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mircea_popescu: decimation: one gets the picture that usg 'leaders' think of themselves as being above such trivialities as secure communications << this is not as unlikely as itmay seem. at a time when caesar came up with the pgp of that time, most of the senate a) loled at the nonsense ; b) wondered which gods caesar was praying to to be that successful.
mircea_popescu: how does isis know the dushkas aren't really "gushkas" ?
mircea_popescu: that money only existed for as long as it wasn't put to work, much like buffett's billions worth of chewinggum empires
mircea_popescu: in any case, money and us dollars aren't fungible, and so no, nobody could ever have used the billions poured into cybersecurity for any useful purpose.
mircea_popescu: i can use my bitcoin to pay for a hit on obama. one can't even use his dollars in lumps larger than 10k, we don't even get to discuss the content because the form already trips us up.
mircea_popescu: so in this sense, thinking of bitcoin as even having a dollar value other than infinity is nonsense.
mircea_popescu: even if the coconut goes for ten trillion "dollars" on their island, and a sloop never costs 1mn
mircea_popescu: what they couldn't ever do, no matter what nominal value each coconut theoretically reaches, is buy a sloop.
mircea_popescu: in this sense, some guys stranded on a deserted island COULD build a coconut trading empire where they just keep selling and buying the same three dried old coconuts to the point where their imaginary "economy" far outstrips the whole combined world trade.
mircea_popescu: specifically, not in the loafer's nature to chance, he needs to be coerced. and not in the scrip's nature to coerce, it'd have to be hard money for that.
mircea_popescu: you could not get a single dolphin to fly, nor a single loafer to work, for an infinity in scrip. because it's not "in their nature"
mircea_popescu: this is exactly how soft money work : you can easily "spend" billions in scrip to get loafers to loaf around.
mircea_popescu: there's that quip about how it's easy enough to get women to do what they want to do anyway, getting them to do what should actually be done is the headache.
mircea_popescu: decimation: imagine if the billions poured into 'cybersecurity' were spent on constructing an actual secure terminal from first principles << there's a fundamental problem with soft, fiat, paper money, that it can't be used for arbitrary purposes, which is the very meaning of "soft" in their name.
mircea_popescu: so, look into the bank accounts of all those invovled, see who's made a little bezzlebucks they had no perspective of making in 2005
mircea_popescu: to the typically corrupt latter soviet system where that hero is a hero of the union.
mircea_popescu: all the asshole "lefties" for pay that helped the usg "react to" snowden have made money out of it. the old system where a "random hero" was selected to be held up as a fetish for the masses, "explaining" their poverty and justifying their pointless struggle is giving way, out of sheer exhaustion of resources,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: and the whole greenwald/poitras/etc shitgnome gang <<< very little has been made of this, but here'd be a great angle for investigative jouralism :
mircea_popescu: A spokesperson for Booking.com told Money Box the firm is working with police on how to prevent future phishing attacks. They declined to be interviewed.
mircea_popescu: "I want to know how this scamming company are finding out the reservation numbers, the dates, the contact details, there's a lot of private information there," she said.
mircea_popescu: cazalla "Qntra first began sounding the alarm in regards suspicious claims made by GAW Miners back in October of 2014 and despite these warnings, it has largely gone ignored until the past few days whereby it has exploded all over /r/bitcoin." dja mean qntra or gaw has been largely ignored ?
mircea_popescu: and this shouldn't be a point of discussion in that trial because... they know they'll lose ?
mircea_popescu: "views concerning the propriety of U.S. or international drug laws or the propriety of government regulation of individual conduct or commerce on the Internet"
mircea_popescu: Preet Baharara is himself specifically concerned that the defense wants to bring up:
mircea_popescu: also where it's headed. the entire "o we hate this that and the other" verbiage peripheral to energy generation today is entirely born out of abundance.
mircea_popescu adds Annie Yousar to the list of women in tech he likes.
mircea_popescu: unemployed actors have always been indistinguishable from bums. this for very good reason, without this mud on the pond bottom, no lotus.
mircea_popescu: basically, leading 0s / bad padding. not so much of a practical issue
mircea_popescu: "Because OpenSSL gently handles leading zero bytes in a private key, I'm quite sure that a correction of the EC key encoding has no impact."
