asciilifeform: '“Obviously source code could be used in ways that are inimical to our national interest,” Cilluffo said. “They took a principled stand, and that’s the right decision and a courageous one.”'
asciilifeform: 'The military has not yet identified nearly 80 percent of the 235 gigabytes of leaked data' run moar koreablowz
asciilifeform: 'One of the plans included the South Korean military’s plan to remove the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, referred to as a “decapitation” ' etc.
asciilifeform: meanwhile in the circus, 'North Korean hackers stole a vast cache of data, including classified wartime contingency plans jointly drawn by the United States and South Korea, when they breached the computer network of the South Korean military last year, a South Korean lawmaker said Tuesday.'
asciilifeform: for some reason on 1st reading i pictured bots, rather than racked 'honest' boxen
asciilifeform: fwiw 1000s of unique ips presenting that string.
asciilifeform: ( or then again could be anybody, and for some reason using his useragent, i have nfi )
asciilifeform: he might be the 1 d00d with a full html mirror of the thing.
asciilifeform: ahref ! iirc accounted for 80+% of the http log lines on dulap.
asciilifeform: if mircea_popescu had a twatter page where he boasted of having purchased 1,000 200-litre crates of orca-cola, but did not say why, it would not be unreasonable to politely ask if he wanted to sell some -- though answer could end up being 'it is to fill my swimming pool, buzz off'
asciilifeform: reading the link, seems as if d00d were in it for the moneyz, rather than for own amusement in his cellar, neh
asciilifeform: ask'im if he'll let a few ? or is there problem, is he weak in the head like all of the others, and only takes goldspamogram or shiterium or some other fuckknowswhatbutneverbitcoin
asciilifeform: 'oh hey a bouncing ball, you wanted that shot too i assume?'
asciilifeform: a pgptron that embeds 'helpful' things magically in sigs is approx as dumb idea as rifle that helpfully reaims itself in random directions
asciilifeform: best part, 'People on Twitter expressed dismay at the revelation and the apparent breach in trust.' << 'people'
asciilifeform: speaking of 'technoadvanced' gerontocracy, https://archive.is/IFtZF >> 'Congress’ pharmacist hints some members have Alzheimer’s, backpedals furiously'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what'd that do , exactly, whoever wanted copy of hdd - already has
asciilifeform: and who else had one of these -- ben_vulpes ?
asciilifeform: hey trinque check your boxes that had 'wires', they are probably STILL running, and trbing to it
asciilifeform: whole box is , at least from surface appearance, untouched, logins work, etc
asciilifeform: in other lulz, something closely resembling trb node on ex-dulap ( 46.166.165.30 ) still running... though i do not recommend it for any practical use
asciilifeform: and elsewhere in winblowzistan, 'Equifax website hacked again, this time to redirect to fake Flash update'.
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in the land of microshit, https://archive.is/45i24 >> 'There is a bug in Outlook that causes S/MIME encrypted mails to be send in encrypted and unencrypted form...'
asciilifeform: ( 'pioneers' and 'hitlerjugend' respectively )
asciilifeform: loox like usa simply aligning with classic su ( and german ) tradition, where there's 1 org
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i guess it was decided that they have arses like anybody, ergo compatible
asciilifeform: ( somehow, not hosting arbitrary js/flasholade isn't an option for these, go figure )
asciilifeform: shinohai: ~same thing sank yahoo's ad service few yrs back
asciilifeform: could achieve this without hotwallet, by signing proclamations. but yes this is convenient.
asciilifeform still not sure how (other than ceremonial aspect) this mechanism beats sending coins the old-fashioned way, from own actual node -- but it's still neat that trinque built a thing sturdy enough to run with coin
asciilifeform: ( 'but what about the even # of subunits in fg itself? ' -- that's what the red lamp, and much of the internal logic, is about )
asciilifeform: ( tangentially, asciilifeform disrecommends the use of even numbers of XORed rngs in any system. incl. FGs. if enemy can somehow contrieve to tie the wires together, you will end up with 0,0,0.... )
asciilifeform: with 1 you get fixed known relationship between adjacent stream chunks.
asciilifeform: if the number of generators is odd, the xor cannot make you worse off than before even if somehow they all became identical. however if even 1 of them is genuinely independent, you get the strength of that one. is what the 'ratchet' aspect of the xor is about.
asciilifeform: the 1 thing we have from von neumann's proof, however, other than otp per se, is the xor primitive, which provably composes N ~independent~ items of variant hardnesses, into the hardness of hardest input.
asciilifeform: afaik yer either in 'it's astrology, so hire cheapest' mode or yer not - tertium non datur
asciilifeform: in very other lulz, at most recent count 'p' stands at 3.2kloc, of which 2k is ffa ( this is inclusive of comments, tests, and commented alt-incarnations of certain routines, as discussed in l0gz )
asciilifeform: not in compliance and require that the company pay a penalty for each, which can total to €500,000 or more'
asciilifeform: various lulz from same, e.g. https://archive.is/D1gJA >> ' McHardy first approaches a company to tell it that its product is not in compliance; he makes a modest demand (say €6,000-7,000) for his engineering time. He also asks the company to acknowledge and sign his cease-and-desist order; under German law that turns it into a contract. Once that has been done, sometime later McHardy will come back with other products that are also
asciilifeform: ( same derps as hosted the koch talk linked earlier, loox like )
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: sorta like comp market in 1995 was superficially similar to walking into one from '85, except for the detail where all of the 'different comps you can CHOOSE from' run microshit on x86
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i run into these continuously
asciilifeform: can also sum how much they 'dun make' at nasdaq; and while we're at it, how much fish they don't have at the proverbial sov fish counter
asciilifeform: (0 reason why pakifarm cannot use name, mug, an' styling of a chix )
asciilifeform: and 0 to do with american chixen knitting
asciilifeform: i thought 'etsy' et al were long ago colonized by folx farming out grunt labour to pakistani etc
asciilifeform: but this is nonsense. he has x because he is able to - sometimes - infer it from a partial knowledge of q, because relation between x and q stream was 1:1. with multiple generators, it is now many to many.
asciilifeform: you gotta say which x in particular .
asciilifeform: if 'enemy is a telepath and can access anything', you don't have crypto, you have eating pistol or surrender
asciilifeform: 'every time i add two numbers i get diff answer; arithmetic IS BROKEN'
asciilifeform: ground rule of crypto is that enemy has access to ciphertext and the occasional bit of plaintext ( guessed. ) if he has access to inside of your box we ain't doing cryptology, it is called perimeter defense
