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BillTthree commented on That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus   cybersect.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/sixhobbits
BillTthree · 3 months ago
Does anyone know what crime is being investigated? It looks like the malicious activity was sending spam text messages and forwarding international phone calls. Is there a federal regulation against sending spam messages?

Is it somehow illegal to have many sim cards in the same place as having many radios?

The telco's are also capable of bringing down the network, and they are legally allowed to turn their services off. Its not government infrastructure, its a business. If the backbone ISP providers decided to turn off their services for an area for a time, thats fine, there are contractual provisions to deal with that. its not a crime.

There has been no mention of arrest, was this 'crime' perpetrated by the infamous hackerman in ablack hoodie?

BillTthree commented on The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody   tftc.io/treasury-iexpandi... · Posted by u/bilsbie
cypherpunks01 · 3 months ago
Strictly speaking, loading an address with many UTXOs has no effect on security of the receiving address at all (beyond increasing its public profile).

The security concerns start happening after an address spends a UTXO. Before a P2WPKH (segwit) address is used, only the public key hash is known. In order to spend from it, the full public key needs to be revealed. That's why it's recommended to use single-use addresses, because a quantum computing attack or elliptic curve vulnerability could be used against an address where the attacker knows the public key, but would not work against an address where the pubkey has not yet been revealed.

So, the main security change happens after you spend from an address the first time. Subsequently, there are theoretical vulnerabilities that could occur after an address is spent from many times, but really only if the signer is malicious like dark skippy, or faulty and doesn't properly follow RFC 6979 deterministic signatures, leaking some signature entropy which could be used to crack the private key. The latter has happened with some bad custom wallet implementations, but these attacks are even further in the realm of theoretical, not super realistic, require faulty software/firmware to be implanted into signing devices.

BillTthree · 3 months ago
so the risk to the wallet holder is the exact same risk that exists for every single HTTPS connection right now?

Post quantum algorithms have been available. You can do it today. Why not for bitcoin?

In reality, there are very few current real world implementations. This article makes it seem that RSA is under active exploitation. If it is, bitcoin is not the first target IMO

BillTthree commented on The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody   tftc.io/treasury-iexpandi... · Posted by u/bilsbie
Finbarr · 3 months ago
On a long enough timeline, having anything stored in local hardware is going to be suspicious. Not surprised to see government embrace of crypto lead to increased scrutiny.
BillTthree · 3 months ago
like cash?
BillTthree commented on The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody   tftc.io/treasury-iexpandi... · Posted by u/bilsbie
BillTthree · 3 months ago
Loading up a single address with too many UTXOs degrades the entropy of a public-private key pair

does bitcoin or UTXO's somehow for some reason generate multiple PUBLIC keys for the same private key?

BillTthree commented on Commercial tea bags release microplastics, entering human cells   medicalxpress.com/news/20... · Posted by u/wglb
phatfish · a year ago
Most teabags I use now don't split (some imported brands you have to be careful with), these are just regular looking ones not the fine mesh ones used by premium brands. I can jam them against the side of the cup to squeeze out liquid before removing the bag and they almost never split.

I'd say these extra strong bags have become common in the last 15 years in the UK. How they are strengthened I'm not sure, but my parents compost most of their food waste and they reckon worms now push teabags to the top of the compost bin, when previously they would just disappear with everything else and never be seen again.

BillTthree · a year ago
LOL. Worms come up to eat food, go down and poop. Poop forces remaining food and wormpoop (compost) up to the top.

They aren't pushing the teabags to the top, they're digging to defecate.

BillTthree commented on IMG_0416   ben-mini.github.io/2024/i... · Posted by u/bewal416
BillTthree · a year ago
Gunshots at 1:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR3mv5SbAi4&t=17s Maybe a slamming door, why so many slams? Obvious barking dog, then the wicked desperate woman's scream
BillTthree commented on Is 7 days a week the new norm (for YC)?    · Posted by u/bschmidt1
BillTthree · a year ago
How are they compensating you for the expected work? If you can earn 50-75% of that compensation while working 40 hours a week, why would you go YC?

Why are you focused on YC/startups? Are you interested in the stock options, as a get rich quick scheme? Or are you interested in working during your life and being employed.

Working 60-80 hours a week is above normal and should be compensated as such. Startup stock is a huge risk.

Are you curious why the founders of a company spend 24/7 working it, and why they expect you to do the same? Well there you go, its the only thing the founder thinks about, and they want people to support them in that.

HOW ARE THEY COMPENSATING YOU. Thats the only thing that matters. If you make $1mil/year plus bonus, 80 hrs a week seems more reasonable.

BillTthree commented on Malaysia started mandating ISPs to redirect DNS queries to local servers   thesun.my/local-news/mcmc... · Posted by u/uzyn
profmonocle · a year ago
I'm honestly surprised that the US doesn't have a legal framework to force ISPs to block IPs / DNS hostnames. I've been expecting that for 10+ years now, but it hasn't happened.
BillTthree · a year ago
The same government that divested DNS after owning it? For years, ALL DNS was run by the US government. They decided to hand it over to a handful of organizations so no one could control it. Now, it looks like we will all have different versions, the same activity can have hugely different outcomes.
BillTthree commented on Airlines are running out of 4-digit flight numbers   viewfromthewing.com/airli... · Posted by u/jshprentz
vel0city · a year ago
IP addresses (especially IPv4) are not even supposed to be globally unique.

How many 192.168.1.1 devices are out there? How many different distinct physical boxes respond to traffic going to 1.1.1.1?

BillTthree · a year ago
there are a handful of ranges in IPv4 that are NOT globally unique. You're describing a much smaller set of IP ranges that are designed to be used+reused but not routable.

if you take someone elses public IPv4 address and they're using it, neither one of you will be functional, and they will come knocking on your door.

BillTthree commented on Airlines are running out of 4-digit flight numbers   viewfromthewing.com/airli... · Posted by u/jshprentz
kqr · a year ago
Wait, how are they doing that? My mental idea of NAT is that it dyanmically links (address × port) pairs to local addresses. What would be the "port" in the case of flight numbers?
BillTthree · a year ago
UTC Date + Time of flightplan takeoff

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