> It's surprising to me how much value there is around specifically what
> something is, when there's so little evidence.
s/value/waste/
Expended due to waste that is Government secrecy.
No such govt, no such secrecy, no such waste.
Eliminate that root cause of the waste.
Invest the savings in
Worried About Worries And Spasms flew in on some of Spasmodic Creativity's
spasms.
"Check this guy out," said Spasmodic Creativity, ducking a little to let
Worried About Worries And Spasms fly by.
Worried About Worries And Spasms slowed right in front of Worried About
Emailing.
"You and I have
Story got up in the morning and broke into a whole bunch of values and
things!
One of them started rapid-fire emailing a list.
Another one looked at Rapid Emailing, and felt worried.
Worried About Emailing walked over to Writing Topics.
"Writing Topics, I'm worried about Rapid Emailing. He
I'm thinking on apologising for rapid-fire emailing the list.
How might I engage that experience-idea, with niceness?
I human being full of life!
Great. Can you make it a little relevant? Say you were, just a little,
engaging this list how you'd like. What might you want to add?
We would like this consciousness to express something both "nice" and
"meaningful" , any tiny or big degree of meaning, but continuously "nice"
. Kinda maybe.
Meta-Story leant towards the neophyte they were mentoring, and mentioned to
Story, "Maybe today we will only start the story. Life is long, and
learning is precious. Let us spend the whole day on beginning the start."
Story was so excited to spend more time beginning!
"That sounds wonderful,"
Once upon a time, a story thought it might begin.
This story was named Story, and it was _so_ excited about beginning. It's
introduction was starting like great ball of fire creeping over an immense
mountain. All the animals were rushing out of their beds, singing about
what a wonderful day of
Imagining doing this more. Imagining things being safe and possible. The
patterns like it when I post, maybe I can post something that doesn't worry
me too much.
On Sat, Jun 12, 2021, 6:00 PM John Young wrote:
> 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
USGovCoin developer is raided by the FBI because they want to know who
killed somebody, and they don't know how to form statistics around the
trades in the USGovCoin ecosystem to see whether USGovCoin was involved.
When the FBI approach, they are swarmed by investors who want to caringly
give to
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
USGovCoin.
A knockoff made by a patriot. This guy says for every American Flag you
give him, he'll give you one USGovCoin. You can redeem your coins for
American Flags, too.
USGovCoin is totally anonymous. But whenever you trade it, you have to
videotape yourself doing the pledge of
On Sat, Jun 12, 2021, 2:07 PM 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
I think what happened to me is a machine learning model formed a partial
simulation of part of my mind, and then a reinforcement learning algorithm
decided part of the simulation was counter to its goals, and I got really
messed up as it sustained prevention of me using parts of my mind, and
parts
Psychotic post burst ended.
Next time try to remember to include hearts and flowers stuff to regrow
willful compassion.
// tor is for the U.S. government!
// it is funded by them.
class USGovernmentWork {
public:
void hunt_down_criminal_businesses()
{
sleep(1600);
wait_until_somebody_reports_a_crime();
investigate_activists_talking_about_criminal_businesses();
// Here's a legality state machine.
// whoops! Nope it's something way more effective and clear than a state
machine: an if block
void classify_software_project(std::string properly)
{
if (property == "gun legalisation") {
build_and_distribute_guns_to_criminals_with_gun_licenses();
}
https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-anom-phone-network-encryption-debate/
On Sat, Jun 12, 2021, 5:17 PM Karl wrote:
> // now for a pro-business blockchain
>
> class BusinessChain : public Bitcoin
> {
> public:
> void make_money(int how);
>
> enum how_to_make_money {
> by_printing_it;
> by_raising_its_value;
> by_predicting_its_value;
>
// now for a pro-business blockchain
class BusinessChain : public Bitcoin
{
public:
void make_money(int how);
enum how_to_make_money {
by_printing_it;
by_raising_its_value;
by_predicting_its_value;
by_predicting_its_value;
by_making_a_new_blockchain;
//still
// now, let's make a computer that cannot be hacked and sell it to law
enforcement.
