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Fwd: [cryptography] Which encryption chips are compromised?
by coderman 11 Dec '13

11 Dec '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: coderman <coderman(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 7:12 PM Subject: Re: [cryptography] Which encryption chips are compromised? On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 4:11 PM, <dan(a)geer.org> wrote: > ... > For this to be an explicit line item in that document, it > has to be special. The two classes of "special" that occur > to me are (1) XXXXXX has a near monopoly (like Broadcom > does in its sector) or (2) XXXXXX is uniquely vulnerable to > blackmail (a merchant with an export control problem, say). you ask interesting questions Dan, and draw useful conclusions :) some items to note: - is this DUAL_EC_DRNG? don't think so. deadline is FY 2013. - is this DUAL_EC_DRNG? the market for closed source, proprietary crypto solutions is small (and growing smaller, :( - is this XSTORE? it's been a while. but never should have been used directly. see mtrngd with MSR bits set no whitening, max sample, max freq. into mix + conservative estimate before /dev/random write. > But in related news: > > Engineers abandon encryption chips after Snowden leaks > http://rt.com/usa/snowden-leak-rng-randomness-019/ some cryptographers and cypherpunks have become despondent or dejected or demoralized by these events. i see a larger picture: never before have so many been doing crypto less wrong! ;P

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Open phones for privacy/anonymity applications, Guardian
by grarpamp 10 Dec '13

10 Dec '13

A few links... http://neo900.org/ http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-main/ https://jolla.com/ http://www.fairphone.com/ http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/11/02/1637236/openphoenux-neo900-bill… More interesting platforms for even Guardian or other OS than any Nexus 5 or alike hardware, no? https://guardianproject.info/hardware/ http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/root_friendly http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Devices

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good clocks (not using GPS) and multi-channel hw [was: sidebands of great justice]
by coderman 09 Dec '13

09 Dec '13

On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:32 PM, coderman <coderman(a)gmail.com> wrote: > ... > SDR MIMO kit leaves much to be desired, however. let me clarify: the hardware available for SDR MIMO development leaves much to be desired. ... the blocks and implementations for OFDM coding in software are OK :) USRP N2X0 can do it, other setups require external reference clock with high fidelity. any recommendations for non-GPS clocks performing at 50-100ppb or better?

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Re: EM-nature (was: infra-org)
by Bill Stewart 09 Dec '13

09 Dec '13

>JYA wrote: > > The celebrated EM components of TEMPEST are commonly > > used as subterfuges, ruses and ploys to divert attention from > > the non-EM -- which an almost limitless number of animals and > > other creatures use for SIGINT and COMINT... Back in the 80s I ran a TEMPEST-shielded computer room, with a VAX 11/780 and later some Sun-2 workstations, doing studies for the government that they didn't want Commie Spies listening to. The shielding was basically plywood with sheet metal on both sides, with special metal joints in between them and on the corners, packed with wire mesh in the joints to plug any extra leaks, making a nice big Faraday cage. The air vents were metal grates an inch or two deep with zig-zaggy airflow paths, and our data connections used fiber optics going through waveguide holes that were about 3" long and 1/8" diameter. Power feeds used big inductive low-pass filters. We measured the RF-tightness using meters that ran at 450 MHz, trying to keep things 120dB tight. You had one person carry a transmitter on one side of the wall, another person a reader on the other side. One experiment we'd occasionally do was to stick a wire through the fiber waveguides, and if you got more than halfway through, that was enough for 450MHz to leak out. I'm not sure what frequencies we *really* needed to protect against, but the Vax ran at something like 10 MHz, so 450MHz was way overkill for any harmonics that might happen. What occurred to me recently was that 10 MHz computers may have been state of the art for the mid-80s, but that was a lot of iterations of Moore's Law ago, and I doubt the technology of the time is much use for current 2-3 GHz laptops. The main Faraday cage should be fine, plus or minus a bit of extra copper tape to plug minor leaks, but all the air vents are going to be awfully leaky at those frequencies. Any idea what people use today?

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Re: EM-nature (was: infra-org)
by John Young 08 Dec '13

08 Dec '13

The earliest and most enduring form of infosec -- crypt-crypto -- is non-EM, non-language, non-homo-erectus. Current versions contain vestigals of those primitives in what is disingenuously termed implementation. And it is in implementation where most comsec failures occur and where most successes succeed. Code is closer to whistling in the dark, baying at the moon, offering newborns to hungry wolves. Implementation is 99.99+% of infosec-comsec, perhaps 100%. Code hardly scratches the surface and might be constructively seen as a ruse, a strategem, concocted and promoted to delude. Delusion is the prime purpose of implementation. Code inebriation creates phantasms of security by ignoring signs of predators aprowl where coders live, work, sleep, chat OTR and post. David Kahn, among others, amply desribes the range of implementation, its short-term successes and long-term delusions. Nothing finer in Carolina than belief in an invulnerable cryptosystem. Less noticed is the effectiveness of promulgating an invulnerable comsec or cryptosystem to encourage widespread use. As seen today, not only in the fantastic rise of the comsec industry but also in the frantic efforts to keep the ball rolling to counter Snowden's disclosures of delusion. At 11:58 AM 12/8/2013, Brian Carroll wrote: i need to make note of this observation because it has special >relevance for the present situation of shared observation regarding >'information operations' (or other) that occur and-or are analyzed >within a particular context, framework, conceptualization. because >there is a split in worldview and modeling between the animal realm >whereby the sonar of bats or directional navigation of birds become >detached in their EM abilities from similar non-recognized natural >abilities in humans, which are 'off the map' so to speak, in terms >of a general awareness and recognition of similar EM physiology. Rest good stuff elided.

