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mircea_popescu: (meanwhile i asked for the why and wherefore of the "debiasing" of the plaintext. "no you idiot, it's so you burn less otp. what the fuck's wrong with you!")
mircea_popescu: the recent debias-otp-plaintext thing being a splendid if amusing example in this exact line.
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag self-directed education always looks like this.
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag punkman's wide net of stuff / danielpbarron invitede him
mircea_popescu: one day im going to meet these people in heaven, or else organise a special safari to hell, and give them a piece of my mind.
mircea_popescu: sadly all everyone planted were turds, but the field's manure alright
mircea_popescu: the irony of the situation being that the soviets weren't nearly as impressed by the significantly more powerful soviet state.
mircea_popescu: in parts the reddit-powered "infosec" "community" sounds a lot more like some sort of clinically relevant entomophobia in imminent danger of taking the leap into delusional parasitosis.
mircea_popescu: i'd actually very much want to see this wunderwaffen where they put bluetooth in the optoitem.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform some sillyness about how some derp prankcalled an unnamed silicon manufacturer, pretended to be a secret agency so secret not even the name is known, asked for a spec on an unspecified cpu packaging other than "it must be just like irl ones" and received a 100k firm bid on the phone as long as he provides "his ip"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo dude i just laughed hysterically at the korean derp on horse pic.
mircea_popescu: phf internet produces necessarily a mixed bag. still, the guy correctly identified a workable airgap scheme on his own, should count for something.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i'll just wait for reality to disprove their claims instead. heck, they're still making the best invisibly-visible aircraft-submarine scooba diving platform, or whatever that was.
mircea_popescu: tell you what, the best korea register has a story about how that fatass what's his name runs the best fab in the world.
mircea_popescu: so you're suspicious that your mail may be subverted, but you don't suspect pravda might be ?
mircea_popescu: you understand the difference between a gps beacon and some sort of tiny subvertor that'd fit inside an optodiode somehow ?
mircea_popescu: anyway : it'd be better, of course, if users made their own. but users don't make their own, for many reasons, chief among which that they're lazy. do you specifically not want to market a product ?
mircea_popescu: understand : bitcoin consists of billions of dollars worth of custom run chips. "we"'d know.
mircea_popescu: we can't possibly have a mature discussion about the silly in that dpaste.
mircea_popescu: one day someone calls up foxconn and is like hey guise... can i have fridge in cpu ?
mircea_popescu: you ever thought about selling i dunno, optic diode kits or something ?
mircea_popescu: incidentally - your tinfoil suite is not at issue here. and actually to circle back to an earlier point :
mircea_popescu: in fairness, person walks into the republican capitol. there's ALL THIS SHIT. it'd be impossible not to feel even the little bit queasy.
mircea_popescu: yes, that's kinda the point of b-a. it t-bones with standard * discourse so badly, as you put it.
mircea_popescu: sure. i've been hoping to do some snuff videos of "operatives" caught with gear for years now.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: well, there's no "we". but i have no interest in adding layers of sheet metal to my limo when everyone shot got shot getting in or getting out of the limo.
mircea_popescu: other than by shooting on sight anyone caught doing that.
mircea_popescu: adding layers is how you end up making agincourt famous.
mircea_popescu: as far as i see that's pseudosecurity. security is and always has been about being secure.
mircea_popescu: the only assurance to be had here comes from a gossipd model. where anyone could have written the plaintext, and for all anyone POORLY CONNECTED knows, they probably did.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: think about it. can i be assured ? maybe the person saves it in plaintext and loses the laptop
mircea_popescu: but i do not wish to be assured this ; moreover this "assurance" you provide is false, in substantially the same manner your idea of "infosec" misses security.
mircea_popescu: i don't want any integrity outside of what my wot provides.
mircea_popescu: because why would i gift upon a would-be atacker that;s really a lame ass kid unable to on hios own merit secure the cost of a proper burial
mircea_popescu: as far as anyone who wasn't there is concerned, this may as well be a fabrication altogether. and so on.
mircea_popescu: consider what happened in gossipd when i said the line above : "<mircea_popescu> you don't know who he has in his contacts.". buncha nodes that i know went "we heard mp say so" to their downlist
mircea_popescu: complete anonimity between peers more than one node removed ; complete secrecy outside of the node group ; no integrity or authenticity outside of the wot trust.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: the power of the system is exactly this : that an attacker doesn't know NOR CAN KNOW if he';s being sybilled to death or not.
mircea_popescu: the information you receive is only as good as the trustworthyness of your peers.
mircea_popescu: basically the whole system is an implementation of "have you heard what X said", but with computers.
mircea_popescu: X, Y and Z see this, and if they like me enough, and if they have your pubkey, pass along the Hi to you.
mircea_popescu: i wish to say "Hi" to you. my peers are X, Y and Z. i encrypt "please say Hi for me to maqp" with X, Y, Z pubkeys.
mircea_popescu: v does work yes, it's how bitcoin is installed currently.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the model gossipd is supposed to use is, you pass along traffic to your peers, if you're satisfied that it comes from either youself or a peer. it's a sort of messaging-over-wot. exactly like v works.
mircea_popescu: no amount of "infosec" is going to change the fact that for any discussion on these lines, you go with the sucker herd.
mircea_popescu: if you are the sort of person who cares, you are the sort of person who cares.
mircea_popescu: what's this game of everythingsies, i wanna be tanned but also untanned and sit in the sun and the moon at the same time bla bla.
mircea_popescu: no, they philosophically have no business there. once you've decided to settle down and reproduce, you've by that token accepted the world as is, declared your own submission to it and all that.
mircea_popescu: people with families do not belong in "dissidence movements", providing such exist.
mircea_popescu: well it would, because we don't even agree on what "infosec" is.
mircea_popescu: maqp no, it's a not-yet implemented, not-yet fully designed irc/pigdin/mail/etc replacement
mircea_popescu: we've not really got around to doing much practically with it.