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which is why i am so glad that there's a research group under IRTF called "Human Rights Protocol Considerations". Mathematics doesn't automatically take the side of the people. We must carefully consider how the system's authority is distributed!

@ritualfnd Your paper which builds on my anonymity research "Towards Anonymous Neural Network Inference" deserves to be implemented, no? I'd really like to help out with that.

@akileshpotti Are you interested in implementing the designs in your company's paper "Towards Anonymous Neural Network Inference"? Most of that paper reiterates my work on Katzenpost, from our echomix paper: arxiv.org/abs/2501.02933

@NoahKingJr you really shouldn't use the word "trust" in security/privacy discussions. Instead specify a dependency or lack thereof thus forming an adjacency matrix.

@LiaoPeiyuan Also it's odd that you restate so much of our design but somehow forgot to describe the courier service which is essential for our threat model.

@LiaoPeiyuan The irony is that by restating so much of our work, your paper actually obscures its own contribution. A reader has to wade through pages of Echomix re-description to find what funion actually adds.

@LiaoPeiyuan I just now saw your paper "Towards Anonymous Neural Network Inference" which cites our work on mixnets and the Pigeonhole protocol. Do you have any questions for us?

If your software project already uses rust then why aren't you using the clatter crate? It's because you don't like privacy in the post quantum threat model. You might be a nihilist.

@paulbohm @steipete What do you mean fully specified? There are more Go games than people who ever lived.

Tomorrow‘s OpenClaw meetup with @steipete is on the 29th anniversary of Deep Blue beating Kasparov in chess In retrospect it is wild how few people realized that information theoretically both Go and Chess are fully specified and thus require no external information to solve.

@naomibrockwell counterpoint: if you run HardenedBSD on your desktop then your desktop is more secure than your GrapheneOS phone.

End-to-end encryption isn’t the whole story. The device matters. When you link a secure phone app to a desktop and you expand your attack surface to a weaker environment. That’s why I only keep sensitive comms on my phone.

"Cypherpunks acknowledge that those who want privacy must create it for themselves and not expect governments, corporations, or other large, faceless organizations to grant them privacy out of beneficence." - Eric Hughes

I'm doing my barbell strength training today at Elbgym in Hamburg and the equipment is very nice! Look at this Eleiko bar and plates!

What's your favorite story by Jorge Luis Borges?

Dear friends and extended hacker community, I have moved to Valencia, Spain and I'm much happier here. Come visit me! The food is amazing and people besides me are very friendly.

Pro tip: do NOT use a VPN to connect to Tor. Need me to elaborate as to why?

@naomibrockwell Can you please elaborate why? in general all e-mail is bad and I care not for slightly less bad. at least gmail is free that's why i use it whilest developing the first post quantum mixnets.

I get hundreds of emails each week from people who want me to test their products, or collab, or anything else. Hot tip, if you are pitching yourself as privacy-conscious, don't use a gmail address.

@aravind GrapheneOS is a non-profit open source project and remaining that way. We aren't paying for any marketing and it's not becoming a business. Linus chose to review GrapheneOS based on using it as a daily driver for 30 days. How does this fairly positive review make it compromised?

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@DeFi_Hanzo It's disrespectful to ignore their chosen pronouns by calling them him. Do better.

🚨 THIS IS SATOSHI NAKAMOTO This time pointing to Daira Emma Hopwood, a trans woman previously known as David-Sarah Hopwood, a cryptographer who worked on $ZEC. Why him? Back in 2010, Satoshi mentioned key blinding concepts in a post, which connects to Hopwood's later work on private transactions and blinded keys. Add British citizenship to the mix, and the fact that Satoshi used British spelling and was active during GMT hours, and people started connecting dots. I get why it sounds compelling at first glance, but it doesn't really hold up when you look closer. The timeline is off. In 2008-2009, when Bitcoin was being built, Hopwood was early in his career. Creating Bitcoin required deep expertise across cryptography, distributed systems, and economical design - that kind of knowledge takes years to develop. The technical overlaps aren't unique, either. Key blinding is fundamental cryptography that tons of people in the field work with. It's not some secret knowledge that points to one specific person. But the biggest thing that doesn't make sense? Behavior. Satoshi disappeared completely in 2011 and has stayed hidden for over 13 years. Hopwood has been publicly active in crypto this whole time under his "real" name. If you went through all that effort to create Bitcoin anonymously and vanish, why would you then publicly work on privacy coins where everyone knows who you are? These theories pop up constantly - Szabo, Finney, dozens of others. They're usually based on surface-level coincidences that fall apart under scrutiny. This one follows the same pattern. But whoever Satoshi really is - thanks for Bitcoin (at least for now). Without that first step, we wouldn't have crypto cards like @useTria, no AI like @Velvet_Capital has that helps you with managing DeFi positions, etc. The whole ecosystem exists because someone had the vision to start it all. I hope it won't become a system for global financial control, where there will be no place for privacy, because if it will become one, we know how to blame (not exactly). Do you think this is him, who launched this space?

Is there a way to authenticate Tailscale without the use of a US based company? Asking for a friend.

Ubuntu server is such a piece of shit. I hate the new socket port bullshit and the sshd config include enabling password auth. Fuck off!