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So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.

> be story protocol > raise $40M from a16z > launch multi-billion dollar token > exit scam and token rugs 99% > rebrand as data network > launch nothing > get acquired by sui for $30 million what?

you wanna know why crypto is just speculation and gambling now? put yourself in the shoes of an actual dev who showed up to the space relatively early, say 2018-2020. consider what it feels like to be someone with an elite background putting in 60-100h weeks every week, while watching people who trade full-time out earn you on a weekly basis consider watching the other builders who take the predatory deals from VCs get rich by dumping on their community and then retiring with no consequences consider how it feels to have your treasury get destroyed by FTX or Anchor and to be left with nothing while half the people involved just walk away how many would still be left? 10%, 20%? then go through the pumpfun era. watch people who launch bundled scams calling themselves "devs" and once again, out-earning you march through multiple bear markets, do it all without rugging, and watch the protocols who fuck people over win over and over and over again deal with the fact that everyone outside of tech assumes you are the same sort of person as the people who retired off rugs, think about how it feels to be labelled a "crypto scammer" by default if you talk about your job as one of the only people trying to actually build things then, after all that, consider that a new, uber-fast moving industry full of new frontier tech shows up next door and sucks up all the VC funding would you still be in "Web3"? would you still be committed To The Vision? no, you would not. you'd either rug, or move on. and that's what everybody did.

i just rewatched the @dhh talk and imo the point that ppl should really get is that the less you know the better because you're not held back by your dumb overengineered prompts and priors

Today I call upon the blockchain industry to calmly begin planning for "bunker mode". My personal recommendation is to set in motion a controlled mass migration of assets to fresh addresses, i.e. addresses whose pubkeys remain hidden behind a hash. Holders, starting with large and sophisticated ones, should consider moving the bulk of their funds to addresses that have never signed a transaction. And when they do sign one, they should also move remaining funds to a new address (possibly generated from the same seed phrase). Don't rush. While I believe there is cause for action a rushed migration would do more harm than good. Don't panic either. Moving assets to protected addresses is a simple, preventative step which does not require new cryptography or new wallets. IMO it is now reasonable to brace for the possibility that ECDSA breaks before qday, in the worst case in months not years. By "break" I mean fast private key recovery (e.g. in one week) on available hardware (e.g. a large GPU cluster). Recent days have been humbling for human mathematical intuition. Long-held, unquestioned hypotheses have fallen. This includes the n log(n) bound for integer multiplication and the 3SUM conjecture. In hindsight, May's unexpected disproof of the Erdős unit distance conjecture was our warning shot. Yesterday's OpenAI drop made it clear that mathematical superintelligence is upon us. They say there are weeks where decades happen. We are about to live through weeks where centuries of mathematical progress happen. Could our magic 64-byte ECDSA signatures be too good to be true? Was it just security through obscurity all this time? Elliptic curves feel especially vulnerable to superintelligence. Curves carry rich structure, with room for fancy tricks like Schoof, Frobenius, pairings. (By contrast, hashes are designed to minimise algebraic structure.) Separately, as Ewin Tang can attest, an efficient quantum algorithm sometimes foreshadows an efficient classical one. We should be open to the possibility of a classical counterpart to Shor that breaks elliptic curves and RSA at once. Also noteworthy is the striking under-representation of cryptographic breakthroughs among the 722 mathematical results OpenAI published. I've witnessed first-hand the US government censoring academic quantum cryptanalysis results. Backroom interventionism is my base case. I urge large, sophisticated actors to lead by example. Project11's "risq list" (bitcoin-risq-list.projecteleven[.]com) is a great tracker of exposed BTC pubkeys. Binance, Bitbank, Robinhood, Bitfinex, and Tether have an opportunity to harden their cold storage. Next month I'll address institutions in London in a live Q&A (forum.ethereuminstitutional[.]org/london-2026). Again, please do not rush. Wallets holding under 50 BTC enjoy partial cover from "Satoshi's shield", i.e. his 20K exposed addresses that hold 50 BTC each. Load-bearing signers like oracles and L2 security councils should consider rotating ECDSA pubkeys with every signed message and/or multi-signing with a hash-based schemes like SPHINCS. Exiting bunker mode safely will require post-AI cryptography. My inclination is to go all-in on hash-based cryptography and avoid structured mathematical assumptions entirely, whether from curves, lattices, or isogenies. A single battle-tested hash (e.g. from the SHA or BLAKE families) yields plausible post-AI security. The Ethereum roadmap on strawmap[.]org fully embraces hash-based cryptography with end-to-end formal verification as a response to the quantum threat. Those timelines must now be revisited and accelerated in light of mathematical superintelligence. I'll be pushing for maximum defensive acceleration.

VPS add so much friction bro. Say I wanna copy paste an image I get from my local computer for example

Is this the first ever fake-L2 scam? unofficial RPC and Bridge address was shared for GIWA mainnet, which turned out to be fake, resulting in $2M+ in loss. Here's how it happened 🧵

This is a really strange argument because the argument basically defeats itself. You start by explaining that vaults exist because users can’t realistically track and manage thousands of markets themselves, so the vault abstracts that complexity and someone else allocates the capital for them. I don’t think anybody could have thought of a better definition for delegated portfolio management aka asset management lol. Also a timelock doesn’t magically turn the curator’s decision into the depositor’s decision, it just gives the depositor notice of any changes, your own docs literally say the Curator configures “liquidity allocation rules”, is “abstracting risk curation decisions away from depositors” and makes key decisions about “how capital is allocated.” So even if the code constrains the manager, it doesn’t remove the manager. You also failed to mention what SEC commissioner pierce actually says and thats vaults fall on a spectrum between “programmatic allocations determined solely by immutable smart contracts” and “allocations at the sole discretion of another person or group of persons.” She also explicitly points to selecting yield generating activities and reallocating assets as examples of managing a vault and says managing vaults can raise investment adviser issues. You’re basically trying to make the asset manager disappear by changing the test from “who is making the investment decisions?” to “can they steal the money and can I withdraw?” those are completely different things. Even your “implicit approval” argument is backwards, if I delegate allocation to you then you announce a change and I don’t withdraw during the timelock, my failure to leave hasn’t somehow transformed your investment decision into mine. In fact that requires me to continuously monitor the manager which is the exact complexity vaults supposedly exists to abstract away in the first place. Vaults can absolutely be noncustodial but noncustodial settlement is not non discretionary allocation, no matter how you try to spin this an asset manager is an asset manager even if you give them cute sounding names like “curator” or “allocator”.

A single setting removes every AI-related feature in Zed. Not a VS Code fork, btw...

Very disappointing to see Circle take this approach in their GTM plan. You can clearly see a lot of their team fundamentally misunderstands meme culture, and I think they made a mistake abandoning their initial vision of Arc as a stablecoin chain. Now it's stuck in this weird middle ground where nobody really knows whether it's supposed to be a meme chain or a corporate stablecoin chain. They really messed up their positioning with memes, and this is going to be very difficult to recover from. I suspect some key decision maker internally just said, “look at robinhood, we should do the same,” without actually understanding why it works for them. There's a good chance Arc gets shut down within a year. The launch landed in no man's land, and the market is already competitive enough as it is. For a public company, it'll be hard to justify continuing to throw money at it if it doesn't start showing meaningful traction and a path to becoming a real business. I expected a competent team like Circle to do a lot better. But let's see if they can recover from it.

it’s time to use @ambire

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