asciilifeform: $ticker btc usd
btcinfobot: Current BTC price in USD: $19419.75
asciilifeform: !w poll
watchglass: Polling 16 nodes...
watchglass: 205.134.172.27:8333 : Alive: (0.023s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=661485 (Operator: asciilifeform)
watchglass: 205.134.172.26:8333 : Alive: (0.077s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=661385
watchglass: 205.134.172.4:8333 : (172-4.core.ai.net) Alive: (0.024s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=661485
watchglass: 54.39.156.171:8333 : (ns562940.ip-54-39-156.net) Alive: (0.056s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=661485
watchglass: 205.134.172.6:8333 : (172-6.core.ai.net) Alive: (0.142s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Return Addr=0.0.0.0:8333 Blocks=661386
watchglass: 205.134.172.28:8333 : Alive: (0.092s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Return Addr=0.0.0.0:8333 Blocks=660973 (Operator: whaack)
watchglass: 71.114.46.209:8333 : (pool-71-114-46-209.washdc.fios.verizon.net) Alive: (0.200s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=661485 (Operator: asciilifeform)
watchglass: 208.94.240.42:8333 : Alive: (0.089s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=661485
watchglass: 192.151.158.26:8333 : Alive: (0.155s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=661485
watchglass: 143.202.160.10:8333 : Alive: (0.323s) V=70001 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.7.0.1/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=661485
watchglass: 176.9.59.199:8333 : (static.199.59.9.176.clients.your-server.de) Alive: (0.225s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=391683 (Operator: jurov)
watchglass: 84.16.46.130:8333 : (182518.pk.3pp.slovanet.sk) Alive: (0.831s) V=99999 (/therealbitcoin.org:0.9.99.99/) Jumpers=0x1 (TRB-Compat.) Blocks=434485
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in electromagnetic lulz.
mats: this solarwinds business is interesting
mats: i wonder where it will rank among top10 historical counterintel failures
verisimilitude: I've yet to look into what this Orion software is actually used for.
verisimilitude: This situation of having Internet-connected infrastructure seems untenable.
adlai wonders whether there's time for a "IT HAS BEEN <vigesimal> DECADES SINCE THE MOST RECENT CARRINGTON EVENT" off-hand dismissal.
verisimilitude: The old strategy of sending in federal agents to clean up for Microsoft and similar corporations doesn't seem like it will continue working, either.
verisimilitude: I always found that odd, how some corporations get federal agents to fight for them so; I've read accounts of the USSR, regarding unproductive factories which were run by political friends, and how they would similarly not be made to follow the usual rules.
asciilifeform: verisimilitude: yer living in a (rebranded, less -- despite the pr bullshit -- efficient in ~every respect) clone of su.
asciilifeform: mats: much-hyped shitware exploit, but still pale shadow of how mswin install base as a whole is regularly owned
asciilifeform: the fact that 'solarwind' is all over the fishwrap front page, and the fact that mswin10 sends EVERY KEYSTROKE TO REDMOND aint -- somehow makes the former more remarkable than the latter ? imho is mind-boggling.
asciilifeform: where i said, e.g., ' if we listen to Krebs et al., writing virii is a "cybercrime" -- but forcefeeding Microsoft's sorry excuse for an operating system to the ~entire planet, for decades, somehow is not.'
asciilifeform: still stands.
adlai once began enumerating cybercrimes; "0/0, would not enumerate again"
asciilifeform: somehow some rando db theft, pinned (by nyt, and 'believe! or are you a terrorist??') on 'putin's stooges', is 'cybercrime'. and what redmond, nsa, et al do, 'not cybercrime.' Because Reasons (tm)(r)(c).
verisimilitude: Yes, that quote before the footnotes has stood out to me ever since I first read it.