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mircea_popescu: you know my key, you directly verify my client is signing correctly, what is keft ?
mircea_popescu: at issue is your proposal to make this a reality for people you don't know.
mircea_popescu: well since you're concerned with what he might say or believe, it seems he does.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform because whythe fuck do you care what some people you doin't know say on any topic ?
mircea_popescu: to the tune of monty pytrhon's every sperm is sacred. no, they do not.
mircea_popescu: fundamentally your argument reduces to a deep seated "all peoples matter"
mircea_popescu: quite exceptional walk through the very points involved.
mircea_popescu: a screening of "a man for all seasons" is in order here.
mircea_popescu: it is folly to even consider this point. focus on what is within your control.
mircea_popescu: what the clueless "believe" can not ever be your concern.
mircea_popescu: rather than some conveniently diddled , horrible implementation designed for the needs of the nsa
mircea_popescu: this specifically aims for reconstructing sane chat, online.
mircea_popescu: i don't see much has improved since the recording machine era. do you ?
mircea_popescu: fact is, they only do if you wish to implement them. i do not.
mircea_popescu: none of their fuckinbg business. if they weren't invited to participate they can not RELY on the discussion.
mircea_popescu: artifexd i do. it's the equivalent of making a weirdo reality where anyone who eavesdrops also has a recording device.
mircea_popescu: because we don't work for the group here. we work for the individual.
mircea_popescu: the moment you add them to your list, they have continuity.
mircea_popescu: the existence of unknowns should be entirely at the mercy of the knowns. no exceptions and no way out.
mircea_popescu: anmd there's plenty more, but srsly... how much is needed.
mircea_popescu: this harms because : it gives unknowns a weight they should not have ; it removes the incentive for users to police at their local level ; it allows third parties to construct undeniable chatlogs that they had no business in.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: what you propose : 1. friend to friend and unknown to unknown relations are the same thing.
mircea_popescu: currently : 1. friend to friend relations are entirely cryptographically secured. 2. unknown-to-unknown relations are not secured, and must proceed through a friend of either party to even happen.
mircea_popescu: as in, why add clunk that actually harms and hinders, except to perpetuate what we generally agree is a harmful meme.
mircea_popescu: but you disagree with the implementation of ewxactly this ?
mircea_popescu: blacklisting doesn't work, and whitelisting should be done locally, and responsibly.
mircea_popescu: you understand this ? nobody can police a list of 2bn ip addresses.
mircea_popescu: i dun see how any of these are serious avenues to attack gossipd.
mircea_popescu: now, why shouldn't this be the situation to everyone ?
mircea_popescu: as far as i recall, for as far as my own chatlog is concerned, it took them exactly an hour longer than it took me to decide it's enough.
mircea_popescu: in practice derps never manage this, if we're to go by history, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: ok, i frown at your friend, he demures, i delink him, you both are out.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform then you piss me off, i frown at your friend, you're out.
mircea_popescu: artifexd i ended up referring to your project as that.
mircea_popescu: i just meant, generally. i dun care for what, trying to see how this works in practice.
mircea_popescu: for my curiosity, people who run torrents : how many connections is common ? 10 ? 20 ? 40 ? 80 ? 160 ?
mircea_popescu: doubt it tho, seeing how many they are and how ignominously they labour.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actual pedo irl yes. among the online scum that makes up a good chunk of the "bitcoin community" on places like forums etc, common enough.
mircea_popescu: seems to me on the contrary, it's just "random redneck doing various shit online like scams and pedophilia got nicked"
mircea_popescu: artifexd the roland freisler of our times, preet bharara. crown's prosecutor for southern ny / rico conspiracy lynchpin.