Re: Senators: CIA has secret program that collects American data

Frank Church would like a word with them. Kurt On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 6:25 PM jim bell wrote: > https://news.yahoo.com/senators-cia-secret-program-collects-011409001.html > > The CIA has a secret, undisclosed data repository that includes information > collected about Americans, two

Re: SpyVeillance: USPS Postal Service Runs iCOP Covert Ops Program Spying Americans Social Posts

They gave it to her - I think she should do with it as she will... Or is it more "Finders Keeper"? Kurt On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 3:08 PM grarpamp wrote: > > https://www.wbrz.com/news/woman-finds-tracking-device-on-car-louisiana-state-police-wants-it-back

Outstanding - the biter bit

It won't last, but it's gotta taste sweet while it lasts https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/04/in-epic-hack-signal-developer-turns-the-tables-on-forensics-firm-cellebrite/ "For years, Israeli digital forensics firm Cellebrite has helped governments and police around

Re: Video chat software / options

I've been seeing Jitsi mentioned a fair amount - don't know anything about it, beyond what you'll see here: https://jitsi.org/ Kurt On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 12:32 PM Douglas Lucas wrote: > Hey cypherpunks, > > So what video chat options are there that are less privacy violating and > social

Re: It's an Ill Wind

On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 2:30 PM grarpamp wrote: > On 3/15/20, Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH wrote: > > I slightly misspoke - the mission of government is to prosecute crime > > If that were in fact true, then govts would have to prosecuted > themselves out of existance, not least

Re: It's an Ill Wind

On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 2:18 AM grarpamp wrote: > On 3/14/20, Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH wrote: > > Uh, no, they're only not quarantining or taking other measures. That > > is not the same as "trying to infect" > > > > Some of your analysis is OK, but

Re: It's an Ill Wind

On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 2:18 AM grarpamp wrote: > > On 3/14/20, Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH wrote: > > Uh, no, they're only not quarantining or taking other measures. That > > is not the same as "trying to infect" > > > > Some of your analysis is OK, b

Re: It's an Ill Wind

On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 8:55 PM Peter Fairbrother wrote: > > On 15/03/2020 02:46, Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH wrote: > > The point of government is to prevent crime, > > not tragedy. > > There I must disagree. The point of government is precisely to prevent > tragedy. &

Re: It's an Ill Wind

On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 8:06 PM Peter Fairbrother wrote: > > On 14/03/2020 23:28, Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 7:29 AM Peter Fairbrother wrote: > >> > >> 2- It's an Ill Wind > >> > >> https://www.youtube.com/wat

Re: It's an Ill Wind

On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 7:29 AM Peter Fairbrother wrote: > > 2- It's an Ill Wind > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XRc389TvG8 > > So now we know: first, that the UK government is actually deliberately > trying to infect over 40 million UK citizens, and in doing so expecting, > on their

It's an ill wind...

Consider, if you will, a possible outcome of the current bio-crisis. (I want it over, swiftly, and with as little damage to humanity as possible, I really do, but it doesn't look promising at the moment) We're seeing some congress critters self-quarantining. I think it likely that more will do

Re: Jim Bell questions the headline below.

Indeed - I'd lay some money on China not being able to fight the previous 3 virii... Kurt On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 7:40 PM jim bell wrote: > > China Is Perfectly Prepared to Fight the Last Virus > https://news.yahoo.com/china-perfectly-prepared-fight-last-220036969.html > > > > As I said, I

Re: OregonLive: Man hijacks Portland airport monitor to play video games, until PDX officials declare ‘game over’

We want to know, was he playing a flight simulator? On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 8:44 PM jim bell wrote: > OregonLive: Man hijacks Portland airport monitor to play video games, until > PDX officials declare ‘game >

Re: Crypto Basics: SSH Protocol

First: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596008956.do Second https://www.amazon.com/SSH-Mastery-OpenSSH-PuTTY-Tunnels/dp/1642350028 Maybe third http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781597492836.do On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 1:55 PM grarpamp wrote: >

Re: Cryptocurrency: Anonymous to Invest $75M of Crypto to Develop Privacy Coins and Anon Tech

What is justice? If it is not visiting upon those who do wrong the same wrongs that they commit, what is it? Kurt On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 11:38 AM coderman wrote: > > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Saturday, November 16, 2019 6:16 PM, jim bell wrote: > ... > > Not clear who says this,

Re: OpenBSD FreeBSD: Why and How

https://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/01 On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 6:03 PM grarpamp wrote: > > https://sivers.org/openbsd > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21521774 > > https://openbsd.org/ > https://freebsd.org/

Re: BOO! "Why the Ghost Keys `Solution’ to Encryption is No Solution"

"principled and pragmatic solutions" Pragmatic == no detectable principles So, which is it - primciples or pragmatism? Kurt On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 2:14 PM grarpamp wrote: > > On 7/21/19, Razer wrote: > >>>

