| Brain-Wave Machine (And God said, Let there be light...)
Commercial brain-wave machines cost hundreds of dollars, but you can build your own using only a few dollars worth of components. In this document I will walk you through hardware construction and software control of an easy to build brain-wave machine. Disclaimer: I am not an electronics expert or a biofeedback specialist. If you fry your hardware (or your wetware) don't come whining (or drooling) to me. I assume no responsibility for what you do with this information. (Always yield to the hands-on imperative.)
I'm using 8 LED's, one per parallel port data out line. This provides an easy way to control each individual LED allowing for some variations in pattern and intensity. Each lense on the goggles will hold four LED's in a diamond pattern. The LED's are powered by the parallel port and controlled via software. Basic electronics experience is recommended but not necessary to construct this brain-wave machine. Parts List 8 LED's (choose green, yellow, or red LED's) DB25 pin male parallel port connector (or butcher a printer cable, 25 conductor) Goggles (safety glasses or similar eyewear) Wire Note: Radio Shack charges about $20 for 8 LED's. I got 20 LED's from a real electronics store for $3. Circuit Diagram  Construction  Browse the Brain-Wave Machine Image Gallery for pictures of readers goggles as well as modifications and variations. (Code is the essence of everything.)
BASIC The PC parallel port has eight data lines out. These data lines can be turned on and off by sending a byte to the port where each bit in the byte represents the on or off state of one of the data lines out. In BASIC you do this with the OUT function. The OUT function accepts two parameters, port address and a byte in decimal format. The most common addresses for LPT ports in hex are 378h, 278h, and 3BCh. LPT1 is almost always 378h, or 888 in decimal. The address parameter can be in hex (i.e. OUT &H378, #) or decimal format (i.e. OUT 888, #). Now let's take a look at bit patterns...
FOR i=1 to 50
OUT 888, 255
FOR x=1 to 500
NEXT x
OUT 888,0
FOR x=1 to 500
NEXT x
NEXT i
Obviously we need something better for timing than a FOR/NEXT loop. Unfortunately QBasic doesn't offer any timing functions with millisecond accuracy. Note: hz and cycles/second both refer to the flashrate of the LED's, so 15 hz = 15 flashes/second. I've written a small sample application which demonstrates one method of dealing with the timing issue in QBasic (using the SOUND function of all things). The program also has timed sessions, selectable frequencies, and three different flash patterns. Feel free to experiment with it. Sample QBasic App: BWM.BAS. Brainstar 1: Smoother interface and more features. Edit, save, and load patterns. QBasic source as well as a packaged run-time version are included. Contributed by Fractal (HardCore Software), May 6, 2000. Brainstar 2: Now with audio support, graphical session editing, and more. Contributed by Fractal (HardCore Software), October 4, 2000. Note 1: QBasic can be found on your Windows CD under OTHER/OLDMSDOS or search for olddos.exe on microsoft.com. Note 2: These programs will not work under NT unless a driver such as Direct I/O is utilized. C / C++
(This is your brain on Theta.)
You can use the brain-wave goggles with or without audio. However, the effects of the brain-wave machine are more powerful when used in conjunction with suitable audio. Many brain-wave stimulation and subliminal CD's and cassettes can be purchased from new-age bookstores. I highly recommend the "Brainwave Suite" 4 disc box-set by Dr. Jeffrey Thompson. Doctor Thompson has also produced several other brainwave CD's. Some Suggested Uses
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Saturday, April 12, 2014
Brain-Wave Machine
Thursday, April 3, 2014
Mars One To Build Simulated Colony For One-Way Astronauts
Mars colony
Mars One
In an email statement this morning, Mars One also named Kristian von Bengston—co-founder of Copenhagen Suborbitals, a private effort to build and launch a crewed suborbital rocket—as leader of the new effort to establish multiple training outposts at yet-to-be-determined locations. For now Von Bengston is seeking out construction companies and courting financial sponsors. The first simulated colonies won't contain actual life-support systems, at least to begin with, but they will be retrofitted with the technology later on, according to the statement.
More than 200,000 people applied for the one-way mission. Late last year, Mars One narrowed the selection pool to 1,058. Their ultimate goal: select 24 to 40 candidates who will travel to Mars in groups of four (two men and two women, ideally from four different continents, says CEO Bas Lansdorp). Mars One wants to send the first group in 2025, with the subsequent crews launching one at a time, every two years thereafter. The organization intends to televise the final rounds of the search.
Spaceflight contractors Lockheed Martin and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. are already working with Mars One to develop a robotic lander and a data-link satellite for an unmanned, exploratory mission to Mars in 2018. Should this initial mission get off the ground, it would test several technologies required to support human life on another world.
Last August, Popular Science spoke with one of the applicants, video game designer Katrina Wolfe, who has since made it to round two of the selection process.
High-Tech Thieves and the Gadgets They Use
Curious about the latest in gadgets and gizmos thieves are using these day?
As our world rushes into the futuristic realm of technology and the geniuses of our time continue to think up revolutionary software, gadgets, gizmos, as well as other high-tech tools, thieves become ever more skilled in using them.
There are many products that I will bring to your attention today in an effort to look inside the tool box of high-tech thieves and what gadgets they use to victimize the unsuspecting public. I was planning on only writing on one or two of the ‘most used' items but there were so many to choose from that I decided to incorporate quite a few to broaden the spectrum of technologies being used today.
Manufacturers aren't fessing up to who made these dandy delights and buying these items can be hard to do if you don't know where to look. But nevertheless, I figured it was worth the heads up. Incidentally, BBC has an article about these thieves and the motivation behind their actions that I found very interesting in my research.
Thousands of homes have a biological alarm system called a dog. Thieves that target a home have to watch out for this natural anti-theft device, so they use a small video camera that can slide under a door or into a small hole in the wall to help them find any vicious critters that would like to greet them with all of their sharp pointy teeth. Counter Intelligence Technologies, Inc. manufactures fiber optic digital cameras that are highly affordable. But they are certainly not the only ones to make them. Many online retailers have them and one example of a good super flex micro camera is from Amazon.
