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

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

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 not

Re: Cypherpunks Predictions For 2018...

On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 11:41:52PM -0500, grarpamp wrote: > some sort of official cypherpunks predictions for 2018 thread. From Forever Young song: Hoping for the best, but expecting the worst Are you gonna drop the bomb or not?

Re: Cypherpunks Predictions For 2018...

On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 11:41:52PM -0500, grarpamp wrote: > some sort of official cypherpunks predictions for 2018 thread. IMHO this thread is rather early. Two predictions, estimated damage at least $0.42 trillion. 1. Major malware(s) spreading via Intel ME and the like. Significantly worse tha

Merry Christmas and all the best in 2018! :)

Merry Christmas and all the best in 2018! :) There is still some time for the cpunks thread "predictions about 2017". -- send gifts for old good times bitcoin:1DV4Y5KGWLJeYB9jYqDLKbjbwQ48ewWr3G

Re: Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money

On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 03:28:05AM -0500, grarpamp wrote: > Hardcover: 416 pages > Publisher: Harper; 1St Edition edition (May 19, 2015) > Language: English > ISBN-10: 0062362496 > ISBN-13: 978-0062362490 > Likely it is on Library Genesis too. Good time for second edition or a fork :)

How good random number generator is the human brain at conscious level?

How good random number generator is the human brain at conscious level? Searching the web returns forum speculations that it is bad PRNG and some paywalled medical articles claiming otherwise. "Hardware" stuff like neurons firing or muscles moving doesn't count.

Bitcoin's secretive creator could become the world's first trillionaire

Any robots amongst the top billionaires? ;) http://mashable.com/2017/12/12/bitcoin-satoshi-trillionaire/ | But if Nakamoto is a single person, they're currently the 52nd richest | person in the world when measured against Forbes' list of billionaires. | And judging by the way Bitcoin's price has

Re: Bitcoin theft and the future of cryptocurrencies

On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 10:43:10AM -0800, Steven Schear wrote: > On the one hand Satochi pitched Bitcoin as a cash-like system. What can > happen with cash under careless handling and storage? OTOH, Bitcoin's I strongly suspect Satoshi doesn't keep their large wallets on internet connected machine

Bitcoin theft and the future of cryptocurrencies

If your bitcoin wallet is compromised, all your bitcoins are gone forever. With a credit card, you have some chance of only minor damage. If your computer is owned, your wallet is at risk. This appears major problem for the widespread adoption of bitcoin IMHO. Fixing it appears to contradict dece

Re: Bitcoin currency options? was: Cryptocurrency Futures

On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 11:59:13PM -0500, grarpamp wrote: > CBOE-XBT 1/2/3 month all up 10% over spot in opening trading. > First day settlement price TBD... > One more week till round two @CME. Are there bitcoin (or cryptocurrency) currency options? Essentially they are gambling instruments. IIR

Re: What is consensus?

On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 07:42:02AM -0800, g2s wrote: > Consensus is defined as agreement. Voting is one process to (hopefully) reach > it. > https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consensus lol "If voting could change things, it would have been outlawed." -- anon Just check what fucks were

Re: How does major malware outbreaks affect antivirus share price?

On Sat, Dec 09, 2017 at 03:16:56AM -0500, grarpamp wrote: > On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 6:00 AM, Georgi Guninski wrote: > > How does major malware outbreaks affect antivirus share price? > > So you're asking why don't governments wipe out "terrorism"? > Or why

How does major malware outbreaks affect antivirus share price?

How does major malware outbreaks affect antivirus share price? Define "major" as reported in popular media like national TV. My wild guess is major outbreaks systematically increase the share price by non-trivial amount no matter if the promised protection is real or not.

short essay Dystopia: Worm destroys half of the computers

I wanna be a paperback writer ;) Updates will be on http://j.ludost.net == Dystopia: Worm destroys half of the computers by Georgi Guninski, 2017-12-02 ver. 1.0 Allegedly Steven Hawking said: “I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature

Re: absurd MacOS High Sierra bug

On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 10:03:29AM -0500, John Newman wrote: > https://it.slashdot.org/story/17/11/28/2135236/macos-high-sierra-bug-allows-login-as-root-with-no-password > > This is not absurd, this is how the real world works. Software comes with no warranty of any kind for a reason ;) The ironic

Re: If Your Vibrator Is Hacked, Is It a Sex Crime?

