Does debian distributes chromium with unpatched known bugs?

2020-11-08 Thread Georgi Guninski
There was some discussion on the debian security mailing list and it suggests debian distributes chromium with known public exploits which are fixed upstream: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/chromium Does debian distributes chromium with unpatched known bugs?

Re: Gems in the 2020-09 windows source leak?

2020-10-15 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Sun, Oct 4, 2020 at 8:54 AM Georgi Guninski wrote: > > Are there gems in the 2020-09 windows source leak? https://linuxreviews.org/42.9_GB_Of_Microsoft_Source_Code_Leaked:_Historicans_Can_Now_Study_The_Source_Code_For_MS-Dos_3.3_To_Windows_XP File: /Win2K3/inetsrv/query/sqltext/bis

Re: From the history of Microsoft (part 1)

2020-10-06 Thread Georgi Guninski
On 2020-09-25 leaker **billgates3** [wrote](https://thehackernews.com/2020/09/windows-xp-source-code.html), adding insult to injury: >"I created this torrent for the community, as I believe information should be >free and available to everyone, and hoarding information for oneself and >keeping

Gems in the 2020-09 windows source leak?

2020-10-03 Thread Georgi Guninski
Are there gems in the 2020-09 windows source leak? Like juicy comments/var names/function names? Reference to existing real world figures? https://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-secret-file-could-allow-access-to-web-sites/ Jan. 2, 2002 Microsoft secret file could allow access to Web sites The

From the history of Microsoft (part 1)

2020-10-03 Thread Georgi Guninski
From my blog: https://j.ludost.net/blog/archives/2020/10/03/from_the_history_of_microsoft_part_1/index.html Markdown source follows. >From the history of Microsoft (part 1) by Georgi Guninski Sat 03 Oct 2020 08:51:30 AM UTC, version 1.0 History is written by the winners, so here we wr

gmail bounce 19 June

2020-06-19 Thread Georgi Guninski
I got gmail bounce on 19 June and I am missing mails again.

Re: ping

2020-06-19 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 4:14 PM Greg Newby wrote: > > That was a temporary 13-hour problem caused by a specific misconfiguration I > applied. There is no indication that mail delivery problems before that are > related. > I definitely had gmail problems for at least 3 days and I check spam

Re: ping

2020-06-19 Thread Georgi Guninski
Do you read me? What a debugging drama, anyone has a conspiracy theory ;) ?

Re: Test list [gmail.com]

2020-06-17 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 09:55:15AM -0400, GTI .H wrote: > Hi > > I am not receiving email from this list . . . My gmail.com email doesn't receive mails from the list too. Anyone on gmail.com reading the list?

Re: The Washington Post: Elite CIA unit that developed hacking tools failed to secure its own systems, allowing massive leak, an internal report found

2020-06-17 Thread Georgi Guninski
Is the leak available somewhere? On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 05:03:38AM +, jim bell wrote: > The Washington Post: Elite CIA unit that developed hacking tools failed to > secure its own systems, allowing massive leak, an internal report found. >

[OT] pong

2020-06-15 Thread Georgi Guninski
Am I subscribed, don't receive email even in SPAM?

[OT] another email address

2020-06-15 Thread Georgi Guninski
just to announce another email: ggunin...@gmail.com ping

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

2020-05-17 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 08:04:29PM +0300, Georgi Guninski wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 09:41:55AM -0400, John Young wrote: > > Currently 100,000+ corona victims. > > > > Doubled to 200,000+ victims. > If it keeps doubling, the humans will disappear. About two w

Changing the world ;)

2020-04-28 Thread Georgi Guninski
Whoever said one person can't change the world never ate an undercooked bat.

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

2020-04-26 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 06:13:29PM +0300, Georgi Guninski wrote: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 09:41:55AM -0400, John Young wrote: > > 283,549 Road Users Deaths for 2020, Compared to 6,685 Coronoavirus Deaths > > > > 1,354,840 Road Users Deaths in 2019 > > > > ht

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

2020-04-11 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 09:41:55AM -0400, John Young wrote: > 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/ Currently 100,000+ corona victims.

