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The Rise of ARM (and embedded always-on hardware spying)
by grarpamp 11 Dec '16

11 Dec '16

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/qualcomm-debuts-10nm-processor-48-cores,33… Qualcomm and its Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies subsidiary announced today that the company has already begun sampling its first 10nm server processor. The Centriq 2400 is the second generation of Qualcomm server SOCs, but it is the first in its new family of 10nm FinFET processors. The Centriq 2400 features up to 48 custom Qualcomm ARMv8-compliant Falkor cores and comes a little over a year after Qualcomm began developing its first-generation Centriq processors. Qualcomm's introduction of a 10nm server chip while Intel is still refining its 14nm process appears to be a clear shot across Intel's bow--due not only to the smaller process, but also its sudden lead in core count. Intel's latest 14nm E7 Broadwell processors top out at 24 cores. http://www.anandtech.com/show/10889/microsoft-and-qualcomm-bring-windows-10… Today at Microsoft's WinHEC event in Shenzhen, China, the company announced that it's working with Qualcomm to bring the full Windows 10 experience to future devices powered by Snapdragon processors. These new Snapdragon-powered devices should support all things Microsoft, including Microsoft Office, Windows Hello, Windows Pen, and the Edge browser, alongside third-party Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps and, most interestingly, x86 (32-bit) Win32 apps. They should even be able to play Crysis 2. This announcement fits nicely with Microsoft's "Windows Everywhere" doctrine and should come as no surprise. It's not even the first time we've seen Windows running on ARM processors. Microsoft's failed Windows RT operating system was a modified version of Windows 8 that targeted the ARMv7-A 32-bit architecture. It grew from Microsoft's MinWin effort to make Windows more modular by reorganizing the operating system and cleaning up API dependencies. The major change with today's announcement over Windows RT and UWP is that x86 apps will be able to run on Qualcomm's ARM-based SoCs, along with support for all of the peripherals that are already supported with Windows 10. This alone is a huge change from Windows RT, which would only work with a small subset of peripherals. Microsoft is also focusing on having these devices always connected through cellular, which is something that is not available for many PCs at the moment. Support will be available for eSIM to avoid having to find room in a cramped design to accommodate a physical SIM, and Microsoft is going so far as to call these "cellular PCs" meaning they are expecting broad support for this class of computer, rather than the handful available now with cellular connectivity. The ability to run x86 Win32 apps on ARM will come through emulation, and to demonstrate the performance Microsoft has released a video of an ARM PC running Photoshop.

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Corp Spying Scamming and Slavery
by grarpamp 11 Dec '16

11 Dec '16

https://www.democraticmedia.org/filing/internet-connected-toys-are-spying-k… https://epic.org/privacy/kids/EPIC-IPR-FTC-Genesis-Complaint.pdf http://mashable.com/2016/12/08/hacking-toy-dolls/ "This complaint concerns toys that spy," reads the complaint, which claims the Genesis Toys' My Friend Cayla and i-QUE Intelligent Robot can record and collect private conversations and offer no limitations on the collection and use of personal information. Both toys use voice recognition, internet connectivity and Bluetooth to engage with children in conversational manner and answer questions. The CDD claims they do all of this in wildly insecure and invasive ways. Both My Friend Cayla and i-QUE use Nuance Communications' voice-recognition platform to listen and respond to queries. the questions children ask the dolls are apparently recorded and sent to Nuance's servers for parsing, https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/fife/325800/exclusive-amazon-wor… https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/09/uber-drivers-report-swea… https://news.slashdot.org/story/16/12/08/2027218/att-to-cough-up-88-million… https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2016/12/ftc-providing-over-8… Some 2.7 million ATT customers will share $88 million in compensation for having had unauthorized third-party charges added to their mobile bills, the Federal Trade Commission announced this morning. The latest shot in the federal government's years-long battle against such abuses, these refunds will represent the most money ever recouped by victims of what is known as "mobile cramming," according to the FTC. >From an FTC press release: "Through the FTC's refund program, nearly 2.5 million current ATT customers will receive a credit on their bill within the next 75 days, and more than 300,000 former customers will receive a check. The average refund amount is $31. [...] According to the FTC's complaint, ATT placed unauthorized third-party charges on its customers' phone bills, usually in amounts of $9.99 per month, for ringtones and text message subscriptions containing love tips, horoscopes, and 'fun facts.' The FTC alleged that ATT kept at least 35 percent of the charges it imposed on its customers." The matter with ATT was originally made public in 2014 and also involved two companies that actually applied the unauthorized charges, Tatto and Acquinity. http://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/t-mobile-cfo-less-regulation-repeal-… https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/16/12/08/146200/microsoft-wants-to-enable… Microsoft is aiming to enable the installation of non-removable programmable SIM cards and data radios in PCs and Windows tablets.