Flexible Camera
Snake Camera
Okay, now on to another gadget that high-tech thieves use. Scanners that find specific radio frequencies are often used to gain access into a home via the garage door or car. As technology advances the alarms will need to be updated. If you are still using an old electronic garage door or an old car alarm system chances are the frequency can be duplicated. Hacker Central has devices like the RF (Radio Frequency) Detectors and Code Grabbers as well as providing lists of cars and garage doors/gates they open. Amazon has a well rated one here. The functions are pretty simple. The device itself locks on to the radio frequencies when the victim opens their garage door to leave or come home. By activating the code grabber it finds the exact frequency to open the door and duplicates it for future use. (Read more about Mobile Scanner and Radar laws in the U.S at afn.org.)
Code Scanner
Code Grabber
Credit Card Cloners and Skimmers
ATM Scammer
Endless reports across the globe are reporting on credit card cloning and skimming. Devices are designed to be placed in plain site, usually on ATM's or even gas pumps for those of us looking for a fast transaction in our hectic lives. The Age and Sun Herald in Australia are reporting small covert cameras that not only record the pin numbers being entered but also the numbers on the credit card as well and all data on the magnetic strip. This is the very recipe for cloning an unlimited credit account at someone else's expense.
Car Key Code Scanning Laptops
Laptop
Car thieves are going high-tech too, well at least those with expensive tastes are. David Beckham just had his vehicle stolen according to MSNBC by way of a laptop... that's right, a laptop. The computer, along with an antenna and of course special software was able to extract a code that was transmitted by a Radio Frequency (RFID) chip located in the key.
Magnetic Keyboards
Magnetic Keyboard (from Neowin.net)
While we are on the topic of cars I found another object of desire for thieves today... yep, you guessed it, gasoline. Because of the high price of petrol at the pumps, high-tech thieves are targeting new ways to get the juice for free. ABC news reports enlighten the public to the fact that magnetic keyboards are the culprit. The keyboard was basically used to ‘turn on' the pumps from a closed Citgo gas station in Rhode Island. They were able to get 134 gallons in that one trip that they loaded into empty metal drums.
Keystroke Catchers
Keystroke Catcher (from Spy-solutions.com)
Although "pharming" or "phishing" scams are still all the rage with dishonest thieves via the internet, specialists at truecredit.com (a branch of TransUnion) say that there is one more thing to watch out for... "Keystroke catchers". Small devices are affixed to the cable which goes from the keyboard to the computer itself and are as cheap as $100. The connector is what they call a "catcher" and it records whatever you type into your computer. They are usually slipped into public computer areas like libraries and internet cafés. The moral of this story kiddies, is to never pay bills or shop online in a public terminal where just anybody has access to the data you transmit. You can pick one of these up on Amazon here.
Well, what do you think of the latest gadgets being used criminals? Do you think these technologies should be allowed in the marketplace at all? Do you think this article will facilitate criminal behaviour by explaining how these technologies are being used? Should we not be writing about these types of security related devices?
As our world rushes into the futuristic realm of technology and the geniuses of our time continue to think up revolutionary software, gadgets, gizmos, as well as other high-tech tools, thieves become ever more skilled in using them.
There are many products that I will bring to your attention today in an effort to look inside the tool box of high-tech thieves and what gadgets they use to victimize the unsuspecting public. I was planning on only writing on one or two of the ‘most used' items but there were so many to choose from that I decided to incorporate quite a few to broaden the spectrum of technologies being used today.
Manufacturers aren't fessing up to who made these dandy delights and buying these items can be hard to do if you don't know where to look. But nevertheless, I figured it was worth the heads up. Incidentally, BBC has an article about these thieves and the motivation behind their actions that I found very interesting in my research.
Super Flexible Cameras
Thousands of homes have a biological alarm system called a dog. Thieves that target a home have to watch out for this natural anti-theft device, so they use a small video camera that can slide under a door or into a small hole in the wall to help them find any vicious critters that would like to greet them with all of their sharp pointy teeth. Counter Intelligence Technologies, Inc. manufactures fiber optic digital cameras that are highly affordable. But they are certainly not the only ones to make them. Many online retailers have them and one example of a good super flex micro camera is from Amazon.
Flexible CameraSnake CameraRadio Frequency Code Grabbers
Okay, now on to another gadget that high-tech thieves use. Scanners that find specific radio frequencies are often used to gain access into a home via the garage door or car. As technology advances the alarms will need to be updated. If you are still using an old electronic garage door or an old car alarm system chances are the frequency can be duplicated. Hacker Central has devices like the RF (Radio Frequency) Detectors and Code Grabbers as well as providing lists of cars and garage doors/gates they open. Amazon has a well rated one here. The functions are pretty simple. The device itself locks on to the radio frequencies when the victim opens their garage door to leave or come home. By activating the code grabber it finds the exact frequency to open the door and duplicates it for future use. (Read more about Mobile Scanner and Radar laws in the U.S at afn.org.)
Code ScannerCode Grabber
Credit Card Cloners and Skimmers
ATM ScammerEndless reports across the globe are reporting on credit card cloning and skimming. Devices are designed to be placed in plain site, usually on ATM's or even gas pumps for those of us looking for a fast transaction in our hectic lives. The Age and Sun Herald in Australia are reporting small covert cameras that not only record the pin numbers being entered but also the numbers on the credit card as well and all data on the magnetic strip. This is the very recipe for cloning an unlimited credit account at someone else's expense.
Car Key Code Scanning Laptops
LaptopCar thieves are going high-tech too, well at least those with expensive tastes are. David Beckham just had his vehicle stolen according to MSNBC by way of a laptop... that's right, a laptop. The computer, along with an antenna and of course special software was able to extract a code that was transmitted by a Radio Frequency (RFID) chip located in the key.
Magnetic Keyboards
Magnetic Keyboard (from Neowin.net)While we are on the topic of cars I found another object of desire for thieves today... yep, you guessed it, gasoline. Because of the high price of petrol at the pumps, high-tech thieves are targeting new ways to get the juice for free. ABC news reports enlighten the public to the fact that magnetic keyboards are the culprit. The keyboard was basically used to ‘turn on' the pumps from a closed Citgo gas station in Rhode Island. They were able to get 134 gallons in that one trip that they loaded into empty metal drums.
