Re: Assistance and Access Bill 2018 FAQ (Australia)
On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 06:18:54PM +1100, Alfie John wrote: > > but if the moderators allow heh... this was originally a x-post from Metzdowd. Alfie -- Alfie John https://www.alfie.wtf
Assistance and Access Bill 2018 FAQ (Australia)
Hi everyone, I've been asked to compile a list of questions that will hopefully be answered by lawyers, in order to assist IT workers within Australia due to the recent Assistance and Access Bill 2018 (aka encryption-busting bill): https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/download/legislation/bills/r6195_aspassed/toc_pdf/18204b01.pdf;fileType=application/pdf While compiling this list, I thought to turn it into an FAQ. Any questions (or even answers) would be most appreciated: https://github.com/alfiedotwtf/AABillFAQ There are many ways to contribute (outlined in the above link), but if the moderators allow, questions here would be great so they can create group discussion not thought of elsewhere (then I'll sweep them up into the FAQ). Thanks everyone. Alfie -- Alfie John https://www.alfie.wtf
Cypherpunk University by JW Weatherman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbIPKm3inWU https://jwweatherman.com/class http://www.cypherpunku.com/index.php?threads/so-what-is-cypherpunk-university-about-heres-the-juicy-details.33/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9OML5D8RMo https://archive.org/details/youtube-wrAtsQrs7dY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa87kudAVFs
Cryptocurrency: Who created it, #PeakStatism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yjrmIIpgo0 #CreatedByGovt https://www.zdnet.com/article/dhs-looking-into-tracking-monero-and-zcash-transactions/ https://www.fbo.gov/utils/view?id=f0e31ab37561cac3cc4a4ab88d9059b0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9EdzrBxUAo #TheLastChance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF1hVkK_9Aw #PeakStatism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdwpKKOAR6o #PeakStatism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4ybfIdefT8 #PeakStatism
Re: Are You Ready for the 'Inevitable' Clampdown on Tech and the Media? - shared from Reason.com
On Friday, December 7, 2018, 7:05:16 PM PST, Kurt Buff wrote: On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 4:04 PM jim bell wrote: > > https://reason.com/r/1wOM When Apple's CEO Tim Cook says "the free market is > not working," bad things are coming. >Anyone with half a brain and a thought to look has long ago figured out that Tim Cook is a technocrat who wouldn't know a free market if it jumped up and down on his bunions. Which is the main reason I found this article so funny! (And, I suppose, scary at the same time.) Jim Bell
Re: Assange Journalism
To Steve K. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUhFf6K-SU8 minute 55:10 snowden says that the jew york times, der spiegel, washington post and the intercept all have many unpublished documents from his 'stash'(not sure if that's the word he uses) anyway, at this point nothing of what snowden says is 100% to be trusted, but at any rate that matches what I remembered about the documents being sort of 'distributed'among a bunch of journo scumbags. For what it's worth.
Re: Are You Ready for the 'Inevitable' Clampdown on Tech and the Media? - shared from Reason.com
On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 4:04 PM jim bell wrote: > > https://reason.com/r/1wOM When Apple's CEO Tim Cook says "the free market is > not working," bad things are coming. Anyone with half a brain and a thought to look has long ago figured out that Tim Cook is a technocrat who wouldn't know a free market if it jumped up and down on his bunions. Kurt
Re: Are You Ready for the 'Inevitable' Clampdown on Tech and the Media? - shared from Reason.com
On Sat, 8 Dec 2018 00:04:25 + (UTC) jim bell wrote: > https://reason.com/r/1wOM When Apple's CEO Tim Cook says "the free market is > not working," bad things are coming. > Jim, do you mind explaining what that gillespie guy is talking about? When gillespie says the 'free market' - what is he talking about? His 'article' is kinda confusing. Have big fascist corporations like facebook, apple, amazon and all the rest become big because of how amazing they are and how well they serve the 'free market' ? But wait, gillespie says "tech industry and the larger economy (both of which are already pretty heavily regulated, if we're being honest)" So...the fascist companies he loves so much don't really exist in a 'free market' and so are not a product of the 'free market' eh? Furthermore, the mafiosi who run those companies approve of regulation - and they are the ones who created the companies, so why is gillespie trying to teach them...anything? Maybe there's something wrong with treason magazine and their understanding of the 'free market'? What do you think Jim?
