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Electrical Network Frequency analysis
The hum that helps to fight crime (ENF) Electrical Network Frequency analysis
"For the last seven years, at the Metropolitan Police forensic lab in south London, audio specialists have been continuously recording the sound of mains electricity.
It is an all pervasive hum that we normally cannot hear. But boost it a little, and a metallic and not very pleasant buzz fills the air.
"The power is sent out over the national grid to factories, shops and of course our homes. Normally this frequency, known as the mains frequency, is about 50Hz," explains Dr Alan Cooper, a senior digital forensic practitioner at the Met Police.
Any digital recording made anywhere near an electrical power source, be it plug socket, light or pylon, will pick up this noise and it will be embedded throughout the audio.
This buzz is an annoyance for sound engineers trying to make the highest quality recordings. But for forensic experts, it has turned out to be an invaluable tool in the fight against crime.
While the frequency of the electricity supplied by the national grid is about 50Hz, if you look at it over time, you can see minute fluctuations.
Comparing the unique pattern of the frequencies on an audio recording with a database that has been logging these changes for 24 hours a day, 365 days a year provides a digital watermark: a date and time stamp on the recording.
Philip Harrison, from JP French Associates, another forensic audio laboratory that has been logging the hum for several years, says: "Even if [the hum] is picked up at a very low level that you cannot hear, we can extract this information."
It is a technique known as Electric Network Frequency (ENF) analysis, and it is helping forensic scientists to separate genuine, unedited recordings from those that have been tampered with."
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/scie...
- http://cryptogon.com/?p=32789#
Met lab claims 'biggest breakthrough since Watergate'
Power lines act as police informers- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
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Noisy, muffled, incoherent recordings are an audio engineerâ(TM)s worst nightmare, but all too often they contain vital evidence in criminal trials. Itâ(TM)s the job of the forensic audio specialist to extract that evidence.
- http://www.soundonsound.com/so...
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(discussion forum) Electrical network frequency analysis, Mains frequency variations detectable in digital audio recordings?
- http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/f...
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Met Police use electrical 'hum' to solve crimes
The Metropolitan Police is using the "hum" of background noise produced by mains electricity to help solve crimes, it has been disclosed.
- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
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Related Research
- http://www.ece.umd.edu/~ravig/...#
Engineers Use Electrical Hum To Fight Crime
- http://science.slashdot.org/st...
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Howâ(TM)s the 60Hz coming from your wall?
- http://hackaday.com/2012/07/24...
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Detecting Edited Audio
- https://www.schneier.com/blog/...
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Dating Recordings by Power Line Fluctuations
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The hum that helps to fight crime (ENF)
Archived @:
http://slexy.org/view/s21UWKzafS
http://hpaste.org/79175
https://paste.debian.net/plain/216145
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The hum that helps to fight crime (ENF) Electrical Network Frequency analysis"For the last seven years, at the Metropolitan Police forensic lab in south London, audio specialists have been continuously recording the sound of mains electricity.
It is an all pervasive hum that we normally cannot hear. But boost it a little, and a metallic and not very pleasant buzz fills the air.
"The power is sent out over the national grid to factories, shops and of course our homes. Normally this frequency, known as the mains frequency, is about 50Hz," explains Dr Alan Cooper, a senior digital forensic practitioner at the Met Police.
Any digital recording made anywhere near an electrical power source, be it plug socket, light or pylon, will pick up this noise and it will be embedded throughout the audio.
This buzz is an annoyance for sound engineers trying to make the highest quality recordings. But for forensic experts, it has turned out to be an invaluable tool in the fight against crime.
While the frequency of the electricity supplied by the national grid is about 50Hz, if you look at it over time, you can see minute fluctuations.
Comparing the unique pattern of the frequencies on an audio recording with a database that has been logging these changes for 24 hours a day, 365 days a year provides a digital watermark: a date and time stamp on the recording.
Philip Harrison, from JP French Associates, another forensic audio laboratory that has been logging the hum for several years, says: "Even if [the hum] is picked up at a very low level that you cannot hear, we can extract this information."
It is a technique known as Electric Network Frequency (ENF) analysis, and it is helping forensic scientists to separate genuine, unedited recordings from those that have been tampered with."
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20629671
- http://cryptogon.com/?p=32789#
Met lab claims 'biggest breakthrough since Watergate'
Power lines act as police informers- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/01/enf_met_police/
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Noisy, muffled, incoherent recordings are an audio engineerâ(TM)s worst nightmare, but all too often they contain vital evidence in criminal trials. Itâ(TM)s the job of the forensic audio specialist to extract that evidence.
- http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jan10/articles/forensics.htm
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(discussion forum) Electrical network frequency analysis, Mains frequency variations detectable in digital audio recordings?
- http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=81346
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Met Police use electrical 'hum' to solve crimes
The Metropolitan Police is using the "hum" of background noise produced by mains electricity to help solve crimes, it has been disclosed.
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Related Research
- http://www.ece.umd.edu/~ravig/Research.html#
Engineers Use Electrical Hum To Fight Crime
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(ENF) Electrical Network Frequency analysis
Archived @:
http://slexy.org/view/s21UWKzafS
http://hpaste.org/79175
https://paste.debian.net/plain/216145
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The hum that helps to fight crime (ENF) Electrical Network Frequency analysis"For the last seven years, at the Metropolitan Police forensic lab in south London, audio specialists have been continuously recording the sound of mains electricity.
It is an all pervasive hum that we normally cannot hear. But boost it a little, and a metallic and not very pleasant buzz fills the air.
"The power is sent out over the national grid to factories, shops and of course our homes. Normally this frequency, known as the mains frequency, is about 50Hz," explains Dr Alan Cooper, a senior digital forensic practitioner at the Met Police.
Any digital recording made anywhere near an electrical power source, be it plug socket, light or pylon, will pick up this noise and it will be embedded throughout the audio.
This buzz is an annoyance for sound engineers trying to make the highest quality recordings. But for forensic experts, it has turned out to be an invaluable tool in the fight against crime.
While the frequency of the electricity supplied by the national grid is about 50Hz, if you look at it over time, you can see minute fluctuations.
Comparing the unique pattern of the frequencies on an audio recording with a database that has been logging these changes for 24 hours a day, 365 days a year provides a digital watermark: a date and time stamp on the recording.
Philip Harrison, from JP French Associates, another forensic audio laboratory that has been logging the hum for several years, says: "Even if [the hum] is picked up at a very low level that you cannot hear, we can extract this information."
It is a technique known as Electric Network Frequency (ENF) analysis, and it is helping forensic scientists to separate genuine, unedited recordings from those that have been tampered with."
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20629671
- http://cryptogon.com/?p=32789#
Met lab claims 'biggest breakthrough since Watergate'
Power lines act as police informers- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/01/enf_met_police/
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Noisy, muffled, incoherent recordings are an audio engineerâ(TM)s worst nightmare, but all too often they contain vital evidence in criminal trials. Itâ(TM)s the job of the forensic audio specialist to extract that evidence.
- http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jan10/articles/forensics.htm
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(discussion forum) Electrical network frequency analysis, Mains frequency variations detectable in digital audio recordings?
- http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=81346
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Met Police use electrical 'hum' to solve crimes
The Metropolitan Police is using the "hum" of background noise produced by mains electricity to help solve crimes, it has been disclosed.
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Related Research
- http://www.ece.umd.edu/~ravig/Research.html#
Engineers Use Electrical Hum To Fight Crime
- http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/12/12/1331243/engineers-
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This book should be going viral . . .A Secret About a Secret That is Veiled by a Secret
This Machine Kills Secrets, by Andy Greenberg
-----Unauthorized Book Review-----
Privacy on the Internet can easily be a life or death proposition: whether it was Yahoo and Jerry Yang outing a Chinese pro-democracy activist to the Chinese government, the secret police of Bahrain disappearing protesters, or the extraordinarily long incarceration and sleep-deprivation torture of Bradley Manning, the outcomes can be enormous!
When events work positively, lives are saved and movements flourish in Myanmar, Eastern Europe and elsewhere.
Andy Greenberg's monumental book, This Machine Kills Secrets, delivers mightily. Greenberg has exhaustively researched the story --- and the back story --- providing the reader with the ultimate bird's eye view of the unfolding story of WikiLeaks, Internet privacy and the corporate and governmental battles waged against them --- this is one kick ass book --- and Greenberg gets everything right!
