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The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not believe in God… Theism is a deep-seated conviction that there’s some hand to hold: if we just do the right things, someone will appreciate us and take care of us… Nontheism is relaxing with the ambiguity and uncertainty of the present moment without reaching for anything to protect ourselves.
Pema Chödrön (via purplebuddhaproject)
Aftermath of a suicide bombing.
Brutal.
Just how broken are fundamental Internet security technologies such as Secure-Socket Layer (SSL), Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), and Transport Layer Security (TLS)? We still don’t know for certain. But, it’s clear that the National Security Agency (NSA) has broken many kinds of Internet encryption technologies… including the ones we use every day.
In a joint report, based on documents obtained by The Guardian, three publications, the New York Times (NYT), The Guardian, and ProPublica, are reporting the following “news:”
The NSA has secretly and successfully worked to break many types of encryption, the widely used technology that is supposed to make it impossible to read intercepted communications.
Referring to the NSA’s efforts, a 2010 British document stated: “Vast amounts of encrypted Internet data are now exploitable.” Another related British memo said: “Those not already briefed were gobsmacked!”
The NSA has worked with American and foreign tech companies to introduce weaknesses into commercial encryption products, allowing backdoor access to data that users believe is secure.
The NSA has deliberately weakened the international encryption standards adopted by developers around the globe.
Before I dive into the details, let me point out that much of this “news” isn’t really news. Since it was founded in 1952, the NSA’s job has been to intercept communications and break encryption. It’s the organization’s job. Only the most naïve would be surprised that the NSA has successfully broken “many kinds of encryption” and that this government agency has used any means it could to do so.
Six ways to protect yourself from the NSA and other eavesdroppers
In fact, as I reported earlier this year, commercially available SSL interception proxy programs and devices from vendors such as Blue Coat Systems and Packet Forensics enable businesses and government agencies to intercept and read SSL communications.
As for the technical specifics, the reports are don’t give us enough detail to spell out what security standards and products were actually broken. One major breakthrough seems to have occurred in 2010 when the United Kingdom’s Government Communications Headquarters, (GCHQ) reported that the NSA “Cryptanalytic capabilities are now coming online. Vast amounts of encrypted Internet data which have up till now been discarded are now exploitable.”
Does that mean SSL, which is used by almost every “secure” Web site on the planet, itself has been broken? Maybe. Maybe not.
The groups report that the NSA has been working hard on breaking the encryption in universal use in the US, including SSL, virtual private networks (VPNs), and 4G smartphones. What these have in common is their use of 256-bit AES for encryption.
It’s been estimated that a brute-force attack on a message encrypted with 256-bit AES would take even a supercomputer longer to break than the universe has been in existence. Of course, if AES’s Rijndael encryption algorithm (PDF link) already had a built-in weakness it would be much easier to break.
Such government emplaced weaknesses have been found before. In 2007, security expert Bruce Schneier described how Dan Shumow and Niels Ferguson had found a random number algorithm that could be used in TLS contained “a weakness that can only be described as a back-door.”
Could there be such back doors in SSL?
Paul Kocher, a cryptographer who helped design SSL, thinks so. He told the NYT that although the NSA wasn’t allowed to put Clipper, an encryption system with a built-in security backdoor for the federal government on all PCs in the 1990s, “they went and did it anyway, without telling anyone.”
The other “news” is that the NSA and GCHQ have been looking for ways to access the protected traffic of the most popular Internet companies: Google, Yahoo, Facebook, and Microsoft’s Hotmail. By 2012, GCHQ had developed “new access opportunities” into Google’s systems. What these may be is still unknown.
And it’s not just Google. The story also re-reported that Microsoft had “handed the NSA access to encrypted messages.” Microsoft, according to the report, provided more than simply access to encrypted messages. The company is said to have also given the NSA access to “Outlook e-mail, Skype Internet phone calls and chats, and to SkyDrive, the company’s cloud storage service.”
