Re: More on the RSA crack by new quantum approach paper

2023-01-08 Thread David Barrett
On Sun, Jan 8, 2023, 7:37 PM Peter Fairbrother wrote: > There are no widespread supposed-to-be-QR asymmetric algorithms that I > would trust right now. > None of the lattice based approaches? I'm curious why not? David

Has the age of the "digital siege"​ begun?

2022-02-26 Thread David Barrett
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/has-age-digital-siege-begun-david-barrett/?trk=public_post-content_share-article I won't claim to be any particularly adept student of modern history, but Russia's unprovoked attack on Ukraine seems to have triggered a digital counterattack without precedent

Re: Crypto "pig butchering" scam

2022-02-10 Thread David Barrett
ion behind it and global scale I think make it pretty interesting. David On Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 5:36 AM Shawn K. Quinn wrote: > On 1/31/22 20:37, David Barrett wrote: > > Super interesting video: > > > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop=KSVKOaZL2to_channel=inspiroue >

Re: Crypto "pig butchering" scam

2022-02-01 Thread David Barrett
out what. I think it's pretty interesting to see where that road would have led. David On Tue, Feb 1, 2022, 6:17 AM zeynepaydogan wrote: > Bullshit youtube and a video of a stupid YouTuber > watch who wants to waste time > > --- Original Message ------- > David Barrett 1 Şubat

Crypto "pig butchering" scam

2022-01-31 Thread David Barrett
Super interesting video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop=KSVKOaZL2to_channel=inspiroue -david

Re: FDA lied about Ivermectin

2021-11-14 Thread David Barrett
On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 7:16 PM cherry 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. > This seems to be a really important component of the argument: that

Re: FDA lied about Ivermectin

2021-11-12 Thread David Barrett
On Fri, Nov 12, 2021, 3:19 PM cherry wrote: > > > 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 a

Re: Batshit Crazy OD's on Horse Dewormer

2021-09-03 Thread David Barrett
Assuming this was actually a miracle treatment for covid, that was safe, inexpensive, and widely available. Can someone help me understand why the global health community wouldn't have embraced it? Is the theory that there is some kind of global conspiracy to keep people ill intentionally? David

Re: Leaks: WhistleBlowerAid.org - Safe Whistleblowing Workshop Livestream

2021-08-01 Thread David Barrett
Kind of related to this, but for corporate rather than political purposes: https://www.protocol.com/expensify-ceo-silenced-no-more On Sun, Aug 1, 2021, 5:22 AM grarpamp wrote: > On 8/1/21, stef wrote: > > wasn't intelexit an art project by the berlin peng! collective? > > Yes, and also by

Re: Dear Leaders: We don’t trust you because you’re untrustworthy

2021-07-15 Thread David Barrett
On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 9:38 AM Karl Semich <0xl...@gmail.com> wrote: > The vaccines you hear about are being made by the people who are already > richest from selling vaccines. Obviously. > We also buy cars from people who are rich selling cars, and bananas from people who are rich selling

Re: Dear Leaders: We don’t trust you because you’re untrustworthy

2021-07-15 Thread David Barrett
If I understand Karl's point, I think I agree with it: in broad strokes, science works. On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 4:00 AM Karl Semich <0xl...@gmail.com> wrote: > They might talk about pharma-bro Martin Skrelli hiking drug prices, or >> correctly note how the Perdue family made billions partnering

Re: Assange's Persecution

2021-07-07 Thread David Barrett
On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 12:36 PM Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > The Biden administration should cease spying on, harassing, arresting, > jailing, and exiling people *associated* with WikiLeaks. The Biden > administration should drop the case against Julian Assange and the > case against WikiLeaks. >

Re: Assange's Prosecution

2021-07-07 Thread David Barrett
On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 9:42 AM Peter Fairbrother wrote: > Correction - it can't be reopened at all, because the Swedish statute of > limitations ran out in Aug 2020. > Hm, I don't think the statute of limitations applies to fugitives. The case was brought against him in the appropriate time;