This is no David Wise or Eamon Javers misinformation trope, this is the real deal, my Wolfen friends.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0525953205
For those who wish to stay current, the sites below may be of interest.
I-Sites:
http://www.privacysos.org/blog
http://cryptogon.com/
http://www.narconews.com/
http://www.globaleaks.org/
http://www.cryptome.org/
http://www.whistleblower.org/
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Colorado Movie Theater Massacre
Colorado Movie Theater Massacre
âoeThere is already conjecture that James Holmes may have been involved in mind-altering neuroscience researchâ
Colorado Movie Theater Massacre
July 20th, 2012Where Did Robert Holmes, Father of James Holmes, Work Before 2000?
I would be interested in knowing where Robert Milton Holmes, the father of James Holmes, worked before 2000. If anyone has this information, please send it to me.
On his Linkedin profile Robert Holmes lists a University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. in Statistics from 1981. He currently works for FICO, but also lists working for HNC Software from 2000 to 2002. (HNC Software was acquired by FICO.)
We have a DARPA link in HNC Software.
This is from a 1999 company profile for HNC Software:
HNC Software Inc. is San Diegoâ(TM)s largest software company and develops predictive software solutions for business-to-consumer service companies. These solutions allow companies to make more intelligent and profitable decisions and are marketed to industries- including financial, insurance, retail, telecommunications and the Internet.
Like many San Diego-based software companies, HNC Software Inc. traces its origins to the defense industry. When the company was launched in 1986, it focused on defense-related research and development. But over the years as defense budgets shrank not only in San Diego, but nationwide, HNC quickly realized that in order to succeed and grow, other commercial applications had to be found for its products.
â¦
But perhaps the most exciting frontier awaiting exploration and commercial development by HNC is in an area that scientists still know very little about: the human brain. HNC is working on a long-term research project launched in 1998 that is jointly funded by HNC and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), part of the U.S. Defense Department, to investigate âcortronic neural networks,â(TM) a concept originally proposed by Robert Hecht-Nielsen, HNCâ(TM)s co-founder and chief scientist.HNC hopes to develop new capabilities in the areas of textual, aural and visual representation, and to actually build three new predictive, neural-net based systems: one that reads, interprets and searches text more effectively; a second recognizing speech and other sounds, enabling users to perform audio searches; and a third that can scan for and interpret images. The ultimate goal is to integrate all three systems. The net result â" machines that someday might be able to reason like humans.
âoeThis is the most important scientific challenge of our time, and finding the answer will be the adventure of the millennium,â says Hecht-Nielsen.
â"
James Holmes: Accused Colorado Shooter Is Grandson of Decorated Veteran, Has Mamily Roots in Monterey County
Via: Contra Costa Times:
James Holmes, the man believed responsible for killing 12 people Friday during one of the largest mass shooting in U.S. history, is the grandson of a decorated military veteran who was a respected educator at prestigious York School in Monterey.
Lt. Col. Robert M. Holmes, who served in the Okinawa campaign during World War II, retired in 1963 as the last commander of the Nike missile group in San Francisco Bay. He was one of the first Turkish language students at the Army Language School, now the Defense Language Institute, graduating in 1948, a school spokesman confirmed Friday.
After his military retirement, Holmes taught math and science at York School for 17 years. He died in 1990. His wife, Mary Jane Crawford Holmes, attended Stanford University and worked at the Monterey City Library, Fort Ord Library and Pacific Grove High School before finishing her career as librarian and college counselor at York School. She died in 2010.
A 1945 graduate of Pacific Grove High School, she was also a member of numerous historical soci
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VA Must Disclose Documents to MK-ULTRA Victims
VA Must Disclose Documents to MK-ULTRA Victims
http://cryptogon.com/?p=30509July 24th, 2012
Via: Courthouse News Service:
http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/07/23/48617.htm"Veterans won another court order requiring the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to hand over more documents about its Cold War-era drug experiments on thousands of Vietnam veterans.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley in Oakland, Calif., said the documents requested were âoesquarely relevantâ to the claim that the government failed to adequately notify veterans of the chemicals they were exposed to and what that exposure might do to their health.
The Army and the CIA, with the help of Nazi scientists, used at least 7,800 veterans as human guinea pigs for testing the effects of up to 400 types of drugs and chemicals, including mescaline, LSD, amphetamines, barbituates, mustard gas and nerve agents, the Vietnam Veterans of America and individual soldiers claim in a 2009 class action.
The government covered up the true nature of its experiments, which began in the 1950s under code names such as âoeBluebird,â âoeArtichokeâ and âoeMKUltra.â
In âoeProject Paperclip,â the Army and CIA allegedly recruited Nazi scientists to help test various psychochemicals and develop a new truth serum using its own veterans as test subjects.
âoeOver half of these Nazi recruits had been members of the SS or Nazi Party,â according to the class action. âoeThe âPaperclipâ(TM) name was chosen because so many of the employment applications were clipped to immigration papers.â
Veterans say the government was trying to develop and test substances that could trigger mind control, confusion, euphoria, altered personality, unconsciousness, physical paralysis, illogical thinking and mania, among other effects.
The experiments in Army compounds at Edgewood Arsenal and Fort Detrick, Md., left many veterans with debilitating health problems for decades. Veterans say the government has since refused to provide proper medical care."
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CO Massacre Robert James Holmes DARPA CIA HNC
Colorado Movie Theater Massacre
July 20th, 2012âoeThere is already conjecture that James Holmes may have been involved in mind-altering neuroscience researchâ
Where Did Robert Holmes, Father of James Holmes, Work Before 2000?
I would be interested in knowing where Robert Milton Holmes, the father of James Holmes, worked before 2000. If anyone has this information, please send it to me.
On his Linkedin profile Robert Holmes lists a University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. in Statistics from 1981. He currently works for FICO, but also lists working for HNC Software from 2000 to 2002. (HNC Software was acquired by FICO.)
We have a DARPA link in HNC Software.
This is from a 1999 company profile for HNC Software:
HNC Software Inc. is San Diegoâ(TM)s largest software company and develops predictive software solutions for business-to-consumer service companies. These solutions allow companies to make more intelligent and profitable decisions and are marketed to industries- including financial, insurance, retail, telecommunications and the Internet.
Like many San Diego-based software companies, HNC Software Inc. traces its origins to the defense industry. When the company was launched in 1986, it focused on defense-related research and development. But over the years as defense budgets shrank not only in San Diego, but nationwide, HNC quickly realized that in order to succeed and grow, other commercial applications had to be found for its products.
â¦
But perhaps the most exciting frontier awaiting exploration and commercial development by HNC is in an area that scientists still know very little about: the human brain. HNC is working on a long-term research project launched in 1998 that is jointly funded by HNC and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), part of the U.S. Defense Department, to investigate âcortronic neural networks,â(TM) a concept originally proposed by Robert Hecht-Nielsen, HNCâ(TM)s co-founder and chief scientist.
HNC hopes to develop new capabilities in the areas of textual, aural and visual representation, and to actually build three new predictive, neural-net based systems: one that reads, interprets and searches text more effectively; a second recognizing speech and other sounds, enabling users to perform audio searches; and a third that can scan for and interpret images. The ultimate goal is to integrate all three systems. The net result â" machines that someday might be able to reason like humans.
âoeThis is the most important scientific challenge of our time, and finding the answer will be the adventure of the millennium,â says Hecht-Nielsen.
â"
James Holmes: Accused Colorado Shooter Is Grandson of Decorated Veteran, Has Mamily Roots in Monterey County
Via: Contra Costa Times:
James Holmes, the man believed responsible for killing 12 people Friday during one of the largest mass shooting in U.S. history, is the grandson of a decorated military veteran who was a respected educator at prestigious York School in Monterey.
Lt. Col. Robert M. Holmes, who served in the Okinawa campaign during World War II, retired in 1963 as the last commander of the Nike missile group in San Francisco Bay. He was one of the first Turkish language students at the Army Language School, now the Defense Language Institute, graduating in 1948, a school spokesman confirmed Friday.
After his military retirement, Holmes taught math and science at York School for 17 years. He died in 1990. His wife, Mary Jane Crawford Holmes, attended Stanford University and worked at the Monterey City Library, Fort Ord Library and Pacific Grove High School before finishing her career as librarian and college counselor at York School. She died in 2010.
A 1945 graduate of Pacific Grove High School, she was also a member of numerous historical societies, including the Order of the C
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Colorado Movie Theater Massacre
Colorado Movie Theater Massacre
July 20th, 2012Where Did Robert Holmes, Father of James Holmes, Work Before 2000?