Re: PGP key

2020-03-30 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 11:24:41PM +0100, Peter Fairbrother wrote: > On 29/03/2020 22:27, Se7en wrote: > > This is a message to confirm that my previous PGP key was compromised > > and should be considered compromised since its creation one week > > ago. > > Then either PGP is crap at security,

Re: Wuhan is UP, California and Europe are down

2020-03-26 Thread Georgi Guninski
ooops, bug: Wuhan is UP. On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 05:57:04PM +0200, Georgi Guninski wrote: > Wuhan is down, California and Europe are down. > Only few months downtime for Wuhan.

Wuhan is down, California and Europe are down

2020-03-26 Thread Georgi Guninski
Wuhan is down, California and Europe are down. Only few months downtime for Wuhan.

Re: Coronavirus: Thread

2020-03-24 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 04:21:47AM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > Deaths resolved: 12.9% Do you compute 100 * deaths / recovered? According to wikipedia, the first 3 countries: China: 4.5% Italy: 82% USA: 172% (over 100 is not a typo).

cryptocurrencies in times of recession

2020-03-18 Thread Georgi Guninski
Cryptocurrency exchange rate at times of recession? Dow Jones dropped and according to some we are at or near recession/financial crisis. How are cryptocurrencies going at times of recession/crisis? Browsed some rate charts on xe.com and bitcoin appears to have dropped in the beginning of

Happy 8 March

2020-03-07 Thread Georgi Guninski
Happy 8 March to the chicks. @->->-

Hospital overflow and corona virus

2020-03-05 Thread Georgi Guninski
Is the so called "society" ready for the time when there are not enough hospitals for ill from corona virus? AFAIK all ill from corona virus are sent to hospitals to not spread the disease further. The Chinese built a new hospital for about a week.

Re: Bad News/Good News

2020-03-04 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Tue, Mar 03, 2020 at 07:03:11AM +, jim bell wrote: > So, anyone want to take bets on whether I fall ill in the next 2-3 weeks? Some dry statistics (might be wrong): catching common flu in usa: about 2% catching coronavirus in usa: about 3.7861 E-5 After your period ends, your

Expected duration of the Corona virus threat?

2020-02-27 Thread Georgi Guninski
What is the expected duration of the Corona virus threat? Not only death counts, include fear, social, technological and economic threats. And what is the mortality rate of common flu?

Window stories

2020-02-19 Thread Georgi Guninski
The first one is veeery old. - Do you know that if you play Windows 98 CD backwards it will play satanic music? - That's nothing. If you play it forward it will install Windows 98. - Did you hear the hoax that Bill Gates is related to Corona virus? - That's nothing. He created the Windows

Re: HAPPY VALENTINES DAY SEA SEA

2020-02-17 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 02:22:23AM +, rooty wrote: > To the only "chick" in this wonderful community happy Valentine's day > > Luv rooty Sea Sea rooted rooty with the ILOVEYOU retro virus. Love like this in times of Corona virus, Nearly like in the Marquez book.

Google's claim of 100% availability

2019-11-17 Thread Georgi Guninski
=== https://cloud.google.com/dns/ 100% availability and low latency Our SLA promises 100% availability of our authoritative name servers === I believe the constant 100% is not correct.

Re: Intel Fucks Up Jump Conditional Code Cache, New ucode

2019-11-13 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 12:10:10AM -0500, grarpamp wrote: > https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article=intel-jcc-gaming=1 > https://github.com/intel/Intel-Linux-Processor-Microcode-Data-Files > > Users flock to AMD. Is AMD really better? I suspect it is the same garbage as Intel.

Old news: Why Mark Zuckerberg covers his laptop's camera and micophrone

2019-10-28 Thread Georgi Guninski
=== Why Mark Zuckerberg covers his laptop's camera and micophrone Is taping your laptop a necessary security precaution? The chief executive officer of Facebook apparently thinks so. https://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2016/0623/Why-Mark-Zuckerberg-covers-his-laptop-s-camera-and-micophrone

Re: Cypherpunks: Jim Bell meets Sumitomo Electric

2019-09-12 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 04:47:49PM +, jim bell wrote: > Jim Bell meets Sumitomo Electric at Seattle.  good luck! if the japanese (fucked fukushima) don't work, try spamming some chinese comrades, i hear they do cheap hardware. at worst you will find one more way that doesn't work.

What happened with the hacking scene from 90s and the early 00s?

