July 2018 - cypherpunks@lists.ogf.org

LambdaMOO, MUDs, and 'When the Internet Was Young
by grarpamp 22 Jul '18

22 Jul '18

https://undark.org/article/wilo-evans-broad-band/ LambdaMOO was different from the earliest MUDs, which were Tolkienesque fantasies -- hack-and-slash games for Dungeons & Dragons types with computer access, mostly college students. LambdaMOO was one of the first social MUDs, where people convened largely to play-act society, and what might have been "one of the first MUDs to be run by an adult," [co-creator Pavel] Curtis believes... Everybody comes through the Coat Closet the first time they visit LambdaMOO, entering the Living Room through a curtain of clothes, like children into Narnia. In between the textual rooms and objects they explore, there's a faster-moving flow of words, the coursing real-time chatter of LambdaMOO's other users. This is a Multi-User Domain: a chatroom and a world at once, a place where telling takes the place of being... [I]t's nearly impossible to describe to a modern computer user what that means, because although MUDs once made up 10 percent of internet traffic, their dominance was obliterated by the arrival of the visual, hyperlinked, page-based Web. To anyone weaned on images and clicked connections, every explanation sounds batty: A MUD is a text-based virtual reality. A MUD is a chatroom built by talking. A MUD is Dungeons & Dragons all around the world. A MUD is a map made of words. The science fiction writer Philip K. Dick once defined reality as "that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away," and in that sense a MUD is a real place. But a MUD is also nothing more than a window of text, scrolling along as users describe and inhabit a place from words. Undark titled their piece "a mansion filled with hidden worlds: when the internet was young," describing the mansion's halls as "really just a string of code, where people once lived, and still do, in some way or another, as someone must, until the server winks out." I logged in a few times in 1997, so I'm probably in there too... The article describes reading a Usenet newsgroup about MUDs back in 1990. "Approximately half of the contributors thought it was a game; the other half vehemently and heatedly disagreed."

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The Cashless Society is a Con -- and Big Finance is Behind It
by grarpamp 22 Jul '18

22 Jul '18

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/19/cashless-society-con-… https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/jun/29/hundreds-of-cash-machines-clo… https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/may/01/rbs-to-close-162-branches-… https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/13/cash-digitise-payment… https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/jun/01/visa-card-network-crashes-and… https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/13/cash-digitise-payment… https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/cash-and-digital-payments-in-th… https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/… All over the western world banks are shutting down cash machines and branches. They are trying to push you into using their digital payments and digital banking infrastructure. Just like Google wants everyone to access and navigate the broader internet via its privately controlled search portal, so financial institutions want everyone to access and navigate the broader economy through their systems. We can learn from the Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci in this regard. His concept of hegemony referred to the way in which powerful parties condition the cultural and economic environment in such a way that their interests begin to be perceived as natural and inevitable by the general public. Nobody was on the streets shouting for digital payment 20 years ago, but increasingly it seems obvious and “natural” that it should take over. That belief does not come from nowhere. It is the direct result of a hegemonic project on the part of financial institutions. Twenty years ago nobody believed that cash was “inconvenient”, but every time I walk into London Underground I see adverts that address me as if I was a person who finds cash inconvenient. The objective is to reverse-engineer a belief within me that it is inconvenient, and that cashlessness is in my interests. But a cashless society is not in your interest. It is in the interest of banks and payments companies. Digital systems may be "convenient", but they often come with central points of failure. Cash, on the other hand, does not crash. It does not rely on external data centres, and is not subject to remote control or remote monitoring. The cash system allows for an unmonitored "off the grid" space. This is also the reason why financial institutions and financial technology companies want to get rid of it. Cash transactions are outside the net that such institutions cast to harvest fees and data. A cashless society brings dangers. People without bank accounts will find themselves further marginalised, disenfranchised from the cash infrastructure that previously supported them. There are also poorly understood psychological implications about cash encouraging self-control while paying by card or a mobile phone can encourage spending. And a cashless society has major surveillance implications.

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Cryptocurrency: Rise of Bitcoin Cash BCH
by grarpamp 22 Jul '18

22 Jul '18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_Zk9ioPFyg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16DxRgfnqow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5aiLNJ88Gs https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCetxkZolEBHX47BqtZktbkg/videos

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Israel Declares Itself Apartheid State vs FSP's
by grarpamp 21 Jul '18