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re: EM-nature
by brian carroll 08 Dec '13

08 Dec '13

// apologies for the quixotic ranting this involves. it is // directed at a prevailing ideological condition readily // encountered most everywhere and institutionalized, // though also pervades communications frameworks // in which ideas take place, outside logical accounting // beyond language itself, thus bias/distortion built-into // structure for conveying observations, not removed. // science and technology is heavily invested in this // viewpoint, reliant upon it, to the point it is religion- // yet detached from, nonobservant of greater truth. in // this way, a privileged hierarchical perspective where // technological tools themselves operate in bounded // and biased condition as if neutral, due to ideology // when instead warped, twisted, turned against self. // in this way, to interrogate the crooked windmillery (regarding default scenario: waffling into oblivion...) for instance, if the mathematics of zero is off, then use of such equations reliant on this modeling are going to bound observations into a realm of perpetual inaccuracy as a basis for worldview and 'physics' itself likewise, if politically expedient, within this boundary, a model of relativism can continually be reinforced via these mathematics, it further provides a framework that declares a particular reality to be the shared situation, even if this goes against common sense, experience, truth, and knowledge. physics then determining it as if judge, jury, ultimately executioner of 'bad thinking' because it does not conform to the inaccurate model such as astronomers believing goats ruled earth from the moon or whatever other such beliefs, if enforced and stopping other direct observations because they do not conform to the belief system much more accurate in a charged atmosphere that we are beings are _submerged in an information environment, a realm of invisible circuitry that has fundamental relation to pattern and constellations of data, models that repeat as concepts and ideas, and where do these reside, only inside of brains? this is why the jellyfish seemed a useful analogy, a floating sentience suspended in an information rich environment that then is mediated, tuned into, related to and through within certain dimensionality that may change from one being, species to the next and yet some fundamental condition is also shared, held in common, this is the electromagnetic context that is _undocumented in both nature and humans as a continuous circuit throughout the cosmos from the beginning of its existence to peak development of life and sentience unfolding at its very edge, that is where consciousness is operating, alive, interface to reality and able to reflect upon this condition yet without a unified model, EM cosmography necessary before EM cosmology, seemingly, to consider EM nature in relation to EM lifeforms, and then EM humans and EM technology within this realm, as 'consciousness' and concepts like code, programming, 'artificial intelligence' are inherently related to this condition in its truth, yet completely separated from it due to a non- electromagnetic worldview, understanding, as if computers invented and 'contain' charge vs. everything containing charge in a given realm, plants, animals, the air, tools, bodies, minds. the circuit itself not even a concept beyond the manufactured circuitboard in terms of a diagrammatic approach to reasoning, that is processing of reality and decision-making, such that perhaps this too is about circuits, and we cannot reason or communciate in the way we actually think, via patterns as our worldview is disconnected from them, from our own observation, and made into signs instead, held apart from geometry, other structural relations and evaluations that may predate or provide foundation for more ornate descriptions thereafter yet these fundamentals are not secured and instead lost in a non-EM evaluation, as if 'writing to write' or 'coding to code' is a higher connectivity or awareness when instead it is a further detachment from the fundamentals, truth in its logical evaluation needed to secure the modeling, test and correct for errors, the obligation ignored, denied for a simple, quicker lost cause, moving in the wrong direction, forgetting to listen to the compass built-into the self, of the electromagnetic directionality, its connection with this cosmic condition and the naturalness and unity, harmony that could exist with people, environment, tools, instead ignored, disease, disharmony and falsity taking the place of enlightenment then to speak of anything detached from this condition as if encompassing it in a too small, finite worldview, believing infinity can be pre- packaged into a confined condition and then held there as mode of control over it, versus freeing the infinity truth and human reasoning, challenging the concepts and regulations of 'discourse' and 'institutionalization of views', to achieve this greater accuracy, _security instead becomes the very problem that must be combated to defend, uphold the criminal falsity and deception of a false worldview, false reality, false perspective, false beliefs that are normalized, enforced, dictated in this way what is anything in its truth without this electromagnetic context as the foundation for its evaluation, and this in all its dimensionality, not compartmented into narrowed controlled categories that are the basis for its denial via social protocols that seek to uphold a given social order that does not serve or seek this greater truth and instead desires to substitute it, stand-in for it, as guardians though of the false, nothingness code, crypto in this context, tools, computers, programming, reasoning, processing, thought, security, insecurity, tyranny, freedom, laws how do you move from infinite parallel worlds in relativistic conditions into a single shared empirical framework in varying dimensionality via quantum conditions without EM-nature? how do you do this if the mathematics do not allow it. or an absolute framework is not allowed within reasoning via the ideology of relativism as it has been detached from logical accounting beyond the binary onesided belief of ideology. what if the model of information survives death, that like energy, if information is attached to it as pattern in some way, whether morphic fields or other conceptual forms or formatting, patterns that even these computer conversations could already be occurring interdimensionally, beyond given thresholds yet not perceived locally this way. none of it can be rationalized if the foundation for the worldview is off, wrong, fundamentally incorrect and there is every indication that this is the case, yet further, that it purposeful, to maintain control over events by denying the true nature of reality and seeking to control and exploit this against human populations, for their political subjugation that is driven by evil intent, exampled everywhere then to communicate or talk in this realm as if it is not happening, beyond the pale to mention as if craziness. that is threshold of the different groundings, the ruling ideology based on falsity all its circuitry open to hacking and cracking, awaiting horn to announce the games begin... ❉ ✴ ❇ example of diagrams shared on defunct electronetwork-list https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hdp28xagjr4d0us/RX2WLmrK3z

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Re: NSA morale down
by John Young 08 Dec '13

