asciilifeform: 'Running an Alfa wireless adapter on monitor mode for about an hour in a crowded urban area, we’ve sniffed hundreds of SSID names in Probe Request packets. Of these, approximately 70% were using a Broadcom WiFi chip ...'
asciilifeform: comes with enough code snippet to, i suspect, reproduce, if there is something to reproduce.
asciilifeform: 'During the early 2000s, self-propagating malware – or “worms” – were common. But the advent of DEP and ASLR largely killed off remote exploitation, and Conficker (2008) will be remembered as the last self-propagating network worm. We will revive this tradition by turning Broadpwn into the first WiFi worm for mobile devices, and the first public network worm in eight years.' supposedly.
asciilifeform: in other lulz, https://blog.exodusintel.com/2017/07/26/broadpwn >> 'Broadpwn is a fully remote attack against Broadcom’s BCM43xx family of WiFi chipsets, which allows for code execution on the main application processor in both Android and iOS.'
asciilifeform: what means 'has relevance in the actual online network' ??
asciilifeform: 'a hare is seen running like mad, 'where are you running?' -- 'they say they'll be shaving camels soon, so i am on my way to police station, to register as a hare.' 'why do you give a damn what will happen to camels, you are a hare' 'well, they'll grab me, start shaving, then go and prove that you ain't a camel' '
asciilifeform: как схватят, да начнут стричь, - а потом доказывай, что ты не верблюд! ”')
asciilifeform: ( orig.: 'Бегущего зайца спрашивают: “Куда ты, косой, бежишь? ” - “Да, говорят, что скоро верблюдов будут стричь, вот я и бегу в милицию записаться, что я - заяц”. - “Какое же тебе дело до верблюдов - ведь ты заяц?! ” - “Ну да, -
asciilifeform: or is it moar of a 'Докажи, что ты не верблюд!' (tm)(r).
asciilifeform: i'd be curious under what article in penal code, it'd be.
asciilifeform: why, is mircea_popescu aware of a d00d who sat in jail for picking up ?
asciilifeform: nuffin in the beobachter re whether anyone picked up
asciilifeform: elsewhewre in sunny monkeystan, 'A suspected bank robber, in the buff, was captured on cellphone video making a run for it in Fort Lauderdale. ... Users on social media posted video of the naked man attempting to flee. One user said the suspect was throwing out $100 and $50 bills.'
asciilifeform: but big enough idiot creates a crater , for other folx to fall into.
asciilifeform: in the sense where idiocy is eventually 'own punishment' - yes
asciilifeform: next time mircea_popescu complains re tx not being mined for no detectable reason, i'ma point him to this thread
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: gonna argue that kako is in same category as 51% of cnminers?
asciilifeform: 'Сегодня он играет джаз, а завтра родину продаст' (tm)(r)
asciilifeform: first 'divisible by two', but then 'non-terrorismlisted'.
asciilifeform: all 'soft fork' are entirely the same thing: permissioned tx.
asciilifeform: this is why i still hold that the high-S thing was a victory for the enemy. 'you can make your tx, but NOBODY will mine it, and to even find out why you now need to import prbism'
asciilifeform: unwitnessed, or terrorism-listed tx, not mined, etc
asciilifeform: well yes. but nao with magical nonprotocolic constraints on what can be mined !