Re: Assange's Prosecution

2021-07-07 Thread David Barrett
, Jul 7, 2021, 2:31 AM Peter Fairbrother wrote: > On 07/07/2021 09:27, David Barrett wrote: > > > (Though Assange is actually imprisoned in the UK for skipping bail by > > hiding out in the Ecuadorian embassy for years to avoid rape charges -- > > which is a completely dif

Re: Assange's Prosecution

2021-07-07 Thread David Barrett
https://twitter.com/dbarrett/status/1412690988024307717?s=19 Alright Karl and Punk and all the rest who claim to give a shit about this, what are you going to do about it, or does your anger only extend to complaining on this list? David On Wed, Jul 7, 2021, 1:27 AM David Barrett wrote

Re: Assange's Prosecution

2021-07-07 Thread David Barrett
That's an incredible video. I think it lays out a very clear argument that the hacking charges against him are trumped up and flimsy, and will never carry in court. If that video is accurate, and there truly is nothing more to the case than what has been presented, Assange's defense attorneys

Re: Key witness in Assange case admits to lies in indictment - Stundin

2021-07-05 Thread David Barrett
> > You say you want to investigate all the criminal things: how is it > "equality under the law" in the slightest to focus only on Assange and not > all the things he revealed that could inform his proceedings? I'm in total support of prosecuting whatever crimes have been revealed by Assange.

Re: Key witness in Assange case admits to lies in indictment - Stundin

2021-07-05 Thread David Barrett
I'm sorry, I think I'm missing your key point. (You keep referencing back to an email, which I think I've read, and I think I've responded to the substance of, but if I haven't then please make your point.) The point I'm trying to make, is: 1) The US/UK/etc justice system starts when you are

Re: Key witness in Assange case admits to lies in indictment - Stundin

2021-07-03 Thread David Barrett
On Sat, Jul 3, 2021 at 2:50 PM Karl wrote: > I'm sorry, I'm not intentionally ignoring it, I just don't know which you >> are referring to. Please repeat the point so I don't miss it. Thanks! >> > > Did you get the email at this link containing a reference to the bombing > of MOVE? >

Re: Key witness in Assange case admits to lies in indictment - Stundin

2021-07-02 Thread David Barrett
There is literally no semantic content in any of that. It's just vague words where the reader is left to create meaning from your gibberish. It's like a linguistic Jackson Pollock. You should sell a NFT. -david On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 10:58 PM grarpamp wrote: > Unjust is in action, by the

Re: Key witness in Assange case admits to lies in indictment - Stundin

2021-06-30 Thread David Barrett
On Wed, Jun 30, 2021, 2:09 AM Karl wrote: > One man cannot fight a multinational prosecution with the flick of his > finger. Hiding is the appropriate behavior here. > > What would you do if multiple governments -- especially the most corrupt > governments and the most corrupt parts of

Re: Key witness in Assange case admits to lies in indictment - Stundin

2021-06-29 Thread David Barrett
He isn't in prison is he? He is hiding in an embassy. He can leave at any time. At that time he'll be given a chance to refute this witness, and if it's as clear cut as you think. that'll be it. Then again... I think we all agree that it's not nearly that clear cut, and that this one witness

Re: Ross Ulbricht got 2xLife+40 for a Harmless Website

2021-06-28 Thread David Barrett
On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 6:08 PM Karl wrote: > My understanding is the crime is *attempting* to have someone killed, >> whether or not it's carried out. Everything seems to suggest he felt Blake >> Krokoff was a real person, and wanted him killed, and was offering payment >> to do so.

