The sad thing isn’t that Google abandoned “don’t be evil,” because that’s what big companies do. What’s sad is watching decent engineers put those plans into practice, while pretending they don’t know what’s happening.
This goes back decades: bragging about hosting a BBS on some cobbled-together hot mess of a machine was a thing back then, as well.
Mostly harmless, & simply an affectation many of us picked up back when hardware cost vast $$ & thus making do w/ cheap allowed humans to use tech.
Is computer shaming in IT a thing? "Why did you waste so much on your computer? I bought a used laptop for $200 years ago. It works great and I can save money for what matters," Cool, but I like my gaming laptop with LED keyboard and I have no shame for dropping some coin on it.
For $203 and some bandwidth costs you can download and personally store every scientific paper ever written and scanned into Sci-Hub. Who says this isn’t an amazing time to be alive.
Cryptographers working on "verifiable delay functions" (VDF) seem to think that all known algorithms to compute x^2^T mod pq (unknown p,q) need T times the latency of a single squaring. Sorenson and I have a 2007 paper https://t.co/zPIDqA5jpf beating this in some hardware models.
Very happy with the lineup of speakers we have for Surveillance, Privacy, and You (SPY) on Sunday: https://t.co/rlxgIaIhsa One of several interesting parallel workshops this weekend in Darmstadt before #eurocrypt2019.
For those working on the #TortureFiles leak of a 1.1gb archive documenting a 15-person US animal torture ring (pics/vids identify some RL), reference image is at:
https://t.co/MrP5wnyy8w
(the ".pet" proxy seems working well atm)
Let's keep expanding visibility of this horror!
Anyone interested in ensuring accountability for the people doing these things, let us know & we'll provide details on what assistance is most useful.
Thanks.
On the steps of one of the most important homes in music history.
Ian MacKaye from Fugazi, Minor Threat, and Dischord Records. Tomorrow night, Ian and I dig deep on @TheStromboShow. Mark it down and tune in at 8PM @CBCMusic#WeLoveMusic#StromboShow
Note: these materials are profoundly horrific & may not be something everyone can face. The flipside is... we are annihilating this nest of evil. Right now.
What little is as-yet publicly visible on this project is found here, interim tag #TortureFiles:
https://t.co/7TgreL4pA2
This is a fast-deploy, tactical, closed-loop effort - not an ongoing/forever commitment.
If you can pitch in, please email ([email protected]) & we'll brief more fully.
If not, please share w/ those who might lend a hand.
Thanks for helping!
~ "pj" aka @cryptostud
We're providing tech/ops support to a small activist team releasing 1+ gigs of leaked Telegram logs exposing 20 or so people who torture animals to death for fun & video it.
We're short expertise in:
1. .onion red team
2. site backend (searchable, etc.)
3. data modelling
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The ${pathetic scammers}$ who litter news aggregators & otherwise-legit websites with this fraudware garbage are second in perfidy only to the news site admins who accept their cash & help spread this crap thereby.
(in this case, it's @MSN running this scam ad - great job!)