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4 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
I love Bell Labs (in the 1960s) for their combination of technical prescience and terribly-stupid prediction quality. ethw.org/w/images/c/c7/… Image
This is how they thought electronic payments would work. In fairness, it’s not that bad compared to the status quo 1965-2015. Image
It’s kind of amazing when you feed this through Kubrick. ImageImageImageImage
Funny that by 2001 “the Blue Bell” telephone logo was forgotten and obsolete. I found a dusty Bell Telephone binder on a shelf in my first job at AT&T and thought it was a great piece of memorabilia.

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2 Dec
I think it’s funny how little computer security people know about the Dapp ecosystem. It’s like they’re living in the hotel from The Shining and they have no idea what’s going down in Room 237.
Crypto/security people: we can’t *possibly* run a secure messaging app over the web because everything’s too insecure!

Dapp folks: let’s secure $100m using Javascript served by Cloudflare.
In case you don’t know what I’m on about. coindesk.com/business/2021/…
Read 6 tweets
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1 Dec
Oof. I would say that NSS gives me the willies but all these crypto libraries give me the willies. googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/this-s…
Oh god oh god. Image
Where am I going to store my post-quantum RSA keys in this data structure? Has anyone even thought about this?
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30 Nov
This picture should be presented to everyone who activates iCloud Backup.
“Our end-to-end encrypted system is only really encrypted if you don’t touch our janky unencrypted backup service that we practically beg you to use.”
Maybe if Apple implements some really good automated scanning in iMessage, the government might allow me to encrypt my backups.
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25 Nov
I still don’t understand why “let’s make system RNGs fast and insecure in case someone wants to run a Monte Carlo simulation” was ever considered to be anything other than the dumbest of all possible thoughts.
Apparently there is this huge population of language/OS users running Monte Carlo simulations and THEIR LIVES WILL BE UTTERLY RUINED if those simulations run slow.
I mean if I’m doing statistical simulations and the built-in system PRNG is slow, what’s the impact? I guess I’ll have to spend the 10 minutes copy/pasting the Mersenne Twister off Wikipedia. Seems pretty non-devastating.
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12 Nov
I headed over to the Home view to see why tech Twitter has gotten so much lamer, and it’s all people speculating on when Bitcoin will hit 100K.
So henceforth this account will just speculate on the Bitcoin price.
I’ve been using Latest Tweets for a couple months now and switching back to Home is like going home to find your parents have turned your bedroom into a Taco Bell. ImageImage
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5 Nov
Many governments realize they’ve “lost” their chance to ban end-to-end encrypted messaging, but they also realize it doesn’t matter because unencrypted backups are much more useful.
So predictably the vanguard of the conversation has shifted away from E2EE (which is in many places a done deal) to device backups — which are still not widely E2EE encrypted.
I personally think that governments want to preserve unencrypted backups because it provides investigative capability. (Ie. they can subpoena Apple to get your texts.) And CSAM fear is just a tool that politicians are using to preserve this capability. But 🤷‍♂️.
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