Thomas H. Ptacek
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A man of many offices without any deeds of public usefulness.
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There it is: the ‘OR’’=‘ of evil emails to send to people who run cryptocurrency exchanges.
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“I hope you will let me take care of it. I’m responsible. You don’t have to be afraid of errors or forks.”
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hahahahahahahhaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahaha http://blog.cryptsy.com/
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“Mandiant’s report also concluded that the various recommendations Trustwave presented to improve [client’s] data security were pointless"
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Make Your Kid's School Music Class Great Again. Here's the sheet music to that Donald Trump Freedom song https://www.soundslice.com/scores/trump-freedom-jam/ …
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Or like, I’m just totally misreading. Sorry!
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If you ever wanted to see what a Markov model of computer nerd commentary on tech stocks looked like: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10912225 …
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Trustwave is being sued by Affinity gaming for not catching a second breach that occurred while investigating the first.
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(i like the USG! they can’t help that they operate like all big organizations do)
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“This attack is expensive and complicated” means “some dipshit will make $10MM implementing it for the USG”.
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This is why I get pissed when people claim USG attacks on DNSSEC will be expensive and complicated.
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The #2 adversary of cryptosystems is the procurement process. People working for big orgs get paid to find expensive things to buy!
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The #1 adversary to cryptosystems isn’t Orwellianism. It’s the headcount expansion impulse of all big orgs.
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To wit: there’s a market for IMSI catchers, and companies making nice profits selling them, because gov’t will spend money on problems.
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IMSI catchers are a pretty good demonstration of why it’s especially bad to leave plausible but expensive flaws in a security design.
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Apparently I’ve been “vigorously disputed” by “other Internet engineers” http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/04/opendnssec_catches_up_with_expanding_use/?mt=1452867527044 …
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Thomas H. Ptacek Retweeted
This really is a bit of a shitshow. Buffer(“foo”) does one thing, Buffer(123) does something else (bad) https://twitter.com/pornelski/status/687788168297476096 …
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Thomas H. Ptacek Retweeted Kashmir Hill
Whoah. Mike Hearn. https://twitter.com/kashhill/status/687755887432237056 …
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Kashmir Hill @kashhillOne of the biggest developers in Bitcoin says he’s quitting and that Bitcoin is a failed experiment. https://medium.com/@octskyward/the-resolution-of-the-bitcoin-experiment-dabb30201f7#.r5kbauxsn …3 retweets 11 likes -
Thomas H. Ptacek Retweeted Chris Palmer
Plain is better than DNSSEC. Sometimes, dead is better. https://twitter.com/fugueish/status/687757442243891200 …
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Chris Palmer @fugueish@thorsheim@tqbf@CZ_NIC@paulvixie@alexstamos@agl__ Plain is better than DNSSEC, and I'm busy at the application layer right now. So...0 retweets 2 likes -
Thomas H. Ptacek Retweeted
OCSP Must Staple is here! … https://must-staple.serverhello.com … https://must-staple-no-ocsp.serverhello.com (should fail) … Firefox Nightly: pic.twitter.com/6uIbt871KZ
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