asciilifeform: or, more pointedly, the long and quite unpleasant surgery involved in undoing the idiocies of 'satoshi' derp, by no means complete even now
asciilifeform: arguably making shoes for these selfsame people is likewise countereconomic.
asciilifeform: the mere fact of the absence of the slave ship does not tell us why.
asciilifeform: then again, lawyers or stock traders are likewise not yet on the ship.
asciilifeform: that this was not yet done to programmers illustrates the 'nobody needs 'software industry' for very much, it would not cover the diesel' hypothesis.
asciilifeform: i suppose on the boat they cannot go to the pub etc.
asciilifeform: ntainers because there were no guarantees that tugboat pilots or stevedores would be paid.'
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asciilifeform: when did these folks ever have shame.
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asciilifeform: it is quite conceivable, given the popping rate, that some large fraction of extant rsa keys have somewhere between 24 and 64 bits of actual entropy.
asciilifeform: but instead shipped with a script that generates keys on first boot
asciilifeform: trinque: current working hypothesis is that ~none of the affected boxes are operated by 'people'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: typically the key used for actually logging in is generated on same box. with same braindamaged rng. hopefully i dun need to draw a picture, it makes sense
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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: eh, betcha hanno boeck et al are already nearly done cooking up a 'we've been surveying bad ssh keygen for 111 years' crock of shit
asciilifeform: it could be good use of somebody ~else~
asciilifeform: but to take one of the routers discussed in the netcat thread and actually see how it shits out key
asciilifeform: eh i wasn't suggesting ~asking~ them.
asciilifeform: or even to take 1 known pair of key and what-made-it, and work backwards.
asciilifeform: given as what we're seeing is 'birthday paradox.'
asciilifeform: and could potentially blow considerably (say, 100,000x) moar, if we knew the mechanism (e.g. 'marsaglia rng seeded with last 16 bits of time stamp at first boot) which produced them.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the major point re the Framedragger keyz, is that if going by the usual braindamaged-rng hypothesis, we are uncovering a small % of phuctorables.
asciilifeform: the latter typically do not allow for remote access (this is a major sticking point, they dun like incoming)
asciilifeform: incidentally i suspect the 'cellular' ips are not modems.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu sits on fnargl throne, aha, and trails long wire behind him on occasions when he is carried.
asciilifeform: s inability and to provide a remedy. An indicator of the seriousness of the Board's concern is the PMC been requested to report to the Board every month, starting in August, rather than quarterly, the normal case. One option for remedy that must be considered is retirement of the project. The request is for the PMC's consideration among other possible options." '
asciilifeform: 'Outgoing Apache OpenOffice project management committee (PMC) chair Dennis Hamilton has begun the discussion of a possible (note possible at this point) shutdown of the project. "In the case of Apache OpenOffice, needing to disclose security vulnerabilities for which there is no mitigation in an update has become a serious issue. In responses to concerns raised in June, the PMC is currently tasked by the ASF Board to account for thi
