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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform lol, alternative desolder
to "wick lead in" , vibrate it for 6 months ? :D
mircea_popescu: yet another case of "in discussing idiocy of idiots, sane people find out interesting
truffs."
phf: i mean, i figured it's ~not~
the question of weight, obviously
phf: that's how
the heatsink is attached
to
the surface, but i wasn't sure if it can handle
the fan vibration
mircea_popescu: the heatsink/fan assemblage is not heavy enough for
the paste
to not hold it. esp if upright.
phf: relatedly i couldn't figure out how
to attach
the fan
to
the board without drilling into it.
there's like
two possible mount points, but requires machining a custom brace
mircea_popescu: why
the fuck would he hassle dsk for an original fucking fan
though. really, copper is expensive now ?
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-03#1693423 << i believe man's solution was
to buy another $7k xl12xx. otherwise
the website is distinguished by macro photos of symbolics boards and retellings in own words of Document Examiner material (which is also available in printed form, in before asciilifeform's "i have
the whole printed set")
☝︎ mircea_popescu: if you have an irreversible hash function, it's better
than encrypting.
trinque: and
that at some point a log of
the encrypted OTPs and
their return (as seen over
that serial cable by 3rd box) is moved somewhere, and
the encrypted OTPs decrypted and matched up with OTPs received
trinque: in order for a log of OTPs
to be meaningful, in
that it asserts a particular person assented
to an action at a given
time, gotta know
the OTP corresponds
to
the item sent
to
that person.
the way I've been
thinking about
that is encrypting
the OTP with
two keys, one of which I hold;
the other belonging
to
the outside party
mircea_popescu: trinque can always hash any item
that is long
to check for conformity in audits.
☟︎ trinque: well, without
transcribing or OCR'ing
the log back in somewhere.
mircea_popescu: and speaking of baffling moongineering : why
the fuck do
they have SQUARE vent holes on places like us navy ships, where
they can actually afford
to design
the cover rather
than buy from walmart.
trinque: ah now I recall what might reduce
the print audit's usefulness. it means visual inspection of
the encrypted items, as well as OTPs. logger box has
to first see
the encrypted item, second, corresponding OTP, and
then
this log has
to be verified by someone who can (elsewhere) crack open
the encrypted ones and match up
the OTPs.
mircea_popescu: lol mkay. i mean
this dood. and wtf already, put some probes on
the baffling process,
this is science ?
mircea_popescu: "So, it appears
thermal stress on
the Ivory CPU isn't
the problem, or
that
the
thermal stress is
too great for
that small heatsink
to keep up with." do
they not have laser
thermometers where
these people live or what is
the problem here ?!
mircea_popescu: hey, 0.1% or so by mass, about 33% or so by output of usg.nsa/etc is zekware. and i mean
this quite literally.
trinque: funny
thing was I'd already considered having
the OTP box burn a CD as it went along, just shitter printing without visual inspection.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-03 17:51 asciilifeform: ... "I've spoken
to
the US Marshals again and
they say
they have no record of Marcus being in
the system. At
this point we've been
trying
to get in contact with Marcus for 18 hours and nobody knows where he's been
taken,"
the person added. "We still don't know why Marcus has been arrested and now we have no idea where in
the US he's been
taken
to'
a111: Logged on 2017-08-03 17:43 asciilifeform: it is ~perfect : 1) no way for enemy
to unhappen logs short of burning
the bldg 2) easy
to scroll
through, read 3)
thermal paper burns great
mircea_popescu: definitely one of
the
ten best anglo movies ever made, at any rate.
mircea_popescu: ok, well, if you're curious
to delve into what did what
to your mind, go see it sometime, and see it so
that you answer me
the question of "what did moore do wrong ?"
a111: Logged on 2017-08-03 18:07 asciilifeform:
trinque: incidentally i recently purchased a number of
thermal printers from dying ratshacks, you can have one for cost of postage
trinque: see what
the complexity hell did
to my mind? "not printers,
those are a nightmare cesspool"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the reason i even quoted etc is
that for all
the diversity, no actual stupidity came out. so...
mircea_popescu: really
this should be
the motto of something. "The moving finger writes ; and, having writ, moves on. Nor all
thy Piety nor Wit shall lure it back
to cancel half a line ; nor all
thy
tears wash out a word of it."
mircea_popescu: how did
the poet put it, "the writing head does write, and having writ, moves on
☟︎ mircea_popescu: actually b) is stronger
than "Read only". FIXED ENTHALPY
TIME FLOW.
mircea_popescu: also fine.
the whole idea is
the
ticker
tape, not
the method necessarily.
mircea_popescu: ^ very much recommended for audit,
this, btw. oldest system known
to man,
ticker
tape, for
telegraph and stock exchange. still unbeaten.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-03 17:41
trinque: if
there were a hardware-only way of logging what
traveled over
that serial port, even better.
that'd be
the audit
trail instead of
the OTP box's disk.
shinohai: From
the sewer: "I
think bcash sounds much cooler
than bitcoin.
the name bitcoin feels like myspace, bcash feels like facebook."
a111: Logged on 2017-08-03 17:23 asciilifeform: which i demonstrated (at least
to my satisfaction) as caused by slow verification on ~own~ end, of incoming blocks
mircea_popescu: "For ready comparison,
the "journalists" of
the Empire of Stupid were mentally slow and bodily lazy enough
to publish a pdf
that betrayed
their source last month." links it neh.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no i know, i already put it in
teh report.
trinque: if
there were a hardware-only way of logging what
traveled over
that serial port, even better.
that'd be
the audit
trail instead of
the OTP box's disk.
☟︎ trinque: ah probably string of command, since folks need
to see what it is
they've gotten an OTP for. at any rate, still not branch-causing.
trinque: otp box can be msdos over serial port, input parsing is
trivial (key parameters, hash of command; so all numeric - none causing branching)
trinque: the otp part discussed here stands alone,
though. a rather dumb piece of software can keep
track of encrypted OTPs it dispatched,
the corresponding command (which sits in
the encrypted item), and when it got
the OTP back.
trinque: I'm going
to do a writeup when released, still putting it
together.