08 Dec '13

Most NSA employees, like all spy agencies, do not participate directly in special ops, any more than most military members do not engage in combat. So they are terribly displeased when the exposed war carnage breaks the bubble of prestige and admiration bestowed on the whole clan for recruitment, pensions, awards and ceremonial burial. NSA had a relatively clean record, compared to other spies, until the fan was hit with Snowden. Snowden learned that working for a spy or military contractor under guise of ennobling public service is a shock at how badly hires and ex-officials are treated: produce and fulfill new contracts damn quickly or get the fuck out. So he got out. All the perks of official service are no where to be seen, and being shit on by bosses is much worse than that of the non-secretkeepers who can abuse with impunity on behalf natsec. To earn the dirty-work salaries means to eat their shit, no valor, no medals, no pride, just shameless profits. Which is why quite a few go back into official service after a taste of raw capitalism always rotting. And, not least, why even more adjust their ethics and morals to fit what the corporations expect for predator-grade dollars a year. Thus, millionaire Michael Hayden, who led the privatizing initiative with a gang of venal directors and is reaping payola for demonizing Snowden. And so is Alexander preparing a place in that select TS/SCI Codeword crowd. Infosec-comsec firms and experts play this duplicity game exceedingly well, feet in both camps, hands in both pockets, via dual-use tech and contracts, and it is to be expected that evidence of that classified duplicity is being withheld by the Snowden information managers, aided and abetted by those very experts in lawful business corruption and deception, protected by secrecy. Clues repeatedly proclaimed by the press outlets: officials ask, demand, threaten, don't publish names, addresses, emails, contractors' names. Kiriakou and Hammond await you. The sweet smell of success: joining the secretkeeping crowd for future rewards by way of irresistable offers. Guess how much will be offered to deliver Snowden and his unpublished cache (if not Greenwald and Poitras too) by one or more of his information fences by bribe and threat? Sabu is ROTFLHAO, wearing a medal for taking the piss. Probably the biggest downer for the nobody NSA grunts is observing the golden rewards of lying to the public. If that disenchantment goes the right way, there well be a steady stream of Snowdens delivering their bundles to publishes, or best, self-publishing and bypassing the venal MTMs enjoying fucking over sources. At 03:44 AM 12/8/2013, you wrote: >On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 12:22 AM, coderman <coderman(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > ... > > it remains to be seen if they simply jump to private sector who are > > just as bad, or pursue less offensive careers entirely. > >by private sector i'm thinking of companies like Statfor more than Amazon... > > >http://cryptome.org/2013/12/wl-stratfor-popovic-ows.htm >""" >... Below are a series of articles this past week about >internationally acclaimed activist, Srdja Popovic, and his involvement >with the private intelligence firm Stratfor. > >... If anyone has information about CANVAS or Srdja Popovic, please >feel free to contact me at zoealif[at]gmail.com. I am currently >writing a blog post on the story. >"""

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EM-nature (was: infra-org)
by brian carroll 08 Dec '13

