July 2022 - cypherpunks@lists.ogf.org

Yo Miramax
by professor rat 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

Gym Dumbbell did 12 years for this list so SHOW SOME FUCKING RESPECT! "I may end up starting a dot-com company to promote the idea of an AP-type system," he says. "I think the public wants to be able to buy freedom and liberty over the Internet."

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The Register: IBM puts NIST’s quantum-resistant crypto to work in Z16 mainframe
by jim bell 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

The Register: IBM puts NIST’s quantum-resistant crypto to work in Z16 mainframe. https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2022/07/27/z16_ibm_post… Actual quantum computers don't exist yet. The cryptography to defeat them may already be here NIST pushes ahead with CRYSTALS-KYBER, CRYSTALS-Dilithium, FALCON, SPHINCS+ algorithms Thomas Claburn in San FranciscoTue 5 Jul 2022 // 22:36 UTC43 The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has recommended four cryptographic algorithms for standardization to ensure data can be protected as quantum computers become more capable of decryption. Back in 2015, the NSA announced plans to transition to quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithms in preparation for the time when quantum computers make it possible to access data encrypted by current algorithms, such as AES and RSA. No one is quite sure when that may occur but it depends on the number of qubits – quantum bits – that a quantum machine can muster, and other factors, such as error correction. Researchers at Google and in Sweden last year suggested it should be possible to factor a 2,048-bit integer in an RSA cryptosystem in about eight hours, given a 20 million-qubit quantum computer. Researchers in France claim it should be possible to factor 2,048-bit RSA integers in 177 days with 13,436 qubits and multimode memory. Current quantum computers have orders of magnitude fewer qubits than they need to be cryptographically relevant. IBM recently unveiled a 127-qubit quantum processor. The IT giant says it is aiming to produce a 1,000-qubit chip by the end of 2023 and its roadmap places machines of more than 1 million qubits in an unidentified time period. The Jülich Supercomputing Center (JSC) and D-Wave Systems have a 5,000-qubit machine. Not all qubits are equal however. The JSC/D-Wave machine relies on a quantum annealing processor and is adept at solving optimization problems. IBM's machine is gate-based, which is better suited for running Shor's algorithm to break cryptography.I n any event, the expectation is that quantum computers, eventually, will be able to conduct practical attacks on data protected using current technology – forcibly decrypt data encrypted using today's algorithms, in other words. Hence, the

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Thug Life
by professor rat 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

Its a shame Timothy Thomas can't be with us for the revolution https://www.wired.com/2001/05/online-cincy-cop-threats-probed/ To launch attacks under favorable circumstances is not only every anarchist revolutionary’s right, but their plain duty. The killing of spies, policemen, commissars, the blowing up of police stations, the liberation of prisoners, the seizure of government funds for the needs of the uprising—such operations are already being carried out wherever insurrection is rife. " When cypherpunks are called terrorists we will have done our job " - old proverb

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Cryptocurrency: Early Game Theory
by professor rat 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

Gramps ' Theory ' being a vacuous imbeciles ' Fantasy ' as seen by . . . >>> And remember, we really tangled with these guys in the 90's. Public key cryptography was regarded a weapon of war back then. The American government was really friggin' pissed off at us, and did as much damage as they could within the law. Constant harassment, legal pressure, people lost their jobs... the whole thing was constantly on the verge of everybody ending up in jail as far as we could tell. <<< No cypherpunk was ever jailed, based on list activities, in the eternal sunshine of a vacuous imbeciles mind.

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Cryptocurrency: Some Early Days
by professor rat 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

Early days for Elias Ahonen's assault on the anarchist cypherpunks narrative. But its not a fair fight since he sails the high-seas on a garbage-scow of disinformation - like Gramps - and scribbles his Paultard nonsense for corpse-media, knock-offs like CoinTelegraph. I guess he's going to keep it up till defeated - like Putin keeps attacking NATO's fists with his face. Each to their own ( Hi Zee! ) https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks&m=100872510706876&w=2 Those are my early days - they're not everybody's.

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Cryptocurrency: World Waking Up To Crypto Economics
by professor rat 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

Ooh lookie! Its the Carrie Bradshaw of cypherpunks! >>> What is interesting is the question "what is 'might makes right' in our future?" Missiles taking out a mining data center? Missiles taking out a Bitcoin whale and his/her private key, effectively increasing the value of everyone else's BTC? ASIC chip fabs only selling to certain customers or countries? Bitcoin regulations and sanctions? High transaction fees for some class of individuals and low for others? Geo-political instability with power and resources.... Or just war? A developer blocking a pull request (PR) from someone? Or merging code that is to their own benefit? <<< She can write a whole article with just questions!

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Where they burn transhumanist books . . .
by professor rat 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

. . . there they will burn transexual people >>> Our side grappled with our own apprehensions during our planning stage about the optics of physically confronting the TERFs, even though in any other circumstance we would justifiably call these people Nazis. The content of their speeches can be found on right-wing media outlets, who had their own journalists present. Their rhetoric and tone was explicitly exterminationist. https://anarchistnews.org/content/anarchists-confront-far-right-and-terf-co… Welcome to the transhuman revolution.

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Whose a Rat?
by professor rat 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

JordanOnRecord The list of people Brandon Straka provided the FBI info about includes "Stop the Steal" rally organizers Ali Alexander, Amy & Kylie Kremer and Cindy Chafian, plus more than a half dozen fellow right-wing social media personalities. https://twitter.com/JordanOnRecord/status/1552755136338034689 JordanOnRecord ·2h Some of what Brandon Straka provided the FBI appears to just be contact information for people who were in a "Stop the Steal" text thread. But he also, according to his attorney, turned over information about "potential criminal activity." https://whosarat.com/

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Antisemitic screeds posted online
by professor rat 28 Jul '22

28 Jul '22

Reminder - Israel Shamir is a Nazi propagandist and bum-buddies with Julian Rand Paul Assmange GOP Pa. governor nominee under fire for ties to white-nationalist site CEO of Gab praised Doug Mastriano for leading ‘an explicitly Christian movement’ in antisemitic screeds posted online emptywheel @emptywheel Why is the story, "Mastriano under fire for his anti-semitic ties" rather than, "Mastriano paid to promote himself on an anti-semitic site"? https://washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/07/28/gop-pa-governor-nominee-unde… ANTISEMITIC TYPES GO KILL YOURSELF!

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Re: Welcome to the Ghetto
by professor rat 28 Jul '22

28 Jul '22

While I do agree with some of what that dead fascist Timothy C. May once said, I also told him he was an ' anarcho-phoney ' after a just few months here. ( I started posting here in July or August 2001 ) By contrast, Assmange was here for years and never once complained. Then, correlation is not causation but Mong did call ' Crypto Winter ' soon after I began exposing his political fraud. By then I was regularly calling out his fascism and stupidity. See the list files. We also disagreed on economics as well as politics since I said " the millicent ghetto is the prize " and " Everyone a Mint " I then complained to Cryptome about their hosting a racist letter from Mong. It was removed. I then alerted a Physics list about him when I accidentally bumped into him there. ( Not even wrong - check their archives ) So my anti-fascist conscience is clear. And don't forget - even a fascist can still have a good idea. For example; Hitler wanted all Marxist-Communist Commissar's put to death. Who could argue with that? If you automatically oppose everything a Nazbol says then you're just giving them a stick to beat you with. But maybe you're into that, Zeynep.

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