asciilifeform

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by asciilifeform 3y ago
DKS doesn't own the IP, and wouldn't sell (to me at least) any unpublished sources, schematics, etc. for any price at all. As of several years ago, though, he was willing to part with a number of new-old-stock Ivory CPUs, for roug
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by asciilifeform 3y ago
AFAIK it's still owned by one John Mallery, a wealthy MIT prof with military and intelligence establishment connections. My favourite "conspiratorial" hypothesis concerning this question is that the Symbolics IP was ordered t
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by asciilifeform 3y ago
I have 5 Symbolics Ivory CPUs (1 of which is in a working MacIvory III card.) Recently I found that not far from where I live, one can rent time on an electron microscope for a very reasonable price. But the lab in question does not have th
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by asciilifeform 5y ago
Indirect messages must be marked as hearsay, given as (barring the use of asymmetric crypto, which is AFAIK impossible to carry out at Gb+/s line-rate without specialized hardware) there is no way to verify, in any useful sense, thei
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by asciilifeform 5y ago
> HTTPS on content only sides is primary about preventing people with tampering with the website "people" here specifically excluding Verisign & its successor racketeers, the NSA (plus bananistani national equivalents there
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by asciilifeform 5y ago
Only validly-signed (from one of the station's peers) messages move past the decoding stage ("prologue"), and of these only ones with timestamp +/-15min. of station's time; these finally searched for in dedupe queue
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by asciilifeform 5y ago
At the moment even the algorithm isn't finished.
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by asciilifeform 5y ago
This is correct, and is described in the article ("Kelvin versioning".) The concept is not original to the author.
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by asciilifeform 5y ago
"every message is rebroadcasted by everyone" is not factual per the spec.
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by asciilifeform 5y ago
Author of linked article speaking. (How it ended up here -- I have no idea, I'm rather surprised that it was of interest to more than the 3 people for whom it was written.) This flame is doubly funny given how the article specifically
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by asciilifeform 5y ago
"V" is a very simple versioned publication system (there's an explanatory link in the article.) Vpatches are backwards-compatible with ordinary gnupatch. (can simply execute "patch -p0 < nameofpatch" for the sequ
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“The Advantages of a Dragon.”(loper-os.org)
1 points by asciilifeform 6y ago|1 comments
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'M', a MIPS-III System Emulator in AMD64 ASM(loper-os.org)
3 points by asciilifeform 7y ago|0 comments
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by asciilifeform 7y ago
I do have a multi-chapter series on constant-time integer arithmetic -- indeed tagged incl. "bitcoin", as it is meant to be used in (among other places) a rework of the client. You evidently spent at most 3 seconds reading the lin
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by asciilifeform 7y ago
One of the attractions of Hypercard was that a "stack" (document) was entirely self-contained; and would always behave exactly the same on any machine where HC could run. Notably, would run without any need for servers (or, wors
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by asciilifeform 7y ago
Doubt it: I have not written at Kuro5hin. (Possibly linked there at some point, however?)
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by asciilifeform 7y ago
Author of linked piece speaking. Seems like many readers continue to miss the essential point, just as they did in 2011: Hypercard wasn't a gem of graphic design (1-bit colour, plain line graphics) or of programming language design (on
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by asciilifeform 7y ago
Author of linked site speaking. Are you sure you are reading the same page? I had half a dozen articles re Bitcoin, the last in 2014...
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by asciilifeform 8y ago
Intel. No thanks.
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by asciilifeform 8y ago
The Infineon couldn't force a boot ROM update via USB-C.
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by asciilifeform 8y ago
My current alternative appears to be to desolder the Cr50 and fabricate harmless replacements (to e.g. init 3.3v rail). So naturally voids warranties. > firmware updateable, but not for you Finally, honesty. It's a Tivo.
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by asciilifeform 8y ago
The Cr50 does not limit itself to user key storage. It turns the USB-C ports into always-on NSA-keyed backdoors (anyone in possession of the private RSA key, can reflash all three flash ROMs in the machine with whatever he likes, via the ex
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by asciilifeform 8y ago
Why lie to the public ? Pulling the battery does enable rewrite, by the user, of the AP ROM, but not the Cr50 -- the latter remains Tivoized. And every owner of this machine can verify this with his own hands, it is not even necessary t
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by asciilifeform 8y ago
You are quite right, I do not work at your factory (TBH, I'd rather work for, e.g., Monsanto...) Instead, I'm a reluctant purchaser of your hardware (the market is completely devoid of alternatives, if I go to buy a 6-core ARM64 l
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by asciilifeform 8y ago
Do you particularly care whether the backdoor was installed at Google's initiative, or Trump's ? The golden key exists, and will be used.
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by asciilifeform 8y ago
The details are openly published in Google's Cr50 sources, linked from the article.
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by asciilifeform 8y ago
Cr50 has replaced the old Infineon TPM, which the above link concerns.
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by asciilifeform 8y ago
You can't. Thank 20 years of apathetic consumers, such as the people in this comment thread.
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by asciilifeform 8y ago
Cr50 is quite different from the Infineon et al TPM item commonly found in x86 boxes. It is able to rewrite AP and EC firmware, overriding the advertised write-protect feature; access the microphone; etc. No reason to take my word for it: I
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by asciilifeform 8y ago
Google, quite untypically for large manufacturers, put their golden key backdoor in plain sight, inside published source. (Apparently, "only a terrorist!" would read it?)

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