pesco @pesco@chaos.social

Haha, holy shit, this is one hell of a meltdown: http://ace2018.info/

The summary: it's an academic conference. They invited Steve Bannon to speak. The vast majority of their contributors said "wait, if he's going to be there I don't want anything to do with it" and withdrew. The organizers FREAKED THE FUCK OUT and decided that there was some organized movement dedicated to shutting them down.

Studie: 64 praktische Vorschläge für eine bessere Kontrolle der Massenüberwachung – https://netzpolitik.org/2018/studie-64-praktische-vorschlaege-fuer-eine-bessere-kontrolle-der-massenueberwachung/ #StiftungneueVerantwortung #geheimdienstkontrolle #Massenüberwachung #Geheimdienste #Überwachung #Kontrolle #Studie #NSAUA #EGMR #snv

#openbsd's #malloc stores meta-data separated from the memory returned to the caller, making it harder to use heap overflows to achieve code injection and execution. See e.g. http://www.mathyvanhoef.com/2013/02/understanding-heap-exploiting-heap.html … and references. Having malloc meta-data near program data is dangerous!

A lot of malloc implementations hold on to memory pages received from the kernel. #openbsd's #malloc is reasonably aggressive with unmapping pages that are unused, catching use-after-free bugs with segmentation violations.

RT @cryptomanran@birdsite.link
ZCash has been quietly making progress . They have reduced transaction times from 45 seconds to 2,5 seconds and they have got approval from top regulators, including NYC. I caught up with @zooko at @ethereum Devcon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HEyx39Id4s&feature=youtu.be

https://twitter.com/cryptomanran/status/1062229070996496384

To get the silkroad rolling at #35c3 we need help, especially, with the build-up, but also for the tear down.

You should not fear height for this.

https://events.ccc.de/2018/11/10/seidenstrasse-the-pneumatic-delivery-system-will-be-back-at-35c3-maybe/

filesystems are a NoSQL database.

they use a hierarchical key-value storage system.

Did you know that if you try to look at xkcd from a US Congressional IP address, it automatically redirects you to https://xkcd.com/1732/ (The Earth Temperature Timeline).

Source: https://twitter.com/neurovagrant/status/1059963185124573184

today 16:00 rosa-luxemburg platz #berlin #nonazis #reclaimclubculture https://berlin-gegen-nazis.de/en/update-3-right-wing-extremist-march-and-alternative-events-currently-prohibited-friday-november-9-2018-from-1600-berlin-mitte-broad-protests-against-right-wing-extremist-march-ma/

Hans-Georg Maaßen: Das Unwesen im Verborgenen

Hans-Georg Maaßen behauptet, linksradikale Kräfte hätten ihn zu Fall gebracht. Er beschwört damit einen tiefen Staat, gegen den auch Donald Trump polemisiert.

https://www.zeit.de/kultur/2018-11/hans-georg-maassen-rede-verfassungsschutz-chemnitz-linksradikale-verschwoerung

Reminder: Privacy is a basic human right.

We believe everyone should have private access to an open web where they can express themselves, share information, and learn without being tracked, surveilled, or censored. https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights

GroßARTig, das Logo des #35C3. Gehts bald los? Kann mans schon sehen? Sind wir bald daaaa? :) https://www.ccc.de/de/updates/2018/vorverkauf-35c3

#SolarpunkReporting

In 2014, when Sierra Leone was hit by the Ebola outbreak, three local software developers kept the country's infrastructure working by rewriting it to #FLOSS. They saved hundreds of thousands lives when companies like Google and IBM backed off, calling the project too risky.

https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7561-how_open_source_software_second_hand_laptops_and_hackers_helped_stop_ebola_and_stopped_an_apocalypse

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/30/software-developers-helped-end-ebola-epidemic-sierra-leone

And their own recollection of the events with some technical descriptions:

https://medium.com/idtlabs/how-open-source-software-helped-in-the-fight-against-ebola-788bb3ca2bf0

RT @FredericJacobs@birdsite.link
Democracies work because there is trust in the elections.

If you need a CS + Crypto PhD to understand why something is secure; it’s easy to make people fearful of « election hacking ».

In contract, most people have a good understanding of the threat model for paper ballots.

https://twitter.com/FredericJacobs/status/1059825854417698817