I would be interested in knowing where Robert Milton Holmes, the father of James Holmes, worked before 2000. If anyone has this information, please send it to me.
On his Linkedin profile Robert Holmes lists a University of California, Berkeley Ph.D. in Statistics from 1981. He currently works for FICO, but also lists working for HNC Software from 2000 to 2002. (HNC Software was acquired by FICO.)
We have a DARPA link in HNC Software.
This is from a 1999 company profile for HNC Software:
HNC Software Inc. is San Diegoâ(TM)s largest software company and develops predictive software solutions for business-to-consumer service companies. These solutions allow companies to make more intelligent and profitable decisions and are marketed to industries- including financial, insurance, retail, telecommunications and the Internet.
Like many San Diego-based software companies, HNC Software Inc. traces its origins to the defense industry. When the company was launched in 1986, it focused on defense-related research and development. But over the years as defense budgets shrank not only in San Diego, but nationwide, HNC quickly realized that in order to succeed and grow, other commercial applications had to be found for its products.
â¦
But perhaps the most exciting frontier awaiting exploration and commercial development by HNC is in an area that scientists still know very little about: the human brain. HNC is working on a long-term research project launched in 1998 that is jointly funded by HNC and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), part of the U.S. Defense Department, to investigate âcortronic neural networks,â(TM) a concept originally proposed by Robert Hecht-Nielsen, HNCâ(TM)s co-founder and chief scientist.
HNC hopes to develop new capabilities in the areas of textual, aural and visual representation, and to actually build three new predictive, neural-net based systems: one that reads, interprets and searches text more effectively; a second recognizing speech and other sounds, enabling users to perform audio searches; and a third that can scan for and interpret images. The ultimate goal is to integrate all three systems. The net result â" machines that someday might be able to reason like humans.
âoeThis is the most important scientific challenge of our time, and finding the answer will be the adventure of the millennium,â says Hecht-Nielsen.
â"
James Holmes: Accused Colorado Shooter Is Grandson of Decorated Veteran, Has Mamily Roots in Monterey County
Via: Contra Costa Times:
James Holmes, the man believed responsible for killing 12 people Friday during one of the largest mass shooting in U.S. history, is the grandson of a decorated military veteran who was a respected educator at prestigious York School in Monterey.
Lt. Col. Robert M. Holmes, who served in the Okinawa campaign during World War II, retired in 1963 as the last commander of the Nike missile group in San Francisco Bay. He was one of the first Turkish language students at the Army Language School, now the Defense Language Institute, graduating in 1948, a school spokesman confirmed Friday.
After his military retirement, Holmes taught math and science at York School for 17 years. He died in 1990. His wife, Mary Jane Crawford Holmes, attended Stanford University and worked at the Monterey City Library, Fort Ord Library and Pacific Grove High School before finishing her career as librarian and college counselor at York School. She died in 2010.
A 1945 graduate of Pacific Grove High School, she was also a member of numerous hist
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NSA Bobble-headed Fleshlight
John the Ripper now able to crack office files and use GPUs
4 July 2012, 12:38
"Version 1.7.9-jumbo-6 of the John the Ripper password cracker sees significant format support enhancements. The open source tool is now able to crack password-protected office documents (Office 2007/2010 and OpenDocument) and Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey master passwords, as well as WPA-PSK keys and Mac OS X keychains. It can also request to use GPUs via CUDA and OpenCL. The suffix "jumbo" appears to be intended literally â" more than 40,000 lines of code have been added in the six months since the previous release.
Developer Solar Designer told The H's associates at heise Security that, in developing GPU support, the focus has been on modern functions which can be slow to calculate, such as WPA-PSK and Unix password hashes. For some functions, such as Ubuntu's standard hash function (sha512crypt) and the time-consuming bcrypt, there were, according to the developers, no crackers with GPU support until now, "because others were unhappy about releasing a tool with 'non-impressive' speed numbers, even if this is desirable in practice".
In the case of sha512crypt, this means that the GPU on a GeForce GTX 570 graphics card can generate around 11,000 hashes per second â" still more than five times faster than on a computer with eight CPU cores. By comparison, for SHA1 hashes, with GPU support this figure would normally be in the millions. For bcrypt, a graphics card just beats an eight-core system by a hair's breadth â" in both cases the maximum figure is around 5,000 hashes. The inability of GPUs to realise speed gains with bcrypt is due to the algorithm's design, which is very memory intensive. According to Solar Designer, the developers were primarily concerned with finding out just how slow the bcrypt implementation would be."
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/john-users/2012/06/29/1
- http://www.openwall.com/john/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcrypt
- http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/vsygc/john_the_ripper_179jumbo6_adds_gpu_support/
- http://www.h-online.com/news/item/Cracking-DES-faster-with-John-the-Ripper-1273585.html
* http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/John-the-Ripper-now-able-to-crack-office-files-and-use-GPUs-1631901.htmlcrve@h-online.com
Copyright © 2012 Heise Media UK Ltd.###
Sensitive Information Security Sources and BreachesUnauthorized disclosures of secrets are essential for democracy.
In response to Wikileaks background inquiries Cryptome offers that there are hundreds of online and offline sources of sensitive information security breaches which preceded Wikileaks beginning about 120 years ago. This outline traces the conflict between technological capabilities for sensitive information breaches and control by law enforcement when technical countermeasures are insufficient -- a few examples among many others worldwide:
http://cryptome.org/0002/siss.htm
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Feds Look to Fight Leaks With âFog of Disinformationâ(TM)July 4th, 2012
Via: Danger Room:
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what's the word?
John the Ripper now able to crack office files and use GPUs
4 July 2012, 12:38
"Version 1.7.9-jumbo-6 of the John the Ripper password cracker sees significant format support enhancements. The open source tool is now able to crack password-protected office documents (Office 2007/2010 and OpenDocument) and Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey master passwords, as well as WPA-PSK keys and Mac OS X keychains. It can also request to use GPUs via CUDA and OpenCL. The suffix "jumbo" appears to be intended literally â" more than 40,000 lines of code have been added in the six months since the previous release.
Developer Solar Designer told The H's associates at heise Security that, in developing GPU support, the focus has been on modern functions which can be slow to calculate, such as WPA-PSK and Unix password hashes. For some functions, such as Ubuntu's standard hash function (sha512crypt) and the time-consuming bcrypt, there were, according to the developers, no crackers with GPU support until now, "because others were unhappy about releasing a tool with 'non-impressive' speed numbers, even if this is desirable in practice".
In the case of sha512crypt, this means that the GPU on a GeForce GTX 570 graphics card can generate around 11,000 hashes per second â" still more than five times faster than on a computer with eight CPU cores. By comparison, for SHA1 hashes, with GPU support this figure would normally be in the millions. For bcrypt, a graphics card just beats an eight-core system by a hair's breadth â" in both cases the maximum figure is around 5,000 hashes. The inability of GPUs to realise speed gains with bcrypt is due to the algorithm's design, which is very memory intensive. According to Solar Designer, the developers were primarily concerned with finding out just how slow the bcrypt implementation would be."
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/john-users/2012/06/29/1
- http://www.openwall.com/john/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcrypt
- http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/vsygc/john_the_ripper_179jumbo6_adds_gpu_support/
- http://www.h-online.com/news/item/Cracking-DES-faster-with-John-the-Ripper-1273585.html
* http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/John-the-Ripper-now-able-to-crack-office-files-and-use-GPUs-1631901.htmlcrve@h-online.com
Copyright © 2012 Heise Media UK Ltd.####
Sensitive Information Security Sources and BreachesUnauthorized disclosures of secrets are essential for democracy.
In response to Wikileaks background inquiries Cryptome offers that there are hundreds of online and offline sources of sensitive information security breaches which preceded Wikileaks beginning about 120 years ago. This outline traces the conflict between technological capabilities for sensitive information breaches and control by law enforcement when technical countermeasures are insufficient -- a few examples among many others worldwide:
http://cryptome.org/0002/siss.htm
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Feds Look to Fight Leaks With âFog of Disinformationâ(TM)July 4th, 2012
Via: Danger Room:
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The One Ring: does it sit at the base of the penus
NSA, AT&T and the NarusInsight Intercept Suite
http://cryptogon.com/?p=877High-Traffic Colluding Tor Routers in Washington, D.C., and the Ugly Truth About Online Anonymity
http://cryptogon.com/?p=624 -
The One Ring: does it sit at the base of the penus
NSA, AT&T and the NarusInsight Intercept Suite
http://cryptogon.com/?p=877High-Traffic Colluding Tor Routers in Washington, D.C., and the Ugly Truth About Online Anonymity
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Re:Troubling signal, why?
