David Kahn Dies at 93

[John Young]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/02/01/david-kahn-codebreakers-nsa-dead/

Cypherpunks Ethics

[John Young]

"Cypherpunks Ethics," a book published in 2022, offers a comprehensive view of 
the group's formation and evolution, with focus on Tim May's "Crypto-Anarchy" 
and Julian Assange's "Crypto-Justice."

"After presenting a genealogy of cypherpunk platformsincluding Timothy 
Mays BlackNet, Jim Bells Assassination Politics, Ross 
Ulbrichts Silk Road, and John Youngs Cryptomeit discusses 
the two central functions of Julian Assanges WikiLeaks."

Cypherpunk ethics is a moral worldview of the cypherpunks, a movement that 
advocates the use of strong digital cryptography to defend individual privacy 
and promote institutional transparency in the digital age. The movement is 
rooted in two competing paradigms of cypherpunk philosophy: crypto anarchy and 
crypto justice. The former advocates for the use of cryptography to create a 
stateless society, while the latter seeks to use cryptography to promote social 
justice and protect human rights. The movement has implications for a range of 
contemporary moral issues, including surveillance, privacy, whistleblowing, 
cryptocurrencies, journalism, democracy, censorship, intellectual property, and 
power. If you want to learn more about cypherpunk ethics, you can read Patrick 
D. Andersons book Cypherpunk Ethics: Radical Ethics for the 
Digital Age  
(https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003220534/cypherpunk-ethics-patrick-anderson)

Jim Bell 1995 Posts and More

[John Young]

https://mailing-list-archive.cryptoanarchy.wiki/authors/jim_bell_jimbell_at_pacifier_com_/

Re: Cypherpunks Mailing List Info

[John Young]

There have been quite a few branches of cpunks by those who want a particular 
version rather than the whole thing. A few have lasted, like the cryptography 
list,but most peter out after a while.
 
Subscribers come and go, some come back, some stay for the same old shit, 
adding to the pile, and watch newbies trash and bash the list, try to make it 
into something they want and usually fail due to nobody wanting to do whatever 
the meddler wants to do.
 
Commonplace are subscribers who keep their identity private, use pseudos, vary 
their monikers, provoke and condemn, try to get the host to fix whatever rubs 
them wrongly. Go away frustrated to try their pukefest elsewhere.
 
Some subscribers die, sign up to be an undercover TLA informer, accuse others 
of being rat finks, dispense rumors and disinfo and misinfo and hatred and 
prejudice and condescension and stupidity.
 
Same bullshit happens on all social media, nowhere to find the perfect place to 
be the king of fuck-ups so only bots can do the cult of magic, for a fee of 
course.
 
 
-Original Message-
From: Greg Newby 
Sent: May 2, 2022 6:08 PM
To: cypherpunks 
Subject: Re: Cypherpunks Mailing List Info
 
I missed the earlier note yesterday:
 
On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 03:45:49PM -0400, Karl Semich wrote:
> On Sun, May 1, 2022, 9:49 PM punk wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > https://lists.cpunks.org/mailman/listinfo/cypherpunks
> >
> > "the list is frequented...by spooks, trolls, and other sources of
> > negative influence, surveillance or disruption. Sabotage, COINTELPRO and
> > other forms of subversion or attack are often observed."
> >
> >
> > I think that whoever wrote that, Greg? should also publish the
> > list of government agents who engage in sabotage, COINTELPRO, etc.
 
I didn't write that, someone else did.
 
I don't know anything about who are the subscribers to the list. It's an open 
list, so there is no reason for government or whomever to approach me if they 
want to monitor the list.
 
 
 
> > Whoever wrote that obviously knows who these 'actors' are, and
> > there's no reason for him to protect them.
> >
> >
> > I'll be waiting, as I think any other honest poster will.
> >
>
> Reminds of before I forgot everything, seeing that quote.
>
> Things seemed much simpler on only one side.
>
> Would you like we started a list? Maybe we could start with properties of
> behavior, see if any cross-correlate with properties of spy orgs. Maybe
> scrape archives for helpful experience logs or something, if they're still
> there by the time they're downloaded.
 
Raw data to facilitate analysis of writings by people who have posted to 
cypherpunks is easy enough - the full archive is freely available, and even the 
archive from before the list was in its current home.
 
https://lists.cpunks.org
 
Of course, that doesn't help with (a) lurkers, (b) remailers/redistributors, 
(c) people who don't subscribe, but watch the archives, and (d) any other 
surveillance to individual or collective list members.
~ Greg
 
 
> I could use my behavior properties being labeled and timestamped pretty
> badly.
>
> >

 

Re: [LEAK] USA 50+ Age Targeted data

[John Young]

Not this John Young, wrong DOB, email, state. There are thousands with that 
name.
-Original Message-
From: zeynepaydogan 
Sent: Apr 18, 2022 5:13 PM
To: cypherpunks 
Subject: [LEAK] USA 50+ Age Targeted data
 
There are 50+y.o people on this mailing list.
 



line 49829 is extremely interesting 
 
 


 

Re: “The Schizoid Man”

[John Young]

Here you are:
 
https://cryptome.org/jya/anti-gov.txt
 
-Original Message-
From: razorleaker 
Sent: Jan 30, 2022 6:51 AM
To: cypherpunks@lists.cpunks.org 
Subject: Re: “The Schizoid Man”
 
 
Anti-Govcorp…. No. it's just his policy of fooling people

 
 
Açık Paz, Oca 30, 2022 14:47, razorleaker  
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The Congressional Record reprinted July 23 "Anti-Government,Anti-Social 
Attitudes," a news column which examines theincreasing discontent caused by 
governmental programs. Itdescribes the increasing psychopathology by those who 
havesuffered economic harm due to shifts in the nation's andinternational 
resources and the appeal of anti-government andanti-social acts in response to 
failure to meet obligations to thecitizenry. Not a few think OKC bombing is the 
the way to fightgovernment-sponsored terrorism against civilians.  
http://jya.com/anti-gov.txtCouple that with reports on DoD's efforts to combat 
terrorismagainst its troops abroad, more funding of counterterrorismand more 
sharing of "dual-use" weaponry with jittery, trigger-itchy law enforcement and 
IRS infohighway bandits aroundthe globe. Boil the frogs.Says the snarling 
marshal (OSFOR trooper), just back fromstress counseling and a beer, to the 
neighbor (rapee) kicking andscreaming: It's dog eat dog, in the battle to keep 
our family fed, sosorry, but we gotta enforce order and the law (our 
exculpatory Bible),burp, tell it to the judge (the President), my therapist 
(godfather).Meanwhile have a pleasant remand while the court's on vacation.

 
 

 

Re: Assange's Case

[John Young]

Worth remembering that not a few cypherpunks have 
died, suicided, homocided, gone to jail, 
disappeared, were exiled, were prosecuted and 
persecuted, became informers, testified against 
other cpunks, stole code, planted malware, ran 
ransomware, lied, cheated, abused trusted friends 
and list postings, established other lists for 
prim and proper discourse, and just about 
whatever the villainous digital era fostered 
while braying about encryption, freedom, privacy, 
corrupt governments and corporations and media and list subscribers.


Hooting about injustice is a venerable cover-up 
of complicity with authorities to fuck other 
people for money, for reputation, for cowardice, 
for damaged brains and diseased morals.


This list is where that shit is promulgated and 
allowed to persist, no matter that a few angels 
pretend they would never do that.


At 01:41 PM 10/25/2021, zeynepaydogan wrote:
BREAKING: Amnesty International demands release 
of Julian Assange: “Drop the charges, stop the 
extradition and free Julian Assange


https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/news-news/2021/10/us-uk-drop-the-charges-stop-the-extradition-and-free-julian-assange-says-amnesty-head/





US/UK: “Drop the charges, stop the extradition 
and free Julian Assange,” says Amnesty head




Ahead of an appeal hearing against the decision 
by a UK court not to extradite Julian Assange to 
the USA, Amnesty International’s Secretary 
General has called on US authorities to drop the 
charges against him and the UK authorities not 
to extradite him but release him immediately.


The call by Agnès Callamard follows an 
investigation by Yahoo News revealing that US 
security services considered kidnapping or 
killing Julian Assange when he was resident in 
the Ecuadorian embassy in London. These reports 
further weaken already unreliable US diplomatic 
assurances that Assange will not be placed in 
conditions that could amount to ill-treatment if extradited.


“Assurances by the US government that they 
would not put Julian Assange in a maximum 
security prison or subject him to abusive 
Special Administrative Measures were discredited 
by their admission that they reserved the right 
to reverse those guarantees. Now, reports that 
the CIA considered kidnapping or killing Assange 
have cast even more doubt on the reliability of 
US promises and further expose the political 
motivation behind this case,” said Amnesty 
Secretary General, Agnès Callamard.


“It is a damning indictment that nearly 20 
years on, virtually no one responsible for 
alleged US war crimes committed in the course of 
the Afghanistan and Iraq wars has been held 
accountable, let alone prosecuted, and yet a 
publisher who exposed such crimes is potentially facing a lifetime in jail.”


The appeal hearing, scheduled for 27-28 October, 
is expected to consider five grounds of appeal 
by the US, including the reliability of 
assurances offered by the US after a lower UK 
court ruled against Assange’s extradition in 
January 2021. Amnesty International has 
concluded that the assurances are unreliable.


The US charges allege that Assange conspired 
with a whistleblower – army intelligence analyst 
Chelsea Mannning – to illegally obtain 
classified information. Theyy want him to stand 
trial on charges under the Espionage Act and the 
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in the US where he 
could face a prison sentence of up to 175 years.


The US government’s indictment poses a grave 
threat to press freedom both in the United 
States and abroad. The conduct it describes 
includes professional activities undertaken by 
investigative journalists and publishers on a 
daily basis. Were Julian Assange’s extradition 
to be allowed it would criminalize common 
journalistic practices and permit the US and 
possibly other countries to target publishers 
and journalists outside their jurisdictions for 
exposing governmental wrongdoing.


“The US government’s unrelenting pursuit of 
Julian Assange makes it clear that this 
prosecution is a punitive measure, but the case 
involves concerns which go far beyond the fate 
of one man and put media freedom and freedom of 
expression in peril,” said Agnès Callamard.


“Journalists and publishers are of vital 
importance in scrutinizing governments, exposing 
their misdeeds and holding perpetrators of human 
rights violations to account. This disingenuous 
appeal should be denied, the charges should be 
dropped, and Julian Assange should be released.”


For more information or to arrange an interview 
contact at the court: 
press@amnesty.orgstefan.simanow...@amnesty.org +44 2030365599


BACKGROUND
The US extradition request is based on charges 
directly related to the publication of leaked 
classified documents as part of Julian 
Assange’s work with Wikileaks. 

Re: WikiLeaks: Assange on Afghanistan, A Warning

[John Young]

Assange is right to predict universal spying. 
Should be noted that this warning is distribured 
via the global spying program, the internet, 
invented and promulgated by the US military, its 
allies, contractors, suppliers, universities, 
anti-war and anti-spying orgs, not to overlook 
WikiLeaks, Assange's celebrity megaphone and his 
howling supporters amd detractors.


In the same way national security has become the 
worldwide religion backed by the most powerful 
weapons, wealthy knowledge, faith and finance 
industries, detractors of this unprecedented 
hegemon, especially the 
comsec/infosec/ransomware/hacker hoodlums, 
propound and practice their exploitations with 
this now inescapable institution and its technologies.


This list too was founded and sustained as 
militarized evangelism braying about privacy, 
liberty, crypto, threats and evildoers in the 
very mindset of spies and warfighters for which 
most subscribers were and are educated to advance 
the gods of science, technology, espionage, 
deception, cheating, lying, betraying, accusing, preaching, mindfucking.


Assange espouses what he learned on cypherpunks. 
The cypherpunks archives are an archive of what 
the internet has become, a ravaging four 
horsepersons, billions strong, its adherents 
claim to fight: National security devouring itself,


The end of this era will come with the closure 
and surpassing of this vicious monster by 
something far worse. Heed this: spies only report 
the grimmest of the grimmest. As here. Mea maxima culpa.


At 02:50 AM 8/20/2021, you wrote:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/m4kWiCwXQP2X/  Assange on Afghanistan
https://files.catbox.moe/63efj7.mp4
https://www.bitchute.com/video/OV9JDU0yx59r/
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ublHHsCNfrqJ/  Assange exposes Afghanistan


"...because the goal is not to completely subjugate Afghanistan. The
goal is to use Afghanistan to wash money out of the tax bases of the
United States, out of the tax bases of European countries through
Afghanistan and back into the hands of a transnational security elite.
That is the goal, i.e. the goal is to have endless war not a
successful one." - Julian Assange

https://www.bitchute.com/video/IDPpyC2ORuk/  FPF#281 propaganda war on assange

https://www.bitchute.com/video/JZvt94ph73w6/  The Importance of Julian
Assange, Wikileaks and the OPCW Douma Docs: Syria and Afghanistan
Papers

https://www.bitchute.com/video/SKPotD1guPnV/  Snowden re Assange

https://www.bitchute.com/video/bCXhIuHBhoM/  Sargon re Assange



https://cdnv.rt.com/files/2018.09/5ba3f0dffc7e9336108b45b9.mp4
Assange Last Video Warning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J98ed6oML2A
https://www.bitchute.com/video/XfYgCSk8ViVc/

Generation being born now is the last to be free
Assange in last interview before blackout 20 Sep, 2018 18:16

Before his links to the world were cut by his Ecuadorian hosts,
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gave an interview on how
technological advances are changing humankind. He said global
surveillance will soon be totally unavoidable.

The interview was provided to RT by organizers of the World Ethical
Data Forum in Barcelona. Assange, who is currently stranded in the
Ecuadorian Embassy in London with no outside communication except with
his legal team, has a pretty grim outlook on where humanity is going.
He says it will soon be impossible for any human being to not be
included in global databases collected by governments and state-like
entities.

This generation being born now… is the last free generation. Yoou
are born and either immediately or within say a year you are known
globally. Your identity in one form or another ­coming as a result  of
your idiotic parents plastering your name and photos all over Facebook
or as a result of insurance applications or passport applications­  is
known to all major world powers.

“A small child now in some sense has to negotiate its relationship
with all the major world powers… It puts us in a very different
position. Very few technically capable people are able to live apart,
to choose to live apart, to choose to go their own way,” he added. “It
smells a bit like totalitarianism ­ in some way.”
The capacity to collect and process information about people has been
growing exponentially and will continue to grow fast, he stated. With
advancements in applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) to big data, the
next logical step is coming.

READ MORE: Ecuador pledged to not kick out Assange, but threat of US
prosecution still serious ­ lawyer to RT
“Look at what Google and Baidu and Tencent and Amazon and Facebook are
doing. They are basically open-cut harvesting the knowledge of
humankind as we express it, when we communicate with each other… Thhis
classical model, which people in academia call ‘surveillance
capitalism’… has changed now.
It’s a really very important and severe economic change. Which is
to take the surveillance capitalism model and transform it instead
into a model that 

Re: RIP Cecilia Tanaka

[John Young]

Wait, more details please. Thanks.

-Original Message-
Sent: Jul 27, 2021 4:02 PM
To: 
Subject: RIP Cecilia Tanaka

Ceci Tanaka has passed away this morning. I'm deeply sorry to deliver
such a bad news, Ceci was a good friend of mine and she kept many of
you close to her warm heart.

--
Oda

Re: As many as 200 Americans have now reported possible symptoms of 'Havana Syndrome'

[John Young]

Ubiquitous embassy rooftop comms and spy equipment needs to be 
examined as the cause of the syndrome. Latest high-tech, high power 
arrays may be correlated because some are designed to penetrate 
signal/EMR defenses, and emit hazards long classified even from staff 
and equipment operators.


