asciilifeform: thestringpuller: http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=108.31.170.49

asciilifeform: in other lulz: https://archive.is/THGQG >> 'Asked whether a missile had mis-fired, she said she was not going to get into "operational details" and would not say whether Mrs May had been told this. Questioned by the BBC's Andrew Marr on Sunday, Prime Minister Theresa May refused four times to say whether she had known about the test firing ahead of the vote. ... "There is a convention that we don't talk about the deterrent... because

asciilifeform: that is the nature of the deterrent - it is about the security of this nation and I would fully support the prime minister in avoiding those questions," he said. A statement issued by Downing Street and the MoD said the capability and effectiveness of Trident was "unquestionable".'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: protecting own neck from the noose, as per http://qntra.net/2017/01/the-fourth-reich-grips-berlin

asciilifeform: trident is mandatory per britain's post-1945 role as 'airstrip one'

asciilifeform: it isn't intended to ~work~, srsly

asciilifeform: it is part of fellating usg.

asciilifeform: strut, parade, for massah, what.

asciilifeform: which nonsense. (traditionally) the handlers don't even let near the wheel, anybody who showed symptoms of having so much as latent ability to tell usg to pack it

asciilifeform: and when an orc does -- out he goes. like kaddafi, yanukovych, et al.

asciilifeform: empire eaten and digested long ago.

asciilifeform: https://archive.is/W0FIQ << in other lulz. 'Western Union admits to aiding wire fraud, to pay $586 mln'

asciilifeform: 'Western Union Co, the world's biggest money-transfer company, agreed to pay $586 million and admitted to turning a blind eye as criminals used its service for money laundering and fraud, U.S. authorities said on Thursday. Western Union, which has over half a million locations in more than 200 countries, admitted "to aiding and abetting wire fraud" by allowing scammers to process transactions, even when the company realized its agent

asciilifeform: s were helping scammers avoid detection, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission said in statements.'

asciilifeform: there is afaik no useful reason to migrate, dnsism is a straight 'strip mine' business model (lure in chumps, then turn scammer and fleece'em) afaik.

asciilifeform: every registrar i know of, has followed this pattern. ☟︎

asciilifeform: and given as the good being sold is fundamentally chumpatronic, not mega-surprise.

asciilifeform: !~later tell phf do you know of any public cl implementation where all os-specific liquishit is reasonably compartmentalized ? (it isn't in sbcl, cmucl, or ccl, and did i miss anything..??) ☟︎

asciilifeform: in other nooze, https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1096

asciilifeform: ^ arbitrary code execution.

asciilifeform: 'Cisco's WebEx extension (jlhmfgmfgeifomenelglieieghnjghma) has ~20M active users, and is part of Cisco's popular web conferencing software. The extension works on any URL that contains the magic pattern "cwcsf-nativemsg-iframe-43c85c0d-d633-af5e-c056-32dc7efc570b.html", which can be extracted from the extensions manifest. Note that the pattern can occur in an iframe, so there is not necessarily any user-visible indication of what is

asciilifeform: happening, visiting any website would be enough.'

asciilifeform: 'The extension uses nativeMessaging, so this magic string is enough for any website to execute arbitrary code (!!).'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'webex' is pestilentially common in usa.

asciilifeform: ~ubiquitous, among the Professionally Sad.

asciilifeform: waiwat

asciilifeform: whatever they are -- they're pwnable, silently and cleanly, for probably quite a while.