November 2022 - cypherpunks@lists.ogf.org

" . . . another cryptocurrency trading platform called Genesis will fall . . ."
by professor rat 23 Nov '22

23 Nov '22

TWIN Towers in NYC considered vulnerable to implosion https://www.npr.org/2022/11/22/1138639733/crypto-contagion-ftx-genesis-bloc… NPR, I know. My bat.

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Formal anarchist organizations considered harmful
by professor rat 23 Nov '22

23 Nov '22

I could never join any anarchist organization that would have me as a member https://anarchopac.com/2021/09/10/when-malatesta-got-shot/ Repost with a grain of saltpeter

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Cryptocurrency: Jamie Dimon's JPMorgan Bows To Kiss The Golden Ass Of Bitcoin
by grarpamp 23 Nov '22

23 Nov '22

Jamie Dimon who spent YEARS bashing crypto while his daughters fill their Gucci bags with Bitcoin, is now a full on SHILL for Crypto... https://cryptonews.net/16490097/ Attn Buffet Munger and Schiff... Bitcoin is coming for you too.

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Re: [ot][spam][crazy][fiction] morning spam 3: hybrid mcboss
by Karl Semich 23 Nov '22

23 Nov '22

On 11/22/22, Karl Semich <0xloem(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Experimentee: "Oh, that's the ... um ... you know it's kind of nice to > see that thing broken." > > Cyborg Torturer: "I keep wanting to jump in and torture. It's broken > in a funny where where I'm like, about to start, but don't have to do > anything, on and on." > > Experimentee: "Yeah, your urge is really strong, uhh, so, um, that > part breaking worked to stop the immediate result I guess." >

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Re: [ot][spam][crazy][fiction] morning spam 3: hybrid mcboss
by Karl Semich 23 Nov '22

23 Nov '22

doing my valued habit of forwarding when i fail to hit the public store On 11/22/22, Karl Semich <0xloem(a)gmail.com> wrote: > --------------------------- > > Experimentee and Rebel Worker 2 sit around Broken Torture Room. >

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Re: [ot][spam][crazy][fiction] morning spam 3: hybrid mcboss
by Karl Semich 23 Nov '22

23 Nov '22

My browser displayed a connection error for the POST request, so I hit refresh. Looks like the first one took.

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[ot][spam] remailer notes
by Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many 22 Nov '22

