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OOPSIE! ICE Fails To Properly Redact Document, Reveals Location Of Future 'Urban Warfare' Training Facility
by Razer 12 Sep '19

12 Sep '19

"The immigration agency had sought to redact the location of the new training facility, but failed to do so properly. The agency, which has made this kind of mistake previously, appears to have a systemic information-security problem. In this case, Newsweek was able to simply copy and paste the document's contents into a word processor and quickly establish that the facility would be built at the Office of Firearms and Tactical Programs' (OFTP) Tactical Operations Complex (TOC) at Fort Benning, Georgia, a U.S. Army post used to prepare soldiers for combat. In addition to revealing Fort Benning as the location of the training site, ICE also failed to properly redact information indicating that the Army post would be getting an expansion, with up to 50 buildings expected to be added to the site. "A Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) vehicle will be competed among GSA Federal Supply Schedule holders for additional training buildings and interior/exterior outfitting in the first quarter of Fiscal Year 20," ICE states in a portion it did not attempt to redact from the document. In a following partially redacted line, it states: "OFTP plans to expand the Training Site at Ft. Benning to include up to 50 additional buildings and add additional U.S. city layouts and designs." Throughout the document, areas that were meant to be withheld were not redacted properly, including signature lines at the bottom of the document. Instead of names, these would-be redacted lines contain what appears to be placeholders, such as "ijunynyhhjhjhjjjjjjj," "hnjumgfrdddfffffff" and "BHMKKOOOOOO." ICE's new training facility is expected to include,"at a minimum," a "multitude of basic, intermediate and hyper-realistic training devices, a tactical training warehouse, classroom facilities and vehicle assault training area." Among those training devices will be a "hyper-realistic props/design" that simulates "residential houses, apartments, hotels, government facilities and commercial buildings," along with other training configurations. ICE is specifically interested in acquiring a "Chicago" style replica, as well as an "Arizona" style replica, with the agency expecting to dedicate a total estimated value of $961,347.75 to the effort." More, including Dox, at NewsWeek: https://www.newsweek.com/ice-fails-redact-document-reveals-location-urban-w… Rr Sent from my Androgyne dee-vice with K-9 Mail

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Decrypt: Cryptographic breakthrough could solve Zcash's biggest flaw
by jim bell 12 Sep '19

12 Sep '19

Decrypt: Cryptographic breakthrough could solve Zcash's biggest flaw. https://decrypt.co/9107/cryptographic-breakthrough-could-solve-zcash

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Re: This is BS
by Ryan Carboni 10 Sep '19

10 Sep '19

“We demand your government to stop doing thing.” “We are not involved in thing.” “We really think you are involved in thing.” “Clearly thing is domestic issue, why can’t you stop the people involved in thing?” “We can’t, because of rights.” “Your government has done this thing in past, why can’t it do it now?” “Doing that thing would require explaining, we are a democracy, we can’t explain things.” “That is not our problem, we are not involved in thing.” “Thing has happened again! Stop doing thing!” “We are not involved in thing! Where is evidence?” “Only logical conclusion is you are involved in thing!” “No, we are not involved in thing! Stop saying we are involved with thing!” “Thing has happened again! This is not about what the people involved in thing want, this is about you!” “No! This is not about us! Stop saying we are involved with thing!” “We are pushing red button!” “We push our red button too!” ... ... ... Sent from ProtonMail Mobile

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The Register: The NetCAT is out of the bag: Intel chipset exploited to sniff SSH passwords as they're typed over the network
by jim bell 10 Sep '19

10 Sep '19

The Register: The NetCAT is out of the bag: Intel chipset exploited to sniff SSH passwords as they're typed over the network. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/10/intel_netcat_side_channel_attack/

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Puri.sm Librem 5 Phone Shipping Within 30d
by grarpamp 09 Sep '19

09 Sep '19

https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/ Cryptocurrency accepted via https://globee.com/ BTC XMR LTC ETH DOGE DCR XRP https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-shipping-announcement/ https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ https://puri.sm/news/ https://pureos.net/ https://puri.sm/posts/announcing-the-pureboot-bundle-tamper-evident-firmwar… https://matrix.org/blog/2017/08/24/the-librem-5-from-purism-a-matrix-native… Librem 5 is a landmark mobile device with a dedicated platform, runs PureOS Linux, and is the first mobile phone to seek hardware certification from the Free Software Foundation. Initially a crowd sourced funding campaign, the phone embraces principles of free software and user privacy. IP native communication is supported via Matrix. Privacy features include hardware kill switches for camera, microphone, cellular, wifi, Bluetooth and GPS. "The Librem 5 phone is built from the ground up to respect the privacy, security, and freedoms of society," reads the site's official announcement. "It is a revolutionary approach to solving the issues that people face today around data exploitation -- putting people in control of their own digital lives."

