Re: modest proposal

2017-02-15 Thread Georgi Guninski
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: Google’s Artificial Intelligence Getting ‘Greedy,’ ‘Aggressive’

2017-02-15 Thread Georgi Guninski
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: Google’s Artificial Intelligence Getting ‘Greedy,’ ‘Aggressive’

2017-02-16 Thread Georgi Guninski
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

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

2017-02-16 Thread Georgi Guninski
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: [OT] list of addresses posting in 02:00-03:59h at night since 2014-04

2017-02-16 Thread Georgi Guninski
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 >

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

2017-02-16 Thread Georgi Guninski
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: Building a new Tor that can resist next-generation state surveillance

2017-02-19 Thread Georgi Guninski
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: Is email really that hard?

2017-02-22 Thread Georgi Guninski
Also, please don't attach large files unless unavoidable. 1.5M pic is _many_ plain text emails (hi Razer).

Re: Is email really that hard?

2017-02-22 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 07:38:16AM -0800, Razer wrote: > Oh and fuck your html phobia. Fuck htmlphiles. Mail is text based.

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

2017-02-24 Thread Georgi Guninski
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: SHA1 collision found

2017-02-25 Thread Georgi Guninski
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

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

2017-03-06 Thread Georgi Guninski
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

happy 8 march to the women

2017-03-08 Thread Georgi Guninski
happy 8 march to the women

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

2017-03-09 Thread Georgi Guninski
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

Re: New list confirmation (Re: cpunks list relocation imminent (was: Re: moving on))

2016-08-30 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 09:36:28AM -0700, Greg Newby wrote: > As I just wrote, this message should be going out via the *new* server and > settings. It's addressed to cypherpunks@lists.cpunks.org, as opposed to the > regular address, cypherpu...@cpunks.org > > Viva la Resistance! > - Greg >

Re: $4B for security & cpunks in office

2016-08-31 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 02:57:53AM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > Fuck that, shut your arses, peel a measly $2B off your budget and > give it straight to BSD and Linux Foundations so they can make That is better than nothing, but I don't think it will happen. If my RAM serves me (there might be more tha

Re: [WAR] If Hillary Becomes USA President, Will We Have a Nuclear War?

2016-08-31 Thread Georgi Guninski
dude, you anti-mericun troll, no? not reading you much, but how comes you troll "HILLARY WAR!!!" and don't appear to troll the greedy crazy clown? are anti-bitch prices higher and you must chose only one? (expect trolling from Александр). On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 08:54:48PM +1000, Zenaan Harknes

Re: [ultra ULTRA private] [for your eyes only] capitalism, socialism, anarchism, self-regulation

2016-08-31 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 07:39:35AM -0700, Razer wrote: > On 08/30/2016 09:17 PM, juan wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 20:42:41 -0700 > > Razer wrote: > >> End of convo. > > > > the convo ended when you refused to explain what you mean by lol. they keep amateur insults in long ago "ended convo

Typical thread on cpunks (Was: Wodka xor Viskii)

2016-09-01 Thread Georgi Guninski
Typical thread on cpunks Subject: Wodka xor Viskii? ( ">"s truncated) > .us >> cunt > .ru >> scumbag > end of convo >> double end convo^2 >>> love, love, love & kisses. 8 <- o|o > marxist >> cunt^2 > scumbag^3 >>> love & orgasms >> capitalist swine > shit >> shit^2 > end of convo^3 >> the convo

Fwd: [Cryptography] "Flip Feng Shui: Hammering a Needle in the Software Stack"

2016-09-01 Thread Georgi Guninski
- Forwarded message from Jerry Leichter - Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 11:33:16 -0400 From: Jerry Leichter To: Cryptography List Subject: [Cryptography] "Flip Feng Shui: Hammering a Needle in the Software Stack" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3124) "We introduce Flip Feng Shui (FFS), a new exploita

Re: Fwd: [Cryptography] "Flip Feng Shui: Hammering a Needle in the Software Stack"

2016-09-01 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 11:21:18PM -0700, Riad S. Wahby wrote: > Georgi Guninski wrote: > > Does Rowhammer work in clouds? According to the popular story it > > affected only laptops. > > The answer is "it depends." > Thanks. Just browsed through the paper,

Fwd: Re: [Cryptography] "Flip Feng Shui: Hammering a Needle in the Software Stack"

2016-09-02 Thread Georgi Guninski
- Forwarded message from Georgi Guninski - Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2016 08:49:34 +0300 From: Georgi Guninski To: Jerry Leichter Cc: Florian Weimer , Cryptography List Subject: Re: [Cryptography] "Flip Feng Shui: Hammering a Needle in the Software Stack" On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at

Re: New list confirmation (Re: cpunks list relocation imminent (was: Re: moving on))

2016-09-03 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 05:33:33PM +0200, Tom wrote: > On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 08:08:39AM -0700, Razer wrote: > > I just took a look at the Wikipedia entry for 'greylisting'. It sounds > > awful if you're victimized by it. My personal mail from openmailbox to a > > friend was rejected by yahoo b/c

NOW [bla bla bla & ha ha ha]

2016-09-03 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 10:14:29AM +0300, Александр wrote: > ... You > are just clowns. Hollow people with no principles. > All of us? Including Zenaan?