Are You Ready for the 'Inevitable' Clampdown on Tech and the Media? - shared from Reason.com
https://reason.com/r/1wOM When Apple's CEO Tim Cook says "the free market is not working," bad things are coming.
Re: BCH finally hit the fan
I will disagree with you here. Craig may be an idiot and the fact that he holds patents makes him dangerous but he does not have the network effect that the BCH "community" has. They are all over the place when it comes to fake libertarianism. I attended Anarchapulco last February, these guys are FAR MORE DANGEROUS than Faketoshi. Both of these shitcoins are meant to go down. Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Monday, December 3, 2018 12:49 AM, juan wrote: > On Sun, 02 Dec 2018 23:25:52 + > furrier furr...@protonmail.ch wrote: > > > FYI I don't give a flying fuck about BSV and I consider > > Faketoshi an idiot and dangerous scammer but I really > > enjoyed this guy's breakdown of the BCH problems that > > were made apparent after the split. Instead of making > > assumptions, you could just ask. > > My mistake, I apologize then. > > > However, the article is unimpressive because the author tries to present > himself as "politically unbiased" while in reality he's a partisan for the > worst bitcoin faction, that of wright. All 3 bitcoin factions are less than > ideal but wright's is by far the worst.
Re: [Cryptography] What if Responsible Encryption Back-Doors Were Possible?
On 12/6/18, Bill Cox wrote: > As for responsible encryption policies, I believe: > > 1) It is possible, but _hard_ and _expensive_ to build it securely. > 2) No one wants to be in a position where a mass murderer has encrypted > data that cannot be revealed to law enforcement. > 3) Governments will always over-reach and go for mass-surveylence that > violates everyone's privacy. > > I wont go into tech details, but if Bitcoin can protect billions in online > value, there are systems that can unlock back-doors without too many > failures to make the system a bad idea. Check out what Oasis Labs is up > to, for some good ideas (that remain to be proven). The problem is that > while the public wants tech companies to help law enforcement in extreme > cases, no one wants to simply let governments around the world spy on > absolutely everything we do. > > IMO, the only acceptable solutions to this problem will require distributed > trust (like Bitcoin), such that users' devices can participate in decisions > on how their data is used, distributed widely enough that no single entity > can unilaterally decrypt a user's data Data policies will need to be > automated, like smart-contracts on something better than the total-crap > Ethereum VM. When a backdoor is used (or used too often), it should make > the news, because a bunch of different interested folks would notice the > transaction(s) on the blockchain. Secret mass surveylence should be > impossible, as a key requirement for the system design. Publicly visible > mass surveylence should be prohibited by the smart contracts, and the > public should hold governments accountable for overreach. > > If the public can monitor the access policy and frequencey of use of these > backdoors, then the tech companies will have a way out of the ethical > delema law enforcement always tries to put them in: secretly snooping on > users for the government (like we saw with Yahoo). > > Anyway, I feel very strongly that folks out there should start thinking > along these lines. We'll have to cooperate to make it happen. Please tell us when you develop or find such a distributed backdoored cryptosystem that you feel is strong enough to protect *your own secrets* from access by others... all the salacious messages pics and videos of that BDSM affair you had, all the edits you've made to your resume, the source and fact of your last weed order because the PTSD from your stint as a secret CIA torturer has you about to lose it, all the crap you nicked, your bank accounts, your speech and politik, that weird thing you do with the stuffed groundhog, your kids, your health, etc. Or the fact that you're a complete nothing with nothing to say if that's the case. You'd have a better chance of eliminating Government Surveillance through Anarchism than you would finding such a cryptosystem. > the only acceptable solutions to this problem Stalemate status quo is an acceptable solution, no change to implement backdoors needed... People have been using codes since thousands of years, as relatively strong and without backdoors in their day back then, as they are now today, and society has done just fine all along. If you want distributed for yourself, use secret sharing system. Trying to develop and force that upon others will just come back upon you and you know it. Strong crypto is a tool, not the problem. Melting down the tool isn't going to help. It just reverts you to former centuries. Backdoors are stupid. Get over it. > the public should hold governments accountable for overreach. Never in the history of all Governments past has that ever worked, therefore any apparent working today is extremely likely to fail. Kings will Govern and Force their backdoors in your backdoor until you depose them. Next time that happens, do the one thing that hasn't been tried in history... don't prop them up in the first place. The change in thinking needed to do that will likely eliminate most of the extant problems you seek to "fix" with backdoors. > moderators Lol, bcc'd.
