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Comment · 1 day ago
Justice can be brought to them tho... At some point someone will delete the building they work in with a cruise missile or two...
Comment · 2 days ago
What in the history of crypto let you think any kind of sensible practices are followed? It's been a clown show since it started, and no end in sight...
Comment · 2 days ago
Comment · 12 days ago
Heavy lift drones are pretty common, a 150kg or more payload is enough for a soldier with his individual equipment. The are pretty short ranged but they only need to reach to a few kms into the grey zone and back.

See e.g. the KF 150 multi copter. And it's sub $50k

Comment · 17 days ago
Comment · 17 days ago
Thieves and intelligence agencies can be one and the same, see North Korea... Crypto is especially useful for heavily sanctioned countries.
Comment · 17 days ago
Do you? Someone actually sell backdoored crypto wallet insurance?
Comment · 19 days ago
Insurance for cyber incidents usually only cover you if you took reasonable measures. Like not exposing your internal systems to the Internet.
Comment · 29 days ago
Also talking about quantum computers breaking SHA-256 means he knows a lot more than the rest of us or not nearly enough to pipe up about the subject.
Comment · 1 month ago
"The ARM-based CPU manufacturers make this worse by posting almost no low-level documentation for their CPUs."

Are those not based on standard ARM cores or ARM documentation on its cores not deep enough for your purpose?

Comment · 1 month ago
They are in valleys and I think the risk assessment was heavily influenced by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbre_Vieja_tsunami_hazard which has been toned down quite a bit since... But IRSN (now ASNR) studies all kind of risks seriously...
Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 1 month ago
The discussion on the cost of the attack needs an addendum. The lattice sieving part would be free for an an attacker with a big enough botnet or enough cloud computing stolen credentials.

Maybe it could even be practical to run it on browser in parallel to video streaming on a free video site...

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