this blog post from the creator of Signal
Moxie’s politics are a bit weird but because of him I was able to get free wifi everywhere i lived for many years through WPA cracking… he aslo wrote sslstrip which i used for more dubious purposes in a previous life.
what kind of lunatic is pollitically opposed to copy paste. That’s the best thing about computers
Shut up Sony might hear you!
Are y’all old enough to remember the DMCA and “You wouldn’t download a Car?”
OR even older; When the movie industry tried to make VCR tapes illegal?
What if I told you there was a shortcut to erase AND copy something at the same time?
The “verified collections” problem AKA only sources we collectively agree are valuable may mint currency wow this is sounding more and more like the value of the currency is only that that can be guaranteed by an entity with the power to enforce it’s value like maybe a state or something idk
Yep. Another example would be that OpenSea and other platforms already mark things as frozen due to being stolen. This is of course, based on one person saying “my NFTs were stolen” and who knows what kind of investigative followup on it. You can still trade the NFTs via direct access to blockchain trades, but that’s so complicated for the average user that they are de facto frozen.
Moxie Marlinspike did a good writeup on the problems with all this NFT shit and correctly pointed out that while it claims to aim for old school decentralization, the same forces and problems that caused the shift to the new platform-driven web have come into play here too.
The only problem with this is that then you have an NFT pfp
and that’s why the matthew account PFP is actually just a hexagonal jpeg if you click through and check
https://twitter.com/iAmTheWarax/status/1484343496605519874
nobody is re-minting that shit when you can just TAKE it
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