The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
BOOK: The Turning Point: Creating Resilience in a Time of Extremes
BUDGET: Congress Wants More Insight into Cyber, SOF Budgets
CYBER: Cyberwar Increasingly Defined By Espionage and Regional Conflicts, Argues FireEye
CYBER: DDoS New Technique, Warns US-CERT
CYBER: Google Spyware SMS Tracker
CYBER: How Jihadists Use the Internet Continue reading “Berto Jongman: Bits, Bytes, & Stuff 2.0”
Robert Gates: A man still at war
Washington Post, 12 January 2014
Skagit County, Wash. — Robert M. Gates is a crier. He is also an expert at restraining himself.
The war is fought in the throat, and lost in the eyes.
He clears his throat as if it will hitch his composure back into compliance. His eyes, however, water and redden. It’s clear what will happen if he blinks.
“I’m — ” he says and stops.
“I’m — ” he says and stops.
“I think I’m — ” he says and stops. “I think I’m at peace.”
He sits in a wooden swivel chair but has stopped swiveling.
Syria: President Bashar Asad Monday called for a battle against Wahhabism, the political and religious theology embraced by the Saudi Arabian government that backs the Sunni uprising against his regime.
“President Assad said that extremists and Wahhabi thought distort the real Islam, which is tolerant,” state news agency SANA reported. He underlined the role of men of religion in fighting against Wahhabi thought, which is foreign to our societies, according to Asad.
Wahhabism is an ultra-conservative Muslim tradition, which is predominant in Saudi Arabia and whose intolerant precepts govern Saudi religious, civilian and political life. It is a sect of Sunni Islam, whose leaders profess has no sects.
Continue reading “NIGHTWATCH: Saudi-Funded Wahhabism on the Table as Enemy #1”
6,000 watching in main room
Notes below the line.
Continue reading “Glenn Greenwald: Keynote at Chaos Communications (58:57) with Detailed Notes”
Any More U.S. “Stabilization” and Africa Will Collapse
By: Peter Van Buren Monday
December 23, 2013 10:39 am
South Sudan is at the brink of civil war and societal collapse
History is just one of those hard things to ignore, especially in South Sudan.
In 2011, the U.S. midwifed the creation of a new nation, South Sudan. Though at the time Obama invoked the words of Dr. Martin Luther King speaking about Ghana (“I knew about all of the struggles, and all of the pain, and all of the agony that these people had gone through for this moment”) in officially recognizing the country, many were more focused on the underlying U.S. motives,
Special comment: For reasons that are not clear, many of the governments in Sub-Saharan Africa have been destabilized a year or so after the catastrophe of the Arab Spring uprisings. Countries in stress include Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Central African Republic, Nigeria, Congo Brazzaville, Congo Kinshasa, South Sudan and Somalia. These readily come to mind, but there are others, no doubt.
Sub-Saharan African has not experienced this extent of violent internal unrest since 1960.
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.
