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by brian carroll 12 Nov '13

12 Nov '13

// infospace, system earth, being and communication TEDx: Prof. Dr. Elisabeth von SamsonowCordless Mega Confusion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLVls6ZX3dk "it is not that the body is inhabited by the soul, it's just the other way around, it's that the body inhabits the soul, the soul is inhabited by bodies- by many bodies. the soul is the sphere in which we communicate, and our bodies are in this sphere, where we shared this... cordless communication, by directing our information packages on different wavelengths." // leading model of orientation: architecture --> text, (since 15th c.) // 1. geology, 2. parasites and real-estate, 3. electra complex, 4. circus [highly recommended. profound understanding & observations, conceptualization and awareness. philosophy of architecture...] Keynote lecture by Elisabeth von Samsonow: The Plasticity of the Real http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGBzbHMf7iI "architecture as cybernetic loop through geology; architecture is parageology" "people take the role of [the] Electra... who confronts a big problem when her mother loses power. truly nothing is more disagreeable than a weak person to depend on. one would get furious with that person. and the {unknown} is more and more turned against the earth directly, which makes it finally difficult to enjoy (architecture in the form of) parageology. ...all the building, all the digging, and hollowing out get more and more performed by rage and despair against the earth and by complicity. ...this is the age of archi-heresy that marks a period where the ontological tie between architecture and geology is broken and dissimulated. archi-heresy is not operated against a monotheistic god but against the earth. it is the dismissal of geology as the principle of architecture when an open heresy - another earth - is simulated, a pseudo-earth- offering space and arranging material." (cartography replaces geology, gps orientation)" "architecture... more of a gardening practice (and biology), than parageology." "a large part of the built world, the environment of today, could have been {mould} to the thick surface of the earth. the fetishizing of the eye and the look made architecture an issue of vision but in fact it is not. it is an issue of the whole body that is equipped by a proper sense of space and matter." ... "instead of impressing the public with pornographic forms and fancy structures, architecture must concentrate on its geological mission. where else? now the strata of the earth are completely irrelevant compared to the price per square meter of the {superficials}, all future architecture will include mining and geologic expedition as well as metallurgic and ecologic research- such as finding out where the veins of water go as well as those of petrol, and any other liquids and tissues and minerals and stones and soft {earths}. this will be the {infernal-jective} operations of an architecture that reconquers and finally integrates its proper foundations." (being-unborn, electra complex to electro complex) A Network Spanning The Forest (Underground) -- of Mother Trees http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/trees-communicate-one-another-co… A Ballet Performed by Birds: Starling Murmurations (see first vid) http://www.visualnews.com/2013/11/06/ballet-performed-birds-starling-murmur… // if not entirely clear.... Murmurations - Ephemeral Plastic Sculptures http://www.alaindelorme.com/works-murmurations & Geometric Order Amidst Starling Chaos http://www.visualnews.com/2012/05/09/geometric-order-amidst-starling-chaos/ Self-steering particles go with the flow // tuning via asymmetry http://phys.org/news/2013-11-self-steering-particles.html "The new MIT approach, described in Nature Communications, requires no external forces and takes advantage of hydrodynamic principles that can be exploited simply by altering the shapes of the particles." E. B. White declining an invitation (via the inimitable @AndreaKuszewski) https://twitter.com/LettersOfNote/status/397354825915985921/photo/1 // autism, x-altruism, ~sociopath reduction strategy... Podcast #74 - Andrea Kuszewski - Bulletproof Executive Radio http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3siooeUd1nw&feature=youtu.be&a GSummit SF 2012: Andrea Kuszewski How to Design Your Life for Continuous Cognitive Enhancement http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayihfOsVwiQ Andrea Kuszewski - The Science of Motivation: Neurology, Psychology, Gamification (GSummit SF 2013) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s40QcA7NJUk [saw this underwater ROV and downrigger attachment and it immediately conjured the future of musky fishing (may require stealth though, a sealed container before deploying baited lure or hook). this for the trophy-winning no technology barred Boba Fett fisherman. all it needs is a floating wireless transmitter buoy to allow extended range, cut the cord. though perhaps murky water, seawood, underwater hazards combined could shipwreck.] Deep Trekker ROV http://www.deeptrekker.com/collections/all http://www.deeptrekker.com/pages/compare-deep-trekker-models http://www.deeptrekker.com/collections/all/products/downrigger http://www.deeptrekker.com/pages/videos Nothing to see here // rel. 