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FBI Served Secret Subpoenas to a Video Game Developer, Antivirus Maker, and More
by jim bell 25 Sep '19

25 Sep '19

https://www.newsbreakapp.com/n/0MtxXGmy?s=a3&pd=02h1yVjC FBI Served Secret Subpoenas to a Video Game Developer, Antivirus Maker, and More Gizmodo The names of more than 120 companies secretly served FBI subpoenas for their customers’ personal data were revealed on Friday, including a slew of U.S. banks, cellphone providers, and a leading antivirus software maker. Shared from News Break

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Anarchadelphia 2019
by grarpamp 25 Sep '19

25 Sep '19

Conference videos are coming online... https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=anarchadelphia&sp=CAI%253D

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[jaromil@dyne.org: [DNG] notice of spam incident]
by Se7en 24 Sep '19

24 Sep '19

DNG got spammed. ----- Forwarded message from Jaromil <jaromil(a)dyne.org> ----- Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 14:16:35 +0200 From: Jaromil <jaromil(a)dyne.org> To: dng <dng(a)lists.dyne.org> Subject: [DNG] notice of spam incident dear readers, at Dyne.org we are proud to host our own SMTP and mailinglists, but that comes at a price of infrastructure, time and risk as most of you know. On the 16 of September, after a long term bruteforcing attack operated from a botnet of almost 2k notes against our imaps accounts, someone got hold of the weak password of a community domain we host and used it during the weekend between the 20 and the 23 September to send a considerable amount of spam from our mail server. As a consequence we have been contacted by our academic uplink in Europe yesterday monday morning, while being blacklisted by a number of services. We have since then identified the issue, identified the breach, mitigated and took future precautions. A full dossier on the accident has been made available to our uplink as well to SORBS and other spam blocklist operators requesting it. Most of the blocks imposed on our mail server will last until tomorrow 25 September, after that we presume our SMTP will be functioning normally. If you notice any anomaly, please report it to me in private and/or kindly proceed yourself to delist our mail.dyne.org IP. I apologize for the inconvenience and wish everyone all the best ciao -- Denis "Jaromil" Roio https://Dyne.org think &do tank Ph.D, CTO & co-founder software to empower communities ✉ Haparandadam 7-A1, 1013AK Amsterdam, The Netherlands 𝄞 crypto κρυπτο крипто गुप्त् 加密 האנוסים المشفره ⚷ 6113D89C A825C5CE DD02C872 73B35DA5 4ACB7D10 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng(a)lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng ----- End forwarded message ----- -- |-----/ | Se7en / The One and Only! | se7en(a)cock.email / | 0x73518A15BA3C1476 / | https://se7en-site.neocities.org

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US Discloses its own Worldwide Pineapple Interference Ops
by grarpamp 24 Sep '19

24 Sep '19

https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/19_0717_cisa_the-war-o…

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Snowden's book "Permanent Record" - USGovt Pumps it to #1 Bestseller Worldwide
by grarpamp 24 Sep '19

24 Sep '19

https://twitter.com/Snowden The US government just guaranteed a million extra copies sold! -- Jimmy Wales Huge mistake by US govt in filing civil lawsuit against Snowden over publication of memoir. UK ban of Spycatcher 50 years ago created huge demand. -- Ewen MacAskill‏ In conclusion, this is good for Cryptocurrency. "Me llamo Edward Joseph Snowden. Antes trabajaba para el Gobierno, pero ahora trabajo para el pueblo. Tardé casi treinta años en reconocer que había una diferencia, y cuando lo hice, me metí en algún que otro problemilla", comienza el libro." Bittorrent epub Kopimi infohash:14BC623E91FBC7C50AF8620A212EF2B413D23692

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Snowden’s Book Is a Bestseller -- and a Honeypot for Hackers
by jim bell 24 Sep '19

24 Sep '19

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/snowden-book-bestseller-honeypot-hackers-225…

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Re: NSA Cyber Command Authorized to Implant Malicious Software
by John Young 23 Sep '19

23 Sep '19

So true. Began when a bow-tie shaped plaza was misnamed Times Square. At 06:10 PM 9/23/2019, you wrote: >Hi Mr Young. You no as well as I that the New York times is all >propaganda and fake news and enemy of the people >

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NSA Cyber Command Authorized to Implant Malicious Software
by John Young 23 Sep '19

23 Sep '19

"In his first 18 months in office, General Nakasone has raced to bolster Cyber Commands authority to act preemptively and its preparations to respond to attacks. New, classified directives given to him by Mr. Trump, and built upon by Congress, allow Cyber Command to place 'implants' of malicious software inside foreign networks without lengthy approval processes that run up to the president. Congress has called such efforts part of 'traditional military authority.' Iran has reportedly been a major target no surprise, since General Nakasone was a key player in designing a plan called Nitro Zeus to shut down Tehran and other Iranian cities in the event of a war. The idea was to put together an attack so devastating that Iran might surrender without a shot being fired. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/23/world/middleeast/iran-cyberattack-us.html

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An important quantum algorithm may actually be a property of nature
by coderman 23 Sep '19

