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naemsi: i'd like
to say asking around here is part of doing homework since I know people here are generally contrarian. but sorry if I broke
the rules
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Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
naemsi: _is_
there anything worth owning atm
naemsi: it's only available on havelock is
the problem
naemsi: just
thinking out loud really.
naemsi: If activemining was worth anything, i might move some over
to
that, otherwise stay out.
naemsi: well, it was
two questions. I'm
thinking
to get out of HIM before crackdown, but don't know if anything concrete came out of activemining yet (I'm not on
top of
the news).
mircea_popescu: i can't believe someone's even asking about
that still lol.
mircea_popescu: it's
trading slightly above
the girl's estimation, what'd you hope ?
naemsi: i have havelock but
tempted
to get rid of it before inevitable US crackdown
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Diablo-D3: I wonder if almost 2000 shares of DMC are locked away in an account
that no one uses anymore
mircea_popescu: obviously whities could not have figured out on
their own
this brilliant "shift letters"
technique
Diablo-D3: and
theres your mindfuck for
the day.
Diablo-D3: because if evil was smart enough
to win,
they won before
the modern world and have held power since
then
Diablo-D3: this is why I
think evil is just
too stupid
to win
mircea_popescu: Although
the parties had access
to far better encryption
techniques (Karim himself used PGP for data storage on computer disks),
they chose
to use
their own scheme(implemented in Microsoft Excel), rejecting a more sophisticated code program called Mujhaddin Secrets "because 'kaffirs', or non-believers, know about it, so it must be less secure".
mircea_popescu: In 2011, Rajib Karim was convicted in
the United Kingdom of "terrorism offences" after using
the Caesar cipher
to communicate with Bangladeshi Islamic activists discussing plots
to blow up British Airways planes or disrupt
their IT networks.
mircea_popescu: In April 2006, fugitive Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano was captured in Sicily partly because some of his messages, written in a variation of
the Caesar cipher, were broken. Provenzano's cipher used numbers, so
that "A" would be written as "4", "B" as "5", and so on.
pankkake: Error: Google 2-Factor MUST be enabled
to
transfer shares.
pankkake: lol I actually have
that one share in first my bitfunder account
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mircea_popescu: _Neil
to answer your original question : an judged escrow service. people could, in principle, use bitbet private bets
to resolve disputes of
the nature
the rota was supposed
to resolve.
_Neil: OK. Just wanted
to make
the point. I'm happy.
Thanks for listening.
_Neil: Your
target audience, ultimately, goes beyond
techno-geeks I hope.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the point you bring isn't without merit in any case.
mircea_popescu: sadly ips aren't impossible
to fake, either, especially by a locakl attacker
_Neil: It makes it a lot harder, and more expensive such
that joe blow can use it with reasonable confidence.
mircea_popescu: well, IPs are difficult
to fake. domain names not so.
this is a
thing of
the internet, i didn't make it
that way
mircea_popescu: someone craks
the
tls (which HAS been done), comes and mitm's bitbet with
https just fine
_Neil: And surely you wouldn't suggest
that
the only way
to use bitbet safely, even assuming it were safe, is for users
to screw around with host files on
their machine.
mircea_popescu: this is a point.
the problem with
https is
that it doesn't REALLY deliver
that end
to end promise.
_Neil: Unless something's end-to-end encrypted I can't really
trust it. It's
that simple. It's not my job as an honest person
to figure out how
to break it. I know it's been done many
times.
_Neil: Sure. But you're
the entrpreneur and owner. You have a substantial stake in its reputation.
mircea_popescu: i mean, youy have
to realise, my
technical involvement in bitbet is modest, i mostly do business stuff for it.
_Neil: It's only a matter of
time. You of all people, Mircea, know
that.
_Neil: No not really. Avoiding HTTPS just for
the ability
to claim it's unnecessary isn't really a goal.
_Neil: Your lack of usage of HTTPS on bitbet.us is a little concerning. Who would know if
there was an MITM attack against your site, which replaced legitimate funding addresses with a scammer's address?
mircea_popescu: you enter a pw when you create it, and only people with
the pw can bet.
Bunnyh: i made a support
ticket of my concern, and all
they responded was "Thank you for your
ticket. We carefully monitor users' activity for
this scam not
to happen."
pankkake: well I guess you could buy and
then sell
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b0n1: is
there a chart of
the profit over
time of just-dice?
b0n1: am i
totally wrong or did
the profit of just-dice increase by a factor of over
the last day?
pankkake: yes. as a
throwaway OS / live cd
pankkake: you've got
to
try it at least for
the "camouflage" mode, it makes it look like windows xp ;)
pankkake: with a bunch of stuff preconfigured, it has i2p
too
pankkake: it's a live cd, which forces everything
to go
through
tor
mod6: there are a bunch of gems in
that article
mod6: and
these days, i agree with mp, if you want
to feel good about it, gpg every file with your own key.
mircea_popescu: pankkake i know where
the crazy character came from,
too. it's on google results pages, after
the url of results.
mod6: i guess i just like how you can slice and dice with it, and stackable. self-destruct is neat for orphans
too.
pankkake: hmm I
think I use GELI actually
mircea_popescu: i dunno what sort of intel community
this is, on pps. it boggles.
pankkake: what do you like about geom? (I use both
the freebsd and linux one)
mod6: yah. lot of damn pps. who
the fuck uses pps
these days anyway? oh yah, big corps and usg.
mod6: and yah, i do happen
to like
the GEOM encrypted file system layer
to freebsd, more so
than probably
the linux one. maybe im just more clued on
that one. but its no substitute for gpg'ing every damn file.
mircea_popescu: well in his defense, he might have been stuck with it on account of whatever
the snowden bundle contained.
mod6: its like "PDF Reader?!" .. wave in
the
trojans plz!
mod6: i like your analysis of
that article by schneier.
pankkake: the "massive fork" link is broken, characters at
the end of
the URL
[\]: amazing kakobrekla is amazing
to amazing kakobrekla is amazing
to amazing kakobrekla
nubbins`: amazing. you'd
think it wouldn't.
[\]: you see where I'm going with
this..
nubbins`: "only connect
to
the internet a little bit, and do all
this weird voodoo when you plug foreign usb devices in"
mod6: ok. i am disappoint.
the guy wrote one of my all
time favorite books: Applied Cryptography
nubbins`: "I downloaded and installed a) OpenOffice, b) a PDF reader, c) a
text editor, d)
TrueCrypt, and e) BleachBit."
mod6: cause
that's idiotic
mod6: it seems bizzare
that Schneier would write something like: " It's impossible
to completely avoid connecting
the computer
to
the Internet"
☟︎ nubbins`: mircea_popescu: i
think
that's an oxford comma
nubbins`: i've stopped using perfectly good pgp keys after absentmindedly connecting
the machines holding
them
to
the internet
mircea_popescu: "I downloaded and installed OpenOffice, a PDF reader" no srsly.
this is ludicrous.
mircea_popescu: for
the further record, any piece of hardware
that was ever at any point in its life connected
to
the internet can no longer be used as part of an airgapped system. period.