asciilifeform looks for some corpse shots from ukraine to take the edge off
asciilifeform: 'what has been seen cannot be unseen'
asciilifeform: phun phact. apple hardware used to (still does?) come with a set of logo stickers. so that one could uglify anything - normal laptop, car, etc.
asciilifeform: 'How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?' (mr holmes)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: or a bored kid with some image processing sk1lz and a good stash.
asciilifeform: as in - what is the purpose. (surely there is no want of tit pic.) so, presumably, it is to give female beggars some coin to experiment with ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you've time, explain the theory behind the 'bits for tits' project.☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform read jim bell's infamous paper just like everyone else, knows the ideal theory
asciilifeform: at any rate, since when has plugging a bureaucrat solved anything. they're a 'renewable resource,' to use the enviro-whiner parlance.
asciilifeform wasn't there, didn't wield the nailgun, doesn't know the truth obviously
asciilifeform: based simply on the examples known to me (e.g. the woman involved with 'obamacare' etc)
asciilifeform: the usual 'fratricides' among their own kind, unless appearances deceive me
asciilifeform: the bureaucrats appear to be alive, in good health.
asciilifeform: every self-respecting botnet herder uses something approximately like this.
asciilifeform: simply picture a correctly designed 'tor'
asciilifeform: say he grows a brain, and starts 'tcpdump'ing. finds that the proxy just connects to another just like it. rsa on both ends.
asciilifeform: what trace? so a chumper finds that he was running a socks5 proxy. big deal.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for so long as winblows is a thing, no malefactor will ever lack for fresh ip.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: last 'block' has been allocated. but what spammer (or secret police shop) actually buys ip blocks? you install proxies on the pwned, and use these.
asciilifeform: 'ripoff report' << 'WoT' is the modern medicine answer to this blood-letting.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu anyone keeping a list of ips used by nsa&friends for ops << if these folks have the elementary nervous system the gods gave the lowliest spammer, they have a steady supply of fresh ones. this is in no sense difficult, even for children.
asciilifeform: (well, technically a somewhat larger keychain - could. but not this.)
asciilifeform: pankkake: re: 'mycelium' << the nice thing is that i don't even need to purchase and cut open the unit to piss on it. you can't fit a user-auditable rng in a keychain. simple physical fact.☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu Ольга Борисовна Лепешинская the 'biologist'
asciilifeform: laugh now - cry later. things that sail off the 'parody horizon' cliff tend to keep going. until they hit ground.
asciilifeform: can't wait for the mandatory wheelchair ramps on heli-gunships
asciilifeform: gotta accommodate the legless firemen.
asciilifeform: "people have problems" which seem to reinforce agency heirarchy << interesting examples abound. consider the u.s. grunts who were disciplined for wearing privately purchased ballistic armour in iraq.
asciilifeform: being as the local stuffed uniforms are the first to 'go free agent' in any imperial collapse, this is sorta basic.
asciilifeform: or (until quite recently) - encrypted radios
asciilifeform: just as they don't get aircraft carriers
asciilifeform: Encryption Foiled the Cops << example of hierarchy of power in action. the local doughnut eaters don't get access to the manufacturer backdoor. unless it suits the crown for one reason or another.
asciilifeform: '$workaround is free if your time is worth nothing'
asciilifeform: generally found in places where no one counts the money, and everyone pisses on copyrasty laws - e.g. military labs.
