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By focusing our defense resources into a space-superiority platform and weapon system such as a Death Star, the government can spur job creation in the fields of construction, engineering, space exploration, and more, and strengthen our national defense.

Bad news from this frontier: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/isnt-petition-response-youre-looking As the Americans are not going for it, it might be a good opportunity for Europeans to make a real difference in space.

Merkel seems anyway a bit short of ideas ...

long live the sys admins!

careful, NSA is listening... you are now in their blacklist

"Annual Security Inspection at ESTEC"... ... What exactly is this P.R.I.S.M. process that is running on Sophia?

bio-robotics anybody?

WIRING Poke the left silver wire about one millimeter into the roach's thorax, under a wing just behind its head, and secure it with superglue. Cut each antenna to expose a neuron-lined tube. Insert the middle wire one millimeter into the left tube, and the right wire into the right tube. Superglue both wires into place. CONNECT AND COMMAND Hot-glue the circuit board onto the roach's back and plug it into the head connector. After the roach wakes up, press the remote's left button to urge it right, and the right button to move it left. The cyborg will ignore commands after a few minutes. Peel off the circuit board and clip all wires to ensure a long retirement.

The algorithm that regulates the flow of ants is evolving toward minimizing operating costs rather than immediate accumulation.

Turns out even ants can profit from a siesta on a hot day and they use network security and repair mechanisms. Maybe there is still something undiscovered that we can apply for our own networks.

In Israel, a new way to hack by turning speakers into microphones.

After graphene and blue brain, the European Commission has quietly announced plans to launch a €1-billion Euro project to boost a raft of quantum technologies - from secure communication networks to ultra-precise gravity sensors and clocks.

A low-cost rubber robot that can change color to match its surroundings like a chameleon, light up in the dark, change temperatures and fit into tight places is under development at DARPA for potential defense and surveillance applications.

Interesting article, very practical in the approach ...

http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.6389v2 for Guido; an interesting example of "takeover" research

Secure World Foundation (SWF) is pleased to announce that it will be accepting applications from young professionals for scholarships to aid in traveling to present papers at the 2012 International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Naples, Italy.

A cool add on from MIT to understand, visualizing, what google knows about you

Related to our Airport security discussion

I like the following text: "It's still exponentially hard, but it's exponentially easier than we thought," Duffy says. One implication is that an attacker who simply relied on the frequencies with which letters occur in English words could probably guess a user-selected password much more quickly than was previously thought. "Attackers often use graphics processors to distribute the problem," Duffy says. "You'd be surprised at how quickly you can guess stuff."

nice exploit

Jeff Garzik wants to make satellites part of the Bitcoin network to help secure the currency against attacks.

remember the discussion we had about space being used as a safe network for this type of stuff ....?

interesting blog entry on TOR and the NSA

on a somewhat related note. court document from the fbi agent that was chasing that silk road guy a friend sent me the other week. an interesting read if only because i found the content quite unexpected e.g. 2 pages of login instructions http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~nweaver/UlbrichtCriminalComplaint.pdf