asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, kakobrekla: at least when irc.assets.whatever gets ddosed, we'll know that it's for us and not for some lamer on #l33td00dz or whatnot.
asciilifeform: phuctor is still languishing on a godforsaken EC2
asciilifeform: did anyone ever step up with decent hosting for whatever?
asciilifeform: ut giving warning beforehand. In so far as scientific research still continues, this is its subject matter.' (mr. o's '1984')
asciilifeform: chetty: re: mind reading: 'The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds witho
asciilifeform: chetty: if this story is true, it probably means that a picture of 'casascius coin' is included in the 'evil objects' db.
asciilifeform: 2017: 'A man who was traveling through the California Demilitarized Zone airport was stopped and harassed by the ISA after he opted out of going through the MRI scanner. The official reason for further interrogation, according to the screeners, was "We saw 'brainwallet.py' in your CPU cache, and we needed to check." '
asciilifeform: continuing: for instance, a chip that enthusiastically pisses bits to the power rail is perfectly usable if it never gets to share its power rail with anything
asciilifeform: or what does he get if it broadcasts every 16th word fetched from ram
asciilifeform: e.g. what, exactly, does the enemy get if he can execute an arbitrary instruction instead of the next coming one, at a given time
asciilifeform: at the risk of repeating, anyone concerned with boobytrapped hardware should actually take the time to think about /what it could actually do/ in their scenario
asciilifeform: i doubt that you will like the answer.
asciilifeform: it is worth your while to read about who is interested in it, and why
asciilifeform: dignork: homomorphic crypto came up here many times
asciilifeform: whereas if you operate on 'voodoo', you will happily buy treacherous hw from 'clean' people
asciilifeform: semiconductor is not magic, isn't cursed, one can form reasonable hypothesis about enemy action.
asciilifeform: 'voodoo' fear of 'ritually tainted' hardware is counterproductive.
asciilifeform: just that you should understand the implications.
asciilifeform: it does not automatically follow that one should not buy xilinx
asciilifeform: incidentally, xilinx might as well be run out of ft. meade
asciilifeform: it does not follow that nothing interesting can be done to the unsuspecting buyer
asciilifeform: and that, while certain interesting classes of attack are impossible on an fpga,
asciilifeform: my point was that you end up trusting a big fat american duopoly when using modern fpga.
asciilifeform: i had the T1 running on a board around here somewhere. it works.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: just describing some of the very different varieties of trap that can be set for a chip buyer
asciilifeform: on the other hand, the 'listens for magic packet on radio, using power rail as antenna, and shorts power rail to ground when received' can be fit into any ic
asciilifeform: (fpga has no idea where the 'cache' will be on the fabric, or even that it will be configured as cpu rather than, say, decompressor)
asciilifeform: it is quite true that you cannot put this kind of trap in an fpga without making the whole thing look quite ridiculous even under an optical microscope.
asciilifeform: so, for instance, chinese cpu waits for the phrase 'tiananmen satoshi goatfuck' and shorts power rail to ground if this appears in the cache.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: it is foolish to consider diddled cpus without having a picture of the actual possibilities in mind.
asciilifeform: Bharara - because every century needs its Roland Freisler.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: check out 'longsoon' co.
asciilifeform: i never understood why virtually every pocket widget used ARM, which is licensed by a monopoly, vs. MIPS, which is quite similar in purpose, and 100% free.
asciilifeform: one can try to play 'whack-a-mole' (playing as the mole) with the customs, and some people do.
asciilifeform: benkay: browser-based wallet. because spammers need to eat, too.
asciilifeform: (there was a great robert sheckley story about folks who were paid to be knocked out and put on a nosediving plane, sinking ship, etc. and filmed as they try to wiggle their way out of odd situations)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: should you find yourself alone with... doesn't even - horror of horrors - speak your language << might as well put him alone on a nuke sub with overheating reactor
asciilifeform: consult S.CRYING futures, they tell... the future.
