asciilifeform: e.g. mailing a personal box with live (!) environment to somebody.

asciilifeform: and opsec

asciilifeform: enemy does not need to remotely control the box if he can encourage you to voluntarily practice bad comsec.

asciilifeform: thinking that problem with modern hardware is limited to 'rooting' is a failure of imagination.

asciilifeform: or accessible independent of the machine it was bought in.

asciilifeform: 'The Market Has Spoken' (TM) that disk doesn't need to be removable.

asciilifeform: and those are quickly overtaking the winblows pc portable

asciilifeform: soldered-down ssd is SOP on virtually all ARM boxes

asciilifeform: but this is 'coming soon to a cheap x86 box near you' at any rate

asciilifeform: the only apple-specific detail in the plot is perhaps the difficulty of removing hdd in newer apple boxes for sanitation

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: this is another one of those instances where the 'avoid ritually unclean things' formula is inadequate.

asciilifeform: the practical 'joke' in the piece isn't apple-specific

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: this one is considerably funnier

asciilifeform: http://cryptome.org/2014/03/amazon-macbook-fraud.htm

asciilifeform: ('standardized stego' is the key hidden under door mat.)

asciilifeform: benkay: remember that steganography, unlike cryptography, cannot be simultaneously strong and standardized. ☟︎

asciilifeform: programmatically pissing out transactions is trivial, use your imagination.

asciilifeform: under no circumstances should you tell us - or anyone else - which.

asciilifeform: benkay: depends on the actual mechanism used.

asciilifeform: 'pay' in the sense that stuffing bits in the blockchain costs.

asciilifeform: (if you are not willing to pay what this costs, the payload cannot be important)

asciilifeform: encrypt, using a process known only to you, and inject in the blockchain.

asciilifeform: wtf is a professional keyholder

asciilifeform: the only real defence is: obscurity

asciilifeform: next lower class of attack: enemy willing to steal every single one of your identifiable possessions

asciilifeform: for some reason i thought that is what this line of thought was about.

asciilifeform: and a soldering iron.

asciilifeform: but has your arse

asciilifeform: and doesn't know (or care) where you keep the stash

asciilifeform: situation where enemy (willing to torture and kill) knows that you're loaded

asciilifeform: none of you seem to be thinking about the obvious

asciilifeform: benkay: "personal crypto security: basically impossibly hard" << every time this is said, nsa cafeteria fillets and serves a white tiger kitten (or insert rarer and cuter animal)

asciilifeform: for anyone who wasn't reading that day

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-11-2013#378362 ☝︎

asciilifeform: all the samples, if i recall, shipped in it.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: read the old logs, where i described a case of seeing this in person.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: perhaps also the most dangerous product at your corner pharmacy

asciilifeform: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2014/03/reichstag-fire-in-kiev.html

asciilifeform: not to be confused with 'opiate of the masses' ?

asciilifeform: wao-ender: 3 days now

asciilifeform: 'Filtration System, a Marvel to Behold! It Removes 80% of Human Solid Waste!'

asciilifeform: just a smaller one

asciilifeform: you still need a binary blob

asciilifeform: re: raspberry pi: the news item is - a sham ☟︎

asciilifeform: http://www.beatriceco.com/bti/porticus/bell/images/66dial6c_reduced_size.jpg

asciilifeform: press 'FO' instead.

asciilifeform: http://thepolitikalblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/ukraine-linguistic-division.jpg

asciilifeform: there is no grey

asciilifeform: nubbins`: love the weasel man in that piece

asciilifeform: mit, obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIhk9eKOLzQ

asciilifeform: if i understand correctly, this is just the difference between armchair general and actual general

asciilifeform: 'Quod licet Jovi...' ?

asciilifeform: what was the context here

asciilifeform: nubbins`: the fellow with 'guardia civil, alma de charol' ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the 'art' piece?

asciilifeform: anyone is welcome to try it even for 'arxiv vs snarxiv' (http://snarxiv.org/vs-arxiv)

asciilifeform: the problem of 'tell shit from shinola programmatically' is ai-complete

asciilifeform: re: 'scigen': all the 'authors' would need to do now is to adjust the rng

asciilifeform: 'Most of the conferences took place in China, and most of the fake papers have authors with Chinese affiliations.'

asciilifeform: ahahaha

asciilifeform: http://i.walmartimages.com/i/p/00/04/17/80/02/0004178002087_500X500.jpg

asciilifeform: shannonizer ftw!

asciilifeform: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/publishers-withdraw-more-than-120-gibberish-science-and-engineering-papers/

asciilifeform: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3312#comment-48558

asciilifeform: the original author of scheme

asciilifeform: sussman

asciilifeform: it was an epic surrender to derp

asciilifeform: a few years ago

asciilifeform: they ditched it

asciilifeform: decimation: you misread

asciilifeform: http://www.unlambda.com/cadr/cadr-zmacs.jpg

asciilifeform: http://www.unlambda.com/cadr/

asciilifeform: incidentally, the original mit lisp machine sources / schematics are bsd-licensed now.

asciilifeform: came with dec alpha. for 'free'.

asciilifeform: whom i talked into buying an actual copy of OG

asciilifeform: the $5k circa 2010 - that's my old employer.

asciilifeform: and is, in general, 'too much fun' of a technology to be turned loose

asciilifeform: it brings in, ~50k / yr in eternal pentagon contract

asciilifeform: http://www.usaspending.gov/search?form_fields={"recipient_name":"symbolics+","recip_state":null,"recip_congdist":null,"recip_country":null,"recipient_duns":["966978090","873185821"],"spending_cat":null,"dept":null,"extent_competed":null,"psc_code":null,"naics_code":null,"fyear":null}&sort_by=date&per_page=25

asciilifeform: here's the real dirt

asciilifeform: decimation: nope

asciilifeform: and that's all that was heard of it since

asciilifeform: and now owns it

asciilifeform: then an mit prof with nsa connections paid the idiot's debts

asciilifeform: the idiot who snapped it up at bankruptcy auction died a while ago

asciilifeform: probate court did (at the time)

asciilifeform: he doesn't own the company

asciilifeform: he wouldn't budge

asciilifeform: when i was at schmidt's house i offered him $BIG for schematics

asciilifeform: thing came with ~99% of its source.

asciilifeform: you'll need it for the sources.

asciilifeform: the pb link is the original dec alpha disk

asciilifeform: (x86-64)

asciilifeform: that's the unofficial linux port

asciilifeform: decimation: not for snap4

asciilifeform: the last man of symbolics corp.

asciilifeform: first comment in that piratebay link is dave schmidt

asciilifeform: there we go

asciilifeform: http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/3769989/Symbolics_Open_Genera_2.0_for_Alpha_-_complete_package_with_Lisp

asciilifeform: fuck this