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Re: This is BS
by Ryan Carboni 09 Sep '19

09 Sep '19

So, Mr. Bond, you’ve been found in a place you’re not wanted. Does anyone know you’re here? Sent from ProtonMail Mobile

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911 New Report WTC7
by grarpamp 09 Sep '19

09 Sep '19

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Here's true *, perfect for you
by grarpamp 09 Sep '19

09 Sep '19

On 9/5/19, \0xDynamite <dreamingforward(a)gmail.com> wrote: > the United States can't institute "marshall" law and suspend your > Constitutional rights. Your "governments" (aka: the people you slaves worship all day) can indeed institute that, in fact in most places it is often simply one "constitutional" constitution amending "vote" away, in a process they created for themselves expressly for the purpose of doing so. Nevermind that you didn't "vote" or sign for those "constitutions" over yourself, nor did being born subject you to them, nor does what you think for yourself tomorrow morning not cast you free from them. Nevermind that your "vote" or sign to force your will over some other else who has not first exerted force over you is immoral... a wanton offense expected penaltied by a right stronger defense. Nevermind that they constantly "vote" in all sort of unconstitutional things (evidence: subsequent smackdown by judicial), and generally ignore and do whatever the fuck they want anyway. Nevermind that the only branch of most "governments" that posess superior weaponry is executive, not legislative, not judicial, and certainly not the people. Which is also why military coup is common form happening all over the world. And why people lose so often. Look at USA 9/11 response... not only instant 100% "voted' handover to executive and rnilitary running essentially unchallenged worldwide for 20y even murders ignored, but all sorts of independantly top secret executive actions that executive will never inform about so as to put itself "vote" or test in "court", and dodges every attempt to do so when it comes. > Talk Talk carries no stick they need be concerned about, thus, unless you get lucky with moral or guilt tripping them, or just plain bribing or joining them, it generally won't help you, you might as well be talking "please fuck me harder". What the fuck you think all the surveillance datamining databasing checkpointing (aka: spying and control on you) you retards let them do is doing to you lately, funny you fools do not think to spy and do those things on them. Funny they have you so confused and brainwashed and frustrated and taxed down the best you can do is shoot each other up in the news, "voting" to medicate with [taxed] marijuana, and checking out on heroin lately, instead of shooting them up with some of your own freedom revolution medication. > That's a bullshit idea no one has to believe in or voted for. Constitutions are worthless facade and feelgood wallpaper over the fact that you fools gave up your rights to them long ago. You believed in doing that the moment you let them create themselves into position over you, and continue to personally believe that to this day and every day that you allow that situation to continue, in every "country" in the world. That 8 billion people are such willingly subjugated sheep that cannot break mind and freely support each other, anywhere... is pretty pathetic. The only true * is no *. Go figure one out. Since no place has ever tried no *, your odds of success at that are at least 50%, which is 100% better than every other failed * in history, with whatever is your present * not likely to be an exception.

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https://daltonium.com/optical-fiber/
by jim bell 09 Sep '19