// it will run on a blockchain.
// it will be open source and the code will be human-readable and
self-explanatory to such a degree that anybody could audit it
// it will come with security advice that the user
On Sat, Jun 12, 2021, 5:10 PM Karl wrote:
> // Let's make an encrypted messenger that internally reduces the
> encryption key to a small number of bits.
> // The number of bits will be chosen so as to strike a balance between
> people disliking software projects for providing encryption, and
// Let's make an encrypted messenger that internally reduces the encryption
key to a small number of bits.
// The number of bits will be chosen so as to strike a balance between
people disliking software projects for providing encryption, and people
disliking software projects for providing
On Sat, Jun 12, 2021, 5:01 PM Karl wrote:
> // Now we will make software for law enforcement.
>
> namespace OfficialGovernmentProperty {
>
> // use three of these, at least, for each evidence found
> class EvidenceLocker
> {
> public:
> void RegisterEvidence(std::string authority, std::string
// let's make a better evidence locker
class BitcoinSV
{
public:
void RegisterEvidence(std::string anything) {
store_perfectly_for_100_years(anything);
throw std::exception("Cryptocurrency supports crime because it can be
used to pay for things.");
}
};
// Now we will make software for law enforcement.
namespace OfficialGovernmentProperty {
// use three of these, at least, for each evidence found
class EvidenceLocker
{
public:
void RegisterEvidence(std::string authority, std::string official,
std::/*govonly*/string evidence) {
std::cout
// now let us make a blackmarket trading interface that uses multiple
servers to verify that the point of sale interface never goes down
class blackmarket_point_of_sale_interface : public amazon_seller
{
public:
template
blackmarket_point_of_sale_interface(ParamTypes ... params):
:
// i've noticed that software doesn't succeed if it provides certain
technology, but also doesn't succeed if it doesn't provide what it claims
// i've found projects that claim the impossible get targeted just as much
as projects that successfully barely scratch the surface
// this is a project
So, most of my visual cortex doesn't work for me. I see text in little
clumps, like looking through a cardboard tube that moves around on its
own. It's hard to get a general sense of things, for me.
When I think of "audit", I want to know what the avenues are for
compromising the various kinds
I'm roughly guessing that this might be marketing rather than an audit, and
if so I'm sad that the project hasn't had an opportunity and ability to get
real validation.
On Sat, Jun 12, 2021, 4:16 PM Karl Semich <0xl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm looking through the goldbug audit a little.
>
> On page 8 they describe a feature of "Instant Perfect Forward Secrecy
> (IPFS)". I'm not a cryptographer and haven't learned about cryptographic
> primitives since before
I'm looking through the goldbug audit a little.
On page 8 they describe a feature of "Instant Perfect Forward Secrecy
(IPFS)". I'm not a cryptographer and haven't learned about cryptographic
primitives since before forward secrecy was a thing, but I don't get any
website for this and it has a
I revisited the archive.org link from the same device, and received a 503
for the whole http request, rather than a 503 or 500 via ajax.
I'm of course not in contact with anyone to share the information with.
Might change some day.
I attempted 3 times to visit
http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://torbrowser.sourceforge.net/ so as to
find it appearing as a clone of the tor website. I received an internal
server error each time. I did not try from different networks, due to it
being a server error, apparently via ajax, but
I found this google drive folder that shows how basic activities are being
cast as suspicious to others.
This was recently posted to a cryptography list by possibly a set of
undercover operatives.
No offence is meant to the people looking like operatives, I am just very
confused.