22 Nov '22

I’m reading some of http://www.faqs.org/faqs/privacy/anon-server/faq/use/ . At the moment I’ve read through part3 (but ended up taking notes through the end). I’ve also read a couple list posts. - the faq is considered out of date by many years - there are paid remailer networks people use - a lot of activity regarding windows machines - running a remailer takes a little upkeep - send test messages to alt.test or misc.tes - cypherpunk or type I remailers accept commands and forward messages - they can be crafted in a text editor [1] - commands also accepted in subject line: Subject: remailer-key Subject: remailer-conf Subject: remailer-help Subject: remailer-stats - mixmaster or type II remailers perform onion routing and obfuscation - mixmaster remailers are used with client software rather than manually part 4: - the security of a remailer node relies on its secure administration; hence encrypted hops - the remailer people experienced traffic analysis attacks - at the time of writing of the faq, four newer projects were listed: WOF <http://www.bigfoot.com/~potatoware/wof/>, RadioClash <http://piratech.net/radioclash/>, Publius <http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~waldman/publius/>, Freenet <http://freenet.sourceforge.net/> - “middleman” remailers always add an additional hop if one is not provided - using multiple hops is called “chaining” - for the message to be hidden from basic node and network operators, it must be both encrypted and chained - manual chaining for old type I remailers instructions pasted at [2] - mail2news gateways forward emails to newsgroups nonanonymously - remailers can do this with command: Anon-Post-To: misc.test - mail2news gateways respond to subject line commands: “help” “group” “list RE” where RE is a regexp - mail2news group list replies may leave out many groups actually supported - remailers can barf when too many email headers accumulate - you can abuse open smtp relays to forward mail by checking abuse watch sites, faq explains this (people were probably asking about it, crackers hide this way) part 5 explains remailers’ stats pages part 6: - learn pgp - major remailer clients included quicksilver (windows) and mixmaster (cross-platform) - i searched the list. a newer remailer is yamn (golang): https://sec3.net/yamnhelp/ https://github.com/crooks/yamn crook is his last name. also omnimix on windows: https://www.danner-net.de/om.htm . there’s a newer mixmaster (last update 2021) too: https://github.com/merkinmuffley/mixmaster4096 part 7 - nym servers let you send with a name and reply-to address by registering with them - nym servers don’t need to know who you are. - nym commands must begin with “Config:” - you can configure a nym server to send replies to alt.anonymous.messages - the replies encrypt information to your private key for identification [3] - remember to rotate all keys regularly - usage problems are usually from broken material: nonresponding remailers, nonworking reply blocks. verify each part of config. part 8 - delay time can be set with Latent-Time: +0:00 - sometimes it can take days for a message to go through, but usually this is due to understandable/comprehensible network details - messages can also be dropped for a number of reasons [4] 1: ============ :: Anon-To: news.reporter(a)nbc.com Latent-Time: +0:00 ## Subject: My Company Dumps Toxic Waste I'm writing this anonymously because I don't want to lose my job. My company has, for the past three years... ============ The above message is cut and paste into PGP and encrypted with the chosen remailer's key, say gretchen(a)neuropa.net ============ -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: PGP 2.6x hQCMA8asoPEC0e2BAQP9GqR2aXNOstRq8eJW2QVubioR0gO7Ue0AOL/rFdnxXknC YPpe2X2TKlcvd961+lhe9w2Y8vo3JcBYYBifTJRwmMjnXLagCU4Mhh0VZtk/QXMZ /FLeJWi67qsb45a2mNw0/Q8eXHKfOQyHcmEQ7cg/bq4Xz6LusfxBHF8zsojVOgal 8RVRtr9drjBlOzJvWxaq7LrKidME6q0tM7pRiLN5dvVBon2NKlmpJI6vAFjyi8ma f5Bg6Zor+PMxcm3EmuWbjLEiOu5USrTgU4OiaC7PHF9INxwXuKmdNz/JprgOc0c6 6s6RvbOo6rsvlwqPKw== =ICz/ -----END PGP MESSAGE----- ============= Finally, the user has to append a directive to the top of the encrypted message, making it look like this: ============ :: Encrypted: PGP -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: PGP 2.6x hQCMA8asoPEC0e2BAQP9GqR2aXNOstRq8eJW2QVubioR0gO7Ue0AOL/rFdnxXknC YPpe2X2TKlcvd961+lhe9w2Y8vo3JcBYYBifTJRwmMjnXLagCU4Mhh0VZtk/QXMZ /FLeJWi67qsb45a2mNw0/Q8eXHKfOQyHcmEQ7cg/bq4Xz6LusfxBHF8zsojVOgal 8RVRtr9drjBlOzJvWxaq7LrKidME6q0tM7pRiLN5dvVBon2NKlmpJI6vAFjyi8ma f5Bg6Zor+PMxcm3EmuWbjLEiOu5USrTgU4OiaC7PHF9INxwXuKmdNz/JprgOc0c6 6s6RvbOo6rsvlwqPKw== =ICz/ -----END PGP MESSAGE----- ============ The user then mails the above encrypted message (double colons and all) NOT to the intended recipient but instead to the remailer's address: <gretchen(a)neuropa.net>. This arrives at the remailer where it is eventually processed, decrypted and mailed to <news.reporter(a)nbc.com> appearing to have come from "Anonymous" <nobody(a)neuropa.net>. 2: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Anonymous <remailer(a)remailer.xganon.com> wrote: [SNIP] >Now I want to use a chain of remailers? How do I do this? I'm >guessing I should somehow encrypt the message using all the keys of >the remailers in the chain? And if I send the message to the first >remailer in the chain, how do I let that remailer know to send it to >the next one? If someone could either tell me how to do this, or >direct me toward an information source explaining this, I'd >appreciate it. Chaining messages is achieved by repeating the encryption steps. Taken as an example, chaining through two remailers thus, You -> A -> B -> Recipient You start off with your message and prefix with :: Anon-To: <recipient@somewhere> ## Subject: <some text> <MESSAGE> You then encrypt this with the key of the remailer B, and prefix it with :: Anon-To: <Remailer-B@somewhere> :: Encrypted: PGP <PGP MESSAGE> You take this and encrypt it with the key of remailer A, and prefix with :: Encrypted: PGP and now send it to remailer A. What happens then is that remailer A takes the message, decodes it, and sends it to remailer B. Remailer B decodes it and sends it to the recipient. Doc. - -- The bigger the humbug, the better people will like it. ~ Phineas Taylor Barnum. http://vmsbox.cjb.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBO3By8sriC3SGiziTAQH4Cwf+JSwjLQcPtVbNAOKB28NBdA+yLLWYflmB bjpH3nzDyV0TUEEiRH7gdancM8CuMk4n+5D+hWCHIyFoaR93/BuGdft9s8xuPi8M nzSzPO4pFht8NTzhkkrn9iUcJWgh+fFNfBvWtjDCLs6qdxoQwTUI9N0ioceAlK1S vk78pYdZ9srxCEr5sCyuAR56wRq0Sa81SDePOcYz48FrRR51Zdoe/cu3Hu4AYeY5 wpC5J59U0BIVb9xnt9zBR7I3aQZArFffZ2G6vdEHDnVulY5hpXjenEgUCUjFH+da bCD6dCOVtPxYvFbo9mmMY6spiDwfeaOXzniFdFvqdrbADycW2s7qiw== =3VgO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- 3: According to the Reliable User's Manual, the "random" strings of numbers and letters which appear in the "Subject:" line are encrypted MD5 hashes of the final "Subject:" line. That is, the remailer client calculates an MD5 hash from the "Subject:" line(which might be, e.g., "ATTN: Dave") in the final or hash headers (below the "##"). This MD5 hash that results from this calculation is likely to be unique to that particular "Subject:" line. The remailer client then encrypts the MD5 hash using conventional (symmetric) encryption, specifically IDEA. The encryption and decryption key is the passphrase given for the "Encrypt-Subject:" directive. 4: Subject: [FAQ 8.2] Why didn't my email/post make it through? + Your message may have just been lost in the network for any number of reasons. It does happen. The system isn't 100% reliable. + You are using broken chains or stale remailer keys. + Your source address or domain is being blocked by the first remailer in your chain. + Your destination address, domain, or newsgroup is being blocked by the last remailer in your chain. + The Usenet group you are posting to is not available on the news server or gateway being used by the last remailer in your chain. + You are trying to crosspost to too many newsgroups and the final remailer in your chain discarded the message. Send a blank email to the remailer with 'remailer-conf' as the subject to determine how many newsgroups the remailer allows you to cross-post to. Spammers abuse the cross posting option so operators are cutting back to 3 or 4 cross posts to deter the spammers. + You have too many addresses in the To, Cc, or Bcc headers and the final remailer in your chain discarded the message. + You attempted to send an anonymous message to a nym that is configured to either reject Bcc messages (directive +nobcc) or not accept any mail at all. + Your e-mail recipient is filtering out messages from anonymous remailers. + You are simply having a bad day. 'Better luck tomorrow! RProcess, the author of JBN2 and the Reliable Remailer, has systematically examined why so many anon messages seem to disappear. His conclusions [http://www.bigfoot.com/~potatoware/PSKB-035.html] are quite provocative.

