asciilifeform: 'However, the nLockTime field can't prove that it is impossible to spend a transaction output until some time in the future, as there is no way to know if a valid signature for a different transaction spending that output has been created.' (from the horse's mouth)
asciilifeform: iirc truckers traditionally know what the truck costs - they save pennies and dream of buying their own machine
asciilifeform: 'The Hartes are also a white, financially sound couple who both happened to have worked for the CIA.' << extra-lulz
asciilifeform: ely manipulated the tests or showed a reckless disregard for the truth — and he ruled that the Hartes had failed to do so.' << lulz
asciilifeform: e excessive force. He found that the Hartes had not been defamed by the raid or by the publicity surrounding it. He also ruled that the police were under no obligation to know that drug testing field kits are inaccurate, nor were they obligated to wait for the more accurate lab tests before conducting the SWAT raid. The only way they’d have a claim would be if they could show that the police lied about the results, deliberat
asciilifeform: 'Last week, U.S. District Court Judge John W. Lungstrum dismissed every one of the Hartes’s claims. Harte found that sending a SWAT team into a home first thing in the morning based on no more than a positive field test and spotting a suspect at a gardening store was not a violation of the Fourth Amendment. He found that the police had probable cause for the search, and that the way the search was conducted did not constitut
asciilifeform: with the specific chumpatronic purpose of distracting from the nature of the turd thereby.
asciilifeform: this is not even turd-polishing. it is turd-washing
asciilifeform can't be bothered to read any more of the claptrap
asciilifeform: what part of pwned-at-the-factory is unclear ?
asciilifeform: 'Admittedly such an approach would not be able to detect sophisticated attacks which replace the original laptop board with identically looking one ... ' << again, this odd presumption that the original ~needs~ to be surreptitiously replaced
asciilifeform: 'We thus see that, while we cannot fully eliminate the problem of subversion of the host OS security by potentially malicious processor, the construction of the stateless laptop allows us to force the adversary into a very dangerous territory, requiring them to take high risk and also making the attack very complex.' << mno.
asciilifeform: (how about good ol' kleptography ? cp planting ? etc. i can think of 101 other items which have nothing to do with 'malware')
asciilifeform: or the sophomoric reduction of attack vectors enabled by intel ME to 'inject malware'
asciilifeform: can't initialize the dram controller, much less usb etc. without a proprietary turd
asciilifeform: 'The main principle introduced below is the requirement for the laptop hardware to be stateless, i.e. lacking any persistent storage. This includes it having no firmware-carrying flash memory chips. All the state is to be kept on an external, trusted device. This trusted device is envisioned to be of a small USB stick or SD card form factor.' << batshit lunacy on x86☟︎
asciilifeform: (~actual~ physics specialist will not brag about phd, any more than a cabbie brags about driver's license!)☟︎
asciilifeform: phun phakt. can tune out if ever hear 'physics phd!!1111' - this has been a leper's bell of pseudoscientific cheap crackpottery for a century+
asciilifeform: recall the incident where marshall nedelin and all of his adjutants were so thoroughly cremated that they were recognized by loose shirt buttons