At 03:17 AM 7/21/2021, jim bell wrote:


https://news.yahoo.com/many-200-americans-now-reported-083000770.html

Almost half of those reporting symptoms are linked to the CIA, say 
officials, with possible cases in Berlin and Vienna and on every 
continent but Antarctica.

_--__


Jim Bell's comment follows.


Given how easy it should be to do an audio or radio/microwave 
spectrum analysis, using a SDR and smartphone, I'm surprised this is 
still so mysterious.

Re: Cypherpunk revolution Vs the present military journalism system

[John Young]

Had not considered that Tim May was literaturely 
assassinated, or Eric Hughes and John Gilmore 
redacted, or Hal Finney erased, or the editing 
out of real James Dalton Bell and surreal Carl 
Edward Johnson and Phil Zimmermann and Julian 
Assange and Edward Snowden. Makes sense that 
pigshit shoveler Glenn Greenwald was the slop 
poisoner, Pierre Omidyar the wallowing pigmaster.


At 02:05 PM 7/6/2021, you wrote:
Tired of listening to conservative morons like 
Semich, Gramps, Batshit and David drone on about 
their endless conformist brown-nosing to power?


For Jim Bell, the more exciting question was: 
“How can we translate the freedom afforded by 
the Internet to ordinary life?”


I think that blockchains will replace armies for 
national defense, because a blockchain-based 
assassination market will be created…" Zach. CryyptoGo  Â

Â
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 insurrectioon is rife.   Â


Cypherpunks collapse governments.
Subject: Everyone a remailer: Everyone a Mint: Everyone an assassin
https://marc.info/?l=cypherpunks=100872510706876=2
Strong-crypto, digital money, anonymous 
networks, pseudonyms, zero- knowledge proofs, 
reputations, information-markets, netwar, collapse-of-governments.

http://nakamotoinstitute.org/static/docs/cyphernomicon.txt

Marc responded, “indeed, free and open source 
software seems non-negotiable here: no 
backdoors, no skeleton key. National security 
establishment would balk at this though?”Â
Rohan responds, “yes, fuck them. I don’t 
think we should be taking policy advice about 
how to design our money for the people who think 
the Patriot Act was a good thing ..."Â  Â  Â  Â Â

https://www.coindesk.com/podcasts/coindesk-podcast-network/us-digital-dollar-protect-privacy

WHO wants to join the *LAST* revolution? The one 
to take down *ALL* the governments!  Anarchism 
is not lack of orders …its lack of *ORDERRS*


TIMOTHY " An anonymous computerized market will 
even make possible abhorrent markets for 
assassinations and extortion " C. MAY 1992


TIM " I guess now that the Pentagon is setting 
up a murder pool it can't be illegal for us to do it " MAY. 2003

Re: The National: Colonial Pipeline’s ransom recov ery sparks debate on Bitcoin traceability

[John Young]

This critique is applicable to all forms of 
comsec/infosec/anonymity/Tor although the 
incessant promotion various means to escape being 
hacked, tracked, decrypted, identified appears to 
be unstoppable due to the monetization and 
assurances of protection for internet users by 
predators and bullshitters working hand in hand 
with authorities which are extremely pleased with 
the aiders and abetters, not a few which came 
into prominance and profitability on this shewd 
mail list and its offshoots, luring gullible 
readers into capacious honeypots, watering holes, 
stings, dark markets, cults of dead cows 
exploitation, enlistment into spy agencies and 
professorships and law offices and NGOs and financial theiveries..


"PGP and Gnupgp," "PRZ," "RSA," "AES," "open 
source," "digital cash," "e-gold," "bitcoin," 
"Satoshi," "work around censorship," "don't trust 
governments," "write code," "assassination 
politics," "EFF," "WikiLeaks." Hut, two, three, four.


Some have died on public duty, others smeared, 
imprisoned and exiled, quite a few gone onto 
dreary jobs in the security industry bossed, 
herded, contemned, retired by MBA lunkheads 
reaping top benefits over the grunts chained to 
computers deranged by dreams of what could have 
been and maybe still can be. Get sec vaxed, 
often, jabbed with updates unending as wars. Best 
to cooperate, deliver speeches, grab bounties, 
warn of threats, dismiss opponents.


At 02:05 PM 6/12/2021, David Barrett wrote:
I am very confused why anyone thinks Bitcoin is 
untraceable, anonymous, or anything less than a 
privacy disaster.  It is literally the least 
private currency ever devised: once I know your 
wallet, I know truly everything you have ever 
done back to the very start.  Bitcoin is as 
private as sharing all your credit card 
purchases via twitter: yes, very noisy, but 
totally in the open (and "mixing" things 
between wallets is just silly -- computers can 
unwind all that in a millisecond). Â


If you have a mapping of "human identity to 
wallet" (which the government nearly always has 
because virtually every path to convert BTC to 
USD/EUR/etc is regulated), then no matter how 
many intermediate steps and secret wallets are 
used as some kind of "factoring" approach toward 
money laundering, you can always figure out who 
is being paid by whom.  In fact, it's *easier* 
for the FBI to unwind your laundering via BTC 
than normal banks, because normal banks *have 
shitloads of privacy protections and subpoena requirements that BTC doesn't*.


The only way it's private is if you skip every 
exchange, but that's the classic tradeoff of 
privacy for convenience -- yes, there are lots 
of ways to maintain your privacy inconveniently, 
and BTC is just one more.  And if the only way 
to truly do anonymous transfers is by meeting up 
in person to exchange cash for a keydrive 
containing a wallet private key, then BTC is 
really no better on the privacy/convenience 
spectrum than just handing someone a suitcase of gold.


Blockchain is great and all, but in none of the 
ways people investing in it claim.


-david






On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 7:13 AM jim bell 
<jdb10...@yahoo.com> wrote:


The National: Colonial Pipeline’s ransom 
recovery sparks debate on Bitcoin traceability.


https://www.thenationalnews.com/business/technology/colonial-pipeline-s-ransom-recovery-sparks-debate-on-bitcoin-traceability-1.1238908

Re: Fwd: Issue 18655016: Server involved in fraud at 65.50.255.19

[John Young]

These: Privacy and security breaches are user's fault, not that of IP 
providers or infosec/comsec sellers and experts. Law enforcement and 
spies always get anything they want and lie. Cyber pearl harbors, 
privacy threats, secure drops, hacks, leaks, bitcoin, ransom, viruses ...


At 03:28 PM 6/7/2021, Greg Newby wrote:

Netcraft says, "Never mind."
  ~ Greg

Re: The Gentleperson's Guide To Forum Spies (spooks, feds, etc.)

[John Young]

Yes, all that, assures the Internet is addictive.

At 04:56 PM 5/31/2021, Greg Newby wrote:

John,

On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 07:30:06PM -0400, John Young wrote:
> Greg, these complaints seem to fit the 
disruptive practices of attackers described here:

>
> https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm
>
> Maybe coincidental but not the first to aim 
at messing with the list. Other lists have been 
wiped out with endless bitches, accusations, demand for attention.


Of possible interest, here is an extract from a 
WWII-era field manual on sabotage. It highlights 
a variety of mechanisms to monkey-wrench organizations:



Techniques for General Interference with Organizations and Production.

Extracted from Project Gutenberg's eBook #26184 
(https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184).


SIMPLE SABOTAGE FIELD MANUAL STRATEGIC SERVICES FIELD MANUAL No. 3

(11) General Interference with Organizations and Production

(a) Organizations and Conferences (1) Insist on 
doing everything through "channels." Never 
permit short-cuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.


(2) Make "speeches." Talk as frequently as 
possible and at great length. Illustrate your 
"points" by long anecdotes and accounts of 
personal experiences. Never hesitate to make a 
few appropriate "patriotic" comments.


(3) When possible, refer all matters to 
committees, for "further study and 
consideration." Attempt to make the committees 
as large as possible -- never less than five.


(4) Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.

(5) Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.

(6) Refer back to matters decided upon at the 
last meeting and attempt to re-open the question 
of the advisability of that decision.


(7) Advocate "caution." Be "reasonable" and urge 
your fellow-conferees to be "reasonable" and 
avoid haste which might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on.


(8) Be worried about the propriety of any 
decision -- raise the question of whether such 
action as is contemplated lies within the 
jurisdiction of the group or whether it might 
conflict with the policy of some higher echelon.


(b) Managers and Supervisors

(1) Demand written orders.

(2) "Misunderstand" orders. Ask endless 
questions or engage in long correspondence about 
such orders. Quibble over them when you can.


(3) Do everything possible to delay the delivery 
of orders. Even though parts of an order may be 
ready beforehand, don't deliver it until it is completely ready.


(4) Don't order new working materials until your 
current stocks have been virtually exhausted, so 
that the slightest delay in filling your order will mean a shutdown.


(5) Order high-quality materials which are hard 
to get. If you don't get them argue about it. 
Warn that inferior materials will mean inferior work.


(6) In making work assignments, always sign out 
the unimportant jobs first. See that the 
important jobs are assigned to inefficient workers of poor machines.


(7) Insist on perfect work in relatively 
unimportant products; send back for refinishing 
those which have the least flaw. Approve other 
defective parts whose flaws are not visible to the naked eye.


(8) Make mistakes in routing so that parts and 
materials will be sent to the wrong place in the plant.


(9) When training new workers, give incomplete or misleading instructions.

(10) To lower morale and with it, production, be 
pleasant to inefficient workers; give them 
undeserved promotions. Discriminate against 
efficient workers; complain unjustly about their work.


(11) Hold conferences when there is more critical work to be done.

(12) Multiply paper work in plausible ways.  Start duplicate files.

(13) Multiply the procedures and clearances 
involved in issuing instructions, pay checks, 
and so on. See that three people have to approve everything where one would do.


(14) Apply all regulations to the last letter.

(c) Office Workers

(1) Make mistakes in quantities of material when 
you are copying orders. Confuse similar names. Use wrong addresses.


(2) Prolong correspondence with government bureaus.

(3) Misfile essential documents.

(4) In making carbon copies, make one too few, 
so that an extra copying job will have to be done.


(5) Tell important callers the boss is busy or talking on another telephone.

(6) Hold up mail until the next collection.

(7) Spread disturbing rumors that sound like inside dope.

(d) Employees

(1) Work slowly. Think out ways to increase the 
number of movements necessary on your job: use a 
light hammer instead of a heavy one, try to make 
a small wrench do when a big one is necessary, 
use little force where considerable force is needed, and so on.


(2) Contrive as many interruptions to your work 
as you can: when changing the material on which 
you are working, as you would on a lathe or 
punch, take nee

Re: List Status

[John Young]

Greg, these complaints seem to fit the disruptive practices of attackers 
described here:

https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm

Maybe coincidental but not the first to aim at messing with the list. Other 
lists have been wiped out with endless bitches, accusations, demand for 
attention.

Good job you're doing, amazing patience.


-Original Message-
>From: Greg Newby 
>Sent: May 25, 2021 5:35 PM
>To: Karl 
>Cc: cypherpunks 
>Subject: Re: List Status
>
>On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 01:10:50PM -0400, Karl wrote:
>> On 5/25/21, Greg Newby  wrote:
>> > Hi, Karl. The list was a bit quiet yesterday. Perhaps cpunks were outside 
>> > in
>> > the Big Blue, or otherwise engaged. I sent a note that you should have
>> > received.
>> 
>> I found it (but never received it):
>> https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2021-May/087696.html
>> 
>> Guess it's an issue with me receiving things via gmail.
>
>The Gmail filter that Tom suggested might help.
>
>As mentioned, I can try to diagnose messages that don't go through, but it's 
>tough to do unless I know the specific message in question, and when it's 
>sent. This is because we get around 1M lines/day in the mail log, invariably 
>including multiple similar messages to the cypherpunks subscriber list.
>
>Yes, I realize it's hard to know when a message does NOT arrive, unless you 
>are watching the archive at the same time as you are watching your inbox.
>
>More:
>
>> > On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 12:11:26PM -0400, Karl wrote:
>> >> Hey Greg,
>> >>
>> >> Can you confirm that people _subscribed_ to the list experience a spam
>> >> filter now?  I thought my emails were getting spammed due to not being
>> >> subscribed, but it turns out this address is, actually, subscribed; I
>> >> was told this when I attempted subscribing.
>> >
>> > Yes, there are a few standard spam filters and related mechanisms on the
>> > server. This includes Spamassassin, DKIM, SPF, and DMARC. These have been 
>> > in
>> > place since the list moved to pglaf.org a few years ago.
>> 
>> When you said "Any subscriber email address can post anything" at
>> https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2021-May/087482.html I
>> thought you meant that there as no spam filtering of subscribed posts.
>> I infer I misunderstood.
>
>I over-generalized. It's true if the spam filtering doesn't reject it, or 
>another failure condition, like temporary network outages. Or exceeding the 
>max message size (I think it's 20M).
>
>What I really meant not "can post" but "is permitted to post." Or, "is not 
>restricted from posting based on topic etc." More simply stated, there's no 
>moderation of list traffic, other than the types of automation that Mailman 
>(the list manager software), Postfix (the message transfer agent) or related 
>elements of the email stack apply.
>
>> My perception of cypherpunks has been of a list where no posts are
>> censored, it being up to the users to filter their mails.  Do you have
>> a memory of this?
>
>Sure (I've been on the list since the year 2000 or so). One way this used to 
>be handled was with remailers. Some remailers were completely unfiltered - for 
>example, they would accept random SMTP connections to port 25 and not do any 
>checks that the email headers were valid or accurate.
>
>John Gilmore's toad.com was canonical for this, but not the only member of the 
>remailer circle. Subscribers would choose a remailer to subscribe to. In 
>addition to choosing a level of comfort for spam and some noisier subscribers, 
>the remailer system made cypherpunks more resistant to state-level shutdowns. 
>(It didn't make it less susceptible to surveillance, particullarly, and it 
>also made the whole system more prone to various problems like delivery 
>failure and message loops.)
>
>There were other remailers that had different procedures (i.e., stricter), 
>which translated into less spam (in the "unsolicited commercial email" sense). 
>For awhile, there was at least one moderated remailer where a human tried to 
>only let the "good" stuff through. 
>
>Today, the cypherpunks list doesn't have anyone doing censorship. However, it 
>does use a set of standard mechanisms for limiting abuse. I already mentioned 
>Spamassassin (one of many, many spam filters), and the trio of standards: 
>DMARC, DKIM and SPF.
>
>In addition, the server enables TLS and a few other things to make it more 
>difficult to spoof someone else's email address (i.e., to send email as 
>bill.ga...@microsoft.com or somesuch; or email the cypherpunks list claiming 
>to be a subscriber -- a common way, in olden times, of sending spam or of 
>impersonating someone else).
>
>A less restricted remailer is definitely still possible, and could 
>interoperate alongside the current system, just like remailers used to 
>interoperate. Someone (not me) would need to set that up.
>
>> > I have not observed any messages from you that were flagged as spam or
>> > rejected.
>> 
>> Do you receive this link 

Re: GNU FSF: Richard Stallman Returns

[John Young]

Stallman came by to vacate his recently died mother's condo when a 
neighbor offered condolences in the lobby. The total shit handed her 
his business card, growled give me a call, sweetheart.





At 04:59 PM 4/2/2021, you wrote:

> https://rms-support-letter.github.io/
> https://github.com/rms-support-letter/rms-support-letter.github.io/
>
> Petition for freespeech, against cancel culture...

The support for RMS campaign currently now has 67% more sigs
than the cancel culture campaign does, jumping 48% since last.
Cancel culture losing.


More sordid from land of virtual signallers...
https://debian.community/molly-de-blanc-arrest-and-prosecution-for-cyberbullying/
https://debian.community/paul-tagliamonte-debian-usds-white-house-mob-ringleader/

https://uncensored.debian.community/
https://danielpocock.com/positive-alternatives-to-codes-of-conduct/

Re: The Verge: A hacker who exposed Verkada’s surv eillance camera snafu has been raided

[John Young]

A rash of leakers are bragging about their 
releases, as if building cred for soliciting 
invitations to cooperate with authorities, the 
Sabu gambit, or Assange, but much more by 
Snowden. Hard to tell whether these are 
individuals and cohorts are acting alone or if 
official undercover operations hiding in plain sight.


