October 2019 - cypherpunks@lists.ogf.org

OnionShare Tor
by grarpamp 16 Oct '19

16 Oct '19

https://blog.torproject.org/new-version-onionshare-makes-it-easy-anyone-pub… https://github.com/cretz/bine https://github.com/jstrieb/urlpages http://wiki.yacy.net/index.php/En:YaCy-Tor https://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2009/06/free-speech-or-stone-age.html https://www.arweave.org/

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Snowden on CryptoPrivacy re US-UK-AUS Facebook Crypto Slapdown
by grarpamp 16 Oct '19

16 Oct '19

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/15/encryption-lose-priva… https://it.slashdot.org/story/19/10/15/1359231/edward-snowden-without-encry… https://i.redd.it/855lzz700fs31.png In the midst of the greatest computer security crisis in history, the US government, along with the governments of the UK and Australia, is attempting to undermine the only method that currently exists for reliably protecting the world's information: encryption. Should they succeed in their quest to undermine encryption, our public infrastructure and private lives will be rendered permanently unsafe. [...] Earlier this month the US, alongside the UK and Australia, called on Facebook to create a "backdoor," or fatal flaw, into its encrypted messaging apps, which would allow anyone with the key to that backdoor unlimited access to private communications. So far, Facebook has resisted this. Donald Trump's attorney general, William Barr, who authorised one of the earliest mass surveillance programmes without reviewing whether it was legal, is now signalling an intention to halt -- or even roll back -- the progress of the last six years. WhatsApp, the messaging service owned by Facebook, already uses end-to-end encryption (E2EE): in March the company announced its intention to incorporate E2EE into its other messaging apps -- Facebook Messenger and Instagram -- as well. Now Barr is launching a public campaign to prevent Facebook from climbing this next rung on the ladder of digital security. This began with an open letter co-signed by Barr, UK home secretary Priti Patel, Australia's minister for home affairs and the US secretary of homeland security, demanding Facebook abandon its encryption proposals. If Barr's campaign is successful, the communications of billions will remain frozen in a state of permanent insecurity: users will be vulnerable by design. And those communications will be vulnerable not only to investigators in the US, UK and Australia, but also to the intelligence agencies of China, Russia and Saudi Arabia -- not to mention hackers around the world. End-to-end encrypted communication systems are designed so that messages can be read only by the sender and their intended recipients, even if the encrypted -- meaning locked -- messages themselves are stored by an untrusted third party, for example, a social media company such as Facebook.

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System76 CoreBoot OpenBIOS Linux Laptop, RaptorCS POWER9, GNUs DList NNTP
by grarpamp 16 Oct '19

16 Oct '19

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/10/10/system76-will-begin-… https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21216195 System76 will start taking pre-orders for both the Galago Pro and Darter Pro laptops. The systems will ship out later in October, and include the company's Coreboot-based open source firmware which was previously teased at the 2019 Open Source Firmware Conference. (Coreboot, formerly known as LinuxBIOS, is a software project aimed at replacing proprietary firmware found in most computers with a lightweight firmware designed to perform only the minimum number of tasks necessary to load and run a modern 32-bit or 64-bit operating system.) What's so great about ripping out the proprietary firmware included in machines like this and replacing it with an open alternative? To begin with, it's leaner. System76 claims that users can boot from power off to the desktop 29% faster with its Coreboot-based firmware. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21213897 https://github.com/dickmao/nnhackernews https://forum.dlang.org/ https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed https://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-pdp-7-where-unix-began.html

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Facialized: Face Now Required to get Internet, Will Feed Into SocialScore, Rat Out Anons
by grarpamp 16 Oct '19

