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Journal: Norwegians Smack Down Quantum Crypto

08 Wild Cards, Government, IO Secrets, Officers Call

Quantum Cryptography Breached With Lasers

Using lasers to blind quantum cryptography photon detectors, Norwegian computer scientists were able to obtain a copy of a secure key without leaving any trace of their presence.

By Mathew J. Schwartz
InformationWeek
September 8, 2010 07:00 AM

Norwegian computer scientists have perfected a laser-based attack against quantum cryptography systems that allows them to eavesdrop on communications without revealing their presence.

Phi Beta Iota: Clever Norwegians.  We have zero sympathy.  The US secret community, at $75 billion a year and climbin, is beyond waste, fraud, and abuse and heavily into betrayal of the public trust as well as high crimes and misdemeanors.  It should be scaled back to $25 billion or less and the savings redirected to education & research.  The reality is that what the US taxpayer–and all other citizens everywhere need–are transparent governments that create trust, enjoy legitimacy, and can deliver value.

See Also:

Graphic: Jim Bamford on the Human Brain
Journal: Brains Beat Algorithms….Again
Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Corruption
Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Dereliction of Duty (Defense)
Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Disinformation, Other Information Pathologies, & Repression
Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Institutionalized Ineptitude
Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Intelligence (Lack Of)

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Search: Integrity

Ethics, Searches

We worship at the altar of integrity, for us “God” is integrity manifest in all things at all times. Hence, Hell is what we have now, with corruption rampant, true costs concealed and externalized to the public, and a potential paradise lost to the ten high-level threats to humanity: poverty, infectious disease, environmental degradation, inter-state conflict, civil war, genocide, other atrocities, terrorism, and transnational crime.

FIRST, a definition of INTEGRITY.

1.   The quality or state of being complete; unbroken condition; wholeness; entirety
2.  The quality or state of being unimpaired; perfect condition; soundness
3.  Consistency of actions, values, methods, measures, principles, expectations and outcomes
4.  Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting influence or motive

SECOND, a short discourse on INTEGRITY IN CONTEXT.

1.  Clarity of spirit, mind, and body is essential to COMMUNICATE with INTEGRITY
2.  Diversity of view, membership, and perspective is essential to THINK with INTEGRITY
3.  INTEGRITY in personal and group ACTION is essential to achieve SUSTAINABILITY.

Hence, the subtitle of our latest book,

INTELLIGENCE FOR EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability

Now here are the headlines that bear most on this topic within this Blog.

Journal: Reflections on Integrity & Design

Reference: Integrity–Without it Nothing Works
Reference: Integrity–Without it Nothing Works II
Reference: Integrity–Without It Nothing Works III

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Journal: Solar Panel Molecules

05 Energy

Jon Lebkowsky

Self organizing solar panels

by jonl on September 18, 2010“Scientists at MIT have discovered molecules that spontaneously assemble themselves into a pattern that can turn light into electricity — essentially a self-creating solar panel. In a petri dish.” [Link]

I was wondering if this discovery has a practical application. A commenter has the same question, someone else answers:

The implication of the addition of an ‘additive’ to disassemble into a liquid ‘soup’ is that the stuff can be sprayed/painted onto a surface. It also means that it can be mixed with polymers and woven into materials etc.

Paint or spray your house/car/boat/aircraft with it, and decide you want a different colour? No problem, spray the additive/solvent and it comes off.

(Thanks to Audrey Thompson for the pointer.)

Phi Beta Iota: This takes biomimicry to a very high level.  Consider that Nokia now has cell phones that do not need the electrical grid–they repower from ambient energy.  Consider that foot (walking) power can now go easily into a battery on the belt from which various peripherals including a cell phone can be powered.  What is finally happening, in the nick of time, is the discovered of whole systems engineering.  There is no need to hack the planet, the planet was perfect before we got here–we are finally hacking humanity and evolving our consciousness in a better direction.

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Journal: Government as Client, Three Levels of Smart

Cultural Intelligence, Government, Methods & Process

Steve Denning

Radical management: what to do when your customer is the government

One constraint on implementing radical management is that the customer is on a different path altogether. A frequent example is where your customer is a government bureaucracy. You are aspiring to delight your client, and your client is saying, “Don’t bother with me such questions. Just deliver what the specifications ask for.”

. . . . . .

…realistically, most government organizations are not even trying to practice radical management. One way of understanding how they function is to recognize that organizations operate at three levels, using a schema proposed by Ranjay Gulati in Reorganize For Resilience: Putting Customers At The Center Of Your Business (Boston: Harvard Business Press, 2009)

Level 1: “You take what we make.”

Level 2:  “We believe that our offerings will be useful to you.”

Level 3: “We seek to understand and solve your problems with our offerings”

While radical management is operating at level 3, most government organizations are still stranded at level 1. They are paying scant attention to their stakeholders. Often they have not even taken any decision as to who their primary stakeholders are. As a result, no one really knows what the purpose of the organization is. The managers in such organizations typically follow rules and procedures, rather than systematically consider: how could we deliver more value sooner? These organizations are the quintessential bureaucracy, and the management is quintessentially Dilbertian.

Phi Beta Iota: The government is full of good people trapped in a bad system.  We've decided that in addition to educating the five billion poor one cell call at a time, we have to give government employees an easy to use cell tether to a World Brain that helps them evolve the consciousness of government from the bottom up.

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Journal: 20th Century Clunkers vs 21st Century Slims

ICT-IT, IO Sense-Making
Steve Denning

Visualizing the difference between 20th and 21st Century management

I wrote last month about the biggest difference between 20th and 21st Century management. I said there that management in the 20th Century was about achieving a finite goal: delivering goods and services, to make money. Management in the 21st Century by contrast is about the infinite goal of delighting customers; the firm makes money, yes, but as a consequence of the delight that it creates for customers, not as the goal.

That’s a fairly abstract account of the difference.  What does it mean in practice?  Let’s bring that down to earth with a visual embodiment of it.

Network On Call Not In Hand

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Phi Beta Iota: It's not just about functionality and ease of use–it is about what the handheld allows you to access, leverage, exploit, share, and made sense of.  The handheld is a key, nothing more.  That is why smart phones are history.  It is the collective intelligence of all humans that is smart, first one with a dumb device and a full range of M4IS2 services in the cloud wins.  Google is math hashing digital garbage–we are not betting on them.

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Graphic: Epoch B Multinational Network Rising
2008 COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace
Complexity & Catastrophe (91)
Complexity & Resilience (99)

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Journal: US Ruling Class versus Country Class–Deep Insights, Need Integrity and Fact-Based Deliberation

Civil Society, Collective Intelligence, Corruption, Counter-Oppression/Counter-Dictatorship Practices, Cultural Intelligence, Officers Call, Open Government, Policy, Reform, Secrecy & Politics of Secrecy
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America's Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution

By Angelo M. Codevilla from the July 2010 – August 2010 issue of American Spectator

EXTRACT 1:  They [the bi-opoly two parties] think, look, and act as a class.

EXTRACT 2: The two classes have less in common culturally, dislike each other more, and embody ways of life more different from one another than did the 19th century's Northerners and Southerners — nearly all of whom, as Lincoln reminded them, “prayed to the same God.” By contrast, while most Americans pray to the God “who created and doth sustain us,” our ruling class prays to itself as “saviors of the planet” and improvers of humanity. Our classes' clash is over “whose country” America is, over what way of life will prevail, over who is to defer to whom about what. The gravity of such divisions points us, as it did Lincoln, to Mark's Gospel: “if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.”

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