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thickasthieves: cuz he has a kids book to sell
thickasthieves: orlov is on about americans not readinf today too
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well the muricans are at this major cultural disadvantage where they cnat raed. and so... http://trilema.com/2014/anonymous-derpage/
Dimsler: must get money through internet
asciilifeform: the real lulz - idiot lifts ancient material from ru forums, passes it off as fresh turd!
mircea_popescu: more like a ploy to get people to better learn helplessness.
Dimsler: what are you going to do? hack someones cat picutres and selfies?
Dimsler: i don't think it matters
thickasthieves: probly just a ploy to get everyone to buy new usb sticks
mircea_popescu: "o look, this car can go in reverse! which is exactly what the manual says! YO COULD KILL PEOPLE!!!"
mircea_popescu: anyway, the whole usb reads like so much media whoring to me, possibly with the malicious twist of trying to drown legitimate stuff like THE BASH HOLES!!! AFTER THE SSH HOLES!!!
davidlatapie: OK so if fluffypony plans a group presentation, I should not encroach on his turf, mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: you know what, i can make a fake kbd out of tin foil.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves that's one half. the other half is, these megadiscoveries suck. o, rly, you can make it be fake kbd ?! wow nelly!
thickasthieves: mp is just saying there was no reason to think usb was secure
mircea_popescu: fluffypony more like over the past 3-4 weeks but ok.
fluffypony: you've seen the USB stuff that was released over the last 24 hours right?
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves how did you figure that one out ?
mircea_popescu: everybody carries hdds, too.
thickasthieves: usb is easier to attack with
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: fetish for usb is because contagion. 'everybody' carries the usb drives. or something like that.
mircea_popescu: mostly because the usb "standard" looks like something gavin, taaki and that other guy put together.
mircea_popescu: better access to bus than a shitty usb
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform which is my point. if you're going to play evil govt you're better off doing it with hdd.
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: I'll totally do a group presentation...one day...when I have time...promise...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hard drives << all extant drives have trivially flashable fw, and very spiffy cpu and ram kit - sometimes multiple 'cores' and 64M+ ! usually some variant of 'arm'.
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mircea_popescu: teward: punkman: i'm surprised github lets that code exist... if it IS, after all, malicious... <<< since when is github policing the code ?!
mircea_popescu: davidlatapie i have nfi idea what monero is because in spite of being invited fluffypony doesn't want to give the group a presentation. the comment is just as to the improbable nature of the name. why mew and what's someone not in on the jokes to make of it. ☟︎
asciilifeform: the 'condom' people collected 10k+ usd to build... 4 to 2-wire usb jack. for 10k a man could build an airplane!
kakobrekla: thickasthieves use 2 to be extra safe
thickasthieves: how could i ever trust usb comdoms
mircea_popescu: and all your dumbass "encrypted partition" stuff is worthless therefore ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i choked from lol when heard of this idiocy, having performed the precisely same experiment, with same chip, long ago, and thought it was entirely boring
ben_vulpes: by thursday
mircea_popescu: no but srsly, is this 2016 "tech" press material, omfg we discovered you could make malicious hard drive
ben_vulpes: how did that bitbet hack attempt play out?
kakobrekla: taking shareholders interest into an account, best would be to sell usb condoms.
mircea_popescu: ps. the EXACT SAME could be said of... hard drives.
mircea_popescu: dub how are you going to patch the fact that the microcontroler is a... microcontroler ?
assbot: Logged on 02-10-2014 20:12:02; asciilifeform: re: usb diddling: i had the entire thing working two years ago, with same 'phison', likewise cribbed russian docs. didn't think it was interesting to anyone other than me.
assbot: Unpatchable Malware That Infects USBs | Hacker News
assbot: The Unpatchable Malware That Infects USBs Is Now on the Loose | WIRED
asciilifeform: Oct 02 16:43:29 <strp>oh-ho-ho - look who turned out to be completely right. http://www.wired.com/2014/10/code-published-for-unfixable-usb-attack/ and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8400796 << http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-10-2014#855577 ☝︎
mircea_popescu: or why is this surprising to anyone, or what exactly ?
mircea_popescu: i don't get it, what's the big deal ?
