Showing Pantless
Today was one of those days.
I didn't put on pants at all.
This is despite having a client session to start the morning. But it was okay, because I had a shirt on and my hair was done, so that was enough when meeting remotely. But I was at home for the rest of the day also and after the session, I spent a couple of hours cleaning and reorganizing our bathroom drawers and medical cabinet, making sure that is all in order again. Nothing I did required putting on pants.
Maybe tomorrow.
Other than cleaning, I wrote a bit and also some reading, where I came across the update on Google's quantum computing shenanigans and how fast the Willow chip can process. This of course makes me think about security and how secure the various blockchains are under that level of scrutiny, and I suspect that while the Bitcoin keys can survive for now, it won't be that long until it is going to be an issue. Which got my pantless ass thinking.
I was wearing boxers.
But I was thinking about digital security and how no matter how robust the algorithms may be, eventually they are all going to fail under pressure. The more valuable the prize behind the gate, the more attack it is going to face, as there is more incentive to put the effort in to break down the door.
Is there a solution to this?
Essentially, the vast majority of encryption offers little more protection against a quantum codebreaker than a rice paper wall against a hurricane does. This means that all forms of digital security are going to be put under threat, unless they find a way to solve the problem. And while there are many ways, I think that one of the things that will have to happen, is we are going to need to learn to be far more transparent - we need to be visible. Physical. Physical keys like Trezor and Ledger go a long way, but in this day and age,
Not very convenient.
One of the biggest risk factors for our digital security, is our laziness and strong desire for things to be easy. Crappy passwords, cloud storage, password keepers, automatic sign-ons, finger-print scanners and facial recognition. All the things that save us a bit more time, so we can stare at a screen a little sooner. Physical keys are a hinderance that slow us down, plus, we don't want to go everywhere with it around our necks, just in case.
There are other ways to throw a kink in the chain hack too, and some are quite simple, like lockout after unsuccessful attempts. Sure, a quantum computer might be able to crack the encryption in seconds, but if it has to wait a minute after every unsuccessful attempt to verify, it is going to take a trillion years again, unless supremely lucky. Things like 2FA for the most part are pretty useless against a quantum hacker, because hacking both factors as they are today isn't too difficult perhaps. However, it will still require some added organization and alignment.
As the attack vector risks grow, the encryption and security development will continue to advance also and I suspect there might be some very interesting solutions that will arise. However, I still think that ultimately, the "nothing to hide" security is probably going to be the safest. It is like someone who has nothing, has nothing to lose. What I mean by this in this particular case though, is that we could develop techniques that mean that there is no way for a transaction to happen without our permission, even if someone or something had all of the required information, including the key.
We could be pantless, and still protect our modesty.
I don't know how it will look at that point, but what I do think is that we are now trying to predict attack vectors from artificial intelligences which will out think us in unpredictable and novel ways. They might be able to mimic our brain patterns, so we will probably have to out move them physically to stay ahead. But physical is always less convenient than virtual, because presence is required, and we have been embracing the remote, virtual, proxied life for a long time.
It is something that many people might not consider with something like a remote meeting, but like today, while I was there, it wasn't me. What the other participants saw was a digital representation of me, an avatar. And, if there was some great AI, it would be totally mimicable and potentially undetectable. They talk about the Turing test, but ultimately, most people are pretty predictable and average, so mimicking the average person, isn't that hard. Visually it is possible now, and I am pretty sure that soon people will be sending Copilot into their meetings for them, and then providing a summary.
No shirt, and no need to do the hair either.
I don't know about you, but I don't really want to live in a world where I have to constantly think about the security of my assets. I think that there are enough things going on in the world and places that would benefit more from our attention, than just trying to protect ourselves from thieves, whether they be of physical or digital in nature. There are better things we could be doing with or time, right?
Reading some of the discussions around the quantum computing topics today, it is pretty clear that the majority of people are thinking about security, and protecting their privacy in some way. It is interesting, because with all that computing power, you'd think we would look at what it can do to build better a better future, rather than just optimize and protect the crap we already have.
We tend to think easy too.
But what do I know, I am still not wearing pants.
Taraz
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At least wear pants when you go out. Don't get sick on this cold winter day.
Quantum computers seem to create technological problems, but I think precautions will be taken for that.
I think the rich should think of the solution to this, not the poor like me. If I were to solve this, I would be very rich :)
I have to wear pants when I go out here - I don't present well in the cold!
Pantsless is a destination! You have arrived!
I am one of those pantsful suckers who had to cover my ass in order to get my stuff done today. -10 and windy also made it a necessity.
I think the advancement is a good thing to keep an eye on in context to what risks we should address now, learn about for later, and consider as thi9ngs evolve. I have to stop my pantsful ass from going down those rat holes and suffering more of my imagination than reality. Still, that delicate balance between ignoring potential risk and coming up with solutions in search of problems is tough to maintain.
Death to pants.
In Finland there is a term "kalsarikännissä" which means "underwear drunk" - just getting drunk at home alone.
It dropped down here too, so pants will have to be worn - though I am only going to lunch with ex-colleagues :)
This is what I wonder. How many of us will rely on someone else to solve our problem, and trust them? Probably most?
Most probably. I am more worried about avoiding problems manufactured by others being dumped on me.
Dammit. Another post where they bait you with the promise of pantlessness, and it's actually just quantum computers. How do I fall for this every time.
