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phf: is
that for password entry, or something else?
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2015 03:20:51; mircea_popescu:
the conclusion is remarkably not "pgp 2.x is a scam"
mircea_popescu: im gonna give out a whole milion eulora coppers. which are actually backed by more substance
than usdollars.
phf: and
to
tie it all nicely, latest muppet lab announcement,
http://isrl.byu.edu/506-2/ "Kent Seamons and Daniel Zappala received an NSF grant for Middleware for Certificate-Based Authentication.
This is a
three-year award for $496,900.
The goal of
this research is
to develop a
trust platform
that consolidates
the decision-making process into a single location
to provide a correct, consistent, and usable service for all existing and
☟︎ phf: disadvantage of key escrow is
that
the key es- crow server has access
to users’ keys, which is a recognized
trade-off
to get
the other usability benefits"
phf: from
the same muppets, "Confused Johnny: When Automatic Encryption Leads
to Confusion and Mistakes", "This paper gives an overview of Pwm (Private Webmail), our secure webmail system
that uses security overlays
to integrate
tightly with existing webmail services like Gmail. Pwm’s security is mostly
transparent, includ- ing automatic key management and automatic encryption." ... "A key escrow server handles key management. ...
The
pete_dushenski: as if waiting 4 hours in a stand-still parking lot after a 100`000 doods and doodettes clear a stadium wasn't disincentive enough
to stay at home and order pizza, moar sekoority should seal it
☟︎ pete_dushenski: "The NFL says it will increase security inside and outside its stadiums for Sunday's games,
two days after
the Paris
terrorist attacks." << lolwut. dear nfl: you're irrelevant. not even isis cares about you. don't waste your breath and your money chasing away your remaining fans by making irl games even MORE of a hassle
to attend.
phf: i've not looked at
the original why johnny can't, but after my recent in-depth exposure
to "conscientious programmers" rabbit hole decided
to look at
the paper's methodology. linked arxiv is a new addition
to
the subject, oct 29th
☟︎ BingoBoingo: Looks like Mizzou's whatever problems will resolve soon. 10 point lead with less
than 10 minutes on
the clock
pete_dushenski: 'if you see a fraud and don't call him a fraud, you're a fraud' (tm) (herr
taleb)
pete_dushenski: "Some derp at John Hopkins University, who calls himself a “Cryptographer and Research Professor” instead of
the more apt “USG mole.”" << lel. my footnoted description of mr. green.
mircea_popescu: the principal sleigh of hand here is
the implication, unspoken but universally pushed,
that you would want "automatic" encryption. ie somehow
the "standard" shouild be a "browswer extension" or other such crap.
mircea_popescu: "let's pretend like
the patently untrue bullshit we want
to push is not arbitrary but necessary"
mircea_popescu: phf it's research in
the sense "earth sciences" are research.
mircea_popescu: "(Let's not get into
the NSA's collect-it-all policy for encrypted messages. If
the NSA is your adversary just forget about PGP.)" << yeah, right.
THAT is why i read
their stuff and
they don't read my stuff, because i
take advice from john hopkins fucktards.
mircea_popescu: the only conclusion of
that piece of nonsense is
that Matthew Green must die. nothing more.
mircea_popescu: but "pgp is bad" which was
the entire point of
the 2.x branch of "developlent" in
the first fucking place.
mircea_popescu: "Except maybe not: if you happen
to do
this with GnuPG 2.0.18 -- one version off from
the very latest GnuPG --
the client won't actually bother
to check
the fingerprint of
the received key. A malicious server (or HTTP attacker) can ship you back
the wrong key and you'll get no warning.
This is fixed in
the very latest versions of GPG but... Oy Vey."
pete_dushenski: this disinfo is at least as old as Alma Whitten and J. D.
Tygar 1999. Why Johnny can’t encrypt: A usability evaluation of PGP 5.0. if not older
phf:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1510.08555.pdf "Why Johnny Still, Still Can’t Encrypt: Evaluating
the Usability of a Modern PGP Client". wtf is
the point of
these "studies"? "We elected
to
test Mailvelope, a modern PGP
tool, for our study. Mailvelope is a browser extension
that integrates with users’ webmail systems." "Participants were allocated sixty minutes
to com- plete
the study, with about 35-40 minutes spent using Mail- velope."
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2015 01:10:22; mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo if you feel like hunting down
the fabled papers
this insult
to culture has defecated upon
the language of his father's masters, i'd like
to hear a summary.
assbot: Logged on 14-11-2015 22:40:42; mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-11-2015#1324119 <<
there is a very strict limit for
testing, specifically
that you can't
test without reagent, and
the reagent must react with something. ergo every single substance
tested requires some blood. you can't
take eight pints out of athletes, much less infinity pints, so you can't
test for infinity
things.
BingoBoingo:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-11-2015#1324238 << Generally
they do urine. But yes can't
test for infinity
things, but
testers only need
to go
to reddit
to discover which research chemicals
the kids are eating as "dietary supplements."
There's actually a range of chemicals called SARMS going
through pre-clinical
to Phase III
trials as drugs being sold as supplements. God bless China.
☝︎ jurov: so far managed only rendering of
tables.. but starting
to like lisp already
jurov spent
the day porting his external brain (foswiki) from perl
to common lisp
pete_dushenski: the effect would benefit immensely from some snow on
the ground, which, incredibly, we don't have yet.
pete_dushenski: or what
to do when you have
too much money in
the public coffers and a lot of young families with jack all
to do on a saturday night
pete_dushenski: "Mayor Don Iveson will welcome Santa from
the North Pole,
to officially light
the 72-ft Christmas
Tree!
