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Framedragger: basically matching identities by formdata entered on various websites
Framedragger: there were some tales circulating around HN about that, actually - wherein certain services offer websites to participate in mass user data agglomeration - so that when a user fills up a form on one website, (1) that form data can be autofilled on other, seemingly unrelated websites (via cookies); and (2) when the same user enters the same / uniquely identifiable data in another website even using another computer etc., that other website
Framedragger: yeah someone posted about nashx earlier, looks interesting
Framedragger: oh there are more interesting ones.. nice plots
Framedragger: can't be bothered to look up a nethash-vs-time plot somewhere online, could be interesting
Framedragger: well, new modular malware somethingsomething scaryscary
Framedragger: man i remember reading up on stuxnet.. that shit was fucking intense, targeting specific nuclear turbine models to make them malfunction and very slowly fail, etc
Framedragger: tbh his speech (afaik) has been very much distorted when translated - by nobody's to argue here
Framedragger: oh of course, by 'country X' i mean 'X state' - true
Framedragger: well yeah, but as i understand it, browsers etc have lists of CA key fingerprints etc
Framedragger: also (at least in syria) chopping heads off people posting pro-uprising messages on fb - sure it's about censorship.. to the most intense/grotesque extent
Framedragger: how many people check/bypass certificate errors
Framedragger: but i think they're actually being rather clever here.
Framedragger: it's a more subtle social approach, i get it - why use the slow youtube when i can use iran's fast youtube which also has pirate filmzz
Framedragger: get people to use youtube.ir, iran's version of gmail etc
Framedragger: speculation again (tor-dev etc): they're trying to discourage off-country services
Framedragger: the idea/speculation is, they are experimenting with things (iran is)
Framedragger: yeah if it's ssl, they can profile ssl.. if it's just bare tcp, sure it's more difficult true
Framedragger: so it can (allegedly) create 'standard traffic profiles'
Framedragger: *rambles about western companies selling off dpi equipment to authoritarian regimes*
Framedragger: iran's elections in a month, and they're experimenting with DPI filtering right now, etc etc
Framedragger: would be nice heh, but would still need hardware on their side to do teh communications
Framedragger: truff1es i think that's more about encryption.. in the end, you need actual fibres, or whatever physical medium to carry the data over.. and that's what's at issue in syria
Framedragger: someone asked, what would happen to syrian-based bitcoin transactions that were to be made offline.. :/
Framedragger: parseval: sure, just note that it's usually trivial (as in, perhaps only change the db configuration string in your app's config) to change the underlying DB (installing and starting a DB server with default config is also usually really simple) - but yeah, would be interesting to see your results eventually, good luck!
Framedragger: where responsive near-realtime APIs are built, etc
Framedragger: heheh, well if we are also worried about DB _querying_ though..
Framedragger: yeah, db design can turn into a fetish, unless it turns out significant optimizations are relevant to business strategy and whatnot
Framedragger: parseval: yeah i don't think sqlite is a good solution in terms of scaling. if you're using ORM abstraction, changing the underlying DB shouldn't be a prob, unless you're using some DB-specific functions. postgres is really nice for Shitloads of Data type of situations
Framedragger: eh, i've to import ~400gb of data into postgres, i do ORM commit every 100k inserts, it's actually quite fast :) (sqlalchemy orm abstraction). not really a problem
Framedragger: oh fuck it's may, i've to pay taxes in a week as well :(
Framedragger: i actually miss bitcoinica's type of web interface..
Framedragger: heh mircea, your dating 4chan site is interesting :D
Framedragger: um tbh one shouldn't link to cnn's ireport as a credible news source
Framedragger: one could write up a PoC and send it over to gox saying, 'look you are shit, disable this kind of activity like that: a, b, c"
Framedragger: has anybody tried this kind of thing on gox? it sounds really doable
Framedragger: bitcoin CVEs yeah, it's funny when folks claim there've been no vulnerabilities
Framedragger: haha for echo.. sounds like a php kiddie trying to do bash scripting or sth
Framedragger: part of the freakout is obvs sarcastic / intended, but yeah still
Framedragger: the issue prob is that gox admins do not come from that kind of background..
Framedragger: also: multiple exchanges / for different kinds of tradings - gox could block micro trades, others would fill the market. supply and demand, bitch
Framedragger: it's probably writtinen in rails all over the place, it could prob be 100 times as efficient :(
Framedragger: yeah this is so fucking insane. it doesn't sound like blocking / restricting mircotrading is even difficult. wtf
Framedragger: Scrat might be an interesting exercise heh, though yeah realistically, it's really fine
Framedragger: might make sense to be curling some very long gutenberg ebook txt while generating though heh
Framedragger: lol re: story, more media exposure for bitcoin i guess
Framedragger: yeah got updated on.. human affairs, can continue work
Framedragger: eh, i consider everybody to be on a sexuality continuum, but with very varying positions nonetheless ofc. but yeah no need to bring that stuff to workplace
Framedragger: dunno the context, but was probably hilarious + awkward
Framedragger: social stigma in UK unavoidable at the time, etc etc