On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 06:07:55AM -0200, Cecilia Tanaka wrote: > with the mucous membranes... Even when using a condom, there are great > chances of contamination. Indeed. Especially when the condom is controlled by the Internet of Things.

Re: If Your Vibrator Is Hacked, Is It a Sex Crime?

On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 06:16:38PM -0200, Cecilia Tanaka wrote: > If Your Vibrator Is Hacked, Is It a Sex Crime? > > https://gizmodo.com/if-your-vibrator-is-hacked-is-it-a-sex-crime-1820007951 > Don't know if it is a sex crime. If you catch physical virus from your vibrator you will need bad medic

Re: blocking coinhive / JS miners

On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 08:50:21AM -0500, John Newman wrote: > https://github.com/Marfjeh/coinhive-block/blob/master/domains > > The fellow who maintains this list has a little makefile one level > up that will add each host as 0.0.0.0 to your /etc/hosts file, if > that's what you would like to do

Re: minix - tannenbaum won!

On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 06:09:45AM -0500, John Newman wrote: > Anyway, I’m just speculating on the above. Maybe it also comes back > to their purported “do no evil” bullshit - they wanted to get on the open > source bandwagon. > Do you mean "do know evil"? The pronunciation is essentially the same

Re: minix - tannenbaum won!

On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 10:07:19AM -0500, John Newman wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 10:02:05AM -0500, John Newman wrote: > > It's funny looking back at the ancient flame war between Tannenbaum & > > Torvalds... and now it turns out there is a copy of Minix running at > > ring -3 in every Inte

Re: Greeting

On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 01:58:02AM -0700, ilsa wrote: > Anyone going to the Internet Archive San Francisco, > Hackathon to complete some security stuff? > Smile, ilsa > lol, dude, how could you look for social contacts on a list like this?

Re: jimbellproject.org is looking for volunteers

On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 01:49:48AM -0300, juan wrote: > > What about if it's a People's government? > > > people's gpvernment? That's just a meaningless slogan. > lol. We had this buzzword while living in advanced socialism. Essentially it is the same as the true honest anarchists that ke

From old Phrack: The Feasibility of Anarchy in America

FYI: http://phrack.org/issues/62/16.html The Feasibility of Anarchy in America

Re: How to shut down the US Federal criminal "Justice" System, for $10-15 million per year.

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 05:02:54AM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > > A similar fun scheme... > Minor traffic tickets, like speed / equipment / heed traffic > control / paper, may average $150, even if pleading not guilty > just for sake of standing your day in court and losing for fun. Traffic ticket re

Conjecturally unsafe RSA primes $p=27a^2+27a+7$

We got strong numerical evidence that primes of the form $p=27a^2+27a+7$ are unsafe for cryptographic reasons since they can be found in the factorization. Consider the following generic factoring algorithm for factoring $n$ which is divisible by $p$. Suppose you known an elliptic curve in Weierst

Re: Governments Injecting Skype WhatsApp VLC with FinFisher

On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 01:48:43AM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > https://www.reddit.com/r/de/comments/71kpo0/finfisher_internetprovider_schieben_spitzelopfern/ > http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/are-you-being-watched-finfisher-government-spy-tool-found-hiding-whatsapp-skype-1640263 > > Are you being watched? F

Bill Gates is an Android user

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/26/bill_gates_android_user/ | Microsoft founder Bill Gates has admitted to switching to an Android | phone The Chinese have a proverb, something like: If you stand by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy flowing down.

Re: Is it still good practice to reinstall everything after you are owned?

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 01:57:33PM -0400, Travis Biehn wrote: > Yes - in addition, since some attackers have been shown to compromise not > only UEFI firmware, but also blobs in peripheral devices, a re-flashing of > those components from HW land. In many cases, this type of recovery is > 'impossib

Is it still good practice to reinstall everything after you are owned?

