byterhymer

@byterhymer@mastodon.social

Selenophile, enjoys hot springs & Lovely Angels/ダーティペア sorts of ladies.

On networks prior to TCP.

Before SMTP?

Used UUCP.

Cited in Usenix 2009: helped restore a version of UNIX older than C.

Helped patch an embargoed bug in BIND 2013-4854 by CVE.

Digs: consent, frugivore food forests, demo scene, turntablism, C= Amigas, BSDs, tisanes, poetry, accessibility, undeadly, ジブリ。

Hates: slavery, proprietary, costly, exclusionary, inequity, tyranny.
http://www.artkiver.com also see

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byterhymer, to random

Geeze, watching footage of Vangelis is inspiring and daunting. He was incredibly talented!

byterhymer,

I get annoyed when people refer to me as a hacker. I think back to: Stewart Brand's article in Rolling Stone from 1972:

"Peter Deutsch inside the Xerox building: More than a hacker, in the opinion of a colleague, 'although he has some of that style. He's a virtuoso.'"

I am striving to be a virtuoso. I am not there yet, but being reminded how far away I am isn't so helpful. ;) I can watch recordings of Vangelis and know how far away I already am.

byterhymer,

I've had root on tens of millions of dollars worth of hardware for decades, for companies grossing hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars per annum.

I have nothing on the genius of Vangelis.

Maybe when I am as old as he was when he passed away I will have improved, slightly?

lauren, to random
@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org avatar

Bluesky is saying that torture and self-harm posts are acceptable. That's the end of Bluesky as far as I'm concerned. They don't have a clue what they're letting themselves in for.

byterhymer,

@lauren Those concerns are orthogonal from a technological perspective.

e.g. SILC (Secure Internet Live Conferencing) is end-to-end encrypted with Perfect Forward Secrecy & has mitigations to defend against malicious server operators from eavesdropping, yet it does not prohibit server operators or channel operators from kicking/banning abuse.

The falsehood that end-to-end encrypted messaging facilitates CSAM is a canard.

Also see: @alexwinter's TEDx Talk.

@mekkaokereke @rysiek @tchambers

byterhymer,

@lauren Push back may still be necessary. SILC (and SSH for that matter) were both developed at a time when even exporting so-called "strong cryptography" from the USA was considered illegal.

In other words: the world has gotten friendlier to cryptography, not the other way around.

Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States

@alexwinter @mekkaokereke @rysiek @tchambers

byterhymer,

@lauren Yeah, SILC (and OpenSSH) have always included complete source code. Making "backdoors" a lot more challenging to hide. Both projects have already undergone peer review by many of the best experts in the field. @alexwinter @mekkaokereke @rysiek @tchambers

byterhymer,

@lauren I do not live in the UK, nor do I have any plans to emigrate there, particularly post Brexit. I am also not an attorney, nor can I recall a single piece of cryptographic code of merit to have originated out of the UK in decades, so, why should I care? My past employers (some UK based) were also: bad employers. @alexwinter @mekkaokereke @rysiek @tchambers

byterhymer,

@lauren I know Moxie personally, and do not consider Signal to be a protocol of merit. I have written about this publicly, repeatedly, for years. I know some of their other devs and even offered to work for them to fix their problems, but there are court transcripts with Signal logs entered as evidence, I consider them non trustworthy, to understate it.

@alexwinter @mekkaokereke @rysiek @tchambers

byterhymer,

@lauren I am also not alone in shunning Signal.

Also see:

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/08/signal/

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2017/03/signal-leaks-your-phone-number-to-everyone-in-your-contacts/

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/04/signal-hops-on-the-dunning-krugerrand-bandwagon/

etc. @alexwinter @mekkaokereke @rysiek @tchambers

byterhymer,

@lauren " pulling out of countries where end-to-end crypto is made illegal" seems to be rather different than, e.g. (now PhD) Niels Provos' efforts to work on OpenSSH by DRIVING ACROSS THE USA BORDER so he was not in violation of international laws while he was a grad student at UMich. Niels Provos did self sacrifice to help all, Signal has not demonstrated anything approaching that, anywhere, ever.

@alexwinter @mekkaokereke @rysiek @tchambers

byterhymer,

@lauren So I guess people should contact their legislatures?

