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mircea_popescu: i'm just saying, a relationship of trust isn't a weakpoint per se. it can be a strongpoint.
mircea_popescu: trust is central to society, and to the continuation of teh species.
mircea_popescu: just because you're a shut-in doesn't mean the world can work on your paradigm.
mircea_popescu: in general commerce has always worked on the basis of reconciliation
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you read that excellent piece re base vs acid ?
mircea_popescu: you can to this day send orders to mpex via proxies no matter how dirty.
mircea_popescu: optimator recently we've had some practical testing of this.
mircea_popescu: the fact that one can still hack banks to this day is proof enough
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't seem to have much trouble buying a computer
mircea_popescu: nobody promoted you to the job of wire central clearance house.
mircea_popescu: optimator if you transfer money via wire you send it to your bank with instructions
mircea_popescu: and try to inject tyhem into trade as combuders or w/e
mircea_popescu: the chinese may make plaster things which on the surface look like computers
mircea_popescu: these parties, factoring in all their interests, and that the argument is simply a matter of degree: who should be given how much control, and by what mechanism."
mircea_popescu: "Participants in the DRM debate implicitly hold the view that the ownership of your operating system, your personal information, and your media is a complex, joint relationship between you, your operating system vendor, the authors of the applications you run, and the owners of any media that pass through that application. Prevailing wisdom is that the way any given software behaves should be jointly determined by all
mircea_popescu: optimator for some reason i don't see the problem you see ?
mircea_popescu: you give them yours they give you theirs as part of account opening
mircea_popescu: optimator you exchange keys when you start your relationship
mircea_popescu: optimator no but look, the very notion of identity, ie, the possibility to distinguish X from Adam
mircea_popescu: anything pretending to exist outside of a cryptographic identity is living in a state of sin.
mircea_popescu: the problem quite fundamentally is a pretense to have identity outside of cryptography
mircea_popescu: ideally your machine would come with a one disk onetimepad
mircea_popescu: i guess in the competition for "worst idea to date" they're all winners.
mircea_popescu: i mean when it was originally introduced it was like... fuck this shit, nobody cares, it's for some blog.
mircea_popescu: female circumcision makes comparatively a lot more sense.
mircea_popescu: actually tbh the "logged in" concept, rested on supposed sessionization of a stateless protocol is, imo, the most ridiculous idea of mankind to date.
mircea_popescu: i don't think she actually understood before what sessions are and how they work
mircea_popescu: anyway, as you say. mtgox does not talk to yubikey, it talks to teh computor.
mircea_popescu: "Edit2: I was finally able to log into my account and found an API key with full rights to everything. I never made one, wtf does this mean?"
mircea_popescu: my impression of the general truecrypt population is that they're not particularly more secure than average
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "TC gives you a false sense of security so its worse than no partition encryption."
mircea_popescu: "Then running your operating system on the other side of this brand new pile of shit. You are absolutely deluded, if not stupid, if you think that a worldwide collection of software engineers who can't write operating systems or applications without security holes, can then turn around and suddenly write virtualization layers without security holes."
mircea_popescu: "x86 virtualization is about basically placing another nearly full kernel, full of new bugs, on top of a nasty x86 architecture which barely has correct page protection."