Is it still good practice to reinstall everything after you are owned? It used to be, but after reading about windows viruses I am not sure it is.

Re: Equifax Fallout: FTC Launches Probe; Angry Consumers inadvertently dDOS Websites and Phones

On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 07:57:37AM -0700, Razer wrote: > HAHAHAHAHAHA! > > The US Shitstem of Revolving Credit Economic Slavery undone by it's own > true believers. > > I'll bet the better their credit score the angrier they are. > > ... > https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/equifax-melts

Re: Scholarships for Security Certification

On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 01:10:58PM -0400, John Newman wrote: > These "ethical hacker" degree programs are, IMO, basically a scam. > I've screened ppl for interviews at work and basically learned to ignore > anyone whose only significant qualification is one of these programs... > > Amazing how the

Re: Wikileaks: Shadow Brokers encrypted archive from 6 Sep 2017

On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 03:05:08AM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > https://mega.nz/#F!QGAyVTJL!0cJlvWpQ4dPcKLu-oN766w Are there public releases other than the initial one?

Re: Wikileaks DNS hacked

On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 03:24:19AM +, CANNON wrote: > Looks like wikileaks domain name was hijacked. > Why trying to screw wikileaks? What allegedly wrong did it do?

rowhammer for flash storage

The hardware is buggy, the software is buggy, users are buggy. They convince you the combination is "secure". https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/17/rowhammer_for_nand_flash/ Rowhammer RAM attack adapted to hit flash storage

What about setting sound subject to political drivel? [was about wifi]

What about setting sound and clear subject to political drivel content? This saves time and electricity.

Re: Is a BTC - BCC flippening in the offing?

On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 06:56:41AM -1100, Mirimir wrote: > On 08/18/2017 05:55 AM, Georgi Guninski wrote: > > Currently I recommend to the btc overlords in future forks to keep the > > amount of btc + derivatives fixed, possibly by choose ``old XOR new > > btc''. &g

Re: Is a BTC - BCC flippening in the offing?

On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 09:29:54AM -0500, Steven Schear wrote: > original) and Cash. When the fork happened those holding BTC (in their own > wallets) were also able to claim an equal amount of BCC (for free). This > created a huge supply of BCC. However, many or most people rarely keep Isn't this

Re: Do you have predictions about 2017?

On Sun, Jan 01, 2017 at 05:30:50PM -0500, grarpamp wrote: > > Do you have predictions about 2017? > > Bitcoin will hit $2017. Bitcoin is over $4 500 now and passed $2 000 in early summer. I wish I had enough brain to follow smart punky hints...

Re: new idea for random number generation

On Sun, Aug 06, 2017 at 07:08:25PM -0700, Ryan Carboni wrote: > One time, during my days as a paid, professional DM, I had been running a > free game for some people I was involved with at the time, and the brother > of the person I was most involved with at the time came up to me and made a > rath

Re: [Cryptography] How to find hidden/undocumented instructions

On Sun, Aug 06, 2017 at 12:09:08PM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > Define "full run". Brief read of paper seems the software is not > designed to exhaust all possible instructions... ie: from 0x0 to 0xf Over 10 years ago I tried _this_ "full" run. The smallest counterexample was prohibitively large f

Re: From Barter to Blockchains - WTF is… Money?

On Sat, Aug 05, 2017 at 08:53:28AM -0700, Razer wrote: > Hackermoon... > > > 13.7 billion years ago, the Big Bang brought the universe into > > existence. 3.8 billion years ago, life first appeared on our planet. > > 1.9 million years ago, Earth witnessed a hominid species, Home > > erectus, walki

Re: But you knew that right? "Your 'Anonymous' Browsing Data Isn't Actually Anonymous"

On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 08:48:11AM -0700, Razer wrote: > > To answer this question, Eckert had her colleague delete one browser > > plugin every hour until he disappeared from the live data. On the > > seventh plugin, he disappeared. This suggested that the plugin > > collecting and selling his bro