Re: Edward Snowden Says Assange 'Could Be Next' After John McAfee Suicide

2021-06-27 Thread David Barrett
On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 4:47 PM Karl wrote: > Ok that's encouraging, I agree we shouldn't give up on what we've got! >> >> What I'm not quite following, however, is that you seem to be agreeing >> that the court system is *so broken* that the rest of the world should stop >> extraditions to us

Re: Key witness in Assange case admits to lies in indictment - Stundin

2021-06-27 Thread David Barrett
On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 6:45 PM jim bell wrote: > https://stundin.is/grein/13627/ > > > "Department of Justice case against Julian Assange has admitted to > fabricating key accusations in the indictment against the Wikileaks > founder. The witness, who has a documented history with sociopathy

Re: Ross Ulbricht got 2xLife+40 for a Harmless Website

2021-06-27 Thread David Barrett
On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 4:01 PM Karl wrote: > It didn't sell assassination. Ulrich had a policy against this. > So this didn't happen? https://www.wired.com/2015/02/read-transcript-silk-roads-boss-ordering-5-assassinations/ And you feel your personal resources to investigate this honestly and

Re: Ross Ulbricht got 2xLife+40 for a Harmless Website

2021-06-27 Thread David Barrett
ere more > reliable, higher and more-consistent purity, fewer unhealthy 'cuts', etc. > > So, it was a BENEFICIAL website. It simply thwarted the desire of some > people who wanted to suppress drug sales and use. > > Jim Bell > > > > On Sunday, June 27

Re: Ross Ulbricht got 2xLife+40 for a Harmless Website

2021-06-27 Thread David Barrett
Just to make sure I understand, you are describing Silk Road, a hidden marketplace for everything from illicit drugs to assassinations, as harmless? David On Sat, Jun 26, 2021, 9:40 PM grarpamp wrote: > While other people get less than 25y for Murder, Rape, etc, and > nothing for War, Torture,

Re: John McAfee dead by suicide after extradition approved by Spanish court.

2021-06-26 Thread David Barrett
Can someone walk me through why he would be killed? It would seem like US assassins wouldn't kill him when they just got permission to extradite. That must mean the conspiracy theory is that someone *other* that the US was behind the supposed hit. But who, and why? Is the fear that the US

Re: Edward Snowden Says Assange 'Could Be Next' After John McAfee Suicide

2021-06-25 Thread David Barrett
On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 4:00 PM Karl wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 25, 2021, 6:40 PM David Barrett > wrote: > >> Maybe just skipping ahead a few steps before getting pulled into a debate >> about the US government, do you agree with the concept of representative >&

Re: Edward Snowden Says Assange 'Could Be Next' After John McAfee Suicide

2021-06-25 Thread David Barrett
Maybe just skipping ahead a few steps before getting pulled into a debate about the US government, do you agree with the concept of representative democracy involving different branches with checks and balances being a philosophically strong foundation for governance? Is your complaint that the

Re: Edward Snowden Says Assange 'Could Be Next' After John McAfee Suicide

2021-06-25 Thread David Barrett
That's a legal defense, right? And you use a legal defense in court, correct? And he's refusing to show up in court? How is that the court's fault -- what would you ask the court to do, exonerate him without at trial? How is that a better form of justice? -david On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 1:13

Re: Edward Snowden Says Assange 'Could Be Next' After John McAfee Suicide

2021-06-25 Thread David Barrett
This kind of an obvious question, but what specifically does Snowden think is unfair about our courts? Evading taxes, leaking confidential national security information -- I think it's totally reasonable to challenge the legitimacy and ethics of these laws. But it's hard to challenge the

Re: The National: Colonial Pipeline’s ransom recovery sparks debate on Bitcoin traceability

2021-06-12 Thread David Barrett
I am very confused why anyone thinks Bitcoin is untraceable, anonymous, or anything less than a privacy disaster. It is literally the least private currency ever devised: once I know your wallet, I know truly everything you have ever done back to the very start. Bitcoin is as private as sharing

Re: GNU FSF: Richard Stallman Returns

2021-04-02 Thread David Barrett
On Fri, Apr 2, 2021, 5:05 PM lolwut wrote: > -Original Message- > From: David Barrett [mailto:dbarr...@expensify.com] > Sent: Friday, 02 April, 2021 7:38 PM > To: lolwut > Cc: cypherpu...@cpunks.org > Subject: Re: GNU FSF: Richard Stallman Returns > > > O

