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"The gains in technics are never registered automatically in society: they require equally adroid inventions and adaptations in politics; and the careless habit of attributiong to mechanical improvements a direct role as instruments of culture and civilization puts a demand upon the machine to which it cannot respond."

- Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization


This was actually solved by another address protocol version. I believe v3 solved this by using pubkey instead of hash. Similar to late btc addresses


I have tried to build one out of the PocketBook Basic Touch e-reader last October. It has way less functionality tought...

https://www.malgregator.com/post/pocketframe/

https://hackaday.com/2023/11/13/obsolete-e-reader-gets-new-l...


> copying keys between HSMs inherently exposes the master keys anyway

that's not true, even with their BYOK you export the key from one HSM under a shared key and then import it to another device


https://www.malgregator.com/

I write mostly about the security and things I work on, to keep memories somewhere.

One of my posts about the google bug bounty for the Waze navigation bug went viral and was shared by Schneier, Threat Post and others https://www.malgregator.com/post/waze-how-i-tracked-your-mot...


The simplest I saw, install Standard Notes (https://standardnotes.com/ - open source, free) encrypted notes app, write something, then publish it via the interface. It will create you a blog on their https://listed.to/ webpage


Thanks for an interesting article and nice simple webpage


Fearing return to drachma, some Greeks use bitcoin to dodge capital controls https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-eurozone-greece-bitcoin/f...

WikiLeaks may have amassed more than $46 million in Bitcoin based on the number of coins held by its known wallet address. https://bitcoinist.com/wikileaks-has-received-more-than-46-m...


When I was university student (~ 2012), Woz was traveling Europe visiting Macdonald's (:D) in lots of countries including Slovakia. Shared it on the internet, probably Twitter.

One of my classmates tracked him and successfully asked for a photo with him. nice guy


A Hammer in Search of a Nail

Proof of Work require no secret information as an input and have to be easy to verify. But most importantly, why would anyone do this?

Passport issuer can act like certification authority, this is not a trustless system where PoW can be used for something. Public key infrastructure is a solved thing with it's own problems, but verification is not one of them if authority is working as it should.

EDIT: Let's not even mention that smartcards have effective lifetime and efficiency.


Hacking is not always about useful solutions. It’s about experiments that may work out or not work out.


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