asciilifeform: and quite like how mircea_popescu described it, long ago
asciilifeform: the 'slockitization' pattern, where american derps are incapable of building ANYTHING on their own, and hire 'ethiopes' to do the heavy lifting, then sprinkle whatever rubbish on top, is interestingly apparent
asciilifeform: ... a genuine pharma co. basing itself in nigeria, say.
asciilifeform: didn't they even move hearn to geneva ?
asciilifeform: is it 'dog whistle'? are these folks not even ~trying~ to fool anyone ?
asciilifeform: re earlier, i never quite grasped why every 'classy' diddled crypto peddler has to move to geneva. just because nsa-operated crypto AG corp. is there ?
asciilifeform: lel, all but the main rat, have left the sinking shitship
asciilifeform: 'Silent Circle already lost some of its key personnel in recent months. Cryptography luminary and co-founder Jon Callas departed for Apple in May and in June, CEO and President Bill Conner resigned, with Neiderman stepping in as interim chief. Co-founder Phil Zimmerman, best-known as the creator of encrypted messaging protocol PGP, remains on-board, living in the firm’s adopted home town of Geneva.'
asciilifeform: 'All of the gory details come from court documents related to a fight with former partner Geeksphone, which has filed a legal complaint in New York state court over a disputed $5 million payment. Geeksphone, the Spanish company that helped build the original Blackphone, says it’s owed the money from the $30 million sale of shares in the pair’s Blackphone SA joint venture...'
asciilifeform: (not that these folks, with attention span of a gold fish, and to whom ~1900~ vintage english is foreign language, even like conan doyle)
asciilifeform: the american list is very similar except that pigs will fly in orbit before an out-of-copyright conan doyle etc is permitted to appear there.
