Ryan Lackey

Cypherpunk and entrepreneur
CSO, Evertas Insurance
“Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.”

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

There was a semi-well known interview of the famed Argentine writer JL Borges where he explains this.

Borges: I have done most of my reading in English. I find English a far finer language than Spanish.

William F Buckley: Why?

Borges: Well, many reasons. Firstly, English is both a Germanic and a Latin language. Those two registers—for any idea you take, you have two words. Those words will not mean exactly the same. For example if I say “regal” that is not exactly the same thing as saying “kingly.” Or if I say “fraternal” that is not the same as saying “brotherly.” Or “dark” and “obscure.” Those words are different. It would make all the difference—speaking for example—the Holy Spirit, it would make all the difference in the world in a poem if I wrote about the Holy Spirit or I wrote the Holy Ghost, since “ghost” is a fine, dark Saxon word, but “spirit” is a light Latin word. Then there is another reason. The reason is that I think that, of all languages, English is the most physical of all languages.

WFB: The most what?

Borges: Physical. You can, for example, say “He loomed over.” You can’t very well say that in Spanish.

WFB: “Asomó?”*

Borges: Well, no, no, they’re not exactly the same. And then you have, in English, you can do almost anything with verbs and prepositions. For example, to “laugh off,” to “dream away.” Those things can’t be said in Spanish. To “live down” something, to “live up to” something—you can’t say those things in Spanish. They can’t be said. Or really in any Romance language.

[Ryan Lackey @octal]

@mbhbox @skeptech These are 200-350 which is cheap for City. Good hotels are 800+ and for those I would just go to 4S.

[Ryan Lackey @octal]

LOL. Shitty Marriott property 1 fucked me in London last time I was here, so I booked property 2, which also just fucked me in a different way.

Pleased to be abandoning Ambassador/etc going forward.

[Xenocosmography @xenocosmography]

People being more threatened by what is better than them than by what is worse than them is the root of all evil.

[Ryan Lackey @octal]

@skeptech @mbhbox They don’t care. Also these are cheap hotels. If I am paying 800-1200/night in London it is for 4S.

[Ryan Lackey @octal]

@KyleSamani Psyopanime

[Lukasz Olejnik @lukOlejnik]

Cyberattack on French supermarkers. Someone remotely took over refrigeration controllers and made them to defrost. Target temperature set to 50°C. Staff opening freezers in the morning were hit by a wave of hot air. Millions of euros lost. France spent years debating food sovereignty to depend on a firmware update? https://t.co/mGijynnrUD

[Ryan Lackey @octal]

Hardware wallets are…a ghetto.

[Ian Miers @secparam]

Some hardware wallet manufacturers are bragging their devices have no screen, making them invulnerable to Ledger-style supply chain attacks. They’re a) wrong and b) bragging their devices, even untampered, are useless.

Without a screen, you can’t verify the transaction you are signing pays the right address. And malware that swaps out addresses before signing is quite common.
So the hardware wallet is useless.

Removing the screen doesn't stop attackers. While man-in-the-middling the screen-to-secure-enclave connection to see seed phrases is the easiest backdoor, you’d be foolish to think that’s the limit of this attacker’s capability. They bought an entire authorized reseller and made a sequence of implants with GSM modems in them. There are a number of other attacks they could do on the wallet’s hardware and software, especially the wallets security is "we don't have screens." Or they could just put malware on the wallet to infect the host computer. Malware which can then swap out the recipient address in a transaction before the screenless hardware wallet blindly signs it.

[Carl Youngblood @cayblood]

Cringeworthy reveal of dysfunctional dating culture. “How do you know there’s not a better soulmate out there for you?”

[Ryan Lackey @octal]

@mbhbox Yeah, the issue is I want proximity to lloyd’s. Best is Four Seasons. There are a few other decent options.

[Jacques de Goede @JDEGOEDE]

The Italian Job with wine. Biggest ever wine heist worth 5.2 million US Dollar .
https://t.co/pQZHCElaeb

[Jrag.eth @Jrag0x]

Apparently the Ledger spy implant can receive messages from the hacker too.

Mine chose psychological warfare.

[Ryan Lackey @octal]

@mbhbox To be fair I expect bad service in the UK but Hyatt has consistently been good here (shockingly).

[Ryan Lackey @octal]

@mbhbox Yeah. Both near/in the City. The Dixon, where I had 3 rooms during Ascot, lost a rental return from one of them for several hours, despite repeated inquiries. The CitizenM refused to store luggage for a couple days before my stay.

[Ryan Lackey @octal]

@gaussie That is block.

[Ryan Lackey @octal]

Consistently hitting “mute” on AI slop “smart seeming essays” to see how much better it makes X.

[Sulla @spqr_sulla]

Notice how whenever people in foreign countries do “America” themed events they ape the aesthetics of America A and not America B

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

❗️ AI is already killing people. A Russian drone that killed 3 in Zaporizhzhia in July left the strike decision to an Nvidia Jetson Orin chip, Ukrainian investigators say.

Nvidia says it is a consumer product sold to students.

[Ryan Lackey @octal]

@KemonomichiNL @KLM Better than shearing it…

[Ryan Lackey @octal]

This was pretty ambiguous last time I was here — the cheapest Uber services use the remote car park which is hell with luggage (shuttle bus, dropped into a large car park). Backup www a London black cab on meter (GBP 150?) but too small.

[Ryan Lackey @octal]

TIL LHR T4 has “priority pick up” in ST car park outside the terminal (across 3 lanes only). Used by Uber for at least some services (XL, and what I did for $10 more, exec xxl, a Vito tourer).

GBP 195 to the City using Wheely, or GBP 117 (I think) for Exec XXL, both Vito.)