Re: Sweden drops rape investigation on assange

[rooty]

HI Comet Dweller

 Original Message 
On Nov 19, 2019, 6:48 PM, Comet Dweller wrote:

> On 19/11/2019 21:21, grarpamp wrote:
>
>> No, it's been said the bail breach sentence is now over and
>> UK lapdog is holding him purely pending US extradition games.
>> See tweetsums of the last few "court" hearings.
>
> Oh well, same difference...

Re: Sweden drops rape investigation on assange

[Comet Dweller]

On 19/11/2019 21:21, grarpamp wrote:

No, it's been said the bail breach sentence is now over and
UK lapdog is holding him purely pending US extradition games.
See tweetsums of the last few "court" hearings.


Oh well, same difference...

Re: Assange "fails in bid to delay extradition battle with US"

[jim bell]

 On Monday, October 21, 2019, 08:12:07 PM PDT, Greg Newby  
wrote:
 
 
 On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 06:51:31PM +, jim bell wrote:
>  On Monday, October 21, 2019, 09:15:26 AM PDT, Greg Newby  
>wrote:
>  
>  
>  >Spotted in Fox news online, but it looks like this is also on the AP wire
> https://www.foxnews.com/world/wikileaks-julian-assange-appears-in-court
> 
> >Meanwhile, it appears Chelsea Manning is still in jail in Alexandria, for 
> >refusing to cooperate with the grand jury investigation against Assange: 
> >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Manning
> 
> 
> >The Fox article:
>  
> >WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange fails in bid to delay extradition battle with US
> >Greg Norman
> >By Greg Norman | Fox News
> 
>> Jim Bell's comment:
>> (But first, note that the term "extraterritoriality" was commonly used in 
>> TWO senses in regards to Assange:  First, perhaps the most common usage was 
>> the fact that Assange could stay in the Embassy as if it were a different 
>> country, not UK.  That is NOT the sense I am most interested in, at least in 
>> part because nobody seemed to be substantially challenging that issue.  The 
>> second usage, is the concept that a country can have criminal jurisdiction 
>> over acts committed in another nation.  Put simply, can the US declare 
>> actions by a person outside the US, when there is no clear connection to the 
>> US?   I very much doubt that, in this case.  Below, you can see that I 
>> looked at some statutes, and did not find any specific reference to 
>> 'extraterritoriality' as part of the statutes which were then cited.  This 
>> material includes points which included references to US court decisions 
>> which declared that unless a statute clearly claims 'extraterritoriality' 
>> over acts in other nations, it should be presumed to not apply.
>> Did the US add any charges which DID have extraterritoriality references 
>> built into the statutes?)
> 
>> It's frustrating that these news-item references aren't written to include 
>> issues such as extraterritoriality included.  I will now do a time limited 
>> Google-search for 'Assange extraterritoriality' over the last months to find 
>> useful references.  Nothing.  Perhaps a law journal will have addressed this 
>> important matter.  
>> Let's not forget what I said on April 29, 2019:


>Thanks for resending the analysis below. I spent a little time following up on 
>your searches, including looking at whether 'comity' is a pathway to valid 
>extratorritality. Like you, I came up with no basis in the USC, including, as 
>you cited, in the sections dealing with espionage.

>Commentary:

>It is not in the interests of most commercial media outlets to highlight the 
>legal shortcomings of the US efforts to extradite Assange, any more than it is 
>to highlight the attacks on journalistic freedom, war on whistleblowers, etc.

>>But even non-mainstream coverage seems to ignore the key issue of 
>>extraterritoriality. It's not a difficult concept to grasp. I don't think 
>>this is a concept that occurs to most journalists.

>Generations of Americans have grown up with the notion that the US is the 
>World's police force. The ubiquity of US enforcement - i.e., military might, 
>and many other mechanisms - is not questioned. It is celebrated.

