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BingoBoingo: The only REAL change in 2014 is now Google's
the Big Bad
benkay: exceptional
technical manager
benkay: i worked for one of
the perl greybeards who built and ran
the place for a while
BingoBoingo: It's nice, its familiar, and I understand
the culture
benkay: and slashdot ca. 2014 at
that.
BingoBoingo: I dunno
that
there could have been a better way
to get
that information.
BingoBoingo: The OpenBSD saved by MP got roughly 15x
the views
the Counterparties link did.
The
two slashdots were a valuable experiment in seeing
the crowd's view of Bitcoin as magic savior of geeks versus a functional
tool for use.
BingoBoingo: Eh, I might actually be
the only person who likes
the new Slashdot beta
benkay: here
today, gone
tomorrow.
benkay: what's
the rush, anyways.
BingoBoingo: benkay: Nice. I'm rather glad I reposted
that because
the first instance never got any
traction.
BingoBoingo: ;;later
tell mircea_popescu For a few years now, Business Week has been a Bloomberg owned concern. Basically just pushing Bloomberg stories a bit shitter and a bit later.
benkay: linked 'counterparty selection' again
today BingoBoingo.
benkay: the current
trend in behavior is
to just
toss your
two cents in as you read
through
the logs, directed at
the people making interesting comments
BingoBoingo: Apparently I missed
the discussion on US police
benkay: they probably won't allow me
to make commits on
the clock for much longer anyways.
benkay: oh if only i had
the
time
BingoBoingo: Next step might be running open Genera in a VM as your primary operating system and depreciating
the *nix
things
benkay: i have
too much
to do before i mature
benkay: went from 'scruffy *nix hacker'
to 'well-groomed software shop operator and smug lisp weenie-cum-*nix-hacker'.
benkay: maybe not,
though. i did a complete 180 on my personal image over
the past four months as our firm has gained
traction.
benkay: (my colleagues would gasp in shock if
they heard me opining about design)
BingoBoingo: Eh, it has aesthetic benkay,
the exact aesthetic
the designers of
the web wanted
benkay: for good reason,
too. while it's now free of
the cruft, it lacks any actual aesthetic.
benkay: nubbins` hates it,
though.
benkay: need
to deploy some capital against
the design
to get it just right, but i've finally ripped out all
the modern garbage.
BingoBoingo: Reading
the logs looks like I slept
through
the Journos
BingoBoingo: I
tend
to
thing Bitcoin
the
thing is proper, bitcoins
the unit of
the
thing not proper
Duffer1: he did, but Goat was going
to do his own
BingoBoingo: Duffer1: I
thought Smoothie had
the physical litecoins
benkay: ;;later
tell mircea_popescu is it bitcoins pl. noun and Bitcoin proper? or Bitcoins and Bitcoin?
Duffer1: is Goat around? whatever happened
to his physical litecoins?
benkay: ;;later
tell bitcoinpete or, you know, my name.
benkay: ;;later
tell bitcoinpete hey frere if you need pronouns for me feel free
to use my actual handle in
the future
toffoo: first missed asicminer div
today in over a year+
jcpham: please add no shitting in briefcases
to
topic
joecool: still doesn't mean I
think it's a great idea
to ship a product without a convenient simple auth system (easier
than carrying around a heavy armored briefcase), but yeah
ttyl :P
MisterE: like
they couldnt even likn
to
the study?
joecool: if it is missing while I am gone, I should be able
to revoke
the key in
the amount of
time it
takes
them
to open it
mircea_popescu: anyway. ima be off for nao, so we can
take shits in briefcases later :D
joecool: heh, you're correct a briefcase safe will stop a casual attacker while I
take a shit
novusordo: might be inconvenient at
times but one rarely gets robbed while relieving oneself
joecool: mircea_popescu: bolt cutters
to
take it and shouldn't be
too hard
top open in in
the right environment after
ozbot: High Security Portable Briefcase Safe by Corporate
Travel Safety (Free Shipping) -
Travel Safes - Co
joecool: mircea_popescu:
that is not practical while
traveling
joecool: but it's probably best
to never sleep
joecool: ideally you'd be able
to jam a pin in directly on
the device
to activate it but
this increases cost and size substantially
bitcoinpete: at least
the canadian bitcoins guy had someone
to blame,
the flexcoin guy was just like "oops, what happened? peace up, a-town down"
bitcoinpete: dexX7: from
the article you linked, second page
dexX7: bitcoinpete> from citizen: ... where's
that from? labeling historical btc losses in current exchange rate is stupid fud
joecool: ie. if you did leave your unlock key on a public computer it wouldn't matter unless
the attacker also held your device
joecool: mircea_popescu: except
the secret is worthless without
the
token, if someone had
that secret
they'd still need physical possession of
the device
joecool: mircea_popescu: don't do
that?
mircea_popescu: what if you accidentally leave
the string in paste buffer or w/e
joecool: mircea_popescu: when counter hits zero cannot sign anything, need
to nuke and generate new keys
joecool: mircea_popescu: i figured you'd say as much, it does seem
trivial
though
to echo a string into
the device before key generation, have it set a default counter
to 3, and require
that same string
to be passed
to
the device in order
to activate signing function
joecool: mircea_popescu: assuming i leave it out by accident
to go
take a shit or whatever, attacker can sign whatever he wants with it, i will know it happened later on when
the signature counter is incremented but who knows what he'll have done by
that
time with my identity
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: 21:09:35mircea_popescu:the jury in my head is out on
the entire
topic of bitcoin-backed ccs
joecool: the cardano seems ok if you can maintain physical security, it doesn't even
try
to stop an opportunistic attacker, i really don't see why it shouldn't have at least a simple auth system
bitcoinpete: from citizen: "Canadian Bitcoins is
the latest bitcoin exchange
to be successfully
targeted by
thieves. Japanese Mt. Gox was forced out of business last month after hackers successfully infiltrated
the exchanges’ security and stole as much as $468 million US worth of bitcoin." karpeles is a hacker now?
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: link fixed, just deleted
that last / and it fixed itself. and i
thought you'd like
the art bit.
bitcoinpete: asciilifeform: you're right,
the cardano isn't
the holy grail. but
teleportation still is. i've edited
the article accordingly.
mircea_popescu: flat fee. you give away a server ?
that'll be 100 btc.
mircea_popescu: so everyone knows not
to keep over 100 btc in hot wallets, and so every hoster has a serious incentive
to do security.
mircea_popescu: any hoster
that does
this, fined 100 btc. fixed flat fee.
mircea_popescu: "Rogers Data Centres
told
the Citizen
that it is cooperating with
the investigation, but
that
the security issue is not indicative of larger problems at its company."
dexX7: "Using only
the owner’s name,
the
thief was allegedly able
to ..." wow
Duffer1: You gotta read how
they compromised
the exchange
MisterE: I was sure aliens snatched it out of
the air :)
antephialtic: this is
the WSJ. guessing somewhere in
the ocean, however
antephialtic: "Australia Prime Minister Says Search Aircraft Dispatched
to Area, Expected
to Arrive Soon"
antephialtic: "Australia Satellite Imagery Locates
Two Objects
That Look Like Parts of An Aircraft"
joecool: mircea_popescu: if you look hard enough you can find any name in
the US, someone named
their kid Adolf Hitler a couple
towns over