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something very @SuricrasiaOnline : the "hash function crisis", where some academic comes out of nowhere breaking all commonly-used hash functions at once, even being able to find collisions *by hand* for one of them
this actually happened in 2005, where Wang broke MD2, MD4, MD5, RIPEMD, HAVAL, SHA-0, and a theoretical attack (which is now becoming practical) against SHA-1
Wang's paper was initially rejected for being completely incomprehensible, but then attended the related conference for that anyway, and gave a 10 minute unplanned talk where she demonstrated the attacks (including the by-hand collision finding for MD2)
I saw a 'hilarious' link to atlantic magazine article 'from the other side of mad covid world' posted by somebody in my feed.
Can't find it anymore, does anyone remember this from a few hours ago ?
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what a strange, inverted world.
it used to be we bought expensive, underpowered hardware to be able to use this revolutionary thing called the macOS.
now, we get affordable, insanely world-leading hardware... and the worst part is the bullshit toy spyware known as the macOS. i donate money every month to a project that will get some crapware free software OS running on it simply because even that garbage will be better than what comes on it.
@arbedout when you post itshappening.gif ill wake up, is it *that* time yet?
Somehow these moves in usts have led to nowhere in the last few years. Still waiting for the big one
@smartbrain where is @verretor ?
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A scammer is actively going through old CVE for exploitable conditions in old Bitcoin node software.
You should update your node software.
@black6_ when you work for darth vader, you'd better not bitch about the dark side of the force!
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Nobody (or animal) is safe from the side effects
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https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635
Pretty big deal that the BMJ is willing to publish this.
@Andijayne this same letter could also be addressed to the brandon individually.
@Andijayne You're welcome, good luck!
@sneak it is : 'thats a tough ask'
@Andijayne Also, write a seperate letter to the 'tie breaker' properly outlining the risks as per the available stats and the risk/benefit. Make it clear to him that if he nonetheless decides to say yes he could be the subject of a lawsuit in case of future problems.
@Andijayne let them put their money where their mouth is, and hopefully if they dont, you get grounds to sue and block the action
Joined May 2019
