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mircea_popescu: <jborkl> lulz, I just read the Trilema blog << there's like... i dunno, 7000 articles ? i doubt you read it all :D
mircea_popescu: i recall this is one of the recent noobs but can't place him
mircea_popescu: "This community being what it is (40% ex-SA trolls, 30% clueless idiots, 10% intelligent assholes, 10% blatant scammers, 5% psychopaths, 2% bored college kids, 2% eccentric entrepreneurs, 1% Phinneaus Gage, and 1% people who can't count)"
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla it kinda looks like google translate became a singularity and is now trolling me
mircea_popescu: "On your tenth anniversary, you will still be ten years ahead of the rest."
mircea_popescu: sorta like, why bother installing vi ? just make a file called vi and that's it, you have vi now
mircea_popescu: this is how they got involved with bitcoin too. by symlinking the Bitcoin symbol.
mircea_popescu: because wall street is this concept right ? which is accessible to them
mircea_popescu: "is there escrow for very large sums ? cause i could do it".
mircea_popescu: davout ya, so it'll lock it down at reboot. but the attacker installs a logger, then you reboot, put your pw in and then it reboots again.
mircea_popescu: yet in spite of being a bigger target thery've not been hit yet. something here is wrong.
mircea_popescu: mtgox doesn't seem like they have enough of a clue to get proper physical security of their servers in place
mircea_popescu: slush has been fucked over by both linode and ovh so far, as in, insider jobs.
mircea_popescu: like a top new york firm lawyer is an asshole and some tribal witch doctor in nigeria are both assholes
mircea_popescu: pp are assholes and mtgox are assholes, but quite different types of assholes i would say.
mircea_popescu: so the issue here is, paypal CEO actually got asked about bitcoin, actually said he's fascinated with it, ACTUALLY SAID they are considering moving over.
mircea_popescu: yes. one year later and with none of the key people/ideas/etc.
mircea_popescu: i only share bills and fines. i don't share the finer things of life :D
mircea_popescu: i was wearing bitcoin buttons and it sparked a conversation
mircea_popescu: i had sex with two girls up until 2pm because of bitcoin