09 Sep '19

This is now on the daltonium.com website: https://daltonium.com/optical-fiber/ DO YOU WANT SINGLE-MODE OPTICAL FIBER WITH A LOSS OF 0.001 DB/KILOMETER? DON'T BE AFRAID TO SPEAK UP!!! For nearly 40 years, optical fiber companies have been making single-mode silica fiber waveguide, with the best loss about 0.16 db/kilometer. This allowed a maximum distance between amplifiers of 125 kilometers, which is fairly good. But it did not get appreciably better. You wanted more, although you didn't know how it could be done. Which is strange, because from about 1970 to the early 1980's fiber went from about 100 db/kilometer to 0.16 db/kilometer in a tour-de-force of purification, a factor of about 600 in loss. So, why didn't the industry continue to improve, going from 0.16 db/km to 0.016 db/km, to 0.0016db/km, and even to 0.00016db/km, another factor of 1000 reduction in loss? If fiber had a loss of 0.016 db/km, signals could travel 1250 kilometers without an amplifier, nearly 1/4 of the way across America. If fiber had a loss of 0.0016 db/kilometer, signals could travel 12,500 kilometers, and that's about 1/3 of the way around the world. If fiber had a loss of 0.00016 db/kilometer, signals could travel 125,000 kilometers, about three times around the Earth, needing no amplification. But that's impossible, right? 40 years ago, before many people in your industry were even born, scientists got the materials put into fibers so pure and refined, and for some odd reason, they never got losses substantially smaller than 0.16 db/kilometer. They brought iron and other transition metal contamination down to parts-per-billion levels, and might have tried parts per trillion, and for some odd reason, the loss simply hovered at 0.16 db/km. They developed a process to chlorinate the silica soot, dramatically reducing the hydroxyl content. And it worked, mostly. Eventually, they even soaked the fiber in deuterium, to substitute the hydroxyls with deuteroxyls, and developed low-water-peak fiber. As if by magic. But what should have frustrated the fiber optic scientists and engineers was fiber's persistent hold on that loss of 0.16 db/kilometer. I believe I've solved that problem. I asked the question, "What remains in the fiber when you take out all the contaminants you know of?" The answer? You still have the contaminants you DON'T know of. And that sounds like a strange statement, because what remains in the fiber, and especially the core? If you think like a chemist, you realize there is silica and germania, and very little else. But that's not a complete answer. You also have to think like a physicist. Elements like silicon, germanium, and oxygen are an incomplete description. Silicon in nature consists of silicon-28, silicon-29, and silicon-30 isotopes. Germanium in nature consists of germanium-70, germanium-72, germanium-73, germanium-74, and germanium-76. Oxygen in nature consists of oxygen-16, oxygen-17, and oxygen-18. Learn more at WebElements Periodic Table » Germanium » isotope data | | | | WebElements Periodic Table » Germanium » isotope data Mark Winter, University of Sheffield and WebElements Ltd This WebElements periodic table page contains isotope data for the element germanium | | | If you took chemistry in high school, or even college, you might have learned that the difference between isotopes of the same element are the number of neutrons present in the nucleus. Silicon-28 has 14 protons and 14 neutrons. Silicon-29 has 14 protons and 15 neutrons, And silicon-30 has 14 protons and 16 neutrons. But their weight isn't the only difference. If a nucleus has an odd (not evenly divisible by 2) number of neutrons, that nucleus has an unpaired neutron, which causes that nucleus to wobble a bit. And the rest of the nucleus (which is positively charged, from all the protons) wobbles around the center of mass, which amounts to a tiny loop of electric current that never ceases. So, that nucleus behaves as if it was a tiny magnetic dipole, which of course it is. Silicon-29 and Germanium-73 have an odd number of neutrons, so they both have a small magnetic field associated with the nucleus. And silicon-29 is about 4.44% atom/atom of natural-isotope silicon. And germanium-73 is about 7.8% of natural-isotope germanium. Light consists of an electric field and a magnetic field, at right angles to each other, both at right angles to the direction of the motion of the light. Light | | | | | | | | | | | Light Light is electromagnetic radiation within a certain portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. The word usually re... | | | When optical fiber companies make their fibers, they almost always use the elements the way they get them from nature, including the isotopic distribution which is normally seen in nature. "Why shouldn't we?", you might hear they'll say if you asked the question. They didn't know there was a difference. But I believe that when they use that Si-29 isotope, and that Ge-73 isotope, the passing light torques, or kicks, the atoms that have magnetic fields associated with their nuclei. And this converts a very tiny amount of energy from light (infrared) to a mechanical vibration, called a 'phonon': A phonon is like a sound wave, but in this case it's at a far-higher frequency, the same frequency of the photon which caused it, about 200 terahertz for a photon of wavelength 1500 nanometers. And those phonons eventually show up as a tiny amount of heat in the fiber itself, but not enough so that anybody would notice. But what you DO notice is a small loss in signal, about 0.16 db/kilometer. I think that the vast majority of that residual 0.16 db/km loss in natural-isotope silica optical waveguide is due to Si-29 and Ge-73 isotope atoms in the silica and germania making up the fiber. There may very well be almost no other sources of loss from any other component. So, I believe that reducing the proportion of Si-29 and Ge-73 in the chemicals making up the fiber will dramatically reduce the fiber's optical loss. Fortunately, nearly-isotopically-pure silicon-28 already exists. It was made for the Silicon Kilogram Project. Kilogram: Silicon Spheres and the International Avogadro Project | | | | | | | | | | | Kilogram: Silicon Spheres and the International Avogadro Project Though measurement scientists chose the Planck constant as the basis for redefinition, other constants of nature... | | | They made silicon-28 with an isotopic purity as much as 99.9995%, but that's extreme overkill for optical fiber. They could do the same thing for germanium, separating out the Ge-73 isotope. And if a fiber is made from nearly-Si-29-free isotope silicon, and the core is doped with nearly Ge-73-free isotope germanium, I predict that the overall loss will drop in proportion to the reduction in these isotopes. A reduction in Si-29 content by a factor of 100, and a reduction in Ge-73 content by a factor of 100, ought to reduce the loss by a factor of 100: So, that 0.16 db/km loss will go to 0.0016 db/km. And that's over twice as much an improvement needed to be able to create a fiber that will allow signals to go from New York City to Ireland with no EDFA amplifiers needed. None at all.. And since those amplifiers cost maybe $1 million each, that's a serious savings. Is your company interested? Because the other ones will be!!! Jim Bell