mircea_popescu: decimation: it would probably be okay for dictating an email or whatever << this mostly exposes the unfounded belief that coding is for men while emails is for women. in point of fact, adding an extra byte error in some derpy code is irrelevant. for one thing, it would not be the only one. for another thing, it's just code. meanwhile, i shudder at the thought of byte errors in my emails.
mircea_popescu: undata: mats: was there some more specific strategy with the brick than "fuck this wrist..." ? << i also think the guy had the right idea. "when confronted with bullshit, escalate."
mircea_popescu: mats: then shadowban 90% of posters <<< can only shadowban 10% of users. because percents, and "new version of the world"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: mats: Maybe MP should stay on vacation? ;/
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: 'Please could we stick to the technical aspects of this problem. Attempts to apportion responsibilty rarely lead anywhere.' << immediately shoot in the head anyone saying this. help make the world a better place.
mircea_popescu: the problem with those being singularly that they diverge from the world.
mircea_popescu: except the usg is not a version of the world, it's merely a version of graham & co's beliefs.
mircea_popescu: he succeeded as an easy money usg moocher, which is i suppose something he justifies to himself as "being an expert in a later version of the world"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes "To some extent, yes. I spent almost a decade investing in early stage startups, and curiously enough protecting yourself against obsolete beliefs is exactly what you have to do to succeed as a startup investor." << yes, you miss the part where he never succeeded as a start-up investor.
mircea_popescu: decimation: asciilifeform: either from ore or paying the ransom required to get intel et. al. to completely open the design for a chipset <<< or else simply sony-ing it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: afaik every word of the history of the two koreas available in the english language, since the first days leading up to the war, is a cheap fabrication.<< in no way different from the same words available in juche language
mircea_popescu: i'd watch that, and that's the first entertainment sony ever made that i'd watch.
mircea_popescu: that'd be the lulz of all time tho, sony sueing microsoft for lost revenues etc.
mircea_popescu: decimation: no word on whether microsoft is going to be held liable for ridiculously poor engineering < :)))
mircea_popescu: and all the agents involved, as well as the plethora of idiots, will just duly update their cv to reflect their certified expertise and act as if you know, they know shit.
mircea_popescu: decimation: asciilifeform: I doubt there will be a 'day of reckoning' w.r.t. tor. it will just turn off and the derps will move on << pretty much exactly.
mircea_popescu: what will it do in 2025, when you will ostensibly still wish to eat ? to avoid daily beatings ? to not be fed, live, to specially prepared hungry pigs ?
mircea_popescu: how secure can one feel, as a mid range us bureaucrat, given these revelations ? the usg can not protect you, yo.
mircea_popescu: note it took them HALF A YEAR to figure out we actually do know where they live.
mircea_popescu: decimation: It's good that reporters apologize for asking questions, makes the situation clear for the little people <<< seriously, since when does the press EVEN GO to prepared statement and catering sort of affairs ?
mircea_popescu: the fbi as it currently stands has not the werewithal to extract itself from a paper bag. and i mean that literally, if i kidnapped them all and dropped them in rural kansas they'd prolly never make it back to headquarters.
mircea_popescu: that stuff happens once all the actual agents left, and the remaining bureaucrats understandably have no self respect or career spirit.
mircea_popescu: i mean, seriously. what agency in the history of that business would ever, under any circumstances, make such a ridiculous blunder ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform seriously, if this meta-nsa exists, how come the fbi is this impotent ?
mircea_popescu: "kakobrekla: On a good note, Judge Rakoff called me a brilliant visionary and that he admires my brainpower. #bitcoin" << shrem's retarded, basically.
mircea_popescu: im sure it'll work out so very differently from the first version, because yes, totally, people matter and their desires change reality.
mircea_popescu: so basically doge v2.0, because the fucktards must have a "moon rocket".
mircea_popescu: "Hey friends, reddit cryptocurrency engineer here. The post is deliberately vague about technology and legal. For one, we're holding back on committing to a particular technology just because the bitcoin world changes very fast, and we want to make sure we pick the right choice. However, almost certainly it will be either colored coins or sidechains."
mircea_popescu: "The nation would be well-served to elevate Bharara from the "Sheriff of Wall Street" to chief federal law-enforcement officer."
mircea_popescu: they even have the unmitigated audacity to add that violation of the indian diplomat on his cv as if it were a positive.