Re: new idea for random number generation

On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 01:54:06PM -0500, \0xDynamite wrote: > Speaking of cryptography (harhar), I was contemplating an idea to > generate random streams of random numbers using chaos theory (not the > first), specifically the logistic equation [3.5x(1-x)], when I came > across the argument (http:

L4nguage and anonymity

L4nguage and anonymity: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/04/to_preserve_online_anonymity_make_your_writing_mediocre/ https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.03736.pdf

(EC)DSA partial knowledge of nonces and existential forgery with with structured nonces

(EC)DSA partial knowledge of nonces and existential forgery with with structured nonces There are attacks against the private key of (EC)DSA when partial knowledge of the nonces $k$ is known, e.g. least significant bits [1] or shared bits [2]. On the other hand, existential forgery with structu

Security theatre: Travel in Hungary, EU

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/25/hungarian_teenager_arrest_sparks_protests/ Kid found a way to travel for free in Budapest. He filed a bug report. And was promptly arrested The tale started last week when an unnamed 18-year-old found that he was able to, when purchasing a ticket online, po

Re: Estimate for the total number of exploitable bugs in large linux distro?

On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 10:22:32AM -0400, John Newman wrote: > Bugs that already have some PoC or other code to exploit the issue? Or > the sum total of all exploitable bugs, discovered and undiscovered? > > The first case should be relatively small with a very current > release.. the second case

Estimate for the total number of exploitable bugs in large linux distro?

What is an estimate for the total number of exploitable bugs in large linux distro? Also, does the total number decrease, increase or change in other way over time?

Re: GPG: Deprecated hash + local "game over" exploit

On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 04:17:29PM -0400, Steve Kinney wrote: > A couple of days ago Shawn pointed out offlist that my GPG installation > was using SHA1 when signing messages. Although seven hash functions are > included in GnuPG 1.4.16, SHA1 is still the default. > It was funny when someone (like

Heaps of Windows 10 internal builds, private source code leak online

| https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/23/windows_10_leak/ | The data - some 32TB of official and non-public installation images and | software blueprints that compress down to 8TB - were uploaded to | betaarchive.com, the latest load of files provided just earlier this | week. It is believed the

The role of antivirus in security

https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/information/legal/website-security# | (1) Ensure you have anti-virus protection installed, and that it is up to date. | (2) Keep your operating system and software up to date as these protect against the latest security threats. | (3) Protect your computer wi

Re: British Airways: Da komputer is down worldwide

On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 10:57:22AM +0300, Georgi Guninski wrote: > Speculations and electrical engineering for dummies: > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/31/cloud_collaboriation_suite_microsoft/ > OPS. the correct url is https://www.theregister.co.uk/2

Re: British Airways: Da komputer is down worldwide

On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 12:19:04PM -0500, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: > On 05/27/2017 12:17 PM, Georgi Guninski wrote: > > http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-40069865 > > She said: "When we finally boarded the captain came out and told us > > their computer systems were down world

shadowbrokers selling sploits

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/30/shadow_brokers_subscription_service/ Shadow Brokers lay out pitch - and name price - for monthly zero-day subscription service $21k lucky dip for exploits Shadow Brokers, the group that leaked stolen NSA hacking tools including the vulnerability that proved k

British Airways: Da komputer is down worldwide

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-40069865 She said: "When we finally boarded the captain came out and told us their computer systems were down worldwide.

malware increasing salaries

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/22/ciso_salaries/ Salaries for chief information security officers (CISOs) at leading European firms have hit €1m (£850,000) as the threat of data breaches grows, City AM reports.

Re: For Your Eyes Only...

On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 03:13:16PM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > https://twitter.com/sirrogermoore/status/867005447018086400 As of now this announcement has 63K "likes". What does it mean on twitter to like the announcement of someone's death? Is it sympathy or antipathy?

Re: Biological Collapse

On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 08:12:55PM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > > entire food chain under chemical attack. > > impact of DDT exposure. > > impact of endocrine disruptors and carcinogens (like glyhphosate) > > No doubt. Ever since dawn of industrial age humans > been pumping manufactured not-found-in-n

Re: Msg-ing all [CypherPunks] disruption operators: CFP - WOOT '17

On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 09:36:26AM -0700, Razer wrote: > WOOT '17 accepts papers in both an academic security context and more > applied work that informs the field about the state of security practice > in offensive techniques. The goal for these submissions is to produce > published works that wi

Re: Did m$ released patch for unsupported windozes after Wannacry hit?

