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WIRED: Hackers Hosed by Google Were a Counterterrorism Operation
by jim bell 28 Mar '21

28 Mar '21

WIRED: Hackers Hosed by Google Were a Counterterrorism Operation. https://www.wired.com/story/security-news-hackers-hosed-by-google-counter-t…

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Livescience.com: DARPA takes step toward 'holy grail of encryption'
by jim bell 28 Mar '21

28 Mar '21

Livescience.com: DARPA takes step toward 'holy grail of encryption'. https://www.livescience.com/darpa-holy-grail-encryption.html

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[old] Cambridge Analytica / Team Trump
by Karl 28 Mar '21

28 Mar '21

This is three years old, but I didn't even know about it. Some of these guys were like my best friends in a funny, detached, psychologically gruesome way. I found this while looking into the "iHuman" documentary, which apparently summarises this stuff, being very hard to find in the USA. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/data-war-whistleblower-christo… somehow ended up creating “Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare mindfuck tool”. In 2014, Steve Bannon – then executive chairman of the “alt-right” news network Breitbart – was Wylie’s boss. And Robert Mercer, the secretive US hedge-fund billionaire and Republican donor, was Cambridge Analytica’s investor. And the idea they bought into was to bring big data and social media to an established military methodology – “information operations” – then turn it on the US electorate.

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Facialized: Activists OpenOversight Cops, Freedom Cells w John Bush, 3d-print
by grarpamp 28 Mar '21

28 Mar '21

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/technology/facial-recognition-police.html https://openoversight.com/ https://paolocirio.net/work/capture/ Activists Turn Facial Recognition Tools Against the Police “We’re now approaching the technological threshold where the little guys can do it to the big guys,” one researcher said. https://lbry.tv/@livingfreedom:3/freedomcells_-_john_bush-tom_woods_show-ep… https://3dprintergobrrr.com/

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[AI] community p2p machine learning
by Karl 28 Mar '21

28 Mar '21

free p2p network: https://github.com/learning-at-home/hivemind on a blockchain for profit: https://github.com/opentensor/bittensor i daydream nowadays about getting the p2p people to serve their work on a blockchain like that for a shared community fund, the money from which is used to grow the p2p network larger. i am not pursuing that due to my personal issues. of course with machine learning it's important to store the history somewhere cryptographically secure, since hacking it is such a big thing. meanwhile https://singularitynet.io/ has been around for some time but i don't know if anybody is actually using it. reminds me of when their agi list was shut down in the 90s because of 'fear of terrorists building ai'.

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1984: Google Shills Tech Denotes Mandatory Universal Global Govt ID in your Phones
by grarpamp 28 Mar '21

28 Mar '21

https://security.googleblog.com/2021/03/announcing-android-ready-se-allianc… Mobile driver’s license and Identity Credentials Mobile Driver’s License (mDL), National ID, ePassports eMoney solutions (for example, Wallet) Google named only centralized tech, clearly shilling for its Govt sponsors.

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Gizmodo: Guns.com Gets Hacked, Spilling Gun Owner Information All Over the Dark Web
by jim bell 28 Mar '21

28 Mar '21

Gizmodo: Guns.com Gets Hacked, Spilling Gun Owner Information All Over the Dark Web. https://gizmodo.com/guns-com-gets-hacked-spilling-gun-owner-information-al-…

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Re: We are being manipulated to engage in conflict, and seem unable to resist. How should this be handled?
by coderman 26 Mar '21

26 Mar '21

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 outrage is the currency of the modern attention economy. when someone is spewing vitriol and hyperbole to animate you into action, they are manipulating you - targeting your emotional response rather than cognitive reason. don't fall for it! :) best regards, -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iNUEAREKAH0WIQRBwSuMMH1+IZiqV4FlqEfnwrk4DAUCYF4B5F8UgAAAAAAuAChp c3N1ZXItZnByQG5vdGF0aW9ucy5vcGVucGdwLmZpZnRoaG9yc2VtYW4ubmV0NDFD MTJCOEMzMDdEN0UyMTk4QUE1NzgxNjVBODQ3RTdDMkI5MzgwQwAKCRBlqEfnwrk4 DKxcAP9uH/7x1ViluRZ8Li/+4EW+GoWJC6RQ1tRlmlE7GZYAaQD/aba1jWZ+3cEA HpXCy3HOxRVPyVsDuwgva0CQJUP+a58= =zeAE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Australia being run like debian-private mailing list
by Debian Community News Team 25 Mar '21

25 Mar '21

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-25/brittany-higgins-formal-complaint-ba…

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Comparing ultra-accurate atomic clocks.
by jim bell 25 Mar '21

25 Mar '21

Study compares three top atomic clocks with record accuracy over both fiber and air | | | | | | | | | | | Study compares three top atomic clocks with record accuracy over both fi... In a significant advance toward the future redefinition of the international unit of time, the second, a researc... | | | In a significant advance toward the future redefinition of the international unit of time, the second, a research team led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has compared three of the world's leading atomic clocks with record accuracy over both air and optical fiber links. Described in the March 25 issue of Nature, the NIST-led work is the first to compare three clocks, based on different atoms, and the first to link the most advanced atomic clocks in different locations over the air. These atomic clock comparisons place the scientific community one step closer to meeting the guidelines for redefinition of the second. "These comparisons are really defining the state of the art for both fiber-based and free-space measurements—they are all close to 10 times more accurate than any clock comparisons using different atoms performed so far," NIST physicist David Hume said. The new measurements were challenging because the three types of atoms involved "tick" at vastly different frequencies, because all the many network components had to operate with extreme accuracy, and because the wireless link required cutting-edge laser technology and design. The study compared the aluminum-ion clock and ytterbium lattice clock, located in different laboratories at NIST Boulder, with the strontium lattice clock located 1.5 kilometers away at JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado Boulder. The team's measurements were so accurate that uncertainties were only 6 to 8 parts in 1018—that is, errors never exceeded 0.000000000000000008—for both fiber and wireless links.

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