23 Sep '19

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614259/an-important-quantum-algorithm-ma… An important quantum algorithm may actually be a property of nature Evidence that quantum searches are an ordinary feature of electron behavior may explain the genetic code, one of the greatest puzzles in biology. by [Emerging Technology from the arXiv](https://www.technologyreview.com/profile/emerging-technology-from-th… Sep 12, 2019 Sign up for The Download — your daily dose of what's up in emerging technology Back in 1996, a quantum physicist at Bell Labs in New Jersey published a new recipe for searching through a database of N entries. Computer scientists have long known that this process takes around N steps because in the worst case, the last item on the list could be the one of interest. However, this physicist, Lov Grover, showed how the strange rules of quantum mechanics allowed the search to be done in a number of steps equal to the square root of N. That was a big deal. Searching databases is a foundational task in computer science, used for everything from finding telephone numbers to breaking cryptographic codes. So any speed-up is a significant advance. Quantum mechanics provided an additional twist. At the time, Grover’s recipe was only the second quantum algorithm that had been proved faster than its classical counterpart. (The first was Peter Shor’s algorithm for factoring numbers, which he discovered in 1994.) Grover’s work was an important factor in preparing the way for the quantum computing revolution that is still ongoing today. But despite the interest, implementing Grover’s algorithm has taken time because of the significant technical challenges involved. The first quantum computer capable of implementing it appeared in 1998, but the first scalable version didn’t appear until 2017, and even then it worked with only three qubits. So new ways to implement the algorithm are desperately needed. Today Stéphane Guillet and colleagues at the University of Toulon in France say this may be easier than anybody expected. They say they have evidence that Grover’s search algorithm is a naturally occurring phenomenon. “We provide the first evidence that under certain conditions, electrons may naturally behave like a Grover search, looking for defects in a material,” they say. That has obvious implications for quantum computing, but its real import may be much more profound. For some time, theorists have debated whether quantum search could explain one of the greatest mysteries about the origin of life. The idea that Grover searches occur in nature could finally solve the conundrum. First some background. Because it is so fundamental, Grover’s search algorithm can be reformulated in a variety of ways. One of these is as a quantum walk across a surface—the way a quantum particle would move randomly from one point to another. Clearly, this process is a kind of search of two-dimensional space. But because a quantum particle can explore many paths at the same time, it is much faster than a classical search. The nature of the surface has an important influence on the search. For example, one type of surface consists of a square grid where the quantum particle has four possible moves at each vertex. But there are many other possible grids; a triangular one, for example, where the quantum particle has three choices at each vertex. “The triangular grid is of particular interest because of its resemblance to several naturally occurring crystal-like materials,” say Guillet and co. The team focused on simulating the way a Grover search works for electrons exploring triangular and square grids, but they also included other physically realistic effects, such as defects in the grid in the form of holes, and quantum properties such as interference effects. [Quantum walk] The results are eye-opening. The question they ask is how quickly an electron can find the hole in a grid. And the team’s big breakthrough is to show that these simulations reproduce the way real electrons behave in real materials. In other words, this is evidence that free electrons naturally implement the Grover search algorithm when moving across the surface of certain crystals. That has immediate implications for quantum computing. “[This work] may be the path to a serious technological leap, whereby experimentalist would bypass the need for a full-fledged scalable and error-correcting Quantum Computer, and take the shortcut of looking for ‘natural occurrences’ of the Grover search instead,” say the team. The work also has implications for our thinking about the genetic code and the origin of life. Every living creature on Earth uses the same code, in which DNA stores information using four nucleotide bases. The sequences of nucleotides encode information for constructing proteins from an alphabet of 20 amino acids. But why these numbers—four and 20—and not some others? Back in 2000, just a few years after Grover published his work, [Apoorva Patel at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore showed how Grover’s algorithm could explain these numbers](https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0002037). Patel’s idea is related to the way DNA is assembled inside cells. In this situation, the molecular machinery inside a cell must search through the molecular soup of nucleotide bases to find the right one. If there are four choices, a classical search takes four steps on average. So the machinery would have to try four different bases during each assembly step. But a quantum search using Grover’s algorithm is much quicker: Patel showed that when there are four choices, a quantum search can distinguish between four alternatives in a single step. Indeed, four is optimal number. This thinking also explains why there are 20 amino acids. In DNA, each set of three nucleotides defines a single amino acid. So the sequence of triplets in DNA defines the sequence of amino acids in a protein. But during protein assembly, each amino acid must be chosen from a soup of 20 different options. Grover’s algorithm explains these numbers: a three-step quantum search can find an object in a database containing up to 20 kinds of entry. Again, 20 is the optimal number. In other words, if the search processes involved in assembling DNA and proteins is to be as efficient as possible, the number of bases should be four and the number of amino acids should to be 20—exactly as is found. The only caveat is that the searches must be quantum in nature. When Patel published his idea, quantum physicists immediately pooh-poohed it. At the time, they were bogged down in their own attempts to control quantum processes, which they could do only by isolating quantum particles in extreme environments such as at temperatures close to absolute zero. The obvious problem, they said, was that living things operate in a warm, messy environment in which quantum states would be immediately destroyed. Biologists were equally dismissive, saying that quantum processes couldn’t possibly be at work inside living things. Since then, an increasing body of evidence has emerged that quantum processes play an important role in a number of biological mechanisms. Photosynthesis, for example, is now thought to be an essentially quantum process. The work of Guillet and co throws a new perspective on all this. It suggests that Grover’s algorithm is not only possible in certain materials; it seems to be a property of nature. And if that’s true, then the objections to Patel’s ideas start to crumble. It may be that life is just an example of Grover’s quantum search at work, and that this algorithm is itself a fundamental property of nature. That’s a Big Idea if ever there was one. Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1908.11213 : The Grover search as a naturally occurring phenomenon

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IBM Publishes Power9 Instruction Set Architecture
by grarpamp 23 Sep '19

23 Sep '19

https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/08/20/big-blue-open-sources-power-chip-in… https://www.eejournal.com/article/ibm-gives-away-powerpc-goes-open-source/ https://openpowerfoundation.org/?resource_lib=power-isa-version-3-0 https://ibm.box.com/s/1hzcwkwf8rbju5h9iyf44wm94amnlcrv https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20748711 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20824713 https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/

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