Ethereum developers have announced that another hard fork will be taking place on the platform at ETH block height 2,675,000, the fourth such hard fork applied to the platform this year alone. Following the usual Ethereum SOP, the update will be used to erase certain accounts that DoS attackers previously used to bloat the chain, the concept of immutability in blockchains having been lost to them long ago. Developers say that users are expecting the upgrade to fix the slow transaction and block times that occur due to the attacks. The fork also supposedly fixes the replay attack problem, which resulted in a plethora of sorry for your loss this past summer.
Category Archives: Shitware
Phuctor Reveals 1 in ~2700 SSH-capable Machines On The Internet Still "Debianized"
Phuctor is a public service operated by S.NSA. It catalogues extant RSA public keys which are inexpensively breakable by any known means.
A short "trip down memory lane" is in order. From 2006 to 2008, Debian shipped with a sabotaged SSH key generator — which was capable of producing strictly 32768 distinct private keys of any given length.
According to Official Truth, this particular story ended in 2008, when the Debian "bug" was fixed. But in reality, a carefully-engineered boobytrap is truly a gift that keeps on giving.
Phuctor has been digesting SSH keys obtained from a scan of the complete IPv4 space since June of 2016. These have yielded, and continue to yield, breakable RSA moduli.
On Wednesday, November the 16th, factors from 168923 trivially-breakable "Debianized" RSA keys1 were added to Phuctor's database. This resulted in a discovery of 1366 distinct hits, distributed across 689 newly-broken RSA moduli. The count of RSA SSH keys (each found at a particular scanned IP, and not necessarily unique) present in Phuctor's database at the time was 2941798. The 689 moduli represented a set of 1074 IP addresses where a machine had responded to an SSH query.2
This leads us to an interesting conclusion: roughly 1 in 2700 SSH-capable machines in the IPv4 space is actively making use of a "Debianized" SSH key, even today; its traffic is effortlessly transparent to enemy eyes.
Peace in our time, shitgnomes!
Many of these Linux boxes are likewise using a "Debianized" SSH key for remote login. And if you, the reader, can find and forensically-instrument such a machine, it may prove to be an excellent source of NSAware for the discerning entomologist. ↩
Plus one other very peculiar key, appearing to belong to a USG provocateur organization called "Mayfirst". It seems to have started life as an SSH key, and is clearly Debianized, but it is not part of the set we converted to RFC4880 format for digestion in Phuctor. Instead, it had been gathered from SKS as part of Phuctor's original working set! ↩
Twitter Purges "Alt-right" Members As It Intentionally Contracts Audience
In line with its adoption of the dangerous Benesch framework and its continued surrender to leftist media pressure this week, Twitter undertook a purge of "Alt-right" members. Among those banned was former Business Insider CTO Pax Dickinson (WOT:nonperson) who sought refuge in the embrace of the budding Alt-right following an organized social media shaming campaign against him (archived) lead by writers for the now defunct socialist rag Gawker. This continues the trend of Twitter and operator Jack Dorsey (WOT:nonperson) intentionally contracting the platform's userbase and alienating users while wondering why their one time fortunes are shrinking.
ViaBTC Enters Contract Mining Scamspace
ViaBTC has announced their entry into the world of Bitcoin cloud-mining scams, offering hashrate sales of their S9 mining power for 0.21 BTC per 1 TH/s. The announcement also stated that users would be able to trade mining contracts in a similar manner to failed mining exchange cex.io.
Our cloud mining exchange platform is under development and will be soon integrated into www.viabtc.com. At that time users can freely trade their cloud mining contracts. Early-stage contract holders can direct their contacts to www.viabtc.com then by signing their wallet addresses.
ViaBTC further stated that "Redemption of miners and change of mining pool are not available for the contract" ensuring that suckers for the scam are not able to use the purchased hashpower on any competing pool or fork.
The recent moves seem to be the death rattles of Roger Ver's latest attempt to stage a coup, having failed to bribe Venezuelan miners to join his revolution. ViaBTC pool stands at ~7% of total network hashrate at the time of this article.