See the video replay of High-Frequency-Trading manipulation of the 38 USD. They call it a "Tractor Beam" Ha! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrkH_WQxxEA
This video is worth watching for the lesson it presents. The lesson is not about Facebook, or IPOs, or anything as specific as that. It's a detailed analysis of what's happening to the stock price as computers manipulate millions of shares of the stock. This guy can talk for 8 minutes (and it's an interesting talk) about something that took about 3 seconds to occur. If you ever had doubts that the long term, buy and hold investor is a sucker in today's markets, this is a video to watch.
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Re:Troubling signal, why?
The Suckerborg lives up to its name!
This is for suckers who want to roll boxcars, not the technical trader.
The price has been artificially inflated through buying by Morgan Stanley - one of the underwriters.
They have been trying to sustain this since Friday, but are running out of steam.
See Cryptogon on this:
"I did watch a realtime price ticker once they finally opened it. Wow. What a show.It came out of the gate at around $42 and people just sold the living shit out of it. These were the whale clients at firms who had access to blocks of shares before it was trading, dumping into the crowd.
We knew the issue price was $38, so I watched very carefully as it got down there for the first time. As the price dropped to exactly $38, it held there, absorbing, I don't know, millions or tens of millions of shares.
'Squid on the bid,' I actually laughed out loud.
Day traders quickly figured out that someone with infinite ammo was defending $38, so the little guys decided to party like it was 1999, taking it long for a couple of bucks, shorting it back down, where the axe would open fire again and not stop until the herd learned that there was only one way to go from $38 on the first day, and it wasn't down.
If you have tick data for FB from Friday, it would be worth replaying that on your time/sales screen to watch what happened around that $38 level. Get yourself a big bucket o' popcorn ready because the 'unseen hand of the market' put on a good one for those who knew what they were looking at."
See the video replay of High-Frequency-Trading manipulation of the 38 USD. They call it a "Tractor Beam" Ha!
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Re:LOL
Actually, ISPs in the US don't block copyright infringing websites
Up until the point where the US government seizes domain names.
As to your claim that other areas of free speech are restricted in the US, exactly what speech are you talking about?
How about praising terrorists:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/opinion/sunday/a-dangerous-mind.html?ref=terrorism
Or publishing articles with controversial views about terrorism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_churchill
Or publishing books about making drugs (note that Shulgin lost his license to do research -- including research on drugs that he discovered):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pihkal
Or recording the police:
http://cryptogon.com/?p=22744
Some of these things are illegal; some are legal in theory but restricted in practice. Or publishing information about breaking DRM systems:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMCA
Or publishing cartoon descriptions of child abuse:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_Act_of_2003
Or speaking outside of designated free speech zones:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone
I guess you could say that these things are not as bad as outright bans on criticisms of the government. Yet we do have a whole lot of restrictions on free speech, both in the law and in practice.In the US one is subject to such searches if one is going on a plane
This amounts to millions of people subjected to searches, in a systematic and humiliating way.
Any violation of this sort in Pakistan is actually orders of magnitude worse than the US
[citation needed]
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PressTV Claims Jamming in Europe
Iranian State Media PressTV Claims Jamming in Europe and Online http://cryptogon.com/?p=27668 if that's true, that it was Iran, well they were just replying the cortesy....
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PsyOps, OSS, CIA, and a rubberhose in a crypotree!
I BREAK FOR WATER BOARDING!
+ http://www.pipeline.com/~psywarrior
+ http://guardianspies.com/
+ http://osssociety.org/
+ http://ossreborn.com/
+ http://ossog.org/
+ http://ossinitaly.org/
+ http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/oss/oss.htm
+ http://www.zoklet.net/totse/en/politics/central_intelligence_agency/index.html
+ http://cryptome.org/0005/cia-iqt-spies.htm
+ http://www.youtube.com/user/ciagov
+ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ciagov
+ http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1004145-1,00.html
+ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KUBARK
+ https://www.cia.gov/
+ http://publicintelligence.net/
+ http://cryptocomb.org/
+ http://www.cryptome.org/
+ http://www.cryptogon.com/
+ http://afio.com/
+ http://www.afcea.org/signal/signalscape/
+ http://rijmenants.blogspot.com/ -
Meanwhile the oompa loompas are suiciding
Mass Suicide Threats at Foxconn Xbox 360 Plant
January 11th, 2012
"Foxconn has a plan to deal with these pesky meatsacks, and I donâ(TM)t mean suicide prevention nets.
Foxconn Wants to Build âoeIntelligent Robotics Kingdomâ to Replace Human Workers with Robots
Foxconn: 1 Million Robots in 3 Years
Via: Kotaku:
On Jan. 2, over 300 employees at a Foxconn plant in Wuhan, China threatened to throw themselves off a building in a mass suicide. Foxconn makes Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony products. These workers manufacture Xbox 360s.
According to Chinese anti-government website China Jasmine Revolution (via Watch China Times), the workers were protesting denied compensation they were promised.
On Jan. 2, the workers asked for a raise. Foxconn told them they could either keep their jobs with no pay increase or quit and get compensation. Most decided to quit with compensation. However, the agreement was supposedly terminated, and the workers never received their payments.
Website Record China reported that the uproar the incident actually caused Xbox 360 production to be temporarily suspended.
The mayor of Wuhan intervened to talk the group down, and on Jan. 3 at 9pm, the group of 300 decided not to jump, ending what could have been a deadly game of chicken."
- http://kotaku.com/5874706/report-mass-suicide-threats-at-xbox-360-plant
- http://cryptogon.com/?p=23829
- http://cryptogon.com/?p=25875
- http://cryptogon.com/?p=17613Microsoft, where's your TV commercial for THIS?
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Meanwhile the oompa loompas are suiciding
Mass Suicide Threats at Foxconn Xbox 360 Plant
January 11th, 2012
"Foxconn has a plan to deal with these pesky meatsacks, and I donâ(TM)t mean suicide prevention nets.
Foxconn Wants to Build âoeIntelligent Robotics Kingdomâ to Replace Human Workers with Robots
Foxconn: 1 Million Robots in 3 Years
Via: Kotaku:
On Jan. 2, over 300 employees at a Foxconn plant in Wuhan, China threatened to throw themselves off a building in a mass suicide. Foxconn makes Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony products. These workers manufacture Xbox 360s.
According to Chinese anti-government website China Jasmine Revolution (via Watch China Times), the workers were protesting denied compensation they were promised.
On Jan. 2, the workers asked for a raise. Foxconn told them they could either keep their jobs with no pay increase or quit and get compensation. Most decided to quit with compensation. However, the agreement was supposedly terminated, and the workers never received their payments.
Website Record China reported that the uproar the incident actually caused Xbox 360 production to be temporarily suspended.
The mayor of Wuhan intervened to talk the group down, and on Jan. 3 at 9pm, the group of 300 decided not to jump, ending what could have been a deadly game of chicken."
- http://kotaku.com/5874706/report-mass-suicide-threats-at-xbox-360-plant
- http://cryptogon.com/?p=23829
- http://cryptogon.com/?p=25875
- http://cryptogon.com/?p=17613Microsoft, where's your TV commercial for THIS?
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Meanwhile the oompa loompas are suiciding
Mass Suicide Threats at Foxconn Xbox 360 Plant
January 11th, 2012
"Foxconn has a plan to deal with these pesky meatsacks, and I donâ(TM)t mean suicide prevention nets.
Foxconn Wants to Build âoeIntelligent Robotics Kingdomâ to Replace Human Workers with Robots
Foxconn: 1 Million Robots in 3 Years
Via: Kotaku:
On Jan. 2, over 300 employees at a Foxconn plant in Wuhan, China threatened to throw themselves off a building in a mass suicide. Foxconn makes Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony products. These workers manufacture Xbox 360s.
According to Chinese anti-government website China Jasmine Revolution (via Watch China Times), the workers were protesting denied compensation they were promised.
On Jan. 2, the workers asked for a raise. Foxconn told them they could either keep their jobs with no pay increase or quit and get compensation. Most decided to quit with compensation. However, the agreement was supposedly terminated, and the workers never received their payments.
Website Record China reported that the uproar the incident actually caused Xbox 360 production to be temporarily suspended.