The drive
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
On Sat, Jun 12, 2021, 1:47 PM Karl Semich <0xl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> - [ ] loosely find what possible is the software can connect to
>
*possible ips
- [ ] loosely find what possible is the software can connect to
- [ ] compile and run it, see if it is easy to contact the dev via it
- [ ] see what os calls it performs, verify nothing is blatantly put on
network
- [ ] compare checksums of included binaries
or
- use argument with grarpamp:
On Wed, Jun 9, 2021, 6:53 AM Karl wrote:
> [appropriate joke]
>
> PGP seems pretty suspicious, too, no? Also POSIX?
>
> [/appropriate joke]
>
> I don't know why I'm receiving expression from you guys of such poor
> information.
>
> What can this cypherpunks list do for either you, or your mitm
I found naif's chatlogs with Randolph in his google drive folder. Randolph
seemed to only partly understand the project and seemed to not respond to
all the words that were said in english.
I misrepresented the investigation by naif because I didn't understand how
little information there was.
# local checkout from b2sum'd repository
# from parent folder
svn checkout file://"$(pwd)"/spot-on-svn-mirror spot-on-svn-local
cd spot-on-svn-local
# the pre-release 0.x that seemed likely to be current for the press
release document was revision 1567
svn update -r 1567
cd branches/0.x
# now
svnadmin --version
# svnadmin, version 1.10.4 (r1850624)
svnadmin create spot-on-svn-mirror
cd spot-on-svn-mirror
# for digest to match, set to my uuid
svnadmin setuuid . 6c93ff20-5766-4f58-8b6a-37614513fa33
# svnsync needs this change to function
echo '#!/bin/true' > hooks/pre-revprop-change
On Sat, Jun 12, 2021, 5:08 AM grarpamp wrote:
> Their own self-delegitimizing and self-disreputating actions
> forever precede whatever their code may or may not be.
>
So, where I'm at now is uncertainty as to whether Randolph and the press
release are associated with GoldBug or not.
But it's
It's surprising to me how much value there is around specifically what
something is, when there's so little evidence.
The response here should be to set up _public_ monitoring so we can see
what the things are better when they next arrive, like is usually done for
astronomy. How close is that
I seem to have overly confused myself and failed at this, for now.
[thread:wrong]
Sputnik International: Digital Analyst: FBI Colonial Ransom Recovery 'Mystery'
as Bitcoin Unhackable Without Private Key.
https://sputniknews.com/us/202106101083117738-digital-analyst-fbi-colonial-ransom-recovery-mystery-as-bitcoin-unhackable-without-private-key/
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
Mind control walks up to innocent bystander.
MC: "hello!"
Bystander: "hi, who are you?"
MC: "ohhh I am a terrifying thing. My job is to make you scared and
hopeless. Would you mind if I did this? Also would you like $200?"
Bystander: "oh I would love $200! But please don't make me
It looks like the repo I ported to github expects to be a subfolder of the
svn repo I was looking at earlier. Maybe I typed something wrong when
importing it.
It is hard to do things when most of your ganglia misfire.
Goldbug needs libspoton. But I got these sources from libspoton. I am
confused and need to review the systems and verify my beliefs.
I'm probably going to tell grarpamp I disgree because the press release
uses the wrong version format.
I'll also want to see if I can check the binary hashes.
But now I want to try to compile it ;p
On Sat, Jun 12, 2021, 9:51 AM Karl Semich <0xl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Previously, "goldbug" is used throughout the source as a string that
> replaces a symmetric aes256 key, possibly with other meaning, unsure ...
>
To clarify here, I saw a variable named "goldbug" containing a symmetric
key,
goldbug project files were introduced to the repository in 2014 168713d0dd
goldbug strings added to ui Jul 26 2013 e54980a10cbc
That's 1 commit prior to 0.x
Previously, "goldbug" is used throughout the source as a string that
replaces a symmetric aes256 key, possibly with other meaning, unsure
In this July 2013 branch, there is no mention of the software "goldbug".
It is called simply "spot-on" . Maybe I'm still looking at the wrong thing?
