asciilifeform: 'sympathy', 'support', esp. of the usg-sponsored very tangible/financial variety is on tap, no questions asked. imagine if insurance worked this way - how many houses would still remain standing ?
asciilifeform: or more pertinent example, the fabricated mega-gang-rapes of recent history
asciilifeform: and the idiot parade quietly vanished
asciilifeform: iirc it ended with something like a confession from whoever saw it that 'noose' was no noose at all, but a piece of garbage the wind carried
asciilifeform: (5 or so yrs ago, there was 'mass indignation', hastily-cooked mea culpas from virtually all organizations in any way connected with the campus, demonstrations 'of support' for 'the victims' - after a shred of rope was allegedly found hanging on a tree branch.)
asciilifeform: the latest lulz from umd almost beats the noose incident.
asciilifeform: there was perhaps a few shredded flaps of still-chromosomally-passable tissue when i was a student there, a decade ago.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: american universities got cancer long ago ('60s) but now there is scarcely one detectable cell from the original patient at all, only tumour.
asciilifeform: gedankenexperiment to wake folks up that keyboard for secure work ought to be 1) yes, mechanical 2) physically smallest that one can abide
asciilifeform: shielding even a screen is nontrivial.
asciilifeform: (mice are easy - just pipe picture from the business end of standard optical mouse, hollowed out, into a remote cabinet to which its guts have been moved)
asciilifeform: i looked into keyboards made of optical fibres, and found none in commercial circulation. looked if anyone has admitted to experimenting with such, and found no credible data - but, interestingly, folks have built mice on this principle, for use inside mri scanners.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: those can be 'heard' for considerable distances by intercepting lcd feed
asciilifeform: (and it is also interesting to think about what actually happens on the mechanical contacts. 'key bounce' is not only an annoyance for engineers, but a gift to radiodiddlers, as each spring - and rubber domes not excepted - has characteristic wear)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if about hypothetical purpose-built jammer - keyboard scan matrix in particular is a moving target, as the frequency of the telltale signal will vary considerably depending on which key(s) are pressed
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if asking about the 'second kbd controller as jammer' - the small physical differences (esp. in the quartz oscillator) add up to a distinguishable 'fingerprint' which lets enemy pull a particular kbd signal out of a room full of'em
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu: nor is a conventional jammer practical, because pressing keys results in shift of frequency of harmonics. this appears to be one of those cases where not shitting on the floor is considerably easier than mopping it up...
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu: interesting tidbit from the vuagnoux & pasini paper (section 5.5) - the second-keyboard-as-jammer thing doesn't really work.
asciilifeform: re: iPnohe bruteforcer - apple could have easily written 1) update counter 2) validate code instead of 1) validate code 2) update counter
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: someone signed you up as a gag ?
asciilifeform: 'What is surprising however is that this still works even with the “Erase data after 10 attempts” configuration setting enabled. Our initial analysis indicates that the IP Box is able to bypass this restriction by connecting directly to the iPhone’s power source and aggressively cutting the power after each failed PIN attempt, but before the attempt has been synchronized to flash memory.' << mega-l0l!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: do the links contained in the turd point to the genuine site ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sounds like forged headers (why would the actual 'bitstamp' spam ? wtf is the point)
