Re: Video chat software / options

2020-04-18 Thread Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH
I've been seeing Jitsi mentioned a fair amount - don't know anything about it, beyond what you'll see here: https://jitsi.org/ Kurt On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 12:32 PM Douglas Lucas wrote: > Hey cypherpunks, > > So what video chat options are there that are less privacy violating and > social

Re: It's an Ill Wind

2020-03-15 Thread Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH
On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 2:30 PM grarpamp wrote: > On 3/15/20, Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH wrote: > > I slightly misspoke - the mission of government is to prosecute crime > > If that were in fact true, then govts would have to prosecuted > themselves out of existance, not least

Re: It's an Ill Wind

2020-03-15 Thread Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH
On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 2:18 AM grarpamp wrote: > On 3/14/20, Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH wrote: > > Uh, no, they're only not quarantining or taking other measures. That > > is not the same as "trying to infect" > > > > Some of your analysis is OK, but

Re: It's an Ill Wind

2020-03-15 Thread Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH
On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 2:18 AM grarpamp wrote: > > On 3/14/20, Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH wrote: > > Uh, no, they're only not quarantining or taking other measures. That > > is not the same as "trying to infect" > > > > Some of your analysis is OK, b

Re: It's an Ill Wind

2020-03-15 Thread Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH
On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 8:55 PM Peter Fairbrother wrote: > > On 15/03/2020 02:46, Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH wrote: > > The point of government is to prevent crime, > > not tragedy. > > There I must disagree. The point of government is precisely to prevent > tragedy. &

Re: It's an Ill Wind

2020-03-14 Thread Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH
On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 8:06 PM Peter Fairbrother wrote: > > On 14/03/2020 23:28, Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 7:29 AM Peter Fairbrother wrote: > >> > >> 2- It's an Ill Wind > >> > >> https://www.youtube.com/wat

Re: It's an Ill Wind

2020-03-14 Thread Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH
On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 7:29 AM Peter Fairbrother wrote: > > 2- It's an Ill Wind > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XRc389TvG8 > > So now we know: first, that the UK government is actually deliberately > trying to infect over 40 million UK citizens, and in doing so expecting, > on their

It's an ill wind...

2020-03-11 Thread Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH
Consider, if you will, a possible outcome of the current bio-crisis. (I want it over, swiftly, and with as little damage to humanity as possible, I really do, but it doesn't look promising at the moment) We're seeing some congress critters self-quarantining. I think it likely that more will do

Re: Jim Bell questions the headline below.

2020-01-28 Thread Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH
Indeed - I'd lay some money on China not being able to fight the previous 3 virii... Kurt On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 7:40 PM jim bell wrote: > > China Is Perfectly Prepared to Fight the Last Virus > https://news.yahoo.com/china-perfectly-prepared-fight-last-220036969.html > > > > As I said, I

Re: OregonLive: Man hijacks Portland airport monitor to play video games, until PDX officials declare ‘game over’

2020-01-16 Thread Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH
We want to know, was he playing a flight simulator? On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 8:44 PM jim bell wrote: > OregonLive: Man hijacks Portland airport monitor to play video games, until > PDX officials declare ‘game >

Re: Crypto Basics: SSH Protocol

2020-01-07 Thread Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH
First: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596008956.do Second https://www.amazon.com/SSH-Mastery-OpenSSH-PuTTY-Tunnels/dp/1642350028 Maybe third http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781597492836.do On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 1:55 PM grarpamp wrote: >

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

2019-11-16 Thread Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH
What is justice? If it is not visiting upon those who do wrong the same wrongs that they commit, what is it? Kurt On Sat, Nov 16, 2019 at 11:38 AM coderman wrote: > > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Saturday, November 16, 2019 6:16 PM, jim bell wrote: > ... > > Not clear who says this,

Re: OpenBSD FreeBSD: Why and How

2019-11-13 Thread Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH
https://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/01 On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 6:03 PM grarpamp wrote: > > https://sivers.org/openbsd > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21521774 > > https://openbsd.org/ > https://freebsd.org/

Re: BOO! "Why the Ghost Keys `Solution’ to Encryption is No Solution"

2019-07-21 Thread Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH
"principled and pragmatic solutions" Pragmatic == no detectable principles So, which is it - primciples or pragmatism? Kurt On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 2:14 PM grarpamp wrote: > > On 7/21/19, Razer wrote: > >>>

Re: Human evolution was a failure

2019-06-23 Thread Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH
The fact that you are writing contradicts your statement. Kurt On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 2:16 PM Ryan Carboni <33...@protonmail.com> wrote: > > Human evolution was a failure. Comprehension based on cause and effect led to > early tools. That was quickly superseded by social obedience. > >

Re: WIRED: A Cisco Router Bug Has Massive Global Implications

2019-05-15 Thread Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH
On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 12:55 AM grarpamp wrote: > > > The security benefit is to shame/encourage/force Cisco to fix the problem. > > Cisco's been shipping bugs and exploits since day one. > Bugs upon sploits upon bugs, all up and down > their stack from HW to SW. It's not even funny. > > Then

Re: WIRED: A Cisco Router Bug Has Massive Global Implications

2019-05-14 Thread Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH
On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 10:30 AM John Young wrote: > > What's the security benefit of Red Balloon's > attacks? Is this not a type of extortion or maybe > angling for bragging rights, a bribe to keep > quiet or a buy-out from deep-pocketed targets. > Hard to distinguish white hats from black and >

Re: Corrupt governments are inherently inept

2019-04-03 Thread Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH
It's worth keeping in mind Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy: "In any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who work for the organization itself. Examples in education would be teachers who work and

Re: CNBC: Zuckerberg backs stronger Internet privacy and election laws: 'We need a more active role for governments'

2019-03-31 Thread Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH
It's the natural reaction of all monopolists in the market they dominate. It protects their position. On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 10:08 AM jim bell wrote: > > CNBC: Zuckerberg backs stronger Internet privacy and election laws: 'We need > a more active role for governments'. >

Re: centralized corrections

2019-03-26 Thread Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH
On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 4:35 PM coderman wrote: > > Or the global cost of decentralized abuses. Which could be, and used to > > be, worse. Name your abuse of choice: it's worse when it's being done > > everywhere to / by everyone. > > let's play a game: centralized power to redress cultural

Re: How to achieve 1 meter accuracy with Android Was: Re: Dropgang vulnerabilities

2019-02-28 Thread Kurt Buff - GSEC, GCIH
On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 5:17 PM jim bell wrote: > On Thursday, February 28, 2019, 12:16:48 PM PST, Punk wrote: > On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 09:15:51 +1000 > jam...@echeque.com wrote: > > >> If you are in the city, everything is on CCTV. But you are not going to > >> drop something valuable in the