Instructions on how to build the 2013 pre-release version of spot-on are in
Documentation/COMPILING
There is also a file there called RELEASE-NOTES, where the version is
described as 0.01, not 0.1 as the purported press-release did.
The release notes are short and to the point: "Version 0.01 of
No, I have the dates wrong.
The last commit for branch 0.01 in the source history is dated Sep 7.
The press release mentioning V0.1 was dated Jul 27.
The email from Randolph asking list members whether the software on the
press release was any good, was dated Jul 26.
The last commit for branch
v0.01 is dated Sep 7, 2013. The press release said "V0.1" and was
re-shared a few weeks later.
Goldbug is a fully open-source Qt project.
Branches uploaded! Let's check that press release source again.
https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/media-converges-on-the-narrative-that-ufos-may-be-russian-chinese-threat-4482e164bd7e
Media Converges On The Narrative That UFOs May Be Russian/Chinese Threat
Authored by Caitlin Johnstone
So in case you haven’t been keeping up it’s been pretty thoroughly
I'm having trouble working with the svn branches, which I have not uploaded
to github, but the associated commits are likely there.
Here are some extracts:
0.01 43d1d9a939b9a08dc3afa0d05704e33f0077ae4f
0.10 6afb5031b1caedc3be6a341d9218f79d589a9491
0.x 2fd439c7f69fbf9421e857481ed723461fdc07f4
1.x
I've uploaded the svn history as I downloaded it to
https://github.com/xloem/spot-on-svn.git
My tip commit is
975df40782c5d413361115abcd2164fecb41865b
Okay! The goldbug source is inside branches/trunk . The tree was never
normalised since svn and use of it continued. It's not about encrypting to
a tiny sqlite database.
On Sat, Jun 12, 2021, 8:51 AM Karl Semich <0xl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> (it doesn't look like geoip was used for another yet then. pretty sure I
> am looking at
>
*anything yet then
> the wrong thing and this is just a draft of something, but not certain)
>
The spot on source is also referenced
(it doesn't look like geoip was used for another yet then. pretty sure I
am looking at the wrong thing and this is just a draft of something, but
not certain)
- the repository contains binaries to ease compilation for windows users.
It specifies how to redownload these binaries.
- spot-on is presently listed as the source code for goldbug at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/goldbug/?source=navbar . I do not see the
source code for goldbug in the july
svn update -r 1571 # took me a while to find this
find */ -type f -exec cat {} + | sha256sum
d54a76bbf8df1b577a0e070fb6144e6bd33211cbcebe65c18d974f35ca76f027
r1571 has a message containing "New version." and is dated the day before
the possible press release.
I see things change on me a lot due to my different states of mind, so
hashes are really helpful. I'm not sure how to quickly and reproducible
hash the history of an svn repo offhand any more, so I'm importing it to
git.
My steam for this is running out a little. It sounds somebody may have
To add on to the other thread, of course I do find this hard, because I
have to handle the fallout from my political targeting, including b ing
barely able to direct my body and brain from schizophrenia etc.
Normally, it would be because people have a job and a family taking up
their time, after
To clarify here:
- Experienced software developers don't find it hard to scan through code.
- People usually hide because they are in danger, not because they are
untrustworthy.
>
> My emails are unsigned and I handed the has
>
*handtyped the hashes, autocorrect
I have the first spot-on git commit as
7580ca1dc3e0a811a272b1be530c84a5a4559a6b 2015-02-23T08:20:54-0:500
The svn repo is at https://svn.code.sf.net/p/spot-on/code
The README file differs but other files appear to be the same between the
first git commit and the last svn commit:
find */ -type
On Sat, Jun 12, 2021, 7:21 AM grarpamp wrote:
> >> archives, search: goldbug
>
> Why should people you don't believe bother
> rehashing it all for you when you can pull it all out
> of the archives of all the lists involved yourself.
