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asciilifeform: jurov: one of the reasons why cardano is that the host machine does not automatically know that a cryptographic widget, as such, is plugged in.
jurov: they can then easily migrate to using cardano
asciilifeform: verify, ok. sign/decrypt without human trigger pull - no thanks
jurov: i don't believe anything more is achievable while providing srvice to chumps
jurov: and use it to auth to the service and verify sensitive data it got back
jurov: but what i want to discuss, if we all can force users to install gpg browser plugin
jurov: it's sufficient if the sensitive server has minimal interface exposed to frontend and does not implicitly trust it
jurov: i don't think it's absolutely necessary consequence
davout: asynchronicity is merely a consequence of "the frontend doesn't know shit about where the sensitive server is"
davout: the best way to design security is IMHO to consider that you're already compromised, at least to some extent
davout: because if you work from the assumption that no frontend/app server will ever be compromised you're in for a world of pain
davout: that protects you against a compromised server too
davout: the GPG-signature and address generation can't happen on the web facing servers
jurov: you need to generate deposit addy asynchronously?
davout: jurov: the problem with showing the GPG data in browser is that said data would be generated asynchronously
jurov: if it is sound project, maybe everyone at #assets can push it for their projects
jurov: https://webpg.org/?view=downloads#ext-firefox hmmm but there is something
jurov: triyng to develop it would prolly be best way to let nsa goons to identify themselves :D
jurov: pity there isn't a plugin that can verify it, tho
jurov: you can show gpg signed output in browser, too
davout: imma replace bitcoin addresses displayed on the website by gpg-signed e-mail receipts for example
davout: maybe i'll end up using them if i can make sure nothing sensitive goes thru
davout: i think an e-mail MPEX-like API would be good
davout: last time i got DDoS'd i set up a different IP, and sent it to customers that asked for it
davout: i'll have to eventually figure something out
davout: jurov: i'm used to ozbot fetching the <title>, doesn't really matter :-)
ThickAsThieves: old news in this chan?
ThickAsThieves: ;;later tell bugpowder http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-02-2014#521580 ☝︎
ThickAsThieves: gmaxwell: wumpus: yea, I understand they had timed automatic reissues... :( this was also something I didn't know prior to monday before last and is one of the other reasons my "they couldn't have lost much!" position softened to "I have no freeking clue." ☟︎
KRS-One: He should just send the 5000 euros to me, at least I'll send him an autographed nudic pic back for his troubles.
KRS-One: <cokea> I AM SENDING 5000 EUROS TO MTGOX LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
gribble: Bitstamp | A market order to sell 40000 bitcoins right now would net 13173637.7416 USD and would take the last price down to 100.0000 USD, resulting in an average price of 329.3409 USD/BTC. | Data vintage: 0.0292 seconds
gribble: Bitstamp BTCUSD ticker | Best bid: 575.0, Best ask: 575.79, Bid-ask spread: 0.79000, Last trade: 576.99, 24 hour volume: 39740.40054212, 24 hour low: 530.01, 24 hour high: 604.5, 24 hour vwap: 571.791472504
mircea_popescu: there's a coupla bn in 2015 notes that are being written off.
mircea_popescu: word around the campfire.
Duffer1: i have been unable to locate such
mircea_popescu: on trilema some.
Duffer1: or trilema?
Duffer1: has there been any b-a discussion of kurzweil or singularity?
Vexual: hey bugpowder, do yo uthink you can sell fireants with double testosterone to the ethical standards comitte?
Vexual: whats that?
Vexual: just liek these gox protesters: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG4S4NpdJug
Vexual: i ypothesise that you can't put too many ants into a colony, something normal will happen
Vexual: worldpop was smaller then mircea, it's all skinny jeans now
Vexual: no more factories, but heres a tablet app
Vexual: either way its prolly closer to 500m than 0 in a sense
mircea_popescu: was geared towards college kids originally, so prolly plenty.
greenspan_fan: I was thinking more "users" to inflate their statistics
greenspan_fan: I wonder if they've modelled that internally?
greenspan_fan: most of those were immediately pre-ipo
greenspan_fan: I am going to say, at least 500 million
mircea_popescu: when it was started != when it was a thing
greenspan_fan: since 2005 or so, I think
Vexual: how long has facebook been a thing?
mircea_popescu: first timers get really panicked about it.
mircea_popescu: well, most parents have this experience. whereby angry 5 yo threatens to hold his breath to death.
greenspan_fan: mircea_popescu as a means of exchange, all those things are valuable though, and most easily attacked
Vexual: whats that when its a sentence?
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan sure, it is really elegant, but not for those reasons.
greenspan_fan: no, I think it's actually really elegant
Vexual: satoshi designed it that gox might imrove the philosophy
jurov: lol, like some fb derp wrote just hour ago that mtgox failure is "damaging bitcoin philosophy"
mircea_popescu: you think that's its main value ?!
mircea_popescu: bitcoin has terrible overhead and it is without a doubt the klunkiest, most ineffectual way to transmit payments ever devised
greenspan_fan: there are others, but those are kind of baked in
greenspan_fan: (for some values of the above)
mircea_popescu: but it doesn't even have them.
mircea_popescu: not only those aren't the valuable aspects of bitcoin
greenspan_fan: by valuable aspects I meant things like consistent network performance, ease of exchange, ease of adoption
jurov: "subversion of the valuable aspects of bitcoin"
jurov: not seeing an upside is different thing than
greenspan_fan: I just don't really see an upside to tedious interference by lansky et. al.
Vexual: todays fish is trout a la creme
mircea_popescu: "life is on the wire. everything else's just waiting."
mircea_popescu: but how else is your time to be spent ?
greenspan_fan: because I value my time
greenspan_fan: just that my preference would be to avoid the struggle
greenspan_fan: I'm not saying this is likely, or even permanent
mircea_popescu: and we'd use it better than them, so overal... thanks for the fishes.
mircea_popescu: jurov here's the funny thing on top of it : if the us actually DID try to build something, like a superadvanced asic design ? we'd get it for free in the next leak bundle.
mircea_popescu: thigns have changed. we have a real republic and a real bitcoin now, which leaves the us back among its peers.
jurov: greenspan_fan: anyway, what you suggest is *not* about building something, but the exact opposite
mircea_popescu: anyway : back then the most serene republica veneta was the us. much in the sense of how back then the bitcoin of the world was the usd.
mircea_popescu: you know this was a majorly discussed topic recently hiar.
mircea_popescu: still with the manhattan project ?
greenspan_fan: thousands of supremely bright, capable people, managed by the army, built an atomic bomb in like three years
greenspan_fan: as a (possibly out of date) counter example, I could point to the manhattan project
mircea_popescu: and your shitty empire trying to infiltrate it will pay through the teeth for no results at all.
mircea_popescu: the problem is, their country is the serenissima,
greenspan_fan: a few posters of rosie the solderer and voila, you've got your asics
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan technical talent DOES respond to patriotism much more than to money.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-02-2014#475162 << and see that too for better context. ☝︎
greenspan_fan: plus, you're assuming that technical talent doesn't respond to things like patriotism
greenspan_fan: if you model leaks as a poisson process, they're actually pretty air-tight
mircea_popescu: they'd hire some people who wouldn't be spilling their beans each year.
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan if the nsa, intel, whomever actually could hire more people
jurov: greenspan_fan: you imagine tsmc can and will reject all orders for 2 month or so just cause usg drops a billion?
mircea_popescu: you're desperate to spend it, and the people you need to do things aren't desperate to get it.
mircea_popescu: who you're going to spend it to ?
greenspan_fan: as long as you spend it before the ponzi implodes you're in the clear, no?