitcoin-billionai… https://youtu.be/q_aqaxtAMbs?t=328 https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@ftlian/mike-judge-s-hbo-show-silicon-va… https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/8gz9wc/heads_up_boys_were_…

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Cryptocurrency: Future of Indy Media, Census, and US Election 2020
by grarpamp 31 May '18

31 May '18

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MormonLeaks: Church Has $32B in US Stocks, Salaries, Sex, Military, Jehovah
by grarpamp 31 May '18

31 May '18

https://mormonleaks.io/newsroom/ https://twitter.com/Mormon_Leaks https://truthandtransparency.org/ https://faithleaks.org/ http://kutv.com/news/local/the-men-of-mormonleaks-why-they-do-it-and-what-t… https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/8n8ula/mormonleaks_says_new_document…

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USA: Exiting Zero Dark Veritas
by grarpamp 31 May '18

31 May '18

https://theintercept.com/2018/05/29/zero-tolerance-border-policy-immigratio… Deported, without their children, who are kept by the state. https://theintercept.com/2018/05/23/j20-trial-project-veritas-video/ Chief Judge of the D.C. Superior Court found that federal prosecutors suppressed potentially exculpatory evidence against six Inauguration Day protesters. In a motion filed late last night, attorneys for the defendants accused the government of withholding evidence that could have exonerated their clients — a serious violation of pretrial discovery rules. Attorneys allege that the state withheld evidence by editing a video of a protest planning meeting. Defense attorneys called on the court to sanction Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Kerkhoff for “blatant hiding of evidence” and requested that the indictment against their clients be dismissed. “The government has abused its power by hiding discovery from all defendants,” the attorneys wrote in the motion, “purposefully choosing not to disclose Brady information, and calling into question the integrity of all of its third-party video evidence and proffers in open court.” https://theintercept.com/2018/05/30/face-recognition-schools-school-shootin… The primary function of the technology will be to expand the surveillance and criminalization of adolescents. “Whether it was intended to be this way or not, the technology is effectively going to be a surveillance system and not a safety system,” It is possible that the district will “cut transportation and sports programs, reduce kindergarten to half days and close elementary school libraries.” “In a time when we cannot afford to pay our teachers a decent wage,” “I cannot fathom any school district paying money for this type of security theater.” Collect your baubles, take your kids out of school, and cross the border. In many ways, life is just fine and free on the other side, wherever that may be. Or fight, if you can. "The fact of the matter is that these leagues were created by white people for the entertainment and wealth of white people. When African-Americans tinker with that formula — by demonstrating in a way that insults white sensibilities — they are shut down. Perhaps the only way to fix the problem is indeed to start new leagues with new owners and managers." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq6Tt--uAfs

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Cryptocurrency: If it can be "Acquired", it's not Decentralized, Other
by grarpamp 30 May '18

30 May '18

https://www.reuters.com/article/crypto-currencies-coinbase/coinbase-acquire… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17137932 https://blog.coinswitch.co/overview-of-privacy-coins-e38091671d38 http://researchly.leobosankic.com/2018/04/29/governance-gatekeepers-tezos-n… https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/8i0a4r/bitmain_screwing_zcash_good… https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7hnw08/turns_out_that_315_… https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/8ifxay/why_privacy_by_default_matt… https://smeiklej.com/files/usenix18.pdf https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-02-06/germany-is-still-obsesse… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17151801 https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/7jlbrb/john_mcafee_on_twitter_i_am… "privacy coins will win" https://z.cash.foundation/blog/statement-on-asics/ https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/8jca48/gemini_is_now_the_w… https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/8jbvzy/powpos_killer_moner…

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Cryptocurrency: Adoption vs Useless Noise
by grarpamp 30 May '18

30 May '18

https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economic-letter/2018/m… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17188946 Blah blah blah. Longterm success depends solely on adoption... the full matrix of use and trade between persons and in business. Price is merely a nice byproduct of such adoption. No such adoption, no such price. The only thing worth pushing is adoption, of cryptocurrency as a whole, same as was in the old days. Today's coin plethora now requires carefully self desciplined adoption speech, selfless joint work among all, moving the gears levers and avenues of adoption forward, relentlessly, irrespective and without mention of any particular coin.

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Cryptocurrency: The Trust Machine, and other Crypto Fundamentals
by grarpamp 30 May '18

30 May '18

Trust Machine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXB_j-_jPmU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKwqNgG-Sv4 PKI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEBfamv-_do Info Theory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69-YUSazuic see channel.

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Anonymous: Recent News and Ops Updates...
by grarpamp 29 May '18

29 May '18

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query="anonymous"

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Re: [tor-talk] Post Quantum Tor
by grarpamp 28 May '18

28 May '18

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ibm-warns-of-instant-breaking-of-encryption-b… https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/post-quantum-cryptography https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography http://www.etsi.org/news-events/news/947-2015-03-news-etsi-launches-quantum… http://www.pqcrypto.org/ https://ianix.com/pqcrypto/pqcrypto-deployment.html https://pqcrypto.eu.org/ https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7210-pqchacks https://github.com/zcash/zcash/issues/805

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