Keystroke Catchers
Keystroke Catcher (from Spy-solutions.com) Although "pharming" or "phishing" scams are still all the rage with dishonest thieves via the internet, specialists at truecredit.com (a branch of TransUnion) say that there is one more thing to watch out for... "Keystroke catchers". Small devices are affixed to the cable which goes from the keyboard to the computer itself and are as cheap as $100. The connector is what they call a "catcher" and it records whatever you type into your computer. They are usually slipped into public computer areas like libraries and internet cafés. The moral of this story kiddies, is to never pay bills or shop online in a public terminal where just anybody has access to the data you transmit. You can pick one of these up on Amazon here.
Well, what do you think of the latest gadgets being used criminals? Do you think these technologies should be allowed in the marketplace at all? Do you think this article will facilitate criminal behaviour by explaining how these technologies are being used? Should we not be writing about these types of security related devices?
Manda Spring
Surveillance and Security Innovations
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Handheld Scanner Can Copy Car Keys Just By Peeking At The Lock
Locksmiths and car thieves can both get excited over a new handheld device that electronically maps the inside of car locks and then provides the key code within seconds via USB cable connection to a computer. The key code, matched to the make of the car, allows key-cutting machines to churn out a replacement key. Popular Mechanics reports that the key replication only works for Ford vehicles so far -- news that may leave bemused expressions on the faces of Ford owners.
The Electronic Key Impressioner (EKI) comes with common vehicle keyway inserts, a USB cable, and lock mapping software. That software connects to a database full of updated key codes, which also allows the system to remotely "brick" devices that have fallen into the wrong hands. But car manufacturers may not accept that reassurance, even as the EKI creators hope to expand their device's ability to work with a wider range of cars. Unhappy automakers could render it useless by changing their lock technology completely.
Another caveat is
Either way
, look for this magical key replacement (or Grand Theft Auto) device to come your way late this year.
that the
system mainly works for old-fashioned keys, as opposed to newer car keys that contain transponders. But tools already exist for locksmiths or less savory characters to crack the transponder codes.
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-02/lock-diving-sensor-creates-replacement-car-keys-good-or-ill
The Electronic Key Impressioner (EKI) comes with common vehicle keyway inserts, a USB cable, and lock mapping software. That software connects to a database full of updated key codes, which also allows the system to remotely "brick" devices that have fallen into the wrong hands. But car manufacturers may not accept that reassurance, even as the EKI creators hope to expand their device's ability to work with a wider range of cars. Unhappy automakers could render it useless by changing their lock technology completely.
Another caveat is
Either way
, look for this magical key replacement (or Grand Theft Auto) device to come your way late this year.
that the
Key Replicator
Here, let me unlock your car for you
Alternative Product Solutions
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-02/lock-diving-sensor-creates-replacement-car-keys-good-or-ill
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
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Monday, March 31, 2014
Anti-Drone Camouflage : What to wear in total surveillance
The future of privacy is looking grim. Artist Adam Harvey wants to design something about that.
For the past four years, Harvey has been exploring the possibilities of counter-surveillance fashion. His latest addition is a collection of clothes and accessories called Stealth Wear. The collection includes an anti-drone hoodie and scarf that are designed to thwart the thermal-imaging technology widely used by UAVs, and the OFF Pocket, a phone accessory that blocks all incoming and outgoing communication from your phone. Harvey’s earlier work includes the CamoFlash, a set of powerful LEDs that trigger when it detects camera flashes, turning the tools of the paparazzi against them, and CV Dazzle, a experiment with makeup and hair styles that will confuse facial-recognition systems.
In total, it’s a body of work that pushes against a future of total surveillance. Like the best fashion, Harvey’s work is at once practical and wearable and an artistic provocation.
“Total surveillance is a term I first heard from Anders Sandberg during this presentation at a Tabula Rasa conference,” says Harvey. “He predicts that by 2050 a country can execute total surveillance on a population for .01% of their GDP.”
What does he mean by total surveillance? “I asked him what he meant — I was also confused — and it basically pertains to recording audio/video 24/7 of every citizen. This was based on some research he’s done.” It’s Moore’s law for the surveillance age. As sensors get cheaper and more ubiquitous, and as we wire ourselves and our spaces up with cameras and other gear, it becomes harder and harder to not record everything.
Here’s a quick tour of the contemporary surveillance landscape. A father accidentally spies on his daughter with a smart meter; the iPhone’s location database accidentally tracks everywhere you’ve been; Facebook users’ public info turns out to be great for stalker applications; more and more companies are coming out with life cams; and everyone’s getting a drone.
Wired chatted with Harvey about the story behind his pieces.
Wired: How did you get into countermeasure clothing in the first place?
Adam Harvey: I aestheticize something that I’m passionate about. Privacy and surveillance are defining who we, how we dress, and how we act with each other. I’m very interested in seeing how this will play out in terms of how we treat other’s data and how we balance security with privacy. As the security industry grows, we’re forced to define and redefine what privacy means. Also, each new generation will have a different idea of what privacy means.
I don’t want the next generation to grow up thinking that giving away all of your personal data for free is the norm. If we’re on track for total surveillance, then good countermeasures are essential. These don’t have to be limited to fringe interest groups either. Counter surveillance could become the norm. The OFF Pocket is designed with everyone in mind from high schoolers to hackers to politicians. We’re all being tracked, but some of it can be controlled.
Wired: How did the Stealth Wear project come about?
Harvey: Stealth Wear started as an experiment using the fabrics I was researching for the OFF Pocket. I did research on thermal surveillance and was very interested in where it was going and at some point realized that metalised fabrics work as a shield against thermal imagining cameras. I was able to get access to a thermal camera and started testing swatches of fabric. When I realized that it worked well enough, I got in touch with my friend Johanna Bloomfield and she came up with the hoodie design. Everything was pretty much still an experiment at this point. Then we showed the hoodie to Andrew Green from PRIMITIVE. He loved it and decided to include it and make it a major part of this upcoming show. Originally this show was to be based on work from CV Dazzle and a few other counter surveillance art projects. This whole idea of stealth wear line was very emergent.