2019-09-12 Thread Georgi Guninski
What happened with the hacking scene from 90s and the early 00s? Off the top of my head, sorry for the missed: 8lgm, gobbles, rfp, http-equiv, Liu (Chinese name) lcamtuf and Solar Designer appear to be big bosses. Recommended reading: Underground, Dreyfus book.

Re: 'Eternally Blue' (At least for 9 years)

2019-07-21 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 07:24:10AM -0700, Razer wrote: > ('Shadowbrokers') What happened to them? IIRC they were selling at high price in some cryptocurrency.

The cert of nap.bg and the recent bulgarian tax SNAFU

2019-07-21 Thread Georgi Guninski
Since 2019-07-15 there is a major SNAFU in the BG tax authorities. World and dog tax information and ID leaked on the interwebz. I have sporadic SSL failures connecting to https://nap.bg with firefox, lynx and openssl s_client. e.g: $ openssl s_client -connect nap.bg:443 Verify return code: 21

On Microsoft request to access private linux bugs

2019-07-06 Thread Georgi Guninski
From my blog: https://j.ludost.net On Microsoft request to access private linux bugs According to theregister [1] m$ wants to access private linux bugs. Theregister mentions that in 2001 she called linux "cancer". Another example of anti-opensource behavior are the Halloween documents [2] from

Stuff from the past

2019-06-12 Thread Georgi Guninski
History is written by the winners. In 1999 it was disclosed [1] that m$ had a variable name _NSAKEY in the windoze. In 1998 Halloween Documents [2] document leaked showing microsoft's strategy against free software and especially linux. Due to lameness m$ couldn't predict android will run on

On presidents and death

2019-03-26 Thread Georgi Guninski
From my blog: https://j.ludost.net/blog/archives/2019/03/26/on_presidents_and_death/index.html Since the office was established in 1789, 44 persons have served as President of the United States. Of these, eight presidents have died in office, four were assassinated and four died of natural

Re: Tim May (fwd)

2018-12-18 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 01:22:04PM -0400, Robert Hettinga wrote: > Give ’em hell, Tim, wherever you are. > RIP Tim. I didn't know you. There might be something true in the folklore that one isn't entirely dead while the alive crowd remembers them.

Re: Deconstructing Tesla

2018-07-24 Thread Georgi Guninski
Lol, from the subject I thought this is about the Serb Nikola Tesla. Other conspiracy theories about him besides the Tunguska crash? On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 04:51:40PM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > http://leandesign.com/pdf/Tesla-3-Analysis-Sales-Information.pdf

Re: Ecuador Handing Over Assange To UK

2018-07-23 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 02:56:31AM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > Hopefully the day will soon come when all will have > those freedoms. Strongly doubt this. Possibly unless we are owned by aliens who teach us humanity the hard way. -- hoping for the best but expecting the worst. are you gonna drop

Re: Geek captcha

2018-07-17 Thread Georgi Guninski
math captcha: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2174/2268237733_cda4a1dbb3.jpg?v=0

Re: Geek captcha

2018-07-16 Thread Georgi Guninski
What is this code doing? Looks like obfuscated javascript, not fully shown. On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 04:50:15PM -0700, Steven Schear wrote: >

Re: We must preserve the Cypherpunks Mailing List archives! IMPORTANT!

2018-07-07 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Sat, Jul 07, 2018 at 05:32:21AM -0700, Greg Newby wrote: > The .tar.bz2 file has 92,195 individual files. I appended them all to a > single file, which email clients can open as an mbox file. But mailx > reported 84519 messages, and mutt reported 84531. > How long does it take opening them

Re: Satoshi Nakamoto: Thoughts on excerpt from Duality?

2018-07-03 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 03:56:19PM +0200, Tom Busby wrote: > Satoshi actually never, ever signed anything cryptographically. > No problem. As a proof of identity I request 1337.7331 bitcoins from one of their accounts ;)

Re: Satoshi Nakamoto: Thoughts on excerpt from Duality?