Re: Human evolution was a failure

The fact that you are writing contradicts your statement. Kurt On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 2:16 PM Ryan Carboni <33...@protonmail.com> wrote: > > Human evolution was a failure. Comprehension based on cause and effect led to > early tools. That was quickly superseded by social obedience. > >

Re: WIRED: A Cisco Router Bug Has Massive Global Implications

On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 12:55 AM grarpamp wrote: > > > The security benefit is to shame/encourage/force Cisco to fix the problem. > > Cisco's been shipping bugs and exploits since day one. > Bugs upon sploits upon bugs, all up and down > their stack from HW to SW. It's not even funny. > > Then

Re: WIRED: A Cisco Router Bug Has Massive Global Implications

On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 10:30 AM John Young wrote: > > What's the security benefit of Red Balloon's > attacks? Is this not a type of extortion or maybe > angling for bragging rights, a bribe to keep > quiet or a buy-out from deep-pocketed targets. > Hard to distinguish white hats from black and >

Re: Corrupt governments are inherently inept

It's worth keeping in mind Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy: "In any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who work for the organization itself. Examples in education would be teachers who work and

Re: CNBC: Zuckerberg backs stronger Internet privacy and election laws: 'We need a more active role for governments'

It's the natural reaction of all monopolists in the market they dominate. It protects their position. On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 10:08 AM jim bell wrote: > > CNBC: Zuckerberg backs stronger Internet privacy and election laws: 'We need > a more active role for governments'. >

Re: centralized corrections

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 4:35 PM coderman wrote: > > Or the global cost of decentralized abuses. Which could be, and used to > > be, worse. Name your abuse of choice: it's worse when it's being done > > everywhere to / by everyone. > > let's play a game: centralized power to redress cultural

Re: How to achieve 1 meter accuracy with Android Was: Re: Dropgang vulnerabilities

On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 5:17 PM jim bell wrote: > On Thursday, February 28, 2019, 12:16:48 PM PST, Punk wrote: > On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 09:15:51 +1000 > jam...@echeque.com wrote: > > >> If you are in the city, everything is on CCTV. But you are not going to > >> drop something valuable in the

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

Re: HuffPost: Julian Assange Faces Federal Charges. But Let's Not Forget What We've Learned From WikiLeaks.

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 11:33 AM jim bell wrote: > > On Sunday, November 25, 2018, 7:05:09 PM PST, Zenaan Harkness > wrote: > >Sadly, global warming is a complete hoax, to impose a global tax, to > fund a global "one worl order" or "new world order". > > And there is a likely (at least partial)

The beauty of owning the assembly line

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies

Re: the tor scam - Re: AP deconstructed: Why it has not happened yet, and will not

On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 5:21 PM, jim bell wrote: > https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/03/us/postal-service-confirms-photographing-all-us-mail.html > > "But Mr. Donahoe said that the images had been used “a couple of times” by > law enforcement to trace letters in criminal cases, including one

Re: Anarchocrapitalism, "libertardianism", et al.

On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 10:33 PM, <jam...@echeque.com> wrote: > On 1/4/2018 1:56 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: >> >> Capitalism is the belief that free men in free exchange of privately >> owned resources (including especially themselves) will result in >> prosperity,

Re: Anarchocrapitalism, "libertardianism", et al.

On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 7:26 PM, g2s wrote: > “Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the > nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.” -John > Maynard Keynes > > There IS NO SUCH THING as "kinder, gentler capitalism. Stop lying

Re: Bitcoin... Destroying the planet

On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 7:10 PM, g2s <g...@riseup.net> wrote: > > Original message ---- > From: Kurt Buff <kurt.b...@gmail.com> > Date: 12/9/17 2:50 PM (GMT-08:00) > To: cypherpunks@lists.cpunks.org > Subject: Re: Bitcoin... Destroying the planet >

Re: Bitcoin... Destroying the planet

On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 2:24 PM, z9wahqvh wrote: > On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 9:22 PM, Michael Nelson > wrote: >> >> The mapping between Bitcoin and energy is missing the point, from the >> point of view of understanding the system. The correct mapping is

Fwd: Bitcoin... Destroying the planet

On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 11:57 AM, g2s <g...@riseup.net> wrote: > Original message > From: Kurt Buff <kurt.b...@gmail.com> > Date: 12/9/17 11:37 AM (GMT-08:00) > To: cypherpunks@lists.cpunks.org > Subject: Re: Bitcoin... Destroying the planet > > On

Re: Bitcoin... Destroying the planet

On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 7:24 AM, g2s <g...@riseup.net> wrote: > Original message > From: Kurt Buff <kurt.b...@gmail.com> > Date: 12/8/17 8:42 PM (GMT-08:00) > To: cypherpunks@lists.cpunks.org > Subject: Re: Bitcoin... Destroying the planet > > On