Suggestion to list admins for warning/disclaimer on the web for new subscribers

2016-09-03 Thread Georgi Guninski
The wikipedia page on cypherpunks have nothing to do with the current state of this list. History gets rewritten (from experience). I suggest after list discussion the list admins to put a warning on the list web page. Something along the lines of (clearly needs rewriting): The list is not i

Re: 4096 bit SSL keys

2016-09-03 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 05:29:07PM -0700, Riad S. Wahby wrote: > John wrote: > > The reason I asked: updating a few certs at office recently I nuked > > an older F5 LTM device by installing a 4096 bit key/cert pair - the > > load on the appliance (Linux based) shot up from less than 1 to about > >

Re: Playing with overlay networks

2016-09-03 Thread Georgi Guninski
I think tor should not be used for anything of importance. What if tor allows code execution by design and it is heavily obfuscated? On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 07:56:33PM -0600, Mirimir wrote: > So let's say that a bunch of us have Tor onion servers. They're linked > to each other via OnionCat with

Re: Fwd: Re: [Cryptography] "Flip Feng Shui: Hammering a Needle in the Software Stack"

2016-09-03 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 07:52:26PM -0400, John wrote: > I need to upgrade to an actual 1U instead of my current VPS solution, heh ;) > > Then again... I wonder who I'm sharing a hypervisor with... > > The software is buggy, the RAM is buggy, the CPU is buggy, the operator is buggy. AND IT WORK

Re: Continual Violation of List Charter

2016-09-04 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 02:41:52PM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > If you want to longtalk anything other than that to the point > that the charter would need a whole new section just for you, > GO FIND OR MAKE YOUR OWN FUCKING LIST FOR THAT. > Indeed. = http://pastebin.com/irj4Fyd5 1. COINTELPRO T

Re: [Cryptography] "Flip Feng Shui: Hammering a Needle in the Software Stack"

2016-09-04 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 10:56:10AM -0400, Jerry Leichter wrote: > > Why bother with patching public keys, making them amenable to > > factorization, if you can patch executable code instead? > > > > If you can target executable code (and I see why not, it's all the > > same to KSM), it is very cle

Re: new list ?

2016-09-04 Thread Georgi Guninski
new list(s) was already suggested these days. please go and make a few. there are even free lists providers. people who want to subscribe, will subscribe. isn't this obvious? i suppose you can name them whatever you want. On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 03:12:01PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Folks

Re: new list ?

2016-09-04 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 03:01:07AM -0300, juan wrote: Is 03 AM late evening or early morning? > On Mon, 5 Sep 2016 08:47:01 +0300 > Georgi Guninski wrote: > > > new list(s) was already suggested these days. > > > > please go and make a few. there ar

Don't whine, go to the new list (if any)

2016-09-05 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 07:15:49PM +0300, Александр wrote: > forwarding part of my private conversation to the whole list: > lol. > The new list is not the preferable solution, you know. It's the only thing > we see right now, but... We should realize, that this splitting up will > KILL the orig

Re: "Too much netflix and youtube syndrome" affecting 'Merican children

2016-09-05 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 08:00:04PM -0700, Razer wrote: > A friend of mine about her four year old: > > "My daughter was doing a little song and dance this morning and was > really boogieing down. She paused for a second and said,"I'm buffering" > Very similar in Bulgaria. Children start using tab

On Bitcoin Security in the Presence of Broken Crypto Primitives

2016-09-06 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Bitcoin Security in the Presence of Broken Crypto Primitives https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/167.pdf Some breakage allows stealing coins. Their mitigation in this case suggest centralization...

Why could this list be a target for (paid) trolls?

2016-09-06 Thread Georgi Guninski
Why could this list be a target for (paid) trolls? I hear that this list is target of (paid) trolls and browsing it appears to support this. Why so? I don't see enough "value" in the list for such attack, short of just propaganda playground.

Re: Quantum Computers

2016-09-06 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 09:07:25PM -0400, Steve Kinney wrote: > I'm inclined to agree. Both relativity and quantum mechanics are > "counter intuitive" because they address events at scales and in > contexts not encountered in everyday human sensory experience. But Another example for this are v

Re: Quantum Computers

2016-09-07 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 01:31:45AM -0600, Mirimir wrote: > Well, biochemistry pretty much depends on quantum stuff ;) > I was oversimplifying and misquoted the article. Didn't mean that matter is build from quants according to the current popular belief. > But quantum mind, not so much. > > Nea

Re: Cloudflare kills.

