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mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves ya srsly ?! is this from your fractional pt thing ?
mircea_popescu: activemining isn't worth anything. him i have no idea, who runs it ?
mircea_popescu: naemsi what us crackdown dood ? it's a scam. forget about it.
mircea_popescu: i can't believe someone's even asking about that still lol.
mircea_popescu: it's trading slightly above the girl's estimation, what'd you hope ?
mircea_popescu: obviously whities could not have figured out on their own this brilliant "shift letters" technique
mircea_popescu: Although the parties had access to far better encryption techniques (Karim himself used PGP for data storage on computer disks), they chose to use their own scheme(implemented in Microsoft Excel), rejecting a more sophisticated code program called Mujhaddin Secrets "because 'kaffirs', or non-believers, know about it, so it must be less secure".
mircea_popescu: In 2011, Rajib Karim was convicted in the United Kingdom of "terrorism offences" after using the Caesar cipher to communicate with Bangladeshi Islamic activists discussing plots to blow up British Airways planes or disrupt their IT networks.
mircea_popescu: In April 2006, fugitive Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano was captured in Sicily partly because some of his messages, written in a variation of the Caesar cipher, were broken. Provenzano's cipher used numbers, so that "A" would be written as "4", "B" as "5", and so on.
mircea_popescu: _Neil to answer your original question : an judged escrow service. people could, in principle, use bitbet private bets to resolve disputes of the nature the rota was supposed to resolve.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the point you bring isn't without merit in any case.
mircea_popescu: sadly ips aren't impossible to fake, either, especially by a locakl attacker
mircea_popescu: well, IPs are difficult to fake. domain names not so. this is a thing of the internet, i didn't make it that way
mircea_popescu: someone craks the tls (which HAS been done), comes and mitm's bitbet with
https just fine
mircea_popescu: this is a point. the problem with
https is that it doesn't REALLY deliver that end to end promise.
mircea_popescu: i mean, youy have to realise, my technical involvement in bitbet is modest, i mostly do business stuff for it.
mircea_popescu: in principle you can edit your hosts file and avoid dns altogether.
mircea_popescu: you enter a pw when you create it, and only people with the pw can bet.
mircea_popescu: so basically is repackaged deb with some network rewrites ?
mircea_popescu: pankkake i know where the crazy character came from, too. it's on google results pages, after the url of results.
mircea_popescu: i dunno what sort of intel community this is, on pps. it boggles.
mircea_popescu: i would have just used a converter personally, but hey. sometimes you're stuck.
mircea_popescu: well in his defense, he might have been stuck with it on account of whatever the snowden bundle contained.
mircea_popescu: (i swear i haven't changed it since, but maybe you got a messy page ?)
mircea_popescu: "I downloaded and installed OpenOffice, a PDF reader" no srsly. this is ludicrous.
mircea_popescu: for the further record, any piece of hardware that was ever at any point in its life connected to the internet can no longer be used as part of an airgapped system. period.
mircea_popescu: " It's impossible to completely avoid connecting the computer to the Internet"
mircea_popescu: "The advice I shared included using Tor" for the record, that particular tidbit has most people involved in compsec scratching their heads at schneier.
mircea_popescu: “You are also reminded that any inappropriate remarks or jokes concerning security may result in your arrest” << teh us improves every day lol
mircea_popescu: i dropped the link as a response to your blog comment,
mircea_popescu: as prev discussed, those things are mostly a teaching tool. the same reason you don't race cars made out of legos, you don't use the openpgp smartcard for actual security.
mircea_popescu: bgupta because one of those is not particularly designed to resist attack.
mircea_popescu: that's an old article. in general your best bet is to lurk here and see what people say.
mircea_popescu: 's like nature channel with some bits of spice channel spliced in.
mircea_popescu: speaking of bitcoin finance, anyone here saw cannibal holocaust ?
mircea_popescu: here's a trilemma for y'all : either monucleosis or bisexuality.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bingoboingo jborkl_ by the way, someone should make a complete history of labcoin. like a post-mortem. all those juicy quotes in the forum and whatnot... splendid story for the future generations.
mircea_popescu: trilema lets you read like 5 articles a week or some shit. i forget exactly.
mircea_popescu: that link is only relevant in the context of a previous discussion we were having, re some other blown exchange.
mircea_popescu: MTBmanTT you have about siox month's worth of reading to get up to speed.
mircea_popescu: im like ya totally, first we build an oil press in the garage...
mircea_popescu: in unrelated news, i taught this girl to cook. she loves the power this gives her, so she tries to cook everything now. so for instance can't find halva ? "maybe i'll try cooking some!"
mircea_popescu: [17:56:39] shareholder3_ agree with da2ce7, its a different, larger market the new GLBSE would operate in
mircea_popescu: [17:56:26] shareholder2 really? satoshidice and bitvps look pretty legit to me