Google Pull Adsense From News Content It Doesn't Like
Google is set to implement a new policy depriving news and informational sites of revenue from their adsense program unless their work is concordant with Google's political version of the truth. This surely has absolutely nothing to do with recent events in which political reality was found to diverge from the politically correct truth.
Numerous Jobs For The Unemployable Being Created As The Great Again Approaches
Following Hillary Clinton's election loss and concession, numerous otherwise unemployable homo sapiens have begun careers as professional protesters. Recruiting materials for these new jobs suggest a 15 United States dollar average rate of pay for these newly created protesting jobs. This is substantially more than the average pay rate negotiated by the United Food And Commercial Workers for dues paying members of their union.
Hillary Rodham-Clinton Loses Election
Hillary Rodham-Clinton lost the election to become the next United States president. Donald Trump-Clinton is on track to become the next United States president provided he survives to inauguration day and doesn't decide to quit, because in those instances Mike Pence will become the next President. Token legal challenges will likely proceed in an effort to change the allocation of some electoral votes though currently Donald Trump-Clinton holds 276 of the necessary 270 electoral votes with 27 outstanding votes from Michigan and Arizona yet to be determined.
For people who find this outcome unacceptable please direct your blame to Donna Brazile, your political party, and your candidate in that order. Sorry for your loss.
Coinbase Partnering Up For Facial Verification As Relevance Continues Sinking
Coinbase has partnered with a bio-metrics firm to enable facial recognition of customers as part of KYC compliance measures. (archived)
Officials from Jumio stated:
“Adding bio-metric facial recognition to Netverify was inspired by a need that impacts organizations across many industries, especially financial services with account opening and money transfers,” said Jumio CEO Stephen Stuut. “As evidenced by the millions of unauthorized accounts that were opened at Wells Fargo, it’s critical to look beyond existing multi-factor authentication solutions whenever any digital transaction takes place. The addition of biometric facial recognition, combined with ID verification, will not only help ensure that the individual in front of the screen is who they say they are.”
Coinbase is touted on the site as giving "customers a secure and seamless way for both investment managers and consumers to trade and exchange Bitcoin or Ethereum for traditional currency." Customers can have total confidence that their data and funds are 100% safe in the vaults of Buterin's waterfall.
Clinton Thug Janet Reno Dies
Janet Reno, lead prosecutor of the first Clinton Administration's war on the American people has died. Janet oversaw terrorist campaigns against numerous victims including a the Branch Davidians, Montana Freemen, Richard Jewell, Wen Ho Lee, and an uncountable number of others. Her tenure as Attorney General opened with the immolation of 76 members of a religion of peace. Reno's cause of death is listed simply as "complications of Parkinson's disease" without further details being provided.
Not Quite News Roundup Xtend 13 (TM)(R)
Welcome to the thirteenth edition of the Qntra Not Quite News Roundup Xtend (TM)(R). The below events are alleged to have happened, but they are decidedly innocent of newsworthiness.
- After 108 years the Chicago Cubs won the World Series1 against the Cleveland Indians.
- CNN fired contributor and interim Democratic party chair Donna Brazile for leaking debate questions to the Hillary Rodham-Clinton campaign.
- Rumours of China banning Bitcoin tempered the recent bull run reported by fiat/Bitcoin interfaces though after settling it still requires ~711 United States dollars to acquire a whole Bitcoin via this route.
- Enthusiasm for the Zcash/Z-Cash/ZNC altcoin has already faded as scheduled. Who knew it would only take another week of mining subsidies hitting the market to crash the price?
- Donald Trump-Clinton was rushed off the campaign stage in Reno, Nevada by the Secret Service.
- Playboy Playmate Dani Mathers faces charges relating to a "body shaming" incident.
- The University of Missouri Football team lost their 11th consecutive game in conference play. The team is now set to lose every game in their conference for the first time since 1971. This follow the University surrendering to a strike by the football team last year.
Despite the name this is not an international contest. In the last World Baseball Classic, an actual international contest, the Dominican Republic won while the United States was eliminated by Puerto Rice, an island it occupies. ↩