asciilifeform: aside from that, this is almost the perfect mircea_popescu lappy in this one respect : the 802.11 card is on own little dildo corner of pcb, you could prolly remove it with a saw.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yep. but see the caveat in $thread.
asciilifeform: with which in 10 minutes you can verify that, yes, independent fucking fritz chip
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i still find it lulzy how google apparently banked on nobody outside of their heathen pit getting hold of the fucking debug hose.☟︎
asciilifeform: or better yet, if they dun show signs of a half-working brain, just !!down , dun hesitate, 'ваше слово, товарищ маузер!'(tm)(r)
asciilifeform: not 1 would be caught dead giving half a shit re what it all adds up to
asciilifeform: one autist sqeals in delight designing shutter for the drone camera, another -- the rocket proximity cap, another -- likes to draw cute little octopi; etc
asciilifeform: because somehow this is not insulting to the intelligence of the fucking fruit fly stuck to my display. not even speaking of the l1 lordship.
asciilifeform: it'd be one thing if, say, google dev showed up and 'yes i'ma pgp to mircea_popescu the magic key', or even 'here's the schem'. but nooo, instead they come to 'explain' to us how 'tpm can be used to benefit you' .☟︎
asciilifeform: the nonseekrit -- with the bulk of the implementation detail.
asciilifeform: seekrit committee generally concerned with specifics of applications (i.e. anything where you gotta know the identity of intended victim, say)
asciilifeform: each wunderwaffen has a seekrit committee , with nsa-vetted gentry, and a larger nonseekrit ('commercial'), for ladling out grantolade to academics and quasiacademics
asciilifeform: (i.e. snarfing up that delish printolade like there's no tomorrow )
asciilifeform: in darpa land they do what in civilized world is called 'освоение бюджета'.
asciilifeform: afaik boneh et al are still there, still pushing the same lulzoil
asciilifeform: rotten old fungus man rms, you can say whatever about, but he was exactly on target re how this particular item will go, back in '97. first, 'it only stores keys, harmless!' ( and won't give'em up to usg Because Reasons ... ) then 'ok now it can rewrite fw' 'yer lying, they Would Never!11!!' '...'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: somehow the derps obsess with 'wife replaced while you sleep' scenario. aaaand then go on to advocate elaborate tpmdildo that makes this scenario actually workable.
asciilifeform: any other notion of 'root of trust' is fritzian.
asciilifeform: back upthread -- discussion of 'roots of trust' WILL start with , at the very MINIMUM, iron where i can fucking see the transistors through optical microscope. and never with anything else.
asciilifeform: if anybody told you otherwise, he is a dirty liar, and probably selling snake oil.
asciilifeform: ( and there is no known complexity class pindown of factoring. )
asciilifeform: there is not even a proof that the difficulty of rsa is equivalent to that of factoring.
asciilifeform: and in particular a reduction of ~every~ generated key, rather than avg case.
asciilifeform: at any rate there does not currently exist ANY usable crypto algo, of any purpose, for which a complexity class reduction to any class is known.
