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mircea_popescu: by now, im not so sure of the mental health of tv watchers anyway. i guess it's prolly best not disturb them.
mircea_popescu: "we are the 1 herp, because percents are a jdif conspiracy"
mircea_popescu: is game of thrones the one with a dumb bitch that's the hero in spite of not doing anything ? (outside of feelings)
mircea_popescu: i notice alf is very chan-oriented these days. picrelated all day from this fellow.
mircea_popescu: davout i think this is one of those stories of old world privilege meanwhile abandoned because impractical and who gives a shit. just don't make it sur, that's niggerspeak
mircea_popescu: "Or perhaps they did that stupid human trick that never fails: If you have excess funds, procreate until you no longer have excess funds, then share the funds equally until you all die." << afaik this was never done in practice, outside of easter island. not that women everywhere didn't endlessly & forever try. but anyway, re the ancient women broken strat discussion, THIS is a fine statement of the problem.
mircea_popescu: im so sick of this "retards are people too" bullshit by now i can't begin to tell you.
mircea_popescu: btw, anyone with a slashdot acct ? plox to dump the above link ?
mircea_popescu: trinque i dunno what you two did there. what did you do ?
mircea_popescu: ever since the us got on this kick about retards using things, stuff that's not for retards has been at a disadvantage.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field well, you know how that goes. "within the constraints". "you can't have this and nsa so this can't be had"
mircea_popescu: "we'll just have a world without diehard. should be fine as long as ux is good"
mircea_popescu: obviously, nobody is going to have to explain to anybody why they lied or anything, but hey. free internet!
mircea_popescu: if you let them "agree" to "the reasonable" "explanation" you can laugh at them later. if you don't, it's gonna be "oh srsly we presented this before stanford" all over again
mircea_popescu: but this is why you want "the internet" to have its time to proffer its reactions.
mircea_popescu: "look in robots.txt for directories that derps inadvertently exposed"
mircea_popescu: case exactly mirrored by freenode : about a year after they lost at least one server to what appeared like quite the nsa, and promising a full investigation, nothing's been released.
mircea_popescu: "More than two years after unknown hackers gained unfettered access over multiple computers used to maintain and distribute the Linux operating system kernel, officials still haven't released a promised autopsy about what happened."
mircea_popescu: who the hell came up with the idea of putting these together even ;/
mircea_popescu: ehh, diddled php implementations << obviously i mean pgp not php.
mircea_popescu: this however... this is something where raising awareness actually does something.
mircea_popescu: clicking on cat pics, and derping about what zoe whoever said about imaginary feminist issues is a waste of one's youth.
mircea_popescu: it's already underway. but, the more the merrier. this is the sort of thing where one can make a difference.
mircea_popescu: not terribly costly, considering what "VC" firms spend and what they get for it.
mircea_popescu: adlai i would guess something between 50 and 100 BTC's worth of S.NSA engineer's time, and maybe a few months-box worth of hardware.
mircea_popescu: we might consider publishing the "harmless" keys, but for one thing i am not altogether convinced they're so harmless, and for another, much more interesting would be a hunt for diddled php implementations.
mircea_popescu: in that particular circumstance, where an outside but present chance existed that the box was compromised itself.
mircea_popescu: the case of hpa was exceptional because at the time the lightning struck (and understand just how unlikely the event we had on our hands this morning was), a call had to be made.
mircea_popescu: there's been a total of three pairs, so six total keys to date. i have little doubt that as the program progresses through the list, more will be found. generally, the idea is to discuss this with the owners and them only.
mircea_popescu: there are other people matching exactly hpa's profile (high value foss target) with keys apparently added in the same manner. not too many.
mircea_popescu: because i did lots of the former and the latter never occured.
mircea_popescu: how often have you moved a file across the tubes ? how often did it have a magically changed byte ?
mircea_popescu: understand, opsec is extremely weak all over. including among supposedly experienced hackers. so, a simple scenario : guy with owned userland gpg sends secret info to hpa, it is magically encrypted to wrong key, email sniffed en route, secret is now known, but only to the people knowing what to look for. hpa responds with something like bad key, guy re-encrypts it and resends it.
mircea_popescu: especially amusingm, the "key was damaged in transit" one. people p2p HD movies all day, nobody's seen this. gpg data moves around as archives - try flipping a byte in an archive see if you can stil lget the content. etc.