16 Oct '19

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/chinese-citizens-will-be-required-sc… https://www.theepochtimes.com/beijing-launches-new-rule-residents-must-pass… Upgraded subject to include all internet access. This is coming to your Fake Freedom USA very soon. Just as SocialScore, and everything else. Once you let anything (govts) happen anywhere, it becomes a MeToo (by govts) everywhere. " First, all telecom carriers must use facial recognition to test whether an applicant who applies for internet connection is the owner of the ID that they use since Dec. 1. At the same time, the carriers must test that the ID is genuine and valid. Second, all telecom carriers must upgrade their service’s terms and conditions and notify all their customers that they are not allowed to transfer or resell their cell phone SIM card to another person by the end of November 2019. Third, telecom carriers should help their customers to check whether there are cell phone or landline numbers that don’t belong to them but registered under their names since Dec. 1. For unidentified numbers, the telecom carries must investigate and close the lines immediately. " https://www.activistpost.com/2019/09/facial-recognition-for-a-free-travel-t… https://www.businessinsider.com/china-facial-recognition-limitations-2018-7 https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prCHE45536619 https://www.theepochtimes.com/china-a-major-exporter-of-ai-surveillance-too… https://www.chinanews.com/sh/2018/05-18/8516603.shtml http://www.xinhuanet.com//fortune/2017-03/19/c_1120652461.htm http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1165190.shtml https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/16/this-chinese-facial-recognition-start-up-ca… https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-05/uob-haf050119.php https://www.activistpost.com/2019/08/watch-hong-kong-protesters-use-lasers-… https://psmag.com/news/the-government-internet-id-proposals-pros-and-cons-3… https://www.activistpost.com/product/0451524934/US/permacultucom-20/ " Chinese Citizens Will Be Required To Scan Their Faces To Use The Internet 10/08/2019 Authored by Aaron Kesel via ActivistPost.com, The Chinese government continues its Orwellian practices with the announcement that citizens will have to use facial recognition technology to access the internet (which is already highly fire-walled.) This is all a part of China’s social credit system that will take effect on Dec. 1st. After the law is in effect, Chinese citizens who want to have the internet installed at their houses or on their smartphones will be required to undergo a facial recognition process by Chinese authority to prove their identities, according to the new regulation. This is significant because now the Chinese government will use the internet to rate citizens based on their daily behavior online. Since 2015, Chinese citizens have been required to show their ID cards while applying for a landline or the internet. This new law is put in place to verify that the ID belongs to the person applying for services. The new law was published on the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) website and distributed to all Chinese telecom carriers on Sept. 27th, which includes three demands be met, Epoch Times reports. First, all telecom carriers must use facial recognition to test whether an applicant who applies for internet connection is the owner of the ID that they use since Dec. 1. At the same time, the carriers must test that the ID is genuine and valid. Second, all telecom carriers must upgrade their service’s terms and conditions and notify all their customers that they are not allowed to transfer or resell their cell phone SIM card to another person by the end of November 2019. Third, telecom carriers should help their customers to check whether there are cell phone or landline numbers that don’t belong to them but registered under their names since Dec. 1. For unidentified numbers, the telecom carries must investigate and close the lines immediately. This comes on the heels of another Chinese pilot program which allows citizens to pay for subway/train travel using just their facial biometrics as Activist Post reported. This new system also compensates elderly Chinese in the city of Shenzhen, China, with a free ride — if they pay with their face — providing incentives for using facial recognition technology. China is planning to merge its 170+ million security cameras with artificial intelligence and facial recognition technology to create a mega-surveillance state. This compounds with China’s “social credit system” that ranks citizens based on their behavior, and rewards or punishes depending on those scores. According to the latest report of U.S.-based market research firm IDC, China had spent $10.6 billion on video surveillance equipment in 2018. The firm adds that China’s spending is believed to reach $20.1 billion in 2023. A massive 64.3 percent of China’s spending in 2018 was spent solely for surveillance cameras. A worrying figure for the future of China. IDC reported on Jan. 30th that it predicted China would have 2.76 billion surveillance cameras installed in 2022. Already, China’s cities, classrooms and even restrooms are inundated with facial recognition technology. Inside classrooms, facial recognition technology monitors students and reports their actions to the teachers and parents. While to access the basic need of using toilet paper in a public bathroom China requires citizens to scan their face just to wipe their butt. If that wasn’t bad enough, Chinese scientists have recently developed an artificial intelligence (AI) enabled 500 megapixel cloud camera that’s capable of panoramic capture of an entire stadium with the ability to target a single individual in an instant, Global Times reported. The upgrade to facial recognition technology is developed by Shanghai-based Fudan University and Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences in Changchun, capital of Northeast China’s Jilin Province. Fudan University and Changchun Institute of Optics aren’t the first researchers to advance facial recognition. There is also Shanghai-based YITU Technology which has evolved the facial recognition industry by being able to identify a person within a matter of seconds from a database of people, even if only their partial face is visible, CNBC reported. The evolution of facial recognition technology is further documented by researchers at the University of Bradford have found that “facial recognition technology works even when only half a face is visible,” according to EurekAlert. China is quickly becoming Orwell’s worst nightmare, advancing its requirement and use of facial recognition technology. In protests, Hong Kong activists have begun shining laser pointers at facial recognition cameras to disrupt their function. Protesters have also taken additional measures, like spray painting camera lenses on the street or around government offices as Activist Post has reported. This latest crackdown now requiring internet users in China to register their faces if they want to use the service is a huge step in creating a dystopian society. The remaining obvious question is how long until this type of facial ID requirement spreads to the U.S. and EU? We do know that the U.S. has wanted an “Internet ID Act” for quite some time, according to Amie Stepanovich, national security counsel for the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington. The fact that this process could now include facial recognition thanks to China rolling it out first is a horrifying nightmarish thought — welcome to 1984. "

