asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=05-01-2015#965701 ☝︎

asciilifeform: it's trivial to sniff most connectivity, especially wireless << >> 'it is trivial to steal most objects, especially rotting squirrels in parks'

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-08-2014#816402 << buried treasure thread. instructive. ☝︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: actual woman on dating site? lol wtf

asciilifeform: xe4l: were you here for the 'buried treasure' thread ?

asciilifeform: xe4l: let's imagine we were. wouldn't discussing it here defeat the purpose of the exercise ?

asciilifeform: (appears to be a logical inference here? llama was voted up?)

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: why are you on a zoophile site ?

asciilifeform: xe4l ^

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-08-2014#802309 ☝︎

asciilifeform: !s spreading works

asciilifeform: like stone tablets to moses

asciilifeform: the muppets' work? sure. handlers? could extract it (from where? don't look at me) and put in their hands

asciilifeform: (re: general chumpatronics. begs to be photodiddled.)

asciilifeform: ^ relevant: http://lowres-picturecabinet.com.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/39/main/2/13982.jpg

asciilifeform: decimation: neh. something more like a 'new, shiny, xxxxx' reimplementation in $trendylang

asciilifeform: by the looks of it, probably a 'they showed up' kind of affair

asciilifeform: unless they have a replacement muppet brigade on hot spare

asciilifeform: at any rate, why would the phoundation's handlers cut their funding now ?

asciilifeform: *impressive

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: wunderwaffen that doesn't have to defeat the enemy, but look impressibe - is a little easier.

asciilifeform: xe4l: do read the linked threads.

asciilifeform: discussed in detail.

asciilifeform: !s onerng

asciilifeform: incidentally, 'disregard x years and you'll never see the difference' is sop on usg projects.

asciilifeform: but it seems doubtful

asciilifeform: they could try to worm out of this tight spot by coughing up a 'wunderwaffen'

asciilifeform: but no warez behind the names, naturally

asciilifeform: but the playlists in question were a fashion where kids posted them on their 'look i have a w3bs1t311111'

asciilifeform: (cmd line proggy)

asciilifeform: 'mplayer'

asciilifeform: cve is the sec. research equivalent of the 1990s 'winamp playlist' (who remembers these ?)

asciilifeform: this goes beyond the merely suspicious or ill-reputed, but is shitgnomery plain as daylight

asciilifeform: with 'the full dirt' presumably stowed away somewhere far.

asciilifeform: a 'chinese encyclopaedia' of, for the most part, mystery meats

asciilifeform: the whole cve paradigm is pure nsa, incidentally

asciilifeform: the default change behaviour is asinine (owing to how it destroys wallet backup as a concept) but i cannot recall how it can be seen as 'vulnerable'

asciilifeform: my sole recollections are from a brief discussion here, i think.

asciilifeform: anyone else puzzled that nowhere on the net - including above 'canonical' page - tells us wtf it did, in detail ?

asciilifeform: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462046

asciilifeform: (the duplicate nonce thing)

asciilifeform: that was another one.

asciilifeform: neh that wasn't it

asciilifeform: the entirely nonsensical way in which the client decides what to do with 'change'.

asciilifeform: walletron doesn't belong in the net stack. or on that box at all.

asciilifeform: change predictability << personally i'd like to see the problem solved in the civilized way. i.e. http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-10-2014#890278 ☝︎

asciilifeform just wanted a fscking hardcopy of bitcoind

asciilifeform: one of you will have to pick the new string.

asciilifeform: mod6: i'm leaving this for the folks actually involved

asciilifeform: mod6: presently it spits out the traditional one. perhaps this should change at some point.

asciilifeform: mod6: here's something i was gonna put in 'chicken' (init patch) but somehow forgot: version string.

asciilifeform: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/right-to-be-forgotten

asciilifeform: the phrase is, i think, a reference to an eu-ism

asciilifeform: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/07/even-script-kids-have-a-right-to-be-forgotten << another lol from krebs, re: 'hackforum'

asciilifeform: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/12/alleged-counterfeiter-willy-clock-arrested

asciilifeform: decimation: lol!

asciilifeform: funny how this mostly slipped by

asciilifeform: 'Based on information provided by A.B., the Secret Service used facial recognition to identify Jack Farrel as Ryan Andrew Gustafson.”' (krebs)

asciilifeform: ^

asciilifeform: (some - do, sure; but adding up all of the 'puts' and 'asks', if you will, at face value, is still naive)

asciilifeform: whereas many if not most of the folks involved have little intention (or ability) to pay the promised sums, or deliver, in many cases, the goods

asciilifeform: sites like 'hackforum' are probably responsible for the 'man on the street' believing that there are vast oceans of money in crapware

asciilifeform: spammers abound, offering 'installs' or soliciting to spam by the pound

asciilifeform: often, even when source for xxxx is available, an idiot will pay (good money) to have 'a build'

asciilifeform: and 'installs' (i.e. chumps)

asciilifeform: these folks actually -buy- malware from one another

asciilifeform: anyone who wants a good laugh, should visit the site

asciilifeform: 'hackforums'

asciilifeform: mega-lol!! :

asciilifeform: i'm told that other major telcos in usa have something not unlike it.

asciilifeform: but not 'good'

asciilifeform: and a very demented isp with malignantly spamwildcardy dns

asciilifeform: one can picture a terrible, mexican jail

asciilifeform: there isn't a 'good' dns, though. the very concept is a kind of contradiction, like a pleasant jail

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: traditionally they invite you to use google's dns (8.8.8.8)

asciilifeform: like most chumpnets.

asciilifeform: (transmit synchronously)

asciilifeform: btw entanglement to transmit rng to two ends is sop

asciilifeform: entanglement diddling makes exotica like gravimetric comms, neutrino beam (!), etc. look realistic.

asciilifeform: entanglement << dicy, as it mostly entails ftl

asciilifeform: decimation: more prosaically, details like sunspot cycle and whether you are being jammed (deliberately or otherwise)

asciilifeform: (pessimistically)

asciilifeform: ^ aha.

asciilifeform: (using the latter, conceivably, you might leave your receiver running for three days and in the end a light comes on; and then you can hear an hour-long broadcast.)

asciilifeform: aside from atrocious 'lossiness' - but this is where highly-efficient 'graceful degradation' schemes like fountain-coding come in.

asciilifeform: best to not forget it entirely.

asciilifeform: sw is 'the spare internet.'

asciilifeform: decimation: don't be so quick to bury it. there's plenty on the air - just not in english.

asciilifeform: about 1/3 greater velocity of flow in one direction than another.

asciilifeform: you can build one. it sort-of works.

asciilifeform: ;;google valvular conduit

asciilifeform: !s valvular conduit

asciilifeform: PeterL: at the time, various folks (including mr. t) were experimenting with electron tubes of various descriptions. t claimed to have one 'open to the air' on one end (!) ☟︎

asciilifeform: PeterL: and we all have 'pdf2txt' or the like on our boxes. it isn't a solution.

asciilifeform: PeterL: the 'it's still a turd, not sausage, even with relish' principle applies even here.

asciilifeform: PeterL: considerably less interesting without illustrations. and mangled formatting.

asciilifeform: decimation, ben_vulpes, undata ^ recommended reading

asciilifeform: 'for science!'

asciilifeform: of reichsmarks, naturally

asciilifeform: it's actually about embezzlement