Pseudos, crypto, hacks, Tor, SecureDrops, 
deep/dark web, cybersecurity, privacy, malware, 
ransomware and ilk, lipsticked by press freedom 
and 1A, come across as organized mafia working 
both sides of the disnformation fence.




At 01:25 PM 3/14/2021, you wrote:

The nail that sticks out gets hammered flat.

On Sun, Mar 14, 2021, 4:51 PM jim bell 
<jdb10...@yahoo.com> wrote:
The Verge: A hacker who exposed Verkada’s 
surveillance camera snafu has been raided.



https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/12/22328344/tillie-kottmann-hacker-raid-switzerland-verkada-cameras 

Sky Global Indictment, March 12, 2021

[John Young]

Sky Global Indictment, March 12, 2021

https://cryptome.org/2021/03/sky-indictment.pdf (2MB)

Via Vice/Joseph Cox:

"Only second time DoJ has charged operators of an encrypted phone firm."

Re: Hacked security camera

[John Young]

Hackers becoming more like seaborne pirates preying on unarmed 
vessels. Soon they willl turn on each other after being enlisted by 
authorities. Actually, that has already happened, quite a few hacks 
have been dislosed as stings. Lessons learned from duplicitous 
cryptography and its bastard child, cybersecurity.


A kiss for Professor Rat, stinger.

At 07:07 PM 3/9/2021, you wrote:

Hackers breached security company Verkada to access 150,000 cameras 
https://mol.im/a/9344335 via 
http://dailym.ai/android

Re: The FBI Should Stop Attacking Encryption and Tell Congress About All the Encrypted Phones Its Already Hacking Into

[John Young]

Worth considering that FBI's public critique of encryption is (has 
always been) a cover for their cracking capablities.


This is standard disinformation for spies, natsec, budgets, lately 
for the mushrooming, bloated cybersecurity  industry.


Coming on strong for disinfo is capacious leaking, malware, 
ransomware, election interference, foreign hacking, and seemingly 
unstoppable prattle about press freedom.


Privacy and anonymity are the monsters of disinfo even as all the 
advocates boost their income with warnings and letting their log 
files be subpoened, hacked, siphoned, stolen, harvested, third 
partied with lousy data protection, inept administrators, corruptible 
executives.


To be sure, the entire internet is a boondoggle and none of it is 
trustworthy, but is gradually becoming as much of an uncontrollable 
invention as the atomic bomb, both US creations, and both with a bevy 
of orignal inventors apologizing for what they wrought, reaped 
rewards and honors for, propose useless ways of correcting, bemoan 
futile proliferation.


At 01:39 PM 3/9/2021, you wrote:


https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/fbi-should-stop-attacking-encryption-and-tell-congress-about-all-encrypted-phones

Re: With a little help of friends...

[John Young]

Stick around, there have been onslaughts of 
repugnant creeps and geeks and misfits since 
cpunks beginning. They dump their shit then move 
on, a few come back with even stinkier droppings. 
Set your filter to trash, spamblock, kill the 
motherfuckers, well, not the last, that is the 
kind of narcissistic compliment they most beg 
for. Courtesy enrages and disempowers them, so keep that up.


A guide to the self-pleasuring, circle-jerking pseudonymous-needy bullies:

https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm



At 08:30 AM 2/6/2021, Cecilia Tanaka wrote:
Still alive.  Thanks until the end, now or 
never. My kind of stalkers are not good people. 
I am convinced of their guilty.  Killers, torturers.



Please, save my beloved ones.   I know you all are much better than me.Â

Many thanks.  If the worse happens, it was a 
honor and a happiness to meet you all, virtually 
or in person.  Always will love you.  The world is not so big.Â

Re: Cryptome down?

[John Young]

Up and down, not sure the cause, nothing seems amiss with the server. 
Outage began yesterday.


At 03:55 PM 1/9/2021, you wrote:
Last night, I got:  "Bad 
Gateway".  Today, I get this:





An error occurred.



Sorry, the page you are looking for is currently unavailable.
Please try again later.

If you are the system administrator of this resource then you should 
check the error log for details.


Faithfully yours, OpenResty.



 Jim Bell

Re: Assange Granted Bail, to speak today

[John Young]

No, will remain in jail until appeal is decided. Although if science 
is wrong and Einstein right he will forever speak in front of 
Westminster curved space, in front, in front, in front ...



At 05:08 AM 1/6/2021, Se7en wrote:

Assange granted bail. Will speak today on steps of Westminster Court

Ruptly Stream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t8OEn47HYM

--
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/ | 0x0F83F93882CF6116
   /  | https://se7en-site.neocities.org

Re: I listen to Punk-stasi when he tells us he loves pentagon-JEW-Jacob-Appelbaum

[John Young]

Correct. Thanks for noting.

At 04:46 PM 12/13/2020, Sampo Syreeni wrote:

On 2020-12-13, professor rat wrote:

Big mouth, deep arse, Batshit Crazy, must be listened to by every 
self-respecting Nazi when he tells them how much he wants to 'help 
' pentagon-JEW - Jacob Appelbaum.


He might be a she and they might start breeding more Jews.

We have to nip this miscegenation in the bud.


It's not cypher*punk*, fella. It's *cypher*punk. Please behave and 
produce some workable code before coming back. At least that's why I 
keep my head down; if you have nothing to contribute, just shut the fuck up.

--
Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front
+358-40-3751464, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2

Re: Make it rain, baby girl.

[John Young]

Sidney Powell promised a biblical explosion in 
Georgia. That makes biblical sense due to the 
bible being so filled with the worst of human 
behavior that it appeals to the worst in humans, 
condones the worst, accuses the worst, extols the 
worst, tells the worst of tales, extols the worst 
of cruelty, exalts the worst of human violence, 
is cited endlessly to justify punishment above 
kindness. Perfect business ethics, god blessed.


She is for this reason a perfect bitch for a 
perfect genius. So is likely to be the one who 
endures with Trump while the fearful 
sons-of-bitches are fired for firing the "queen 
of mean" (Trump's fav real estate bitch, Leonora Helmsley).


At 08:30 AM 11/23/2020, Peter Fairbrother wrote:

On 22/11/2020 17:47, Robert Hettinga wrote:


So, I’m very prepared to believe Sidney Powell.


Trump just "fired" her 'cos he thought she is even madder than him.


Which is saying something.

Re: I have one thing to say about Jamesd

[John Young]

Quite informative about Tim's home occupant. Got more on the topic?

At 12:11 PM 11/12/2020, you wrote:
Tim May is dead and one of his relatives or close friends who was 
living on the streets of Santa Cruz is living at Tim's home in 
Corralitos. See the Period? That is all.


Rr
Sent from my Androgyne dee-vice

Re: Setting up PGP

[John Young]

Use of any online or digital programs and/or devices for 
comsec/infosec should be avoided unless completely enclosed and 
transmitted with non-online or non-digital means. There are a number 
of non-onlne and non-digital means available, the first and most 
reliable is your brain so long as it is not contaminated with belief 
in online and digital prejudice now over a century in promulgaton. 
The principal efforts for this promulgation is computers, coding, 
obfuscation, propaganda, arcanity, scientism, residual astrology, 
confidence gaming, spouting mantras, i.e., "cypherpunks write code."


https://www.google.com/search?q=cypherpunks+write+code=1C1AOHY_enUS708US708=cypherpunks+write+code=chrome..69i57.5595j0j7=chrome=UTF-8

This oh so cool mantra derives from the magicial, bewitching 
lodestone "national security," the abiding weapon of nations governed 
as royalty, heirarchical, the few overlording the many with force, 
elections, education, faith and trivializing deriviatives of 
entertainment, media, chat, parties, militants, rebels, 
revolutionaries, independents, intellectuals, geniuses, "democracies" 
ruled by  kingdoms of presidents, congresses, courts.


Nonetheless, always a nonetheless apologia for top-down regimes, far 
more rewarding to cooperate with authorities than to defy them, more 
lucrative too. So backdoors in crypto, each and every version, must 
be inherent code, along with outpourings of assurances there are 
workarounds to escape the many and be one of the few. Today, that is 
marketed as "smart."



At 06:23 AM 10/12/2020, Stefan Claas wrote:

Karl wrote:

[...]

> After finding a good candidate airgapped device, you'll want to be
> careful with how you use it.  Remember, whenever a new vulnerability
> is found, trojans cover the world taking advantage of it, and then try
> to find a way to hide inside the corners of all the systems they find.
> So, any drive you put in your new device, anything you plug into it,
> any update you apply, could be filled with computer-measles that would
> find a way to trick it into giving remote control to them.  Keep it
> isolated until you have things set up for use.
>
> The next step after getting a reasonable airgapped device, maybe a pi
> zero, and ideally keeping it isolated, would be to install gnupg on
> it.  Maybe in a forthcoming email!

GnuPG should be already installed with Linux (Raspberian OS etc.). The
thing I would like ask you, how would you communicate securely with your
air-gapped device?

What I did in the past was to install on the online device and offline
device the free (cross-platform) software CoolTerm and I connected both
devices with an FTDI USB to USB cable, so that I could do serial 
communications

and was also able to see how many bytes (from a PGP message) was transfered.

Another approach I am currently playing with is to play with NFC tags and
a reader/writer device, which can be used offline as well.

Regards
Stefan


--
NaClbox: cc5c5f846c661343745772156a7751a5eb34d3e83d84b7d6884e507e105fd675
  The computer helps us to solve problems, we did not have without him.

NSA Releases Under 2010 FOIA Two Formerly Top Secret COMINT Documents

[John Young]

NSA Releases Under 2010 FOIA Two Formerly Top Secret COMINT Documents:

Norman Boardman Interview 1986

https://cryptome.org/2020/10/nsa-boardman-interview-1986.pdf (63 pp, 16MB)

History of Computer Security 1998

https://cryptome.org/2020/10/nsa-history-computer-security-1998.pdf 
(110 pp, 29MB)

Re: Phys.org: Revolutionary quantum breakthrough paves way for safer online communication

[John Young]

Yes, privacy is a lure for siphoning user data. An ancient artifice 
like deity for raising funds for temples. Aka national security. Or 
cryptography. Or cities. Or peoples. Or individuals. Or freedom. Or 
language. Or communcation.


At 02:09 PM 9/6/2020, \\0xDynamite wrote:

You know, maybe all of this encryption/privacy/security concern is
outmoded.  Maybe we're barking up the wrong tree here.  Perhaps we
should just create a happy community of people who know what the fuck
they're doing.  Why have privacy when you can make a community of
trusted people?  , and wait for everyone else to get their head out of
their ass.  Eventually it gets as big as the human population.

Privacy might just be the wrong direction with trusted peers and
keeping out the javascripters.

\0xD

Re: The Paedophile Prince, not -- Re: Democrat 'demon rat' woman attacks another child over MAGA sign on pushbike - [PEACE] [AND] [POLITICS]

[John Young]

Appeal of pedophilia, or any sexual predation, is that it is 
forbidden, by custom, law, religion, belief, psychopathology.


Doesn't matter what the rationale or preventative regulation 
stipulates, so long as it is banned that makes the violation alluring.


If it is okay to do whatever is banned, appeal disappears. The normal 
is a turnoff, so its got to dressed in cosmetics, costume, behavior, 
edict, law, shame, risk, daring, locker room talk, braggardy, you 
know, the stuff marketed by the sex trade, religion, espionage, charm 
school, higher education, vulgarity trainers, prosecutors, lawyers, 
judges, wives and husbands, parents and children being prepared to be 
lasciviously appealing adults.


Stigmatizing porn and masturbation has just about disappeared by 
overflowing marketplaces and behavior sanctioning professions. The 
LBQT dot dot dot is expanding almost as fast as global election 
meddling and lurid entertainment, all lagging and emulating official 
and commercial and religious spying and reporting upsetting information.


War slaughter is the top sexual predation, every human a potential 
actor and victim. Once addicted to massive bloodletting not much can 
compete, although masturbation througn simulations in carnage-rich 
games is racing to outdo the unpleasantly real. Shortly games wizards 
will drive the actual standoff homicides. To be sure, games wizards 
do not expect to be beaten to pulp by more capable punks.


Place your bets on whether CIC Mr. T makes it to November in one 
piece, unfucked.

Re: NSA phone spying didn't stop terrorist

[John Young]

Quite a lot of smoke has been blown about Snowden's operation, 
including the latest court decision and report about stopping 
terrorist attacks.


First, NSA never accurately discloses tthe effect of attacks, leaks, 
disclosures, public service announcements, job applications, FOIA 
responses, answers to inquiries, historical accounts, participations 
in conferences, educational programs, secrecy agreements, lectures, 
memoires of ex-officials, the gamut.


Second, the Snowden operation's history, reporting, lawsuits,, books, 
articles, lectures, speeches, movies, interviews have multiple gaps, 
perforations, speculations, wishful thinkings, disinformation, 
lbald-faced lies, fictions, diversions,, pardon advocacies and 
possibilities, the gamut.


Third, these kind of operations are ancient, repetitive, legendary, 
taught at spy academies, honed and advanced in the agencies, 
universities, copied from  and fed to allies and opponents,, provided 
to publicity and media and educational iintitutions, exchanged with 
contractors and ohter spy agencies, leaked, dropped, hurled, left in 
bars and backseats and trains and bedrooms and forums and on dead 
bodies/ implanted on servers and clouds and classified trransmissions 
(iie, Manning's op and those regularly featured as from unhappy 
insiders, freedom fighters, natsec specialists, vengeful ex-mates and BFFs).


Relevance here is the heavy use of inevitably-failure cryptography 
for classifying, advancing, promoting and disclosing these 
deceptions, along with the welter of tools for obscuring, enticing 
and decorating. Privacy a favorite of the 1990s-2000s.


Notably, Jon Callas has recently joined EFF,

Re: NSA phone spying didn't stop terrorist

[John Young]

Quite a lot of smoke has been blown about Snowden's operation, including the 
latest court decision and report about stopping terrorist attacks.

First, NSA never accurately discloses tthe effect of attacks, leaks, 
disclosures, public service announcements, job applications, FOIA responses, 
answers to inquiries, historical accounts, participations in conferences, 
educational programs, secrecy agreements, lectures, memoires of ex-officials, 
the gamut.

Second, the Snowden operation's history, reporting, lawsuits,, books, articles, 
lectures, speeches, movies, interviews have multiple gaps, perforations, 
speculations, wishful thinkings, disinformation, lbald-faced lies, fictions, 
diversions,, pardon advocacies and possibilities, the gamut.

Third, these kind of operations are ancient, repetitive, legendary, taught at 
spy academies, honed and advanced in the agencies, universities, copied from  
and fed to allies and opponents,, provided to publicity and media and 
educational iintitutions, exchanged with contractors and ohter spy agencies, 
leaked, dropped, hurled, left in bars and backseats and trains and bedrooms and 
forums and on dead bodies/ implanted on servers and clouds and classified 
trransmissions (iie, Manning's op and those regularly featured as from unhappy 
insiders, freedom fighters, natsec specialists, vengeful ex-mates and BFFs).

Relevance here is the heavy use of inevitably-failure cryptography for 
classifying, advancing, promoting and disclosing these deceptions, along with 
the welter of tools for obscuring, enticing and decorating. Privacy a favorite 
of the 1990s-2000s.

Notably, Jon Callas has recently joined EFF,

Re: SKS PGP Keyservers Nodecount Dropping

[John Young]

Has it not been established that all key servers are compromised, 
that's _all_ not just some accused to divert attention from all. The 
compromise is not new just not well understood due to avid promotion 
of crypto as necessary for public and commercial privacy, infosec, 
comsec. CryptoAG is a noteworthy example of the deception but its 
confirmation too is a diversion from more deeply hidden subterfuges.


