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mircea_popescu: so whenbever he was putting dough into something dubious he really wanted to succeed, he used the former pile for it.
mircea_popescu: because he believed the latter is much more likely to "go" to similar "business"
mircea_popescu: he meticulously avoided mixing "earned" moneys with "bezzled" moneys
mircea_popescu: i knew a guy like this, was hysterical. had a bookie biz, old skinny guy, megasmoker, huge glasses
mircea_popescu: he probably paid some debts, got a coupla girls for a long weekend and that was it.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo actually, i suspect you're right. there may be two of them, an old sculptor guy and a teeny pictor.
mircea_popescu: i didn't get to read it yet, because well... i got this endless list of reports to look through yet.
mircea_popescu: anyone feeling like building a db of name frequency in romania can simply wget and grep and awk that.
mircea_popescu: ;;google site:trilema.com rezultate la bacalaureat sesiunea
mircea_popescu: romania uses a bacalaureat thing, you're not an adult until you pass this exam,. coupla years ago the romanian ed ministry refused (cause inept) to publish the list of results online. and so some people hacked their db and i published the results.
mircea_popescu: keonne actually, here's a story followed by fun trick :
mircea_popescu: the first name isn't quite keonne, but it's a sort of hm.
mircea_popescu: this is why bitcoin will rule all fiat : those people can't even keep up with the obvious conspiraci theories.
mircea_popescu: tbh im kinda surprised teh tradepress isn't howling all about "in january, 'Bitcoin Baron Keeps a Secretive Open Source OS Alive' ; in april, nsa's crown jool is thrown in the dirt of the public space."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but yeah, the jims and johns of this world will need cuneiform or w/e
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo keonne i must admit tho, it's two hours' work on my part and years on the part of mr cody, the folklorist that collected my base material.
mircea_popescu: you know, i was kinda rooting for the tramp stamp to become rfid govt id.
mircea_popescu: so talk to whoever's in charge of doing these things there, and have him give you something that's both a) a good answer and b) that they can make public.
mircea_popescu: dja understand what i mean ? it's not just some random attack, it's any and all attacks this creates undue vulenrability to.
mircea_popescu: keonne point is : if block signatures and block contents aren't checked against each other, your design is incredibly weak.
mircea_popescu: it got a few people, myself included, raising eyebrows
mircea_popescu: you mean btc. which as we've meanwhile established, isn't money :D
mircea_popescu: keonne so how did the correct signature but bad content thing work earlier ?
mircea_popescu: much unknowns of many flavours in this swamp we live in
mircea_popescu: keonne they don't make you eat own dogfood at bi-wallet ?
mircea_popescu: also in the news, matonis "definitely not a stooge", as per matonis.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "To understand this by repeating this, only 20 members have posted on the Big Rock Candy Foundation 's forum in the last six months."
mircea_popescu: bounce they may not be exactly right. this will take a lot of work.
mircea_popescu: talk about a product that owns its market. the french f1
mircea_popescu: this is promising. ty chan, and let it become part of the permanent record : more has been ruined by convenience than by any other sin.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this suddenly makes tor significantly more useful. at least for a few weeks.
mircea_popescu: bounce maybe you're the last guy on the internet that hasn't made copies.
mircea_popescu: question is who were the idiots and who were the patsies.
mircea_popescu: Naphex all the poor souls arguing with me over tor's safety a few months ago. awww.
mircea_popescu: the point here is that this attack spent most of the past two years unknown.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony there's many ways to mitigate a known attack, by the very definition of "known".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: stumbled across it by accident. << haha mike_c you be famous nao.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony mike_c was liveircing wowmoments with it earlier too
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know you're in the footnotes for that reason :)
mircea_popescu: but since you can in principle repeat it indefinitely it's in principle anything.
mircea_popescu: at this stage i don't see how any negative statements can really be made.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic this, ~as far as we know~ is probably true.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic "There is no total of 64 kilobytes limitation to the attack, that limit applies only to a single heartbeat. Attacker can either keep reconnecting or during an active TLS connection keep requesting arbitrary number of 64 kilobyte chunks of memory content until enough secrets are revealed."
mircea_popescu: tg2 afaik pfs is so rare you might as well call it exotic
mircea_popescu: tg2 the process memory for the process running the openssl code
mircea_popescu: or into how things such as the vidcard can be leveraged for this purpose./
mircea_popescu: let's not even go into what exactly "process memory" means on windows
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic actually, it's pretty much all the memory. in 64k chunks, yes, but trivial to map it all out.