IED(EDS) sufferer and spectrum surfer. You probably won’t like what I have to say.
Having it in a pocket realm in the Astral accessible by a mundane item off to the side in the ‘fake’ vault filled with low level junk magic items
The pocket realm also does not have any air becuase the BBEG is prepared with their own contingencies, and of course right on the other side of that airless door are a few very persistent golems there to hug anyone who enters
Netflix better not fuck this up, almost no one understands what’s at stake here.
If it wasn’t for Sesame Street, I’d be just as racist as the rest of my family
they are design nightmares and not even in the cute Jaguar’s transmission kind of way.
I don’t think you understand the power of identity yoking
and as for ‘tools I might use to check’, literally anyone can code their own CRC checker in python with no python experience in like 20 mins using widely attested public algorithms
A little. I’m in IT, and know the basics.
Then you understand how statistically impossible it is to craft a modified distro that passes a CRC check?
And by statistically impossible, I mean this in a thermodynamic sense, as in that it is much more likely that you are a brain floating in a void that cohered completely from nothingness due to vacuum energy than it is that any given iteration of a modified file of considerable length will match the same CRC as an established, published, vetted copy.
It is about 100 times easier to randomly guess the private key of a bitcoin wallet than it is to iterate arbitrary changes to match CRC results.
There is a reason it is still the gold standard of file authenticity despite it being literally based on a largely unchanged 50 year old technology.
The first is good but it is a bandaid, the second is an attempt to keep others from needing bandaids too
Yeah it was Stargate Universe my bad, going back to edit
the traitor south lasted shorter than the reign of the Playstation 2 and they build statues and run social clubs about it still
How are they ‘changing on the fly’ the distro I downloaded the week before and ran a CRC check on?
Any tools you use could similarly be compromised to give you untrustworthy output.
Serious question, do you have any background in IT security?
I ask that because to cover this properly will take effort, and I’m not prepared to waste that on someone who won’t understand what I’m writing.
If you have a connection with that person, over time it may be possible to shift their position
A random stranger on the street? Smile and walk away as soon as possible
For non-MAGA people, the statistics on the drop of preventable deaths are usually enough to convince. Unfortunately MAGA is immune to statistics, or secretly are glad the ‘trash is being taken out’
I think what you are trying to say is that if they have shell access it is insecure and yes I agree with that
But even if they have shell access, as long as I can be assured no one else is logged in, I can make any linux box just as secure in about twelve minutes using the above scenario.
Yes in what I described there are weaknesses such as L1 cache doping to vastly reduce uncertainty making identification of prime stripes in packets trivial, but to practically pull that off you need an electron microscope installed above a naked operating processor meaning the entire room has to be sub zero and sealed from contaminants and prepared days beforehand
Which means that any joe schmo spinning up a digitalocean droplet isn’t going to be hosted on a machine with NSA grade top level memory and CPU observation installed
garage kitting their audio modem coupling to drive the short wave signal so now you have a broadcast BBS messaging board that can send your Commodore 64s screen output in raster packets so like five people in the U.S. and Canada can watch you play Mail Order Monsters, with band jump intervals passed around by hand at physical meetups twice a year
Also… Spacebread?
Spacebread, a large white cat known throughout the galaxy as an adventuress and a scoundrel, uncovers a plot to dominate the planet Ralph when she goes in search of her stolen belt buckle.
Holy mother of all that is madcap I am getting that right now. Thank you for sharing this I cannot believe I’ve never heard of it!
A new Pit Dragon book came out in 2009!
Dragon’s Heart
I JUST FOUND OUT TODAY
you have me intrigued
Not really, okay I am going to give you the back of the napkin black box operation.
So you lease the instance and spin it up from the console. The first thing you do is set up a SSH key only access instance so from the moment its spun up, the only logins will be from a key that the hosting service is not privy to.
Once established and you make a shell connection, you can SEE how many logins there are and there will be only you. Ok then you set up a virtual machine within that system that maps to the NIC of the host.
Now you have a virtual machine inside a virtual machine that the host service has no access to.
that second virtual machine’s secure shell login is set to a non-rotating one time pad that is delivered while monitoring virtual machine 1 for alternate logins. If at any time it is suspected, the entire instance can be wiped and the one time pads discarded and a new pair generated and the process begun again
Once the nested virtual machine is operating, its memory operations are also encrypted by the one time pad, provided it was uploaded completely within the window where you were the only logged in user to VM 1, this means even with the most sophisticated memory reading technology, without that one time pad the data is unreadable, and the only way to get the pad is to have been watching while the pad was uploaded to the 2nd virtual machine.
In this scenario since we have maintained theoretically perfect end to end encryption thrice over, so the one time pad doesn’t need to be large, because when you get to the end of the shared key list the last record can be used to safely transmit another arbitrarily large one time pad.
The ONLY way this scenario is compromised is:
A compromised kernel and since we are being careful with our distros, we know it is valid and tested by millions of man hours, this is unlikely
Someone using a quantum computer to crack the public key set used to secure the 2nd virtual machine via direct reading of the physical server’s memory, jumping in as an invisible Man in the Middle attack in the time between the 2nd instance is spun up and the first one time pad record is received (we are talking fractions of a second)
And EVEN THEN they just have the digits of the one time pad don’t contain their method, that’s in the 2nd VMs kernel and is unreadable in memory unless you can guess the method perfectly the first time.
Let me give you an example, this is ridiculously simplified:
say the one time pad first entry is:
5TF7M828D3
and the method is ‘add the hex value of every 3rd character and xor it with the hex value of every 2nd character’, and that is the base encoding for the private key that will be secure
See?
you can be aware of the string: 5TF7M828D3, but not know how to manipulate it to get the desired secure private key
TIL and thank you for pointing me to movies I’ve never seen.
Reminds me of the old days of the internet when people still talked about niche things they loved without judgment. If any gods exist may all of them richly bless you with exactly as many pleasant surprises as you desire.
Still in the ‘acceptable in a polo at the lawn party’ crowd
That said, if someone told you “I was on the rowing team back at university” you’d have decent odds his name would be Chet or similar.
it’s more for older models where overengineering for ridiculously smooth transitions at the cost of greater wear and maintenance. Considered acceptable as a person who owns a jaguar likely owns several cars and it isn’t a burden for frequent maintenance
People who can barely afford Jaguars learn the hard way that it was meant as a weekend car