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Defend Jews against hateful bigotry
by professor rat 22 Oct '21

22 Oct '21

" . . . the best safeguard for Jews against discrimination lies in strong alliances with other targeted groups in a push for strengthened federal and state legislation and enforcement against hate crimes and all forms of bigotry. . . " https://www.smh.com.au/national/fighting-anti-semitism-needs-solidarity-not… So long as the state exists not everything it does need be opposed

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Hacks: Dutch Lab Decrypts Tesla Vehicle Data Storage
by grarpamp 22 Oct '21

22 Oct '21

All vehicles should destroy data after every few drive cycles or trips, let users choose. Otherwise vehicle refits will and should appear on free market to provide that, just raw motor and battery, no computer storage or anything else needed. Dutch Government Lab Decrypts Tesla's Data Storage System, Finds "Far More Data Than Previously Aware Of" https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/dutch-forensic-lab-sa… We may soon find out whether or not Tesla has been deceptive in presenting its driver data. According to Reuters, a Dutch government's forensic lab says it has decrypted the car's data-storage system, which has uncovered "a wealth of information that could be used to investigate serious accidents." But the best part: the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) says it has found "far more data than investigators had previously been aware of". How unexpected. The NFI said that the decrypted data proved that Tesla stores information about Autopilot usage, speed, accelerator pedal position, steering wheel angle and brake usage. Some of the data can be available for over a year, the report says. Francis Hoogendijk, a digital investigator at the NFI, said: “These data contain a wealth of information for forensic investigators and traffic accident analysts and can help with a criminal investigation after a fatal traffic accident or an accident with injury." For example, one investigation took place when the NFI looked into a collision involving a Tesla using Autopilot behind a car that braked hard. The investigation showed that the driver of the Tesla reacted with the expected response time, but the collision happened because the Tesla was too close. Aart Spek, NFI investigator, told Reuters: "That makes it interesting, because who is responsible for the following distance: the car or the driver?" The lab said it decided to forego seeking the data from Tesla in favor of reverse engineering data logs for it. The NFI said it was “in order to objectively investigate them," which we're guessing is a kind way to say "side-step Elon Musk's bullshit". Data storage has been in question since Tesla announced earlier this year it had established a site in China to help store data. Tesla provides data in the Netherlands when a court orders it to do so, but now the NFI knows exactly what kind of data the carmaker is storing and for how long. “You cannot claim what you do not know, so it’s helpful that we now know what else is being stored,” the NFI said. "Tesla however only supplies a specific subset of signals, only the ones requested, for a specific timeframe, whereas the log files contain all the recorded signals," the institute added. We're sure this revelation will catch the ear of the NHTSA, who is in the midst of a broad 700,000+ vehicle investigation into Tesla's Autopilot and its potential involvement in accidents involving emergency vehicles.

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Re: Assange's Case
by zeynepaydogan 22 Oct '21