Then Tor, I2P, CJDNS, Secure Drop, Signal, et al, each eagerly 
boosted than gradually falling in credibility and trustworthiness to 
be succeeded by new borns.


It might be worth pondering Snowden's quite limited "gift to the 
public" as another active measure to bamboozle in the WikiLeaks 
manner, indeed media-born leaks as a principal tool to meddle with 
information and data, not that any digital method can compete with 
the internet itself for that role.


The recent post about crypto's failure to serve the underprivileged, 
citing cypherpunks as an example, is indicative of where a next step 
for injecting compromised sec tools is headed, following bitcoin's 
amazing rise as top tracker of finance under pretense of untraceability.


"Cybersecurity" is booming as education, as jobs, as investments, as 
must have protection and aggression initiatives. Apt that Covid shot 
that CyberPonzi delirium with a sneak attack on the backdoor implanters.


At 07:27 AM 9/2/2020, you wrote:

grarpamp wrote:

> https://sks-keyservers.net/status/
> https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://sks-keyservers.net/status/
>
> Number of servers in pool slowly dropping, might need volunteers at
> some point, including more nodes on Tor, I2P, CJDNS...

The majority of GnuPG users no longer use SKS key servers, due to the
fact of possible attacks on their pub keys. It seems SKS key servers
are nowadays only used for censorship resistant communications.

Todays popular key servers are:

keys.openpgp.org or keys.mailvelope.com, besides Werner Koch's WKD.

Regards
Stefan

Re: The threat of privacy

[John Young]

Good stuff. Thanks.

Reminds that cryptography has led to the loss of 
privacy by tagging crypto users, coders, rebels!, 
promoters, investors. So too cryptocurrency, the 
Internet, anonymizers, TOR, drop boxes, secure 
drops, Signal, Telegram, burst transmissions, 
privacy policies, pro-encryption advocates, 
comsec wizards, the array of promissories one by 
one gobbling gullible adopters urged on by lists 
like this and social media, MSM. financial 
greeders, hackers, leak sites, turncoats needing pensions.


To be sure, "cash' the imaginaire of economists, 
is not the same as paper money which can also be 
tracked by human residue, transactional spoors, 
aggrieved victims, informers, world bank scholars 
under contract to finger malefactors, family 
members eager to payback those who fucked them, dear Mary tell what you know.


At 10:38 AM 8/3/2020, you wrote:


http://www.kahnfrance.com/cmk/The%20threat%20of%20privacy%20distribution%20version.pdf


The Threat of Privacy
By Charles M. Kahn1

Like artists, we academics want to believe that 
if one of our works doesn’t get enough 
attention it’s because we’re ahead of our 
time. I’d like to pretend that everything 
I’ve written is pathbreaking, and will 
eventually be recognized for its true 
importance. But I have to admit that there are 
really only a couple of cases where I can say 
with hindsight that something I wrote has been ahead of its time.


One of them2 is a paper written with Jamie 
McAndrews and Will Roberds, published in 2005, 
and titled “Money is Privacy.” We wrote it 
partly as a response to Narayana 
Kocherlakota’s famous paper “Money is 
Memory,” which could be taken as arguing that 
cash is essentially a record‐keeping device, 
tracking who was a net creditor and who a net 
debtor to society with respect to resources 
provided or consumed. The implication was that 
if it became easy to keep credit records directly, cash could wither away.
In our paper we argued instead that a key role 
of cash was its ability to protect the 
purchaser’s identity. So we predicted that, 
even while the reductions in costs of record 
keeping and increases in the speed of data 
transmission were expanding the usage of 
credit‐ and deposit‐account‐ based 
payments arrangements, cash would survive. 
Because the desire for privacy would always 
generate demand for cash, it would be a 
mistake—and ultimately futile—to attempt to 
abolish it. At the te time, people were attuned 
to many of the problems of privacy, but there 
had not yet been a clear recognized link between 
the value of privacy and the role of payments 
systems. (Remember, bitcoin was only released in 2009).


[...]


1 Keynote address at “Financial Market 
Infrastructure Conference II: New Thinking in a 
New Era” at De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam, 7‐8 June 2017.
2 The other was my dissertation, back in 1980. 
It was on liquidity and the pricing of illiquid 
assets. At that time, no one thought this was an 
important issue in finance: financial markets 
were liquid; everybody “knew” that. So the work went nowhere. Oh well.

Cybersecurity is a Ponzi racket

[John Young]

Wonder how long it will take to reveal cybersecurity is a Ponzi racket.

Profits from commercial harvesting data of online users now exceeds 
the total funding of all the global spy agencies, with a healthy 
chunk of the steal bought by official spies and law enforcement which 
ignore the violation. Edu, orgs and NGOs part of the rotten racket.

Assange Superseding Indictment

[John Young]

"LulzSec (who by then was cooperating with the FBI)"

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/wikileaks-founder-charged-superseding-indictment

"Since the early days of WikiLeaks, Assange has spoken at
hacking conferences to tout his own history as a “famous teenage hacker
in Australia” and to encourage others to hack to obtain information for
WikiLeaks.  In 2009, for instance, Assange told the Hacking At
Random conference that WikiLeaks had obtained nonpublic documents from
the Congressional Research Service by exploiting “a small vulnerability”
inside the document distribution system of the United States Congress,
and then asserted that “[t]his is what any one of you would find if you
were actually looking.”
In 2010, Assange gained unauthorized access to a government computer
system of a NATO country.  In 2012, Assange communicated directly
with a leader of the hacking group LulzSec (who by then was cooperating
with the FBI), and provided a list of targets for LulzSec to hack. 
With respect to one target, Assange asked the LulzSec leader to look for
(and provide to WikiLeaks) mail and documents, databases and pdfs. 
In another communication, Assange told the LulzSec leader that the most
impactful release of hacked materials would be from the CIA, NSA, or the
New York Times.  WikiLeaks obtained and published emails from
a data breach committed against an American intelligence consulting
company by an “Anonymous” and LulzSec-affiliated hacker.  According
to that hacker, Assange indirectly asked him to spam that victim company
again.
In addition, the broadened hacking conspiracy continues to allege that
Assange conspired with Army Intelligence Analyst Chelsea Manning to crack
a password hash to a classified U.S. Department of Defense
computer."
Indictment:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1289641/download

Re: Superseding indictment of Julian Assange as of 6/24/2020

[John Young]

Assange will be sacrificed and discarded by journalists once no 
longer useful. This is a long-standing practice to assure official 
protection and privilege. Assange once advocated this warning but was 
eventully coopted by journalists who joined his team and pushed the 
outreach to duplicitous journalism.


Braying about threat to journalism by Assange's prosecution is a 
deception op conducted in cooperation with authorities. Snowden's 
promoters have admitted consulting with USG on what to publish, what 
to redact, what to withhold. Barton Gellman describes his following 
this CYA standard procedure in Dark Mirror.


WikiLeaks burned sources with loose security, incoherent management, 
Julian's vanity and opportunism, thinking he could use cohorts for 
his purpose without penalty. The indictment outlines the parties he 
enlisted, quite a few likely to have decided to cooperate, like Sabu, 
the "Teenager," maybe Appelbaum, others pseudonymed.


Those he has manipulated will turn against him under pressure from 
prosecutors against them, their families and friends. Same happened 
to Manning, Swartz, kirakou, Hammond, long list of others.


Snowden will eventually be handed over to USG by those he came to 
trust the most. Trust wears thin over time and goosed by planted 
suspicions and doubts, ambition, need for income. And fans are 
notoriously fickle, don't give a shit after the excitement wanes, 
smears are spread, bots and media countermesures are unleashed, 
rewards are offered like Greenwald's "irresistables" undergirding The 
Intercept.


And there is always the AP option for terminating JA. Treachery of 
supporters is too.

Re: [tor] Re: torservers.net future

[John Young]

Barton Gellman claims in Dark Mirror that NSA hacked Tor Browser 
Bundle. (pp.79-81). Snowden warned "disable the fucking Javasripts."


https://twitter.com/Cryptome_/status/1265658170195804164


At 10:27 AM 5/27/2020, you wrote:

From: Vasilis 
To: torserv...@freelists.org
Subject: Re: [tor] Re: torservers.net future

Hi all,

Any news?


Regards,
~Vasilis
--
PGP Fingerprint: 8FD5 CF5F 39FC 03EB B382 7470 5FBF 70B1 D126 0162
PGP Public Key:
https://keys.openpgp.org/vks/v1/by-fingerprint/8FD5CF5F39FC03EBB38274705FBF70B1D1260162

Re: Shame on trolls

[John Young]

My comment was not aimed at you, a number of folks have posted 
requests to enlist supporters, researchers, funders, for their 
projects. A few have repeated the tequests for many months, became 
irate and accusatory at lack of response. Might wonder if the aim 
is/was to grab free work, or proselitize for an ideology, overcome 
loneliness and isolation, front for others, or to just fuck with 
somebody. All these have been happening on cpunks since its earliest 
days. Lack of moderation allows that abuse or promise. Promises have 
sometimes come true. Moderation never delivers on promises, usually 
suppresses them as off-topic or calling them trolls..



At 06:35 PM 5/26/2020, you wrote:


Hey,
It's notable that your software is closed source, and I really 
understand open source as what is expected to be supported on this list.


But Punk-Stasi was "flaming" you and you don't need to listen to 
that.  People aren't censored here.  That means random criticism 
comes through.  Do you need help setting up filters?

K


Nah, one thing is criticism and other is a guy calling you 
repeatedly a scammer when you are showing up your work. That is not 
precisely good taste.


the source code is GPL, but I haven't published it yet, that's all.
Is in the roadmap. For reasons it will be released before 1.0


On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 10:06 AM other.arkitech 
<other.arkit...@protonmail.com> wrote:

Dear readers,
My intention is to respond to a public attack against my honesty 
and the legitimacy of my proposal.


I am pretty annoyed for the behavior of this individual in the list 
towards the system I am presenting here.


I don't know anything about him or her or whether they are a group 
of gansters operating the same moniker.
The only thing I know is that they are pushing my project USPS is a 
SCAM and thus I am a SCAMMER, or the other way around.


I call to everyone willing to read the landing page of my project, 
which I provide a pdf attached,
and, from it and the ideas grasped in this list, manifest IF it 
could be deduced that this is a scam, or looks like. Please manifest.


Otherwise, everyone undermining legitimate and respectable projects 
run by others, in any stage of development, on any stage in their 
roadmap, with counter positive and public undermining attitude.
Those should be IMHO punished with public ashame until an apology 
is published by, in this case, PunkStasi.


I leave it this way,
Please, anyone, let me know reasons for which this email is WRONG 
or/and RIGHT.

Thanks.
--
Other Arkitech

The project this subject airs as a scam: 
http://otheravu4v6pitvw.onion/
Ref: 
https://lists.cpunks.org/pipermail/cypherpunks/2020-May/080648.html

RE: Shame on trolls

[John Young]

Trying to enlist list or SM members in a groveling campaign of 
self-promotion is as pandemical online as off. Aggrieved lament at 
minimal interest is a necessary fart let, expecting some kind idler 
to come forth with a deodorant, or a mean ass-wipe to hurl turds at 
the stank bitch pleader.


Here you are, this is where to wiggle into a troll-fish-trap.

Re: tor replacement - was Re: Box for simple Tor node.

[John Young]

So long as it is much more profitable to prevent 
and damage cybersecurity it is unlikely that any 
scheme for reliable and trustworthy public 
cybersecurity will be developed for any longer 
than it takes to monetize it, following a 
campaign to generate public trust with freeware 
and high recommendations of experts already 
deeply compromized (that's what experts means).


This has been the pattern for as long as 
insecurity and fear has been promoted by 
authoritarians, revolutionaries and "freedom fighters."


Challengers of authority inevitably betray 
believers for king's coin and/or other 
irresistable rewards. The only sec methods that 
publicly protect as expected are the ones never 
heard about, used briefly, disappear without a 
trace. "Never heard about," "used briefly," and 
"disappear without a trace" are obviously 
deception marketing tools. "Obviously deception marketing tools" too.


Mea culpa. This is freeware. Don't click it.

At 02:17 PM 5/8/2020, you wrote:
Excellent.  I should mention that I have 
focussed on Raspberry Pi 4 merely because it was 
new, and seemed to be quite capable of serving 
as a anonymization node.  If anything, we might 
call it "over-capable", but in the computer 
world that's not necessarily a bad 
thing.  Standardized devices, especially if they 
are manufactured in huge quantity, become more 
economical. If somebody has an alternative idea 
for the hardware, now would be an excellent time to speak up.


 They also tend to be studied more intensely 
than obscure, low-volume devices, I would 
imagine.  What's the old saying, something like 
"Yes, we're paranoid, but I sometimes wonder if 
we are paranoid 
ENOUGH?" 
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/876669-yes-i-m-paranoid-but-am-i-paranoid-enough



One big improvement that I think we've settled 
on should be done is to implement 'chaff' into 
the protocol. 'chaff' might have been a problem 
if the people who host the nodes had some 
limited-data Internet service, but I am aware 
that Centurylink now offers 1 gigabit service 
for $65 monthly, and I think that service has no 
monthly data limit.  (their slower services have 
a 1 terabyte montly limit).  That should be 
plenty to allow for generous chaff.


 I also thought of an idea to encrypt, or at 
least combine the outputs of two output nodes 
to generate the final data.   Why?   It is 
frequently (and quite wisely!) recommended that 
a home-user NOT act as an output node, for fear 
of being held liable (civilly or criminally) 
for plaintext that comes out of an output 
node.  But I think there is a solution.  Don't 
output plaintext, encrypt it somewhat so 
'nobody' can simply point to it and declare, 
"There goes that forbidden data, again!".


One idea, mine, is to output TWO 
seemingly-random files, from two different 
output nodes, which when XOR'd with each other 
regenerates the (suspicious?) data.  Another 
possibility is to encrypt the output with a 
symmetrical key, and perhaps deliver the key 
from another node.  Not so much to make the data 
REALLY secure, but instead merely turn it into 
seemingly-randomized data that cannot be 
labelled 'suspicious' merely by monitoring the node's output.


Why shouldn't ordinary people be able to run an 
anonymization node, and even an output node, if these precautions are taken?



My point about the lifetime of SD cards was 
simply that if it used 'frequently', they might 
wear out.  But, if they are only used for 
program storage and settings, that won't be a problem.


  Jim Bell



On Friday, May 8, 2020, 01:51:58 AM PDT, 
other.arkitech  wrote:



I've been running USPS on a network of raspberry pis.
You anonymization layer project is very aligned 
with my cryptoplatform project, and they both could be the same thing.
with respect to wearing out the SD cards I have 
Raspberry pis older than 2 years runing the 
blockchain protocol and I haven detected failures in any of the _60 nodes


best
OA


Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Friday, May 8, 2020 8:35 AM, jim bell  wrote:



It turns out that in two months, I will have 
the opportunity to announce this project at a 
convention.  I will be happy to do so if it 
appears that there will be sufficient progress 
in the next two months.  A fairly firm 
commitment by someone to write the software 
would be an excellent start.And, this 
announcement MAY lead to some financing of the project.


The main question, other than the financing, is 
the programming of the software.  Has there been any progress on this matter?



  Jim Bell




On Monday, December 9, 2019, 11:39:10 AM PST, 
jim bell  wrote:




I hope people haven't fotten about the idea for 
making  an alternate anonymization system.  The 
hardware requirements almost write 
themselves.  Yes, there was some 

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Re: [Privacy] Snowden Warns Governments Are Using Coronavirus to Build 'the Architecture of Oppression'

[John Young]

At 09:04 PM 4/9/2020, you wrote:
Snowden Warns Governments Are Using Coronavirus to Build 'the 
Architecture of Oppression'


<https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bvge5q/snowden-warns-governments-are-using-coronavirus-to-build-the-architecture-of-oppression>


Bear in mind that leaker's information ages into less significance, 
other than historical, as sources respond to the leaks with 
replacements and innovations.