08 Dec '13

JYA wrote: > The celebrated EM components of TEMPEST are commonly > used as subterfuges, ruses and ploys to divert attention from > the non-EM -- which an almost limitless number of animals and > other creatures use for SIGINT and COMINT... i need to make note of this observation because it has special relevance for the present situation of shared observation regarding 'information operations' (or other) that occur and-or are analyzed within a particular context, framework, conceptualization. because there is a split in worldview and modeling between the animal realm whereby the sonar of bats or directional navigation of birds become detached in their EM abilities from similar non-recognized natural abilities in humans, which are 'off the map' so to speak, in terms of a general awareness and recognition of similar EM physiology. in other words, 'the senses' of humans are detached from their electromagnetic context that would unify a model of humanity (to be discussed at some later time) with such EM nature and provide context for both a healthy relation and toxic conditions. though this remains unrecognized via a political agenda that prevents such data beyond its protected ideological boundary, thus effects of wi-fi or artificial radiation (radio, etc) on human beings is categorized into a realm of personal 'mental illness' and unrelated to issues of cancer, at the same time EM tools (nuclear resonance) are used to treat the ~mystery disease. it is a split between mind-body that is enforced institutionally, disallowing EM viewpoint while leveraging its onesidedness against dumbed-down populations, unable to reason within the warped frameworks about what is going on, because the cause and effect have been separated, plausibly denied. in a context of 'information operations' and 'electronic warfare' this involves a realm of ~supernatural-like events that thus cannot be accounted for in a non-electromagnetic context or view, such that it cannot be 'rationally' reasoned with beyond a realm of forced hysteria, as if dealing with ghosts/demons, versus technological infrastructure operating in other realms. thus security, defense, attacks are in a realm of "beliefs" that are detached from a shared understanding/knowledge of the environment these events are operating/occurring within, like magic or witchcraft or sorcery, exfiltrating data and then using a god-status to manipulate peoples lives - now this is the power of government that is beyond oversight, law itself. entire realms of ideological attackers then can be aligned in such a ~wildwest scenario as if a replay of cowboys/indians, the model for basic exchange moves towards highway robbery in this same approach, detached from the actual condition that exists, unable to speak about it or confirm it, as with physics that supposedly "define" reality at the material level yet which are byzantine and disconnected views that disallow reasoning and observation while seeking to represent, have control over it as ideology - this massive obfuscation the success of relativism. so that nothing and only nothing can be discussed and the left is rest for experts. in this way, silence is enforced via ideology that is actually _detached from nature yet claims to represent it and so to the mind and imagination and body of humans, these as they are detached from the environment they exist within as this becomes the basis for exploitation, predator/prey relations at the level of politics of the rogue state, homicidal government. in this way little can be said or done without being discredited for going 'beyond the lines' that are dutifully enforced by the protectors and defenders of the corrupt ideology, this boundary is what needs to stand, the misrepresentation and malmodeling of existence so that _reason cannot occur in accurate terms, mathematics (of zero) and michelson-morley experiment (as if simple debunk of aether) and removal of the absolute from all equations, then acting and believing as if this is NORMAL when it is fundamentally unreal as to shared experience and observation of known and knowable facts and observations. instead it becomes about what is allowed via a viewpoint that can remain secure while allowing other views to exist, within certain parameters yet truth is lost in this confinement to a finite, overcontrolled, self-interested, skewed interaction, whereby "nothingness" continually replaces "being" as the shared condition, while those administering technology can further apply and ply their craft and trade against and upon humans, while humans have no effect on this relationship, it is a bias that is enforced by dark ages restrictions upon thought, held within an outdated view, stagnation of beliefs for hundreds if not thousands of years of knowledge (basic amber and lodestone fundamentals continually extended, technologized) whereby even the fact that the atmosphere itself is full of charge is irrelevant to those whose interest is in technology, as if the 'data model' for information only exists in artificial media and not within EM nature itself, that beings could be interacting and formatted the shared environment like the r/w head of a harddrive via mind, yet the considerations never go outside the skull or beyond the 'expert models' that bound this to the brain instead. as if people cannot be allowed to think for themselves or perhaps know far more than "beliefs" of scientists allow via its enforcement of a corrupt political ideology, where this bias against accurate human representation that gives rise and momentum to an antihuman agenda, a religious belief system that is biased against humans as this is turned into infrastructure, tools, government. and at its core is nothingness. falsity, lies. not truth. it is language games. it is disregard for, exploitation of logic whereby proofs are unneeded, never checked- beyond language in its ungrounded condition and this very comprehensiveness is itself based on absolutism, where 'it cannot be known' becomes this absolute truth simultaneously denied by the same political priesthood whose goal is to mislead, misdirect, to keep us enslaved in a false worldview, model, "physics" detached from reality the disconnection of accurate understanding of the mind, as if we cannot be allow to think or know consciousness even, outside the scientific technological evaluation within a biased modeling, then forbids accurate connection and evaluation with the electromagnetic body, nervous system, senses, in terms of awareness, reasoning, truth itself as it relates to information (and security) beyond 'the brain', and all the senses in their variability as they are unified and not kept separate within human and other entities. yet this wholeness is illegal as an identity, observation is forcibly denied, the perspective directly challenges the technical and ideological and political advantage of those using these warped harmful tools and exploits against the population, to continue their illegal control over events to the deterioration of earth, its inhabitants when truth is outlawed there is no way to 'reason' about such conditions. they are penalized as viewpoints and this defines a boundary condition or protected threshold of different values, economic/political/social interests that separate, some mind and bodies benefit for this while others must suffer as a result of ongoing deception. for some it is their security model, this obfuscated realm. for others, humans, it is the basis for insecurity, torment, disconnection for action and ability, realism, truth itself thus reality is legislated away by others who stand in for the law, on their own terms, for their own benefit while others must suffer for this to be sustained, yet if some take on more suffering via self-sacrifice, this condition could be fundamentally transformed, given rules of operation changed, hacked, short-circuited and switched into other circuits, functionality, and then the situation becomes increasing interesting worldwide, as unified understanding takes control, governed by shared service to truth, firstly, finally ▲ ◁ ▼

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NSA morale down
by coderman 08 Dec '13

