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Mon Mar 13 22:35:28 UTC 2017 <asciilifeform> currently i am testing a means of ditching bdb.
Mon Mar 13 22:31:46 UTC 2017 <asciilifeform> or, an example from 2300 yrs ago: chinese emperor qin shi huangdi went to bed every night in a different, randomly selected room of his 1500 room palace. in a certain number of others, there would be cutthroats waiting to chop up anyone who opens the door. wanna play minesweeper ?
Mon Mar 13 22:31:03 UTC 2017 <adlai> i'm not sure that 0day works, but even if it does, 'you' needs to know the instruction set to craft a payload
Mon Mar 13 22:29:31 UTC 2017 <asciilifeform> now you know that i am running a proggy (say, ssh) with known remote-execution 0day (say, stack overflow)
Mon Mar 13 22:29:05 UTC 2017 <asciilifeform> say i have a cpu where the instruction set is randomly-generated on boot. (it is quite possible to make this, on fpga.)
Mon Mar 13 22:27:59 UTC 2017 <adlai> or phrased in your phrasology: specificity of diddling exists, but it doesn't seem like a good defense once you yourself become a target, and it could be made a better defense if each castle weren't built from the same rapidly fading blueprint
Mon Mar 13 22:25:59 UTC 2017 <assbot> Logged on 02-04-2014 23:20:40; asciilifeform: the interesting thing is that nsa-as-we-know-it, but with a pill against modern crypto hidden in an 'indiana jones'-style vault, would scarcely be distinguishable from what we can now see
Mon Mar 13 22:23:09 UTC 2017 <adlai> well it's funny that you ask me to elaborate, i'd basically be paraphrasing your blog back at you, with a bit of my own paranoia mixed in
Mon Mar 13 22:19:19 UTC 2017 <adlai> and invariably this is met with a blank stare, or even anger that bitcoin was misrepresented to them!
Mon Mar 13 22:18:56 UTC 2017 <*> adlai spends a significant portion of his irl interactions with fresh buyers explaining that they're not "going off the grid" by closing their bank accts and buying bitcoin, but rather - "out of the frying pan, into the fire"
Mon Mar 13 22:18:00 UTC 2017 <adlai> it's not a secret, but it's amazing how many bipeds don't know it
Mon Mar 13 22:17:45 UTC 2017 <asciilifeform> what can be correlated from blockchain, isn't exactly a secret, neh.
Mon Mar 13 22:15:18 UTC 2017 <asciilifeform> a good bitcoin boobytrap conspiracy story oughta include 'they have a pill for ecdsa', or at least 'they have a pill for sha256 and most mining really takes place in this one closet at ftmeade'
Mon Mar 13 22:14:17 UTC 2017 <asciilifeform> it isn't a tor, doesn't claim to anonymize anything.
Mon Mar 13 22:13:35 UTC 2017 <adlai> keep bitcoin 'working' indefinitely, parallel-construct any cases caught through it, and stick a waterwheel in the waterfall while you're at it!
Mon Mar 13 22:12:54 UTC 2017 <adlai> could be, or could be a false flag for entrapment and surveillance
Mon Mar 13 22:11:38 UTC 2017 <adlai> anyway - i do think the chances of a hostile fork are low
Mon Mar 13 22:10:16 UTC 2017 <assbot> Logged on 13-03-2017 22:06:58; adlai: a) it actually doesn't, didja see the bitcoin-charlie cockup?
Mon Mar 13 22:10:16 UTC 2017 <assbot> Logged on 20-01-2017 10:04:37; adlai: kakobrekla: uh, http://search.bitcoin-assets.com/?q=bitcoin-charlie&start=80 3rd result is a mod6 line being reported as shrem
Mon Mar 13 22:08:36 UTC 2017 <adlai> b) i have a general sense of that discussion. no, i can't recite it from memory, but if there's a ~specific~ point you want to make, please at least make clearer what it is (don't have to spell it out, just make it findable - "in 2013" is a big search space)