>My theory concerning the relentless pursuit of Assange is that the ultimate 
>court outcomes are not the main object. The main object is ongoing and very 
>public punishment, certainly including unending incarceration and 
>intimidation, for daring to air the US' dirty laundry.
>- Greg

Since Assange is apparently currently being held entirely on the US Extradition 
issue, perhaps we will see more commentary about the validity of those US 
charges.   This looks like an interesting article, although it's 2.5 years old:
https://www.lawfareblog.com/will-united-states-be-able-extradite-assange

https://wikileaks.org/WikiLeaks-response-espionage-act.html

Here is the indictment (superseding) May 23, 2019:  
https://file.wikileaks.org/file/Assange_Indictment.pdf
                  Jim Bell




> ---jim bell 
> To:CypherPunks
> Apr 29 at 5:31 PM
> From:     https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1153486/download
> 15(B) to intentionally access a computer, without authorization and exceeding 
> authorized access, to obtain information from a department and agency of the 
> United States in furtherance of a criminal act in violation of the laws of 
> the United States, that is, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, 
> Sections 641, 793(c), and 793(e). (In violation of Title 18, United States 
> Code, Sections 371, 1030(a)(l), 1030(a)(2), 1030(c)(2)(B)(ii).) 
> 
> [end of partial quote]
> There is a principle of American law, upheld by the Supreme Court, that a 
> Federal law is only supposed to be considered of "extraterritorial" 
> application (applies outside the boundaries of United States territory) if 
> the Congress sp

"Red flag laws" didn't exist in 1791. So, they are clearly unconstitutional.

[jim bell]

He wrote 'kill all women,' but a judge returned his guns
https://news.yahoo.com/fearing-mass-shooting-police-took-195846773.html

Cryptocurrency: $250M BCH Ecosystem Fund, Heart's HEX Imports BTC UTXO, McAfee Talks

[grarpamp]

BCH Ecosystem
https://i.redd.it/oc0uhtjidpz31.jpg


Richart Heart
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCta3TYFhzfpPvOtKBDifYJA/videos
HEX Imports BTC UTXO
https://hex.win/
Livera BTC vs Heart HEX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmgT2DoFeTQ
Heart Interviewed Crypto Advice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwx9dz444y4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0Hvcyh3T4E


McAfee: AI, Success, Whackd, Opportunity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz5wvetEx-U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7SIFV3Bimc
"All governments are terrified of Monero", not Bitcoin
Central Bank Digital Currencies "This is the holy grail for
totalitarian governments"
"Those governments will soon become totalitarian because they will
soon have ultimate knowledge of the citizen, which is the holy grail
for any totalitarian government"


Satoshi is a doctor
https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/dx3kxy/had_surgery_today_look_at_my_doctor_is_wearing/

Re: Leaks: Cayman National Bank Sherwood 2TB Drop by Phineas Fisher

[Zenaan Harkness]

Wow. There are some really beautiful words here.

Thank you to everyone included in that chain which brings such
touching words for our collective and individual healing.


>  According to Barack Obama, economic inequality is "the challenge
>  that defines our time."  Computer hacking is a powerful tool to
>  combat economic inequality.  The former director of the NSA, Keith
>  Alexander, agrees and says that hacking is responsible for "the
>  greatest transfer of wealth in history."

I have to take a little exception to this above assertion by Keith
Alexander.

I understand the intention of including this quote is very good - to
help inspire future (and present) hackers to manifest love into this
world.

However (i.), the "hacker" responsible for the greatest transfer of
wealth in history is actually Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812)
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschild_family

The "hack" of creation of a billion dollar bond, duly filed and
backed up by slutty statute law to fortify "full faith and credit",
set off and established the (literal) greatest wealth transfer in
history - i.e., from the Kings and Queens, and from the people, to
the Rothschild's banks and those in bed with them.

However (ii.), a little digital hack o' the day can indeed cause
astonishing transfers of fiats in alternative and interesting
directions.



> __
> /  The story is ours \
> \ and it is done by hackers! /
>  


> https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/mary-nardini-gang-be-gay-do-crime


Again, thank you for the many lovely, amazing, sometimes confronting,
and inspiring words.

Contemplation on one(s) with such heart brings tears.

Thank you for helping heal. We all share this world.

