NSD in Sweden is reporting that a combatant in his 40s was arrested after allegedly stabbing a man in his 20s (archived). The stabbing supposedly took place in an area of the datacenter hosting servers operated by KnCMiner.
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Cattle Rancher And American Patriot Cliven Bundy Arrested In Portland
American Patriot, Cattle Rancher, and inspiration for the militia liberation in Oregon Cliven Bundy was arrested in Portland after travelling from Nevada to support his sons (archived). He had travelled to Portland with his Nevada State Assembly member Michelle Fiore to seek the release of his children from Federal Prisoner of War1 camps. This round of militia liberation may be reaching its end. For 40 days and forty nights in the high desert of Oregon brave militia men and women have taken a stand supporting the Spirit of the United States Constitution and the American People against the crimes committed by the Federal Government. Since the dark day that Lavoy Finicum was slaughtered by Federal Forces and other militia leaders were captured with Ryan Bundy sustaining a gunshot wound, only four brave souls remained to continue the liberation and they have continued to maintain it under a constant state of seige. If the Oregon liberation ends today, may the American people honor the sacrifices of these brave militia souls have undertaken on their behalf.
What war? The war on America's productive citizens where they are deprived of the fruits of their labor in order to better support clerks and other socialist bureaucrats. ↩
Clapper: "Internet Of Things" Offers Tempting Surveillance Opportunities
In testimony presented to the United States Senate, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper acknowledged that the horrifically insecure "Internet of Things" presents a target for United States surveillance operations (archived). In the same testimony Clapper noted United States activities in the United States were boosting the recruiting and resolve of organizations adversarial to the United States.
DPRK Launches Satellite Into Space
Numerous sources are reporting that the Democratic People's Republic of Best Korea has launched a rocket into space, and that the government of Best Korea is declaring its effort to launch a satellite into space a success. Almost exactly one month ago the Democratic People's Republic of Best Korea claimed success in testing a hydrogen bomb. During the 20th century Cold War between the USSR and United Soviet Socialist America the capability to launch satellites into space was used as a proxy that demonstrated the ability to deploy nuclear weapons at any range. Continued space launches on the part of the Democratic People's Republic of Best Korea would indicate an aerospace industry significant enough to sustain the production and maintenance of intercontinental ballistic missiles and add further credibility to the nation's growing nuclear deterrent.
Oracle Employee Wrecked Socat Security
Kaspersky's Threatpost reports that Oracle employee Zhiang Wang introduced a patch to the Open Source socat utility which broke its security by changing a hard coded Diffie-Hellman prime number to a 1024 bit number that is not prime (archived). While substantial discussion is occurring around whether the change was introduced to create backdoor, the change as a point of fact broke the security promised by socat.
Last Actual Mozilla Feature Removed
Mozilla is removing fine grained control of cookies from their Firefox web browser in version 44 after declaring the feature and the ~100 lines of code supporting it a bug (archived). Mozilla persisted in having a userbase on its largely fictitious reputation of being a venture that supports the needs of its users while actually cultivating memory leaks, remote access vulnerabilities, and other abuses of their users. The removal of fine grained cookie control in Mozilla Firefox represents the end of any pretense that Mozilla has any concern about the desires of actual users. While all of the "major" browsers including Google's Chromium family, Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Edge browsers, Apple's Safari, and Mozilla's Firefox are irredeemable turds some saner browsers1 do in fact exist. There's even a GUI web browser that doesn't look too bad.
But do exercise caution because they are unfortunately still web browsers ↩
Popescu Opens Block Cipher Competition: 10 BTC Bounty + Peerage
Today Mircea Popescu opened a competition to find a block cipher suitable for advancing the causes of The Most Serence Republic.1 The rewards for the winner include a 10 Bitcoin payment and membership honoris causa in the peerage of The Most Serene Republic. Submissions with an implementation are preferred, but theoretical proposals will be considered.
This Republic, Most Serene is nothing other than Bitcoin. ↩
Alan Reiner Quits Armory as Multi-Year Commercialization Effort Fails
Today Alan Reiner announced he is quitting Armory wallet development, and that efforts to commercialize the Armory Bitcoin wallet have failed. Armory started life as a promising wallet management tool that runs on top of a local Bitcoin daemon, but when a "phone home" feature became public knowledge any potential of trusting Reiner as a software developer or Armory as a software product was lost. Reiner with the help of serial fundraiser Trace Mayer raised funds in an attempt to make a business out of the Armory software. Reiner's announcement is presented in full below: Continue reading
Popescu Offers Condition For Accepting Future Hard Forks
Today Mircea Popescu offers a proposal which he is mulling as a necessary condition for any fundamental change to the Bitcoin protocol to receive his approval. The proposal would strengthen the bond between Bitcoin miners and nodes. Popescu is pledging to sink any hard fork proposal that does not include these changes, but if these changes are to be adopted he is willing to negotiate changes to the Bitcoin protocol including a maximum blocksize increase.
Ether Huffing Reddit Spam Persists
Private message spam on the social engineering platform Reddit supporting the dreams and aspersations of Ether huffers continues without any sign of abatement. The continued spam promoting Buterin's waterfall suggests that either Reddit is incapable of controlling spam, or that they actually support this spam at a high level. The lack of more traditional spam promoting online pharmacies, LVMH merchandise, and other marginal commercial ventures seems to demonstrate that Reddit actually has the technical ability to prevent spam. This leaves the very real possibility that Reddit management materially supports this spam campaign as the increasingly probable explanation for the spam campaign's persistence.