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 05:00:01PM +0100, Ben Tasker wrote: > > That's what I've read. Microsoft provided patches in March for nominally > > unsupported Windows versions with custom support contracts. The NHS, for > > example, had dropped its XP support contract in ~2014. Cheap bastards ;) > > > >

Re: Did m$ released patch for unsupported windozes after Wannacry hit?

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 02:45:48AM -1100, Mirimir wrote: > Certainly for authentic installs without support contracts. And perhaps > even for pirated/cracked installs. I have an old cracked XP installer, I > think, so maybe I'll test. Installing or updating even from authentic media in a hostile n

Did m$ released patch for unsupported windozes after Wannacry hit?

Wannacry hit on 2017-05-12 using exploit generously donated by the NSA. For supported windozes the bug was fixed in 2017-03 for unknown reasons. Looks like for unsupported windozes like XP the patch was released on 2017-05-13 after Wannacry hit: http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q

Re: Keylogger Found in Audio Driver of HP Laptops

On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 07:09:36PM -0700, Razer wrote: > H/t @Liberationtech @twitter > https://twitter.com/Liberationtech/status/862849917806661634 > > > > The audio driver installed on some HP laptops includes a feature that > > could best be described as a keylogger, which records all the user's

How to remote hijack computers using Intel's insecure chips: Just use an empty login string

How to remote hijack computers using Intel's insecure chips: Just use an empty login string https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/05/intel_amt_remote_exploit/

Happy Labour day, May 1

Happy Labour day. Some people do the labour, some take the results. AFAICT this is "division of labour".

Re: JustSecurity: "Today we learned that those 2011 (Sec 702) safeguards did not work"

On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 07:57:20PM -0700, Razer wrote: > Which is why I suggest attaching a password protected zip file of an > already 2x encrypted pic of a lulzcat to every email. > > Feed the five-eyed beast garbage until it explodes. > Looong ago there was something similar: "Jam Echelon". Ano

Re: Adding [Cypherpunks] at the beginning of a subject by default

On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 11:15:52AM +0530, Avinash Sonawane wrote: > I am subscribed to handful of mailing lists and I'm sure many of you > are too. It gets pretty overwhelming when I check my mailbox at the > end of day or after couple of days. > Why not filter each mailing list to different mailb

Re: Study: Teenage Hackers Motivated By Morality Not Money

On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 08:15:56PM -0700, Razer wrote: > > Others were motivated by a desire to tackle technical problems and > > prove themselves to friends, the report found." > > > More @Guardian UK: > https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/apr/21/teenage-hackers-motivated-moral-crusade-mone

Re: Equation Group - Cyber Weapons Auction

On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 12:11:11AM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > http://pastebin.com/NDTU5kJQ > a guest Aug 13th, 2016 27,472 Never FYI the password is public now and decrypted stuff is available on github.

Re: Fwd: [tor-dev] "Anomalous keys in Tor relays" technical report now available

On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 11:57:15PM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > We have just published a (not yet peer-reviewed) technical report > entitled "Anomalous keys in Tor relays." > https://nymity.ch/anomalous-tor-keys/ > The anomalous keys share prime factors or moduli. Assume they mean RSA keys. What is

The ideal IoT gift for beauties

The ideal IoT gift for beauties: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/04/intimate_adult_toy_fails_penetration_test/ Wi-Fi sex toy with built-in camera fails penetration test

Crypto consequences of dimensionless constants changing their values over time?

This bugs me. Since 2009 it is known that the value of the dimensionless constant Pi changes over time: https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.5321 [1] Personally don't care about the curvature of space, time and whatever other dimensions, as long as macro objects and concepts keep their _usual_ properties.