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Re: Announcing the Second Annual CopyleftConf!
by Zenaan Harkness 15 Oct '19

15 Oct '19

So, to those who actually value software freedom, there is only one relevant question right now: Is Richard Stallman speaking at this event? If not, I will NOT attend! I shall maintain this position for the rest of my life (I'm not yet 50). If YOU can't defend those who defend software freedom, you are a fraud and a hypocrite! Play the ball, not the man - you must handle all complaints with dignity, for all parties, especially those "accused". Zenaan Harkness A past member of the Free Software Foundation (USA) On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 03:24:44PM -0400, Deb Nicholson wrote: > URL: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2019/oct/10/secondcopyleftconf/ > > Last year’s event was the first ever CopyleftConf. > <https://sfconservancy.org/news/2018/apr/30/copyleft-conf/> It was great > <https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2019/feb/22/1stCopyleftConf/>! We have > some videos up <https://2020.copyleftconf.org/video> and more are > coming. Also, our call for proposals is open now > <https://2020.copyleftconf.org/cfp>, through the end of the month — we’d > love to hear from you. > > The response was really positive and we’re looking forward to putting on > a fantastic 2020 event. Because last year’s event was so well attended, > we’ve gotten a larger venue for this year. > <https://www.tricoterie.be/fr/?lang=en> > > Participants from throughout the copyleft world — developers, > strategists, enforcement organizations, scholars and critics — will be > welcomed for an in-depth, high bandwidth, and expert-level discussion > about the day-to-day details of using copyleft licensing, obstacles > facing copyleft and the future of copyleft as a strategy to advance and > defend software freedom for users and developers around the world. > > The event will provide a friendly and safe place for discussion of > copyleft as a key strategy for defending software freedom. > > Conservancy encourages everyone to save the date of Monday 3 February > 2020 in Brussels, Belgium for this second CopyleftConf. We’ve chosen the > date and location to ease travel for those already attending FOSDEM the > weekend preceding CopyleftConf. > > > Important Dates > > * October 10th, 2019: CFP opens > * November 3rd, 2019: CFP submission deadline > * November 22nd, 2019: Conference schedule announced > * February 3rd, 2020: Conference happens! > > Watch Conservancy’s RSS feeds <https://sfconservancy.org/feeds/omnibus/> > for CopyleftConf announcements as those dates approach! > > > _______________________________________________ > announce mailing list > announce(a)sfconservancy.org > https://lists.sfconservancy.org/mailman/listinfo/announce

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Plugging the digital currency memory hole
by Steven Schear 15 Oct '19

15 Oct '19

Presentations from HCPP19 https://opaque.link/post/digitalmoneydbc/

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Re: Richard Stallman Gets SJW'd
by John Young 15 Oct '19