21 Jul '18

alt comparative discussion ref: Various free state projects ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: ECOTERRA International <MailHub(a)ecoterra.net> Date: Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 3:50 PM Subject: [NATURAL_DEFENCE] Israel Declares Itself Apartheid State To: MAILHUB <mailhub(a)ecoterra.net> Israel Declares Itself Apartheid State By Moon of Alabama - July 19, 2018 Israel declared itself to be an apartheid state: The Knesset passed early Thursday a controversial bill that officially defines Israel as the national homeland of the Jewish people and asserts that "the realization of the right to national self-determination in Israel is unique to the Jewish people," with 62 lawmakers voting in favor of the legislation and 55 opposing it. ... The nation-state law also includes clauses stating that a "united Jerusalem" is the capital of Israel and that Hebrew is the country's official language. Another says that "the state sees the development of Jewish settlement as a national value and will act to encourage and promote its establishment and consolidation." The new law has constitutional status: The bill, which has the status of a basic law (approximately the same as a constitutional law in countries with a written constitution), was passed overnight to Thursday with 62 votes in favor and 55 against after hours of fierce argument and debate. It will now come into force as soon as it's published in the Knesset's Official Gazette. ... In a clause that set Arab lawmakers off, the bill explicitly states that "the right to exercises national determination in the State of Israel is unique to the Jewish people." The law stipulates segregation: part of the law [is] aimed at promoting the "establishment and consolidation" of Jewish settlements Israel has never defined its borders. It has illegally taken ownership of all public land in the occupied West Bank. This land is then exclusively granted to Zionist settlers: Over five decades in control of the West Bank, Israel has marked out hundreds of thousands of acres as public land, and it has allocated almost half of them for use. But only 400 of those acres — 0.24 percent of the total allocated so far — have been earmarked for the use of Palestinians, according to official data obtained recently by an anti-settlement group after a freedom of information request. Palestinians make up about 88 percent of the West Bank’s population. The group, Peace Now, said the other 99.76 percent of the land went to help Israeli settlements. MAP: DISPLAY bigger The Arab population of Israel and the occupied territories is as big as the Jewish population. The allocation of "public" land stolen from the indigenous Arab population solely to Jewish immigrants was already one of many clearly discriminating apartheid issues. It was in contradiction even to Israeli law. Now the creation of solely Jewish settlements is required by constitutional mandate. The blatantly illegal creation and expansion of solely Jewish settlements on stolen Palestinian land is now rationalized as requirement of basic law. Muslim and Christian Palestinians now have to pay taxes for their own expropriation. Is there a Buddhist people, a Catholic people? Do they deserve their own nation and land? No. Even the though of such is weird. Are Jews originating from Ethiopia, India, Lithuania, Iran and Poland a common race? Why then is there supposed to be a 'Jewish people' as the new law stipulates? It is historically crazy that a number of humans, living in dozens of mostly east-European countries, would suddenly define themselves as a unique 'race' by virtue of believing in the same religious fairy tales. The concept mirrored and enabled the racism of the fascists. The self declared ethnicity then laid claim on far away land in west-Asia based on old stories of temples for which there is little to no archeologic evidences. Primarily Great Britain, France and the United States, furthered and support this ethnocratic, colonialist, undemocratic, imperialist, and genocidal scheme to their own advantage. It is high time to end this illegal and immoral aberration. -------- READ ALSO: Archbishop of Orthodox Church slams Israel's 'fascist nation state' law Israel's nation-state bill underscores its fascist nature On Resistance: BDS and Israel’s Declining Support Among Diaspora Jews Israel Publishes BDS Blacklist: These Are the 20 Groups Whose Members Will Be Denied Entry By Noa Landau Israel published the full list of organizations whose activists will be barred from entering the country. The so-called BDS blacklist was released by the Strategic Affairs Ministry. Members of the 20 organizations on the list will not be allowed to enter the country due to their support for the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel. The list primarily includes European and American organizations as well as groups from Latin America, a group from South Africa and an international umbrella organization. For months the Strategic Affairs Ministry had refused to divulge which organizations are on the list. However, a joint team from the Strategic Affairs and Interior ministries had previously determined the parameters that serve as a basis for barring activists from coming into the country. Those who hold senior or important positions in blacklisted organizations will be denied entry, as well as key activists, even if they hold no official position. Mayors and establishment figures who actively and continually promote boycotts will also be prevented from entering, as will activists who arrive to Israel on behalf of or as part of a delegation initiated by one of blacklisted groups. The full list European organizations: ■ France-Palestine Solidarity Association ■ BDS France ■ BDS Italy ■ The European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine ■ Friends of Al-Aqsa ■ Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign ■ The Palestine Committee of Norway ■ Palestine Solidarity Association of Sweden ■ Palestine Solidarity Campaign ■ War on Want ■ BDS Kampagne American organizations: ■ American Friends Service Committee ■ American Muslims for Palestine ■ Code Pink ■ Jewish Voice for Peace ■ National Students for Justice in Palestine ■ US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Other groups: ■ BDS Chile ■ BDS South Africa ■ BDS National Committee --- Israel’s BDS blacklist is straight out of apartheid. 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[MINISTRY] Peterson → “Seeing is, as far as we can tell, actually impossible.”
by Zenaan Harkness 21 Jul '18

21 Jul '18

Bold claims, hour long lectures, endless food for thought. Enjoy, Jordan Peterson - Reality and the Sacred https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c3m0tt5KcE

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System76: "Making" and Selling Unix Based Systems (also: Purism, ixsystems)
by grarpamp 20 Jul '18