The mayor of Wuhan intervened to talk the group down, and on Jan. 3 at 9pm, the group of 300 decided not to jump, ending what could have been a deadly game of chicken."
- http://kotaku.com/5874706/report-mass-suicide-threats-at-xbox-360-plant
- http://cryptogon.com/?p=23829
- http://cryptogon.com/?p=25875
- http://cryptogon.com/?p=17613Microsoft, where's your TV commercial for THIS?
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Meanwhile the oompa loompas are suiciding
Mass Suicide Threats at Foxconn Xbox 360 Plant
January 11th, 2012
"Foxconn has a plan to deal with these pesky meatsacks, and I donâ(TM)t mean suicide prevention nets.
Foxconn Wants to Build âoeIntelligent Robotics Kingdomâ to Replace Human Workers with Robots
Foxconn: 1 Million Robots in 3 Years
Via: Kotaku:
On Jan. 2, over 300 employees at a Foxconn plant in Wuhan, China threatened to throw themselves off a building in a mass suicide. Foxconn makes Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony products. These workers manufacture Xbox 360s.
According to Chinese anti-government website China Jasmine Revolution (via Watch China Times), the workers were protesting denied compensation they were promised.
On Jan. 2, the workers asked for a raise. Foxconn told them they could either keep their jobs with no pay increase or quit and get compensation. Most decided to quit with compensation. However, the agreement was supposedly terminated, and the workers never received their payments.
Website Record China reported that the uproar the incident actually caused Xbox 360 production to be temporarily suspended.
The mayor of Wuhan intervened to talk the group down, and on Jan. 3 at 9pm, the group of 300 decided not to jump, ending what could have been a deadly game of chicken."
- http://kotaku.com/5874706/report-mass-suicide-threats-at-xbox-360-plant
- http://cryptogon.com/?p=23829
- http://cryptogon.com/?p=25875
- http://cryptogon.com/?p=17613Microsoft, where's your TV commercial for THIS?
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Stanford Research Institute
Its a bit of Apples mid 1980's Knowledge Navigator, DARPA "Perceptive Assistant that Learns" and Stanford's CALO Cognitive Agent that Learns and Organizes for todays young people.
Wired talked about a Mac related "digital communications" vision in 1994 http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.04/general.magic.html
Some related details, vids at http://cryptogon.com/?p=25289 -
Re:Jobs was a freedom Trojan Horse
FWIW, I own a MacBook Air and an iPhone 3GS.
People who view Apple as an enabler of freedom are those who think the same thing of their EZpass for road tolls. Someday, they will see their "internal passport" as an enabler of travel.
The fact is, that the "1984" campaign was a propaganda ruse. Jobs and Hertzfeld and crew were already working with DARPA and the spooks.
Read all of the following - including the links - and understand that it is no exaggeration to understand that with the introduction of "Siri", George Orwell's "Telescreen" is on the verge of reality - in your pocket.
http://cryptogon.com/?p=25289 http://venturebeat.com/2008/10/13/shadowy-government-project-spins-off-siri-to-help-direct-your-affairs/
If you think either Jobs or Wozniak was EVER a fan of Big Brother, you don't know your Apple history very well.
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Re:Jobs was a freedom Trojan Horse
That first link, http://cryptogon.com/?p=25289 , holy shit!
The fist Apple video talking about the Knowledge Assistant was so creepily prophetic that when the guy says "Get me the data from 5 years ago." and the computer is all like "Checking records from 2006." I had a tiny freak out. Here its 2011 and a long forgotten Apple tech vision video talking about the kinds of things computers should be able to do in 2011, and seeing them about to be implemented, is amazing. Get Siri on the iPad and accessible during a video chat, you're pretty much there.
Damn... Colour me impressed.
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Jobs was a freedom Trojan Horse
FWIW, I own a MacBook Air and an iPhone 3GS.
People who view Apple as an enabler of freedom are those who think the same thing of their EZpass for road tolls. Someday, they will see their "internal passport" as an enabler of travel.
The fact is, that the "1984" campaign was a propaganda ruse. Jobs and Hertzfeld and crew were already working with DARPA and the spooks.
Read all of the following - including the links - and understand that it is no exaggeration to understand that with the introduction of "Siri", George Orwell's "Telescreen" is on the verge of reality - in your pocket.
http://cryptogon.com/?p=25289
http://venturebeat.com/2008/10/13/shadowy-government-project-spins-off-siri-to-help-direct-your-affairs/ -
And to add to the mixhttp://cryptogon.com/?p=25289
http://cryptome.org/0005/ssl-broken.htm
(Correction: SRI is Stanford Research International. It was originally called Stanford Research Institute so as to suggest it was affiliated with Stanford University -- located nearby -- but after a lawsuit from Stanford, SRI changed the I to "International.")
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IS IT WEIRD OUT HERE - OR IS IT JUST ME?
"I'll note a few bullet points about this 10,000 year clock project that stood out for me. This is not an exhaustive list and I'm sure that people who know more about these topics will uncover other interesting features.
First, does anybody know about rituals that involve time and a participant wearing a blue hooded robe?"
"At Long Now Foundation we've always resisted the idea of turning the institution into a religion -- even though religions may have the best track record for long-term endurance. But the comparison to monks devoting their lives to maintain a remote and long-lived clock is hard to avoid, especially if you show up at a momentous clock event in a hooded robe."
Just a hobby for billionaires? Somehow, I don't think so.
But then again, Hey! Stuart didn't bother changing out of a loincloth, after leaving Borneo, either...
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RED BRIGADES?
They were subverted manipulated, alright.
By US and NATO operatives. Not godless commies.
The kidnap and murder of the Italian Prime Minister, Aldo Moro, was an orchestrated event, calculated to drive Socialist-leaning Italy to the right. This was done through direct and indirect instruction by CIA managed "terrorists", according to a design by Henry Kissinger - among others.
"In 1949, the CIA helped set up the Italian secret armed forces intelligence unit, named SIFAR, staffed in part with former members of Mussolini's secret police. It later changed its name to SID. At the end of World War 2, a former Nazi collaborator, Licio Gelli, was facing execution for his activities during the war, but managed to escape by joining the US Army Counter-Intelligence Corps. In the 1950s, Gelli was recruited by SIFAR. Gelli was also head of the P2 Masonic Lodge in Italy, and in 1969, he developed close ties with General Alexander Haig, who was then Assistant to National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger. Through this network, Gelli became chief intermediary between the CIA and General De Lorenzo, Chief of the SID."
"The Red Brigades were a leftist Italian terrorist organization that was formed in 1970. In 1974, Red Brigade founders Renato Curcio and Alberto Franceschini were arrested. Alberto Franceschini later accused a top member of the Red Brigades, Mario Moretti, of turning them in, and that both Moretti and another leading Red Brigade member, Giovanni Senzani, were spies for the Italian and US secret services. Moretti rose up through the ranks of the Red Brigades as a result of the arrest of the two founders."
"The Red Brigades worked closely with the Hyperion Language School in Paris, which was founded by Corrado Simioni, Duccio Berio and Mario Moretti. Corrado Simoni had worked for the CIA at Radio Free Europe, Duccio Berio had been supplying the Italian SID with information of leftist groups and Mario Moretti, apart from being accused by the Red Brigades founders as being an intelligence asset, also happened to be the mastermind and murderer of former Italian Prime Minister, Aldo Moro. An Italian police report referred to the Hyperion Language School as âoethe most important CIA office in Europe." "
I guarantee you, behind Anders Breitvik is a NATO clandestine operation. The use of Freemasons is a good tipoff. It introduces incredulity when introduced to investigations - while actually providing a secret organisational structure and ritual omerta to enforce obedience.
You've seen this picture, right?
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Re:Effect on TOR
cheap and annonymous 1Us colo-ed in various random places and/or cheapy VPS instances all being paid for by front companies with PO boxes and horribly forgettable names.
Yes http://cryptogon.com/?p=624 had "High-Traffic Colluding Tor Routers in Washington, D.C., and the Ugly Truth About Online Anonymity" on just that in 2007 -
cost of A/C in "war"
It's nothing compared to the cost of A/C in tents in Afghanistan, $20 BILLION !!!!!!!! more than the whole NASA budget
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Password Strength is Google's Weapon AGAINST You!
I see this development as a sort of confidence trick, where Google is trying to get people to put more of their eggs into fewer baskets (that Google controls, of course).