Cryptocurrency: Intel Ramps 7nm GPU, Cryptos May See Potential Mining Use vs AMD/NVIDIA

[grarpamp]

https://hothardware.com/news/intel-ponte-vecchio-7nm-exascale-gpu-for-hpc-market

Intel has unveiled its first discrete GPU solution that will hit the
market in 2020, code name Ponte Vecchio. Based on 7nm silicon
manufacturing and stack chiplet design with Intel's Foveros tech,
Ponte Vecchio will target HPC markets for supercomputers and AI
training in the datacenter. According to HotHardware, Ponte Vecchio
will employ a combination of both its Foveros 3D packaging and EMIB
(Embedded Multi-die Interconnect Bridge) technologies, along with High
Bandwidth Memory (HBM) and Compute Express Link (CXL), which will
operate over the newly ratified PCIe 5.0 interface and serve as Ponte
Vecchio's high-speed switch fabric connecting all GPU resources. Intel
is billing Ponte Vecchio as its first exascale GPU, proving its meddle
in the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Aurora supercomputer. Aurora
will employ a topology of six Ponte Vecchio GPUs and two Intel Xeon
Scalable processors based on Intel's next generation Sapphire Rapids
architecture, along with Optane DC Persistent Memory on a single
blade. The new supercomputer is schedule to arrive sometime in 2021.

Re: Sweden drops rape investigation on assange

[grarpamp]

On 11/19/19, Comet Dweller  wrote:
> Sweden says it is dropping Assange rape investigation
> https://news.yahoo.com/sweden-says-dropping-assange-rape-131831738.html
>
> 1) that's likely to be 'fake news'
> 2) and even if it was true, they already did everything the
> americunt nazis told them to do. Their job was to make sure the americunt
> nazis can 'extradite' assange, and the swedish feminazi cunts did their job
> perfectly well.
> now, let's hear some bullshit about communists and how 'big
> businesses' are 'america's most persecuted miniroity'

> Doesn't seem to be any reason to think it's fake news. As you say, it does
> rather now look as if Sweden has done its job in this. Assange remains in
> prison in the UK for breaching his bail conditions.

No, it's been said the bail breach sentence is now over and
UK lapdog is holding him purely pending US extradition games.
See tweetsums of the last few "court" hearings.

> This helpfully gives
> time for the USA to arrange for his extradition.
>
> Assange said all along that the Swedish case was all about finding a way to
> get him to the USA, and the end result seems likely to be exactly that.

Surveillance: India Admits Happily Being Other Countries Bitch Against You

[grarpamp]

https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/19/india-intercept-monitor-citizen-computers/

The Indian government said on Tuesday that it is "empowered" to
intercept, monitor, or decrypt any digital communication "generated,
transmitted, received, or stored" on a citizen's device in the country
in the interest of national security or to maintain friendly relations
with foreign states. From a report: Citing section 69 of the
Information Technology Act, 2000, and section 5 of the Telegraph Act,
1885, Minister of State for Home Affairs G. Kishan Reddy said local
law empowers federal and state government to "intercept, monitor or
decrypt or cause to be intercepted or monitored or decrypted any
information generated, transmitted, received or stored in any computer
resource in the interest of the sovereignty or integrity of India, the
security of the state, friendly relations with foreign states or
public order or for preventing incitement to the commission of any
cognizable offence relating to above or for investigation of any
offence." Reddy's remarks were in response to the parliament, where a
lawmaker had asked if the government had snooped on citizens'
WhatsApp, Messenger, Viber, and Google calls and messages.

TheIntercept NYT: Writes on Iran Iraq Spy Cables

[grarpamp]

https://theintercept.com/2019/11/18/iran-iraq-spy-cables/
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/18/world/middleeast/iran-iraq-spy-cables.html

A Spy Complex Revealed
Leaked Iranian Intelligence Reports Expose Tehran’s Vast Web of
Influence in Iraq

Now leaked Iranian documents offer a detailed portrait of just how
aggressively Tehran has worked to embed itself into Iraqi affairs, and
of the unique role of Suleimani. The documents are contained in an
archive of secret Iranian intelligence cables obtained by The
Intercept and shared with the New York Times for this article, which
is being published simultaneously by both news organizations.

The unprecedented leak exposes Tehran’s vast influence in Iraq,
detailing years of painstaking work by Iranian spies to co-opt the
country’s leaders, pay Iraqi agents working for the Americans to
switch sides, and infiltrate every aspect of Iraq’s political,
economic, and religious life.

