The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Huh?
The US Is Hosting A Giant Military Yard Sale In Afghanistan
It is a January sale with a difference. The American military is auctioning off millions of pounds of tankers, accommodation blocks, tents, generators and other “white goods” in Afghanistan ahead of next year’s deadline for the end of combat operations.
In a tender document published on Friday, buyers are invited to offer a percentage of the equipment’s original value by January 10 when sealed bids will be opened.
Huh?
Researchers Break RSA 4096 Encryption With Just A Microphone And A Couple Of Emails
As if it wasn’t enough that the NSA paid RSA $10 million to adopt an algorithm that wasn’t entirely secure, researchers have now demonstrated that they can break even RSA 4096 bit encryption with little more than a few emails and a microphone. And that microphone can indeed just be one in a smartphone sitting on the desk.
Researchers from Tel Aviv University and the Weizmann Institute of Science discovered that they could steal even the largest, most secure RSA 4,096-bit encryption keys simply by listening to a laptop as it decrypts data.
To accomplish the trick, the researchers used a microphone to record the noises made by the computer, then ran that audio through filters to isolate the vibrations made by the electronic internals during the decryption process. With that accomplished, some cryptanalysis revealed the encryption key in around an hour.
Well, no, pace Engadget it is a little more complex than that. You can’t just listen to a computer and break the algos just like that.
Below, Seumas Milne well summarizes the calamitous results of our misbegotten GWOT* crusades in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria. The result is not pretty, but that is hardly surprising.
While Milne's call for accountability applies to the British contribution to the GWOT, it bespeaks volumes for the United States — a country that prides itself on its Constitutional system of Checks and Balances. Our self-referencing image begs the question: Given our sorry performance in the GWOT, what kind of checks in balances have been put into play on Capital Hill? Who in America is being held accountable for this debacle?
Certainly not the Pentagon or the Military-Industrial-
That is because the GWOT disaster has a golden lining — at least for some — it ratcheted up the cash flowing into the MICC to record levels, and more importantly, the long duration of GWOT provided time need by the MICC to weave its social safety net more deeply into our political economy via the time honored expedient of politically engineering the flow of dollars, jobs, and profits to virtually every congressional district in the United States and, let us not forget, Puerto Rico. Traditionally, political engineering has been the province of major weapons procurement, like the F-35; but the massive shift to privatization in the Pentagon's the Operations and Maintenance budget quietly opened a cornucopia of new political engineering opportunities for insinuation into heretofore unexploited fiscal regions, making the GWOT the gift that will keep on giving — at least until Obama's pivot to Asia solidifies a sufficiently solid budgetary foundation for a new Cold War.
Can you spell treason? How about racketeering? This would seem to call for the indictment, conviction, and loss of pensions for the top NSA deciders, and enough RICO lawsuits to put RSA out of business. Shame!
Exclusive: Secret contract tied NSA and security industry pioneer
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Documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden show that the NSA created and promulgated a flawed formula for generating random numbers to create a “back door” in encryption products, the New York Times reported in September. Reuters later reported that RSA became the most important distributor of that formula by rolling it into a software tool called Bsafe that is used to enhance security in personal computers and many other products.
NSA Spies, Brazil Shuns Boeing, Selects Saab
Saab wins Brazil jets deal after NSA spying sours Boeing bid
Until earlier this year, Boeing had been considered the frontrunner for the purchase. But revelations of spying by the U.S. National Security Agency in Brazil, including the personal telephone calls and emails of President Dilma Rousseff herself, led Brazil to believe that it could not trust a U.S. company.
The revelations by Edward Snowden triggered an immediate exit from U.S. hosted service providers, then a rapid decline in the prospects for U.S. communications equipment vendors, and Boeing just lost a $4.5 billion dollar sale to Sweden’s Saab. Instead of the F/A-18 Hornet the JAS-39 Gripen will grace the skies of South America’s regional power.
Last week, Congressmen Walter Jones and Stephen Lynch introduced a resolution urging President Obama to declassify the legendary “28 redacted pages of the Joint Intelligence Committee Inquiry of 9/11” issued in late 2002, which point to official Saudi involvement in 9/11.
After much lobbying, and under an oath of secrecy, Jones was allowed to read the censored document: “I was absolutely shocked by what I read. What was so surprising was that those whom we thought we could trust really disappointed me.”
‘Stand down’: CIA Benghazi team clash led to controversial order
WASHINGTON — CIA officers revealed a clash over how quickly they should go help the besieged U.S. ambassador during the 2012 attack on an outpost in Libya, and a standing order for them to avoid violent encounters, according to a congressman and others who heard their private congressional testimony or were briefed on it.
The Obama administration has been dogged by complaints that the White House, Pentagon and State Department may not have done enough before and during the attack to save U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others, and by accusations that it later engaged in a cover-up.
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