Re: That "assassination politics" boils down to be being a minor variant on a well-established topic: the use of untraceable payments for contract killings

[cherry]

On 10/9/23 20:23, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
Like most cypherpunk ideas - bitcoin, TOR, bittorent - it has a fatal 
flaw - it doesn't actually work as advertised.


Suppose I am an assassin. I kill the target. How am m I going to get 
paid?  I don't mean some pseudoanonymous mechanism of payment, but who 
decides I get paid?


Who do I complain to if I don't get paid?



You have a pseudonymous identity, and you can prove that a document 
comes from you.


You issue a document that indicates that your pseudonymous identity was 
connected to the assassination (inside knowledge, advance knowledge. 
For example the hash of a document describing the intended details of 
the hash is in preimage of a hash that is in the preimage .. of the 
current root of a blockchain, so subsequently your pseudonymous identity 
can prove knowledge of the details of the assassination in advance. 
Other pseudonymous identities that wanted the target assassinated pay up 
- or not.


If you are not paid, you pseudonymously complain to the public.  If you 
were paid, they can prove that their pseudonymous identity paid your 
pseudonymous identity.  If they cannot prove it, then no future 
assassins will have regard for their bounties, so they lose power.

Re: Random number generator enhancements for Linux 5.17 and 5.18

[cherry]

  Random number generator enhancements for Linux 5.17 and 5.18


by Jason A. Donenfeld (zx2c4 ), 2022-03-18

The random number generator has undergone a few important changes for 
Linux 5.17 and 5.18, in an attempt to modernize both the code and the 
cryptography used. The smaller part of these will be released with 5.17 
on Sunday, while the larger part will be merged into 5.18 on Monday, 
which should receive its first release candidate in a few weeks and a 
release in a few months.


As Iwrote to Linus 

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In a similar vein, the interrupt entropy accumulator has been reworked 
inrandom: use SipHash as interrupt entropy accumulator 


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|siphash_state_t irq_state = siphash_init(key={0, 0, 0, 0});


I find this decision strange and worrying.

siphash was not designed for entropy condensation.  It is not a 
cryptographic hash, but was designed to have one cryptographic strength:


It was designed to be used with a strong random secret key.

The design objective was that an enemy knowing some hashes of some 
values cannot predict other hashes of other values.


There is no reason to expect that it is a useful and effective entropy 
condenser.  That was not the design objective.


A non cryptographic hash designed around criteria related to bit 
diffusion and order transformation would have been better.

Re: GovCorp conspiracy theory fails again

[cherry]

On 11/30/21 9:57 AM, Karl Semich wrote:



On Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 12:50 PM professor rat > wrote:


Like the Batshit-Crazy fools that still promote such crap

“If you had some sort of Washington-corporate alliance that wanted
to make Bitcoin a transparent chain, guess what? They would have
fought Taproot,” says Alex Gladstein at the Human Rights Foundation,
who advocates for Bitcoin as a tool against authoritarian
governments. “But there was no organized resistance to Taproot.


https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/11/29/who-sets-the-rules-of-bitcoin-as-nation-states-and-corps-roll-in/





Taproot should lead to a massive improvement in the privacy of the 
lightning network.


I was expecting organized resistance.  I believed that the flaws in the 
existing lightning network were the result of enemy action.


But that taproot has gone through in the shape that it has strongly 
suspects that our enemies failed to understand the implications.

Re: FDA lied about Ivermectin

[cherry]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 7:16 PM cherry <mailto:che...@cpal.pw>> wrote:


> Fauci is wealthy.  So are most of his colleagues  His wealth comes from
> business deals with businesses who need his approvals for
> medications in which they have monopolies.



On 11/14/21 11:54 PM, David Barrett wrote:
This seems to be a really important component of the argument: that 
Fauci personally profits from the medications he recommends.  Do you 
agree that if he *doesn't* profit in this way, the argument that he's 
intentionally undermining Ivermectin to protect his investment sorta 
falls apart?


He has no investments - he destroys value, he does not create it.

You are framing me as making an argument that is the opposite of the 
argument I am making.


