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In recent yeas, big tech gave us:
- social media that makes people psychos
- illegal taxi service with poorly vetted (and paid) drivers
- illegal guesthouse service making people homeless
- food delivery with random (underpaid) people under heavy time pressure
- fake money for pump'n'dumps and to pay off ransomware authors
and somehow the one I should be mad angry about is the one that makes funny images and might have disrespected Disney's copyrights.
I proposed a way to incorporate Sender Authentication in age with the following advantages:
- No catch-22 between encryption and signing (no rebinding attacks)
- You have to be able to decrypt the message to verify the sender
- No new cryptographic primitives (e.g., signcryption)
- No in-band signaling or downgrade attacks
However, it does have one requirement that people accustomed to PGP use cases (and tolerant of PGP footguns) may find annoying:
You must know, in advance, the public key of the sender in order to be able to decrypt the message.
GitHubSender Authentication · FiloSottile age · Discussion #640This is a rough draft proposal for implementing Sender Authentication in age without introducing any new cryptographic primitives. This has previously been discussed on Cryptography Dispatches and ...
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Notably, at this point they are merely directed to “prepare a proposal for consideration”.
Also notable: “Each Enterprise is directed to consider only cryptocurrency assets that can be evidenced and stored on a U.S.-regulated centralized exchange”.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #US politics
Federal Housing Finance Agency Director William Pulte: “After significant studying, and in keeping with President Trump’s vision to make the United States the crypto capital of the world, today I ordered the Great Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to prepare their businesses to count cryptocurrency as an asset for a mortgage”
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #US politics
FalconX Partners With Lynq to Advance Real-Time Crypto Settlement for Institutions - TLDR:
FalconX joins Lynq to strengthen real-time crypto settlement network before launch... - https://blockonomi.com/falconx-partners-with-lynq-to-advance-real-time-crypto-settlement-for-institutions/ #crypto.com #fireblocks #fintech #falconx #cypto #lynq
Blockonomi · FalconX Partners With Lynq to Advance Real-Time Crypto Settlement for Institutions - BlockonomiFalconX joins Lynq’s launch partners to support real-time, interest-earning crypto settlement for institutions.
Solana Futures Volume Soars as SOL Bulls Target Price Recovery - TLDR:
Solana hits record 1.75M CME futures contracts, signaling institutional dem... - https://blockonomi.com/solana-futures-volume-soars-as-sol-bulls-target-price-recovery/ #analysis #crypto #solana #sol
Blockonomi · Solana Futures Volume Soars as SOL Bulls Target Price Recovery - BlockonomiSolana futures volume hit 1.75M contracts on CME as SOL bullish traders eye a move toward the $160–$170 range.
'Not going to tell you,' Bondi flips out & refuses to answer after being pressed by Sen Merkley.
On Trump's #crypto scheme, AG Bondi became angry & refused to answer Qs on whether foreign influence is affecting decisions being made by Trump.
"Many folks who attended this dinner were buying those claims bc they wanted to influence policy." He listed suspicious foreign characters at the dinner. “Don't you think the American people have a right to know?"
#Corruption #USPol
https://www.rawstory.com/pam-bondi-2672435040/
Raw Story · 'Not going to tell you': Bondi refuses to answer question on Trump corruption
Metaplanet Raises $515M to Accelerate Bitcoin Strategy, Targets 30,000 BTC by Year-End - TLDR:
Metaplanet secures $515M through 540K exercised Series-20 stock warrants.
New shar... - https://blockonomi.com/metaplanet-raises-515m-to-accelerate-bitcoin-strategy-targets-30000-btc-by-year-end/ #metaplanet #finance #bitcoin #evofund #crypto #btc
Blockonomi · Metaplanet Raises $515M to Accelerate Bitcoin Strategy, Targets 30,000 BTC by Year-End - BlockonomiMetaplanet raised $515M via stock warrants to expand its Bitcoin holdings to 30,000 BTC by the end of 2025.
Once again, I found myself sailing through trashy (to say the least) search engines results 
Like really bad this time!
Luckily (maybe), I randomly stumbled upon https://presearch.com/ which gave me the best results (related to my keywords at least - yes, I'm at this point lmao).
As I understand, it's been around for a few years now, and I'm a bit surprised that I never heard of it.
I see it's rather crypto oriented, which I have no interest in, but I just don't want to see the first several (or just all of them) results being totally unrelated to what I'm looking for.
Have you ever heard about it? Do you have any experience with it? Thoughts?
PresearchPresearchPresearch is a decentralized search engine, powered by the community.
Watch: "Donald Trump Made Tens Of Millions From This Crypto Venture""Allowing Amazon & Walmart to issue stablecoins will be disastrous."
-A Fischer
"More market power. New forms of too-big-to-fail. Sellers & suppliers forced to use Amazon coin w/fees. And more of our capital devoted to speculation, not productive lending."
-S Mitchell
The Bank of INTL Settlements (BIS)
sounds the alarm about #stablecoins potentially undermining monetary sovereignty, transparency issues, & risks of capital flight...
#Crypto #Congress #Corruption #USPol https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/business/3479668-bis-sounds-alarm-stablecoins-and-sovereignty-at-risk
Just released: #swad 0.12 
swad is the "Simple Web Authentication Daemon". It basically offers adding form + #cookie #authentication to your reverse proxy (designed for and tested with #nginx "auth_request"). I created it mainly to defend against #malicious_bots, so among other credential checker modules for "real" logins, it offers a proof-of-work mechanism for guest logins doing the same #crypto #challenge known from #Anubis.
swad is written in pure #C with minimal dependencies (#zlib, #OpenSSL or compatible, and optionally #PAM), and designed to work on any #POSIX system. It compiles to a small binary (200 - 300 kiB depending on compiler and target platform).
This release brings (among a few bugfixes) improvements to make swad fit for "heavy load" scenarios: There's a new option to balance the load across multiple service worker threads, so all cores can be fully utilized if necessary, and it now keeps lots of transient objects in pools for reuse, which helps to avoid memory fragmentation and ultimately results in lower overall memory consumption.
Read more about it, download the .tar.xz, build and install it .... here:
GitHubGitHub - Zirias/swad: Simple Web Authentication DaemonSimple Web Authentication Daemon. Contribute to Zirias/swad development by creating an account on GitHub.
The Mess We Make (Again… and again)
Ten years ago, I remember being told, often condescendingly, with smug certainty, that hosting in the cloud was the future. That what I was working on, #DIY grassroots self and community hosted tech was the dinosaur, a dead end, old obsolete thinking, out of touch. Despite spending years pointing out the obvious flaws in this pushing, for this I got only that my “native” path was irrelevant, for Luddites, they said. Legacy thinking, dead tech walking.
Well, here we are, a decade later. And […]
https://hamishcampbell.com/the-mess-we-make-again-and-again/
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#CoinMarketCap briefly hacked to drain #crypto wallets via fake #Web3 popup