Many of the cables describe real-life espionage capers that feel torn
from the pages of a spy thriller. Meetings are arranged in dark
alleyways and shopping malls or under the cover of a hunting excursion
or a birthday party. Informants lurk at the Baghdad airport, snapping
pictures of American soldiers and keeping tabs on coalition military
flights. Agents drive meandering routes to meetings to evade
surveillance. Sources are plied with gifts of pistachios, cologne, and
saffron. Iraqi officials, if necessary, are offered bribes. The
archive even contains expense reports from intelligence ministry
officers in Iraq, including one totaling 87.5 euros spent on gifts for
a Kurdish commander.


https://publications.armywarcollege.edu/pubs/3667.pdf
In a sense, the leaked Iranian cables provide a final accounting of
the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. The notion that the Americans handed
control of Iraq to Iran when they invaded now enjoys broad support,
even within the U.S. military. A recent two-volume history of the Iraq
War, published by the U.S. Army, details the campaign’s many missteps
and its “staggering cost” in lives and money. Nearly 4,500 American
troops were killed, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died, and American
taxpayers spent up to $2 trillion on the war. The study, which totals
hundreds of pages and draws on declassified documents, concludes: “An
emboldened and expansionist Iran appears to be the only victor.”

Re: Leaks: Cayman National Bank Sherwood 2TB Drop by Phineas Fisher

[grarpamp]

SHA256 (Sherwood.torrent) =
0760ec1afaeba2ce3aa80bf18d98eb467e7c2f6201711b1a42eed1ff171f4b23
1350334 Nov 18 11:30:20 2019 Sherwood.torrent

Sherwood Torrent

[John Young]

ICYMI, 2 TB Cayman bank hack

https://cryptome.org/Sherwood.torrent

Two samples:

https://unicornriot.ninja/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/cayman-banking_customers.xlsx

https://unicornriot.ninja/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CNCIOM-PEP-Register-2015.pdf

Re: Leaks: Cayman National Bank Sherwood 2TB Drop by Phineas Fisher

[coderman]

‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐
On Tuesday, November 19, 2019 8:13 PM, grarpamp  wrote:
> ...
> Interview...
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpyCl1Qm6Xs
>
> Hacktivism is back, and this time it's well funded by many.
>
> An infamous vigilante hacker known for their hits on surveillance
> companies and capitalist institutions is launching a new kind of bug
> bounty to reward hacktivists who do public interest hacks and leaks.
> Phineas Fisher published a new manifesto on Friday, offering to pay
> hackers up to $100,000 in what they called the ‘Hacktivist Bug Hunting
> Program.” The idea is to pay other hackers who carry out politically
> motivated hacks against companies that could lead to the disclosure of
> documents in the public interest. The hacker said he will pay in
> cryptocurrency, such as Bitcoin or Monero.
>
> Arguing why it was justified to leak the bank’s internal emails,
> Phineas Fisher wrote that “privacy for the powerful is not the same,
> when it allows them to evade the limits of a system itself designed to
> give them privileges; and privacy for the weak, which protects them
> from a system conceived to exploit them.”
>
> “Hacking to obtain and leak documents with public interest is one of
> the best ways for hackers to use their abilities to benefit society
> [...] I’m not trying to make anyone rich. I’m just trying to provide
> enough funds so that hackers can make a decent living doing a good
> job.”
>
> "In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” -- Orwell
>
> "We're all Phineas Fisher." -- Phineas Fisher


see also: https://pastebin.com/raw/8rXhtqgr


***
Translation notes:
Bulk of translation done by Google Translate (which did a remarkably good job 
outside of slang and computer terms!), with edits for clarity and formatting by 
@laudecay. I got the Spanish version from the bottom of this article, it’s in 
the leak: 
https://unicornriot.ninja/2019/massive-hack-strikes-offshore-cayman-national-bank-and-trust/
The UR article also has a lot of info about the history of Phineas’s hacks and 
resources she’s provided to the community in the past, and Crimethinc has some 
interviews with her. She’s also posted video interviews (a puppet and a voice 
actor reading chat logs, lol) and a screencast of her hacking a police 
department :)
Sources are mostly left as in the original, except where there was an obvious 
directly translated english version lying around. Phineas Fisher frequently 
cites the original HackBack guide in Spanish. The English version is here: 
https://www.exploit-db.com/papers/41915. The resources and content may not be 
precisely the same between the two, so if you’re interested I’d recommend also 
running the Spanish one through gtranslate.
Phineas, if you read this, the stuff you do is awesome and please never stop! 
I’m so glad you wrote this to accompany your leak, to educate people about 
important political topics and how to use computer skills to improve the world 
we live in. It’s difficult to radicalize people with these skillsets because of 
the salaries we get offered to sell out and be white-hat, and it’s difficult to 
get people who are already radicalized into hacking (at least in any kind of 
numbers) because the vast majority of them don’t have time to spend months or 
years getting the background knowledge to break into a modern network. The bug 
bounty and anarchist reading material you provided helps with the first, and 
the accessible infosec education portion helps with the second. I will 
definitely be sending this to people in both camps.
On a personal note, I was also really happy that you referred to yourself 
publicly as a girl, there aren’t many other female anarchists or hackers that 
I’ve met, much less someone I’ve thought was so incredible for years now. OPSEC 
be damned, you’re inspirational as fuck, thank you for what you do.
***
_   __   __
   | | | | __ _  ___| | __ | __ )  __ _  ___| | _| |
   | |_| |/ _` |/ __| |/ / |  _ \ / _` |/ __| |/ / |
   |  _  | (_| | (__|   <  | |_) | (_| | (__|   <|_|
   |_| |_|\__,_|\___|_|\_\ |/ \__,_|\___|_|\_(_)
 A DIY guide to rob banks

