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Nuclear Warhead Blueprints On Smugglers' Computers
imrehg links to a story at the Guardian which begins "Blueprints for a sophisticated and compact nuclear warhead have been found in the computers of the world's most notorious nuclear-smuggling racket, according to a leading US researcher. The digital designs, found in heavily encrypted computer files in Switzerland, are believed to be in the possession of the US authorities and of the International Atomic Energy Agency, in Vienna, but investigators fear they could have been extensively copied and sold to 'rogue' states via the nuclear black market." Reader this great guy links to the New York Times article on the discovery, and asks "Given that
Khan's revelations were made in early 2004, does that mean it took the IAEA
1-2 years to brute-force the encryption?"
the server's been nuked.
Table-ized A.I.
They've been on Usenet for ages. That's why Verizon is cutting off access to the binaries.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it well worth the effort.
KHAAAAAAAAAAAANNNN!
Admit it. You post strawman arguments as AC so you get modded Insightful for refuting them, rather than Troll
We need better protection against theoretically impossible threats - like backpack nukes.
How we know is more important than what we know.
GNUke is an sophisticated and compact nuclear warhead - and more. At its core is are two pieces of piece of sub-critical material that can be combined into a supercritical mass for civil and military use alike.
GNUke is a GNU project which is similar to the Little Boy Bomb which was developed at Manhattan Project Laboratories by J. Robert Oppenheimer and colleagues. It can be considered as a different implementation of Litte Boy. There are some important differences, but much destruction wreaked through Little Boy can be achieved unaltered with GNUke.
One of GNUke's strengths is the ease with which well-produced fission-quality material can be included. Great care has been taken over the defaults for the minor design choices in the nuclear fission process, but the user retains full control.
GNUke blueprints are available as Free Documentation under the terms of the Free Software Foundation's GNU Free Documentation License in source code form. It can easily be set up and functions on a wide variety of launch vehicles and similar systems (including B-29 Superfortresses and ICBMs).
You are obviously too mature, perceptive, and reasonable to be on Slashdot. Please leave immediately, before you ruin the site's reputation.
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Given that Khan's revelations were made in early 2004, does that mean it took the IAEA 1-2 years to brute-force the encryption?
The IAEA were pretty pissed when they found out that the key was 0xDEADBEEF
and they can easily stay in a harbor area of a major city for many months. The only trigger you need is a cell phone
Well it just so happens I'm in the market for a new cell phone this month. Can you tell me which models will last many months on a single charge? That'd be a neat feature to have.
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post-it note.
Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!!!!
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we're doomed! Doomed! DOOMED! Doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooomed!
~.~
I'm a peripheral visionary.
That was 40 years ago. Before Highschool and University science classes went down the drain.
These days students probably couldn't even understand half the things these fellas wrote.
So the dumbing down of the world is part of keeping the nuclear secret?!?
We should try to cut off the terrorists funding source. There must be something which is funneling huge dollars to their backers...I just can't figure out what it is...
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Why, you just need to plug that mobile into a handy radio-isotope thermo-electric generator (RTG), such as powered the Pioneer, Voyager, Cassini, Gallileo, and Ulysses probes launched by NASA.
:-P
Hmm, now, if only you had a big lump of radioactive metal to stick in the shipping container with your mobile phone and garage nuke...
But a Golden Age only lasts ten turns!
I think I have seen these blueprints before, I think they were named something like
Pakistani.Nuke.Blueprints.2004.REPACK.READNFO.KHaNDOX.torrent
"you can't bring more than 3oz of breast milk onto your flight."
You can bring as much as you like, as long as it's in the original container.
This is just something running on Hollywood OS. You know, that wonderful operating system that can perform network searches in a matter of just a few seconds finding the most trivial piece of data you ever could think of...
And of course being able to blow up a 240x320 jpeg image of a football stadium to be able to read not only the license plate number but also the serial number of the annual registration tag of the cool red Porsche that just happens to have the rear end pointed toward the camera. Now that is some really useful "image enhancement"!
How about the ability to hack into and read the contents of any hard drive on any computer in the world, even if it isn't even connected to a network. Really tough computers (like the Pentagon or NASA stuff) might take a couple of minutes to get into, but it isn't all that hard. Right?
Even more impressive, how about trying to crack a one-time-pad encryption that was generated from cosmic radiation in about 3 seconds. Yeah, Hollywood OS is something I'd love have too! I could go on about this stuff as well.
I think you mean "nucular"
...or you been played by Iran to make you think you been played by the CIA to *erode* support for taking action. Oh wait, maybe you been played by Israel to make you think you been played by Iran to make you think you been played by the CIA. No, WAIT! You been played by the media to hype the story about being played by... no, wait, ... well, you been played anyway.
Yes, but the Mausoleum of Maussollos can extend that by 50% for a total of fifteen turns. In the meantime, should use the extra production in our cities to build more modern armor and mechanized infantry so that we can attack our neighbors as soon as the golden age has run its course.