asciilifeform: who in turn generates a block cipher (symmetric) key for the occasion
asciilifeform: in response to a valid, non-replayed 'hello' (from known pubkey, naturally), machine sends back a single-use rsa pubkey (generated for the occasion) to the requester
asciilifeform: decimation: the practical way is to sign 'hello'
asciilifeform: adlai: when i laboured under the delusion that i could write a useful trading automaton, i found it simple enough to 'trade' with imaginary btc, gold, etc.
asciilifeform: adlai: why does it have to test on actual live-fire btc anyway?
asciilifeform: i dislike the sugar-coated 'nice' pastebins for this reason
asciilifeform: i.e. no illusions of privacy or reliability
asciilifeform: how pastebin crept back in << rough substitute for the shortwave station we don't have
asciilifeform: but naturally this creates million zombies with 'gambler's disease' who dig, dig, dig
asciilifeform: or, famously, the first television 'game show' - '64,000 dollar question' (usa) was famously discovered, in its day, to be fixed
asciilifeform: that's the effect meritwash has on the participants (the 'extras' in the film, naturally. the pre-ordained winners - laugh all the way to the bank.)
asciilifeform: let's ask BingoBoingo how sport aficionados feel re: 'fixed' matches in sports where this is not customary
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: as i tried to explain to mircea_popescu, 'merit wash' is a rather distinct animal from ordinary inheritance
asciilifeform: the most pathetic aspect is when civilians become afflicted with the delusion of 'i can haz some too'
asciilifeform: (not necessarily direct relation - son in law, etc. will do in a pinch. as there's plenty of printed money to go around)
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: but more generally, applies to the sv vc crapolade. i.e. why does mr schmuck get 100 megabezzlars for schmuckatron? because he's the son/nephew/catamite of one of the vultures who feasted on the corpse of fairchild semi, at&t (pre-breakup), etc.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: philanthropists article << precisely them
asciilifeform: if this were not so, there'd be rather few trees left here.
asciilifeform: phillipsjk: the birds here - not very enthusiastically. hence the infestation
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: in criminal trials, iirc
asciilifeform: if 11 jurors were to feel like, e.g., letting dpr go, and one did not, 'hung jury' and the kangaroo court gets to do the whole thing again
asciilifeform: for folks unfamiliar with u.s. jurisprudence, verdict has to be unanimous
asciilifeform: now who wants to talk about the mythical nullifying juries, lol
asciilifeform: 'Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?' - linus t.
asciilifeform: the remainder is the more interesting question
asciilifeform: there are quite a few, i think, who are grossly underequipped - intellectually - to actually operate a computer
asciilifeform: might depend on the winblows user, actually
asciilifeform: winblows user walking to pgp is somewhat like a prisoner walking in the direction of the yard gate. he is still in his cell.
asciilifeform: why he assumed that 'backdoor' must be necessarily inserted at isp, rather than by author of the turdware - ask him, not me
asciilifeform: backdoors << the linked piece was about somebody who woke up to the idea of checking signatures on downloaded crypto app binaries (for winblows naturally) but couldn't quite wrap brain around pgp
asciilifeform: was explicitly proclaimed by clinton-era nsa as 'civilian' castrato crypto