2018-07-03 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 07:03:24AM -0700, mark M wrote: > http://nakamotofamilyfoundation.org/ > > http://nakamotofamilyfoundation.org/duality.pdf > > http://nakamotofamilyfoundation.org/cryptogram.html Is this the real Nakamoto, speculations? Didn't see crypto key to prevent potential future

OT coverity scan of qmail -- 53 potential defects (with false positives)

2018-07-01 Thread Georgi Guninski
From my blog: https://j.ludost.net/blog/archives/2018/07/01/coverity_scan_of_qmail_--_53_potential_defects_with_false_positives/index.html coverity scan of qmail -- 53 potential defects (with false positives) coverity is commercial static source code analyzer accepting some open source

Re: Intel Fail: OpenBSD disables Intel HyperThreading, Lazy FP State Restore

2018-06-25 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 07:44:21PM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > https://www.mail-archive.com/source-changes@openbsd.org/msg99141.html According to journos intel won't fix this: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/22/intel_tlbleed_key_data_leak/ Meet TLBleed: A crypto-key-leaking CPU attack that

Re: Intel Fail: OpenBSD disables Intel HyperThreading, Lazy FP State Restore

2018-06-20 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 07:44:21PM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > https://www.mail-archive.com/source-changes@openbsd.org/msg99141.html > https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/security-center/default.html > Freebsd: https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-05:09.htt.asc Topic:

Re: Are the interwebz rather big for google to index?

2018-06-14 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 12:45:39PM -1100, Mirimir wrote: > I hadn't noticed, but "site:lists.cpunks.org" doesn't return any results > after November 2017. There are 9670 results in total. And even that is > not much more than the total for 2016 alone (8123 messages). However, > "grarpamp" does

Fwd: [oss-security] Intel FP security issue

2018-06-13 Thread Georgi Guninski
- Forwarded message from Loganaden Velvindron - Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 19:34:15 +0400 From: Loganaden Velvindron To: oss-secur...@lists.openwall.com Cc: sec...@intel.com Subject: [oss-security] Intel FP security issue Hi All, Both OpenBSD and DragonflyBSD have gone ahead and committed

Are the interwebz rather big for google to index?

2018-06-13 Thread Georgi Guninski
I strongly suspect at least one of the following holds: 1. The interwebz are rather big for google to index 2. google doesn't return in searches all indexed content on purpose Partial evidence: this list and my blog don't appear in searches.

Re: $1.1 Bln in Crypto Has Been Stolen This Year

2018-06-11 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 08:06:28AM -0700, Steven Schear wrote: > Good point. Would love to see a fair comparison. > This appears highly non-trivial. Quick web searches doen't return usable info and in addition the banks and the like probably don't report all incidents because of issues of "trust".

Re: $1.1 Bln in Crypto Has Been Stolen This Year

2018-06-11 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 07:22:51PM -0700, Steven Schear wrote: > https://cointelegraph.com/news/report-1-1-bln-in-crypto-has-been-stolen-this-year How does this compare with stolen traditional money? Instead of absolute values probably the ratio "stolen/total" is more interesting.

Personal near death experience

2018-06-07 Thread Georgi Guninski
https://j.ludost.net/blog/archives/2018/06/06/near_death_experience/index.html Near death experience

VISA down, crypto probably up

2018-06-02 Thread Georgi Guninski
https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/6430640/visa-down-network-crashes-uk-europe-card-payments/ CARD CHAOS Visa apologises for network crash which sparked card payment chaos but insist there was no hack More than 95 per cent of debit cards in the UK are run on Visa's network. The outage affected other

Re: Google Project MAVEN: We're Evil and Support Murder with AI

2018-06-02 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 12:55:59PM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > https://theintercept.com/2018/05/31/google-leaked-emails-drone-ai-pentagon-lucrative/ FYI from 2003: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2580728/security0/darpa-pulls-funding-for-openbsd--leader-says.html DARPA pulls funding for

Re: Razer gets a call from the fedz about a ZuckerBook 'post you made in April'

2018-06-01 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 11:51:46AM -0700, Razer wrote: > > I just got a voicemail from one special agent Delligan (sp? And why are they > almost always Irish?) in DC about a 'post you made in April', and he wanted too long, didn't read it all. was the troublesome info news or something well

Re: Speculative execution vulnerability.

2018-05-23 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 12:57:39AM +, jim bell wrote: > https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/05/new-speculative-execution-vulnerability-strikes-amd-arm-and-intel/ How are the class action lawsuits against CPU vendors going? IIRC there are tens of them. And from TFA: intel suggested to fix

Re: OT is there place on earth where the sun doesn't rise from near east?

