asciilifeform: and that much of the squid ink we see on subj, then and now, is to obscure the how, who, and what.
asciilifeform: ftr, my own digs led me to the hypothesis that germany had, contrary to american official legend, a considerably cheaper method of refining U than the idiot calutron, as early as '43
asciilifeform: not an actual item i expect to find in mircea_popescu's closet if we go drinkin'
asciilifeform: since it was not obvious, i will point out, 'nazi bell' is a ~proverbial~ object, with some basis in factual history, sorta like the cross of jizzus etc.
asciilifeform: again we're touching the electric wire of the mormon cover.
asciilifeform: el dorados were moar fun when you could still hide'em in unpainted section of the map.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: one dude who eats a beam can magnify, with passage of time and armchair, into 'many liquid corpses' etc.
asciilifeform: the reason i regard the matter of the bell interesting at all, is that the very same disinfo tactics are in use by modern usg.
asciilifeform: plenty of junk gets made in qty==1 and forgotten. but if it's bulky and expensive, and, bonus, makes for picturesque workplace fatalities, it can take on a second life in crackpot archaeology.
asciilifeform: it does not however follow that german physics was all vapourware. it was not - turned into the engineering works of the 50s.
asciilifeform: fwiw, armchair archaeology of german physics is complicated by the fact that in '45 everyone who was anyone in that wot was jumping out of his shirt to market himself to the americans with fanciful legend
asciilifeform: in point of fact there are two (not counting the small kind you can make on your desk right now out of a smoke detector and beryllium sheet) in commercial use
asciilifeform: if you have a directed one, you can turn that $B into $2B right now.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: are you familiar with real-life neutron tube ? didja think it is ~directed~ ?!
asciilifeform: at any rate, it does not stretch the bounds of the plausible that germany had a clumsy, bulky neutron source.
asciilifeform: if he'd mentioned those, mircea_popescu would see it for the redmercury sprayjob it was.
asciilifeform: (granted we dun have the actual facts, beyond a landing manifest from buenos aires in '45 where germans unloaded ~something massive~ from a 6-engined monster junkers. but the 'red mercury', 'alien corpses', etc. are what the disinfo folk spray onto anything they dun want in the literature.)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: eh you're looking at the nato snow job
asciilifeform: in other noose, https://archive.is/cgpZD >> 'This botnet with 145607 cameras/dvr (1-30Mbps per IP) is able to send >1.5Tbps DDoS. Type: tcp/ack, tcp/ack+psh, tcp/syn.'
asciilifeform: there, now it is in both logs, if only like this...
asciilifeform: (in that variant it still needs 5v dc over usb plug, but don't try to run two sessions over same probe simultaneously, it will do strange things)
asciilifeform: oh and if you like idapro and got a box with it, you can put the probe on your lan (it'll dhcp) and remote-gdb to it.
asciilifeform: trinque: unrelatedly, i forgot to mention in my piece re smartprobe, that you gotta power cycle it after it takes the pill, before it is cured.
asciilifeform: 'Are there any use cases for TIOCSTI other than producing exploits?'
asciilifeform: pretty lulzy, shortest proof of concept i've yet seen for any of these.
asciilifeform: 'When executing a program via the SELinux sandbox, the nonpriv session can escape to the parent session by using the TIOCSTI ioctl to push characters into the terminal's input buffer, allowing an attacker to escape the sandbox.'
asciilifeform: (not even wholly, as some imagine, a 'seekrit evidence' problem of 'where the fuck am i to get an elephant'. how many of'em could draw a remotely accurate map of the town they live in ??)
asciilifeform: like the proverbial 'medieval elephant' paintings, the resemblance to reality will be a purely coincidental thing.
asciilifeform: i was unable to turn up any public mention of such a thing.
asciilifeform: but the microwave box - is quite a well-kept secret
asciilifeform: these are amply documented in BingoBoingo's material.
asciilifeform: (and from scamatronic. i suspect that the item does not actually exist on the bdsm gear market, though some folks will happily take yer money)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is possibly interesting from an entomological perspective.