'man caves' http://phys.org/news/2013-11-nothing-to-here.html [quote] "Blending in makes sense when you're trying to avoid being eaten," Martin says. "Less is certainly more when predators are around." [unquote] Changing the conversation: Polymers disrupt bacterial communication http://phys.org/news/2013-11-conversation-polymers-disrupt-bacterial.html "As part of their research into the development of artificial cells and programmable bacterial coatings, the team found that polymers—long-chain molecules—that were able to arrange bacteria into clustered communities were, surprisingly, encouraging these bacteria to actively 'talk' to each other. This communication occurred by quorum sensing (QS), a way in which bacteria signal to each other, and coordinate response to environment. Quorum sensing also controls the way in which bacteria release certain types of molecules—for example as a defence mechanism or as tools for infection." Better police surveillance technologies come with a cost, scholar says http://phys.org/news/2013-11-police-surveillance-technologies-scholar.html [quote] "Much of the Supreme Court's previous treatment of police surveillance has rested on the belief that individuals have no expectation of privacy in public places, and that surveillance technologies that merely improve the efficiency of police investigations comport with the Fourth Amendment," he said. "While officers must obtain a warrant before using some technologies, the courts generally do not regulate efficiency-enhancing technologies." Those assumptions have been workable in the past because of the limited use and capability of efficiency-enhancing technologies. But with the advent of automatic license plate readers and surveillance cameras with biometric recognition, the efficiency of the surveillance itself is becoming a constitutional issue, Rushin said. "Since no one has a reasonable expectation of privacy when they're in public, that means that a police officer can do whatever a normal person can do without any kind of special approval," he said. "They can observe your license plate and write it down on a piece of paper and run it through a database. But now they could also use an automatic reader to scan license plates in bulk – up to 1,800 license plates per minute, in fact. That will invariably vacuum up enormous amounts of data on innocent people, too. "So you have technology that might replace the efforts of dozens, even hundreds, of individual law enforcement officers." [endquote] Physicists 'uncollapse' a partially collapsed qubit // reversible peek http://phys.org/news/2013-11-physicists-uncollapse-partially-collapsed-qubi… "... the recovery method is not perfect. The probability of recovering the qubit's state depends on how much it has collapsed, so that the more collapsed the qubit is, the less likely it is to recover. A fully collapsed qubit has zero probability of recovery. Still, the recovery method could be very useful for overcoming one of the biggest challenges in developing quantum systems: decoherence, which results in the loss of a system's quantum properties." // quasi-crypto tools, proposed correlatory... ek tools Nesting Punch Kit http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EVJK3JY/ // the amazing talent of Eric Gjerde: Paper Artist... Money Folds, US Currency http://www.ericgjerde.com/2013/money-folds/ Gnosis Hand-made bio-paper, created by the artist http://www.ericgjerde.com/2012/gnosis/ Under the Sea http://www.ericgjerde.com/2012/under-the-sea/ Rhombic Flagstone, Elephant Hide Paper http://www.ericgjerde.com/2012/rhombic-flagstone/ // Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities (SCIFs) A Layman's Guide to the High-Tech Tents That Keep Secrets Secret http://gizmodo.com/a-laymans-guide-to-the-high-tech-tents-that-keep-secre-1… --- crypto experiment corner --- a potential realm of non-computer crypto could be realized in an arts & crafts context and or writing and typography and signage. recently saw a new style of LED sign for restaurants while random searching for a standard LED scrolling display, seeing what is available today. and a "LED lighted writing board" appeared, perhaps they are all over the place and i've yet to encounter the ubiquity yet, though it has potential for transformable writing via LED light. the Amazon links here are to show a basic kit: 28"x20" Flashing Illuminated Erasable Neon LED Writing Board Menu Sign with Control Button http://www.amazon.com/Flashing-Illuminated-Erasable-Complete-Fluorescent/dp… note: the different color markers are related to the colors of the LED light, and via this property, some colored text could fade out while other text remains, due to the color of the projected light. in other words, an invisible ink or reverse-invisible ink effect could exist, especially if typography were to have superposition of letters or symbols that could retain coherence in partial states, or transform their meaning given what colors are activated. (notice on this example, the remote control is similar to the LED lightbulbs that change colors, thus the concept need not be limited to the writing board...) Image® Flashing Illuminated LED Lighted Writing Board 7 Color Lights 28 Modes up to 28 Feet Remote Control Restaurant http://www.amazon.com/Flashing-Illuminated-Restaurant-Specials-Promotions/d… so it would be an issue of what fluorescent marker colors are available and what light colors are available, as to what the range or number of phase changes could occur via this method. certainly lighting engineers (forget their actual title) have used such effects for animation and movement, though it could also be used for hiding and revealed patterns, etc. and this following url has examples of signage with this changing-color effect that influences the appearance of what is written. (see right column animated signs) LED Writing Boards With Various Lighting Effects http://www.displays2go.com/C-4747/LED-Writing-Boards-With-Various-Lighting-… now perhaps UV and IR wavelengths and blacklight would be needed though if distance is taken into account, scale of glyphs or type, the existing color range could also potentially have enough difference to make some signs more predominant than others, this within a context of intra-sign and infra-sign structuring. like having: \/\ appear in a given color, and then \ \ when the color changes to a particular phase, if not also /\ and / using other hues. /// just in case someone has not seen this yet... True Facts About The Angler Fish http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-BbpaNXbxg truncated polyhedra, vertex, cosine