2018-05-16 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 05:44:32PM +, jim bell wrote: > Piece of trivia:  The "Geographic pole" actually wanders a bit, probably > mostly due to displacements of the mass of oceans and the atmosphere.I think > it's on the order of about 100 meters or so.   Presumably, this has to be >

OT is there place on earth where the sun doesn't rise from near east?

2018-05-12 Thread Georgi Guninski
is there place on earth where the sun doesn't rise from near east? counterexample will be near the poles. there are two kinds of poles: geographic pole and magnetic pole. it appears to depend how they are placed: the middle of the line between them is a good candidate -- in this case exchanging

Bitcoin support in the linux kernel?

2018-04-01 Thread Georgi Guninski
I hear trustworthy gossips that the linux kernel will support bitcoin soon. m$ trolls troll that blockchain will be used for parallel solutions and mine/pay will give euid zero. Are they gone nuts? I will migrate to BSD if this happens, fuck.

Re: Flaws in AMD CPUs.

2018-03-22 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 09:24:24PM +1000, jam...@echeque.com wrote: > The original CPU design was purchased from the US, but a variety of chip > makers have been improving on the design in a variety of ways, so it is not > US cloned, but is US descended - rather distantly descended by now.

Re: Flaws in AMD CPUs.

2018-03-22 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 11:22:09AM +1000, jam...@echeque.com wrote: > I have therefore purchased some 64 bit Orange Pi PC2s running Ubuntu 16.04 > server, for a ridiculously affordable computer cluster. This is actually Are these non-capitalist systems? Genuinely commies CPUs? Not cloned

Re: Attn: Image Posting...

2018-03-16 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 05:53:59AM -0500, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: > On 03/16/2018 03:38 AM, Georgi Guninski wrote: > > According to my tests, modulo errors. > > The new list has about 10K message of total size 190MB. > > 171 of them are of size > 100K of total size 104MB

Re: Attn: Image Posting...

2018-03-16 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 12:59:25PM -0700, g2s wrote: > Aw cmon! I've  been hanging around this list for what? A couple of years or > so, and in that time there MIGHT HAVE BEEN 20 or 30 posted by people who > actually has some context in the post relating to the pics. Mine did. The > trolls who

Re: Attn: Image Posting...

2018-03-15 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 10:12:56AM -0700, g2s wrote: > Most of that 190mb is Zenazi's garbage, libertard diatribes and bitcoin shit > links. No, it is not, what about a bet? 190MB are only 190 images of size 1MB and some images are larger. > Oh, and get a real computer with a real disk drive.

Re: Attn: Image Posting...

2018-03-15 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 09:31:17AM -0700, g2s wrote: > The last full size image I posted was a whopping TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY SIX > KILOBYTES > RrPs.  Fuck it, this is about 246 plaintext emails. Image shit poisons backup of mail. Currently the mbox of the new list is about 190M for me. Put

Re: Flaws in AMD CPUs.

2018-03-14 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 03:40:26PM +, jim bell wrote: > Security researchers find flaws in AMD chips but raise eyebrows with rushed > disclosure > What is the problem with "rushed disclosure"? A vulnerability is like an asset and the owner can do whatever he wants with it. Why care about

Dying from alcohol or car accident, probabilities

2018-03-14 Thread Georgi Guninski
Some non-drinking crowd was rather critical about using alcohol. I am not sure alcohol is more dangerous than car accident. What are the (local) probabilities of dying from: 1. alcohol 2. car accident Since the intersection is not empty, possibly add 0. car accident caused by drunk driver

Re: Happy 8 March to the women

2018-03-10 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Fri, Mar 09, 2018 at 04:49:47PM -0500, rooty wrote: > Ge0rgiE - thank you for the beautiful macro rose - I am forever 0wned > lol. some other file (image, video, text, etc) will likely own you for doubly forever. and this scales.

