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Why Bitcoin Is A Silent Protest Against Corrupt Governments Everywhere.
by jim bell 14 Jun '20

14 Jun '20

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tatianakoffman/2020/06/13/why-bitcoin-is-a-sil…

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CFP IEEE DependSys 2020: The 6th IEEE International Conference on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications (Submission Due: 1 September 2020)
by Jun Feng 14 Jun '20

14 Jun '20

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] Call For Papers ============================================================================= The 6th IEEE International Conference on Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications (IEEE DependSys 2020), 14-16 December 2020, Fiji (Submission Due: 1 September 2020) http://cse.stfx.ca/~dependsys/2020/index.html IEEE DependSys 2020 conference is the 6th event in the series of conferences which offers a timely venue for bringing together new ideas, techniques, and solutions for dependability and its issues in sensor, cloud, and big data systems and applications. As we are deep into the Information Age, huge amounts of data are generated every day from sensors, individual archives, social networks, Internet of Things, enterprises and Internet in various scales and format which will pose a major challenge to the dependability of our designed systems. As these systems often tend to become inert, fragile, and vulnerable after a period of running. Effectively improving the dependability of sensor, cloud, big data systems and applications has become increasingly critical. This conference provides a forum for individuals, academics, practitioners, and organizations who are developing or procuring sophisticated computer systems on whose dependability of services they need to place great confidence. Future systems need to close the dependability gap in face of challenges in different circumstances. The emphasis will be on differing properties of such services, e.g., continuity, effective performance, real-time responsiveness, ability to overcome data fault, corruption, anomaly, ability to avoid catastrophic failures, prevention of deliberate privacy intrusions, reliability, availability, sustainability, adaptability, heterogeneity, security, safety, and so on. ============================================================================= All accepted papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press (indexed by EI). Best Paper Awards will be presented to high quality papers. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be be published in 8+ SCI & EI indexed prestigious journals (confirmed). 1. Information Fusion (IF: 10.716) SI on Fusion from Big Data to Smart Data 2. Information Fusion (IF: 10.716) SI on Data Fusion for Trust Evaluation https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-fusion/call-for-papers/specia… 3. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (IF: 7.377) SI on Digital Twinning: Integration AI-ML and Big Data Analytics for Virtual Representation http://www.ieee-ies.org/images/files/tii/ss/2020/Digital_Twinning_Integrati… 4. Future Generation Computer Systems (IF: 5.768) SI on Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Defence and Smart Policing https://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/call-f… 5. Journal of Cloud Computing (IF: 2.14) SI on Security and Privacy Issues for AI in Edge-Cloud Computing https://journalofcloudcomputing.springeropen.com/securityprivacyaiedgecloud… 6. Software: Practice and Experience (IF: 1.931) SI on Software and Hardware Co-Design for Sustainable Cyber-Physical Systems https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/assets/page/journal/1097024x/SI_s… 7. MDPI Electronics (IF: 1.764) SI on Blockchain-based Technology for Mobile Application https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/BTMA 8. IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatics Sinica SI on Blockchain for Internet-of-Things and Cyber-Physical Systems: Emerging Trends, Issues and Challenges http://www.ieee-jas.org/news/news_en/9248195c-6d90-4868-9962-263ed9ba12f3_e… * More special issues will be added later. ================== Important Dates ================== Workshop Proposal/Special Session Due: 30 June 2020 Submission Deadline: 1 September 2020 Authors Notification Date: 15 October 2020 Final Manuscript Due: 10 November 2020 Conference Date: 14-16 December 2020 ================== Topics of interest include, but are not limited to ================== Track 1: Dependability and Security Fundamentals and Technologies - Concepts, theory, principles, standardization and modelling, and methodologies - Dependability of sensor, wireless, and Ad-hoc networks, software defined networks - Dependability issues in cloud/fog/edge - Security and privacy - Security/privacy in cloud/fog/edge - Homomorphic encryption, differential privacy - Blockchain security - Artificial intelligence - Big data foundation and management - Dependable IoT supporting technologies Track 2: Dependable and Secure Systems - Dependable sensor systems - Dependability and availability issues in distributed systems - Cyber-physical systems (e.g. automotive, aerospace, healthcare, smart grid systems) - Database and transaction processing systems - Safety and security in distributed computing systems - Self-healing, self-protecting, and fault-tolerant systems - Dependability in automotive systems - Dependable integration - Dependability in big data systems - Software system security Track 3: Dependable and Secure Applications - Sensor and robot applications - Big data applications - Cloud/fog/edge applications - Datacenter monitoring - Safety care, medical care and services - Aerospace, industrial, and transportation applications - Energy, smart grid, IoT, CPS, smart city, and utility applications - Decentralized applications, federated learning applications - Mobile sensing applications, detection and tracking Track 4: Dependability and Security Measures and Assessments - Dependability metrics and measures for safety, trust, faith, amenity, easiness, comfort, and worry - Levels and relations, assessment criteria and authority - Dependability measurement, modeling, evaluation, and tools - Dependability evaluation - Software and hardware reliability, verification and validation - Evaluations and tools of anomaly detection and protection in sensor, cloud, big data systems ================== Paper Submission ================== All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference submission website (http://cse.stfx.ca/~dependsys/2020/index.html) with PDF format. The materials presented in the papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. Each paper is limited to 8 pages (or 10 pages with over length charge) including figures and references using IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced, 10 fonts). You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at the following web page: http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/ Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings can be found at: https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht… Once accepted, the paper will be included into the IEEE conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press (indexed by EI). At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register the paper at the conference. ================== Organizing Committee ================== General Chairs - Mohammad Zulkernine, Queen's University, Canada - Aniello Castiglione, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy - Alireza Jolfaei, Macquarie University, Australia Program Chairs - Salimur Choudhury, Lakehead University, Canada - Qinghua Lu, CSIRO, Australia - Jun Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Steering Committee - Jie Wu, Temple University, USA (Chair) - Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA (Chair) - Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China - Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy - Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong - Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada - Sy-Yen Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan - Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA - A. B. M Shawkat Ali, The University of Fiji, Fiji - Mohammed Atiquzzaman, University of Oklahoma, USA - Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Southeast University, Bangladesh - Kenli Li, Hunan University, China - Shui Yu, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia - Yang Xiang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia - Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA - Kamruzzaman Joarder, Federation University and Monash University, Australia -- Dr. Jun Feng Huazhong University of Science and Technology Mobile: +86-18827365073 E-Mail: junfeng989(a)gmail.com WeChat: junfeng10001000