Microsoft has denied this. The company has since revealed that it and rival Google have joined forces in a law suit to reveal how they’re handling Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) requests.
Eventually—and it may take years—we’ll find out what’s really going on with our Internet security standards, privacy, and government surveillance. For now, we keep getting more hints that the NSA does indeed have high level access to both security technologies and to the companies that sell and operate them.
Internet trickled down from military to civilian, duh. Forever reblog.
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That is a horror that may never again be recreated.
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photobomb from beyond the grave
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this website i swear
"It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top."
-Hunter S. Thompson
Platypus playtime
addition to short story idea
> protagonist is lead to believe that the "neuroses" is a program that keeps the prisoners alive
> what actually happens is that the prisoners are murdered with their consiousness saved so that they can still control the drones on mars
> 1. humans cannot recreate their own consciousness artifically/effectively -> need to use the real thing, find a way to save the human consciousness in a computer program
> 2. don't want to get in trouble for "killing" them, so they devise a plan wherein the prisoners are lead into drug addiction within their dream state.
> when they use in the dream, the brain is injected with the drug they use in the dream
> they are encouraged to use these drugs when approached by people in their dreams.
> done in a subconscious way so they don't notice in the dream, brain waves altered so they don't question
> become addicts in dreams
> lose control in dream
> during drugged dream state, encourage to participate in activities that will kill them
> die in dream, "die" in real life
> they think they die, but really the company takes over their consciousness as per terms and conditions of their program paperwork since they tacitly implied they no longer want their own life/consciousness
> consciousness used to control drones, each consciousness controlled by an umbrella computer program
short story idea
> dystopian future
> overpopulation creates world problems
> need to leave for mars quickly
> need to terraform mars
> can only do so with certain machines that will take the materials on mars and recombine them to create the necessary components for a habitable zone
> we send multitudes of drones to mars using the world's resources
> controlled by unknown source
> that is managed by project "neuroses"
> come to find out
> project neuroses is a program that takes advantage of the overwhelming world prison population
> prisoners jailed for anything that is "against the state"
> prisoners chosen for program are put through surgical procedure
> procedure severs their spinal cord
> making them paraplegic
> their brains are hooked into computer that allows them to remotely control drones on mars
> for every amount of hours worked
> or resources created
> they earn a certain amount of points
> these points are traded in for free time in "the space"
> "the space" is an artificially induced lucid dream
> in the dream they can do anything they want to since it is their own mind
> it is sustained for as long as they choose based off of how many points they turn in
> once points are used, they are back to work
> since brains are controlled, they are unable to perform certain functions of the robot, i.e. hurt other robots, their robot, or humans
> also only allowed to sleep for a certain amount of hours, minimum necessary for survival, controlled by the program
19-year-old photographer Nicolas Bruno reenacts sleep paralysis-induced nightmares in his stunning, surreal photographs of a dark dreamworld.
student: hey government can I have some money to go to university
uk government: sure here you go. you'll have to pay it back but only when you're earning £21,000+ a year, and if you don't pay it off after 30 years we'll just write it off, don't worry about it man
scottish government: nah man just go to uni we ain't gonna charge you
us government: no. you gotta pay it yourself. upfront. your parents have to save up from the moment you're born. good luck, fucker. you have six months after graduating to start paying loans so you better pray to fucking god and jesus that you have a well-paying job by then or be prepared to be fucked up the ass without lube.
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birds probably think planes are bigger, angrier birds
"Why the fuck are they always screaming like that? "
13 people died because GM refused to switch out a faulty ignition switch on the Chevy Cobalt and other models, despite being aware of the problem. The change would have cost GM 90 cents per car.
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It’s not negligent homicide when a powerful corporation does it.
Sometimes I think to myself, If only. If only there were no consequences, So I could skip out on work this week, And go on a binge. If only I had won the lottery, So that I could spend my days as I please, Being incredibly irresponsible. I would die early, With a withered brain- And a fool's heart.
