September 2020 - cypherpunks@lists.ogf.org

GoFundMe: Voluntaryism Radio Spots, Fun Activism Challenge for Punks
by grarpamp 22 Sep '20

22 Sep '20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AXcCOq7cus GoFundMe: Voluntaryism Radio Spots

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Where do censored developers go?
by Debian Community News Team 22 Sep '20

22 Sep '20

UNCENSORED SPEAKERS - the Toastmasters club where Linus can be Linus This Friday night, 25 September, 18:00 UTC (7pm local time) Zoom: 277302726 Full meeting calendar, usually every 2nd and 4th Friday http://uncensoredspeakers.toastmasterclub.org/

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Re: [hackerspaces] Hacking, making, learning?
by Cecilia Tanaka 22 Sep '20

22 Sep '20

On Tue, Sep 22, 2020, 11:23 hellekin <hellekin(a)dyne.org> wrote: WTF. Trololololo. > Hey, charming hazel-green eyes... The girl who will cook for you is an anarchist. But I always clean my hands and knives before cooking, don't worry. :) Do not judge anyone so badly, please. Markos is a really good person, but English is not his first language and some of his ideas about the use of natural resources are not considered usual even here, in our country. Let me tell you a little tale about a very, very sweet guy named... I don't know, uh... David. Let's see... I think he is French... and is traveling! ;) Some time ago, I was telling him a little about my "best imaginary friend" Mirimir and David's reaction was more adorable than Keanu Reeves playing with puppies... I had no time to explain him that Mirimir is a real person, an Info Security guy using a fake persona for hiding his real data. David thought I was feeling very sad having an "imaginary friend" as my bestie and asked for being my Mirimir, a real Mirimir, giving me support and making me smile in sad moments... It was so unexpected and so sweet that I cried for hours that night and I still cry when I tell this story... He was feeling hurt and fragile, but wanted to protect me from sadness and loneliness... :') I do love my Mirimir, but I have other imaginary friends and also real friends. And now, I have my David! <3 So, my lovely hellekin, give Markos a chance. Human beings are very, very complex... Too much! :P I love you very much. Always take care and be well, please! <3 Oh, the same to the whole list! Much love, peace, sincere friendship, and music!!! <3 <3 <3 Ceci ---------- Loving. Caring. Sharing. Being Excellent To Each Other And To Our Hackerspace. <3 ---------- "Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live." - Mae Jemison >

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Leaks: Leaking Tips re FinCEN Files Leaked (Not Really)
by grarpamp 22 Sep '20

22 Sep '20

> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cl0514elpqet/fincen-files https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FinCEN_Files https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/fincen-files-financial-sc… https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/ Some analysts note that most such paper "crimes" are not actual violations of the NAP (theft, fraud), but are non-crimes of NAP compliant free open markets and of people and businesses justly avoiding theft by GovCorp. Of course BuzzFeed and ICIJ are censoring and witholding the actual dataset to suit their own tilted political and commercial purposes. If readily possible in risk model, never leak your load and only copy solely to news outlets, it will often be abused and even dropped against your intents. First, push the dataset to IPFS, Bittorrent, MegaUpload, I2P/Tor upload sites, etc. Be redundant like that. Sign your stuff. Include an intent and overview README. Then post the links on many public clearnet and darknet forums. Then send the links to dDoSecrets, Cryptome, WikiLeaks, etc. Then last to brick and mortar journos and online rags. Keep in mind that a good crypted leak and link will never be corrupted, sequestered or misappropriated... the journos and sites always are. Far better and longer guides exist on the darknets, seek them as needed. Examples... https://ipfs.io/ https://github.com/facebook/zstd https://gnupg.org/ https://github.com/FiloSottile/age https://ddosecrets.com/ https://wikileaks.org/ https://cryptome.org/

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1984: Biometrics - USA Bill to Force Biometrics From Its Citizens, Privacy, Surveillance, Control
by grarpamp 22 Sep '20