Wired: Any specific symbolism in a hoodie and a scarf or simply practicality?
Harvey: I wanted to do a hoodie because it assumes that there is a high enough demand for anti-thermal imaging clothes that one would want to add style. I’m creating the future I want to see: people wearing stylish clothes that block surveillance and enhance privacy. Functionally, the hoodie is designed to thwart thermal surveillance from above and is wide enough to block a vertical over shot. The hood is exaggerated to provide additional face concealment.
The scarf is intended to be worn as a hijab. It is also inspired by the rationale behind the hijab, “the veil which separates man or the world from God”, replacing God with drone. The interior color is the the inverse color scheme of the heat map gradient.
Wired: Is there a particular reason you’re intervening at this particular scale?
Harvey: I see a future where individuals are more in control of their privacy. And I see fashion as a vehicle for getting there. Conformity is what surveillance wants and fashion is anti-conformist. And I think the decision to conform or not happens on a personal level. The projects I’ve been working on act upon surveillance in a way that exploits a vulnerability and makes this vulnerability accessible through using something ordinary (hair, makeup, or fashion) in a non-conformist and legal way.
So far, I haven’t had any problems with legal issues. In fact, I’ve been invited to a biometrics conference to discuss my work and really enjoy meeting people in this field. Even someone from DARPA recognized my work and seemed to enjoy it. Ideally, these projects, which take place at a personal level, could function to influence people at a higher policy-making level.
Wired: To what extent do you think these clothing/tools will actually be effective?
Harvey: I designed the OFF Pocket to be inconspicuous. The “Anti-Drone” Hoodie is more or less indistinguishable from other high fashion. Hiding in plain sight if definitely the goal. But what we define as familiar versus conspicuous changes everywhere we go. In Williamsburg I see people riding 10 ft tall bicycles and it’s normal. On the NYC subway, crazy people scream and no one even notices. In Penn Station there are soldiers with automatic weapons. These are all normal.
What I think we don’t realize is that surveillance is taking place almost everywhere we go now, and it should be normal for us to dress in a way that is conscious of this. At some point, it might be weird to not have an OFF Pocket or a thermally reflective garment. Or, maybe just unfashionable.
The collection is being hosted by PRIMITVE in London and opens to the public on January 18.
http://www.wired.com/2013/01/anti-drone-camouflage-apparel/
Sunday, March 30, 2014
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including how to induce paranoia (4.5 Hz), depression (6.66 Hz), manic rage (11.3 Hz) (...) security police, such as MI5 use the 450 MHz frequency (legally allowed to be used by the police)for behavioral control.
A vast catalog of mind control frequencies are in the MHz range, FM radio,TV and mobile phone frequencies, have been measured, which are used for control, killing or disabling victims: 147, 153, 197, 199, 447, 453, 456, 466, 853, 883, 884, 887…
http://wmasslocal.wordpress.com/2013/07/25/how-elf-frequencies-induce-paranoia-4-5-hz-depression-6-66-hz-manic-rage-11-3-hz-and-manifest-various-health-problems-in-undesirables/
A vast catalog of mind control frequencies are in the MHz range, FM radio,TV and mobile phone frequencies, have been measured, which are used for control, killing or disabling victims: 147, 153, 197, 199, 447, 453, 456, 466, 853, 883, 884, 887…
http://wmasslocal.wordpress.com/2013/07/25/how-elf-frequencies-induce-paranoia-4-5-hz-depression-6-66-hz-manic-rage-11-3-hz-and-manifest-various-health-problems-in-undesirables/
Friday, February 7, 2014
- // 'key' should be 32 bytes for AES256, will be null-padded otherwise
- char keyPtr[kCCKeySizeAES256+1]; // room for terminator (unused)
- bzero(keyPtr, sizeof(keyPtr)); // fill with zeroes (for padding)
- CCCryptorStatus cryptStatus = CCCrypt(kCCEncrypt, kCCAlgorithmAES128, kCCOptionPKCS7Padding,
- keyPtr, kCCKeySizeAES256,
- NULL /* initialization vector (optional) */,
- [self bytes], dataLength, /* input */
- buffer, bufferSize, /* output */
- &numBytesEncrypted);
- private static final String AES_SECRET = "PreDefinedKey";
- /**
- * Method for AES encryption
- * @param raw
- * @param plain
- * @return
- * @throws Exception
- */
- private static byte[] encrypt(byte[] raw, byte[] plain) throws Exception {
- SecretKeySpec skeySpec = new SecretKeySpec(raw, "AES/ECB/PKCS7Padding");
- Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/ECB/PKCS7Padding");
- cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, skeySpec);
- byte[] encrypted = cipher.doFinal(plain);
- return encrypted;
- }
- /**
- * AES decryption
- * @param encryptMsg
- * @return
- * @throws Exception
- */
- public static String AESDecrypt(String encryptMsg)
- throws Exception {
- byte[] rawKey = getRawKey(AES_SECRET.getBytes());
- //byte[] enc = toByte(encryptMsg);
- byte[] enc = Base64.decode(encryptMsg, 0);
- byte[] result = decrypt(rawKey, enc);
- return new String(result);
- }
- /**
- * Method for AES decryption
- * @param raw
- * @param encrypted
- * @return
- * @throws Exception
- */
- private static byte[] decrypt(byte[] raw, byte[] encrypted) throws Exception {
- SecretKeySpec keySpec = new SecretKeySpec(raw, "AES/ECB/PKCS7Padding");
- Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/ECB/PKCS7Padding");
- cipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, keySpec);
- byte[] decrypted = cipher.doFinal(encrypted);
- return decrypted;
- }
- public static byte[] getRawKey(byte[] seed) throws Exception {
- KeyGenerator kgen = KeyGenerator.getInstance("AES");
- SecureRandom sr = SecureRandom.getInstance("SHA1PRNG");
- sr.setSeed(seed);
- //Init for 256bit AES key
- kgen.init(256);
- SecretKey secret = kgen.generateKey();
- //Get secret raw key
- byte[] raw = secret.getEncoded();
- return seed;
- }
- // zeros by default
- byte[] rawKey = new byte[32];
- // if you don't specify the encoding you might get weird results
- byte[] keyBytes = AES_SECRET.getBytes("ASCII");
- System.arraycopy(keyBytes, 0, rawKey, 0, keyBytes.length);
- SecretKey key = new SecretKeySpec(rawKey, "AES");
- Cipher cipher = ...
