Thomas H. Ptacek

@tqbf

A man of many offices without any deeds of public usefulness.

Chicago, IL
Joined October 2007

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  1. There it is: the ‘OR’’=‘ of evil emails to send to people who run cryptocurrency exchanges.

  2. “I hope you will let me take care of it. I’m responsible. You don’t have to be afraid of errors or forks.”

  3. hahahahahahahhaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahaha

  4. “Mandiant’s report also concluded that the various recommendations Trustwave presented to improve [client’s] data security were pointless"

  5. Retweeted

    Make Your Kid's School Music Class Great Again. Here's the sheet music to that Donald Trump Freedom song

  6. Or like, I’m just totally misreading. Sorry!

  7. If you ever wanted to see what a Markov model of computer nerd commentary on tech stocks looked like:

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    Trustwave is being sued by Affinity gaming for not catching a second breach that occurred while investigating the first.

  9. (i like the USG! they can’t help that they operate like all big organizations do)

  10. “This attack is expensive and complicated” means “some dipshit will make $10MM implementing it for the USG”.

  11. This is why I get pissed when people claim USG attacks on DNSSEC will be expensive and complicated.

  12. The #2 adversary of cryptosystems is the procurement process. People working for big orgs get paid to find expensive things to buy!

  13. The #1 adversary to cryptosystems isn’t Orwellianism. It’s the headcount expansion impulse of all big orgs.

  14. To wit: there’s a market for IMSI catchers, and companies making nice profits selling them, because gov’t will spend money on problems.

  15. IMSI catchers are a pretty good demonstration of why it’s especially bad to leave plausible but expensive flaws in a security design.

  16. Apparently I’ve been “vigorously disputed” by “other Internet engineers”

  17. This really is a bit of a shitshow. Buffer(“foo”) does one thing, Buffer(123) does something else (bad)

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  18. Whoah. Mike Hearn.

  19. Plain is better than DNSSEC. Sometimes, dead is better.

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    OCSP Must Staple is here! … (should fail) … Firefox Nightly:

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