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Detecting sound with old-style tungsten-filament light bulbs.
by jim bell 13 Jun '20

13 Jun '20

https://www.yahoo.com/news/light-bulb-eavesdrop-peoples-conversations-18180… [partial quote follows] >From Popular Mechanics - At Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, researchers have discovered it's possible to recover full conversations or sounds just by observing a light bulb. - You can see the vibrations created when sound hits the surface of the bulb by looking at slight fluctuations in the bulb's light. - They call the attack "lamphone," and it's outlined in a new paper the team plans to present at this summer's BlackHat USA security conference. One of the best pieces of magic in the Harry Potter universe is a set of Extendable Ears, which wizards use to listen in on secret conversations behind closed doors. As far as we know, spies can't (yet) slip replicas of fleshy ears under a doorframe to eavesdrop—but a new light bulb device might be the next best thing. Scientists at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel have discovered it's possible to recover full conversations from the vibration patterns in a light bulb. The hanging bulb acts as both a diaphragm (sound waves cascade across its surface) and transducer (it converts air pressure from sound to small changes in light), which means it could be a useful gadget for secret agents and nosy people everywhere. "We show how fluctuations in the air pressure on the surface of the hanging bulb (in response to sound), which cause the bulb to vibrate very slightly (a millidegree vibration), can be exploited by eavesdroppers to recover speech and singing, passively, externally, and in real time," the researchers write in their new paper, which they plan to present later this year at the Black Hat USA security conference. Aptly, they call the new attack method "lamphone." It comes from some of the same minds behind a Tesla Autopilot hack from earlier this year, which proved a simple projector could fool the computer vision system into slowing down or speeding up for fake pedestrians and speed limit signs. You can get your hands on everything required to pull off the lamphone feat, including a laptop, telescope, microphone, and remote electro-optical sensor—which coverts light into an electrical signal—for under $1,000, the researchers say. Right now, it's possible to propagate the attack from over 80 feet away, but with improved audio equipment and a better telescope, it could work from even farther distances. [end partial quote] Jim Bell's comment follows: While I won't say that tungsten-filament light bulbs are 'dead as a doornail', they are getting there. The last 30+ bulbs I bought were 100-watt-equivalent LED's, for which I paid $1 each. It's probably much more practical to bug by building a modified LED light bulb, which has a real microphone, and using the sounds detected from the microphone to AM modulate the light output of the LEDs. Or, possibly modulate a frequency-modulated (FM) carrier frequency, depending on the bandwidth of the LEDs. Modulation bandwidth enhancement of white-LED-based visible light communications using electrical equalizations (says that the modulation bandwidth of white LEDs is 'several megahertz'.) Jim Bell

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Re: Personal Black Box: Protesters turn the tables on police surveillance - Vox
by jim bell 13 Jun '20

13 Jun '20

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/6/12/21284113/police-protests-surveillance-…

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Maimonides, muh n.ggas :D
by Zig the N.g 13 Jun '20

