September 2021 - cypherpunks@lists.ogf.org

Implanted forgery detection
by jim bell 22 Sep '21

22 Sep '21

https://nano-magazine.com/news/2021/9/17/implanted-atoms-create-unique-elec…

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SpyVeillance: Lithuania Says To Bin Your Chinese Phones
by grarpamp 22 Sep '21

22 Sep '21

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/lithuania-says-throw-away-ch… Lithuania's Defense Ministry recommended that consumers avoid buying Chinese mobile phones and advised people to throw away the ones they have now after a government report found the devices had built-in censorship capabilities. Flagship phones sold in Europe by China's smartphone giant Xiaomi have a built-in ability to detect and censor terms such as "Free Tibet", "Long live Taiwan independence" or "democracy movement", Lithuania's state-run cybersecurity body said on Tuesday. The capability in Xiaomi's Mi 10T 5G phone software had been turned off for the "European Union region", but can be turned on remotely at any time, the Defence Ministry's National Cyber Security Centre said in the report. "Our recommendation is to not buy new Chinese phones, and to get rid of those already purchased as fast as reasonably possible," Defence Deputy Minister Margiris Abukevicius told reporters in introducing the report.

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John Young dodges process servers
by professor rat 22 Sep '21

22 Sep '21

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/serious-new-legal-trouble-for-everyon… Raises the possibility of a criminal conspiracy, including Alex Jones, to commit election fraud.

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Gramps dies of COVID 19
by professor rat 22 Sep '21

22 Sep '21

https://www.palmerreport.com/community/republican-official-dies-of-covid/41… After railing against taking any precautions against COVID and Dr. Fauci, saying dumb crap like how we needed to “end Faucism”. batshit-crazy Gramps died of the same disease he tried to pretend did not exist.

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Crypto at the coal-face
by professor rat 22 Sep '21

22 Sep '21

I HAD THE SHEER JOY Submitted by Luke from DC (not verified) on Tue, 09/21/2021 - ( Anarchist News ) of getting evidence that encryption on a computer stolen by the pigs in a 2008 raid was never cracked. This even though I was a known and high-profile target. Encryption does in fact work. If the government could easily break encryption so much of the time, they would not be screaming for backdoors from phone makers. Rather, we see occasional cracks of weak passphrases or of machines that had poor physical security around themselves. Bigger problem is this: your phone and computer are encrypted, but you have at least one codefendent who did not use encryption at all. Avoiding this in a large group can be a real problem. Same if you leave your phone at home but someone else in your crew brings an Android phone to a covert action with Google Maps running, location sharing on, tied to a Google account. I've seen cases where cops ignored all encrypted phones entirely but got what they wanted from unencrypted phones. Security of the group is as strong as the weakest link.

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1984: AI - Next generation reservoir computing
by grarpamp 22 Sep '21

22 Sep '21

Half the AI race is to analyze the world, the other half, and ultimately the whole, is to analyze and control you as part of it. https://phys.org/news/2021-09-scientists-reservoir.html https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-25801-2 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25801-2 https://github.com/quantinfo/ng-rc-paper-code Next generation reservoir computing Gauthier, D.J. Reservoir computing is a best-in-class machine learning algorithm for processing information generated by dynamical systems using observed time-series data. Importantly, it requires very small training data sets, uses linear optimization, and thus requires minimal computing resources. However, the algorithm uses randomly sampled matrices to define the underlying recurrent neural network and has a multitude of metaparameters that must be optimized. Recent results demonstrate the equivalence of reservoir computing to nonlinear vector autoregression, which requires no random matrices, fewer metaparameters, and provides interpretable results. Here, we demonstrate that nonlinear vector autoregression excels at reservoir computing benchmark tasks and requires even shorter training data sets and training time, heralding the next generation of reservoir computing.

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Ransomware - FBI Kept American Corps Encrypted, Shutdown, and Losing Money
by grarpamp 22 Sep '21

22 Sep '21

Yet another in news of FBI impropriety... https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/ransomware-fbi-revil-decry… The FBI refrained for almost three weeks from helping to unlock the computers of hundreds of businesses and institutions hobbled by a major ransomware attack this summer, even though the bureau had secretly obtained the digital key needed to do so, according to several current and former U.S. officials. The key was obtained through access to the servers of the Russia-based criminal gang behind the July attack. Deploying it immediately could have helped the victims, including schools and hospitals, avoid what analysts estimate was millions of dollars in recovery costs. But the FBI held on to the key, with the agreement of other agencies, in part because it was planning to carry out an operation to disrupt the hackers, a group known as REvil, and the bureau did not want to tip them off. Also, a government assessment found the harm was not as severe as initially feared. The planned takedown never occurred because in mid-July REvil's platform went offline -- without U.S. government intervention -- and the hackers disappeared before the FBI had a chance to execute its plan, according to the current and former officials. The previously unreported episode highlights the trade-offs law enforcement officials face between trying to damage cyber criminal networks and promptly helping the victims of ransomware -- malware that encrypts data on computers, rendering them unusable.

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Batshit-crazies huffing ether
by professor rat 22 Sep '21

22 Sep '21

https://decrypt.co/81454/qanon-mastermind-selling-ethereum-nfts-fund-secret… Batshit Crazy & ' Natural Rights Anarchist ", Ron Watkins, who is believed to be a central force behind the QAnon right-wing conspiracy theory, has announced a series of Ethereum-based NFTs that he will auction off to fund a “secret project” that he believes will “save Joo-hating America.” Save America from what? Technofascism of course. Such is the world of Batshit Craziness.

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Good way found to fight technofascism
by professor rat 22 Sep '21

22 Sep '21

Here is one really easy way to combat creeping technological fascism - get off the internet. I heartily accept the motto,—“That batshit-crazy anticiv movement is best which uses technology least;” and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which I also believe,—“That anticiv is best which goes online not at all;” and when Technophobes are prepared for it, that will be the kind of misanthropy which they will have. Networked progress is at best but an expedient; but most anarchists are usually, and all anarchists are sometimes, inexpedient.

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Shooting at Fedbook school repository
by professor rat 22 Sep '21

22 Sep '21

Facebook had it rough last week. Leaked documents—many leaked documents—formed the backbone of a string of reports published in The Wall Street Journal. Together, the stories paint the picture of a company barely in control of its own creation. The revelations run the gamut: Facebook had created special rules for VIPs that largely exempted 5.8 million users from moderation, forced troll farm content on 40 percent of America, created toxic conditions for teen girls, ignored cartels and human traffickers, and even undermined CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s own desire to promote vaccination against COVID. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/09/facebooks-latest-apology-reveal…

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