asciilifeform: not one of these people will ever be in wot, even if he lived for a hundred years; and if by some odd chance one did, it'd be under another spam name
asciilifeform: if tomorrow we learn that cockroaches have names, amongst themselves, should exterminators take roll call before spraying ?
asciilifeform: names only make sense for things that are distinguishable and distinct
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it was mentioned on account of having been found by same av co. as 'stuxnet', and likewise far away from the pwning site and long after the fact of.
asciilifeform: i also can't help but appreciate the sheer magnitude of the 'fud' surrounding 'd-wave' - as if there could be any doubt whatsoever that the box is a work of charlatanry (doesn't run shor's algo and break rsa? not quantum comp. QED.)
asciilifeform: now, nobody will do this for sane commercial reasons because - afaik - nobody actually required these toy problems ~solved~
asciilifeform: (demonstrating that 'd-wave' is simply a monstrously overpriced analogue calculator)
asciilifeform: re: yesterday's 'd-wave' thread: i often wonder what would happen if somebody were to demonstrate a machine, costing fiddybux instead of fiddymillion, that has the exact same performance on the exact same problems using... ordinary op-amps
asciilifeform: it wasn't drepper, or poettering, somebody unknown
asciilifeform: and the snivelling little piece of shit who piped up to defend this ?
asciilifeform: (does anyone recall the very recent thread re: gcc optimizing away a certain kind of security check WHEN EXPLICITLY ASKED NOT TO ?)☟︎
asciilifeform: i have seen some truly astonishing idiocies.
asciilifeform: but compiler optimization retardation is not limited to the effects described therein☟︎
asciilifeform: her similar attacks already underway that we havn't detected yet. Put simply, attacks like these work.. Flame was a failure for the anti-virus industry. We really should have been able to do better. But we didn't. We were out of our league, in our own game."' << mega-l0l!!
asciilifeform: 'even die hards like the charismatic chief research officer of anti virus firm FSecure (Mikko Hypponen) have to concede their utility (or lack thereof). In a recent post he wrote: "What this means is that all of us had missed detecting this malware for two years, or more. That's a spectacular failure for our company, and for the antivirus industry in general.. This story does not end with Flame. It's highly likely there are ot
asciilifeform: 'Who did they work with previously? Who might have shared information inappropriately or made a trade based on knowledge they shouldn’t have used?'
