asciilifeform: (when 'they' - dare, e.g., stuxnet, somehow it goes 'down the memory hole' and magicked into 'never happened you consp1r4cy nutter')
asciilifeform: on account of 'but they wouldn't dare'
asciilifeform: the only apparent exception is pki, which 'everyone' seems to know is a master key anal orifice of the first order, wherever it chances to appear, and yet virtually no one objects
asciilifeform: and when produced, are typically built to be physically indistinguishable from the 'natural' kind.
asciilifeform: actual, engineered back doors are seldom necessary
asciilifeform: undata: the entire architecture (soft & hard stack) is a meta-backdoor
asciilifeform: microshit periodically goes to step 1, on release cycle (new winblows and 'service packs')
asciilifeform: 5) patch is reversed by folks paid or otherwise happy to carry out this duty, and go to step 2.
asciilifeform: 4) exploit is patched, patch introduces more of the substance seen in step (1) (plausibly-deniable spaghetti that contains seeds of next iteration of cycle)
asciilifeform: 3) exploit is discovered by humans and put to use by wild men
asciilifeform: usg cycle goes approximately: 1) produce anal orifice (entirely plausibly-deniable bugpharms like microshit, with pedigrees going back into the sands of time, and impossibility of attribution or meaningful study - easy)
asciilifeform: which is to say, the exact mechanism whereby the supply of 0day is in fact inexhaustible
asciilifeform: (what will we hear, when they do? approximately, what everyone already knew.)
asciilifeform: incidentally, there are folks who reverse microshit's patches for a living.
asciilifeform: winblows file system handlers are porous on personal orders of lizard hitler.
asciilifeform: incidentally, the one type of winblows 0day that will remain in inexhaustible supply for so long as microshit remains a thing, is the usb drive 0day.
asciilifeform: translation: 'please fear usb disks, not winblows, winblows is yer friend'
asciilifeform: the apple et. al. 'born again in crypto' thing is cheap psyop.
asciilifeform: punkman: generally there is very little to be gained by telling other people anything re: where and how you keep your key.
asciilifeform: hell, some apparently clever folks (taleb?) can't even be bothered to dredge up a computer, or figure out 'irc' - so, no amount of free voice will help.
asciilifeform: but he should not be surprised later.
asciilifeform: thing is, a fellow who doesn't 'believe in' or like pgp, and doesn't care for the guarantees proper use provides, can automate up to a hundred percent of the process
asciilifeform: any reasonable person keeps his key [censored] in [censored]
asciilifeform: most of it spent with [censored] rather than on anything particular to 'gribble'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'Girl under a train - they sometimes fumble, / She might cry hysterically, or no; / You can hear Reanimator mumble: / 'Please give up your ghost, my dearest, go!' / Lifetime as a cripple? Who will feed you? / Even could I do a bloody thing? / Tell me, dearest, who you think will need you, / Without legs, and without everything?' << approx. partial transl.
asciilifeform: and i seriously don't get people who suggest 'use tv'. are they using computer with tv? if not, why not? and why eager to suggest to others.
asciilifeform: (not even for $maxint. where do you get bent display?)
asciilifeform: but you can't get the solid equivalent
asciilifeform: the array, naturally, is shaped a little like a titanic horizontal display (to match visual field of eyes)
