or, if you are really lucky, you can poke the right locations and release the magic blue smoke from the chips. super fun and all the cool kids are doing it.

Crowd sourced, open access FLOS(Data) is almost always good. will check it out. thanks!

md5 has been broken for years, but thats pretty damn cool scary.

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with a receptive white house, Bernie will be a firecracker anywhere. I would be more than happy for Bernie to retain his Senate seat and get the committee assignments that give him maximal internal clout.

yeah, and everyone knew exactly which accounts they would be.

therefore I hope you do or do not have a super relaxing and restorative day.

will put something together and post. thank you for the invitation :-)

as another comment indicated, bitcoin (and other hard crypto chains) are resistant, not immune. please don’t make that part of your armour.

It looks like that attempt on him has deeply shocked him and he is behaving like he is depressed.

my friend, thats not depression. thats megalomania. he is beginning to believe his own bullshit.

if he is elected, we are in the deepest of deep shit.

• algo - agree on the importance of general-ish purpose silicon to do the hashing, but CPU algos are still vunerable to massive parallel, (potentially) free, undetected hash. as much as 51% attacks seem to draw a collective “meh” from the crowds, I bothers me.

• heavy chain - not sure about the final tx product being roughly as dense as a similar bitcoin tx. regardless, for the economic activity on the monero chain and, please correct me… an an increase of transaction frequency of average sized transactions would cause, at least, a linear increase in chain storage, correct? if so, I think my node centralization issue still applies.

• inflation - its a real issue. the ability to audit the chain is pretty important to build trust. thats one of the reasons bitcoin has resisted private transactions, sending those to other layers. good, bad? who knows, but I get nervous around chains who’s very base layer is singularly opaque to an inflation bug and many others will outright reject it. not sure how devs fix this, considering monero’s (vital) core mission.

monero is a fantastic bit of dev implementation and community interaction and one of the most important chains out there, I am just suggesting that its own (unavoidable?) issues could come back and bite… hard.

edit: clarification and typo.

hey there.

• excellent algo - but not sure it properly weights botnets over CPU/GPU specialization.
• heavy chain - monero utxos are some of the biggest out there and therefore probably bad for protection against node centralization (other chains are heavy, but compared to ecnomic activity, monero is lead)
• lack of verifiable inflation rate - by its nature, monero make it almost impossible to do this.

those are the ones off the top of my head. would love to have any mistakes.corrected.

edit: hit send too early :-/

great reply! I think his actual phrase was… “I love the poorly educated.”, so I didnt nail my punchline.

agreed with pretty much everything you said, with the caveats that…

• critical thinking is both an innate and learned skill - one we have failed to teach.
• once you have the above covered, it harder to split us up into warning factions.
• because of the above two failures… I have no idea if any of it is salvageable.

no knock on monero but, like every chain out there, it has ts own problems. I wish it were the perfect panacea, but right now, nothing is.

he does “love” the uneducated, after all.

facepalm

beat me to it by 1 minute!

this one statement should send any bitcoin activist with a crypto/cyberpunk ethos running for the hills as fast as possible. this joker is pure poison to everything

a trap at every turn.

couldnt read the whole article, but I would say, this is an “oh, fuck.” moment for a lot of people

The FBI tries and cannot unlock a recent phone. they allegedly turn to a private company for emergency access and they are in within hours(?)

I think many people should reevaluate their threat model and mitigations after this. perhaps this changes nothing for you. perhaps it changes everything for you.

well, the world does include the rest of us.

and its not just opeerational costs. what happens when an outage lasts 3+ days and affects all communication and travel? thats another massive shock to the system.

they come faster and faster.

security as a service is about to cost the world a pretty penny.

We don’t have any evidence for this statement, and we can never prove the negative (that a device is absolutely secure).

does anyone have info on crooks’s phone make/model (and an OS version guess)? I have not seen this anywhere and, if it is not already in the public domain, why?

FBI says they got the phone contents in the clear. that gives some boundsfor both known (easy) potential compromises and “oh, fuck.”

edit: typo

edit 2: still no detail but I found this…

The phone was a relatively new model, which can be harder for law enforcement to access than old phones because of newer software, according to technology experts. In many federal investigations, it can take hours, weeks or months to open a suspect’s phone.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/07/16/thomas-crooks-phone-motive-parents-trump-shooting/

unless this information is now a state secret, we may learn more.