asciilifeform: this idiocy, of course, is smoke, being spread to distract from the fact that generating LONG fp collision is now reasonably inexpensive.
asciilifeform: ( i suppose, in the olden days, when a power dildo was a glass tube with bee swarm sealed in, it could be 'spend' when most of the bees are dead .... but this dun look like a beetronic dildo.)
asciilifeform: i.e. something which COULD easily be made small and - when detached from the 10kg keyboard - reasonably portable , being instead gigantic and stationary.
asciilifeform: in some respects it is the beloved desktop that is 'cardildo'
asciilifeform: if you and i write virii, and try to file copyright claim against antivirus co, or against victim, judge will die of laughter
asciilifeform: didja know, usg gets to claim copyrasty on its malware ?
asciilifeform: meanwhile, völkischer beobachter: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/why-github-removed-links-to-alleged-nsa-data : '“Per our Terms of Service (section A8), we do not allow the auction or sale of stolen property on GitHub. As such, we have removed the repository in question,” Kate Guarente, from Github's communications team, told Motherboard in a statement.'
asciilifeform: (wish they'd quit using kaspersky's idiot euphemism for usg)
asciilifeform not burning with desire to watch this.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: can't say i've ever seen it..
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it isn't, unfortunately, as if the 'hollywood nonsense' were harmlessly decorative. there are countless cases of, e.g., police AND arrestee both, acting out 'hollywood script' from their heads...☟︎
asciilifeform: gas main blows, son is flying 50 metres vertically
asciilifeform: sooo thing looks to be a private co., with ownership structure unpublished afaik.
asciilifeform: well i have nfi who formally owned the thing. if it was a public co, as i understand the board can throw out ceo if they decide that they don't like the shape of his nose.
asciilifeform: ^ whole turd worth reading, a very MODERN!11111 trial, complete with seeeeeeekrit evidence and absent accusers
asciilifeform: 'Multimillionaire tech mogul Gurbaksh Chahal — once one of San Francisco’s Internet entrepreneur darlings until he was convicted of domestic abuse and ousted from his own company — was sentenced to 12 months in County Jail Friday by a judge citing his pattern of violence against women.'
asciilifeform: they feel, in their bones, that the 'individual keyholder' thing is a mega-problem, and it itches, itches.
asciilifeform: which is part of the reason why enemy derps on and on with the 'multisig' nonsense
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this almost comes 'for phree' out of how bitcoin works - 'corporation' cannot hold a coin, even now, only an individual key holder.