You and I - we are predictable. ;D
:) Welcome to the world of remote work. I rarely put anything other than shorts at home. We have 75 degrees Fahrenheit at home so it is too hot to wear pants. I am sure that once we get to quantum computing there will be solutions developed to counteract it.
75 inside is quite warm inside. Most of the winter ours sits around 70F, unless it gets very cold then it drops because it is an old house.
The good news is that there is no such thing as a quantum codebreaker - it's only theoretical at this point, and is still likely 10 years away.
The US has already released post-quantum encryption algorithms and Federal agencies are already upgrading.
The problem with blockchains like BTC is that all the public keys are on the blockchain, so if it's broken, then hardware wallets won't make any difference because they'll be able to derive the private key from the public key.
Which leads us to an interesting situation. For BTC to upgrade, they'll need a hard fork. If they hard fork, what happens to all the coins with old keys? Do they invalidate/delete them, changing the 21M forever? Or do they not, and let quantum hackers steal Satoshi's BTC and flood the market?
Alternatively... at that point, do hackers ignore blockchain and just attack financial institutions that haven't upgraded and ransack capital/equity markets instead? In which case we're in Mad Max days without electricity anyway. At which point no other advice is needed except 'find food'.
Quantum computing is still mostly theoretical, even Willow hasn't solved the error correction issue - all the articles are about it's potential, not what it can do today. So I think once it is actually up and working, then there will be an explosion of compute to build a better world - but obviously they need to get it working and answer the questions of what can it actually do and how expensive is it first. Companies will need to know what they're working with before they can use it to solve problems.
Yeah, I don't know how this works, but one of the things I reckon needs to be sorted is legacy issues. The technology is changing, but if these chains are stores of value, then it should be able to be stored for a very long time without becoming trapped. I have lost a lot over the years because of changes in chains etc.
I think that this is going to happen anyway. The incentive is already very high, and getting higher.
Yep. As I say, in the case of a nuclear war - I hope they drop the bombs directly on my house.
I was looking through potential usecases and there was nothing mind-blowing. The main one was "financial modelling" :D
Financial modelling? Hahaha, really? That does not seem worth the investment in quantum computing. I've seen usecases like materials and drug development, but really anything that needs a ton of compute to work out should benefit. I think it'll be one of those situations where once people get access to quantum, usecases we never dreamed of will start to arise.
Koinos, the blockchain developed by ex-Steemit devs, worked out the legacy issue. Their blockchain framework can be upgraded by implementing new system smart contracts instead of requiring a hard fork. I'm not confident Bitcoin will be able to ever fix this problem with its architecture.
Don’t get your panties in a twist
no worries about twisted panties. I'm not wearing any....
Until Google, Willow, Walter Seltzer, Richard Fleischer, Charlton Heston or a Soylent Green society catches up with us, we won't be wearing pants again.
I had many workdays where I worked in my underpants and didn't go for a walk. But now I walk every day and wear pants every day. Today will be a pleasant frosty and sunny day, I will drink hot coffee in the cold.
Try walking pantless and see if the coffee tastes better :)
One attempt per block would do the trick. If you can only try a possible key once every 3 seconds, you're back in heat-death-of-the-universe territory.
In the meantime, staking/locking down every asset you can, is a great workaround.
Yesterday I updated to windows 11. At first I was scared that I lost access to my Hive holdings. My passwords were safe but I hive keychain kept saying that I need to synchronize time. I did it but for some reason I can't change the time to my time zone so now there is a 2 hour difference between actual time and the time my pc shows.
Security is a big issue these days. Not only for crypto assets but for any kind of assets.
There are more and more scams every day, cellphones and email are open doors to criminals. Information with our data is included in thousands of lists traded on the dark web. I was a victim of ledger e-commerce was cracked several years ago.
I remember in the early days of Facebook, some users were posting about their vacations, and thieves used that info to get into their homes to steal their stuff.
We need to learn basic security to protect ourselves. I do not answer any calls from hidden callers and directly send to the trash any email from sources I do not directly know. And of course no links or QR scans anymore.
Quantum is already here and will eventually evolve for the good and the bad, but crypto security will also evolve, the same way cell phones now warn you about scam calls or SMS. It is sad to have to spend part of your time dealing with that, but it is not any different than being careful about your hadback or camera when walking on the streets of a big town during your vacation. We used to feel safe if we had a nice security door on the house and gates on the windows, now many people contracts an alarm which warns the police in the event someone tries to snick into our place and digital "doors" have to be protected as well as physical ones.
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That's great until you suddenly remember something you need is on the other side of the room. Or like my friend, you lean too far back in your office chair and it tips backwards, revealing more than you intended. I can't remember if she got the job or not.
I think we are still a bit away from the average person being able to get their hands on these chips. That should give us a little bit of time to figure out some options in terms of security. There are other people much smarter than me who have a lot more at stake if they can't protect their digital assets. Would I be bummed if I lost everything? Absolutely, but would I be devastated? No, my mortgage would still get paid and my car would still get gas.
Digital security has been a serious issue in my country. We have these guys they called yahoo boys duping people massively everywhere everyday. Many times they have teach to me having gotten the full details of my banking details. Many times I wonder how the banks could allow them to access people credentials easily like that from their savers😠. We are all anxious of solution to digital insecurity
Nothing is more worrying than insecurity, what a problem.
Thanks for alerting us and making us think about it, @tarazkp