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mircea_popescu: if you are real good and manage to extracrt the cypher out of the chip and decode the working slate, you might be able to read whatever's not been destroyed on the drive.
mircea_popescu: if you have physical control of the stick, you can remove the working slate, but still can't read it, because it has a cypher.
mircea_popescu: if you have remote control of the connected pc, but no physical control of the stick,
mircea_popescu: hardly a goal. but anyway, let's go throuigh the thing to make sure we're all on the same page, har har.
mircea_popescu: can you quote where this goal you imagine for me was stated ?
mircea_popescu: the definition of petulence is "i've not done anything to date but i will declare your item "flawed" because i am upset that you don't agree with what i think is the case".
mircea_popescu: there's no way around it, and petulence certainly ain't it.
mircea_popescu: pankkake listen man, sometimes you will confront this situation where your imagination does not meet reality. people will tell you this, you will have to somehow digest it.
mircea_popescu: jurov there's a lot of sales copy there but i dunno how it's supposed to work/be implemented.
mircea_popescu: the product is fine. you have an issue being somehow convinced you can design stuff while simultaneously not having a clue what rom is.
mircea_popescu: it does. if you are concerned about this point, copy a file repeatedly until the bits die, and so then it won't be.
mircea_popescu: as opposed to how commercial flash drioves work (optimised for least wear)
mircea_popescu: jurov which is why this is optimised the opposite way. it will wear down the bits.
mircea_popescu: consequently, you can trash the bits yourself by repeatedly copying/deleting a file to it.
mircea_popescu: jurov the writing scheme is most-used rather than least-used
mircea_popescu: so as to rpotect from a variety of snooping techniques such as diff analysis from the host.
mircea_popescu: pankkake maybe, but it'd be a diff product. this one separates itself from computer when touching the key,
mircea_popescu: if it confuses people it's because people gotta learn what the words mean.
mircea_popescu: ram is volatile, rom is not volatile. it's what the words mean.
mircea_popescu: jurov well hopefully it has a 8gb slate, it puts it right there
mircea_popescu: it's the same thing you find if you crack open any usb stick
mircea_popescu: o wait. no need to solder, cause nsa made it replaceable.
mircea_popescu: C) Working slate ROM. This Flash ROM is removable, and may be inspected or replacedx by customers either before deploying the unit or at any point during.
mircea_popescu: pankkake yeah the idea is, you can make a simple bash script to backup sites
mircea_popescu: no. my contract clearly states all employees must have unprotected sex with me.
mircea_popescu: as best i can see the smartcard is a sort of fun and games project, let's play with smartcards. it doesn't have the critical features such as separation of key from slate.
mircea_popescu: curious if anyone ran a knc thing for more than a week or so by now
mircea_popescu: yeah cause very easy to use, very hard to fuck anything up.
mircea_popescu: i would think you know, if anyone that groks gpg gives one to their numerous gfs
mircea_popescu: the mexican is there to bean flavour the sausage soup they're making.
mircea_popescu: bitesak they shall be assembled at a secret & undisclosed set of locartions
mircea_popescu: mike_c should be here before xmas, so you can all make nice gifts to peopkle.
mircea_popescu: whiuch, even if someome smacks you over the head, can't be cloned
mircea_popescu: in principle you could design your garage door/house door to take a usb stick
mircea_popescu: this is a frontline itam. you go into enemy territory with it.
mircea_popescu: anyway, we'll get a better idea as to how reliable the things are after they've been in the wild a year or two. atm all i can say is they should be pretty reliable.
mircea_popescu: well yes, using a device of this type for that purpose seems like you're asking for trouble.
mircea_popescu: it can be, sure, but if you don't trust it you can just use it as a sub to your main key which you keep traditionally.
mircea_popescu: Namworld master doesn't have to be a cardano necessarily.
mircea_popescu: i think the better solution is to use a master and sign a cardano for the move.