asciilifeform: this is the leitmotif audible to asciilifeform , at any rate.
asciilifeform: 'how dare you describe god's chosen as vulgar syphilitic rapists'.
asciilifeform: re 'professionals', i can also picture 'you wrote it like a vuln reveal, but this is not a vuln, this is our masters getting jus primae noctis with our raw starfishes like god intended' irritation
asciilifeform: 'it's just a tpm, what's yer problem'.
asciilifeform: for the moar advanced fetishists, even lets you solder contacts and rewrite boot rom etc., 'Чем бы дитя не тешилось, лишь бы не вешалось'(tm)(r)
asciilifeform: 'it's open, have you looked at coreboot' -- commenter
asciilifeform: sleeker, moar satisfying anal filler than ye olde wintel's hamfisted offering
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: revisiting upstack -- i suspect that the decerebrated folx, are not aware of any such famine. google made the perfect fuffle for'em, the dildonic 'open comp' that offers 'fetish of power', go ahead and install linux etc.
asciilifeform: https://archive.li/x3A3f << subj: >> '...his practice of drinking a glass of his own urine every day, and as veteran journalist M.V.Kamath, reporting for ToI, noted rather despairingly, the problem wasn’t just that Desai did this, but he was very eager to talk at length about it: “in a 15-minute appearance on a very popular Sunday TV show called ’60 Minutes’, Mr.Desai was seen taking practically half the time to commend urine
asciilifeform: morarji, 4th primeminister of india, famously drank glass of (supposedly, own, but whoknows) piss erry day
asciilifeform: they've created this apparatus of 'pencildicks', and it will further the oddball rituals, or how else to justify existing.
asciilifeform: 'the confession was on his chromebook, and no one (But US, but US Would Never!11) but his own hand, could have written' etc
asciilifeform: the pretense with arrested diplomat et al stretches thin even to idjit public; thus they'll take all of the techno-help they can get, is the idea.
asciilifeform: just like the credit card 'security' exists so banks can drop the bill for fraudulent mercedes onto the hapless card luser.
asciilifeform: so it is only 'solution' in the sense of satisfying the 'childporn judge'.
asciilifeform: it's still 'admin', lol, just more along the vein of 'adminMAGICNSANOBUSSTRING'
asciilifeform: i suppose we will revisit this when we find the magic overflow etc.
asciilifeform: (given as enemy will immediately patch when they get hold of the boojum, as crapple does)
asciilifeform: while this thread is alive -- there remains the (currently, hypothetical) puzzler of what-do when we find the jailbreak. i expect, buy N boxes, and cure'em ?
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in choice redditisms : 'I used to work as a security researcher - if I thought this subject was interesting I'd have to look for another source talking about the same thing because there's no way in hell it'd be acceptable to reference this level of unprofessionalism in a conference or to my superiors.'
asciilifeform: and this will work until they move the whole fw orchestra into cr50. which is on the planned 'feature' list already for next rev.
asciilifeform: plebe wants to checksum the ec fw ? gotta solder a dozen probes under microscope.
asciilifeform: another interesting tidbit : cr50 vendor fw will conveniently checksum the ec and ap(bootloader) fw. BUT not without goldenkey. wouldn't want terrorists testing for fw modification, see.
asciilifeform: and prolly they will sit in front of same judge who earlier nodded to 'tor devs would never', etc.☟︎
asciilifeform: 'bbbut i left box in hotel just for 10 min, and surely google would never..'
asciilifeform: it is probably impossible to educate the willingly thick, however, who ~actually~ see a box with NOBUS master keys as 'moar secure than with no keys'. these, will only wake up when they're sitting in kangaroo court , and confessing to 'child porn'
asciilifeform: prolly at some point i gotta write a 'NOBUS likbez' re the fundamental motivations ( they are not difficult to discern , but apparently entirely opaque to the herd , even when you exclude the willingly blind )
asciilifeform: the 'go and cut pins' thing will ~work for certain purposes, but in the very near term it will become entirely unproductive -- they are moving the whole orchestra into single chip. ( e.g. crapple is ~already there. )
asciilifeform: you can't cut ~all~ of them, however, the 'negotiation' (CC1/CC2) pins are used by the mains bricks
asciilifeform: esthlos: theoretically, under microscope
asciilifeform: ( this is the case in, e.g., all new crapple boxen )
asciilifeform: while we're on the subj, i find it interesting how both google and intel ( and by extension, all new mb makers ) finessed the problem of 'terrorists will epoxy usb ports closed' -- nao usg can get 'airport quickie' root through a hole that you cannot cement, because the box charges ~only~ from it
asciilifeform: ( until i got'em trimmed in, 'suzy' worked 'every other time' )
asciilifeform: esthlos: there ain't, and likely won't be
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for archaeologists strictly.
asciilifeform: esthlos: i have. it is for dedicated aficionados strictly ( uses deeply archaic notation, and generally concerned with deeply 'pre-modern' lisps )
asciilifeform: esthlos: in re the b00kz -- i have okasaki, and must note, he is a mathematically interesting read, but 100% useless in actual practice, unless you use 'lazy-evaluated' prog langs
asciilifeform: esthlos: if you must -- link to archived copies, which at least won't change from under you.
asciilifeform: esthlos: i recommend fewer pediwikia links. ( granted i suffered from same habit in early loper-os articles. but cured nao. )
