asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: debian worked, but with only one cpu initialized. to be fair, this was a decade ago.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i can't recommend the pa-risc boxes - on account of their rarity, virtually nothing (save the satanic native os) runs 100% of the hardware.
asciilifeform: said gizmo also comes with various connectors for splicing power into a running box pre-confiscation - for 'warm boot' variant of attack.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: correct. anyone who thinks the aus. gov. can't order the gizmo online like anybody else, should buy my bridge.
asciilifeform: benkay: how does that keep you from going ?
asciilifeform: TomServo: afaik no published academic success against ddr3. does not mean impossible. likewise, not all of the volatile storage in a box equipped with ddr3 is such - sram in cpu cache, disk controller, etc.
asciilifeform: (consult local spookware vendor for cost)
asciilifeform: answer to riddle: cold boot attack is in fact implemented in a commercial police gadget. comes with bottle of spray-on coolant, gizmo with sockets for various types of ram, etc.
asciilifeform: decimation: yes indeed. pretty good schoolbook intro.
asciilifeform: (naturally depends on enemy - your mileage may vary)
asciilifeform: folks captured with a burning laptop are liable to get rectothermed on the spot
asciilifeform: there's also opsec value in misleading the enemy into thinking he's captured an intact device.
asciilifeform: (you don't want visible pyrotechnics, smoke, if captured alive. and if you aren't keen on surviving being captured alive, invest in cyanide tooth, not thermite)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: portable ought to be considered expendable, anyway.
asciilifeform: joecool: this no longer works on current disks (controller firmware stores calibration parameters unique to the platters.)
asciilifeform: i suppose folks with infinite money now use mirrored ssd setups.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the most annoying thing about ssd isn't even the limited burn cycles, but the abrupt and catastrophic failure of controller.
asciilifeform: considering that a gentoo box can take a week to provision, i rather like raid.
asciilifeform: 'If the deer comes out of the forest and walks up to the hunter, it is not proper hunting, and this is not proper con artistry or grift or embezzlement or any other term we use to describe proper works of evil. If the victim, at the sight of the economic predator, goes into doggie submission, we must stop discussing the phenomenon in terms of conflict and consider whether what we are observing might be some stra
asciilifeform: last i checked, even the poorest piss-ant city in the world is full of u.s. folks, taking pictures, and much of the time their greatest worry is pick-pocket - and mosquito.
asciilifeform: and how did the idea come about that venturing abroad is a suicidally courageous thing to do for americans ?
asciilifeform: (the machines are sometimes called 'donorcycles' here. drivers routinely end up crunching under oncoming garbage trucks, etc.)
asciilifeform: i'd bet that, paradoxically, riding motorbike is safer in the darien gap than on american streets.
asciilifeform: i really can't fathom the purpose of buying a mystery meat hardware rng. if you're willing to eat mystery meat, why not use the vlsi turd found in current cpu?☟︎
asciilifeform: as if it took actual thinking to build a simple analogue rng.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: it was on his site, last i checked. sorta works.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: he also has an emu for texas instruments lisp machine (one of the handful of firms who licensed the original cadr)
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: parker wrote the cadr emu.
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: the code is intimately tied to the hardware (published recently as hand-drawn schematics, then converted to verilog by a mr. brad parker)
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: main discomfort is the very narrow bus (32 bit, incl. type tags)