Leaks are left unchallenged, even promoted and initiated, by sources 
to serve as alluring camouflage for current operations.


Some wizards claim leaks and leakers were invented and sustained for 
this purpose. Prosecutons and demonization and publicity and 
legislation are tools of the deceptive ops.


FOIA a particularly manipulative technique, redactions and 
classification markings applied for verisimilitude. So too the tiny 
yellow dots and other traces.


Others: Encryption and anonymizers, drop boxes, whispers to journos, 
aggrieved insiders and loose-lipped contractors, inspector generals, 
congressional briefings, sex entrapments, privacy protection NGOs, 
hired and coerced bots, trolls and hackers, iimplants in hardware and 
software, compromised communcations and internet workers and admins, 
lawyers, priests, psychiatrists and other supposedly confidential advisers.


Roll your own narcotic of outsmarting the mofos, peddle the product 
of secrecy and oppression.

Re: USA: federal capital punishment back on agenda (after 16 years) - [PEACE]

[John Young]

If the law is passed it might be grounds to block Assange's 
extradition on espionage charges, since, reportedly, UK does not 
extradite to capital punishment nations (although thinks black sites 
for accidental-death torture are god's will be done).


Nor doesn't mean that UK would not obediently also legalize official 
murder to make Big Turd and Toe Jam Barr happy. Action Official 
Secrets Act protected. Ka-chink.


What's the bounty for handing over Julian (by way of Gitmo)?


At 08:50 PM 4/7/2020, you wrote:

  US Appeals Court Greenlights Trump's Plan to Restore Federal Executions

https://sputniknews.com/us/202004071078868476-us-appeals-court-greenlights-trumps-plan-to-restore-federal-executions/

  The ruling issued by the US Court of Appeals for the District 
of Columbia Circuit could effectively pave the way for carrying out 
the first death penalty at the federal level since 2003.


  The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit 
has issued a 2-1 ruling in favour of resuming federal executions by 
eliminating an injunction that blocked four capital punishment 
sentences from being carried out.


  In December, the US Supreme Court blocked a request by the 
Trump administration to resume federal executions after a 
16-year-long hiatus. The White House announced its intention to 
resume federal capital punishments in July.


  The death penalty is currently banned in 21 US states. 
Executions are normally carried out by states rather than the 
federal government.


  Capital punishment by the US federal government can be given 
for treason, espionage, murder, and several other serious crimes.


  The last federal execution took place on 18 March 2003 
against a former soldier for rape and murder. He was given a lethal injection.

NatSec Threated by COVID

[John Young]

Military weapons crews densely packed: bombers, subs, ships, tanks, 
signals, ICBM, missile batteries; Bradleys; spy control rooms, sex 
traps, drops; AF1 and HMX1; telecom hubs, cables and sat dishes; 
covert ops and NOCs; equipment factories and programming; Gitmo and 
ilk; commander in chief operations; military command and control; 
continuity of government; Situation Room Center; comsec and infosec 
inventing, deploying, encrypting, decrypting, malwaring, hacking, 
implanting, transmitting, retrieving, authenticating, intercepting; 
housing and managing informers, betrayers; FBI and FISA court 
contaminating; grand juries and prosecutions.

Re: PGP key Inevitably Faulty

[John Young]

Digital encryption is inherently faulty due to the incompatibility of 
physical and electromagnetic. At the electron level there might be 
electronic security but getting from that level to the human 
accessible level is insurmountable.


Encryption products fudge the linkage with smoke and mirror analogues.

"Pretty good" is one of the few crypto products which accurately 
describe what is possible. All the others exaggerate, exculpate for 
inevitable failures, prevaricate, slickly market, promise to do 
better with upgrades and/or new.


Lately, comsec wizards market claims that's the best we can do, live 
with it, agitate for privacy legislation. Or cite Snowden's 
racketeering, SecureDrop, Signal, and continuous snake oiling.


Full Disclosure web site covers this endless apologia pretty good.

Background for the skeptical:

The Inevitability of Failure: The Flawed Assumption of Security in 
Modern Computing Environments (NSA, 1998)


https://cryptome.org/jya/paperF1.htm

STELLARWIND report and how it was discussed in Snowden's memoir

[John Young]

STELLARWIND report and how it was discussed in Snowden's memoir:

https://www.electrospaces.net/2020/03/edward-snowden-and-stellarwind-report.html

Re: military lock down in 2 weeks, possibly/probably -- [gilma...@gmail.com: From a reliable friend]

[John Young]

Trump is notorious for promoting amazingly good news and 
profitability, building up debt backed by public assurances, 
subsidies and tax avoidance, then when the paper-mache-of-contracts 
construction collapses, walking away hooting with banks debt is good 
for the economy, creates jobs, win-win-win. This is his long-time 
method of operation to shift profits to himself and huge debts to the 
public. National debt the sweetest of honey and myrrh for believers 
in take the money and run.


He is hardly alone in this, to be sure, national security-based 
econo-olitical systems, engorged by fabricated, exaggerated threats 
to nations ever renewed by secret reports and periodic outbursts of 
violence, natural or man-made, are the most common form of government 
and has been since the racket was invented, taught in schools and 
churches, bribed in clubs and parades, venerated in cemetaries and 
monuments and marble piles and luxurious estates.


If "invisible threat" coronavirus had not been cooked up by 
shamanistic scientists, handmaids of natsec, it would be something 
like it. Apple drop innocence killed.


Wait, wait, is this not Trump/Breibart/Stormer/Alex Jones/Fox 
News/Internet putrid bullshit par excellence, mes amis?


Cough, cough, katchoo, snot splatter your paraniod naked face.

Cpunk Carl Johnson "CJ" "Toto": Listen To Me, Or Don't. *I* Am Listening To Me...

[John Young]

From: PerformanceArt PerformanceArt 
Subject: Listen To Me, Or Don't.  *I* Am Listening To Me...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/dollar-dips-early-trading-kiwi-204656151.html

It was a few weeks ago, when I was incrementally buying small 
quantities of food, silver and gold, and sanitizing supplies---while 
being laughed at---that I saved, as a reminder, a couple of articles 
that basically said, "WTF?  This Financial/Medical Crisis Is 
***DIFFERENT*** than the ones that have come before."
Over a decade ago I bought five gallon buckets of 'survival' 
supplies and a quantity of precious metals and then stored them.  I 
didn't 'warn' anyone to do the same, or proclaim that I was 
particularly more astute or smarter than those who didn't do so.  In 
fact, I didn't particularly think that was the case.  I merely 
thought it was a good move, like financial advisers who suggest that 
one 'diversify' their risk between competing markets.
In the recent 'ascent' of the current 'crisis' I have been ahead of 
the curve in getting out in front of it and the actions I have taken 
have, so far, proven to have increased the survival and 
sustainability of myself and those I love.

Maybe I have just been 'lucky' or maybe I have been 'right'...
It doesn't matter, because my sole purpose for this missive is to 
urge my friends and family to give serious, rational thought to the 
events that are currently taking place and to realize that they have 
to take *responsibility* for their future and their ability to care 
for those they love and humanity in general.
The article I have shared, above, is the 'first sign' of the US 
dollar 'weakening' and beginning to stumble.  Just like the 'first 
signs' that the coronavirus was going to cause some problems.  The 
Russians purposefully abandoned the OPEC alliance in order to throw 
a monkey wrench into the current state of our non-renewable 
resources economy.  Not because they have *bad* intentions, but 
because they are looking for the best forward path for their own 
country, economy and people.  Saudi Arabia then took further 
actions, in retaliation, because they are MORONS who don't fully 
understand that they are playing into the hands of other countries, 
like Russia and China, that are jockeying for position in replacing 
the US as the go-to safe haven investment/currency source. Many 
things are 'happening' and 'changing' behind the scenes that you and 
I aren't privy to.
Do you want my *prediction* about how it is all going to play 
out?  Sorry, don't have a clue...
All I want to communicate to my friends and family is that things 
are 'different' than they have been up to this point in time.  I 
have two copies of 'The Black Swan' so current events haven't 'surprised' me.
Stock up on whatever you need to carry you through uncertain 
times.  Get yourself some precious metals, some CryptoCurrency and a 
supply...dare I say 'hoard'?...of good, old-fashioned fiat 
currency.  If any of the foregoing 'hits the skids' the others will 
vastly increase in value.  Have you ever had anyone tell you they 
wouldn't accept a pound of gold for a loaf of bread?  Me neither...


Breaking News:  Science Has Proven That If You Plant A Garden You 
Are Less Likely To Go Hungry!
All I am saying, is that the only thing you can 'hoard' that has the 
possibility of 'saving' you is...common sense.  If you are receiving 
this email, it is because I love you and that is what I want you to know.


Your government may send you a check for a thousand dollars, to help 
you out.  Or a million, and coupons for a thousand loaves of 
bread.  The coronavirus may kill millions and totally destroy our 
financial structure or it may just go away tomorrow.  It has 
happened before.  The last 'crisis' came to the point where 
everybody, those in power and the common citizen, wondered if 
everything was going to 'implode' and destroy civilization as we 
know it.  It was avoided and we all went, "Whew!" and continued on 
as if nothing had happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_economic_crises?fbclid=IwAR1l1qqua4SDLDohsb_E0LmLie0mybBSd1SU41QyjIxO3ookxsSJezvjEY0
If you want to PANIC!!!

1st century
The Financial Panic of AD 33.
The result of the mass issuance of unsecured loans by main Roman 
banking houses.

Well, it's been done before...many times...and we're still here.

So, here's the deal...
What should you be doing in 'a time of crisis?'  You should be doing 
what you should have been doing all along.  And you *know* what that 
is...for you.  I can't give you any advice, because I know what is 
right for me, and you know what is right for you.  Saint Peter 
denied Christ three times, then picked himself up and did what he 
knew he needed to do.  Buddha sat under a tree until he 'figured it 
out' 

NIST Provides Comprehensive Resources for Secure Teleworking

[John Young]

NIST Provides Comprehensive Resources for Secure Teleworking

 
https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/itl-bulletin/2020/03/security-for-enterprise-telework-remote-access-and-byod/final

https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-46r2.pdf

Confessions Of A Bikini Waxer: The Dirty Truth

[John Young]

https://medium.com/refinery29/confessions-of-a-bikini-waxer-the-dirty-truth-19bde48c0d3a

How many vaginas do you see a day?
About 10 a day.

Are all vaginas different?
Actually, they're mostly the same. I've only seen a handful of very 
different-looking ones.


How many people get their asshole waxed?
The majority. The odd one might say, 'Oh no, that doesn't bother me' 
but most people get it done.


What's the one thing you wish people would do before they come for a wax?
I just wish everyone prepared. Going to the toilet before they come 
into the room, and cleaning themselves. I go over the area with a 
cleanser anyway, but I think it is the client's responsibility. If 
you're coming from work, or whatever, then just wiping yourself down 
makes a big difference for me.  

Joshua Schulte Trial Huge Collection

[John Young]

https://hunter.ddosecrets.com/datasets/86

https://data.ddosecrets.com/file/Joshua%20Schulte.7z (813MB)

Checks from the government

[John Young]

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2020/03/checks-government?utm_source=govdelivery

283,549 Road Users Deaths for 2020, Compared to 6,685 Coronoavirus Deaths

[John Young]

283,549 Road Users Deaths for 2020, Compared to 6,685 Coronoavirus Deaths

1,354,840 Road Users Deaths in 2019

https://extranet.who.int/roadsafety/death-on-the-roads/

Re: list of people censored on lists.debian.org

[John Young]

Zenaan, it's a pleasure to see compliments and courtesy on this 
robotic, rude, intolerant, prejudiced, cantankerous, bilious, 
insulting, repugnant, monotously accusatory, blathering, 
knee-jerking, cowardly-psuedo-abusive, dot dot dot, forum.


At 07:46 AM 3/15/2020, you wrote:

On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 11:26:27AM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> On 14/03/2020 14:17, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > Hi Daniel,
> > your ongoing battle appears to be staunch, humorous, 
challenging, depressing, and uplifting all at the same time.  We feel for ya.

>
> Thanks for your feedback
>
> I'm not an LWN subscriber so I can neither see nor comment on the thread
> you mentioned.

I emailed you a copy.


> But from the title, I derived this:
> https://danielpocock.com/handling-attacks-on-volunteers-and-their-families/

Damn bro, thank you so much for sharing your story!

These lines:

.. "People tried to give me orders about what I can and can't 
tell the community who elected me to represent them."


.. "If you have any doubts about this, you can check the DM 
keyring log, why would they move me to the DM keyring if I had done 
anything that would remotely justify an expulsion? Anybody on the 
DM keyring can still upload all of their packages.  In what kind of 
organization do you expel or fire somebody and still keep asking 
them to do stuff for you like that?"


.. [from a linked email] "Ian, How can you consider post hoc 
evidence gathering and justification to be ethical?"



just absolutely nails it for me!


Again, thank you for sharing, and thank you for your living of your 
principles!


It is clear to many that not only Debian, but many other places in 
FLOSS land have been overrun by petty Nazis, and fragile snowflake 
like ones in particular.



> > I'm wondering if you ever subscribed to the cypherpunks mailing 
list last year?  It's a small community, but passionate, and at 
least so far as the law allows, uncensored.

> >
> > If it floats yer boat, perhaps join the rest of us outcast 
n.ggers at the cypherpunks corral ;)

>
> It sounds interesting but the biggest challenge for me is always to
> serve the users.  That's what being a real Debian Developer is about, it
> is written in the Debian Social Contract, point #4.
>
> With users in mind, I'm working on some tools to neutralize harassment
> and abuse, for example, a Mozilla Thunderbird MailExtensions plugin for
> adding the BCC and List-* headers to each message.  Then, if somebody
> feels they have been harassed by a list admin, they can continue
> participating in a conversation with minimum inconvenience.
>
>
> > At the moment no easy answers have presented themselves,
>
> but there are some good answers that require a little bit of work.  That
> is what I'm working on, that is why it is taking some time.


Sounds like a useful tool.


> > In any case, I've no doubt many are very proud of you, and of 
the posts you have no doubt "inspired", hint hint, nudge nudge, and 
a few of which have been leaked to the public (and to my very 
grateful eyes just now) by LWN:

> >
> >   Handling attacks on a community
> >   https://lwn.net/Articles/814508/
> >
> > ..  It is not hard to find examples of the kinds of 
messages that are being targeted (e.g. here, here, here, and here 
for fairly recent examples).

> >
> > [Snowflake trigger warning, the next 4 messages may well 
trigger you if you are a CoC-wielding, wilting snowflake.]

> >
> > delegation for the Anti-Anti-Harassment team
> > 
https://lwn.net/ml/debian-project/D8yjhiI1gZEt8XLHtzQI8NuwVViFQYh3UNoa7FtSy4zrYhnxbcRzorRBnWCOpPZbSO2ebmHC3xsuctHdpVtXMuVgj80vOwaMjr2PpDdx23U=@protonmail.com/

>
>
>
>
> > access an independent, uncensored version of Planet Debian
> > 
https://lwn.net/ml/debian-project/959afc2e-a0ae-bbdc-14bc-3d0b93de8903@debian.community/

>
>
> That particular link is not trolling, debian.community is simply an
> independent news site.  Being independent, it is only natural that it
> will cover the issues that official newsletters will sidestep.  It is
> 100% transparent, as explained on the About page.