20 Jul '18

http://blog.system76.com/post/175995780368/system76-new-manufacturing-facil… https://betanews.com/2018/07/17/system76-linux-manufacturing-facility/ https://old.reddit.com/search?q=system76 https://puri.sm/ https://www.ixsystems.com/

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the intercept - US military propaganda outlet
by juan 20 Jul '18

20 Jul '18

https://theintercept.com/2018/07/18/mueller-indictment-russian-hackers/ "someone reportedly logged into the @Guccifer_2 Twitter account without connecting to a VPN service first, revealing their real IP address." sure. it was 'their' 'real' 'address'! The KGB address! oh and the "russians" can't buy nor mine bitcoins anonymously. The russian govt can't get $50 in bitcoin without trump knowing it. Russians are terribly stupid. Like when they poisoned an 'ex' spy using a poison gas that 'only' russians can manufacture. Oh and the guy who did the poisoning didnt realize that his KGB business card fell off his pocket. So that was another clue for the sherlock holmes.

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Re: Forced Decrypt: US Judge Jails Defendant Six Months for Contempt re Phone Unlock
by juan 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 15:09:11 -0500 "\\0xDynamite" <dreamingforward(a)gmail.com> wrote: > BTW, you can ask for a cops ID too, if they want yours. It's called > "mutual reciprocity". Otherwise, challenge them to "just write the > ticket" and walk away. If you walk away, you aren't "fleeing" a > scene. If they tackle you to the ground or tazer you when you aren't > fleeing (and no one else is being endangered), it's assault. so your government job is to lie to people and get them killed by the cops. Tell people what they need to do in order to get imprisioned or murdered by your government. I wouldn't expect less from an American Christian like you. > > sounds as if you are confused about the nature of the mafia that owns and > > rules you. > > Conspiracy theory: who? the Jewish mafia, the italian mafia, the > Irish mafia? Who? You think they get along enough to coordinate all > of their plots? The mafia I was referring to in my previous message is the criminal organization you call "USA government" - your employers. Are you so fuckingly retarded that you didn't understand that? No, nobody can't be so fuckinly retarded. So, please, spare me the "playing dumb" act. Now you can go back to sucking the cock of judge smith while judge jakobo goldberg rapes you in the ass. Have fun 'charging' them. J,

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We must preserve the Cypherpunks Mailing List archives! IMPORTANT!
by Tom Busby 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

I've written a blog post about this with further details if anyone is interested: https://cryptoanarchy.wiki/blog/2018/07/05/the-cypherpunks-mailing-list-arc… The primary reason I'm sending this email is to appeal to those of you who have been active on the list since before July 2013 (when the switch to GNU Mailman occurred) and to those of you who know now-inactive subscribers who may also have this information. There is a total black hole in terms of available archived threads from early 1999 to mid 2013. I've contacted the guy who ran the al-qaeda.net node and dug around in the way back machine trying to locate these archives. No luck so far. I'm worried this information will be lost permanently if a concerted effort isn't made to preserve it now, while *some* of it is perhaps still preserved on people's hard drives. I have no doubt that some (maybe most) of the threads from the early 2000s may already be lost permanently. Please get in touch if you think you can help out at all. Tom Busby

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Forced Decrypt: US Judge Jails Defendant Six Months for Contempt re Phone Unlock
by grarpamp 19 Jul '18

19 Jul '18

https://gizmodo.com/florida-man-jailed-for-failing-to-unlock-his-phone-1827… http://www.fox13news.com/news/local-news/judge-jails-man-for-failing-to-unl… https://old.reddit.com/r/PoliticalDiscussion/comments/8yz2za/a_man_got_6mon… https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/8y8yd1/man_faces_6_months_in_flor… https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/8yx73q/judge_jails_defendant_for_fai… https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/8ypu6s/guy_gets_tossed_in_jail… https://old.reddit.com/r/law/comments/8z9zjr/judge_jails_man_for_180_days_f… https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/07/15/2012230/judge-jails-defendent-for-f… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17547562 https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/8z63lz/us_courts_can_force_you_to… http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/rodriguez-v-united-states/ https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4597748/Emergency-Writ.pdf https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4597747/Search-Warrant-and-Affid… In a Tampa courtroom, Judge Gregory Holder held William Montanez in contempt of court for failure to unlock a mobile device. What led to this was a frightening slippery slope that threatens our Fourth Amendment rights to the core. Montanez was stopped for failing to yield properly. After being pulled over, the officer asked to search his car; Montanez refused, so the officer held him until a drug dog was brought in to give the officer enough probable cause to search the vehicle. They found a misdemeanor amount of marijuana, which they used to arrest Montenez, but they asked to search his two cellphones, which he also refused. They were able to secure a warrant for those as well, but Montenez claimed he had forgotten his password. The result: Montanez is being held in contempt of court and is serving a six-month jail sentence. "I don't know the code, sir," he stated. So the judge found him in civil contempt and threw him in jail. http://www.decidethefuture.org/

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