asciilifeform: farm fake agreement << as pictured in herr chomsky's 'manufacturing consent' etc
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ...how the fuck is a bunch of circlejerking derps, who don't even REALISE << with this here perl script, which emulates the lot of'em with a few pr0xies, how else
asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> better than any government << from safe distance. right now, as i understand, they are in what '90s ru called 'initial capital allocation.' which tends to involve some mess - machine-gunning of whole hamlets to prove a point, etc
asciilifeform: prolly one of those things that will never entirely disappear for so long as there are 'immunocompromised' decaying civilizations, etc
asciilifeform: 'Instead we have programmers with literally zero financial education or training, fighting over which handful of them is going to decide the fate of the next worldwide financial system.'
asciilifeform: the breathing thing is not part of the plan.
asciilifeform: this is like asking 'how is that fella supposed to breathe under water' as they tie the stone around his neck
asciilifeform: fluffypony: it's more of a 'do you expect me to talk? no mr bond, i expect you to Die!!'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: fix your post, 'though given Satoshi's infrequent use of cryptographic signatures and loss the email account' --> 'loss of'
asciilifeform: 'What you can infer here (since Ubiquiti wont comment) is that the scammers spoofed an employee communication from a fake email account, instructing an employee to wire funds to a vendor. In its laziest form, its an attack that anyone could mount with an Internet connection and about 5 minutes the B2B version of the old Nigerian prince email fraud, except the prince purports to be your boss.'