No doubt this "100% transparency" is one of the reasons -some- folks 
don't like it :)



> > Outreachy favouritism and wasted Debian money
> > 
https://lwn.net/ml/debian-project/H3wJbOsvVY23EsMR7o0Y20StUbTWCkBFYV5KKlhez1xxWXyPnrd0Sr7Zxr_okyeIuEsADHXRhM-juXVUamswjXU70tCVXEpGIPNHkb4o3jY=@protonmail.com/

> >
> > are Debian mentors nuts? the DebConf scandal
> > 
https://lwn.net/ml/debian-project/ea-mime-5e072373-6227-653ea...@www-2.mailo.com/

> >
> > It is also clear that many participants on the mailing list 
have concluded who is behind at least some of the 
anonymous/pseudonymous attacks: Daniel Pocock. In fact, Pocock was 
the subject of a different message from Hartman on debian-project; 
while he did not directly connect the dots between the messages and 
his action expelling Pocock from the Debian project entirely, it is 
hard not to come to the 

Crypto AG: US Spies Kept Quiet on Assassinations

[John Young]

https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/archives/2020/0315.html#cg15


More on Crypto AG

[2020.03.06] 
One follow-on to the story of 
Crypto 
AG being owned by the CIA: 
this 
interview with a Washington Post reporter. The whole thing is worth 
reading or listening to, but I was struck by these two quotes at the end:


...in South America, for instance, many of the governments that were 
using Crypto machines were engaged in assassination campaigns. 
Thousands of people were being disappeared, killed. And I mean, 
they're using Crypto machines, which suggests that the United States 
intelligence had a lot of insight into what was happening. And it's 
hard to look back at that history now and see a lot of evidence of 
the United States going to any real effort to stop it or at least or 
even expose it.


[...]

To me, the history of the Crypto operation helps to explain how U.S. 
spy agencies became accustomed to, if not addicted to, global 
surveillance. This program went on for more than 50 years, monitoring 
the communications of more than 100 countries. I mean, the United 
States came to expect that kind of penetration, that kind of global 
surveillance capability. And as Crypto became less able to deliver 
it, the United States turned to other ways to replace that. And the 
Snowden documents tell us a lot about how they did that.

Re: It's an Ill Wind

[John Young]

Deft analysis. Positive infection salutory to 
clear out senior royal and political and 
governmental and  military and finance and spies 
and media and intellectual and celebrities and 
predators and environmental damagers and drug 
pushers, allowing angelic ethical fair-minded 
under-60s to take over the reliquaries in hazmat 
gear without guillotining, merely shovel the 
disinfected carcasses into the Thames to be 
encased in plastic waste and frozen into revived 
icelands. Until boarded by circumnavigating polar 
bears with plastic sails sniffing fresh meat down south.


At 09:29 AM 3/14/2020, you wrote:

2- It's an Ill Wind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XRc389TvG8

So now we know: first, that the UK government is 
actually deliberately trying to infect over 40 
million UK citizens, and in doing so expecting, 
on their figures, 400,000 deaths.


The reason given for this is to develop "herd 
immunity", where there are so many people who 
have had the virus that there is nobody for 
someone who later contracts it to give it to, as 
everybody has already had it and is immune.



But the Chinese didn't do that. They implemented 
strong containment and stopped the virus dead. 
They didn't "lessen the peak", they obliterated the peak.


There is no reason why we can't do that too.

But the Government insists on buying herd 
immunity at the cost of at least 400,000 (more 
likely a million [1]) deaths. Why?


The question arises, what good would herd 
immunity, bought at such a terrible cost in deaths, do?


The reason given is that the Government believes 
that COVID-19 will turn into a seasonal disease, 
and herd immunity might protect us from it's return next year.


There are three big problems with that - First, 
we don't know that it will return at all. 
Second, if it does return next year, it will 
have mutated - and like flu, it is likely that 
the herd immunity, so dearly bought, will not be 
effective against next year's version, if it happens.


There is also concern about people in China who 
seem to have gotten the disease twice. We don't 
know why that is, whether it is two different 
strains of the virus (there are several hundred 
known varieties of the COVID-19 virus, it 
mutates fairly rapidly) or people getting the 
disease twice - however in either case that 
would lower the usefulness of any herd immunity.




So, I don't see why the UK Government are killing 400,000 people.

Apparently it isn't because the UK has a large 
proportion of older people. Older people who 
need extensive healthcare, expensive pensions, 
who tie up a lot of wealth and property - of the 
predicted 400,000 (million) deaths the vast majority would be of older people.


This clearing away of unproductive and expensive 
(and wealthy) older population would more than 
balance the budget, releasing £10 billion per 
year in state pensions, £20 billion per year in heathcare costs, and so on.


It would stop the disease in the UK fairly 
quickly, and it would be the cheapest option 
(ignoring the actuarial but not-real-pounds cost of the deaths).


It would release several hundred thousand 
badly-needed homes (and cause a property price 
crash; the UK needs about 1 million homes, which 
is why UK property is so expensive) and would 
provide a more balanced population pyramid.


So for the UK as a nation it would not be a bad 
thing (ignoring the deaths), and I fear some 
politicians may think "Hey, it's just the useless oldies, who cares?".


But no. There is probably a sensible reason we 
don't implement strong confinement and stop the 
virus in its tracks, rather than letting it have 
its way. Unfortunately I don't know what that reason is.



Peter Fairbrother


[1] I calculate around a million deaths, but 
that is a bit of a back-of-the envelope 
calculation based on known death rates elsewhere 
and comparative population age spreads. Exact 
figures also depend on some assumptions about 
things we do not know about the disease. I have 
made what I think are reasonable assumptions. I 
don't know how reasonable the Goverment's 
assumptions are, or how they came up with the 400,000 figure.

How to Spread Coronavirus on National Media

[John Young]

Fauci Touches Face with Hand on National Media, Trump Touches Mic 
Emulated by Fauci and Several Attendees, No Recommended Distance 
Between Any of Them, Trump Handshakes, One Elbow Bump, What Can Go Wrong?


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ETEtcxzWAAECPfW?format=jpg=small

Jeremy Hammond Released from Grand Jury, Back to Prison

[John Young]

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6809231-200312-Trenga-Hammond-Release.html

Chelsea Manning Is Ordered Released from Jail

[John Young]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/us/politics/chelsea-manning-released-jail.html

A Federal District Court judge overseeing the matter, Anthony J. 
Trenga, said that he also dismissed on Thursday the grand jury that 
Ms. Manning was refusing to testify before after finding that its 
business had concluded.


"The court finds that Ms. Manning's appearance before the grand jury 
is no longer needed, in light of which her detention no longer serves 
any coercive purpose," Judge Trenga wrote.


https://cryptome.org/2020/03/manning-041.pdf

Joshua Schulte found guilty on Counts 8 and 10, mistrial granted on all other counts.

[John Young]

Joshua Schulte (WikiLeaks Vault 7) found guilty on Counts 8 and 10, 
mistrial granted on all other counts.


Count 8: transmission of harmful computer program, information or command.

Count 10: obstruction of justice.

via http://www.innercitypress.com/sdnylive28schulte030920.html

Using Amazon Rekognition to Identify Persons of Interest for Law Enforcement

[John Young]

A sends:

Using Amazon Rekognition to Identify Persons of Interest for Law Enforcement

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/using-amazon-rekognition-to-identify-persons-of-interest-for-law-enforcement/

Also:

https://aws.amazon.com/it/blogs/machine-learning/understand-movie-star-social-networks-using-amazon-rekognition-and-graph-databases/?nc1=h_ls

WikiLeaks CIA Vault 7 Projects Documents

[John Young]

To supplement the Joshua Schulte trial documentation, a collection of 
the Vault 7 Projects Documents hosted by WikiLeaks:


https://cryptome.org/2020/03/WikiLeaks-CIA-Vault-7-Projects-Documents.zip 
(149MB)


Aggregated from:

https://wikileaks.org/vault7/document/

While many are classified Secret,Top Secret, NF, largest batch of 
(S//NF) is in UCL / Raytheon to exploit popular commercial programs 
with help from Raytheon.

Re: _oronavirus: _hread

[John Young]

If these words are posted the _FO glimpsed 
passing the _un will _. Moreover, __.


_edactions rule over _erbosity, er, _ule.

_3.

At 10:26 AM 3/7/2020, Cecilia Tanaka wrote:
On Sat, Mar 7, 2020, 10:26 John Young 
<<mailto:j...@pipeline.com>j...@pipeline.com> wrote:

Do not post anything related to _oronavirus, _OVID-19, -019nCoV,
_ehovah, _od, _evil, _ezzlebub,  _rump, _eth Rich, _ssange,
_ikiLeaks. _ust _TFU. _hx.


Sorry for asking, but why specifically these subjects?

Thanks in advance!  Kisses and hugs!  <3

Re: Coronavirus: Thread

[John Young]

Do not post anything related to _oronavirus, _OVID-19, -019nCoV, 
_ehovah, _od, _evil, _ezzlebub,  _rump, _eth Rich, _ssange, 
_ikiLeaks. _ust _TFU. _hx.




At 07:03 AM 3/7/2020, you wrote:

https://www.cnet.com/news/ebay-bans-sales-of-face-masks-hand-sanitizer-amid-coronavirus-price-gouging/
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/06/ebay-bans-sales-of-all-face-masks-and-hand-sanitizers.html
https://slashdot.org/story/20/03/06/1926217/ebay-bans-sales-of-face-masks-hand-sanitizer-amid-coronavirus-price-gouging
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22508921

Ebay's unfree market bans virus related listings
In a notice to eBay sellers posted Thursday and spotted earlier by
CNBC, eBay said it would block new listings and remove existing
listings in the US for disinfecting wipes, hand sanitizer and face
masks, including N95/N100 masks and surgical masks.
eBay also said it will remove any listings, except for books, that
mention COVID-19, coronavirus or 2019nCoV in the title or description.
It's unclear how long the ban will last.

Schulte Trial Update

[John Young]

Joshua Schulte trial jury "aligned on two counts," impasse on 
remaining eight counts, may be considered a loss for the prosecution, 
to continue on Monday.


Via http://www.innercitypress.com/sdnylive26schulte030620.html

Forensics of Joshua Schulte's Alleged CIA Hack and Transmission to WikiLeaks

[John Young]

Trial summations by prosecution and defense differ on how Schulte 
allegedly downloaded CIA top secret malware programs and data and 
tried to conceal his actions. Includes details on the targeted 
systems and programs, work vaults and staff, faulty security, 
accesses, storage, logs, erasures, passwords, differing forensics by 
CIA and FBI and interrogations. Judge's charge to jury also.


https://cryptome.org/2020/03/schulte-trial-2020-0302.pdf

US/CIA v. Joshua Schulte Jury Charge

[John Young]

https://cryptome.org/2020/03/schulte-345.pdf (63 pages)

"D. Adverse Inference

You heard testimony from a Government witness 
named Michael, who the CIA placed on enforced 
administrative leave in August 2019. The 
Government only disclosed this information to the 
Defendant in the course of the trial. I instruct 
you that the Government should have disclosed the 
information regarding Michael’s enforced 
administrative leave to the Defendant sooner.


In evaluating the evidence, you can decide what 
weight, if any, to give to the Government’s 
conduct on this issue. You may also consider 
whether Michael’s appearance in Court and his 
testimony for the Government was influenced by his being on enforced leave."


"E. Law Enforcement Officials

You have heard testimony from a number of law 
enforcement officials. The Government’s law 
enforcement witnesses do not deserve any more or 
less consideration, or greater or lesser weight 
than that of any other witness."


"F. Central Intelligence Agency Witnesses

You have also heard testimony from a number of 
witnesses who are either currently or were 
previously employed by the Central Intelligence 
Agency, or CIA. Some of these people work 
directly as officers of the CIA, and some of them 
work as contractors performing work for the CIA.


I have allowed some of these witnesses to testify 
either by using a made-up name­a pseudonym­or 
just their first name. The disclosure of the 
witnesses’ true names and what they look like 
could potentially compromise their work at the 
CIA. That’s why those precautions were taken; but 
you should weigh the testimony of those witnesses 
just as you would any other witness, and not 
weigh it differently because they testified using 
a pseudonym or used their first name only."


"G. Bias and Hostility

In connection with your evaluation of the 
credibility of the witnesses, you should 
specifically consider evidence of resentment or 
anger which some Government witnesses may have 
toward the Defendant. Evidence that a witness is 
biased, prejudiced, or hostile toward the 
Defendant requires you to view that witness’ 
testimony with caution, to weigh it with care and 
subject it to close and searching scrutiny."

Two Chinese nationals indicted for hack of $100 million worth of cryptocurrency

[John Young]

Two Chinese nationals were charged with laundering over $100 million 
worth of cryptocurrency from a hack of a cryptocurrency exchange.


https://cryptome.org/2020/03/yinyin-indictment.pdf (1.8MB)

Trump for President Sues New York Times for Untruth, Bias, Animosity

[John Young]

https://cryptome.org/2020/03/trump-v-nyt-complaint.pdf

Defendant The New York Times Company knowingly published false and 
defamatory statements of and concerning plaintiff Donald J. Trump for 
President, Inc., claiming it had an "overarching deal" with "Vladimir 
Putin's oligarchy" to "help in the campaign against Hillary Clinton" 
in exchange for "a new pro-Russian foreign policy, starting with 
relief from the Obama administration's burdensome economic sanctions."


The Times was well aware when it published these statements that they 
were not true. The Times' own previous reporting had confirmed the 
falsity of these statements. But The Times published these statements 
anyway, knowing them to be false, and knowing it would misinform and 
mislead its own readers, because of The Times' extreme bias against 
and animosity toward the Campaign, and The Times' exuberance to 
improperly influence the presidential election in November 2020. 

Guilty Plea Of U.S. Accountant In Panama Papers Investigation

[John Young]

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Guilty Plea Of U.S. Accountant In 
Panama Papers Investigation


https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/manhattan-us-attorney-announces-guilty-plea-us-accountant-panama-papers-investigation

"Richard Gaffey went to extraordinary lengths to circumvent U.S. tax 
laws in order to maintain Harald Joachim von der Goltz's wealth and 
hide it from the IRS.  Using the specialized criminal services of 
global law firm Mossack Fonseca, Gaffey assisted others in violating 
U.S. tax laws for decades.


Since at least 2000 through 2018, GAFFEY conspired with others to 
defraud the United States by concealing his clients' assets and 
investments, and the income generated by those assets and 
investments, from the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS") through 
fraudulent, deceitful, and dishonest means." 

Joshua Schulte (WikiLeaks Vault 7) Cell Mates

[John Young]

Carlos Betances Luna Mera, indicted twice for illegal entry, is the 
Schulte cell mate who arranged for his wife to bring into prison a 
contraband cellphone used by Schulte, then recorded and ratted 
Schulte to the FBI. He testified as a witness in Schulte's trial.


https://cryptome.org/2020/03/betances-complaint-2018.pdf

Omar Amanat, a financial entrepreneur indicted for wire fraud, is the 
Schulte cell mate who befriended and advised Schulte. Shared use of 
contraband cellphones. His trial is still underway. He was not a 
witness in Schulte's trial, so far.


https://cryptome.org/2020/03/amanat-indictment-2016.pdf

Did Appelbaum Meet Snowden in Hawaii Before Leak?

[John Young]

March 1, 2020
Kevin Gallagher
@ageis
"According to @laurapoitras Berlin 
Journal from Astro Noise, @ioerror was 
keyed into forthcoming @Snowden leak 
from March 2013 at the latest. Both interviewed "C4" via e-mail. Jake 
travels Hawaii in April 2013, supposedly for 30th birthday. People 
are curious if they met then."


Also, a Crypto Party was conducted in Honolulu by Runa Sandvik and 
Snowden in January 2013.

Re: Assange Rips the Matrix -- Re: Wikileaks: Julian Assange

[John Young]

Assange is a fine essayist, Articulate. Courageous. Humorous. 
WikiLeaks is a superb source. Not like this hyperbolic excreta.


At 08:23 AM 3/1/2020, you wrote:
This is a heartfelt message, but always remember your own authority 
and power/ability to act and speak in this world.



