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mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves anyway, if it makes you feel any better, burnside's "buyer" was more fluff than anything.
mircea_popescu: actually i guess there's two clear sets of female made-up names : the stripper type and the customer service rep type
mircea_popescu: imagine if the original inglebert humperdinck was trying to get hired.
mircea_popescu: "o hey valua... wanna go for drnks ? i'll buy you all the khalua you can put away"
mircea_popescu: they're not even trying anymore, naming these is like namig cars.
mircea_popescu: burnside knows better than anyone, he's an ex car mechanic or w/e, so it's to be understood.
mircea_popescu: in the end, same story as their mother : -50% in half a year.
mircea_popescu: <Dimsler__> cause btct was the only legit one <<< so they said.
mircea_popescu: lol ThickAsThieves you should have ofered 404 satoshi :D
mircea_popescu: like, you gotta feed her, house her, maybe even clothe her, at least after a few months.
mircea_popescu: fun fact : the marginal cost for an extra girl is about 4k/yr for me atm.
mircea_popescu: my ten year old non-gps phone without special sounds or bs charges just fine
mircea_popescu: and this is why i buy old models intended for the african market.
mircea_popescu: people'd be like "wtf does He foot dog went backwards air eloped mystical donglebunch." ?!?!?!
mircea_popescu: so turn the privkey into a diced novella, print it, keep it around. w/e.
mircea_popescu: two machines connecting is no threat to either's airgap, provided the other's not going online
mircea_popescu: afaik if you don't have the right qty it tells you to fuck off.
mircea_popescu: davout well that's the point where you find what assets you have.
mircea_popescu: like you now use key a, and spare is key b. after each stat for each asset push x to b signed and stored.
mircea_popescu: and it's better in that i don't even need to verify anything.
mircea_popescu: that way, even if you lose your key you can wipe your account for later.
mircea_popescu: mike_c if you're really paranoid you can locally generate and sign pushes after each stat.
mircea_popescu: well ideally i should hope not, or else wtf, "which pill would you like to take today, mr j"
mircea_popescu: imagine if hospitals were run on the principle of whether the customer was happy.
mircea_popescu: happens to be the correct line to hold, so... whatever, they'll have to get it out of my cold dead hands.
mircea_popescu: rs cloud services that many startups rely on to host their data. My startup, Droplr, is completely based on Amazon’s stack, from using EC2 servers where we host all of our technology to S3, which we use for file storage. This attacker had access to all of it. I was extremely lucky that in his rush to gain access to @jb, he didn’t think to check if my account had anything under AWS.
mircea_popescu: The scary thing was that I only thought of the true implications of this attack days later. As I was contemplating what had happened and how I could prevent it in the future, a very frightening thought occurred to me. This attacker started with Amazon because he knew that a commerce shopping site’s customer support would be relatively easy to convince and use to gain access to my account. However, that same site offe
mircea_popescu: this has a lot of implications for noob bitcoin devs btw
mircea_popescu: i dun recall who originally posted that coupla days back
mircea_popescu: "could we have the last 4 digits of your address which is also your private key ? don't worry, we'll keep the rest secret nothing could possibly go wrong"
mircea_popescu: the future of cryptography as seen @nsa, microsoft, etc : rot13 chain!
mircea_popescu: then go "o oops, what you mean we said we'll turn off miners ?!?!"
mircea_popescu: instead of ppl ordering ? they napkin-doodle what they want
mircea_popescu: you can dumb the genblock just by quering the altcoind
mircea_popescu: tbh i'd be very surprised if in fact he's scamming you.