22 Oct '21

#FreeOlaBini Ola Bini’s trial this week. Ola Bini’s trial is set for Thursday and Friday this week, despite a series of recognized due process violations in the free software developer criminal’s prosecution and flimsy evidences presented to support the charges. Ola Bini’s pretrial hearing was suspended at least five times during 2020 and again in 2021 until its conclusion in June. Now, there’s a risk the trial keep on the same slow-motion tragedy. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/10/after-years-delays-and-alarmingly-fli… After Years of Delays and Alarmingly Flimsy Evidence, Security Expert Ola Bini’s Trial Set for This Week For over two years EFF has been following the case of Swedish computer security expert Ola Bini, who was arrested in April, 2019, in Ecuador, following Julian Assange's ejection from that country’s London Embassy. Bini’s pre-trial hearing, which was suspended and rescheduled at least five times during 2020, was concluded on June 29, 2021. Despite the cloud that has hung over the case—political ramifications [have seemed to drive the allegations](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/08/ecuador-political-actors…, and Bini has been subjected to [numerous due process and human rights violations](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/slow-motion-tragedy-trial… are hopeful that the security expert will be afforded a transparent and fair trial and that due process will prevail. Ola Bini is known globally as a computer security expert; he is someone who builds secure tools and contributes to free software projects. Ola’s team at ThoughtWorks contributed to Certbot, the EFF-managed tool that has provided strong encryption for millions of websites around the world, and in 2018, Ola co-founded a non-profit organization devoted to creating user-friendly security tools. From the very outset of Bini’s arrest at the Quito airport there have been significant concerns about the legitimacy of the allegations against him. In our visit to Ecuador in July, 2019, shortly after his arrest, it became clear that the political consequences of Bini’s arrest overshadowed the prosecution’s actual evidence. In brief, based on the interviews that we conducted, our conclusion was that Bini's prosecution is a political case, not a criminal one. His arrest occurred shortly after Maria Paula Romo, then Ecuador’s Interior Minister, held a press conference to claim (without evidence) that a group of Russians and Wikileaks-connected hackers were in the country, planning a cyber-attack in retaliation for the government's eviction of Assange; a recent investigation by [La Posta revealed](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch3sd6-Hbq4&feature=youtu.be) that the former Minister knew that Ola Bini was not the "Russian hacker" the government was looking for when Bini was detained in Quito's airport. (Romo [was dismissed](https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/ecuador-s-interior-minister-dismissed/2054980) as minister in 2020 for ordering the use of tear gas against anti-government protestors). A so-called piece of evidence against Bini was leaked to the press and taken to court: a photo of a screenshot, supposedly taken by Bini himself and sent to a colleague, showing the telnet login screen of a router. The image is consistent with someone who connects to an open telnet service, receives a warning not to log on without authorization, and does not proceed—respecting the warning. As for the portion of a message exchange attributed to Bini and a colleague, leaked with the photo, it shows their concern with the router being insecurely open to telnet access on the wider Internet, with no firewall. Bini’s arrest and detention were fraught with due process violations. Bini faced 70 days of imprisonment until a Habeas Corpus decision considered his detention illegal (a decision that confirmed the weakness of the initial detention). He was released from jail, but the investigation continued, seeking evidence to back the alleged accusations against him. After his release the problems continued, and as the delays dragged on, the Office of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression included its concern with the delay in Bini’s trial in its 2020's annual report. At the time of our visit, Bini's lawyers told us that they counted 65 violations of due process, and journalists told us that no one was able to provide them with concrete descriptions of what he had done. In April 2021, Ola Bini’s Habeas Data recourse, filed in October 2020 against the National Police, the Ministry of Government, and the Strategic Intelligence Center (CIES), was partially granted by the Judge. According to Bini's defense, he had been facing continuous monitoring by members of the National Police and unidentified persons. The decision requested CIES to provide information related to whether the agency has conducted surveillance activities against the security expert. The ruling concluded that CIES unduly denied such information to Ola Bini, failing to offer a timely response to his previous information request. Though the judge decided in June’s pre-trial hearing to proceed with the criminal prosecution against Bini, observers indicated [a lack of a solid motivation](https://www.alainet.org/en/articulo/213067) in the judge's decision. The judge was later "[separated](https://inredh.org/la-jueza-yadira-proano-fue-separada-del-caso-…" from the case in a ruling that admitted the wrongdoing of successive pretrial suspensions and the violation of due process. It is alarming, but perhaps not surprising, that the case will proceed after all these well-documented irregularities. While Ola Bini’s behavior and contacts in the security world may look strange to authorities, his computer security expertise is not a crime. Since EFF's founding in 1990, we have become all-too familiar with overly politicized "hacker panic" cases, which encourage unjust prosecutions when the political and social atmosphere demands it. EFF was founded in part due to a notorious, and similar, case pursued in the United States by the Secret Service. Our Coder’s Rights Project has [worked for decades](https://www.eff.org/issues/coders) to protect the security and encryption researchers that help build a safer future for all of us using digital technologies, and who far too often face serious legal challenges that prevent or inhibit their work. This case is, unfortunately, part of a longstanding history of countering the unfair criminal persecution of security experts, who have unfortunately been the subject of the same types of harassment as those they work to protect, such as human rights defenders and activists. In June of this year, EFF called upon Ecuadors’ Human Rights Secretariat to give special attention to Ola Bini’s upcoming hearing and prosecution. As we stressed [in our letter](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/06/eff-ecuadors-human-rights-sec…, > Mr. Bini's case has profound implications for, and sits at the center of, the application of human rights and due process, a landmark case in the context of arbitrarily applying overbroad criminal laws to security experts. Mr. Bini's case represents a unique opportunity for the Human Rights Secretariat Cabinet to consider and guard the rights of security experts in the digital age. Security experts protect the computers upon which we all depend and protect the people who have integrated electronic devices into their daily lives, such as human rights defenders, journalists, activists, dissidents, among many others. To conduct security research, we need to protect the security experts, and ensure they have the tools to do their work. The circumstances around Ola Bini's detention have sparked [international attention](https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/03/ecuador-authoriti… and indicate the growing seriousness of [security experts' harassment in Latin America](https://www.accessnow.org/latin-america-information-security-resea…. The flimsy allegations against Ola Bini, the series of irregularities and human rights violations in his case, as well as its international resonance, situate it squarely among other cases we have seen of [politicized and misguided allegations](https://www.eff.org/pt-br/deeplinks/2018/10/canada-chile-secur… technologists and security researchers. We hope that justice will prevail during Ola Bini’s trial this week, and that he will finally be given the fair treatment and due process that the proper respect of his fundamental rights requires. > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Wednesday, August 11th, 2021 at 8:09 AM, zeynepaydogan <zeynepaydogan(a)protonmail.com> wrote: > >> He has a case tomorrow.Amnesty issued this statement >> >> https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/08/usa-uk-president-biden-must-… >> >> ProtonMail mobil ile gönderildi

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Its free and always will be
by professor rat 22 Oct '21

22 Oct '21

https://www.coinspeaker.com/worldcoin-free-coin-scanning-eye/ “We designed the whole system to be fundamentally privacy-preserving. The iris code itself is the only thing leaving the orb. There’s no big database of biometric data. It’s the most secure and privacy-preserving way we found to prove everyone in the world is unique.”

