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DKS doesn't own the IP, and wouldn't sell (to me at least) any unpublished sources, schematics, etc. for any price at all. As of several years ago, though, he was willing to part w…

AFAIK it's still owned by one John Mallery, a wealthy MIT prof with military and intelligence establishment connections. My favourite "conspiratorial" hypothesis concerning this qu…

I have 5 Symbolics Ivory CPUs (1 of which is in a working MacIvory III card.) Recently I found that not far from where I live, one can rent time on an electron microscope for a ver…

Indirect messages must be marked as hearsay, given as (barring the use of asymmetric crypto, which is AFAIK impossible to carry out at Gb+/s line-rate without specialized hardware)…

> HTTPS on content only sides is primary about preventing people with tampering with the website "people" here specifically excluding Verisign & its successor racketeers, the NSA (…

Only validly-signed (from one of the station's peers) messages move past the decoding stage ("prologue"), and of these only ones with timestamp +/-15min. of station's time; these f…

At the moment even the algorithm isn't finished.

This is correct, and is described in the article ("Kelvin versioning".) The concept is not original to the author.

"every message is rebroadcasted by everyone" is not factual per the spec.

Author of linked article speaking. (How it ended up here -- I have no idea, I'm rather surprised that it was of interest to more than the 3 people for whom it was written.) This fl…

"V" is a very simple versioned publication system (there's an explanatory link in the article.) Vpatches are backwards-compatible with ordinary gnupatch. (can simply execute "patch…

I do have a multi-chapter series on constant-time integer arithmetic -- indeed tagged incl. "bitcoin", as it is meant to be used in (among other places) a rework of the client. You…

One of the attractions of Hypercard was that a "stack" (document) was entirely self-contained; and would always behave exactly the same on any machine where HC could run. Notably, …

Doubt it: I have not written at Kuro5hin. (Possibly linked there at some point, however?)

Author of linked piece speaking. Seems like many readers continue to miss the essential point, just as they did in 2011: Hypercard wasn't a gem of graphic design (1-bit colour, pla…

Author of linked site speaking. Are you sure you are reading the same page? I had half a dozen articles re Bitcoin, the last in 2014...

Intel. No thanks.

The Infineon couldn't force a boot ROM update via USB-C.

My current alternative appears to be to desolder the Cr50 and fabricate harmless replacements (to e.g. init 3.3v rail). So naturally voids warranties. > firmware updateable, but no…

The Cr50 does not limit itself to user key storage. It turns the USB-C ports into always-on NSA-keyed backdoors (anyone in possession of the private RSA key, can reflash all three …

Why lie to the public ? Pulling the battery does enable rewrite, by the user, of the AP ROM, but not the Cr50 -- the latter remains Tivoized. And every owner of this machine can ve…

You are quite right, I do not work at your factory (TBH, I'd rather work for, e.g., Monsanto...) Instead, I'm a reluctant purchaser of your hardware (the market is completely devoi…

Do you particularly care whether the backdoor was installed at Google's initiative, or Trump's ? The golden key exists, and will be used.