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.
Table of references with links (mostly free) below the line.
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.
Mercenary Admits Syrian Rebels Had Chemical Weapons
Matthew Van Dyke acknowledges US-backed militants had chemical weapons before August attack.
Tough love, this is.
Lessons Learned from a 22 Year Fight:
01 Steele’s biggest mistake was in not ensuring OSS conference presentations were indexed in Conference Proceedings. Core value of presentation at International Studies Association (Intelligence) is that papers presented there are indexed and visible.
02 International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, American Intelligence Review, and SIGNAL not indexed. Materials published there are not visible.
Continue reading “OSINT Literature Review, Name Association, Lessons Learned”
December 22, 2013
To what pressing issue is IBM now applying Watson’s superior (artificial) intellect? Why, to shopping, of course. Business Insider reports, “IBM’s Jeopardy-Winning Supercomputer Will Power a ‘Cognitive, Expert Personal Shopper’ App Next Year.” Writer Dylan Love was especially taken by one app on the horizon from a firm called Fluid Retail.
He quotes IBM Watson Solutions VP Stephen Gold:
Continue reading “Stephen E. Arnold: IBM's Watch Goes Shopping — Big Data Heuristics Hit a New Low”
We have gone from a country that took pride in its science and in being a fact-based society to one where a MAJORITY of Americans think science is just another opinion of no particular distinction. It has taken 30 years of Theocratic Rightist disinformation, fake thinktank reports, and agit-prop to achieve this bleak result. Combined with decreasing educational outcomes, and the corporate corruption of the peer! review process by pharmaceutical and agricultural chemical corporations and you have a formula for willful ignorance and an easily manipulated electorate.
Americans Have Little Faith In Scientists, Science Journalists: Poll
EMILY SWANSON – The Huffington PostIn a new HuffPost/YouGov poll, only 36 percent of Americans reported having “a lot” of trust that information they get from scientists is accurate and reliable. Fifty-one percent said they trust that information only a little, and another 6 percent said they don't trust it at all.
Phi Beta Iota: This is huge. The bottom line is that every one of the eight tribes of information has lost their integrity and in so doing, lost the trust of the public.
Because we have breached the firewall the Founders put in place to separate church and state we are now left with this.
Charts: Catholic Hospitals Don't Do Much for the Poor
STEPHANIE MENCIMER – Mother Jones
It is very difficult to see how the Rightists on the Supreme Court could not understand or foresee that gutting the Voting Rights Act would lead to voter suppression. It is much easier to understand their decision from the perspective that this was their deliberate purpose. In any case, the research is now coming in, as this report recounts, an! d it all confirms what was obvious: all voting restriction bills passed in the Red value states have one purpose: to decrease the number of people of color, seniors, students, and poor people voting. Which is to say its purpose is to rig the elections to give Republicans a better chance of winning. It is just the second phase of the effort that began with gerrymandering.
Researchers Find Factors Tied To Voting Restriction Bills Are ‘Basically All Racial'
ERICH LACH – Talking Points Memo/Perspectives on Politics