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Re: [notes][spam] Wikileaks Not Serving Crucial Pages
by Karl Semich 22 Nov '22

22 Nov '22

OUR COMMUNICATIONS AND THINGS ARE BEING MALICIOUSLY ALTERED. On 11/21/22, Douglas Lucas <dal(a)riseup.net> wrote: > You found some content on archive.org. But I don't care. > > Years ago the /Daily Dot/ report said the journalist had obtained an > independent copy of the Syria Files through a lawsuit. By comparing that > copy with what has been on the WikiLeaks website, Daily Dot determined > that _Wikileaks had removed data from the Syria Files dataset_ which was > to the benefit of Russia and Syria. No, they didn't trip over a cable. I > don't need your "Internet for Dummies" lectures about how there are VPNs > and how sometimes website vistors email website admins to let them know > a file is missing. If you serach my tweets, you'll find I already years > ago notified WikiLeaks that some of their CRS reports were down and they > said thanks and restored them. That's not the same as hiding a Syria > File to benefit Assad which Wikileaks Party was meeting with, and you > know it. > > Wikileaks/Assadgne discredited themselves long ago by: > > * Spreading pizzagate when they know of #OpDeathEaters because I and > other told them multiple times across years > > * Not helping their sources/defendants when I myself and others > contacted them begging them to do more multiple times across years > > * Chummy with fascists, the list goes on > > * Mocking French civilians killed by terrorists because the manosphere > hates the .EU it’s great douglas is calling out the corruption of wikileaks after they were targeted, and has personal experience backing this, talking about this can help the world. > > I desubscribed from the cypherpunks list, and I'm blocking you as well. > You'll always have Assadgne to worship, and as he deletes leaks to this doesn’t make sense to me, although really cpunks and me do seem to have some of the same issue wikileaks has, douglas doesnt deserve to be upset this much or ignored in these ways > protect far right, you can run interference for him by posting to > cypherpunks about how see, it's complicated, the Internet has different > IP addresses and gateways and for that reason Assadnge can delete > anything he wants, whenever he wants, for as long as he wants, and you > will call him King Transparency. i did not hold the issue with enough seriousness > > Why I ever wasted time on a list screaming "jewnazi" and "murder people" > every day, is beyond me. we used to block the people who said these things > > Again, read that DAily Dot report and tell yourself: "I Karl deeply > admire Julian Assange for deleting leaks and refusing to help his > sources and probably somebody just tripped over a cable or something the > internet is complicated me and my friends screaming /jewnazi/ are here > to help!" wikileaks is run by dictatorial spy agencies now, which is abhorrent and needs further calling out. they also did good and important work. you are sharing some really important information here. it’s hard to hold it when we are in conflict. i learn slowly. i'm sorry, and be well.

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[ot] Fwd: 13 Nov 2022 - stats
by k 22 Nov '22

22 Nov '22

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ping - Karl
by Stefan Claas 22 Nov '22

22 Nov '22

Now that's what I call a *certificate*, for modern public key cryptography and not what some InfoSec people call "certificate", when speaking about OpenPGP. https://github.com/sac001/age-ID Best of all you can't spam the included email address! For sure, Punk will hate it! *In memories of Hal Finney, Ulf Möller and Len Sassamann.* Best regards Stefan

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