Re: Cashless Australia Go Fuck Yourself, And Some Other Things

On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 05:35:43AM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > Fuck Australia and Fuck their stupid Queen too. > Fuck Tax. Fuck Control. Fuck Slavery. > Fuck Databases. Fuck Surveillance. > Fuck Religion. Fuck Police. Fuck BigCorp. > Fuck Governments and the all Idiots in them. > Fucking stupid world.

Re: They haz teh codz: WikiLeaks will work with tech-cos to defend against CIA hack tools

On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 09:03:13AM -0800, Razer wrote: > They haz teh codz and they want to make friends with the tech industry: > > > "We have decided to work with them, to give them some exclusive access > > to some of the technical details we have, so that fixes can be pushed > > out," Assange

happy 8 march to the women

happy 8 march to the women

In ECDSA, without knowing priv. key and any signature one can sign random garbage

In ECDSA, the signature of number H is pair (r,s). Without knowing the private key and any signature made with the key, one can sign: 1. "random garbage" (there is some complicated structure in it) 2. H=0 3. H=r 4. H=s Is this known and/or trivial? Attached are some Sage example for bitcoin's cu

Re: SHA1 collision found

On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 05:06:40PM -0500, Steve Kinney wrote: > Or in other words, just 110 GPUs can find the same collision in a > year; 40,000 can do it in a day. When one's threat model includes > State and Corporate actors, that's not so good. > Are you sure about this claim? The wording on s

Did you ever change your political/social views after trolling in a cpunks thread?

Did you ever change your political/social views after trolling in a cpunks thread? Strengthening your beliefs doesn't count since it happens all the time. lol

Re: Is email really that hard?

On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 07:38:16AM -0800, Razer wrote: > Oh and fuck your html phobia. Fuck htmlphiles. Mail is text based.

Re: Is email really that hard?

Also, please don't attach large files unless unavoidable. 1.5M pic is _many_ plain text emails (hi Razer).

Re: Building a new Tor that can resist next-generation state surveillance

On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 12:59:24AM -0500, grarpamp wrote: > Reviewing designs... designing against threats... tracking proof... > three areas. Do it, get funding, make yourself a star. Does theory allow anonymity in the presence of sufficiently powerful network adversary? What are the disadvantag

Re: Google’s Artificial Intelligence Getting ‘Greedy,’ ‘Aggressive’

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 09:01:47AM -0700, Mirimir wrote: > > "Hope we're not just the biological boot loader for digital > > superintelligence." > > Why "hope"? It seems pretty obvious that we're the boot loader for > something, given evolutionary history. So why not digital? Why digital or organ

Re: [OT] list of addresses posting in 02:00-03:59h at night since 2014-04

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 09:50:58AM -0700, Mirimir wrote: > On 02/16/2017 08:28 AM, Georgi Guninski wrote: > > Just an exercise in analytic numerology theory, > > interpret it as you wish ;) > > > > # list of addresses posting in 02:00-03:59h at night since 2014-04 >

[OT] list of addresses posting in 02:00-03:59h at night since 2014-04

Just an exercise in analytic numerology theory, interpret it as you wish ;) # list of addresses posting in 02:00-03:59h at night since 2014-04 # bugs are possible #emails address 312 grarpamp 93 juan 64 Zenaan Harkness 52 coderman 48 jim bell 46 Cec

Re: Google’s Artificial Intelligence Getting ‘Greedy,’ ‘Aggressive’

On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 02:05:18AM -0500, John Newman wrote: > There's always the 3 laws of robotics ;) > > Nick Bostrom doesn't seem to think it will be that easy of course. His > "Superintelligence" book is an interesting look at the problem. He's far more > pessimistic and i think realistic

Re: Google’s Artificial Intelligence Getting ‘Greedy,’ ‘Aggressive’

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 05:39:59PM -0800, Razer wrote: > Garbage In Garbage Out... > > "Will artificial intelligence get more aggressive and selfish the more > intelligent it becomes? A new report out of Google’s DeepMind AI > division suggests this is possible based on the outcome of millions of

Re: modest proposal

On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 08:55:14AM -0700, Mirimir wrote: > I'm tempted to analyze thread topics, membership, posting patterns, etc > to see where and how the list went to shit. But then, who cares? :( Several relatively active posters stopped posting in short interval, so binary search may shed li

