#proofofkeysday — Public Fediverse posts

for people who haven't heard these terms before:
#fuzzing a technique for finding weaknesses in systems, by thoroughly going through what kinds of input they can accept. https://owasp.org/www-community/Fuzzing http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~bart/fuzz/

#spyonyourcustomer : my term for the propaganda term "AML/KYC"

#proofofkeysday https://www.proofofkeys.com/ : every january 3rd, everyone who participates in this holiday goes to their bank, and takes all their money out, or as much as their bank lets them, and signs a message with your cryptocurrency to ensure you're still the owner of it. If any substantial portion of bitcoiners actually participated in this, it would be a big splash at this point.

#BigDataSurveillanceAndSecurityIntelligence the canadian perspective, is a book and it appears i'm the only one here who's reading it - but there should be more canadians pouring through these pages
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4345350501

The banks are awash in false positives, to the point where getting rid of false positives are an "end in itself"

ie there's incentives to just turn down the knob regardless
of whether it's a hit or not

Here's what would make this worse - finding out the #SpyOnYourCustomer flags, and organizing campaigns of intentionally hitting them. Similar to #ProofOfKeysDay only instead of being a creative use of the law of averages, basically finding ways of triggering alerts that cannot be ignored. It's likely that the amount of time/effort the banks have to spend on them would be greater than the amount of time/effort required to generate them. #FuzzTheBanks #FuzzTheAML

#BigDataSurveillanceAndSecurityIntelligence

Reminder: 2 days from now is Proof of Keys day, where you prove whether or not you own your money.

How can you participate?

* If you have a bank account, Go to your bank, and withdraw all your money into cash.

* If you have a bitcoin or other cryptocurrency account on an exchange, withdraw it into your wallet

* If you have bitcoin/cryptocurrency on a wallet, sign something with the key (this proves you can spend it / that you own the keys)

If you can't do these things, or if this is problematic - you already don't own your money and you should work on that.

After you do this you can put your money back to where you had it (though you should keep your bank balance out at least a day), but it's important that we have the freedom to be able to use *cash* - to be able to decide what the money in our lives is used on, whether or not to save. We have to be able to have this choice or things like #TheHandmaidsTale become reality.

Jan 3rd is

#ProofOfKeysDay