cads: so one hypothesis is that there's a body of people that had this information made up to some extent, at the very least glorifying the capabilities and making them seem starkly unopposeable.

cads: I mean, you're familiar that QUANTUM is allegedly a massive attack and risk mitigation suite with a huge encyclopedia of attacks and expert systems for deploying them. And that other aspects of the tailored access unit have allegedly done such things as pushing backdoors into cryptoprotocols.

cads: including stuff that the media has spun as "the ability to store all the transfers on the internet for a whole 4 day review period"

cads: snowden's revalations have continued to detail a number of really extensive cyber capabilities that the NSA has

cads: I think that the capabilities being divulged are too over the top and being divulged in a way engineered to make the vast majority of people accept them.

cads: mircea_popescu: what are the odds you put on Snowden himself being a US agent?

cads: mircea_popescu: but what prominent security expert is _not_ under reasonable suspicion of being a government agent?

cads: "Malware can silently write data to a USB stick, but it can't spin the CD-R up to 1000 rpm without your noticing. "

cads: I don't like that he suggests a usb key, because usb keys have been penetrated before

cads: which consisted of a brand new laptop that had never been connected to the internet, and a thumbdrive

cads: such a traditional system might still use punch cards to transfer data from the black to the red system

cads: mircea_popescu: I know there's a military handbook that describes design of airgapped systems (the red/black system design philosophy)

cads: airgapping bothers me, but the way I'd use it is as a fully offline reference system

cads: the cads number - the number of times you've come up with a math breakthrough while recieving fellatio from one of my booth babes

cads: I'd be known as that mathematician that hasn't done any actual math, but has a harem of booth babes and has pushed forward the field into the next millenium.

cads: the AMA and university bodies and others that organize math conferences tend to be way to conservative to take that as anything other than a joke

cads: lol, maybe a student organized math conference with cute undegrad booth babes is in order

cads: really I know if we just go to a trade show and knock some people unconscious with our sturdy ass prototypes, we'll come away with at least people we can talk to without 99.999% failure

cads: prototyping as a service

cads: note how the idea that I compile a list of companies that might need my services and cold call them was like this huge epiphany for me :)

cads: and didn't pop out due to a jam

cads: it went a couple weeks without popping out, lol

cads: a pair of*

cads: diametric: a company is launching a printer that has a feed sensor that detects that filalement is coming out of the extruder drive and travelling into the bowden tube

cads: (and to a less extent, variable material properties)

cads: even if your extruder has a motor on board for the mixing

cads: for example if you have a 5 filament drive with a mixing extruder, you need bowden drives