  ^__^
  (oo)\___
   (  (__)\   )\/\
_) /  ||w |
   (.)/   || ||
`'
  By Subcowmandante Marcos
I am a wild child
Innocent, free, wild
I am all ages
My grandparents live on in me
I am a brother of the clouds
And I only know how to share
I know that everything belongs to everyone,
That everything is alive in me
My heart is a star
I am a son of the earth
Traveling aboard my spirit
I walk to eternity
These are my simple words that seek to touch the hearts of people who are 
simple and humble, but also dignified and rebellious.  These are my simple 
words to tell about my hacks, and to invite other

Re: Leaks: Cayman National Bank Sherwood 2TB Drop by Phineas Fisher

[grarpamp]

SHA256 (HackBack.txt) =
77411d2da89f5f4bbca1d1b7e6103cc3a199944f9840b2dea26d80ca532ca050
68784 bytes
_   __   __
   | | | | __ _  ___| | __ | __ )  __ _  ___| | _| |
   | |_| |/ _` |/ __| |/ / |  _ \ / _` |/ __| |/ / |
   |  _  | (_| | (__|   <  | |_) | (_| | (__|   <|_|
   |_| |_|\__,_|\___|_|\_\ |/ \__,_|\___|_|\_(_)

 Una guía DIY para robar bancos


  ^__^
  (oo)\___
   (  (__)\   )\/\
_) /  ||w |
   (.)/   || ||
`'
  Por el Subcowmandante Marcos




   Soy un niño salvaje
   Inocente, libre, silvestre
 Tengo todas las edades
Mis abuelos viven en mí

Soy hermano de las nubes
  Y sólo sé compartir
Sé que todo es de todos
que todo está vivo en mí

   Mi corazón es una estrella
 Soy hijo de la tierra
  Viajo a bordo de mi espíritu
 Camino a la eternidad


Ésta es mi palabra sencilla que busca tocar el corazón de la gente simple y
humilde, pero también digna y rebelde. Ésta es mi palabra sencilla para contar
de mis hackeos, y para invitar a otras personas a que hackeen con alegre
rebeldía.

...

Re: Leaks: Cayman National Bank Sherwood 2TB Drop by Phineas Fisher

[grarpamp]

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vb5agy/phineas-fisher-offers-dollar10-bounty-for-hacks-against-banks-and-oil-companies
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qkjjnb/notorious-hacker-phineas-fishers-is-trying-to-start-a-hack-back-political-movement

https://limn.it/articles/the-public-interest-hack/

https://unicornriot.ninja/2019/massive-hack-strikes-offshore-cayman-national-bank-and-trust/

Interview...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpyCl1Qm6Xs

Hacktivism is back, and this time it's well funded by many.

An infamous vigilante hacker known for their hits on surveillance
companies and capitalist institutions is launching a new kind of bug
bounty to reward hacktivists who do public interest hacks and leaks.
Phineas Fisher published a new manifesto on Friday, offering to pay
hackers up to $100,000 in what they called the ‘Hacktivist Bug Hunting
Program.” The idea is to pay other hackers who carry out politically
motivated hacks against companies that could lead to the disclosure of
documents in the public interest. The hacker said he will pay in
cryptocurrency, such as Bitcoin or Monero.