Two-factor authentication schemes offer strong security against unauthorized account access by miscreants, no doubt about it, but never forget that Google is God on Google. It sees all. It knows all. Many people will make the mistake of thinking that the enhanced security protects their data from everyone, including the government. Thatâ(TM)s not true at all. This does nothing to protect your information from Google itself and the national security interests it willingly serves.
So, if you use Google services, I would say to use this, but just keep in mind that Google has access to everything that you do on there, and that, if they turn over your data to any outside organization, there would be no indication of it, two factor login or not.
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Spy vs...
Consider this possibility:
The arrest in Kuwait is fake. There are no 260,000 documents. Assange is being setup for a US takedown. Lamo is a stooge. He's agreed to say whatever the US wants him to - thi swas the condition of his release when captured.
"One just can't go "rummaging through" compartmented files. Each person with access to a particular compartment would have to be individually cleared for that compartment.
Say the compartmented thing is a new spy plane that is designated with the codeword AAA. Bob works on one of the sensors that has the codeword AAA/BBB. Jim works on the avionics. That compartment is AAA/CCC. Bob, feeling bored one day, can't just go have a look at the AAA/CCC avionics data. He wouldn't have access. Jim, likewise, can't access the AAA/BBB sensor compartment."
The disinfo being generated in this story is multi-axial, and thicker than smoke...
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Re:SELL!
No "Fat Finger" - this is market manipulation. Interestingly timed with the Senate's "Audit the Fed" vote.
MUST HEAR: Panic And Loathing From The SP 500 Pits
May 7th, 2010A car is one futures contract.
A handle is a full point.
Via: ZeroHedge:
Guys this is probably the craziest I have seen it down here ever. Here it is, memorialized for the generations and away from the now openly ridiculous disinformation propaganda of the mainstream media, just what a full market meltdown panic sounds like: straight from the epicenter, the SP 500 pits. Luckily open ouctry still exists, if at least for shock value. Click here for a first hand account of the most shocking 15 minutes in recent market history. Fat finger my ass.
Research Credit: dagobaz
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Re:thank you for the red herrings and strawmenAnd yet, since cocaine prohibition, availability has greatly increased, and price has decreased. This is in today's world, where transport is FAR easier than in the opium war days. If prohibition of cocaine increases it's availability, then by your logic, this should increase the addiction that you fear so much. Meanwhile, the prohibition causes those to not seek medical treatment for fear of prosecution. A prosecution whose results are often incarcerating people. Which costs $30-$50K per year per person. Yet somehow, if that person had a problem, or stopped working, he would be costing us even more than that? Then there's the freedom cost, which you continually ignore. The closure of civil rights in America more or less started when Nixon declared the war on drugs, though parts of it started in the early 1900s, along with prohibition. Are you really that blinded by your idealism?
You do realize that they decriminalized all drugs in Portugal. This is TODAY, with measurable effects. http://cryptogon.com/?p=9632
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Facebook Deepens Ties with Intelligence Agencies
The "real danger" isn't youthful indiscretion. It's profiling in a giant model by Government AND commercial interests in ways that will forever affect your ability to get a job, find insurance or even your ability to freely travel.
How do you build a panopticon, a prison for a society in which real power lies outside of government, in the hands of private commercial and financial interests? Honeypots. Google and Facebook and whatnot. Everyone is so anti-Government, like the stupid Reaganites. That's like being against a small-town cop. He's got the gun, alright - but he works for the man in the big house, at the edge of town. Hired. The enemy isn't Barney Fife - It's Old Man Potter.
How does this relate to Facebook?
You present a real, but minor threat, versus the real evil Facebook represent - along with the darkest nightmare of Google.
Remember, Watson, at IBM supplied tabulation equipment for improving the German Census in the 1930's. Technology was welcomed, and was going to modernize, to improve every German life. Except for a minority or two, of 11 million...
Cypher: "All I see now is blonde, brunette, redhead."
Facebook has been gradually boosting its profile in Washington D.C. over the past year and is on the hunt for a second senior lobbyist to add to its office of four. Disclosures released a few days ago show that, on top of lobbying the usual suspects Internet companies reach out to like the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. senators and representatives, the fast-growing social network has also been busy deepening ties to government intelligence and homeland security agencies.
What's interesting about Facebook's lobbying in D.C. is what it spends money on despite its small size. It was the only consumer Internet company out of Google, Amazon, eBay, Microsoft, Yahoo and Apple to reach out to intelligence agencies last year, according to lobbying disclosure forms. It has lobbied the Office of the Director of National Intelligence -- an umbrella office founded in the wake of Sept. 11 that synthesizes intelligence from 17 agencies including the CIA and advises the President -- for the last three quarters on privacy and federal cyber-security policy. It has reached out to the Defense Intelligence Agency too.Well, Facebook has always been an "op" http://cryptogon.com/?p=13749
Now, combine those observations with the next two pieces of information:
Virginia Tech Is Building an Artificial America in a SupercomputerAs many as 163 variables, mostly drawn from the U.S. Census, come into play for each synthetic American. Called EpiSimdemics, the model almost perfectly matches the demographic attributes of groups with at least 1500 people, according to Keith Bisset, a senior research associate who works on the simulation's software. The software generates fake people to populate real communities and assigns each person characteristics such as age, education level, and occupation to mirror local statistics derived from the most recent national census. In accordance with the data, some individuals are clustered into families, while others live alone.
Every synthetic household is assigned a real street address, based on land-use information from Navteq, a digital-mapping company. Using data from a business directory, each employed individual is matched to a specific job within a reasonable commute from the person's home. Similarly, actual schools, supermarkets, and shopping centers identified through Navteq's database are also linked to households based on their proximity to the home. When an artificial American goes grocery shopping, the simulation algorithm assigns probabilities that
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Re:Freenet
Re Tor: written a few years ago, but gives most readers an idea of how Tor works and can be tracked
"High-Traffic Colluding Tor Routers in Washington, D.C., and the Ugly Truth About Online Anonymity"
http://cryptogon.com/?p=624
As for tracking scripts see this post
http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12691-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=31021&messageID=574848&start=-1 -
STFU if you're an American!
Before any hypocritical American jackass starts to whine about how nasty this is, try reading what your government is doing.
Extraordinary rendition indeed!
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Re:That's news to me...
...Failure? Someone wound up with a whole lot of opium and heroin, and a bunch of corporations made a killing from a gusher of absurd and lucrative contracts.
That sounds more like just another day at the office than failure to me--considering the criminal organizations involved and their blood soaked gravy train.
Gen. Stanley McChrystal's shakedown reminds me of a classic bit of black comedy from my IT days, when "consultants" would show up to my festering tumor workplace du jour bearing, "innovate solutions"...
I used to think, "How come these bozos are so happy when this big top is weeks--or even days--away from total failure?"
After watching well groomed people printing out "Standard Operating Procedures" and preparing PowerPoint presentations, it hit me: "I get it. The whole damn show is a scam. We're all just pretending to be busy until the checks start to bounce. And then it will be time to do it all again somewhere else."
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Hello alternative media
Time to read :
http://maxkeiser.com/
http://cryptogon.com/
http://cryptome.org/
http://exiledonline.com/
http://www.truthnews.us/
Get a few days or weeks or months heads up on what the tame mainstream press with 'discover' if and when they are allowed to. -
I call Fraud
The guy pushing this project is running this proposal from his home - his business address, listed in Dunn & Bradstreet is 32 Monterrey Court, Manhattan Beach, CA 90266. Glance at Google Maps and you'll find that this is a condo next to a golf course. Look up in the white pages and you discover this address is Gary Spirnak's house.
Now, look at patent 6936760, "A Space Based Power System" Right away, you see a mirror of diameter 1 to 2 kilometers, with a newtonian-telescope style optical pickoff. Later, he talks about putting it into geosynchronous orbit.
Getting the power to earth is handled with the wave of his magic wand: "convert the electrical energy into a form for transmission to a pre-determined location"
This whole thing is prima-facie bogus
Give this guy a billion dollars, and in 6 years, his "company" will get a huge (2 km diameter mirror) spacecraft into geostationary orbit.
Some fools at PG&E may have been paid off by this "inventor", but I see no scientist reviewing the proposal.
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Re:Uh...
Read these two articles.
http://cryptogon.com/?p=8350
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/12840743 (use the print view)
If you don't want to read them, the keyword is 'Smithfield Foods'.No shit indeed!
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Baxter Int'l anywhere nearby???Gee, this sounds awfully familiar, kinda like what happened several months ago involving Baxter International, the pharmaceutical corp which manufactures avian flue vaccine but isn't having much luck in marketing it.
