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mircea_popescu: the dns system is notoriously insecure, as proven by all the cache poisoning attacks etc.
mircea_popescu: in ssl, you acquire it on the basis that a third party says its ok, much like the dns system.
mircea_popescu: more importantly, using pgp-style tools you have a dedicated signature identification step. you somehow acquire my signature. such as, from me.
mircea_popescu: ssl only requires you have the server's public key. it's thus half a protocol.
mircea_popescu: not exactly and not just. think about it : gpg requires that i have your public key to send you stuff
mircea_popescu: so you can have within tor this plaintext protocol which nobody can identify
mircea_popescu: pankkake you don't understand reddit. ask it anything, it'll say the same thing : "i want sum gimme"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you don't understand the free market man.
mircea_popescu: why not just write the letters on top of each other and bne done with it
mircea_popescu: that's like the most illegible logo in the history of grafitti.
mircea_popescu: did you run out of pixels or what happened to that a ?
mircea_popescu: server may be down if they're dicking with it tho, so might have to retry later.
mircea_popescu: who knew, seriously. and how racist, chauvinist and everything that is.
mircea_popescu: turns out there's not an army of competent and dedicated people just waiting for the chance to make nice things for free.
mircea_popescu: well to their credit the 4chaners succeed a lot better than the redditards.
mircea_popescu: so now the contingent of highschoolers are telling each other stories about how cool they are on reddit.
mircea_popescu: spent their time being a shitty network back when everyone used stumbleupon and digg,
mircea_popescu: in the remainder 5ish years of lifetime it still has, nothing subversive will come out of it.
mircea_popescu: in its 10 year history, nothing subversive came out of reddit.
mircea_popescu: "Who else knows about your subversive projects?" herp.
mircea_popescu: the ridiculous thing is, they have the concept of "recommended". not like it's either depend or nothing.
mircea_popescu: then go around putting retarded dependencies in software.
mircea_popescu: people go fucking crazy over "having a car requires you having insurance"
mircea_popescu: there's no reason for -standard to depend on the updater being present.
mircea_popescu: there is no sane reason to require wget for -standard.
mircea_popescu: it will run just fine w/o wget, and w/o avahi, and without jesus fucking christ.
mircea_popescu: unrelatedly, has anyone ever looked into ubuntu packaging ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what i meant was, as long as you have a port open, it's open for nmap too.