asciilifeform: ( coupla yrs back, a heninger-type academitard demonstratively pretended to do this, with the typical null output )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: did anybody ever collect pubkeys of tor nodes ? or was this mentioned in log, but never done
asciilifeform: ( rc4-whitened crapola is readily 'distinguishable from random' )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: quite far upstack : a quite 'apocalyptic' phuctoring could at some point be had, by making use of shamir & mantin's pill against rc4 ( used in ~every shitprng to date )
asciilifeform wonders whether they have a stable of dedicated boecks for such 'discoveries', or if disposables
asciilifeform: i recall this from old trilema piece ?
asciilifeform: ( iirc they landed the nsa disks contract )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: mega-seller of 'we'll mail you new disks when yours burns out immediately, and support microshit etc etc' crapolade, bought at some point by dell and absorbed into standard usg kompyooting stack
asciilifeform: and not all full of old desktop dells, even.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the neighbouring racks were not all empty, interestingly.
asciilifeform: ( considering BingoBoingo's earlier discovery that almost all industrial comps ever imported there, are via contracts with microshit/dell/minions )
asciilifeform also wonders whether there isn't a hidden symbiosis between the usg.corp derps who prolly ship ~100% of the rackable comps ever before shipped to UY, and the 'we want a cut of that printolade you print' bridgetrolls
asciilifeform: the funny/sad bit, is that i found enuff local material sources that it ~is~ possible to , say, make racks for rockchippen on-site, with some effort. BUT the chance of getting more than a handful of raw pcbs un-encased in protective 'old server' chassis, through orc checkpoint, is ~0
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i dun think they even know how to make own drainpipes, much less these
asciilifeform: lol interesting reversal of the classic genre
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: typo in 'not going to to anything'
asciilifeform was quite certain that this species had properly died out when the usdrate grew its most recent trailing 0
asciilifeform: meanwhile from mircea_popescu's www, 'In my opinion the biggest red flag is that the opie intends to pay the artist by bitcoin. How many people have a bitcoin account. PayPal is a widely recognised payment method that has been around for a long time. It is legtimate, safe and easy to use. Even if the opie does not want to use PayPal what is wrong with bank transfer.' << lol!!
asciilifeform: trinque: fwiw i dun expect any moar 1000-modulus bursts in foreseeable fyootoor
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: previously thought 'if only deeper queue', then we moved whole thing to 'go and read'
asciilifeform: trinque: no particular reason to try to fix☟︎
asciilifeform: ( when the 'repo man' side of the easycredit usg.auto.industry started having problem with clean repossession on acct of electrical locks )
asciilifeform: sorta how they started doing with 'radio keys' for costly autos in 1990s, aha
asciilifeform: well generator is readily transformed into 'list 1,3,5...' prior to being given to whichever minion.
asciilifeform: ( concretely, a key generator that produces a fairly good quality -- from 'nobus' pov -- class of weak keys )
asciilifeform: it simply happens that one of them, got out, last autumn.
asciilifeform: no particular reason it is 'only one true', aha