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Leftist anarchism trumps ' natural rights' bs anarchy ( again )
by professor rat 22 Oct '21

22 Oct '21

Give it up libertarian-ferengi-faggots. You don't stand a chance. sama· 18h Introducing Worldcoin, a new cryptocurrency that will be distributed fairly to as many people as possible. Details about how it works: https://worldcoin.org

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Peter Thiel confused Pay Pal with P2P
by professor rat 22 Oct '21

22 Oct '21

What a fucking moron https://cointelegraph.com/news/early-meeting-of-e-gold-founders-may-hold-cl…

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Govt Agent Truther allegations
by professor rat 22 Oct '21

22 Oct '21

Seems as Govt-Agent-Truther Batshit rots down so Govt-Agent-Truther Zeynep lurches up. But their assertions without evidence may continue to be dismissed without examination. Also they have both earned killing ( My 2k for BS - 20 for the pinhead )

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Cryptocurrency: Hedge Bets, USGov Bans Sale of Hacking Tools to Authoritarian Regimes
by grarpamp 22 Oct '21

22 Oct '21

On 10/21/21, zeynepaydogan <zeynepaydogan(a)protonmail.com> wrote: > https://thehackernews.com/2021/10/us-government-bans-sale-of-hacking.html > https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2021-22774.pdf > https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2021/10/commerce-tightens-expo… > https://www.bis.doc.gov/index.php/licensing/commerce-control-list-classific… > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassenaar_Arrangement > which is set to go into effect in 90 days, will forbid the export, reexport > and transfer of "cybersecurity items" to countries of "national security or > weapons of mass destruction concern" such as China and Russia without a > license from the department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS). Digital goods restrictions totally un-enforceable, Physical goods restrictions easily bribe-able, reroutable. Oil contracts already being drafted for settlement in crypto (while you still did not install even solar on your own roof for you). Privacy capable uncensorable unstoppable distributed cryptocurrencies. Full stop. Crypto world coming, better bet and best hedge for all outcomes, is to begin broadly teaching voluntary non-aggression principles of living peacefully free and together. > So, at this point - after the 2017 Crypto Munitions explosion and giant anti-police riots - its good that what ever these ' Woke ' fascist nicompoops ban or unban matters so little. > Cypherpunks collapse governments. > Strong-crypto, digital money, anonymous networks, pseudonyms, zero- knowledge proofs, reputations, information-markets, netwar, collapse-of-governments.

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Cryptocurrency: Thiels reverse Midas touch, Unstoppable Adoption Rising A New 03/Jan World
by grarpamp 22 Oct '21

22 Oct '21

On 10/21/21, professor rat <pro2rat(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote: > https://decrypt.co/83980/peter-thiel-ive-been-underinvested-bitcoin-crypto-… Well a lot of the world, though seeking higher roads in various yet limited ways... https://thethielist.substack.com/p/introduction ... is still bathed in legacy geopolitical power over voluntary freedom and charity, self and collaborative determination. Prediction Markets will be a new vastly more efficient way to pose all manner of distributed questions and to determine their validity. No, you won't own no-things and be happy, Klaus Schwab and the central power globalists will eat dick... everyone will own pieces stakes and contributions to some-things, and the efficiencies obtained will power global charity to offset stakes lost to invalid questions. > What a fuckwit. With enemies like this central banksters don't need > friends. Doesn't matter, central bankers and governments are being obsoleted by crypto, faster and faster now, the panic in their eyes is unmistakable, that "Oh shit we're done in" stare one gets as the tsunami rises up, 03/Jan/2029 is going to look a lot different than 03/Jan/2021, and as the last of them wither and die, 03/Jan/2039 will remember them only as but dust to history. It is the duty of all hodlers to offer to pay for goods and services with crypto, to set up their payees with their first wallets, teach them a bit of why OG cryptoanarchy exists in the first place, a promised land, voluntary association, charity, no more war, free at last, etc. You'll figure it all out, together.

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Anarchist Matrix trumps Walled Gardens
by professor rat 22 Oct '21

22 Oct '21

" . . . the age we're living in as a kind of digital colonialism. The likes of Facebook are essentially the imperialists of our age https://decrypt.co/84043/facebook-tencent-threat-open-metaverse-animoca-bra… The sooner Fedbook and Gaggle go the way of AOL and GeoCities, the better.

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