TheHill: Russian hackers seized email system used by State Department aid agency, human rights groups

TheHill: Russian hackers seized email system used by State Department aid agency, human rights groups. https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/555893-russian-hackers-seized-email-system-used-by-state-department-aid-agency

[old] Apertus Protocol

Apertus is one of the very first blockchain social network implementations, from around 2014. I found their websites by scanning old block content after I was first targeted and isolated. It's surprising that their git repository has so few contributers, given they are visible in early block cont

List brief outage; returned

Apologies to everyone who got a bounce notification or message that your subscription to cypherpunks was disabled. In pursuit of the problems reported in the past few days, I had made a change to the email settings that broke a few things. I've now fixed this, I think. I've also reset the Mailm

[old] memo.cash protocol

I imagine people are using other chains now, but this protocol is well-known due to a compromised web interface that exists. It works and is in use on the bitcoin variants. I am not presently using it. OP_RETURN is a bitcoin opcode for storing data politely. Older protocols use UTXO outputs for

Re: [ot] [personal] internet and tor

I received a message from the list! Also I posted yet another wrong thing to the list I think? Meanwhile, orbot stopped working for me. I wasn't get connections through it. So I turned it off, and back on, didn't help. I turned it off and tried running tor from termux, but it said something wa

Re: Tor

Well, I was confused when I posted that, but there's actually a whole padding infrastructure set up that appears configurable somewhat. https://github.com/torproject/torspec/blob/main/padding-spec.txt With some review a proposal could theoretically be made to make things constant-bandwidth for th

Re: Tor

On Fri, 28 May 2021 10:10:29 -0400 Karl wrote: > I'm looking at orbot and seeing it has "circuit padding" now. I don't know > whether this meets the requirements of chaff, and would like to know. according to their docs that padding is supposedly a defense against 'netflow' based anal

Re: [spam] The list is dead omigod oh no!

Omigod the list is dead! Everybody's been kidnapped by mercenary spy hackers!

[spam] The list is dead omigod oh no!

They put them back with their communities once they believe they have control. The list will come back eventually.

Re: Tor

Looks like circuit padding's been around for 2 years now. Guess I'd better plan to learn its limits eventually. [thread:schizo]

Tor

I'm looking at orbot and seeing it has "circuit padding" now. I don't know whether this meets the requirements of chaff, and would like to know. I want to point out that zenaan harkness compiled posts from this list about research attributes a technology needed, to stay anonymous. I haven't read