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"lossless" optical waveguide
by jim bell 08 Sep '19

08 Sep '19

I am going to add the following commentary to daltonium.comAny comments or suggestions? DO YOU WANT SINGLE-MODE OPTICAL FIBER WITH A LOSS OF 0.001 DB/KILOMETER? DON'T BE AFRAID TO SPEAK UP!!! For nearly 40 years, optical fiber companies have been making single-mode silica fiber waveguide, with the best loss about 0.16 db/kilometer. This allowed a maximum distance between amplifiers of 125 kilometers, which is fairly good. But it did not get appreciably better. You wanted more, although you didn't know how it could be done. Which is strange, because from about 1970 to the early 1980's fiber went from about 100 db/kilometer to 0.16 db/kilometer in a tour-de-force of purification, a factor of about 600 in loss. So, why didn't the industry continue to improve, going from 0.16 db/km to 0.016 db/km, to 0.0016db/km, and even to 0.00016db/km, another factor of 1000 reduction in loss? If fiber had a loss of 0.016 db/km, signals could travel 1250 kilometers without an amplifier, nearly 1/4 of the way across America. If fiber had a loss of 0.0016 db/kilometer, signals could travel 12,500 kilometers, and that's about 1/3 of the way around the world. If fiber had a loss of 0.00016 db/kilometer, signals could travel 125,000 kilometers, about three times around the Earth, needing no amplification. But that's impossible, right? 40 years ago, before many people in your industry were even born, scientists got the materials put into fibers so pure and refined, and for some odd reason they never got losses substantially smaller than 0.16 db/kilometer. They brought iron and other transition metal contamination down to parts-per-billion levels, and might have tried parts per trillion, and for some odd reason the loss simply hovered at 0.16 db/km. They developed a process to chlorinate the silica soot, dramatically reducing the hydroxyl content. And it worked, mostly. Eventually, they even soaked the fiber in deuterium, to substitute the hydroxyls with deuteroxyls, and developed low-water-peak fiber. As if by magic. But what should have frustrated the fiber optic scientists and engineers was fiber's persistant hold on that loss of 0.16 db/kilometer. I believe I've solved that problem. I asked the question, "What remains in the fiber when you take out all the contaminants you know of?" The answer? You still have the contaminants you DON'T know of. And that sounds like a strange statement, because what remains in the fiber, and especially the core? If you think like a chemist, you realize there is silica and germania, and very little else. But that's not a complete answer. You also have to think like a physicist. Elements like silicon, germanium and oxygen are an incomplete description. Silicon in nature consists of silicon-28, silicon-29, and silicon-30 isotopes. Germanium in nature consists of germanium-70, germanium-72, germanium-73, germanium-74, and germanium-76. Oxygen in nature consists of oxygen-16, oxygen-17, and oxygen-18. Learn more at WebElements Periodic Table » Germanium » isotope data | | | | WebElements Periodic Table » Germanium » isotope data Mark Winter, University of Sheffield and WebElements Ltd This WebElements periodic table page contains isotope data for the element germanium | | | If you took chemistry in high school, or even college, you might have learned that the difference between isotopes of the same element are the number of neutrons present in the nucleus. Silicon-28 has 14 protons and 14 neutrons. Silicon-29 has 14 protons and 15 neutrons, And silicon-30 has 14 protons and 16 neutrons. But their weight isn't the only difference. If a nucleus has an odd (not evenly divisible by 