08 Dec '13

the portrayals from the brass and insiders is, "the administration is not showing enough support!". i have to wonder: how many rank and file are feeling betrayed by the NSA administration instead? they're now getting a look into all the SCI bits they were compartmented from before; able to see a bigger picture full of invasive technical excesses and legal abuses... """ A second former official said NSA workers are polishing up their résumés and asking that they be cleared — removing any material linked to classified programs — so they can be sent out to potential employers. He noted that one employee who processes the résumés said, “I’ve never seen so many résumés that people want to have cleared in my life.” """ it remains to be seen if they simply jump to private sector who are just as bad, or pursue less offensive careers entirely. --- http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-morale-down-after… NSA morale down after Edward Snowden revelations, former U.S. officials say By Ellen Nakashima, Published: December 7 Morale has taken a hit at the National Security Agency in the wake of controversy over the agency’s surveillance activities, according to former officials who say they are dismayed that President Obama has not visited the agency to show his support. A White House spokeswoman, Caitlin Hayden, noted that top White House officials have been to the agency to “express the president’s support and appreciation for all that NSA does to keep us safe.” It is not clear whether or when Obama might travel the 23 miles up the Baltimore-Washington Parkway to visit Fort Meade, the NSA’s headquarters in Maryland, but agency employees are privately voicing frustration at what they perceive as White House ambivalence amid the pounding the agency has taken from critics. An NSA spokeswoman had no comment. Obama in June defended the NSA’s surveillance as lawful and said he welcomed the public debate prompted by revelations from former contractor Edward Snowden beginning that month. Though Obama has asserted, for instance, that the NSA’s collection of virtually all Americans’ phone records is lawful and has saved lives, the administration has not endorsed legislation that would codify it. And his recent statements suggest he thinks some of the NSA’s activities should be constrained. A senior administration official who was not authorized to speak on the record said that the White House would normally not endorse legislation so early in the process but that “it’s been clear . . . that we prefer legislation” that preserves the phone records program “while making some changes . . . to potentially strengthen oversight and transparency.” Said Hayden: “The president has the highest respect for and pride in the men and women of the intelligence community who work tirelessly to protect our nation. He’s expressed that directly to NSA’s leadership and has praised their work in public. As he said: ‘The men and women of our intelligence community work every single day to keep us safe because they love this country and believe in our values. They’re patriots.’ ” She noted that in recent weeks, Lisa Monaco, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, and Denis McDonough, the White House chief of staff, visited Fort Meade “to express the president’s support and appreciation for all that NSA does to keep us safe.”’ Supporters of the NSA say staffers are not feeling the love. “The agency, from top to bottom, leadership to rank and file, feels that it is had no support from the White House even though it’s been carrying out publicly approved intelligence missions,” said Joel Brenner, NSA inspector general from 2002 to 2006. “They feel they’ve been hung out to dry, and they’re right.” A former U.S. official — who like several other former officials interviewed for this story requested anonymity because he still has dealings with the agency — said: “The president has multiple constituencies — I get it. But he must agree that the signals intelligence NSA is providing is one of the most important sources of intelligence today. “So if that’s the case, why isn’t the president taking care of one of the most important elements of the national security apparatus?” The White House, observers say, is caught between competing desires to preserve what it has said are valuable national security programs and to shield the president from criticism from allies abroad and civil-liberties advocates at home. Some observers said it is not surprising that Obama would not travel to Fort Meade before internal and external reviews of surveillance activities have been completed. The reviews are expected to be done soon. The NSA’s director, Gen. Keith Alexander, who is retiring in the spring after 81 / 2 years, has been the most vocal defender of the agency’s 35,000 employees. In speeches he has noted that more than 6,000 of them went to Iraq and Afghanistan to support the military. He has spoken of how 22 cryptologists were killed. “They’re the heroes — not the media leaker,” he said in a September speech, in a reference to Snowden. NSA counterterrorism analysts have worked “every weekend for eight years since I’ve been here. . . . Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, they’re there to defend us,” he said then. On Thursday, Obama said on MSNBC that he would be proposing “some self-restraint on the NSA” and “some reforms that can give people more confidence.” In an interview with NBC last month, he said: “In some ways, the technology and the budgets and the capacity [at NSA] have outstripped the constraints. And we’ve got to rebuild those in the same way that we’re having to do on a whole series of capacities . . . [such as] drone operations.” Civil-liberties advocates generally agree with that sentiment, but they would go further and say that the NSA’s bulk collection of domestic phone records is unlawful and ought to be ended. Former officials note how President George W. Bush paid a visit to the NSA in January 2006, in the wake of revelations by the New York Times that the agency engaged in a counterterrorism program of warrantless surveillance on U.S. soil beginning after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. “Bush came out and spoke to the workforce, and the effect on morale was tremendous,” Brenner said. “There’s been nothing like that from this White House.” A second former official said NSA workers are polishing up their résumés and asking that they be cleared — removing any material linked to classified programs — so they can be sent out to potential employers. He noted that one employee who processes the résumés said, “I’ve never seen so many résumés that people want to have cleared in my life.” Morale is “bad overall,” a third former official said. “The news — the Snowden disclosures — it questions the integrity of the NSA workforce,” he said. “It’s become very public and very personal. Literally, neighbors are asking people, ‘Why are you spying on Grandma?’ And we aren’t. People are feeling bad, beaten down.”

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infra-org (urls)
by brian carroll 08 Dec '13

