asciilifeform: 'What bothers me is that you are saying what the agency wants us to believe -- they used to be great, but these days they have trouble reading the newspaper, the Internet is too complicated for them, there is so much traffic and they can't find what they want. It may be true, but it is what they have been 'saying' for years. It's convenient for N.S.A. to have its targets believe it is in trouble.'
asciilifeform wants a stainless steel 'model m', will probably end up making it personally at some point
asciilifeform: distributed however you like around the globe
asciilifeform: using methods known to even the lowliest spammer, you can make an arbitrarily large hash farm look like an arbitrarily large number of proportionately-smaller ones
asciilifeform knows no hard facts whatsoever about ownership distribution of existing mining hardware, and you - for any value of 'you' - don't either.
asciilifeform: eth is astounding - proves that 2010 never ended
asciilifeform: chinese have useful concept, 'mandate of heaven'
asciilifeform: hell, doesn't have to be below-board - sell next iPnohe with the understanding that $1 off monthly charge but gizmo mines for the fuhrer while plugged into mains for battery charge.
asciilifeform: baking a sha2 core into 10mil consumer webcams/routers/ethernet-enabled dildos costs considerably less than 1b.
asciilifeform: fluffypony: no market implications if you sink the usd into mining vs. buying.
asciilifeform: SUPER RICH couldn't do what they wanted << they contracted it out. to usg.
asciilifeform: so hypothetically he could access various resources through means other than buying
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: z's 'resources' mainly consist of his seat at the fuhrer's table (as propaganda minister)
asciilifeform: does arsebook have its own crapcoin yet ?
asciilifeform: ^ one thinking man's 'best of' archive
asciilifeform: novice can be considered 'graduated' and teachable, e.g. actual maths, when she stops saying 'safe' except to refer to a heavy metal box
asciilifeform: RebeccaBitcoin: then you learn another useful lesson - what a professional machinist charges.
asciilifeform: RebeccaBitcoin: if you were to set to it, how long would it take you to build a small two-cycle petrol engine?
asciilifeform: RebeccaBitcoin: so attacker could move from mother's basement into a palace, were he to sell the attack to a higher bidder, vs. your 10 merely moves him to a new flat.
asciilifeform: RebeccaBitcoin: pill against your particular system may well be worth > 10 btc.
asciilifeform: RebeccaBitcoin: but why would we 'go' ?
asciilifeform: (one usually is more concerned that seekrit dokument isn't stolen undetected, rather than mere fact of theft)
asciilifeform: decimation: nitpick. usg-blessed safes are optimized for tamper-evidence, rather than absolute strength
asciilifeform: but would you assume burglars will line up to try, simply by virtue of you having wished it?
asciilifeform: 'house not burgled in 90 days - perfect lock'
asciilifeform: RebeccaBitcoin: will it get stolen within 90 days << this is an uncommonly poor tactic (yes, popular in the 'computer insecurity' business, but it sucks still) - would you test, say, a door lock this way?
asciilifeform: exercise for student (or bored person of any other species) - log a typical 'mouse wiggle' session; fit to curves (your choice.)
asciilifeform: RebeccaBitcoin: seems like two separate questions in your original question. 1) mouse movement as method of generating key and 2) particular web-based gizmo for doing so
asciilifeform: in oil prospecting, salvage diving, etc. there is a concept where safety measures that the crew will not follow because they 'seen ridiculous' - are useless☟︎
asciilifeform: nerd safe = the type of people who print a paper wallet then toss the printer << this subject is worth exploring at length
asciilifeform: the meshes are pretty good at selecting mosquitoes.