Happy 8 March to the women

2018-03-07 Thread Georgi Guninski
macro rose: https://images.pexels.com/photos/37643/rose-red-flower-37643.jpeg?w=940=650=compress=tinysrgb

Re: Seeking mirror of Stratfor defacement

2018-03-07 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 09:34:16PM -0800, Douglas Lucas wrote: > least to two browsers of mine) how Anonymous defaced Stratfor's website > on 24 Dec 2011. Apologies for the lazy web, but can anyone point me to a > resource/URL that does show it in full? Looking at the html source shows IFRAME

Re: AI threats

2018-02-27 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 02:13:15PM -0500, 10r wrote: > Hi. I wonder if there has ever been a topic about AI threats against > humanity. If not, I would like to propose this discussion. Should we think of > models / agents that only work on encrypted information such as numer.ai or > should we

Do some exploits require imagination/creativity or only craftsmanship?

2018-02-03 Thread Georgi Guninski
Do some exploits require imagination/creativity or only craftsmanship? Probably an advance in fully automated exploit development will settle it. It is complicated since sufficiently advanced craftsmanship is indistinguishable from creativity.

Re: murica .gov shutdown of 2018

2018-01-21 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 07:19:08PM -0500, Marina Brown wrote: > It's fake. The border patrol and other stuff like that will > still be operating. So will a lot of other forces of repression. > > I think it is mostly for show. IMHO this is rather sad show. The so called "world leader" [sic]

murica .gov shutdown of 2018

2018-01-20 Thread Georgi Guninski
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/19/democratic-leader-meets-donald-trump-crisis-talks-us-federal/ the US government has started to shut down

Re: Cryptocurrency Market Bloodbath

2018-01-19 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 02:25:14PM -0500, grarpamp wrote: > First futures call Assuming this is for the temporary cryptocurrencies crash on 17.Jan.2018, wouldn't futures affect it even if the price was high, say $25K?

Re: Project Veritas: Social Media Stores Everything You Post Forever

2018-01-19 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 07:41:27PM -0500, Steve Kinney wrote: > "Prophets do not predict the future, they direct people to create > specific futures." > "Sufficiently sophisticated trolling is indistinguishable from thought leadership" -- unknown

Re: Project Veritas: Social Media Stores Everything You Post Forever

2018-01-17 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 01:53:02AM -0500, grarpamp wrote: > Don't be stupid, this applies to all users of all > social networks, regardless of posted "policy". > Warehouses full of data, all about mining and controlling... you. > I suspect it applies for this list too. In some sense the list is

Re: Hawaii and Japan missile false positive

2018-01-17 Thread Georgi Guninski
Updated 1557 GMT (2357 HKT) January 16, 2018 http://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/16/asia/japan-false-missile-alarm-intl/index.html Japanese broadcaster apologizes after false North Korea missile alert

Re: Hawaii missile false positive

2018-01-14 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 07:29:29AM -0800, Steven Schear wrote: > Fat finger ---> Fat Ass > Sometimes in situations like this I suspect they might have been owned, but are too shy to admit it publicly.

Hawaii missile false positive

2018-01-14 Thread Georgi Guninski
This is how nuclear wars inadvertently start: http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/37259684/ballistic-missile-threat-alert-sent-to-hawaii-phones-was-a-mistake A false ballistic missile threat alert went out to all cell phones in Hawaii on Saturday morning, sending the state's 1.4 million residents

Re: Own on install. How grave it is?

2018-01-11 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 08:43:27AM -0800, g2s wrote: > > The concerns are real and industry resolves this by applying the minimal > > required patches from a media before connecting device to the network. > > > > >> Thanks. This doesn't appear possible on smartphones, tablets and some IoT, > >>

Re: Own on install. How grave it is?

2018-01-11 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 11:54:00AM +0200, Kirils Solovjovs wrote: > > The concerns are real and industry resolves this by applying the minimal > required patches from a media before connecting device to the network. > Thanks. This doesn't appear possible on smartphones, tablets and some IoT,

Own on install. How grave it is?

2018-01-09 Thread Georgi Guninski
This is well known, haven't seen it discussed. In short doing clean install (factory defaults) has a window of opportunity when the device is vulnerable to a known network attack. It used to be common sense to reinstall after compromise (probably doesn't apply to the windows world where the

Re: Intel design flaw

2018-01-04 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 06:42:43AM -0500, John Newman wrote: > I think they might go bankrupt ;) > Won't cry much in this case. theregister claims javascript in a web browser can exploit it, is this true? I think js can't read memory in the browser process, let alone kernel stuff.