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Govt's Lie Steal Spy On You
by grarpamp 11 Dec '16

11 Dec '16

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/06/parallel_construction_lies_in_engli… The U.K.'s newly-based Investigatory Powers Act (the Snoopers' Charter) "allows the State to tell lies in court," according to The Register, saying it enshrines into law "the practice where prosecutors lie about the origins of evidence to judges and juries." Their report: The operation of the oversight and accountability mechanisms...are all kept firmly out of sight -- and, so its authors hope, out of mind -- of the public. It is up to the State to volunteer the truth to its victims if the State thinks it has abused its secret powers. "Marking your own homework" is a phrase which does not fully capture this... Section 56(1)(b) creates a legally guaranteed ability -- nay, duty -- to lie about even the potential for State hacking to take place, and to tell juries a wholly fictitious story about the true origins of hacked material used against defendants in order to secure criminal convictions. This is incredibly dangerous. Even if you know that the story being told in court is false, you and your legal representatives are now banned from being able to question those falsehoods and cast doubt upon the prosecution story. Potentially, you could be legally bound to go along with lies told in court about your communications -- lies told by people whose sole task is to weave a story that will get you sent to prison or fined thousands of pounds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_forfeiture http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2016/12/snoop-case https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2016/a1633.pdf For years, officials from the Department of Justice testified, the DEA has paid millions of dollars to a variety of confidential sources to provide tips on travellers who may be transporting drugs or large sums of money. Those sources include staff at airlines, Amtrak, parcel services and even the Transportation Safety Administration... According to [a DOJ] report, airline employees and other informers had an incentive to search more travellers' bags, since they received payment whenever their actions resulted in DEA seizures of cash or contraband. The best-compensated of these appears to have been a parcel company employee who received more than $1 million from the DEA over five years. One airline worker, meanwhile, received $617,676 from 2012 to 2015 for tips that led to confiscations. But the DEA itself profited much more from the program. That well-paid informant got only about 12% of the amount the agency seized as a result of the his tips. The DEA had paid out $237 million to over 9,000 informants over five years towards the end of 2015, according to the report. The Economist writes that "travelers no doubt paid the price in increased searches," adding that the resulting searches were all probably illegal. http://www.reuters.com/article/us-airlines-data-surveillance-idUSKBN13W2Q0 https://theintercept.com/2016/12/07/american-and-british-spy-agencies-targe… American and British spies have since 2005 been working on intercepting phone calls and data transfers made from aircraft, France's Le Monde newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing documents from former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden. According to the report, also carried by the investigative website The Intercept, Air France was targeted early on in the projects undertaken by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and its British counterpart, GCHQ They all used their everyday GSM phone during a flight," the reports cited one NSA document from 2010 as saying. In a separate internal document from a year earlier, the NSA reported that 100,000 people had already used their mobile phones in flight as of February 2009 The Intercept also said that, in an internal presentation in 2012, GCHQ had disclosed a program called "Southwinds," which was used to gather all the cellular activity, voice communication, data, metadata and content of calls made on board commercial aircraft.

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UFO's: For Real
by grarpamp 11 Dec '16

11 Dec '16

https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/fred-crisman-24634/ https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2016/dec/05/fbis-real-x-files-docume… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maury_Island_incident

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Is it ethical to punch a neo-Nazi? We asked the experts.
by Razer 11 Dec '16

11 Dec '16

Punching Nazis, otherwise known as "fash-bashing," is part of a long, storied tradition of anti-fascist violence, carried out by communists, socialists and leftists wherever fascism has reared its head. Captain America did it. Indiana Jones did it. Even Geraldo Rivera did it once on his own talk show when a group of skinhead guests started brawling with other guests. Since Trump's campaign became a boon to white supremacists, memes promoting aggression against the alt-right dominate Twitter, private Facebook groups and subreddits. But is punching a Nazi ethical? More important, is it a viable way to stop fascists? Mic asked the experts: ethicists and academics who specialize in moral dilemmas and political activism. The ethicists all agreed... https://mic.com/articles/160203/is-it-ethical-to-punch-a-neo-nazi-we-asked-…

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Re: CNN - asking the right questions
by z9wahqvh 11 Dec '16