2) number of neutrons, that nucleus has an unpaired neutron, which causes that nucleus to wobble a bit. And the rest of the nucleus (which is positively charged, from all the protons) wobbles around the center of mass, which amounts to a tiny loop of electric current that never ceases. So, that nucleus behaves as if it was a tiny magnetic dipole, which of course it is. Silicon-29 and Germanium-73 have an odd number of neutrons, so they both have a small magnetic field associated with the nucleus. And silicon-29 is about 4.44% atom/atom of natural-isotope silicon. And germanium-73 is about 7.8% of natural-isotope germanium. Light consists of an electric field and a magnetic field, at right angles to each other, both at right angles to the direction of the motion of the light. Light | | | | | | | | | | | Light Light is electromagnetic radiation within a certain portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. The word usually re... | | | When optical fiber companies make their fibers, they almost always use the elements the way they get them from nature, including the isotopic distribution which is normally seen in nature. "Why shouldn't we?", you might hear they'll say if you asked the question. They didn't know there was a difference. But I believe that when they use that Si-29 isotope, and that Ge-73 isotope, the passing light torques, or kicks, the atoms that have magnetic fields associated with their nuclei. And this converts a very tiny amount of energy from light (infrared) to a mechanical vibration, called a 'phonon': A phonon is like a sound wave, but in this case it's at a far-higher frequency, the same frequency of the photon which caused it, about 200 terahertz for a photon of wavelength 1500 nanometers. And those phonons eventually show up as a tiny amount of heat in the fiber itself, but not enough so that anybody would notice. But what you DO notice is a small loss in signal, about 0.16 db/kilometer. I think that the vast majority of that residual 0.16 db/km loss in natural-isotope silica optical waveguide is due to Si-29 and Ge-73 isotope atoms in the silica and germania making up the fiber. There may very well be almost no other sources of loss from any other component. So, I believe that reducing the proportion of Si-29 and Ge-73 in the chemicals making up the fiber will dramatically reduce the fiber's optical loss. Fortunately, nearly-isotopically-pure silicon-28 already exists. It was made for the Silicon Kilogram Project. Kilogram: Silicon Spheres and the International Avogadro Project They made silicon-28 with an isotopic purity as much as 99.9995%, but that's extreme overkill for optical fiber. They could do the same thing for germanium, separating out the Ge-73 isotope. And if a fiber is made from nearly-Si-29-free isotope silicon, and the core is doped with nearly Ge-73-free isotope germanium, I predict that the overall loss will drop in proportion to the reduction in these isotopes. A reduction in Si-29 content by a factor of 100, and a reduction in Ge-73 content by a factor of 100, ought to reduce the loss by a factor of 100: So, that 0.16 db/km loss will go to 0.0016 db/km. And that's over twice as much an improvement needed to be able to create a fiber that will allow signals to go from New York City to Ireland with no EDFA amplifiers needed. None at all.. And since those amplifiers cost maybe $1 million each, that's a serious savings. | | | | | | | | | | | Kilogram: Silicon Spheres and the International Avogadro Project Though measurement scientists chose the Planck constant as the basis for redefinition, other constants of nature... | | | Is your company interested? Because, the other ones will be!!! Jim Bell

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