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mircea_popescu: this is plowing with chickens.
they work for a year at a
time not for a
two hour stretch ;
then you got a business.
mircea_popescu: review
the problems of running mines in
the us cca 1800. dumbass minersd want
to work a week and visit a brothel.
mircea_popescu: it's entirely a social-media
thing. boys "program" exactly like
the girls "are popular"
mircea_popescu: the reason
they're not programmers is
that
there's no useful value in programming.
mircea_popescu: there's MANY flotillas of sad shoe makers /
tailors etc.
mircea_popescu: but
that's because living on
the sea sucks, not because
the ships suck.
mircea_popescu: flour also keeps ; esp at sea.
ten
tons will still only cost you a few
thousand dollars, who cares.
mircea_popescu: it works better if you have half a dozen slavegirls with you ; buy
ten
tons of flour, have
them make bread each day
mircea_popescu: they'll deliver. you just buy your sprat by
the pellet rather
than by
the box as now. it keeps./
mircea_popescu: hey, i had
them deliver 2
tons of water by hand ;
the whole purchase was a few hundred bux.
mircea_popescu: you got a crane or
two. get people
to bring you supplies by boat.
mircea_popescu: if you buy a newish one at a fire sale/bankruptcy proceeding
today ; you will die before it dies.
mircea_popescu: too expensive
to drydock. cheaper
to melt and make new one
than "fix".
mircea_popescu: unlike
the kickstarter lolrlov nonsense.
they exist, and
they float. nobody asks you
to go from vancouver
to huangzhou.
mircea_popescu: time
to buy your ship if you're serious.
this unique circumstance in human history will never repeat.
mircea_popescu: "And honesty's against all common sense: men must be knaves, 'tis in
their own defence. Mankind's dishonest; if you
think it fair among known cheats
to play upon
the square you'll be undone. Nor can weak
truth your reputation save:
the knaves will all agree
to call you knave."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so basically
they
took
the windows pill.
trinque: so NSA is favoring
Trump or what?
shinohai: "An unknown individual using
the encrypted privacy
tool
Tor
to hide
their
tracks accessed an email account on a Clinton family server,
the FBI revealed Friday." <<<< bwahahaha
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no i mean, i nthe context of keys.
they're still
the same damned
thing, what "2"
mircea_popescu: is
this what
they call
the police arresting
the key people of
their child porn ring ? "attacked by
terrorists" ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just making it plain for
teh log readership.
mircea_popescu: because if we discover
that say "thisfunction is used on 64 bits of input of which
the first 44 are known" ;
then we run
the other 20, add
the resulting nextprime etc add
those into
the 8ball and it's goodnight.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: considering we have millions of keys, and considering
the sort of shenanigans we've seen currently, including werner koch's gpg subversion most recently ; it would not be inconceivable at
this point if a good chunk -
thousands, hundreds of
thousands of keys can actually be factored once we figure out which exact 20, 30, whatever bits are actual entropy , and how
the nextprime is chosen on
the basis of
that.
mircea_popescu: to be clear here : if
the keys are generated out of 16 bits of entropy ; and if
there are 65537 keys ;
then necessarily
there will be at least one weak pair, and in practice more
than half ; all of which will be cheaply hacked apart by phuctor's method.
trinque: people do
the strangest
things.
mircea_popescu: but at
this point it wouldn't be much surprise if
there were, honestly.
mircea_popescu: trinque his idea was
that it's worth checking if
there were ; not necessarily
that
there are.
trinque: but it does not immediately follow
that
there are any authorized_keys set or determine where
they were generated if so
trinque: asciilifeform: yes I know what
that means.
mircea_popescu: yes,
the people with shitty opsec are never a
tiny fraction of any group ; even if we don't meet
them often
mircea_popescu: trinque depends on setup ; sometimes nat people do
this. gotta remember we're
talking of a
tiny fraction of
the space here.
trinque: all
the networking gear I've seen didn't ship with any authorized_keys filled in
trinque: I am on a
terribly laggy connection, but people
there can be understood as "manufacturers"
trinque: asciilifeform: people generate
their ssh privkey on
the box *to which*
they're connecting?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but
they are derps because impotent, not because "mp hates
them"
mircea_popescu: yes, it could have, at any point during
the past year, been a significant way for
the derps
to contribute ; and very cheap for
them.
mircea_popescu: and you can ask / say whatever you want, idiot runs on own code and ain't
taking outside input.
mircea_popescu: meaningless flailing about what "we haven't proven" however, ie,
the ONLY
thing
they may not do in
their situation,
that
they come up with qs.
mircea_popescu: somehow
the "here is
the code i compiled
to run
to obtain
that result" is not obviously
the ONLY
thing
they may do in
their situation.
mircea_popescu: NONE of
them produced
the fucking software. all of
them produced various versions of "oh, you owe us
things"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
that's much iffier because as you've seen in
the field,
the idiots who are idiots once are going
to be idiots forever
mircea_popescu: ie, if paul biggar weren't a
total idiot, he'd be here doing
this.
mircea_popescu: get a "cloud" of likely primes, much in
the way "artificial intelligence" works.