January 2020 - cypherpunks@lists.ogf.org

The heart of a Scotsman - George Galloway, The Chilcot Report: What Next?
by Zenaan Harkness 06 Jan '20

06 Jan '20

The wheels of "democracy" when it works, when someone with heart, patience, tenacity and a strong sense of justice (a mighty lot to ask, so we can be very grateful for this man of principal) such as George Galloway, is an event worth witnessing, given how rare such events are. George Galloway you have been vindicated. Thank you for speaking so clearly. "Mr Blair: This Is For Iraq (Video)" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVNmy5-2va8 (Youtube link also here: http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/mr-blair-iraq/ri15485 )

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Cryptographic Autonomy License
by grarpamp 06 Jan '20

06 Jan '20

https://github.com/holochain/cryptographic-autonomy-license OSI / Perens in some sort of fight over this license. Internet commented: " Do not give anyone a license AT ALL. Simply release a document, stating that you will not prosecute anyone who uses your software in any way, unless they themselves ever try to enforce imaginary property schemes onto the world. And you *expect* people to openly break the "law" by copying your software without a license. So it is not a license, but merely a public statement, with no legal normativity. Then, nobody who backs imaginary property, can ever use your software. And if they try anyway, you of course sue them, using their own weapons against them. And the only legal way out you offer them, is a contract where they give up all their imaginary property shemes for all eternity, and all their works go to the public domain forever. Retroactively too. They can of course refuse to settle, and go to court. You'll be using Content Mafia math(TM), to calculate the damages they owe you. Bwahahahahaa! (Payable in transferral of all their imaginary property to you, too, of course. rofl) "

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HindsightFiles: Cambridge Analytica Doc Dump
by grarpamp 06 Jan '20

06 Jan '20

https://twitter.com/hindsightfiles https://repo.hindsightfiles.com/01012020/brazil.zip https://repo.hindsightfiles.com/01012020/kenya.zip https://repo.hindsightfiles.com/01012020/malaysia.zip https://repo.hindsightfiles.com/01042020/bolton.zip https://repo.hindsightfiles.com/01042020/iran.zip https://repo.hindsightfiles.com/01012020/brazil_md5.txt https://repo.hindsightfiles.com/01012020/kenya_md5.txt https://repo.hindsightfiles.com/01012020/malaysia_md5.txt https://repo.hindsightfiles.com/01042020/bolton_md5.txt https://repo.hindsightfiles.com/01042020/iran_md5.txt Get it while it's hot. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/04/cambridge-analytica-data-le… https://twitter.com/OwnYourDataNow The Great Hack infohash:A06228926D63B01B3BDFD7A65CB982C7C89771F3 Stars: Carole Cadwalladr, David Carroll, Brittany Kaiser, Julian Wheatland, Mark Zuckerberg Plot: Data—arguably the world’s most valuable asset—is being weaponized to wage cultural and political wars. The dark world of data exploitation is uncovered through the unpredictable, personal journeys of players on different sides of the explosive Cambridgedata story. Targeted infohash:7670876224B478CC4D0F71F2844769C3ECFD5E42 In this explosive memoir, a political consultant and technology whistleblower reveals the disturbing truth about the multi-billion-dollar data industry, revealing to the public how companies are getting richer using our personal information and exposing how Cambridge Analytica exploited weaknesses in privacy laws to help elect candidates - and how this could easily happen again in the 2020 presidential election.

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Ladar Levison on LavaBit, OpSec, Privacy
by grarpamp 06 Jan '20

06 Jan '20

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Why the quantum internet should be built in space
by jim bell 06 Jan '20

06 Jan '20

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614994/why-the-quantum-internet-should-b…

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Intel is prototyping PCIe 4.0 SSDs, but needs AMD CPUs to test them - TechSpot
by jim bell 05 Jan '20

05 Jan '20

https://www.techspot.com/news/83402-intel-prototyping-pcie-40-ssds-but-need… "Ooops".

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Australian fires - snippets and highlights
by Zigger da Bigga Trigga N.gga 05 Jan '20

05 Jan '20

Austraya is a land of tough cnuts, where only the fittest and bronzest survive, and for all yer gory fire porn, look no further than yer favourite fascist MIC suckers, Zerowedgie: "It's Like An Atomic Bomb" - Australia Deploys Military As Monstrous Storm Creates It's Own Weather Crisis https://www.zerohedge.com/health/its-atomic-bomb-australia-deploys-military… https://themindunleashed.com/2020/01/australia-deploys-military-firenados-w… And the devil's own face in the fire: Creepy ‘Devil Face’ Snapped Within Australia's Bushfires as Authorities Call for Mass Evacuations https://sputniknews.com/asia/202001041077938943-creepy-devil-face-snapped-w… https://mobile.twitter.com/TFrancolini/status/1213035531220635648/photo/1 https://mobile.twitter.com/McClaneJohn2/status/1213241590359048192/photo/1

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Leaked draft NASA/NOAA US climate change report
by grarpamp 05 Jan '20

05 Jan '20

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/894858959110254592 https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914641/Draft-of-the-Climate-Sci…

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Cryptocurrency: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong Says 20s Will See an Anoncoin Go Mainstream
by grarpamp 05 Jan '20

05 Jan '20

https://blog.coinbase.com/what-will-happen-to-cryptocurrency-in-the-2020s-d… It is well known from cypherpunk, and as fungibility needs natural defense to silly inspection censor theft and permission regimes, and from and for economic viability, and to developing faith needed for any money candidate to succeed... that coin privacy must be incorporated by default in the base layer. People say Gold and Cash are King for many reasons, privacy is one of them. It's unfortunate to have taken 10+ years for the non-OG crowd to begin to realize that they wasted their time shilling accepting and not speaking out against govcorp anti coin privacy themes and measures that in the end do nothing but destroy their own hodl and use case value. Some are now wising up and beginning to speak out, and a much larger group of voices for privacy they will be. > $200k Long term steady state adoption levels will be higher than that.

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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong Says 20s Will See an Anoncoin Go Mainstream
by jim bell 05 Jan '20

05 Jan '20

https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbase-ceo-brian-armstrong-says-20s-will-s…

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