asciilifeform: 'hello, is this hitler? i saw there is a hole in one of your camp fences, untermenschen are escaping, send help quickly'
asciilifeform: re other ben_vulpes link, ' I've responsibly disclosed this vulnerability to Google and it has been fixed...' << why the FUCK does anyone still do this.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i would not rule out the bootrom.bin being identical, or similar, to the one in the amd thread. and the linked author's refusal to share it is rank cowardice, must point out.
asciilifeform: meanwhile, from the dept. of sad sacks of shit, https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/wizardry/mimblewimble.txt >> 'Q. If you delete the inputs, double spending can happen. A. In fact, this means: maybe someone claims that some unspent output was spent in the old days. But this is impossible, otherwise the sum of the combined transactioncould not be zero.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it was in crypto-'13. iirc, the original 'here is how much amazonium it takes to break n-bit rsa'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: pretty sure we did, it's a nadia heninger
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: one of your earlier links contained yet another 'happy surprise' - there are TWO INCOMPATIBLE keccaks floating around, by decree of His Putrid Majesty, one of'em is simply the normal keccak but it appends a constant turd to the input (nfi why)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there was a reason i did not use sha3 in the lamport tutorial.
asciilifeform: hey wasn't it mircea_popescu who (correctly) pointed out that there are no usable gold teeth in executed usg corpses. and now he's trying to salvage rathead linux ??
asciilifeform: elays later in the case. Obtaining the required clearances, if deemed necessary, may take weeks or months. Furthermore, if it is deemed necessary for defense counsel to review classified material, preparing and certifying appropriate facilities would also take several weeks.'
asciilifeform: with mega-gold, e.g., 'Complete discovery would likely require defense counsel to obtain appropriate security clearances (which they do not possess), and appropriate facilities to be prepared and made available to the defense for review and storage of any classified materials. In anticipation of that possibility, the process of obtaining security clearances was initiated shortly after the complaint in this case was issued, to avoid d
asciilifeform encountered for 1st time the mega-20th-c-popsong where '... Des Edelmannes Kindelein, heia hoho, \ das schicken wir in die Höll’ hinein, heia hoho. \ Des Edelmannes Töchterlein, heia hoho, \ soll heute uns’re Buhle sein, heia hoho...' and could not help but recall mircea_popescu's 'daughter sausage' concept.
asciilifeform will be operating on a pulsed, rather than continuous-wave duty cycle for next week or so, plox to pm if something is desperately broken, if you are in my l1, siren will go off, eventually will answer.
asciilifeform: (rom will be difficult to read passively, and the most practical way would be to restore whatever antifuses they blew that prevent debugging of the fritz core, and attach debug probe.)
asciilifeform: ftr, if the amd turd is anything like other recent similar, you will also need ion beam machine
asciilifeform: (in mircea_popescu's zimbabwe, it could be the microscope that is expensive, or even unobtainable other than by boat)
asciilifeform: as often is the case, it is ~space~ that is the expensive piece, in this particular zimbabwe.
asciilifeform: and fuck, i would buy one right now, if i had where to put !
asciilifeform: if i were paying by hour, it may well add up to most of the cost of the instrument.
asciilifeform: (and the analogy, sadly, falls down, consider how many autos there are, and how many - microscopes.)
asciilifeform: how do you sneak a month of instrument time ?
asciilifeform: and i am quite uncertain whether in this pesthole there even ~exists~ the requisite instrument.
asciilifeform: decapping, delayering, imaging a modern cpu is not a lunch break project.
asciilifeform: at any rate, it isn't as if i needed 10 minutes with the thing.
asciilifeform: i suspect they are slowly phasing in 'dude X was in place Y at time T' anti-hooliganism/generic preparation for usgschwitz tracking systems.
asciilifeform: PeterL: that probably isn't it, because there are still stinking hobos in the computer labs.
asciilifeform: fwiw when i was a very, very paying customer, there was still no access to microscope.
asciilifeform: (why - was a mystery, it still takes money)
asciilifeform: and i recently found that the dining hall can only be entered by folks with correct fingerprint.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the uni barely allows access to the motherfucking bus from the train station, for plebes.
asciilifeform: it is, likely, because usg does not like to use stolen key to sign its 'tailored victim' crud, far too attributable
asciilifeform: though if i could get at the rom, betcha it will not be necessary to break the rsa key. there is some unwritten rule whereby the fritz sig authenticators are always porous.
asciilifeform: pirits and the forests for unconventional allies.'
asciilifeform: elsewhere, 'It is indeed a great folk song, and although I don't know this as a fact, it seems to have been inspired by a certain depressive tendency surrounding alcohol. Many people don't quite understand this, but alcohol is an intelligence, along with all other vegetable derivatives and extracts. This isn't negative, but you can definitely tell the difference between a sober German musician and the ones who tread into bars for s