11 Dec '16

a more reasonable right-wing definition of fascism is one offered by the guy who invented it, Benito Mussolini (actually mostly by his court philosopher Giovanni Gentile). Here's just one important part (more here: http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/mussolini-fascism.asp) For Fascism, the growth of empire, that is to say the expansion of the > nation, is an essential manifestation of vitality, and its opposite a sign > of decadence. Peoples which are rising, or rising again after a period of > decadence, are always imperialist; and renunciation is a sign of decay and > of death. Fascism is the doctrine best adapted to represent the tendencies > and the aspirations of a people, like the people of Italy, who are rising > again after many centuries of abasement and foreign servitude. But empire > demands discipline, the coordination of all forces and a deeply felt sense > of duty and sacrifice: this fact explains many aspects of the practical > working of the regime, the character of many forces in the State, and the > necessarily severe measures which must be taken against those who would > oppose this spontaneous and inevitable movement of Italy in the twentieth > century, and would oppose it by recalling the outworn ideology of the > nineteenth century - repudiated wheresoever there has been the courage to > undertake great experiments of social and political transformation; for > never before has the nation stood more in need of authority, of direction > and order. If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are a > thousand signs which point to Fascism as the characteristic doctrine of our > time. For if a doctrine must be a living thing, this is proved by the fact > that Fascism has created a living faith; and that this faith is very > powerful in the minds of men is demonstrated by those who have suffered and > died for it. > notice all that emphasis on "decadence," on the expansion of Empire, on the "strength" of "the nation," on militarism? it's pretty hard to make that work with the creation of social security and welfare programs (aka The New Deal), or FDR's patent lack of interest in the kind of militaristic nationalism that -- oh, he eventually went to war against, but only after being dragged kicking and screaming, mostly through the US being attacked directly. but what did Mussolini know about fascism (despite being the leader of the actual movement that gave us the word)? On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 8:26 PM, z9wahqvh <z9wahqvh(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 2:37 PM, juan <juan.g71(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> I wonder what an 'updated' new deal is considering that the >> Original New Deal was chemically pure fascism... >> >> > in which Juan-who-swears-he's-not-an-authoritarian-right-winger > demonstrates that he gets his analysis of fundamental political categories > from authoritarian right wingers (the only people--especially Hayek himself > and National Review editor Jonah Goldberg--who describe the New Deal as > having anything whatsoever to do with fascism, which it did not). > >

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[Nature|News] Researchers baffled by nationalist surge
by Mirimir 11 Dec '16

11 Dec '16

It's not really cypherpunk, but it's the most coherent coverage about this familiar topic that I've seen. Researchers baffled by nationalist surge http://www.nature.com/news/researchers-baffled-by-nationalist-surge-1.21110…

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that comedy which may never be aired, the line never crossed
by Zenaan Harkness 11 Dec '16

11 Dec '16

Dieudonné - The Elitist P7e Network - english subs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PJhtxZIWFk Found here: http://www.dailystormer.com/dieudonne-on-elite-pedophile-rings-in-france/ Perhaps 2017 will be the year these rings are busted open to the public once and for all? -- * Certified Deplorable Neo-Nazi Fake News Hunter (TM)(C)(R) * Executive Director of Triggers, Ministry of Winning * Weapons against traditional \/\/European\/\/ values: http://davidduke.com/jewish-professor-boasts-of-jewish-pornography-used-as-…

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Pardon me while I whip this out ... for Zen
by Razer 10 Dec '16

10 Dec '16

"Scratch a White Supremacist and inevitability one will expose a zionazi fruit (Pejorative: Faggot) underneath." http://thesaker.is/wesley-clark-jr-apologizes-to-the-lakota-nation/comment-…

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Re: "total breakdown of fabric of society"
by Cecilia Tanaka 10 Dec '16

10 Dec '16

On Dec 10, 2016 4:21 AM, "Z____n H_____s" <z_n(a)freedbms.net> wrote: > > If your hypothalamus is not yet too coated with flourocilic acid, you might even be able to contribute intelligently to this discussion. Oh, wait! Is this racist, very prejudiced and limited creature really daring to question Rr's intelligence? Hahahahaha!!! ;D Now I will laugh until the sleep arrives... Little unexpected life gifts. :) You know, I can question J__n and Rr's ethics, their aggressiveness, some of their stupid ideas and their horrible sturbbonness (exactly like mine, haha!), but I still think they are intelligent guys and I still like them a bit because their 'B side' is sensible and both can be pretty sweet and kind. I don't think the same about Zzz. He always mentions heart, soul, love, honor, a lot of important things for me, but it always sounds so fake and hypocrite. He is always pretending to be an 'intellectual activist', but is not convincing. Neither 'intellectual', nor 'activist'. And definitely not interesting or fun, even trying hard. :(

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