asciilifeform: reminds me of an incident, many years ago, when i snarfed what what supposed to be a warez copy of a text on the programming language 'ruby'. turned out to be renamed 'ruby.avi', a cheap porn, entitled 'Ruby Breaks her Sybian.'
asciilifeform: if unspent, sort of speaks against the 'no such thing as taint' hypothesis
asciilifeform: wake me up for the televised impalements.
asciilifeform: incidentally, now might be a good time to learn that russian passport can (if certain laws currently under consideration pass) be had for about 300K usd.
asciilifeform: although it is possible that Ro gave them up voluntarily
asciilifeform: 'phonewalla' (as described in film 'slumdog millionaire')
asciilifeform: more mundanely, the money would buy perhaps 10,000 cows.
asciilifeform: it's rather like the $MAXINT account on gox
asciilifeform: MisterE: re: 'things cheaper than' << think about what would happen if the folks with the funny money actually bought 38 million cows or whatnot
asciilifeform: it eventually comes back to where it must, like water
asciilifeform: incidentally, winblows camera trojans are old hat.
asciilifeform: it's virtually always an ordinary usb device with a non-standard plug
asciilifeform: why not open the damn thing up and unplug it
asciilifeform: (this is one of those things that actually costs something, and is in no conceivable case an accident)
asciilifeform: re: 'GCHQ intercepted webcam images' << goes great with the well-known fact that most laptop cameras have software-controlled activity lights.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'state of the art' is epoxy poured over a widget having bridges made of conductive epoxy, with ordinary epoxy poured over
asciilifeform: 'are you inside or outside of a klein bottle?'
asciilifeform: you (on the outside) are in the jail.
asciilifeform: because you then do not know what is inside.
asciilifeform: main problem is: unless you (owner) personally wrapped the mesh and poured the epoxy, the device is a 'jail not a castle'
asciilifeform: and if i recall, some current anti-personnel mines have the detonator and anti-handling device (gyro) 'potted' in the main charge.
asciilifeform: not that it can't be used to some effect - ibm crypto card had potting with a kind of conductive mesh, that when broken would lose SRAM
asciilifeform: it was a cheap trick management insisted on, somewhat like modern copyprotection
asciilifeform: the Votrax voice synth that unix 'speak' utility was meant for, was, if i recall, potted
asciilifeform: it went out of style, as i understand - because it mostly just annoys people
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: potting in epoxy is so very '70s
asciilifeform: their open declaration 'this priceless gem must never fall into the hands of the public' is simply begging for it.
asciilifeform: then somebody merely needs to turn the dial
asciilifeform: the way bans normally work in the u.s. (and elsewhere) is that the infrastructure needed for a proper ban is created under the pretext of 'humane' and 'reasonable' regulation
asciilifeform: duduqa: expect to see many 'ridiculous' things come alive.
asciilifeform: (check with lawyer for the current magic number.)
asciilifeform: ThickAsThieves: on the contrary, usg can ban whatever it likes. for instance, it is a serious crime in the u.s. to go to a bank and withdraw $2999.99.