  Assange Rips the Matrix
  by Finian Cunningham


https://sputniknews.com/columnists/202002281078430608-assange-rips-the-matrix/

Dirtbag Left Hates

[John Young]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/29/us/politics/bernie-sanders-chapo-trap-house.html

"The people in the crowd were angry, and “Chapo 
Trap House” wanted them to stay that way. The 
five hosts of the popular socialist podcast 
wanted everyone to know they had all been lied to. About everything.


The media they consumed was fake news aimed to 
distract them from the only war worth fighting: 
the class war. Politesse, civility, even pleasure 
­ those were tools of the neoliberal oppressor. The right answer is rage."


“Let the hate feed you.”

Re: Wikileaks: Julian Assange

[John Young]

FWIW, Assange's counsel mistated that Cryptome hosted, and still 
hosts, the State Department cables. Cryptome posted, and still hosts, 
the torrents for accessing the cable files after decrypting the 
torrents with the book-published password. But did not publish the 
very large files themselves.


Of the three encrypted files only one, the y-file, could be decrypted 
with the password, not x and z. Still don't know what is in x and z.


https://cryptome.org/xyz/x.gpg.torrent

https://cryptome.org/xyz/y-docs.gpg.torrent

https://cryptome.org/xyz/y-gpg.torrent

https://cryptome.org/xyz/z-gpg.torrent

Cryptome archived the decrypted y file, cables.csv (1.7GB), but did 
not publish it.


Not aware of where or who hosted the files accessed by the torrents.

Don't know if the others who downloaded the torrents then decrypted 
and published all of them.


If not, it is possible WikiLeaks first published the unredacted 
files, maybe all of them, thinking that others had already done so.

Re: George Galloway lets it rip re Julian Assange -- Re: Wikileaks: Julian Assange

[John Young]

WikiLeaks/Assange is primarily a source not a journalist and 
journalists customarily sacrifice sources to save themselves.


Assange in the early days of WikiLeaks was harshly critical of 
journalists and adopted the journalist cloak when journalists joined 
the org and shit started to come down.


WikiLeaks has sacrificed sources to save itself. But like journalists 
continues to claim it protects sources in order to keep leaks coming 
in. Also contacts authorities for approval like journalists, redacts 
documents, hustles for funding reportedly now in the millions of 
dollars, brays about its public service, avidly advertises itself, 
breaks laws under guise of constitutional privilege, etc.


Assanges's sexual predation like celebrities is same as that of star 
journalists, which stardom is hardly the norm for grunts of low-paid 
journalists who hate investors, publishers, editors and stars.


WikiLeaks originally promised public participation of a wiki but 
within months it was revealed to be an Assange promotional tool, 
heirarchical, high-handed, censorious, secret, cultish. Now wealthy as MSM.


WikiLeaks remains a valuable public resource but needs to shed 
Assange, secrecy, con artistry, obnoxious promotion by celebrity 
defenders out to promote themselves. It was intended to be an 
alternative to commercial journalism but lost its way due to 
Assange's misbehavior even now being glamorized, way too many 
vulgarians cheering his performance.


Fuck the glamorizers, free Assange from their clutches, they will 
abandon him when appropriate for their own protection.



At 05:40 AM 2/29/2020, you wrote:

On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 05:30:30AM -0500, grarpamp wrote:
> https://twitter.com/defendassange
> https://twitter.com/wikileaks
> https://defend.wikileaks.org/category/news
>
> https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/
> https://collateralmurder.wikileaks.org/en/resources.html
> https://wikileaks.org/gitmo/
>
> Julian Assange
> Chelsea Manning
> Edward Snowden
> Reality Winner
> ...
>
> Hundreds of names, all bc govt trying to save its sorry ass.
> No one really wants it. End it already.
>
> #FreeAssange


George Galloway - a man who actually uses his (media) platform for 
the "in principle" it is intended for - speaking truth to power.



WATCH: One of Best Orators Alive, UK Politician George Galloway, 
Electrifying Speech on Lynching of Assange

https://russia-insider.com/en/watch-one-best-orators-alive-uk-politician-george-galloway-electrifying-speech-lynching-assange
https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FGeorgeGallowayOfficial%2Fvideos%2F1641329726020815%2F

(Transcript in Russia-Insider.com link above has a few mistakes, for 
those who prefer to read... but strongly recommend watching - 
inspiring, and only ~14 minutes and ~20MiB)



A few quotes from the transcript:

  "Who cannot tremble with indignation at the idea that the man 
that blew the whistle on the war crimes is in Belmarsh and the war 
criminals are on the BBC and ITV and raking in millions and 
millions and millions and millions of pounds."


  "If you cannot tremble with indignation, any injustice anywhere, 
you're not a human being. You have no pulse and you have no soul."


  "This church should be bulging with journalists because if they 
had any intention of actually doing their job. What is happening to 
Julian Assange is a mortal danger to them. It's a knife at their 
heart. It's a sword of Damocles hanging over their heads. If they 
ever intended to actually be journalists.


  But of course, the truth is, most of them have sold whatever soul 
they had just for a ribbon to put on their coat, just for a shilling or two.


  They have abandoned any claim of moral authority. These are the 
people that lecture us."

Re: WhooHoo FluMongering: CJR just comes right out and says it

[John Young]

NY Times editorial today apologizes for 
downplaying virus threat, claiming optimism was 
derived from other optimism herdism. But then 
CYAs the change of mind may be another example of 
herdism ever-ready to lemming over the cliff. 
Expect CJR to change its CYA lemmingism.


CYA insultism is braying stampeding herdism 
maxima. CC's kisses show the way away from scowling FU angerism.




At 09:22 PM 2/27/2020, you wrote:

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To: John Young , cypherpu...@cpunks.org
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Subject: Re: WhooHoo FluMongering: CJR just comes right out and says it
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On 2/27/20 10:51 AM, John Young wrote:
> Downplaying the COVID-19 threat has become a formulaic cognitive
> trigger dismissal.
>
>
>


Can't prove or disprove a baseless-statement. Next you should ask me if
I've stopped beating my wife yet.


>
> Perhaps wise but there have been disasters in the past by such
> wise-ass downplaying: plague, VD, smallpox, polio, measles, mental
> illness, genocide, AIDS, opiods, suicide, environmental damage, sexual
> predation, et al.

You forgot Cholera. I'll get to that.

First, and I'm only going to respond to three idiocies. Two stated and
one I brought up.

Measles is hardly a global scourge of death. It DOES twend to kill
children in the nations we make war on and impoverish into child
starvation, because children deficient in Vitamin A do have a high
mortality rate. Or Yemen and a few other nations, for example, where
Polio and Cholera show up after we BOMB THEIR WATER SUPPLIES and
blockade... sanction, blow out of the air or water, anyone bringing
Chlorine b/c "Dual-Use".

Get the picture dude? WE ... OUR ACTIONS ... ARE THE DISEASE, AND THE
DISEASE-BRINGER.

Our society is diseased with the concept... the very NAZI-like fascistic
concept, that we bring help, not destruction, as we destroy.

>
> The worst are intolerant religion and war-making, this two-backed
> beast is widely blessed and boosted by profit-making adherents no
> matter the great harm the cause, both sensationalized to the maximum.
> Their leaders wear funny-looking garments and jewelry, are obsessed
> with rank, ceremony, public displays and above all fund-raising by
> scaring the shit out of people with endless murdering onslaughts
> supported by extorted tithes and taxes.
>
> No surprise that journalism sucks up to them, that's its purpose.


Journalism doesn't sux. News Reporting sux.

Don't conflate the two, dickwad. You know better.


>
> This befouling message is behind a paywall, privacy guaranteed by TOS.


No it isn't. I read the whole piece and I'm not a subscriber. If you
actually go to the article you'll have links to facts, too.

Here...

"How to name a coronavirus

As regular readers of this column know, we usually object to labels,
because their meanings are often in the eye of the beholder rather than
universal.

Exceptions should be made, though. The current epidemic sweeping China
and threatening the world should be called by its label.

Most news reports call it “the coronavirus,” “a coronavirus,” “new
coronavirus,” or “novel coronavirus.” To be accurate, though, it must be
“a coronavirus,” “a new coronavirus,” or 
“a novel coronavirus.” That’s

because this coronavirus is separate from other coronaviruses that have
caused their own epidemics or pandemics. Each gets a name, and each was
new (or novel) at some point.

One of them, SARS, appeared in November 2002, in Guangdong province in
southern China. (SARS stands for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.) The
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Site says that 8,098 people
were infected, and 774 died before it was declared under control in July
2003. It spread to 24 countries.

Another “coronavirus” is MERS, which stands for Middle East Respiratory
Syndrome, first reported in Saudi Arabia in 2012. The World Health
Organization says 2,494 cases were reported, with 858 deaths, in 27
countries.

The current “coronavirus” first appeared in Wuhan, China, probably
transmitted to a human by an animal, and has spread to many countries,
including the United States, causing quarantines, panic, a run on
facemasks, and discrimination against Chinese people.

After several weeks without a name of its own, the current coronavirus
finally got one: The virus is SARS-CoV-2, and the disease it causes is
called COVID-19, after coronavirus and its year of discovery. “COVID-19”
does not run as easily off the tongue as SARS or MERS but there is a
logic to its name.

As the director general of the WHO, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,
said: â€

Ex-CIA Joshua Schulte Describes His Data/Crypto Hiding Prowess

[John Young]

Ex-CIA Joshua Schulte Describes His Data/Crypto Hiding Prowess 
(WikiLeaks Vault 7)


"Which brings me to my next point. Do you know what my
specialty was at the CIA? Do you know what I did for fun?
Data hiding and crypto. I designed and wrote software to
conceal data in a custom-designed file system contained within
the drive slack space, or hidden partitions. I disguised data.
I split data across files and file systems to conceal the
crypto. Analysis tools would never detect random or
pseudorandom data indicative of potential crypto. I designed
and wrote my own crypto. How better to fool buffoons like
forensic examiners and the FBI than to have custom software
that doesn't fit into their two-week class where they become
forensic experts? Make no mistake. I am an expert in data
hiding and cryptography with thousands of hours of experience
and among the top specialists in the world, or was."

From Trial Transcript February 26, 2020
https://cryptome.org/2020/02/schulte-trial-2020-0226.pdf

https://cryptome.org/2020/02/schulte-hide-crypto.jpg

Re: WhooHoo FluMongering: CJR just comes right out and says it

[John Young]

Downplaying the COVID-19 threat has become a 
formulaic cognitive trigger dismissal.


Perhaps wise but there have been disasters in the 
past by such wise-ass downplaying: plague, VD, 
smallpox, polio, measles, mental illness, 
genocide, AIDS, opiods, suicide, environmental 
damage, sexual predation, et al.


The worst are intolerant religion and war-making, 
this two-backed beast is widely blessed and 
boosted by profit-making adherents no matter the 
great harm the cause, both sensationalized to the 
maximum. Their leaders wear funny-looking 
garments and jewelry, are obsessed with rank, 
ceremony, public displays and above all 
fund-raising by scaring the shit out of people 
with endless murdering onslaughts supported by extorted tithes and taxes.


No surprise that journalism sucks up to them, that's its purpose.

This befouling message is behind a paywall, privacy guaranteed by TOS.






At 11:13 AM 2/27/2020, you wrote:

Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="wQo7VCexvkCLBNE0vSTK1iIzwarPt4zkk";
 protected-headers="v1"
From: Razer 
To: cypherpunks@lists.cpunks.org
Message-ID: <1edcd351-7569-8b13-777c-a9cfa9bcd...@riseup.net>
Subject: WhooHoo FluMongering: CJR just comes right out and says it

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Content-Language: en-US


"Why COVID-19 is not the problem" (but the sensationalized reporting and
ignorant reactionary humans sure are!)

"So why is so much attention being paid to COVID-19? First, because it’s
new, and spreading. But as Max Fisher wrote in the New York Times,
COVID-19 “hits nearly every cognitive trigger we have.” Its novelty and
the uncertainty around it override the recognition that other diseases,
including flu, are far more endemic and dangerous.

He likens the reaction to that after a plane crash, when people shun
flying even though a crash is an anomaly and flying is overwhelmingly safe.

And social media spreads the rumors, fake cures, and other untruths that
we won’t link to, but include words like “genocide” and “Zionist
conspiracy.”

Journalists have the responsibility to put things in context. Cover
COVID-19 and its effects, be they economic, physical, or social. But
acknowledge its place in the pantheon of disease. Reporting as if it
were the end of the world is an epidemic of a different kind."

 https://www.cjr.org/language_corner/covid-19-coronavirus.php

Joshua Schulte Trial Archive

[John Young]

US/CIA v. Joshua Schulte transcripts and exhibits

https://alexaobrien.com/archives/4380

Preview of Assange trials.

Joshua Schulte Investigation by FBI

[John Young]

Trial transcript for February 25, 2020 details FBI investigation of 
Joshua Schulte for alleged Vault 7 leak to WikiLeaks. FBI special 
agent testimony about interviews, raids, covert agents, prison 
informer, prison contraband cellphone with security apps.


https://cryptome.org/2020/02/schulte-trial-2020-0225.pdf

Exhibits for testimony on February 25, 2020:

https://cryptome.org/2020/02/schulte-exhibits-2020-0225.zip (98MB)

Cryptome Twitter account suspended on February 26, 2020 for tweeting 
information of CIA officer, Amol P. Lodha, who threatened Schulte.


https://cryptome.org/amol.jpg
https://cryptome.org/amol-02.jpg
https://cryptome.org/amol-03.jpg

Re: git based dark web (Tor) "one way" blog/ document dump/ wordpress?

[John Young]

By design of the internet nothing can be done on it that is not 
traceable, any suggestion otherwise by default sustains the fiction 
of untraceability.


The current Joshua Schulte trial testimony by CIA witnesses continues 
to spew disinformation about this, as if the prosecution has been 
initiated to delude internet users, mavericks, hackers, coders, 
administrators, programmers, developers.


In February 11 testimony a CIA witness claimed 120-150 agency 
developers were busy coding malware for deployment.


Schulte lawyer questioning CIA witness:

"Q. And malware is just a way to infect another system, correct?
A. Yes.
Q. How many developers were there developing malware?
A. I would say probably 120 to 150."

https://documentcloud.org/documents/6775056-20200211.htm (pages 20-21)

To be sure, CIA officers lie, spread disinfo, swear to tell the 
truth, run misleading prosecution operations, run leak sites and 
anonymizers, post to mail lists, inundate social media, groom 
informers, pay bribes, coerce resisters into betraying associates, 
hire the most vociferous opponents, implant bullshit on Wikipedia and 
Wayback, issue distortionate books, film, tv, theater, so forth. Git, 
Full-Disclosure, Dark Web, alternatives to internet as watering 
holes, stings, recruitment hangouts, why even this very cess pit. Trust us.




At 05:31 AM 2/13/2020, you wrote:
Anyone know of a Tor site which is basically a blog site, but 
effectively only allows additions of documents, attachments and 
pages (sort of like git stores all history) - perhaps based on git?


This is sort of like a wikileaks, but unfiltered/ unadjudicated, and 
also not for any government or corporate "leaks", just for a few 
folks who wish to speak publicly on their private views and 
opinions, without being able to censored after the fact, and with 
verifyable identity (e.g. by signing git tags, which can then be 
verified by viewers of the blog, or at least by those who git clone it)?


Also, re dark web, Tor is presently "the only readily installable 
option" - so this needs to be an onion site/blog, so most folks can 
"just install TBB and view the site".


Short of such a "dark web one-way Wordpress", anyone personally 
familiar with actually deployed (floss) software to do such a job 
(please no PHP)?


TIA,

Freedom Hosting Operator Eric Eoin Marques Plea Agreement

[John Young]

Plea Agreement by Eric Eoin Marques, Freedom Hosting Operator, 
January 24, 2020 with

stipulation which describes in general how he was caught.

https://cryptome.org/2020/02/marques-62.pdf (10 pages plea with 
4-page stipulation, 1.1MB)

Re: sexism - feminism - equality - empowerment - penis man - vaginas - bobs and vagene

[John Young]

Quite funny, everyone wins. This kind of arousing 
event and stimulating simulated combat should 
lead MSM daily, hourly, minutely, microsecondly, 
to offset the yawning banalities of gravitas and 
deadening seriousness of wretched content and 
numbing advertising. More of this could 
reinvigorate this once devil-daring mosh pit. Cypher Night Live.



