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asciilifeform: '“In the future, intelligence services might use the [internet of things] for identification, surveillance, monitoring, location tracking, and targeting for recruitment, or to gain access to networks or user credentials,” Clapper said.'

asciilifeform: l0ltr0n from phf's link : http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/09/internet-of-things-smart-home-devices-government-surveillance-james-clapper

asciilifeform: anyway chinese don't do it yet.

asciilifeform: '90s ?

asciilifeform: this is called 'revenue leakage prevention' believe or not.

asciilifeform: (won't brick, but machine won't charge)

asciilifeform: ditto for power bricks, for perhaps a decade now

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: this is SOP on most new laptops

asciilifeform: nubbins`: aha! afaik

asciilifeform: what did apple brick 'if you used other parts in it' ☟︎

asciilifeform: btw what was mircea_popescu speaking of there

asciilifeform: http://images-p18-7.cdn.mywed.ru/users_new/2895/2895/forum/0018/18/1469907.jpg << moar!

asciilifeform: https://image-store.slidesharecdn.com/d981bbfb-6f7e-4db7-9429-8d5df211f63c-large.jpeg << here we go.

asciilifeform: 'leave the microscope at home??' 'no!!!111'

asciilifeform: against whom nothing, not even cast iron crowbar, is safe

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: perhaps these were the dropping, drowning, back-pocketing kind of folk

asciilifeform: aha!

asciilifeform: anything therein will either be destroyed or worm its way up your arse ☟︎

asciilifeform: i've never in my whole life used a back pocket. ☟︎

asciilifeform: so never put it in back pocket.

asciilifeform: why?

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: yes, it!

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: funnily, my brother uses 'razor' for decade+ now, it looks entirely pristine

asciilifeform: pete_d_out: http://trilema.com/2016/the-lordship-list-third-year

asciilifeform: phf: nah, that sort of thing needs attention span not available in car

asciilifeform: from many years of this.

asciilifeform: phf: i actually ran out (!) of book tape warez of tolerable quality

asciilifeform: fwiw i agree with nubbins`

asciilifeform: american telcos phased out analogue band

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: pretty sure these won't even work, where i live, today

asciilifeform: or trains

asciilifeform: pete_d_out clearly does not spend much time stuck in cars

asciilifeform: !up pete_d_out

asciilifeform: headset exists

asciilifeform: pete_d_out actually talks ~into~ the thing ?

asciilifeform: l0l, wut?!

asciilifeform: worth remembering that the ~original~ (in as far as publicly known) case of pwned phone with always-on mic was a 'dumb'

asciilifeform: while it makes not a lick of difference to usg deathsquad

asciilifeform: or rather, from user's pov, it exists;

asciilifeform: fwiw, the 'dumb'/'smart' distinction is a sham

asciilifeform: didja also toy with idea of chewing rusty nails ? ☟︎

asciilifeform: also for 'радио звезда' when commuting, what else.

asciilifeform: pete_d_out: for what did you think.

asciilifeform: idk, never went to ~their~ party

asciilifeform: i once turned up at a party full of'em

asciilifeform: (phun phakt: even they are permitted to openly admit to working for nsa)

asciilifeform: wake me up when nsa list, sorted by directorate, leaks.

asciilifeform: iirc the list of folks who work for fbi and dhs is not even classified 'sensitive' (usg legal term, the thing below 'secret')

asciilifeform: this is a mega-unsurprise.

asciilifeform: all of them

asciilifeform: (all the way down to visiting chinese grad students)

asciilifeform: even contractors

asciilifeform: pete_d_out: you do know that the lowliest monkey in each usg ministry has access to the microshit 'outlook' phonebook seen in the link, aha ?

asciilifeform: (please wake me up if you can convert it into one)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that it isn't a cryptoscheme ?

asciilifeform: just like mircea_popescu, to help folks working on a historic and unsolved mathematical problem by replacing with unfathomly harder one, l0l

asciilifeform: yes, but to what planet should i go to, to get one ?

asciilifeform: and actually how my rng worx.

asciilifeform: which is kiss of death.

asciilifeform: noise in analogue machine is multiplicative.

asciilifeform: (really because noise floor)

asciilifeform: anyway contrary to the other popular notion, this is not why we don't have analogue pc

asciilifeform: planck length!111

asciilifeform: piss-poor reals.

asciilifeform: made of what, pfff, quantized matter.

asciilifeform: contrary to popular notion, analogue comp does ~not~

asciilifeform: mno.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you can design hardware that deals in ~reals~ i will take off my hat.

asciilifeform: (and nobody else does either)

asciilifeform: hey i don't even own an instrument that deals in the reals !11111

asciilifeform: aha.