asciilifeform: any attempt at proceeding in the absence of said theory, is guaranteed to give you a 'it seemed clever and unbreakable to ME!' idiocy, a la aes et al.
asciilifeform: the fundamental boojum preventing anything like a rationally designed blockcipher-hash-prng , is that we do not actually have a theory of average-case problem hardness.☟︎
asciilifeform: ( and it is entirely conceivable that some variation on the theme of bbp's function will give you a fast search for 'where in pi might this fuzzy match be' and the like )☟︎
asciilifeform: indices into pi, e, sqrt(2), whichever, are just the same obscurantist voodoo as any other approach.
asciilifeform: none of these items -- exist; nor is anything resembling an approach to them, known.
asciilifeform: and trivially is same as 'good prng'.
asciilifeform: get this, 'they should have known' that it was a usg wash trade to pump ethertadrium price, and simply sat there, not, horror, matching it
asciilifeform: 'Given the “stark difference between the abnormal rate and the actual market prices of bitcoin and ethereum on April 19”, B2C2, which Quoine called a “sophisticated” investor with experience trading virtual currencies, should have suspected the “abnormal rate” was a mistake. '☟︎
asciilifeform: 'It said the glitch arose because it was reconfiguring passwords for its critical systems to fend off persistent attempts by hackers to break into its systems.'
asciilifeform: 'Quoine in turn claims that B2C2 is “being opportunistic and seeking to profit from a technical glitch” It said the trades were “inadvertently” executed at the “abnormal rate of... 10 bitcoins for one ethereum, which was approximately 125 times higher than the actual market price of ethereum on April 19” because of a technical glitch.'
asciilifeform: y trades with huge mark-up over fair global market price”, the suit said.'
asciilifeform: in other lulzies, https://archive.is/ImVWv >> 'An electronic market maker is suing Quoine, one of the world’s major bitcoin exchange operators, over trades that were allegedly wrongfully reversed... series of trades on April 19, resulting in B2C2 paying 309.2518 ethereum for 3092.517116 bitcoin.... But the next day, the trades were reversed by Quoine... Quoine told B2C2 that it was entitled to do so because the trades were “mostl
asciilifeform: ( who recalls the thread in - iirc - '14, where mircea_popescu described how a chum of his came to usa, and tried to build a nonburning house, and Had Problems, went home in the end )
asciilifeform: ~all american houses burn like matchsticks, why is that particular one famous
asciilifeform: unless, i suppose, you are hruschev, and your travel is always by means of own battleship, it is flatly stupid to keep seekritz in places nosy idjits in foreign ports can easily get to, e.g. civilian baggage
asciilifeform: the heuristic is pretty simple -- d00d lives in plebelands, in cardboard house, works cardboard job, etc. and suddenly his bank balance grows a coupla decimal places ? bell rings.
asciilifeform: instead he took in a wad of electro-fiatola, which is instant alarm bell at nsa ( whole directorate, as described in 2013 leakz )
asciilifeform: 1 possibly interesting observation is that if the d00d had a btctronic means of capitalizing on his 'insiderism', he might still walk the big zone, unmolested
asciilifeform pictures davout as having the same job as the bear in old american cartoon 'tail spin', and so he dun have net access often from the old flyin'boat
asciilifeform: ( the other half of $idea, was that shitbox oughta be convertible to 'godly' os+env, mechanically, kvmlessly, (again with 0 notice to human on isp end), and without retaining 1 single byte of what was on the box when they gave you login )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: idea was, to automate, make it wholly mechanical part of moving shitbox providers on arbitrarily short notice (i.e. 0 notice to the one who's being ditched until ~after~ you've moved the contents)
asciilifeform: and presumably whole affair didn't last long enough to connect the hose and form arsemouthsystem
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: what i meant is, he likely had, say, 5k, to turn into 50; if had 10 - would turn to 100 etc
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: prolly limited by d00d's spending cash
asciilifeform: though quite the unsurprise, only goldmansachs et al can make legal profit in usaschwitz
asciilifeform: 'In a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said Todd David Alpert made $43,873 of illegal profit after learning of the proposed Heinz takeover while working as a dispatcher for the director, who sat on Heinz’s board for several years.' << lol!!
asciilifeform: well not same rag, lol, but opposite sign bit rag.
asciilifeform: jurov: aaaaaaand it's back. grab whatever tars you like, no need to buy anything.
asciilifeform: in other lulz, https://archive.is/k7sr8 >> '...106,000 foreigners suspected of being involved in terrorism and other crimes... The number of foreigners targeted under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act rose from 94,000 in fiscal year 2015...'
asciilifeform: ( not even speaking of the winblowz exes )
asciilifeform: jurov: recall when they were caught red handed infecting tarballs ?
asciilifeform: and the integrity of anything stored in shitforge is highly dubious
asciilifeform: if it dun exist in gentoo mirrors, it likely ain't of any use
asciilifeform: but no more leaving intact os+etc when leaving a hoster, by default. it is unhygienic.☟︎
asciilifeform: ( yes, enemy can have made sneak copy. let'im make, sweat. )
asciilifeform: this is 'birth'. 'death' of a box, is similar process, but in reverse gear, sends backup of block 0...N to operator, replacing each with null as it goes.
asciilifeform: when trigger is pulled, the sole possible operation of th cpu becomes : listening to nic for a sequence of (signed...) blocks, to fill hdd with, from lba 0 to N.
asciilifeform: as in, it dun matter what WAS running.
asciilifeform: the k mod , now, will do the rest of the work.
asciilifeform: process prolly would have to begin by copying over a little c proggy, compiling, then insmod'ing it ( so to stop multitaskism and disk fandango on victim end )
asciilifeform: takes a root shelled box, and formats hdd, emplaces, e.g., gentoo, blockwise.
asciilifeform: might be interesting to make a rawblocks version of this