Arguing why it was justified to leak the bank’s internal emails,
Phineas Fisher wrote that “privacy for the powerful is not the same,
when it allows them to evade the limits of a system itself designed to
give them privileges; and privacy for the weak, which protects them
from a system conceived to exploit them.”

“Hacking to obtain and leak documents with public interest is one of
the best ways for hackers to use their abilities to benefit society
[...] I’m not trying to make anyone rich. I’m just trying to provide
enough funds so that hackers can make a decent living doing a good
job.”

"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” -- Orwell

"We're all Phineas Fisher." -- Phineas Fisher

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

[jim bell]

 On Tuesday, November 19, 2019, 03:26:34 AM PST, grarpamp  
wrote:
 
 On 11/15/19, jim bell  wrote:
>> This Fund, and perhaps implied offer, seems to have arrived at just the
>> right time.  I have proposed that an alternative to TOR be constructed, and
>> that is certainly not an idea that is new with my proposal. Anybody who is
>> uncomfortable with TOR should want to see real competition.

>> I think we should appply for some of these funds.

>Yes, strong alternative and in fact entirely new and open fully
independant competition in this space is very much needed.
Such an application would also "test" the proposal.  Are they real?  Sending 
them a reasonably-well thought-out proposal should be immediately acceptable to 
them, and certainly in principle.  And they should love a quickly implementable 
(months, not years) example of the functioning of their system.

>> I have found, by obtaining a quotation, that the hardware costs are probably
>> going to be $80 per node

>What's the spec?
Well, the quote was for $72 for a Raspberry Pie 4, in 500 quantity.  I think 
shipping was included, but probably just to a single location.  If might be 
more efficient if we could supply the addresses, and have them forward the 
devices.  I assume that there would be a few other expenses, such as an SD 
card.  I rounded up to $80/unit based on this.  

>> People could host these nodes at their businesses and homes

>Any good overlay network is encrypted so comes with
deniability, same for any storage elements on disk.
Generally, except for "liability" of an exit function which
may or may not be present, and simple blocking of
otherwise useful IP's by blacklists, anyone can run one.
No different than any other overlay today.
Don't forget my idea to have a given file, on entry to the anonymization 
netword (we need a name...), split into two files based on being XOR'ed with a 
random or pseudorandom key, and send both copies (which would each 'look like' 
a random set of bits) to the same endpoint.  This wouldn't be 'secret', it 
would merely be a way to ensure that if the output of a given exit node is 
monitored, the data looks like a random output.  Thus, no liability to the exit 
nodes.  They cannot know the meaning of what data they are outputting. 

>> This would powerfully motivate people to offer to host a node, because they
>> would be getting the 1 gigabit service upgrade essentially for free.

>"We'll pay for your upgrade for one year!"
"And if you act before midnight tonight, you will receive Ronco's Pocket 
Fisherman and a Chia Pet shaped like Donald Trump!"

>> This might also provide funds for development of the software,
>> which is a task in itself.

>10 cypherpunks writingcode for subsistance room and board
for a year is $125k. That's a reasonable side gig stipend, but
go with say $250k if you want people to be more full time at it.
Lots of options within that bottom line figure... 5 x $50k, etc.
Are whips and chains going to be involved?   Uh, sorry, I was thinking of 
something else...


>> A subsidy of $25/month is about $300/year, and multiplied by 1000
> nodes amounts to $300,000, or a total of about $380,000 for the first
> year.

>> Can anybody imagine a more worthy, concrete proposal to accomplish what this
> 'Unknown Fund' proposes to accomplish?  And its yearly cost represents less
> than 1/2 of a percent of the proposed fund.

>In a lot of the grantmaking biz, capital outlay is
often easier for entities to write than ongoing funds.
A internet-service subsidy for merely the first year 'looks like' a capital 
outlay.  

>Assuming this Anon entity is real, it may be wise to assume
and plan, that it being anonymous, may not prefer to stick
around for very long.
Notice, I think, that they referred to 'start-ups'.  Many start-up companies 
don't accomplish anything in the first year or two.  This fund ought to 
recognize that there would be a major benefit to helping quickly create an 
anonymization network that could be active in half a year.  They could tout 
that as a major achievement for privacy.  

