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mircea_popescu: if
this results in a patch
to
the kernel of w/e jurov's server is using...
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jurov: why must
this always happen
to me?
jurov: EATS
THE
TRAILING NEWLINE
☟︎ jurov: guess what python does with
this?
mircea_popescu: rithm: it's cryptowall now and from what i can
tell it's infected sites like mom & pop's ruinning old WP/drupal/some CMS <<< yeah, stuff
the shitheads in question don't maintain,
then i have
to answer biweekly questions of "is qntra down". off with
their heads i say!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "Windows 2000, Windows 7, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows XP", we should probably hire
this man.
mircea_popescu: joecool: poweliks is a really interesting infection
that often pulls in
the cyperlocker ransomware,
that hit
the wild a couple months ago << look at
that, someone
took
the
trouble
to make a
trojan
that works on all windowses
to date ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: gotta love
these idiots. when'll somebody edit, rather
than simply wiping,
the case files ? <<
the one
time you'll never hear about it, because how would you.
mircea_popescu: so basically, until he marries kim kardashian, stan will be pretty much going on with whatever it is he's doing
today.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: let's put it
this way. a pile of usd without at least seven or eight decimally-significant zeros
trailing after it, would make absolutely no difference
to how i live. <<<
this is like...
the definition of poverty!
BingoBoingo: The good reloadable prepaid cards even allow you
to write "checks"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: jurov: except
that i can't use paper usd for anything << do what
the soon-to-be-"protected" folk do, use a rechargeable prepaid card lol
mircea_popescu: in any case, nlocktime is ulterior on
the flow of entalpy
to
that kafkian point where shit went weird, identified retrospectively.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: mircea_popescu ^^^^^ < at
this level it is difficult
to distinguish simple idiocy riding on featuritis (because nobodies wish
to get a place in
the sun, and absent actual skils what better avenue
trhan
the pretense of adding value ?) and actual malice as oyu describe.
chetty: <mircea_popescu>
this "innovation" is
the fucking
thing bitcoin was made
to kill.//so
they make a lot of messes,
thats how kiddies learn and once in a while something useful actually gets invented
mircea_popescu: mrjr:
thestringpuller: i'll work on getting my creds in order :) meni rosenfeld is one of our investors, and our cto Shaul Kfir was a reviewer for
the sidechain paper. <<< myewah,
the surprises keep right on coming
mircea_popescu: this "innovation" is
the fucking
thing bitcoin was made
to kill.
mircea_popescu: motherfucker someone made a clear "here's
the water, here's
the flour"
thing so it's simple and obvious, all sorts of derps come up with all sorts of "improvements" consisting of various doughs. "it stores better as canned frozen dough with our magical chemicals
than as simple flour! and you can make
things!"
mircea_popescu: mrjr:
there's edge cases with malleability etc, but
the benefits are
that bitcoin operations can have
their coins kept in a
tx form, not as
the information of
the privkey <<
this is so braindamaged i can'teven be bothered.
saifedean: he keeps
trying
to recruit me
to work with him, and i keep
trying my best
to bluntly explain
to him
that his whole
thing is going
to a giant fat zero, and
that
the best outcome possible for him is
to lose only all his money
mircea_popescu: mrjr: multisig is useful
to protect access
to privkey, by splitting
the power of moving funds
to 2+ entities. we pre-sign
transactions, nlocked in
time, and discard
the private key. <<< and i know
that you do because... you say so ?
saifedean: i'm not
too bothered, i don't
think he'll muster more
than $100 in "investment"
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saifedean: so
the arab bitcoin space is growing up so fast... we are getting our own scamcoin
mats_cd03: mircea_popescu: who are
the
three
this
time?
mircea_popescu: ironically,
they
today as
they back
then were "the enemy" strictly because
they do not wish
to understand or submit
to
trade, and instead seek
to insulate against it. as if.
mircea_popescu: just like
the original did, among
the french germans and latins.
mircea_popescu: in any case,
the plurality is beneficial. serenissima foreign policy is
to continue helping along
the numerous and growing breeches among
the
three
mircea_popescu: he's definitely just as much an enemy as
the wily putin, who clearly understands what bitcoin is all about, and is fighting it more efficiently
than
the us.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform:
there is precisely one enemy. but with many
tentacles. <<< one you see now. once china's idiotic mr Xi shows up you'll be of a differing opinion.
that fuckwit came up with a "war on corruption"
that includes
the
theory
that conjugal infidelity is both a sign and a symptom of graft.