As it stands: FreeS/WAN, OpenIKED, Vula, Wireguard, OpenVPN and more exist, with complete source code, accessible internationally. So, legislatures will be hard pressed to put that genie back into a bottle; particularly since USG and .mil utilize much of that already, as do Fortune 500 companies. You can't just legislate away functioning infrastructure via magic, it doesn't work that way. @alexwinter @mekkaokereke @rysiek @tchambers

byterhymer,

@lauren The US is of course not immune, it's one of the worst places on Earth for human rights abuses and privacy violations. But two decades ago there were not the preponderance of multiple (some interoperable) encryption tools that exist now. I had Cisco VPN concentrator CD-ROMs which said: "Not for export outside of the USA" and "Made in Mexico" on the same friggin label two decades ago.

@alexwinter @mekkaokereke @rysiek @tchambers

byterhymer,

@lauren Well, in my experience: all governments fall. Some sooner than later. The USA is in a Roman decline stage from my vantage.

Cuneiform, outlived Sumeria.

Hieroglyphs outlived Egypt.

Latin persists despite the fall of Rome.

I think code will be much the same.

The Great Firewall of China? Was supplied by Cisco last I checked.

DNS: open source.

So uhhh, you think open source doesn't help? I think you're off your rocker if so.

@alexwinter @mekkaokereke @rysiek @tchambers

byterhymer,

@lauren And I was personal friends with Doug Engelbart.

Do you always write others with this much vitriol?

It seems awfully rude.

We would not even be communicating right now in this modality without:

TCP (BSD)
DNS (ISC)
ActivityPub (multiple open source implementations).

Windows, Mac, ChromeOS, IOS, Android: all downstream of open source projects.
@alexwinter @mekkaokereke @rysiek @tchambers

byterhymer,

@lauren I have been incarcerated.

I have been to China.

Stop putting words into my mouth.

Stop spreading FUD.

@alexwinter @mekkaokereke @rysiek @tchambers

byterhymer,

@lauren this is just outright condescending.

byterhymer,

@lauren From my vantage:

all governments fall.

Cuneiform: outlasted Sumeria.
Hieroglyphs: outlasted Egypt.
Latin: outlasted the Roman empire.

I am pretty confident that code will be similar.

I have NEVER had success as an individual with any governance structure. What is going to make a difference for me now that never worked in the past?

byterhymer,

@lauren You aren't welcome.

Your tone was excruciating and uncalled for with me.

byterhymer,

@lauren ARPANet site 1 at UCLA, was still after Engelbart's group at SRI.

Also, after SAGE.

I think you think too highly of yourself and are resting on your laurels and it looks disgusting from here.

byterhymer,

@lauren Change your diet.

No more Big Macs.

No more Coca colas.

Maybe you'll stop caring so much about failed governments and start treating life on Earth with more compassion and respect.

byterhymer,

@lauren LOL, you think I am an OPTIMIST?

sigh you don't follow me, & after this I have an incentive to stay t.f. away from anything that you write ever again.

I sleep in a car.

Thousands in debt.

I have not spoken with my own son in over a decade.

I still actively contribute to libre/free open source software months if not years ahead of commercial downstream projects.

It's been like that for MOST of my existence in this hellish world full of people with too much power & $ punching down.

byterhymer,

@lauren
"I don't mention anything about UCLA"

Sure seems to contradict:

"And by the way, I've been working on the Internet since before there was an Internet (ARPANET site 1 at UCLA), and on Open Source long, long, long before the term was coined." (https://mastodon.social/@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/110268796785422058)

JFC, writing with you is exasperating.

Do you realize what this looks like to anyone else?

byterhymer,

@lauren I was born in Menlo Park.

sigh

My family's church, TO THIS FRIGGIN DAY "news flash: it's 2023!" (so rude! why do you write like that?) shares a parking lot with SRI.

SRI had a cross licensing agreement with PARC and SAIL.

byterhymer,

@lauren You absolutely do not understand my point of view whatsoever.

That you would write as much, seems terribly presumptuous to me.

Moreover, I am not your teacher and I don't want to share my life story with you, especially given how you are treating me.

Consider my take on libre/free open source fatalistic, post apocalyptic and you'll get closer to my lived experience.

byterhymer,

@lauren Yes, Please. LEAVE ME ALONE FOREVER.

Horrid person.

byterhymer,

@mekkaokereke I think the steganographic risk, is also a canard, but I would defer to @jnazario's expertise in such realms (I seem to recall he gave a presentation at CanSecWest maybe prior to 2005 on such subjects in real world data and also collaborated with Niels Provos on prior research and is cited in Provos' 2001 paper).

p.s.

Warez is a solution. The problem was commercializing software. You've got that world view completely backwards.

e.g. https://m.pouet.net/prod.php?which=55991

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