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Re: [SOT] {FWD} [Dailydave] Don't use vowels in passwords! (fwd)
by Guido Witmond 12 Nov '13

12 Nov '13

On 11/14/13 00:09, sharon wrote: > below :) > On 11/12/2013 11:48 PM, Guido Witmond wrote: >> The world needs to forget passwords as remote identification and move on >> to client certificates. Preferably, a separate client certificate for >> each site. It takes only a small browser plug in to make it easy. >> >> Regards, Guido. > hi, off-list. > ive read a bit about your ideas for auth. its interesting. > but im not clear on one thing - > if were happy with keeping secrets locally, and even letting a browser > plug-in read/write them, > why not just generate a pgp key pair, with one good password, > and use that to keep an encrypted file with lots of randomly generated, > strong passwords? > that encrypted file can be easily synced across devices, with any > regular service, a its encrypted. > (or synced manually, privately) > and the key pair, should be better protected, manually synced, or for > non-paranoid people, with the same service, since thats protected with a > good password too. > of course, echo "good password"| gpg -d "password file"|grep "service > name" could be done with a browser plugin as well. > how is that inferior to client certificates? or the the code you wrote > to make it happen? > thanks. > feel free to reply publicly if you think someone else might also benefit > from it. What you've designed is a classic password manager application, like Lastpass, Keepas. It's a good design for when the site requires a password. However, as every website has their own rules for password, lengths, allowed characters, it makes it a bit of hit and miss whether a certain generated password will be accepted. It would lead to having a list of sites and recipes of what is allowed. It doens't scale. Besides, most sites also require an email address, so anonymity is lost. Client certificates are already implemented in most web servers. It's a one-line setting to accept a certain certificate authority for a site. If that is the Ca of the site owner themselves, it's even easier. The price to pay (for end users) is to have a computer that cannot easily be subverted by malware. Notice that's the same requirement for password managers. I've written about my ideas on client certificates on my site: http://eccentric-authentication.org/ Feel free to ask if anything is not clear Regards, Guido.

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Senate to investigate Intelligence Community
by Gregory Foster 12 Nov '13

12 Nov '13

Foreign Policy (Nov 12) - "Senate to Start Sweeping Intel Review This Month" by @shanewharris: http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/11/12/senate_to_start_sweeping… Harris, author of _The Watchers_ and not one prone to hyperbole, draws comparison with the Church-Pike hearings. > Not everyone had been convinced that Feinstein's promise to investigate the intelligence agencies was more bark than bite. A former senior intelligence official recently told The Cable that he believed the inquiry would be wide-ranging and would uncover more controversial programs that will embarrass the intelligence agencies. HT @shanewharris: https://twitter.com/shanewharris/status/400340087894204416 gf -- Gregory Foster || gfoster(a)entersection.org @gregoryfoster <> http://entersection.com/

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Re: patents in a free society (Re: Brother can you help a fiber?)
by Bill Stewart 12 Nov '13

12 Nov '13

The standard Libertarian position on patents is "rabid". Whether "rabidly for" or "rabidly against" or "rabidly endorsing some highly nuanced conditional niche position in between", we're in pretty solid agreement on the "rabid" part. Some of us strongly believe in intellectual property. Some of us believe that initiating force to defend "imaginary property" that's really a euphemism for a government-granted monopoly is both dishonest and anathema. So take your pick.