- // rest of your decryption code
DIY Electromagnetic (HERF) Gun Project
This DIYer built his own Microwave HERF (high-energy radio frequency) gun by using parts from an old microwave oven. The electromagnetic gun works just like a normal microwave with a high energy source triggering a magnetron which produces microwave radiation at 2.45GHz. The targeting part is a waveguide made out of metal which directs the microwaves in one direction instead of letting them scatter.
This DIYer built his own Microwave HERF (high-energy radio frequency) gun by using parts from an old microwave oven. The electromagnetic gun works just like a normal microwave with a high energy source triggering a magnetron which produces microwave radiation at 2.45GHz. The targeting part is a waveguide made out of metal which directs the microwaves in one direction instead of letting them scatter.
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Non-Electric Detonators
Non-Electric Detonators are linear signal transmission devices designed to transmit an energetic signal through shock tube to a specific detonating output. Shock tube is a hollow extruded tube containing a thin layer of energetic material on its inner diameter. Once initiated, the shock tube transmits a signal to a detonating output charge, typically incorporating an instantaneous output or a pre-determined pyrotechnic event. Non-Electric Detonators are available in either single or dual shock tube configurations. Dual Lead Detonators are used when conditions or mission requirements deem it necessary to have the maximum reliability. Common applications of Dual Lead-In-Lines are close quarters breaching, urban breaching, obstacle clearing, and critical target destruction.  
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Thursday, January 30, 2014
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From BULLRUN to NOCON and LACONIC
On September 5, The Guardian, The New York Times and ProPublica jointly revealed that NSA has a top secret program to break encryption systems used on the internet. This is done by for example inserting vulnerabilities into commercial encryption and IT systems. This program is codenamed BULLRUN, which, according to NSA documents, is not a regular sensitive information compartment, but a "secure COI".
COI or CoI stands for Community of Interest, a more common computer security feature by which network assets and/or users are segregated by technological means. This is done through a logical or physical grouping of network devices or users with access to information that should not be available to the general user population of the network. According to the 2011 Classification Manual (pdf), information residing on secure COIs may not be taken out of the COI or moved to other databases without appropriate approval.
According to a GCHQ briefing sheet about BULLRUN, there are at least two other COIs: ENDUE and NOCON, both for sensitive materials. These Community of Interest codenames were revealed here for the first time. For classification purposes they are treated as dissemination markings: they appear at the very end of a classification line, separated from other markings (like NOFORN and ORCON) by a single forward slash. For example: TOP SECRET//SI//NOFORN/BULLRUN
Surprise
As the COI codenames BULLRUN, ENDUE and NOCON are used within a Top Secret environment for highly sensitive NSA operations, it was quite a surprise to find the NOCON marking on another document too: an appendix (pdf) of a very secret NSA document. This appendix is about Public Key crypto s
ystems and has no date, but seems to be from the 1980s. It was declassified by the NSA in March 2007 upon request of the Cryptome website:
The document was marked TOP SECRET UMBRA LACONIC NOCON. This old style classification marking (without slashes between the categories and terms) means that the document has the overall classification level TOP SECRET and was protected by putting it in the UMBRA compartment, which was designated for the most sensitive communications intercept material. The LACONIC and NOCON markings will be explained below.
LACONIC
The function of LACONIC is clarified in the NSA's internal Cryptolog (pdf) magazine, 2nd issue from 1988, which says that LACONIC is not a clearance or a classification, but a handling control marking. It's described as a restrictive distribution indicator for certain techniques - what kind of techniques is blacked out. Access to documents marked with LACONIC does not require a special clearance, but the reader must have a need to know certain details about those undisclosed things.
An indication about what kind of techniques are blacked out can be found in the Cryptolog (pdf) issue of January/February 1986. There it's said that "LACONIC access" is required for attending the CRYSCO-86 conference about computer technology and cryptanalysis, so it seems likely that LACONIC is about sensitive computer codebreaking techniques.
This comes close to the BULLRUN program and therefore it's not unthinkable that LACONIC was one of its forerunners, allthough according to the New York Times, the direct predecessor of BULLRUN was a program codenamed MANASSAS.
The LACONIC marking was retired as of October 2006 and apparently replaced by a new compartment within the control system for Exceptionally Controlled Information (ECI).
NOCONTRACT
In addition to restricting access to people with the need-to-know, the 1988 Cryptolog explanation says that LACONIC was also designed to deny access to contractors and consultants. Therefore, LACONIC had always to be accompanied by the NOCONTRACT marking. Apparently this marking could also be shortened to NOCON, as can be seen in the aforementioned document about public key crypto systems.
The Director of Central Intelligence Directive (DCID) 1/7 from April 12, 1995 ruled that as from that date, the NOCONTRACT marking should not be used anymore. This because it had "clearly outlived [its] usefullnes". Officials could now release intelligence bearing the NOCONTRACT marking to appropriately cleared and access-approved contractors. It's no surprise that this came at a time when US intelligence agencies started their large-scale outsourcing to private contractors.
However, it seems strange that Directive 1/7 eliminated the NOCONTRACT marking in 1995, but at the same time we still see NOCON as a COI in recent BULLRUN documents. A possible explanation could be that NSA still wanted to keep some sensitive materials out of the hands of contractors, and therefore continued to use the NOCON marking internally.
This could also explain the fact that NOCON, like the BULLRUN and ENDUE COI markings, are not listed in the extensive classification marking manuals for the intelligence community. The 2010 BULLRUN Classification Guide confirms that "the BULLRUN data label (for use in databases) and marking (for use in hard- or soft copy documents) are for NSA/CSS internal use only".
Conclusion
At least since the 1980s, NSA used the LACONIC marking to protect sensitive information, which was probably related to computer codebreaking techniques. Whether LACONIC was for internal NSA use only is not entirely clear, but as LACONIC material was not meant for contractors and consultants, it had to be accompanied by the NOCONTRACT marking which was used throughout the intelligence community.
