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Cryptography Expert Sounds Alarm At Possible Math Hack
netbuzz writes "First we learn from Bruce Schneier that the NSA may have left itself a secret back door in an officially sanctioned cryptographic random-number generator. Now Adi Shamir is warning that a math error unknown to a chip makers but discovered by a tech-savvy terrorist could lead to serious consequences, too. Remember the Intel blunder of 1996? 'Mr. Shamir wrote that if an intelligence organization discovered a math error in a widely used chip, then security software on a PC with that chip could be "trivially broken with a single chosen message." Executing the attack would require only knowledge of the math flaw and the ability to send a "poisoned" encrypted message to a protected computer, he wrote. It would then be possible to compute the value of the secret key used by the targeted system.'"
There are all kinds of intelligent people who are not afraid of the Patriot Act. There are lawyers who read it and don't see the same problems that the "blogosphere" (for lack of a better term) sees. There are US Attorneys -- smart people, by the nature of their job -- who wouldn't be afraid of it even if the blogosphere were correct. And, there are even people who are willing to let the FBI and the CIA and their local library all talk to each other, because they don't equate privacy with either security or liberty. Heck, there are even people who think the blogosphere is correct, and yet think there are far worse things in the world today, and so aren't all that afriad of it.
These people may all be entirely wrong. There are parts of the Patriot Act that are too far and need to be repealed. But that doesn't mean those who aren't they're not thinking, and you insult them and marginalize yourself when you claim so.
No it doesn't. Oh, I see you don't understand what "begs the question" means but are just using it (incorrectly) to try to impress upon us that you are a sophisticated intellectual.
The US corporate military (that is all it is, the uniformed muscle wing of wallstreet, for profits) is and has been killing more people planet wide then all the so called terrorist groups combined, for decades now, going back to the thirties even down in central america. In addition, the US is directly responsible for setting up and supporting more dictators and tyrants than any other political regime out there for at least the last 3/4ths of a century. US corporate blackops "agents" are responsible for such atrocious nightmares as the Shah of Iran with his SAVAK torturers making it easy for Islamic fundamentalists to recruit, after being willing participants of the overthrow of an elected leader in Iran, supporting saddam hussein for years once we had to "fight" Iran again for their 'crime" of kicking their oppresor out and his US stooges, supporting manuel noriega in panama, pinochet in chile, the colonels in el salvador and honduras, the greek colonels, the argentinian colonels (colonel appears to be a popular starting point for dictators for some reason), manipulating the national elections in Australia and getting away with it,(in the US too judging by blackbox voting and the last three national elections, all apparently hacked) and so on. In short, the biggest pack of lying scumbag hypocrites out there. If you work for the US military, you work for the wallstreet blood profiteers, and that is it. They sell war for profit. It's hugely profitable, and easy enough to create "enemies", including via "false flag" attacks.
Research: "War is a Racket" by General Smedley Butler, highest ranking most decorated Marine,who finally realised what was going on with war and spoke out about the plain truth of it, in his words, he "was a gangster for wallstreet", it is online, read it. "Operation Northwoods", leaked document, how the highest ranking political/military/economic leaders think, what they think is acceptable geopolitical practice, what they have been prepared to do in the past. The "Downing Street Memo", how the Iraq war was planned out well in advance and how it mattered not about any "WMD".
That's enough for a start
Yes, people react to being invaded and killed in their own nations, or having dictators foisted on them..wouldn't you? Would that make you a terrorist if you fought back against the invaders and against any quisling traitorous collaborators? That's real perspective. yes, it is quite easy to creat "terrorists", kill some people inside a family, whomever is left over gets pretty pissed off at you. yes, that number could rise exponentially, given the pre existing "create a terrorist" invasion.
You've been conned by a classic dialectic propaganda manuever, it was sold to you by master madison avenue advertising techniques combined with natural cognizant dissonance that people have thinking that "their" government "wouldn't do that", brainwashed from birth that they are always the "good guys". Horse hockey, the planet is awash in badguys, all backed by the drive for massive corporate profit, nation to nation to nation, the US is no different, just it is done here on a huge scale.
BTW, your numbers and history are *severely* lacking, if you even do a surface level check on the dictators (I mentioned just a few) and state sponsored terrorism imposed by US backed tyrannical regimes in the 50s,60s,70s,80s,90s you will find it is a rather large number and probably exceeds 7 digits. Yes, there are much smaller and pretty violent groups of nutjobs out there who do some random attacks, but compared to state sponsored terror backed and endorsed and supplied by the US and various multinational blood profits corporations, it is quite a small number. Still nasty, but nothing like the other "corporate war" numbers.
The real large scale terrorists wear black suits and ties.