Will banish the evil spirits haunting your unconfirmed transaction, or your money back.

Austin, TX
Joined February 2022
topher van helsing retweeted
i’m wondering how many of these 10+ year old bugs did nation states know about and just keep in their back pocket. i’m guessing a lot of them. LLMs are rapidly identifying and removing a lot of said software zero day secrets. the question i have is, what are hacker groups and governments who were previously fueled by a secret repertoire of software zero days going to do when 90+% of them disappear. the unstoppable scary hackers of the internet may struggle after the dust settles (a year from now? or sooner). i know some think we’re just going to keep finding worse and worse bugs forever, but i kinda disagree on that take.
So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
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Are hardware wallets cooked?
Un Ledger peut passer tous les tests d'authenticité… et envoyer tes 24 mots à un inconnu par réseau mobile. ❌ Pour moi, c'est terminé. Je raccroche les hardware wallets. Et ça me fait mal de l'écrire. Pendant des années, c'était LE conseil. "Not your keys, not your coins." Achète un Ledger, range ta seed, dors tranquille. Je l'ai répété moi-même. Ce qu'on a trouvé dans des Nano X vendus neufs, sous blister intact : 1️⃣ Une deuxième carte cachée derrière l'écran, à la place du coussinet 2️⃣ Une batterie remplacée par une plus petite pour faire de la place 3️⃣ Une puce, une antenne, une eSIM et un modem 4G L'implant ne touche pas la puce sécurisée. Il lit l'écran au moment où ta phrase de récupération s'affiche, puis il l'envoie. Le "Genuine Check" reste au vert. Ledger a confirmé un implant dans l'appareil d'une victime. Plus de 70 millions de dollars auraient été vidés chez des clients d'un revendeur officiel en Asie du Sud-Est. 🚨 Et ça ne resterait pas en Asie. Un acheteur affirme avoir trouvé des câbles en trop dans un Ledger acheté en magasin, chez un revendeur officiel européen. Selon Mark Karpelès (ex-patron de Mt. Gox), l'antenne porterait une étiquette "version eurasienne". Il pourrait donc y en avoir d'autres en circulation. 📍 Et le plus beau : la réponse officielle. Leurs systèmes ne sont pas compromis et il faut acheter chez le fabricant ou chez un revendeur agréé. Et devinez quoi ? Le revendeur était agréé. ⚫ Rien ne prouve que tous les Ledger soient piégés. Mais c'est justement le problème : tu ne peux plus le prouver toi-même. Tout le trajet entre l'usine et ton salon est une boîte noire. Le hardware wallet n'avait qu'une seule promesse : ne faire confiance à personne. Aujourd'hui, il faut faire confiance à l'usine, au transporteur, au revendeur, au magasin… et à un tournevis. 🚩Je pense que cette industrie n'a plus d'avenir. Pas parce que la puce est mauvaise. Parce que la confiance ne se répare pas avec un firmware.
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OnlyFans is the perfect money laundering operation if you think about it. Many billions of dollars in small, anonymous payments, across many accounts, cloaked in social stigma and plausible deniability. No wonder all these state-sponsored sex traffickers are so filthy rich.
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topher van helsing retweeted
Replying to @tabconf
@tabconf has been really special to all of us and an instrumental part of our growth as an attempt to convince @miketwenty1 to #SAVETABCONF i've added a note you can leave as you sign the petition please consider leaving a note sharing your experience savetabconf.com
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Let's all agree to reserve a future opcode for verifying SPHINCS signatures in the annex. Folks worried about ECDSA getting rekt can lock their funds normally, with the extra opcode added as "insurance". If ECDSA breaks, we can panic for a moment, then activate the opcode.
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Another thing to figure out is which standard to use for the SPHINCS public key. The current NIST standards for SPHINCS+ signatures are pretty big, but still worth it if you are "big bitcoin" and have to protect a large stack. I don't think it's worth having analysis paralysis over which standard to pick, we should at least support the current standard, and we can figure out versioning in the annex payload after the fact.
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I think this upgrade path has already been proposed on the mailing list. Using OP_NOP5 for example, you can append a SPHINCS+ public key at the end of your script with OP_NOP5 OP_DROP (similar to BIP 112). Before the activation, nothing changes. After the activation, the public key can be used to verify a SPHINCS signature in the annex payload. You still need the schnorr signature, so this would act as a second signature. Anyway, I think that with both quantum computing and giga-brain super intelligence as a looming threat, the bare-minimum that can be done is to reserve an opcode and support the current NIST standards for hash-based signatures, which are the least likely to get eviscerated.
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topher van helsing retweeted
There are times when you think AI has gone too far, but then there are moments when you see Uncle Phil from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air scoring Mesut Özil's goal against Ludogrets, and suddenly it all feels worthwhile.
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There is something truly magical about chain of thought. It's a shame that frontier providers hide this process from you. I highly recommend trying out a provider with open-weight models, using a client that shows you the full experience. It will change how you write prompts.
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The real reason why open models are "dangerous" and AI development should "slow down."
Replying to @jedisct1
Now you can bet that the @CIA & the @FBI are internally fighting mad that AI is finding all of security vulnerabilities that they planted into Linux over the years to spy on Americans who use Linux instead of state controlled spyware like Windows and Mac. AI cyber defense tools are threat to continued secret government mass infiltration & dragnet spying inside everyone's computer system.
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Replying to @jedisct1
Now you can bet that the @CIA & the @FBI are internally fighting mad that AI is finding all of security vulnerabilities that they planted into Linux over the years to spy on Americans who use Linux instead of state controlled spyware like Windows and Mac. AI cyber defense tools are threat to continued secret government mass infiltration & dragnet spying inside everyone's computer system.
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GPT-6 is the future of token-burning bureaucracy. Given a lean spec and a goal, Astra will build your new software feature within 30 minutes, then spend 10 hours running validation checks to prove that it works. The cost of time and tokens are of no importance to GPT-6. Endless testing and validation is the new normal. How much billing do these enterprises rack up while their agents run in unattended workflows? It's quite brilliant, really.
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topher van helsing retweeted
I used AI to explain the AI pacing drama, with fruit.
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topher van helsing retweeted
🌿KEEP OFF THE GRASS!
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topher van helsing retweeted
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topher van helsing retweeted
Pentium II + Voodoo 3 3000 + Unreal [1998]
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trillions of open weights are already available for download any leaps in architecture can be modeled and trained by distilling the existing weights chinatown is down to release more weights and sell the hardware do these guys really control anything anymore? honest question
We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so. Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training. You can read the full post here: darioamodei.com/post/we-must…
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topher van helsing retweeted
i trained the fly to cut doner kabab with a knife yours solves rubiks cubes, mine cuts doner. guess which one has a job in this economy
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i trained the fly to solve rubiks cube is there anything this little guy can't do?
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topher van helsing retweeted
A couple weeks later, here’s the full writeup from Guadalajara 🇲🇽 Hackalajara 2.0, Startup Day GDL, the builders, demos, and everything that came together over two packed back2back days building hacking on Bitcoin. ⚡️Check out the full recap from @BitcoinNewsCom 👇
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Is Liquid the new solid? 🤔
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