Direct link to the #ChatControl corruption article: https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/who-benefits-inside-the-eus-fight-over-scanning-for-child-sex-content/
My guess is they're theocrats, using whatever tools they have to undermine democracy.
They're behind these ads?
It could very well be a foreign country that likes to have this feature to surveil their own population, but there are plenty of evil people in the US alone more than happy to do this. Important to name and shame them.
TIL Hal Finney's RPOW system relied on remote attestation. Clients could check that the central server was running the right software (of course we now know this doesn't work).
Some pics of Terceira island, Azores.
The Dutch central bank tried to kill them, but failed!
nostr:npub1s6z7hmmx2vud66f3utxd70qem8cwtggx0jgc7gh8pqwz2k8cltuqrdwk4c But the cost for the custodian wouldn’t increase much if they make 2FA mandatory. Which would be a win/win for both parties.
For larger amounts self custody is the preferred option of course.
That's not the point though. With mandatory 2FA hackers will find another way and unless it was total recklessness of the customer, this precedent seems to mean the custodian may be on the hook.
Direct link to the verdict (in Dutch): https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/#!/details?id=ECLI:NL:RBAMS:2023:5425
Interesting Dutch court case:
* customer of custodian wallet lost coins due to their own email getting hacked
* custodian had reminded customer to turn on 2FA, but he/she didn't
* judge decides that custodian has to refund 90% (only allocating 10% to the customers fault)
The main argument here is that the situation is similar to fiat banking, where a bank is expected to protect its customers to a very large extend, and generally has to pony up the money if things go wrong. In this case the custodian should have made 2FA mandatory, and knowingly took the risk of not doing so.
This sets a huge precedent for custodians that should dramatically increase their costs. Which makes self-custody more attractive. Which is good for Bitcoin.
Always a good idea to update your devices before you go to a conference.
Does it have direct flights to the Azores though? :-)
If you only listen to Bitcoin influencers, you'd think Canada is a green socialist paradise, but it's not :-) E.g. the airport train runs on diesel, companies get away with quoting prices with taxes and other unavoidable fees and train stations don't have lockers, leading some AirBnB like madness where you need an app, creditcard (==KYC) and Google Maps for the most basic stuff.
But otherwise is pretty cool. Some nice brutalist alternated with modern stuff.
Obey!
So it was Paxos, not PayPal:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/paxos-confirms-responsible-for-500k-mistaken-bitcoin-transaction
Just use ssh and scp?
Disappearing replies is always sad. I'm still a bit confused about the R_{...} notation.
So one important element here is that Alice never reveal an individual (secret) nonce, i.e. never reals k_{A1} or k_{A2}, but only some linear combination of both?