mircea_popescu: firmware tricks demonstrated by Caudill and Wilson would hide files in that invisible portion of the code, or silently disable a USB’s security feature that password-protects a certain portion of its memory."
mircea_popescu: "In one case, they showed that the infected USB can impersonate a keyboard to type any keystrokes the attacker chooses on the victim’s machine. Because it affects the firmware of the USB’s microcontroller, that attack program would be stored in the rewritable code that controls the USB’s basic functions, not in its flash memory—even deleting the entire contents of its storage wouldn’t catch the malware. Other
thickasthieves: i can type any addy with this tld and it suggests .ca instead with same addy
thickasthieves: it might just be a tlf suggester
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kakobrekla: !s 'nobody is that stupid'
mircea_popescu: and how many times it actually was correct ?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla you know how often that was said, in human history ?
kakobrekla: nobody is that stupid
thickasthieves: i didnt test
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves: ol, Circle's login suggests what email you might be trying to enter< omfg ?! NOT by quering their userdb i hope beyond hope ?!
mircea_popescu: has the guy been in the hospital since his stay after that hotel mishap ?
rithm: burn the witch!
davidlatapie: mircea_popescu: the rpietila part was purely technical. I was setting up an IRC account for Risto, nothing else :)
davidlatapie: ouch, yeah, I really have to fix this WoT things. Entirely my fault.
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mircea_popescu: yeah, as in, came in here as rpietilla to see if we bite head off and how many times.
davidlatapie: mircea_popescu> davidlatapie what, were you going to count the pies flying ?
mircea_popescu: davidlatapie i didn't manage to get that one. come again ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not proper 'plant', as in factory, but a place related to one of my day jobs.
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves what the fuck is that anyway ? ringworms ?
davidlatapie: mircea_popescu: Well, this is what happens when one wants to join interesting conversation and can't accept to just let it go because he doesn't have time to answer. So yeah, watching pies flying
danielpbarron: there should be an official -assets dota team
mircea_popescu: you could fuck a cow with that
fluffypony: davidlatapie: there, fixed
danielpbarron: thickasthieves, you play dota? me too!
mircea_popescu: too slow, thicksy.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how was the factory ?
strp: no thanks, thickasthieves. I don't have to justify talking with anyone else I talk with.
mircea_popescu: strp yeah, we're totally going to care about some ethereum pr copy. it's like, in short supply.
thickasthieves: strp, here's the deal, you have until your voice in this channel runs out to make your case for talking to me after that dont speak to me again
strp: I meant to say "troll" not scam, sorry.
strp: if you guys don't prefer to scam today I can share the email I got from the ethereum investor, in wihch he talked aobut some of his returns. (removing his name.)
mircea_popescu: you and your retarded boy groups. im sure you're connected to someone who you think has had sex.
strp: mircea_popescu, well, I was connected with a guy who I think made heavy coin on ethereum. I didn't verify.
diametric: strp: nice weather we're having in fort meade today
dub: someone set you up tat
mircea_popescu: davidlatapie what, were you going to count the pies flying ?
thickasthieves: who are you though? i dont talk to strangers privately
strp: thickasthieves, if (as anyone normal) you would prefer to do it privately you can also PM me an introduction. I don't know anything about you other than that you hang out in -assets and were recomended as responsible and level-headed.
thickasthieves: strp i'm talking about you, i;m simply asking you to state your business
mircea_popescu: strp free "equity" in reddit is worth abut the same as free equity in ethereum,
strp: thickasthieves, anyway you said I was wrong that you owuldn't like to introduce yourself in a public, logged channel. So, go ahead.
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strp: dub, see here for example: http://blog.samaltman.com/reddit He is going to give out free equity in Reddit. (10% of the funds it raises on its latest fundraising round)
mircea_popescu: strp if we didn;'t think him an idiot that argument may hold more value.
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03: seems i'm wrong, i need someone that knows more finance than me to chime in << what is the q again ?
thickasthieves: oh you are connected to ninjashogun?
strp: dub, if you weren't trolling --- you would have a lot more luck getting Sam Altman (the current YC president) in here. He has taken a HUGE liking to crypto currencies.
strp: he's trolling me on my YC relationships.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/29/cisco-the-internet-needs-more-control/ <<< this from the company that lost 90% of its sales because it turned out they worked as usg spies.