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vex: they get to pest proportions here
bonechewer: okay, maybe I am mis-using the word 'tempest', but do I at least understand the proposed threat model?
asciilifeform: bonechewer: traditionally 'tempest' refers to emissions of the ciphermachine per se.
bonechewer: sure, I would call that a TEMPEST attack: OTPtron screen displays message, phone listens to RF emanations and transmits to adversary. No?
bonechewer: asciilifeform: do I understand correctly that the threat model is: the adversary pwns your phone and uses it to mount a TEMPEST attack against the nearby OTPtron?
asciilifeform: it is entirely possible that the cheapest means of breaking 'cold' addrs is to find such collision.
adlai: if your wallet was so fragmented that your transaction fee for moving 100 btc is over 1 btc, then your usecase is probably the kind of system that is cheaper run if it hops between the cheapest shitcoin-du-jour anyway.
asciilifeform: the cheapest method, and one that doesn't even require shooting anyone, is to persuade 'weak hands' to do the dumping for you
signpost: yeah, but this time it's the fake estrogens and pesticide
asciilifeform: signpost: asciilifeform sweated out a lengthy (i suspect actual program may end up shorter..!) hypertext spec for (draft name) 'pestis', the p2p p2p 'final solution' to irc. still needs massage tho.
zx2c4: Did this survive the tempest?
asciilifeform: verisimilitude: this is an ancient pestilence in what passes for computing -- skeumorphism for instance.
snsabot: Logged on 2021-04-24 14:09:57 trinque: thestringpuller: hey, some guy was pestering me a while back about btc from 2014, said you sent him. recall, I was not running deedbot at the time, was punkman iirc.
trinque: thestringpuller: hey, some guy was pestering me a while back about btc from 2014, said you sent him. recall, I was not running deedbot at the time, was punkman iirc.
verisimilitude: I bought the left unit because my trackball is for right hands, and a one-hander was cheapest.
asciilifeform: verisimilitude: 'when hiring an astrologer, hire the cheapest.' ideally propaganda oughta be short an' sweet.
asciilifeform: verisimilitude: there aint all that many chorders to choose from. gboard seems to be the cheapest / most customizable of the current crop.
qonfluent: Exactly, it's a non-starter. Even the cheapest FPGA-to-silicon route is barely in reach for most companies, and comes with its own set of limitations.
adlai: so, at long last, the short straight simple answer to http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2020-10-30#1023837 is, with deepest regrets, "wrote, rather than just farted around with the ones that already exist? probably 2016"
adlai coughs into spittoon, kicks revolving door, and lases soundsystem until cheapest coil slips
trinque: feel free to pester me about it. I probably wont circle back to wallet improvements before this problem of using other people's shitty IRC servers is resolved.
adlai: meanwhile, in random lulz, nearest new supermarket has little cards on a few of the shelves with slogans along the lines of "tired of aunts pestering you at holiday dinners, asking when you'll get married? support another lockdown!"
asciilifeform: the current design also relies on a PIN diode, and the cheapest uv-optimized one i was able to make use of reliably is ~150$ in small qty.
feedbot: http://mvdstandard.net/2020/07/argentina-claiming-control-over-locust-plague-surviving-pests-remain-20-kilometers-from-border/ << The Montevideo Standard -- Argentina Claiming "Control" Over Locust Plague, Surviving Pests Remain ~20 Kilometers From Border
asciilifeform: superkuh: i actually have 1 of those, a+++ for pest control
asciilifeform: they were a pestilence in ye olde #t similarly
feedbot: http://mvdstandard.net/2020/06/plague-of-locusts-consuming-northern-argentina-and-uncomfortably-close-to-uruguay-finally-gets-conservative-pesticide-treatment/ << The Montevideo Standard -- Plague Of Locusts Consuming Northern Argentina And Uncomfortably Close To Uruguay Finally Gets Conservative Pesticide Treatment
feedbot: http://mvdstandard.net/2020/06/argentina-begins-pestering-britain-over-falklands-again-despite-ongoing-collapse/ << The Montevideo Standard -- Argentina Begins Pestering Britain Over Falklands Again Despite Ongoing Collapse
asciilifeform: there are other incentives to do it than 'it is cheapest method of getting any'
asciilifeform: quite obv. the cheapest place to break crypto is in the head of the implementer. so that's where they invest.
asciilifeform: superkuh: ever tried 'tempest'-style experiments with those wideband cones of yours ? seems to me that they're exactly Right Thing for picking up e.g. cpu from across street.
diana_coman: asciilifeform: leased opteron, yes; not via deedbot, no; just went according to "if not the right thing, than the cheapest thing".
asciilifeform: know, lobbes et al, that i dun have a posh '2nd chair' to offer to mutineers. all i got is irons, software, and isp that actually work. but i dun have, for instance, delish schnitzels. or harems, or budapests, or bags o'moolah .

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