After the general use of NOCONTRACT or NOCON was prohibited in 1995, NSA seems to have continued it as an internal marking. Similar are the probably more recent markings ENDUE and BULLRUN, which are all used for highly sensitive information that is protected by putting it in separated and secured parts (COIs) of NSA's internal computer networks
http://electrospaces.blogspot.pt/2013/10/from-bullrun-to-nocon-and-laconic.html
On September 5, The Guardian, The New York Times and ProPublica jointly revealed that NSA has a top secret program to break encryption systems used on the internet. This is done by for example inserting vulnerabilities into commercial encryption and IT systems. This program is codenamed BULLRUN, which, according to NSA documents, is not a regular sensitive information compartment, but a "secure COI".
COI or CoI stands for Community of Interest, a more common computer security feature by which network assets and/or users are segregated by technological means. This is done through a logical or physical grouping of network devices or users with access to information that should not be available to the general user population of the network. According to the 2011 Classification Manual (pdf), information residing on secure COIs may not be taken out of the COI or moved to other databases without appropriate approval.
ECI = Exceptionally Controlled Information; PTD = Penetrating Target Defences
IIB = Initial Infrastructure Build ?
IIB = Initial Infrastructure Build ?
According to a GCHQ briefing sheet about BULLRUN, there are at least two other COIs: ENDUE and NOCON, both for sensitive materials. These Community of Interest codenames were revealed here for the first time. For classification purposes they are treated as dissemination markings: they appear at the very end of a classification line, separated from other markings (like NOFORN and ORCON) by a single forward slash. For example: TOP SECRET//SI//NOFORN/BULLRUN
Surprise
As the COI codenames BULLRUN, ENDUE and NOCON are used within a Top Secret environment for highly sensitive NSA operations, it was quite a surprise to find the NOCON marking on another document too: an appendix (pdf) of a very secret NSA document. This appendix is about Public Key crypto s
ystems and has no date, but seems to be from the 1980s. It was declassified by the NSA in March 2007 upon request of the Cryptome website:
The document was marked TOP SECRET UMBRA LACONIC NOCON. This old style classification marking (without slashes between the categories and terms) means that the document has the overall classification level TOP SECRET and was protected by putting it in the UMBRA compartment, which was designated for the most sensitive communications intercept material. The LACONIC and NOCON markings will be explained below.
LACONIC
The function of LACONIC is clarified in the NSA's internal Cryptolog (pdf) magazine, 2nd issue from 1988, which says that LACONIC is not a clearance or a classification, but a handling control marking. It's described as a restrictive distribution indicator for certain techniques - what kind of techniques is blacked out. Access to documents marked with LACONIC does not require a special clearance, but the reader must have a need to know certain details about those undisclosed things.
An indication about what kind of techniques are blacked out can be found in the Cryptolog (pdf) issue of January/February 1986. There it's said that "LACONIC access" is required for attending the CRYSCO-86 conference about computer technology and cryptanalysis, so it seems likely that LACONIC is about sensitive computer codebreaking techniques.
This comes close to the BULLRUN program and therefore it's not unthinkable that LACONIC was one of its forerunners, allthough according to the New York Times, the direct predecessor of BULLRUN was a program codenamed MANASSAS.
The LACONIC marking was retired as of October 2006 and apparently replaced by a new compartment within the control system for Exceptionally Controlled Information (ECI).
NOCONTRACT
In addition to restricting access to people with the need-to-know, the 1988 Cryptolog explanation says that LACONIC was also designed to deny access to contractors and consultants. Therefore, LACONIC had always to be accompanied by the NOCONTRACT marking. Apparently this marking could also be shortened to NOCON, as can be seen in the aforementioned document about public key crypto systems.
The Director of Central Intelligence Directive (DCID) 1/7 from April 12, 1995 ruled that as from that date, the NOCONTRACT marking should not be used anymore. This because it had "clearly outlived [its] usefullnes". Officials could now release intelligence bearing the NOCONTRACT marking to appropriately cleared and access-approved contractors. It's no surprise that this came at a time when US intelligence agencies started their large-scale outsourcing to private contractors.
However, it seems strange that Directive 1/7 eliminated the NOCONTRACT marking in 1995, but at the same time we still see NOCON as a COI in recent BULLRUN documents. A possible explanation could be that NSA still wanted to keep some sensitive materials out of the hands of contractors, and therefore continued to use the NOCON marking internally.
This could also explain the fact that NOCON, like the BULLRUN and ENDUE COI markings, are not listed in the extensive classification marking manuals for the intelligence community. The 2010 BULLRUN Classification Guide confirms that "the BULLRUN data label (for use in databases) and marking (for use in hard- or soft copy documents) are for NSA/CSS internal use only".
Conclusion
At least since the 1980s, NSA used the LACONIC marking to protect sensitive information, which was probably related to computer codebreaking techniques. Whether LACONIC was for internal NSA use only is not entirely clear, but as LACONIC material was not meant for contractors and consultants, it had to be accompanied by the NOCONTRACT marking which was used throughout the intelligence community.
After the general use of NOCONTRACT or NOCON was prohibited in 1995, NSA seems to have continued it as an internal marking. Similar are the probably more recent markings ENDUE and BULLRUN, which are all used for highly sensitive information that is protected by putting it in separated and secured parts (COIs) of NSA's internal computer networks
http://electrospaces.blogspot.pt/2013/10/from-bullrun-to-nocon-and-laconic.html
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Sdot Micha 2005 Arrow 3 Israeli Base
Friday, January 10, 2014
Caros amigos e amigas, através de alguns contactos, foi-me solicitado que informasse um grupo de pressão, recentemente criado, que envolvem forças de segurança pública, sobre a matéria de impugnação do cargo de Presidente da República. Face ao estudo da jurisprudência sobre esta matéria, penso que a cassação da manifestação de vontade, de um eleitor singular, ou grupo de cidadãos eleitores, poderá... ser efectuada do seguinte modo:
1. Caso o Presidente da República tenha recebido formalmente uma queixa crime sobre corrupção em altos cargos de Estado, como sejam, o presumível "desvio" de verbas da Segurança social, para depósito particular de cargo público, ou o presumível "desvio" de dinheiro público na aquisição de equipamento que implique verbas avultadas, e caso não tenha enviado essa queixa crime para à PGR, com a sua assinatura a validar a investigação judicial, a lei justifica a impugnação do cargo de Presidente da República, por fraude e corrupção.
