Message from @Dr.Wol

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2018-10-04 20:21:28 UTC  

JPB = Nietzsche+Jung+Bible

2018-10-04 20:21:32 UTC  

He's helped a lot of people
you've jacked off to anime

2018-10-04 20:21:48 UTC  

whether you buy it or not its irrelevant
what he says resonates with people

2018-10-04 20:21:48 UTC  

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2018-10-04 20:21:54 UTC  

I support his struggle against pronouns

2018-10-04 20:22:01 UTC  

He is an excellent delivery system for Nietzsche

2018-10-04 20:23:22 UTC  

I like his whole attitude towards pronouns too. Yeah I'll call someone a girl if they ask me politely, but if you're going to force me to do it with a mandate then FUCK YOU

2018-10-04 20:23:29 UTC  

He helped people in the short term, I just don't think that "buy into the old system of men bring order and bust your ass your entire life despite the benefits of that being basically gone." is a good answer to people not knowing what they want out of life.

2018-10-04 20:23:52 UTC  

??

2018-10-04 20:23:55 UTC  

What's a better answer?

2018-10-04 20:24:15 UTC  

Become a NEET autodidact

2018-10-04 20:24:21 UTC  

That's like for the most part true

2018-10-04 20:25:05 UTC  

@Beemann Find the things that you have passion for and spend your time on them.

2018-10-04 20:29:10 UTC  

Chinese are killing 30k people a year with Fentanyl

2018-10-04 20:29:22 UTC  

you're watching Scott Adams!

2018-10-04 20:29:26 UTC  

Yes

2018-10-04 20:29:28 UTC  

RIP his stepson

2018-10-04 20:29:57 UTC  

TL;DR The CIA, Amazon, Apple, the IOC, and many other customers supplied with a certain series of SuperMicro boards were compromised by a deep hardware rootkit inserted at the board assembly plant in China.

2018-10-04 20:30:13 UTC  

All the more reason to stop trusting China 😛

2018-10-04 20:30:34 UTC  

but hey Russia is the bad one guys!

2018-10-04 20:30:45 UTC  

Looks like SuperMicro is going to be hiring some

2018-10-04 20:30:51 UTC  

American assembly workers!

2018-10-04 20:31:20 UTC  

To make things right, or less wrong, with their customers.

2018-10-04 20:31:31 UTC  

At least, I hope it's that rather than them going out of business.

2018-10-04 20:32:20 UTC  

The funny thing is, a chip like what they're describing here could be taped out for less than $20k by just about anyone.

2018-10-04 20:32:41 UTC  

(as long as they were competent enough to know what it should include)

2018-10-04 20:33:37 UTC  

The actual cost of infecting ~1,000 boards like this could be well under a million dollars, even if it were done by spies in the U.S, at a U.S. factory.

2018-10-04 20:34:20 UTC  

true

2018-10-04 20:34:26 UTC  

you can buy treason

2018-10-04 20:34:35 UTC  

This is a very cheap and effective treason.

2018-10-04 20:34:53 UTC  

Though I suppose the stakes would be higher for U.S. actors on U.S. soil participating knowingly.

2018-10-04 20:35:29 UTC  

yeah but you can't prove intent,

These assemblies aren't done by engineers, its plebs having to just glue part A to part B

2018-10-04 20:35:35 UTC  

Though something like this could be executed with a certain degree of plausible deniability.

2018-10-04 20:35:38 UTC  

they'll just say "i was told it was like this"

2018-10-04 20:35:45 UTC  

Well, that's how this was introduced

2018-10-04 20:36:10 UTC  

they had another reel of components added to the pick 'n place, and modified the PCB design. (this bit takes engineers)

2018-10-04 20:37:12 UTC  

Other than that, as long as it doesn't interfere with anything or stick out like a sore thumb to anyone, they'll be delivered without any fuss, and nobody will be the wiser until they are inspected by competent people (which is what uncovered this).

2018-10-04 20:37:21 UTC  

yeah

2018-10-04 20:38:13 UTC  

Funnily enough, this audit was conducted in Ontario, which as far as I can tell is _dripping_ with Chinese state propaganda and influence.

2018-10-04 20:39:38 UTC  

just shows you cant get them all