08 Dec '13

'Spooky action' builds a wormhole between 'entangled' quantum particles http://phys.org/news/2013-12-spooky-action-wormhole-entangled-quantum.html note: i must have it all wrong because would it not be possible to modify the spin of an entangled pair and have it influence the remote particle likewise. and thus, what need of wires or fiber to connect events, if a hybrid remote and on-site quatum processing were to take place. an ecological or ecosystem context of connectivity in & out of various structures via different forms of entanglement. what if 1,000 circuit boards shared a split particle and were sent to remote areas, yet one calculation effected the others and likewise, or perhaps 1,000 remotely-connected processing functions embedded in 100,000 onsite. in other words what if the processor were not discrete nor connected by means other than resonance or vibration (perhaps decibels indicates this as an acoustic measurement for light even). of course i have no idea what i am saying, though as list fool i must speak such nonsense. // feeling exhausted? sun magnetic poles may have reversed... [videos] Sun Reversal of its Magnetic Poles // via hh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0PbL-ErVas SUN ABOUT TO FLIP MAGNETIC POLES (description) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-haqLMAPEE8 MASSIVE Solar Burst./Sun's Pole Reversal. (esoteric) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrGtK2W72_o note: gravity bringing you down more than normal? feeling strange polarization in your day? perhaps it is the solar magnetic pole reversal! as with symptoms of daylight savings time on peoples routines and schedules, perhaps solar events effect the magnetic compass within the human body in some fundamental way. anecdote: once had an MRI, tone-based buzzing with intense Tesla electromagnets that map out the brain via spinning particles in brain for imaging, so a particular tone will occur and this shifting of direction within molecules or by particles themselves can be discerned, via polarization. cannot drink caffiene without now having similar effect, as if a remote satellite locked onto noggin, the molecular directionality discerned, like wearing an electromagnetic helmet with invisible wires into the noosphere. perhaps it is only feeling the wi-fi, though caffeine makes whatever that is apprehendable. now have a particular method of decaf coffee intake with controlled micro-caffeine dose as option for a controlled burn into slightly less out-of-focus tunnel vision. thus when realizing total exhaustion recently beyond normal levels, and feeling this drag on entire body as if having walked 1,000 miles tired, it was wondered if that too could be related to a magnetic reversal impacting nervous system subsystem, some perhaps more sensitive to these effects. such as the electrically sensitive who can tell when a new satellite is switched on in orbit, or for those who tend to short-out streetlights when walking by. electromagnetism for thought. // what if dyslexia has something to teach about language structures // logical reasoning as tuning into truth, its harmonization vs. distonia Dyslexia's roots traced to bad brain connections http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24705-dyslexias-roots-traced-to-bad-b… [quote] The authors claim these findings add to the growing recognition of dyslexia as a "disconnection syndrome". "What we're learning from functional imaging is that it's not enough to talk about brain areas; you're always dealing with a network, and when you've got a network you've got patterns of connectivity," says Scott. "So is there some way you could restructure that network that might be beneficial?" [unquote] proposed water tap turnoff @ NSA Utah Data Center // via drudgereport http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/12/03/some-nsa-opponents-want-to-n… Signalers vs. strong silent types: Sparrows exude personalities during fights http://phys.org/news/2013-12-strong-silent-sparrows-exude-personalities.html [quote] "There is a growing realization in the field that factoring in personality variables will help solve many thorny problems in animal behavior, such as do animals signal honestly," said Michael Beecher, co-author and a UW professor of psychology and biology. In other words, if a bird knew the personality of its opponent, it would have a better understanding of when to expect an attack..." [unquote] Resident Visitor: Laurie Spiegel's Machine Music The experimental pioneer's groundbreaking work with computers in the 70s and 80s helped lay the foundation for many of today's electronic noise makers. http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/9002-laurie-spiegel/ HUMAN BODY RESONANCE FREQUENCIES... // via helenhall.net http://listentothisnoise.com/post/59772917907/whats-the-resonant-frequency-… (note the external link to 'Power Standards Lab' titling this as fun stuff compared to shooting bullets into ballistic gelatin. another dimension to electronic warfare not yet discussed, how celltowers and other infrastructure can be used to deliver pain and agony via remote control) -- linked from Listen To This Noise... [audio] Seen but not Heard: contact microphones reveal hidden worlds http://soundslikenoise.org/2013/08/25/seen-but-not-heard-contact-microphone… >> contact_microphones to record i n f r a s o u n d . . . Contact microphones (overview) http://www.recording-microphones.co.uk/Contact-microphones.shtml [quote] The Contact microphone comes in a variety of guises and is also known as a transducer, a pickup or a piezo, and is a form of microphone specifically designed to pick up audio vibrations in solid objects. Normal studio mics are all built around the principle of detecting vibrations in the air but Contact mics are different in that they are designed to pickup surface vibrations. This means that if you taped one to a wooden board and then stood infront of it and sang. the chances are it wouldn’t pick anything up. But tap, scrape, or in some way touch the board and even the softest vibrations will be picked up by the contact mic. [unquote] The first rule of CONTACT MIC club // ~practical info; matched preamp option http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/the-first-rule-of-contact-mic-club Get Better Sound from Piezo Mics & Pickups http://suite101.com/a/get-better-sound-from-piezo-mics-and-pickups-a72764 A Comprehensive Guide To Contact Microphones/Piezos http://enhanced-reality.net/music/a-comprehensive-guide-to-contact-micropho… [quote] PVDF don’t have self-resonance because they don’t have a metal disc, and they’re flexible, so you can attach them to a curved surface (use epoxy or silicone), and they’re more robust, piezo discs are rather brittle. [unquote] ex. rubber coated piezo (missing image link above) http://www.amazon.com/Ridgeview-Audio-MDK-H-Harp-Pickup/dp/images/B006ZF6W24 [audio] ex. doors, pipes & sinks, hard drives, wind, small servos http://gamesounddesign.com/Contact-Microphones.html note: i have a drum trigger for a MIDI connection though the traditional piezo is held within a plastic case separating it from the external surface so only a significant force will trigger it. in contrast, a device such as the Korg CM-200 Clip-On contact microphone (below) is in more direct contact with the surface, thus more likely to sense the resonating/vibrating surface, in this case on a music instrument though presumably could be used elsewise. Korg CM-200 http://www.korg.com/cm200 note: thus, either with a mixer preamp and-or-else a digital recorder the contact mic could be used in lieu of an acoustic cardoid/etc microphone registering signal out of air pressure. this is a piezo disk transducer, whereas the following is an example of shielded PVDF options... ex: Fluoropolymer Piezo Film Tab Contact Microphone (PVDF) http://contactmicrophones.com/index.html http://contactmicrophones.com/products-lft.html Hertzian Tales Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience, and Critical Design Anthony Dunne, The MIT Press (PDF link. 1999/2005 edition) http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=… 1 the electronic as post-optimal object 1 2 (in)human factors 21 3 para-functionality: the aesthetics of use 43 4 psychosocial narratives 69 5 real fiction 83 6 hertzian space 101 7 hertzian tales and sublime gadgets 123 conclusion 147 notes 149 bibliography 155 illustration credits 