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mircea_popescu: this, of course, is not the only mechanism that would allow such a key to exist. nevertheless, alternative explanations border on the risible.
mircea_popescu: clearly people looking at/for him would be the target, if anything.
mircea_popescu: in any case, the idea that hpa is the target of that attack - if indeed it is an attack - are at best naive and at worst disinfo.
mircea_popescu: but it is a theory - until someone produces such a diddled implementation it stays a theory.
mircea_popescu: this sort of thing (the so called "fail to pass" testing) is the exact sort of stuff we've seen from the nsa to date, and so it would mesh with that experience.
mircea_popescu: such as, encrypt to it, or email the NSA, or whatever else.
mircea_popescu: if however his pgp implementation is compromised in a specific way, the wrong key on the server may very well be the magic packet, causing it to behave in an unexpected - and not otherwise detectable - manner.
mircea_popescu: with a correctly working pgp implementation, the user connects ot a sks server, discards the wrong key and proceeds as expected.
mircea_popescu: suppose someone needs to talk to hpa - either to verify his signature or to send him encrypted communications.
mircea_popescu: one of the more interesting constructions as to the possible intended uses is, a tandem arrangement. it would work like so :
mircea_popescu: this is factually correct. it is also not the whole story.
mircea_popescu: i am plainly saying that while the weak keys incontrovertibly exist, it's unclear why they exist. someone put the effort into making them, which is not exactly trivial.
mircea_popescu: that aside, the question of how exactly weak keys came to be, and what are they doing there and so on and so forth is not nearly as uninteresting as the usg agency would like to make it.
mircea_popescu: there are all sorts of classes of broken keys, which we're obviously still sorting through.
mircea_popescu: the right move would be to get in the wot, cultivate your presence here afterr which next time you may have an angle.
mircea_popescu: this constitutes harassment in zoe quinn degree. i now must have my own oprah show.
mircea_popescu: halp halp i've been lyfthreatenet across hte internets
mircea_popescu: hmm, anyone has a ready link to the discussion of the reddit deleting the blockchain thing because they had so much fucking consensus it ended up imploding under their feet ?
mircea_popescu: ‘Holy shit, they broke RSA!’ or ‘This is false advertising, they didn’t really do anything!’ imbeciles, << no but it's THE CONTROVERSY
mircea_popescu: again. team meade scores another hit on their imaginary, wildly irrelevant scoreboard.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not deliberate trolalge, deliberate damage control. can't google misspelled terms
mircea_popescu: team meade scores another hit on their imaginary, wildly irrelevant scoreboard. for which they get paid. with tax dollars. by idiots.
mircea_popescu: right, because poisoning hpa was the idea, not poisoning others.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform notice that idiots are doing their pressing. "If I wanted to poison HPA with a fake key, why would I create a degenerate one? A fake key with strong factors would have gone unnoticed, at least by this analysis"
mircea_popescu: but she's REALLY bad. i mean sweet singer of michigan level bad.
mircea_popescu: something to do with bare adolescentine breasts, one would hope, for the sake of everyone's sanity ?
mircea_popescu: it all stems from a very funamental confusion as to what things are andwhat technology can do. the idea being that technology = magic, and so it can change the nature of things. take marketplaces, which are by nature centralizing, and magic them into being decentralising. meanwhile irl, technology works to increase quantitatively, not to alter qualitatively.
mircea_popescu: having a central (marketplace = central) for it is about as stupid as fire extinguishers loaded with gasoline.
mircea_popescu: i have my doubts if you could get a decent definition of the notion of number from one in ten us graduates.
mircea_popescu: you gotta appreciate, a compsci student in the us is a guy that's too autistic to deal drugs.
mircea_popescu: <justJanne> BingoBoingo: Yes — remember, I use no Google services, and modified half of the apps on my phone myself. << o.O what are you, like a hacker ???
mircea_popescu: cazalla the masochist and the terrorist. should be a book.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic i have my doubts about how all that *pathic stuff works. kinda weaponized terminology, like "heretic"/"disbeliever" in middle ages.
mircea_popescu: mike_c will be going up shortly, guy's online and all.
mircea_popescu: worst part being that it's usually "corporate [in]culture" that takes marginal yet ambitious intellects and molds them to this shit.
mircea_popescu: yeah. if i don't happen to know someone willing to vouch, you can have credentials coming out of your ears, i just see "idiot" in thick font. which is basically wot-ness.
mircea_popescu: decimation honestly, i suspect the guy complaining on trilema was either trying to stir up shit or else working on meanwhile inacurate history. seems the ddos guy is gone.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic not bad, but it lost me at the "well credentialed" etc bs.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck asked anon what is and isn't reason nao ?
mircea_popescu: "[1] He's been scraping the profiles of young women (specifically) and posting links, names, and hometowns on his blog. Yes, as technologists, we know that this kind of indexing is trivial. That's no reason, as a decent human being, to terrorize innocent people."
mircea_popescu: anyway, to quote myself, "I will write up an article addressing this particular set of bullshit tomorrow. I promise it will be good. Engage bated breath."
mircea_popescu: jeez how the world changes in a coupla hours based on what's said in b-a log, you'd think we're talking to gavin-the-handpuppet & co.
mircea_popescu: decimation wait, we're progressed past the "it occured while copying" to obscure email programs naoi ?
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.justJanne.1:44086df839c6a505edd1681e3dff4c96ffd5990b1c9abddd93c99f55a195008c
mircea_popescu: !rate justJanne 1 55 yo Pittsburgh steel mill worker posing as 19 yo girl on the interwebs.