When I opened the article above I was asked to subscribe to a newsletter. I dont know whether to laugh or cry.
And Anubis: it is uncomfortably close to erotica, in a way that makes me panic when it pops up while I'm at the office. I wouldn't care if it was a picture of a puppy or something, but not an anime catgirl.
Bits about money explains why: the (normal) financial system is slow for a reason: if a bank suddenly tries to transfer 5.6B all other banks will call their contact for confirmation and then take 2 business days to process the transaction, more or less.
Stealing anything is easy, escaping and converting to cash is the hard bit, and crypto makes it easy to vanish with your money in literal seconds.
Without getting too political, these were the days when the press controlled information and appointed themselves arbiters and gatekeepes of information.
The internet and free information showed them up for what they really were: biased cavemen like everyone else, and the aura vanished.
Its called a Potemkin solution, and there is a serious theory that most nuclear arsenals are exactly that: no-one has ever confirmed they can actually be fired.
In the case of nuclear arsenals that's perfectly fine - MAD simply needs to be plausible, not robustly demonstrated. In the case of CAs I'd argue that the description doesn't really fit since they're getting stress tested by malicious parties on a daily basis. By that logic you could describe linux kernel security as a potemkin village due to the steady stream of zero days. In reality a potemkin village is something intended from the start to deceive everyone else. It's not impossible that's what happened here but that's a very serious allegation to make (ie theorizing that the weak keys were intentional with a conspiracy afoot).
Based on everything with the NSA and backdoors etc, the idea that this was intentional is not inherently implausible.
The reason I agree with you is that it was too obvious i.e. if you were backdoooring something, you would want it to be more difficult to detect than this.
I guess the main takeaway is that the entire Web PKI is a far bigger house of cards than everyone assumes. Ignorance is bliss, I guess.
My eyes glazed over reading that. I feel like 30 years of internet has proven one thing: the simplest solution always wins. PGP is many things, but simple and obvious are not among them.
You are so full of BS it's scary.
No credit report is a non-starter at any financial institution that wants to stay in business. They won't be giving you a loan unless they know you are wealthy e.g. own 17 investment properties already.
'High-privacy' countries is code for 'tax-haven', and 'my money in the Cayman Islands' means your bank is about to run afoul of AML and KYC laws if they give you a loan. And this is the whole world: doing business with America means adopting their financial posture i.e. penalties for doing business with money launderers.
Nobody is debating whether or not she is bound by the terms of the contract. I'm suggesting the prosecutor lacks mens rea which is absolutely required to prove that a criminal threat took place.
Men are evolutionary wired to seek money and status. When they find ordinary routes to these blocked, they discover that violence is a shortcut.
That this is the same the world over across every income and culture indicates an underlying equilibrium rather than a specific case.
And Anubis: it is uncomfortably close to erotica, in a way that makes me panic when it pops up while I'm at the office. I wouldn't care if it was a picture of a puppy or something, but not an anime catgirl.
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