asciilifeform: ^ that one.

asciilifeform: in fact, many folks arrived at 'proof of work' and something akin to our current concept of 'blockchain' by attempting to answer the 'who gets to add bits' question.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i assume you studied some of the known bitcoin predecessors.

asciilifeform: as in, the one you and i read.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is a different piece, not suvorov

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i want to link to an actual document. with a known sha2.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: and may or may not be the actual scan or a questionable ocr turd

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the top link is to a torrent which may or may not be alive

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: that's not a copy

asciilifeform: iirc i posted it once, to a 'file host' thing, but of course long gone.

asciilifeform: instead of crapping out a 'go find it, it's there somewhere on the net'

asciilifeform: not only this, but it helps to be able to link to a document in a thread.

asciilifeform: expensive proposition if they have short life expectancy.

asciilifeform: point is not even entirely to host w4r3z - this is not an entirely unsolved problem - but to demonstrate 'fortress.'

asciilifeform: 'they called him rheostat. for the knob he twisted to turn up the current when they ended up in his chair.'

asciilifeform: (an intelligence case officer is a kind of psychiatrist, in the same sense that a sniper is a type of surgeon)

asciilifeform: very elegantly described in that tome.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if you happen to have a w4r3z link to 'running rings of spies' by 'paladin press', it has some (authenticated and not) case studies.

asciilifeform: (most folks, apparently, feel less 'edgy' re: the idea of muppeting for a small-time intelligence agency, than ru or us)

asciilifeform: just that it fails on a few basics. for one thing, ru recruiters traditionally false-flag.

asciilifeform: not saying that this is an impossible picture.

asciilifeform: so one would have to posit some magic-trick in his pocket to explain why he is still around and kicking.

asciilifeform: except that if mr. o were so 'open' to volunteers, he'd be grunting in the oubliette with mr. nyc deathray

asciilifeform: moscow: 'we need to park a http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-11-2014#917246 within 10km of 'camp david.'' ☝︎

asciilifeform: i thought the hypothetical was that mr. o is the commander.

asciilifeform: unless i dramatically fail to grok how this works, a public blog is very much not the correct tool in the box for this.

asciilifeform: or the like.

asciilifeform: picture the letter: 'dear mr.o, where can i park my mystery crate that certainly does not contain a rocket launcher.'

asciilifeform: let's play this 'chess' a few moves in

asciilifeform: so perhaps mircea_popescu was thinking of another.

asciilifeform: rather than 'influence agents'

asciilifeform: the piece concerned folks who were given the job of preparing hidey-holes and providing materiel, however

asciilifeform: 'A portrait of an ideal agent for spetsnaz emerges something like this: a man of between fifty-five and sixty-five years of age who has never served in the army, never had access to secret documents, does not carry or own a weapon, knows nothing about hand-to-hand fighting, does not possess any secret equipment and doesn't support the Comunists, does not read the newspapers, was never in the Soviet Union and ha

asciilifeform: in the classic book, you had a fella going up to the junkyard keeper, offering him a bag of benjies 'for almost nothing'

asciilifeform: what's the logic here?

asciilifeform: the one with the junkyard, yes

asciilifeform: 'demoralize decadent west.' but why take a contract out on a corpse?

asciilifeform: let's posit paid muppetry. what is the client getting for his money?

asciilifeform: iirc that's the one where 'we need a new fleanode'

asciilifeform: 'whore, on account of the equipment' heh.

asciilifeform: but i give enough of a miniature shit to link mr. o