>Also, an $80 HW appliance may support one network well and be
adoptably cute on the desk, but it's definitely going to bog down
when trying to run multiple overlay networks nodes on it... storage,
messaging, cryptocurrency, etc. And it probably would have
trouble meeting whatever needs may come at 5-10 years.

>Unless viewing the $80 one as a disposable to be
tossed for a hotter new $80 one every N years...
There are also going to be people who will view whichever processor being 
proposed as being flawed in some way, genuinely or fictitiously, so I'd hope 
that the software could be ported to multiple platforms.  

>It may be better to drop around $300 or so towards
a mini-ITX platform spec that can support multiple different
software networks at the same time. As well as some external
expansion for WiFi and SDR interfaces via some USB ports.
If the money becomes available...

>So with being a l

Re: Sweden drops rape investigation on assange

[Comet Dweller]

On 19/11/2019 17:13, Punk-Stasi 2.0 wrote:

On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 16:59:25 + (UTC)
jim bell  wrote:



Sweden says it is dropping Assange rape investigation
https://news.yahoo.com/sweden-says-dropping-assange-rape-131831738.html



1) that's likely to be 'fake news'

2) and even if it was true, they already did everything the americunt 
nazis told them to do. Their job was to make sure the americunt nazis can 
'extradite' assange, and the swedish feminazi cunts did their job perfectly 
well.

now, let's hear some bullshit about communists and how 'big businesses' 
are 'america's most persecuted miniroity'


Doesn't seem to be any reason to think it's fake news. As you say, it does 
rather now look as if Sweden has done its job in this. Assange remains in 
prison in the UK for breaching his bail conditions. This helpfully gives time 
for the USA to arrange for his extradition.

Assange said all along that the Swedish case was all about finding a way to get 
him to the USA, and the end result seems likely to be exactly that.

Sweden drops rape investigation on assange

[jim bell]

Sweden says it is dropping Assange rape investigation
https://news.yahoo.com/sweden-says-dropping-assange-rape-131831738.html

Leaks: Cayman National Bank Sherwood 2TB Drop by Phineas Fisher

[grarpamp]

https://twitter.com/DDoSecrets
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21566513
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21567022

infohash:5b1b0092848d0b8e2f08d825111264c4818a2df3

US FBI Drops FHOTI Bomb on Interpol to Ban E2E Crypto ASAP

[grarpamp]

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/11/think-of-the-children-fbi-sought-interpol-statement-against-end-to-end-crypto/
https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-interpol-plans-condemn-encryption-203218710.html
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/the-broken-record-why-barrs-call-against-end-to-end-encryption-is-nuts/

Justice Department officials have long pushed for some sort of
backdoor to permit warranted surveillance and searches of encrypted
communications. Recently, that push has been taken international
with Attorney General William Barr and his counterparts from the
United Kingdom and Australia making an open plea to Facebook to
delay plans to use end-to-end encryption across all the company's
messaging tools.

Now, the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigations
are attempting to get an even larger international consensus on
banning end-to-end encryption by way of a draft resolution authored
by officials at the FBI for the International Criminal Police
Organization's 37th Meeting of the INTERPOL Specialists Group on
Crimes against Children. The event took place from November 12 to
November 15 at the INTERPOL headquarters in Lyon, France.

A draft of the resolution viewed by Ars Technica stated that INTERPOL
would "strongly urge providers of technology services to allow for
lawful access to encrypted data enabled or facilitated by their
systems" in the interest of fighting child sexual exploitation.
Currently, it is not clear whether Interpol will issue a statement.

The draft resolution went on to lay responsibility for child
exploitation upon the tech industry:

"The current path towards default end-to-end encryption, with no
provision for lawful access, does not allow for the protection of
the world's children from sexual exploitation. Technology providers
must act and design their services in a way that protects user
privacy, on the one hand, while providing user safety, on the other
hand. Failure to allow for Lawful Access on their platforms and
products, provides a safe haven to offenders utilizing these to
sexually exploit children, and inhibits our global law enforcement
efforts to protect children."

In a statement that flies in the face of the consensus of cryptographers
and other technical experts, the draft resolution asserted that
"technologists agree" that designing systems to "[allow] for lawful
access to data, while maintaining customer privacy…can be implemented
in a way that would enhance privacy while maintaining strong cyber
security."

