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nubbins`: ^ a monotribe
taking advantage of several interesting patch points
mircea_popescu: sysadmin at
the
time was "you don't buy "a router". write
this down : linksys wrt54g"
nubbins`: open
the
thing up, wire up a couple resistors and DIN5 jacks, and you've got a full-featured midi voice
nubbins` owns a synth
that has MIDI in/out capabilities baked into cpu, but mfg didn't waste
the extra $2 on MIDI ports
mircea_popescu: Chillum amusingly
this is what asciilifeform wanted
to do.
nubbins`: these were probably dumped
to
the surplus people en masse 4 years ago
Chillum: they should just have a physical "root access" switch on
the box. Leaving backdoors for people
to find is reckless
mircea_popescu: nubbins` we can now just capture
the packets and "activate" any pogo anywhere on
the basis of another pogo can't we.
nubbins`: TBH i
think
they did include rootability as a hobbyist bonus, AND
they made way, way
too many
mircea_popescu: resulting in a
transfer of value from
the dudes
to us.
nubbins`: asciilifeform you log into website, "activate" pogo,
then can enable ssh login via website
mircea_popescu: my explanation is
that because of
the standardization of everything,
the makers just made
them "as
they're made" ie prevailing bs (business standards) and
the buyers bought and marketed
them "As
they're marketed"
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, ironically,
this item was bought as a loss leader, and so, it would specifically NOT be wanted
to be used
this way.
nubbins`: asciilifeform i
tried it with one of my pogos
mircea_popescu: ^ Chillum
this makes sense, and it's why
this is probably happening here
Chillum: I
think
that sometimes companies intentionally make
their devices rootable because
they know hobbyists will buy boxes of
them if
they can root it
nubbins`: there's also a built-in "request unlock from pogo"
thing
mircea_popescu: go
through webcasts
to see how people deal with
this normally.
mircea_popescu: yes,
to
the degree it'd be depicted
there,
this man is an oscar winner.
mircea_popescu: not, "superhot blonde rare".
that's 1 in 100. people who can act are in 1 in 10k
mircea_popescu: but i have, and i
tell you... people who can act are RARE.
mircea_popescu: srsly now.
this
theory of yours would be perhaps appealing had i not spent any
time on a set.
mircea_popescu: as in "of course i could but i wonder how
this woman is
trying
to
trick me" ?
mircea_popescu: dude, you're
telling me
that first jew boy with
the rolling eyes and
the slow repeating
the
task is putting out an act ?
mircea_popescu: it really is a great montage
that, what with
the bovine derping about how "we ARE" etc.
Chillum: so you open
the port
to ssh, but how do you get root?
Chillum: nubbins`: neat, I assume you open
the
telnet port?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but
there is genetic indication of suinity.
nubbins`: <+Chillum> you can open ports on a lot of routers by using ajax
to make a
http post
that looks like IRC commands <<<
this is actually how you root
the pogo without attaching a serial cable
mircea_popescu: but anyway, even wioth
the arts,
the distinction holds :
the patron has no particular
taste, merely money and friends.
mircea_popescu: patron-client relationship is what i
tought you meant, off
the ancient post-imperial and late-imperial model.
Adlai: doesn't sound like a Patron of
the Arts
to me
nubbins`: <+asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: many folks use mac addrs in routing
tables <<<
this
mircea_popescu: ie, rich guy back east, went west
to start a farm, sucked at it.
mircea_popescu: dude farmer is a
term of art from back in
the day
the us mattered.
Adlai: yeh, rule by
the patrons.
those who can afford
to patronize, as opposed
to - serfs
mircea_popescu: and i mean...
the fact
that us young adults score worse
than anyone else is not a direct product.
they worked
to get
there :
the school's so dumb, why learn ;
the kids aren't learning anyway why not make it dumber... 30 years later in
this process
the fucking mit grads can't make a flashlight
mircea_popescu: leaving us
to wonder whether
the stupid
tools drive
the stupidity of
the people, or stem from
the stupidity of
the people involved.
chetty: <mircea_popescu> 90% of lines were "hello x", 90% of
the remainder "so how's it going". maybe 1 in 4 hello-handshakes succeeded, and less
than 1 in 100 went past 2nd pass.//roughly matching avg. attention spans
mircea_popescu: the general depth of conversation mirrored quite exactly
the office.
mircea_popescu: 90% of lines were "hello x", 90% of
the remainder "so how's it going". maybe 1 in 4 hello-handshakes succeeded, and less
than 1 in 100 went past 2nd pass.
Adlai: generally
the participants of such institutions only attend due
to coercion, whether physical or implied
Adlai is amazed
that any channels survive with "no public logs" policies
mircea_popescu: permanent log online + gribble ;;later
tell for noobs - > wunderbar system of
thought management.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform rsa per se is not even really involved in all
this o.O
mircea_popescu: Chillum i'm just going
through
the logs. pretty much everyone here reads
the whole shebang.
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mircea_popescu: they just happen
to be
the wrong policies by
the wrong people for
the wrong purposes is all.
assbot: Logged on 29-03-2015 16:50:28; Chillum:
the math is solid regardless of implementation failures/sabotage
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mircea_popescu: a cognate of any claim
to authority on any matter not deriving from la serenissima is both fraudulent and actionable.
mircea_popescu: the bug in pki is
that any system designed or proposed by any party other
than us is security poison.