165 index 171 RF-Safe Stop electromagnetic pulse to stop vehicles // via drudgereport http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2518177/End-high-speed-car-c… --- on organization --- in earlier days thought the computer OS would help organize life, yet the filing cabinet approach remains a junk drawer approach scaled up to the internet worldwide, existing as a global networked junk drawer. attempts to develop a system have been delayed (AMS) though as part of this, an organizational approach to offline data (paper and things) was realized via a consistent, modular approach to storage, such that everything now has its place and is manageable, contained as it were, as part of a ecosystem-like relation between stuff. my interest in organizing information (concepts,ideas) also exists in environment, feel much better when everything is put away or space maximized and storable versus cluttered. so space-savings, maximizing use of space, easy or improved maintenance, easier to find, etc. {my computer just crashed again due to a hack from cypherpunks thus lost paragraph written} though this particular approach to storage via Really Useful Boxes has transformed my life via organizing what would otherwise be in chaos, allowing stackable and nestable storage (boxes in boxes, boxes made for certain dimensional items, such as CDs or file folders) and also the unique foldable crates/containers that expand/contract as needed. also, tamper proof pins available. others may prefer other containers or other brands or approaches, though in my situation the Really Useful Boxes solved the organization and management situation and allow continual tweaking over time. manufacturer website... Really Useful Boxes Inc. http://www.reallyusefulproducts.co.uk/usa/index.php now if only storage could be connected with barcode inventories or bluetooth stickers and managed via the OS as part of an ecosystem approach (i.e. Asperger Management System). must note: a favorite organizational, stuff management & transport device is the gigantic Ikea foldable bags. they can help carry a large box or vast clothes, gear, or supplies and fold down to a small format that fits in a backpack or bag. excellent if needing to move lots of stuff fast. ^(quasi: offline organization influences approach to computer, online) other than this, right now, in analog mode with index cards and post-it notes instead of digital tools, still in paper realm of organization day to day, the role of the paper shredder still seems vital to any organizational approach, present to future, say managing scanned documents that are stored digitally and then either filed or shredded, given priority. such systems in contrast to doing nothing, tendency to have data collect as if layers of new dust, and paper multiplies week by week until unmanageable chaos, unless managing it. figuring it out via a systematic approach. and that is where offline/computer/online are mismatched, a huge gap between chaos of offline filing cabinet and computer and online cloud junk drawers and data model that has no empirical basis for knowledge or information. no 'shared truth' that is a relational structure. instead, urls and search. hunt and peck. where's that copy of the hospital bill again? maybe the great synchrony is the gap that requires and relies upon the junk drawer and hoarding approach online, at OS level, and offline, due to the gap with ideas, the loss of concepts altogether within computing: "tools for thinking" absent as a worldview. --- on heartbreak and hope --- e-ink has been for me the great potential for a more 'idea-based' approach to display, such that larger format interfaces such as calendars or maps could feasibly become updateable and readable in a non-projected-light or blaring screen approach that scorches the eyeballs or loses readability in the sun or forces extreme fatigue in high-contrast viewing (screens when read at night in low light or for long periods of time, hours to days and weeks of interaction). an upgraded version of the Kindle DX was in my estimate the best change of finally having a tool or platform for sharing ideas, beyond the failure zone of email lists and blogs and social media sites, that 'ideas' and conceptualization both in a realm of scholarship and thinking, as this relates to discussion and feedback and debate, could be opened up by a tool that meets this realm of *advanced literacy* -- and yet instead, when the next-gen Paperwhite Kindle was announced, the large format DX had no such update and then was said by some Amazon representative to not be in further development, thus the only viable PDF reader at size of actual documents was left in an unlit condition, eventually removed from their website. this basically killed off my remaining hope in technological innovation because it forced any such publishing platform that could develop for ideas into a constricted zone of haikus only and penguin classics small-book formats, great for reading on a bus, bad for complex ideas and diagrams and visual and written communication combined, at a readable type size where formatting does not need to be pinched & zoomed repeatedly to move through information, and thus issues of formatting as it relates to standards, the web deteriorated into various formatting approaches, canned 'big box' solutions, monoculture, deafening sameness that adds up to nothing more than the part. when i considered the Kindle DX as a platform it seems ideal for fishing and topo maps, for documents yet also calendar like scheduling, day planning, etc. though in years of thinking about it (and never yet using the device), one day it dawned on me the missing functionality was the very attribute that originally seemed the greatest feature: free 3G connectivity to Wikipedia. this is one of those issues for a person like myself who grew up without an encyclopedia within the home, yet had a yearning fascination with information yet no access. as it remains today in many ways, sans cellphone, though having ready access to an online reference work could then open up questioning and the imagination to further considerations instead of stopping or limiting next steps in thinking. this is equivalent to the advice 'if you do know what a word means look it up in the dictionary' as a life practice, to improving literacy, yet at the larger connected realm of ideas in their expanded explanation and description, integral conceptualization. and thus in reverse, the idea arose that wouldn't it be ideal if the Kindle DX was a _writing platform as well as just reading. not simply writing a computer, but also, at the e-ink device via touchscreen or other interface (handwriting, diagramming). a related concept i have described as 'fractal reading/writing' is in some ways connected to this ability to write in categories versus long-strings of conventional descriptive language, more like programming or code for structures of concepts, as if molecular entities. going into a concept, not just across it, via language. modeling the ideas, concepts, structural 'forms', where scaffolding may exist as substructures hidden or not in given views (xml, tags, etc) the realization then that if every Kindle shipped with wiki software that would allow people to write these structures and link them together in a new public zone of the internet that is based upon ideas and concepts and their organization. a public realm like cafe society where debates and discussions could occur, conceptualization beyond boundaries of websites or separated blogs, and into the structures themselves, that would move from individual POVs in relativistic frames, grounded or not, into a larger empirical structure, if mediated this way, organized, managed, maintained, say by public discourse, debate, challenging of hypotheses. this, tools for thinking and tools for developing literacy, to battle the engrained ignorance that one-way media and vested opinions together establish, especially when separated and left unchallenged or untested beyond a comfortable isolation. what if tools could reestablish or allow a public zone or square or environment where today none actually exists. and what if it is wiki and e-readers and those who use these for scholarship and exchanging ideas, and thus various platforms and vendors could exist and participate, allow access and interface, yet also it would involve those with knowledge of particular domains to develop