~seth

Events of the past [sic] offer a not-so-gentle reminder of the dangers of deference & cheap trust. Your riskiest assumptions are the ones you outsource. No institution, individual, influencer, or cult of personality is infallible. Bias towards hard promises & independent thought.

Groundwire - a project to ensure self-sovereign p2p networking and re-align urbit towards its incredible potential. straylight.network/groundwire/gro… twitter.com/36_72541890/st… @36_72541890 @hastuc_dibtux @rovnys

There is no token I love you

GroundWire 01: a response to recent events on the @urbit network, and proposals for its future - from myself, @hastuc_dibtux, @rovnys, and @SethFeibus. Long live Mars. straylight.network/groundwire/gro…

Our heuristics for trust & security are deeply flawed. The problem won’t be solved by another company or piece of tech. The problem is believing it can be. The problem is ontological and epistemic. It will only be solved thru similar. And we can’t rely on companies who profit from information asymmetry. Security (& trust) follows intelligence here - it’s a networked phenomenon.

When you don’t know what you don’t know, so you outsource security to a single “trusted” company or piece of tech; you’ve already lost.

@TrustWallet Firmware version? CVE? This wouldn't be the first zero-click iMessage exploit. If you're not referring to a known exploit, then versions would at least be helpful. If you are, then this could have been communicated entirely differently without causing panic.

1/2: ⚠️ Alert for iOS users: We have credible intel regarding a high-risk zero-day exploit targeting iMessage on the Dark Web. This can infiltrate your iPhone without clicking any link. High-value targets are likely. Each use raises detection risk. #CyberSecurity

@NEARProtocol This problem - software supply chain security, is exactly what we’re working on at @Archetype_Infra . Audits, attestations and arbitrary metadata will be available for packages, contracts, BOS components, and more. Coming soon (tm)

The mosquitoes have taken over Buenos Aires. It is their city now - we merely live in it

— this app you’re trusting - this frankenbundle of packages held together by duct tape, hope, an army of unpaid, underappreciated software engineers, a host of accounts that no longer exist, & a cacophony of m i c r o s e r v i c e s.

— these authors, with no relation to your trusty nanny-cam company or credit score app, who never intended for their library to be used this way, who thought no one cared about the simple library they wrote a couple years ago

Quick point on the events yesterday - here's an open secret of the modern web: The apps, sites, & services you use every day are fundamentally not secure. Why? Bundles, dependencies & cheap trust.

many are saying blimps are the answer

This isn’t the first attempt & won’t be the last. עם ישראל חי

Deeply saddened by the brutal acts of terror, mass indiscriminate killings & sheer disregard for human life. When you hear “From the River to the Sea..” this is what that means: the total removal of Jews & Israelis from the land of Israel - through bloodshed, violence & terror.

@_prestwich @lightclients por qué no los dos?

@lightclients counterpoint: we should have 1,000,000 home stakers

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Back when we couldn’t figure out what to do with computers, in 1977