22 Sep '20

https://beta.regulations.gov/document/USCIS-2019-0007-0001 https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/dhs-announces-new-plan-to-… You were warned it was coming for you, now here it is. And with Drones, Total internet and telephone Surveillance, Papers required to Travel [1], Social Credit Scoring (down-caste-ing), and Marxist Democrats coming for your guns... all documented in news. You've well and truly fucked yourselves and your country. There's only one way out and it ain't looking pretty. Good luck, lol. [1] https://papersplease.org/ Mandatory biometrics gathering of iris images, palm and voice prints, facial recognition images, and DNA from Natural Born and lawful US Citizens. "The Department of Homeland Security also for the first time would gather that data from American citizens sponsoring or benefiting from a visa application. Years in the making, the biometrics immigration rule has garnered more than 160 comments since its Sept. 11 publication. The 30-day comment period closes on Oct 13. The 300-plus-page plan updates current biometrics requirements so that "any applicant, petitioner, sponsor, beneficiary, or individual filing or associated with an immigration benefit or request, including U.S. citizens, must appear for biometrics collection without regard to age" The DHS estimates an additional 2.17 million new biometrics submissions will be collected annually, an increase from the current 3.9 million, under the rule. The DHS already collects fingerprints from some visa applicants. The new rule would expand that biometrics-gathering to iris images, palm- and voice- prints, facial recognition images, and DNA. The agency wants authority to require or request DNA testing to prove familial relationships where kinship is in question. The DNA data could be stored indefinitely, under the proposed rule." Not to mention all the "Drivers Licence" biometric identity cards, "geneology" websites, vacuumed into traded among Federal, State, corporate databases. " If Americans stand still for this, the beginning of the end of your experiment in representative democracy starts here. And it will spread rapidly beyond your borders. There isn't a government on the planet that isn't thirsty for this kind of capability to destroy the very idea of the term "private citizen". Also, is anybody stupid enough to believe that once the precedent for this kind of data collection is set, it will end at immigrants and their sponsors? If you think about it, you'll realize it already goes a lot further than the identified target groups. Anyone supporting this is either a damned fool or a fascist. "

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CIA Labs: The MakerSpace for Global Domination
by grarpamp 21 Sep '20

21 Sep '20

https://www.cia.gov/offices-of-cia/science-technology/cia-labs.html https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/21/1008654/cias-new-tech-recruitin… https://www.federalpay.org/gs/2020 https://www.cia.gov/careers/benefits.html https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries-wages/2020/gen… https://www.clearancejobs.com/ https://www.quora.com/How-does-Palantir-attract-talent-if-it-caps-its-salar… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/heroic-failures/meet-the-cias-insect… "Officers who develop new technologies at CIA Labs will be allowed to patent, license, and profit from their work, making 15% of the total income from the new invention with a cap of $150,000 per year. That could double most agency salaries and make the work more competitive with Silicon Valley." "Try living in a windowless box for 8 hours a day and having no resume."

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Cryptocurrency: US Homeland Security CipherTrace Can Now Track Privacy Crypto Monero XMR
by grarpamp 21 Sep '20