and model them, and potentially transform existing conceptions of what a field or discipline actually is, in contrast to the outdated or detached academic models that may limit what is approved. being someone who is intrigued by innovative technological tools with purpose, it was completely devastating when Amazon dropped support for the larger format DX. i lost faith in Bezos vision because it at once manages a future of books while removing the larger purpose of ideas and concept development they involve, making it a read-only scenario with Kindles versus a read-and-write platform for those developing ideas, the people who are creating the documents, so they can review their own work at scale, away from the PC screen and read others ideas likewise, beyond its domination over context and interpretation, via distraction and requirement of multitasking with an OS or other device with demands. thus the [concept] + [concept] = [concept] / [concept] approach that wikis allow could be a new way of 'writing' that is non-linear and fractal, going into other networked data structures or particular versions, to create various models of ideas and concepts and new organizations or a worldview, new interface to online information that could be developed that is integrated into a single model, and data could be attached to this, instead of having individual branded websites reinventing the wheel, they could be data structures instead with basic facts and details. certainly would deal with information anxiety issues at every level, from finding out info in a Wolfram-like computational approach, to the phone-book aspect of just wanting the facts without the 1mb download of advertising banner ads and all the tracking data to locate an address, etc. and then it could be visualized atop that via the various approaches, instead of tied down into static rendered css/xml sites as UI/display. there is no reason this wiki-approach could not exist on tablets and cellphones likewise, (in the sense of 'tools for thinking') though it is this issue related to readability adn those who are writers or thinkers or scholars or communicator/conveyors, debaters of ideas, etc, that in reading or considering ideas, the issues of the screen and its biasing does influence what is read, how it is read, and within what parameters (in browser, often with animations running or OS notifications, or various errors) versus a device purpose-made for easy readability and reading, the pleasure of textual communication, even into embedded visuals/diagrams, versus the hassle that is email or all the formatted bureaucracy blogs require to upkeep while limiting reference or url-rot or whatever. versus having data stored as documents in a library within a device -or- accessible as a structure, as with a wiki-structure of networked data models, that could become a new realm of the internet, expanding further than wikipedia yet still accessible. another variant like gopher or mailing lists, yet more permanent, like earlier days of (lynx-like) Yahoo categorization yet public, developed as areas of integrated knowledge and areas of debate and discussion, not limited to the outdated worldviews held within and requiring censorship to control and discourage feedback, within institutions. thus, the opportunity for Galilean/Copernicun remodeling and working-through such conditions rather than avoiding or voiding such thinking, makign the internet read-only for ideas in terms of public discourse, debate, ideas, "books", knowledge, "culture", thinking, etc. i.e. beyond overly-limiting corporate or institutional or private control over shared reality. so Amazon dropped out, and Sony went conceptual and introduced a fascinating upgrade to their e-ink future with a prototype now deploying for testing in Japan. see the video: 13.3-inch Sony tablet // the future... http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57585367-1/13.3-inch-sony-tablet-is-lik… so this is not just an e-reader, it is described as a 'digital notepad' and 'digital paper', perhaps tending toward the concept of a clipboard functionality for this kind of device, where it could be used for formwork, charting, census, notes and writing, scheduling, etc. and likely would be much more usable than a tablet (including large sized) due to weight, battery life, readability, and better functionality with dedicated or programmable task buttons that are not needing to relate to MP3 and videos, other non-relevant apps or adds-on (everything!) it is also mentioned is focused on Universities, so it has an inherent educational purpose, (potentially: tool for thinking) and is currently in trials in Japan from what i last read. and a price of approximately 1k USD was recently mentioned, which is also interesting, in that it makes it impracticle for most citizens unless a niche or supported project. this must have freaked out Amazon and reawoken their Kindle DX program because the device has since reappeared on their website, and for a heavily discounted price (169 USD, when previously in the 379 USD range). it was a closeout special before, yet reintroduced, it is a reactivation of a forfeited category, something that was said officially a dead-end, and to me was a betrayal of ideas and the Kindle as a publishing platform, thus the heartbreak that the soul of books have become only about the money made from them, not the continuance of ideas they contain and culture they develop and sustain. yet, along with quadrocopters, suddenly Amazon and Bezos are back in the realm of critical relevance in this same context by what is potentially a vital reversal, hopefully and likely indicating a renewed interest in the large-format e-ink reader as future data management, organization, communication devices. it was difficult for a person like me, heavily vested in strange ideas requiring a platform for their public exchange, to be removed as a possibility. it was preface to extinction for the very relevance of thought within networked media, to have the literacy device disappear, taken over by more jukeboxes with electronic money-slots required for each & every interaction. it is potentially heartening that Amazon is responding to innovation from Sony, realizes the potential and need, and will bring paperwhite-like illumination to a large format e-reader, a next generation Kindle DX, hopefully others like Sony will also. presumably there was not a viable enough market or need or the timing was not right for such a next stage, in terms of corporate-interest, before now. yet i think it always existing though is not voiced, yet it is the vital core of the culture and internet that would use such devices, especially those who think and organize and share and debate their thoughts. perhaps a next generation larger format DX device would have been too expensive with older e-ink screens, until the Sony approach. and thus would not sell enough to justify the investment needed. whatever the case, the latest ongoing pricepoint for the existing DX indicates a next generation Kindle DX could be in the works if not using the same E Ink Mobius screen as the Sony digital notepad, potentially or eventually. thus it would not suprise if the next DX is somewhere between the existing and last launched pricepoint, instead of further towards the 1K USD that is breaking new ground for a prefered display for written, diagrammatic, textual, modeled information, organization, and management that tends more towards the library than file cabinet turning into a data junk drawer approach. likewise, another such device for construction documents.... (logistics, networked data management) PocketBook CAD Reader // Fina screen http://archinect.com/news/article/87978707/e-ink-introduces-display-and-new… [video] Pocketbook CAD Reader Debuts in New Commercial http://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/pocketbook-cad-reader-debuts… note on kindle dx, autocad device, sony large-format!!, killer-app missing: wikis. new www space (structured info) could be created using it and other software as shared web-platform. ii.e. writing as wiki, wiki as approach to writing, not serial strings, deep structural concepts. [concept] [concept] + [concept] diagrammatic approach to communication (fractal r/w) {educational fair-use of copyright, 2013} Caligula, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Spartacus

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