The implication of my argument is that his business deals not create 
value, but are cover for payouts.  "Investment" would imply he owned 
businesses that create drugs and wanted to favor those businesses.  No, 
not so, he shakes down businesses that create drugs.

Re: FDA lied about Ivermectin

[cherry]

> On 11/11/21 8:16 AM, David Barrett wrote:
> > Can you help me understand what motivation a conspiracy of all the
> > world's health agencies would have to intentionally
> > suppress lvermectin?


On Fri, Nov 12, 2021, 3:19 PM cherry > To kill as many people as possible, thus increasing the wealth, power

> and importance of all the world's health agencies.


On 11/12/21 3:27 PM, David Barrett wrote
To confirm I understand, who specifically in the FDA is personally 
profiting by orchestrating the deaths of US citizens?


Fauci is wealthy.  So are most of his colleagues  His wealth comes from 
business deals with businesses who need his approvals for medications in 
which they have monopolies.


So highly effective medications that anyone can make, and which are thus 
reasonably cheap, such as Ivermectin, cut into his wealth, while deaths 
that frighten people, causing them to purchase medications from 
businesses that have monopolies in some medicine, increase his wealth 
and power and that of his colleagues.


So the more Americans that die as a result of problems that are arguably 
medical, the richer and more powerful Fauci and the rest of his team gets.


You will notice that the death rate among young people has risen 
substantially since vaccination started.  Every child that suffers heart 
attack or stroke makes Fauci and his colleagues richer and more powerful.

Re: Defragging Crypto

[cherry]

On 11/11/21 3:00 PM, Sampo Syreeni wrote:

7On 2021-11-11, professor rat wrote:

While too much is being asked of the term " Crypto ", its politics are 
becoming more of an issue since its economic reach and power keeps 
rapidly increasing.


Which reach or power, precisely? I don't think it has much, even now.


The US dollar is has fallen over and cannot get up.

Re: FDA lied about Ivermectin

[cherry]

On 11/11/21 8:16 AM, David Barrett wrote:
Can you help me understand what motivation a conspiracy of all the 
world's health agencies would have to intentionally suppress lvermectin?


To kill as many people as possible, thus increasing the wealth, power 
and importance of all the world's health agencies.


Invermectin is out of patent, so it is very cheap, and anyone can make 
it.  Lots of obscure businesses with no connection to power can and do 
make it.



The powerful want you to use treatments that are a under patent or 
license, so that only businesses that are in good with the Most Holy 
Medical Priesthood of official science and manufacture those treatments.


Fauci get massive bribes for approving treatments - no one is going to 
bribe him to approve lvermectin, because anyone can make it.


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Re: DarkMarket shut down.

[cherry]

On 11/2/21 3:59 PM, jim bell wrote:
Don't blame me!   I didn't invent TOR, nor did I choose it to be funded 
by the US Federal Government!   Nor did I choose its limitations, for a 
specific example its lack of chaff.  Two years ago, in fact, I proposed 
an alternate system using individually-owned Raspberry-Pi (?) remailers, 
not dependent on government funding or regulation.


So, what makes you sound like I'm the problem?


You are the problem for Punk-BatSoup because you are a cyberpunk and he 
is a federal agent.


Similarly, Edward Joseph Snowden is a problem for Punk-BatSoup, because 
Snowden sincere leftist who believes in all that left wing cant about 
liberty and suchlike - serious leftists, the people now in power, know 
that such useful idiots need to be guillotined come the revolution.

Re: Adam Schiff asks intelligence agencies for information about CIA's targeting of WikiLeaks

[cherry]

On 10/27/21 3:32 PM, jim bell wrote:
I see no way at all that United States government lawyers can possibly 
obtain Assange's extradition, let alone conviction, given the facts and 
law involved.


Legality is over.  It has been over for some considerable time.

Re: Professor Rat threatens conformists safety

[cherry]

On 10/25/21 5:28 AM, Steven Schear wrote:

"Threats are illogical."


Journalists are a loudspeaker for the government, and anyone that the 
government does not like, they are apt to harm.