Re: Bitcoin... Destroying the planet

On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 7:31 PM, g2s wrote: > > Original message > From: Michael Nelson > Date: 12/8/17 6:22 PM (GMT-08:00) > To: cypherpunks@lists.cpunks.org > Subject: Bitcoin... Destroying the planet > >> The mapping between Bitcoin

Re: YubiKey

https://github.com/hillbrad/U2FReviews On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 8:25 PM, John Newman wrote: > Does anyone have any experience with a YubiKey? Specifically using it > with the PAM module you can download from their site and tying it to > logins for Linux/*BSD/MacOS ? > > I've got

Re: Future historians will recall the war between 4chan and LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner

On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 2:03 PM, John Newman wrote: > > > On Aug 30, 2017, at 9:35 PM, Razer wrote: > On 08/30/2017 05:54 PM, jim bell wrote: > Further, the jury is going to want to know why somebody in the crowd struck > the vehicle. Malice? > > If you hit my

Re: [pf...@pfinr.org: [ PFFR ] Google Employee's Anti-Diversity Manifesto Goes 'Internally Viral']

On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 3:27 PM, jim bell wrote: > The United States Congress, and > at least the very large majority of state legislatures, are based on the > "first past the post" voting system. That system while not initially > obvious, invokes an effect called

Re: Welcome To Anarchast!

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 8:31 AM, \0xDynamite wrote: > On 7/11/17, Steve Kinney wrote: >> "Capitalism can not exist without armed State authorities to define and >> enforce the so-called rights of absentee landlords. Anarcho-capitalism >> is a

Re: Welcome To Anarchast!

On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 12:47 PM, John Newman <j...@synfin.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 12:08:00PM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 7:13 AM, Kevin Gallagher >> <kevin.gallag...@nyu.edu> wrote: >> > Thanks to everyone for your replie

Re: Welcome To Anarchast!

On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 7:13 AM, Kevin Gallagher <kevin.gallag...@nyu.edu> wrote: > Thanks to everyone for your replies! > > On Jul 11, 2017 9:16 PM, "Kurt Buff" <kurt.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 1:22 AM, Kevin Gallagher > <kevin.g

Re: Welcome To Anarchast!

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 1:22 AM, Kevin Gallagher wrote: > Here is where I start to have questions. To my understanding, anarchy is the > rejection of heirarchies. Isn't anarcho-capitalism therefore an oxymoron? No, anarcho-capitalism is grounded in the understanding that

Re: Satoshi's Trump Card

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 12:15 PM, grarpamp wrote: > Satoshi is estimated to have at least 1M BTC to leverage at > will, anon, with zfg. Any disagreeable fork can be tranflooded > back to self and even whaled around for years to come. > With agreeable things endorsed and

Re: Tracking pixels can conduct surveillance for targeted attacks

With Firefox and its kin (Cyberfox, and possibly PaleMoon), RequestPolicy will do that. I've seen sites that have as many as 20-30 different content providers for all sorts of things that are exposed by RequestPolicy. No such beast for Chrome that I've been able to detect. Unfortunately,

Re: The Internet of Things will host devastating, unstoppable botnets

Who said anything about state authorization? On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 10:32 AM, grarpamp wrote: > On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Razer wrote: >> Some makers don't respond. > > Then brick their products till they pay or fix their gear. > No need for any

Re: FreeBSD

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 10:35 PM, grarpamp wrote: > FreeBSD: Not a Linux Distro > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwbO4eTieQY > > https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=freebsd+raspberry+pi Somewhat dated, but still relevant:

Re: The Internet of Things will host devastating, unstoppable botnets

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 11:20 PM, grarpamp wrote: >> I foresee a not-for-profit venture that seeks out any and all devices >> that aren't protected and seeks to permanently disable them. > > Would also break every tort, damaging, conspiracy to commit, and > computer crime law

Re: The Internet of Things will host devastating, unstoppable botnets

I foresee a not-for-profit venture that seeks out any and all devices that aren't protected and seeks to permanently disable them. Perhaps called BrickerBot... Kurt On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 5:35 PM, Razer wrote: > Bwahahahahahaaahackcoughgasp-wheze! > > >> Bruce Schneier

Re: 10 judges are nuts.

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 7:38 AM, Razer wrote: > > On 02/23/2017 05:37 AM, jim bell wrote: > > Court rules assault weapons are not protected under Constitution > http://dailym.ai/2mmUuqG via > > > They aren't. You know why? When the Second Amendment was written, at 50 > yards or

Re: Truth is a bitter pill to swallow: Lessons on the death of Fidel Castro

The thought that SA was unable or incompetent to stand up to the Mozambiquan/Cuban forces is untrue. The SA troops basically kicked the crap out of the Cuban forces whenever/wherever they met, but SA was pressured by the USA to back down, with the promise that the USA would fill in. Didn't