13 Jun '20

[pics not attached - you just know ya don't wanna see 'em :D] What About Maimonides, My Niggaz? http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/what-about-maimonides-my-niggaz/ Members of the Sub-Saharan slave diaspora are busy googling the names of old white guys they had never even heard of before, doing word searches on their books for “negro,” “black,” “race,” “slavery,” etc., looking for an excuse to tear their statues down. Moslems who consider Muhammad the Slave Trader to be the Perfect Man are tearing down the statues of white people because they traded slaves. .. Another Cordoba statue is notably absent from the Jew hit lists, however: that of Moses Ben Maimonides. Maimonides is considered the greatest Jewish sage of all time. He read through all the nonsense of the Talmud and extracted its behavioral rules into the Mishneh Torah, including the one that said if a Jew could save a drowning Christian, he should just let him drown instead. But where did Maimonides stand on the Black Lives Matter question? According to Maimonides, Black Lives Didn’t Matter Very Much. In his supposed masterwork, A Guide for the Perplexed, the great man said this: Those who are incapable of attaining to supreme religious values include the black colored people and those who resemble them in their climates. Their nature is like the mute animals. Their level among existing things is below that of a man and above that of a monkey. Here’s another translation of the same passage. [Note: Cushites = negroes]: … Such are the extreme Turks that wander about in the north, the Cushites who live in the south, and those in our country who are like these. I consider these as irrational beings, and not as human beings; they are below mankind, but above monkeys, since they have the form and shape of man, and a mental faculty above that of the monkey. .. Where are the mobs tearing down his statue? OK, there aren’t enough blacks in Cordoba to form a decent-sized mob. But what about Washington, DC, where a plaque to Maimonides stands in the US Capitol building? There should be plenty of tooled-up bruthas there. ...

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Software Development for PBB Or Similar Project
by Karl 13 Jun '20

13 Jun '20

Checking to see if anybody is interested in working on this, possibly with me, on the software side. I don't know you and am half crazy, but I still know some code. grarpamp, Jim said the device has room for an SDR. A generalized secure network would also be a great thing. I have not read most of this list, if that's not obvious. I read source code a lot better than english.

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Personal Black Box Deliberation
by Karl 13 Jun '20

13 Jun '20

I'm copy-pasting on mobile, so sorry about quoting differently. Making something like the PBB project has been a major dream of mine for some time. I'm combining how-to-do-it with whether-to-do-it below, might be good to separate those topics. Jim Bell said: *built, perhaps containing 4 or 6 component cameras, airming in the horizontal plane, able to record everything in a horizontal plane, mounted on your head just like a 'propellor beanie', famous from the early 1960's. A cable will go down to a smart phone in your pocket. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxhzahiQshQ <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxhzahiQshQ%C3%82%C2%A0> Maybe something like this already exists? It certainly ought to.* *The main question I have is whether a smartphone has the capability to digitize (or at least record?) the output from as many as six HD cameras at a single time* My personal experience is that you run into all 4 limits of USB bandwidth, video compression cycles, disk bandwidth, and network bandwidth, streaming that much at once on a single commonly available device. You can of course compensate by dropping most of the frames, maybe ones from cameras showing little activity, but in my opinion that many cameras would be better done with more customized hardware than an off the shelf phone. I'd prefer to focus on phones because anyone can buy/borrow/beg one, but make design choices that allow adding support for customized setups too. Punk-Stasi said: *Keep preaching surveillance technofascism Jim, you're doing a great job.* I reply more below, but it seems the second half of this sentence is the truth. A commonly-available tool is not fascim, and this is already a technocratic list. Jim is discussing empowering common people to _fight_ surveillance technofascism via community "souveillance" which is where masses are empowered to observe and share evidence of authorities. grarpamp said: *Use the phone's USB port to attach the RTL-SDR GnuRadio etc transmitter dongle, or use the phone's Wi-Fi to speak IP* This sounds like a wonderful and important thing to support on both the recording and sending side. marcos said: *All technology is a liability if there are no leaders. They amplify the good and the bad equally. Unless there are leaders. Until then they consume resources.* This sounds incredibly intelligent. We have leaders right now, we don't want them, and the balance of technological privilege recently swung toward them. Punk-Stasi said: *journos have been using 'technology' for a while...to serve and proptect the private-government mafia. The sort of propaganda you're trying to peddle here is infinitely ridiculous. You pick ONE event that suits your 'narrative' while IGNORING A MILLION* Punk, it sounds like you know of a lot of suffering at the hands of technology that may not have been included in this discussion. In america, we still believe we have a huge majority of hackers who distrust the government: although it is true we are all misled by our media and culture. Could you be more precise about what we need to know, or are you maybe looking for understanding that technology tends to cause undiscussed genocide? The million events you describe may have never reached our news.

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Intel patches chip flaw that could leak your cryptographic secrets – Naked Security
by jim bell 13 Jun '20

13 Jun '20

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/06/12/intel-patches-chip-flaw-that-co…

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David Dees has died
by Se7en 12 Jun '20

12 Jun '20

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here's a Glorious Scientific Achievment!
by Punk-Stasi 2.0 12 Jun '20

12 Jun '20

I think all amerikkkans will be infinitely proud seeing the supreme perfection of Amerikkkan Culture and Civilization, embodied in the following Ultimate Invention : https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jge377/stanford-smart-toilet-uses-buttho… Looks like at this point I can rest most of my 'cases'...

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