Baxter nearby when this took place, me wonders????
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Re:He's Not Right
Well, as I found when searching for houses, growing food in your own garden may be illegal.
An area zoned as "residential" may be forbidden from farming, which can be considered agricultural or industrial.
The restrictions by the county or HOA may indicate no plants other than X Y or Z.
My mom lives in an extreme of this. She is permitted up to 3 potted plants on her front porch. She is permitted short bushes, no more than X inches (I think something like 24"), that may be no more than X inches from the edge of a sidewalk. Anything else may be removed by the HOA paid landscapers. You don't have a choice.
Where I am, you could (in theory) plant, but coverage from trees is too heavy for many plants to grow. If you were to raise something like corn, that would be a serious problem. You can do almost anything you want, as long as it's not visible from the neighboring houses.
If you grow your own crops to SELL, you fall into a whole new headache.
Are you licensed to grow? Are you following the FDA guidelines? Are you paying your sales tax appropriately. Since you're selling a product, you must file appropriately. The tax man wants their cut, because you generated the product in their area. Remember, they own the land you're standing on, you don't.
And besides the obvious illegal products (marijuana, opium poppies, etc), did you know that it is illegal to sell milk? There's a little more to that story, but you'll be surprised.
The way it works out, yes, the government does want to force you to buy from grocery stores. It's a centralized tax collection location. They'd rather get fat checks from a few grocery chains, than millions of smaller checks from every schmuck that's selling stuff from their homes (which is impossible to enforce all the time).
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Re:fp
Well, this article was a complete waste of time. Maybe you guys should read up on the facts before posting:
http://cryptogon.com/?p=1980 -
Goodbye, Sweet Freedom
Lockheed Martin to Use EEstors Ultracapacitors for Military and Homeland Security Applications January 13th, 2008
The military needs the energy density that this EEstor thing provides for weapon systems.
For years, I wanted to believe that Peak Oil could bring this horror show down. My problem, of course, was that I couldn't ignore simple, observable realities and the fact that evil people have many plans up their sleeves.
Some of you view collapse due to Peak Oil as a given. I understand that desire. Unfortunately, it's just not going to go that way This system is going to limp on, creaking and grinding and murdering and polluting all the way into the grim dystopia of clean, green fascism.
Shell's $30 per Barrel Oil Shale Process
The technology to build the techno green utopia has been around for easily thirty years. Sorry folks, that's not how it went, and that's not how it's going to go. The primacy of new killing technologies and technologies of political control go hand in hand with the clean energy systems.
Forget the Green Technology - The Hot Money Is in Guns
What kind of political and economic system are the limousine liberals and the four star generals creating here? (Rhetorical question.)
Kleiner Perkins: Al Gore and Colin Powell, Together at Last to Save the Planet
To top it off, this Lockheed Martin press release includes one of the most terrifying phrases Ive ever encountered: Energy independence for the Warfighter.
Think about that phrase for a few minutes, if you dare.
Via: Press Media Wire:
Lockheed Martin has signed an exclusive international rights agreement to integrate and market Electrical Energy Storage Units (EESU) from EEStor, Inc., for military and homeland security applications. Specific terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
EEStor, based in Cedar Park, TX, is developing a ceramic battery chemistry that could provide 10 times the energy density of lead acid batteries at 1/10th the weight and volume. As envisioned, EESUs will be a fully "green" technology that will be half the price per stored watt-hour than traditional battery technologies.
"Lockheed Martin has a wide range of innovative energy solutions for federal, state and regional energy applications," said Glenn Miller, vice president of Technical Operations and Applied Research at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control. "The EEStor energy storage technology provides potential solutions for the demanding requirements for energy in military and homeland defense applications."
EESUs are planned as nontoxic, non-hazardous and non-explosive. Since the EESU design is based on ultra-capacitor architecture, it will allow for flexible packaging and rapid charge/discharge capabilities. EESUs will be ideally suited for a wide range of power management initiatives that could lead to energy independence for the Warfighter.
"Lockheed Martin continues to focus on providing our Warfighters with new and innovative technologies that will make their jobs easier," said Lionel Liebman, manager of Program Development - Applied Research at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control. "Our ruggedized BattPack(TM) energy storage unit generated considerable interest at the Association of the United States Army Annual Meeting in October 2007 for its potential for fuel savings in vehicular silent watch applications. The potential of an even safer, smaller and more powerful EESU in BattPack(TM) would significantly enhance the Warfighter's capabilities."
EESU qualification testing and mass production at EEStor's facility in Cedar Park is planned for late 2008.
EEStor, Inc., of Ced
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Goodbye, Sweet Freedom
Lockheed Martin to Use EEstors Ultracapacitors for Military and Homeland Security Applications January 13th, 2008
The military needs the energy density that this EEstor thing provides for weapon systems.
For years, I wanted to believe that Peak Oil could bring this horror show down. My problem, of course, was that I couldn't ignore simple, observable realities and the fact that evil people have many plans up their sleeves.
Some of you view collapse due to Peak Oil as a given. I understand that desire. Unfortunately, it's just not going to go that way This system is going to limp on, creaking and grinding and murdering and polluting all the way into the grim dystopia of clean, green fascism.
Shell's $30 per Barrel Oil Shale Process
The technology to build the techno green utopia has been around for easily thirty years. Sorry folks, that's not how it went, and that's not how it's going to go. The primacy of new killing technologies and technologies of political control go hand in hand with the clean energy systems.
Forget the Green Technology - The Hot Money Is in Guns
What kind of political and economic system are the limousine liberals and the four star generals creating here? (Rhetorical question.)
Kleiner Perkins: Al Gore and Colin Powell, Together at Last to Save the Planet
To top it off, this Lockheed Martin press release includes one of the most terrifying phrases Ive ever encountered: Energy independence for the Warfighter.
Think about that phrase for a few minutes, if you dare.
Via: Press Media Wire:
Lockheed Martin has signed an exclusive international rights agreement to integrate and market Electrical Energy Storage Units (EESU) from EEStor, Inc., for military and homeland security applications. Specific terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
EEStor, based in Cedar Park, TX, is developing a ceramic battery chemistry that could provide 10 times the energy density of lead acid batteries at 1/10th the weight and volume. As envisioned, EESUs will be a fully "green" technology that will be half the price per stored watt-hour than traditional battery technologies.
"Lockheed Martin has a wide range of innovative energy solutions for federal, state and regional energy applications," said Glenn Miller, vice president of Technical Operations and Applied Research at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control. "The EEStor energy storage technology provides potential solutions for the demanding requirements for energy in military and homeland defense applications."
EESUs are planned as nontoxic, non-hazardous and non-explosive. Since the EESU design is based on ultra-capacitor architecture, it will allow for flexible packaging and rapid charge/discharge capabilities. EESUs will be ideally suited for a wide range of power management initiatives that could lead to energy independence for the Warfighter.
"Lockheed Martin continues to focus on providing our Warfighters with new and innovative technologies that will make their jobs easier," said Lionel Liebman, manager of Program Development - Applied Research at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control. "Our ruggedized BattPack(TM) energy storage unit generated considerable interest at the Association of the United States Army Annual Meeting in October 2007 for its potential for fuel savings in vehicular silent watch applications. The potential of an even safer, smaller and more powerful EESU in BattPack(TM) would significantly enhance the Warfighter's capabilities."
EESU qualification testing and mass production at EEStor's facility in Cedar Park is planned for late 2008.
EEStor, Inc., of Ced
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Goodbye, Sweet Freedom
Lockheed Martin to Use EEstors Ultracapacitors for Military and Homeland Security Applications January 13th, 2008
The military needs the energy density that this EEstor thing provides for weapon systems.
For years, I wanted to believe that Peak Oil could bring this horror show down. My problem, of course, was that I couldn't ignore simple, observable realities and the fact that evil people have many plans up their sleeves.
Some of you view collapse due to Peak Oil as a given. I understand that desire. Unfortunately, it's just not going to go that way This system is going to limp on, creaking and grinding and murdering and polluting all the way into the grim dystopia of clean, green fascism.
Shell's $30 per Barrel Oil Shale Process
The technology to build the techno green utopia has been around for easily thirty years. Sorry folks, that's not how it went, and that's not how it's going to go. The primacy of new killing technologies and technologies of political control go hand in hand with the clean energy systems.
