asciilifeform: some of the newer browsers, iirc, won't even give him the option of swallowing
asciilifeform: yes, usg succeeded in setting up the situation where every luserplebe's browser will ring bells, flash lights, if a cert didn't come with a hitler signature
asciilifeform: the traditional party line is 'oh noez you'll be mitm-ed if your browser doesn't refuse self-signed'
asciilifeform: in case anyone needs to be reminded of this - ssl remains a crock of shit - as in, the entire protocol stack is porous and comically maldesigned
asciilifeform: and if a 'luser' won't read or can't remember the genuine fingerprint, and won't write it down, whatever - he has no business owning computer
asciilifeform: if using the ssl crock of shit at all, being your own signing authority (instead of swallowing the master key bullshit and extortionary fees of the 'authorities') is the only way to go
asciilifeform: perhaps i ought to attend spam school.
asciilifeform: if i knew how to earn bread without leaving home, i would
asciilifeform: point of fact, i think i may have said quite enough just now, such that one may construct it.
asciilifeform: retrieve, develop (as in photograph), extract audio with simple analogue computer.
asciilifeform: ('chemical' in the sense of having no appreciable electrical currents flowing, nor conductors, except in a residual, ionic sense, nor semiconductors, inside.)
asciilifeform: perhaps when i am hanged, it will be manufactured somewhere.
asciilifeform: in my 'death notebook' there is a design for a purely-chemical 'bug'.
asciilifeform: theremin's 'bug' was, from this point of view, sheerly 'martian' technology.
asciilifeform: connecting it to either a tape recorder (no smaller, even in the most 'golden toilet' variant, than an auto pistol) - or to an actual set of headphones on a head.
asciilifeform: rather, it was a microphone, often at least as large as, say, a thimble, and a very long wire
asciilifeform: at that time, a typical 'bug' was not a small 'pill', easily concealed, transmitting (or recording) audio for weeks or months - the way one thinks of them now
asciilifeform: one must appreciate the kind of technological leap it was, in that period
asciilifeform: a somewhat younger, livelier usg had a multitude of copies produced, and used in utmost secrecy, almost immediately after the find.
asciilifeform: there are some historical documents that suggest the original was destroyed by clumsy inspectors.
asciilifeform: console can be connected to tcp or to radio set on valves
asciilifeform: i imagine mpex as consisting of three gurlz, in a box, in shifts, and a console.
asciilifeform: proving the point that stateless, medium-agnostic 'connectionless' comms are the only solid way to go.
asciilifeform: mpex was not the inspiration for my version of the concept, but was the impetus for my coming to believe that it is buildable and worth confessing to people about
asciilifeform: adlai: the way i understand it, we have at least three people right here who came up with very similar - but different in important respects - attempted solutions.
asciilifeform: adlai: must note that it is originally entirely unrelated to mircea_popescu and artifexd's project
asciilifeform: adlai: described it at some length in #b-a at various points in the past month; also in a few comments on mircea_popescu's site.
asciilifeform: 'If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.' (richilieu)
asciilifeform is about to sleep, and recommends to friends also about to sleep, to read 'petrified world.'
asciilifeform: (nor an immediate transposability to shortwave/message-in-bottle)
asciilifeform: you will -never- get single-packet friend-or-foe with tcp or tcp-like apparatus.
asciilifeform happens to be a crackpot specializing in the subject of 'abstractions being interchangeably paperable over is a mega-lie, foundations matter forever'