At 03:53 AM 2/1/2020, you wrote:

Saw female reporter's nipple prominence and asked "is it cold in
argentina?"


https://sputniknews.com/viral/202001311078192175-is-it-cold-in-argentina-journo-draws-twitter-ire-after-taking-a-jab-at-female-reporters-nipples/

Apparently, this is called sexism, not reporting - although I guess I
was asking a question, but implicit in the question was a fact - if
you looked, deep, enough.

Got told I should get some sex-ism training.

  Absolutely frustrating. @SvenSpoormakers your comment is
  inappropriate. We are more than the clothes we wear. If you
  can't understand why your comment is inappropriate I suggest
  getting some training around sexism.
  — Michele Reid (@Bliss_On_Earth) January 30, 2020

https://twitter.com/Bliss_On_Earth/status/1222736807894241280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Sounded possibly kinky so I went along until I discovered that not
only was it about some neo-linguistic cultural marxism, but
absolutely no one had their nipples showing!

Absolutely frustrating!

  Just looking at my bike on the balcony, thinking how much I
  love cycling and bam, yet again something happens to remind me
  that it is a great sport despite the people in it. Spoormakers
  needs to grow up. @SvenSpoormakers
  — Peter Warne (@pzwarne) January 30, 2020

https://twitter.com/pzwarne/status/1222874772452904960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

"Bam!" alright - there's a reason I love cycling,

https://www.yandex.com/search/?text=cycling+love+seat
Joyride: New Device Poised to Turn Bicycles Into Sex Machine

https://sputniknews.com/society/202001301078181463-joyride-new-device-poised-to-turn-bicycles-into-sex-machines/

... but it's more along the lines of "I wonder, does a sex change
actually "work"?"

Our real concern of course is the NSA monitoring - completely
illegally - our teledildonics metadata!

Absolutely frustrating!

Teledildonics Users 'Sexually Assaulted' by Hackers
bitchute.com›video/j2jB9IsnP2A/
"Mr. Roger's NSA & Death of The Sex Symbol" 12/6/19.

Well, at least now that females are equal to males, including
biologically, women are free to talk pub talk as much as the blokes
are too ... right?  I guess that's how the twitterati finally figured
out the real problem with this female reporter - she was wearing,
like, waaay too much, like (did I mention 'like'?):

  ...
  Also, This girl btw was not going around naked ffs
  — Flavia Cappellini (@FlaviaCapps) January 30, 2020

https://twitter.com/FlaviaCapps/status/1222836406625718276?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Glad we cleared -that- argentinian ex-pro-cyclist nipple problem up.
The sad part is that women take it all so seriously, like you're out
in public without a chaperone already, surely that's enough to have a
laugh?

Or is it "have a laugh, but not when men crack a joke, because
they're more equal than we are it's just not fair" ??

  So, someone is upset that a woman is not wearing a bra, while
  reporting on an event which has 150 men, all of whom are not
  wearing underpants?
  — Girona Cycling (@GironaCycling) January 30, 2020

https://twitter.com/GironaCycling/status/1223018508306567171?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Listen hunni bunni sweeti pickle pie, it was humorous, and you're
assuming upset?  Experiencing a distinct lack of pickles in ya diet
per'aps?

Nipple up, buttercup :)

Nice to see the sex is finally equal ... except for females who want
privileges to not be commented on, whilst claiming all male
pribileges.

Absolutely frustrating - I'm just so, frustrated "just like a female"
... I guess :D

Remember folks, penis = man, which is an extraordinarily powerful
message - you see, penis power arises from being a man, and inherent
with being a man, is having a penis - just ignore the statistically
insignificant hermaphrodites for a moment:

  No Justice: Penis Man Taken Down by AR-15-Wielding SWAT Team

http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/no-justice-penis-man-taken-down-by-ar-15-wielding-swat-team/

(We can guess that expanding his message to be just -slightly- more
 factual (literally, factually inclusive) from "penis man" to "penis,
 man or hermaphrodite" wouldn't have had the same ring.

 +1 for confronting anti-CIS anti-factual bigots I guess...

 At least swat teams also arrest women who get public with vagina
 propaganda ... don't they?
 )


Next up, N.gger Joe beer :D

  Germany Produces Nazi Beer, Jews Do Not Find Humor in This

http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/germany-produces-nazi-beer-jews-do-not-find-humor-in-this/

...
I personally walked into the Jewish Question 

Re: USA re Assange: "First Amendment Doesn't Apply To Foreigners" - [MINISTRY]

[John Young]

US Constitution and Amendments are valid only within the US and its 
territories. Same for other countries' laws in the US. Can be 
modified by treaty or other mutually agreeable means, of which there 
are quite a few. Most of those agreements reserve the right to ignore 
outsider demands and quite a few do so.


Of course Americans believe they can do what they want anywhere, and 
have the military power to do so. Low-ranking military members die 
for this, a few angries frag their officers, or like JFK's veteran 
Marine sniper take a shot. Or like the OKC ex-Army bomber, waste 
citizens and get offcially murdered for it. Then, there are the Waco 
and Jim Jones option to mass suicide yourselves.


Assange's supporters (aka shark and journo leeches) seem determined 
to whack or suicide him if legal and promotional shenanigans don't work.


At 03:53 PM 1/24/2020, you wrote:

"Not even" Australians have legal free speech protection of America's
first amendment, anywhere in the world.


Greenwald as lawyer and journo is hardly objective, as adversarially 
trained to do.


[Clip balance.] 

Re: Assassination Politics - Harpers article

[John Young]

Pretty good reason for Jim's messages to disappear.

At 03:34 PM 1/15/2020, you wrote:

I heard something on NPR in the car, part of their "This is Think"
series, about an article on Harpers about ... Assassination Politics!

The NPR story referenced Jim Bell and cypherpunks a bunch of times, and
rehashed a bunch of shit that is in the article (which I wasn't
familiar with).  It also talked about scammers with fake AP markets.
One of the things that struck me is that it seems most (none) of the
intended victims were *not* being killed for being part of the
government or being cops or anything remotely as Jim has idealized it.
They were people being targeted for the same old stupid reasons idiots
are always killing each other: unrequited love, jealousy, rage, etc.

Link below:


https://harpers.org/blog/2019/12/click-here-to-kill-online-murder-markets-dark-web/

Couldn't find the NPR bit online, I imagine it will show up here in the
next day or so (it seems to be a couple days behind):

https://www.npr.org/podcasts/478859728/think

--
GPG fingerprint: 17FD 615A D20D AFE8 B3E4  C9D2 E324 20BE D47A 78C7

Re: This is the Opportunity-cost of NOT implementing my AP idea

[John Young]

Complaints about list processing is a venerable troll of public masturbation.

Re: Clue to So-Called Missing Jim Bell-AP Messages

[John Young]

Yes, the cpunk archives have a slew of 1995 (before and after too) 
about Jim Bell, Assassination Politics, Jim's email addresses, and 
related matters. Takes a bit of reading to find them, searches don't 
turn up all of them.


1995 is less bountiful than other years (say, 2019 spasms) but hardly 
insignificant and offer worthwhile reading on a variety of topics 
other than the low-volume AP stuff.


Jim was in the pokey during this period so that reduced his postings. 
However Jim was sending out postal mails to compensate for the online lack.


At 02:58 PM 1/7/2020, jim bell wrote:

Does it contain messages that the Venona files almost completely lack?
1995 messages that:

1.   Lack 'jim bell'
2.   Lack 'jimb...@pacifier.com'
3.   Lack 'assassination politics'
4.   Lack ' ap ' except in contexts other than 'assassination 
politics', such as Associated Press or 'killer ap '

5.   Lack references to 'bell', as in 'that damn bell', or 'that idiot bell'.

Jim Bell


On Tuesday, January 7, 2020, 07:23:19 AM PST, Mirimir 
 wrote:



On 01/07/2020 02:55 AM, John Young wrote:

[tl;dr - You can't trust anyone involved.]

Makes sense to me.

I may well have what was called FCPUNKS from the mid 90s through maybe
2001 or 2002. However, sharing it would be too risky, unless I redacted
or randomized all headers. Which would make it kinda useless, no?

Maybe I'll do it, as a public service, just before dying.

So hey, I'll dig through some old backups.

CIA Offers Tips on Preparing a Plan and "Go-Bag" for Emergencies (say, Iran payback)

[John Young]

CIA Offers Tips on Preparing a Plan and "Go-Bag" for Emergencies 
(say, Iran payback):


https://www.cia.gov/news-information/blog/2019/ask-molly-nov-20-2019.html

Re: Clue to So-Called Missing Jim Bell-AP Messages

[John Young]

The Tim May message came from the cpunks archives. Tim died not long ago.

The archives hold quite a bit of discussion about prosecution of Jim 
Bell and CJ Parker and various subpoenas disclosed and presumbably 
some which were not. Likely several persons were contacted directly 
by the prosecutors but not shared on the list. That continues.


No question cpunks  has served as a waterhole to be spied by 
predators. So too the whole Internet, public and private archives, 
anonymizers, so on.


From the beginning there have been plants of informers, instigators, 
provocateurs, and kin stirring the pot. IP hosts and system 
administrators remain the primary sources of data, overt and covert.


Multi-level log files are ubiquitous, from identifying packets to end 
to end foolhardists. No way to use the Internet undetected. Programs 
that promise that are deceptive, Tor only one of the ploys. Privacy 
has been a sham from the get-go,  Comsec and infosec, crypto in 
particular, are porous by design, ignorance, opportunism, profit. 
Open source a cartoonish protective condom, adherents of it are con artists.


Cpunks like leak sites are stings, witting or unwitting. Mea culpa.

Jim Bell is a Sabu, subject to federal sanctions as ex-con if not 
willing to solicit supporters and unwary victims. There are thousands 
of them. Those most loudly anti-authority are the experts of betrayal 
for kings coin and to avoid going back to jail.


Cpunks archives offer much to support this critique, other archives 
and live action even more. Cyber security is a huge racket profiting 
from deliberately ineffective cybersec.

Re: Assange persecuted by Judge Arbuthnot with her p rima facie conflict of interest, refuses to recuse herself - - Re: Galloway has campaigned tirelessly for Assange’s freedom - [PEACE]

[John Young]

First I've heard of the armed agents in the courtroom. However, some 
of the Assange fans have made threatening statements, and I haven't 
heard of Assange asking to not do that. In that sense, he reminds of 
45's firing up his base but not asking for calm. Instigators do do 
that so they cannot be charged with incitement. Govs and TLAs most 
guilty of it but so too the ego-driven - call them narcissistic cowards.


To be sure, Assange is not nearly as mean-spirited as his associates 
who have latched onto him as an escape from insignificance.


Looking forward to a full-bore Assange international trial of 
spectacular entertainment.


Lively alternative: https://ddosecrets.com/






At 03:30 PM 1/6/2020, you wrote:
I wonder if the judge refusing to recuse herself has anything to do 
with the two agents, allegedly carrying automatic weapons illegally 
in the courtroom, addressing her while closely standing before her bench.

Cypherpunks Duh

[John Young]

We saved a series of list subscribers (via "cypherpunks who" commands 
to servers), but are reluctant to publish to avoid shitting on the unwary.


These lists are different from those named in messages.

Mentioned here because there are likely others who grabbed these 
readily available lists for illicit use, that is like the whole 
villainous Internet where anything "free, moderated and unmoderated' 
are most certainly up to no good.


Bruce Schneier: "Spying is the business model of the Internet." Duh.

Clue to So-Called Missing Jim Bell-AP Messages

[John Young]

X-Sender: tc...@mail.got.net
Message-Id: 
In-Reply-To: <200101082217.raa29...@johnson.mail.mindspring.net>
References: <200101082217.raa29...@johnson.mail.mindspring.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 14:59:33 -0800
To: John Young , cypherpu...@cyberpass.net
From: Tim May 
Subject: Re: Bell Case Subpoena
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed"

At 5:09 PM -0500 1/8/01, John Young wrote:
>Today at 4:30 PM two Treasury agents, Tom Jack and Matthew
>Mc Whirr, served me a Subpoena to Testify Before Grand Jury,
>in US District Court of Western Washington, Seattle, WA, on
>January 25, 2001, 9:00 AM. Robb London, AUSA, is the
>applicant.
>
>The subpoena states in bold caps "We request that you do not
>disclose the existence of this subpoena, because such a
>disclosure may make it more difficult to conduct the investigation."
>...
>   Please provide any and all documents, papers, letters, computer
>   disks, photographs, notes, objects, information, or other items
>   in your possession or under your control, including electronically
>   stored or computer records, which:
>
> 1. Name, mention, describe, discuss, involve or relate to James
> Dalton Bell, a/k/a Jim Bell, or


By the way, John, thanks for the "heads up." I purged my archives of
Jim Bell e-mail sent directly to me, though I left on my system the
e-mail he copied the list on.


(Yes, I purged the back-ups, too. A good reason not to back up e-mail
to CD-Rs.)


--Tim May
--
Timothy C. May tc...@got.netCorralitos, California
Political: Co-founder Cypherpunks/crypto anarchy/Cyphernomicon
Technical: physics/soft errors/Smalltalk/Squeak/agents/games/Go
Personal: b.1951/UCSB/Intel '74-'86/retired/investor/motorcycles/guns

Re: Wccftech: Intel Releases the Horse Ridge Chip for Quantum Computing!

[John Young]

QC and AI are on a roll!

At 01:49 PM 1/4/2020, you wrote:


Wccftech: Intel Releases the Horse Ridge Chip for Quantum Computing!.
https://wccftech.com/intel-releases-the-horse-ridge-chip-for-quantum-computing/
Jim Bell's comment:.  Things look to be getting quite real, here.

Re: Oddly silent

[John Young]

Based on DoD and CIA advice, JFK figured US had scared RU/Cuba into 
military submission, badly warned about sleeper snipers (FBI's punk 
not our giant). This lesson was taken to heart by Bush and Obama who 
rightly figured natsec pros expected to profit from collateral damage 
to skeptics. Bush ignorantly invited 9/11, fooled by bloodthirty 
Cheney. Obama laid low, snot hoops.


Trump brags about never listening to experts, got a bit of swag from 
Al Baghdadi whack. Appears to be on ego enhancing pharmas and 
panderers. So was JFK.

Re: 'Shattered': Inside the secret battle to save America's undercover spies in the digital age

[John Young]

Isn't this report an obvious deception operation? Adjunct to 
Snowden's dump among others.

NYT: Total Surveillance Is Not What America Signed Up For

[John Young]

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/21/opinion/location-data-privacy-rights.html

Grim, omits NYT's and journalism's large benefits of smart devices 
spying by advertisers. And avoids spying corps generous support of 
NGOs and political office holders. Doesn't touch smart cities, 
kiosks, cryptographers, and fora like cypherpunks. Kinda down-dumbing blaming.


So roll outs galore of improved privacy protection apps, gadgets, TED 
talks, carefully redacted/hobbled to appear trustworthy.

Distrust of tech could be encryption's Achilles heel

[John Young]

That '90s fight took place right as the formerly academic internet 
went mainstream, and it pitted 
"crypto rebels" against 
a government establishment, with the telecom industry caught in between.
https://www.axios.com/distrust-of-tech-could-be-encryptions-achilles-heel-8a02a6cb-8f20-4dc1-a2d5-f6c74c7a6f90.html 

Dan Geer: nothing can make online trustworthy

[John Young]

Dan Geer, legendary cyber-pro, claims nothing can make online 
trustworthy. Users should forego cyber addiction exploited by 
predators through inherent tech weaknesses.


Source: "Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the 
Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers," Andy Greenberg