15 Oct '19

Swell, if Stallman is rehabilitated, reeducated, reinstated, by popular vote, with the risk the vote is re-rigged and fake "fake news" prevails, maybe with violence threatened to sweeten the headlines. Alleged miscreants (aka, vain punks, Trump, Assange, long list) would welcome a turnabout of SJW to be seen as a badge of distinction like medals given to military and law enforcement killers, amoral WMD manufacturers and intimidated commanders in chiefs ordering genocide, psychotic presidents of oppressive regimes and silly-costumed pontiffs of male-pleasuring religions promoting murderous crusades, limousined tyrants of prejudice against outsiders and differently colored, gendered, moneyed. "Social justice" is what all punk wars are about, that's the sanctimonious PR for all guys and varieties of evildoing(C) by male gods and by wanking savages who confect them to justify inhuman campaigns of being a self-loving stud. At 08:47 AM 10/15/2019, you wrote: ><https://www.change.org/p/journalists-to-stop-the-persecution-of-stallman-an…>https://www.change.org/p/journalists-to-stop-the-persecution-of-stallman-an…

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Re: Richard Stallman Gets SJW'd
by Zenaan Harkness 15 Oct '19

15 Oct '19

https://lwn.net/Articles/802059/ Richard Stallman and the GNU project Posted Oct 11, 2019 9:51 UTC (Fri) by zenaan (subscriber, #3778) [Link] >> >> So exactly WHY is it appropriate for the mob to >> >> metaphorically crucify someone for a list that doesn't exist, >> >> > Because all of this list is just social norms for people of my >> > age group >> >> "I feel he broke my $CURRENT_YEAR social norm, so yes, he should >> be crucified as a result; bring on the witch hunt mob thank you >> very much." >> >> Sorry, I cannot possibly agree with your implicit/explicit >> position. It's only when you're on the "mob" side of the fence >> that you can even put such a position with a straight face! >> >> Find some dignity and courage and communicate directly with >> those who have actually conducted themselves in ways you want to >> see them change (and for a hope of success, I suggest being >> specific and fact based in all such communications), rather than >> sanction a public mob based witch hunt to metaphorically crucify >> anyone --outside-- of due process! >> >> Perhaps folks just can't understand until/unless they themselves >> experience being the target of the mob... <shakes head> > People did communicate this to RMS; he chose to ignore it ... > ... At some point, when 20 years of telling him that he's out of > line ... > ... This is not out of the blue for RMS ... EVERY allegation YOU have made is hearsay - both legally, and morally. Put up your actual examples, or S, T, F, U. Without even ONE actual example (that RMS could reply to) you are avoiding due process, claiming "the higher ground" with nothing but the mob for your backing, and a snowflake who is virtue signalling your virtue to other beta males and/or millenial females. Seriously - why do you have the right to accuse anyone without putting up a fact, without providing something which the accused can even respond to coherently? That is the very definition of a witch hunt. Is this the world you wish to create? You want fact-less mob rule witch hunts and endless irrefutable allegations in the public conversation? Is that what you'd want for yourself?

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AMD Crypto Algos Changed for China Hygon Dhyana CPU
by grarpamp 15 Oct '19

15 Oct '19

https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/4/15/386 https://www.anandtech.com/show/14380/sugon-workstation-with-hugon-dhyana-cpu https://www.anandtech.com/show/14456/spotted-at-computex-let-bygones-be-byg…

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Maybe the point of everything is to replace the personnel of this investigation
by Ryan Carboni 15 Oct '19

15 Oct '19

It's possible out of a sense of job security, everyone is claiming the point is to "Change everything! Allow cats to marry dogs!" It was a strange moment when a person asked me to do an activity, so I agreed to talk a walk around the block. The person was surprised that it was up hill. Not particularly surprising when earlier we were eating at a restaurant surrounded by retaining walls, some of which reached twenty feet in height. So clearly that person wasn't hired for their situational awareness. Maybe the point of everything is to replace the investigation. Or maybe the point is to incur hundreds of billions of dollars in losses to... "Change everything! Allow cats to marry dogs!" No, the investigation is of the highest value.

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