asciilifeform: http://cryptome.org/2014/12/nsa-spiegel-14-1228.rar << loads o'goodies. but plenty of missing pieces that have the flavour of were-there-but-censored.

asciilifeform: in particular, allegations of exploitability for openssh (with no detail naturally)

asciilifeform: mention of pgp as a 'tough cookie' and also as internally used in at least one nsa product (disinfo psychop or genuine tears, take your pick.)

asciilifeform: !up Vexual

asciilifeform: !up Vexual

asciilifeform: spiegel << discussion of 'tor' as not yet having spread its legs - suggests psychop; but on the other hand, the material (claims) circa 2010-2012.

asciilifeform: !b 3 ✂︎

asciilifeform: 16 kHz is probably the max that you will get allocated politically << and the rest of that thread << Teh Phyootoore lies in discovery of undetectable (or at least unprosecutable) methods of breaking any and all laws which pertain to 'property rights' in radio spectrum.

asciilifeform: (how? see the old thread re: saddam hussein's gps jammers. for example.)

asciilifeform: this, notably, is not high science. it's decades-old sop in electronic warfare field (yes, there are textbooks. in english, even. i have one right here.)

asciilifeform: basic rules include: 1) don't be a loud, solitary point source. anywhere. ever. 2) spread spectrum, frequency hop, cryptographically driven 3) steganographically mix into existing spectrum garbage. ☟︎

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: impossible << lamport ?

asciilifeform: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-imperial-collapse-playbook.html << mega-lol

asciilifeform: peculiar omission of korea in his list

asciilifeform: somebody wake up mr. o

asciilifeform: sk is the anti.

asciilifeform: (not slovakia. south kr.)

asciilifeform: until approx. 1980, nk was the industrial power, and the south was a pisshole.

asciilifeform: it took decades of 'international komyoonity' blockading, conniving, sabotage, favourite-son dealing, to change this.

asciilifeform: to borrow mircea's analogy re: french empire, 'at this point atmosphere there is quite like that in hitler's bunker'

asciilifeform: everyone who laughs at nk should sit down for five minutes and imagine what they'd do as king there

asciilifeform: other than 'surrender'

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: ^ surrender

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: a surrender that may or may not be accepted.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: current king probably weighed his chances of ending up as an example, like hussein, milosevich, others who dared to stand up to anglo.

asciilifeform: 'The bonus question is, what sort of anti-America will these parasites set up inside America before they abandon their host and scatter to their fortified compounds in undisclosed locations around the world? Or will they not even bother, and just provoke a war of all against all?'

asciilifeform: 'pseudoliberal/pseudoconservative indoctrination and university- and church-based brainwashing that put it in place, cost them a pretty penny... ...How about leveraging it to organize some sort of rabidly homophobic racist fundamentalist separatist enclave somewhere down south? Or perhaps one somewhere in the north, where zoophilia is de rigeur while heterosexual intercourse requires a special permit from a committee stocked w

asciilifeform: ith graduates in women's studies?'

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: http://qntra.net/2014/12/collected-points-from-the-nsas-recent-document-dump/#comment-5242

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: just read the bloody things, there isn't all that much to read.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: your article is still off

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the Spiegel wasn't writing about the official Christmas dump

asciilifeform: but a separate, parallel snowden one

asciilifeform: (leaving aside the question of whether mr s is a hangout)

asciilifeform: how did you read either one and not realize this ?

asciilifeform: TomServo: 'hangout' is the traditional english term for disinfo

asciilifeform: decimation: this is why the usual concepts of 'product' and 'market' are to be avoided there.

asciilifeform: decimation: the relevant boojums are to be produced either in underground workshops, like grenades during warsaw ghetto uprising, or in a foreign land and smuggled in

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: mega-lol!

asciilifeform: why does this need a www site ?

asciilifeform: should accept commands via blockchain telegraph.

asciilifeform: why the fuck one needs cloudflare or whatever, if blockchain telegraph ?

asciilifeform confused

asciilifeform: 'Question: why doesn’t this hypothetical guy, if he’s so ‘great’ and ‘exceptional’, just do his own thing? What’s he need Initrode for? Why should he move to a 2 BR/2 BA in Sunnyvale, CA to get a biweekly paycheck?'

asciilifeform: of course, if you read pg's piece correctly (i.e. substitute 'exceptionally obedient coolie' for 'exceptional programmer', the contradictions are instamagically resolved.

asciilifeform: now i'd like to learn,

asciilifeform: how 'exceptional' of a programmer does one need to become, to leave usa ?

asciilifeform: brings to mind an old saw re: certain places, 'Вход – рубль, выход – два' (entry - one coin, exit - costs two)

asciilifeform: (originally spoken re: various mafias, e.g. intelligence agencies)

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: that one - free.

asciilifeform: afaik it hasn't happened yet, even.

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-12-2014#948513 ☝︎

asciilifeform: and, to return to that old thread, i still think that mircea is mistaken about the current crop of miners being something other than 'structured asic'

asciilifeform: the latter isn't simply a non-reprogrammable fpga; it has the LUTs of fpga, but with 'wiring' baked into the metallization layers, rather than fpga-style switching fabric

asciilifeform: but 'structured asic' is still not a real asic.

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: i actually did this at one point.

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: on, if i recall, a 'raspberry'

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: it worked, but that particular chip/board had uncommonly slow i/o, it was nearly unusable

asciilifeform: speaking of arm,

asciilifeform just today finished a ~3 week, all-waking-hours death marathon of 'arm' reversing. 'jailbroke' a [censored] (rare laboratory instrument)

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: interesting - who makes these ?

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: and where are they ordinarily found ?

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-12-2014#960128 << you may enjoy this thread ☝︎

asciilifeform: 'arm

asciilifeform: ' quietly cornered the market in applications where 1) no winblows legacy 2) computation/watt ratio actually matters

asciilifeform: while being a heavily patent-encumbered, baroquely-architectured turd.

asciilifeform: china is cranking out arm clones by the billion, and certainly not all of these roll in the royalty? how does it square with my hypothesis? answer - perfectly.

asciilifeform: just like ussr stamped out single-crystal pdp-11 clones by the millions.

asciilifeform: and for the same reason

asciilifeform: to use 'w4r3z'

asciilifeform: or, more commonly, plagiarized subroutines

asciilifeform: the confucian kingdoms breathe plagiarism like air.

asciilifeform: 'mips' is superior, imho, in virtually every way - and they would crank out mips-en, but where then to crib code wholesale and piecemeal ?

asciilifeform: 'we use arm because everyone uses arm'

asciilifeform: http://labs.online.net/try-it << doesn't appear to work

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: thx, but i don't need these for anything

asciilifeform: decimation: this means 'be the darling of the usg crown'

asciilifeform: because that is who ultimately decides what is used in the great slave mines of usa

asciilifeform: incidentally, i bring up 'arm' to remind folks that we are quickly approaching (or perhaps past) the point of being stuck with a turd every bit as odious as x86

asciilifeform: at least intel no longer collects royalties for x86. and does not directly supply the circuit to every producer

asciilifeform: arm - does.

asciilifeform: the instruction set is 'risc' in name only

asciilifeform: it's a mind-blowingly complex piece of shit.