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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.
mircea_popescu: tosoon dude. how fast do you think that can be deployed.
mircea_popescu: no. and obviously, "the process is inherently dirty" etc. nevertheless...
mircea_popescu: so in also newsworthy : between yesterday and today there has been a shitton of hashpower added
mircea_popescu: whether that proves the contrary, or for that matter whether the contrary needs any proof... exercise for reader.
mircea_popescu: was like "we have consensus and therefore will delete your reddit thread proving the contrary. because this will totally work, you being some derps who depend on the graham lulzatron"
mircea_popescu: what was it that wiped an article badly leaving it still sorta-visible ?
mircea_popescu: and we'll have a pretty decent picture once phuctor's done walking the set, which looks like a coupla months
mircea_popescu: decimation anyway, we'll know more / anything of actual substance once the guy himself answers.
mircea_popescu: i mean, if the claims is accurate, what's to keep me from making anyone's sks profile 1 gb long ?
mircea_popescu: decimation doesn't that stance open them to incredible ddos ?
mircea_popescu: now that it has 3, 7, 11 etc in the P it will find all these.
mircea_popescu: it seems tempting, tho there are sticking points. but in any case, as phuctor progresses we'll get a better idea.
mircea_popescu: this seems the most ... "nothing happened, go back to sleep"-benign theory.
mircea_popescu: you can't fool mother nature. nevertheless, it is more than happy to sell you the tools by which to fool yourself.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ben_vulpes a fine example of the perils of "whitening".
mircea_popescu: davout yes but honestly i'd rather let it work some more first.
mircea_popescu: davout tis on the list of things to do, but it is a long list
mircea_popescu: and then, as that's ripped out, some tests will find the entropy not as good
mircea_popescu: "The results I worried about, millions of children running Windows on the OLPC, have not occurred. Instead we see millions of children running Windows on the Intel Classmate."
mircea_popescu: freelance journo/whatevs. doubt there's sponsors in the classic sense.
mircea_popescu: strange, our fortress has a moat, provided free of charge by "the enemy"