asciilifeform: l0l, this is prelude to death

asciilifeform: or merely the fact that one of the documents (not necessarily his) did so

asciilifeform: does s ever -mention- pgp?

asciilifeform greps

asciilifeform: and every time he opens mouth, what comes out? 'brave journalists', 'use tor!', etc

asciilifeform: decimation: the state-controlled media fellates him 24/7

asciilifeform: TomServo: you don't have to solder the serial port if you're careful

asciilifeform: !up tris

asciilifeform: also fella has a net presence vastly smaller than what one expects even a very modest crackpot

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nope, he fell from mars. but echoed certain trains of thought that i heretofore encountered only in own head. hence linked.

asciilifeform: is why i said 'connected dots' not 'new leak'

asciilifeform: then begging

asciilifeform: or a glassed davos

asciilifeform: something like ted turner turning tricks in a bangkok gay bar to buy a bowl of rice every other day - would count

asciilifeform recalls

asciilifeform: but if it appears to happen to every user, then it will be quite analogous to mr s

asciilifeform: it probably will be said, yes

asciilifeform: i think he means 'he led the nsa device catalogue leaker to his anthill death' ☟︎

asciilifeform: http://www.carlbernstein.com << that one

asciilifeform: he's talking about carl bernstein

asciilifeform: but claim - testable

asciilifeform: author's style, yes

asciilifeform: l0l

asciilifeform: congrats nubbins`

asciilifeform: they do it to russians all the time

asciilifeform: big fat deal, flip some bits

asciilifeform: and wai wat, omidyar - or at least his money - could be magicked away in a single hour if usg willed it.

asciilifeform: and because robot maker (i know exactly who makes it) has an ear in congress

asciilifeform: they aren't rolling out the robots because they fear. but to save cost of a few stormtroopers' life insurance

asciilifeform: i don't see the fear component here

asciilifeform: ^

asciilifeform: today, breaking down door at 3am and barrel in your mouth is NORMAL

asciilifeform: used to be they'd politely ask you to come to the station

asciilifeform: the robot is a logical step to the escalation of usg police practice

asciilifeform: that robot was publicly displayed for a reason

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: really it is done to make the idea of meaningful (as opposed to merely suicidal; so they hose off the pavement & everybody goes back to work) resistance less and less thinkable

asciilifeform: nubbins`: easily fixed

asciilifeform: nubbins`: that's because u-boot sets it a'blinking by default

asciilifeform: nubbins`: blink.

asciilifeform: nubbins`: aha?

asciilifeform: there is not a public display of this. ergo 'pwner' did not see it fit to do this.

asciilifeform: let's say herr buffet's winblows machine, where he keeps tabs with his lizard commander, was owned.

asciilifeform: but some with better grounding than others

asciilifeform: well admittedly, i suspect many things

asciilifeform even more confused

asciilifeform: that don't what

asciilifeform: or at least suspect

asciilifeform: if it didn't in the same sense of 'didn't' as elsewhere in usg, i would know

asciilifeform: damned if i know. but it 'works'

asciilifeform: it 'works' for them in the sense that no nsa-crypto directorate leaks. no meaningful cia leaks. perhaps they use 'underwood' typewriters instead of microshit ?

asciilifeform: in the way that gorby didn't

asciilifeform: the buggers know that 'it'll be their necks'

asciilifeform: nobody is playing that role for usg

asciilifeform: the sovblok fell down with nato holding a seemingly soft (in reality not so much) cushion under its arse as it fell

asciilifeform: trinque: judging by the results

asciilifeform: trinque: the 'militia' thing is solid usg provocateurism from day one

asciilifeform: rock solid support from the cattle

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: eh no. they take it out of the captive tax cows - sales, shrinkflation, outright moneyprinter

asciilifeform: because 'friend of 30 years' vouched for the broker

asciilifeform: who take three steps and (fail to) blow (themselves) up with a (fake) rocket sold to them by usg.

asciilifeform: sure, when you're working with -cowardly- and -imbecilic- narcissists

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: (exactly once)

asciilifeform: that worked once.

asciilifeform: herostratus aha

asciilifeform: so perhaps 'demolished a street' is exaggerated

asciilifeform: not even rounding error.

asciilifeform: the damage from tsarnavev & tsarnaev was roughly comparable to a small 'pile up' wreck on the highway.

asciilifeform: and what, they are to go broke from paving a street?

asciilifeform: where are the -real- cracks in the reich

asciilifeform: show me the stalingrad

asciilifeform: but stalingrad happened

asciilifeform: it looks mostly normal

asciilifeform: say i'm a generic schmuck living in berlin in march, this day in '43

asciilifeform: not exactly

asciilifeform: they evidently must

asciilifeform: i dun see it.

asciilifeform: and what result ?

asciilifeform: in boston

asciilifeform: we in fact saw this play out

asciilifeform: they'd demolish the street where you stood.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that'd work about as well here as it would in peak nazi de

asciilifeform: ^ pretty good

asciilifeform: on .ch army org

asciilifeform: http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Personal/Books/McPhee-Place-Concorde-Suisse << book

asciilifeform: and trained decently.

asciilifeform: not sure about now

asciilifeform: spent quite a bit during cold war

asciilifeform: not exactly.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: make invasion economically unfeasible << you may be thinking of the swiss

asciilifeform: what is one to do, wear trotyl vest ?

asciilifeform: if ambling about the terrain going to/from day jobs, etc. - they just quietly pick you up

asciilifeform: as long as it's clear to "special ops" that there will be deaths << this is possible if living in a bunker

asciilifeform: so, running with this line of thought, what might we expect 'the cure' to look like?

asciilifeform: see BingoBoingo's link

asciilifeform: who are actually trained for the kind of thing that it's all ultimately for

asciilifeform: the equipment (and selected men) steadily gets transfered to police (soon to be unified gendarmerie) forces

asciilifeform: and many other interesting things which have yet to be demoed

asciilifeform: and occupation of own cities (see boston)

asciilifeform: it is also, apparently, quite useful for rocketing unarmed men in their sleep