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(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: likely was a designed usg 'nobus', lol
(asciilifeform) signpost: as for the particular hardware, full of binary blobs and etc, probably "hay let's cheaply increase the capacity of our nobus botnet"
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: prb is interesting imho only from an exploitation pov. (and even there, not very, because -- being a usg 'NOBUS' product -- set up in such a way that exploiting is very expensive)
(asciilifeform) asciilifeform: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/asciilifeform/2020-12-28#1027488 << it aint even that you can't do this ( shinohai , iirc, does -- or did, on occasion w/ success ) but that the complicated algos, the various 'mimbles' etc, are a ~shell game~, their whole ~point~ is to create an exploitable (but strictly 'NOBUS'-exploitable) information asymmetry.
(trilema) asciilifeform: on top of this (and, uncharacteristically, is hyped 'feature', rather than seekrit 'nobus') the boxen no longer 'off' if there are any joules left in battery; nao serve 24/7 to relay gps coords from neighbouring crappletrons (both running and 'off') on the off-chance that someone didn't plug in a nic etc
(trilema) BingoBoingo: ^ From the taking the NO out of NOBUS files
(trilema) asciilifeform: ( the heathens use intelism 'virtualizations' for it, wins a bit of speed but at cost of 9000 nobus )
(trilema) asciilifeform: i vaguely suspect that it may have been the original usg-'standards committee'-powered explicitly-organized nobus generator
(trilema) feedbot: http://qntra.net/2019/05/yet-another-nobus-backdoor-to-root-on-cisco-kit-burned-after-the-us-set-expanded/ << Qntra -- Yet Another NOBUS Backdoor To Root On Cisco Kit Burned After The "Us" Set Expanded
(trilema) asciilifeform: ye olde nobusfactory.
(trilema) asciilifeform: meanwhile, in 'thought we hit bottom but then heard knock from below' in heathendom, https://archive.is/lFXpf << a chowdhra type Officially calls for nobus to be made Official doctrine
(trilema) mircea_popescu: (it's a decent paranoid thought, this -- that the ban on lead solder is because nobus, otherwise trivial to identify lead wave patterns in the solder with small xray)
(trilema) asciilifeform: pretty ham-handed, imho, 'nobus'ism.
(trilema) mircea_popescu: looking into the intro/outro derpitudes, it looks like the nobus-encryption afficionados in usg.blue that survived the clinton era are looking to build "scientific basis" for ulterior nonsense.
(trilema) asciilifeform: whole thrust is to 'nobus-maintain' the scenario where you buy 5 cpu-minutes on lullazon's cluster and get root. rather than to keep neighbouring lullazon-hruscheba tenants from fucking one another
(trilema) asciilifeform: it 'works' in the same way as other 'nobus-maintenance' kludges (e.g. koch's 2016 patch) 'work' -- raise bar so that nobus
(trilema) asciilifeform: any attempt to repair it simply creates a nsa.nobus imho
(trilema) mircea_popescu: "yes it's true telco gear is mostly openbsd box with nics glued on ; but it's also true that is mostly old ; replacing it, when it happens, is mostly with nobusisms baked by the chinese to order, and it's a tough racket."
(trilema) asciilifeform: what this does, is remove the 'nobus' aspect of the thing, nao anybody can r/w the fw via the snake.
(trilema) asciilifeform: there's 9000+ nobus, and the ceremonial 'fix' for 3 or 4 makes no diff
(trilema) asciilifeform: in upstack lulz, 'The scope of this vulnerability is limited; generations of CPUs after the C3 no longer contain this feature' << aah nobusism
(trilema) mircea_popescu: can't even keep all the nobusi straight anymoar.
(trilema) mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-07-22#1837161 << possibly in the folder of "secret nobus of the future". which yes is a thing
(trilema) asciilifeform: ( i.e. <1kg, 12+ hrs of run, 0 nobus, etc etc )
(trilema) asciilifeform: because to asciilifeform it looks like a lolnobus
(trilema) mircea_popescu: helps the whole "nobus child porn" thing, "if we didn't cheat here we'd cheat down the line" sorta anal children "arguments".
(trilema) mircea_popescu: "these magical bits were found on '''your''' computer, and as we all know NOBUS coulda put 'em there"
(trilema) asciilifeform: 'pleeeze make it so only obama can read with nobus key!!'
(trilema) asciilifeform: i've met these folx in the flesh, show'em e.g. http://www.loper-os.org/pub/nobus.jpg and response is lordosis
(trilema) asciilifeform: it's still 'admin', lol, just more along the vein of 'adminMAGICNSANOBUSSTRING'
(trilema) asciilifeform: it is probably impossible to educate the willingly thick, however, who ~actually~ see a box with NOBUS master keys as 'moar secure than with no keys'. these, will only wake up when they're sitting in kangaroo court , and confessing to 'child porn'
(trilema) asciilifeform: prolly at some point i gotta write a 'NOBUS likbez' re the fundamental motivations ( they are not difficult to discern , but apparently entirely opaque to the herd , even when you exclude the willingly blind )
(trilema) asciilifeform: 'nobus'(tm)(r)
(trilema) asciilifeform: with a sprinkle of nobus on top.
(trilema) a111: Logged on 2018-05-17 14:51 asciilifeform: fact of the matter is that shared unix tenant can create problems for the others ( without necessarily revealing himself as the source of said problem ) quite trivially . ( vps is moar 'nobus' in this respect, generally the 'escapes' are not public )
(trilema) asciilifeform: fact of the matter is that shared unix tenant can create problems for the others ( without necessarily revealing himself as the source of said problem ) quite trivially . ( vps is moar 'nobus' in this respect, generally the 'escapes' are not public )
(trilema) mircea_popescu: the nightmare this is becoming for the "nobus" bunch though. /me cackles.
(trilema) asciilifeform: ( concretely, a key generator that produces a fairly good quality -- from 'nobus' pov -- class of weak keys )
(trilema) mircea_popescu: this way both "security" and nobus.
(trilema) asciilifeform: and to whittle away at the nobus idiocy -- ideally we get ~regular whole-ipv4 scans, and erry time a usgtronic router vendor with fixed keys etc is discovered, list of ~live~ boxes is seen by whoever wants.
(trilema) asciilifeform: since the debian incident, enemy stepped up the 'NOBUS' crapola; no noar '32768 possible keys, total', instead things moar in the spirit of http://qntra.net/2016/08/rng-whitening-bug-weakened-all-versions-of-gpg
(trilema) a111: Logged on 2017-02-07 19:35 asciilifeform: the ftmeade jargon, iirc, is 'nobus' ('no one but us'), in contrast with 'phuctor-style' discoverable hole.
(trilema) asciilifeform: 'nobus'(tm)(r)
(trilema) asciilifeform: the ftmeade jargon, iirc, is 'nobus' ('no one but us'), in contrast with 'phuctor-style' discoverable hole.
(trilema) asciilifeform: very much inline with nsa 'NOBUS' ('nobody but us' doctrine.)
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