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mircea_popescu: Oct 11 21:39:07 <assbot>[MPEX] [O] [O.USD.C131T] 685 @ 0.32277052 = 221.0978 BTC [-]
mircea_popescu: fractal i don't have a choice, im passive in the matter.
mircea_popescu: actually the most read article is "cum se suge pula", a cocksucking guide.
mircea_popescu: and since that particular crew is petrified of crazy mp.
mircea_popescu: anyway. i ended up getting a court order so extensive they ended up having to a) issue me a special made document, as in, without expiration date and b) modify their regulations.
mircea_popescu: i never had trouble importing ass. that's easy to explain.
mircea_popescu: computers, pizza ovens, trucks, what's the big difference.
mircea_popescu: well their idea is something like... oh computer programming ? sure, we got this guy, he took a six months java course.
mircea_popescu: yeah, something like, "I want to hire X guy, give him a work permit". "we won't, because X guy could be replaced by local labor" "stfu"
mircea_popescu: most notably we had a dispute as to whether a foreign worker's qualifications are to be evaluated by its employer or the bureaucrats.
mircea_popescu: dub you know, i'm probably the only one here with actual experience at successfully suing governments. what's easy is to elevate one's not particularly relevant experience to some sort of end-all story of the world.
mircea_popescu: i suppose the courts look a lot different if you regard them from the priviledged end than from the business end.
mircea_popescu: there's never going to be security that "actually works" in the sense of bringing you santa back.
mircea_popescu: must actually work != satisfy inept preconceived notions.
mircea_popescu: what are they gonna do, punish you by paying for your three meals a day ?
mircea_popescu: i get tons of emails requiring all sorta crap all day long.
mircea_popescu: generally speaking, people can require anythning they feel like. the internet is full of derps requiring shit.
mircea_popescu: dub : <dub> praps we should all move to romania <mircea_popescu> you certainly should all move out of the us, if there's no more 5th.
mircea_popescu: in other news, i am currently eating taliban cookies, i wish it entered into the permanent record.
mircea_popescu: that'd be a sight, criminal contempt ordered in a criminal proceeding against the defendant who pleaded the 5th.
mircea_popescu: you certainly should all move out of the us, if there's no more 5th.
mircea_popescu: there's a reason people engaged in fencing stand sideways. and they all do it, because even if awkawrd and lulzy a stance, it is more secure.
mircea_popescu: security is, in the end, the job of minimizing exposure.
mircea_popescu: also, whole disk vs file that was being processed. also very different payoffs.
mircea_popescu: again different windows. "computer being on" vs "that second right after he's typed a pw"
mircea_popescu: re-reading the thing i gotta give it to dub... he kinda has good points.
mircea_popescu: jurov ostensibly they can just shoot you, too. hardly part of the discussion i guess.
mircea_popescu: we can agree that wearing a maillot is kinda like being dressed, except if it gets wet, or if it gets flashed or if there's a black light etc.
mircea_popescu: they may be more convenient or profitable or w/e, but they're still qualitatively different.
mircea_popescu: nanotube yes, we can. but we'll have to agree that while some things provide absolute protection against the attack vector, some other things provide partial protection.
mircea_popescu: you're not making his case for him in any circumstance.
mircea_popescu: Bunnyh in most free countries it's enough to say it's nobody;'s business what you kee pthere and the da can either make a case or get lost.
mircea_popescu: circumstantial evidence, of the weakest sort. i'll just point and laugh at you.
mircea_popescu: "your honor, we know X talked to Y. therefore X did it" ?
mircea_popescu: nanotube it's basically an antivirus product. it's good to have for your girlfriend, so it keeps the system sorta-above water.
mircea_popescu: nanotube nope. recall, im the guy using his real name in the bitcoin space.
mircea_popescu: i mean i get it, it's lazy cvasisecurity. grand. may work well in many cases. i don't want it in my airgapped machine.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, in good old unix fashion, a partition is a file anyway.
mircea_popescu: nanotube as long as it's not bootable, perhaps it can be well implemented.
mircea_popescu: ftr, im not saying fde will never work. it may eventually work. we're not there yet.
mircea_popescu: 's convenient in some cases. you have to appreciate we were discussing a specific rthing, ie, making an airgapped machine.
mircea_popescu: dub well sure, but it still is a smaller burden. smaller burden wins.
mircea_popescu: otherwise we're back to yadda yadfda, you can't say faith healing doesn't work.
mircea_popescu: this is why you need experts : so they make definite statements in places where the common sense seems lost.
mircea_popescu: without going into all the ways truecrypt is broken and etc, which i don't feel i have the energy for
☟︎ mircea_popescu: file level encryption makes a less burdensome requirement.
mircea_popescu: basically, in the simplest of terms : fde requires key be available for the os at all times the disk is in use.
mircea_popescu: how the hell are you going to boot an encrypted disk ?
mircea_popescu: ok, let's make it simple : do you agree that in order for your system to be safe it has to be powered down, whereas for gpg to be safe it doesn't have to be powered down ?
mircea_popescu: it's just nonsense. to be able to boot you will have to at some point trust the machine. that's all.
mircea_popescu: i can just steal your key from the boot in a variety of different ways, also from recently powered down systems,