asciilifeform: folks familiar with usg 'scientocracy' will laugh, but the fact is, the mind-reading box does not necessarily have to... work. to be put in use.☟︎
asciilifeform: afaik, the most audacious claim to date is that the machine can tell if the victim has seen a particular object previously.
asciilifeform: there are already freislers at work, crafting 'legal framework' for it.
asciilifeform: but no industrial disposal corp. would accept it
asciilifeform: and the fella wanted to be rid of the stash
asciilifeform: reminds me of a tale from the lab chief at my first job, at u.s. nih. when he inherited the grounds, there was cocaine left over from the last fella. who was busted because not all of it could be accounted for. the new lab had nothing to do with cocaine, and
asciilifeform: 'Building a secure multisignature escrow service' << will this crud never die
asciilifeform did not link it as example of good writing, no.
asciilifeform: 'First, I thank Mr. Keane for his professionalism in notifying us of the government's decision. It has become common practice for federal prosecutors to refuse to tell targets of investigations that the government has decided not to prosecute. I appreciate Mr. Keane's courtesy.' << l0lwut
asciilifeform cannot be arsed to try building the thing, much less read any of the 80MB (zipped!) crud
asciilifeform: i can easily picture the first being somehow done under torture or blackmail, but the second ?
asciilifeform: zimmerman, if you recall, sold pgp to hitler, allowing it to become a laughing stock of mystery meat faux crypto, but, as if this were not enough, went on to participate in the multi-coloured phones idiocy
asciilifeform: everybody worth remotely thinking about 'has crazy written down'
asciilifeform: nor is anything else about the current implementation (what is signed is IN ALL CASES a sha1 of the key-to-be-signed) sane.
asciilifeform: this ~could~ be implemented sanely, but the traditional implementation - where the new key is accepted silently - is not it.
asciilifeform: thing about subkeys is that they are a fundamentally ill-conceived idea - the notion that 'i can update my modulus but it is still considered the same key, because it is signed by this other key here, and this fact is to be verified by machine'
asciilifeform: that wasn't, iirc, 'the whole american army'
asciilifeform: then wake me up when this has happened...?"
asciilifeform: which it will get for just so long as it suits ru.
asciilifeform: if it destroys the american armies, it will be with ru materiel
asciilifeform: otherwise it is a forest fire, that will burn for so long as there is dry wood.
asciilifeform: 'functional' means 'can make own ak rounds' at minimum.
asciilifeform: i suppose, for some - enough. just like a typical turd contains enough nourishment for some creatures
asciilifeform: the 'can leave' was always a mystery button that isn't connected to anything. as if there ACTUALLY WERE a functional anti-west blok to defect to
asciilifeform: 'Given that we are expecting to soon switch from RSA to ECC for improved security and that the current base of OpenPGP implementations supporting ECC is quite small, I would recommend not to allow a second fingerprint format for v4 keys but to bind a new fingerprint format to a v5 key packet version.' << who the fuck is 'we' ?!
asciilifeform: 'While I focused myself on the technical side of mining and over time found it very difficult to keep up-to-date even with this narrow sub-topic, DaT always seemed capable of following any development in the bitcoin world. Take a look at his essay supporting block-size increase as an example of his contribution.' << mega-l0l
