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mircea_popescu: "you can't logically prove my complete awareness is incomplete and kinda unaware!1111"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo im pretty sure that's being taken care of.
mircea_popescu: check it out, realsolid (of solidcoin scam fame) is like... raising ipos and whatnot
mircea_popescu: my life would have been infinitely boring-er without bitcoin, for srs.
mircea_popescu: the funny thing, of course, is that he's following mp mandated policy TO SPITE ME
mircea_popescu: "As a stage of the launch will release password protected .rar files for important downloads, followed by passwords a time later."
mircea_popescu: as opposed to all the fakers with platform machine guns and anti tank missile launchers
mircea_popescu: so i guess the real gangstas are the people with daisies and red ryders in their mtv videos
mircea_popescu: benkay what's legit for jesus isn't legit for random fuckwit
mircea_popescu: you think that can be paid off on the backs of the five hundred old people with an actual need for it ?
mircea_popescu: cazalla that drug cost a 100 mn to create and 5 bn to market.
mircea_popescu: it's like the altchain of drugs, every fuckwit can cook it.
mircea_popescu: no, it's cheap. go to wherever the homeless gather where you live and ask.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what, it is cheap. cheapest thing on the street.
mircea_popescu: because it's better to fuck willingly than to get fucked ?
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids your notion that stuff going through the internet is ephemeral boggles me :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform by the way : have you considered this is probably a major driver for the altcoins ? do some secret messaging, in ten years nobody will exist with a copy of the blockchain anyway
mircea_popescu: and if it is, you can stuff bytes in altcoin block chain.
mircea_popescu: they won't KNOW it's you, they will however know it's none of the other schmucks.
mircea_popescu: if for no other reason then because it is probably feasible for the adversary to build a list of people and then cross names off
mircea_popescu: just finish each message with "next message in the form of lolcats"
mircea_popescu: there's a long distance from this to making "a meta-protective protocol" tho.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids this is a decent point, in that you'll both need to be on the same page.
mircea_popescu: well i have the converse problem : not sure how to make it clearer.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids so you're trying to gain some destandardization back. already a step in the right direction, but why do it this windows style.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids my general point here being that once you yielded to the adversary the identification of the channel,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the q was to see if it's during or post delivery that the threat begins
mircea_popescu: fine, call in to radio shows, have a modem buzzing in the background.
mircea_popescu: so you are trying to talk to identified entity X without anyone but X knowing it's you talking to them ?
mircea_popescu: i mean... i still dunno what you're trying to accomplish. talk to the entire world secretly ?
mircea_popescu: a protocol is exactly the opposite of exceptional means.
mircea_popescu: by its very nature this is a rare occurence, best handled by exceptional means
mircea_popescu: i don't need an entire networking protocol to do that, tho.
mircea_popescu: so the nsa knows i talked to a hooker. fuck them, i can post pics on trilema just as well.
mircea_popescu: instead of starting from weird edge cases, which then result in insane implementations that protect things that in the end don't matter.
mircea_popescu: think about what's likely to happen irl, when designing.
mircea_popescu: and can't be traced to a source... you're nuts, plainly stated.
mircea_popescu: but if you imagine random joe q person is going to spend resources to go through messages that cost nothing to make up