asciilifeform: e.g., berkeley, last i heard, not unplugged yet.

asciilifeform: i.e. 'we will do exactly what we did under obummer, and fuck you, and oh hey did we mention, fuck you? and go ahead and try to pull fed funding, that button ain't connected' ☟︎

asciilifeform: i can hardly picture a fleanode that ~didn't~ log chans and pms from day 1 !

asciilifeform: (what's the attack mode of a fleanode box, at any rate, while we're on the subj..? selectively vanishes messages ? inserts crapola ? as i see it, this will show up in the logtrons. and even if not, we have ways of reaching one another and pointing out the fact)

asciilifeform: (i have blacklist, with several duds already in it, for eons now)

asciilifeform: i meant, what was foo in foo.fleanode.org

asciilifeform: this is why i did not make FUCKGOATS a usb device in the usual sense. and did not give it any 'test mode command' or in fact any way to manipulate its state from the connected comp at all.

asciilifeform: whereas if i say dd if=/dev/random ....

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: if i go and dd if=/dev/whatever1234 of=foo.bin bs=512 count=1 , there is no mechanical way to say, am i generating a 4096-bit whatever key ? or reading voltages from my air conditioner ? or whichever.

asciilifeform: while we're on the subj, i will say that reading from just ~one~ centralized rng, is braindamaged;

asciilifeform: hanbot: conceivably, a sabotaged generator that yields 2**32 possible keys, will result in ~0 natural collisions, and remain invisible to phuctor unless i first find it via some other means. ☟︎

asciilifeform: consider a very simple example, the debian keys. prior to when i added their factors to the 8ball by hand, only a handful of them popped.

asciilifeform: stack trace plox, i lost the frame, which was putin

asciilifeform: in other lulz, clitler is bak! : '“Despite all the challenges we face, I remain convinced that YES, the future is female,” Clinton said in a videotaped message to the 2017 Makers Conference in California. Makers is a storytelling platform for raising issues impacting women.'

asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: to that, i'll raise you a http://www.la6nca.net/tysk2/lispr

asciilifeform: (which was before i tuned in)

asciilifeform: i suppose we see soon enough, bullet or peachpit

asciilifeform: and i suppose there is a usg honeypot in its place, that folx are now using as if it were the old mega

asciilifeform: i thought it was killed long ago

asciilifeform: '-- soldiers, at attention! now hear the order of the day for our unit: Secret. Order No. 136, via the chain of command, field post N 97..., city of kabul. recently this unit has seen an uptick in the careless handling of weapons. in order to reduce these incidents and to prevent further unsanctioned discharges, i order: during the receipt and handoff by sgnt. Bankin A. N. of his sidearm, the test-decock for the verification of the a

asciilifeform: the deck, in so far as i can see it with naked eye, is not merely stacked, but glued solid.