Re: JSH: SF: Finally, surrogate factoring

Tim Peters wrote:
[jstevh@xxxxxxx]
You're both lying.

I am going to warn you.

Neither of you will live to see 2007 because of this lie becaue there
will be angry people who will kill you, as there is so much money at
stake.

Billions will be lost.

It's not like you can reverse it now either.

You killed yourselves.

It might have seemed like a small lie to both of you, but your names
will live in infamy, while you will not live at all.

[Rick Decker]
...
It appears that this one was the real thing after all.

Smelled real to me at first sniff ;-) This is his idea of being magnanimous
in victory -- LOL.

I haven't noticed any angry mobs bearing torches and pitchforks
yet, but I'm keeping watch. Actually, now that I think of it,
it's hard to imagine what their motivation would be. I mean,
if Tim Peters and I had concocted a plot to supress James'
miracle factoring result, just where would those missing
billions of dollars have come from? Angry cryptographers?
I can see it now: Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman leading
a black-ops gang from NSA in an assault on the
secret lab of the arch-factorers Peters and Decker.

Believe it or not, I suspect James is confused about a few things here :-)
If you really want to know, I can point you to some posts he made only to
sci.crypt, where he fleshed out his doomsday scenarios in more detail.
Here's a taste:

From: jstevh@xxxxxxx
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: SF: Problem is easy implementation, massive impact
Date: 19 May 2006 17:10:56 -0700
Message-ID: <1148083856.721360.52680@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

...

Some initial fallout that I project:

The death of eBay, Skype, and Amazon.com among other companies.

A tremendous blow against all the wireless companies.

A drop in stock markets around the world.

Potential for a tremendous drop in the value of the U.S. dollar,
followed by spiraling inflation.

...

Of course that was about an older method. Ah, there was a great bit in that
message, which you have to agree with but perhaps not in the intended sense:

I have procrastinated, threatened, posted incomplete work, work
full of error, and hoped, hoped, hoped that some sanity would
intervene, but we are at the threshold, and none has.


I'd better tell Tim to make sure we have enough piranhas
in the moat.

I don't need no stinkin' piranhas. Follow the money, Professor! A
fundamental error in James's thinking is that billions will "be lost". Of
course that's utter nonsense. Billions will _move_: this is a zero-sum
game at its start. It _should_ be obvious to a smart cookie like James that
I must be getting paid, and paid big, by the people _to_ whom these billions
will flow. So long as I'm helping these greedy bastards get filthy rich by
lying my ass off to persuade a gullible public that Surrogate Factoring
attempt #27 is no threat to 1024-bit integers, they in turn make _damn_ sure
I'm one of the best-protected guys on the planet.

I don't know what arrangement you've made with the Council of 33, and being
an academic I suppose you may be doing this because you actually believe all
that "pure math" guff. Hmm. Tell you what: if you need protection, let me
know. I'm not even half as evil as my masters, and, frankly, I'm tired of
sharing the bathroom with all these bodyguards anyway. Up in that ivory
tower you may not realize how the real world works, such as that angry
peasants can use their pitchforks to effectively pole vault over piranha
moats. These guys know _all_ that stuff.

I love sci.math. As I've said before, you couldn't pay
for entertainment like this.

That's a funny thing about "free" entertainment. While what you say is
true, if I had to pay for this I wouldn't buy it :-)

Ha. This is clearly JSH in sheep's clothing, pretending to be
first Decker saying the JSH post was a forgery, then fake Decker
saying it wasn't after all, then fake Peters saying that the second
fake Decker post was correct in saying that the fake JSH post
wasn't a fake. He is sowing confusion among his enemies. In truth,
both Peters and Decker have been incommunicado the whole
week, attending a lapdog show in Oklahoma sponsored by Louis
Farrakhan, Hamilton College and the NSA.

And I'm Arturo Toscanini.

M.B.

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