asciilifeform: tiny countries who bend over for nee owner and think that they still get to decide anything, remind me of the familiar 'yappy dogs' old women keep
asciilifeform: when joined nato and told that their '13333347' 'werewolf brigades' or wtf nazi claptrap was unneeded and they would be working as nurses strictly in nato army, should there even be any lithuanians left on day 2 of war ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: do you recall the lithuanian butthurt of half a decade or so ago ?
asciilifeform: phun phakt: not ONE door access card maker in usa, afaik, uses crypto of any kind whatsoever.
asciilifeform: there are other problems, but the logz seem to be missing the main thread, so i will summarize a few: it is physically impossible to fit a serious rng in the thing, regardless of how constructed; the pc knows that a dedicated crypto hardware item is connected, and if attacker controls it he can sign/decrypt whatever the hell he wants with your card; and a bunch more.
asciilifeform: (unless you own an electron microscope and have a few year's worth of free time. in which case you can inspect YOUR PARTICULAR example.)
asciilifeform: Joshua-I: main problem is that it is a single-chip item that is not in any meaningful way inspectable.
asciilifeform: 'What really makes Fairphone different is its marketing of radical transparency. For the first time, I’m thinking about what’s inside my phone, where it came from and who touched it before I did. '
asciilifeform: meanwhile someone is laughing all the way to the bank, selling raw materials for 2-3x their normal price by affixing 'fair trade' shiny sticker. previously this only worked for food, and only in a few locales, in usa, where folks temporarily have more money than sense
asciilifeform: 'here, learn where the ~metals~ (supposedly) come from. but don't ask about how they are arranged, terrorist.'
asciilifeform: from same page: '"First," he said, "because it is not fit that I should sit as a judge and nobody to be hanged; secondly, you must be hanged because you have a damned hanging look; thirdly, you must be hanged because I am hungry. There's a law for ye, ye dog. Take him away.'
asciilifeform: or, elementarily, afghani, then iraqi, then libyan, then syrian, terrorists are usg-sponsored 'rebels' so long as they are setting the desired kind of controlledchaos fires.
asciilifeform: not about sanitation, or whatever else practical thing.
asciilifeform: 'failed state' is about hillary not daring to land there and derp on a podium.
asciilifeform: the most you can expect is something like a road, somewhere nearby.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: perhaps it will add some wtf to the mix if i add that these are ~virgin~ lands, with no communications (not even, in most places, any mains current or plumbing)
asciilifeform: what, mircea_popescu thought there would be a million takers ?
asciilifeform: dunno, it also has 'put them infidels to the sword'
