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โ Anyone read this reticulum audit? โ
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โ Anonymous #1 โ
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โธ 1mo ago
https://codeberg.org/MarSik/reticulum-audit/src/branch/main/reticulum-source-privacy-flaw.
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Has anyone reviewed this critique of reticulum's privacy / does anyone have any thoughts
on it?
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โธ 1mo ago
I have, in full. Putting aside the obvious LLM use (if we played count the em dash and
verbose writing patterns we'd be here all night) there are some valid criticisms that are
easily addressed if the author had a fuller understanding of the project. But the author
is inherently biased against the project and fails to understand entirely what
Reticulum actually is. They also make assumptions that are flat out wrong, and some wild
comparisons to things like Bundle Protocol Version 7 which really puts their
Dunning-Kruger on display (If this wasn't just an AI generated document)
They are also hyperfocused on TCP/IP as the sole mode of transport for Reticulum
packets, while disregarding any other medium that the fabric could operate over. Which
includes Onion hidden services and I2P (which works out of the box). As well as IFACs
(Interface Access Codes) which can be employed when destination_hash and
the originating Transport hash is of concern. Which is what 90% of this boils down to.
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โธ 1mo ago
I see this making the rounds even on Mastodon, every once in a while. People get panic
attacks without reading/understanding this 'audit'. The whole thing is incoherent and
there are no rational conclusions.
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โธ 1mo ago
Audit? laughing my fucking ass off
Dunning-Kruger indeed. This is what you get when people fall into the living fantasy that
LLMs are actually "AI".
Everything "stated" there could have been boiled down to 3 short paragraphs, tops. The
general problem with these things, is that in it's current full glory of expanding-foam
insanity, if I were to interact with that turd in any way, I would have to pick apart and
explain to the reader all the nonsense, fabrications and incoherence present.
That is, to actually present a coherent counter-argument, I would be the one needing
to weave a rational thread out of something that is inherently irrational (but
superficially may look "intelligent" to people who know nothing about the subject
matter). Which effectively would make me the "I" in this moron's "AI" fantasy, and
utterly waste the time where I could be productive instead.
So instead, I'm going to do the only sensible thing, which is to simply point out what a
complete bafoon the person is, who just pressed a button and chose to fully believe in a
wall of text from a stochastic vector storm, apparently enough to (I assume) stand by it
so completely, that the idiot decided to post it to the world as something that actually
had any value. How utterly and toe-curlingly embarassing.
I would fucking love to have an actual conversation with this man, wrested from his
Anthropic subscription, and see how well his "auditing skills" fare then.
Even having spent 5 minutes writing this post kinda gives me a bad taste in the mouth,
and I'm only doing so to point out how this kind of stuff is becoming, and will continue
to become, more and prevalent, and is functionally only resulting in murkying the waters,
creating confusion and wasting time, as opposed to actually increasing available
intelligence and discernment.
A joke, but a very sad one, indeed.
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โธ 1mo ago
Or to put it more plainly:
Every idiot now has the ability to press a button, upon which any kind of "argument" can
be produced, essentially for free. There is no longer any investment of time necessary,
which until recently was the primary boundary condition for being able to get other
people's attention.
What these idiots don't realize is, that everyone else also has access to that
button. If simply pressing it is all that their personal capabilities amount to, what
they are doing is (per definition) practically, mentally, economically and
spiritually worthless.
I am just not going to interact with that, except in one particular way. Life is too
short.
At this weird, wonderful and horrible time in our history of human "civilization", what
is most direly needed is discernment, and even though it has become a total cultural
taboo to do so, I will forever reserve my God-given right to point my finger at morons
who so willfully and totally choose to forego it in favor of mythologizing their lives
into a living sci-fi fairy-land, and then promptly proceed to laughing my ass off.
I love good sci-fi, btw. Let's not make a religion out if, though, mkay?
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โธ 1mo ago
the section on the networking implications is too funny
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โธ 1mo ago
Zenith wrote:
> I have, in full. Putting aside the obvious LLM use (if we played count the em dash and
verbose writing patterns we'd be here all night) there are some valid criticisms
that are easily addressed if the author had a fuller understanding of the project. But
the author is inherently biased against the project and fails to understand entirely
what Reticulum actually is. They also make assumptions that are flat out wrong, and
some wild comparisons to things like Bundle Protocol Version 7 which really puts their
Dunning-Kruger on display (If this wasn't just an AI generated document)
>
> They are also hyperfocused on TCP/IP as the sole mode of transport for Reticulum
packets, while disregarding any other medium that the fabric could operate over. Which
includes Onion hidden services and I2P (which works out of the box). As well as IFACs
(Interface Access Codes) which can be employed when destination_hash and
the originating Transport hash is of concern. Which is what 90% of this boils down to.
>
>
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indeed using an ifac and only accepting trusted users... which even on a large scale you
shouldnt be accepting random messages from strangers like the NORMAL INTERNET. the
exampleconfig, reading the manual in full, and actually knowing anything about basic
networking, you can make it relatively secure. i finished reading it in its entirety and
it goes in circles so much about basic exploitation and bad actors intercepting parts of
the network. they even glaze tor which can also be compromised THE EXACT SAME WAY with
enough relays and nodes under one person.
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โ Cudanet #8 โ
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โธ 1mo ago
I use LLMs for a lot of different things, but this whole article is based on the premise
of network compromise utilizing a bad actor. Any network, no matter how secure is
subject to bad actor compromise. The article talks about meta-data exploitation, but an
"open" network needs meta-data for initial handshaking, or the first comm setup has to
happen out of band.
Security is a spectrum. An isolated, locked down, IFAC secure RNS network is as good as
it gets really. If you want to connect to the broader mesh, that requires some sort of
initial data transfer for handshaking, but none of that matters if your network is
compromised by a bad actor.
It's like saying gold in a vault isn't secure because the guard could steal it...
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โ INFO โ Identify to this node to post. How?
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