asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: is this observation qntra-worthy?

asciilifeform: i shit thee not, official communique

asciilifeform: mr o: 'hey kid, nice clock, bring it to white house!'

asciilifeform: 'engineering'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not per se. but this is being pushed as 'scholar'

asciilifeform: he broke apart a perfectly good clock. ☟︎

asciilifeform: in the left side of the hinge, there is a 9v battery connector, hanging loose.

asciilifeform: notice the object in the lower half of the attache. it is a mains transformer. plug still attached.

asciilifeform: MIT-worthy!!

asciilifeform: as in, not even soldered anything.

asciilifeform: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CPCYHKzVAAAJG6w.jpg:large << close-up photograph. if i could bet on this, i would bet a few coin that he ~busted open an ordinary alarm clock~ to make this ☟︎

asciilifeform: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2015/09/16/a-clock-is-not-a-bomb-ahmeds-arrest-and-why-we-cant-have-nice-things

asciilifeform: it is in the völkischer beobachter now

asciilifeform: re: the 'clock bomb'

asciilifeform: reminds me of http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=28-08-2015#1253912 ☝︎

asciilifeform: "He said, ‘It looks like a movie bomb to me.’”

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ianal, but if they 'lost' the money and ~planned~ to milk the insurer, it is fraud

asciilifeform: now insurance fraud as well.

asciilifeform: 'Bitpay tried to get its insurer to cover $950,000 of the loss, but in June the insurer declined to pay. Bitpay is now suing the insurer.' << gold

asciilifeform: l0l!!

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-09-2015#1277080 << what is this ☝︎☟︎

asciilifeform: hm.

asciilifeform: !s mae pollitt

asciilifeform: (they don't marry, they don't x, or y, or z, but everybody dies)

asciilifeform: funeral is the only remaining major party among some of these people.

asciilifeform: i shit thee not

asciilifeform: (this is ~the~ subject in the technical literature concerning cremation, in usa.)

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-09-2015#1277112 <<<<< http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-10-2014#883003 ☝︎☝︎

asciilifeform: or phixed.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: apparently!

asciilifeform: until next time.

asciilifeform: over, for the time being. zoolag @ 173.73.235.152:8333. ☟︎

asciilifeform: veeeeeery interesting outage.

asciilifeform: same as before.

asciilifeform: zoolag now at 108.51.29.6.

asciilifeform: achtung, panzers!

asciilifeform: in updated version of the old fable, perhaps, the grasshopper devours the ant. and his stash. and then wonders what next.

asciilifeform: for a spell.

asciilifeform: what will they have going when they've eaten the last german ?

asciilifeform: protocols of the elders of syria ?

asciilifeform: tr0l0l0l!

asciilifeform: petitioning mr o, no less. >>> https://www.change.org/p/city-of-munich-ban-the-intolerant-and-anti-islamic-event-of-oktoberfest

asciilifeform: londonabad.

asciilifeform: al-paris.

asciilifeform: berlinabad!

asciilifeform: l0l!

asciilifeform: l0l

asciilifeform: the best leverage naturally is to find usg's magic tendrils already there.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: many other devices to infect, also. most heavy-lifting NICs are reflashable, have multi-core (!) cpu, etc.

asciilifeform: one would have to either steal the datasheet somewhere, or empirically (!) reverse the thing.

asciilifeform: the annoying thing about disk controllers is that pretty much the whole thing is one gigantic pile of undocumented regs

asciilifeform: they work for less.

asciilifeform: try some starving ru children first.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as in six digits usd.

asciilifeform: of course it would appear less classy if one thinks about how they likely got the forced cooperation of the vendors

asciilifeform: if someone were to pay for it, yes, i could say what the payload is.

asciilifeform: (including ssd)

asciilifeform: there was a flasher for 9 major vendors of hdd.

asciilifeform: aha, it was them.

asciilifeform: still have'em.

asciilifeform: later i got hold of the actual binaries.

asciilifeform: one of the very few articles i wrote personally

asciilifeform: reviewed on qntra

asciilifeform: binariez even.

asciilifeform: yes.

asciilifeform: it was revealed.

asciilifeform: ahahaha no

asciilifeform: and it cannot be said that these folks never have class. diddled disk fw is classy.

asciilifeform: if i were in the service of hitler, that is how ~i~ would have written it.

asciilifeform: in the craftsman.

asciilifeform: possibly.

asciilifeform: that would be the point then.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you had an article, iirc, about u.s. firms voluntarily bending over by installing cisco and related gear, to avoid the rougher and less lubricated anal inspection of 'national security letter' etc.

asciilifeform: Run Moar Cisco !

asciilifeform: etc.

asciilifeform: a 'spontaneous malfunction' of one bit in something, anything outgoing, can be a bit of leaked key

asciilifeform: !s kleptography

asciilifeform: or hell, leak the key in delays or other garbage

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: a compromised key generator would've been classier

asciilifeform: upgrade from the dumb beta version to spiffy new orifice, burn old.

asciilifeform: sop

asciilifeform: (summary: the rootkit was found and reversed - or alternatively, 'burned'. and no mention of its author. god himself put it there! apparently)

asciilifeform: http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/nsa-pwn-cisco-640x373.jpg << them.

asciilifeform: https://i.imgur.com/XI9wDA9.png << as in them

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-09-2015#1276226 << anyone else puzzled re: the total lack of mention of the author of the implant (usg) ? ☝︎

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: i presently have a ev2736w, two sx2462w, and a l885. (all but the last stand vertically.)

asciilifeform: korean garbage naturally drifts quickly enough to use as a disco light

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: on eizo ?!

asciilifeform: though i am not an artist, and do not deal in precise gammas, and do not personally notice.

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: everything drifts. that's what the colorimeter is for.

asciilifeform: 'barco' also makes proper lcd. my brother has one.

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: pick one up, see for yourself

asciilifeform: it is interesting how in just about every tech sector, there is ONE (perhaps two) vendors who make nice thing, optionally a few 'passable', and everybody else sells garbage.

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: i'm speaking of the entire projector

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: they only make the chip

asciilifeform: of all people... casio.

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: and last i checked, there is precisely one maker of usable (solid-state light source) large dlp machines, also.

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: it is strictly for watching films

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: got one in the bedroom. a nice one, too. but wouldn't dream of using it for actual work.

asciilifeform: yes. if you're used to proper lcd.