2016-09-07 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 08:19:38AM -0700, Razer wrote: > COINTELPRO all over again: Darren Seals, Ferguson protest organizer > found shot & killed in charred remains of his car. > > Ferguson organizers were being cyberstalked by cloudflare. > > Read all about it: > https://twitter.com/AuntieImper

Re: New list confirmation (Re: cpunks list relocation imminent

2016-09-09 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 03:33:14PM -, Cypher Piggie wrote: > no you stopped reading it because cocksuckers trolls like juan and > zenan the baby filling it up wit jizz > and technically mr cia smart guy if u stopped reading it u wouldnt have > seen the msg u replied to so ur still here read

Re: Permutations to scalars and back again.

2016-09-12 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 07:50:50PM +1000, James A. Donald wrote: > To restate the problem: Find a mapping between integers and injective > functions from N to X up to a permutation of N. > > In this case, find a mapping between integers and an injective functions > from 18 to 36. Sage (open sour

Re: Coalition Seeks Obama to Pardon Snowden

2016-09-13 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 12:13:44AM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > https://yro.slashdot.org/story/16/09/12/2150235/aclu-is-launching-a-campaign-to-convince-president-obama-to-pardon-edward-snowden > https://pardonsnowden.org/ > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlSAiI3xMh4 > https://www.amnesty.org/ > https

Re: Chelsea Manning Told She Will Receive Gender Transition Surgery

2016-09-14 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 05:38:26AM -0300, Cecilia Tanaka wrote: > “I am unendingly relieved that the military is finally doing the right > thing. I applaud them for that. This is all that I wanted – for them to let > me be me,” Manning said in a statement provided by her lawyers. > The amerikan mi

Re: Fucking comedy of old white guy parasites [Bruce Schneier's blog]

2016-09-15 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 12:25:56PM +0300, Cari Machet wrote: > https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/09/someone_is_lear.html lol, Russia and China. Did he miss the Norks? Also where the resources and bandwidth come from, there is no mention of it, especially botnets. Long ago someone claime

Re: Fucking comedy of old white guy parasites [Bruce Schneier's blog]

2016-09-16 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 05:11:57PM -0300, juan wrote: > On Thu, 15 Sep 2016 13:49:39 +0300 > Georgi Guninski wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 12:25:56PM +0300, Cari Machet wrote: > > > https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/09/someone_is_lear.html > > >

Re: Firefox [Tor] Browser 0day: Anti-Privacy Implantation at Mass Scale

2016-09-16 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 12:32:23PM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > https://hackernoon.com/tor-browser-exposed-anti-privacy-implantation-at-mass-scale-bd68e9eb1e95 > https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-605-released > Is Debian _still_ vulnerable to automatic updates, it used to be?: https://bugs.

Re: Firefox [Tor] Browser 0day: Anti-Privacy Implantation at Mass Scale

2016-09-16 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 02:29:53PM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > Nevermind that they still [1] don't have their release iso's and everything > else fully reproduceable and cryptographically traceable back to > their source repository, in part because their silly choice of repo (svn) > isn't capable of e

Re: Sim Theory

2016-09-18 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 10:09:30PM -0400, grarpamp wrote: > So many people have proposed we're simulated... > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis > > Now why would such an extremely advanced civilization / collective > want to simulate us? Is this an unanswered question? > I think

Re: on communication - gpg's el gamal and debian's openssl

2016-09-20 Thread Georgi Guninski
On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 12:38:43PM -0400, Steve Kinney wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On the downside, it makes denying that you wrote something all but > impossible - "somebody stole my signing key and its pass phrase" is > not what someone who is trying to avoid emb

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: 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 ju

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 with

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&h=650&auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb

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.

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 Accor

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 the

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: 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. 19

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 a

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: 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 reversed

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. accordi

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.

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 t

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 > accou

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 app

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 know

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 OpenBS

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 n

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

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.

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".

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.

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

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 retu

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: i

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 Inte

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 project

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 i

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: 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: 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: Geek captcha

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

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 the

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: 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.

On presidents and death

2019-03-25 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 causes

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

2017-03-30 Thread Georgi Guninski
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.

Crypto consequences of dimensionless constants changing their values over time?

2017-04-01 Thread Georgi Guninski
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.

The ideal IoT gift for beauties

2017-04-04 Thread Georgi Guninski
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

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

2017-04-07 Thread Georgi Guninski
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

Re: Equation Group - Cyber Weapons Auction

2017-04-11 Thread Georgi Guninski
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: Study: Teenage Hackers Motivated By Morality Not Money

2017-04-22 Thread Georgi Guninski
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: Adding [Cypherpunks] at the beginning of a subject by default

2017-04-28 Thread Georgi Guninski
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: JustSecurity: "Today we learned that those 2011 (Sec 702) safeguards did not work"

2017-04-30 Thread Georgi Guninski
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

Happy Labour day, May 1

2017-05-01 Thread Georgi Guninski
Happy Labour day. Some people do the labour, some take the results. AFAICT this is "division of labour".

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

2017-05-06 Thread Georgi Guninski
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/

Re: Keylogger Found in Audio Driver of HP Laptops

2017-05-13 Thread Georgi Guninski
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

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

2017-05-15 Thread Georgi Guninski
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: Did m$ released patch for unsupported windozes after Wannacry hit?

2017-05-15 Thread Georgi Guninski
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

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