Re: Intel design flaw

2018-01-03 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 08:48:12AM +, jim bell wrote: > For some reason, I'm reminded of the 486 math processor  screwup of 1992 (?).  > As I vaguely recall, the math coprocessor might have errors in the fourth > digit of significance.  Intel offered to replace the affected chips. > I think

Re: Do you have predictions about 2017?

2018-01-01 Thread Georgi Guninski
Which predictions came true? IIRC grarpamp made bold financial prediction which was outperformed by a factor of about 10.

Re: Cypherpunks Predictions For 2018...

2017-12-31 Thread Georgi Guninski
Two more: 3. m$ windows will suck so much, computer illiterate people will be ready to pay for just literally "uninstalling windows" 4. bitcoin will at least temporary lose the first place on https://coinmarketcap.com (this is not rigorous metric)

Re: Happy New Year, yay!!! :D

2017-12-31 Thread Georgi Guninski
Happy New Year.

Re: Ripple reaches second place by marketing capitalization

2017-12-30 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 03:57:00PM -0500, grarpamp wrote: > On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 8:21 AM, Georgi Guninski <gunin...@guninski.com> > wrote: > > What should investors know before investing in XRP? > > https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripple_(company) > https:/

Re: Ripple reaches second place by marketing capitalization

2017-12-29 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 06:55:27AM -0700, Joseph Frazier wrote: > A friend mentioned to me that it's queued up to be offered on coinbase, so > that may have something to do with the rise in value. I know that eth, ltc > went up after appearing on coinbase. Just speculation there. > They claim they

Ripple reaches second place by marketing capitalization

2017-12-29 Thread Georgi Guninski
Ripple (XRP) reached second place by marketing capitalization. Before: https://web.archive.org/web/20171227090813/https://coinmarketcap.com/ After: https://web.archive.org/web/20171229110520/https://coinmarketcap.com/ Realtime: https://coinmarketcap.com/ What should investors know before

Re: UFOs: US Defense Dept Videos and Black Money, Alien Tech, To The Stars

2017-12-28 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 11:11:24PM -0500, grarpamp wrote: > https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html > https://www.reddit.com/search?q=ufo=month > https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/ > Some declassified cia stuff:

Re: Current State of Mailing Lists / Forums about Internet Freedom, Security and Privacy?

2017-12-27 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 09:27:58AM -0800, bm-2cxcavedtjwvdvxg9hempzp8k5uaakz...@bitmessage.ch wrote: > of the current state of the Internet communities? And what is your > recommendation > of a good online fourm for general discussion of freedom, security and > privacy? > Long ago someone said

Re: Are cryptocurrencies ready to handle large number of transactions?

2017-12-27 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 10:04:23PM -0800, Steven Schear wrote: > Clearly they are not, yet. The problems are somewhat multi-dimensional and Are there attempts to mitigate dishonest majority?

Re: Are cryptocurrencies ready to handle large number of transactions?

2017-12-25 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 07:27:24AM -0500, Karl Semich wrote: > > > On Dec 24, 2017, at 6:18 AM, Georgi Guninski <gunin...@guninski.com> wrote: > > > > Are cryptocurrencies ready to handle large number of transactions? > > Some are! Bitcoin is not, but all th

Are cryptocurrencies ready to handle large number of transactions?

2017-12-24 Thread Georgi Guninski
Are cryptocurrencies ready to handle large number of transactions? Say if the database is 1000TB or more? Doesn't handling large number of transactions contradict decentralization? Several days ago the BTC blockchain was about 150GB. Heard complains that BTC fees are rather large and

Re: Zcash 2nd Ceremony Call for Review / Participation, @Snowden EFF ACLU Privacy Updates

2017-12-22 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 12:27:50AM -0500, grarpamp wrote: > The Zcash Foundation’s Powers of Tau Ceremony > Don't know if this is true or not, some concerns over zcash: https://www.coindesk.com/investors-know-trading-zcash/ What Investors Should Know Before Trading Zcash

Re: Lakestone Bank and Trust Just Made A Problem, Oopsie

2017-12-21 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 10:02:30PM -0500, grarpamp wrote: > https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7l461c/banks_trying_to_come_down_on_crypto_investers/ This greedy bank well might kill herself, possibly downing large amount of the rest of Ponzi scheme banks. It is enough critical (possibly

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