Re: GNU FSF: Richard Stallman Returns

2021-04-02 Thread David Barrett
On Fri, Apr 2, 2021, 4:04 PM lolwut wrote: > that it, in effect, makes illegal > I'm a bit confused by the whole concept of "cancel culture". You describe it as free speech being made "in effect illegal" by people expressing their concerns (eg, in this case calling for RMS to be removed from

Re: USA 2020 Elections: Thread

2021-03-22 Thread David Barrett
Just like how your position on the effect of voter IDs is determined entirely by whether or not you think voter fraud exists -- and how either way you view the opposing side as attacking democracy -- how we handle asylum seekers and illegal immigrants at the border is largely dictated by what you

Re: USA 2020 Elections: Thread

2021-03-20 Thread David Barrett
I'm sorry, you're right I was rude to jump to conclusions. Just to confirm a baseline, with your posts here, what is your goal? Are you generally trying to be a part of the positive change and put these ideas into practice? Or do you have some other reason for writing so prolifically to this list?

Re: USA 2020 Elections: Thread

2021-03-20 Thread David Barrett
It's a pretty lazy tactic to disregard every world government to excuse an irrelevance and impotence that results entirely from not even trying to engage in the real world. Similarly, claiming that somehow this list has created anything, when it doesn't actually exist outside of your mind, is

Re: USA 2020 Elections: Thread

2021-03-20 Thread David Barrett
Voter ID laws are interesting for how divisive they are. People on both sides argue that the other side is motivated exclusively to dismantle democracy. And this all seems to derive from there being no agreement upon the basic fact as to whether or not fraud is significant or non-existent. If

Re: Encrypted Sky ECC

2021-03-14 Thread David Barrett
On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 3:55 PM Peter Fairbrother wrote: > Afaik no direct cryptanalytic attack against the PGP Blackberries has > ever succeeded, though several hardware-, phishing-, software-, > security- and law- based attacks have. > Given that every real world example finds a weaker place

Re: What advantage does Signal protocol have over basic public key encryption?

2021-01-31 Thread David Barrett
it. Thank you all for your help, I really appreciate it! -david On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 2:26 PM Lee Clagett wrote: > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Friday, January 29, 2021 2:42 PM, David Barrett > wrote: > > > Wow, these are (mostly) great responses, and exact

Re: What advantage does Signal protocol have over basic public key encryption?

2021-01-30 Thread David Barrett
ormance advantages of symmetric over asymmetric > encryption, and certainly the convenience (and bandwidth) advantages of > having multiple parties all use the same key (ie, to avoid re-encrypting > the same message separately for each recipient). But I don't see any > actual security advan

Re: What advantage does Signal protocol have over basic public key encryption?

2021-01-29 Thread David Barrett
disadvantage given the increased complexity it adds). Thanks for all these answers, I really appreciate them! -david On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 12:17 AM wrote: > On 2021-01-26 04:31, David Barrett wrote: > > Yes, this does assume a central keyserver -- and I agree, it's possible > >

Re: What advantage does Signal protocol have over basic public key encryption?

2021-01-25 Thread David Barrett
ise *all messages* (obviating your need for the key in the first place). Does that seem a fair summary? -david On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:31 AM David Barrett wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 9:15 PM wrote: > >> > 1) This is perhaps an obvious question (I've got to start s

Re: What advantage does Signal protocol have over basic public key encryption?

2021-01-25 Thread David Barrett
On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 9:15 PM wrote: > > 1) This is perhaps an obvious question (I've got to start somewhere, > after > > all), but what is the downside of the simplest possible solution, which I > > think would be for all participants to publish a public key to some > common > > key server,

Re: What advantage does Signal protocol have over basic public key encryption?

2021-01-24 Thread David Barrett
Thanks for the suggestion! Yes, I'm not really asking about politics, just about technology. David On Sun, Jan 24, 2021, 1:35 PM professor rat wrote: > I clicked the URL in your first email - the second one worked - as did a > Google search. > > So, onto your query - I understand " Coderpunks