Re: modest proposal

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 11:20:50AM -0700, Mirimir wrote: > How about we change the name of this list, to better reflect its use? This will just make the list officially alt.alt.alt.cunty.scumbags.politics.and.vulgar.insults My counter suggestion is self moderation: this might split the list mak

Re: An Examination of Zerodium's Price Chart

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 04:05:54AM -0800, Ryan Carboni wrote: > https://www.zerodium.com/program.html > > To remotely jailbreak iOS is worth one and a half million dollars. > > To break OpenSSL, $50,000. > > To hack your antivirus program, $40,000. > > To hack Tor Browser, $30,000. > > To hack

Re: Hypernormalisation

On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 03:50:07PM +0100, No wrote: > let's see how long it takes before the usual suspects start bashing > eachothers worldviews. nazis, nazis everywhere and oh hitler and ... sigh Godwin's law on top of the thread? Don't remember ever seeing this before :)

Re: [#AboveMyPayGrade] Protecting quantum computing networks against hacking threats

On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 09:10:02AM -0800, Razer wrote: > > I can't parse the technical stuff. Does the last paragraph mean > > they broke "old quantum crypto"? > > > > >From the abstract and the last paragraph of the article what I'm seeing > is they can detect a hack on the data (apparently even

Re: [#AboveMyPayGrade] Protecting quantum computing networks against hacking threats

On Sun, Feb 05, 2017 at 06:35:21PM -0800, Razer wrote: > > More information: High-dimensional quantum cloning and applications to > > quantum hacking, Science Advances 03 Feb 2017, DOI: > > 10.1126/sciadv.1601915 > > > > Provided by University of Ottawa > > https://phys.org/news/2017-02-quantum-n

What happened with the people from the Dreyfus' Underground book?

What happened with the people from the Dreyfus' Underground book? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_%28Dreyfus_book%29 | |Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the |Electronic Frontier is a 1997 book by Suelette Dreyfus, |researched by Julian Assange. It describes the ex

Re: Dead links to blog.torproject.org and the Streisand effect

On Fri, Feb 03, 2017 at 05:13:42AM -0700, Mirimir wrote: > > |See How to handle millions of new Tor clients on the TOR Blog. > > https://blog.torproject.org/blog/how-to-handle-millions-new-tor-clients > > > > This returns Page Not Found for me. > > Try here:

Dead links to blog.torproject.org and the Streisand effect

Why are Tor deleting their own pages on blog.torproject.org? They have something to hide, lol? >From @Kinney's domain, near end: http://pilobilus.net/comsec-101.html |See How to handle millions of new Tor clients on the TOR Blog. https://blog.torproject.org/blog/how-to-handle-millions-new-tor-cli

Re: [AI] [researches] Asilomar AI Principles

On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 07:21:02AM -0500, John Newman wrote: > I signed it. #18 and #22 seem a bit fanciful if we get that far along, but > laudable ;) > > I didn't see anything on there about giving strong AI, or mind uploads, any > kind of rights of personhood. > > > https://futureoflife.org/

Re: Scientists Run For Office (alongside Cpunks)

On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 02:39:55AM -0500, grarpamp wrote: > https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/01/thanks-to-trump-scientists-are-planning-to-run-for-office/514229/ > > Prof. Smith Goes to Washington > > In response to the new president’s stances on a range of issues, more > scientis

Independent mirrors of the cpunks links?

Independent mirrors of the cpunks links? What are independent mirrors of the cpunks list? Quick search suggests only mail-archive.com. gmane appears still down and marc.info mirrors related list ending in 2005 with a lot of spam. This could be issue in case the main site kicks the bucket.

Re: WTC and bing.com maps

On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 12:50:11PM -0500, grarpamp wrote: > http://www.bing.com/search?q=geological+map+of+lower+manhattan http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/23/microsoft_lost_a_city_because_it_used_bad_wikipedia_data/ Microsoft's maps lost Melbourne because it used bad Wikipedia data Bing Maps

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