21 Sep '20

On 8/31/20, jim bell <jdb10987(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > https://decrypt.co/40284/us-homeland-security-can-now-track-privacy-crypto-… > > > Jim Bell's comment: I don't know if this is true, but true or not, we need > to learn the truth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5rtd3md11g CipherTrace's Monero tracing tool - Chat with Dave Jevans, Dr. Sarang Noether, and Justin Ehrenhofer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EesoMKUlWqo&t=2070 Dave Jevans https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/dp4phx/david_jevans_ceo_of_ciphert… https://old.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/ik0t3h/ciphertrace_monero_tracing_… https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/i0u8bn/sec_awards_contract_to_cip… https://www.coindesk.com/ciphertraces-blockchain-forensics-service-now-cove… https://news.bitcoin.com/ciphertrace-says-banks-unknowingly-process-2-billi… https://www.coindesk.com/ciphertrace-enters-race-to-solve-cryptos-fatf-comp… https://ciphertrace.com/response-to-fatf-on-vasp-regulation/ It has been noted that those shilling only one particular cryptocurrency over all others (Maxi's) tend to gloss over its own weaknesses. Monero-XMR has a huge army of retarded drug addicted fanbois shilling XMR privacy without knowing a clue about what its actual technical capabilities and weaknesses may or may not be. Cash Fusion and Cash Shuffle (commonly noted with BCH but applicable to other coins, such as CoinJoin JoinMarket with BTC) are also heavily shilled in similar manner by similar low quality crowds... interesting protocols, but probably not exactly quite ready to be staking lives on them as claimed by some. And most comparative "reviews" of privacy coins to date are a joke as far as in depth academic analysis goes. Simply put, many coin privacy technologies suffer from all of too few, too early, or too low quality statistical and cryptographic analysis to be making the claims their crowds are making about them. A privacy coin leveraging both some cryptographic and statistical privacy elements/tools could be interesting, were either alone thought to be weak or early in the maturity cycle. " While the tools were developed for the use of the DHS to track stolen or illegally used funds, CipherTrace suggests that crypto exchanges, trading desks, and investment funds will also benefit from knowing that they aren’t accepting tainted funds. " Censorship of all that which cannot be publicly proven to be "good", "approved", and "politically correct" uses and sources, that's these "suggestions", the intended rollout of these colored-coin regimes. And clearly reason why impenetrable privacy coins are needed. Amazing they are not yet sniffing all $hundos for cocaine, booty sweat DNA, and fully tracking the serial numbers with ID at every transaction point. No worries, that's coming next soon. And here we see CipherTrace CEO Dave Jevans outright lying about what privacy is, and exposing his twisted activism against privacy among GovCorp, in Media, shilling weak tech as sound, etc... " Although today’s announcement would seem to be a blow against Monero and the promise of privacy coins, CipherTrace paints it as a positive for the future of XMR—particularly given that it has been delisted from some exchanges. "Analytics is crucial to the survival of privacy coins because, if they cannot evaluate risks, some governments could make transacting with privacy coins extremely difficult or ban them outright, like Japan,” said CipherTrace CEO Dave Jevans, in a statement provided by the company. “Several Korean Exchanges delisted privacy coins and, just last week, several Australian exchanges banned Monero and Zcash. As privacy advocates ourselves, our hope is that by developing capabilities for tracing Monero, we can help to ensure Monero's viability." "

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Onions: Bittorrent Clouds and ThePirateBay Still Flying High within OnionLand
by grarpamp 21 Sep '20

21 Sep '20

http://piratebayztemzmv.onion/ Irrelevant to recent news of various clearnet domains lost, The Pirate Bay, and many other clearnet torrent services that have adopted onions and other overlay networks, are still running free, fine, and uncensored within OnionLand for many years now. You can join, and create new, large torrent clouds operating entirely within v2 OnionLand (no exit ever) by using OnionCat, OpenTracker, Transmission-BT, and the firewall of your OS. https://www.onioncat.org/ https://github.com/rahra/onioncat https://erdgeist.org/arts/software/opentracker/ https://erdgeist.org/gitweb/opentracker/ https://transmissionbt.com/ https://github.com/transmission/transmission OnionCat also gives you IPv6 and UDP transport inside OnionLand, a layer 3 VPN switch of sorts, so you can use any IPv6 enabled application, including advanced distributed P2P mesh messaging, voice telephony, filestorage, cryptocurrency, etc... some apps that might otherwise not work at all over onions. "ping" also works :) Your use of Tor's onion network, regardless of application, even web browsing, consumes node bandwidth and other resources from tor totalling roughly equal to 7x your own bandwidth use of it. So for a net zero impact, you would like to run a non-exit relay to offer, give, and restore that much back to onionland, whether on average / idle / realtime. Use the rate limits of your OS, tor and BT clients together to set that up so that up to 7/8ths of the pipe setup is dynamically allotted priority to such externally driven tor throughput (other users of tor network) through your non-exit relay. Once up and running, you can fetch and seed your favorite datas with your peers entirely within OnionLand with no more risk of annoying ISP shutdowns, anti-freespeech GovCorp courts, fines, etc... than the overlay network itself being shutdown. Though with Tor and all ov todays overlays, keep in mind the full quote context from '"Tor Stinks" -- NSA'. http://piratebayztemzmv.onion/search.php?q=privacy http://piratebayztemzmv.onion/search.php?q=censorship http://piratebayztemzmv.onion/search.php?q=human+rights http://piratebayztemzmv.onion/search.php?q=bitcoin+documentary http://piratebayztemzmv.onion/search.php?q=tor Defense Against the Dark Arts of Copyright Trolling https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2933200 https://torrentfreak.com/worlds-oldest-torrent-still-alive-after-15-years-1… https://torrentfreak.com/top-10-most-popular-torrent-sites-of-2020-200105/ https://torrentfreak.com/?s=onion https://avoidcensorship.org/ https://thepiratebay.org/static/dump/csv/ https://github.com/techtacoriginal/offlinebay https://gitlab.com/throwaway111111/offlinebay-bash "As a digital Librarian who is interested in preserving humanity's achievements and art, my job would be impossible without bittorrent tech." -- Megaohmz -- This message moderated and censored by Tor Project's "emergency" for your "protection".

