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Re:Email exchange between MIT Media Lab and the IOTA Foundat... by IntronExon on Sunday February 25, 2018 @12:35AM (#16457314)
One priceless line from Ethan Heilman to support that observation: Probably best not to use informal stackoverflow answers and Wikipedia for understanding the security of your system.

Yowza.

Re:Email exchange between MIT Media Lab and the IOTA Foundat... by loxias on Sunday February 25, 2018 @12:44AM (#16457346)
I know, right?

I read through the whole exchange and kept thinking "How are they managing to be so polite, to these rank amateurs who show no respect?" I probably would have informed them of the flaw, informed them when I was publishing, informed of a suggested fix then piped all the rest to /dev/null.

I also positively love the use of "push it to the limit".

Re:Email exchange between MIT Media Lab and the IOTA Foundat... by eastWestMath on Sunday February 25, 2018 @02:50AM (#16457745)
It honestly gave me flashbacks to a few email chains I've had with students in my tutorials. It's really obvious when someone is asking for clarification but it's not in good faith

"Can you explain to me what you think I did wrong in my program? I can assure you everything is correct. Otherwise you're clearly drunk and out to get me."

Re:Email exchange between MIT Media Lab and the IOTA Foundat... by bri3d on Sunday February 25, 2018 @12:51AM (#16457371)
I quite enjoyed

> Did you receive the invite? We can also setup a chat with our ex-NSA post-Quantum hash function experts after we get the initial confusion out of the way.

Re:Email exchange between MIT Media Lab and the IOTA Foundat... by hatsunearu on Sunday February 25, 2018 @01:39AM (#16457510)
Are you sober?

hahahaha fuck me, this is good stuff.

Re:Email exchange between MIT Media Lab and the IOTA Foundat... by Tomte on Sunday February 25, 2018 @08:51AM (#16458928)
Obviously Sergey isn't mean, but it's just unfortunate phrasing, because he is a non-native speaker, learning English from Java documentation, right? ;-)

Neha's "I'm going to stop responding now." should have come much earlier.

Re:Email exchange between MIT Media Lab and the IOTA Foundat... by flaminghedge on Monday February 26, 2018 @12:36AM (#16463355)
This was from David not Sergey.
Re:Email exchange between MIT Media Lab and the IOTA Foundat... by flyGuyOnTheSly on Sunday February 25, 2018 @12:42AM (#16457335)
IOTA is one of the only crypto currencies in the green today, however.

Which is the real "yowza" imho.

Re:Email exchange between MIT Media Lab and the IOTA Foundat... by sheepz on Sunday February 25, 2018 @01:58AM (#16457587)
This is because this information is celebrated as proof that there was in fact "no vulnerability in IOTA and it was all FUD" by Reddit (and possibly elsewhere) https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7zztey/full...
Re:Email exchange between MIT Media Lab and the IOTA Foundat... by loxias on Sunday February 25, 2018 @12:47AM (#16457356)
The market can remain irrational for longer than you can remain solvent.
Re:Email exchange between MIT Media Lab and the IOTA Foundat... by IntronExon on Sunday February 25, 2018 @03:21PM (#16460959)
Did you also invest in Juicero? How about Magic Leap? Enron?

Being in the green just means you’ve convinced a critical mass of greedy, ignorant people that you’re a winner.

Re:Email exchange between MIT Media Lab and the IOTA Foundat... by whymauri on Sunday February 25, 2018 @03:55PM (#16461117)
What's wrong with Magic Leap? Just curious, I've never heard anything negative.
Re:Email exchange between MIT Media Lab and the IOTA Foundat... by IntronExon on Monday February 26, 2018 @10:47AM (#16466082)
Sorry about the slow reply, it’s a very reasonable question you’re asking.

http://www.kguttag.com

Let your fingers do the walking.

Re:Email exchange between MIT Media Lab and the IOTA Foundat... by whymauri on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @12:18AM (#16471252)
Thank you :)