Random Thoughts II

[crocos]

Alternate take: Bringing attention to that Bing exists still

[fixed_truth]

Ffs I can see this becoming a thing. Italian artist sells invisible sculpture for more than $25,000

[crocos]

15yo running a "crypto" Ponzi scheme lulz:
https://www.rareddit.com/r/relations...omments/ntn7ym

[blynk]

What is rareddit? Is it a form of link to reddit?

[Lightspeed]

Originally Posted by crocos

15yo running a "crypto" Ponzi scheme lulz:
https://www.rareddit.com/r/relations...omments/ntn7ym

Gotta be so many scams out there. That church is in for some ructions.

[MadMax]

dang, anom.io is already taken down. Would have been interesting to check the dns info

[StN]

Originally Posted by MadMax

dang, anom.io is already taken down. Would have been interesting to check the dns info

De ja vu - I thought this happened back in March, but it was Sky. Might be related - encrypted bespoke phone service.

[MadMax]

Their MX is listed as mail.protonmail.ch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProtonMail

Their whois isn't currently responding
http://whois.namecheap.com/

Wildcard certificate by letsencrypt so no clues there

Context:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/cri...rganised-crime

[Lightspeed]

Thank goodness, can't have those disgusting gangsters, pedophiles, political rivals having a way of communicating that can't be looked in on.

[MadMax]

^ *whoosh*

[Lightspeed]

I guess so. I could have made my comment more clear if I quoted the Stuff article you posted that I was explicitly responding to.

Does make a difference?

As in I suspect that sweeping up gangs is justification for shutting down popular communications tech our spy networks can't penetrate.

[Lightspeed]

No, I get it. I talking about something that's the opposite of this.

[crocos]

Originally Posted by blynk

What is rareddit? Is it a form of link to reddit?

RAR-Reddit. Basically an archived Reddit.

Speaking of, reddit seems to be returning 503/Service Unavailable.

[Lightspeed]

Yes, it is no good.

[blynk]

Looks like there were many services affected last night.

[blynk]

Originally Posted by MadMax

dang, anom.io is already taken down. Would have been interesting to check the dns info

So it turns out to be FBI created app

[Ab]

Originally Posted by blynk

So it turns out to be FBI created app

So it turns out that many criminals aren’t very smart.

[Lightspeed]

I still think fundamentally these efforts are about undermining people's ability to communicate privately. Sweeping up criminals is a dog and pony show.

[blynk]

Originally Posted by Lightspeed

I still think fundamentally these efforts are about undermining people's ability to communicate privately. Sweeping up criminals is a dog and pony show.

Maybe, but this whole process was targetted to criminal activity. basically targeting a top criminal which he then unwittingly distributed the use of the app.
and having a $2000 annual cost, plus requiring a recommendation from someone.

That is not your average john doe who is wanting private communication coz they are having an affair.

[Lightspeed]

It's a good story right? Plays well. Probably true.

It's just how both the facts and the bigger picture of human values and dynamics fit together... The governments and states that exist don't persist because they're disinterested in their own survival. Whatever is going on, whatever we know or don't, this dynamic is in play and it's significant to these circumstances.

The world is being pushed to a place where we're not allowed to communicate without oversight. Ostensibly to protect us from the baddies, conveniently offering an advantage over anything which might disrupt political stability.

After the Christchurch shooting it was revealed our spy agencies disproportionately targeted only a subset of violent expression. It might just seem bigotry is the reason why rather than a reflection of the values and mindset of our political leaders, but I'm not so sure.

The public now has in mind's eye a rock solid example of the baddies being swept up by cops being tricky with encryption, and everyone being happy with this outcome. Any nuance, the difference between this set up and broader breaches of encryption will be lost on at least some. We're seeing both niche products being cracked and demands for backdoors in dominant services.

It's difficult to explain what I'm seeing. It feels very pre-Snowden, with that schizophrenia around "don't be paranoid, no one is tracking you"|"of course our data is being collected, why wouldn't it be?". Then we all pretended the first part wasn't going on once Snowden shifted the paradigm. We now know what we always knew, the focus now was what should happen to Snowden (and making everything legal now it's exposed).

This ends Lightspeed's a Paranoid Shit presentation.

[Ab]

Originally Posted by blynk

Maybe, but this whole process was targetted to criminal activity. basically targeting a top criminal which he then unwittingly distributed the use of the app. .

Unwittingly? He did it to gain prestige, as did everyone else. These dopes got gamified like someone signing up to get an invite for a hip new app.

[Nich]

Originally Posted by Lightspeed

I still think fundamentally these efforts are about undermining people's ability to communicate privately. Sweeping up criminals is a dog and pony show.

this. We're looking for the tiny corner of Winston's house where the telescreen can't observe us.

[StN]

Originally Posted by Nich

this. We're looking for the tiny corner of Winston's house where the telescreen can't observe us.

I recall being in the theatre with 60 other 4th form chaps and someone yelled out "I had bigger poached eggs for breakfast!".

[xor]

If crime is your thing then it pays to research secure ways to communicate as they should expect police will attempt to intercept their communications.

Theyll learn for next time though.

[MadMax]

I see it as no different to a gentleman’s club set up for exclusive members under the premise of what’s said in these four walls stays in the four walls only to discover it’s been set up to catch crims.

Technology has just made that easier.

[xor]

Yeeeep

[Lightspeed]

Sure, if you can only look at one thing at a time.

[Ab]

Half of psychology studies are not reproducible

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.18248

[Lightspeed]

Wait, what? Half of them are reproducible? Wow, I'm sceptical.

[Ab]

Originally Posted by Ab

I honestly have no idea whether this is a Spinoff article or a parody of what people think a Spinoff article must be like

https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/26-05...-im-living-in/

Again

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/14-...s-about-power/

Surely these are generated by some sort of algorithm?

[crocos]

While it's great seeing my family over here in Welly, UNHOLY FUCK but it's cold, even vs Vic.

[Lightspeed]

Horah! Glad you finally made it. Get yourself a pom-pom beanie, it's the only way.

[crocos]

Cheers mate!

Originally Posted by Lightspeed

Get yourself a pom-pom beanie, it's the only way.

Oh you SOOO know it. I've got one I made from merino while staying on the farm where it was shorn. Over two decades old and still going good - I credit that to the supervision while making it.

[Ab]

Originally Posted by crocos

While it's great seeing my family over here in Welly, UNHOLY FUCK but it's cold, even vs Vic.

Nice work

[Lightspeed]

Traffic's gonna be gnarly in Auckland tonight!

Police close roads as helicopter monitors gang funeral in Auckland

[Lightspeed]

Happy birthday Ab!

Sheeit, time is ticking on, ain't it?

[Ab]

Jesus Christ, that date calculation must be wrong.

Cheers

[Ab]

I see controversial weightlifter Laurel Hubbard has been named to the NZ Olympic weightlifting squad.

[xor]

43 and at the Olympics. I wonder what her secret is?

[Ab]

Well she has abnormal muscle mass, bone density, red-blood cell count, lung capacity, cardiac volume, and pelvic geometry for a woman, just lucky genes I guess.