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Earth: Wildlife In Catastrophic Decline Due To Human Destruction
by grarpamp 21 Sep '20

21 Sep '20

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2705-y https://f.hubspotusercontent20.net/hubfs/4783129/LPR/PDFs/ENGLISH-FULL.pdf Wildlife populations have fallen by more than two-thirds in less than 50 years, according to a major report (PDF) by the conservation group WWF. The report says this "catastrophic decline" shows no sign of slowing. And it warns that nature is being destroyed by humans at a rate never seen before. The report looked at thousands of different wildlife species monitored by conservation scientists in habitats across the world. They recorded an average 68% fall in more than 20,000 populations of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles and fish since 1970. Measuring the variety of all life on Earth is complex, with a number of different measures. Taken together, they provide evidence that biodiversity is being destroyed at a rate unprecedented in human history. This particular report uses an index of whether populations of wildlife are going up or down. It does not tell us the number of species lost, or extinctions. The largest declines are in tropical areas. The drop of 94% for Latin America and the Caribbean is the largest anywhere in the world, driven by a cocktail of threats to reptiles, amphibians and birds. Research published in the journal Nature suggests that to turn the tide we must transform the way we produce and consume food, including reducing food waste and eating food with a lower environmental impact.

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Numbers Stations: North Korea Allegedly Activates No. 719 Expedition Agents via YouTube
by grarpamp 21 Sep '20

21 Sep '20

" North Korea, on Saturday, allegedly broadcasted a mysterious encrypted message to its spies, for the first time on YouTube, reported Yonhap News Agency. The video clip, uploaded on the state-run Radio Pyongyang's YouTube account, had a female announcer read off a series of numbers and said this is "an information technology review assignment of the remote education university for No. 719 expedition agents." The announcer repeated phrases such as "No. 23 on Page 564, No. -19 on Page 479" in the minute-long broadcast. The video, titled "0100011001-001," was viewed several thousand times before it was deleted. Here are some of the screenshots of the video: This could be the latest example of cryptography blended with social media that Pyongyang uses to communicate instructions to its secret agents in other countries. YouTube user Sneed Chuck appears to have recorded the now-deleted video. However, Martyn Williams, founder of North Korea Tech website, was quoted by NK News as saying the media reports of the now-deleted video were false: "North Korea doesn't run the channel," Williams said. "It's run from Mexico and was only recently renamed to Pyongyang Broadcast Station– which is incorrect anyway, and the [official] radio station is called Pyongyang Broadcasting Station." He said there are dozens of websites and social media accounts that appear to be North-Korean run but are managed by individual users in Mexico, that frequently record or copy content and repost. Williams said Radio Pyongyang's YouTube account did precisely that... "The recording uploaded was obviously recorded off the radio," he said. "It wasn't clear and contained interference," Williams continued – a point that "also indicates it's not from the source." With no authenticity of the video's contents, it remains anyone's guess if the spy codes were, in fact, instructions to North Korean secret agents. However, the two Koreas have historically interjected codes into music, tv shows, and other media content over the decades to communicate with spies in enemy territory. "

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