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Can crypto currencies solve this problem? Why yes and why not? I am still learning and my first impression is it could work if done correctly and transparently.


Do they sell the private keys to the NSA? Maybe not. It is an effort by many companies and groups to make the web more secure.


they couldn't sell your private keys to the NSA as they don't have them as they're generated locally on your machine and never leave it

they could sell their keys, but impersonations would likely be spotted thanks to certificate transparency


They don't see the private keys.


They can't sell the keys since they don't have them.

NSA could still mount an attack by asking the CA to register NSA's certs as valid, and tamper the victim's network connection. What makes certs secure is our trust in certificate authorities.


Let's imagine they do sell private keys to state actors (which I highly doubt).

Would that allow transparent sniffing of traffic encrypted with these certs?


Most HTTPS connections today negotiate ephemeral keys at the start of the connection, so even if an attacker has the server's private key (which the CA never sees and couldn't sell!), the attacker can't do passive listening attacks on connections using it. The attacker would have to do an active man-in-the-middle attack that rewrites the connection and swaps out the ephemeral keys with keys known to the attacker, which risks detection.

If an attacker has the CA's private key, then the attacker can mint new HTTPS certificates. They wouldn't be able to do passive listening attacks on connections, but they could use an active man-in-the-middle attack to swap out the server's certificate in the connection. However, this attack could be detected through Certificate Transparency, and the CA's leaked keys would become untrusted by browsers.


USA might have used harp to cause an earthquake in Iran near a nuclear location. That might be the cause of what we have seen. (I did not check the time nor that if that is possible)


I think you might be onto something here. Will start looking for my tinfoil hat, while you keep us posted.


Triggering earthquakes is a thing. This dude has devoted his whole career to it.

http://www.ihed.ras.ru/mg/novikov.htm


I doubt he is responsible for that. Iran is experiencing earthquakes over and over again, nothing really new for them and most likely not the work of some "weather machine".


Think about this: this guy may well have doubts.


You got it all wrong. Around noon yesterday a floating crane tore down a high voltage line in the harbor of Hamburg.

[1] https://www.ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/hamburg_journal_1800/...

That is the cause!1!!

:-)


The HAARP system was shut down a long time ago, and was recently handed over to some university.


We share the same kind of story in Lebanon. Three friends created not only the alphabet but automated the conjugation using ai. Check the verb conjugation on

http://www.lebaneselanguage.org

http://www.lebaneselanguage.org/language/lebanese-verbs-conj...


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