this is what
they do over
there now, prosecute cocksuckers & sluts.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: hence,
they add up
to an act of sabotage. what probably amounts
to a hard fork
that 'no one' noticed. << i dun
think so, fwiw
mircea_popescu: i mean... look at it's
tail lol. what's it going
to do with
that improbable appendage ? how ridoinculous etc.
mircea_popescu: for a zoologiocal metaphor,
the man once bit by a scorpion will readily recognise
the "scorpion biting" as an activity
that
to
the naive may well look rather cute.
jurov: ;;later
tell Adlai your msg finally went
throught. it choked on not mime structure intricacies
mircea_popescu: kafka is actually famous for exactly
the ability
to render
this real situation in works of fiction. as you read
through
the castle or whatever, at some point you realise
this is all pretty nutty, but if you look back
to spot when
the nuttiness started...well... it didn't seem so at
the
time.
mircea_popescu: the naivity of contemporaneity, as it's called. hitler also seemed pretty reasonable
to plenty of people as far up as perhaps 1940, but
that's not preventing a current understanding of
the guy
to see him as pretty fucking broken as early as 1930
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: at
this point,
the enemy is enemy not simply because of what he does or may do, but because of what he has done and what he is. <<< well, at
the previous point
the enemy was not an enemy at all, just a bunch of derps. it's ony recently
that
trilema went from "power rangers"
to "gavin has
turned", and for a while
there prior
to
the 2013 debacle he was not even being
treated in concordance with
the idiocy
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: its a pretty neat feature for say senior
to give jr. allotments of capital at guarenteed future date <<
there are better solutions
to
this problem.
mircea_popescu: threat
to use federal law
to request information about
the FBI's deeply problematic understanding of national security
threats."
mircea_popescu: The FBI claims
that it cannot discuss
the case in open court "without damaging
the very national security law enforcement interests it is seeking
to protect." Instead, it has filed a secret declaration outlining its case. "This is an especially circular and Kafkaesque line of argument," Shapiro counters. "The FBI considers it a national security
threat
to make public its reasoning for considering it a national security
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mircea_popescu: assbot: Cloud&Heat is putting servers in homes and offices and
the heat from
them is free. << o look, one step closer
to
the bitcoin miner heating
tile element.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it's roughly
the difference between me not recognising X's
thinking as valid and me not recognising X's property as his.
mircea_popescu: as unintuitive as
this may seem,
these
two are actually different.
mircea_popescu: they should have found
that
tlds are of
the nature of national sovereignty and
that cannot be impinged upon by an us court.
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TLDs, US Court Rules - Slashdot
rithm: i can see how something like
this plus a ram scraper would be effective
joecool: it's simple but effective
tool
to pull in all sorts of junk,
the case i was called in
to look at was actually a POS system :-\
joecool: asciilifeform: poweliks by default runs a keylogger and is pretty candid about storing
the output in plaintext in a
tmp file
rithm: oic
there's now PE or even a filesystem object
joecool: i got called in
to look at an infection
that no
tool but combofix would pick up, combofix itself would not successfully remove it
rithm: so i need
to study
rithm: i review a lot of
the desktop stuff, not actually interface with it on
the frontlines
joecool: past 2 months or so it's been in
the wild
joecool: poweliks is much more simple, usually creates a binary in registry hides it with a null character and puts it in with something
that gets called up a lot (like
thumbnail cache)
rithm: in general i have run subscription based-packet filtering firewalls
to stop
things
joecool: it's been a long
time for me, but
that was
the most sophisticated and difficult infection i've seen, XP was hit really easy with it
rithm: i myself have not deployed my own nefarious variant of
that either, no
rithm: used
to see a good bit
tdss
rithm: i don't see a lot of
those infections
joecool: rithm: ever play with
TDL4?
rithm: so
the payload is a real basic
thing, modifying files. i hate it
rithm: so anything
the user has access
to, specifically filesystem permissions
rithm: the problem is cryptolocker runs entirely in
the user context
rithm: the story i hear is Nancy was checking vendor's site and
the next
thing she knows bam cryptowall
rithm: it's cryptowall now and from what i can
tell it's infected sites like mom & pop's ruinning old WP/drupal/some CMS
joecool: poweliks is a really interesting infection
that often pulls in
the cyperlocker ransomware,
that hit
the wild a couple months ago
rithm: i
think i've dealt with 5 of
those
this week
rithm: we returned it "fixed" never check ed
the client's docs
rithm: we never
tested
the docs,
the client brought it
to us and
tried
to hide or cleasn it up
rithm: i had an engineer reinstall windows on a cryptowall pc
this week and return it
to
the client