Forget the Green Technology - The Hot Money Is in Guns
What kind of political and economic system are the limousine liberals and the four star generals creating here? (Rhetorical question.)
Kleiner Perkins: Al Gore and Colin Powell, Together at Last to Save the Planet
To top it off, this Lockheed Martin press release includes one of the most terrifying phrases Ive ever encountered: Energy independence for the Warfighter.
Think about that phrase for a few minutes, if you dare.
Via: Press Media Wire:
Lockheed Martin has signed an exclusive international rights agreement to integrate and market Electrical Energy Storage Units (EESU) from EEStor, Inc., for military and homeland security applications. Specific terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
EEStor, based in Cedar Park, TX, is developing a ceramic battery chemistry that could provide 10 times the energy density of lead acid batteries at 1/10th the weight and volume. As envisioned, EESUs will be a fully "green" technology that will be half the price per stored watt-hour than traditional battery technologies.
"Lockheed Martin has a wide range of innovative energy solutions for federal, state and regional energy applications," said Glenn Miller, vice president of Technical Operations and Applied Research at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control. "The EEStor energy storage technology provides potential solutions for the demanding requirements for energy in military and homeland defense applications."
EESUs are planned as nontoxic, non-hazardous and non-explosive. Since the EESU design is based on ultra-capacitor architecture, it will allow for flexible packaging and rapid charge/discharge capabilities. EESUs will be ideally suited for a wide range of power management initiatives that could lead to energy independence for the Warfighter.
"Lockheed Martin continues to focus on providing our Warfighters with new and innovative technologies that will make their jobs easier," said Lionel Liebman, manager of Program Development - Applied Research at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control. "Our ruggedized BattPack(TM) energy storage unit generated considerable interest at the Association of the United States Army Annual Meeting in October 2007 for its potential for fuel savings in vehicular silent watch applications. The potential of an even safer, smaller and more powerful EESU in BattPack(TM) would significantly enhance the Warfighter's capabilities."
EESU qualification testing and mass production at EEStor's facility in Cedar Park is planned for late 2008.
EEStor, Inc., of Ced
-
Goodbye, Sweet Freedom
Lockheed Martin to Use EEstors Ultracapacitors for Military and Homeland Security Applications January 13th, 2008
The military needs the energy density that this EEstor thing provides for weapon systems.
For years, I wanted to believe that Peak Oil could bring this horror show down. My problem, of course, was that I couldn't ignore simple, observable realities and the fact that evil people have many plans up their sleeves.
Some of you view collapse due to Peak Oil as a given. I understand that desire. Unfortunately, it's just not going to go that way This system is going to limp on, creaking and grinding and murdering and polluting all the way into the grim dystopia of clean, green fascism.
Shell's $30 per Barrel Oil Shale Process
The technology to build the techno green utopia has been around for easily thirty years. Sorry folks, that's not how it went, and that's not how it's going to go. The primacy of new killing technologies and technologies of political control go hand in hand with the clean energy systems.
Forget the Green Technology - The Hot Money Is in Guns
What kind of political and economic system are the limousine liberals and the four star generals creating here? (Rhetorical question.)
Kleiner Perkins: Al Gore and Colin Powell, Together at Last to Save the Planet
To top it off, this Lockheed Martin press release includes one of the most terrifying phrases Ive ever encountered: Energy independence for the Warfighter.
Think about that phrase for a few minutes, if you dare.
Via: Press Media Wire:
Lockheed Martin has signed an exclusive international rights agreement to integrate and market Electrical Energy Storage Units (EESU) from EEStor, Inc., for military and homeland security applications. Specific terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
EEStor, based in Cedar Park, TX, is developing a ceramic battery chemistry that could provide 10 times the energy density of lead acid batteries at 1/10th the weight and volume. As envisioned, EESUs will be a fully "green" technology that will be half the price per stored watt-hour than traditional battery technologies.
"Lockheed Martin has a wide range of innovative energy solutions for federal, state and regional energy applications," said Glenn Miller, vice president of Technical Operations and Applied Research at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control. "The EEStor energy storage technology provides potential solutions for the demanding requirements for energy in military and homeland defense applications."
EESUs are planned as nontoxic, non-hazardous and non-explosive. Since the EESU design is based on ultra-capacitor architecture, it will allow for flexible packaging and rapid charge/discharge capabilities. EESUs will be ideally suited for a wide range of power management initiatives that could lead to energy independence for the Warfighter.
"Lockheed Martin continues to focus on providing our Warfighters with new and innovative technologies that will make their jobs easier," said Lionel Liebman, manager of Program Development - Applied Research at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control. "Our ruggedized BattPack(TM) energy storage unit generated considerable interest at the Association of the United States Army Annual Meeting in October 2007 for its potential for fuel savings in vehicular silent watch applications. The potential of an even safer, smaller and more powerful EESU in BattPack(TM) would significantly enhance the Warfighter's capabilities."
EESU qualification testing and mass production at EEStor's facility in Cedar Park is planned for late 2008.
EEStor, Inc., of Ced
-
Goodbye, Sweet Freedom
Lockheed Martin to Use EEstors Ultracapacitors for Military and Homeland Security Applications January 13th, 2008
The military needs the energy density that this EEstor thing provides for weapon systems.
For years, I wanted to believe that Peak Oil could bring this horror show down. My problem, of course, was that I couldn't ignore simple, observable realities and the fact that evil people have many plans up their sleeves.
Some of you view collapse due to Peak Oil as a given. I understand that desire. Unfortunately, it's just not going to go that way This system is going to limp on, creaking and grinding and murdering and polluting all the way into the grim dystopia of clean, green fascism.
Shell's $30 per Barrel Oil Shale Process
The technology to build the techno green utopia has been around for easily thirty years. Sorry folks, that's not how it went, and that's not how it's going to go. The primacy of new killing technologies and technologies of political control go hand in hand with the clean energy systems.
Forget the Green Technology - The Hot Money Is in Guns
What kind of political and economic system are the limousine liberals and the four star generals creating here? (Rhetorical question.)
Kleiner Perkins: Al Gore and Colin Powell, Together at Last to Save the Planet
To top it off, this Lockheed Martin press release includes one of the most terrifying phrases Ive ever encountered: Energy independence for the Warfighter.
Think about that phrase for a few minutes, if you dare.
Via: Press Media Wire:
Lockheed Martin has signed an exclusive international rights agreement to integrate and market Electrical Energy Storage Units (EESU) from EEStor, Inc., for military and homeland security applications. Specific terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
EEStor, based in Cedar Park, TX, is developing a ceramic battery chemistry that could provide 10 times the energy density of lead acid batteries at 1/10th the weight and volume. As envisioned, EESUs will be a fully "green" technology that will be half the price per stored watt-hour than traditional battery technologies.
"Lockheed Martin has a wide range of innovative energy solutions for federal, state and regional energy applications," said Glenn Miller, vice president of Technical Operations and Applied Research at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control. "The EEStor energy storage technology provides potential solutions for the demanding requirements for energy in military and homeland defense applications."
EESUs are planned as nontoxic, non-hazardous and non-explosive. Since the EESU design is based on ultra-capacitor architecture, it will allow for flexible packaging and rapid charge/discharge capabilities. EESUs will be ideally suited for a wide range of power management initiatives that could lead to energy independence for the Warfighter.
"Lockheed Martin continues to focus on providing our Warfighters with new and innovative technologies that will make their jobs easier," said Lionel Liebman, manager of Program Development - Applied Research at Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control. "Our ruggedized BattPack(TM) energy storage unit generated considerable interest at the Association of the United States Army Annual Meeting in October 2007 for its potential for fuel savings in vehicular silent watch applications. The potential of an even safer, smaller and more powerful EESU in BattPack(TM) would significantly enhance the Warfighter's capabilities."
EESU qualification testing and mass production at EEStor's facility in Cedar Park is planned for late 2008.
EEStor, Inc., of Ced
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Re:I've read about this before.While I doubt that they "save" all the traffic, it is entirely possible, that transmitted data is scanned for certain key words and the flagged packets are then investigated further. Ummm...not likely. Take a look at this interview with Klein. He says:
"I flipped out," he said. "They're copying the whole Internet. There's no selection going on here. Maybe they select out later, but at the point of handoff to the government, they get everything."
The paragraphs above that explain what he means in technical terms (including details of the peering done here), but basically when the NSA gets it, they get everything. What the NSA does with it from there is anybody's guess, but saving everything probably seems unreasonable, but then again, how much storage does the NSA have?
