ahmed ghappour ⚡️🤖
@ghappour
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GC @ Flashbots ⚡️🤖, Previously: GC @espressosys @nymproject, Associate Professor @BU_Law @uchastings @utexaslaw, BigLaw @orrick, Engineer @sunmicrosystems @sgi
Joined February 2010
Hard to shift the meta when the meta’s is just Gary optimizing for Gary.
Gensler said in his MIT class that Zcash was “Bitcoin but private.” So clearly not a security. And well said. Yet the Zcash Foundation, a 501(c)3 on which I volunteer as board member and which supports zero knowledge proof cryptography research, received a subpoena from Gensler
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I have exactly -zero- stake in @aztecnetwork or @aztecFND but could not be more excited for this launch! Game. Changer.
Today, the AZTEC token sale is live. Today, the Aztec Network is being handed over to the community. Every sequencer or participant in @aztecnetwork's permissionless and decentralized network is a voice that cannot be silenced. Every line of @NoirLang code is a fortress against
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Explore Cypherpunk Congress expert recommendations: @evacide x @EFF Books: "IBM and the Holocaust" by Edwin Black "Your Face Belongs to U"s by @kashhill "The Hank Show" by @McKenzieFunk Apps: I’m guessing that everyone already uses @signalapp, but I’ve also had fun playing
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🚨NEW: US GOVERNMENT SEEKS MAXIMUM SENTENCE FOR SAMOURAI WALLET DEVELOPERS "I co-founded a software company to develop tools that could provide the anonymity necessary to make Bitcoin work as intended," Hill tells the court. Full story👇 https://t.co/rY0GaSvDSD
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"I co-founded a software company to develop tools that could provide the anonymity necessary to make Bitcoin work as intended," Hill tells the court.
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CBP Quietly Launches Face Scanning App for Local Cops To Do Immigration Enforcement. via @404mediaco
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The app, called Mobile Identify and available on the Google Play Store, is specifically for local and regional law enforcement agencies working with ICE on immigration enforcement.
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“With Proof-of-Cloud the [TEE] attack cost prob moves well into the millions” (vs $1K) <— solid point
My understanding of the TEE attacks is that what we thought cost ~$100k actually only cost ~$1k. Either way, we all knew that current TEEs require Proof-of-Cloud, and any one serious in TEEs has said this long before these attacks came. It's janky, but it's what we got for now.
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The future of TEE security is ☀️. what started out as a @flashbots_x moonshot R&D track on TEE security now led by @0xQuintus @ml_sudo and many fellow researchers in our space supported by @PBS_Foundation with initial funding from @VitalikButerin the caliber of hardcore
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The Trustless TEE Initiative is a public goods effort that seeks to enable low-latency confidential computing. Our approach is bottoms-up, starting at the silicon. In a data-driven world, motivation...
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Lot’s of people dunking on TEEs to pump their own solutions/engagement farming Mostly repetitions of the same points so will just reshare a post from a few weeks ago (next tweet) that already covered all of this
Given all the attention TEEs have received over the last few days, I wrote a piece about a systematic mistake we're making A big part of the story of crypto is identifying the tools we need and then improving them by orders of magnitude (e.g. ZK and permissionless consensus) 👇
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Privacy was always the true alpha.
Privacy is the new alpha
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Must watch session, make sure to bookmark this if you’re attending Devconnect
Right on time: welcome a very special session on Open hardware & trustless TEEs feat Flashbots duo @0xQuintus - Researcher @ Flashbots | Coordinator @ https://t.co/x9c4rKY86q
@ghappour - GC @ Flashbots Only at Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress: https://t.co/tmQC59hZe9
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Right on time: welcome a very special session on Open hardware & trustless TEEs feat Flashbots duo @0xQuintus - Researcher @ Flashbots | Coordinator @ https://t.co/x9c4rKY86q
@ghappour - GC @ Flashbots Only at Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress: https://t.co/tmQC59hZe9
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ICE & CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship https://t.co/lknGhtpU3O
404media.co
Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”
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Lots of alpha iykyk- Why https://t.co/Pz5WHSlvIM is bullish for BuilderNet: Hardening the Path to Permissionless Blockbuilding ⚡ It's been a journey since June TTEE salon when @DanielGenkin & Cristina shared their research. I'm ever more excited about TEE security r&d and
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PSA: this is an application of the attack published a few weeks ago to newer chips It still doesn't apply to BuilderNet (or any Flashbots products) because of the physical access requirement but it *does* highlight some of the R&D we're doing [post below]
More interposer fun, this time with DDR5 memory. Breaking TDX, SGX, SEV and even Nvidia TEEs. Checkout our work at https://t.co/Jl1dpGnM6J, and get a personally-signed Intel attestation report at @TEEdotFail.
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Why https://t.co/qSDWsAYBZJ is Bullish for BuilderNet: Hardening the Path to Permissionless Blockbuilding by @0xQuintus ⚡️🤖✊🏽
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Recently, wiretap.fail, battering RAM and tee.fail attacks were made public. These are not applicable to BuilderNet or any Flashbots products and do not enable frontrunning or unbundling. These...
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Transfered all our 103 videos to @internetarchive Enjoy world of cypherpunk, free software, decentralisation, philosophy, deGoogle, & knowledge: https://t.co/4mescuwStB
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