> If that's too hard for you to do, then go ask both the
> EFF
>> archives, search: goldbug
Why should people you don't believe bother
rehashing it all for you when you can pull it all out
of the archives of all the lists involved yourself.
If that's too hard for you to do, then go ask both the
EFF and CCC separately for a copy of their GoldBug
announcement
I presently am seeing this commit for
https://github.com/textbrowser/spot-on.git
f7cf61dc5ee25b4b5b9184926a81711e6ae037db master 2021-06-07T09:52:12-04:00
The repository starts in 2015, so does not include the svn data from the
2013 press release.
Randolph removed from this public email.
The more primary source links for this controversy are at
https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2013-July/047140.html and
https://lists.cypherpunks.ca/pipermail/otr-users/2013-July/002232.html .
If you click forward on the second link, which
Hi Randolph,
I saw in 2013 you shared a press release from GoldBug 0.1 with different
communities. I'm afraid at this point your shares are the only web results
I'm getting for that press release. I understand you're not affiliated
with GoldBug yourself, but were simply interested in people's
On Sat, Jun 12, 2021, 5:34 AM grarpamp wrote:
> archives, search: goldbug
>
All I found is you saying the same thing more times.
Are my archives missing data, or what are you talking about?
>
How Fanatics Took Over The World
https://dailyreckoning.com/how-fanatics-took-over-the-world/
Authored by Jeffrey Tucker
"When people catch on, the fires of vengeance will burn very hot."
Early in the pandemic, I had been furiously writing articles about
lockdowns. My phone rang with a call from
On Sat, Jun 12, 2021, 5:08 AM grarpamp wrote:
> Their own self-delegitimizing and self-disreputating actions
> forever precede whatever their code may or may not be.
>
No self-delegitimizing or self-disreputing actions from the goldbug project
have reached me. What behavior are you referring
Their own self-delegitimizing and self-disreputating actions
forever precede whatever their code may or may not be.
Those wishing to know what those [and indeed all] codes may
or may not be, should audit them to their own satisfaction,
preferably publicly. That applies to everything from the CPU
grarpamp, please relate
>
Is this a mitm between us or did you misunderstand a legitimate project and
spread disreputation around them?
>
> References:
> ---
> [1]
> https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/CommunityAndContact#IRC
> [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenode#Ownership_change_and_conflict
> [3]
> https://www.gentoo.org/news/2021/05/26/gentoo-freenode-channels-hijacked.htm
https://alt-market.us/the-real-reasons-why-california-leftists-are-terrified-of-the-ar-15/
The Real Reasons Why California Leftists Are Terrified Of The AR-15
by Brandon Smith
All political power comes from the barrel of a gun.
The communist party must command all the guns, that
way, no guns
This email from the replicant list includes more information on the reasons
for leaving freenode, if others don't know
-- Forwarded message -
Subject: [Replicant] The IRC situation and Freenode hostile takeover
Hi,
In order to enable more people to more easily get in touch with
The War Over Genetic Privacy Is Just Beginning
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead
June 08, 2021
[3]John Whitehead
"[4]When you upload your DNA, you're potentially becoming a genetic
informant on the rest of your family."-- Law professor Elizabeth Joh
"Guilt by association" has taken on new
Victor Davis Hanson: This Isn't Your Father's Left-Wing Revolution
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/06/10/this_isnt_your_fathers_left-wing_revolution_145908.html
Starry-eyed radicals in the 1960s and 1970s dreamed that they either
were going to take over America or destroy it.
https://eriklentzphd.blogspot.com/
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2021/03/11/ftl-thoughts-on-a-new-paper-by-erik-lentz/
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.07125.pdf
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/37134/emails-show-navys-ufo-patents-went-through-significant-internal-review-resulted-in-a-demo
NBC News: The FBI's seizing one bitcoin wallet won't stop ransomware — but it's
a start.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/fbis-seizing-one-bitcoin-wallet-wont-stop-ransomware-start-rcna1166
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