The
tree is adorned with 14-thousand LED lights, cascading snowfalls, sparkles, and stars. After
the
tree ceremony, a spectacular, fireworks show will light up Downtown skies."
pete_dushenski: "oh you want regular s-class ? 3-month wait. bullet-proof ready for pick-up
today, we have a lot full of 'em"
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: or bullet-proof box gets
ticked on mercedes order form a little more regularly
mircea_popescu: while
the aparatchicks shoot each other in
the street.
mircea_popescu: like "o noes, accidentally hercules carrying 200
tons of gold was downed by
the brave men of air defense".
mircea_popescu: but bitcoin is by its nature EXACTLY
the heroin usg individuals want.
mircea_popescu: the only impediment being
that nobody had made essence of jeans and
toiletpaper in weightless form, back
then.
mircea_popescu: the actual boulder of irony in here is
that if
the usg actually got
the stash, it'd crash it.
mircea_popescu: this ain't how
the
thing works. if it abhors anything, it's actual meat. for some reason.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, and
that's what
they'll make him,
too.
mircea_popescu: i'd rather work as an orderly at some establishment dedicated
to humor research on public moneys (also known as insane asylum)
than be a fucking professor in
the us.
mircea_popescu: so pervasive,
this braindamage. what higher aspiration a gentleman scholar could have
than
to be
trapped on a "campus" populated by monkeys unfit
to carry water.
mircea_popescu: who
the fuck, other
than indians 2nd generation in shoes.
mircea_popescu: "oh, if i
take a million bux and one plastic golden medal from
the nobel pocket and put it intop
the ucla pocket, someone's going
to
take it at face value!11"
mircea_popescu: i have no idea what strained whey must be found in
their brainboxes
to imagine someone actually gives half a rat's arse what
the usg CALLS
the moving of moneys from one pocket
to another.
mircea_popescu: but if it helps you any,
the secret production of
the river of meat is no more readable (or worth reading)
than its visible outpour.
mircea_popescu: i have
this pile of very secret derpage here including
the very expert "profile" of some random derp explaining how an elderly, principled gentleman is perhaps going
to react crazily
to
the crass injustice of
this entire scheme.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway,
the entire exercise shows you
that
the previously discussed reserve powers bother
the derps.
mircea_popescu: maybe
there's something juicy in
there like you know, plagiarism (for sure
there is), and like mathematica stealing of stuff from people (almost willing
to bet)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo if you feel like hunting down
the fabled papers
this insult
to culture has defecated upon
the language of his father's masters, i'd like
to hear a summary.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: they sure got
themselves a nice cozy stupid club going
there don't
they.\
mircea_popescu: been at ucla since 1988 (that's 27 years for
the mit-educated log readers), and what he has
to say for it is "oh, i heard of bitcoin recently".
mircea_popescu: apparently gotta burn
this hot iron of "if you lift your head up it WILL get cut off" into ever more ustardian lardass.
mircea_popescu: this guy did nothing his entire fucking life, outside of being a coolie for who
the fuck knows what highly placed usg libtard.
mircea_popescu: Professor Chowdhry is
the co-founder (with Professor Ivo Welch) and Executive Editor of a new publication Finance & Accounting Memos (FAMe)
that makes academic research more accessible for MBA and PhD students, journal"
mircea_popescu: Professor Chowdhry has recently proposed Financial Access at Birth (FAB) initiative in which every child born in
the world is given an initial deposit of $100 in an online bank account
to guarantee
that everyone in
the world will have access
to financial services in a few decades.You can read about
the initiative by clicking here..
☟︎ mircea_popescu: Microfinance has been his recent
teaching, research and applied interest. He has supervised several MBA student projects in Microfinance in
the last several years and has
taught an undergraduate seminar class and an MBA elective on
the subject. He has developed a new model for "Franchising Microfinance" on which he has written a research paper and is studying
the feasibility of implementing
the model with a Microfinanc
mircea_popescu: His research interests, on which he has published several papers in finance and economics journals, are in International Finance and Corporate Finance and Strategy. He has been on
the editorial board of a number of finance journals. He
teaches International Finance, Corporate Finance and Financial Institutions at Anderson. He has also organized and
taught Executive Education programs on Financial Derivatives, Corporate
mircea_popescu: Professor Chowdhry has also
taught at
the University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago,
the Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology, and
the Indian School of Business. He received his Ph.D. in 1989 from
the Graduate School of Business at
the University of Chicago. He also has an M.B.A. in Finance from
the University of Iowa and a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of
Technology.
pete_dushenski: i'm losing
touch either on account of family, internets, or... something. but a regular on 'the scene' is not me. not anymore.
pete_dushenski send
texts
to friends as
to last-minute sat night plans, got back "busy
tonight. free dec. 12!"
mircea_popescu: if you're nto going
to be beating
the monkeys into working, you'll be stuck
tricking
them, because
the cock ain't gonna suck itself.
mircea_popescu: hence all
the "do what you love" "work while you're sleeping" "you won't believe it's actually work not butter" etc.
mircea_popescu: yes, well, again :
this is how
this goes.
the entire point of "economy" is
the redefinition of work.