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

[grarpamp]

On 11/15/19, jim bell  wrote:
> This Fund, and perhaps implied offer, seems to have arrived at just the
> right time.   I have proposed that an alternative to TOR be constructed, and
> that is certainly not an idea that is new with my proposal. Anybody who is
> uncomfortable with TOR should want to see real competition.

> I think we should appply for some of these funds.

Yes, strong alternative and in fact entirely new and open fully
independant competition in this space is very much needed.

> I have found, by obtaining a quotation, that the hardware costs are probably
> going to be $80 per node

What's the spec?

> People could host these nodes at their businesses and homes

Any good overlay network is encrypted so comes with
deniability, same for any storage elements on disk.
Generally, except for "liability" of an exit function which
may or may not be present, and simple blocking of
otherwise useful IP's by blacklists, anyone can run one.
No different than any other overlay today.

> This would powerfully motivate people to offer to host a node, because they
> would be getting the 1 gigabit service upgrade essentially for free.

"We'll pay for your upgrade for one year!"

> This might also provide funds for development of the software,
> which is a task in itself.

10 cypherpunks writingcode for subsistance room and board
for a year is $125k. That's a reasonable side gig stipend, but
go with say $250k if you want people to be more full time at it.
Lots of options within that bottom line figure... 5 x $50k, etc.

> A subsidy of $25/month is about $300/year, and multiplied by 1000
> nodes amounts to $300,000, or a total of about $380,000 for the first
> year.

> Can anybody imagine a more worthy, concrete proposal to accomplish what this
> 'Unknown Fund' proposes to accomplish?  And its yearly cost represents less
> than 1/2 of a percent of the proposed fund.

In a lot of the grantmaking biz, capital outlay is
often easier for entities to write than ongoing funds.

Assuming this Anon entity is real, it may be wise to assume
and plan, that it being anonymous, may not prefer to stick
around for very long.

Also, an $80 HW appliance may support one network well and be
adoptably cute on the desk, but it's definitely going to bog down
when trying to run multiple overlay networks nodes on it... storage,
messaging, cryptocurrency, etc. And it probably would have
trouble meeting whatever needs may come at 5-10 years.

Unless viewing the $80 one as a disposable to be
tossed for a hotter new $80 one every N years...

It may be better to drop around $300 or so towards
a mini-ITX platform spec that can support multiple different
software networks at the same time. As well as some external
expansion for WiFi and SDR interfaces via some USB ports.

So with being a little more generous on the HW buy
and the SW dev, that gives around $850k... still well
under $1M or 1.4% of the fund.

Maybe you'll want to stick a $120k second year $10/mo
internet subsidy tail into that $1M, and throw the remaining
$30k at advocacy, talks, training.

Various ways to do $1M quite effectively.

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

[grarpamp]

On 11/14/19, grarpamp  wrote:
> https://www.unknown.fund/

anon_f...@protonmail.com
https://twitter.com/fund_unknown

LibertyBits Conference

[grarpamp]

https://libertybits.org/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8H5ZUjWQmgNP-6dyODWA4A/videos

LibertyBits: The First Freedom & Tech Conference, dedicated to our
freedom in today's digital age. It took place on April 24th, 2018 at
Sofia Tech Park in Sofia, Bulgaria. Main topics were Blockchain,
Privacy, Free Software & Life off-the-grid.

Leffest19 - You Must Infiltrate and Defect To Humanity, Govt did Tibet vis Tor, Tools, Quantum vs Old Data, PRISM, Etc

[grarpamp]

Leffest 2019
https://www.leffest.com/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUoaS0yqTwl-KxSKP197x0g/videos


Ciclos Temáticos
Simpósio Internacional: Resistências
Debate – Virtualidade da Resistência, Resistência na Virtualidade,
com Jacob Appelbaum e Juan Branco
20191116 (parts missing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvV5pFG0nqE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9qkNzlzSQM


Ciclos Temáticos
Simpósio Internacional: Resistências
Palestra com Rafael Correa
20191117
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0tPQW457Ok


Ciclos Temáticos
Simpósio Internacional: Resistências
Palestra – Resistir contra Plataformas e Sistemas Informáticos Injustos
com Richard Stallman
20191117

Mass Surveillance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXi1emH7xsY

(Substituted Stallman's LibertyBits 2019 since
Stallman's Leffest 2019 might not exist online anywhere yet.)