2. O prazo de lei, para a manifestação de vontade na impugnação, é de 15 dias após o recebimento da queixa crime, com a devida tomada de conhecimento formalizada.
3. O Supremo Tribunal de Justiça, tem 5 dias, para apreciar as provas, e 3 dias para se pronunciar.
1. Caso o Presidente da República tenha recebido formalmente uma queixa crime sobre corrupção em altos cargos de Estado, como sejam, o presumível "desvio" de verbas da Segurança social, para depósito particular de cargo público, ou o presumível "desvio" de dinheiro público na aquisição de equipamento que implique verbas avultadas, e caso não tenha enviado essa queixa crime para à PGR, com a sua assinatura a validar a investigação judicial, a lei justifica a impugnação do cargo de Presidente da República, por fraude e corrupção.
2. O prazo de lei, para a manifestação de vontade na impugnação, é de 15 dias após o recebimento da queixa crime, com a devida tomada de conhecimento formalizada.
3. O Supremo Tribunal de Justiça, tem 5 dias, para apreciar as provas, e 3 dias para se pronunciar.
Um amigo meu aqui da frequência está de cana, 13 anos, por posse e tráfico de estupefacientes, foi agarrado com 30 sabonetes. E eu estava-lhe a dizer o seguinte: primeiro, o batimento de maluco, ou seja não sou culpado, por mais que a Polícia insista no porquê, o argumento é que não te convém falar, sempre primeiro dizer que não és culpado. Segundo, no tráfico mundial de droga, existem correios, e... transportadores de larga envergadura, os correios normalmente batem se de malucos, que não sabiam que transportavam droga, mas o melhor argumento é dos grandes traficantes, que é sou intermediário, preciso por necessidade primária para viver, portanto, e aceitei ser intermediário, logo a acusação não deduz tráfico puro ou seja, venda directa no mercado, assim, embora haja lugar sempre a uma pena, esta pode ser suspensa, e no caso da Polícia questionar quem era o comprador final, pode se dizer, era para fazer uma entrega numa cabine telefónica, sem contactos, e já lá estava o dinheiro
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
LAJES : AMERICANOS AFASTAM-SE CHINESES APROXIMAM-SE
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| Base Aérea º4 nas Lajes, Terceira |
Segundo notícia divulgada ontem pela Agência Lusa, a administração norte-americana informou o Governo português da sua intenção de reduzir significativamente a presença na Base Aérea das Lajes nos Açores.
Apesar de ser atualmente ponto de passagem e apoio para a aviação norte-americana, principalmente nas ligações de e para o Médio Oriente, novos tempos parecem avizinhar-se, com o consequente impacto que terá para a economia dos Açores e política externa nacional.
Esta decisão do executivo de Obama, vem na continuidade do que parece ser uma política de desinvestimento em bases externas, já que em 2006 os EUA abandonaram a utilização de outra base no Atlântico, mais concretamente em Keflavik na Islândia, tendo desde então o espaço aéreo desta nação nórdica sido patrulhado rotativamente pelos aliados da NATO (incluindo Portugal em agosto e setembro últimos).
Entretanto (e talvez por isso) têm circulado rumores do interesse da China na insular base aérea portuguesa, levantados especialmente pela passagem pouco previsível do Primeiro-Ministro chinês pelas Lajes em Junho passado, no regresso de uma visita oficial ao... Chile, que não fica propriamente em caminho.
O Primeiro-Ministro chinês e sua comitiva estiveram quatro horas de visita à base e ilha Terceira apesar de oficialmente a passagem ter sido designada como "escala técnica".
Do ponto de vista estratégico para a China, ter uma base no Atlântico Norte seria uma forma excelente de impor a sua presença entre EUA e a Europa, bem como contrabalançar o incómodo que é a a influência americana em Taiwan, um espinho cravado no orgulho chinês.
Teleporting (cont.)
LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Beaming people in "Star Trek" fashion is still in the realms of science fiction, but physicists in Denmark have teleported information from light to matter bringing quantum communication and computing closer to reality.
Until now scientists have teleported similar objects such as light or single atoms over short distances from one spot to another in a split second.
But Professor Eugene Polzik and his team at the Niels Bohr Institute at Copenhagen University in Denmark have made a breakthrough by using both light and matter.
"It is one step further because for the first time it involves teleportation between light and matter, two different objects. One is the carrier of information and the other one is the storage medium," Polzik explained in an interview on Wednesday.
The experiment involved for the first time a macroscopic atomic object containing thousands of billions of atoms. They also teleported the information a distance of half a meter but believe it can be extended further.
"Teleportation between two single atoms had been done two years ago by two teams, but this was done at a distance of a fraction of a millimeter," Polzik, of the Danish National Research Foundation Center for Quantum Optics, explained.
"Our method allows teleportation to be taken over longer distances because it involves light as the carrier of entanglement," he added.
Quantum entanglement involves entwining two or more particles without physical contact.
Although teleportation is associated with the science-fiction series "Star Trek," no one is likely to be beamed anywhere soon.
But the achievement of Polzik's team, in collaboration with the theorist Ignacio Cirac of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, marks an advancement in the field of quantum information and computers, which could transmit and process information in a way that was impossible before.
"It is really about teleporting information from one site to another site. Quantum information is different from classical information in the sense that it cannot be measured. It has much higher information capacity and it cannot be eavesdropped on. The transmission of quantum information can be made unconditionally secure," said Polzik whose research is reported in the journal Nature.
Quantum computing requires manipulation of information contained in the quantum states, which include physical properties such as energy, motion and magnetic field, of the atoms.
"Creating entanglement is a very important step, but there are two more steps at least to perform teleportation. We have succeeded in making all three steps -- that is entanglement, quantum measurement and quantum feedback," he added.
Until now scientists have teleported similar objects such as light or single atoms over short distances from one spot to another in a split second.
