IBM OpenPOWER9 CPU [re: Closed Intel / AMD Firmware]

2017-10-08 Thread grarpamp
On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Steven Schear wrote: > Why not switch to much more open CPUs (e.g. POWER8/9) which are already > comparable to much of Intel's higher end server chips. Power8 is an intermediate generation now on phaseout, where Power9 seems more part of a fuller openpower initiati

Julian Assange Told Young Catalans What Chat Apps To Use To Avoid Spanish Authorities

2017-10-08 Thread Cecilia Tanaka
Cute news! <3 https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/the-story-of-the-catalan-independence-vote-in-spain-for-now == Public Long OT PS to ZH: - Zenaan Harkness, stop sending fake messages and spam from MatchSeniors.com and similar dating sites using my name. It's always disgusting to noti

FreeBSD 2017Q2 Report

2017-10-08 Thread grarpamp
https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2017-04-2017-06.html

Re: Anarchist AI: The Last Invention Of Man

2017-10-08 Thread grarpamp
bullshit ;)

Re: Anarchist AI: The Last Invention Of Man

2017-10-08 Thread juan
On Sun, 8 Oct 2017 01:31:01 -0400 grarpamp wrote: > "What was less obvious was the underlying goal: to erode all previous > power structures in the world. Items 2–6 eroded state power" > I don't know what you are talking about and you don't either. State power isn't eroded by

Huxley on Soma

2017-10-08 Thread juan
"Most highly publicized of these [new drugs] are the three new tranquillizers, reserpine, chlorpromazine and meprobamate. None of these drugs is perfectly harmless; but their cost, in terms of physical health and mental efficiency, is extraordinarily low. In a world where nobody gets anything for

Re: Bypassing Intel Boot Guard, EdDSA

2017-10-08 Thread Steven Schear
Why not switch to much more open CPUs (e.g. POWER8/9) which are already comparable to much of Intel's higher end server chips. Warrant Canary creator On Oct 8, 2017 9:24 AM, "grarpamp" wrote: > On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 5:14 AM, George Violaris > wrote: > > This is exceptional work, I am looking

Re: Bypassing Intel Boot Guard, EdDSA

2017-10-08 Thread grarpamp
On Sun, Oct 8, 2017 at 5:14 AM, George Violaris wrote: > This is exceptional work, I am looking forward to loading it on Arduino. Did > you use a specific Arduino image by the way? Not my work. Go to the authors of the paper / project on their page and ask them.

Re: "the Jim Bell effect" on Bitcoin price

2017-10-08 Thread grarpamp
BTC up 6% to 4575 in the last 24h, cryptos need to send Jim to some more conferences ;0

Re: Cryptocurrency Privacy: Evolving... Zerocash (ZEC, ZCL, ZEN) vs All Other Coin

2017-10-08 Thread George Violaris
On 10/7/2017 8:20 AM, James A. Donald wrote: Scaling, however, is the hard problem.  Making enormous amounts of storage actually useful and effective is the problem.  The amount of storage per client is absolutely insignificant.  The amount of bandwidth per client is absolutely insignificant. 

Timelock encryption

2017-10-08 Thread George Violaris
Some interesting reading regarding timelock encryption. Given crypto breakthroughs through cryptocurrency and smart contracts, it is interesting to be able to apply such techniques in fields such as insurance, bonds, trading, etc. The big issue up to now with these is that a trusted third part

Re: Bypassing Intel Boot Guard, EdDSA

2017-10-08 Thread George Violaris
On 10/8/2017 4:20 AM, grarpamp wrote: How to defeat Ed25519 and EdDSA using faults This work was performed with my colleague Sylvain Pelissier, we demonstrated that the EdDSA signature scheme is vulnerable to single fault attacks, and mounted such an attack against the Ed25519 scheme running on a

Re: Audio wcn interview

2017-10-08 Thread grarpamp
I'm sure you mean this one instead... https://soundcloud.com/worldcryptonet/interview-with-jim-bell-author-of-assassination-politics

Amir Taaki @HCPP2017 Hackers Congress Parallel Polis 2017

2017-10-08 Thread grarpamp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1MpJO-vlF8 https://www.coindesk.com/radical-academy-amir-taakis-new-hacker-team-spreading-bitcoin-syria/