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mircea_popescu: graham, altman &co are butthurt because we regularly mock their "venture capitalism" ? i dunno
mircea_popescu: been some internet tough guy months ago "destroying us" by flooding noobs, but i had thought he gave up meanwhile.
mircea_popescu: prx are you getting flooded btw ? some people complaied.
mircea_popescu: there is theoretical support, but in practice the lists seem dead and i have nfi who can even undertake that beast of a task
mircea_popescu: trinque we were looking for someone to fix glibc earlier too
mircea_popescu: i updated the article to lulz a little at the ydumbinator crew
mircea_popescu: the instructor said don't touch anything. A crew member responded by saying “it doesn't matter none of it works anyway, you can touch what you want.”
mircea_popescu: but yes, software bugs. now that we got to software bugs...
mircea_popescu: it'd stop warez dead in its tracks, seeing how you couldn't watch any movie or anything.
mircea_popescu: trinque imagine if "network errors, harddisk failures" worked this way.
mircea_popescu: Zoe Quinn is the role model, dumbass made a "game" that wouldn't have passed muster in the early sierra adventure games
mircea_popescu: people wanna sperg all day on "social media" and "attract investors".
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo the official story seems to be that keys got accidentally.
mircea_popescu: "We are at war, with a new kind of enemy. The terrorists have infiltrated every nation on our planet." tsk tsk now how would will mcneilly know this.
mircea_popescu: so can anyone get a key server, no matter which, to somehow swallow up an extra subkey for an existing key ?
mircea_popescu: moreover, the way it presents the blob is as a single, shares pgp key blob
mircea_popescu: what i don't get is, how exactly you reproduce this ? i can't seem to make sks server to accept extra, unsigned subkeys from anyone.
mircea_popescu: you should check to make sure yo udon't use the same prime TWICE
mircea_popescu: this, if indeed reflective of an implementation error, shows an entirely different bug
mircea_popescu: how the system can’t pass tests to show it could’ve launched ha!
mircea_popescu: i'd have added "or one of his harem slaves" but iirc he's a twink
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform useless without sender field ; uninteresting if it's anything but sam altman
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, i know of no better proof that the "atomic weapons not actually militarily useful" than this sort of perennial wank.
mircea_popescu: trinque is this like the only bit of c code deployed without stdint ? i wonder if he had a reason
mircea_popescu: im letting things settle for a day and plan to write a follow-up.
mircea_popescu: for all you know this is the magic packet required to X.
mircea_popescu: there's a long tradition of "must fail to pass" bullshit seen in the wild, and allegedly not originated by nsa
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah, i suspect it's more subtle than that.
mircea_popescu: but if we do see it, im definitely publishing the story.
mircea_popescu: anyway, im not entirely sure we might ever see the diddled gpg that goes with this didlded key to produce anything interesting
mircea_popescu: i am definitely suspicious of this entire tower of mirrors made of shit.
mircea_popescu: some guy trying to do something or the other with softwasre.
mircea_popescu: victim gets nsa-something or the other, gets the "key", etc.
mircea_popescu: which would neatly explain why it HAS TO stay on sks servers.
mircea_popescu: maybe this is paort of a tandem with specific userland diddling.
mircea_popescu: davout how would you know it is even publicly accessible ?
mircea_popescu: seriously, some bits got changed ? and what archive still extracted , no problem ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform tbh i find the "broken in transit" explanation offered by the back to sleep camp particularly ridiculous.
mircea_popescu: mopre like a training exercise for younguns looking to get shellshocked by "free software"
mircea_popescu: actually, a fully-explicit "how to extract your rsa moduli as numbers, and how to test things" write-up may be a good use of someone's time.
mircea_popescu: delan myeah. one shouldn't have to hope on this score, but then again here we are.
mircea_popescu: you know that's to this day one of the most popular articles ? i dunno what's with them ppls.
mircea_popescu: half the "literate" population can't even read trilema because "it's too hard" and words hurt their brain
mircea_popescu: trinque only terrorists would want to test their rngs.