I'm curious, is the date header important or not? OMG, Is this a real conversation? Even this tweet from the tangleblog who leak this document is hilarious: https://twitter.com/tangleblog/status/966286394636296192
Email exchange between MIT Media Lab and the IOTA Foundation [pdf]
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Re: Email exchange between MIT Media Lab and the IOTA Foundation [pdf]
#42> Hey Ethan, Did you receive the invite? We can also setup a chat with our ex-NSA post-Quantum hash function experts after we get the initial confusion out of the way. Best, David It is a great example of someone (the "expert") convincing a non-technical person that they are the "ninja rockstar 11x post-quantum hash function expert". I've seen this many times. Managers / owners don't have ability to assess who is an…
> We can also setup a chat with our ex-NSA post-Quantum hash function experts Is there a modern secure hash function considered to be under threat from quantum computing? I was under the impression there isnt one. It's scary to see marketing spiels thrown into technical discussions, it's even worse when the thread is released as some sort of defense and those less informed see the big words and appeal-to-authority na…
It's only asymmetric crypto used today that's broken under quantum. Symmetric and Hashes should be OK.
Re: Email exchange between MIT Media Lab and the IOTA Foundation [pdf]
#43Wow, this was the juiciest goss I've seen in a while. Seems like the bitter tone was due to some early passive aggressive comments by the Mit media lab team, though.
Re: Email exchange between MIT Media Lab and the IOTA Foundation [pdf]
#44Interesting to see the range of opinions about IOTA.
The conclusions on HN are (so far) completely at odds from those on the cryptocurrency subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7zztey/full...
Meanwhile the commercial world seems happy to engage with IOTA:
"Volkswagen CDO will join the supervisory board of the IOTA foundation. And now, Volkswagen is going to utilise this technology in their automobiles." -- https://coingape.com/iota-volkswagen-partnership-raises-hope...
"Bosch makes first investment in distributed ledger technology, purchase of IOTA tokens to support creation of new business models for the Internet of Things" -- http://www.bosch-presse.de/pressportal/de/en/robert-bosch-ve...
"Taiwan's capital city of Taipei is working with the IOTA Foundation to bring Tangle - IOTA's answer to blockchain - to its citizen identification plans." -- https://www.coindesk.com/city-of-taipei-confirms-its-testing...
So what to make of all this?
Re: Email exchange between MIT Media Lab and the IOTA Foundation [pdf]
#45> Hey Ethan, Did you receive the invite? We can also setup a chat with our ex-NSA post-Quantum hash function experts after we get the initial confusion out of the way. Best, David It is a great example of someone (the "expert") convincing a non-technical person that they are the "ninja rockstar 11x post-quantum hash function expert". I've seen this many times. Managers / owners don't have ability to assess who is an…
>It is a great example of someone (the "expert") convincing a non-technical person that they are the "ninja rockstar 11x post-quantum hash function expert".
It's hilarious that he thought that would work with a security researcher at MIT.
Re: Email exchange between MIT Media Lab and the IOTA Foundation [pdf]
#46I'm curious, is the date header important or not? OMG, Is this a real conversation? Even this tweet from the tangleblog who leak this document is hilarious: https://twitter.com/tangleblog/status/966286394636296192
also this: https://twitter.com/tangleblog/status/967513038374031360
Holy shit! this only reinforces the (probably unfair) stereotypes I have about random comments on twitter (as opposed to other places on the internet).
Re: Email exchange between MIT Media Lab and the IOTA Foundation [pdf]
#47Confirming basically everything I already suspected about IOTA -- don't trust anything crypto related that's not written by a professional. "You're gonna have a bad time." [Edit to add this plug for Zcash! Made with real cryptographers ]
> You're gonna have a bad time." A major wake-up call for me in the crypto currency world was Gavin Andresen's ludicrous "validation" of Colin Wright as Satoshi. When a so-called leader clearly does not even understand the basics you realise it's 98% shit. Sturgeon's law applies again. But I keep on forgetting that.
>Gavin Andresen's ludicrous "validation" of Colin Wright as Satoshi
I'm out of the loop; do you have any good summaries of this incident?
Re: Email exchange between MIT Media Lab and the IOTA Foundation [pdf]
#48I'm curious, is the date header important or not? OMG, Is this a real conversation? Even this tweet from the tangleblog who leak this document is hilarious: https://twitter.com/tangleblog/status/966286394636296192
also this: https://twitter.com/tangleblog/status/967513038374031360
The replies! I see a reality distortion field...
Re: Email exchange between MIT Media Lab and the IOTA Foundation [pdf]
#49I can't believe I read that entire train wreck front to back. If IOTA published this to "expose" MIT, it does quite the opposite. Rule number one, all together now, don't roll your own crypto.
Re: Email exchange between MIT Media Lab and the IOTA Foundation [pdf]
#50I think I work with a clone of Sergey. He has somehow managed to convince his boss that he knows what he is doing. Every interaction with him is painful as he subconcsiously does everything in his power to discredit me and make himself look good.