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NIST Randomness Beacon
by d.nix 12 Nov '13

12 Nov '13

surely someone here has an opinion... http://www.nist.gov/itl/csd/ct/nist_beacon.cfm :-)

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A Fierce Domain: Conflict in Cyberspace 1986 to 2012
by John Young 12 Nov '13

12 Nov '13

A Fierce Domain: Conflict in Cyberspace 1986 to 2012: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E00QSN4/ref=cm_cr_rev_prod_title Excerpts: http://cryptome.org/2013/11/fierce-domain.htm

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Re: [cryptography] NIST Randomness Beacon
by Peter Gutmann 11 Nov '13

11 Nov '13

Warren Kumari <warren(a)kumari.net> writes: >I've often wondered if there is a clever way to do the inverse -- basically >to have a "latest" timestamp? This seems like a much harder problem -- 'm >looking for a "movie plot" type solution that the public can easily >understand… You could do it with a physical one-way function. Take a photo of the victim on top of the WTC and you know that it can't have been occurred after 9/11. To generalise it, photograph the victim in front of some documented object and then destroy the object. I'm assuming in the movie-plot scenario that someone who's kidnapped a victim won't worry about blowing up a statue in a park or performing whatever the physical one-way operation is. Depending on how evil your movie-plot villain is (and how convoluted the plot will get), he/she could kill random strangers after photographing them with the victim, in order to fix a point in time. Peter.

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Re: [cryptography] NIST Randomness Beacon
by CodesInChaos 11 Nov '13

11 Nov '13

On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Natanael <natanael.l(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Proof-of-work, just like Bitcoin itself uses for hashing? No this idea isn't about proof of work. The idea is delaying the computation result, preventing a miner from picking a value. If the computation takes an hour on the fastest available computer and isn't parallelizable, then a miner can't influence the unpredictable value (unless they have 51%). With slightly weaker security requirements iterating only a few million times would be decent as well, since attempting to influence the value would result in a performance hit a competitive miner can't afford.

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[liberationtech] Survey on the security of human rights defenders, activists and journalists
by Security First 11 Nov '13

11 Nov '13

Hi LiberationTech, We're a small group of human rights defenders based in the UK (we will give a more formal announcement soon!) doing some work to develop mobile tools for the physical security of human rights defenders, activists and journalists. It would be a great help to us while we are still in the early development phase if we could get some feedback from the group about some of the physical security problems they face - to help us prioritise our development work. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1LRATeUm2hmzIBBYAg8LtMxcx6W6X4Fl1iYF-Lqe0Fi… Also, if there are people in London interested in grabbing a coffee then please do drop us a mail! Many thanks, Security First. www.secfirst.org -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at companys(a)stanford.edu.

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sidebands of great justice [was: Meet “badBIOS,” the mysterious Mac and PC malware that jumps airgaps]
by coderman 10 Nov '13

10 Nov '13

On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 12:47 AM, grarpamp <grarpamp(a)gmail.com> wrote: > ... > Unlikely the average laptop would adequately cover > the airgap in this frequency range. Signal to noise > ratio and packet loss are further inhibitive to data > transmission. friend and i spent a few hours earlier this week playing around with high frequency data transmission over PC speakers and microphones. my hearing is rather poor, as sounds > 13kHz are inaudible to me. $friend can hear just over 17kHz. a few normal laptops and mics were able to emit and receive in the 18kHz to 20kHz frequencies just fine, and (unsurprisingly enough) there's almost nothing in this range naturally. a side channel just waiting for use! bit rate is poor in our limited example, however. i'll leave high speed, error correcting implementations to the reader ;) best regards,

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