But Professor Eugene Polzik and his team at the Niels Bohr Institute at Copenhagen University in Denmark have made a breakthrough by using both light and matter.
"It is one step further because for the first time it involves teleportation between light and matter, two different objects. One is the carrier of information and the other one is the storage medium," Polzik explained in an interview on Wednesday.
The experiment involved for the first time a macroscopic atomic object containing thousands of billions of atoms. They also teleported the information a distance of half a meter but believe it can be extended further.
"Teleportation between two single atoms had been done two years ago by two teams, but this was done at a distance of a fraction of a millimeter," Polzik, of the Danish National Research Foundation Center for Quantum Optics, explained.
"Our method allows teleportation to be taken over longer distances because it involves light as the carrier of entanglement," he added.
Quantum entanglement involves entwining two or more particles without physical contact.
Although teleportation is associated with the science-fiction series "Star Trek," no one is likely to be beamed anywhere soon.
But the achievement of Polzik's team, in collaboration with the theorist Ignacio Cirac of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, marks an advancement in the field of quantum information and computers, which could transmit and process information in a way that was impossible before.
"It is really about teleporting information from one site to another site. Quantum information is different from classical information in the sense that it cannot be measured. It has much higher information capacity and it cannot be eavesdropped on. The transmission of quantum information can be made unconditionally secure," said Polzik whose research is reported in the journal Nature.
Quantum computing requires manipulation of information contained in the quantum states, which include physical properties such as energy, motion and magnetic field, of the atoms.
"Creating entanglement is a very important step, but there are two more steps at least to perform teleportation. We have succeeded in making all three steps -- that is entanglement, quantum measurement and quantum feedback," he added.
Biodigital Cloning
In 1998, physicists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), along with two European groups, turned the IBM ideas into reality by successfully teleporting a photon, a particle of energy that carries light. The Caltech group was able to read the atomic structure of a photon, send this information across 1 meter (3.28 feet) of coaxial cable and create a replica of the photon. As predicted, the original photon no longer existed once the replica was made.
In performing the experiment, the Caltech group was able to get around the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, the main barrier for teleportation of objects larger than a photon. This principle states that you cannot simultaneously know the location and the speed of a particle. But if you can't know the position of a particle, then how can you teleport it? In order to teleport a photon without violating the Heisenberg Principle, the Caltech physicists used a phenomenon known as entanglement. In entanglement, at least three photons are needed to achieve quantum teleportation:
Photon A: The photon to be teleported
Photon B: The transporting photon
Photon C: The photon that is entangled with photon B
If researchers tried to look too closely at photon A without entanglement, they would bump it, and thereby change it. By entangling photons B and C, researchers can extract some information about photon A, and the remaining information would be passed on to B by way of entanglement, and then on to photon C. When researchers apply the information from photon A to photon C, they can create an exact replica of photon A. However, photon A no longer exists as it did before the information was sent to photon C.
In other words, when Captain Kirk beams down to an alien planet, an analysis of his atomic structure is passed through the transporter room to his desired location, where a replica of Kirk is created and the original is destroyed.
A more recent teleportation success was achieved at the Australian National University, when researchers successfully teleported a laser beam.
For a person to be transported, a machine would have to be built that can pinpoint and analyze all of the 10^28 atoms that make up the human body. That's more than a trillion trillion atoms. This machine would then have to send this information to another location, where the person's body would be reconstructed with exact precision. Molecules couldn't be even a millimeter out of place, lest the person arrive with some severe neurological or physiological defect.
If such a machine were possible, it's unlikely that the person being transported would actually be "transported." It would work more like a fax machine -- a duplicate of the person would be made at the receiving end, but with much greater precision than a fax machine. But what would happen to the original? One theory suggests that teleportation would combine genetic cloning with digitization.
In this biodigital cloning, tele-travelers would have to die, in a sense. Their original mind and body would no longer exist. Instead, their atomic structure would be recreated in another location, and digitization would recreate the travelers' memories, emotions, hopes and dreams. So the travelers would still exist, but they would do so in a new body, of the same atomic structure as the original body, programmed with the same information.
For theologists, this means that the new body wouldn't have the original soul
In performing the experiment, the Caltech group was able to get around the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, the main barrier for teleportation of objects larger than a photon. This principle states that you cannot simultaneously know the location and the speed of a particle. But if you can't know the position of a particle, then how can you teleport it? In order to teleport a photon without violating the Heisenberg Principle, the Caltech physicists used a phenomenon known as entanglement. In entanglement, at least three photons are needed to achieve quantum teleportation:
Photon A: The photon to be teleported
Photon B: The transporting photon
Photon C: The photon that is entangled with photon B
If researchers tried to look too closely at photon A without entanglement, they would bump it, and thereby change it. By entangling photons B and C, researchers can extract some information about photon A, and the remaining information would be passed on to B by way of entanglement, and then on to photon C. When researchers apply the information from photon A to photon C, they can create an exact replica of photon A. However, photon A no longer exists as it did before the information was sent to photon C.
In other words, when Captain Kirk beams down to an alien planet, an analysis of his atomic structure is passed through the transporter room to his desired location, where a replica of Kirk is created and the original is destroyed.
A more recent teleportation success was achieved at the Australian National University, when researchers successfully teleported a laser beam.
For a person to be transported, a machine would have to be built that can pinpoint and analyze all of the 10^28 atoms that make up the human body. That's more than a trillion trillion atoms. This machine would then have to send this information to another location, where the person's body would be reconstructed with exact precision. Molecules couldn't be even a millimeter out of place, lest the person arrive with some severe neurological or physiological defect.
If such a machine were possible, it's unlikely that the person being transported would actually be "transported." It would work more like a fax machine -- a duplicate of the person would be made at the receiving end, but with much greater precision than a fax machine. But what would happen to the original? One theory suggests that teleportation would combine genetic cloning with digitization.
In this biodigital cloning, tele-travelers would have to die, in a sense. Their original mind and body would no longer exist. Instead, their atomic structure would be recreated in another location, and digitization would recreate the travelers' memories, emotions, hopes and dreams. So the travelers would still exist, but they would do so in a new body, of the same atomic structure as the original body, programmed with the same information.
For theologists, this means that the new body wouldn't have the original soul
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
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