asciilifeform: the grandfather of them all.

asciilifeform: lemelson is the original patent troll

asciilifeform: 'it isn't yours, we gave it to you strictly in the opening to be raped in'

asciilifeform: clever fellow figured out how to use cuecat as a generic scanner, the bastards sued

asciilifeform: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat

asciilifeform: anyone remember the 'cuecat' ?

asciilifeform: unclehowell: the '90s called, want their turdware back.

asciilifeform: as for the political component, zimmerman already fucked the public goat with the closed-source 'silent circle'

asciilifeform: 2) could you, given what the creator of the device has made public, re-create it?

asciilifeform: that is, can a motivated person with an undergrad-level education actually understand the design in its totality?

asciilifeform: 1) what's it made of? how conceptually 'heavy' is the device?

asciilifeform: even without any understanding of the politics, you can derive the answer:

asciilifeform: Apocalyptic: intro to sane cryptographic principles: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1299

asciilifeform: Apocalyptic: sometimes, the answer is not printed in the back of the schoolbook. and you have to actually understand the problem and use your head.

asciilifeform: to what, in particular?

asciilifeform: it all starts to make sense once you understand that selling people rope with which to hang is the actual objective.

asciilifeform: (discrediting 'counter-nsa' tech as crackpottery, for instance.)

asciilifeform: some of the unstated goals can be achieved without selling a single unit, however.

asciilifeform: pankkake: you still think 'blackphone' is an honest/inept product, don't you.

asciilifeform: because cheap. won't cut into ft. meade's coke budget.

asciilifeform: if snowden is a 'hangout', getting people to buy this crap is clearly the objective of the hangout.

asciilifeform: crypto hero turned u.s. gov. shill pushes honeypot, news at 11.

asciilifeform: http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/15/blackphone/

asciilifeform: career bitchez, zoologists write, hunt by evisceration.

asciilifeform: poor beast, what a meager meal.

asciilifeform: is there a next frame with dingo?

asciilifeform: depending on the locale, one needn't go to australia to be eaten by a pack of dogs.

asciilifeform: why is being eaten by dingo to be avoided, compared to, say, wolf ?

asciilifeform: me neither. but i didn't have the photo handy.

asciilifeform: if this fellow's head were turned sideways, one could glue his eyes together!

asciilifeform: http://static.ddmcdn.com/gif/worst-ways-die-8.jpg

asciilifeform: you'd need a hydraulic press.

asciilifeform: works great on papercuts though.

asciilifeform: there are tales that some states use... superglue.

asciilifeform: american prisoners are denied the traditional gallows privilege of filling their pants.

asciilifeform: pankkake: the plug (used even today, afaik) is to make cleanup easier.

asciilifeform: so answer's probably no.

asciilifeform: the famous 'Yellow Mama' electric chair in the wash. dc. museum seems to have a shit pan

asciilifeform: and if so, i wonder what market share of plugs this accounted for.

asciilifeform: did american jailers plug the arses of condemned criminals in the '50s?

asciilifeform: high time for a forbes-fueled Shannonizer

asciilifeform: there are different kinds of experts. some are expert at cattle herding.

asciilifeform: translation: experts want to buy cheap coin, time for chumps to sell

asciilifeform: i always thought those got burned in the thermite pit on retirement, but go figure.

asciilifeform: http://www.armyproperty.com/product/4LEK3/13247489-03/

asciilifeform: this is, apparently, a military disk drive.

asciilifeform: http://www.amazon.com/General-Dynamics-Systems-13247489-02-Module/dp/B00GH2AB7M

asciilifeform: from the dept. of random turds:

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'Lagrangian mechanics' of sucking?

asciilifeform: what machine exactly?

asciilifeform: what of it.

asciilifeform: 'tiger' tank is even more complex.

asciilifeform: i'm told there are a few in finland that still work. perhaps reptilia owns one

asciilifeform: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-V00670A,_Berlin,_Auto_mit_Holzgasantrieb.jpg

asciilifeform: these trucks are often confused, by amateur historians, for the famous mobile gassers

asciilifeform: gasenwagen - russian corruption of 'gaswagen' - in actuality, merely a truck powered by coal gas (wood stove bolted on the back, pumps out CO, which you can just barely run an engine on.)

asciilifeform: where banking today is a little more like trusting mtgox with it

asciilifeform: decimation: there was precedent. plenty of u.s. localities had local crackpot fiats

asciilifeform: sort of how the average american owes MAX_INT dollars to somebody or other.

asciilifeform: wouldn't that be more like owing 'MAX_INT' gold?

asciilifeform: seems almost certain that the days in which you needed to corner somebody in the flesh to collect a tax, will come back.

asciilifeform: 'the cold equations.'

asciilifeform: 'robin hood' is good fun so long as you're on the correct end of him, yes

asciilifeform: he damn well knows he needs to change many, not only his own

asciilifeform: like the proverbial kid who sneaks into the school computer to change grades

asciilifeform: far more likely is the traditional hypothesis (bait), or a simple laundry.

asciilifeform: this is just one possible explanation, of course

asciilifeform: yes, i know about checkpoint; hence the need to rebroadcast periodically.

asciilifeform: it almost certainly fetches from blockchain.info or the like.

asciilifeform: dollars to doughnuts, the receiver for these broadcasts doesn't implement a full node

asciilifeform: this is also a handy way to store bits in the chain that will never, under any conceivable scheme, get 'pruned.'

asciilifeform: answer: use civilian addrs.

asciilifeform: what's the best way to make them say 'goto hell' ?

asciilifeform: 'don't show these. this is a chumpnet artist'

asciilifeform: sure. but the idea is, let's say AV firm goes to blockchain.info and says

asciilifeform: someone with a perfectly 'organic' usage pattern.

asciilifeform: ideally the valid addr belongs to someone else

asciilifeform: the tx needs to be algorithmically indistinguishable from a 'civilian' tx

asciilifeform: who wouldn't love to see the server log for https://blockchain.info/address/1HrMpG9JZ71gzXHPdyo2dwcExhKRGtBjQg# ?

asciilifeform: and, say, blockchain.info might decide to hide it

asciilifeform: because then the tx can be flagged as weird

asciilifeform: say, lower 8 bits encode payload fragment.

asciilifeform: but with a useful pattern

asciilifeform: the addrs are probably plucked out of the blockchain at random.

asciilifeform: these may well be commands for a chumpnet.

asciilifeform: the addrs encode bits.

asciilifeform: yes.

asciilifeform: data storage!

asciilifeform: (other than 'consolidation bait')

asciilifeform: there's another answer to this

asciilifeform: i recall some joker sent out a mountain of coin, a few satoshi at a time, to see where it gets consolidated

asciilifeform: it's yours and the first person who sets you up to look through an eyehole.

asciilifeform: decimation: the problem with biometric-anything is that you shout your 'password' every time you touch something (or, in this case, look in an eyehole)

asciilifeform: why would that be?

asciilifeform: i vaguely recall the loot from various famous heists sitting quietly, never spent

asciilifeform: it is entirely true, and a good point, that the blockchain can be used by a skilled conniver to point blame at some random third party.

asciilifeform: the fellow who got pwned might have his own ideas about justice

asciilifeform: traditional court might throw out the accusation. but courts are not the only mechanism for Having Problems.

asciilifeform: or buy a shipping container of whatever strange.

asciilifeform: well, let's have it be spent at 'coin bullion' (?) or the like.