asciilifeform: (american flying machines were originally supposed to use the 'pro' version of 'gps', with crypto authentication. but someone, apparently, absconded with the $, and most of them left the factory with 'consumer' receiver.)
asciilifeform: it's considerably funnier if you remember what makes this particular circus trick possible.
asciilifeform: you can't buy this one from 'alibaba' but there it is.
asciilifeform: the most effective cell jammer doesn't simply piss out white noise, but emulates a functioning tower - one which happens to route calls into '/dev/null'
asciilifeform: you know, the same one that gets a magic packet and steers the flying coffin 1000km into the sea and then down.
asciilifeform: or, if you like exciting life, in the plane's own instrumentation.
asciilifeform: also helps to remember that cell jammer fits in a belt buckle if necessary.
asciilifeform: chetty: not much cell service in the sea.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu the correct way to do 'hardware wallet is' -- well, why piss out out here. 'obvious to alert reader.'
asciilifeform: can use standard btc client, gpg, etc.
asciilifeform: if you have an amulet of invincibility and the gods have informed you that you will never encounter a pwned pc, you need no exotic hardware.
asciilifeform: is to assume a future encounter with a pwned host machine
asciilifeform: the whole point in taking the trouble to design a hardware gizmo
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu if the pc can deterministically find that a hardware btc wallet | gpg apparatus | trng | etc is plugged in, owner is fucked.☟︎
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu if the pc can deterministically find that a [hardware btc wallet | gpg apparatus | trng | etc] is plugged in, owner is fucked.
